{"id":386,"date":"2025-06-19T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:00:42","slug":"lion-catches-impala-mid-air-in-spectacular-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Lion Catches Impala Mid-Air In Spectacular Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While lions are only successful in about 30% of attempted hunts, the results are spectacular when they get it right. Here, a combination of stealth, speed, strength and lightning-quick reactions merge to outwit a fleeing impala.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1-10.png\" width=\"964\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A tourist recorded this dramatic incident on the H4-1 near Skukuza Camp in South Africa\u2019s Kruger National Park. As we join the action, we see a lioness fully focused on an as-yet-unseen target. Her ears face forward, and she holds her body close to the ground as she stalks forward.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"868\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H8jHWuMtFoI\" title=\"Lion Catches and Kills Impala Mid-Air\" 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>As the camera zooms out, we see a herd of skittish impala in the dry riverbed. Simultaneously, we hear the excited chatter of the tourists watching events unfold. Keeping a close eye on the herd, the lioness adapts her strategy to isolate a target. She moves left to intercept her prey as the herd moved to the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While lions are only successful in about 30% of attempted hunts, the results are spectacular when they get it right. Here, a combination of stealth, speed, strength and lightning-quick reactions &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-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}