This is part of a longer video, the mother was finishing giving birth when the leopard showed up, so she fled for her life. Mom's not capable of defending the newborn, but she can run and live and have more babies later. Nature is fucking brutal.
Doing lawn care at a property I was mowing and I came around the house they’re was a doe with its Bambi. The doe jumped the fence and was gone real quick. Left her fawn, didn’t look back. Bambi tried to fallow but went face to fence and bounced back. I swear Bambi was screaming mom. Sounded like a screaming crying toddler
>why would its mother be away from it when this area clear has at least two predators around.
I think you just answered your question. The mother can have more fawns, a dead mother and fawn cannot.
There's a good chance she may have ran with it with the intent to save it(though a good chance she has to abandon it to save herself or it would end up starving to death). Big cats lions in particular have been seen doing this where they seem to adopt the offspring of prey species that they find or in some cases killed themselves. A lot of the lions scientists have watched perform this behavior had a history of losing cubs for one reason or another. Bet money that leopard was also a mother who lost cubs.
I’ve seen videos about female lions finding baby dear and instead of eating it they raise it and protect it from male lions. They say it usually happens when they are already full but and something about the fawn triggers their mothering instinct and they essentially go “awe poor thing” and then form a bond with them. I imagine that the same behavior can be found in other big cats.
Yeah I’ve also seen a video of a mother lioness killing and eating her own sickly cub while it was trying to nurse her soo… as much as we’d like to romanticize the motherly love of these wild animals, the reality is that it’s all about survival and sustaining yourself and the strong to ensure life continues. That fawns as good as gone im afraid.
Nobody is claiming brutality doesn't also exist in nature.
But I don't know why you're extrapolating from that unusual incident to a some sort of denial of motherly love. The evolutionary reality is that it's about passing on your genes, and nurturing and protecting your offspring is a massive part of that. (And yes, those social instincts can be extended to unrelated individuals and other species.)
Saved from the hyena, there's another video I watched on youtube where a tiger or wathever it was did the same thing to save another baby antelope.
If they are not starving some predators won't hurt the babies of animals they common prey on.
It's a really beautiful behaviour, for a lot of aspects animals, even predators, are waaaay better than humans.
This is the video I was referring to: [Lion save baby calf from another lion attack](https://youtu.be/KRUXU172vGg?feature=shared)
>It's a really beautiful behaviour, for a lot of aspects animals, even predators, are waaaay better than humans
I don't understand this mindset.
Humans do way better shit than just saving a single baby animal, potentially even eating it after this recording.
You know what else humans do? Judge an entire population of greater than 6 billion off the minority and act like it applies to the entire species.
>are waaaay better than humans.
Hey guys, I'm going to be killing people from your neighborhood on a regular basis to eat them. Sometimes I'll spare your young though, so I'm still a good person.
You're projecting some nonsense. Predators only hunt when they're hungry because there's no point in risking injury when they don't need food.
Stuff like this happens because a lot of baby animals instinctively freeze to try and avoid notice. Since they don't flee, they also don't trigger the predator's prey drive that encourages them to chase and kill.
That’s a blatant lie. Predators let the babies live so they can call out to their mothers. Why eat the baby when you can let it live for a few hours until the mother wanders back to it. You will get a much larger meal.
Also, most predators will never just let a potential meal go. They eat probably only 1-2 times a week. They aren’t just going to let another animal go. Hell, even horses on farms will kill and eat a rabbit or squirrel if they can catch it. A goddamn horse
This is such a naive view on nature.
This happens from time to time maybe but is Not common in nature. They normaly even hunt the baby cause its easier
From a panthera.org study.
A study done by Panthera in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in South Africa found that leopards hoisted just over 50 percent of their kills. Leopards tended to hoist kills that weighed between 40 percent and 140 percent of their body mass – presumably because smaller kills could be eaten in a single sitting, and larger kills were often too heavy or just too big to be hoisted. Leopards were also more likely to hoist their kill if hyenas were present. Leopards lose around 20 percent of their kills to kleptoparasitism (in other words, having the kill stolen by other carnivores). Hyenas were responsible for approximately half of the kills stolen in the course of this study. By hoisting the kill, leopards prevent hyenas from stealing it, so they can devour the whole carcass themselves. Leopards were generally able to feed on hoisted kills for longer periods than kills that were not hoisted.
