A lost leopard cub has been reunited with her mother within 12 hours of being found alone on an Indian tea estate, thanks to the joint efforts of a wildlife rescue team and the local community. Dr. Khanin Changmai, veterinarian for Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), received a call from the Assam Forest Department on May 23, according to a WTI news release. A tiny leopard cub had been found by tea pluckers in one of the Natun Gaon, Tinsukia tea gardens in the early hours of the morning. Workers raised the alarm but the commotion caused the mother to flee, abandoning her baby in the process. Changmai told BBC that plantation owner Guneshwar Hazarika followed the cub’s cries to her location. Finding her stuck in a trench, villagers retrieved the cub and took her to a nearby home. When WTI’s Mobile Veterinary Service arrived, Changmai, biologist Aftab Ahmed, and three forest department …