Leapin’ Leopards! One Big Cat Startles Another At A Night Watering Hole
A little jumpy, are we?
A leopard drinking water at night leaped high into the air after it was frightened by another leopard in South Africa, recent video shows.
A motion-sensor camera captured the July 4 encounter at Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate reserve near Kruger National Park.
Plot twist: The leopard cubs are 11-month-old siblings, Gillian Leigh Soames, who lives at the reserve, told For the Win after she posted the footage.
“This pond is in our garden,” she said. “We have leopards here at least twice a week.”
(She said the animals cannot see the flashing lights seen in the video, which emanate from another infrared trail camera nearby.)
Leopard was drinking and another one slowly creeped up behind it, giving the one drinking the fright of its life!
Seen right outside our patio in Hoedspruit.
Tinged by Soames Family pic.twitter.com/fOCocdQSHs— Kruger Sightings (@LatestKruger) July 5, 2020
These big cats definitely have hops. Leopards can jump 10 feet in the air, according to Live Science.
The startled sibling certainly showed off its impressive vertical.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
