In reply to a question by Somnath MLA Vimal Chudasama, the state government said on Monday that in total, 65 big cats including lions, lion cubs and leopards have died unnaturally in the two years ending on December 31, 2017. The government, however, in its reply did not take into account deaths of lionesses.The government claimed that 291 big cats including lions, lion cubs and leopards have died in the last two years, among which there were 110 lions and lion cubs and 181 leopards.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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