{"id":622,"date":"2025-07-17T17:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:40:04","slug":"crocodile-attacks-male-lion-in-riverside-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile Attacks Male Lion In Riverside Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not used to being seen as potential prey, a lion ignored a nearby \u2018log\u2019, inadvertently putting itself in peril. The lion narrowly avoided not one, but two massive crocodiles before reaching safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjetw_08nUFYrsyJ_vf0cqvjRR17RGcRPsgugTMgq1bvE0A_xH2RKdELfeWr4JBS7YlOc3YFrCfZjVKOU-sUwCWJ8KJYwniMOtZzTJyJdZEpt0bbm8_jgC_vIuKc2H730q5CTHMD9a7ggZt9___UMh86vgRYFZDFDhWT-Fvn3v5U4dAK7r436ILa780ynU\/s1600\/Crocodile%20Attacks%20Male%20Lion%20In%20Riverside%20Showdown.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This video was submitted to Latest Sightings by Allan, who witnessed this dramatic encounter. He filmed it from the H10 bridge near Lower Sabie Camp, in South Africa\u2019s Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crocodile Attacks a Male Lion - Latest Wildlife Sightings\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEG0OnF2PCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Allan\u2019s video begins, we see a young male lion standing in the shallows of the Sabie River. He appears uncertain, snarling at an unfamiliar object in the water a few metres ahead of him. Little does he realise he is looking at a large Nile crocodile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not used to being seen as potential prey, a lion ignored a nearby \u2018log\u2019, inadvertently putting itself in peril. The lion narrowly avoided not one, but two massive crocodiles before &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}