The entire brutal scene was captured by game reserve ranger Roan Ravenhill, 28, at the Mala Mala game reserve in South Africa. See more photos below..
Mr Ravenhill, who was about 20 metres away for the entire attack, said: ‘There was a fight going on between the cape buffalo bull and a pride of lions and we could see them leaping upon it. Suddenly we could see that a young male had managed to get hooked by the buffalo’s horn underneath his left front leg. He ended up stuck there for a good 20 minutes.
‘After that time, he managed to get unhooked, but was limping for days afterwards we noticed. By a long way, it was the longest battle we have ever seen between lions and a buffalo – it was hard to watch, but that is the reality of nature.’
