Destined to take its place in the annals of natural history footage, it starts with a gut-wrenching kill and u-turns into a heart-breaking moment.
A leopard kills a baboon, drags it up a tree, begins eating it when its just-born child drops from the tree to the ground.
The leopard jumps to the ground to investigate and just when you think it has visions of an Egg McMuffin dancing in its head, it starts mothering the infant baboon!
Still, I couldn’t help wondering about a future conversation:
Infant Baboon: “Tell me about mom!”
Leopard: “Well, she wasn’t very fast…”