Category: Animals

Pony with overgrown hooves finally gets the chance to walk normally again after neglect The distress in Stella’s demeanor was palpable, clearly agitated and upset as rescuers approached to offer their help. The Owners’ Challenges Stella, along with the horses and various other animals, belonged to an elderly couple. While their intentions were undoubtedly good,…

This is the heartbreaking moment a helpless baby monkey clung onto its dead mother as her lifeless body hung from a leopard’s mouth. The tiny vervet monkey refused to let go of its mother after the predator pounced at South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, despite putting itself in grave danger. The youngster was also…

They may be the smallest of the big cats, but when it comes to hunting skills, leopards knock spots off the opposition. These dramatic pictures show a female flying from high in a tree to attack unsuspecting impalas below. The images were captured by Peter Geraerdts at South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. He said:…

The python can be seen squeezing the last light of life out of the calf before unlocking its jaws and swallowing it whole, while its mother cries out in distress. Heartbreaking: The helpless mother impala is forced to watch the python eat her baby calf in South Africa ‘A few minutes later the herd moved…

These furious beasts clearly weren’t happy about a pack of wild dogs picnicing on their patch. Head to head: A seemingly fearless wild dog has a tense standoff with a powerful hippopotamus The hippos defended their watering hole for more than two hours until the dogs were organised enough to get their hard-earned meal. Intruders:…

A leopard sets up a perfect ambush on a baboon, but the tables turn when the baboons fight back. A leopard sets up a perfect ambush on a baboon, but the tables turn when the baboons fight back.   “My guests and I were out on a game drive, and we managed to locate a…

This hapless crocodile was forced to share his meal with his friends after struggling to rip apart his prey by himself. The crocodile was successful in his hunt for a meal and began trying to tear up the impala in South Africa Crocodiles often throw their prey around to try and make it more manageable…

A family’s film of a pride of lions feasting on their kill turned to terror when the beasts dragged the animal’s carcass under their car. Jade van Holdt and her family witnessed the lions chase down and kill an impala in the Kruger National Park and then about ten of the animals settled down for…

A deadly leopard stunned tourists by catching and then ‘befriending’ a frightened impala. The big cat seemed to shelve its predator instincts as it played and licked the young fawn. Cuddling up: The young leopard rests its paw on an impala in Kruger National Park, in what tourists thought might be an extraordinary show of…

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