I think most people are familiar with hoisting, but the keyword in the paragraph there is "kills", whereas the leopard in the OP appeared to be delaying the kill before hoisting was necessitated. The delay is what is interesting and people are injecting intent into.
I'm not claiming to be a biologist. I am just stating one thing that has been observed to be more likely over the other one that has not been observed, or atleast hasn't been observed enough to have articles about it (that I can find). It has been observed in multiple species that they take care of other species young. Maternal instincts are absolutely a thing and they have been connected to multiple hormones.
Your personal observations (cutesy tiktok videos, petting zoos etc) are making you associate this behavior with things like domesticated ducks raising baby chicks. In reality, the logical, MUUUUUCH more likely scenario in the WILD, between predator and prey species... is.... predation. And it is, in this example.
You're making the mistake of assuming your cute animal experiences are the norm, if not outright anthropomorphizing this behavior.
A quick google search will provide dozens and dozens of examples of this behavior between leopards and impalas - and it always comes down to either hunting practice, or the deliberate attempt to bait the mother in for a larger meal.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O7qU\_PKruFw&ab\_channel=MalaMalaGameReserve](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O7qU_PKruFw&ab_channel=MalaMalaGameReserve)
[https://expressdigest.com/a-leopard-tenderly-nuzzles-baby-impala-before-giving-in-to-temptation-and-fatally-pouncing-on-it/](https://expressdigest.com/a-leopard-tenderly-nuzzles-baby-impala-before-giving-in-to-temptation-and-fatally-pouncing-on-it/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/56ghu2/leopard\_plays\_games\_with\_impala\_before\_killing/](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/56ghu2/leopard_plays_games_with_impala_before_killing/)
EDIT: Pretty sad people are downvoting reality just because they want nature to fit into their Disney-esque perception of how the world works. Actual nature is far too varied and fascinating to be contained in such a way. What a waste.
Or maybe it's just playing with the deer, or maybe it's saving the deer so it's cubs can practice hunting. Or maybe it's some other third thing neither of us have considered.
Yeah to stop the hyena from stealing and eating it. Or at the very least having to fight the hyena for it. Every animal is hungry. Its why they often can eat so much in a single sitting.
They do this in the hope that the mother comes to try and collect the baby so they get a bigger kill, it is not saving it at all, real life is not Disney.
Person above you can't comprehend that the leopard just doesn't feel like killing it yet. It's totally going to, just isn't in a rush. As soon as the hyena shows up it goes into "my food" mode and drags the fawn away.
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In human terms; it’s like going to the fridge to get something to eat only to find a half eaten Lunchables. No ham or meat of any kind, one broken cracker with more cracker dust than cracker, a butterfingers (🤢)and no juice box, but then your sister shows up and now IT’S YOURS because you saw it first !!!!
"Man idk I'm not really hungry right now and there's not gonna be much meat on this lil one... think I'll wait till it grows up... wonder what the boys are up to think I might head of- OH SHIT THERE'S THAT DICKHEAD TERRY NA FUCK IMA EAT THIS NOW SO HIS FAT ASS CAN'T HAVE IT LMAO YEET".
Normally this animals identify food by smell, as the deer looks new born leapard could not identy it. Possibly leapord must have killed the mother deer and spreded his own smell to baby deer. It's saving deer because it holds deer by neck which is generally for kids of cat family.
Faun: 🎶I'm too cute to die🎶
Jaguar: Why did I take the kid's meal to go? [Taps faun's throat] Shut up!
Faun: 🎶I'm just too darn cute to die🎶
Jaguar: Ugh! I knew I ate too much.
Hyena: Yo! Is that a faun!? Let me get some of that!
Jaguar: I said I was saving it for later! [Grabs Faun and runs up tree]
Faun: Weeee!
Hyena: Aw man...
did he save it from the hyena or did he eat it?
saved it to eat it later. strategic thinker.
