If you are mourning the end of the BBC’s Planet Earth series, don’t forget that there are hordes of natural history programmes rolling out on the HD channels. A notable new example on National Geographic is Eye of the Leopard, which premieres on Sunday 17 December. Neatly sidestepping any obligatory references to that Survivor song by not featuring tigers, this documentary is the result of two years work in Momba, Botswana, by award-winning wildlife film-makers Beverly and Derek Joubert. They spent this time following a leopard cub, which they named Lagadema, from the time she was just eight days old...
These creatures are always alert, so you’ll see plenty of leopard activity. They are often found lying in tree branches surveying the land and, as is usually the case in natural history films, you’ll witness the whole lifecycle, from mating to hunting. The programme features a female stalking an impala as well as a male leopard catching a buffalo calf and carrying it up a tree. Beverly and Derek Jouber got especially close to Lagadema because she was used to their presence since the week she was born. It promises to be a rewarding close-up study of life around the Okavango Delta.
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