Leopard dominate those memories. Naturally. For Wilpattu was THE place for leopard. Leopard slinking like sheaves of rustling leaves or sitting motionless and watchful in skins of light and shade in the midst of trees rising tall. A sounder of brawny boars spinning round to face a stalking leopard, chasing it up a tree, then settling down at its base, shrewdly trapping the now helpless predator. A leopard and boar fighting to death at Manikapolauttu. Nihal Fernando came upon them lying side by side, back to back. A pair of courting leopard sitting on the road nuzzling each other. Driving under a tree with three leopards stretched out on its branches. The Borupan Male playing with a terrapin.