A warming climate threatens to push Nepal’s three big cat species — tigers, leopards and snow leopards — into closer proximity to each other, with unknown consequences for the survival of each.
Major threats to tigers are habitat destruction and fragmentation due to deforestation, poaching for fur and the illegal trade of body parts for medicinal purposes. Tigers are also victims of human–wildlife conflict as they attack and prey on livestock in areas where natural prey is scarce. The tiger is legally protected in all range countries.
A leopard may not be able to change its spots, but new research from a World Heritage site in Nepal indicates that leopards do change their activity patterns in response to tigers and humans--but in ...
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EurekAlert!: First-ever dietary study for tigers and clouded leopards in southeast Asia's evergreen forests
Researchers have published the first-ever dietary study of clouded leopards, and the first dietary study of tigers in Southeast Asia from hilly evergreen forests. The research took place in Laos. The ...
First-ever dietary study for tigers and clouded leopards in southeast Asia's evergreen forests