Locations of sightings
Kuruttupandi Villu, KudapatessaIllanda Motte to Manikrala Uraniya
First Sighting
10th May 2025 at 4.17pm
10th May 2025 at 4.17pm A young male leopard at Kuruttupandi Villu. N 08.43651, E 079.98228
Having photographed the female I drove back to check on the leopard that was sleeping on the Ficus tree. The jeep drivers informed me that it had descended from the tree and had walked into the thicket. I decided to drive down to the villu, expecting the leopard to break cover. After a few minutes a fine young male leopard moved out of the forest to lay down on a white sand patch. I had received images of this cub with its mother and its sibling that I just photographed. It was the male cub of the second litter of Manikrala Uraniya Female 1 (MRUF 1). Despite being of the same age (one year and 4 months) difference in size of the male was obvious. I was thrilled to have capture both these cubs that had eluded me from mid last year. As this is my first sighting of this cub, I named it Kuruttupandi Male 1 with the code KRPMC 1 for the purpose of my study.
