A wild leopard was rescued from a well in India by villagers and forest officials after it fell in and could not get back out.<br /><br />Footage filmed on May 31 in the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Prades, India, shows the crowd of villagers tentatively lowering the hastily-assembled ladder into the deep well. <br /><br />The beast was spotted in the well by a villager who heard grunts and splashing. <br /><br />After informing the forest department, IFS field director L Krishna Moorthy swung into action. <br /><br />The ladder was assembled from Bamboo sticks and was around six metres (20 feet) in length. <br /><br />The rescue took about 20 minutes in total.<br /><br />Mobile phone footage shows the moment the leopard slowly ascends the ladder before darting off into the forest. <br /><br />Leopard sightings have become more common in the area as drought pushes the big cats into contact with humans. <br /><br />By Deepali Ravi Mishra and Dinesh Dubey
