The fierce battle between lions and crocodiles

A female lion decided to go into the water to fight and scare away the crocodile that is holding the river where its herd passes.

Photographer Pia Dierickx, from Antwerp (Belgium), captures a rare moment in nature about the ability of a lion to fight a river over a river that is being held by crocodiles, in an animal sanctuary Wild Okavanga Delta in Botswana.

The 48-year-old photographer said, while she was observing and taking pictures of female lions and their children, leisurely walking by the river, suddenly a female lion had waded into the river before the event. fierce battle between it and a crocodile.

"I found a female lion gently going into the river, then it jumped out of the water and grabbed the crocodile. I quickly took the camera and captured the unique moment of the war between the monks. death and crocodile " , Ms. Pia Dierickx told the Daily Mail.

While the lion fights to control the fierce crocodile, the other female lions and their children swim across the river and to the other side. When he saw that the members of the group had crossed the river safely, the female lion decided to stop the fight with the crocodile and jump to the shore, with a slight wound in her mouth.

Lions seek to cross the river with a hungry crocodile that is taking prey.

A female lion decided to go to the water to fight crocodiles .

. to help other members of the herd be able to cross the river safely

The female lion starts to jump out of the water .

. to fight against the crocodile in the river
.The battle between two predators is fierce.

During that time, other female lions and children
their soldiers swam across the river and to the other side.

After realizing that the members of the group had crossed the river An
all, the lion decides to stop the fight with the crocodile .

. and jumped onto the shore safely.

The fierce battle with crocodiles caused the lion to have a slight wound in the mouth area