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...plains Leifer hunted with his camera. His safari guide stalked leopards and cheetahs by carefully sifting through footprints and dung. But the hunt did not always end when the quarry was sighted. "The animals had to be in the right setting and have the right light," says Leifer. "Otherwise they'd be unphotographable." During his forays, Leifer and his assistant James Keyser were able to track down only one leopard that could be photographed. "My leopard," Leifer now proudly calls it. On the other hand, serendipity led him to his lions. One morning around 5:30, while on a bumpy...
...trait. It is human habit to sort the animals almost immediately into orders of preference. The animals are arranged in people's minds as a popularity contest. Some animals are endearing, and some repulsive. One wants to see the lion first, and then the elephant and after that the leopard, then rhino . . . and so on. One wants to see some animals because they are fierce, and some because they are lovable and soft. It is hard to explain the attractions and preferences. It is possible that human feelings about wild animals reflect the complexities of sexual attractions. Certain animals...
...where Moses and his family kept their goats at night was covered with a grid of heavy wire. When a visitor wondered about it, Moses explained, "Leopard comes at night to take the goat." Around every Masai enk'ang is built a sturdy fence of thorn and cedar to keep the lions out. One day, walking in the forest, Moses shouldered an enormous slab of cedar to add to his boma. "The lion makes me do a lot of work," he remarked. Sometimes the barricades do not hold, and the Masai wake to the bawl and crashing of cattle...
...result of the major brain damage accrued from an improper diet of leopard face and dinosaur crispitos, Early Man believed that the Hiss Joke was the end all. The current mainstream hypothesis is that "fine herbs" on our chicken is the causal element today, but regardless of the roots a cure must be found. It is inconceivable to continue life with hisses erupting over any professor's slightest mention of Yale, or that there might me a modicum of work due at any time for the class...
...Denmark, where under the pen name Isak Dinesen she recalled her former home in prose as direct and luminous as the land: "Mombasa has all the look of a picture of Paradise, painted by a small child . . . Once as we turned a corner in the forest, we saw a leopard sitting on the road, a tapestry animal...