A pride of lions trap an old leopard up a tree. The leopard panics and jumps from the tree into the pride of lions, who then attack it! 😳
35-Year-old senior game ranger Michael Botes experienced this disturbing moment and shared the story with LatestSightings.com: Send in your wildlife video here, and earn money: www.latestsightings.com/partn...
"We were on an afternoon safari and made our way to join a sighting of 12 sub-adult members of the Kambula lion pride. En route, we found the Mlowathi male leopard in a marula tree, close to where the lions were. I stayed with the leopard because the lions were walking in that direction anyway. The two sightings merged."
"At first I was concerned for the leopard, but both species had spotted each other and seemed unbothered. The lions moved off and settled around a waterhole whilst the leopard groomed itself. The majority of the pride fell asleep, except for one female who kept a close eye on the leopard. The leopard eventually got down the tree, and had it not been for the one observant female, it would have evaded 12 lions unharmed."
"The leopard soon realized its mistake and instinctively ran to a second marula tree and climbed up to avoid the lions. The lions gathered around the trunk of the tree with the leopard hissing at them from above. A young lioness climbed up the tree and the leopard panicked and jumped out. Sadly, although landing without injury, it was surrounded by the lions. After 30 minutes of fighting, one of the lionesses got a stranglehold on the leopard's neck and bit down. Every single lion was bleeding at this point from cuts made by the leopard's claws. I could hear his spinal cord snap and he then died."
"In my 16 years in the bush I've never seen anything like this, and I have spoken to a lot of guides that have been in the industry their whole lives, and no one has seen this happening. I think it happens more often than we realize though. As guides, we often stumble upon the remains of leopards that have been attacked and killed by lions and other predators. But to see it happening is just a matter of timing. Even though it's hard to watch, it was interesting to witness such a rare yet disturbing sighting."
"My advice to anybody experiencing a similar sighting would be to make sure there is ample space for the interaction to take place without the vehicles interfering. This was an incredibly hard sighting to watch and as a guide, you should always just remember to calm your guests down and try to explain to them that unfortunately, predators are in competition with each other for territory. It is important to remember our role as guides is to observe and by no means interfere. This leopard would have died regardless of us being there to bear witness to the events or not."
"If the leopard stayed in the first tree maybe he would have survived this. I'm sure during his +/- 14 years of life, he outran and survived many lions, but taking on 12 young lions eager to prove themselves was a fatal mistake."
"Despite this being one of the worst sightings I've ever witnessed - I have a lot more respect and understanding of the power and will to survive of both these big cat species."
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Imagine how low the odds are of seeing something like this real-time.
Especially in these modern times of dwindling wildlife, there are only around 25,000 lions left in Africa, down from millions
@@NannupTiger the good thing is zoo's around the world have plenty of ways to reintroduce them back in the wild if needed.
@@floridacracker_ human population dont stop to grow and destroy the last wild places, so I see that very difficult.
@@bocaraca3814 there may be reason to be optimistic. 30 years ago the talk was overpopulation and mass starvation and Paul Eurlich and The Population Bomb. Today the talk is we may be living in peak population right now or very soon to come. If that is the case and if technology continues to advance where we can continue to produce more food in better ways, the amount of land that can be returned to native state could be huge. And however imperfectly, zoos do preserve genetic lines that may one day be used for reintroduction of species. There are flickers of hope out there.
@@bocaraca3814 possibly one day sadly, but I'm sure earth will be destroyed before that happens.
I remember a video of a leopard catching a lion cub and eating it. These lions know leopards are far too dangerous to let escape.
No wonder that female lion kept her eyes on the leopard
Predator vs predator. Leopards can and will take their chance against smaller lions and cubs if they know they have an opportunity. Lions win this one.
Lions also do the same to leopard and hyena young . It’s just part of life. Lions are just as cruel
I doubt they think or know its dangerous.. they are hungry and will eat whatever food they see
Props to the leopard for going out with a fight, and holding its own for a while
It should've stayed up in the tree it was safer there
Imagine what a healthy adult leopard could do to a lion one on one if they can do this to an entire pride
@@Tonetareand this was a old leopard..a prime male leopard would have survived this lions maybe
No way. Not against 18 lions@@animal_watcher775
Crazy how small a leopard can look when surrounded by lions
They are actually small
Bro they are even smaller than hyena
@@smithvr4669 wack
@@smithvr4669no leopard and hyena are same size
Can’t be mad at it! There was a time when a leopard snatched up a few cubs and torn them in half! Nature is scary!
