As humans, we’re told to not play with our food. But unlike us, big cats don’t have this restriction.
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.
In a blog post, photographic guide James Tyrrell writes that the leopard appears to be using the jawbone as a low-tech tool to loosen, cut, or otherwise open up the carcass. After talking with the rest of the reserve’s guides and tracking team, Tyrell notes