“What a lucky find this was, seeing something as rare as a baboon with a leopard cub in the Pilanesberg Private Game Reserve. That, while Lauren Pretorius spotted another baboon, in the Kruger, with another leopard cub, round about the same time of year!
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“We were slowly heading back towards our lodge after an early morning game drive, when we came upon a large troop of baboons. We were enjoying the spectacle, as we hadn’t really had any good sightings of baboon on our trip. The troop was moving down the road in the opposite direction from us and we gradually made our way past them. As we came around a bend in the road, we all saw what turned out to be the very last member of the troop, a young adult male baboon, and he was visibly clutching something small under his belly with one arm. At this point, the baboon was only 10 m or so in front of our vehicle.”
“Within seconds, and with all eyes on him, he juggled what he was carrying and we all gasped as it was clearly a tiny leopard cub. The initial reaction from myself, and the guide, was that the cub was surely already dead and the baboon had simply picked it up while foraging, or, perhaps, had even been involved in its death. However, after a few more seconds, it was obvious that the cub was very much alive!”
“At that point, the sighting took on a whole new aspect as we were confronted, in nature, with something that seemed somehow… unnatural. An adult baboon shouldn’t be carrying around a leopard cub! The cub belongs with its mother! I think we were all hoping that the baboon would lose interest in the cub and leave it behind so that there might be the smallest chance that it could be reunited with its mother. But, as we watched, it was clear that the baboon was very interested in the cub and was intent on taking it along with him. He would sit quietly with it, occasionally looking down to check on it, and even groomed the cub as we watched. He was quite gentle with it, if a little clumsy, but did not appear to want to harm it in any way.”
"The baboon was some way behind the rest of the troop. However, he was still keeping up with them, sitting a while with the cub, then picking it up with one arm and continuing down the road a little as the distance between him and the rest of the troop grew too big. Eventually, he followed the rest of the troop off-road and into the long grass, picking up pace as he re-joined the others. Not long after leaving the road the baboon disappeared over a small ridge, down an embankment, and moved quickly out of sight."
"I don’t know if a male baboon with a live leopard cub has ever been seen/recorded before. It’s the first I’ve ever heard of this specific combination. For me, personally, it was certainly a first and I don’t expect to ever see something like that again. It was an incredible sighting, but bitter-sweet for all of us watching, because we knew the cub would not be able to survive more than just a few hours away from its mom."
"When you’re on safari, record everything. Don’t stop recording. You can edit later. This is not something you are likely to ever see again!"
Later, Lauren Pretorius, from laurenpretoriusphotography.com/, sent us a few photos of a baboon carrying a leopard cub. We thought that it must be the same sighting, as we had never seen anything like this before. But no! It was a different event completely. Lauren had been visiting Olifants, and spotted this baboon just after it found a Leopard cub.
Since these two sightings, and the one of the baboon with the lion cub, also around the same time of year, we haven't received any more sightings of this kind.
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It's not grooming, that baboon is just marinating that leopard cub with lemon grass for dinner.
Hahahahahahhaha
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Ha ha ha ha....ha ha ha...ha ha ha....I lost it when you said that and you probably right...! lol
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hmm' seem logical
it would be so badass if she raised it and their baboon clan had a leopard they could ride into battle.
then they get mauled by a pride of hungry lions
A family of Mercats on the back of one Giraffe
🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍
@@venomforhonor Hey man, still works for me, cause you know the Leopards getting away still lol
@HiveRobot actually it isn't that idiotic. If the cub is old enough to eat meat, it could survive, and there are many occurrences of baboons kidnapping and raising feral dog pups. Then the dogs grow up and live with the troope and help protect the baboons. So this comment isn't as idiotic as it may seem.
Baboon: *Don't take it personally, I just promised my kids some cats for birthday.*
... as snacks.
@@typingcat I think Baboons are herbivores.