Did that leopard snatch up a baby lion the answer is no the rhetorical answer is do that when a larger group of hyenas are surrounding one of you
@@karmas.570 It’s part of nature no matter how tou try to put it… And I’m sure at one point in life that Leopard has done something similar.. None of us just knows 🤷🏽♂️
@@karmas.570 that leopard will have done the same to smaller animals I.e a cheetah
It’s called survival, you’re eaten if you don’t eat yourself, that’s in our ancestors past criminals were praised because they had survival traits of personality dark tried but now they’re just locked in prison
I mean you shouldn't be mad at it at all
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That’s why I subscribe to this channel 🫡. Pure Nature
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Saw this video before on another channel but still incredible and rare sighting. You dont see lions leopard interaction everyday.
It was an another video of a different leopard a few years ago. This leopard is different .
would have liked to see the part where he tried escaping from the tree
Camera man sucks
That leopard should have not gotten off that tree, his chance for surviving decreased drastically when he jumped off at was surrounded but the lions
It was only a matter of time he knew that he couldn't stay up there for long. He gambled for a shot of escape
Lions will climb trees too.
The tree was certain death, his only shot at survival was to escape
Like movie tremors standing on that rock for hours but difference is they could climb up Poor thing had chance and a horrible situation to be in
The Leopard took a leap of faith when it should've just stayed in the tree.
WHY DID HE JUMP OUT OF THE TREE??!!
Heard the song on the radio inside the tourist car, "JUMP AROUND JUMP AROUND,JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP"....
He probably panicked and thought he would have escaped them if he got down, idk how an experienced leopard does that mistake, it would be different if it was a younger leopard
@@benito2250 by jumping, his leg must be broken
@@benito2250 not like they have a well developed frontal lobes to analyze the situation and make a rational decision. He probably got spooked and it prompted him to act ie jump.
In another video there was more of an explanation, that was on a blog written by one of the guides on scene. It was the sub-adults that were walking up and ran into the leopard. The Leopard ran and got up a tree just fine. Then they wandered off some distance away and after a time, the Leopard committed to climbing down, but the Sub-adults heard the claws scraping the bark as he went down. They caught him on his way down. In this video he made it to a tree, so I think this video takes place 'right after' that happened. The Leopard thought he could quietly sneak away, but the noise of him coming down gave him away. He didn't come down with them directly pursuing him or freak out and jump into them or anything. Leopards often will climb down when Lions are in the general area and typically it is quietly enough for them to hit the ground and slink away. Them hearing him and still being close enough to corner him before he could turn and jump back into the tree is what did him in.
It sucks to be old in the animal kingdom, regardless of how strong you are as a predator, when you get old, there will always be something there to take advantage and kill you. I guess dying of old age is rare. Even male lions are killed by the next generation. As they say, circle of life
This leopard died of stupidity I hate to say. Should have stayed in the tree
It sucks to be old in the human world too. A distant relative of mine who has no direct heirs is being elder-abused by his family while his money is being squeezed out of his bank.
It’s sucks to be old as a human
He's not old, he's a prime male. Enough with the fake excuses.
Just like our lives
Rest in peace Leopard. You were a soldier.
That boy paw went up in the air like lawd Jesus help me!!!
🤣
leopards are such amazing he fights alone against a pride of lions
Crazy how much can happen in a day. The leopard probably woke up that morning without a care in the world, then that happened. Such is nature.
Lol
That's why we must always be right with God through Jesus Christ cause just like that leopard waking up we never know our last day on this earth
This is truly quite intense.I feel for the leopard.
Get your brain checked if you feel for the dumbest leopard in the world who willingly jumped down to his own death.
1:45 You can see the moment the soul leaves the body :-( RIP Leopard, may you have a peaceful after life! RIP!
@@spp2000 probably just eternal darkness I'm afraid, no afterlife for any creature on earth
Literally a nightmare for animals
@@chrisfearn3375that scares me too much, I’d like to assume there’s an afterlife for those that belief it
Very hard to watch such a beautiful beast being killed but as they say - pure nature. Quality vid.
Why did you watch it if it was very hard? Stupid guy!
Life and death. "The universe is impartial, it sees the myriad things as inanimate objects" That was a better death than many humans endure. In the name of being "humane" we let people suffer and rot on a hospital bed. This majestic creature was old for a leopard, and in a matter of some intense moments he/she met the fate that awaits us all. Now it can rest in peace, and leave this difficult world behind.
