Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Big Cat Diary Leopard by Jonathan Scott Big Cat Diary: Leopard by Jonathan Scott. The most elusive of the big cats is the leopard. In the Masai Mara, a large female called Half-tail lives with her eight month-old cub. Both are less secretive than most leopards. They move around by day and are easily spotted by the well-trained eye. At the Northern end of the reserve is a cheetah mother with two three-month-old cubs. When last seen, they were living perilously close to the territory of a male lion. Torrential storms have turned the short grass plains into a quagmire, and the Big Cat Diary team can only hope that the rains will stop so that they can continue their vigil after sun-down. By day, the routines of the big cats have become clearer, but what do these animals do in the dead of night? Equipped with night vision goggles and using special infra-red cameras, the Big Cat Diary team unravel some of the answers as they move around the bush in complete darkness. Fundi the cheetah and her two cubs have gone missing and the search is on to find them. When last seen, one of the cubs had developed a limp.This could be a crucial week for the family. Half-tail the leopard and her cub are less elusive. Most days they were spotted around the gorge close to the heart of their territory. The cub is playful, and quite undeterred by the unseasonal, stormy weather. The lions are also posing problems for the Big Cat Diary team. One pride has dispersed, but two impressive new males have moved in. Nearby, a herd of zebras is cashing in on the fresh grazing, which means a lion hunt could well be on the cards. Simon King, Jonathan Scott and the Big Cat Diary team have now been tracking the cheetahs, lions and leopards of the Masai Mara for four weeks. Every day, the individual animals and their habits are becoming more familiar. The wildebeest migration is now at its height. There is also wonderful footage of the female leopard Half-tail and her surviving nine month-old cub hunting and playing by day and night. Kidogo, the cheetah mother, must keep clear of the neighbouring lion pride as she searches for food for her two young cubs. Meanwhile, some lions are killing the cubs so the females come on heat again. In the last episode, Fundi the cheetah finally reappeared. She and her cubs now seem in good shape, but will they stay in sight? Presenters Simon King and Jonathan Scott spend every daylight hour unravelling the character and the habits of the big cats they have been following for the last five weeks. With the aid of infra-red light they continue their vigil into the night. Leopard's Tale : featuring Half-Tail and Zawadi, stars of Big Cat Diary. Available. Expected delivery to the Russian Federation in 9-21 business days. Description. Almost everyone on safari hopes for a glimpse of the charismatic and elusive leopard. Chui was the first of a new generation of leopards Jonathan Scott watched and photographed in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve in the 1970s and 1980s. He spent every available moment watching and photographing Chui and her cubs, Light and Dark, aware that he was only privileged to do so for as long as they chose to remain visible. His classic account tells the story of the mother leopard as a solitary hunter providing for herself and her offspring. He records encounters with baboon, hyaena and man, hazards facing the cubs as they learn to fend for themselves and periods of play and relaxation. Some years after Chui disappeared, a young female appeared, Half-Tail. Jonathan and Angela have followed her and her daughter Zawadi, stars of the BBC's Big Cat Diary, for the past twenty years, bringing the story up to date. Nobody has studied leopards more closely or known them more intimately. Jonathan says: 'The update is based on our work with Half-Tail and Zawadi from both the pictures and text perspective - Angie worked with us on Big Cat Diary as the stills photographer from 1996 and before that we both worked with Half-Tail from the time she first appeared around Leopard Gorge and Fig Tree Ridge - our kids grew up on safari with Half-Tail and Zawadi as stars of their own Mara adventures.' show more. Big Cat Diary: Leopard by Jonathan Scott. Hooray! You've discovered a title that's missing from our library. Can you help donate a copy? If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. You can also purchase this book from a vendor and ship it to our address: Better World Books Amazon More Bookshop.org. When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. Benefits of donating. When you donate a physical book to the Internet Archive, your book will enjoy: Beautiful high-fidelity digitization Long-term archival preservation Free controlled digital library access by the print-disabled and public † Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Big Cat Diaries: the original wildlife “Soap Opera”. Big Cat Diary , also known as Big Cat Week and Big Cat Live, was a long-running nature documentary series on BBC television which follows the lives of African big cats in Kenya’s Masai Mara. The series can be viewed on Animal Planet in the US. Filming was timed to coincide with the arrival of the annual wildebeest migration in the Mara, which is when the most predators gather to take advantage of abundant prey. Each series has followed the daily lives of a pride of Lions, a family of Cheetahs and a family of Leopards. The long running presenters ; Simon King and Jonathan Scott, gave the Cats’ names and developed personalities for particular cats to draw the audience into a relationship with them. This created empathy for the characters and led to the series being called “the original wildlife soap opera”. Simon King & Jackson Looseyia. Originally intended to be a one-off series, Big Cat Diary proved so popular that a further eight series have been broadcast to date, plus occasional specials. Recent series have drawn audiences of over 7 million viewers to BBC One, and spawned a number of other programmes using the same ‘Wildlife Diary’ format, including Elephant Diaries , Chimp Week , Big Bear Week and Orangutan Diary . For the first few series, the episodes were broadcast weekly, but since 2004, they have been shown on consecutive nights over the course of a single week. The 2004, 2005 and 2006 series were called Big Cat Week . Since 2005, the Big Cat Diary website has carried additional video footage from the field and in 2006, a spin- off series called Big Cat Uncut was broadcast on BBC Three immediately after the BBC One episodes. On 5 October 2008, the series returned to British television screens as Big Cat Live , the BBC Natural History Unit’s most ambitious live international broadcast. This is when local Maasai guide Jackson Looseyia joined regular presenters Simon King and Jonathan Scott for two weeks of nightly live programmes on BBC One. Big Cat Legacies. The Marsh Pride – Lions of Musiari Marsh. They have been one of the most successful groups to be filmed for the entire big cat series. The longest-standing member of the pride to be featured on the show was Notch (some of you may know him as Khali ) who was thought to be about eight years old when Big Cat Diary started in 1996. The surviving cubs of the 1998 buffalo attack were the oldest lionesses in the pride: White-Eye and the Blonde Sisters, Bibi and Lispy . There are also the “Three Graces”, Joy, Charm and Beauty , three young females who had broken away from the main pride and formed a satellite group. The Three Graces are the daughters of Notch and were born in 2005. The pride has had a succession of male leaders who were filmed during the series, Scar and Scruffy (1998-2000), Simba and Blondie (2000-2004), Notch and Light Male (2004-2007), Clawed and Romeo (2007-2011). The current leaders of the pride are four males known as the “Four Musketeers” named Scarface, Sikio, Morani, and Hunter . Notch was last seen in 2010, when he was still holding rank in the pride and supporting a huge dark mane. In 2003 Bibi was kicked out of the pride and was featured on the first series of Big Cat Week as she struggled to raise her two cubs without the support of the pride, though she was later accepted back into the main Marsh Pride. Cheetah Mothers of the savannah. In 2005’s Big Cat Week, Jonathan Scott (while following the story of Honey and Toto ) introduced viewers to Duma and her mother Sita (some of you may know her as Shakira ). In Big Cat Diary: Family Histories, Duma and Toto’s Story, Scott told the story of Duma in more detail, revealing the moment she left her mother to become independent. In Big Cat Live in 2008, Scott again followed the story of Sita, when she had 5 cubs of nearly 2 months old. They faced a terrible encounter with the some of the Marsh lions and two cubs died. So far, the three remaining cubs, all female, have survived. The cubs have been called Moja, Mbili and Tatu , meaning “one”, “two” and “three” in Swahili.