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Mumbai was estimated to have about 95000 stray dogs, and researchers calculated that leopards living around the city's 104-square-kilometre Sanjay Gandhi National Park may reduce dog bites and rabies deaths by preying heavily on those dogs - Space Daily

Published by Space Daily 25 August 2026 at 04:30
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Mumbai was estimated to have about 95000 stray dogs, and researchers calculated that leopards living around the city's 104-square-kilometre Sanjay Gandhi National Park may reduce dog bites and rabies deaths by preying heavily on those dogs - Space Daily
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As Mumbai's leopard population hunts stray dogs, the feared predators may inadvertently be preventing thousands of rabies deaths each year.

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