This is the moment a leopard cub step into a rescue cage lowered into a 25-foot-deep well in Manchar in Western India. <br /><br />A farmer, who went to turn on the motor pump, was startled to find the helpless leopard staring up at him from the well in Pondvadi Lakhangaon village on March 13. <br /><br />On receiving word of the incident, the Wildlife SOS team and forest officers rushed to the location.<br /><br />They lowered a trap cage into the well to safely extricate the young leopard. The leopard grasped that it was a way out and hesitantly stepped into the cage.<br /><br />The cage with the cub inside was pulled up and the little feline later transferred to a Forest Department base for observation prior to release. <br /><br />Dr. Ajay Deshmukh said: ''The cub was kept under observation to ensure she recuperated safely from the ordeal.'' <br /><br />''As leopards are territorial animals, their survival in the wild reduces if they are released in a different area. Therefore, the leopard was later released close to where she had been found.”
