I had a wonderful experiance with this leopard in the middle of the Kgalagadi. I first spotted her in the riverbed and then she walked straight to my car and spent a few minutes posing and investigating the car. I thought i was hallucinating during the sighting. Then after driving off it all made sense. I saw 2 sets of leopard spoor in the road.... they had been walking towards my oncoming vehicle. There was clearly a bigger and smaller set of spoor. This must have been a large cub (which i dident realize during the sighting) that was still inquisitive enough to want to investigate the car and i would imagine mom allowed her to do so as she is clearly close to leaving age. It was a truly exhilarating experiance
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And I can certainly relate to the way you felt Basil, we've always known leopards as being elusive and we search for them everywhere, when lucky we may spot them among the foliage of a tree in the distance. All of a sudden here we are, in the middle of the road, suddenly leopard comes up to the vehicle, sniffling, looking straight to the lens, lies down and rolls in the sand, as relaxed as a domestic cat. At Mata Mata I once had a subadult leopard crawl under the vehicle for some shade - Miera's offspring
Oh I miss the place so much, hope to visit again next year. 

