leopard VS mirror: What a great seducer! - panthère de 90 kg : Quel beau séducteur !

D### INFORMATION on this video TO READ ABSOLUTELY ### ### INFORMATIONS sur cette vidéo A LIRE ABSOLUMENT ### For many months, leopards spend day and night, many hours in front of 6 mirrors (2.5 mx m) mounted by Anne-Marie, Xavier and Michel in rainforest near Nyonié (Gabon), 30 km south of the equator line. Leopards continue to consider their reflection as a stranger entered their hunting area, or as a leopard of the opposite sex they are trying to seduce. The phases of attack, growling are interspersed with phases of seduction. Because of fear of being photographed by the large number of camera traps fixed in this forest, poachers previously placed many trap to catch small animals (palm rats, porcupines, squirrels and small antelopes) avoid this region . Due to the increase of this little game we notice a greater attendance panthers. The traps were replaced by camera traps and poachers by leopards.