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exclusively, and I am quite sure that this is their 
general habit despite the fact that the only unmis- 
takable evidence of day hunting I ever saw myself in 
Africa was done by a leopard. I was out one day in 
some tall grass and came upon the body of a small 
antelope. As I came up I heard an animal retreat 
and I thought I recognized a leopard’s snarl. The 
antelope was still warm. It had evidently just been 
killed and the tracks around it were those of a leop- 
ard. 
One of the leopard’s chief sources of food supply 
consists of monkeys and baboons. I remember a 
certain camp we had near the bottom of a cliff. Out 
of this cliff grew a number of fig trees in which the 
baboons were accustomed to sleep fairly well out of 
reach of the leopards. They were, however, not com- 
pletely immune, and we could hear the leopards at 
the top of the cliff almost every night, and once in a 
while the remnants of a baboon testified to the success 
of the leopard’s night prowling. Besides monkeys 
and baboons, leopards seem inordinately fond of dogs. 
A pack of dogs like Paul Rainey’s can make short 
work of a leopard, but on the other hand a leopard 
can make short work of a single dog and seemingly 
takes great pleasure in doing so. One night in a 
shack in Nyiri, a settler sat talking to his neighbour, 
while his dog slept under the table. Suddenly, and 
quite unannounced, a leopard slipped in through the 
open door. Confusion reigned supreme for a moment 
and then the men found themselves on the table. 
The leopard was under the table killing the dog and 
