{"id":2784,"date":"2021-01-19T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2024-07-26T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:55:14","slug":"weli-wala-23-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/weli-wala-23-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Weli Wala 2:3 Male (2020) [YM 49\/Krish]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><strong>[Weli = Sand , Wala = Water hole]<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Weli Wala 2:3 male was first seen and photographed in early 2020. We assume he was born in late 2019. It took some time to find out the mother of this male as she was very shy. His mother is the<\/mark> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/weli-wala-43-female\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Weli Wala 4:3 female<\/mark><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">This male was seen in his mother\u2019s territory which included the areas of <strong>Katagamuwa Wewa, Weli Wala, Pahalahenthota, Halmilla Wewa, Korawak Wewa, and Sithulpawwa Road<\/strong> (close to the Katagamuwa Entrance).<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">He was a bold and confident male. Due to the spot pattern resembling a lamp on his forehead, he was fondly known as &#8216;<strong>Aladin&#8217;<\/strong> by our guiding team. In the early half of 2021, he started to travel beyond his mother&#8217;s territory and he was seen around Gerimas Pokuna and Alikatupalassa several times. He was seen and photographed again in December 2021 close to Korawak Wewa.<\/mark> <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">And in May 2022 this male was seen within the Katagamuwa Wildlife sanctuary several times.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">But since then there were no records of this male.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Yala Leopard Diary database &#8211;<\/mark><\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/yalaleoparddiary.com\/identified-leopard-result\/YM49\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/yalaleoparddiary.com\/identified-leopard-result\/YM49<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=oa.772617743427742&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=oa.772617743427742&amp;type=3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Weli = Sand , Wala = Water hole] Weli Wala 2:3 male was first seen and photographed in early 2020. We assume he was born in late 2019. It took some time to find out the mother of this male as she was very shy. His mother is the Weli Wala 4:3 female. This male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}