Cat and Mouse:
Daring rodent shows puzzled leopard exactly who's boss by stealing lunch!
This mouse diced with death when it tucked into the lunch of a hungry leopard. Seemingly unaware of the beast towering over it, the mischievous rodent grabbed at scraps of meat thrown into the African Leopard's enclosure. But instead of pouncing on the tiny intruder the 12-year-old leopard, called Sheena, appeared to be afraid of the daring mouse and kept her distance.
At one stage she tried to nudge the mouse away with her nose, but the determined little chap carried on chewing away until he was full.



Excuse me? A perturbed Sheena the leopard looks on as a cheeky mouse nibbles her food at the Santiago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, UK.
The extraordinary scene was captured by photography student Casey Gutteridge The 19-year-old from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, who was photographing the leopard for a course project, was astounded by the mouse's behaviour. He said: 'I have no idea where the mouse came from - he just appeared in the enclosure after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard. 'He didn't take any notice of the leopard, just went straight over to the meat and started feeding himself.'But the leopard was pretty surprised - she bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit as if she was scared.' In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had

'It was amazing, even the keeper who had thrown the meat into the enclosure was shocked - he said he'd never seen anything like it before.' Project owner Jackie James added: 'It was so funny to see - Sheena batted the mouse a couple of times to try to get it away from her food.' But the determined little thing took no notice and just carried on eating.' Sheena was brought in to the Santiago Rare Leopard Project from a UK zoo when she was just four months old. She is one of 14 big cats in the private collection started by Jackie's late husband Peter in 1989.

...so the mouse continued to eat the leopard's lunch and show the leopard who was boss

The African Leopard can be found in the continent's forests, grasslands, savannas, and rainforests. The leopard is the most elusive of all the big cats. They are solitary animals and are primarily nocturnal - preferring to hunt at night. The species is also a strong climber and is capable of killing prey larger than itself. The leopard's prey ranges from fish, reptiles and birds to smaller mammals such as hares and monkeys. A stealthy hunter, leopard's are known to stalk close to their prey and run a relatively short distance when hunting. They kill by grabbing their prey by the throat and biting down thus suffocating with their jaws and then are wont to storing their larger kills in trees - out of the reach of prowling lions and hyenas.
Talk about where Angels fear to tread

Joerg, hier hast du den Beweis: Nicht die Grösse machts:laugh:
Gisela