Leopards

Leopards have long shared Kuno's forests and rocky outcrops, well before the cheetah reintroduction brought the park wider attention.

They're more elusive than cheetahs — leopards favour denser cover and are often more active at dawn, dusk and night — so sightings depend heavily on timing, terrain and a bit of luck.

Kuno is one of the few Indian landscapes where cheetah and leopard territory genuinely overlap, which is part of what makes its carnivore ecology distinctive.