‘Dinner first’: Impala runs in

Image: YouTube/Dulini Private Game Reserve

‘Dinner first’: Impala runs into mating leopards [watch]

In what is described as an ‘amazing wildlife sighting’, an impala runs into two mating leopards when the male proceeds to kill it in a tree.

‘Dinner first’: Impala runs in

Image: YouTube/Dulini Private Game Reserve

Safari-goers had a real wildlife treat for the eyes when an impala ran into two mating leopards.

Impala vs two leopards

Getaway reports that safari-goers at the Dulini Private Game Reserve in the Sabi Sands got an action-filled, million-dollar sighting during a night drive. While the two leopards are busy mating an impala runs straight into them. It seems that the male leopard craftily catches the impala without missing a beat and drags it up a nearby tree.

“A once in a lifetime sighting where just as two leopards are about to mate an impala runs straight into them and the male proceeds to kill it up a tree!” Dulini said on YouTube.

Dulini later commented and said that the two leopard’s names are Ravenscourt and Basile.

Social media were obviously impressed. “Incredible catch! He made two movements in one … little ones (I hope) and a meal that came to him. Well done,” said one social media user on YouTube.

Others were well-equipped with jokes. “Dinner first please…,” said Miguel Mauricio Bermudez Ugalde on Facebook. “Applause for that focus change,” said Anne Comeau.

“Amazing sighting, quick thinking Leopard! Dinner more important!” said Sean Duncan Venant Cuerden.

Others added: “Instead of Netflix and chill it’s Netflix and kill!” and “You see our moms were right…the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”.

Watch: Wildlife sigthing at Dulini Private Game Reserve

Other sightings

Earlier in July, guests were privileged to be a part of an incredibly rare and special sighting when they spotted a temminck pangolin at the game reserve.

“The pangolin is an animal that has roamed the planet for millions of years and yet is so seldom seen and even less understood,” they wrote on Facebook. “Sadly it is the most trafficked animal in Africa and it is up to us to keep this amazing creature around for many more generations to come.”