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Ngala · 01-27-2018, 02:38 PM

From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, 13 Oct. '17:
"We were fortunate enough to find this beautiful female leopard just after she killed a Slender Mongoose. Hopefully this was just her first course and that she will be successful in getting a bigger meal for main course."

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Ngala · 01-27-2018, 02:38 PM

Little Bush female.

From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, 17 Nov. '17:
"This female leopard has been making the most out of a burrow filled with warthog piglets. She managed to hoist one up a tree after hyenas finished off the other two she had left behind."

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Ngala · 01-27-2018, 02:45 PM

Msuthlu female.

From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, 20 Nov. '17:
"A young female leopard was found in unfamiliar territory, and was sporting wounds from a recent altercation with what seemed like another predator. This however did not deter her as she finished off a small impala kill and in a dramatic event, killed a Black-bellied Bustard right in front of our eyes."

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Ngala · 01-27-2018, 08:10 PM

Little Bush female.

From Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve, 05 Jan. '18:
"This scene is not easy to witness, a young Nyala killed by a female leopard. However, the circle of life continues and when the female leopard is pregnant, a meal like this is vital."

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Fredymrt · 02-04-2018, 06:10 AM

Photo Credits lovejoy_kisali

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The Wildebeests seem to be in total response and the leopard tried to tumble with the wildebeest and went for the neck to smother it!

AlexE · 02-20-2018, 12:51 PM

AlexE · 02-27-2018, 07:16 PM

AlexE · 03-04-2018, 02:30 PM

The dog-eating leopard successfully captured

A team of vets and conservationist leading by the Iranian Cheetah Socity’s expert Mohammad Farhadinia, successfully captured a Persian leopard in a Tazeh Qal’eh village in North Khorasan province.

After a series of attacks to villagers’ domestic stock and herding dogs, the North Khorasan Office of Iran DoE asked the ICS expert and his fellow vets to capture the problem leopard.

Tazeh Qal’eh is located just near the Iranian border with Turkmenistan. The number of leopard attacks had been sharply increased during this fall, and even in two separate incidents two residents had been injured by the leopard.

The local wildlife authority had tried different traditional methods to keep the leopard away from the village, including setting fire, using torch lights, and frequently patrolling around the village. However, these efforts had been failed to reduce the leopard depredation incidents.

The captured team deployed three foot snare traps in and around the village and in less than three nights they could successfully captured the problem leopard. Early investigations revealed that indeed the leopard ages 12-14 years, one of the oldest Persian leopards so far detected in the wild. The male leopard, later name “Omid'” meaning hope, was found to lost his canine teeth and suffers from sever mouth and dental problems. The team decided to transfer Omid to Tehran where a he can receive medical treatment. Omid is now kept at Iran DoE’s Pardisan Rehabilitation Centre. The capture team and authorities believe that Omid can not be released back into the wild.

This pretty old #leopard killed more than 15 dogs and attacked three people, along #Iran #Turkmenistan border. We had to capture and trans locate him to captivity. Poor dental condition

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http://www.wildlife.ir/en/2014/12/22/dog-eating-leopard-successfully-captured/
https://twitter.com/MSFarhadinia/status/955755255370743808

The Foundation team visited the site where a herd dog had reportedly been killed by a leopard at the request of our national partner, Khorasan Razavi Department of the Environment. Located at a local fisheries facility in Dorbadam Protected Area, the dog’s carcass was visited over a few consecutive nights by a leopard which was thought to be an adult in its prime.

However, photos taken by local nature fans revealed a remarkable journey, from Tandoureh National Park to the depredation site, a straight line distance of some 30 km. The leopard – in fact a very old male – had been previously photographed in Tandoureh by our camera traps in July 2015, so we were able to identify him from his rosette patterns, which are unique to each individual. Going against local requests to capture and remove him, we decided that the leopard should not be subjected to such an intervention as this was his only known depredation in the area. Nevertheless, we had to consider that leaving the dog carcass where it was could encourage the leopard to stay around for a longer period, which might result in its death at the hands of illegal local hunters.

