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in the sanctuary area. Figure 1 also showed the monthly variation in livestock
depredation in Kugti wildlife sanctuary.
Figure 2 shows the time of attacks by brown bears on sheep and goat in different
dhars. The day timings have been divided into morning time as 0601-1000h, day time
as 1001-1600h, evening as 1601-2000h. Whereas, the night timings have been divided
into 2001-2400h, 0001-0400h and 0401-0600h. Time of livestock depredation was
also recorded and the results showed that during 2002-2004, maximum depredation
occurred during night 967 (62.8%), followed by day time 259 (16.8%), evening 233
(15.2%) and morning time 80 (5.2%).
Brown bears attacks occurring during night hours were further analysed, it was
recorded that maximum number of livestock depredation occurred mid-night i.e.
between 0001-0400 h (531 livestock killings i.e. 54.9%), followed by 0401-0600 h
(239 livestock killings i.e. 24.7%) and 2000-2400 h (197 livestock killings i.e. 20.4%)
(Figure 3). This trend of livestock depredation remained the same during the years
2002, 2003 and 2004. Results also showed that depredations occurred during night
time were mostly inside the ‘gots’ i.e. resting place of the herders, while during day
and evening time, depredations occurred when livestock were grazing in different
dhars.
6.3.2 Crop damage by bears
There is only one village, upper and lower Kugti village inside the wildlife sanctuary,
and most of the agricultural areas are far away from village and nearer to the forest.
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