The lockdown on all human activity across the country meant to curb the COVID-19 spread has brought several rare animals out of their hidings. One such finding happened at the Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) after one of the camera traps photographed a leucistic sloth bear.

The find was made during the Phase IV Camera Trapping exercise for the project titled 'Long-term Monitoring of Tiger bearing areas of Vidarbha.' According to the Maharashtra Forest Department officials, this is the first record of the leucistic sloth bear from MTR in Maharashtra.