Canon EOS 5D Mark II
ƒ/5
200 mm
1/25
640
On our first visit, we drove directly underneath this young male in the jackal berry tree, as he was lit by setting sun.
We did not hear a thing, but all of a sudden, he springs awake and stares. A young female leopard is slinking through the grass.
He is guarding a large buffalo kill, and not in a sharing mood. At three years old, he is too young to mate and protects the meal instead to grow stronger.
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