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Application of DNA forensic to identify a problem leopard and its implications for human-leopard conflict mitigation

2023-03-06

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Attacks on humans by leopards Panthera pardus often escalate human-leopard conflict, influence extreme negative tolerance and encourage retaliatory killings. In the rural hilly region of Arghakhanchi district, mid-western Nepal, a leopard killed a child in November 2018. Government authorities captured a leopard a week later which was immediately killed by the villagers. We collected the predator’s salivary DNA f...

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b1be25f4-3eff-5597-96e3-1154878aed26
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10.1101/2023.03.05.530261
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