@@tecumsehtoccoa553 nope, just try type baboon eat baby impala alive, then you will see the reality of nature, enjoy
@@tecumsehtoccoa553 Have you seen the size of the incisors on baboons? They are most definitely not herbivores they are omnivores.
@@chrissmith9565- yes the dental set up of any animal or humans say it all: what they are allowed to eat naturally. Having canines is a licence to eat meat.One answer for all. Thanks!
That baby leopard looks out of life, tortured and the spirit left him long time
You re right, hes already dead and eaten
Yes. Grooming is life giving, while tenderizing is life taking.
Yes while they kicked back and allowed it to happen and at the same time crying to the world to save their wild from extinction. It's good other countries take care of their animals. They even dive in the sea to help sea turtles, dolphins and whales in Iceland and the u.s
@@HeHas_Risen Just so you know, Iceland is one of only 3 countries in the world that still allows commercial whaling, and also, shoots on sight any polar bear that might end up on its shores via ice floes/bergs.... So i wouldn’t be too quick to judge Iceland as this utopic, animal loving country....
@@HeHas_Risen But you shouldn't interfere with nature.
It's time to search 'leopard killing baboon'
I am sure you must have seen a hundred of them before coming across this video.
There’s more videos of baboons killing other baby animals
@@maranara1425 No there isn't. In fact there is many videos of baboons being killed by leopards
? The baboon has killing the baby ???
@@zuhairkhan900 there are many, many baboons. Leopards are nearly endangered. Baboons like many primates, have been known to torment and kill other animals for fun. Nature is so sad
Baboon- he lives in you. Cub- i am not simba.
LOL
He just wanted to hold him up high to introduce the new king of the jungle to the pride lands.
Lol
@@molly-hp1js It’s the circle of life.
@@rebelcave8556 lmao
That before or after the baboon eats the cub
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Another title : leopard cubs killed
You know it, titles always aim to attract many audience and i agree with you, and with regard to these wildlife channels, they put no related different videos together to build a movie and make it look like a real story. it's all fake and it's for business only, why can't they do this in Europe or North America???? there are no laws in Africa, unfortunately.
KZheadr laws like journalist sensationalism, this is only an assassination of leopards from baboon
@@RSolitaire It's all fake and for business only? Nope it isn't. The title is just as it says it is. We got what we clicked for; those were literally baboons grooming some cubs right before killing them most likely. Stfu and watch the video
@@RSolitaire KZhead is a US company, and this is in South Africa, easily the most westernized society in Africa, in regards to laws and freedom. I bet you see a conspiracy theory around every corner
@@RSolitaire yes I kNow many KZhead videos merging diff clips from different documentaries.. I'm not sure whether popular documentaries like maphogos or last lions are fake
Everything is fun and games until momma comes back
Wtf what about the dad
Nah Big Male Baboons can handle a leopard
True for all species
Not really, baboons can kill leopards if they have superior numbers.
@@yommax5870 Male leopards are never involved with raising their offspring.
Watching the young leopard cub screaming in one of those is something I didn't want to see. That was terrible. Rest in peace little baby.
He was crying for food probably, the baboons and other monkeys steal cubs of other species to pet them but obviously they don't know how to feed them, so the cubs ends dying from inanition. In some places where some monkeys lives close to people in cities and towns, this happen all the time with cubs of cats and dogs
@@giacosarojo Source? I’ve never seen anyone providing evidence that they risk their lives to steal cubs from lions and leopards just to pet them. I believe the general consensus is they are trying to thin the population of future predators.
Baboon: I swear! I was just taking fleas off. Yum yum...
Me while watching the video: "Please don't kill them, please don't kill them." Me at the end of video: Why did I expect them to survive?
Hope
@@MihirS84 yes we hope and pray for these animals
And after dark is when the tender Cubs get eaten alive.
The baboon is not grooming the cub. He is going to kill it.
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this is called nature
Babbon is gonna be the cub's mother
Brah why leopard. Why not lion.
