{"id":375,"date":"2025-06-16T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:13:26","slug":"leopard-lies-with-lamb-before-making-it-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Lies With Lamb Before Making It Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a male leopard was seen all but embracing a baby antelope, you might easily have thought it was baby-sitting. However, it soon became evident that this was a typical cat behaviour \u2014 playing with its food.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leopard-duiker-YT-ThumbnailPLEASE-DONT-MOVE-1-edited.png\" width=\"870\" height=\"492\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Charles Nel witnessed this curious incident and submitted his video and story to Latest Sightings. He filmed it near Biyamithi Camp in Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n<p>What Can You See?<br \/>\nCharles said he was watching a male klipspringer staring intently from a granite outcrop.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cSuddenly, a shrill scream rang out and we glanced towards where the klipspringer was staring. Next moment, a leopard jumped up onto the rock with a baby duiker in its jaws.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"868\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjKg-xV8PZ0\" title=\"Leopard Lies With Lamb Before Eating it\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To his surprise, instead of eating, the leopard draped its massive paw over the lamb. At times, it even licked it, as if grooming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a male leopard was seen all but embracing a baby antelope, you might easily have thought it was baby-sitting. However, it soon became evident that this was a typical &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}