Watch a Clouded Leopard Approaching a Wildlife Photographer

Whilst making the documentary India’s Wild Leopards, Kadur succeeded in capturing a clouded leopard in a camera trap.

But his ultimate goal still eluded him – despite coming rather closer than he realised whilst installed in a hide.

There he sat “for many, many nights” with his infrared lights on, waiting for something to trip the sensor and trigger the lights, allowing him to take the shot.

Nothing happened. However, he had a camera trap in front of his hide, and it captured some unexpected results.

“A clouded leopard had come in from a place I didn’t expect and stopped right in front of my hide,” he said.

“The camera trap captured it, and I saw it was looking straight at me.

So now I know that a clouded leopard has laid eyes on me – but I’m yet to lay eyes on a clouded leopard.”

A clouded leopard casually approached a wildlife photographer
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This video by Sandesh Kudar was first published by Reddit.com 0n 12 October 2023. Lead Image: Sandesh Kadur photographs one of a pair of clouded leopards that were seized from a market as kittens, raised in captivity, then released into the wild. PHOTOGRAPH BY SANDESH KADUR, FELIS IMAGES.