Antelope turns the tables on a Leopard

This is the most unexpected video I've ever seen in my lifetime. I already know some animals considered can get aggressive but not in a million years did I expect an antelope to dominate a leopard to this degree.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6Mz65A9HoC0?si=vv88lUmdaL-p9bXF

Perhaps I've not been watching all the animal documentary video but the leopard had its ass kicked by an antelope which is supposed to be prey.

If you look at the antelope body structure, it's reasonable to say it has parts that can be used to fight. An antelope has horns, it has legs that can break a ribcage. These are facts about an animal we file under prey.

Lions and leopards and almost all wild big cats gets all the language of power. The antelope gets described in relation to the wild cat family as in what it provides, what it runs from. The whole vocabulary around it is about absence. Speed as the absence of confrontation, survival as the act of not being eaten. It's the way we see preys.

Now I'm looking at a cornered antelope brutally beat up a leopard, why shouldn't I be surprised?

But whether you're a beast or not, you can be vulnerable at times. A predator still has to calculate. A broken leg in the wild is a slow end. So even a wild beasts pause and assess situations because a mistake can lead to a disgraceful YouTube video about them.

Even a lions the kings of the jungle or I would prefer to say savannah, reads the situation. The antelope with nowhere to go is a different proposition from the antelope in open field. The leopard knows this, we are the ones who forget it.

There is a cost to pressing anything into a corner. That cost is real whether or not the thing being cornered looks dangerous at first. If the prey chooses fight instead of flight, the predator stands a chance of being cooked.

If you're also surprised, it's probably because the label, prey, does a lot of work. It becomes a total description. It looks like a permanent condition. But it was always just an ecological role, a position in a system and the animal inside that role has been shaped by millions of years of exactly the same pressures as the predator. The same arms race. The hooves are part of it, the horns are part of it. It'll evolve to survive.