Summary:
This leopard cat was camera trapped in Odisha`s Mayurbhanj district and is relatively common with a stable population across many areas.
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This leopard cat was camera trapped in Odisha`s Mayurbhanj district and is relatively common with a stable population across many areas.
Photos of unique animals often go viral on social media.
These days a photo of one such animal is becoming increasingly viral on social media, which you would have never seen before.
IFS officer Susanta Nanda, who is quite popular on the micro-blogging site Twitter for sharing unique pictures and videos of Indian Wildlife.
Similarly, Nanda shared a picture of a leopard cat, a Schedule I animal under the Wildlife Protection Act in India.
He shared a tweet with the picture of this unique cat with this caption `Identify this from the wilds of Odisha`
Identify this from the wilds of Odisha pic.twitter.com/kxXmOvLe6r
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) May 6, 2021
Later he put another tweet giving details of the viral picture, this particular leopard cat was camera trapped in Odisha Mayurbhanj district and is relatively common with a stable population across many areas.
This is a leopard cat.
Some got it correct.
Schedule I animal under Wildlife Protection Act in India.
Camera trapped from Mayurbhanj district.
Relatively common & widespread with stable populations in many areas.