Research overview: comparing wild felids across the worlds cities

From leopards in Mumbai to pumas in Los Angeles, caracals in Cape Town and fishing cats in Colombo, a remarkable diversity of felids inhabits the worlds cities, offering a comparative window on urban adaptation. This overview synthesises cross-city research identifying the shared threats of roads, poisons, habitat loss and conflict, and the common behavioural solutions of nocturnality, range compression and dietary opportunism, alongside the species-specific contrasts between flexible generalists and habitat specialists. It examines what comparative study reveals about the limits and possibilities of felid coexistence with people. The synthesis frames the worlds urban felids as a natural experiment in living with humanity.