Category: Animals

A Kenyan lion, who is believed to be the world’s oldest, has died after he was  speared by herders, according to wildlife officials. Loonkito, 19, was brutally speared to death by Maasai morans (warriors) on Wednesday night after he was caught preying on livestock in Olkelunyiet village. This King of the Jungle was admired for years…

Almost indistinguishable from the grey stone of the mountain side, the big cats’ stealth and savagery has earned them the sinister sobriquet ‘the grey ghosts of the Himalayas’. But it is their prey who may more accurately be dubbed ghosts, for once in the sights of a stalking snow leopard there is very little chance…

This is the moment a determined leopard spectacularly fell from a tree after refusing to let go of its prey that had snagged on a branch. The big cat can be seen clinging onto the dead animal’s neck with its teeth in this video recorded at Kruger National Park in South Africa. Steve Haley, from…

This is the intense moment a jackal hunts a marabou stork after swimming up to it – check out these epic photos! All of this, even after it got away when the jackal tried to kill it on land! Jackal hunts marabou stork after swimming up to it This is the intense moment a jackal…

Baby buffalo takes on an enormous elephant and wins proving size REALLY doesn’t matter in the animal kingdom This is the moment that a brave baby buffalo took on an elephant in a David and Goliath-style savannah battle but managed to scare off the enormous mammal. The fearless calf, pictured right, bounds towards the elephant…

  Welp, that’s certainly an unexpected battle for the ages. It’s not something you would see everyday in the woods, that’s for sure.   Texas is a cool state for hunting and wildlife. Thanks to hunting ranches, they have a lot of different animals running around there that you ordinarily wouldn’t find living in Texas……

This is the astonishing moment a golden eagle thrusts its talons into a mountain goat’s neck before lifting the flailing animal in their air and dropping it to its death in the Italian Alps. Despite the adult chamois goat weighing five times more than the golden eagle, extraordinary footage shows the predator tackling the unsuspecting…

A pack of wild dogs thought it was their lucky day when they managed to steal an impala from a leopard that had just caught the beast and was ready to tuck into its meal. But it was a bunch of hyenas that had the last laugh when they chased the dogs away and claimed…

Caspar Siebel, a student and photographer, filmed this once-in-a-lifetime sighting during a trip in Sabi Sand, part of the Greater Kruger. “My dad and I were the only guests on the safari vehicle, and we’d only seen birds for most of the morning’s drive. Then suddenly, a leopard with intent came walking along the road,”…

A heroic set of images show a mother gazelle deѕрeгаteɩу trying to save her baby from the сɩᴜtсһeѕ of a giant eagle. ѕtапd off: A mother gazelle gets ready to fіɡһt off a giant eagle that has аttасked her baby in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya The parent сһагɡeѕ at the bird of ргeу…