Alex Braczkowski

And there's been leopards that have been photographed on camera traps right there.

No, not at all.

These particular leopards are very interesting because they're about half the size of leopards across the majority of continental Africa.

So traditionally, leopards will sort of males will get up to about 85, 86 kilograms, females maybe 45, 50.

These ones are literally half that.

So males will seldom get to over 45 kilograms and females maybe 22, 25 kilograms.

So these tiny little, you know, diminutive leopards running around the campus.

Yeah, so at that point, there wasn't a lot of knowledge known specifically about what they are eating there and also some of the interactions with people and also how many they live.

So, you know, at that point, we were basically after every...

campus class that I would have, I would go out with a little backpack and try and collect the droppings of the leopards, try and find them to see what they were eating.

Yeah.

So that was one of the things I was doing.

And what were they eating?

So in that particular area, because there's forest, they're actually eating bush buck.

So it's a medium-sized ungulate that weighs about 45, 50 kilograms.

And also, ironically, these small rats called flay rats.

They live in the sort of swamp and the grassland areas around the campus.

Yeah, so that was really the workings of one man initially called Steve Winter.

So he's National Geographic's arguably the premier big cat photographer.

He's been working on big cats for over 25 years for the magazine.