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Nayan Khanolkar’s photograph The alley cat won the Urban Wildlife category of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016. It shows a leopard moving through an alley in Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai, and uses the city setting to tell a story of people and wildlife sharing space.
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The Natural History Museum in London lists The alley cat as the winner of the Urban Wildlife category in Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016. The museum’s official award entry credits Nayan Khanolkar as photographer and identifies Aarey Milk Colony, Mumbai, as the location.
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The competition received 50,000 entries from 90 countries, according to The Indian Express’s 2016 report. That is a contemporaneous report of the competition’s scale, not a figure given on the museum’s image page.
How did Khanolkar capture the image?
Khanolkar set out to photograph leopards in a landscape shaped by human activity. The museum says he positioned a camera trap so a passing cat would not dominate the frame, then waited four months for the image. Its related feature on the photograph describes the camera-trap process.
The award entry records the equipment used for this particular image: a Nikon D7000 with an 18–105mm f/3.5–5.6 lens set to 21mm, a shutter speed of 1/20 second at f/7.1, three Nikon flashes, Trailmaster infrared triggers and custom-made housing. These details document Khanolkar’s 2016 setup; they are not a recommendation for current equipment.
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What does the image say about people and leopards?
Khanolkar framed the project as a record of human–leopard coexistence. In a first-person account for WWF, he says he began documenting Aarey after hearing that conflict was rising, amid disagreement over whether leopards should be protected or relocated. He wrote: “As the distance between cities and forests disappears, bringing people and wild animals into closer proximity, I think it’s our turn to adapt.”
The museum’s account describes Warli people in the Mumbai suburb as accepting leopards as neighbors and notes that leopards also appear in traditional paintings in their homes. That is the museum’s description of this community, not a claim about how every Mumbai resident experiences living near wildlife. The feature quotes Khanolkar’s view: “They are beautiful creatures and should be respected and protected.”
The museum’s award entry captures the image’s quiet tension: “After four months, he finally captured this unique human-leopard co-existence as this big cat weaves its way silently through the alley.”
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What do the leopard and population figures mean?
In his 2022 WWF account, Khanolkar referred to more than 50 leopards and almost 90,000 people cohabiting near the park. Those are figures from that account, not current estimates.
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