Name: Life lessons from big cats
Uploaded: 2010-12-20T15:18:00Z
Duration: 17 min 3 s
Description: Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats.

Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats.

Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats

Life lessons from big cats

The Jouberts spent 4.5 years with a leopard, revealing insights into individual animal personalities and their conservation.

In Botswana's Okavango Delta, living amidst swamps, the Jouberts document cats that defy norms, swimming and hunting in water.

Lion populations have plummeted from 450,000 to 20,000 since the Jouberts' birth, highlighting urgent conservation challenges.