Released 2009-06-01

Panthera pardus

Leopards make their homes in the canopies of tall trees. This has several distinct advantages for them, among them being keeping both themselves and their dinners safe from other predatory animals. Incredibly strong animals, leopards will often haul antelope that they have caught into high branches and cache them there.

When a mother leopard is ready to cut the ties with her adolescent offspring, she will cache two different catches in two different trees. While her offspring is busy feasting on one, the mother will slip off. The youngster believes that she has gone off to the second kill, and generally will not follow until it is finished eating. By that point, though, the mother will have gone, a fact the newly independent leopard will discover upon eventually returning to the second cache.

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