Three cats

What a day... I tried to join Owen early morning but we missed each other so I was going back, then Steve called me, he was driving guests and spotted the kwihala pride not far from camp. They were feeding on two giraffes, a mother and a calf. I went to have a look and in the super light of the morning was great fun to see the cubs feeding. To my surprise even Evander, Holy and their cubs are there, they eventually joined their natal pride again... The calf is already finished but the adult has still a lot of meat, females and one males every now and then join the cubs for a chunk of fresh meat.
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After one hour I went back to camp, started packing my stuff. Around midday Ayoub called me, there is a leopard on a rain tree in the sokwe forest. I take Sophie and drive down... the leopard is a beautiful male and he is resting, eyes open, on a branch.
Then he starts looking around, he stands and turns on the branch, now he is facing me and looking far... he sits again but watching around. We stay like this for a quarter of an hour and then he stands again, watching. Eventually he climbs down and starts walking in the forest. I follow from far, he goes in the thick a go around and stop close to some impalas. I wait, the leopard is coming but then the vervet monkeys spotted him and started their noisy alarm call. I do not see the leopard but I know he is there, and the same is for the impalas,they are nervous and bark their alarm every now and then. Suddenly they all bark, they must have seen the cat, I don't but after some minutes I heard the dik dik alarm call in some bushes behind me... the dik dik is seeing something that from my perspective I cannot see. From the posture of the small antelope is obvious that the leopard gave upon the impalas and is walking back in the bush.
I also go back to camp.
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In the evening I went for a sundowner with my friends Kim and Riaan from Mwagusi... and we had a cold one watching a cheetha female resting after she fed abundantly on an impala ewe. She is so bloated that is not even funny, she lays down chasing flies with the tail, she seems she cannot even walk with that belly but as the darkness came she actually did and wandered off and so did we, my friends and I.

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