Epic Animal Encounters

Tourist Ria Cilliers shares her morning coffee with a wild leopard.

Yasmin Tajik is amazed at how a leopard, watching the impalas move below the tree it’s perched in, leaps out in one swift movement and kills one of the impala.

A regular morning spear fishing turns into a horror film for spear fisherman Eugene van Wyngaardt as he finds himself in a one-on-one situation with a Great White.

In the Kruger National Park in South Africa Dianne Tipping-Wood finds a boomslang and a chameleon in a duel on the tar road.

In the slippery, rock lined Sand River John Varty struggles to save an enormous two ton bull giraffe who has gone down and can’t get up.

A battle between elephants is caught on camera on the edges of the Kruger Park.

A couple of tourists gets mugged by baboons.

A humpback calf get spotted off the coast of South Africa frantically trying to find its mother.

Massive predators are caught on camera fighting over food.

An elephant decides to take on a safari vehicle.

When a male leopard stumbles upon the scene of another leopard making a kill, instead of chasing off the other leopard and potentially losing the prey, he leaps in to assist.

Joost van Uffelen is privileged to film mobula-rays launching out of the water and hundreds of rays schooling together during a migration.