What about that story about baboons raising puppies?
Baboon 1: Honey, could we have a kitty as a pet? Baboon 2: This is simple, let me grab one for ya.
Everyone chill, they are the nannies like in the beginning of the Lion 🦁 King when Simba was born!!!😁
@Paula Johnson ... really? He couldn’t possibly have been joking in a KZhead comment section.
Paula Paula Paula
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@@klaybiggins4040 ikr. 🤦🏼♀️
Baboons are just total piece of crap nuisance animals. There is a good reason in some parts of the world you can hunt these things year round with no bag limit. Only thing these nuisances are good for is destroying farmers crops, peoples property, and even killing human children and babies. Wipe them all out. The local ecosystem would actually improve with Baboons being eliminated.
Every monkey gangsta until his mom comes back!
This is so sad... kidnapped cubs are doomed. 🌻🐾🌿🌷😭 R.I.P.
Leopards do the same to baboon Cubs it’s life
The uploader of this title has a darkroom at home, grooming someone
Proof?
BS: they killed the cubs, what a disingenuous title
Glad to see someone here with some common sense.
No wonder . .
Yup, btw I just "groomed" a cow while watching this vid
obviously, chimpanzees may be, bamboos no, their nature is just as evil as their appearance
Its called, "click bait."
This video convinced me of the trouble I’d get into if I go on a wild safari. No way I’m gonna see that baboon takes away that cub and not intervene.
Yea, by trouble you mean dead.
@@jeffreyhurst7231 I didn’t exactly planned confront the baboon face to face but a strong shout and a well aimed big stone would help.
@@obrianthinline8514 Then you'll have the Troop of Baboons on you. I guess you feel you can out run them 🤔
Intervening is illegal, but trying it would often be fatal.
You would get yourself eaten for lunch
For those of you over 50... "I'll call him George and I will love him, and pet him and squeeze him"
Im 30 but that sounds very familiar
I’m 24 and know this 🙄
Men of mice
@@wesleyconcert3344 Maybe sourced from that... i was recalling the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the Abominable Snowman that wanted a pet. youtube search it.
Over 60. Of mice & men. Look how That turned out! 😑😣
The presentation of simba Rafiki is like:" weres mufasa, or am I really holding simba or wrong cub I must bring it back." And the music is kind of beginning. And rafiki is still lokking for mufasa and sarabi for simba presentaion.
Rafiki is really bout that life lol
_Title: Baboon captures leopard cub in mother's absence - Part 1_
That leopard cub was either dead or injured by time the mother came back
Yeah, sadly there's no way the cub survived. Even if the baboon wanted to take care of it, there's no way it can feed the cub.
they usually starve to death
it looked like the cub was already dead from the pics at the end. would've died anyway from being away from mom so long.
😭😭💔
The mom will seek her revenge. It's the circle of life.
Every baboon gangsta till the mom comes
Tourist: cute Leopard: kiddnapper
Everyone gangsta untill the Mom cheetah and aunty cheetah arrive..
first its a leopard the caption even says it which makes u dumb and aunties dont care about others babies unless its theirs
Baboon: Steals the cubs from the mother Leapord: Stop this *baboonery*
相変わらず冴えていますね!
Hb
Lol
I kinda died🤣
In case if someone corrects me with grammar lecture, I know I made a wrong spelling on "Leopard", I just realize I typed it while I spelled it incorrectly at a faster paste without a single thought.
Animals are better than humans Baboon : hold my tale
Has the breeding pair has what he needs to make an army of trained leopards that listen to baboons.
Title: baboon showing love to little cub 🥰 Reality: baboon boxing the shit out of cub
not, in that case they would kill them fastly. Baboons and other monkeys sometimes take cubs of other species as "pets", but they end dying because obviously the monkeys don't know how to feed them. If they want to kill another animal they will do it quickly, like when they hunt flamingos or young gazzelles.
@@giacosarojo Spreading misinformation again are we?
