Man Hears Roars Coming From Well -- And Can't Believe What He Sees

"Rescues like this hold a very special places in our hearts" ❤

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts

Early on Monday morning, a man was startled by a loud, persistent roaring. When he searched the area for the source of the sound, he found a female leopard struggling to stay afloat at the bottom of a 50-foot well.

The man called the local forestry department in Maharashtra, India, which got in touch with Wildlife SOS, an organization that saves wildlife from situations exactly like this.

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“Clutching onto a water pump and pipe inside the well, the leopard was barely managing to keep her head above the water,” Suvidha Bhatnagar, communications and fundraising officer for Wildlife SOS, told The Dodo.

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It would take the Wildlife SOS team an hour and a half to reach the village, so they advised the forestry officials to lower a platform into the well so the leopard had something to stand on. And when the Wildlife SOS team arrived, they lowered a trap cage into the well. The leopard immediately leapt into the cage, seemingly grateful for the dry place to sit upon.

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“Rescues like this hold a very special place in our hearts as it is immensely rewarding for us to know that this leopard will live freely again in the wild, like it was supposed to,” Bhatnagar said. “To be able to save an animal’s life when it was almost going to be killed and then releasing it to safety is what keeps us going.”