Real-life Wile E. Coyote filmed chasing a roadrunner in scene straight out of a Looney Tunes episode

A classic scene from the beloved cartoon Looney Tunes played out in real life over the weekend when a university professor captured a video of a coyote chasing after a roadrunner.

Michael Thomas Bogan, an assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, was dumbfounded to watch the bizarre scene unfold on the Santa Cruz River, in Tucson, on May 9.

‘There is literally a coyote chasing a roadrunner,’ an astonished Bogan is heard saying in the video. ‘I can’t believe it. That is a straight up cartoon.’

Much like in the classic animated feud between Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, the canine is seen racing after the bird but finds itself outpaced and outsmarted.

Though the video didn’t end in an explosion, with the coyote falling off a cliff, or being flattened by an anvil, Bogan’s video did go viral and has since been viewed more than 257,000 times, earning nearly 3000 retweets and 12,000 likes.

Bogan says both coyotes and roadrunners are commonly spotted along the river, though this is the first time he’s seen the two creatures interacting in this way.

True to Looney Tunes tradition, Bogan says the real-life road runner managed to escape the incident without a scratch.

And that’s all, folks!

Much like in the classic animated feud between Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, the canine is seen racing after the bird but finds itself outpaced and outsmarted

 True to Looney Tunes tradition, Bogan says the real-life road runner managed to escape the incident without a scratch