Working in dim light, forest officials raced to pull out a leopard from a 40-feet well at a village near Sirsi in South India.<br /><br />Venkataramana Hegde, a farmer at Hithila Gida village, heard a splash in his well on February 12. When he went to check and flashed a torchlight inside, he was shocked to find a leopard growling inside. <br /><br />He called local forest officials who came promptly and started the rescue work. They lowered a ladder and the leopard clung on to it. <br /><br />As they lifted the ladder, the animal came up along with it and ran away soon after surfacing.
