How To Eat A Zebra In 40 Minutes Photo Gallery by Chris Hillman at pbase.com

How To Eat A Zebra In 40 Minutes

On the Banks of the Ruaha river in Ruaha National Park, southern Tanzania. We sat and watched a pride of 13 lions looking for an easy meal, some Zebra came down to the river to drink and the young female lions took one out very quickly right in front of us. The older males casually wandered along after and enjoyed the spoils of the kill. We were sitting in an open top vehicle 6 to 8 metres from them while they ate. It only took 40 minutes to finish it off.

Used two cameras, a 5D with 100-400 L IS and a 20D with 28-135 IS

Old Friends	Anticipation	10.00 am	10.05 am
10.30 am	11.26 am	11.27 am	12.01 pm
12.05 pm	12.08 pm	Pick 1 Zebra	Zebra
13 Hungry Lions	12.09 pm	12.09 pm	12.10 pm
12.10 pm	12.10 pm	12.11 pm	12.11 pm
12.11 pm	12.11 pm	12.11 pm	12.11 pm
12.11 pm	12.11 pm	12.11 pm	12.12 pm
12.12 pm	12.12 pm	12.12 pm	12.13 pm
12.14 pm	12.15 pm	12.15 pm	12.15 pm
12.16 pm	12.27 pm	12.28 pm	12.31 pm
12.42 pm	12.44 pm	12.45 pm	12.45 pm
12.46 pm	12.48 pm	12.48 pm	12.49 pm
12.49 pm	12.49 pm	12.51 pm	12.51 pm
12.52 pm	12.52 pm	12.55 pm

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Mateo Hevezi		09-May-2025 06:26
Nature is metal

Lakotah		11-Feb-2012 22:24
At 12:49 reminds me of the time I was driving here in town and I saw a dog carring another dogs head home for dinner. Yum Yum. At 12:52, good to the last drop. At 12:55 those Lions look Fat and Sassy.

Barry Ailetcher		08-Feb-2012 22:01
What a fantastic gallery I enjoyed it a lot

fara1		02-Feb-2012 10:15
Amazing gallery. Napkins were missing. Bravo you were brave. V

Apostolos Tikopoulos		24-Jun-2011 15:51
Wonderful and interesting gallery. v.

Webman06		19-Aug-2010 20:44
Superb captures, you were at the right place at the perfect time ! V.

Guest		24-Jan-2010 02:19
Horrifying, I could not have watched. Amazing none the less.

Nella Pascal		13-Apr-2008 07:24
Incredible! I love everything about this gallery, including the title. Very "catchy"... National Geographic quality of reportage!

MarcWildPassion		05-Jan-2008 14:43
This is a very good "reportage" on the wild

r		19-Sep-2007 09:15
This is why they're kings of the Jungle. Natural selection. Only the strong survive. not much left of the zebra though!!!

Guest		22-Jun-2007 18:57
Wow what a great gallery! You must have been so excited to be able to capture that. You did a great job of capturing the incident. Jessie

Guest		12-Jun-2007 15:39
Wow Chris, talk about the balance of nature. Wonderfully documented and a pleasure to vote for.

Guest		04-Jun-2007 05:05
Wonderful site. JT

Ron S. Bernardo		02-Apr-2007 02:44
Excellent documentary! Voted.

Monte Dodge		01-Apr-2007 05:10
vote,, Life is harsh, death is harsher.....

Guest		30-Mar-2007 18:30
Very powerful gallery. I loved every shot.

Garret Holton		04-Mar-2007 12:57
Wow pretty cool, but the only thing you can't say is that no zebras were harmed in the making of this clip.

dhillon gs		30-Jan-2007 15:41
excellent . simply great

Guest		10-Dec-2006 06:25
great moment of life ,great pictures

Eddie Ling		30-Nov-2006 15:40
What a series of capture!

Guest		29-Nov-2006 17:30
love the time line... such a great story...

TS. Bok		29-Nov-2006 15:26
Superb gallery! Great capture. Voted!

Guest		23-Nov-2006 03:32
Stunning gallery. Wow.

Guest		25-Sep-2006 21:10
It's certainly fresh! An amazing gallery - thanks for sharing.

cron		16-Sep-2006 19:29
Àáàëäåòü, çíàòíûé îáåä, Äèñíåé ëîõ :)

��		16-Sep-2006 13:12
ÎÕÐÅÍÈÒÅËÜÍÎ !!! ÈÍÒÅÐÅÑÍÎ, À ÑËÎÍÀ ÎÍÈ ÒÎÆÅ ÒÀÊ ???

