Photo and caption by Jack Hochfeld

We'd been watching the young leopard for some while on her branch 20 metres above the ground in a huge Jackalberry tree. Suddenly she got up and scampered down the trunk to the ground. She landed heavily with a thump. The one minute the tree was full of her presence, the next empty.

Location: Exeter Lodge, Sabi Sands, Mpumalanga, South Africa