In a video taken in South Africa, a lizard desperate to save its life endures some nasty pecks to its body while playing dead to escape a hawk’s talons.
Jannette Kotze, 53, started recording in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park when a goshawk landed on the sandy savannah next to her car.
Her dramatic footage shows an unfortunate black lizard that had been scooped up in the predator’s clutches laying motionless, as though dead.
The bird tests and teases its meal by repeatedly nibbling with its sharp beak, toying with the lizard until the tiny reptile suddenly reanimates and sprints out of the the hawk’s reach….