Spectacular leopard hunt and kill in Botswana

[MuslimLoveJewishCock]

Yummy Halal Muslim meat for the Leopard. Allahu Akbar!!!

[dicentrarcuslabrax]

NOOOOO!!!!! PUMBAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! :-(

[xorealslowmd]

omg could you guys BE any louder smh 

[wishmasterc3]

Pumba is dead !

[Madhu85216]

Stop watching if it makes you say Jesus, Jesus, all the time..its annoying..

[SwiftyPanther]

How much do you think this male weighs?

[cubitsuper]

Endangered animals would have a better chance of survival if people would stop breeding and taking up their land. Forget tourism dollars being used to "save the animals".

[fishmanMarch61]

Focusing on the wrong animals.

[mnnmmnnmmn]

Please excuse my ignorance, but do animals ever jump into the cars to attack the people? It seems to me a little risky being out there in the open so exposed. Has it ever happened and if not, how come?

[Ladrusty]

@mnnmmnnmmn I'm sure there have probably been a few incidents over the years of tourists getting hurt or worse on safari, but they are extremely rare. The predators are very used to seeing these vehicles in their environment, and don't consider them threatening. As long as we use common sense and don't get out of the vehicle or do anything to attract unwanted attention, we are reasonably safe. I suspect I am probably taking a bigger risk every time I get in my car and drive on the freeway.

[mnnmmnnmmn]

@Ladrusty Thanks for the reply. Yeah, every time I see one of these open truck video's, I always wondered why a lion didn't leap in and have a human for lunch. I still don't know if I'd want to be that close in an open truck and you are right about the freeway. Stay safe when yer in lionland!

[mkocja5a]

@mnnmmnnmmn there's actualy a video of it

[OmarionXD8]

You are interfering with wild life but driving your cars there, next time just walk, that way the action would be really close, if u know what i mean.

[Ladrusty]

@OmarionXD8  Actually, as I've said before, it is tourism dollars that enable and encourage wildlife management and conservation in Africa. We are not interfering by simply being there and observing. And the guides in Botswana are very knowledgeable in just how close they can get to the animals, without interfering in the hunt. How do you think wildlife programs are filmed?

[PassionOfLifee]

@Ladrusty wildlife doesn't need dollars, management or observation, it just needs to be kept alone !

[OmarionXD8]

@Ladrusty Ask yourself this question.. How does the noisy car interfere with an animals chance of survival (Life or death). If i'm bieng hunted and i can hear my enemy clossing in on me how does that help me survive. Vise Versa.. If i an a hunter and trying to close in on a kill and you noisy truck makes my prey to spot me how does that enhance my chance of survival? It like those people that dont use infra-red camera or lighting and use light that causes the pradator and prey to be exposed.

[OmarionXD8]

@Ladrusty There was one clip, i cant find it at the moment of a cheetah making a kill during the night. Cheetahs are not Nocturnal and mainly hunt in the day for safety reasons. In this clip the crew used actual lights to focus on the cheetah, you could see the cheetah moving away as not to be spotted, especially since other bigger and stronger cats (Lions, hyenas and leopards) hunt during the night. So when filming you guys might not think that you are interfering but in reality you are.



[Ladrusty]

@OmarionXD8 If you love wildlife, your objections should be aimed at those who still pay to actually hunt and kill these animals for the sheer thrill of being able to claim bragging rights, or at the scourge of poachers who have brought some of Africa's finest literally to the brink of extinction simply because some people in some cultures still pay handsomely for elephant ivory or rhino horns. All we are doing is photographing them. If you object to that, then why watch these videos at all?

[OmarionXD8]

@Ladrusty i am not objecting to the filming of the wild animals...but the method used to film this animals. In life you want every advantage possible to survive and therefore any enterference by humans comprimises that. With todays technologies we can do a lot more and i have seen some documentaries that have been done the right way. i.e "eye of the leopard"

[ZacksPlace2010]

Doesn't the leopard have a look of deep, profound wisdom on his face, in the shot beginning at 0:57, or am I alone on that one?

