Melanistic leopard cat sighted in Sunderbans?

After two mysterious cats were spotted by a camera in the Sundarbans, forest department officials are now tracking the movement of the animal to find out if it is the never-before-seen melanistic leopard cat. During a camera trapping exercise by WWF-India to estimate the population of tigers in South 24-Parganas forest division, images of two black cats with long tails were found for the first time a few months ago. S B Mondal, principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF-wildlife), said efforts were on to trace the animal and unfold the mystery. He told