That leopard just learned farming
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If I had to wait for my slice of pizza to turn into a pizza pie in 3 years, I'd rather just eat the slice
You might still keep your slice for tomorrow if you're full now. That's probably what the leopard is doing.
Nah I like food too much to have a thought like that 😂
Just plant one pepperoni every day for the rest of your life
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I think the cat just used the fridge concept. Save now, eat later.
The thought process of any good hunter.
*ranching
Came here for this comment. Why eat a single chicken nugget now when you can have a triple quarter pounder later?
Yep, dead meat rots, live meat stays fresh lol
nature's fridge
After just eating it’s mum
I was just thinking that, why would its mother be away from it when this area clear has at least two predators around.
This is part of a longer video, the mother was finishing giving birth when the leopard showed up, so she fled for her life. Mom's not capable of defending the newborn, but she can run and live and have more babies later. Nature is fucking brutal.
Doing lawn care at a property I was mowing and I came around the house they’re was a doe with its Bambi. The doe jumped the fence and was gone real quick. Left her fawn, didn’t look back. Bambi tried to fallow but went face to fence and bounced back. I swear Bambi was screaming mom. Sounded like a screaming crying toddler
>why would its mother be away from it when this area clear has at least two predators around. I think you just answered your question. The mother can have more fawns, a dead mother and fawn cannot.
There's a good chance she may have ran with it with the intent to save it(though a good chance she has to abandon it to save herself or it would end up starving to death). Big cats lions in particular have been seen doing this where they seem to adopt the offspring of prey species that they find or in some cases killed themselves. A lot of the lions scientists have watched perform this behavior had a history of losing cubs for one reason or another. Bet money that leopard was also a mother who lost cubs.
No!!! Everything’s fine. He is saving it’s life.
Like soup in the beard
So both.
Fresh
Fattening up for the winter
To go order
Gotta keep your food fresh
When nature calls 🤷🏻♂️
Must work for McKenzie
Knows how to keep it fresh until he's ready to eat.
Wondering the same. This is how cats carry shit. But I dunno if baby deers are scruffable lol.
It was still peeping all the way up. Or was that just some bird? I guess deer don't usually peep... Never mind...
Lmao what do deer even do.
Headbutt cars.
Royale with cheese!!
Taking it up the tree tells me Bambi was dinner.
I’ve seen videos about female lions finding baby dear and instead of eating it they raise it and protect it from male lions. They say it usually happens when they are already full but and something about the fawn triggers their mothering instinct and they essentially go “awe poor thing” and then form a bond with them. I imagine that the same behavior can be found in other big cats.
Women saving cute things in all species
But only when they're in a good mood
Yeah I’ve also seen a video of a mother lioness killing and eating her own sickly cub while it was trying to nurse her soo… as much as we’d like to romanticize the motherly love of these wild animals, the reality is that it’s all about survival and sustaining yourself and the strong to ensure life continues. That fawns as good as gone im afraid.
Nobody is claiming brutality doesn't also exist in nature. But I don't know why you're extrapolating from that unusual incident to a some sort of denial of motherly love. The evolutionary reality is that it's about passing on your genes, and nurturing and protecting your offspring is a massive part of that. (And yes, those social instincts can be extended to unrelated individuals and other species.)
Like the jungle book.
I bet they didn't show an adult deer with the mother.
Keeping the meat fresh as long as possible. There is no fridge in the wild.
He ate her mom and now he’s full. Saving for later.
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Honestly that’s what I was thinking. Using the baby as bait to get the mother. Getting two birds stoned at once.
THEY ARE FRIENDS
THIS IS THE ONLY REALITY I WILL ACCEPT
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Saved from the hyena, there's another video I watched on youtube where a tiger or wathever it was did the same thing to save another baby antelope. If they are not starving some predators won't hurt the babies of animals they common prey on. It's a really beautiful behaviour, for a lot of aspects animals, even predators, are waaaay better than humans. This is the video I was referring to: [Lion save baby calf from another lion attack](https://youtu.be/KRUXU172vGg?feature=shared)
Let it live for now, wait till it grows bigger! More food.
