WATCH: Leopard escapes with a lion cub in rare wildlife sighting

Latest Sightings recently shared what they call an unbelievable and very rare moment when a leopard found an active lion den and sprinted off with a lion cub!

Leopard escapes with lion cub | Tanzania

According to the wildlife app, the sighting was filmed by Canadian lawyer Scott Hyman while on safari in the Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.

Hyman captured the whole ordeal on camera in which includes a leopard carrying a visibly frightened three-week-old lion cub in its mouth.

“During my safari, I came across a male adult leopard on the road and started following it for well over an hour as it meandered until it suddenly stopped,” Hyman explained.

“The leopard suddenly leapt into the dense brush and seconds later sprang out with a lion cub in its maw. It sprinted down the road, cub squirming, and up a nearby tree around the bend by the side of the road.”

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It held the lion cub firmly in its jaws, and bit into the cub’s skull, ending the cub’s life, and proceeded to devour it piece by piece, headfirst, gradually working its way down the carcass.

“The leopard dropped one of the tiny legs as it ate, but continued devouring the lion cub, bones and all.”

It is said that leopards are opportunistic feeders who eats a variety of animals and usually hunt on the ground or in trees. They are climbers and spend most of the daytime hours resting under sheltered rocks or in shady places among tree branches.

“At first I was shocked by what I saw, but quickly accepted it as part of nature,” Hyman said further. “While my heart broke for the cub, I was excited and thrilled to have witnessed such a rare event, a once-in-a-lifetime wildlife viewing.”

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