In an extremely rare incident, two leopards were captured with a single cage by forest department officials in India.

People of a village in Bolvan taluk Tapi district of Gujarat had complained to officials that a leopard was stalking them, posing a threat to their domestic animals.

So, officials set up a cage, with a chicken inside, at a sugarcane farm to catch the leopard.

At 4 am on October 3, the trap worked and the leopard was captured. When the officials and the villagers went to check in the morning they were surprised to find not one but two leopards inside the cage.

A forest official said he had never seen anything like that in his career.

“Both of them must the jumped into the cage at the same time to get the chicken. The female leopard is much larger than the male. They could be a mother and son pair,” he said.

Leopard cubs usually grow up with their mother for nearly two years before going on their own.