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The temperature is starting to heat up significantly, and by being in winter, the area is fairly dry, thus checking water holes can be a good place to  find animals that we normally not see that often. Now what do I mean. The Sabi Sands is world renowned for their leopards, high density. But also for a hing density of apecks predators. Thus seeing  more of the predators than we see Giraffe for instance. GIRAFFES hvae a few intresiting aspeckts to talk about and definitly a lot more exiting to watch, than n lion sleeping.
Giraffes ruminate, eats the cud, multipal stomachs, show what is the big deal, cows have the same, Yes, but when giraffe ruminate, you can see the movement of the food going up and down, like a elevator. This giraffe surprised us at one of the waterholes, while we were watching hippos. She approached the water but quickly chanced direction because of a crocodile that entered the water on the opposite bank

Now the next bit, is on the cats, differences and little bit of behavior.
First have a look at the spotted cats. Differences in the spot pattern, and the characteristic markings. Tear mark for cheetahs,  which removes glare off the cheek to provide better sight during the day, as they hunt in day light. The only "line" on a leopard would be on the chest, the pattern of the line differs from leopard to leopard.  Now looking at lions, they have white patches below the eye, which in tern allow more light to enter the eye as they hunt at night.

As all of the Leopards have names one the reserve, we know which ones we find, just by territory or spot count (few spots on both sides of the nose). This young leopard is the youngster of Metsi, a very relaxed female. But the little one not that much, so getting n picture of the little one adds on to my profile for leopards.  
The cub "settled" down and started moving around n bit more. Not long after that, mom got agitated, flew up and displayed aggressive behavior, but why?

A hyena approached to close for comfort and Metsi would do what she needs to do to protect her cub. The cub disappeared into long grass. The hyena lost interest en left the area. Metsi started contact calling to join up with cub and moved off.  

On to some photoshop: Here I took a photo of one of my little ones. Did a bit of color correction and decided to put a puzzle layer on the original.
After that I started to remove puzzle tiles one by one, given the illusion that the puzzle is being worked on.
To finish off, I used her name as a water mark across the photo



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