Many years of conservation and restoration has turned former commercial farms in the arid South into a wildlife paradise. Great was the excitement when the Gondwana Canyon Park game rangers recently scanned the images taken from a camera trap at one of the waterholes, and found a picture of a female leopard and her two large cubs.
"Leopards actually don't need to drink", park warden Sue Cooper explains. "They can get all their water from their prey." Park warden Trygve Cooper adds, "Where waterholes are available leopards will use them opportunistically. Temperatures are very hot around here at present, so I guess the leopards were looking for a chance to drink, just like all the other animals in the park."
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