These up-close shots show the moment a leopard makes quick work of a young wildebeest who was about to cross a crocodile infested river.
It was purely by accident that Italian photographer Paolo Torchio captured the rare and spectacular event on camera, who had been in position for four days to take shots of hungry crocodiles as a herd of wildebeest crossed a river in Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve.
‘My target was to take pictures of the very hungry crocs – who had been fasting for almost a year – attacking and killing the wildebeest in the river,’ the 54-year-old said.
These up-close shots show the moment a leopard makes quick work of a young wildebeest who was about to cross a crocodile infested river.
It was purely by accident that Italian photographer Paolo Torchio captured the rare and spectacular event on camera, who had been in position for four days to take shots of hungry crocodiles as a herd of wildebeest crossed a river in Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve.
‘My target was to take pictures of the very hungry crocs – who had been fasting for almost a year – attacking and killing the wildebeest in the river,’ the 54-year-old said.
