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Mom films leopard 'trying to eat' toddler through zoo enclosure glass

By Ben Hooper
This young zoo visitor may have made a new friend -- or a deadly enemy. Screenshot: Newsflare
This young zoo visitor may have made a new friend -- or a deadly enemy. Screenshot: Newsflare

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COAL VALLEY, Ill., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- An Iowa mother who took her 17-month-old son to a zoo captured video of a leopard "either playing with or trying to eat" the boy.

Megan Van Fossen's YouTube video, filmed Sept. 14, shows 17-month-old Grayson staring down the leopard through the glass of its enclosure at the Niabi Zoo in Coal Valley, Ill.

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The toddler reacts with amusement as the leopard repeatedly charges against the glass wall in an apparent attempt to reach the human.

"The leopard is either playing with or trying to eat my toddler. My vote is it's trying to eat him lol. My kid thinks it's hilarious regardless. Thank goodness for glass! Haha," the mother wrote.

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