As I say in the video, this is the first time in my life that I have seen a leopard slug eating another slug.
For you the making of this surprising video not so much because of this predation as the way it happened.
I returned from closing the hens.
And on the terrace I find this magnificent leopard slug.
As usual, I put it in the trunk: the very first in the left row and I go about my night shoots on the slugs.
Then the daylight fading I return home to get the flashlight.
And I go to the trunk 3 ie the second in the right row.
And who I find myself: my leopard and in addition trying to nibble a little gray.
That she swallowed up one of her fellows was already surprising in itself.
But what was much more was the path that had been covered in such a short time.
Well, it must be 2m to 2m50 in all, but still ...
No matter how much I checked and double-checked in the 1-point trunk of my leopard.
I concluded, without proof since I had not followed her journey, that it was she who had ended up in the trunk 3
I saw a lot in the pleasure garden but frankly I NEVER saw it spontaneously in the trunks so I think it was the one that I brought back myself this evening which moved from '' one chest to another in 2 stages and 3 movements.
Still, I remained skeptical about the fact that a leopard slug is really carnivorous ...
My confirmation by the image.