The snow leopard uses its white and brown coat as natural camouflage to fit into its snowy environment.
Wildlife photographers take great pains to capture the rare and stunning scenes. They have to spend days – sometimes weeks – in dense forests or barren land to get the correct posture of an animal.
A wildlife photographer, Sasha Fonseca, managed to capture one such shot of one of the most elusive animals – the snow leopard – and is now going viral. It shows the big cat growling at the camera.
Mr Fonseca shared on his Instagram account the amazing shot which he took in the mountains of Ladakh.
The snow leopard uses its white and brown coat as natural camouflage to fit into its snowy environment. It is sometimes called the Ghost of the Mountains.
Capturing a shot of this elusive animal in the wild is a challenge, but Fonseca managed to capture its images using a motion-triggered DSLR camera trap.
“A snow leopard young man in the mountains of Ladakh interacts with my camera trap. He is probably reacting to the shutter sound of the DSLR,” he said in the caption.
This post has got more than 23,000 likes on Instagram so far. Users have flooded the comments section praising the photographer for the beautiful shot.
“Unbelievable,” wrote one user, while another added, “Your work is amazing, a dream.”
According to his Instagram bio, Fonseca is on a mission to inspire wildlife conservation and is currently working on Amur Tiger, a project in Far East Russia.
In March this year, a footage of a full grown snow leopard when sighted at an altitude of 12,500 feet near Kaza in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley had gone viral.
The animal was captured on camera by soldiers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and shared on Twitter by news agency ANI.
In India, snow leopards are mostly found in the high altitude, mountainous areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
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