Emerging from the Shadows

The main attraction, Giza the black panther or melanistic leopard whatever you prefer. Reportedly very relaxed and showing very well in daylight as well as on night drives before we arrived. The particular week I visited she decided to become elusive and we only found her 3 nights out of 7 and not once in daylight.

There was other leopard activity in the area, her half brother and another marauding male were seen bickering over an impala carcass one morning and on our final sighting another random female leopard was in the same area. So maybe she was just laying low.

Glad I saw her, my night time pics are not perfect but I did get some reasonable record shots

Olympus OM-1, 40-150 F2.8 @ 150mm F2.8, 1-250 ISO 10000

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