India GOAnimals in Jaipur
Indian leopard
Jhalana was declared India's first leopard reserve by the Rajasthan Forest Department in 2017. Its leopards live largely on the edges of the city, and research on them has focused on how a big cat feeds itself on the edge of a large city. Jhalana Reserve Forest is a 29 km² island of dry forest ringed by the city, where camera trapping identified 25 individual leopards in 2017–2018.
Panthera pardus fusca
Nilgai (blue bull)
The Hindi name means blue cow, and that half-cow name has protected it for centuries across the north Indian plains, which is why a wild antelope grazes unbothered on the edge of a state capital.
Boselaphus tragocamelus
Striped Hyena
In Jhalana it shares the reserve with the leopards, and the camera-trap survey found it well distributed through the reserve and most often near the south-eastern boundary, close to houses. The hyena cleans up what the leopards and the city leave behind, which is why it lives closest to the houses rather than deepest in the forest.
Hyaena hyaena
Rhesus macaque
Galta Ji's tanks have been a Vaishnava pilgrimage site since the sixteenth century, and feeding the monkeys there is part of the visit. That habit is exactly what makes them bold.
Macaca mulatta
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