Animals

It’s a bird, it’s a fish, it’s an epic battle of slippery proportions! This saddle-billed stork finds out the hard way that its eyes may be bigger than its beak…

Nkululeko Mzolo witnessed the sheer hunting power of two cheetahs when they snatched a baby zebra from a herd in an incredible sighting witnessed in the Thornybush Game Lodge.

This impala gave birth to her lamb, only for a stalking leopard to instantly take advantage of their vulnerability.

This fearless male lion was left at the mercy of a relentless fly.

A very busy little lion brought traffic to a standstill and kept his mother on her paws in a special sighting filmed by Mark Fox of Foxy’s On Safari in the Kruger National Park.

Competition for food turns deadly, when a hyena threatens to steal a kill from an adult leopard!

This sighting risked getting a little too close and personal when a huge rhino decided it had had enough of a nearby vehicle!

Violence blooms between these two reptiles, as a chameleon fights a deadly battle against a fierce snake.

A curious leopard watched a chameleon scale the trunk of a tree, in a spectacular sighting filmed by Michael Botes in the MalaMala Game Reserve.

A lioness was left stunned when the bowels of a hippo exploded out as she gorged on the flesh of the animal.

Two leopards were about to showdown against each other when a lone male lion interrupted them!

An incredible showdown between spotted hyenas and wild dogs was witnessed near the Skukuza Camp in the Kruger National Park.

A poor leopard failed to even touch its intended prey, a warthog, in an epic botched kill captured on film in the Kruger National Park.

A poignant moment between an elephant and her newborn calf was filmed by Brett Marneweck at the Arathusa Safari Lodge.

A baby hippo had the time of its life showing off its teeth to one of its older siblings in the N’watimhiri Dam recently and encouraging the sibling to do the same.

A thieving hyena dangles from the end of a carcass in an intense tug of war with a leopard!

The Kruger National Park provided the setting for an amusing interaction between a pride of lions and an unmistakable ‘no entry’ sign.

In a blitz ambush, a leopard stole an impala kill from a pair of hyenas in a memorable sighting witnessed in the Kruger National Park.

A lone leopard found itself trapped in a tree by a pack of wild dogs in an unfortunate chance encounter!

A coalition of male lions was filmed feeding off a dead baby elephant near the Crocodile Bridge in the Kruger National Park.