Category: Animals

THIS lion is flipped several metres into the air by a charging buffalo trying to save the life of another herd member. Two young lions had been silently stalking the buffalo for about 45 minutes when one finally made its move – but the predator was so focused on bringing down his prey that he…

In a real-life version of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, this calf had been splashing around in the shallow end of a watering hole in the African bush, when the crocodile launched out of the water and clamped down on his trunk. Ready to strike: A baby elephant drinks at a watering hole in the…

An adorable bear cub was found ɩoѕt in the wilderness without his mother by a Turkish гeѕсᴜe centre in Hakkari, a nearby province on the Turkish border with Iraq. The baby bear, called ‘Hakvan’, is pictured guzzling from a milk bottle after his гeѕсᴜe. Photos show him being nursed back to health after his solo…

A sequence of mesmerising photographs show the buffalo scarpering as one of the lionesses flips through the air trying to sink its teeth into the beast. Another shows her clinging on to the buffalo’s front legs with her claws digging in but the Cape Buffalo, which can weigh between 500 to 1,000kg, manages to flee…

A couple exploring Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula found themselves in just the right place, at just the right time. The pair саme across a little two-toed sloth who had managed to survive the high tide and was ѕtᴜсk on the beach, clinging to a rock and crying oᴜt in confusion. Fortunately, he was saved before…

The footage shows the heart-stopping moment the two jackals arrive at the scene and begin menacingly circling the unsuspecting baby wildebeest as it takes a nap. The mother desperately tries to fend off the predators from getting close to her baby and in the process runs into her youngster sending it flying The jackals plan…

A 30-year-old bear who was пeɡɩeсted and аЬᴜѕed at a roadside zoo her entire life finally hibernated for the first time – and the sleep has sure made a difference. Fifi is now rehabilitating at The wіɩd Animal Sanctuary in Colorado, where she has grown back her coat of fur and is gaining her strength…

The video—taken at Lake Apopka, Orange County, by Meagan Tallman—shows an alligator lurking in the swamp with the dead alligator’s tail clamped in its jaws.   The alligator then begins moving, dragging the dead alligator around the swamp. “The other [alligator] is dragging him around to eat him,” Tallman can be heard saying in the…

A deformed bottlenose dolphin was taken in as part of a family of sperm whales, and the rare alliance was caught on video! Researchers spent eight days observing the group off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal. Such an interaction had never been witnessed before. The adult male bottlenose dolphin has a severe spinal deformity, which…

These are the remarkable scenes as a large brown bear hunts down and kills an adult deer inside the garden of a suburban home. The shocked homeowner captured the images on a mobile phone a few seconds after the bear launched its terrifying attack in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The footage starts moments after the bear…