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Taking Technology to the Countryside

There are times when Nature holds man’s technological advances in her palm, and smiles. Such was the case deep in the Cederberg’s mountainous terrain, where a team of researchers from the Cape Leopard Trust (CLT) was working into the night under head torches, on what is arguably one of South Africa’s most robust leopard camera-trap surveys.

Unbeknown to the researchers, a leopard was languidly lying a few metres up on a rocky ledge, only a glance away from the team overseeing the installation of motion-sensor cameras on either side of a track leading to a cave, to which the leopard returned from time to time.

Only later that night was the team made aware that their efforts to deploy cameras to capture the leopard’s movements had been observed by the predator in question. In the Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve, at

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