Fact Check: This picture of deer and leopards was again made viral with a fake emotional story

Vishvas News investigated the viral post. This story was proved to be fake.

New Delhi (Vishvas News). A picture is going viral on various social media platforms. In this, two cheetahs are seen hunting a deer. An emotional story has also been written along with the picture. It is being claimed that this deer handed over its children to the cheetahs to save them.

Vishwas News investigated the viral post. This story proved to be fake. The photographer who took the photo himself confirmed this to Vishwas News.

what is going viral

Facebook Page SOCIAL ANSAAR shared a picture on 12th July. An emotional story was also written along with this picture. In this story, it was claimed, “This is not a painting, this is a real scene, which has received the award for the best photo in the world. In the jungle, a group of leopards surrounded a deer and her 2 children. Then this mother thought… I can run away, but not my children. Then this mother surrendered herself to the leopards, and kept watching her children running away safely. Truly, a mother has no value.”

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investigation

Vishwas News has already told its readers the truth of the viral post once. Online tools were used to bring out the truth. Apart from this, the photographer was also contacted.

Vishwas News searched about the viral picture with the help of Google Lens tool. We found the real picture Alison Buttigieg This post was found on the account of a Facebook user named . It was posted on 13 February 2017.

Uploading the photo, Alison Buttigieg wrote in English, “A completely ridiculous and fake story is going viral with my Stranglehold photo, claiming that I went into depression after taking it. (Seriously who writes such nonsense?!?). This is copyright infringement. All this so that people get more and more likes on their page. The photo with the fake story has been shared hundreds and thousands of times on various social media. I am getting hundreds and hundreds of messages where people are asking me if I am the “Depressed Photographer”. I have been tagged with the fake story in LinkedIn. This is weird for my career. What a disgusting world we live in, full of stupid gullible people spreading #fakenews like crazy. The real story Here Can be read: Alison Buttigieg with wildlife photography.”

We also found this photo on Alison Buttigieg’s website. Here we got details about this photo. The description with the photo read, “I witnessed this deer hunt in Kenya’s Maasai Mara in September 2013. Narsha, the mother cheetah, was teaching her cubs to kill the prey. However, they were a little slow on the uptake and they were playing with the helpless impala prey rather than killing it. Narsha, the mother cheetah, is holding the impala by the throat in all the photos. The young ones practice some skills, such as jumping and tripping, which they get right, but they do not seem to be able to effectively strangle the impala. What is unusual in this sequence of photos is how calm the impala is throughout the process. It is probably in shock and paralyzed with fear.”

Full Story here It can be read.

Vishwas News furthered the investigation and contacted the photographer of the viral picture, Alison Buttigieg. She called the claim made with the viral picture fake and said, “This claim is absolutely ridiculous. I have denied it many times before.”

Vishvas News has already told its readers the truth of the claim made with the viral picture. That investigation can be read here.