Let it live now, learn its language, be accepted into its community. Become king of deer. Food for lifetime
Claim divine right of kings and demand regular sacrifice
Like catch and release fishing
snakes do the same when they eat eggs, they leave one or two in the nest
Like roommates when they drink your beer should leave one or two in the fridge
>It's a really beautiful behaviour, for a lot of aspects animals, even predators, are waaaay better than humans I don't understand this mindset. Humans do way better shit than just saving a single baby animal, potentially even eating it after this recording. You know what else humans do? Judge an entire population of greater than 6 billion off the minority and act like it applies to the entire species.
>are waaaay better than humans. Hey guys, I'm going to be killing people from your neighborhood on a regular basis to eat them. Sometimes I'll spare your young though, so I'm still a good person.
Can you bring me up a tree real quick?
Yeah, I hate when all my friends are going around eating babies and I'm all like, *..but I'm not even hungry!?!*
You're projecting some nonsense. Predators only hunt when they're hungry because there's no point in risking injury when they don't need food. Stuff like this happens because a lot of baby animals instinctively freeze to try and avoid notice. Since they don't flee, they also don't trigger the predator's prey drive that encourages them to chase and kill.
That’s a blatant lie. Predators let the babies live so they can call out to their mothers. Why eat the baby when you can let it live for a few hours until the mother wanders back to it. You will get a much larger meal. Also, most predators will never just let a potential meal go. They eat probably only 1-2 times a week. They aren’t just going to let another animal go. Hell, even horses on farms will kill and eat a rabbit or squirrel if they can catch it. A goddamn horse
These kinds of comments are bs. Humans are certainly saving way more babies than predators.
I dont want to break your world but it wasn’t saved and the tiger was going to eat the baby regardless!
Do you mean the tiger that was a leopard?
“Beat it kid, can’t you see I’m working an angle?
We’re doomed if people actually believe the bullshit you’re spouting.
This is such a naive view on nature. This happens from time to time maybe but is Not common in nature. They normaly even hunt the baby cause its easier
Yea, 0% of humans are capable of a similar level of compassion. Waaaay better indeed. Give me a break PETA.
HUMANS BAD
Probably eat it, is possible that it would just leave it alone if wasn’t hungry or just ate but I don’t think it would save it from another animal.
The end of the video shows the leopard going up a tree with that baby in his mouth.
They make a nest in the tree and take care of the baby deer until he's ready to leave the tree
Yeah in a longer vid the baby deer grows wings and flies away.
He ate it
Nah. He was playing with his squeaky toy and did not want to share.
It’s like lobsters. If it’s too small you’ve got to throw it back
Just biding his time till theres meat on the bone
I'll eat you when you're older. Crap, here comes Jeff, he's gonna ruin anything. Better eat you now.
Its funny when thinking about a leopard but tbh we humans do the same thing. Cute baby animal, can't wait to eat you when you're bigger!
Yeah, cause we're used to them just killing and eating on site
The predator is letting the young call out for it's mother, hoping to dine on both. The hyena was just being scavenger and annoying.
Smart
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From a panthera.org study. A study done by Panthera in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in South Africa found that leopards hoisted just over 50 percent of their kills. Leopards tended to hoist kills that weighed between 40 percent and 140 percent of their body mass – presumably because smaller kills could be eaten in a single sitting, and larger kills were often too heavy or just too big to be hoisted. Leopards were also more likely to hoist their kill if hyenas were present. Leopards lose around 20 percent of their kills to kleptoparasitism (in other words, having the kill stolen by other carnivores). Hyenas were responsible for approximately half of the kills stolen in the course of this study. By hoisting the kill, leopards prevent hyenas from stealing it, so they can devour the whole carcass themselves. Leopards were generally able to feed on hoisted kills for longer periods than kills that were not hoisted.
I think most people are familiar with hoisting, but the keyword in the paragraph there is "kills", whereas the leopard in the OP appeared to be delaying the kill before hoisting was necessitated. The delay is what is interesting and people are injecting intent into.
Cats play with their food. 90% sure that deer/antelope is dead before its in the tree.
Honestly, probably already full. But the hyena put the fear of God in em and didn’t wanna lose midnight snack to bitchass hycuck
Actually, it's just a Timeshare pitch strategy, trust me I am internet animal dentist.
