These amazing shots show a fight to the death between two lions and a hippo. After attacking and driving the hippo into deep water, the pair of lions play a waiting game, lying still on nearby rocks for two hours before the hippo ventures out, according to the Daily Mail newspaper Wednesday.

Having waited for it to get clear of its bolt-hole, the lions pounce and the plucky juvenile hippo puts up a fight, chasing them away.

But one lion gets onto the hippo's back and the other attacks from the front leaving the hippo charging with them to the nearest bit of a water in a bid to get them off.

But the water is shallow and the lions manage to flip the hippo over and drown it, before they are joined by a third lion for dinner.

Photographer Andrew Schoeman, 39, took the pictures during his trip of the Sabi Sands Game reserve in South Africa.