Nyeleti Female

How motherhood works

January 14, 2010

The bonds between this mother and her cubs are now stronger than ever. She humors them, nurtures them and pays each one its own special piece of attention. Her killer instinct seems hidden and dissolved when she looks at her young. That piercing stare is soft and those deadly paws are playful. She is without question acting in a way that only a mother can. Maternal, caring and reserving that hidden ferocity for those that will try to take it all away from her. To view the full post and video click on the heading above.

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One Life

October 24, 2009

In the early morning mist a stifled distress call of an impala ewe echoed through the dry bush signaling her demise. The slender female leopard dragged it for a few hundred meters to a small rocky outcrop. She grunted once before her small offspring emerged from the rocks to join her.

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