INCREDIBLE EXTREME FOOTAGE: Amazing Leopard Behaviour - Hunting Instinct vs Maternal Instinct

Hlabnkunzi the female leopard hunts and catches a baby steenbok, however her maternal instinct prevents her from completing the kill each time it cries!
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Despite being caught repeatedly, and dropped from a tree the steenbok seemed relatively unharmed throughout the ordeal

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[Gegiroar]

This video made me cry im sorry for being emotional but you who put up this video you must hate and i mean hate animals

[iduberobtheranger]

Explain why...

[Snauzer67]

The leopard ate the steinbook in the end?

[iduberobtheranger]

Nobody saw her eat it and by the afternoon she had moved very far from the area this happened, usually if she had eaten she would still be around the same spot

[maccarta]

She's like: FINALLY I caught something! Now, let's eat it. Yes, like... now I must kill it. But... it's... it's a tiny baby! All cute and helpless and crying an- no! Hey! I'm a leopard I kill things and then I eat them! I caught this baby and now I'm going to eat it! I'm going to kill it just now... Like, now... Bite it's neck... and... Damn it. Well... Maybe in a moment...

[CF40]

This video is completely false and so are all these wimpy bitch comments..... there is no mother instinct, all shes doing is taking her catch to a safe place and making sure there are no other leopards or scavengers around who will interfere.

[MrBroski619]

i think she is playing with it b4 she eats it

[bobafetting]

More likely than the leopard mothering the infant she is either using it as bait (they're known to use the cries to attract larger animals), or most likely will take it to he cubs to teach them how to hunt

[jacksone1129]

I think it was is strategy from the leopard, so he can track down the mother.

[LudoRock15]

Sometimes the scent, appearance and cry of a newborn animal (especially mammals) triggers maternal responses in other [female] animals (especially other mammals). Mammals maternal instincts are heightened during ovulation (in heat), pregnancy, and while rearing young offspring. I would guess that the Leopard was either in heat, pregnant, or had possibly just lost a cub/cubs of her own. This is an example of interspecies allomothering. Nature is amazing!

[PetersVidSkillz]

@Gegiroar I literally cant even come up with the right words to explain you. Retarded kinda comes to mind. but thats mean

[NASACrooks]

Lovely steenbok . I would have eaten it straight away.

[jujs9392]

bambi D:

[tochtli999]

what?

[CantWeedThis]

@tochtli999 yea what stupid pathetic cunt