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| A Royal Bengal tiger in Nehru Zoological Park – for representation only (Video below) |
Staff correspondent, August 22, 2015, NewsCrunch
Visitors fled in panic after a tiger escaped from its enclosure for about an hour at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad.
The zoo officials evacuated the crowd quickly and tranquilised the Royal Bengal tiger, named Kadamba, which luckily did not come into contact with the visitors.
The Hyderabad Zoo keeps animals in mostly open enclosures, which may have helped the tiger to escape.
Unverified eye witness accounts said the tiger jumped off a 10-feet moat to taste freedom though temporarily.
Visitors fled in panic after a tiger escaped from its enclosure for about an hour at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad.
The zoo officials evacuated the crowd quickly and tranquilised the Royal Bengal tiger, named Kadamba, which luckily did not come into contact with the visitors.
The Hyderabad Zoo keeps animals in mostly open enclosures, which may have helped the tiger to escape.
Unverified eye witness accounts said the tiger jumped off a 10-feet moat to taste freedom though temporarily.
A Zoo official told PTI that the visitors were never in danger as a three layer security surround the cages of wild animals.
Explaining the incident, he said the tiger had been taken to another cage for mating.
Explaining the incident, he said the tiger had been taken to another cage for mating.
The animal, which was tired and irritated, refused to mate and tried to get back to its own cage, which had been locked forcing it to step into the open space.
An unverified video shows the tiger sitting in open space panting in exhaustion.