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Documentary about the trials and tribulations of rearing Jamu, an orphaned leopard cub in the Luangwa Valley. Jamu was o | dG1fZXpsUS1tSTVsUkE

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00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 Wildlife filmmaker, John Varty,

00:04 was preparing to release a young leopard back into the wild.

00:07 The cap had only one thing standing

00:10 between her and freedom.

00:12 She needed to learn to hunt.

00:14 But JV worried that despite her natural instinct,

00:18 her lack of experience could lead to disaster.

00:21 - When you do this kind of project,

00:23 you walk a very fine line.

00:25 On the one hand, you want your leopard to gain experience.

00:28 On the other hand, if you get it wrong,

00:30 you can have a dead leopard and no project.

00:33 So one morning she goes out

00:34 and starts to stalk a herd of zebra.

00:36 Now zebra are not really known as a dangerous prey animal.

00:40 - A zebra stallion will use well-placed kicks

00:43 and vicious bites when defending his herd

00:45 against hunting predators.

00:47 - The herd stallion whipped around,

00:50 took one look at the size of this leopard,

00:52 said, "This leopard can't do anything to me.

00:55 I'll attack it."

00:57 Unfortunately, she ran for her life.

00:59 The stallion was right on her

01:00 and he was chopping with his front feet.

01:02 And at one moment I thought, "This is the end of my leopard."

01:05 So I fired shots in the air.

01:06 - In a split second, the leopard's agility saves her life.

01:11 - It looks quite humorous now,

01:18 but I can assure you at that moment,

01:20 if that zebra had caught her with a hoof,

01:22 he would have broken her spine.

01:24 - The cat's lack of experience almost got her killed.

01:27 - You would think that experience

01:29 would have taught her a whole lot.

01:31 Well, apparently she didn't learn that much.

01:34 Within a few days,

01:37 she's out stalking the local territorial puku male.

01:41 - Puku antelope may look small and dainty,

01:44 but males carry up to 21 inches of strongly ridged horns,

01:48 perfect defense weapons.

01:50 - So out she goes into a game of cat and mouse,

01:53 life and death, the puku's trying to stab her.

01:55 She jumps away, dances away, circles the puku.

01:59 Again, I'm in two minds.

02:01 Should I fire shots or should I let it go?

02:04 One stab from that puku's horns

02:06 would have been the end of the leopard.

02:08 And on two or three occasions,

02:10 the shots show that the horn was virtually right through her.

02:13 It was just her agility at the last minute which saved her.

02:17 (electronic music)

JAMU the Orphaned Leopard | movie | 2002 | Official Clip

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