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Stalking Leopards

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Region 2 (UK/Europe)

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82 mins (includes bonus film: ‘Nights with Leopards’)

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“A beautifully filmed, close-up chronicle of a male leopard’s fight for survival in South Africa’s Mala Mala Game Reserve”

Veteran filmmaker Kim Wolhuter is drawn to leopards by their absolute power, grace and beauty and the fact that they live in a world that is very difficult to penetrate.

In National Geographic's Stalking Leopards he follows Tjololo, a four-year-old male leopard living in South Africa's Mala Mala Game Reserve, as Tjololo comes of age in a pitiless and violent world.

He chronicles the young leopard's fight for survival, a constant battle waged on many fronts, against many enemies.

To watch a leopard stalk is to understand the exact meaning of the word. To its prey, a leopard is everywhere and nowhere - one hundred and fifty pounds of sinuous strength and agility as silent and smooth as running water.

But for the young, inexperienced Tjololo, keeping his catch from hyenas requires skill, tough lessons and more than a few heated confrontations. Hyenas approach as he rushes to tree a freshly killed carcass, and Tjololo soon learns that success can be a matter of inches.

Stalking Leopards is an intimate story of Tjololo’s journey into adulthood: claiming territory, fighting old rivals, mating and killing. For Tjololo, amidst Africa’s wild cast of lions, water buffalo, hyena’s elephants and impalas, the only way to walk is proudly and alone.

Stalking Leopards won an Emmy award at the News and Documentary awards in 2003 for ‘Outstanding Individual Achievement’

Narrated by Keith David.

Filmed & produced by Kim Wolhuter for National Geographic (2001).

EXCLUSIVE: this DVD also contains an exclusive, 28 mins long bonus film, ‘Nights with Leopards’ filmed by Kim Wolhuter – it reveals what it took to make such a dramatic natural history documentary about this elusive cat. For nearly two years, Wolhuter lived in the bush with his wife and two young children while shadowing the solitary leopard.

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“Renowned filmmaker Kim Wolhuter documents Tjololo, a young male leopard and his place in the community hierarchy. He witnesses Tjololo facing an eternal enemy, the hyena, over a hard-won kill. Leopards usually retreat, leaving the kill to the iron jaws of the hyenas. But on this memorable night, a momentary truce is declared as Tjololo refuses to concede and both animals share the carcass. Kim’s camera catches this and many other, never-before-seen behaviours of wild animals inhabiting the Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa. This lovely film will appeal to all big cat lovers”.

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