Reader\'s Digest Australia - 06.2019

June• 2019 | 79

LOUNGING LEOPARDBY SKYE MEAKER/SOUTH A FRICA

With a limp from an injury as a cub, Mathoja is now a

healthy e ight-year-old leopard. She was discovered lying

along a low branch of a nyala tree having a morning

nap in Botswana’s Mashatu Game Reserve.

A small ice floe in the
Errera Channel at the
tip of the Antarctic
Peninsula provides
barely enough room for
a group of crabeater
seals to rest, and the
cracks are starting to
show. Widespread in
Antarctica, the seals
are dependent on
sea ice for resting,
breeding,
accessing
feeding areas
and avoiding
predators,
such as killer
whales and
leopard seals.

BED OF SEALS
BY CRISTOBAL SERRANO
SPAIN