Hungry Nile Crocodile

A routine trip to the water hole recently resulted in a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile.

Tourist Martin Nyfeler of Kloten, Switzerland, captured pictures of the wild encounter during a visit to Zambia's South Luangwa National Park in late September.

We saw a mother elephant and baby at the water hole and said  what a cute picture, let's stop here.

And suddenly the croc jumped out. The whole event took maybe 15 seconds.