When the Lions are away, the Leopards come out to play (April 2019)

Post by **Mel** » Sat May 04, 2019 2:56 pm

That day was well and truly done - and it was just a quarter past eight.

Another remarkable sight was a steenbok family. Unfortunately dad was the scaredy-cat that had already run off further into the dunes,
so I was left with only half a family portrait.

Post by **Mel** » Sat May 04, 2019 2:57 pm

The only other nice sighting was the scopsie at Nossob, but it wasn't inclined to offer me more than that:

Post by **Pumbaa** » Sat May 04, 2019 3:02 pm

Fantastic leopard sighting, Mel,

when you do not expect much you will rewarded with such a sighting $\O$

Great shots on top and I am quite sure that this is a female

What beauty

Post by **Lisbeth** » Sat May 04, 2019 3:18 pm

Does "Boipelo" mean something? Pelo in Italian means fur/skin

It looks like a young male and he looks first to the left and then to the right not the other way around

Apart from ostriches and steenboks I have never seen anything neither on the upper nor the lower dune roads $0*\$

Lovely steenboks and a kind of miracle that the other two did not disappear too.

Not much satisfaction from the owl

It's a long trip without seing anything (Leopard excluded

)

Post by **Alf** » Sat May 04, 2019 3:55 pm

The leopard playing cat and mouse games

Post by **Richprins** » Sat May 04, 2019 4:24 pm

Well done, Mello!

I love the leopard game!

Google says Boipelo means Proud or Haughty in Sotho/Tswana...a girl's name?

Post by **Lisbeth** » Sat May 04, 2019 5:38 pm

You just said that it means "Proud" or "Haughty" so what has a girls name to do with it

and I am almost sure that it's a male.

Post by **Richprins** » Sat May 04, 2019 6:33 pm

The name is a normal Tswana girl's name, so maybe a girl!

Post by **Lisbeth** » Sat May 04, 2019 8:16 pm

I see!

Post by **Flutterby** » Sun May 05, 2019 9:09 am

Fantastic sighting!

It looks quite small, or am I wrong?

Africa Wild

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