Heart-warming images show a wild lioness nursing a baby leopard for the first time in a ‘truly unique’ act of love
- Most lionesses would kill a baby leopard as they are direct competition for food
- But in a world first this attentive mother has taken in this tiny spotted cub
- As well as nursing her adopted baby, mother Nosikitok had three cubs of her own
- Lodge manager Ainslie Wilson told MailOnline she thinks her cubs have died
- After giving birth mothers have high levels of oxytocin which can make them redirect their attention to young who are not related to them
Incredible images show a baby leopard feeding from a wild lioness in the Serengeti in Tanzania.
Most lionesses would kill a baby leopard as they are direct competition in the food chain, but this attentive mother has taken in this tiny spotted cub.
Wildlife experts say this particular inter-species suckling has never been seen before.
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