Animals

A magnificent male lion, with a striking blue eye, stole the prey from a leopard in the Thornybush Game Reserve.

A bold jackal disturbs a leopard’s peaceful moment by a waterhole in a bizarre standoff. The leopard’s calm response leaves the jackal’s strange outburst unanswered.

Some spellbinding crocodile rivalry was witnessed by Tamysn du Toit by the Sabie River in the Kruger National Park.

Yusuf Suliman was given an edge-of-seat viewing experience when a pride of lions raided a camp, searching for an easy meal.

A pride, consisting mostly of lionesses, decided to climb a tree to escape rising floodwaters.

A lioness sprinted out in pursuit of a baby wildebeest, securing a kill in view of spectators near the Crocodile Bridge in the Kruger National Park.

A honey badger fearlessly took on a python in a breathtaking sighting witnessed by Wanzen du Toit in the Kruger National Park.

A python swallowed a hornbill whole in this miraculous sighting filmed by Nainesh Bhavan.

A mother lion was sighted teaching her four tiny cubs to climb a tree in a memorable sighting filmed in the MalaMala Game Reserve by Michael Moth.

A lioness which was desperately trying to get a small drink of water was left startled by a hippo in this memorable sighting filmed in the Kruger National Park.

What happens when prey animals don’t run away from predators? Either they are quickly dispatched or a stand-off ensues, as is the case here.

Like most cats, lions don’t seem to like getting wet. So, when a male lion willingly enters the water, you know there’s a good reason to do so.

The tragic killing of an impala lamb was witnessed by Marine Servonnat in the Okovango Delta, Botswana.

This unusual video shows one male elephant mounting another! However, there’s a perfectly good explanation for the elephants’ strange behaviour.

A tragic misstep turns into a feast in the unforgiving wild as lions capitalize on a giraffe’s fatal error. This heartbreaking sighting serves as a harsh reminder of the unpredictability of life in the wild.

A pride of determined lions chased a hippo in a dramatic sighting in the Kruger National Park.

Leopards should always sleep in trees! This one found that out the hard way when it decided to take a nap on the ground and was found by a lion!

Even in the face of death, a mother’s love refuses to surrender. In this heartbreaking sighting, a mother refuses to leave the side of her dead foal when wild dogs close in.

Two large rhinos approaching a waterhole scared away a lioness and her trio of cubs.

A mother cheetah makes a kill for her cubs, only to face an ambush by winged and four-legged scavengers. In this crazy sighting, everyone wants a piece of the pie!