This couple’s story about their leopard “daughter” gives just the right amount of sad, heartwarming feelings, while at the same time teaching you about a very serious problem.
Growing up, I loved animals of all kinds. I would, and still do, sit and watch Animal Planet or
Nat Geo Wild for hours. I was especially interested in exotic animals. Most of these exotic animals being endangered left me very sentimental. I found myself seeking out more and more stories like these. This talk begins asking, “Why should we care about a few cats when there’s so much human suffering?” Beverly and Dereck are a married couple who have been living in
Africa filming big cats for more than ten years. By the end of the talk, the Joubert’s convince us to do just …show more content…
She is only there to introduce her daughter, a young cub they call
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Legadema. As soon as they saw Legadema they decided to move in and study her throughout her life. Now that’s what I call dedication to a cause.
They truly fell in love with Legadema and I believe vice versa. I couldn’t explain this any better without their story of how she got her name. One night in a terrible storm while
Legadema’s mother was out hunting, she got scared by a bolt of lightning hitting her tree. As any child would, she sought shelter and maybe comfort. She came very close to Beverly and Dereck and just sat next to them. They showed the little leopard sitting with her back to them. After that they called her Legadema which apparently means light from the sky.
The “light from the sky” turned out to be a true character. When they talk about how
Legadema trusted them enough to enter their vehicle, I fell in love with her. They showed this precious little cub, now a teenager, curiously creeping in; it was adorable. They later talked about
Legadema’s first hunt. They showed her with a fresh kill, a baboon almost as big as she was. I was afraid to continue watching when I saw the baby baboon attached to its dead
Growing up, I loved animals of all kinds. I would, and still do, sit and watch Animal Planet or
Nat Geo Wild for hours. I was especially interested in exotic animals. Most of these exotic animals being endangered left me very sentimental. I found myself seeking out more and more stories like these. This talk begins asking, “Why should we care about a few cats when there’s so much human suffering?” Beverly and Dereck are a married couple who have been living in
Africa filming big cats for more than ten years. By the end of the talk, the Joubert’s convince us to do just …show more content…
She is only there to introduce her daughter, a young cub they call
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Legadema. As soon as they saw Legadema they decided to move in and study her throughout her life. Now that’s what I call dedication to a cause.
They truly fell in love with Legadema and I believe vice versa. I couldn’t explain this any better without their story of how she got her name. One night in a terrible storm while
Legadema’s mother was out hunting, she got scared by a bolt of lightning hitting her tree. As any child would, she sought shelter and maybe comfort. She came very close to Beverly and Dereck and just sat next to them. They showed the little leopard sitting with her back to them. After that they called her Legadema which apparently means light from the sky.
The “light from the sky” turned out to be a true character. When they talk about how
Legadema trusted them enough to enter their vehicle, I fell in love with her. They showed this precious little cub, now a teenager, curiously creeping in; it was adorable. They later talked about
Legadema’s first hunt. They showed her with a fresh kill, a baboon almost as big as she was. I was afraid to continue watching when I saw the baby baboon attached to its dead