Leopard Predation Thread

[sanjay]

This is recent rare footage and camera pics showing why leopards are most deadly predator for his size prey.
This is wonderful experience by Yasmin Tajik, He write in his blog http://www.shalimarstudios.com/blog. His experience is also featured in Blog of Africa Geographic.

In Moremi National Park, Botswana at early morning he saw a rare event when a leopard resting on tree saw a group of impala grazing nearby. She was waiting for them to come under the tree. As soon as the impala arrived under the tree. She drop like bomb on their group and one unlucky impala got caught. She killed her with in fraction of minute.

See the picture sequence posted by him on his blog -

Leopard is stalking the impala group waiting to come nearby

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As soon as group come in range. She leaped down just like rocket.

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She free fall under the gravity on impala group like a dropped bomb.

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With in minute the impala was dead and in leopard jaw

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See was giving some back look to photographers while dragging the dead impala

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She tried to drag the impala upon the tree in order to hide her from other predators, but she fail

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In same sequence, she is trying to drag up the dead impala and again fail

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So she decided to eat some part of her as soon as possible

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She start eating the meal

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She tries again to drag the impala at tree

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She tried to keep the grip on the impala, but it was still heavy to hold on tree

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As a result the dead impala fall down and she also followed her like a gymnast

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She decide to hide the impala behind log and leafs.

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And here is the video of entire rare moments

Thanks to Yasmin Tajik for sharing such an amazing moment,
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