The leopard is a solitary nocturnal cat, no part of which makes it easy to spot or locate. The easiest way to find a leopard seems to be to look for the biggest circle of tourist vans gathered around a lone and otherwise unremarkable tree. While there is one in the tree below, the types of trees they favor are also prone to leopard shaped growths.
The bonus of them being nocturnal is that once somebody finds one they are typically quite content to lounge around and have their pictures taken all day, allowing you to get reasonably close. The downside being that most of the time their heads are down or obscured by branches and the only motion you see is when one of their legs droops off a branch.
Every now and then though you'll find one that's getting geared up to hunt and if you can navigate the labyrinth of safari vans in the area and your auto-focus doesn't snap to some foreground grasses, you can get a few nice pictures of one of these beautiful creatures on the go.
To avoid having their kills stolen by more aggressive predators, leopards will often bring their meals into the trees with them or even leave them up there to ripen in the sun while they are away. So finding them in a tree is certainly the easiest and most frequent means of seeing them.
The bonus of them being nocturnal is that once somebody finds one they are typically quite content to lounge around and have their pictures taken all day, allowing you to get reasonably close. The downside being that most of the time their heads are down or obscured by branches and the only motion you see is when one of their legs droops off a branch.
Every now and then though you'll find one that's getting geared up to hunt and if you can navigate the labyrinth of safari vans in the area and your auto-focus doesn't snap to some foreground grasses, you can get a few nice pictures of one of these beautiful creatures on the go.
To avoid having their kills stolen by more aggressive predators, leopards will often bring their meals into the trees with them or even leave them up there to ripen in the sun while they are away. So finding them in a tree is certainly the easiest and most frequent means of seeing them.
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