Safari! Animal #8 - I lounge by day and stalk by night: the leopard.
Chui in Swahili means leopard. Leopards are solitary and mostly
nocturnal hunters. They are smaller than lions and larger than cheetahs
and much more rarely seen than either. Like some other predators
and all scavengers, they have a great tolerance for the smell of
rotting flesh and for flies. They often drag the carcass of a kill
up into the wide branches of a sturdy tree. There, out of the reach
of hyenas and other savanna thieves, they can take their time eating
and sometimes return to their makeshift pantry for meals on two
or three successive days. Often they even sleep in the same tree
with their kill. Leopards prefer large game, but they actually have
a varied diet, sometimes eating such things as insects, frogs, fish,
birds, hyenas, dogs and baboons.