Photographer Captures Photo of Rare Siberian Tiger

“A male Siberian tiger passed by my camera trap deep in the forests of Far East Russia,” Fonseca says. “It turned out that it’s an unknown male which had not been documented yet. So, the researchers I work with during my camera trap project invited me to give him a name.”

In thinking of a name for the newly discovered creature, Fonseca noticed a particular marking on it that caused a name to pop into his head.

“We agreed on ‘Leo’ because of the distinctive L pattern on his left cheekbone, and after the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy,” the photographer says.