These leopard cubs have time to kill while they wait for their mother to return from her business, and what better way to spend it than chasing each other’s tails.
It seems that being bored while waiting for their mother might be an almost universal animal experience. Even worse is when she’s not even in sight, having gone out into the world to conduct leopard business, with no telling when she might get home.
Alberto Scattolin, from Matimba Bush Lodge, caught these two leopard cubs finding ways to alleviate that boredom by initiating a terrible and ferocious war over each other’s tails.
Alberto caught this footage on the H14 in the Kruger National Park, and it shows the adorable antics that leopard cubs will get up to when their mom’s away and they have the time to play.
