Animals

This safari turned into a front-row seat for an epic avian battle! Read on to learn how two of Africa’s most iconic birds battle it out in a rare and unexpected showdown!

A saddle-billed stork took its lunch break in full view of Janine Westerweel, while she stopped for her own lunch at Cattle Baron in the Skukuza camp of the Kruger National Park.

This hippo approached and harassed a crash of rhinos in a confusing sighting that left rangers stumped.

The Nandzana pride of lions was lounging around their kill, when two males from a rival pride approach to contest it.

This chameleon made a fatal mistake making itself vulnerable to a snake, which collected a meal with minimal fuss.

This leopard had managed to catch a warthog, but it struggled to bring it down quickly, and its desperate squealing brought the attention of a competitor.

Desperate to escape from a pack of wild dogs, this impala didn’t pay enough intention to where it was going and ended up completely trapped.

When a baby hippo looked for playmates, its neighbours were less than impressed. After chasing one, the next chased him, leaving him with no choice but to return to Mum.

A mother lioness with cubs to feed attempted to single-handedly take down an elephant, in an incredible sighting witnessed by 28-year-old Samuel Chevallier by the Somalisa Camp in Hwange.

A puff adder stood no chance against the skill and hunting prowess of a brown snake eagle in a sighting witnessed by Graeme Mitchley, educator from Hurlyvale Primary School in his recent visit to the Kruger National Park.

When a pride of lions chased a lone buffalo bull into a dam, it set off a remarkable chain of events. Facing multiple threats and using a combination of intelligence and aggression, the old bull bought itself critical time.

There’s definitely strength in numbers, as Gert Cloete, a 78-year-old witnessed at the Ngwenya Lodge when he saw a herd of buffalo faithfully defend their herd member in the face of great danger from a pride of lions.

These lion cubs had an invaluable paws-on training session on how to hunt a young buffalo which a lioness was keeping alive for them.

This leopard lounged comfortably in the bush while the baby buck it had caught fought desperately for its own survival.

This pride of lions attacked a lone giraffe hoping for an easy meal, but the giraffe wasn’t going down without a fight!

In this dramatic sighting, a pack of wolves descends upon a bison herd during calving season in hopes of claiming one of the newborns. Will teamwork outweigh the size and strength of a bison?

A large male lion tried his hand at climbing a tree, with little success, when he tried to steal the kill from a leopard, in full view of Hurlyvale Primary School Deputy Principle Graeme Mitchley, near the Lower Sabie camp in the Kruger National Park.

These two leopards ended up locked in a death battle in the road, struggling for dominance over each other.

A warthog couldn’t believes its luck when an overzealous male lion scattered two lionesses which were about to kill it, giving it a chance to escape.

An impala was eaten alive by cheetahs and hyenas before Alistair Leuner, 33-year-old general manager at Tintswalo Safari Lodge in the Manyeleti Game Reserve.