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the leopard queen [full nature wildlife documentary]
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deadly
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leopards are Africa's most elusive leak
a one-man in one extraordinary leopard
formed a lifelong bond and open a window
into the world up these mysterious predators
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this is Leber territory 17,000 hectares of Bush that is home to more than twenty
about Africa's most enigmatic weekends
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this leopard dynasty is the lifeblood is South Africa's London low Z game reserve
in the south and the great Kruger National Park
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delivers here have been filmed and studied for almost three decades
each cat his intimately known
and unlike most places they are not shy
people
but there's one leopard that is taken her relationship with humans
to a new level and one man
that is dedicated almost two decades of his life
to filming her
John Varty or JV has been following leopard since childhood
but his relationship with this one is different
he calls her
manana shun gone from other and he shares a trust with her that is
uncanny for his species kicking
most leopards are aggressive
and unpredictable and will attack without warning
but JV is able to sit only meters from the Nana
unharmed
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their extraordinary bond was made possible
by an encounter more than a decade before manana was born
the year is 1979
JV in his tracker ehlmann Nangal
are on the trail the leopard
one they've just started out as wildly cameramen and so far
the secretive cat to prove difficult to catch on camera
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but today the hit gold
a mother leopard and her cubs
settings like this
usually last long enough for the mother to get her cubs
outta sight ok
but not this time this leopard allows them to watch her
without concern
they name her the mother
and GV vows to document her life on camera
over the next 12 years
she allows them to film every aspect of her life
the mother knitted is the first lipid that showed me
that it was possible to have a relationship a close relationship
with the lipid she unlocked the secret world
above the lip to me on
the one night
GV watches is that world is torn apart
lines pursue the mother after chillin
she makes aid deadly miscalculation
but
she calls her carcass up a tree well
but it's too low good
lines are too big to climb high
but the 150 kilograms killer gets into the low brett is easily
ok home
home
home
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corner
the mother has no option but to meet her fate on record
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at Don JB in Helmand scour the mothers territory
and find what they fear I'll
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their leopard home brutally injured
dying
her wounds cut to the bone
head
daywatch his life slips from a torn body
and their window into the world leopards closes
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JV in Helmand tried to follow the leopards
particularly the mothers died need 21 female
but took one's nature is a far cry from her mother's
I'll she's temperamental
an aggressive and a track her with extreme caution
so when they see her leave the hunt they recognize
a rare opportunity
to get down to it did and see if she has carved
with GV finds
changes his life polled
we read the tiny female card
emerges from the dead for
up are
his man on 10 days old
lock
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JD's window into the world the Leopards opens once more
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as a single parent took one must hunt
or she and the cops will starve 0
are cell in the first weeks of life
Nana and her brother are often left unguarded the dead
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lines in hyenas kill the are springing for the predators to eliminate the
competition
and unguarded leopard cubs are soft targets
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for the dense bush in cavernous rocks at the 21 riverbed
protect his den like a fortress old
allowing manana at her brother to hone their skills
in relative safety good
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new creatures awake in the earliest hunting instincts well
by takes a little longer to grow in the climbing Kyle
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your but practice makes perfect
and soon the trees become the preferred playground up
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manana soon learns that tackling pray that bites and hisses
is harder than it looks
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well
she heads down after use your brain as the Cubs grow
so too will the size of their prey into a one-year
they'll be ready to catch full-grown antelope alone
as adults
the tree tops among the lows he will become their domain
the dense woodlands are perfect *** have a tent abounding with the diversity
pray
the with their prey comes other larger predators
on
manana learns early in her solitary animal life
the catching prey is only the first hurdle
keeping it is always a far tougher task
what
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the death rattle at the Impala goes up like a flack
all the learning wondering hyenas to the kill
they'll stop at nothing for a free meal in with a bite taken crack bomb
day make deadly enemies
manana is in mortal danger
seconds after manana makes
killed spotted hyena surround urged
alone outnumber she can't afford
well
