Photo by stevewinterphoto / What happens when mother and daughter square off in the wild? This image shows two female leopards staring each other down. I suspect it's a mom and daughter. Female big cats are philopatric: Daughters stay near the area where they were born and take a piece of mom's home range. They have a low tolerance for each other and are fiercely territorial. If you were to look at the savanna where they live from a bird's-eye view, you'd see leopard females living in a cluster of females that are largely related—moms, aunts, daughters, sisters. Male leopards are completely different, traveling hundreds if not thousands of kilometers to find their own homes. Follow me stevewinterphoto for more big cat shots from around the world. #leopard #cat #bigcat#catsofinstagram #catfight #fight#daughter #mother #sisterhood