{"id":1855,"date":"2021-01-07T20:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T20:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2024-09-10T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T19:01:14","slug":"sathvila-road-32-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/sathvila-road-32-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Sath Vila Road 3:2 Male (2017) [YM 56\/Raala]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">[Vila = lake] <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Sath Vila Road 3:2 male was first photographed in April 2018, around Kohombakema of Sath Vila road with his brother, the<\/mark><strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/sathvila-road-23-male\/\" target=\"_blank\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Sath Vila Road 2:3 male<\/mark><\/a><\/strong>. <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Their mother is unknown and yet to be identified. It is fair to assume that their mother\u2019s territory includes the areas of <strong>Sath Vila Road, New Road and, Sithulpawwa Temple.<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">In August 2018, the brothers were seen and photographed around the same area. There were no confirmed sightings in 2019 for this male.  Since late 2020, this male started to appear close to the <strong>Korawak Wewa,<\/strong> <strong>Halmilla Wewa,<\/strong> <strong>Weli Wala<\/strong>, <strong>Katagamuwa Entrance, and the Katagamuawa Wildlife Sanctuary. <\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Like his brother, he is a shy male but unlike him, he is getting used to being in the presence of safari vehicles. In early 2021, he continued to appear around the above-mentioned areas. In October 2021 he was seen having a close encounter with Halmilla Wewa1:2 Male close to the Katagamuwa entrance area. But no physical conflicts were observed.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Within the following years (2022,2023 &amp; 2024), this male has proved that he is the dominant male in the Katagamuwa entrance area and northwest of Yala Block 1. Currently (in 2024) he holds a territory including Warahana, New Road, Alikatupalassa, Korawak Wewa, Halmilla Wewa, and beyond the Katagamuwa entrance into Katagamuwa sanctuary.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Yala Leopard Diary database &#8211;<\/mark><\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/yalaleoparddiary.com\/identified-leopard-result\/YM56\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/yalaleoparddiary.com\/identified-leopard-result\/YM56<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=oa.2493509624282332&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=oa.2493509624282332&amp;type=3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Vila = lake] Sath Vila Road 3:2 male was first photographed in April 2018, around Kohombakema of Sath Vila road with his brother, the Sath Vila Road 2:3 male. Their mother is unknown and yet to be identified. It is fair to assume that their mother\u2019s territory includes the areas of Sath Vila Road, New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}