[Ladrusty]

@ZacksPlace2010 Interesting comment. Actually what struck me more was the incredible look of intensity in his stare when he spots his prey at 2:25/26/27. It truly is like a laser beam when he zeroes in on it with those yellow eyes. They are amazingly stealth hunters.

[ZacksPlace2010]

@Ladrusty Yes, indeed. I noticed that as well!

[gpackwood1]

@ZacksPlace2010 Hopefully you are alone on that one as creatures have no cerebral cortex of the brain and thus have no capacity at all for wisdom or any executive brain function seen in humans.

[ZacksPlace2010]

@gpackwood1 Yeah, it was just the way the look on his face struck me when I first saw this video.

[gloria460]

loved the video..so clear and not shaky at all.

[aguuled]

The noise of the cars....helps the Leopard more than the Warthog...Therefore very unnatural results....

[aguuled]

What a natural experience...3 noisy vehicles and shuttering cameras following a leopard...

[Weloveanimals4565]

Thank you for this video, very interesting!

[geusebio15]

I can appreciate the cat family killing its prey before eating it. Unlike a hyena that eats you alive.

[swoosh50]

Hahahaha he is staggering carrying the warthog

[th4tguyth3r3]

sorry for this comment but i was fustrated on the number of video that i have tired to watch with so many types of nise that i was not able to apreciate the sound of the leopard. sorry for any inconvience mate

[Ladrusty]

@th4tguyth3r3 No offense taken....

[th4tguyth3r3]

No shit lady i can see that the leopard is on the move. its what they do

[Ladrusty]

@th4tguyth3r3 Yes, I'm well aware that it's what they do. But when you're on safari, (and this was my 12th safari to Africa) it's extremely rare to see one hunting or patrolling its territory in the daytime because they are primarily nocturnal. So it was a very lucky sighting.

[MrSandylovesevan]

nature at it's best right on guys.

[Ineedthat06]

poor Pumbaa

[DJSexLeopard]

@Ineedthat06 They are called Puma. And they don't exist in Africa, they exist primarily in North America. Also called "Mountain Lions".

[Ineedthat06]

@DJSexLeopard wat are u talking about? im talking about the warthhog.. Pumbaa from Lion King

[DJSexLeopard]

@Ineedthat06 yeahhh i just saw the lion king in 3D last night it was so amazing

[b1ndby24]

Los leopardos son chulos!!!

[DavidThomasScorbal]

Your video skills are really impressive, this was great footage. Very steady and well-framed. Nice break from the normal earthquake cell phone videos on youtube :)

[Ladrusty]

@DavidThomasScorbal Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. I use beanbags to steady my camera, which helps. And the latest iMovie editing software from Apple provides an additional image stabilizing capability, which also helps. That, plus a few basic rules about videotaping and movie editing make for a good result. I'm an amateur, but I've seen enough of other people's vacation videos to know that most of it is practically unwatchable.

[mctaylorca]

We had the same wonderful guide, "Ollie" last month in Botswana. Although my husband and son wanted to see a kill, I was happy that we didn't see any.

In Tanzania, the Land cruisers were enclosed to keep the dust out.

Thanks for sharing your video.

[Ladrusty]

@mctaylorca Well, yes, it can get pretty dusty in the Maasai Mara or the Serengeti. But in Botswana's Okavango Delta or in the game preserves of Zambia, there much is less dust because you don't have those wide open plains. Also, there is not nearly the preponderance of vehicles that you find in east Africa. So you are not inhaling the dust kicked up by others.

[Ladrusty]

@mctaylorca I won't deny that it is hard to watch a kill when it's happening right in front of you. But this is what you go to Africa to see -- the wildlife in all its glory and brutality -- the old 'circle of life' thing. If you want to read a really moving account of what the safari experience is truly like, please check out my husband's book "Endangered Liaisons" (available on Amazon). It features the best of his wildlife photography and a moving account of why we kept going back.

[tenoderaaridifolia]

Wow that's a mean stare at 2:25. Leopards were one of the natural predetors of human ancesters.

