In Namibia, 11 marked leopards were moved 800 very long kilometres away. Six returned home over a period of 5 to 25 months. Let me put it this way – if these cats had been taken from Chennai and released north of Goa, they were able to walk right back. In the US, most of the 34 black bears that were moved about 200 kms from their home territories returned successfully. In India, an elephant translocated from the Terai to Buxa Tiger Reserve, a distance of about 250 kms, returned in less than two months. Salt water crocodiles in Australia were shown to home back after being moved 400 kms. Put me
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