Dog flees stalking leopard while a smaller dog stays to ‘fight’
In a village in India, two dogs encountered a stalking leopard, and each reacted quite differently.
The incident occurred in the northern part of Nashik in a suburb called Makhmalabad, and was captured on a security camera around 11 p.m. on a rainy night at the end of September.
The footage shows the first dog obviously noticing the approaching leopard. It nearly ran into the parked motorcycle in its haste to get away.
The second dog, a bit smaller than the first, came out of a storage shed to watch its friend high-tail it out of there, unaware of the approaching leopard.
But the dog soon discovered why its friend ran away so quickly. When it turned, it saw the predator and reacted quite differently.
Instead of running away, the second dog retreated into the storage shed and fought back the only way it could: with its bark, a high-pitched screech. It was a panicked bark if ever there was one.
The leopard reacted by turning around and taking off.
Indian leopards can run up to 36 mph, can jump nearly 10 feet and can leap over 20 feet horizontally. So, the second dog probably would not have outrun the hungry leopard and did the correct thing.
Thankfully, its bark proved more threatening than its bite.
Photo courtesy of Biswajit Hindustan Media.