The Ravenscourt male leopard caught himself a warthog and that provided his meals for the next three days. The waiting hyenas were left with a few scraps. The Ravenscourt male leopard likes to catch warthogs, like many male leopards do. Catching warthogs is a special skill that leopards have to learn well otherwise they may get injured by the sharp tusks of the warthog. The Ravenscourt male leopard often targets the brachial artery when catching warthogs, this allows him to avoid the warthog tusks whilst still being an effective takedown tactic. Many leopard vs warthog situations end in a stalemate with both leopard and warthog going their separate ways but this time the warthog was unlucky.
Filmed in the Sabi Sand Nature Reserve, Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa
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Hi, I'm Rob the Ranger. You probably already know that, so let's go and have a look at some animals.
I was wondering about the warthog.
How does a warthog land himself in this position? They usually are like in these little packs.
It doesn't matter how many of them there are. All the leopards do is jump on one of them.
The others won't help. They will run for their lives.
And are all of the meals similar?
Yeah, it's opening up the intestine there.
Trying to get all the grass out of the way.
There's a big set of tusks on it. It's not an easy kill, a big warthog like that.
The tusks of the warthog can inflict quite a big wound on a leopard.
There's all of the intestines he's removed there, the large intestine.
What would it take for him to separate the fat?
It's still very fresh, so they're not going to find it now.
They might come across it by accident while they're wandering around tonight.
But it doesn't smell of dead at the moment.
By opening it up and getting all that processed grass out, it's just going to smell of grass.
So that scent will actually mask the scent of the meat to start with.
But I'll give it a bit more time and it will start to smell of dead meat.
And that will bring the hyenas in pretty quickly.
So if they don't get here tonight, they'll definitely get here tomorrow.
It just depends on how many hyenas there are actually in the area.
But he's not worried about us being here?
No, no.
But being an old animal, you would have thought he would have.
None of the animals are worried about us. They've learnt that we're not food and we're not a threat.
They like to specialise in warthogs.
I can see that's his favourite dish.
Does he have a name?
Three for us.
That would be amazing if he does.
Absolutely stunning.
Watch now, watch.
Just bounce, bounce, bounce up the tree.
Look at that.
Straight to the meat.
Incredible.
There he falls apart.
Poor little warthog.
His antennae won't be staying in him.
See, here he's not going to get you.
I still want to give it a slice.
I've got it.
He's a little heated on the feet.
He's got his claws right in the hurt there.
Should stop it from falling, but he's going to struggle.
Will he drag it back?
It depends how long it took him to get down the tree.
He'd try and get it back, definitely.
But he wouldn't be able to drag it back from there.
From there, he can pull it back into position.
He put it there in the first place.
But he's not right at the right angle right now.
Raven's court.
Very precariously balanced now.
The court is going to overbalance soon.
Closer and closer to throwing it on the ground.
Yes, he's getting it off balance.
He's had a big chunk of meat.
Looks pretty awkward.
He's got the meat.
Did you see what he just did?
He hoisted up further.
How are you?
I don't like hyena.
He wants to eat.
Just because he's here.
I don't get it.
That was the end of that.
He's moving it around like it's nothing.
Just for these three.
Looks like he's happy with it there now.
The hyena also knows that nothing's going to happen now.
I've got it okay.
He's got the branch.
I've got the branch.
You still can't stop taking them.
No.
But that's still not good really for the lion.
You'll be able to change your aperture, Jeff.
I don't know that I can on this.
It's no longer recognisably a warthog, is it?
I don't even know what it was.
Look at the head sitting there.
The skin's all still there.
He won't eat the skin.
Yes, he has to.
The pelvis looks quite close to falling down now.
Yes, if he bites right through there in the middle,
he's going to drop half of it, isn't he?
No, he's just lifting it up.
He's not silly.
The leopard's a male.
You can't see from this angle because the branch is in the way.
This girl was here sitting in the tree quite happily.
He just mustn't have been hungry yesterday.
You saw how much he ate the day before.
He just stays like he's mesmerised.
Would that be the same hyena?
I should think it would be one very patient hyena.
Yes.
He's probably stayed here all yesterday just hoping to drop.
But he wasn't there yesterday.
He had to go shopping.
Perhaps.
No, no, different.
No.
Oh, I realise.
I was just joking.
Might be finished now.
Well, getting coming down was fantastic.
They're going to try and rescue the head.
Maybe.
Or maybe he's just going to jump out the tree.
Go and sit somewhere away from the hyena.
Climb up backwards.
Hang down.
All got eaten.
That's a big male, is it, or a medium male?
It's a young male, so he can still grow, but he's still big for his age.
It's just skin, he's not going to, he's going to lick a bit.
His tongue is really rough, so the idea is when, that's why they have such rough tongues,
so you'll see like a line, they'll lick the skin.
It sort of tenderises it a bit and then they can slice through it.
He's going to drop most of it.
I think he is going to drop a whole lot of that.
Yeah, there really isn't much there.
Is it mostly the skin then?
It's mostly skin, there's not much there.
There'll be a little bit of meat still left on the skin, that's probably for the beef jerky at the moment.
Look how crunchy that skin is, it's like eating a shoe.
It must be, say, 2 or 3 centimetres thick.
Guys, we're figuring it out, we're eating.
Let's go around, let's go see what we can find.
That was very, very cool.
That was very cool.
That was amazing.
I liked that.
That was awesome.
What are the chances of that tasting like I've had before?
Is this his feeding tree?
No, he would have made the kill in the area and he would have found a suitable tree.
We were speaking about how some trees are deciduous and some are evergreen.
This is an evergreen tree.
So he puts it up the tree to get rid of vultures.
So the vultures don't see him.
Vultures will attract hyenas, which will attract lions, will attract all those things.
So he would have found a tree with leaves.
In summertime, every maruda, every tree has a leaf, so he can just kill something.
Alright, that tree's fine.
But in this case, he dragged that meal quite far, actually.
He dragged it, he was lying in, I don't actually know where he was lying, but he was quite far away from here.
The guy said he dragged it quite a distance to get it to him.
Alright, are we ready guys?
Yeah.
Let's get out of here.
If you actually look on the ground, how much meat there is, it's just all hanging around.
The hyenas look.
Oh wow.
There's very little actual meat left there.
So when he's finished feeding now, even if there's still some, you know, those legs still hanging in the tree,
if he gets out of the tree now, I don't think he'll ever get back up again.
And this is pretty much, this is his last meal on this kill.
Getting as much out of this as possible.
Change of position.
Nice to settle down away from here, because he knows the hyenas are going to be attracted here.
Will he do the seasonal thing and drop back down to the hyenas, or will he?
I don't know, we'll have to see.
You might sort of see he'll carry on feeding until he's literally got nothing to feed on anymore,
and that's probably when he'll call out with a bi-accident.
How long will this last him?
In a couple of days, you'll probably find.
But, look, there are options to hunters.
If, literally, he finishes eating, goes to lie down and has a rest,
if something will pass him, he's possibly going to hunt it.
Because you don't know when your next meal is going to be.
And leopards will happily leave fields up trees for a couple of days before feeding.
So you'll...
The entrails are the thin side of them.
Look at the claws holding on to that bit of skin there.
It's just skin, isn't it?
There you go.
It's still...
I'm really surprised there's no hyena around.
There's been a hyena hanging around here every time we've been here.
And now there's actually bits falling down.
Hyena's gone.
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