Baby Elephant Stuck In Mud Gets Eaten Alive By Hyenas As Mother Watches Helplessly
A 50-year-old photographer Jens Cullman from Germany captured some distressing images of a baby elephant being eaten alive by hyenas. The baby was eaten by a pack of savagehyenas in front of its helpless mother. Both were stuck in a mud pit on the plains of Zimbabwe. The hungry pack of hyena tore off the baby elephants leg as during the attack. The mother threw mud over her head in a desperate attempt to scare off the predators. She then died dur...Read More
Nature can be ruthless and unforgiving when it has to be. A 50-year-old photographer, Jens Cullman, from Germany, captured some distressing images of a baby elephant being eaten alive by hyenas.
The baby was eaten by a pack of savage hyenas in front of its helpless mother. Both were stuck in a mud pit on the plains of Zimbabwe.
Jens Cullman
The hungry pack of hyenas tore off the baby elephant's leg as during the attack. The mother threw mud over her head in a desperate attempt to scare off the predators, according to Daily Mail report.
She then died during a rescue attempt as she lay trapped in the mud with her baby's rotting corpse in Mana Pools National Park.
Jens Cullman
The photographer returned at least twice to picture the plight of the helpless mother and baby.
The images show the distressed mother and the baby desperately raising their trunks after being stuck in the mud as the pack of hyenas patrol nearby.
Jens Cullman
The next morning the photographer found that the baby was dead while the mother was barely hanging on. He kept returning to the site to photograph the last days of the mother as she slowly succumbed to dehydration, state reports.
He thought it best to not interfere with nature, it is after all the survival of the fittest.
Jens Cullman
It is sad that the baby died a painful death, but that is the life of the wild.
