Panthera Pardus Fusca - a photo on Flickriver

            The Indian Leopard is widely distributed in the subcontinent. Its coat is spotted and rosetted on a pale yellow to yellowish-brown or golden background and notably the rosettes are larger in other leopard subspecies in Asia. Fur colour tends to be more pale and cream in arid habitats, more gray in colder climates, and of a darker golden hue in rainforest habitats. It is speculated that nearly 15,000 of these beasts  live in India. Sadly, even though I live just a two hour drive from wildlife sanctuaries that host these magnificent animals, I have yet to sight them, let alone click them, in the wild.

As an aside, today is the day the Cheetah will be reintroduced in India after being declared extinct in 1952. Eight Cheetahs are scheduled to arrive in India today from Namibia. It is an ambitious and risky plan and India is the only country that has the resources at present to do the impossible, making the country the only one in the world to host all six of the large cats, the Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris), the Asiatic Lion (Panthera Leo Leo), the Indian Leopard (Panthera Pardus Fusca), the Snow Leopard (Panthera Uncia), the Clouded Leopard and the African Cheetah. Sadly the Asiatic Cheetah numbers, presently only found in Iran, are too few to undertake such a risky venture with them.

Taken in: India / Karnataka / Kurubarahalli (show map)

Taken on: February 3, 2018

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Camera: Canon EOS 550D, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, 135mm, ISO 1000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 550D
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	135mm
ISO:	1000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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