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Indian leopard
A camera-trap census run from February to June 2024 by the Wildlife Conservation Society–India with the Maharashtra Forest Department counted 54 leopards across Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Aarey and Tungareshwar, up from 35 in 2015. Almost nowhere else on earth do this many big cats live inside a city of this size.
Panthera pardus fusca
Chital (spotted deer)
In a 2015 study of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, chital made up about 23% of what the park's leopards ate, more than any other wild prey and second only to domestic dogs at 32%.
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Indian giant squirrel
The state animal of Maharashtra, called shekru. It never comes to the ground, so the continuous canopy along the park's older forest roads is exactly what it needs.
Ratufa indica
Indian flying fox
Rani Baug, laid out as a botanical garden in 1861, has more trees than any other site in the island city, and the foundation that campaigns to protect it describes its canopy as home to Mumbai's largest colony of fruit bats.
Pteropus medius
Bengal monitor lizard
The goh appears in Maratha fort legend as the animal whose grip on a wall let climbers scale it; the story is folklore, but the lizard's claws really do hold rock.
Varanus bengalensis
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