Like many street fights, this one ended quickly. (Watch the clip below.)
A lion stalked a leopard walking on the road and attacked it in South Africa’s Kruger National Park area, video posted Wednesday on Kruger Sightings shows.
A lioness gave a leopard the fright of its life in some rare footage captured during a safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
“We drove in as soon as the gates opened at 5:30, but it was a quiet morning. We hadn’t seen much for around an hour. But, in the wild, anything can happen! All of a sudden my sister (our guide from Foxy Crocodile Bush Retreat) spotted a leopard scent marking next to us, just on the side of the road.”
The spotted cat swiped its claws at its larger assailant, making the lion jump into the air to avoid contact. The leopard then skedaddled into the bush and the lion declined to pursue it.
“We followed it at a distance down the road and we saw it kept looking to the left into the bush, but, we just figured it was looking at antelope or hearing other noises.
Eventually, we also decided to look to the left and we saw a lioness walking towards the leopard and going into a stalking position! The lioness walked all the way through to the leopard, and we just heard a loud roar and then they fought each other, it was very quick, and the leopard ran away quickly afterward.”
The lion walked another 50 meters “and then disappeared into the bush on the opposite side of the road,” Kayla du Toit, the 18-year-old university student who shot the video, wrote at Latest Sightings.
A lioness gave a leopard the fright of its life in some rare footage captured during a safari in Kruger National Park, South Africa.