Cast out by his pride, a lion at a Zambia game park lost out to a buffalo – though both animals later died – when the two animals struggled to survive in a wild jungle, one to find food and another not to be the food.
What ensued was a brutal hour-long battle leaving both animals bloodied, exhausted and with fatal wounds.
Dramatic images capture the lion savagely biting and clawing at the buffalo’s mouth, the big cat’s face smeared with blood from where he’s been gored by his heavier and larger opponent’s horns.
However, while the buffalo survived, at least for two more weeks, the lion died two hours later of the both starvation and as a result of the wounds inflicted by the buffalo.