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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
The call of the wild47

One day, a cheetah mother with three sub adult leopards about 12 to 14 months old, encountered the cheetah five brothers alliance, which was famous in Africa at that time, they detained the mother leopard, and the three leopards left the mother leopard in the nearby area waiting for the mother leopard found a small antelope and then killed, this is the moment two leopards lick each other's blood to clean up after wiping out food.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 01.2022
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Kenya
Copyright: © Jie Fischer