@@teamtryxgg281 Mind your own business clever clogs!
@@johnbrown9092 I'm re-educating him
@@johnbrown9092 What did Team Tryxgg say??
I think he got tired of being a scared cat and eventually got down to fight it out like a boss…Sometimes in life you get to a point where you give it your all even though you know victory is farfetched. Great effort and bravery shown by the leopard!
But in reality, the Sub-Adult lions wandered off and relaxed under a different tree some yards away. The Leopard thought he could sneak down his tree and slink off without them noticing. Leopards do that all the time. The flaw in this specific sighting was though - the Sub-Adults heard the Leopard coming down the tree and when a cat that size is committed to leaving a tree, it can't just turn around mid-stride and start climbing again. So they caught the leopard out on the ground. It was a miscalculation and he was in that moment fighting for his life, but he didn't leave the tree to take the fight to the lions, he was just simply... heard.
I'm assuming this is taking place in the lions territory, given the leopards desperation and lion's determination to kill the lone cat. Leopards can only stay up a tree from for so long, which wasn't that tall. The fear of the lions laying nearby and lurking. Let alone lions being tempted to climb up. The lions could (and likely would have) climb the tree and flushed out the leopard eventually; likely with even more lions like the big male(s) coming to the commotion.
No he’s not going to fight lions especially when there’s so many… They run up trees for a reason.
@@alakazamgengar5434 No he could’ve stayed in the tree as long as he needed too… He would’ve just kept moving up higher and higher… He tried to sneak off like they always do and this time he got caught.
@@ed2kou1 Ultimately the leopard tried it's shot, and it didn't work out as intended.
Thanks for this video, wild life is amazing😉
great video! absolutely amazing
He probably should have tried to stay in the tree of they started climbing he should have went higher until they all left
You’re right go tell him!!
Unfortunately he didn’t read this comment before he dies
@@rudygonzalez6027 what a ridiculous reply why would you even take your time to write that when clearly like most others that have watched this this person clearly felt sorry for this leopards terrible decision!!!!
@@houseguest4534 why? It F up and paid a price. Do you get upset over the millions of ppl, animals, etc , that die everyday? It's part of life. We live we die nothing more we can do about.
@@houseguest4534 of course that’s what the leopard should have done but he fucked up didn’t he? This guy is stating the obvious thing A HUMAN would do 😂
Such a sad loss, an unfortunate mistake for the leopard.
his old ass should've put his thinking cap on instead of getting capped 💀🐆💥🔫🦁
Life Lesson : Be patient. Like Jumping out off tree was a wrong decision by Leopard. 🐆
Incredible Footage !!!
Why would he try to escape when he could've stayed at the tree? Did i overestimate leopard's intellect??
Yes you did. This one was beyond stupid.
Assuming any animal is intelligent is lack of intelligence. Animals have no mind.
@@ahmedm5780 Chimps? Orangutans? Dolphins??
@@gay_hatr5172They may appear smart, but they only have ability to connect an action with a result. Same way dogs respond to training, but a bit better. This doesn't mean they are smart at all.
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wow that was incredibly hard to watch 😪
You probably find it easier to watch when a leopard eats a baby lion.
@@fungames24 you a back door man?
@@cryharder1877 No, I am a baby lion man. I never saw a lion eating baby leopard. That makes lions more intelligent.
The fact that these lions waited for it to come down may be an indication that the this leopard has killed one of their cubs.
This is and has always been the way of the world! It’s not all fairies and rainbows and world peace 🙄 wish more ppl would realize this!
Humans are worse
What does world peace (which is something from politics so a human creation) have to do with natural selection?
It's scary how lions and leopards resemble each other😬😬😬😬😬
It really isn't.
umm their both Cats?
It is incredible how a prey would have been very scared and screaming to be killed, while a predatory king like a leopard fights to the death with courage.
A leopard ain't no king
@@sirhighlander9872 dude, why you be dissing leopards
felines are pretty mean till the end .
There's no courage in animal kingdoms. Only stupid cats fight against larger cats and die.
At 1:00 if you look closely at the leopard's face, you can see how truly terrified he is, knowing that there is no escape for him, it all ends here. It's interesting how helpless even a predator like a leopard can become when faced with certain death.
