A rare and unlikely battle took place between a huge python and a leopard at the Maasai Mara Triangle Reserve in Kenya recently.

THIS python's eyes were too big for its stomach as it attempted to eat a leopard - only for the big cat to use one of its nine lives to emerge the victor. The hungry duo initially had their eyes ...

In the end, after a tumultuous battle, the mother leopard kills the snake, sharing its carcass with the cub as a meal.

The python and the leopard initially wanted to capture an impala. However, the reptile changed its mind and decided to attack the leopard instead.

A leopard and a python were caught on video in a brawl in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

These images show the stunning meeting of a leopard and a python - but one hungry cat wasn't going to let the prey slither out of its sight ...