Leopard Takes Sleeping Dog on Camera in Mumbai!

[Vikram]

Warning: Not for the delicately natured. Watch at your discretion.

Tells us how adaptable the leopard is to urban environments and another example of the result of habitat destruction.Of course, leopards always preyed on dogs where they could. Poor doggy though.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... t-dog.html

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[StampMaster]

Surprisingly there is no blood trail.

Thanks for sharing

[Moin.]

Whoa ! I had heard of leopard attacks in shanties and huts around the national park, but a plush apt in Mulund !!!

Thanks for sharing Vikram. Have a lot of friends in Mulund, will share it with them.

Regards
Moin.

[Safarigent]

A sad case of rampant, unregulated and uncontrolled and badly planned extention of human dwellings.
I feel bad for the leopard and many more of its ilk.

[Hammerhead]

In my understanding leopard took the wrong dog ----

[dr.jayakumar]

As said human intrusion is the cause.the sanjay gandhi national park is adjacent to mumbai.there where nearly 100 or more attacks recorded.
reason for the attacks being icreasing human population and dumping garbage.
the best long term solution should be ''population control''
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dr.jk

[BowMan]

That poor creature never knew what came. The leopard is a predator that can manage to creep in total silence in a deciduous jungle and it did not even have to mask its movement on those tiles.

Mumbai walo bachke!!! Mother nature is back with a vengeance...

[Moin.]

Thank fully it was a dog and not some one's child. Poor little dog just could'nt offer any resistance, must be a small breed.

[ckkalyan]

[airgun_novice]

Whoa ! I had heard of leopard attacks in shanties and huts around the national park, but a plush apt in Mulund !!!

Thanks for sharing Vikram. Have a lot of friends in Mulund, will share it with them.

Regards
Moin.

Dear Moin,
A re-look convinced me that it appears to be the lobby of an apartment complex - hence the CCTV. Notice the noticeboard and empty chair near the "security table". The dog appears to be a stray that had adopted the society. Now why was the watchman missing ?

Dear SM/ Bowman,
Tigers/ leopards seldom dig their teeth inside the neck - they more or less knock out all resistance by asphyxiation. Once perched comfortably to have the lunch/ dinner they go "red in tooth n claw". Hence no blood trail. In all probability the dog was pretty much awake - just too scared. I have seen such dogs shiver and shake by mere smell of a leopard at night unable to bark beyond a whimper (though safely inside the house) at our native place in Ratnagiri.

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A.

[BowMan]

Tigers/ leopards seldom dig their teeth inside the neck

I agree with your observations but this one. I have seen far too many fang marks on the necks of victims and it makes me wonder how can you so hypothesize. To bring down large prey these cats usually asphyxiate it by clamping their canines on the trachea. That is a little time consuming affair and the animal struggles for a few minutes before it collapses due to lack of oxygen flow. For smaller animals they simply clamp down their fangs on the neck vertebrae and dislodge the columns brining instant paralysis.

[airgun_novice]

Blood trail smell invites other predators and scavengers. The dog being a stray would not be that heavy. Being scared every possibility that the shock itself would have knocked it out - hence no need for fang penetration. Considering high density of leopard population in that small area, the leopard would first carry the prey up to a higher location (branch) it would be comfortable and able to fend off (from other leopards or wild dogs) and then sink in. Mulund-Thane region has quite a few packs of stray-turned-wild-at night dogs which often venture inside the Krishnagiri Upawan during night to challenge their nemesis or hunt hares. Hence my deduction.

[prashantsingh]

Wow Vikram.
What a fantastic video.
12 sec. Game over.
A leopard that size could take a much bigger dog .They may look small but they are powerful .
What a versatile animal !!!
A true survivor .


But If it is Mumbai. Two things I am scared of (for the leopard).
Distemper and Rabies.

[timmy]

The video is a depiction of what makes life go around on this planet: Everything survives by eating some other living thing, except for autotrophs like plants, which can derive their energy from the sun. In essence, animals are like fungi, having to live on something else for survival.

Still, it is chilling to watch, because we can imagine ourselves in the same position as that dog.

My understanding is that the nerves at the base of the housecat's canine teeth enable it to sense the joints between the vertebrae of a mouse's neck, to ensure that their bite severs the spinal cord in one chomp.

[Vikram]

But If it is Mumbai. Two things I am scared of (for the leopard).
Distemper and Rabies.

And lynching by the people.

My understanding is that the nerves at the base of the housecat's canine teeth enable it to sense the joints between the vertebrae of a mouse's neck, to ensure that their bite severs the spinal cord in one chomp.

Never knew that,Timmy.


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