Mammal
Leopard
Panthera pardus
On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened animals listIUCN: Vulnerable, A2cd, assessed 2023
Image: Nagarjun · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · Jhalana, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized
What the sources say
- RajasthanThe Board lists it for all of Rajasthan.[1]
- JaipurCamera traps in Jhalana Reserve Forest, inside Jaipur, identified 25 individual leopards (8 males and 17 females) over two years. The leopard is the top predator there.[11]
Placed in Wild animals because people rarely see a leopard, even though Jhalana lies inside a city.
Sources
- Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Animals of Rajasthan (39 animals, with localities) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
- Kumbhojkar S, Mahabal A, Rakholia S, Yosef R (2024). Avian and Mammalian Diversity and Abundance in Jhalana Reserve Forest, Jaipur, India. Animals 14(20): 2939 (journal). Peer reviewed camera-trap study, 2017 to 2019, inside Jaipur.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.
