How Half Tail lost her tail

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   Half Tail was the leopard that was featured in Big Cat Diaries on the BBC nature shows and in the book big cat diaries there are several pictures of this impressive popular beast with her tail. The calm attitude of this big cat evidently lead to its popularity of big cat biologists that flocked to Africa to study and write abut the leopard. There are pictures of Half Tail with a lengthy full length tail and some of it with a half of one and researchers never did see how the poor thing lost its tail. Some figured it was a fight with a male leopard that was after its kitten or maybe from aura decrying baboons that always like to mess with female leopards. In this marvelous shot Half Tail is shown with a full tail and it is likely that during one of these numerous chases they observed of her fleeing territorial obsessed baboons that one of the strong monkeys got a hold of her tail and linked part of it off. Why only half would come out and not the fool tail I really don't know and am not a cat biologists. It could also come it from rough play of one of its numerous playful litters this big old cat produced through its life on the African Savannah. Half Tail was an amazing cat for humans to study and she served her species well whether it was producing a rare three cub leopard litter or battling lions and Hyenas for its niche in the tough African mammal predator hierarchy half Tail and its half of a tail will be missed by the researchers that found her to be a charming wild animal to get close to and study.