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Leopard Caught in Camera Trap

Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Mar 29 2008 | By: tumaren

Yesterday while walking with some safari clients a Leopard was spotted bounding up a ridge opposite us. We descended into the ravine between to examine what his tracks might tell us. Between the tracks his feet left there was the distinct marks of something being dragged. The marks once they hit thick grass were difficult to follow and so it took some time before the carcass was found. It was hidden so well that you could only see it when nearly standing on it. The animal that he killed was a Steinbuck male. He had eaten half the animal and so we placed the camera for his return and we were rewarded with these images. He is an adolescent, not yet totally adult as you can determine by his narrow head and small jowls.

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UpComingCamera.Info » Blog Archive » Leopard Caught in Camera Trap, on 29 Mar 2008

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Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 29 Mar 2008

He’s precious! Good job, Mr. Camera Trap.

Lisa, California, on 29 Mar 2008

Fantastic pictures. Great job! Thanks for sharing. Lisa

Johann, on 31 Mar 2008

Well done, these pictures are not always caught the way we hope.

James, on 31 Mar 2008

Johann and all,
I must also credit guide Gabriel Ewoi, spotter/tracker Leshilling Lemanass, and camel helper Michael Naptare. Michael spotted the leopard originally then later when we were looking for carcass it was michael who finally located it. After some discussion about camera placement and some instruction it was gabriel and leshilling who set the camera. And so i was just part of the planning and observation stage. In celebration we ate two roosters.

F. J. Pechir, on 31 Mar 2008

Good pictures!!

Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 01 Apr 2008

Well done, team. Camel helper? Please, at some point, tell us more about this!

James, on 02 Apr 2008

Hi Theresa,
While Tumaren is our conservation effort, walking safaris with Camels are what we do for a living. Camel Helper is an odd title and not really totally descriptive of what Michael does on safari. He does lead the camels as well as load them, herd them and tell lions to scat if they come too close in the night. He also helps us a lot all around our camp, from tents to getting water etc.
Here is Michael’s Picture:

http://www.kerry-glen.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=PEOPLE&image=DSCN2722.jpg&img=&tt=

Here is Leshilling’s Picture (its hard to see the marks on his ear where a lioness grabbed him when he was a young man):

http://www.kerry-glen.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=PEOPLE&image=DSCN2934.jpg&img=&tt=

And here on the left is gabriel:

http://www.kerry-glen.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio31/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=PEOPLE&image=GABRIEL_LAMB.jpg&img=&tt=

Ingrid, on 02 Apr 2008

“in celebration we ate two roosters?”

James, on 04 Apr 2008

the roosters, for clarification were my own , the offspring of kubaki my oldests and most senior rooster or jogoo as we call them here. kerry complained that the younger two made too much noise and bothered the hens too much. the team enjoyed their chicken stew.

s.gopinath, on 14 Apr 2008

Excellent shot keep it up, can u teach me pls

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