Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3: THREE RESCUES MORE There was a superstitious belief within the African landscape, believed by many of the animals and denied by many of the others, that black leopards are embodiments of great misfortune. The same superstition was not widely believed by Asiatic creatures, due to black leopards being far more plentiful in Asia. The king cheetah could only hope that his clan’s matriarch would be comfortable with a black leopard being amongst her clan, and that she would not lose too many subordinates if she accepted the black leopard cub into her clan. It was approaching sunset around the time that the king cheetah and the painted dog made it back to their clan with the two leopard cubs from the previous chapter. The clan had begun feeding on a rhinoceros mother whom their black-backed jackal companions found trapped in dried mud. The rhinoceros’ skin was too thick for the jackals to have bitten into themselves, and they luckily had the powerful jaws of their hyena clanmates t...