‘Honey trap’ method to be used to catch leopard - Forrest Officials
The forest department in Belagavi on Friday said that it will use the “honey-trap” method to capture the leopard.
“The ‘Honey Trap’ method is usually used to hold or control Tuskers and male wild animals. Their ferocity and restlessness come down when they smell female scents,” Anthony Mariyappa, the deputy conservator of forest, said on Friday.
One solution is to leave a female animal in a controlled environment to attract the male or to spray its urine in an area and wait for the male to catch the scent and trap it. The forest officials believe that the leopard on the loose is male and are trying this method to catch it.
Bhutaramanahatti Wildlife Century in Belagavi has two mature male and female leopards. Wildlife experts advised the officials that if the urinated mud of a female leopard is placed on the Golf Course, the leopard in Belagavi will not leave the area, which could aid in its capture.
Assistant conservator of forest, Mallinath Kusanal, who has carried out such methods successfully on many occasions, said this would involve placing the urinated mud of the female animal to capture the male. “Tuskers can be easily controlled over the method. However, wild animals like leopards would not easily land into such traps,” he said.
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