Photographs of a leopard and a cow are viral on social media, especially on Facebook. Entrepreneur Siddarth Pai tweeted a screenshot of the images shared by a Facebook user.
This is so touching pic.twitter.com/x72uNYMKOy
— Siddarth Pai (@siddarthpaim) June 10, 2020
The story shared with the images claims that the cow and the leopard cuddle at night. This was recently found out in Assam. The complete story reads, “This took place in Assam. A man bought a cow from the neighboring village and brought it home, after that, every night dogs in his village would bark incessantly, suspecting that thieves were taking advantage of the Lock Down, he installed CCTV cameras. These were the videos he was Shocked to see. Going back to the village where he bought the cow, he went to the previous owner and told him about the Leopard,and showed him the pics and videos. The previous owner then told the man the story. When the Leopard was 20 days old, it’s mother was killed, he then brought the cub to the cow who nursed it. When the leopard grew up it was released into the wild. But it always returned to the cow in the still of night to cuddle and rest.”
The post has been shared by several individual users on Facebook.
If only some Humans could learn from this….
This took place in Assam. A man bought a cow from the neighboring village…
Posted by Robindro Sharma on Saturday, 6 June 2020
Some users have shared the story in the backdrop of the tragic death of an elephant in Kerala.
This took place in Assam. A man bought a cow from the neighboring village and brought it home, after that, every night…
Posted by Sydaimran Shaik on Wednesday, 3 June 2020
The pictures were also shared on the occasion of Mothers’s Day in May. The post below has nearly 9,000 shares.
MOTHER’S DAY
These are pictures of a village in Assam (India). A man bought the cow from a neighboring village and…Posted by John Helios on Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Fact-check
A keyword search on Google led us to an article on the website onforest.com where the same images of a higher resolution are available. The article claims that the strange incident took place in Antoli village in Vadodara district, Gujarat in 2002.
The Times of India had reported the incident in 2002. The story does not match social media claims. Viral messages allege that the cow used to nurse the leopard when it was young, which is why it comes to meet her. However, The Times of India quoted Conservator of forests, Vadodara, H S Singh saying, “Sometimes animal behaviour can get modified. In this case, probably because the leopard which has passed the sub-adult stage, lives in a rural area and not strictly a wild environment.”
An almost two-decade-old incident from Gujarat was revived on social media with a false, elaborate story and the claim that this happened in Assam.
Pooja Chaudhuri | Radio Free (2020-06-12T13:00:56+00:00) Photos from 2002 of cow and leopard in Gujarat revived as recent incident in Assam. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2020/06/12/photos-from-2002-of-cow-and-leopard-in-gujarat-revived-as-recent-incident-in-assam/
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