Lioness Nurses Baby Leopard in Unique Act of Love
Most lionesses would kill a baby leopard as they are direct competition in the food chain, but this attentive mother has taken in this tiny spotted cub.
Wildlife experts say this particular inter-species suckling has never been seen before.
Mother Nosikitok was found with the little cub around a kilometre from her den where her own cubs were hidden in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Wildlife Conservation Area.
As well as nursing her adopted baby, five-year-old mother Nosikitok has three small cubs of her own to feed who were born around June 28.
Like this adorable leopard cub they are around two to three weeks old. It is unclear where the baby leopard’s mother is and if Nosikitok will take the vulnerable youngster on full-time, according to the BBC.
