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  • The Leop­ard and the Mouse: A Microbiologist's Take

    The Leop­ard and the Mouse: A Microbiologist's Take

    November 26, 2009January 6, 2026

    by Fred Nei­d­hardt — Nine­teen-year-old pho­tog­ra­phy stu­dent Casey Gut­teridge cap­tured this ex­tra­or­di­nary scene at the San­tago Rare Leop­ard Project in Hert­ford­shire, UK. Casey, who was pho­tograph­ing the leop­ard Sheena for a course project, said: "I have no idea where the mouse came from — he just ap­peared in the en­clo­sure af­ter the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leop­ard".

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