LAKHIMPUR KHERI, March 23 -- Amid reports of frequent big cat sightings near human settlements, a leopard cub was found dead in an agricultural field near Lagdahan village in the Sampurnanagar range of the Dudhwa buffer zone on Saturday.

Local villagers, who discovered the cub's carcass with bite injuries, alerted forest officials. They reported hearing the roars of two big cats fighting in their fields late Friday night.

Sampurnanagar forest range officials rushed to the spot and sent the carcass for a postmortem examination.

Kirti Chaudhary, deputy field director of the Dudhwa buffer zone, told HT that the recovered carcass was identified as a female leopard cub aged around seven months.

She added that pugmarks of an adult leopard w...