Two brothers in India escaped from a leopard by throwing a birthday cake at the animal as it chased them while they were on a motorbike.
“Your first instinct when you sense danger is to do whatever you can to save yourself. That’s what they did,” a forest official told AFP.
“They had a cake with them and they threw it at the leopard.”
As per reports, Firoz and Sabir Mansuri were going to a birthday party for Firoz’s son in Madhya Pradesh state when the leopard came out of a sugarcane field.
They rode their bike faster but the big cat kept on chasing them. One of the brothers smacked the cake in the leopard’s face. Hit by the “weapon of sweet distraction”, the big cat gave up its chase and ran back into the fields.
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“The leopard followed us for over 500 metres (yards). We narrowly escaped death,” said Sabir.
Leopard numbers in India grew more than 60 percent between 2014 and 2018 to almost 13,000, according to the government, with the highest numbers in Madhya Pradesh. They often enter villages and towns.
