WildLife Experience

This is the brutal moment 5 hungry hyenas corner and eat a zebra with broken back feet alive while it tries its best to escape the predators. This ruthless sighting was captured by 28-year-old, guide/manager at   Royal Safaris , Matthew Roach, while on a sunset game drive with his guests in Kruger National Park.     Matthew tells LatestSightings.com the story: “It was a good afternoon out on my usual sunset/night drive. I had six guests with me that day and another safari vehicle with a guide following close by. We had spent the afternoon slowly making our way to a leopard that had been hanging around for the past few days in hopes that we might find her and her cub.”   “We were lucky enough to find her and spend 10 minutes with her before moving on. Unfortunately, her cub was not around. As we left the sighting a vehicle approached us and told us there were hyena blocking the road ahead. We went to investigate! As we drove around the first corner, we spotted five hy...

A family’s outing to the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal turned into a nightmare when a bull elephant charged, battered and then overturned their vehicle at the weekend.  The occupants – believed to be a husband, wife and their two children, aged eight and 10, from the coastal town of Mtunzini – were reported to be severely traumatised, but not seriously hurt. It is unclear why the elephant attacked the car, but it is understood that an investigation will be launched by park officials. Dramatic video footage taken by the occupants of another vehicle show the elephant shoving a white Ford 4×4 bakkie after it had flipped the vehicle over onto its roof. Images circulated on social media show that the windscreen was cracked, with dents to both sides of the vehicle.   Ntuli and fellow staff were returning to a field camp in a three-ton truck from Hell’s Gate when they came across a breeding herd of 26 elephants drinking at a reservoir at about 7pm.  They stopped t...

A zoo in southern China placed a golden retriever in a lion enclosure while they relocated the big cats. The video, filmed in the city of Xichang in Sichuan Province on March 27, shows a golden retriever in a cage with a lion sign hanging on it. According to reports, the sign was removed when a reporter visited the zoo on March 29. The zoo employee said: "There used to be lions in that enclosure but we have changed the location for them and golden retrievers are in that enclosure now." The zoo has apologised to the visitors.   Click to watch the video

 Dancing Elephant Baby

Living and working in the African wild has given me many opportunities to film and document the behaviour of a vast number of wildlife species. One of my favourite species of wildlife to observe and film is the African elephant. On the rare occasion, as shown in this video, these African giants will let you know when they are not impressed by the presence of your filming equipment. This can lead to very interesting footage in the end.   It was late afternoon when I decided to head out into the wild on my own, kitted with all my filming equipment. I was specifically out searching for a herd of elephants to film. African elephants are my favourite animals to film in the wild as they are almost always busy doing something. Spending lots of time with any herd of elephants can deliver many memorable behaviours and experiences. The Kruger National Park hosts one of the largest populations of African elephant on the continent and finding these giants normally does not take too long. I cam...

    A brave baby elephant protected its injured mother by chasing away vets who arrived to help. The female jumbo collapsed in the middle of a rubber plantation in Chanthaburi province, Thailand, in the early hours of Sunday morning (Feb 28).   Passing local Deaw Phonpalad, 44, was tapping rubber trees at sunrise when he saw the jumbo sprawled on the ground and called for help. Wildlife officers at the Khao Ang Ruanai reserve arrived to save the injured animal but her overly protective baby son prevented them from getting near the mother. Footage shows the three-year-old jumbo frantically running around its mother to defend her against the strangers. Chief wildlife marshall Peerasak Sanan from the Kaeng Hang Maew district said: ‘Soldiers from the Army Rangers Forces Regiment 1306 arrived to investigate with national park staff. ‘The team was unable to observe the symptoms of the wild elephant because the baby was still in a ferocious state. We believe he was still anxious...

  Russian authorities started an investigation on Monday into the Kazan circus after two elephants started what looked like fighting during a show. The elephants landed in an area where there were visitors. Incidents of animals becoming violent are relatively common at Russian circuses, which have made animal welfare organisations concerned about the way the animals are treated. The use of wild animals in circuses is still allowed in Russia. Video footage showed the female elephant Jenny pushing over the female elephant Magda, while they were performing at the circus on Sunday in the city of Kazan. Magda fell towards the crowd. On social media, it was said that one of the elephants fell because she was exhausted and lost her balance, but the Kazan circus said “the audience had witnessed a quarrel between Indian elephants Jenny and Magda” in a statement. “After years of exploitation, Jenny took on Magda on the Kazan Circus track in Russia. What do you expect from a world where ...

As the filmer write: ' ' Nature is full of surprises, I went to the Mara river only to find zebras that were getting ready to go drink water, after a brief wait at the river the zebras went for a drink and some started to cross the river. Given that it was in January, the crocodiles were very hungry and immediately they took advantage of the crossing zebras. that's when one crocodile got a hold of the zebra the others started to close in. One of the crocodile went for the face of the zebra and rolled hoping to rip the head out but instead ripped the face out. like in the movies face off. it took sometime before the zebra died. '' Credits: Viralsnare/Youtube: Mara Guide GRAPHIC WARNING

This is the adorable moment an elephant held up cars after having a nap in the middle of the road. The jumbo was sprawled across the highway in Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern Thailand, on Tuesday (13/08) morning. As a car approached, the driver had to stop and be silent to avoid scaring the huge creature - which could have charged at the vehicle it was startled from being woken up suddenly. Footage show how the elephant remained in its deep sleep for around three minutes while the car edged closed and came to a stop. Motorist Nattawat Patsungsing, 57, who captured the video said the elephant was like that for about 20 minutes before he started filming. Nattawat is heard in the clip asking the elephant to move. Source: Viral Press

The island nation is a home for wildlife sanctuaries full of Elephants that roam the streets and through village areas freely in many regions of the country. The small island nation is full of elephants that are loved by most of the inhabitants of the island. Most educated in the country are continually fighting corruption, and animal abuse, especially towards the treasures that elephants are to the state as Sri Lankan elephants are known as the largest and the strongest among Asian elephants. This particular footage is about a young elephant that some villagers spotted as it was found with unimaginable pain due to a cable wire trap that has injured its legs with no chance for this elephant to break free on its own. The wildlife department officers came to this scene to help and save this elephant by cutting this cable and providing all the necessary medical supplies to treat its leg that in a very horrible condition. These officers might even consider taking this elephant back to o...

Wildlife guide and trainer Steve Faulconbridge was following the fresh spoor of lion cubs he had spotted while taking a tour group for a game drive in the Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve along the western border of Kruger National Park. Steve got out of the vehicle and was so engrossed with following the lion tracks, diligently explaining his movements to the safari group, that he didn’t realise he was walking right into the Nkuhuma pride of lions that was hidden in the long, golden grass. ‘Oh my word,’ Steve repeatedly proclaimed, as he realised where he was heading just in time as the lions got up and started to move off. ‘We’ve just bumped into a pride of lion.’ ‘Today’s tracks were very, very fresh,’ he later joked. Feature image: safariLIVE via YouTube Source:  https://www.getaway.co.za