MalaMala, one of the largest private Big Five game reserves in South Africa which shares an unfenced boundary with Kruger National Park, recently posted a video on its Instagram page of a male lion showing off incredible climbing abilities to reach a leopard’s prey at the top of a tree.

While lions are not natural tree climbers, there have been instances where the big cats have been observed climbing trees. Populations in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, for example, have become specialised in this unusual behaviour.

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