On Sunday, a male leopard walked into the Vibgyor International School in Bangalore, India, and it did not want to be caught. In the 10 hours it took to tranquilize the 8-year-old cat, the leopard mauled six people trying to capture it, including a conservation scientist, a forester, and a TV cameraman. None of the injuries were serious. "It was a long struggle to capture the leopard," said police official S Boralingaiah. "Although it was injected with tranquilizers it could be captured only around 20:15 local time when the medication took full effect." India has a leopard population of between 12,000 and 14,000, the BBC reports, and the big cats occasionally wander into civilization, especially as humans encroach on their habitat. Watch the leopard refuse to be sedated in the video below. Peter Weber
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