"♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(BIRDS CHIRPING)" "(BIRD CRIES)" "(ROARS)" "Find something, Clarence?" "Good boy, Clarence." "Hedley." "(SIGHS)" "Yes, Marsh." "Hedley, uh, Clarence just found another poacher's pit." "Oh, good." "Yeah, well, look, I'll be through with this one in a jiffy, then I'll come over and help you out." " (MARSH):" "Righto." " Good." "(HEDLEY SIGHS)" "♪ (SINGS THE BRITISH GRENADIERS SONG) ♪" "(ROARS)" "(ROARING CONTINUES)" "Marsh." "(HEDLEY):" "Marsh." "Yes, Hedley, what's up?" "A leopard." " (MARSH):" "What?" " A leopard." "(HEDLEY):" "I don't like the way this one's acting." "Oh, come on now, Hedley." "You've faced a hundred leopards before." "You know perfectly well there's nothing to worry about as long as you don't threaten him." "Yes, I know." "You always say that." "And I'll say it again." "A wild animal will seldom attack a man unless provoked, so just take it easy and don't make any threatening gestures, all right?" "Well, all right." "Now, you heard that?" "Nice kitty." "Go home." "I'm not threatening you." "Look." "I'm putting away my gun." "Well." "It did go away." "Why, I suppose Marsh was right." "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "Marsh, help!" "Come on, Clarence." "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "(CLARENCE ROARS)" "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "(SNARLS)" "(JUDY CHATTERS)" "(QUACKING)" "Now, look, Pearblossom, the experiment's over with." "(PAULA):" "I'm not really your mother, you know." "(CONTINUES QUACKING)" "You don't know." "Hey, Mike." "Well, why don't you go over to Judy." "I'm sure she'd love to babysit, and she has a lot more time than I have." "See, Paula, that's the trouble with these imprint studies." "You may want to quit, but the subject has other ideas." "But how can I get any work done with Pearblossom under my feet every second?" ""Well, man may work from sun to sun, but mother's work is never done."" "(PAULA):" "Hey, Judy, do you want to be somebody's mother?" "Go take Pearblossom off my hands or feet." "(PEARBLOSSOM QUACKS)" "(JUDY CHATTERS)" "Hey, don't cry, Judy." "Still got Toto." "Even Toto doesn't want to be Judy's baby." "Poor Judy." "You're not happy unless you have an animal to mother, are you?" "(MARSH):" "Marsh Tracy to Wameru." "Marsh Tracy to Wameru." "Do you read me?" "Over." "This is Wameru." "What's up, Marsh?" "Well, it's more of a matter of, uh, who's down." "Hedley's just had a wrestling match with a leopard." "(MIKE):" "Is he all right?" " Who?" "The leopard?" " (MIKE):" "No, Hedley." "Oh, he's fine." "You know Hedley." "He's indestructible." "Uh, look, Mike, I want to try to capture that leopard and examine him." "Tell Jack to bring a cage out to us." "We're about, uh, oh, two miles east of Lake Tona, just off the road." " Got that?" " Ok, out." "A cage, Marsh?" "What for?" "I'm gonna shoot that killer on sight." "Hedley, are you sure you didn't do something to provoke that leopard somehow?" "I smiled at it, if you want to call that provocation." "Man, I can't understand it." "It just doesn't make sense." "There's gotta be some reason." "Look, uh, you rest up here for a while and wait for Jack." "I'm gonna scout around." "If that beast shows up again, it's had it, and no mistake" "Look, will you calm down?" "If I can capture the leopard alive, we might found out the reason why it attacked you." "I mean, after all, old boy, your smile isn't that bad." " Thank you." " You're welcome." "You're sure it wasn't the moustache?" " Marsh, this is no time for" " All right, all right, all right." "Take care of him, will you, Clarence?" "(CLARENCE BELLOWS)" "(BIRD CRIES)" "(ELEPHANT TRUMPETS)" "(TRUCK APPROACHES)" "You ok, Hedley?" "I feel a lot better than that blasted leopard's going to when I lay eyes on it." "Oh, Hedley's convinced we've got a man killer on our hands, and I can't persuade him otherwise." "(JUDY HOOTS)" "(JUDY CHATTERS)" "Jack, look!" "Judy!" "Get back, Jack." "That animal's completely berserk." "Hedley, don't!" "I think I got it." "Watch out, Marsh." "I may have only wounded it." "(BABY LEOPARD MEWS)" "So that's your ferocious man killer, Hedley?" "It's a lucky thing had your