Screengrab from a viral video. [Twitter@susantananda3]
It is not very uncommon to come across videos of wildlife, showing the lives of animals including hunting and preying on their hunts. While all this continues to remain a part of the food cycle, a similar video has recently surfaced on the internet but has left several users unhappy for a certain reason.
The video that has recently grabbed attention on social media shows a black leopard hunting a deer inside a forest followed by which his hunt being taken away by another leopard that enters the scene. However, that is not just the thing that caught our attention.
A video shared by Indian Forest Officer (IFS) Susanta Nanda shows the footage being captured under a glaring spotlight during the night time, thus giving rise to a lot of questions over human interference in wildlife.
Watch the video here:
As the 30 seconds video opens up, the black-colored leopard can be seen catching hold of the deer’s neck while standing inside the bright spotlight.
After a matter of seconds, the leopard being alerted by the sound of camera shutters and spotlight ran away further giving up his prey to another leopard that came into the scene and dragged away the deer inside the forest.
Sharing the video, the Twitter user while calling it a ‘perfect capture’ questioned capturing the rare moments of nature in the full glare of the spotlight.
Internet unhappy over wildlife shoot under the spotlight
While the video and the behaviour of the animal can be perceived to be normal, it did leave the internet upset over the same. Many took to the comment section and raised concerns over the rising human intervention in wildlife which has affected the natural lifestyle of the animals. Some also lashed out at the photographer and asked over who gave them permission to shoot such videos under bright spotlights at night time.
Check some reactions:
So far, the video has been viewed over 33,000 times and has received more than 1,300 likes and hundreds of comments.
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