Every night, across the edges of Pune, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi, animals that most city residents have never seen are attempting to cross the city. A leopard slips under a highway overpass. A small Indian civet threads through a storm drain. A golden jackal trots along a dry nullah bed before a construction light stops it cold. These movements are not random wandering, they are the remnants of migration routes that predate the cities themselves, still being attempted by animals whose internal maps have not been updated for concrete.
