Arriving ten minutes late, Griffith Gryga creates a small sensation when she shows up at Zona's booth -- long, platinum blonde hair cascading over the faux leopard fur collar of her dress, diamond studs the size of peas poking through her ears.

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Partially hidden in the brush was a leopard, its yellow fur covered in densely packed rose-shaped markings that illuminated it against the dark green backdrop.

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In addition to its beginning-of-the-world astonishing beauty, expect two active volcanoes, tens of thousands of Southern Elephant Seals (biggies with really big noses), Antarctic and Sub Antarctic Fur Seals, predatory Leopard Seals, the rarer, slender and pale Crabeater, the plentiful Weddell Seal, and the rare, small, sort-of-sexy Ross Seals famous for their trilling and siren-like sounds.

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Suddenly a flash of fur, a low growl, and a leopard sprung across our path, leaping atop a hulking solitary boulder.

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He said that as an elder he could not wear a fake costume, but he could see a place for fake fur in the church as membership continued to swell and the prices of leopard skin seemed to be rising.

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