NATALIE'S RESCUE STORY
Natalie was rescued along with her brother George from an open well in Maharashtra. A farmer noticed the cubs inside a well during the early hours of morning, and contacted the forest department and Wildlife SOS in Manikdoh. Their mother was found dead inside an uncovered well nearby. It was speculated that she accidentally fell and drowned into it while hunting at night. The cubs seemed to have waited for her to return before venturing out to find her, when they themselves fell into an open well.
The two cubs were immediately transferred to the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre for long-term care. Leopard cubs need their mother for at least the first two years of their lives, but Natalie and George being barely three months old, would not have been able to survive in the wild without the crucial training she could have provided to them.
The two have grown to be healthy leopards at MLRC in an environment that closely resembles the forest. Natalie certainly lives up to possessing the true nature of leopards by being both mysterious and shy. She prefers to hide amidst the foliage in her enclosure and keep a watchful eye on her surroundings.
