Category: Animals

Her jaws clamped firmly around the scruff of her tiny cub’s neck, this plucky lioness is taking no chances as she tackles a risky river crossing. As her nine-week-old youngster dangles beneath her, the mother skips gingerly between impromptu stepping stones. You’re too old to be carried, Simba: The mother starts her perilous journey across…

Often times, we tend to only see the beautiful parts of nature. However, there’s also a very dark side to nature, and can get incredibly brutal when it comes to a creature’s efforts to survive. And here is a prime example. It’s uncertain where this incident occurred, but the jackal is indigenous to eastern and…

When it comes to bodyguards, you really couldn’t do much better than these guys. In a heartwarming display, a mighty herd of elephants huddles around a female to protect her from prowling lions and hyenas as she gives birth. The protective group circled the mother, scratching the soil with their enormous feet and closing any…

When the College’s pilot was called by Manyeleti Reserve to assist in tracking down an injured white rhino, he could never have predicted the extraordinary chain of events that unfolded… Flying over the dam in the vicinity of where the rhino had last been seen, the pilot was confronted with an unbelievable sequence of events.…

This ferocious bear wanted to make a meal of these little cubs – until their mother declared war and sent him packing. Shown in this amazing sequence of pictures, the giant male can be seen catching a helpless cub, wrestling him in the water and biting him to within an inch of his life. But…

A greedy eel ended up biting off more than it could chew after trying to swallow a puffer fish that inflated in its mouth, causing it to suffocate. Tim Mayer, a German-born scuba diving instructor, found a dead eel with a puffer fish in its mouth on the beach of Titikaveka island, part of the Cook…

One of Kenya’s oldest wild lions — a 19-year-old male named Loonkiito — was speared by herders protecting their livestock, bringing the number of big cats killed in the country to 10 last week alone. Loonkiito was described as frail by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) spokesperson Paul Jinaro, who said that it wandered out of…

Before watching this video, if you had asked me who wins in a coyote versus mountain lion fight, I would have said with 100% certainty the mountain lion. Bigger, faster, stronger, I mean all of the attributes seem to line up perfectly for the big cat, however it appears a coyote is more capable than…

This is the moment a starving lioness was defeated while trying to bring down a baby elephant, before being found dead just hours later. A starving lioness attacked a baby elephant, and a fight ensued which soon saw the hunter become the hunted The elephant may have been young, but was still much heavier than…

A lucky wildebeest managed to escape from the jaws of a hungry crocodile as it ran through a river. The herd animal was crossing through deep water in Kenya during their annual migration when the predator leapt from the river and clamped down on the beast. Dinner time: A hungry crocodile tried to snack on…