Leopards can be seen strolling the city streets, and hunting in parking garages. Approximately 350,000 people, many of them in poverty, live all along the periphery of the small national park. The park is also in the middle of the burgeoning city of Mumbai, with more than 20 million people. Sanjay Gandhi National Park, with a population of 35 leopards, has the densest population of these big cats in the world. The study was led by researchers from the University of Queensland School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Feral dogs are a major health issue in India, where they are the leading cause of rabies deaths.
Having a leopard in the neighborhood may seem a terrifying prospect, but the reality is that large predator may save your life.Ī new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment suggests that leopards in Mumbai, the world’s sixth most-populated city, may save human lives by feeding on feral dogs.
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