<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3159142c-2f38-4dc9-a08b-036038fb2e84/187D5578-0D88-438E-A090-72D681DC2DD1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html" href="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wildernessdiary.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html">It's not every day you're lucky enough to see a leopard...but in the past week or so, it <EM>has</EM> been an almost daily occurrence here at Kulafumbi</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html">We often hear the baboons' and vervet monkeys' barking alarm calls in the early morning and at dusk, signifying the big cat's presence again, but often without us catching sight of it. And frequently below the house, we see other leopard tracks in the sand, including that of a small female passing by under the veil of darkness. And in the dead of night, we often hear the distinctive rasping leopard call, such a haunting sound of the African night, sometimes near and bone-rattling, sometimes distant and sonorous</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/C8781218-9B15-4187-A54F-16A3440B2A8D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/08088FF2-D885-4ADB-AC31-785CE11C6642" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/290235FE-3192-42C0-8065-2BA04E75D08E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/6CEC8365-CA50-423D-99A5-5E67F490F0EF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/37B45AC4-593E-4577-8687-20D8E87F6A87" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html">a cautionary note, let's not forget what happens to the hapless creatures caught by this most efficient of hunters: here are the only remains of a dikdik whose path crossed that of a hungry leopard. We picked this up on our driveway. As you can see, there's not much left to tell the tale, but quite enough to tell all that needs to be told! </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/2/28/a-feline-fine-enough-to-knock-your-spots-off.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/BDD7B1C0-1FE7-40A8-AF00-60A74965BE9A" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/187D5578-0D88-438E-A090-72D681DC2DD1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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