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How Indian Leopards Have Mastered Different Hunting Strategies Across Forests, Scrublands, and Rocky Terrain

The Biological Toolkit That Makes Terrain Adaptation PossibleThe Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) has the broadest prey-weight range of any large felid in Asia. Documented kills in India span from small hares and peafowl to adult sambar stags exceeding 200 kg, a range no other solitary cat on the subcontinent…

How a Sloth Bear Mother Carries and Protects Her Cubs in Ways No Other Bear Does

How a Sloth Bear Mother Carries and Protects Her Cubs in Ways No Other Bear Does

The Only Bear That Carries Its YoungOf all the world's eight bear species, only the sloth bear, Melursus ursinus, routinely carries cubs on her back, and she does it not for a few minutes but for months at a stretch. Cubs begin riding at around four to six weeks of…

6 Indian National Parks Beyond Ranthambore That Every Tiger and Wildlife Safari Fan Must Visit

6 Indian National Parks Beyond Ranthambore That Every Tiger and Wildlife Safari Fan Must Visit

Jim Corbett National Park, UttarakhandJim Corbett has been hosting tigers since 1936, which makes it the oldest national park in India and the site where Project Tiger was formally launched in 1973. The Dhikala zone, set inside a broad riverine grassland called the chaur, gives you the kind of unobstructed…

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House Sparrows Are Disappearing From Indian Cities and What Their Decline Signals About Urban Life

A species built for human proximityPasser domesticus evolved alongside human settlements. For roughly 10,000 years, it has lived in the gaps we leave, roof eaves, wall cavities, the space behind a loose brick. Unlike migratory birds that pass through, the house sparrow is a resident. It does not leave a…

How Manta Rays Use Magnetic Fields to Navigate the Ocean and What Marine Research Reveals

The Animal That Reads the EarthA reef manta ray tagged off the Maldives in 2015 travelled over 1,100 kilometres in a single migratory leg, crossing open water with no reef, no current marker, and no detectable landmark to guide it. It arrived where it was going. Researchers at the Marine…

Guwahati ring road faces wildlife scrutiny after HC intervention

The Gauhati High Court has mandated an ecological impact study for the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary. This study by the Wildlife Institute of India is required before construction begins on the Rs 5,730 crore Guwahati Ring Road project. The court's order ensures environmental concerns are addressed. No trees will be felled…

The Economic Times

Leopard numbers show 8% rise from 2018 to 2022

India's leopard population rises by 8% to 13,874, with Madhya Pradesh leading, as per Environment Ministry report.

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Total 718 snow leopards in India, highest in Ladakh 477: Wildlife Institute

Total 718 snow leopards in India, highest in Ladakh 477: Wildlife Institute

The Snow Leopard Population Assessment in India (SPAI) programme is the first-ever scientific exercise. Read further on Dynamite News: Read further on News:

Madhya Pradesh notifies 'Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve' as its 7th Tiger Sanctuary

Madhya Pradesh notifies 'Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve' as its 7th Tiger Sanctuary

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Government has officially announced the establishment of the "Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve," marking the seventh tiger reserve in the state and 54th in the country.

The Times of India

Inadequate space for cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park: former Wildlife Institute of India official

Inadequate space for cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park: former Wildlife Institute of India official

Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP), which has seen the death of two cheetahs in less than a month, has “inadequate space” for these felines brought from Africa, a former official of the Wildlife Institute of India has claimed. Two cheetahs out of the 20 felines died after being translocated…

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