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a Cape leopard cub in South Africa
November 23, 2015

Cape Cub

A camera trap set in South Africa’s Cederberg Wilderness records the steady gaze of a Cape leopard cub. Though not classified as a separate subspecies of leopard, these shy mountain cats are smaller than their savanna kin.

See more pictures from the December 2015 feature story “Learning to Live With Leopards.”

Photograph by Steve Winter

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