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04 April 2006 @ 12:12 am
I've still not seen a leopard in the wild and I was hoping to catch a glimpse of it at Harsha's territory in Kabini. He had taken a snap of a resident leopard and there had been good sightings of them in the forests nearby so the time seemed appropriate to go there. So, Kalyan, Noella and I drove to Kabini on a Saturday morning and decided to stay there for a few days. The idea was to catch up with Harsha as well as (hopefully) get some good wildlife photographs. Kabini is a fantastic place and is very close to my heart for a variety of reasons and one of them is being able to see so many elephants. It's almost unimaginable that we see at least a hundred elephants are times along the back waters and that's a considerable population of elephants given their endangered status!

Anyways. We did not see a leopard or even a tiger, but we did see something interesting...

Kabini Landscape

Smooth-skinned Otter. First Glimpse. Good telephoto lens does help! :)

It decides to drop by for a closer look.

It's calls are still echoing in my ears. Wonderful animal this.

Premnath Kudvapremkudva on April 5th, 2006 04:16 am (UTC)
You are still in the US right;-)

Man I would have never expected an otter in Kabini!
Yathinyathin on April 5th, 2006 10:21 pm (UTC)
The Otters are from Kabini!! I went to Kabini one week before I left for the US! :)
Premnath Kudvapremkudva on April 6th, 2006 04:19 am (UTC)
I knew that from the surroundings, which is why it surprised me. I never thought I'd find Otters at Kabini. Also I don't remember seeing any photos of otters while I was at the Jungle Lodge many years back.
Yathinyathin on May 2nd, 2006 09:36 pm (UTC)
People go to Kabini only for tigers and that's one of the reasons why it's so famous. Even as we were spending time with this really friendly Otter, we got a wireless message about a tiger sighting and three of the regular guests actually started cribbing that if they had gone in the jeep instead of the boat they could have seen a tiger and so on. Also, the otter is an uncommon resident here and is rarely seen.