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Study Finds Gujarat’s Coastal Asiatic Lions Rely More on Wild Prey Than Livestock

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Gandhinagar, July 18 (IANS) A new scientific study has found that Asiatic lions living along Gujarat’s coast depend primarily on wild prey rather than domestic livestock, challenging the long-held belief that the species expanded beyond the Gir forests in search of cattle.The research, published in the peer-reviewed international journal ‘Conservation’, found that wild prey accounts for nearly 70 per cent of the biomass consumed by coastal Asiatic lions, highlighting the ecological viability of …