Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: High Up on a Limb
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a leopard out of Mala Mala in South Africa.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Devouring Leopard
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo from a South African game drive. Photographer Sahasrangshu Choudhury captured the moment when a leopard, deep within the branches of a tree, devoured its prey.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Good Morning, Beautiful
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a leopard cub in Kenya. Photographer Joshua Smalley photographed the leopard on a beautiful morning in the Maasai Mara. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: What Big Teeth You Have
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a leopard in Tanzania. Photographer Ed Dornfeld captured this moment while on safari in the Serengeti. After hours of watching the leopard sleep in the tree, it woke up with a big stretch.
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Conservation
12 Conservation Success Stories of 2015
Last night, I watched a movie titled Merchants of Doubt. In this 2014 film, director and producer Robert Kenner lets us in on a secret that’s hiding in plain sight: there is a small—but highly paid—group of charismatic, silver-tongued “pundits” who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities, even though they have few credentials.
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African Safaris
Photo of the Day: A Tortoise Licking Leopard
Leopards are notoriously opportunistic feeders, a trait that has made them the most successful big cat species in the world. In fact, in South Africa’s Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve they have been recorded eating a total of 92 different types of prey.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Protective Leopard Mom
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a leopard mom guiding her cub through the Serengeti. Photographer Barbara Hayton captured this moment while on safari in Tanzania with Nat Hab. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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African Safaris
Video: Baby Bird vs Hungry Leopard
Leopards are, of course, among Africa’s fiercest and most cunning predators. On a typical day, a male leopard like the one in the video below might take down a big gazelle and haul it up a tree, tangle with a ferocious troupe of dagger-toothed baboons, and outmaneuver a cadre of conspiratorial hyenas.
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African Safaris
Photo of the Day: By the Light of the Full Moon
This photo of a female leopard preparing to jump out of marula tree while a full, orange moon glows in the background was taken by guide James Tyrrell at South Africa’s Londolozi Private Game Reserve in July. Londolozi may be the most famous leopard viewing spot on the entire African continent.
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African Safaris
Meet the New Leopard Cubs at Londolozi
The leopards of Londolozi may be the most famous leopards in the world. Their complex lineages have been carefully recorded and studied, they’ve been the focus of serious scientific inquiry, they’ve inspired documentary films and coffee table books, and they’ve thrilled thousands of guests of the private reserve over the decades.
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African Safaris
Photo of the Day: Which Way Did He Go?
James Tyrell took this photo of a couple of wild dogs in hot pursuit of a large male leopard at Londolozi Private Game Reserve in South Africa.
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African Safaris
'A Dazzle of Zebras' and Other Collective Nouns for the Animals You'll See on Safari
Everyone knows a group of lions is called a pride and a bunch of elephants hanging out together is referred to as a herd. But what do you yell out when you see more than one cheetah? How about two or more leopards? Three hippos? Four hyenas?