Leopard and Babboon

Ken that looks great. Aint it a shame we don't take the time to photograph many pieces that come out nice. I have those old photos of the baboon whirling just as the leopard catches him in the sand. I have seen it reproduced several times, but yours is by far the best I have seen.

 

Nice job Ken,

Curtis

 

GREAT, super movement.
I'll put my worthless 2 cents in. I see where I would have extended the left lower leg of the baboon out a little more extending the hip and knee slightly and touched the back of the leopards right paw with it and thus suspending the baboon in mid-air . As if he IS jumping off the branch. The leopard is moving his right leg towards the baboon and the baboons left leg would be trying to stop it.
Just a little more that I see.
Great Job Master Ken.

 

Wow -- Looks Great !!!

 

UNBIELVEABLE

 

thats great, i like the eye contact..........

 

WOW

 

nice job

 

looks awesome

 

I don't know what to say about that. BUT WOW...WOW!!!!!! Fantastic mount.



Coyote

 

Great job, work like this is what got me interested in doing taxidermy in in the first place. THANKS.

 

Cant find the right words but WOOOOOOOOW! Super great job

 

excellent! Sure would have to have the house for it. I mounted a LS baboon for a guy in La. and he put it in his office and his secretary had a fit and told him she would quit unless he took it away. His wife said the same; he left her a short time later and now he has a awesome trophy room filled with life-size jumping around mounts I have done for him. I think its all a good thing? Anyway he is a great client.

 

Ken,mount looks totally awesome,that Leopard is about to get an a#$ whippin. Keep up the great work. LOL Wagner's Taxidermy

 

Great looking mount, I had plans to mount my baboon "hiding" in my skylight, figured it would freak the *&@$ out of people who just wander in and glance up. unfortunately my baboon was to torn up by the bullet and his rapid decent and stop at the bottom.

 

LOL JLW, but I beg to differ. Leopards routinely dine on these obnoxious little ba$tards but I don't recall ever hearing of baboons eating a leopard. Ken's mount reminds me of my very first introduction to the intensity of a leopard, albeit vicariously. I'll never forget reading a National Geographic in the school library that had a sequence of pictures almost exactly like this one Ken mounted. The baboon had sought shelter in thick brush and the cat waded right in and drug his mangled butt right out. Ken and I spoke of this mount last week and we agree that it would seem that leopards kill them just because they can, not so much for food. A baboon can be a formidable animal but I just can't think of any other animal on the face of this earth that's so closely resemblant to the cartoon Tasmanian devil as the leopard.

And since I'm rambling, Ken had me laughing at comments at the he'd heard at the world show. Someone remarked that Phil Soucy's mount with the bear treeing a cougar that the cougar resembled a leopard. Ken said he told the guy that would be impossible. If a bear had a leopard up a tree and came over, the leopard would be tearing the bears ass apart instead of looking docilely at the bear standing there.

 

as always ken your work is awesome.

 

Beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing.