A snow leopard was caught on camera showing off its camouflage skills as it effortlessly hid in plain sight on the side of a Himalayan mountain.
Thanks to its mottled gray and black fur and white belly, the elusive predator can evade the untrained eye as it disappears into the snowy mountainous terrain.
Award-winning wildlife photographer Dafna Ben-nun, 43, managed to spot and photograph the stealthy snow leopard, later joined by her brother, after climbing the Indian Himalayas.
Can you see the snow leopard on the slope of this mountain in the Indian Himalayas? Find the answer at the end of this article.
She says she walked for miles in deep snow to get to the edge of the cliffs so she could see the pair who began chasing each other in a game of tag.
Dafna said: ‘We managed to see two furry snow leopards playing with each other.
‘They told us they are brother and sister. I am very lucky not only to see them but also to be able to photograph them.
“They are very elusive animals and there are not many left in the wild.”
Dafna said she climbed the Himalayas to 4,500m, where oxygen levels are low in nearly -20 degree weather.
In other images you can see the brother and sister jumping down the mountainside together.
They are such solitary creatures that there is no term for a group of snow leopards, so it is extremely rare to see two of them together in the wild.
Snow leopards live in a vast mountainous area of northern and central Asia.
In the Himalayas they live in high alpine areas, usually above the tree line and up to 18,000 feet above the ground.
The hidden snow leopard can be seen right in the center of the image.
In other images you can see the brother and sister jumping down the mountainside together.
They are such solitary creatures that there is no term for a group of snow leopards, so it is extremely rare to see two of them together in the wild.
Snow leopards live in a vast area of mountains in northern and central Asia.
In the Himalayas they live in high alpine areas, usually above the tree line and up to 18,000 feet above the ground.
There are an estimated 4,080 to 6,590 snow leopards left in the wild and they are listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).