WATCH: Treetop fight between cougar, bobcat caught on camera

We leave you tonight with an incredible confrontation caught on camera a BC woman is sharing rare footage of a cougar and a bobcat battling it out in the most precarious of places cdv’s BC bureau chief Andrew Johnson has the story wow a life or death struggle plays

Out at the very top of a towering Cedar but at first from Tammy Jordan’s kitchen it was hard to see what was going on thought maybe it was a raccoon Jordan put making dinner on hold as the family in BC’s Fraser Valley broke out the binoculars and they realized a cougar

Was working on a meal of its own it had a bobcat cornered I never heard the cougar make a noise but the Bobcat was definitely growling and hissing a precarious standoff 30 m in the air and on paper a mismatch if the cougar got

Any one of its paws on it it more than likely was a a very quick death for that Bobcat Jordan and her her family were pulling for the underdog or in this case cat it was sad that I really hoped it got away but it was pretty cool it was

Getting dark out so no one saw how the treetop tussle ended and based on some of the other brutal BC encounters that have been caught on camera maybe it’s better that way I can’t believe that I was there in 2015 a Vancouver Island man was stunned to stumble upon what

Conservation officers called a once in a-lifetime encounter cougar versus wolf the crunch of the spine the first initial hit it’s like I relive it this underwater Battle of Victoria between a seal and an octopus was a photographer’s dream in the end the seal earned its snack he was mowing down on

It experts say it’s rare to catch a violent encounter in the animal kingdom up close so if you do keep your distance and grab your video camera Andrew Johnson CTV News Vancouver

A tense confrontation between a cougar and a bobcat at the top of a tree in B.C. was caught on camera. Andrew Johnson reports.

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