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Leopard Predation Thread

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Obviously a leopard have just the moment before jumped up from the gorge and caught an impala. The other impalas still close watching and alarming. The morning changed in a moment from calm and relaxed, to a electric feeling in the air. All the animals suddenly aware of the danger, and very tense. We quickly drive over to the other side of the gorge and watch as the leopard slowly strangle the impala. As we watch we can see blood (drops) flow on the impalas neck and how the light in his eyes goes out, and he dies.

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What a beautiful morning. A beautiful magnificent leopard and then death. From a photographic point of view, this is fantastic. We left of last night with a leopard out in the open, and here we continues
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 The leopard then start dragging the impala through the gorge, while we follow him and my Nikon D4 continues shooting 10 pics every second.




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The leopard drags the impala into the woods and up a tree. Filled with emotions the day feels complete although it is still very early. We watch the leopard for a while relaxing under the tree with the impala safely stored in the tree. Not much more will happen here, so we go back to the buffalo herd that now is returning from their morning drink.

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Written by: Lisl Moolman
I couldn’t help but think of the adage “you snooze, you lose” when I saw a hungry leopard chance upon an oblivious warthog boar that was resting at the water’s edge at the Sable Dam in Kruger National Park.
When I arrived at the dam, I was informed that a leopard male had been seen over the past hour and a half but that I had just missed it. However, when I scanned the surroundings, I noticed that some impalas were still fully alert, with their ears standing up and appearing very uneasy.
A couple of visitors and I moved to the other side of the parking area, where the leopard was then spotted behind a mopane bush with his gaze fixed on a warthog boar drinking water. The warthog then settled down for a nap at the water’s edge with a wound visible on its right flank, presumably sustained during an earlier fight with another boar.
The leopard then started stalking its unsuspecting victim.

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It didn’t even feel the need to take a hunting stance as the warthog was completely unaware of the leopard’s presence until it was too late.

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The leopard reached out to touch the warthog with its paw. I watched in disbelief, and could almost picture the puzzled expression on the leopard’s face as time ticked by with no reaction from the warthog.

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Two seconds later, the warthog looked back and chaos ensued. The pig tried to escape. Unfortunately he didn’t stand a chance, especially as he was already probably weakened by his wound.

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The leopard got a firm grip on the boar and toppled it over so that it could get to its neck.

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The warthog tried in vain to escape but he didn’t have any luck.

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A passing impala witnessed the warthog’s last moments.

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And then an audible sigh of relief was in order as, although it’s just part of nature, it’s difficult for me to witness such an event. The whole episode lasted 10 minutes from the moment that the leopard touched the pig until it released its grip on the lifeless body.

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The tired leopard then started dragging the huge warthog out of sight. However, it was so heavy that it had to rest every couple of seconds to gain strength and catch its breath again.

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- See more at: http://africageographic.com/blog/warthog...9wdpQ.dpuf
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( This post was last modified: 03-23-2016, 11:40 PM by Tshokwane )

By Londolozi, Filmed by Freddy Ngobeni.

Piva male stalking and killing a Kudu calf.



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Adult sambar in the Indian sub-continent and South East Asia
Adult Maral red deer in Iran
Sub-adult camels in Arabia
Adult Barbary sheep in Morocco
Adult large antelopes ( kudu, hartebeest, wildebeest) in Africa
Leopards take prey several times occasionally.
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Arguably the most versatile of all land predators. They are the perfect cat, adapted to most terrains and built to kill.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...irrel.html
The leaping leopard! Deadly feline shows off its incredible skill as it jumps from one tree top to another to catch an unsuspecting squirrel


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All photo and information credits: Corlette Wessels

27 February 2014: Leopard chases bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis)

"While in the Kgalagadi I saw her… it could only be a leopard with a long tail like that. I could not believe my luck. It looked as if she was stalking something. I looked and looked but I could not see a thing.
I looked with my camera (600mm lens) and my binoculars but I still could not see what she was stalking. She went down very low until she was behind a dead tree and waited there for a few seconds. She did not move. Then she bolted forwards and only then I saw what she was stalking; a bat-eared fox lying in the sun.
The fox bolted down its hole and the leopard dived in afterwards down the hole. The leopard’s entire body disappeared into the hole with only the tail sticking out. I waited, wondering to myself did she get it? The leopard came out and then dived back again and by now my heart was beating so fast!
Eventually the leopard came out, shook off all the sand, stood at the entrance of the hole for a few seconds in disbelieve and then walked off into the dunes… she missed."

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Maxabeni male with Warthog kill. Credits to Sabi Sabi Private game reserve.

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A Leopard Kill: The Mashaba Female Catches a Baby Waterbuck. Filmed by Carl Falloon.



You may call me a bit biased. But look at the perfection in her movements. Look at the fast approach and then the sudden stillness, the freezing stalk and the burst of speed that brings her a mere meters close before the waterbucks notice death coming, that is how perfect her technique is, smooth as running water...
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All photo and information credits: Vision Photography by Villiers Steyn

"This was the first full leopard kill I ever saw. An adult female leopard successfully chased down an African wild cat along the Auob River in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I must admit, it was very strange seeing one cat walk off with another in its mouth..."

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MalaMala Game Reserve:
MALAMALA TODAY: April 17th.

The Bicycle Crossing male was involved in a 'once in a lifetime' sighting when he set his sights on a newborn rhino calf- the ordeal went on for 2 hours with the cow, calf and leopard 2 meters apart the whole time- the leopard did catch that the calf and had it pinned down at a stage before the calf's mother came charging in and almost impaled the leopard.

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And keep in mind this leopard is 14 years old... What a legend.
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109 Photography by Shane Rorke:
So last Friday going down a river bed we noticed dust in the air . We must have just missed the ambush but got to see the kill . Over the next four days we got to see this little beauty hide and eat her meal around the clock with hyena and jackal around, not to mention a huge male lion.

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Tamanud Mitra
Just a low light record image of an event not very regularly seen!

Tala, Bandhavgarh, April 2016.

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Dhole killed by leopard


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