[Imprezziveness]

I've always wondered why these safari vehicles are wide open. Do people actually feel safe in these?

[Ladrusty]

@Imprezziveness In east Africa, they use pop-top minivans, which are enclosed. But in southern Africa, they prefer the safari jeeps. For one thing, they navigate better through all sorts of terrain, and are really rugged and less prone to breakdowns. As for being open -- you do definitely feel more "exposed," and it takes some getting used to. But we actually prefer them because you feel like you're closer to the action. Ultimately, you rely on the guides 's judgement regarding safety.

[Imprezziveness]

@Ladrusty ah ok, it's just amazing that these cats ignore the vehicles and the people inside.

[Ladrusty]

@Imprezziveness They're used to seeing these big lumbering vehicles in their environment, so they don't consider them a threat. Plus you're not on their food chain. Obviously you have to use common sense when you are that close to predators in the wild. When you're 10 feet from a lion & your guide tells you to be quiet and not to move, believe me, you listen. If you were foolish enough to ignore the guide, or get out of the vehicle, all bets would be off. It's not a zoo.

[Imprezziveness]

@Ladrusty Now, can I assume the guide carries a weapon in case they do try to attack?

[Ladrusty]

@Imprezziveness Actually, no. As far as I know, they do not carry weapons. The only times I've been in a vehicle with a guide with a weapon in his hand was when we were on foot, climbing the Virungas in Rwanda to see the mountain gorillas back in 1989. And on one or two other occasions when we were caravaning to a game lodge after there had been some trouble with poachers. The weapons were for the poachers, not the animals.

[Imprezziveness]

@Ladrusty Ah, I see. It's a risk you just have to take. It seems like all of 'this' might be going away in a few generations. I definitely need to schedule a safari tour sometime in the near future. At least I would be able to say I saw these creatures in person.

[fontelonga]

@Imprezziveness Leopards just attack humans under stress.

[Gooberwalla]

The sounds of those diesel motors must affect the hunt. Besides, it is really annoying. Couldn't they get electric-motor vehicles? Seems like these guides start and stop the vehicles too often.

[Ijamtosuc]

to me leopards seem to be the most successful out of the african big cats Idk if thats just me :|

[Imprezziveness]

@Ijamtosuc I agree because they are able to keep their kill in a tree. Other cats like Cheetahs may have a better kill rate, but they also get their food stolen very often.

[Camron9201]

"It's going to eat its hair, it looks like" hahaha

Yeah that hair, high in nutritional value.

[Ladrusty]

@Camron9201

Actually, a leopard is not fond of eating fur, so before opening a carcass to feed on the softer meat, it plucks out the animal's hair first. That's what it's starting to do here.

[MrSteverino1958]

That is a tame leopard that is used to people around. Trust me, I have really hunted them and they dont walk around like that to tree hugger morons like these people.

[DJSexLeopard]

@MrSteverino1958 I would love to hunt you down. It's people like you that cause these beautiful animals to become extinct. Believe me if I could I would put a round through your head and feed you to the Leopards!

[holyfuckareyoustupid]

@DJSexLeopard - "I would love to hunt you down". LOL!  You would love to do a lot of things as long as none of them involve leaving your mothers basement.

[DJSexLeopard]

@holyfuckareyoustupid Yeah, I'd love to see you in a cage with a Leopard and see who wins that fight.

[holyfuckareyoustupid]

@DJSexLeopard - Can your mother arrange that for you in her basement - or does she just never even go down there anymore? LOL!!! :~))

[JoeWhy1]

*click. click. click-click. click*

hmm, maybe if I tramp around a botswana reserve with a loincloth on I'll have more cameras around me than Paris Hilton. there's the key to famosity for us mundane folk.

[Ariolserifi]

male leopards are really amazing

2.4meter long and 176lbs

[wow2000texas]

Wow! I loved this video. I am very impressed with this video. Camera didn’t shake…Man. Loved it.

[gkvela]

nice job as usual estelle!

[Ladrusty]

@gkvela Thanks! This was definitely a highlight of the safari.