The leopard is pretty shy. If you’re going on night-time drives out looking for wildlife, you’ll be lucky to spot one.
That is, unless you bring along a cranky, whining, snivelling, crying two-year-old along for the fun.
We didn’t learn until later that evening around the campfire what danger we’d been in. The game driver told our game drive companions someone had better stay back with the kid, because it was precisely her high-pitched blubbering which attracted the leopard so much to our vehicle.
Shot near Kruger Park, July, 2003.
The banner photograph shows the town of Britannia Beach, BC, Canada, where I grew up. It's home. But I don't live there anymore.
Do you think there’s a business model in it: hiring out small children to big game hunters as leopard bait?
Naw, there’s more money in game drives by keeping them alive – at least I hope there is…
If so, perhaps I could start a lending library of sorts?
Hi daisysmom – I guess you don’t need me to tell you that’s really twisted, do you?
I think we’d be great friends.