Leopards & Cheetahs
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Have been neglecting my treasured leopards recently, time for some leopard love. This stunning gorgeous girl was having a rest on top of an ant hill on the plains of Sabi Sands , South Africa. She was giving us such an intense look and I found her eyes mesmerising - from a distance with a telephoto lens of course!
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This leopard looks relaxed on a riverbank, but a much larger crop would reveal a safari car very close in the bushes above him, and a number of other vehicles full of park visitors surrounding him, clamoring to photograph him. I suppose I, along with the folks in my care, was marginally more ethical because we were shooting from the other side of the river, but still I still felt a bit embarrassed to be part of a photographic feeding frenzy. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, September 2022. c.2022 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
I first had to follow and trace this young leopard, I think it is a female, for a considerable distance through extremely dense Mopani bush, disappearing completely from sight from time to time until she again re-appeared, stopped and made herself at home in front of a termite mound not far from the road side. It certainly was my lucky day!
The African fish eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) or the African sea eagle, is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur. This species is related to the bald eagle of North America
For those who are interested, an extract from my Journal of that day:
After lunch, a two hour siesta and high tea, we went on an afternoon game drive. It wouldn't have been my first choice, but it was what the German couple wanted, so I went along with it.
Owner was determined to find yesterday's leopard, so we drove around all over the countryside looking for it. We saw elephant, giraffe, buffalo, lechwe, impala, kudu, pelicans and four crocodiles, but no leopard. Only as we approached the camp in the dark at around 7 o'clock did we see the leopard. It was, walking along the bush track towards us, we pulled off the track to let it pass. The light was impossible and not a single shot was taken.
Dinner was a traditional African meal, meat, beans, cabbage, butter nut squash and mealie pap (a corn porridge) all prepared and served African style.
Kruger National Park.
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Kruger National Park.
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Kruger National Park.
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Le léopard, ou panthère, est un animal de la famille des félins. Son pelage est jaune et couvert de taches en rosettes (ocelles) noires. Certains léopards, plus souvent nommés panthères noires, ont une robe très foncée où l’on distingue mal les ocelles bien que présentes. Il s’agit là d’une anomalie génétique entraînant un surplus de mélanine appelé le mélanisme.
Le léopard a une espérance de vie de l’ordre de 12 ans en liberté, alors que certains peuvent atteindre l’âge honorable de 20 ans en captivité. Sa taille varie entre 1,50 et 2,50 m de longueur et de 60 à 70 cm au garrot. Il pèse entre 50 et 80 kg.
Le cri du léopard est le feulement, le miaulement et le rugissement. On dit qu'il feule, miaule et rugit.
Il n’y a pas de période de reproduction fixe. Lorsque la femelle est prête à s’accoupler, elle émet une urine caractéristique que les mâles reconnaissent immédiatement. Il arrive souvent qu’une même femelle se retrouve avec plusieurs prétendants. Ceux-ci doivent alors se battre pour conquérir la future compagne, car seul le vainqueur aura le privilège de s’accoupler. Une fois le vainqueur désigné, le couple restera ensemble durant 6 à 7 jours, tant que la femelle sera en chaleur. Puis le mâle retournera sur son territoire et laissera la femelle élever seule ses petits.
La gestation dure environ 3 mois et demi. La femelle met au monde une portée de 1 à 6 petits. À la naissance, les petits sont aveugles et pèsent environ 500 g. Au bout d’un an, les jeunes quittent leur mère pour entamer une vie de solitaire.
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The Leopard is the most secretive and elusive big cat. Leopards are renowned for their agility. They run up to 58km/h and can leap 6m horizontally and 3m vertically.
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Leopards are graceful and powerful cats. (Skukuza, Kruger National Park)
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Kruger National Park
A young female leopard moving through the bush and undergrowth with the silence and stealth of a hungry cat.
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Another photo of the beautiful female leopard that ran alongside the road as we were driving along. We stopped the car and she came up beside the car and hid behind a bush and began watching some Impala on the opposite side. They spotted her and she decided to just sit and wait. There were no other cars around for quite a while, so a wonderful sighting where we had her to ourselves for photos.
A closer look than previous photo! flic.kr/p/25TyBeo
He was so chilled, we drove up to the tree, snapped his pic and left him in peace!
This image was captured in the wild in the Kgalagadi.
(You might have noticed, this is the nth upload of this same leopard, but then again, she gave me so much pleasure and time to capture images of her!)
Khwai Private Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana
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Mala Mala Game Reserve
South Africa
Near Kruger National Park
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Male leopard walking by a slightly inclined dirt road in the reserve directly in front of our jeep located at the bottom. He traveled down the road for quite a distance before swerving off into the bush. I was quite fortunate to see this male because our jeep was the only one present during the encounter.