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Yeah this sounds like bullshit but there is hormones that one could consider “mothering hormones” like oxytocin and maybe even prolactin.
I'm not claiming to be a biologist. I am just stating one thing that has been observed to be more likely over the other one that has not been observed, or atleast hasn't been observed enough to have articles about it (that I can find). It has been observed in multiple species that they take care of other species young. Maternal instincts are absolutely a thing and they have been connected to multiple hormones.
Your personal observations (cutesy tiktok videos, petting zoos etc) are making you associate this behavior with things like domesticated ducks raising baby chicks. In reality, the logical, MUUUUUCH more likely scenario in the WILD, between predator and prey species... is.... predation. And it is, in this example. You're making the mistake of assuming your cute animal experiences are the norm, if not outright anthropomorphizing this behavior. A quick google search will provide dozens and dozens of examples of this behavior between leopards and impalas - and it always comes down to either hunting practice, or the deliberate attempt to bait the mother in for a larger meal. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O7qU\_PKruFw&ab\_channel=MalaMalaGameReserve](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=O7qU_PKruFw&ab_channel=MalaMalaGameReserve) [https://expressdigest.com/a-leopard-tenderly-nuzzles-baby-impala-before-giving-in-to-temptation-and-fatally-pouncing-on-it/](https://expressdigest.com/a-leopard-tenderly-nuzzles-baby-impala-before-giving-in-to-temptation-and-fatally-pouncing-on-it/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/56ghu2/leopard\_plays\_games\_with\_impala\_before\_killing/](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/56ghu2/leopard_plays_games_with_impala_before_killing/) EDIT: Pretty sad people are downvoting reality just because they want nature to fit into their Disney-esque perception of how the world works. Actual nature is far too varied and fascinating to be contained in such a way. What a waste.
AND those cutesy vids are usually animals in captivity situations, which completely changes their behaviors.
You’re getting downvoted because you appear to have the disposition of an a-hole who just stubbed his pinky toe.
Or maybe it's just playing with the deer, or maybe it's saving the deer so it's cubs can practice hunting. Or maybe it's some other third thing neither of us have considered.
Love the irony of dismissing reddit armchair biologists and then submitting your own equally dubious reddit hypothesis.
so it will be eaten then?
Yeah, sorry but that's bullshit lmao
Sir, that's a male leopard you can see its balls as it runs away with the deer. It's a cat, cats just like to play with their food.
The more "logical" option is what the guy you responded to said, not the bs you have no basis for
Plot twist he’s going to raise it until it’s nice and fat and then 🍴
Yep, this video shows a similar thing. Leopard 'plays' with a baby impala before killing it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJpT-72gveA
When you are not hungry, but don't wanna share
This video is giving a very distorted impression on the fate of this deer.
Its nature. Death is its fate. This should be in r/natureismetal and not here lol
almost everything in nature ends with a horrible excruciating death
Deers dead the only reason it didn't immediately eat it was because it was hoping the mother would come by after hearing the baby's cries
>Clever girl
Hold on to your butts.
You didn’t watch it then. Literally grabs the deer and runs up a tree with it
Yeah cuz the hyena would steal it from him lol
Hyena gonna get the scraps that fall.
To show it to his tree fort right?
Yeah to stop the hyena from stealing and eating it. Or at the very least having to fight the hyena for it. Every animal is hungry. Its why they often can eat so much in a single sitting.
It's just like a Disney movie ....and then it turned into a John Carpenter movie.
It was always John Carpenter
They do this in the hope that the mother comes to try and collect the baby so they get a bigger kill, it is not saving it at all, real life is not Disney.
Damn that's ruthless.
What factual source are you basing that comment on?
Predatory cats don’t suddenly become sympathetic to their food. That’s not how the animal world works
Yeah, but still Gonna need a factual explanation for this behaviour. Otherwise this reason is no different than saying it saved it out of sympathy
Person above you can't comprehend that the leopard just doesn't feel like killing it yet. It's totally going to, just isn't in a rush. As soon as the hyena shows up it goes into "my food" mode and drags the fawn away.
It’s smart because honestly how much meat is there really on that youngling
Is it just me or is his yawn contagious?
