Rats eat with newspapers

A mouse joking around with life when it comes to painting pieces of meat just under the nose of a leopard, in a reserve in southern England.

The mouse is unharmed even though it scrambles for food with predators that are hundreds of times bigger than it is.Photo: Casey Gutteridge.

Sheena, the female leopard from Africa, was raised in a rare conservation reserve in Hertfordshire County, England. The mouse appeared when Sheena was sipping the meat they threw. At first the leopard tried to push the mouse away with his nose, but the little animal continued to rush to chew on the meat. Casey Gutteridge, a photography student, captured the incredible scene.

'I don't know where the mouse comes from. It appeared in the cage of the leopard after the reserve staff threw meat into it. The mouse doesn't care about the leopard. He ran straight to a piece of meat and ate. But the leopard only seemed a little surprised. He bent down and sniffed the rat and pushed the raider away a few times. Every time he was pushed out, the mouse rushed to the meat as if nothing had happened, " said the 19-year-old student.

Sheena newspaper was taken to the rare leopard reserve from a zoo in England when it was only 4 months old. Protected area - established by private sector - currently has 14 African leopards.

The African newspaper is the most shy of the cat family, living in tropical forests, grasslands and savana in the black continent. They live alone and often hunt at night. African newspapers climb well and can kill their larger prey. In addition to small mammals such as deer and monkeys, African newspapers also eat fish, birds and reptiles.