These photos were taken by Evan Schiller and his wife Lisa Holzwarth and are a tremendous insight into the plight of animals that collide out in the wild.
Evan and Lisa were driving through northern Botswana’s Selinda region when they chanced upon a big troop of baboons charging through a bush, unaware that a pair of lionesses were watching nearby.
One baboon doing a runner was caught up to and killed — notice she’s got a baby in her clutches:
The lioness stalked the baby baboon for a while, knowing it couldn’t really get away:
Incredibly, the lioness didn’t seem to want to harm the baboon. In fact she just prodded him curiously:
