Low-tech tool use or play?: Leopard toys with prey's jawbone

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Low-tech tool use or play?: Leopard toys with prey's jawbone

Post by Koa » Thu Jul 05, 2018 2:16 pm

Leopard Plays With Prey’s Own Bones
By Elaina Zachos, June 19, 2018
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC


Last month, a ranger at Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa’s Kruger National Park filmed an unusual video of a leopard playing with its food. As the male leopard in the video devours a freshly killed warthog, he sorts out the prey’s bloody jawbone and uses it to pick at the meat.
Watch the video and read the full article here:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... r-animals/

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