Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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The Translocation of Leopards and Tigers
translucation is something that's actually come to south asia from early experimentations in africa and kennia. When you do this to leopards or tigers, which are very strong homing instincts and also very territorial, they try to make their way back home. In doing so, they encounter humans. And when they go back, they find that the social kin structures and the political structures in their original home have been disrupted by the entry of other big cats. And that leads to conflict. But i think the one of the most important orders of explanation, and which is not divorced from the political or the so called biological, is really the those explanations where they make direct
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