Jason E. Schlosberg, a freelance photographer, caught this awesome wild moment in South Africa's Kruger National Park while on safari.

A heard of buffalo is ambushed by a price of lions, with a young calf being chased into the river. While the lions try to kill and remove the calf from the water, a couple of alligators get into the act, but the lions prevail. Not for too long however, as the buffalo heard returns to save the day.


That is as good as any National Geographic moments I have seen on television. Of course this is the natural course of nature being played out, but in this case I couldn't help but cheer for the buffalo, and was surprised to see the calf escape. Although the calf walked away it may still have died from the wounds.

Via Jane Galt at Asymmetrical Information.