Surprised leopard
by Ian Evans
(Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)
what are you doing out there?
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We had crisscrossed the magnificent KTP for 9 days in May 2015, because getting continuous bookings in an orderly sequence of camps had proved difficult, even months ahead. Out last day we had to drive back to Upington from Mata Mata to return our rental 4X4. As it was our very last day we had more or less given up seeing a leopard (had seen excellent lion and cheetah sightings). But a few cars were stopped on an unremarkable spot on the road and told us they had seen a leopard on the other side of the Aoub riverbed--a long way away. Then it started to cross the river bed and disappeared in a clump of trees. We waited a while, but it clearly wanted to disappear from all this human attention. So it found a nice thick clump of mixed camelthorn and bush to hide out in. Then it peered through the leaves and thorns, and, we think, to its surprise as well as ours, there we were parked immediately in front of the vegetation. What surprised us further when we looked at the images was the fact that he or she was balanced precariously on tiny little branches. We have seen leopards lying out on a nice thick horizontal tree branch a few time in the past, but never perched on just a few twigs!
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