The Big Cat Diaries

Describing the moment, Prakash says, “It was in the evening when we spotted them on a rock in the Nilgiris forest. We were on foot at about 50 to 60 feet away. They stared into the camera for about five minutes and walked away to the den below. No one has so far spotted the cats together in day time," he adds. This made the photograph unique, and won him the third prize from 16,000 entries for the RBS Wildlife Award (instituted by Sanctuary Magazine). It appears on the cover of the December issue of Sanctuary Asia. The copyrighted picture will soon grace the pages of Mammals of Asia, a coffee table book brought out by Bangalore based Wildlife Conservation Society. Read the full report here.

Source: K. Jeshi, The Hindu.