A rare Black Panther was spotted in a mountain forest in an undisclosed location in India recently.?
Parveen Kaswan of the Indian Forest Services tweeted the short clip of the animal earlier this week and it has gone viral on social media with over one lakh views.??
Forest guards in the video heard conversing in Nepali, are left absolutely stunned by the magnificent animal.?
One man in the video can be heard saying, 'I was terrified when I first caught sight. It's a black panther!'? ?
The undated video, which was taken from a vehicle, shows the wild cat on the side of an empty road in a forest area.
As the big cat spots the vehicle and its occupants, it first gazes at the people before moving away from behind a stack of dry leaves.
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¡°The black panther of India. Location will not be revealed.¡± Kaswan wrote while sharing the video. The footage prompted people to remember ¡®Bagheera¡¯, the name of a black panther in the Rudyard Kipling classic ¡®The Jungle Book¡¯.??
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In a separate tweet, Parveen Kaswan mentioned that, "Black panther is found in many states in India. It is melanistic common leopard only. Panthera pardus. The character Bagheera of Mowgli or jungle book is inspired by it."??
Black panthers are usually found in evergreen forests, where the thick canopy of trees doesn¡¯t let the sun into the undergrowth.
Spotting Black Panther in the wild is one of the top things to do for wildlife lovers and photographers.Black Panther is one of the rarest to sight Big Cat in India and in the whole world.