It was a fleeting 10-second glimpse. But it was enough to get a Rusty-spotted cat with her kitten on camera, leading to the first confirmed photographic evidence of the species breeding in Delhi-NCR. The finding, published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Zoo’s Print, is based on field surveys conducted across the Aravalli landscape in Faridabad and Gurgaon by a team of independent researchers, including Amit Kumar, Tejveer Mavi, Yatin Verma, Ram Kumar Rawat and Sohail Madan. The researchers are affiliated with the Department of Zoology at Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Haryana. Researchers recorded an adult cat with a dependent kitten in Kot village in July 2025, establishing for the first time that the elusive species is reproducing in the region. The observation is also significant, as it is an indicator of the resident population in the region.…