BCC EP:107 Fishing fright – the lakeside leopard warning

Big Cat Conversations

English - March 05, 2024 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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Wayne is an angler in Essex. He describes 3 close encounters with big cats at fishing lakes. On one occasion he met with a leopard warning him off just meters away on a lakeside path. The nearby muntjac deer might owe its life to Wayne’s presence, as he stumbled upon the scene between the cat and the deer. He got close enough to see the big cat’s markings…

Words of the week: leopard popcorn smell

5 March 2024