Haseeb Abdullah
Only a few of us are lucky enough to spot one of the rarest creatures on the planet and Abhishek Pangis from India is that lucky one. On his first-ever trip to safari, the 23 years old Indian man spotted and captured an extremely rare picture of Black Leopard. The man was on the Tadoba safari trip in India when he spotted the beautiful black cat.
Abhishek is an engineering student and an amateur photographer. He was on his trip to safari with his parents in Maharashtra, India. It was his first-ever safari trip and while talking about the incident he revealed that there were many safari vans were there but at least 10-15 of them went ahead while a few stayed with them. Eventually, the rare black leopard came out and nobody has a camera except Pangis.
Abhishek Pangis then took out the camera and captured this extremely rare picture of a black leopard. When it was spotted by the photographer the black leopard was drinking water by the pond.
Mr. Pangis said: “I went blank when I spotted it. I hadn’t seen anything so beautiful, I was completely stunned and came back to my senses after 10 minutes and started clicking pictures.”
“Usually people have seen it around for two-three minutes but I was very lucky as I could see it for 40 minutes. I witnessed it drinking water from a pond, marking its territory and stalking langurs and monkeys. It was a brilliant experience,” Mr. Pangis said.
“We saw him in peak summer of June last month when it was 40-45 degrees of extreme heat as there is a more chance of the wild cats coming out for water. At one point, this leopard, who should be four years old, even walked past our jeep. It was a surreal moment.”
