SECTION - A (READING SECTION)
There was a strong breeze, which is unusual during a winter night in Gujarat. The sugarcane swayed wildly
under a moonless sky. I pulled my jacked around me and adjusted my binoculars,
"You won't need them. It will come right down there, next to the cow," village leader Hitesh Patel whispered
in my ears. I felt like asking him w it was safe on the roof where we were perched, but then Vitthal Vasava
signaled from the cow shed below. "It seems to be coming from the riverside," he said. "You will see it any
moment. Stay still and don't make any noise or you'll invite trouble (9]" Hitesh reminded me. Another
couple of minutes passed, and then a leopard leaped out from behind the shed and made its way towards
a cow that was chained to a tree nearby
As the leopard closed to within ten metres, it seemed there would be no escape for the cow. However,
what I saw was something else - totally baffling. As if enacting a character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle
Book, the cat ducked under the cow's neck, stretched out lazily and began to purr. At first the cow ignored
its companion but eventually gave in to the feline's playful nudges[16] and started licking its fur as if it was
one of its calves. It started pushing the cow's belly and after a while, crept under her neck and lay there as
if resting. Then it stood up and slowly walked back to the riverside.
What could have caused this extraordinary behaviour[20]? It turned out that, about three years ago, a
female leopard had given birth to two cubs in a sugarcane field. The villagers had spotted the family and
had brought it to the Notice of the forest officials. A few months later, a female leopard was captured in
the area and taken to the zoo. There was no report of the cubs. The people believed the leopard that has
been frequenting the village every night and playing with the cow might be one of the two cubs. "It's
possible that this leopard cub would have seen the cow, and became imprinted on it," Hitesh Patel
suggested.
why was the writer puzzled?
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