These incredible photos show the moment a jaguar sneaked up on an unsuspecting vulture and quickly turned the vulture into food before it had a chance to escape.

Texas weƄ designer Khanh Le captured the moment on film while in the Pantanal in Brazil. The group had been following the jaguar for about an hour along the river bank when the dramatic scene unfolded before their eyes.

In a stalk-and-lunge style typical of jaguars, the stealthy cat emerges silently from the bushes and pounces on the aʋe that perches near the water’s edge. Once the vulture notices the jaguar, it rises up in the air in an attempt to escape, but it doesn’t get very far.

With lightning reflexes, the cat snatches the bird out of the air and pins it to the ground.

While vultures are recognized throughout the world as opportunistic scavengers, jaguars will eat almost any animal they can get their hands on. In fact, they are known to feed on at least 87 species.

After a quick fight, with the vulture struggling to evade its predator, the triumphant jaguar flies away with the bird dangling from its jaws.

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