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Article: Kenyan Journal.(leopards)(Brief Article)
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Wildlife photographer and author Jonathan Scott, and his wife Angie, are about to go on safari, to follow the wildebeest migration -- provided they don't meet a local leopard first
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