leaping over hedge

They were beyond the hedge, Lycon surmised-and from their silence, dead. The lizard ape was cunning; it had laid in wait for the pack as the dogs squirmed through the hedge. But surely it was no match for three huge Molossians. Lyon was less than a hundred yards from the hedge row when the blue-scaled lizard-ape vaulted over the the thorny barrier with the grace of an acrobat.
Killer pg. 22