What’s the hardest animal on the African plain?
They’re all hard! Piss off any animal and you’ve got a problem, but the hardest would be the buffalo, he’s like a bulldozer. And if you wound a buffalo, he’ll do something called a P-formation. He’ll run away, then loop back round and stop just off the path he ran along and wait. He knows the hunters will be following his track, and as you go past him he’ll come bursting through the bush and flatten you. He’ll wait there to kill you. And the smartest? The one animal we all fear to hunt is the leopard. Hell of a good memory, gets himself out of tricky situations and disappears into the bush: these animals know when they’re being hunted. He’s very quick, very intelligent, and if you wound one it’s more than likely you will get mauled. He’ll scalp you with his claws, then hold you to him, bring his powerful rear legs up to your stomach, and disembowel you. A friend of mine shot a leopard, but missed his aim and got it in the stomach. The leopard then charged him; his friend fired and – in
