[Leica] Leopards (Chui)

[Bernard Quinn]

Great series depicting a magnificent animal.

Barney 

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> On Sep 30, 2018, at 12:51 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Leopards in the Masai Mara. We got plenty of sightings on the trip, but it
> was basically two of them, Kaboso and Mahala, and the former's two juvenile
> cubs.
> 
> *Kaboso*
> 
> We first saw Kaboso and her two cubs briefly on a walkabout:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180910-816.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180910-781.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180910-788.jpg.html
> 
> Later during the trip we saw the female cub catch and disable a hare, but
> without a clue on how to kill it. It practiced all its hunting moves on the
> traumatized and hapless hare, bouncing, leaping, jumping, etc., and finally
> trotted away into the trees with it, no doubt, to mummy for the swift
> execution:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180911-1592.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180911-1629.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180911-1676.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180911-1677.jpg.html
> 
> Our final sighting of Kaboso was when she emerged from tree cover, and
> warily made her way across open grassland to a spot where vultures were
> beginning to circle. She was going to the carcass of a male impala she had
> killed earlier, in order to move it into tree cover, nervous about the
> vultures. It took her around 90 minutes to move the carcass, which weighed
> more than she did, a distance of 1.5-2 kilometres, in the hot sun. A feat
> that bears ample testimony to the strength and stamina of a leopard in her
> prime!
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180913-5882.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180913-5745.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180913-6145.jpg.html
> 
> We saw Mahala only once, when she was on a territorial marking walkabout.
> She had small cubs, but she did not bring them out with her. She did climb
> a tree, from which I have a few photographs:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-6961.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-7018.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-7102.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-4201.jpg.html
> 
> For those who have url problems, here is a link to the first photograph in
> the series - and on to the end:
> 
> https://tinyurl.com/ya6tbtca
> 
> Please see LARGE
> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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