Play date! Adorable moment giggling toddler shows off her toy cat to leopard at Philadelphia Zoo
- Lara Fraser filmed daughter Rylee, 2, playing with the big cat at Philadelphia Zoo
- Zoo posted the clip to its social media pages where it attracted lots of comments
- The Amur leopard is the rarest of big cats, with only around 100 left in the wild
This is the adorable moment a leopard and a toddler 'play' together through glass at a zoo.
The footage was captured on May 12 in Philadelphia and shows two-year-old Rylee showing the leopard her stuffed toy cat.
During the one-minute clip, Rylee can be seen shaking the toy at the big cat.
The leopard responds by prancing about pretending to catch the toddler's toy with his huge paws and teeth.
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He stops when Rylee is too overcome with giggles to carry on shaking the toy but starts again when she continues.
Philadelphia Zoo posted the footage, which was taken by Rylee's mum Lara Fraser, on Twitter and Instagram.
The post received lots of comments from delighted viewers.
Two-year-old Rylee played happily with the prancing leopard in Philadelphia Zoo on May 12
Rylee clearly enjoyed herself on her playdate with the leopard as she giggled throughout the one-minute clip. The leopard stopped when the toddler stopped shaking her cat toy and continued when she did, much to her delight
One exclaimed: 'I love how they stop playing when the child stops moving it. This is so adorable!''
Another said: 'She’s gonna be a wildlife biologist.'
Many others commented simply 'oh my heart' or 'adorable' while others joked that they thought the leopard would like to eat the toddler as a 'snack'.
The big cat in the video is an endangered Amur leopard which is considered the world's rarest, with fewer than 100 left in the wild.
It has been classed as critically endangered since 1996 and is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list of threatened species.
In the wild it is a nocturnal animal that lives and hunts alone – mainly in the vast forests of Russia and China.
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