gun out." "You saved our lives." "Lucky it was so small." "You might have hit it." "Wait a minute." "That must be the leopard's cub." "Well, no wonder she attacked you, Hedley." "You just got too close to her cub." "Well, how was I to know?" "(JUDY HOOTS SOFTLY)" "Hey, look at Judy." "She's finally found her baby." "(CUB MEWS)" "Wait a min..." "Wait a minute." " What's wrong?" " I'm still puzzled." "(JACK):" "About what?" "That cub hasn't been weaned yet, and yet the mother seems to have left It." "I found her spoor heading off that way." "(MARSH):" "It's very unusual for a mother to leave her cub, especially when there are humans around." "Hmm." "You think there's something else to it?" "Certainly looks that way." "What is this, chaps?" "Another joke at my expense?" "No, not this time, Hedley." "But I'd sure like to get a look at that mother." "Well, let's see if we can track her down." "You guys get started, I'll get a rifle." "(MARSH):" "Judy, you stay with the cub." "(JUDY CHATTERS) (CUB MEWS)" "(LEOPARD GROWLS)" "Now, here's where I picked up her tracks." "I think we better split up." "Too many of us will alert her and scare her off." "Well, just watch your step, Marsh." "In my experience, that animal doesn't scare easily." "I still think it was your moustache." "(BIRDS CRYING)" "(HOOFBEATS)" "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "(ROARING IN DISTANCE)" "(ROARING CONTINUES)" "No, Hedley!" "No, don't shoot!" "You ok, Marsh?" "Yeah." "Ah, that was too close for comfort." "Sort of picks up the old metabolism, doesn't it, Hedley?" "Jack, get the truck." "We'll take her back to the lab." "Right." "That beast just attacked you too, and you still want to take it to the lab?" "Precisely." "There must be some physical reason for her irrational behavior." "But what about that cub, Marsh?" "We can't just leave it here to starve." " No, that's true." " (JUDY HOOTING)" "Ah, looks like Judy has the situation in hand." "Judy, come here." "Come here." "(CUB MEWS)" "Judy, you know Paula's been telling me that you've been pining to be a mother." "Well, it looks like you got your wish." "At least for the time being." "(MARSH):" "Come on, let's give Jack a hand." "( HOOTS)" "(CUB MEWS) (JUDY CHATTERS)" "Hi, Mike." "Anything new today?" "Not a clue." "She's been pacing like that all night." "Well, that's not very encouraging." "(SNARLS)" "You know, it could be she's just missing her cub." "Well, we'd better not give it to her." "In these strange surroundings, you know, she might hurt it." "Besides, Judy is acting as a very good substitute mother." "I know." "I saw her." "(MARSH):" "Well, how are you feeling today, Hedley?" "Stiff all over after my wrestling bout with that leopard." "How 'bout yourself?" "(MARSH):" "Stiff all over." "However, I suppose we're lucky to be alive." "(SNARLING)" "Marsh, are you gonna tell me that monster's evil disposition is the result of an unhappy childhood?" "Well, Hedley, unfortunately, we haven't any explanations for you as yet." "Well, I do have an explanation." "That beast is a killer, and must be destroyed." "(SCREAMING)" "If you want any further proof, that's it." "Oh, come on, Hedley." "She's never been in a cage before." "How do you think you'd react if you were locked up for the first time?" "Like a gentleman, of course." "(LAUGHS)" "The imprint reaction." "(CUB MEWS) (JUDY CHATTERS)" "(KISS)" "What's that?" "Oh, the imprint reaction?" "Well, it's a behavior syndrome first observed by an Austrian naturalist by the name of Konrad Lorenz." "What kind of behavior syndrome?" "Well, he noted that a newborn animal had a very strong instinctive tendency to look upon the first moving creature it saw right after its birth as his mother." "Yeah, but Judy wasn't the first thing the cub saw." "No, but the leopard seems pretty indifferent to its cub, and after all, Judy was the first one to act like a mother." "You know, maybe we've come upon a new syndrome the latent or substitute mother imprint." "Are you telling me that a leopard cub thinks a chimp is its mother?" "Now I've heard everything." "Not quite everything, Hedley." "Take a look." "(QUACKING)" "Been doing a little imprint research on our own." "You know, poor