Jaws outstretched, this hungry hippopotamus seems to have found an easy target.
But with extraordinary skill, the wildebeest appears to outmanoeuvre his 3,300lb attacker at the very last moment.
However the stricken animal is frozen by fear in the next picture as the hippo catches it and bites it on the rear.
Although the wildebeest looks doomed it apparently escaped the attack which took place on the banks of the Mara river in the Masai Mara game reserve, Kenya.
The hippo would not have been attempting to satisfy its hunger as they are in fact vegetarians.
It is much more likely the grumpy-looking beast was angry that its territory had been encroached.
The wildebeest is one of 1.5 million on the final stretch of their migration south from Tanzania in search of fresh grazing.
The moment a hangari hippo took a bite at a stricken wildebeest
