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Jackal vs lion - what happened next?

About the jackal vs lion photos

These stunning images of a fearless black-backed jackal running rings around a male lion, taken by Ken Stratford of the Ongava Research Centre in Namibia, emerged as a worthy Overall and Animal Behaviour category winner of our second Camera-trap Photo of the Year competition.

Ken explains what happened:

September, the tail end of the dry season, is a time of year when the waterholes in Ongava Game Reserve are particularly busy. But no one in my team ever dreamed of seeing this...

One of our camera-traps had fired off a sequence of 10 shots revealing a black-backed jackal attacking a young adult male lion – in broad daylight.
Not only do cat and canine typically frequent waterholes at night rather than by day, we found no previous record of a jackal being so aggressive towards a lion.
 
Click here to see the other incredible images from this year's competition