A team of researchers in Japan has succeeded in filming the moment when an Amami rabbit, a rare species, was preyed on by a feral cat.
A team of researchers in Japan has succeeded in filming the moment when an Amami rabbit, a rare species, was preyed on by a feral cat.
A team at Kagoshima University’s Research Center for the Pacific Islands captured the moment in February with a motion-sensor camera set up in the mountains of Amami-oshima island.
The footage shows a cat pouncing on a child rabbit near a burrow and walking away with the prey in its mouth.
The islands of Amami-oshima and nearby Tokunoshima are known to host a number of internationally important indigenous species.
