Leopard's Gym Workout: Pull-Ups with a Buck
This male leopard is trying to reposition his meal but falls out of the tree, hanging on to his prize with only his mouth! He attempts to pull it out of the tree but ends up swinging and spinning around acrobatically. 😲
47-year-old Ute Sonnenberg, the owner of @RohoYaChuisafaris was visiting the Londolozi concession in the Greater Kruger National Park with a friend when she captured the footage. She shared the story with LatestSightings.com. Send in your wildlife video here, and earn money: www.latestsightings.com/partn...
“It had been raining that morning, yet we had already seen a male leopard right at the beginning of the game drive. We were all wrapped up in rain ponchos in an attempt to keep dry. As the day progressed, the rain stopped, and towards the end of the game drive, we bumped into Shorty. A male leopard in the concession.”
“He was lying in the grass at the bottom of a tree. Above him, a Nyala kill was hanging in the tree. We waited to see if he would get up the tree to feed. After a while, he went up the tree and started pulling on the kill, and we realized that the Nyala’s leg was hooked on a branch and he couldn’t move it.”
Leopards will typically store their hard-earned meals in the safety of trees. Trees provide a safe haven away from scavengers, allowing leopards to feed in peace. When observing the habits of leopards, one may find their choice of trees very questionable. The ideal tree will often be very thorny, flimsy, and hard to navigate.
“He continued tugging at the kill in an attempt to free it, but to no avail. He was literally hanging on by his jaws, swinging from the nyala’s head. It was only a matter of moments before he came tumbling down to the ground. We were all stunned, excited, and in awe. I’d seen leopards in trees before, but never falling like that. We were all hoping he’d be able to free his kill; it was difficult to watch him work so hard without being able to help him; we felt sorry for him when he started limping from his struggles and had to rest in the bushes.”
“When it looked like he would rest for a while, we went back to the lodge and came back in the afternoon; he had managed to lift the free part of the kill to another branch and was feeding; we also came back the next morning, and the kill was finished and he was resting in the grass.”
This shows the sheer strength these resilient cats possess. having the power to hoist animals that weigh more than them into trees. So, remember to always have your camera ready and to be patient.
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I'll tell my local gym to get a buck too.
At the end it looks to me like the leopard knew it was being recorded and was just putting on a classic show for us 👍
Imagine the strength to pull something your own weight up into a tree - with your mouth.
Anilympics 2023, Leopard for gold medal in tree swinging
That's a big male leopard lol. Pretty incredible display of haw strength.
Extremely rare sight of a leopard doing pull ups with a deer 😅🐆
Antelope.
@@GenericDan oh dear..😉😉😉
Honestly probably not lol. Leopards are the gym bros of the cat world lol
The look that Leopard gave was like "this sucks!! I'm going to go steal a Lion cub."
Not a chance🤣
@@MG007. yes they do
I don't know why, but I get a sense that he knew exactly what he's doing.
Me too
What amazing workout indeed, after all those pull ups no lunch for the baddest
The rest of the video shows the buck recovering, jumping down on the Leopard, breaking the Leopard’s neck with one bite of its mighty bite force, gutting the Leopard and selling the fur. Amazing resilience.
You know that's not how nature works.
It's a joke you dummy
@@peterbilt-bo1vy are you a bit slow?:(
Amazing come back
The buck did a backflip, snapped the leopard's neck and saved the day
Work that core!
Am happy it all worked out in the end for this beautiful Leopard. They are so strong, so powerful and so agile. Leopards rock!!
@Regis Johnson Leopards are incredibly strong just wired differently and don't do human workouts. Could you hoist a full grown Impala carcass, a dead weight, holding it in your mouth (no hands) and scale a tree. I very much doubt it. Leopards are very strong and agile but different to humans.
@Regis Johnson Ok all good.
Hahaha so man Regis are taking Annette back in class..??
Strong 💪💪
It looks like the leopard was playing around while also trying to use the tree to separate head from the body.
He was probably just scared of falling. It may seem far fetched, but for an animal that lives in trees, they always have to worry about falling from heights they can't see.
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Shows how strong their teeth are, took the full weight of its fall.
poor buck became a gym machine
Leopard's: Pull-ups with a buck Humans: Pull-ups for a buck
Majestic cat
Good video guys keep them coming.
Good exercice for neck muscles
What a rare sighting
The sound of the woman at the beginning is better than for your wife 🥺
Big cats would do everything for food! Our crew filmed lions in Tanzania that made a pact with baboons to successfully get food. In order to save themselves, the baboons basically trick and trap other animals to become lions' food.
The leopard is now embarrassed that it happened in front of everyone and even caught on film.
This is my next fitness trainer 💪🏻
He’s having fun. Cats love having fun. Especially with their food.
Somebody should buy that Leopard a Macdonald burger. He tried.
Fantastic video. well caught, how's that for determination?😊
It's show time!!!
We all gotta get our exercises somehow.
Cool!
Awesome
Just when I thought I had seen it all.