I'll mom
the hyenas on the other hand
can't help fighting strict hierarchy
gut feeling with so many mounts
underlings must be kept out by force soon
the feeding frenzy turns into arrived
allowing manana to sneak in and steel backer carcass
head
this time she holds a data breach before the hyenas know what's happened
them
well
she eats her feel well she came
but hyenas are relentless
Scout remains to stake out the tree and wait for manana
to make a mistake
leopards inevitably lose skills to predators
there one min nine appears her first litter
this state exchange loans
I'll predators are a constant
mortal threat to leopard cubs I'll
me here in the Kruger National Park
that killed one into wins ok
but even at only four years old
manana proves to be in excellent mother
pratense sites are all but invisible
she moves the cards every few days to keep the Predators guessing
never staying in one day long enough to build up the telltale CenturyTel
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mom
the
but there's one enemy that manana cannot now waiting
home NGV knows it
all too well
them
ok
them
a female lipid
which we called sunset been female
contract inside Coptic mange well
and I believed at that time
that it was a natural process and that I should not interfere
it and I watched informed
while she deteriorated and eventually die
informing her body I realized headed within my power to save her life
me and I nato gone
women on intercoms contract the same age he is forced to make a controversial
decision
am sir Coptic manges caused by
might that leads away the skin in the wild
its a death sentence but this time
GV won't stand by and Watchmen honored I
to treat the mange
JB with dark the drug called Ivor Mactan directly into my Nana and her cubs
ehlmann tracks man on it with dense grove of trees
one covers on the ground below
the other in the low branches they must move fast
the dart will hurt manana may see it as an attack on her in the ***
and fight back
mom
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few times when the dawn
hitman on that assured really angry mom
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the risk
is worth it
three weeks later manana and the cops make a full recovery
JB's intervention gives manana another fourteen years
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and her cub survived the ordeal to become some London MoSys most successful
leopards
but none on his next leader is not so lucky
a new thread terrorizes her territory
male leopards
territorial males kill clubs that don't there's
that females compared their cubs stand with two competing males invade London
closing from inside it turns into a killing spree
is the repeatedly destroyed his *** bring your
more after losing two consecutive letters
manana makes a move to and the slaughter she seeks out where the males
and entices intimate im
I'm or
them or like domestic cats
microscopic spines on the mountain clearly a make me
painful crisis for the female the process she must repeat
every 15 minutes game night
for up to five days straight like
I'm or
for the repeated couplings forstmann on his body to articulate
and help to ensure conception me
with the ordeal finally ends home she crosses her territory to find the other
male
ensure said all over again well
them
or when work
or on the mail
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by meeting with both males manana deceives them into thinking the
resulting Cubs will be theirs
it's an extraordinary strategy
but only a few lepers have ever been seen to employ
them
and
it pays off three months later
she has a single tiny com
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lines me abandon single cards to be a larger litters
home but manana chooses to keep
this only child
the rocky den hides many inaccessible crevices
and its perimeter is guarded by dense thorn trees
them ally in or hyena will have to work hard to reach the card
manana leaves it safely concealed in the rocks I'll
and heads off to hunt well
I'll
I'll good
well
well
me but today none is not the only predator on the prowl
there's one killer that came and preached against defenses
it
and it's moving in
Westman on his attentions are elsewhere
old
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hunt failed line on the head home
home
she gives a soft contact call for comp
but there's no answer something is world
mom
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in African rock pythons swollen
with cup size to me I'll
old the
home
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manana risks her own life she attacks for cuts killer
them
them
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the Python retreats into the thorns the
half
but manana will not give up
in for three hours
she lies silently staking out the Pythons cave
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hold
I'll that last
for patience pays off
the injured paid on finally makes a move them
manana is ready for the next round on
well
she waits until it's clear the cave well
well
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I'll but there's no battle
a built-in reflex forces the snake to relinquish Hardwell
under stress the pythons regurgitate their prey
I'll to shed the extra weight for a speedy is scaled
0 la manana has abandoned the attack
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are female
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off to the piped into scorched hell
I thought manana would go off to them title
and kid are
there was no that to revenge all she wanted was to
tiny cutback of
are we tend to think a blatant since instinct to
often well animals without emotional
that is completely untrue are
the mall
