A leopardess climbing an acacia tree in the Serengeti, to get to her cub. We found her and her cub resting on a bough in this tree and after a while she decided to hunt. The cub stayed put and we tracked her and watched her make a kill, stash her kill in the bushes and then return to fetch her cub. I made this image on her return, her entire body like a coiled spring, ready to release.