[BertieB]

Late afternoon encounter.
This particular female leopard has failed to raise a cub and if I remember correctly this is/was her 6th cub, so they are not very successful.
This youngster moved off about 60m from her hide and the mother did not care, this at a time of day when the hyenas come out to play, so I have my doubts whether it survived.

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[Winston Churchill (Sir)]

Beautiful and intimate

 

[Callie]

Sweet image Bertie! Sabie Sands?

 

[BertieB]

Beautiful and intimate

Thank you Elsa it was indeed a special sighting!

Sweet image Bertie! Sabie Sands?

Thx Callie, yes Sabi Sands

 

[ssheipel]

Lovely

 

[KishoreBhargava]

Beautiful image. Sad that the cubs don't survive.

 

[BertieB]

Lovely

Thank you Steven

Beautiful image. Sad that the cubs don't survive.

Thank you Kishore, yes that is natures reality!

 

[KishoreBhargava]

Thank you Steven

Thank you Kishore, yes that is natures reality!

Very sad, I do have an image of a Leopard with her cubs and she was training them, she gave one of them a good whack. Sub-adults they were. Sadly, my frame has only the mother. But what we are seeing here in India is a loss of habitat for Leopards and they are straying into the cities.