Leopard up the sausage 10/9/2011

We got Kipunji in the river bed.. at least some of them with three cubs. Amongst them the funniest is always the little one... he is just hilarious in his quest for milk. Two cats were laying in the middle, their only shade was a funny one casted by a big palm tree. We saw other lions and missed bushbuck pride killing giraffe in the ruaha river bed for a matter of less then 5 minutes...... I was pretty upset... at least to soothe the pain came the mbagi young female leopard.... we got her up a sausage tree in the forest..... it was so close, we could count the whiskers....The more I see leopards the more I think they are perfect, she was on a branch, relaxed and unperturbed... a joy for the eyes.We went back in the afternoon and she was still there. We spent an hour with her as the sun slowly moved towards the horizon. She kept looking towards the open plain.. then reassured that nothing bad was coming she would doze for a while and then opening one eye to check again,,, eventually even two....She moved her head one side of the branch and after ten minutes she would be on the other side to come back again after maybe other ten minutes... good fun...She yawned, she stretched, she licked her paws.... she made us happy.