{"id":68287,"date":"2022-09-11T14:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/?p=68287"},"modified":"2025-07-27T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:59:33","slug":"leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2022\/leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our safari tour, we found all of the &#8220;big five&#8221; animals, lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and &#8230; not the last one, the leopard. We were still happy, but after exiting the park area our tour guide suddenly hit the brakes and told us to look out the right hand side. Sure enough, slowly meandering along the road was this epic looking leopard. He gave absolutely zero fucks about us whatsoever. I wound down the window and extended my arms as far out of the window as possible to get this photo. After very slowly plodding past us, he just walked on up a bank and disappeared into the green bush.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68289\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-680x510.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-68289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-680x510.avif 680w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-900x675.avif 900w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-768x576.avif 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-1536x1152.avif 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-2048x1536.avif 2048w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-250x187.avif 250w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-1-small-1000x750.avif 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-2.jpg 333w, https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/files\/2022\/08\/ngorongoro-leopard-2-234x350.avif 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"leopard\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xRA_a86deZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our safari tour, we found all of the &#8220;big five&#8221; animals, lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino and &#8230; not the last one, the leopard. 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