Leopard Predation Thread

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Leopard predation on free ranging Cattle in China.

"From 2015 to 2019, we recorded 207 cattle predation events by leopards and 190 of those events had date information. Most of the depredation events occurred in the growing seasons (96%, n = 183) and calves were killed in 85% (n = 161) of the cases (Fig. 6)."

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source: Liu, M., Wang, Y., Xia, F., Bu, H., Liu, Y., Shen, X., & Li, S. (2023). Free‐ranging livestock altered the spatiotemporal behavior of the endangered North Chinese leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis) and its prey and intensified human–leopard conflicts. Integrative Zoology, 18(1), 143-156. Reply