MY JACKET AND A LEOPARD
by Marc de Chalain
(Hillcrest KZN)
Leopard with my jacket!
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A short while back, I was on an open vehicle in the Sabi Sands when we found a female leopard. I had a K-Way jacket with me which I took off and sat on when we stopped, as it was quite warm.
She climbed a tree which she left and began to eat a steenbok kill she had beneath the tree and which we had not noticed. She then carried it to another nearby tree which she also climbed. After enjoying some great moments with her, we let her be, glad about the wonderful sighting and photo opportunity we had all enjoyed.
I noticed after night fall, that my jacket was missing. Our guide promised that we would collect it the next morning. We duly arrived and what did we see?
The jacket. Where? In the tree!!, the one in which she had been when we left her.
Laughs and jokes followed and with binoculars, it was confirmed that it was quite thoroughly wrecked. We then found her again. She climbed the same tree and some horn bills arrived. Without hesitation she began an elaborate display of protecting her steenbok remains and her new plaything......my jacket, or what remained of it, on opposing ends of the trees branches.
She treated it as something of a plaything and then a prey thing. We were most amused and the jokes (at my expense) abounded.
We later retrieved the jacket, once she had left the tree, and the jacket I lost is now a memento to an encounter with a leopard, which looks like the remains of an ex poacher.
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