Leopards can reach speeds of up to 36 miles per hour. Honey badgers’ claws can grow to 1.5 inches. It is counterintuitive that a 35-pound mammal can successfully force an apex predator to flee upward.

Quintin Whitehead leaps off the truck, shouting, "kabubi, kabubi," signaling to an already dancing crowd of trackers and hunters that the party officially begins NOW. And so under a rising full moon, ...

We were on the hunt for leopards in Sri Lanka. In some ways, it seems like an easy task in Yala National Park, a 979-square-kilometer expanse abutting the Indian Ocean in the island's southeast. It's ...