Footage taken by Escape Safari Co. founder Mike Sutherland, 34, while on a private game drive in Mombo Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana, shows the sighting. Spotting the impala, the python lunges for it before the animal is then snatched by the hyena.
Then, the hyena grabs at the impala calf, and carries the two animals in its mouth. The python slithers away to avoid having the same fate as the impala calf.
‘There was a large herd of impala on the edge of the dry floodplain and a hyena walking in the distance. ‘A python had slithered down from a large, fruited Bushwillow tree and camouflaged itself in the leaf litter. One unlucky young calf stepped right over the snake and, in a flash, it had been caught. ‘We heard the calf bleating, a call of distress and we turned swiftly in that direction to see what had happened, the hyena did the same.’
Mr Sutherland added: ‘It is important to not interfere with nature and although it may be tough to watch, the events would have played out the same way whether we were there to witness it or not.’
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