Srilanka, Feb. 2 -- The Animal Welfare Coalition (AWC) has reported a disturbing trend in which dogs are being used as bait to lure leopards, making the big cats more visible to tourists in national parks.

An AWC official told the Daily Mirror that using dogs to feed wild animals is unnatural and unethical. "While it is natural for leopards to hunt dogs in the wild, deliberately bringing dogs to them for the sake of tourist entertainment is unacceptable and disrupts their natural habitat," the official stated.

The AWC official pointed out that many videos on social media show dogs being used as bait in setups that seem carefully planned. These videos are not natural wildlife moments but staged events arranged by safari jeep drivers. In ...