{"id":75674,"date":"2020-09-16T21:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=75674"},"modified":"2020-09-17T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:01:51","slug":"video-of-leopard-roaming-in-a-south-african-lodge-shared-as-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-leopard-roaming-in-a-south-african-lodge-shared-as-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of leopard roaming in a South African lodge shared as India"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video of a leopard roaming inside a lodge is circulating on social media with the claim that this happened in Taj, Ranthambore. In the video, the leopard can be seen drinking water from a swimming pool.<\/p>\n

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#Thrilling<\/a>: Leopard enters swimming pool area in Ranthambhor, Rajasthan, drinks water and leaves. pic.twitter.com\/KXh5OeHyv6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 TEAM BHARAT (@TeamBharat_) September 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Retired Air Marshal Anil Chopra too tweeted<\/a> the video. The tweet had garnered over 1,700 retweets before it was deleted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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IPS officer HGS Dhaliwal tweeted the video with the claim that it was shot “somewhere in Lonavala”. Dhaliwal deleted the tweet before it was retweeted close to 100 times. An archived version of the tweet can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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India Today, which operates a fact-checking desk called AFWA, published<\/a> an article on this trending video on September 16, 2020, which carried all the different claims shared along with the video.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

With a keyword search, we found an article published by New York Post<\/a> on September 9, 2020. “A leopard recently wandered into the restaurant of a luxury hotel in South Africa while hunting its breakfast,” said the article.<\/p>\n

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According to the article, the leopard was spotted at the restaurant of the Singita Ebony Lodge in the Sabi Sands Reserve. However, the video published along with the article, as well as on the official Facebook page<\/a> of the conservation and ecotourism brand Singita, was different.<\/p>\n