Teenage male Lion killing baby Honey Badger in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Kalahari Desert, South Africa: Photographed by Shane Saunders  (Cape Town, RSA)
{"Image ImageDescription": "During our annual trip to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa, we were on an early morning drive down the Auob River. Just passed the Dalkieth waterhole we came across this young male lion attacking a Honey Badger and her baby. After the mother's long and desperate struggle to protect her youngster (at least an hour), the lion managed to break the mother's back. With her fatal injury she still defending herself, but eventually dragged herself off into a nearby bush; a terrible sight. The lion returned to the baby, now hiding amongst the branches of a fallen kameel doring (thorn tree). This image shows how he reacted. Although this is a sighting very rarely seen, it is apparently quite common in the Kalahari. It did leave us hollow and sad. The lion, however, didn\u2019t manage to escape  injury as the mother badger did cause some damage to part of the lion\u2019s back paw.", "Image DateTime": "2014:10:22 10:15:46", "Image Artist": "SHANE SAUNDERS", "Image Copyright": "shane@dscape.co.za"}