. >> reporter: a farry goers can go years without spotting one.a morning drive, we were lucky enough to find a big male casually wandering. >> that's very often the way that we find leopards. you go through here, you hear a franklin calling like that, and it's indicative that there's a leopard in the area. >> reporter: does that bird have anything to fear from a leopard? >> yeah, yeah. we've seen them run around and chase chicks. leopards in this area will kill 33 different species of prey. from mice and skiquirrels, all e way up to young buffalo. >> reporter: but the skin that makes them so invisible to their prey also makes them so vulnerable to their predator. man. in just five years, a quarter of a million leopards were killed for fashion. and only about 50,000 remain. >> but those are 50,000 individuals that we've been following, great characters, wonderful personalities, like you or us, you know. we each have own our personality and animals do, as well. >> reporter: at almost a year old, this leopard has still yet to make a kill of his own.