A Majestic Leopard Accidentally Takes a Selfie in the Streets of Mumbai

"Takes a Selfie" is disingenuous at best - the cat was caught on a motion-sensing camera. It seems like Wired was just trying to put a buzzword in the headline.

@garblegarble it seems pretty clear that the photographer would own the copyright.

When did tripping IR sensors become 'taking a selfie'? By that logic, every time I'm on a security camera it'd be a selfie - and by extension that would be my copyrightable imagery.

Ridiculous article, ridiculous headline. Click-bait...

I remember back when I was a kid my uncle told me a story about a night watchman who had a few drinks to alleviate the boredom of his job. He got really drunk and wondered off into the jungle ( back then the line between where the city starts and the jungle begins was shall we say blurred, probably still is ). Anyway they found his half eaten body the next morning not far from his post. I think my uncle told me that story to scare the hell out of me but, it had the opposite affect. I just said that that was the coolest thing ever and we should go leopard hunting.

Are those bullet holes to the right of the door? This looks like something straight out of a video game.

Note to Wired: "Enlarge Photo" doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.

There's an interesting conflict in the wired article here - it claims the photo to be a selfie taken by the animal (and I'm assuming Indian copyright law would similarly classify animal-taken photos as non-copyrightable) but then later on refers to them as "his photos" (presumably referring to the main image in the article).

Some added pictures and little backstory, it took him 4 months to capture this

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nayan-khanolkar-mumbai-bb...

This is a gorgeous photo, but wired is a horrible site.

My university - IIT Mumbai - is not far from where this photo was taken.

we had leopards in the dorm at night.

There's a bit about Mumbai's leopards in BBC's awesome new Planet Earth 2 documentary (S1E6):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbScW81yYKU

Every human in Mumbai is probably hunting that cat now. I wish a conservationist had seen the photo first. The article is likely a death warrant for the cat.

it must be crazy living in a place where you might bump into a leopard - yikes

Great picture, cut the buzzword.