An accomplished wildlife photographer had a truly special encounter with a family of elusive big cats while leading a photo tour group in an Indian national park. Matan Sharon and his tour group were in Manas National Park, at the foothills of the Himalayas in northeastern India, when they finally encountered the melanistic Indian leopard.
More commonly known as "black panthers”, these majestic yet elusive big cats make up just one in ten leopard individuals worldwide.
