There's a staff of leaopards who monitor the clinic out there on the veldt. The lions, they come in after a few days without a catch; the elephants lose their big toot, they wander down for some advice. The hyaenas, of course, get alarmed when they stop laughing, gotta go in for a talk. The rattlers will slither up when they start to sound like a tired tamborine. The gazelles even stop by, despite the slaver of the leopards, to dispute the spring in their high-step (the gazells never stop by at lunch-time). Once in a while a vampire bat will come by, usually after lapping at a poaching human, but of course, their problems stem more from who they've done it to than what they've done, the problem of everyone and everything that drinks from human.

But they all know when the Leopards Are IN.

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