In The African Leopard: Ecology and Behaviour of a Solitary Felid (University
of Columbia Press, pp 429, $75), Theodore Bailey recounts his two years
in the field studying leopards in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Radio tags, live captures and masses of sightings enabled him to give a
detailed account of a species that, although a successful predator, is in
decline throughout its range of habitats.
Bailey also summaries a quarter of century’s work on the African leopard
from many sources, and suggests ways to conserve the species, halting its
frightening drop in population.
