They're not called 'elusive leopards' for nothing. It's a privilege and rarity to view these spectacular big cats in their natural environment, let alone watch them making a kill. What makes this sequence of images even more unique is that our Botswana monitoring team found a leopard, which then stalked and killed an African wildcat.Adam Crawford, a student from the United States, managed to capture these dramatic images of a leopard killing an African wildcat on a recent trip to Botswana with Wildlife ACT. The sighting occurred while Adam and our monitoring team, Dr Simon Morgan and Robyn Hartley, were driving to our camp on the Khwai Concession in the Okavango Delta. Wildlife ACT has recently taken over the Tsau Research and Monitoring camp and launched the Okavango Wildlife Monitoring project on the concession.
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