Prior to lockdown, Thinus Delport witnessed a mother leopard and her two very tiny cubs crossing a road 6km from Lower Sabie towards Crocodile Bridge.
Kruger National Park, South Africa (21 April 2020) – Latest Sightings Kruger just broke our lockdown blues with a very cute video! The video is of a mother Leopard moving her cubs. She shows them the ropes on how to cross the tarred roads, and we can’t get enough!
As Latest Sightings has said, you don’t need to go to Oklahoma to see cute cubs (Tiger King reference), you just need to go to Africa!
“There is no need to go to Oklahoma to see cute cubs, GO TO AFRICA INSTEAD! There, you will watch these magnificent big cats how they should be viewed – in the wild. This video is in honour of all the animals that are locked up in cages when they should be in the wild.”
64 Year old, Thinus Delport, had the opportunity to see this incredible sighting of a mother leopard and her two very tiny cubs crossing a road 6km from Lower Sabie towards Crocodile Bridge. Thinus tells LatestSightings.com of the excitement to have been able to witness such a rare sighting.
“Early morning, my daughters and I left the camp looking for leopards. They were convinced that there are no leopards in the Kruger, as neither of them had ever seen one. As we drove, I jokingly convinced them to start singing in the car, to draw the leopards out, and so they did – and to my surprise – it actually worked!”
“We hit a traffic jam where a few cars were stationary. It seemed like visitors were looking at a pride of lions. My daughter noticed that in the thicket behind our vehicle, there was a mother leopard trying to move her cubs!!”
“It was my daughter’s first visit to the Kruger and she was the first to whip out her video camera. I’m glad she did because I would have been shaking so much from excitement, that the footage might have just been ruined. We stayed and watched as the mother crossed the road first to make sure that all was safe, before returning to encourage her cubs to cross to safety.”
“This was an extremely rare sighting, and you don’t often get to see a leopard mother relocate her cubs when they are still so young. We’ve been visiting the Kruger for over 50 years, and not once have we seen something like this. This just came to show that patience really does pay off.”
So there you have it, anyone who thinks cubs are cute, come to Africa to see them in the wild. Take a look at the cute (and rare) sighting below.
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