{"id":1030082,"date":"2022-03-21T23:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/21\/watch-leopard-wanders-into-mercedes-benz-plant-in-india\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:35:55","slug":"watch-leopard-wanders-into-mercedes-benz-plant-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/21\/watch-leopard-wanders-into-mercedes-benz-plant-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Leopard wanders into Mercedes-Benz plant in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leopard-wanders-into-Mercedes-Benz-plant-in-India.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NT2A-vYz2EI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leopard Rescued From Mercedes-Benz India Factory!\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NT2A-vYz2EI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 21 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Mercedes-Benz plant in India was evacuated and wildlife officials were called in when a leopard wandered into the production facility.<\/p>\n<p>Police and Junnar forest officers responded Monday when the leopard was spotted at the Mercedes-Benz plant in the Chakan MIDC area, near Pune.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a very special guest at Mercedes-Benz India campus this morning. A leopard strayed into the company&#8217;s production facility and was later rescued with the prompt support of the Forest Department and local police,&#8221; Mercedes-Benz India said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Forest Officer Atul Mahajan said the leopard was first spotted by security staff at the plant about 5 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within two hours, our rescue team from the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Center in Junnar reached the spot. The animal was trapped in an enclosure. Our staff, including a veterinary doctor, took an apt position and shot a dart from an appropriate distance,&#8221; Mahajan told the Times of India.<\/p>\n<p>Mahajan said the leopard was taken to the leopard rescue center and would be examined by veterinarians before being released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz said the plant was evacuated prior to the rescue and regular operations were expected to resume Tusday.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 21 (UPI) &#8212; A Mercedes-Benz plant in India was evacuated and wildlife officials were called in when a leopard wandered into the production facility. Police and Junnar forest officers responded Monday when the leopard was spotted at the Mercedes-Benz plant in the Chakan MIDC area, near Pune. &#8220;We had a very special guest at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}