Animals

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.

Spitfire, a wolf which overcome great obstacles, was filmed on numerous occasions in the Yellowstone National Park by Judy Lehmberg of Epic Nature.

Sometimes help is just a call away as a lion surrounded by 12 hyenas discovered in an incredible sighting witnessed near the Satara Camp in the Kruger National Park by 19-year-old Amber Soames.

This leopardess watched two males fighting for her, until she determined who the victor was and moved in to break them up.

A leopard launched a spectacular surprise attack on an impala by leaping straight onto it from the branches of a tree, in a memorable sighting witnessed by Phil Hankinson in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.

A red fox mother was in high demand when 11 little kits tried to suckle from her at the same time.

A lioness stalked a young leopardess when their paths met in a chance encounter in the Etosha National Park, witnessed by 24-Year-old French biologist and freelance safari guide, Valentin Lavis.

A rather grumpy elephant charged at three baby hippos when they tried to get a little close to him, in a memorable sighting captured by Evan Malsbury in the Umfolozi River in South Africa.

A baby buffalo breathed its first breath and took its first step in full view of 37-year-old Sales Manager, Brett Reisen, in the Sabi Sands.

A bull elk tried his chances at stealing a more successful rival’s harem, forcing the second to fight back.

A giraffe gave a lioness a piggybank recently, when she, and fellow lionesses from her pride tried to take the giraffe down, with little success. This incredible sighting was witnessed by Francois Pienaar, safari guide from the Klaserie Game Reserve.