A top forest authority reported that an Indian desert cat was observed for the first time in Madhya Pradesh's Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR). 'During the night safari, a tourist recently tweeted photographs he captured of an Indian desert catnear the reserve's Akola physical boundary.' This cat is located in deserts and can thrive without water, as the title suggests. According to the official, the species' toes feature cushion-like hair that helps it regulate the shifting desertconditions.

'The term of the Indian desert cat was cited in old PTR records,' the official stated, 'but the actual presence of this animal had not before been documented.' The existence of the desert cat in the PTR also implies that the diversity of plants of diverse animals in the wild in the reserve is expanding as protection in its forest regions is increased, according to the official.