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A lion follows a lost baby elephant. Photo courtesy of LatestSightings.com A mother elephant ran across the road in a hurry without realizing that she left her baby behind. Lions spotted the lost calf and saw an opportunity. Fifty-five-year-old Brent Schnupp, a paramedic firefighter from Virginia, captured this sighting and shared it with LatestSightings.com. This incredible sighting unfolded during Brent's recent safari to the Kruger National Park, located in South Africa. "I was in the Kruger National Park. It was a crisp morning, around 6:30 a.m., just north of Mopani camp, and my safari group and I were excited, hoping...

An avid hunter of endangered animals was shot dead in South Africa after his truck broke down, according to new reports. Riaan Naude, the 55-year-old head of Pro Hunt Africa, was found dead next to his vehicle in Marken Road, Limpopo. Cops said they have no motive yet. Two hunting rifles were found in Naude’s car near the Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, local outlet Maroela Media reported June 9.

Officials at a South African national park said yesterday that a man who was suspected of being a poacher was killed by a herd elephants on Saturday. The men were running from rangers when they ran into a “breeding herd of elephants.” The men were reportedly attempting to poach rhinoceros. Only through discipline, teamwork and tenacity will we be able to help stem the tide of rhino poaching in KNP.”

A suspected rhino poacher was killed in an elephant stampede at a South African national park on Saturday, officials said. The man was among three suspected poachers spotted by rangers at Kruger National Park, the parks service said in a Sunday press release. The trio fled when they were seen, and during their escape, ran into a breeding herd of elephants, authorities said.

The man was one of three suspected rhino poachers whom park rangers were chasing through Kruger National Park at the time, SANParks said in a news release. "When they realized they had been spotted, the suspected poachers dropped an axe and a bag with their provisions in an attempt to escape from the rangers," SANParks said. The rangers pursued the three suspects with dogs and air support. They eventually caught up with one who said his accomplice had run into a herd of breeding elephants, but he did not know what happened after that. Rangers went to the spot where...

A visitor to a South African national park captured the moment a group of white rhinoceroses charged at the tour group, sending the visitors running for the bushes. The video, filmed Wednesday in Kruger National Park, shows the tour group and two rangers approaching a crash of white rhinos. The rhinos notice the tourists nearby and apparently feel threatened, leading them to charge toward the humans. A ranger can be hard shouting "Get in the bush," and the tourists comply, causing the rhinos to run right past them. "I could feel the ground moving like an earthquake, we jumped into...