Man wrestles leopard that crawls into his bed

An Israeli wildlife guide has overpowered an ageing leopard that jumped into his bed during the night.

Clad only in his night clothes, Arthur Du Mosch lunged at the big cat and grabbed its neck, pinning it down for 20 minutes until help arrived.



"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day", the 49-year-old said. "I wasn't thinking, I just acted."

The uninvited guest is thought to have been trying to catch the family's domestic cat, which had also been lying in the bed.

Mr Du Mosch, who emigrated to Israel from the Netherlands in 1985, said he took the whole experience in his stride, "but the kids were excited".