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manana carries the body away from the dead
begins to consumer ed
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it are manana nos
that it has gone well
by eating that car
I believe that she was going through a ritual
she was going through a ceremonial disposing of them have law
I'll was one of the most emotional times
I have to speak to our I'll
and then incredibly Ford age called
foreign cappuccino new the misery needed mom
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as a filmmaker it's hard to tell just
turn your cam on em caption: senal because
cuts very very deep are
pin on his grief is tangible
ok losing comes is a reality all that mothers must face
manana eight letters I'll
only four cards survived to adulthood law are
she can afford to creep along she must insure
her own survival the need to do so
she must hunt
her 15-meter Vantage gives her a bird's eye view on potential praying
them
in apollo breaks from the herd
manana has her target
now
it's all down to timing
you
mom
com she makes it look easy
but this aerial assault israeli witnessed
it takes a perfect set of circumstances
the right pray in the right place perfect timing
perfect precision
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but it means nothing until her belly is fall
she needs to get the kill off the ground quickly
but even the trees aren't always safe
lines are the Leopards number one enemy in Africa
there three times are sized
and then like hyenas lines can climb
ok later grandmother it's a threat she can't escape
manana retreats to the highest stillness branches and watch as she loses yet
another kill
to defend would be suicide lemme
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the prize forces grow
them
but numbers are not all Street
in hungry pride every scrap
me must be 54
world
on
world
world
with the enemy distracted
manana mix swift next
home
thing
barely is one opportunity last
then another presents itself well the cheetah
is on the hunt they may look similar
but the cheetah is a very different animal to manana
up
their matched in weight but the Cheetahs long streamlined body is built for speed
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them
up
mama niners
his bills for stealth and strength
this is one opponent manana can intimidate
leopards only pick fights they can win except
when it comes to territory
females will fight to the death for the rights to pray
habitat
and ample danson's
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up in her prime
manana is from Middle uphold
mom she holds London does his best territory for most of her life
but keeping it means fighting up
and risking severe injury
mom
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as manana grows older
those injuries begin to take their tools
yo
home
the
I'll she's now an old letter to 60 she's lived more than four years longer than
most wildly britt
and her body is shutting down she could no longer afford to fight for territory
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could she must watch jumbled
his younger fitter females mark on her to her
claimed the best her territory
them
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them
mmm a familiar will
gets your attention a much needed me look away
nearby scavenging from the hyenas the plate her youth
now helps to keep alive his an old me as usual
they fight over who has the right to food
well skinny to her into
the food hunt said she can scavenge meecham skill
people going from home
as the meat kids separated
spread around she never charged pick up the pieces meet
and jump into a tree I'll
Ronnie Sherman hyena very very dangerous for her to go in now
good coming
it
good
it
she walks dangerous tightrope scavenged meet could keep her alive
but she's discovered the hyenas me
attack
dude
am
home
she's safe in a tree but she's trapped
the hyenas will show no mercy she comes down
bomb
one
manana waits for hours in the Blazing Sun
I'll
until the hyena matriarch makes off with the last of the car kit
with the hyenas fat in fed it's safe to come down
and lands
the ordeal has cost her precious energy
energy she will struggle to replace
six months down the line every day of life from a non is one
GV doesn't expect
he had him regularly to check up on
she's in the treetops she's seen something
surely anything she can catch now no matter how small
on
them
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mild
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in the nineteen used to be so fast some strong
it now she's nearly 17
his hat-trick dep't catching small praised
Scopus monitors said
still surviving
still using different treated to ensure
said
she's very old content belonged to ca
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JV moved to sit with their perhaps
for the last time came
good in just a few weeks she will be seventeen
a record age for a wild leopard the equivalent
85 human years old
okay cool and he chose to her
a sound reassurance that she would use
to calm Cubs want clean cream
ball big deal
okay cool good
said
it is not feared know she him
they've learned to distrust
your
your
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there are a few people who could lie bodies laying through wild leopard
but GV knows his time with her is drawing to a close
I'm
I'll
me soon the day comes
with JV no longer find manana anywhere near territory
and he knows she is gonna
when I got it
into the bush it on the low Z I expect to see you manana
around the preaching of course
this incredible method is gone
I feel so privileged to have known her
for seventeen years from there first moment
and I made I contact person as a tiny little ca
to the day she died