Lioness Toys With a Warthog Piglet Like a Domestic Cat Playing With a Captured Mouse
We’ve all heard of roughhousing around. This is usually in reference to a parent playing around with their child in a rough house manner. Or siblings play fighting with each other. The fight isn’t real, but they play around. Well, this roughhousing in the video posted below turned into a real cat-and-mouse game that ended up in the “mouse” getting caught.
Lion and Warthog Sightings in Africa
The video posted at the bottom of this blog post takes us to . The Incredible Wild Animals Sighting Channel shared this footage on its YouTube page. This channel posts daily videos of animals in the wild, such as , buffalos, giraffes, , and zebras, to list a few. They share their thoughts on what happened in the video below.
“The lioness get hunting the piglet warthog and lioness it’s female lion and warthog piglet is prey and food of lion predator and today got to have this food and it nature happened this moment in wild animals living.”
Lion Vs. Warthog
At the start of this video, we see a lone little that looks to be only a few days or weeks old. He is running around with a lion chasing him. And while it looks like they are adorably roughhousing around and playing hide and seek, we know that lions rarely do that with their play with their food. And that’s exactly what this warthog is to this lion – food.
However, this lion is definitely playing with it. The lion could have easily grabbed it and eaten it in a few bites. But we see this lion chasing the warthog around like it needed to have a little bit of fun first.
At 17 seconds, we finally see this has this baby warthog under his paw as if to say, “haha, I got you.” With his loose grip, this warthog was able to escape! But, not before another lion comes rushing in, and the two fight over who gets it.
How Intelligent are Warthogs?
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While this might seem like an odd section to add to this article, we can assure you that this is one of the most commonly asked questions that people search for on Google. And for good reason, because warthogs are known to be very intelligent animals.
According to the , “Warthogs are very strong, smart animals. Unlike many of their African counterparts, they are not endangered because they are skilled at adapting to new threats.”
And no doubt, had this warthog been strong enough to get away from these lion’s grip, he would not have returned to this known lion territory.
