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~ When the female leopard we were observing walked away, I'd supposed that we'd seen the last of her. Anthony repositioned the van at a distance from where we'd last observed her. She emerged from bushes, walking more or less directly towards us. There came a point where she looked directly up at the camera lens, her muscles tensed, at which Anthony gently moved away. What particularly impressed me was her self-evident confidence, striding forward with no apparent concern for being attacked. Does a healthy young female leopard go about her territory with a solid sense of confidence in her own abilities?