The impala’s bucking and swerving continued for a few minutes. He stopped his dust dance and circling to try and catch his breath. Clearly the additional 9kg+ locked onto his underbelly with sharp teeth was taking its toll. As soon as the Impala came to a stop, the jackal let go of his grip.

Guests don’t often realise the plethora of other types of wildlife they can submerge themselves in when visiting Kapama Private Game Reserve. As part of the Greater Kruger area, besides the Big 5, the terrain offers a magnificent array of bird life that is sometimes even more impressive.

This is very common practice for warthogs, buffalo, rhinos and elephants. However, in most cases, you normally only get to see the muddy animals or maybe a scratch or two. Seeing the whole therapy session play out in front of us was just such an awesome treat, especially for my guests!

It was obvious that this was practice for one day when they will need to start hunting for themselves. Each of the young lion cub's instinctively went for the neck of the other.

That afternoon as we climbed the cruiser for the sundowner safari, we departed camp with very excited guests, including myself. We were going to investigate the scene that we had left behind earlier that morning hoping for the best result possible.

From what we could see, the young buffalo was still alive and fighting desperately for its life.