Mumbai--Around 35 leopards roam Mumbai’s western suburbs in a 140 sq km area including the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali and Aarey, a survey shows. The survey, that was conducted by Wildlife Institute of India along with SGNP, between December 2014 and April 2015 for leopard population estimation also found that the leopard density inside the 104 sq km national park is 21.
While wild prey form 57 per cent of the leopard’s diet, domestic dogs found along the periphery of the park in huge densities of 17 per sq km form around 24 per cent of the Mumbai leopards’ diet, found the survey.
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Back in 2011, NGO Mumbaikars for SGNP had also found 21 leopards inside the national park.
INDIAN EXPRESS
