CCTV Captures Leopard's Giant Leap While Chasing Prey, Video Goes Viral
Viewed over 45,000 times, the nine-second-long footage was even shared on Twitter by Susanta Nanda of the Indian Forest Services on Monday.
An undated video of a leopard jumping over a gate while chasing its prey has garnered a lot of views after being shared by Mumbai-based wildlife biologist Nikit Surve.
Screenshot of viral twitter video
Viewed over 45,000 times, the nine-second-long footage was even shared on Twitter by Susanta Nanda of the Indian Forest Services on Monday. In the footage, a small animal - presumably a dog or a cat can be seen running between the bars of a gate to escape the pursuing leopard. In order to catch it, the leopard is seen taking a giant leap over the gate towards its prey.
It is not clear whether the leopard was successful in its attempt since the video abruptly ended after the massive leap.
"Just witness the agility and skills of the #Leopard. You can observe the dog being witty and the Leopard outsmarting him," wrote Surve while sharing the clip.
While Susanta Nanda said in the caption of his post, "Struggle for existence. Leopard on its heels, chasing one of its favourite preys. A leopard is known to leap over 20 feet and can jump up to 10 feet in the air. Such a powerful big cat."
Watch the video below:
Struggle for existence. Leopard on its heels, chasing one of its favourite prey.
¡ª Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) October 26, 2020
A leopard is known to leap over 20 feet and can jump up to 10 feet into the air. Such a powerful big cat.. pic.twitter.com/tZ3rjVJTmP
Susanta Nanda's post has garnered over 1,000 likes as people shared their thoughts in the comments section of the post.
See the comments here:
That leopard needs to be named #UsainBolt ??
¡ª Virat A Singh (@tweetsvirat) October 24, 2020
¡ª Alok Kumar Sahoo (@sahooalok2910) October 26, 2020
Leopards love dogs and prey on them regularly. They live mostly in and around villages abutting forests and seem to thrive there.
¡ª Madhusudan Annadana (@MadhusudanAnn19) October 26, 2020
Wh¨¤t agility! Imagine the resident of the house walking in...
¡ª Ramki Sreenivasan (@ra_mki) October 24, 2020
One user wrote, "What agility! Imagine the resident of the house walking in". Another comment read, "The leopard needs to be named Usain Bolt."
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