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Article: Steps to spotting a leopard: Elusive animal gives experienced tracker a run for his money.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- December 24, 2006
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Byline: Scott Calvert
Dec. 24--NGALA PRIVATE GAME RESERVE, South Africa -- A leopard, it is said, never changes its spots. But veteran tracker Richard Khosa knows that's bunk in one regard. Today's perfect hiding spot -- a cozy den for a mother and two big-eared cubs, say -- is often tomorrow's Bushveld version of a vacant lot, abandoned with no forwarding address.
Khosa, like some khaki-clad bill collector of the bush, sets out daily on foot, unarmed, to see where the stealthy leopards have crept off to next. If all goes well, he'll find one by the afternoon game drive, payoff time, when wowed tourists fire away with digital cameras from the Land ...