The second cub is obviously dead. He has massive puncture wounds in his chest and rib cage. RiP little one
yeah wanted to say something like that, this doesnt look like any groom or peting, just casual eating kids in the animal kingdom since its easy food.
Yes baboon was curious but also would eventually eat the cub.
I hope the mom eats all the baboons.
Yeah, baboons have been known to steal lion cubs, and leopard cubs, and kill them, so that they won't grow up to eat the baboons, later on. Or thats the theory anyway. But there is plenty of documentation of baboons stealing the babies of big cats.
@@rustystove8410 why? Leopards eat baby baboons, too. Just whatever is easiest to catch.
Baboon be like: damn almost forgot to get my son his pet
I don’t think the leopard cub can survive, lack of milk. Poor baby 👶 🍼 my heart is with the cub!!
Poor Leopard cubs. They couldn’t take it anymore, & died from torture they endured from the monkeys ! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
There is nothing wrong in monkeys' behavior. Big cats hunt monkeys and their babies. Why can't monkeys do the same?
@@jizzervirusreptikonski8756 : it’s not the point of the hunt, the point is the torture the cubs have to endure before the give up & die ! It’s really sad IF YA THINK ABOUT IT !
@@UnisausS1 imagine all the human babies that go through the similar things
Fred Kaiba : I know ! It’s still upsetting !
I dont know if this has a connection to monkey stealing baby cat, maybe just to kill the predator when it still killable, or some weird fetish, i dont know.
plot twist: the baboon was taking revenge of his own dead baby
Pretty much
The boon so alert he was trying to do it without being recorded he kept moving lol
This is like the very beginning of The Jungle Book or Tarzan, but with a different twist 😂
I really admire baboons, they know when those cubs grow they will kill baboons, so they literally go full Terminator and try to kill john connor cubs while they are young. I like that strategy a lot. To everyone calling the baboons evil, the cubs are just as "evil" when they grow. Kill or be killed is nature's dangerous little game.
Leopards are cute.... Baboons are ugly...... Baboons are kind of a pest tbh lol
I would not mind to haunt some baboons.
@@TheDevil-wo9jc That moment when you realize your personal views are more evil than The Devil.
@@johnsolberg5611 Your ghost: "Ahhhhhhh!!!" Baboons: 👁️👄👁️
@@Telescreen5 actually, I really don't want to kill anything I don't have to.
I was really hoping this would be like a lion king moment where the baboon and leopard become friends
Grow up kid. It's nature & it's fking scary
Thats true...... That's really scary b'coz they steal others new-born and keep them in their captive until they die of hunger.... There's nothing called lion King moment in this case.
@@loveyourlife4553 the bitter truth of nature
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Disney got our mind messy with this lion king movie.😂😂😂😂
Wait till somebody snitch to their momma "Do you know where your babies are"? Points finger😂
Superb video just jaw dropping as you don't get to see this sort of thing very often,also the paragraphs in the video description made for good reading and added a little more content to the video,thanks so so much for sharing this one. With much love and respect from the UK. 🙏🏾✊🏾💪🏾👍🏾👊🏾
OMG, I know its nature but it is very sad. Mama leopard is probably out hunting......Thank you Kruger.
The reason Baboons kill leopards/baby leopards is because Leopards eat baboons too. And eye for an eye with these two, it never ends.
@@911ragdoll Yes indeed, such is life in the wild.
Yup , mama leopard is hunting baboon s baby's 🤣😂😅. What an ugly fu...ing world we live in
@@olegsamsonov3762 nope mama leopard is probably hunting an antelope
Amazing, unbelievable. Thank you for this amazing experience..
Baby baboon: Mom, I want a kitten Mother baboon: (snatched a baby leopard) I guess you're coming with me
monky : your my baby baby tiger : no , let me go pls monky : ow swety
Its time to go back and watch Leopard Eating Baboon 👿😤
I searched lion eat baboon after this
Ima do that
Plot twist: Mother leopard also took the baboon's baby.
