Animals

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.

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.