In one image, a 140-pound spotted hyena bit down into the lion’s side as the lion continued to snarl at the pack surrounding it, despite the gruesome attack. In another, the 400-pound lion closed in on the buffalo carcass after fending off the hungry hyenas for six hours.
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The hyenas took turns launching themselves at the lion. Photographer and co-founder of SafariSmiths Kyle Smith, 26, from Hilton, South Africa, captured the incredible clash in the country’s Kruger National Park
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At one stage, the hyenas closed in before the lion turned the tables and began fighting back. Kyle stood around 800-feet away as the spectacle played out over six hours. Kyle used a Sony AR7 IV camera and a Sony 200-600mm lens to take the incredible photos
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One hyena tried to sink a bite into the lion’s rump. Hyenas gather food both by scavenging and by hunting. They will hunt in packs and use their 37 miles-per-hour speed to chase prey until exhaustion
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The scrap lasted an incredible six hours. his is the moment a lion took on thirty hyenas in a six hour long battle over a buffalo carcass in South Africa
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The hyenas closed in on the lion as they attempted to scare it away. Photographer and co-founder of SafariSmiths Kyle Smith, 26, from Hilton, South Africa, captured the incredible clash
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The angry lion stood its ground and launched itself at the pestering hyenas
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Over thirty hyenas taunted the lion at various stages throughout the six hour long ordeal
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The lion was determined to keep the buffalo to itself. The 400-pound lion closed in on the buffalo carcass after fending off the hungry hyenas