A majestic leopard prowls through the Gangu Forest

We captured this majestic carnivore on a camera trap in the Gangu Forest, 2012.
Originally posted on the youtube channel of the Lukuru Foundation, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Lukuru Foundation: The iconic Leopard (Panthera pardus) is more breathtaking than ever when seen free ranging in its natural habitat.
In 2011, Henschel et. al., reported that leopard prey choice in the Congo Basin rainforest suggests exploitative competition with human bushmeat hunters.
A view of this magnificent being, its effortless power when wild and truly free, cannot be expressed in words. We leave it to each of you to be touched in your own way by this sight.
This camera trap footage was a result of a joint 1 year project by the Panafrican Research and Monitoring Program at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, The US Fish and Wildlife Service, and The Lukuru Foundation, with additional funding provided by The Lucie Burgers Foundation for Comparative Behavior Research, Arnhem, The Netherlands, The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, and The African Wildlife Foundation. Cleve Hicks led the survey mission and Karsten Dierks served as Panafrican Team Leader in charge of the camera trap project. They were accompanied by a team of six guards from L'Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature.