NEW DELHI: Delhi may be an urban jungle but, amazingly, it still has space for wild predators. A
leopard
was caught on camera in the capital for the first time on Monday night,
that too far away from the place where another spotted cat's pugmarks
were seen last year.
The leopard was clicked at the Yamuna Biodiversity Park (YBP) in north
Delhi and officials say it may have become a `resident' as its pugmarks
have been regularly seen for two weeks. The animal was finally captured
on camera by scientists and support staff when it was spotted while
they were The `Delhi leopard' is a male installing more surveillance
devices. "This is a good sign and we suspect it may have become a
resident animal with the habitat here more conducive. From early
sightings, it appears to be a male leopard," said Faiyaz Khudsar,
scientist incharge at YBP . Khudsar said officials had placed loose mud
traps all over the biodiversity park to find the animal and even made a
cast of the pugmark. "The marks confirmed it was a leopard, as did the
stride measurement.On Monday night, when we were trying to install more
traps, we spotted the animal and it stayed there for close to an hour,"
Khudsar said.
Leopard pugmarks were found last year at Asola Wildlife Sanctuary and a
spotting was even reported in Usmanpur at the end of December 2015. To
capture leopard and hyena sightings, several camera traps were also set
up in Bandhwari and Mangar areas near Gurgaon.
Experts say the number of sightings of the leopard at YBP may mean it has decided to stay here for the time being.
"Yamuna Biodiversity Park now has all four trophic levels with the
addition of a top carnivore like the leopard. This shows that through
DDA's assistance, the ecosystem here is now is fully func tional and it
appears that the animal has become a resident due to the suitable
habitat available to it. We suspect a female leopard may also join
soon," said C R Babu, professor emeritus,
Delhi University and head of the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems.
Experts at the park suspect it may have walked down the river plain
from Kalesar in Haryana. "Leopards are known to travel as far as 700km.
The nearest forest patch from here is Kalesar and it is possible it may
have come down the river corridor from there," said Babu.
Leopards are known to feed on wild boar, pigs, dogs, goats and hare,
among other species. Currently the animal is in phase-II of the
biodiversity park which is spread across 200 sq metres. While villagers
near the DDA-run biodiversity park have expressed fear, experts say
there is no need to worry at the moment.
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