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Leopard immediately regrets attacking 2 porcupines

Sometimes, you need to learn things the hard way.
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Brian Koerber
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Leopard immediately regrets attacking 2 porcupines
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Sometimes, you need to learn things the hard way.

A curious leopard found itself on the wrong end of two porcupines recently at Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Donovan Piketh was following the leopard when he spotted the porcupines. He quickly switched his camera to video mode, knowing something was about to go down.

"We were following the leopard as it was just walking along when my friend spotted the two porcupines walking towards the leopard," Piketh told Latest Sightings. "As soon as the leopard saw them it changed into stalking mode and we knew something was going to happen."

After trying to attack both porcupines and getting a fair amount of quills stuck in its legs and chest, the leopard decided to find an easier meal and retreated back into the woods. The porcupines were able to get away without much harm.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.


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