Leopard

A male leopard drapes himself over a branch in Kenya's Maasai Mara, hind legs hanging loose, in February 2020. Trees are where leopards rest and where they haul and cache their kills, out of reach of the lions and hyenas that share the plains. No two leopards carry the same pattern of spots, and the species is the great generalist of the big cats, living in habitats from rainforest to desert across Africa and Asia.