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Snow Leopards
Brookfield Zoo
October 20, 2013
It's been 4 weeks since I photographed Brookfield Zoo's Snow Leopard cub, Everest. He has grown quite a bit, and boy does he like to play! He keeps his mom, Sarani, very busy! It is so fun to watch them interact with one another.
It's rare, but some leopards are born with a sideways tongue. It makes it hard to eat, but easier to lick the corners of their mouths.
It was great to see Salayexe [pronounced Sal-ay-esh-ay] again. See flic.kr/p/8JxGuk.
She is one of the older leopards in the Sabi Sands, after the presumed demise of both one-eyed Safari (flic.kr/p/5RH4Dr) and Mafufunyana [Pronounced Mar-foof-un-yar-na] (flic.kr/p/5RMnJC).
Part of her home range is the area immediately surrounding the Elephant Plains Lodge, where she has been causing all sorts of problems for the lodge owners! She jumped the 1.8 metre high fence of the owners garden and attacked one of their dogs (who survived thankfully!) and also gave birth to cubs underneath the deck of the Health Spa at the Lodge!
Recently the area suffered from high rainfall. Approximately 520mm of rain fell in 48 hours. The annual rainfall total is on average only 625mm ... Since then she has only been seen alone and there is uncertainty surrounding the wellbeing of the cubs.
We saw her a few times over the course of a few days, often asleep in the same tree pictured here and often at either first light or sunset. We took another opportunity to visit her during an afternoon game drive when the light was good and were rewarded with some great shots.
Instead of the usual sleepy leopard, she used her tree as a vantage point to spot and track a family of warthog - a mother and babies. The result of which is here... flic.kr/p/brnnuZ
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Leopard (Panthera pardus). On our last safari drive at the Khwai Tented Camp we were the sixth vehicle to reach an area where a mother leopard and her cub were deep in the bush consuming their kill (not sure if it was a recent kill). From where I was in the rear of the vehicle, I could not see them so it was a test of patience as we sat there and sat there. After a very long wait, the leopards emerged for a very brief moment then returned to the bush.
We were so lucky he was sleeping for ages. We went back later and he was up and about. Magnificent animal.
This is a painting of a snow leopard done on scratchboard.I received permission from Tambako to use his picture as my photo reference: www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/4298155371/ I thank him and I hope you like my painting