These incredible pictures show the moment a courageous marsh mongoose took on a pride of four lions – and won.
With the average adult lion weighing around 200kg, the fierce predators are likely to have been roughly 40 times the size of the physically inferior mongoose.
But that didn’t stop the little critter showing them who was boss.
Courageous: The mongoose was unfazed by the lions (
Image: Barcroft)
The lions chased the mongoose into a hole in the ground but the small, gutsy animal soon re-emerged to fight the predators once again before fleeing unscathed.
The amazing fight, which was photographed by Jerome Guillaumot in 2011 but has only just been released, took place in the Masaai Mara National Park, in Kenya.