How one leopard changed its spots ... and saved a baby baboon

She is the ultimate predator - a sleek and stealthy killer. Pouncing on her prey, she silences the baboon with one swipe of a vicious paw. Then, suddenly, something stirs in the dead animal's fur, and the law of the jungle is rewritten.
From the bedraggled pelt of her kill crawls a tiny infant - a one-day-old baboon. In that moment, this young leopard forgets she is a hunter, and nurtures the baby baboon as if it were her own cub.

Smelling blood, a pack of hyenas gather to finish off the kill. Legadema, as she has been named by the camera crew who took these moving shots, carefully carries the baby baboon high up into a tree for protection. There, she cuddles the newborn to her for warmth through the long, African night.
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Indian leopards on parole, with tag and warning

Indian authorities plan to release 47 leopards into the wild with electromagnetic chips planted in their tails but will haul them back to captivity if they attack people, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.

The leopards were caught in 2004 and 2005 after some of them strayed from a national park on the outskirts of Mumbai and killed people in the city and its suburbs, creating panic.

But the environment ministry ordered the western state of Maharashtra to release the leopards -- saying a year or more in captivity was too long -- and local officials say they plan to free the animals soon.