Dangerous bedfellow
An Israeli wildlife guide overpowered a leopard that jumped into his bed during the night.
Arthur Du Mosch grabbed the big cat by its neck and pinned it down for 20 minutes until help arrived.
The leopard is thought to have been trying to catch the family’s pet cat, which had also been lying in the bed.
Du Mosch said: "This kind of thing doesn’t happen every day. I wasn’t thinking, I just acted." Israel nature and parks protection officials responded to Du Mosch’s emergency call and came quickly to collect the leopard.
Spokesman Raviv Shapira said a group of leopards had been seen near Du Mosch’s small community of Sde Boker in southern Israel’s Negev desert.
The animal was taken to Beit Dagan veterinary hospital near Tel Aviv for tests and was expected to be released into the wild with an electronic tag.
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