Released 2009-06-01

Panthera pardus

To spot a lion, look on the ground; to find a leopard, you are much better off searching a tree. Leopards love trees, and are excellent climbers. In canopies they not only find respite from other large animals that would otherwise harass them, but also from the smaller, yet insistently annoying insects that inhabit the neighborhood. In Tanzania, it is said that the aggressive tse-tse fly will only fly to a height of ten feet above the ground, and that leopards, therefore, are always found at least twelve feet up in the treetops. When you are in a place where nothing can eat you, not even the bugs, a light breeze is blowing, and the sun is but peeking out from behind the approaching clouds, what better way to spend your afternoon than by taking a nap?

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