Video: Leopard's 'amazing' encounter with porcupine takes internet by storm

Amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, videos have emerged of wildlife reacquiring their natural habitat while humans remain confined to their homes. Indian Forester Ramesh Pandey recently shared an encounter of a leopard with a “sneaky” porcupine in Katerniaghat. In the short 18-second clip, both animals can be seen moving towards each other in the dark. While leopard tried to remain silent and apparently crawled towards the large rodent, the latter also does the same. However, as soon as leopard tries to attack the porcupine, it spreads his spines and scared the predator away. This according to Pandey and many others were “interesting”.

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‘Amazing’

The video has garnered over 32k views and internet users are calling this encounter as “amazing”. Several Twitter users also noted that both animals chose to safeguard their own safety and one of them even said, “this is natural”. One of the internet users admitted that he had never seen such a “brilliant” video of a porcupine using its quills to scare other animals away and how it is more efficient in the dark.  

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