Category: Animals

Over the course of an hour, the leopard made five successful jumps, into mixed flocks of sandgrouse and on one occasion a Namaqua Dove was caught. The action was intense, and the young leopard would make regular, vertical jumps into the air to catch incoming birds. The leopard takes aim and jumps for a sandgrouse…

Wild dogs risk their lives to save their pack member from a lion attack. Witness the intense battle in Balule Game Reserve.   This pack of wild dogs got a surprise while hunting; they ran into a huge male lion, and things ended badly for one. Nhlanhla Nkuna, a guide in Balule Nature Reserve for…

A team of volunteers is working to attach an artificial beak to a disfigured Alaskan bald eagle, in an effort to keep her alive. Beauty, a rescued Alaskan bald eagle, was left with a stump after part of her beak was ѕһot off.Young Kwak / AP She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is…

As the cape buffalo is one of the deadliest animals in South Africa, it takes an entire pride of lions to dare to attack it. Although the lions normally succeed, this time, they found themselves outnumbered. Quick escape: A young lion is forced to run for his life as the hunters become the hunted when…

These amazing pictures show two lions working to bring down a giraffe. The lions risking their lives as they leap onto the animal – and even get crushed underfoot by its hooves. A pair of lions risked their lives in an attempt to take down a giraffe – and possibly get crushed underfoot by its…

These amazing shots show a fight to the death between two lions and a hippo. After attacking and driving the hippo into deep water, the pair of lions play a waiting game, lying still on nearby rocks for two hours before the hippo ventures out. Fight to the death: A lion gets onto the hippo’s…

This is the rare moment a mostly herbivorous hippopotamus sinks its teeth into the carcass of an impala – before throwing the animal around as it plays with it in the water. The giant hippo used its huge teeth to toy around with the body of an impala in the water at the Kruger National…

In a strange turn of events, an innocent baby impala walks up to a male lion and experiences its first and last encounter with an apex predator. This interesting sighting was captured by Sylvie Failletaz, while on an early morning game drive near Nyamepi campground, Mana Pools, Zimbabwe. Sylvie tells LatestSightings.com the story: “The day…

We witnessed a jackal hunt on the Masai Mara. The hunt was an incredible showcase of how jackals communicate and use teamwork to take down larger prey… It was late in the afternoon, and we were returning to our lodge at Eagle View Camp after an afternoon visiting the Obama Forest and the conservation efforts…