Mumbai's leopards have killed humans – but could they also be saving lives?
by Christopher O'Bryan and Alexander Richard Braczkow from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JXJJ)
Leopards roaming the Sanjay Gandhi National Park could be helping to control the city's dangerous stray dog population, study suggests
A fleeting glimpse of the black spots and gold fur of a leopard is not an uncommon sight at Sanjay Gandhi National Park in the Indian city of Mumbai.
Leopards are often thought of as a threat to humans, but rather than being a problem in Mumbai, they may actually be helping their human neighbours - even saving their lives - as we argue in our paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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