AHMEDABAD: A Wildlife Institute of India (WII) study has red-flagged a major concern over diminishing hunting skills in younger lions due to cubs being increasingly fed with dumped carcasses in tourism zones.
The issue was raised in the study titled ‘Spatially Explicit Density and Its Determinants For Asiatic Lion In Gir Forest’ which has a density of 8.5 lions per 100 sq km area in the western part of Gir protected sanctuary. The study, published recently, was conducted by researchers Y V Jhala, Keshav Gogoi, Kausik Baner
From royal feasts to tourism titbits: Gir lions turning into scavengers?
Byindianadmin
Mar 1, 2020