I thought it was Mlowathi from Djuma who got killed...but apparently it's another leopard with the same name. Anyway sad to watch
😢💔
woooo, this is a famous leopard? didn't expect to meet him in this way
can you send link of this leopard?
@@TGFC just a few days ago he kelled some hyena cub .
no this is an old video .i have seen it before . young liong kill leopars .molwati is still alive .
What a battle,not easy for both of them!
thanks
"Slow and old - you should've never come to Midgard."
Wasn't this video already posted several months back in Kruger Sightings?
Did this happened in the malamala game reserve?
Imagine if the dominant male lion of this pride was here. He would have made even shorter work of this leopard by himself.
No. The lionesses would beat the male lion. There are many vids of lionesses defending the leopard from male lions. It's a weird instinct.
@@ahmedm5780 Huh???? You want to back that claim up? Male lions protect the pride from threats like this. Female lions have trouble with hyenas for example and male lions swoop in and kill them or scare them away no problem.
@@FatherManus I told you, it is an instinct. You can search (lionesses defend leopard from male lion). Even when lions scare away hyenas, lionesses attack the male. Lionesses would defend anything from male lions.
@@ahmedm5780 No they wouldnt. Just because it happened once in a video doesn’t mean it happens all the time. I looked it up. There are multiple videos on KZhead of the same incident. That wasn’t representative of the normal thing that happens.
@@FatherManus Pretty sure I have seen 3 vids of it. They were all different.
He went out on his shield long live the Beast .
Damn brutal
So did they kill it to feed on it or did they kill it just to kill it?
Just to kill it
Very unusual for a leopard to make such a mistake, usually leopards wait in the tree until the lions are gone or at a good distance away
"We're technically cousin's let me live"
Beautiful friend
Why is the tour guide saying "i know its horrible to see", these people probably already seen 100s of buffalo get eaten alive on tour.
Is this the same Molwati leopard that we saw occasionally on the Djuma dam cam?
No. This is an older video that happened sometime in 2021, if I'm recalling correctly. Molwati in Djuma was last seen taking out Hyena cubs at the Djuma clan's den, I want to say a week or so ago.
I didn’t believe in magic until my wife and kids disappeared
Chris Watts is that you?
Burying your family in your backyard isn't magic
Ufff, que video duro para ver, como lo rodearon no había ninguna posibilidad, una muerte horrible. La leona mordiendole la cabeza y después apretando el cuello hasta quedar bien segura de que esté muerto, Bastante impactante. Pero como dice Frank Cuesta, la naturaleza es cruda y dura.
Muchas veces los leopardos logran escapar corriendo < hay otros videos donde los leopardos se defienden como este que mataron y después corren y escapan
It was very old and old age clouds the decision making. It was not first time for him but certainly was the last time.
Leopard is all about Agility. And the old guy simply didnt have it.
He knew he had to except fate after killing 100s of other baby cats in its lifetime. It was hos time.
All he had to do was wait in the tree until the lions moved on. Stupid move to jump out.
Same video was posted on another channel saying the leopard was a young male! When lions kill a leopard, "it's old" or too young/inexperienced. When a leopard escapes, "wow, he beat up a whole pride of lions". Leoptards are the most pathetic excuse of fanboys there is! 😂
Wow! I've been wanting to see a confrontation like this with a fully grown leopard for years! I always thought lions wouldn't risk it by getting a lot of injuries and therefore wouldn't be able to kill a fully grown leopard without getting badly injured themselves. I still have my doubts though, that this one looked like a really old leopard, hence not too powerful and agile. And it feels like the lions sensed that and went for the kill. Such a rare and wonderful sight!
Prime Male lion doesn't care about injury they will kill the prime leopard if he sees it.
This leopard isn’t fully grown
@@a1k922 Actually this leopard was in fact fully grown and about 14 years of age. Leopards are just a lot smaller relatively, than a Lioness.
If a lion gets a Leopard it’s over unless the lions let it go or get distracted.. Leopards will never kill a lion…
Leopards are much smaller than lions, even the males like this one are smaller than female lions, they look like kittens in front of male lions lol
Did it survive?
