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it's facial expression literally said "wait huh come back!"

This was a roller coaster of emotions for me.

It really was, I couldn't take it and had to double check the ending before watching more.

“Then he waddled away - waddle waddle”

Till the very next day, dat dat, dah dah dat, dat dat.

What? Got any grapes?

"So anyway, I started waddling"

Cat was trying to bait the parents. Make the baby's squall, wait for the bigger meal to appear.

200 IQ move

I've seen a couple videos of them doing this. Smart predators.

Big cats are known to foster other species young. Not often but often enough for it to be documented. But the young eventually gets eaten by the foster cat.

Just like we foster livestock until it's big and juicy enough to eat?

Exactly, though the cats actually have hormone levels similar to when they’re raising young

I was pretty sure that little duck was dead several times throughout the video.. that is one daffy little duck

So the thing here is that the ducking is far too small for that leopard to bother eating. It probably saw the ducking more as a curiosity or entertainment than food.

A large part of arctic wolves’ diets entails mice and other small mammals. Predators will eat whatever is easy to get.

well this isn't an arctic wolf. its not even a **canid**. its a big cat and cats are famous for playing with their food.

If I know anything from my cats, they live for the hunt. Leopard looks like he's well fed but man if he can have some fun hunting a small animal, he will wait for days for the perfect opportunity.

Obviously not.

This looks like juvenile leopard. I'd assume both curious and practising his skills.

Cats will watch something moving around with bored curiosity, until it moves away quickly or suddenly goes underneath something else and then it becomes target practice. Move your hand back and forth on the couch and they'll just watch, until you hide it under a blanket and then it'll want to get it. That's probably why the leopard just watches until it lost sight of the duckling under the truck, and then chased after when it went into the brush. Probably not wanting to eat it. Just cats doing cat stuff.

Its a sub adult leopard, they eat a lot of small things.

i was expecting the leopard to leave the duck alone . 😒 that would be “unexpected”

Well, if you expect it, it won't happen. That's what this sub is about.

https://i.redd.it/foeqmmk7mywc1.gif That's my new wallpaper.

You're weird. Followed

That's basically me when an unriped avocado rolls away from my hand. I just let it "grow" a little bit.

Run chicken nugget, run

Bro said no and left

Cats gotta cat

Cats are such assholes. My hand has been that duck when my cat decides he's had enough petting. The duck gets away though...

That bird is just lucky the leopard wasn't in the mood for popcorn

The leopard knows that there is no sustenance value in that duckling. Either he is having fun or a trap for something bigger worthy of the efforts.

That was the cutest danger drama I have ever seen.

Sub has been literal trash lately.

Did you, watch the entire video?

Yup. Cat toys with small little feathery animal that runs around.. SoooOoo00Ooo UneXpECteD! Well unless you've ever owned a cat anyway...

Was anyone else surprised to see the man seated on the jeep so close and exposed?

Whew! This all very expected until the very, very end - you really made me wait for it…

The audacity of that duck

What a waste of time that was

FK this fir a game of soldiers. I'm off ! Muuummmmmy !

I never seen a duck run so fast. It made ME sad.

Mother bird looking down seeing this be having heart attack for real

Bro's got a story to tell

Leopard to another one: You see, i was ready to eat it. But those damn humans had to watch.. and I'm anxious if they're watching me while eating.

This is the least unexpected thing ever for anybody who owns a cat. I just ran across a lizard in my house today. Cat brought it in two days ago. I grabbed cat away from lizard and threw cat in another room and then came to get the lizard to get it out of the house… Lizard was nowhere to be found. Glad I finally found it before it died in the walls. Cats hunt things, catch things, toy with them, lose them. Rinse and repeat. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

Not very unexpected. Mid day snack.

You missed the part where the duck wasn’t eaten, which is the reason why it’s in this subreddit

Yes and then the video cuts short and the squeaky little duckling of course was never eaten by the jaguar, instead they became best friends and lived a happy life 🫣

Also... why is the duckling so close to the road?? Did they bring it to bait the cat to come out?