Let me rest

BySafani Gunasekera

One morning inside the Yala national park, we saw a leopard that was sitting on an open grassy field, going in to a nearby wooded area as we approached. We circled around the wooded lot and saw that it was feasting on a kill. After some time, the leopard came out of the woods and went and sat on top of an anthill under a tree. It sat there for some time taking short naps, and finally got up and went inside the jungle, maybe to a better resting spot away from the serious onlookers.

(Yala National Park; May 2016)

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