Paula, she's been up three nights running, waiting for that little duckling to hatch." "Now she can't get rid of it." "Astounding." "There's the mother right over there." "Deserted and forlorn." "Amazing." "Yeah, so you see, Hedley, animals may act in strange ways, but there's always a reason if you dig it out." "If you just give us a little more time," "I'm sure we can find the reason for that leopard's attack." "Well, it's safe enough in the cage, I suppose." "Look, I've got to do an animal census down by the river, but I'll be within radio call." "(QUACKING CONTINUES)" "(CUB MEWS)" "Imprint reaction." "Mike, get her ready, will you?" "I want to do a cerebral x-ray on her." "Sure thing, Marsh." "Well, Judy, looks like you can be a mother for a little while longer, at least." "(CUB MEWS)" "Ah." "Mmm." "Ah." "(BIRDS CALLING)" "(MARSH):" "Marsh Tracy calling Hedley." "Marsh calling Hedley." "Do you read?" "Over." "Hedley here, Marsh." "Come in." "Hedley, I think we've found the answer to your killer leopard." "Oh, good." "Well, I'm, uh, very busy at the moment." "But, uh, I'll be right over." "Roger." "Out." "(BIRD CRIES)" "(BIRD CRIES CONTINUE)" "Ah." "Mmm." "Oh." "There's a massive tumor pressing on the right frontal lobe of the brain." "It must cause intense intermittent pain, which would account for the leopard's apparently wild actions." "And do you think she'll be all right when you remove it?" "Yes, I do." "It's encapsulated, so it should be a fairly routine job." "Well, go ahead if you want to, but I can't promise a clean bill of health until I'm satisfied." "Fair enough." "She should be sufficiently recovered in about a week so we can make an accurate determination." "Good." "Well, I'll be back by then." "Hedley, isn't that reassuring news about the leopard?" "Now, once we remove that tumor" "I'll check her again." "Now, don't release her until I return, Marsh." "You mean, you may not permit it?" "I can't take a chance with human life, Paula." "We'll see." "Uh, by the way, what happened to that little duckling of yours?" "I had to pen it up." "I didn't want to step on it." "I know one member of this compound who's gonna be happy for any delay in this matter." "(JUDY CHATTERS)" "(CHUCKLES)" "Imprint reaction." "Seems to work both ways." "(ENGINE STARTS)" "(JUDY VOCALlzES)" "(INSECTS CHIRP)" "(CLARENCE GROWLS SOFTLY)" "(RAGGED BREATHING)" "(MIKE):" "How's it coming, Marsh?" "(MARSH):" "It's a little more delicate than the x-rays showed." "How's the pulse, Jack?" "(JACK):" "It's weak, Marsh." "Becoming faint." "(MIKE):" "Shall I inject epinephrine?" "(MARSH):" "A one cc I-V." "What's it doing now, Jack?" "(DEEP BREATHING)" "Steady." "More saline solution." "(CAWS)" "Sutures." "Ok, scissors." "(SIGHS DEEPLY)" "It's a neat job, Marsh." "(JACK):" "I have the recovery cage ready." "Will there be any complications?" "No, I don't think so." "Yes, old girl." "By tomorrow morning, you should be a new leopard." "And Hedley should give you a nice, clean bill of health." "And Judy's days as a substitute mother will soon be over." "(ROOSTER CROWS)" "(GROWLING)" "Hey, Judy, don't feed that cub so much." "You'll give it a tummy ache." "You know, since Judy's a mother, I think I have something she'll need." "Oh, what is it?" "Oh, Mike, that's perfect." "It ought to bring out the mother in Judy." "Where'd you get that?" "That little M'bola girl we treated a few weeks ago?" " Uh huh?" " She left it." "Said it was payment for her medicine." "She also claimed she was getting too big for dolls." "Oh, well." "Have fun, Judy." "Our little mother." "Ok, Judy, now just don't overfeed her, ok?" "(CUB MEWS)" "(MARSH):" "Well, there she is, Hedley." "The operation was a complete success." "That was a very clean removal." "She's as good as new." "Well, better, in fact, now the tumor's no longer pressing on her brain." "And you're convinced that was at the bottom of her vicious attacks on us." "(MARSH):" "Oh, completely convinced." "Don't tell me you still have some doubts." "Believe me, Marsh, when you've been as close to those fangs as we have, surely you want to think twice before letting them loose again." "But if you think she's all right, and mark you, I'm taking