Leopards of the Night
Hoping for her first big break, aspiring nature filmmaker
Emmy Seeker was screening her new film on African leopards
for a packed audience of well-known producers, directors,
and movie stars. The footage showed a solitary leopard
hauling its freshly killed prey, a large Puku with bright
red blood dripping down its neck, up a tree.
"This is the first time leopards have been filmed hunting on
a moonless, pitch-black night," Emmy boasted.
"No, it's not," responded a producer in the audience. "And
this screening is over, because you're a fake!"
What made the producer say that?
(Check out this week's website,
Leopards of the Night. It's packed with helpful hints.)
There is no such animal as a Puku..
Leopards can't carry large prey up a tree.
Leopards hunt and eat their prey in groups, not alone.
Leopards hunt only in the daytime.
If it had been a truly pitch-black night, the blood dripping
down the Puku's neck in Emmy's footage could not have looked
"bright red."