Intense Wildlife Encounter: Leopard Tracks and Hunts Baboon in Broad Daylight

A photographer has captured the last agonising moments of a baby baboon’s life after it was caught in the jaws of a lioness. 

Photographer Stew Nolan’s images show the infant monkey appearing to beg the 300-pound lioness to spare it. 

Instead, the predator toys with the tiny monkey for several minutes before killing it at South Africa‘s Kruger National Park. 

 

A photographer has captured the last agonising moments of a baby baboon's life after it was caught in the jaws of a lioness

A photographer has captured the last agonising moments of a baby baboon’s life after it was caught in the jaws of a lioness

 

In a previous shot, the tiny monkey appears to be for its life to be spared but the lioness instead toys with the infant before killing it
The dramatic encounter happened at South Africa's Kruger National Park by Stew Nolan, a 41-year-old photographer and entrepreneur

The dramatic encounter happened at South Africa’s Kruger National Park by Stew Nolan, a 41-year-old photographer and entrepreneur

 

The female lion appeared to have also killed an adult baboon. In Nolan's picture, the larger animal can be seen tightly gripped by the predator's jaws

 

The female lion appeared to have also killed an adult baboon. In Nolan’s picture, the larger animal can be seen tightly gripped by the predator’s jaws