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Friday 1 July 2022

Big cats in urban jungle: LA mountain

lions, Mumbai leopards

helped collar around 100
more mountain lions in Los
Angeles, building a vast
database of lion behavior
that's contributed to under-
standing how much terri-
tory the cats need, what
they eat (mostly deer), how
often they cross paths with
people and what may im-
peril their future.
As with medieval European
kings, the biggest threat
turned out to be inbreed-
ing. Living in small territo-
ries separated by highways
has caused some males
A leopard is seen walking across a ridge in Aarey colony near
Sanjay Gandhi National Park overlooking Mumbai city, India, to mate with daughters
May, 12, 2018. and granddaughters, who
Associated Press weren't able to naturally
disperse farther away.
Associated Press have to learn to live with That's led to genetic prob-
Los Angeles and Mumbai, them." lems such as fertility issues
India, share many superla- FREEWAYS AND FRAGMENT- and kinked tails.
tives as pinnacles of cin- ED HABITAT "Based on genetic analy-
ema, fashion, and traffic Twenty years ago, scientists sis, we know that P1 mated
congestion. But another in Los Angeles placed a with P6, his daughter – that
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ows, most often seen at cat, a large male moun- mented of this very close
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