On a night walk in one of Thailand's jungles, this Leopard Cat appeared onto the road and started walking in our direction. We froze, took a series of images with flash which did not scare him, and watched it getting closer. Blinded by the torch light it seemed oblivious to our presence. It continued walking until it was less than a meter away. There it stopped. It seemed to understand something was not quite right, but still seemed not exactly sure what was wrong. It stood there for a while and next we carefully took our mobile to take the above video.
And the rest can be seen in the video.
Surely, some people won't believe this is truly wild. However this is in the heart of a large forest with virtually no traffic at night. And the end of the video showed its wild behavior when running off.
We have learned this is actually not uncommon to happen. Even though this was the first such encounter with a wild cat species, we did have two other similar encounters with other mammal species in the past. The other two times were with respectively a Malayan Porcupine and with two Large Indian Civets of which one actually stepped on the foot of one of us before they noticed our presence and dashed off into the jungle.
Негізгі бет Үй жануарлары мен аңдар Leopard Cat in Thailand, a very close encounter
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