Watch: IFS officer shares video of a leopard doing ‘surya namaskar’

While sharing this clip, Nanda wrote, “Surya Namaskar by the leopard 👌👌”. He attributed the undated video to Saket Badola, who is also an Indian Forest Services officer.

This video has gathered over 3,000 likes since it was posted. However, many netizens pointed out that the leopards’s actions were common with all big cats and associating it with Surya Namaskar, a complex multi-step yoga pose, was an exaggeration.

Surya Namaskar by the leopard 👌👌
Via ⁦@Saket_Badola⁩ pic.twitter.com/jklZqEeo89

— Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) March 27, 2023

Echoing this view, a Twitter user wrote, “Could we think of it as “Leopard Stretches” the next time we do it? Why attribute anthropomorphism always, taking away their natural character?”

Another person wrote, “My dogs do the same in the evening as well.. thats not Surya Namaskar, thats being lazy to go out for hunting.”

Back in 2018, pictures of animals like dogs, cats, elephants and pandas ostensibly mimicking yoga poses had gone viral.