During a routine avian survey, Venkat Angandhula, a north Telangana Coordinator of the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society (HYTICOS), spotted the bird near an irrigation tank near Kistapur village in Jannaram Range a few days back.
Researchers found scientific evidence of the cat, after searching it for four months across 40 villages located on the fringes of the Pocharam Wildlife Sanctuary
Forest Department had brought seven Mouse Deers from the Nehru Zoo in Hyderabad to Pocharam and they were kept in the enclosure for 45 days to make them get used to the environment