Animals

A hippo clamps its jaws around a lion in a rare and shocking display of power. The lion somehow escapes, but the hippo isn’t done asserting dominance.

A lion mother braved the challenges of motherhood with finesse, helping her six tiny cubs to keep up with her.

Satara has been hit hard by the flooding, with water pushing into the staff camp and forcing an evacuation as conditions worsened. The scenes coming out of the area are unreal, from buildings sitting in muddy floodwater to personal belongings being swept away, showing just how fast the water rose.

They say that sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. This proved to be the case when lions attacked a female buffalo, but with an unfortunate twist.

When a pair of cheetahs chased down a blesbok, it looked like the antelope’s fate was sealed. However, their prey was not about to give up without a fight.

Heavy rains and rising rivers are reshaping the landscape across Kruger National Park, forcing closures, evacuations, and extraordinary wildlife sightings. From overflowing rivers to animals navigating deep floodwaters, the park is facing one of its most dramatic wet-season events in years.

Even apex predators are not immune to the forces of Nature that shape their environment. In this video, three lions attempt a perilous river crossing.

After killing a warthog, a cheetah was threatened by the remaining family. Watch as this timid predator tries to stand its ground before being forced to flee.

Some people would argue that pound for pound, leopards are one of the most powerful big cats. While the title belongs to jaguars, the size of this leopard’s prey raises some serious questions.

While visiting a waterhole, an antelope had not one but two lucky escapes in quick succession. For the two predators, it was just not their day.

A group of tourists in an area got a big surprise when they spotted something white in the Kruger Park veld. Their delight is evident as they realise it is a Cape buffalo.

Like most cats, cheetahs don’t like to get wet unless they have to. No doubt, this mother’s harrowing experience did little to change her mind.

A troop of particularly busy and nosy vervet monkeys left smiles on faces when they helped to groom a bushbuck in this incredible sighting.

A lone lioness pursued and successfully brought down a zebra in a scintillating chase filmed by Francis Kijazi in the Masai Mara.

The tragic death of a young elephant bull was made even more memorable when a pride of lions arrived on the scene to feast from the elephant’s carcass.

A herd of elephants rallied alongside a baby elephant to help it get out of a muddy hole in an incredible sighting witnessed by Jolandi De Klerk in the Addo Elephant Park.

A pack of wild dogs held the attention of Armand Barnard and his wife near the Matjulu waterhole behind Berg and Dal’s camp in the Kruger National Park.

A lone cheetah recently caused quite a stir by the Crocodile Bridge Gate in the Kruger National Park, when it walked right through the gate, quite unperturbed.

These elephants weren’t content with just crossing the road, they turned it into their stage! In a surprising display of joy and playfulness, a trio of elephants put on a show that had safari-goers calling it a circus act.

It was playtime in the Kruger for these two elephant calves, they were having a day out at the riverside with their family, and had the opportunity for games in the sand!