The clip was shared by Indian Forest Service officer Sushant Nanda
In the race to survive, the fittest almost always win. Wild animals need to fight with predators, need to fight their competition, and all this can be achieved only if one is physically fit. For animals, fitness is a matter of life and death. A perfect demonstration of this can be seen in a video going viral on social media. The clip, shared by Indian Forest Service officer Sushant Nanda, shows a wild chase between a tiger and a leopard.
He captioned the video, “How a leopard survives in a landscape dominated by tigers. Tigers can easily climb trees, their sharp and retractable claws providing a powerful grip to hold onto tree trunks and climb up. But as they get older their body weight prevents them from doing so. Stay slim to survive.
Watch the video here:
This is how the leopard survives in a landscape dominated by the tiger.
Tigers can easily climb trees, their sharp and retractable claws providing a powerful grip to hold onto tree trunks and climb up. But as they get older their body weight prevents them from doing so.
Stay slim to survive🙏 pic.twitter.com/uePgSwIJcj— Sushant Nanda (@susantananda3) February 14, 2023
In the 30-second clip, a tiger can be seen getting ready to attack the leopard. As he ran and ran towards the leopard, he quickly climbed a tall tree. The tiger also climbed the tree following the leopard, but after a few seconds he gave up.
Since the video was posted, it has been viewed over four lakh times, garnered over 5,743 likes and over 850 retweets. Netizens were fascinated to watch the video and flooded the comments section with their reactions.
One user wrote, “Look at the speed at which the leopard climbed the tree! Amazing!” Another commented, “The way the leopard climbed the tree in one go is truly breathtaking. I would say coexistence is best.” A third comment read, “Wow!!! Amazing charge of a tiger and its tendency to chase it up a tree, thanks for the speed!!! The leopard definitely won its heart out while climbing the tree trunk.” Must have heard the beats.Fantastic…Thanks for sharing.
The fourth added, ”Amazing footage Sushant, thanks for sharing. We suspect that the leopard’s heart was beating very fast when the #tiger started climbing the tree after that!
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