leapard attacks 8 years old at sanjay gandhi nation park (write news report)
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Monday 8th October 2019, Sanjay Gandhi Park, Maharashtra.
Yesterday the park faced a heavy crowd as all people had visited the zoo animals also because it was a holiday. However a tiger suddenly came out of its cage and attacked a young boy of only 8 years of age.
This alarmed everybody and people ran away immediately from the vicinity.The police came to force and controlled the situation soon. however everybody was alarmed.
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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.
Recent studies suggest there may be as many as 41 leopards roaming the 104 sq km2park. That’s about two to three times the leopard density you’d find in some of the most productive savannas in Africa or Sri Lanka.
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Mumbai’s leopards live alongside people, mostly in informal settlements, and they hunt and kill dogs in and around their villages. On average, dogs make up about 40% of a Mumbai leopard’s diet.
So what, you might ask. Leopards are one of the world’s most adaptable big cats, feeding on more than 100 prey items worldwide, so aren’t they just doing what an opportunist would do?