{"id":979,"date":"2020-12-08T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/?p=979"},"modified":"2024-03-20T08:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T08:36:34","slug":"kosgasmankada-23-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/kosgasmankada-23-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosgasmankada 2:3 Male [YM 12\/Hunter]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">[Kos = Jackfruit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackfruit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(<em>Artocarpus heterophyllus<\/em>)<\/a>,  Gas = trees,  mankada = corridor\/track]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This male was first sighted around M\u014ddharagala, in November 2016. Since then he was missing from that area. Due to the pressure from other big males around in his initial territory he had to move to the Southeast of the park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2017, he was photographed around the Suduwelimulla and the Kosgasmankada area, mating with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/yala-junction-22-female\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Y\u0101la Junction 2:2 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a blatant power move, he took a part of the territory belonging to the legendary male leopard, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/hadunoruwa-33-male\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Andhun Oruwa 3:3 male<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, aka &#8220;H\u0101mu&#8221;. It was easy for him to take over that territory as Hamu was old at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was seen around the areas of <strong>Kosgasmankada, Kotasiyabale, Andhun Oruwa, Y\u0101la Junction, Suduwelimulla, Rakina Wala, G\u014dnalahaba Ground, Ruk Vila, and Medha P\u0101ra.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was such a talented performer as he possessed the skills to make two successful buffalo calf kills around G\u014dnalahaba Ground in January 2018, and at Y\u0101la Wewa in April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the first half of 2018, there are no confirmed sightings of this majestic leopard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Kos = Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), Gas = trees, mankada = corridor\/track] This male was first sighted around M\u014ddharagala, in November 2016. Since then he was missing from that area. Due to the pressure from other big males around in his initial territory he had to move to the Southeast of the park. In July 2017, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}