Posted on 09/01/2015 6:23:00 AM PDT by JoeProBono
KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa, - A safari tour group in South Africa's Kruger National Park captured footage of an unlucky leopard failing to find a meal in its confrontation with a plucky porcupine.
The video, shot during a safari tour earlier this month and posted to YouTube by Endless Summer Tours, features footage of a porcupine being chased by a tenacious leopard that repeatedly takes quills to its face and body before giving up its pursuit of the ostensibly tasty prey.
"In August 2015 we were on a safari tour in the Kruger National Park from Johannesburg. It was our last morning when we spotted a leopard in the grass and realized he was on the hunt! Suddenly out of the hole came running a porcupine and the fight was on," the video's description reads.
"The leopard tried multiple attacks but each time ended up with a whole host of quills in its face and body. Eventually after one particularly poor attempt by the leopard the porcupine took its chance to make a dash for it!" the tour group wrote.
I don’t think that porcupine will taste too good with the inside of your mouth full of quills
Ouch!
Stupid cat. Martens kill porcupines by repeatedly biting the nose. The porcupine dies of exsanguination.
http://michiganwildlife.blogspot.com/2012/11/fishers-and-martens-weasels-of-trees.html
At South Africa's Kruger National Park, a leopard and a porcupine are filmed in a life-and-death struggle. The porcupine's hind leg is injured, and the leopard is pulling porcupine needles out of his paws and mouth.
Although the porcupine is injured, it is not going down easily. While the leopard tries to gnaw at the porcupine's belly, where there are no needles, the porcupine turns its back to the leopard. After being stabbed several times by the sharp needles, the leopard seems likely to give up this painful hunt.
But he decides to give it one more try and leaps onto the porcupine from behind, biting the porcupine on a hind leg. After the capture, the leopard strolls back into the forest with its prey.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/world/2015/08/524_183359.html
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