Off to dinner I go, talk to ya later

WOW Mike thats amazing, i'm looking forward to seeing your photos. I hope you are enjoying yourself and not drinking too much amarula...LOL

Good evening all. Today was pretty exciting, we got to see two male leopards, one up in a tree dining. Also we went out on a special ride to help an injured ellie that was caught in a snare. The Ellie was darted and we were able to go to him, move him on his side and touch him. The removed the snare, put on some ointment to prevent necrosis. Many pictures were taken, so hopefully I have something good to show. I will say this, ellies do snore!

evening everyone.

@ Penny, when you click on the ellie plains link does it work for you. I have tried it and it don't work for me am I just being blonde of is this link not active yet

Just for a bit of fun I got the magnifying glass out and looked not at the necklace but at the whisker spots and you can see that these are two different leopards (at least that is what I think)!  I do know that most of the bigger game reserves use whisker spots to identify different leopards as there tend to be quite a lot of leopards in their areas.  In my son's landrover he has the whisker patterns of all the leopards of Thornybush at the back of his map book.  I do remember that when Gareth was doing his ecotraining in the Northern Sabie Sands (alongside Elephant Plains) he saw Safari frequently and she is unmistakable as she is blind in one eye!  She is probably now around 11 years of age!  I do not know how old Karula is nor do I know her lineage so we would have to depend on one of the rangers giving us this information!

Sorry Karen, I don't have many snaps of Karula but did have these from the day she was playing with cubs.

Okay, compare Karula's Neck with the one Gerda posted.

In this next one you can almost see all 3 necklaces when she is facing forward.

Hey Uni,
Soooo glad to see ya, how's it going?