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Birthday cake helps Indian brothers escape leopard

Leopard chased them for 500 metres before giving up

SAMAA | - Posted: Jul 5, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
SAMAA |
Posted: Jul 5, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

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Two brothers pulled off a sweet escape from a leopard in India by throwing a birthday cake at the animal as it chased them while they rode a motorbike, officials said Thursday.

“Your first instinct when you sense danger is to do whatever you can to save yourself,” a forest official told AFP. “That’s what they did. They had a cake with them and they threw it at the leopard.”

According to the Times of India, Firoz and Sabir Mansuri were heading at dusk to a birthday party for Firoz’s son in Madhya Pradesh state when the leopard burst out of a sugarcane field.

They accelerated but the big cat gained on them on the muddy path, leaving Sabir, riding pillion, no other option than to lob the box containing the cake at the predator.

Hit by the “weapon of sweet distraction”, the flummoxed feline gave up its chase and darted back into the fields — and without even trying the cake, the paper said.

“The leopard followed us for over 500 metres (yards). We narrowly escaped death,” it quoted Sabir as saying.

Leopard numbers in India grew more than 60 percent between 2014 and 2018 to almost 13,000, according to the government, with the highest numbers in Madhya Pradesh.

They are less scared than tigers of people and often enter villages and even towns.

Attacks on adults are rare but children are more at risk. Last month a leopard snatched a four-year-old girl from her garden in Kashmir. Her mutilated body was found the next day.

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