Heather Djunga
Heather Djunga is an accomplished writer and editor whose love for the great outdoors was kindled from an early age, from when she took annual trips down to South Africa’s Kruger National Park with her family. Her most memorable animal sightings have included a showdown between a leopard and porcupine, a wild dog kill during an evening game drive, and a cheetah with three brand new cubs. She has also authored a children’s series about a lion cub.
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Playful Elephants Go for a Swim
This jovial herd of elephants enjoyed some downtime swimming in a river, while a hippo was given a front row seat to view all of the action.
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Brave Bushbaby Mom Rescues Baby
This bushbaby mom performed a miraculous save when she rescued her little one in full view of the camera at the &Beyond Ngala Safari Lodge.
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Helpless Impala Swarmed And Taken Down By Relentless Wild Dogs
The savage killing of an impala ram was a reminder that nature can be as brutal as it is beautiful.
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Lioness Gives a Lone Hyena the Fright of It’s Life
Janka Wiesinger witnessed firsthand how frightening it can be to come face to face with a lioness when a hyena experienced just this, in a scintillating moment filmed near the Pretoriuskop camp in the Kruger National Park.
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Serval Goes Hunting At Night
All eyes were on a serval’s agile hunting finesse in this special sighting filmed by Mark Fox of Foxys On Safari in the Kruger National Park.
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Lions Try Attacking an Entire Buffalo Stampede
A pride of lions put on a brave front as they pursued a herd of stampeding buffalo in this scintillating sighting.
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Hyenas Hunt Down Topi
A clan of hyenas successfully brought a topi down in a memorable sighting filmed by David Wolfson.
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Two Lions Take on Entire Buffalo Herd
A pair of male lions took on an entire buffalo herd in this breathtaking sighting witnessed by Kyle Fritz in the Amakhosi Safari Lodge.
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22 Lions Chase 22 Hyenas from a Hippo
What can possibly stand against 22 hyenas? Miki Lane witnessed a large clan of hyenas intimidated by a breathtaking entourage of lionesses: 22 to be exact.
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Buck Make an Incredible Escape While Being Hunted by a Leopard
An unforgettable escape coloured this incredible sighting in the Kruger National Park.
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Elephant Sadly Mourns it’s Friend
This exquisite sighting provided a rare glimpse into the complex behaviour of elephants, which have been documented to ‘mourn’ the loss of fellow herd members.
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Stork Tries to Catch Fish but Otter Beats It to the Prize
While otters and saddle billed storks seldom compete for food, this sneaky otter stole a fish which a saddle billed stork had recently killed and then hurried out of the way!
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Too Many Impala Leave Leopard Confused
Sometimes having too many choices is not a good thing, as this leopard discovered when the many impala in front of him left him confused and without a meal.
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Snake and Chameleon Locked in Vicious Battle
It was boomslang versus chameleon in this rare showdown filmed by Darryl Sheedy in the Kruger National Park.
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Elephant Goes Scuba Diving
This joyful elephant put on a grand show for Mariska and Yolandi in the Kruger National Park, when it ducked and dived in and out of a river.
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Lions Pull Crying Warthog out of Burrow by the Road
It’s not always Hakuna Matata for warthogs in the wild, nor are lions friendly to warthogs like in the movie, the Lion King.
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Desperate Leopard Challenges Hyena
A hungry leopard desperately tried to steal an impala kill from a hyena in this memorable moment filmed by Dave Reed in the Timbavati.
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Cheetah is Too Slow to Catch a Wildebeest
The Kruger National Park set the stage for this epic wildebeest win, when the creature evaded the onslaught of a fast-approaching cheetah.
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Relentless Honey Badger Takes On Spiky Porcupine In Wild Showdown
It was honey badger versus porcupine in this dramatic sighting filmed in Springerbaai in the Western Cape.
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Warthogs Team up to Chase Cheetahs
Cameron Schmidt filmed a miraculous turn of events in the Pumba Private Game Reserve recently.