The Foundation experts therefore recommended that the carcass be removed from the immediate vicinity of the fisheries facility to discourage the leopard from returning. We also had to come up with further intervention measures in case the leopard did become a problem, as well as being prepared to undertake the fairly intensive monitoring needed to obtain information locally about other conflict situations that might arise. Fortunately, after the carcass was removed and placed elsewhere, the leopard took the kill to a hiding place and then left. Two months later no report of further conflict had been received by the local rangers.

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http://future4leopards.org/conflict-scene-inspected-to-prevent-leopard-persecution-near-turkmenistan-border/

AlexE · 03-09-2018, 04:31 PM

This happened a couple of years ago on a day trip to Pilanesberg. We saw a car stopped ahead waving us forward. At first all we saw was a wildebeest, and then realised something had it around the neck....a leopard taking down a fully grown wildebeest in the middle of the day, right next to the road, and only 2 cars there!!

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Another good evening yesterday at the main crossing in that there was a potentially good crossing of zebra at 5:00 p.m going from east to west, but it was stalled due to a crocodile attack on a mare and her foal.

She fought the crocodile off although suffered a broken leg. She crawled to the east bank into some rocks, A leopard who was in the croton thickets seized the opportunity and killed the zebra mare and started to eat. A few minutes later, three crocodile tried to seize the zebra carcass from the leopard.

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Then about five minutes later we saw her leap into the air, bounce once off the ground and jump on top of one of the adult female kudus. The kudu tried to turn around and run, but tripped over a small Kalahari apple leaf bush. The kudu fell to the ground with the female leopard securely attached to her throat. We re-positioned the vehicle and watched the female leopard suffocate the adult female kudu. It was incredible to see a +/- 35 kilogram (77 pound) female leopard take down an adult female kudu of +/- 170 kilograms (370 pounds)!

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This young male leopard killed a remarkably large warthog. After feeding on it in the day, as dusk approached, it desperately tried to find a good tree to drag the carcass in to protect it from hyenas. The carcass was too heavy and soon after it got dark the hyenas sniffed out the carcass and scavenged the warthog from the young inexperienced male leopard!

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We reported last month that the guides suspected that Slender, the resident female leopard around Kings Pool, might be nursing a cub. And as announced on the Wilderness Safaris Facebook page – she has not just one cub, BUT TWO! She first kept them in the hollow of a jackalberry tree, not far from camp. She then moved them further south into the thick mopane woodland for safety. She’s been seen hunting on a few occasions, including successfully taking down baboons – on one morning they witnessed her killing two! She was also seen sharing one of these baboon kills with a male leopard – a big but quite shy male, suspected to be the father of the two cubs. They should be about a month old by now.

Another female leopard, named the Calcrete Female, was also seen hunting – what a remarkable sighting it was! One of our guides, Moses, and his guests were lucky enough to see the entire kill – from her stalking a large troop of baboons, setting her eyes on a big male and starting the chase, and then finally killing him, dragging him quite a distance and then pulling him up into a tree – a performance of incredible strength, the size of the male baboon almost being the same as this female leopard!

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~~ShereKhan~~ · 03-10-2018, 03:38 AM

As much as I love tigers and jaguars there's no denying leopards are supreme killing machines. It's an absolute wonder what they're capable of.

AlexE · 03-11-2018, 09:45 AM

You will not see ALL the capabilities of a leopard in Youtube.

Monitor lizard?

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Spalea · 03-11-2018, 12:52 PM

@AlexE :

Remarkable feats ! Despite I know they are very eclectic about their preys variety, it's the first time I see a leopard dragging up onto a tree a monitor lezard.

AlexE · 03-15-2018, 05:13 PM

Male & Female

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epaiva · 03-16-2018, 02:27 AM

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Leopard taking on a Warthog
Credit to @robtheranger

AlexE · 03-30-2018, 10:48 PM

This old chap started killing dogs, something usual among old #leopards in NE Iran

https://twitter.com/MSFarhadinia/status/...9426567168

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