Sri Lankan Leopards in Tea Landscape Were Less Active by Day and More Active at Dusk
In Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands, only 4.4% of leopard records in an unprotected tea landscape were diurnal while…
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Key Movement Bottlenecks for Five Large Mammals Lay Outside Protected Areas in Tamil Nadu
A 2026 study of tiger, leopard, dhole, Asian elephant and gaur identified modelled movement bottlenecks outside protected areas,…
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Lions climbed trees more often in wet-season afternoons, while leopards showed a different pattern
Observations from northern Tanzania found that lion tree climbing was associated with wet-season afternoons, while leopards climbed far…
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First Arabian Leopard Nuclear Genome Assembly Provides a Reference for Conservation Genomics
The first nuclear genome assembly for the Arabian leopard spans about 2.43 billion DNA bases in 94 sequence…
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Trail-only Cameras Underrepresented Female Felids and Biased Density Estimates in Bhutan
In Bhutan, trail-only camera traps recorded disproportionately fewer female felids and produced density estimates averaging 22% below a…
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Habitat and Prey Were More Strongly Linked to Leopard Persistence Than Tiger Suppression in Bhutan
Bhutan's first nationwide leopard-density analysis estimated 1.02 leopards per 100 km², while repeated surveys showed that habitat and…
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Urine and Scat Chemical Profiles Distinguished Tiger From Leopard With 79% and 75% Cross-validated Accuracy
Chemical profiles from tiger and leopard urine and scat reached about 79% and 75% species-classification accuracy in five-fold…
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Prey Activity Tracked Summer Leopard Site Use; Winter Use Increased Farther From Settlements
Four years of camera trapping in Pakistan’s Margalla Hills linked summer leopard site use most strongly to a…
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Camera traps found no evidence that baboons avoided sites for days after predators passed
Across four savanna sites, camera traps showed no clear decrease in baboon detections during the 72 hours after…
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Parasites Were Common but Usually Subclinical in 61 Greater Kruger Leopards
Necropsies found parasite-associated changes in 52 of 61 leopards, usually with little inflammation, although five animals had potentially…
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Tiger Occurrence in Panna Was Linked to Chital, Sambar and Proximity to Water
A 2026 food-web analysis from Panna Tiger Reserve found that tiger occurrence was positively associated with chital and…
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Wild Prey Made Up More Than 85% of Sri Lankan Leopard Diet, With Indian Hare Most Frequent
Wild species made up more than 85% of leopard diet in Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands. Indian hare was…
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Resource Availability Was Linked to How Lions Co-occurred With Four Other Large Carnivores
In Kruger and Limpopo, access to prey and water was strongly associated with where lions, cheetahs, leopards, spotted…
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