Can you see the leopard? Photographer wanted tip from a lion

A wildlife photographer received an unlikely help in recognizing a leopard in a tree in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Henri Olckers captured a picture of the hard-to-spot leopard—he known as it a “master of camouflage”—and posted it on Facebook, the place viewers had issue discovering it.

“Where?” one commenter wrote. “Driving me crazy.”

Another wrote, “Not sure there is a leopard in that tree.”

Well, there’s, however it’s undoubtedly not simple to identify.

In truth, Olckers would have missed it had it not been for a close-by lion.

“A lioness gave him away,” he wrote in his post final summer time. “She was lying in the grass close to the tree. After a while, she got up, walked up to the tree, sniffed the air and looked up. Then walked off. I thought it was a bit suspicious, so we scanned the tree and saw the tail.”

The tail is all you’ll be able to see of the leopard, its telltale spots exhibiting if you happen to look carefully.

To assist, Olckers posted one other picture that exhibits the tail a bit extra clearer.

Next, he posted a picture taken a bit of later that clearly displayed the leopard’s head because it got here into view.

“We would have driven straight past if it wasn’t for the lion,” Olckers wrote.

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Incidentally, the Henri Olckers Wildlife Photography Facebook web page has loads of different pictures of wildlife which can be far simpler to identify.