A mouse stealing a leopard’s lunch.........can you believe it?!
Seemingly unaware of the beast towering over it, the tiny rodent grabbed at scraps of meat thrown into the African leopard ’s enclosure. But instead of pouncing on the tiny intruder, the 12-year-old leopard, Sheena, kept her distance. After a few minutes she tried to nudge the mouse away with her nose, but the determined little guy kept chewing away until he was full. The extraordinary scene was captured by photography student, Casey Gutteridge, at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, England. The 19-year-old Casey, photographing the leopard for a course project, was astounded by the mouse’s behavior. He said had no idea where the mouse came from. It just appeared after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard. Taking no notice of the leopard, the mouse went straight over to the meat and started eating. Even when the leopard bent down and nudged him, th...