Sand Forest leopard cub

My guest informed me that they only want to leave an hour later for game drive. Leaving the car park and only being out on drive for 5 min in the Sand forest, suddenly a female leopard crossed the road right in front of us. We tried to get a view but this nervous female was hiding with only a few rosettes to see through the binoculars. After a few minutes we waited on the road not to far off hoping that she might come out. A couple of minutes went by and decided to carry on. We drove 100 meters down the road and Dumi our tracker stopped me and said: “leopard calling right here”. We sat there for 5 minutes to see if we can hear it again. There, out of one of the thickets this young fluffy leopard showed itself for a quick 10 seconds and disappeared into the thickets. In two years this was the first leopard cub I saw on Phinda. What a great start to an afternoon game drive

Posted: Phinda by philip de bruyn, Date: 2 May 2008