What animal can send a tiger running, scared for its life? Apparently, it doesn’t have to be anything particularly fierce, it just needs the element of surprise on its side. Sadha Sayed, a photographer based in India, recently shared footage of the most unlikely animal—a fish—as it leaps from the river and scares the living daylights out of a full-grown tiger.
The video shows a tiger swimming as it crosses a narrow part of a body of water. Suddenly, a fish catapults out of the water, startling the tiger, which then runs for the bank like its life depends on it. How embarrassing. (Just kidding.)
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“The fish got [its] Lifetime Achievement Award on this day!” Sayed wrote in her Instagram post sharing the hilarious footage. “Didn’t expect this from a tiger like Riddhi!”
Sayed took the video in Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, India—a tiger reserve. Ranthambore is home to royal bengal tigers like the one Sayed calls “Riddhi,” as well as many other species, including leopards, sloth bears, chital (spotted deer), marsh crocodiles, and more.
Watch as a fish scares a tiger here: