Roaming across blue mountain ranges and through the depths of shadowed forests, the Sri Lankan leopard remains one of most arresting presences in the island. It is a creature at once elusive and sovereign. Its movement is betrayed only by the flicker of a tail or the soft crackle of leaves in the hush beneath the forest canopy.This solitary predator advances with an authority that has earned it a popular epithet: the true ruler of the jungle.