A nearby tree spared this eleven-month-old leopard cub from certain ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ after it was pursued by a hungry hyena and forced to make a desperate escape. A juvenile leopard that had been left hiding under a bush by its mother while she went out in search of a carcass to feed it had been passed by the one hyena in a pack of four.

Moosa Varachia, a 30-year-old accountant and part-time photographic guide, took this breath-taking encounter while on a game drive on the S1 in the Kruger National Park.

After an amazing male leopard sighting at the Nwaswitshaka waterhole, according to Moosa, it was time for the dreaded drive to the gate, which signals the end of the day. A baby leopard was sitting in the thick undergrowth where they had stopped on the S1. As they were about to leave after taking some pictures and movies, she looked up and noticed a hyena clan coming!

The alpha hyena smells the leopard, turns, and retraces its steps as it looks for the prospective challenger before spotting it. The juvenile leopard runs for cover when it realizes that its hiding site has been discovered and that her mother is not there to help her, but because it is still so young, it cannot run at its adult pace.

When it caught her, the tiny cub would have been easily ᴋɪʟʟed by the 40mph hyena, which was roughly 5 feet long, 3 feet at the shoulder, and weighed 100 pounds. The cub, however, was cunning enough to identify a tree and use its claws to climb it, narrowly eluding the carnivore who was trying to ᴋɪʟʟ it.

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