Crocodiles and hippos are the largest and fiercest denizens of Africa’s freshwater habitats. While they are not natural rivals—they do not compete for the same food, nor do they normally eat each ...

Cape Town - When you live and work in the bush, every now and then you get to see how truly mindblowing nature really is. Nick Kleer, a trainee ranger at Londolozi, recently had one of those ...

You don't mess with a hippo when its young is nearby. And if you need convincing, just look at these incredible pictures of a protective mother clamping a crocodile in its jaws and thrashing it about ...

This mama hippo is protective – and that’s no croc! Amateur photographer Ken Haley captured startling images of a hippo biting a crocodile at Lake Panic in Kruger National Park, South Africa. “The ...

These amazing pictures show a gigantic battle to the death between raging hippos and hungry crocodiles. When one unlucky hippo fell foul of a legion of rampant reptiles in a Zambian National Park, you ...

A massive hippo calmly displaces five Nile crocodiles from a fresh kill in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Adult hippos dominate shared waterways and rarely back down from crocodiles. Both hippos and Nile ...

This is the adorable moment an overly confident baby hippo faces up to a snoozing crocodile. Rainer Marthe, 44, filmed the encounter between a hippo calf and the crocodile in Kruger National Park, ...

An impala's desperate bid to escape a crocodile's jaws was doomed to failure when a hippo joined in the chase. The dramatic scene unfolded at South Africa's biggest game reserve, Kruger National Park.

This is the moment a hulking hippo casually wandered up to a huge crocodile – leaving the normally fearsome predator frozen to the spot. Rogan Kerr, 36, filmed the extraordinary encounter as the hippo ...

Ken Haley, who took the pictures in South Africa, said: “My reaction was 'wow, you don't see that every day!'" Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We ...