Aiken Mandlbaur
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Best-Rated Safari Guide of 2025
The Safari Guide of the Year 2025 competition has officially wrapped up, and what a week it was! This year’s event brought together some of the best guides out there, each with unique guiding experiences. The competition was tough, and while the winner was well-deserved, it definitely wasn’t an easy title to claim.
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Mid-Competition Update from Safari Guide of the Year Competition
The Safari Guide of the Year competition is nearing its conclusion for 2025, as our favourite week of the year draws to an end. To make sure you’re up to speed, we’ve put together an update covering everything that took place during the middle stages of the event.
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Day One of FGASA Guide of The Year Competition
After all the preparation and build-up, day one of the Guide of the Year Competition has come to a close, which marks the start of one of our favourite weeks of the year. Now that the nerves have settled, the competition is bound to get fierce!
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Wild Dogs Learn Not to Mess With Baby Lions
This past week, on the S25, wild dogs spotted 2 lion cubs in the road and thought they were in for a quick snack. Little did the pack know that 3 lionesses were waiting for them around the corner… Never mess with a mother lion!
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Lions Interrupt Wild Dogs Catching Twin Baby Buffaloes
After 20 minutes of being tormented by wild dogs, the screams of these twin baby buffaloes attracted two male lions. The male lions went straight in for the steal. But, the Wild Dogs didn’t want to leave, so the lions had to work a bit!
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Cheetah Sacrifices Herself to Protect Cub from Leopard
A leopard on a termite mound spotted a mother cheetah and her sub-adult cub in an open field. The leopard thought it was faster than them, so it started the ambush… But, the mother cheetah knew exactly what to do to keep the cub safe. An incredibly spotty sighting!!
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Lion Cub Learns Why You Don’t Bite on Dad’s Tail
A cheeky little lion cub found herself in trouble when she pushed Casper’s (her famous dad) buttons by attacking his tail! 🤭
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Watch The Wildest Animal Sightings of 2024
Over 4 billion views and nearly 2 million new community members, 2024 was a WILD year for wildlife sightings! In case you missed some of the crazy videos this year, we’ve taken some of the best sightings of the year and put them all together in one video for you to enjoy. Choosing which videos…
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Angry Hippo Attacks Safari Vehicle
During the heat of the day, the sighting that no one expected to have was a hippo in the middle of the road! It turns out – the hippo was also extremely grumpy and charged at the safari vehicle with its mouth wide open. He even tried to eat the car!! To escape, the guests…
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Serval Hangs from Impala’s Head
A hungry serval thought it got lucky when it found an impala in a tree in Pilanesberg. Turns out the impala was expertly stashed by a leopard, and as hard as the serval tried to free the meal, it kept falling out of the tree without even getting a mouthful.
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Hyena Fatally Walks Into Three Lions
This was the moment when three male lions caught a rare brown hyena in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park — just meters away from a birding and wildlife tour guide’s tent!
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Monster Croc Takes Wildebeest After Small Crocodile Fails
Watch the incredible battle for survival at Gezantombi waterhole in Kruger National Park, where two Nile crocodiles ambush a wildebeest in a dramatic showdown.
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This Leopard Didn’t Fail
Millions loved the sighting we shared a few weeks ago of the leopard who “failed successfully” at hoisting its impala in a tree. So, we thought we’d share a sighting of a leopard showing us exactly how it’s done!
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Watch How Innocent Baby Bird Tries Escaping from Leopard – Crazy Ending
A lost baby waterbird wobbled right into a young leopard who was playing in a riverbed. Not knowing any better the gosling had a stare down with the leopard. Then it panicked and tried to make an escape!
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Lions Find Abandoned Elephant
A young, injured elephant could no longer keep up with its family, so they were forced to leave it behind. Then, a pride of lions discovered it all alone, and the helpless elephant could do nothing but stand against the bites and scratches for over an hour!
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Hyenas Gang Up Against Hurt Rhino
When hyenas noticed that this rhino was in bad condition, they looked to take advantage. So, the hyenas pulled the rhino’s tail off and started biting a hole in its backside.
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Watch These Lions Put on a Hot Show for Buffaloes
The one time that lions weren’t looking to find buffaloes, an entire herd came to them! But, this honeymoon couple was too preoccupied to even bother stopping.
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Watch This Greedy Leopard Catch an Entire Warthog Family
Share this incredible sighting with your friends: A leopard wasn’t satisfied with just one warthog. It wanted to. It wanted to take the entire family instead!
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Watch How Lions Find Lost Baby Elephant
A mother elephant hastily crossed a road in Kruger National Park, leaving her baby behind. Lions spotted the abandoned calf and saw a potential opportunity.
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Blind Leopard Tries Taking Food from 10+ Monster Crocodiles
A blinded leopard wasn’t in the mood to go hungry for another day. So it decided to risk joining 10+ huge crocodiles in their feast when he found them munching on a buck!
