Predator hunt success rates | Lion hunting behaviour | Cheetah hunting | Wild dog hunting | Wildlife photography tips The African predator hunt is one of the most sought-after events in wildlife photography. It is also, statistically, an event that ends in failure more often than success, and knowing why changes both how you understand what you are watching and how you position yourself photographically. The figures are instructive, and they vary considerably between species

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Leopard behaviour | Wildlife photography tips | Big cat body language | Kenya wildlife photography Of all the large predators in East Africa, the leopard is the one that will teach you most ruthlessly whether you are actually watching. Lions give you time. A pride moves slowly, rests conspicuously, and telegraphs its intentions across dozens of metres of open savanna. Even cheetahs, for all their explosive speed, follow a relatively readable arc from rest to scan to stalk to

Wildlife photography autofocus | Best AF settings safari | Canon autofocus wildlife | Beginner wildlife photography Autofocus is one of the most misunderstood aspects of wildlife photography for beginners. Most people set their camera to some form of automatic AF area mode, point it roughly at the animal, and hope. The results are inconsistent, sometimes the camera locks on the eye, sometimes it finds the ear, sometimes it focuses on the grass in front of the animal and the s