Wildlife photographer, Pia Dierickx captured a series of amazing photos of a lioness in Botswana attacking a crocodile that was threatening her pride. A lion's pride is the social group they form and live their lives with including their cubs.
The photographer was in Botswana observing the lioness and her pride crossing a riverbed. When the crocodile appeared, the lioness jumped and grabbed the croc by it's mouth. The two battled it out, biting each other, until the lioness ran off.
Dierickx told press that she hardly even noticed what happened since it happened so quickly. She told press, "It was only when I downloaded my pictures later that I saw what had happened."
Last year a lioness was caught by photographer Jean-Francois Lagrot rescuing her cubs from a slippery slope at Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve. Also, a Huffington Post video exemplifies a trainer visiting four young lions and on his last day of wor and the lions show an outpouring of love for him.
Currently, Asian lions are on the endangered species list and the African lion population has been shrinking. According to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), the African lion population has declined by 30 percent over the last two decades, due to prey depletion and killings.
See photos of the lion and crocodile brawl here.
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