The recent photographic documentation of a rusty-spotted cat and its kitten in the Aravalli landscape near Delhi has sparked fresh concern among wildlife experts over the rapid degradation of one of India’s oldest ecological systems. Reported last week in the peer-reviewed journal Zoo’s Print, the sighting captured a female rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) alongside her dependent kitten in Kot village of Faridabad district during field surveys conducted by researchers affiliated with the Department of Zoology at Indira Gandhi University. The finding, recorded by Amit Kumar, Tejveer Mavi, Yatin Verma, Ram Kumar Rawat, and Sohail Madan, is significant because it provides evidence of breeding and suggests the possibility of a resident population in the Aravalli landscape spanning Faridabad and Gurgaon.…