your word for it" "Then you'll authorize us to release her?" "It's against my judgment, but all right." "Good." "Well, we'll take the bandage off and let her go." "Oh, are you sure you don't want to come along?" "No thanks." "I've seen all I want to of that creature, and I hope vice versa." "(CLARENCE GROWLS SOFTLY)" "(JUDY CHATTERS)" "(CUB MEWS)" "(MARSH):" "Oh, well." "Yes, Judy, that's just about the most beautiful baby I ever saw." "Here, Judy, this is just what you need to complete your outfit." "You know, Paula," "I don't think I'd carry this joke too far." "I mean, I realize it's fun for you, but Judy takes this seriously." "And eventually, this cub's going to have to go back to its mother." "Oh, Dad, don't be such a pessimist." "Now, Judy, let's take a look." "Paula." " Paula." " (PAULA):" "Yes, Dad?" "Oh, it's time to go." "Yes, time to get the cub." "Now, Paula, I told you was gonna happen sooner or later." "All right, Dad." "Oh, I'm sorry, Judy, but this is the mother leopard's cub." "(HOOTS)" "Dad, this is terrible." "Go ahead, Jack." " No, Judy, you can't go." " (JUDY CHATTTERS)" "I'm sorry, Judy." "I know Dad warned me, but I didn't realize it meant that much to you." "(JUDY VOCALlzES)" "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "So long, you two." "Yeah, it's been nice knowing you." "Well, looks like they're all settled." "Yeah." "Wonder how poor Judy's doing." "(HOOTS)" "Judy." "Look what I've got for you." "Another baby." "Wouldn't you like to take it for an outing in the pram?" "Judy!" "Judy." "I only thought..." "I should have known better." "But you must have realized that little cub had to go back to its mother some time." "Well, it's my fault for letting you think you could've kept it." "I am sorry, Judy." "I really am." "Couldn't sell her on the idea?" "No." "The problem is that this little orphan really does need a mother." "Well, tell me..." "Do you think I'd take another girl for you?" "Why, if someone took you away from me," "I'd go to the ends of the earth to get you back." "Well, anyway, there's one thing we can be certain of." "Somewhere out in the bush, a mother leopard and her cub are very happy." "(CUB MEWS)" "(CUB MEWS)" "(HOOTS)" "Well, hello, Judy." "Up so early?" "(CLARENCE GROWLS SOFTLY)" "(CUB MEWS)" "(BUFFALO BELLOWS)" "(ROARS)" "(MEWS)" "Well, we can use you and Orville." "Her glen's too big." "Yeah." "Well, how about Fred?" "Well, he's been pretty uncooperative lately." "Gentlemen, the lunch I so lovingly prepared is now getting cold." "Oh, I'm sorry, honey." "We forgot about it." "Oh, has anyone seen Judy?" " (JACK):" "Unh uh." " (MIKE):" "Not recently." "Look, we better clean up." "Ok." "(LEOPARD SCREAMS)" "(JUDY HOOTS)" "There's a leopard after Paula." " (JUDY HOOTS) - (LEOPARD ROARS)" "Judy, in the cage, quick!" "Get in the cage!" "Judy!" "You saved my life." "Don't be embarrassed." "You deserve every nice thing anyone can say." "Jack, that leopard cub is out in the bush all alone." "Anything could happen to it." "Ok, I'll take the truck and have a look." "Oh, I'll go with you." "I'll see you later, Dad." "Come on, Judy." "Hmm." "When he hears about this attack on Paula," "I wonder what Hedley will say." "(SNARLS)" "Well, Marsh, are you still ready to guarantee this animal's good behavior?" "I'd still like a little more time to observe her." "But you've had plenty of time." "I know, but you mean you're coming around to my way of thinking." "You didn't find the cub?" " No, Dad." " I was afraid of that." "Some predator got hold of it, I suppose." " I'm sorry, Paula." " Oh, she'll be all right, Hedley." "She has to learn sometime that in the bush, death is a part of life." "Yes, that's something we all have to learn." "About this leopard, now." "(MARSH):" "I must confess, she certainly has me puzzled." "Puzzled?" "That animal has attacked three people." "First me, then yourself, and now Paula." "I should have thought that even if you weren't concerned about your own safety, an attack on your own daughter would convince, even you, that that animal has to be destroyed." "And the sooner the better." " Hedley." " What?" "I won't sign your report." "You won't?" "Not unless that leopard has a formal