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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?
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2 .The business world is sometimes described figuratively as dog eat dog.
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3 .In the state of Maharashtra in western India the situation is literally cat eat dog.
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4 .Where the cats are leopards and the dogs are, well, dogs.
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5 .That's the finding of a Wildlife Conservation Society study published in the journal Oryx.
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6 .The paper points out that big cat ecology and predator prey interactions in tropical regions are typically studied in natural systems.
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7 .The majority of the prey in those cases are ungulates: think zebras or deer.
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8 .But in human-dominated areas, especially agricultural ones, you can have large populations of domesticated animals, a big attraction for any hungry wildlife.
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9 .Researchers examined 85 leopard scats, because that's how you do this kind of research.
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10 .And 87 percent of the prey biomass they recovered was from domestic animals, with nearly half of that coming from dogs, many of them presumably feral.
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11 .Livestock make up only a small part of the leopard diet.
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12 .For example, goats outnumber dogs seven to one, but are just 11 percent of meals for the cats, probably because they're penned in at night.
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13 .Those numbers are good news because they may calm farmers' fears about heavy losses of agriculturally valuable species.
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14 .Of course, it's not good news for the dogs.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
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