That’s how the kitty cat got tamed 😂
Imagine a baboon managed to raise and tame leopard or a lion how we tamed a cat and uses it to attack other baboons
LOL or just have it to protect themselves against other leopards. Kind of like Timon and Pumba had Simba 😂
attack other baboons? nope
Crows have already turned to raising and working with wolves to catch food their prey in Yellowstone.
You mean dog. We never tamed cats xD they would kill you if they were bigger lol
omg people are filming wildlife vertically with their phones now, I give up
Proper title : a Baboon carries a leopard cub for the next meal!
Alternate ending of Simba leopard version
I’ll call him George and I’ll live him and pet him and hug him
Bugs Bunny and the snowman... Most people want pick up on that classic...
@Jamal Walker 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 HILARIOUS CLASSSIIICCCCCCC!!!!!!!! YOU A 70S BABAY!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@hiddenuareandwillremain3079 Indeed l am a 70's baby...
The baboon just became a mother of 2 leopard cubs!!!
And, killed them both in the process
Plot twist - the baboons was taught to do this
Baboon rescuing a pet cat , he is just being a good citizen
The cub literally looks dead in the pictures
Probably bcuz he hasn’t had any food/milk in days.
Actually a lion killed that cub....there is a video that lion killing cub....and this place is looking same
@@Astriannn nah. They steal cubs to kill them
Title: Disney PG, YAYYYY! Reality: Rafiki tortures and eats Leopard cubs.
teach the baboons to meow and say hello kitty
Baby baboon - mom mom i want a kitten Mom baboon - ok
Incredible; there are also quite a lot of other sightings of this kind, for example lioness that lost her own cub adopted impala etc.
That's the only other know incedent. Not quite alot
I saw that too. I think the lioness was just keeping the impala fresh for later.
No it did not. It hung around keeping it for awhile but thr impala died ...it did not adopt it
Baboon: “Steal cub raise it then when it’s older it won’t eat us” 🤷🏽♀️ Nature is amazing.
In a few years "mom" is gonna become "baby's" lunch.
When your Kids want Cats for Xmass
I have question for the channel. Could this leopard cub have been considered a rescue somehow? I understand we have to observe nature and let it run is course, but considering they are an endangered species and the cub was abandoned alive, could it be sent to a big-cat faculty of some sort? I understand this cub most likely perished away from its mother. Is it because the little fella was in a reserve?
They are not endangers species
Ur comment makes my head hurt. Makes no sense
@@davidandrew6347 That is my bad. I should have been more clear with my question. I wrote this at 3am high as fuck. You are right that African leopards are not an endangered species. That said, they are at risk of extinction across Africa and Asia, because they have suffered a population decline in the last few decades. But I should been clearer in that regard. My question was trying to ask if it was possible to send the abandoned cub to a big cat sanctuary that could have saved it. I understood they didn't do that in this video, but it was more of a hypothetical question
@@vertigognome6617 I don't think they allow human intervention in this reserves, they just let nature take its course. The leopard mother will always have more Cubs and life goes on.
@@vertigognome6617 It could be possible his mother was away hunting.
So misleading. Thats like showing a video of human traffickers snatch up kids and saying willy Wonka takes kids to chocolate factory.
Caught you taking a little peep there Charlie. *it's ok*
Everybody Is a Gangster Until Mama Comes Back
The Baboons looking like wanted suspects in the end photographs😂😂
How old were the leopard cubs? When will leopards in general be able to climb trees?
The leopards were probably a week or so old. Not sure when they start climbing.
@@Latestsightings My deepest thanks!
Maybe mama leopard put them up on the tree while she went hunting.
@@Latestsightings First a Lion cub now their greatest enemy?? What’s next, a hyena cub??
