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Title: Wild game in Zambezia
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Maugham, R. C. F. (Reginald Charles Fulke), 1866-1956
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ion theplnnking of the lower verandas. Small dogs, incountry where these animnls are munerous, shouldnever be allowed to wander about after sunset.So noiseless is the prowling leopards attack, andso rapid and business-like his subsequent jnoeeed-ings, that frequently the life of the unfortimateterrier is choked from it before the victim haseven time to utter a parting yelp. IMore than once has every inmate of my goat-houses and fowl-runs been savagely and ruthlesslydestroyed. In these cases a blind, furious lustfor slaughter seems to take possession of the in-
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THE LEOPARD 189 vader. On gaining admission, instead of helpinghimself to the fattest or most tempting inmate,he sets deliberately to work mercilessly to destroyevery single member of the family, nor does hehold his murderous teeth and claws until hisvictims lie at his feet in a lifeless heap. In naturalsurroundings, however, he contents himself withone victim at a time, which he secures by ambush-ing a game-path or water-hole. Leopards have thesame weakness as lions for lapping the quicklyflowing blood of newly killed animals, and, as theyclimb trees with cat-like ease and agility, theyavail themselves of the comparative securityafforded by the branches to deposit therein theremainder of their kills at a good height from theground. On several occasions I have seen por-tions of the bodies of reedbuck, duiker, and otheranimals among the branches deposited by leop-ards at the end of a meal, 15 or 18 feet from theground. These arboreal habits render the hunt-ing of leopards, especially b

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