Adam,

In some parts of India leopard populations are on the increase to an extent where the government has severe problems with them. The northern state of Himachal Pradesh mooted hunting them some years ago but India is a country where PETA has a former Cabinet Minister as it's patron. Naturally, nothing happened...

The sloth bear is a formidable beast and one that has been recorded giving tigers sound thrashing when they have clashed. It is funny, because many Indians' only experience of the bear is as a performing animal in the cities.

As far as the tiger is concerned, it will soon be extinct in the wild in India. The incompetence of the Indian government and the miserable state of affairs is certain to see that happen. I would love to be proven worng in this assumption, but I am certain that I will not be - I know India and Indian incompetence too well to believe differently than I do at the moment.