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How Indian Leopards Have Mastered Different Hunting Strategies Across Forests, Scrublands, and Rocky Terrain

The Biological Toolkit That Makes Terrain Adaptation PossibleThe Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) has the broadest prey-weight range of any large felid in Asia. Documented kills in India span from small hares and peafowl to adult sambar stags exceeding 200 kg, a range no other solitary cat on the subcontinent…

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Why Snow Leopard Cubs Stay With Their Mothers Longer Than Almost Any Big Cat on Earth

The Numbers That Set the Snow Leopard ApartMost big cats push their young toward independence fast. Lion cubs leave the pride or are driven out at around 18 months. Cheetah cubs separate from their mothers between 16 and 18 months. Tiger cubs, depending on prey density, disperse at roughly 18…

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How Leopards Across India Have Quietly Colonised Cities and Why Nobody Notices Them

The Biology That Makes Invisibility PossibleLeopards see in light conditions six times dimmer than what a human eye needs to function. Their retinas carry a high density of rod cells and a reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum, which bounces available light back through the photoreceptors a second time. At…

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Chennai top node in tortoise trafficking network, says study

A study titled From pets to plates, published in the September edition of Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation, found that trafficking of soft-shell turtles for meat was predominantly domestic in nature, with the international trafficking of the reptile from or to India almost restricted to Bangladesh.

The Hindu

Research shows classroom environmental education doesn't change attitudes

According to recent research from the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, increasing understanding of conservation challenges in schools does not always translate into attitude change. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Russia's ageing tanks are taking on fresh Ukrainian tanks gifted from Western nations in a move that could change the war

Western tanks are arriving while Russia dusts off 70-year-old museum pieces. But although Ukraine has the quality, experts say Moscow has the upper hand in quantity and warn "there's no such thing as a tank that can't be killed".

ABC News

Ukraine war: high cost of replacing military hardware will change the nature of the conflict

The amount of ammunition being consumed in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has surpassed all estimates. This is starting to put pressure on the production and supply chains involved in the manufacture of ammunition for artillery guns among other weapons systems.

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The ‘punching fists of democracy’: How the West’s new tanks could give Ukraine a battlefield edge over Russia

Further battalions of Leopard, Abrams and Challenger tanks could eventually be a game-changer, Andy Gregory reports

The Independent UK

The ‘punching fists of democracy’: How the West’s new tanks could give Ukraine a battlefield edge over Russia

Further battalions of Leopard, Abrams and Challenger tanks could eventually be a game-changer, Andy Gregory reports

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Is U.S. waging proxy war with Russia?

We may be facing a long, grinding conflict aimed at "degrading" Russia's military until it's forced to retreat

Salon

Zelenskiy promises to work for new sanctions against Russia – as it happened

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says new round of negotiations ahead but that deal would have to be subject to referendum; Joe Biden rejects suggestion he was calling for regime change in Moscow

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