So amazing, the fiesta tire i see That Good job
Seen this before but I never seen the auctal beginning on how the poor thing manage to get put into that fearful horrible situation. Like the way keeps its back to grass and sharp claws ready to strike but still too much tho to take on
I've watched this incredible video before
Novamente esse vídeo?! Um registro muito perturbador, dado as circunstâncias da situação. Do Leopardo e do bando de Leões jovens. Primeira vez que vi me deu agonia,e um pouco de "raiva" dos Leões. Fico imaginando se o Leopardo tivesse o mesmo tamanho e peso que os Leões. A situação seria bem diferente. Dado a diferença de peso e tamanho, o Leopardo foi extremamente resistente e forte contra os Leões. Mas não tinha condições de aguentar muitos e por muito tempo.
The Lions don’t even view Leopards as a threat they’re so casual about it.
Amazing stuff
Worldstar!
the roar of the Leopard attracts me so much
What pride and leopard?
The leopard must have panicked into stupidity...the lions look more like a pack than a pride
Does anyone know who this leopard was? Was he known in the area?
He was a unknown male resident over far east mala mala game reserve. The kambula youngesters found him and wasted, unfortunatly. He was beautiful.
Can't really say, I usually walk through that area in the mornings while drinking my cuppa, and yeah like the other guy mentioned, the kambula youngsters are a common eyesore in that area, always bullying the stray locals, they probably didn't like the cut of the leopard's jib
Why didn't he stay on the tree? Sad.
Hard to watch so sad RIP
Rip to that beautiful creature!
Damm what a loss. Beautiful beast. Gone.
whe worst part was all these lions were young aldults and when they are in the age they're mercyless and brutal
Indeed. Once I noticed that these are sub-adults I knew it was over for the leopard. If it were adults they might have let him go after taking a few scratches
Actually, the opposite. The Sub-adults are more likely to leave the situation. It was an adult Lioness that actually did the killing of the leopard, even though it was the Sub-Adults that found it. Youth and inexperience could have saved the leopard, but when the adult lionesses took interest, it was over.
This pride has got some adult male lions ,rare to see them with the pride at that age
Spotted hyenas have no fear of lionesses because a lion's neck bite is not fatal. As you can see in this video, leopards and cheetahs die instantly after being bitten by a lion. Hyenas are not fatal even when attacked by a male lion's neck, and even when they appear to be dead, they can quickly come back to life. A lion cannot kill a hyena unless a large male lion crushes its spine.
That is terribly untrue statements. A Lioness can kill an adult Hyena and a Lion's strangle hold is lethal if it can be maintained long enough - on any animal they get one on. So I don't know what you're on about with these 'facts.' I will give you some benefit in agreeing that Hyenas are pretty durable. Like I said though, if a Lioness or a Lion gets a strangle hold on it - and can maintain it, the hyena is a dead hyena.
Poor old Leopard 😢😢
Incredible video
Are These all female lions ? Or Just Young Male lions
RIP ---------- Our brave warrior leopard 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Sad for Leopard 😑
Seemed like the leopard knew jiu jitsu.
This video had been uploaded some months back in another channel...
Nature is a perfect blend of beauty and brutality….. well fought cat
Why has the channel started to use old footage that’s been out for ages? Used to always be on the front foot! Amazing sighting but it has million so views on other channels
It took 30 mins for a whole pride of lions to kill a single old leopard.
Poor leopard
Is there an unspoken rule that cats don't eat other carnivors? At least, it was a free meal for the lions.
Very good,the leopard must have felt the pain of neck bites and suffocation it used to kill herbivores,etc😃
why does this hurt to see opposed to a gazelle or something smaller
So the leopard jumping from the tree was classified video?
Like the background commentary to showing the honor in the big cat world
Definitely rare to see a calculated hunter such as a leopard foolishly waste his own life by jumping down the tree
Leopard *In confirmed safety* ....then JUMPS from safety In the trees literally into the lions den 🤦🏾♂️
Usually old means wise in the animal world. I guess this one grew very impatient to even think it could escape a ferocious pride of lions built to destroy any competition.
Is it normal death in leopard?
Is this the same old video showing a leopard cornered by lion prides and eventually fought to the death?
ein fantastisches Video
God damn it 😢
Why did you jump out the tree ?
incredible
This is the kambula pride killing a leopard at mala mala.
as much as it pains me to watch this I have to agree that its a pretty rare citing
It really wasn't that bad...you ever watch a best gore video?
So was they killing the leopard to eat it or? Just to kill?
Just to kill, competition for food/ show dominance and for protecting their cubs
Leopards will similarly kill baby lions when there is a chance (the same interaction that happens between leopards and tigers).
without them showing what happened, its almost always 100% chance that they set up trap for that old leopard by drugging it.