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11 summaries matching “dog” in Urban Wildcat Ecology
Big cats in our backyards: leopards persisting in a human-dominated Indian landscape
PaperThis influential study documented free-ranging leopards living at high density in the densely populated, intensively cultivated countryside of Maharashtra, India, far from any protected forest. Using…
Athreya V, Odden M, Linnell JDC, Krishnaswamy J, Karanth U · PLoS ONE · 2013
Leopards provide public health benefits by preying on free-ranging dogs in Mumbai
PaperThis study quantified an unexpected ecosystem service delivered by leopards inhabiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park inside greater Mumbai. By modelling leopard diet, in which feral and stray dogs form…
Braczkowski AR, OBryan CJ, Stringer MJ, Watson JEM, Possingham HP, Beyer HL · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2018
Research overview: anthropogenic food subsidies and urban carnivore ecology
OverviewCities concentrate food in forms that wildlife can exploit, from garbage and compost to pet food, livestock, abundant commensal rodents and feral animals, and these anthropogenic subsidies underpin ma…
Research overview: diet of urban-adjacent leopards and reliance on domestic prey
OverviewStudies of leopard diet around Mumbai and across rural Maharashtra consistently find heavy reliance on domestic animals, particularly free-ranging dogs, alongside livestock, feral pigs, rodents and sm…
Research overview: disease and pathogen exposure in urban-edge caracals
OverviewLiving alongside domestic cats, dogs and people exposes Cape Town caracals to pathogens and parasites that can affect their health. This overview synthesises serological and disease-ecology research o…
Research overview: leopard density inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai
OverviewSanjay Gandhi National Park is a roughly hundred-square-kilometre forest island embedded within metropolitan Mumbai, hosting one of the highest known leopard densities recorded near a megacity. This o…
Research overview: managing attractants to reduce felid-human conflict
OverviewSecuring the attractants that draw felids toward people, including garbage, pet food, accessible livestock and the rodent and dog populations these support, is a frontline coexistence measure. This ov…
Research overview: patterns and drivers of leopard attacks on people near Indian cities
OverviewLeopard attacks on humans, though rare relative to encounter frequency, shape public perception and policy across urban-adjacent India. This overview surveys research on the spatial and temporal clust…
Research overview: small-felid coexistence at the Latin American agricultural frontier
OverviewAs agriculture and settlement advance into Neotropical forests, small cats face habitat loss, road mortality, retaliatory killing over poultry depredation, and competition with free-ranging dogs. This…
Research overview: stray dogs as an anthropogenic prey subsidy for urban leopards
OverviewIn and around many South Asian cities, free-ranging and stray dogs constitute a major prey base that sustains leopards at densities unattainable on wild prey alone. This overview synthesises diet and…
Research overview: waste management as a lever on urban carnivore populations
OverviewBecause garbage and organic waste feed both carnivores directly and the rodent and dog populations they prey upon, waste management is a powerful indirect lever on urban carnivore abundance and confli…