This explains why the lion king uses a bamboo to present simba. Bamboo steal Cubs
Damn Bamboos have evolved from hardy tough plants to hardy tough mobile creatures, nature is scary 😳
@@mutalix hahahahahah
The act of baboon is what I have never seen before
Baboon got himself a pet
Omnivores they will kill and probably eat them eventually.
Oh yeah they will eat it later
Baboons play and then kill them there no happy end it's like watching hannibal playing with his victim
I was hoping for the mama leopard to come to the cubs' rescue and teach the baboons a lesson
@dontcyberbully eh its just nature,there isnt really right or wrong
not happening lol the leopard cub both of them have been eaten by the Baboons :)
BBC would have reported this like... Innocent leopard cubs tortured by baboon...😵😵😵😵
They're intelligent enough to keep danger away for the future
Law of the Jungle, Moma Leopard is off killing some other animal. Every animal big or small is on someones menu.
That's kidnapping😂
Xd
Cub - napping 😂
Dingo stole my baby!
When you tryna raise up a bad ass guard dog
Meanwhile, the mother leopard was quite possibly killing a young baboon somewhere.
Shut up their pity can be in another video
haha, exactly. u know if that was a buffalo that trapped a lion cub that cub would've killed much much earlier-in fact on sight.
@@noeludeh9056 LOL
Yes, but an ironclad law of these videos is that small felines and their mothers are good guys and that their rivals are bad guys. So when a rival kills a small feline cub, that's tragic. When an adult female cat kills a rival in order to feed her cubs, that's wonderful. Because nature.
@@65if2007 don't quite understand what u saying..
Mommy leopard will spend the rest of her life killing baboons
The title of this video just sounds so wrong. XD
Maybe they were thinking of bringing the cub up as their own and then sending it out to hunt when older 🤣
If the mother leopard is there when baboon stealing her baby the baboon has no where to run the game over to baboon
@zexrobot what ? Stfu leaporads kill baboons
@zexrobot a baboon whisperer
@@angdageneral4735 search it and educate yourself baboons are vicious primates and regularly hunt apex predictors
@@kingt8079 stfu kid leapords are apex predators
You know they killed them, why try to sugar coat their natural behavior ? This is sad not cute at all
I mean it is what it is, im sure leopards have kill many baboons
@@JacobSmith-dh7wv Their actions are indefensible yet you still get people like you defending them 🤦
@@electric0618 what are you talking about? They are wild animals lol
@MinutemanSam Sugarcoating reality is wrong. And I'm not your father so don't even bother replying back to ask me to explain, I am not educating you, go do it yourself.
@@electric0618 you are the dumbass trying to sugar coat it. There's some hormone in your brain that you have no control over making you feel bad for the baby leopards. Them killing leopard cubs is a part of nature. If the leopard cubs grow up then that so many dead baboons every year. It just is what it is. You can't ask the baboons to be happy being eaten just because that hormone doesn't feel the same way about them. And then you want to insinuate that others are sugar coating it or don't get it. You are lost.
Idk if I want to watch or if it has an ending but baboons are definitely notorious for this. I'm probably sure they are no longer alive. ❣
I used to be more afraid of baboons more than hyenas as a kid. I would run soon as I saw them from a distance. But would walk past hyenas.
This is terrible. Leopards have enough challenges. I hope the kittens were able to survive somehow and be reunited with the mother.
cubnapping?
Baby"look mom,stop monkeying around,an give me milk"
Handling the Leopard Cub like a ragdoll
Looks like old Tamil films where Villain takes away one of the twin heroes when he was a baby. who will become a gangster.....other one will become a police officer...finally brothers will unite and kill the Villain... Baboon is the Villain here...
I don't understand how we can "like" this type of video, as if the sadder it is the more people like it.
I see people laughing in the comment section. Idk how a video like this where it clearly shows a dead cub at the end could bring me to laughter, but I guess people find it funny
@@faiss03 They are real idiots.
See how he sits with his back to the troop, doesn't want to share snack with others
OHH!!😢 nature can be heartless. Thanks for sharing this video