Hyenas come grab this guy's tail for me. Lol 😂 Nice show though!
what a gym bro. show off
Here before a million viewers. Thank you guys for this amazing shot. You’re the best! National Geographic should definitely hire you guys to give us that raw nature footage.
Wow !
Wow it's so nice
My worst fear would be to become victim to a leopard or giant shark.
They would relatively kill you fast tho. Shark eats your arm or leg and you bleed out, a big cat bites your neck and you die nearly instant. Being eaten alive by a bear or chimp would be much worse.
The buck stops ✋️ at you. 😶
I liked it
Good 👍 👍
Jaw power like a pitbull..
OMG is the buck going to be ok?
I hope so
The deer was already dead & tied to the tree so that when the leapord jumped on it, it didn't fall on the ground. When we watch, the maker makes bucks
Sigma too the fullest` 💪
What power
Smart buck, hide in the trees so Leopards can't get it. . 👍
Wow. That close up! 😳This should give every indication as to why it's over the moment a leopard seizes its prey by the throat. Nature don't play!
LEOPARD: Yea i once used a deer to play tug of war ...with a tree.
Holy shit I'm staying indoors
I don't know if he didn't want to let go at all or he just can't?
The most annoying sound... camera shutter.
Sorry 😭😭😭😭😭😭 love you deer love you buck sorry love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cirque de Soleil: Safari Style
just come down and climb back, is that too hard? 😂
I do whatever I🤣 want
*Where can I order such a training set? The classic pull-up bar is boring.* *Is there a possibility of shipping to Central Europe?* -sic!-
O my god
Doing jaw-ups
Now that is pretty awesome!
That like/dislike ration tho 💀 Nearly 400k views but can't surpass 1k likes...
Damn what's him name? May I know this so where is him thus place?
Hi Prem, Leopards name is Shorty, he is a male Leopard and it was at Londolozi. Information in the description.
1:07 that's funny
👍
It's called a Nyala.
Imagine being a hyena and having meat hanging just beyond reach.
Ну не повезло леопарду😕
100%
Playing with dinner
#aricobenamata 🐆
And people complain about domestic cats killing for fun and playing with their food😂.
we boys do not like to let go of the meat.
I hope the deer got away, he didn't look too good
Meat Piñata?
Actually its teeth stuck into the flesh of the 🦌deer
딱 저때 하이에나가 스틸해가야 개꿀잼인데 아쉽노;
هذا يبي يسرق فريسة النمر الاخر
00:13: 'shut up, fool'
Y’all need to start helping out
not the perfect tree mr leopardo
A human being will know what to do next.That is the big difference between them and us in terms of brain power.
Don't worry, he'll work it out too. He wouldn't have just given up.
Just goes to show that leopards, commonly reckoned to be the brightest of the the large cats, have pretty limited problem solving abilities.
Never heard of leopards being the brightest. Also, the big cat could very well have had a specific reason for not trying again, at least not while anyone else was around. Seems some people might be pretty limited when it comes to reasoning possible alternatives other than what is immediately seen at first.
@@peterbilt-bo1vy had this leopard been brighter, it would have solved the problem instead of persevering in its futile attempts to dislodge the carcass. Their cognitive abilities are fairly limited. Having said that, I've managed to let a leopard deceive me once or twice. Embarrassing. At least lions have never managed that, but they are appreciably dimmer, despite the fact that they live in prides, which requires at least a modicum of social skills.
@@johanrebel Are you a professional of some kind? Do you work with animals? What knowledge and/or experience are the basis for your comments? I am asking in all sincerity.
@@johanrebel What makes you think it was trying to "dislodge" the carcass? Leopards deliberately drag their kills up into the trees so that hyenas and other predators won't eat them. The leopard had no intention of dislodging it. It will feed on the deer from above.
@@jacquesdemolay5171 absolutely. He was making sure it was hooked properly.
Think not gonna get it again his last timing lose it
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Jaguar hanging by buck like a pit on a rope is nuts lol
Where is the Jaguar?
🤣🤣🤣
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At least it has something to eat, and the tourists have enough money to travel and go on a safari with their expensive camera. In a marxist/socialist utopia they would be working in their small garden, to grow some extra food while the kids wait in the line to get some bread & milk.
@@TanksInSpace_ I meant leopard being boss trying to maximize profit and productivity from employee (buck), my poetic distilled description how it all feels like. It's not sure cooperative based economy will result in less productivity, Richard Wolff guesses it may not, and I like gardening it gives you nice exercise and healthy carbon free food.
I don’t think that’s funny.
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So what is so interesting about this? I hate to see these predators killing beautiful helpless animals.
Those who were recording this brutality, were HEARTLESS
This is natural
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Could you park any closer..what is it with these ignorant companies and the customers.. customers should insist in moving away..give Nature space..it's NOT a theme park..
Such a cruelty, if this hungry wild leopard hunt a human than a deer, the video makers would have similarly shoot the photo for making a KZhead video or save that live.
E muita maldade filmar uma descacie dessa e olhar com prazer né
And vegans complain that animals should not be killed or eaten by humans. What you got to say about this brutality. Animals are part of the food chain, aren't they...
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