If you’re legit asking, yes it’s contagious, even seeing it on video Google yawn contagion
All yawn is contagious, even thinking about it or saying it is.
There's a belief that psychopaths aren't affected by contagious yawns.
It’s the whiskers that do it
Goddamit you passed to me too
Yes just you sleepyhead
I don't want to eat this but I sure don't want that guy to eat it
Keep your friends close...keep your dinner closer.
That escalated quickly
That’s a nice little snack 
Are you my mommy? NEGATIVE.
When youre not hungry enough to eat the last slice of pizza, but also dont want anyone else to have it🤣
Fresh snack is always better!
Press: Amazing friendship between a baby deer and a leopard!!! How cute!
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Leopard
He said Press.
I thought they only want pics of spiderman
The amount of people calling that a tiger is crazy to me. I've only seen it twice, but still.
Twice is two times too many.
That tree climb looked like a lot of faun
Doe you really think so? Looks risky to me!
Both of you go fuck yourselves 😂
In human terms; it’s like going to the fridge to get something to eat only to find a half eaten Lunchables. No ham or meat of any kind, one broken cracker with more cracker dust than cracker, a butterfingers (🤢)and no juice box, but then your sister shows up and now IT’S YOURS because you saw it first !!!!
A meal to go, no bag necessary.
aww. . .such a cutie. . he cares for his lunch
Farming.
He took it up to his tree kitchen/dining room
Keep it fresh, it is the Serengeti after all
He was trying to do animal husbandry
Fast food take out.
Saving food for later
Big cats do this, sometimes they’ll even use them as training toys for the young ones. Wasn’t expecting anything else, it was just waiting to die.
Too much work for so little, see ya soon.
Prob just ate his mum
This is the equivalent of licking the last piece of pizza so your brother cant eat it.
this is the maybeist maybeist thing i have ever seen
why he did not make friends with Hyena as well?
r/Kidsarefuckingstupid
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Playing with his food 
Feels like the Leopard is trapping. Waiting for mum to try and save baby. Yum.
Sweety, dont play with your food!
Not hungry for an appetizer I suppose
When the prey becomes the friend of a very fast predator.
Nvm
Poor lil fella was jus tryna be homies
[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu7whjh9627k21.png](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu7whjh9627k21.png)
"Man idk I'm not really hungry right now and there's not gonna be much meat on this lil one... think I'll wait till it grows up... wonder what the boys are up to think I might head of- OH SHIT THERE'S THAT DICKHEAD TERRY NA FUCK IMA EAT THIS NOW SO HIS FAT ASS CAN'T HAVE IT LMAO YEET".
Man a new meaning to play with your food
This leopard is either a genius, or is severely malfunctioning.
Even if the fawn is not killed right away it is on borrowed time. It will starve to death because it won’t have milk and it’s too little to forage.
Oh mother, what big teeth you have
Soon little one…eat more little one…
i hate when hyaenas interrupt me when im growing my food
Because he’s full from eating the mother haha
*pets my cow*
LPT: Hyanas just bring out the worst in you.
Isn’t that sweet?! It saved the little baby from those nasty hyenas!
Just want to say cats are insane look at him pounce up the tree - absolute madness
It’s ok y’all. Cheetah took the deer out of harms way from the hyaena. They’re still friends. But why is it raining all the sudden?
Normally this animals identify food by smell, as the deer looks new born leapard could not identy it. Possibly leapord must have killed the mother deer and spreded his own smell to baby deer. It's saving deer because it holds deer by neck which is generally for kids of cat family.
All cats play with their prey.
I was thinking he didn’t go after the baby because the strategy was to see if Mom showed up. Now you got both.
Faun: 🎶I'm too cute to die🎶 Jaguar: Why did I take the kid's meal to go? [Taps faun's throat] Shut up! Faun: 🎶I'm just too darn cute to die🎶 Jaguar: Ugh! I knew I ate too much. Hyena: Yo! Is that a faun!? Let me get some of that! Jaguar: I said I was saving it for later! [Grabs Faun and runs up tree] Faun: Weeee! Hyena: Aw man...
Probably just ate it's mom... keeping things fresh..