Later that afternoon Rich Ferrier began to talk about how a dominant male such as Tyson naturally promotes an increase in leopard populations through his dominance. Our vehicle sat in the heart of the Vomba female’s territory, running along the Sand River, yet just west of us, was the Tutlwa female and her very young cub, also spotted that morning. Somewhere just to the north of us were the Nyelethi female’s three sub-adult offspring. This meant a total of 8 leopards in an area of about 8 square kilometers.
