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Subject: [Leica] Big Cats
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:54:28 +0530
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Montie, Cedric, Douglas, Sonny, Jim, Gene, Philippe, Luis
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:19 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at 
sfr.fr>wrote:

> Alice's cat is at my place this week - and behaves exactly as described
> and shown ;-)
>
>
> It must be such a wonderful experience out there in the savannah ....
> What I can't figure out is what the sound is like though, I'd need words,
> or personal experience to know I guess.
>
> Thank you once more for sharing the beauties of mother nature Jayanand,
> great job you've done and are doing here again.
>
> Amiti?s
> Philippe
>
>
> Le 27 mars 13 ? 11:15, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit :
>
>  Some of the shots of Big Cats - lions and leopards were thin on the
>> ground,
>> but Cheetahs were plentiful - also helped by the fact that the latter are
>> very active by the day, mainly because lions and hyenas are not - much
>> less
>> chance of having their kill stolen.
>>
>> To start with a lioness behaving like any member of the cat family:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ol_Pejeta_20130315_09874.jpg.**html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ol_Pejeta_20130315_09874.jpg.html>
>>
>> We only saw only one leopard the whole trip, and that too late in the
>> evening at dusk on the first day out at Ndutu. Here are a couple of
>> studies, taken with a big telephoto married to a teleconverter, wide open
>> at ISO6400:
>>
>> Yawn:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130302_04312.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130302_04312.jpg.html>
>>
>> Descent:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130302_04319.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130302_04319.jpg.html>
>>
>> However, the biggest sustained interest of our trip were Cheetahs, of
>> which
>> we saw more than 20, including a lot of playful cubs. Here are some shots
>> to start things off:
>>
>> Yawns are contagious even for male cheetahs:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130304_06020.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130304_06020.jpg.html>
>>
>> The late evening kill:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130304_06115.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130304_06115.jpg.html>
>>
>> A mother and two cubs slaking their thirst:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130304_05637-Edit.jpg.**html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130304_05637-Edit.jpg.html>
>>
>> Two cubs playing on a tree:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130306_06666-Edit.jpg.**html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130306_06666-Edit.jpg.html>
>>
>> A downpour is no deterrent for energetic cubs:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/**
>> Ndutu_20130306_07521.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130306_07521.jpg.html>
>>
>> Please see LARGE
>>
>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
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