hearing." "Marsh, I know what animals mean to you, but this is nonsense." "I want my story on the record too." "Well, it's for your benefit as well, Hedley." "Look, that animal is a reserve animal, therefore it's public property." "And she shouldn't be destroyed without a proper hearing." "Hmm." "(HEDLEY):" "Testing, testing, testing." "(HEDLEY'S VOICE):" "Testing, testing, testing." "Right." "Everybody ready?" "Let the record show that this animal, a full grown female leopard attacked humans on three separate occasions." "Victims were district officer Hedley," "Dr. Marshall Tracy and Miss Paula Tracy." "It's of especial note that the attack on Miss Tracy occurred after Dr. Tracy had removed a tumor from the animal's brain and pronounced it cured." "(MARSH):" "Well, even you have to admit, Officer Hedley, that the reason the leopard attacked you is because you had inadvertently wandered too close to her cub." "Now, as for me, I was tracking her, therefore I was a potential danger." "You're not going to claim that Paula was near the cub or chasing the mother when the beast attacked her." "(MARSH):" "I have to admit, I can't explain that, but I do feel there must be some logical explanation." "Judy." "You're not allowed to take other people's possessions." "Well, so much for your formal hearing." "Now that I remember, it seemed the leopard was after Judy, not Paula." "Hey, you know, you're right." "She was after Judy." "(PAULA):" "Come on." "You sit here." "I'm sorry." "I just couldn't let her get away with this." "It's all right, Paula." "The official business of the Department can always wait." "Paula, try to remember exactly what happened when that leopard attacked you." "Dad, it happened so fast." "Judy ran off and the leopard chased after her." "There, you see, Hedley?" "Oh, come now." "Why should she attack Judy?" "You're not gonna claim that she smelled her cub's scent after all that time, are you?" "Wait a minute, you may have something there, Hedley." "Scent does persist." "At least that could be part of the answer." "Oh, Judy, if you could only talk." "(PAULA):" "Can't you explain it to us?" "That settles it, then." "No, Marsh," "I'm convinced that animal's still too dangerous to be let loose." "I think you're wrong, Hedley, but..." "Oh, Dad, you have to do something." "Can't let him destroy that magnificent beast." "I'm sorry, Paula." "I know how you feel, but human lives are at stake here." "Well, I'm afraid we've done everything we can." "After all, Hedley is trying to see our point of view, and we must consider his position on this." "Well, there's no sense in wasting time, I'm afraid." "Just a moment, Hedley." "If this has to be done," "I'm gonna do it painlessly with a drug." "Of course." "Judy." "You'd want to cry too if you could understand what's happening." "You see, Dad is gonna have to kill the mother of that little cub." "And I know there's a reason for the things she did." "If I could just only prove it." "You believe it too, don't you, Judy?" "Wait here." "I'll get the drug." "(JUDY TSKS)" "Judy, is there something you're trying to tell me?" "What is it, Judy?" "Something you want to show me?" "Is it the leopard, Judy?" "Hurry, Judy!" "Hurry!" "Hurry, Judy!" "(CUB MEWS)" "Judy, did you set this up?" "And you had the little cub here all this time." "No wonder the mother went wild when she first came in the compound." "Every time you were around, she could smell the little cub." "If I only had a walkie-talkie with me." "Come on, Judy." "We don't have a second to lose." "Come on, Judy." "Hurry!" "Hurry, Judy." "Hurry!" "Judy!" "Dad, wait!" "Judy had the cub all the time." "Give me a hand, fellas." "Come on." "Come on." "Good job, there." "Well, Judy must have taken the cub or the cub went to Judy." "So naturally, the mother went wild every time she smelled the cub's scent on Judy." "You were right, Marsh." "The leopard did have a good reason for her unusual behavior." "Yeah, she was guilty of only one crime, if you can call it a crime." "What crime?" "Her mother love." "And you can hardly execute her for that." "And speaking of mother love..." "(GROWLS)" "♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(English" " SDH)"