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Pckts · 06-17-2019, 08:58 PM

Torn Ear from Kabini

Rage2277 · 06-19-2019, 04:05 PM

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Banwari Yaduvanshi‎- ''Leopard''

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Jun-2019
Mukandra Hill's Tiger Reserve
Kota-Rajasthan

Pckts · 06-19-2019, 08:39 PM

Lycaon · 07-11-2019, 06:20 PM

Shan.____ ( @khan_sk804 )

Chunky gir fusca

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~~Luipaard~~ · 07-12-2019, 05:16 PM

(07-11-2019, 06:20 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Shan.____ ( @khan_sk804 )

Chunky gir fusca

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Impressive male! His forelimbs appear very robust

Lycaon · 07-12-2019, 05:24 PM

Forgot the source but another impressive gir fusca

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Lycaon · 07-17-2019, 04:11 PM

Kano Jetpur‎

Ghost In The Darkness - Sasan Gir ?

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~~Luipaard~~ · 07-30-2019, 06:44 PM

From Conservation India Team and Mr. Ullas Karanth:

"This one believes the field guides and the natural history books, which usually dismiss the leopard’s diet as “scrounging on smaller prey.” In actual fact, leopards are powerful predators that routinely kill fairly hefty prey such as spotted deer and sambar fawns.

Even so, Vinay S Kumar’s photograph of a leopard dragging a gaur calf is not a sight you see everyday. The picture, which was taken in Karnataka’s Bandipur Tiger Reserve, shows a male leopard dragging his massive kill to safety. A gaur calf this size probably weighs about 100 kg. A forest dwelling, full-grown male Indian leopard on the other hand, would weigh between 50 – 70 kg.

Leopards are legendary for hauling prey much larger than themselves into trees to keep them from the clutches of other predators. A leopard in Kenya was once observed dragging a young giraffe carcass weighing an estimated 125 kg 5.7 m up a tree. The leopard in this photo however, placed the kill vertically beneath a tree, while it sat a few metres above and guarded it from the safety of its perch."

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~~Styx38~~ · 08-05-2019, 01:59 AM

Mumbai- The Metropolitan Home of Man-Eating Leopards

Fatalities

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source: https://www.slideshare.net/mumbaikaar/final-report-mumbaikarsforsgnpproject

Some articles:

Quote:A leopard killed a 70-year-old man in a locality on the periphery of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai on Tuesday morning, police said.

Arjun Dadgu Waghe, who stayed at the Gaiganshah durgah in Adivasipada locality near the wildlife sanctuary, was attacked when he was sitting in front of the durgah, the police said.
His mutilated body was found 500 metres away from the durgah two hours later.
On June 19, a leopard killed Kuldeep Singh Gurbux, an advocate from Mulund Colony, when he had gone for a jog inside the national park.
Tuesday's incident marks the eighth killing of a human being in the national park, forest department authorities said.

https://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/22mum.htm

Quote:With this, six persons have fallen prey to the wild cat this month alone. Nine people have been killed this year in leopard attacks.

Raju Yadav, 18, a resident of Aarey Colony in suburban Goregaon was killed when he was attacked by a leopard late on Sunday night, a senior police officer said.

Kashababu Pujari, 55, a resident of Gaibaccha durgah located inside the park in Mulund in northern Mumbai was killed early Monday morning.

The injured, both government employees, were attempting to tranquilise a leopard that had strayed into Raheja Vihar
housing colony on the outskirts of the national park in Borivali when the cat attacked them. Both have been admitted to the nearby Bhagwati Hospital.

They have been identified as Vaibhav Patil, a forest employee, and police constable Suresh Dhamapurkar.

https://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/28kill.htm

More Recent Cases

Forest Ranger (?) killed by Leopard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwh-vAaD83I

Two Villagers killed by Leopard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ClplTARvA

Comparisons with Other Areas or Predators

Quote:Bombay presents an exaggerated vision of what L.A.'s future could be. Not that cougars are likely ever to attack people at anywhere near the rate achieved by Bombay’s leopards. The mountain lion is, as Theodore Roosevelt observed, “the least dangerous to man of all the big cats,” a fact for which Americans can be thankful. But Bombay’s crisis stems from the same confluence of factors that has caused L.A.'s recent big-cat troubles: a clash between a conservation success and a land-use planning failure.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-09-op-leopards9-story.html

^ The Cougar is no where near as dangerous to man as the Leopard (especially the ones in Mumbai)

Comparisons of Leopards in other locations

Quote:In 2004, leopards killed 19 people in Mumbai. Although fatal attacks have diminished since 2007 (Fig. 7.1), they show the scale of a problem that has receivedextensive local and even international media coverage. These attacks took placeinside or on the edge of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), mainly in areas occupied by slums. They raised questions about the wisdom of siting a national
park in a megacity of some 20 million inhabitants, the excessive density of the leopard population, and a way of managing space which in 1995 has seen more than 500,000 slum dwellers living in the park.That at least is the view one might take on consideration of the Mumbai case alone.

