also known as African buffalo, is the strongest of all challengers for a lion. Not only being big and strong, it has a very ferocious defense mechanism-a curved, sharp horn, plus a muscular body ...

Gathering in such large groups helps dissuade predators like lions, leopards, hyenas, and African wild dogs. Older male buffalo, though, often strike out in smaller clusters or on their own.

This is the painful moment a lion got a nasty shock when he tried to take down a water buffalo and ended up impaled on its huge horn - for 20 minutes. The drama happened when a pride of hungry ...

A search party of rangers decided to put down the wounded lion and the one which had escaped the farmer, Ms Raftopoulos said. South African National Parks says the unharmed lion was killed because ...