The REAL buffalo soldier! Stunning pictures capture the moment a mother trying to fend off a pride of lions attacking her calf is rescued when bull charges in and KILLS one of the predators

This is the moment when a heroic buffalo came to the rescue of a damsel in distress after the cow came under attack from two lions. The lions had initially stalked a buffalo calf and the mother had charged at the lions to save her young one, but found herself outnumbered during the battle in Okavango Delta in Botswana. In a dramatic turn of events, a protective macho buffalo steps in, scaring the lions away and nearly mauling the injured lioness to death - saving the mother's life.