The naturalists dilemma

Nature is certainly harsh in tooth and claw.

On a morning drive we watched a Puku suckling her fairly young foal - a matter of days old. Her tenderness was touching to watch.

Yet a matter of hours later and that same foal was up a tree, having been taken by a Leopard some time later in the day.

There are aspects of the wild that are hard to take sometimes, but that is the natural world.

The Leopard must also feed, but the sight of the mother Puku standing a few metres away from the leopard's tree was a sad sight indeed.

To watch these stories unfold is the naturalists dilemma.