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Survival Guide: Serengeti: Leopard's Competition

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On Animal Planet's "Survival Guide: Serengeti," learn about the leopard's competition for food. The leopard is almost at the bottom of the pecking order of predators with lions and hyenas both posing as legitimate threats to getting their share of prey.

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