Safari-goers in South Africa’s Kruger National Park witnessed a rare event when a young leopard cub’s curiosity leads to a showdown with a massive rock python hidden among the tall grass.

“Where is the python? I don’t see it, but I can hear it,” one of the tourists says just moments before the snake—which onlookers describe as huge—launches out at the feline predators.

Tourists visiting Kruger, one of South Africa’s oldest game reserves, captured the footage while on safari in July 2016 (the video surfaced online this week).

The morning was off to an exceptional start when the group spotted a leopard—whose populations are the most widespread of all the big cats—in a tree. The stunning cat eventually came down and called for