PIC BY CRAIG SCHRAIBMAN / CATERS NEWS – (PICTURED: The leopard getting a spine in its leg from the porcupine) – A hungry leopard had a PRICKLY ENCOUNTER and was left with sore paws and its tail between its legs after trying to attack a quill-covered PORCUPINE. Field guard Craig Schraibman, 26, from Johannesburg, South Africa managed to capture the moment a hungry leopard had an amazing stand-off with a porcupine. The leopard had a prickly encounter when it tried to feast on the porcupine, as the brave critter used its natural defences to fend of the big cat- with its razor sharp quills. Craig was on an early morning drive in the Kruger National Park in South Africa and had been driving for a short while when he came across the hungry male leopard walking in the road. SEE CATERS COPY.