People think too little of us mice.
Posted on 06/04/2009 6:38:52 AM PDT by rawhide
This mouse diced with death when it tucked into the lunch of a hungry leopard.
Seemingly unaware of the beast towering over it, the mischievous rodent grabbed at scraps of meat thrown into the African Leopard's enclosure.
But instead of pouncing on the the tiny intruder the 12-year-old leopard, called Sheena, appeared to be afraid of the daring mouse and kept her distance.
At one stage she tried to nudge the mouse away with her nose, but the determined little chap carried on chewing away until he was full.
The extraordinary scene was captured by photography student Casey Gutteridge at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
The 19-year-old, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, who was photographing the leopard for a course project, was astounded by the mouse's behaviour.
He said: 'I have no idea where the mouse came from - he just appeared in the enclosure after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard.
'He didn't take any notice of the leopard, just went straight over to the meat and started feeding himself.
'But the leopard was pretty surprised - she bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit like she was scared.
'In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had happened.
'It was amazing, even the keeper who had thrown the meat into the enclosure was shocked - he said he'd never seen anything like it before.'
Project owner Jackie James added: 'It was so funny to see - Sheena batted the mouse a couple of times to try to get it away from her food.
'But the determined little thing took no notice and just carried on.'
Sheena was brought in to the Santago Rare Leopard Project from a UK zoo when she was just four months old.
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I love that photo, where is it from?
Got it from Precious Child Ministries website:
http://preciouschildministries.org/MessageDetail.aspx?id=Psalm23
LOL.
Enhanced hamster interrogation techniques?
Thanks for the laugh!
Awww - a tiny lil’ waterboard!
Yeah... I’n it cuuuute? I’m still looking for a teensy weensy stinging insect.
Tough mouse to leopard: “Don’t screw wit me or I’ll kick yer azz and the horse you rode on.”
cute hell!!
The leopard is a metaphor for an America destroyed by Obama. America is captive and lost the will to be
Had a friend whose daughter had a gerbil. They also had a big stupid mutt dog. The gerbil gets out and the dog ate the gerbil. The story for the daughters consumption was that the gerbil ran away again. This worked until the daughter saw the gerbil consumed in one bite. No chewing. All gone. Not even a belch.
I ate a goldfish once....just sayin
Everybody’s done that.
How about a gerbil.
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