2 Researchers Built a Pond for Thirsty Wildlife & Ended up Filming Goa’s First Leopard Cat Footage

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• Researchers Akshita Pungaliya and Atul Borker built a 40-litre artificial pond in a forest patch near Goa's Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary to give wildlife water after a stream dried up each February.
• At 12:54 am on 7 March 2024, a camera trap by the pond recorded five short clips of a mainland leopard cat, the state's first photographic record of the species.