This is just one more in a long line of puzzles where you have to find the hidden object. There is a mountain goat standing calmly in a mountain region, unaware of the danger he is in from the elusive Snow Leopard. Can you find him?
Perfectly camouflaged as it waits to pounce, a snow leopard can just about be seen surveying its prey.
The big cat was just metres from the long-horned Ibex, which was at ease unaware of the fate which awaited it.
The endangered predator was pictured in the Indian Himalayas.
Photographer Nirali Mehta, 21, a student from Mumbai, said: ‘It was a breathtaking moment for me. We had travelled from the plains to the elevation of 3,712 metres braving minus degrees to track the snow leopards which are extremely shy animals and are rarely seen.
‘We were having tea early morning when a villager came running to us saying he spotted a snow leopard.
‘We ran with our cameras and binoculars and hiked up to the one end of the mountain stretch. When we reached, we could only see an Ibex standing all alone.
‘But soon my eyes caught this majestic beauty with an elongated tail lying callously just meters away from the goat. It had perfectly camouflaged against the mountain terrain.’
And Nirali, who was on an expedition to Ladakh – the highest plateau in India – with three of her friends, continued: ‘I could not believe my eyes. I had been on several tiger spotting expeditions before and failed but here I could see this beautiful, shy creature in front of my eyes. I was thrilled, not even once I felt scared of it. I quickly captured the animal in my camera lens.
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