However, a comparative approach prompts a different way of thinking about things. In Nairobi, a city of 4 million people, the national park of the same name also borders slum areas and is home to a fairly dense population of leopards (as well as lions, hyenas and hippopotamuses), which represents a potential danger. Yet no wild animals have killed human beings in the park in living memory, other than a few incautious tourists who have left their cars to take close-up photographs of lioncubs jealously protected by their mothers

^ There are many humans killed by Leopards in Mumbai, compared to virtually no animal related deaths in Nairobi. Both are mega cities at the edge of wilderness.

Quote:Our initial hypothesis was that a different form of park management, more in harmony with that of the city, might explain the absence of leopard attacks on humans in Nairobi. We speculated that the actors in the two spheres coordinate their efforts to ensure better oversight of wildlife. This hypothesis was not conﬁrmed. Instead, we saw the importance of factors such as predation by leopards on populations of domestic dogs, the landscape conﬁgurations of the interfaces between park and city, and the diversity of representations of nature or social disparities, which generate differing vulnerabilities. This leads to a two-level conclusion regarding the role of the national trajectories in these countries of the Global South in respect of environmental concerns and their contribution to the new ways of understanding our relation to nature.

^ Conclusion of the difference of the Leopard populations

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326523081_Why_Did_Leopards_Kill_Humans_in_Mumbai_but_not_in_Nairobi_Wildlife_Management_in_and_Around_Urban_National_Parks_The_Quest_for_Naturbanity

Pckts · 08-05-2019, 08:42 PM

BorneanTiger · 08-07-2019, 03:27 PM

This is possibly the most monstrous-looking leopard that I've ever seen: https://www.descopera.ro/dnews/7760878-l...l-in-india

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Massive captive leopard with what appears to be a female partner:

You all probably know about the record-breaking leopard of Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, which had a weight of 71 kg (157 lbs), height of 34 inches (86 cm) at the shoulder, and record length of 8 ft 7 inches from head to tail: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...227308.cms, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himach...42548.html

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Lycaon · 08-07-2019, 04:12 PM

@BorneanTiger

I believe that photo is proven to be photoshoped. The other two leopards are impressive though Like

BorneanTiger · 08-07-2019, 06:15 PM

(08-07-2019, 04:12 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @BorneanTiger

I believe that photo is proven to be photoshoped. The other two leopards are impressive though

Descoperă (https://www.descopera.ro/dnews/7760878-l...l-in-india) says that this is a captive Indian leopard known as 'Balaji' which was housed at Sri Venkateshwara Zoo in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, and weighed 139 kg (306 lbs), and Descoperă isn't the only source on Balaji. In fact, Descoperă got its information from The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, and The Hindu said the same thing, that there was an obese leopard weighing 139 kg (306 lbs) at Tirupati's Sri Venkateshwara Zoo known as 'Balaji', which died on the 11th of June, 2013: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp...s_ss=email, https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp...805518.ece

BorneanTiger · 08-07-2019, 11:21 PM

(08-07-2019, 06:15 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:
(08-07-2019, 04:12 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @BorneanTiger

I believe that photo is proven to be photoshoped. The other two leopards are impressive though

Descoperă (https://www.descopera.ro/dnews/7760878-l...l-in-india) says that this is a captive Indian leopard known as 'Balaji' which was housed at Sri Venkateshwara Zoo in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, and weighed 139 kg (306 lbs), and Descoperă isn't the only source on Balaji. In fact, Descoperă got its information from The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, and The Hindu said the same thing, that there was an obese leopard weighing 139 kg (306 lbs) at Tirupati's Sri Venkateshwara Zoo known as 'Balaji', which died on the 11th of June, 2013: https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp...s_ss=email, https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp...805518.ece

That image was also used by Deccan Chronicle, and both Deccan Chronicle and The Times of India give another astonishing weight, that is 143 kg (315 lbs)! https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...548422.cms, https://www.pressreader.com/india/deccan...5238088126

Lycaon · 08-11-2019, 11:23 PM

Surendra Chouhan

Leopard of Jhalana

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