Guest		15-Sep-2006 12:33
Íè÷îòàê. Ïðàéä ñöóêî îòæîã.

D�naa!		14-Sep-2006 15:03
AAwww!...Poor Zebraa! I like the picturee!...but i feel for the Zebraa!

D�naa!		14-Sep-2006 15:00
Awww..!...poor Zebraa!...but it is incredibul images!...but i feel for the Zebraa!

Guest		09-Sep-2006 14:00
Incredible images! Voted

Guest		09-Sep-2006 09:03
where is Disney's Lion King? How to bore your visitors in 40 seconds...

Ashley Hockenberry		09-Sep-2006 03:24
Powerful display!!

Guest		08-Sep-2006 10:10
Wow! Absolutely stunning! You were very lucky to get such a nice clean view of the kill. How close were you to the pride?

Derek Denfeld		07-Sep-2006 22:38
god that kicks ass, where were u when u took these shots...i wish i have a chance to go shoot nature...like wolves, i wld loves to take pics of wolvees roaming around and hunting prey....

Guest		07-Sep-2006 19:37
Not many get to see nature at work like this. Nicely captured!

the turkish		05-Sep-2006 14:24
nice but simple photos

Guest		05-Sep-2006 08:45
great work. well done. voted

Guest		05-Sep-2006 07:01
thank god i'm vegetarian. nice pics tho.

mathilda williams		05-Sep-2006 03:16
truly spectacular images. voted.

Brian Klimowski		04-Sep-2006 21:05
This is really a fantastic documentary, Chris - what I particularly like about it is the variety of compositions and perspectives which make it very strong artistically as well - well done! Brian

Jeffrey Lewis Knapp		04-Sep-2006 05:47
Very interesting capture of very interesting footage. I watched the slide show. The images are so real and exact. Great job. Keep up the wonderful photography! JLK

Craig Sadler		04-Sep-2006 00:16
WOW!! Great series! The saying F8 and being there... Man...How I envy your "being there"!!!

John Amato		03-Sep-2006 18:37
Very well done! voted

PauloCGama		03-Sep-2006 17:35
strong and intense! that's life, very well done. cheers

tonis69		03-Sep-2006 12:36
gi'afto einai o basilias tis zougklas

Paul Waldron		03-Sep-2006 00:37
Great photo's, shame about the zebra!

Guest		02-Sep-2006 21:51
I've never seen a gallery tell a story like this one! Outstanding, I only wish I could vote more than once you deserve it!!!

Tom Tom		02-Sep-2006 06:45
Amazing documentary! GMV!

Barbara Read and Fred Schaad		02-Sep-2006 05:26
Amazing! V

Guest		02-Sep-2006 02:50
WOW! What a fantastic sequence. Where did this happen? Thanks for sharing, Mike Ross

Jeff Herbert		01-Sep-2006 21:57
This is the coolest gallery I've seen on Pbase.

Guest		01-Sep-2006 18:33
Wow... only @ 150mm? And on a full-frame body (5D) How close were you??

Guest		01-Sep-2006 17:55
Félicitations. Quelle scène magnique. Bravo.

treycranson		01-Sep-2006 16:42
what kind of zoo was this?! just kidding. excellent photos.

thao dang		01-Sep-2006 10:00
Pity zebra! How savage are the lions! I'm rather scared.

dhphoto		01-Sep-2006 08:31
Fantastic gallery, well done! David

Vikas Malhotra		01-Sep-2006 07:27
Simply Awesome.....Vikas.

Georgia Roessler		01-Sep-2006 02:33
Fantastic gallery! You didn't miss a moment of the event!

Guest		31-Aug-2006 23:54
Nice job Chris! Awesome! Gmv JV

George McKenna		31-Aug-2006 19:39
What an amazing sequence of pictures. I feel as if I have been on safari.

Dale Unruh		31-Aug-2006 16:04
Wow! Fantastic gallery!!

mic_hong		31-Aug-2006 15:14
Very good illustrated story.

Nick Vivian		31-Aug-2006 13:08
this tells a story... albeit a gruesome one !

Richard Calmes		31-Aug-2006 10:44
You told the story well! Excellent photography! V

Martin Doheny		31-Aug-2006 08:55
Class galery 8-)

William Hartshorn		31-Aug-2006 04:26
Be careful Chris.......Wow!! Maybe next time they wont be completely satisfied? Natures elements are awesome! ~V~

Guest		31-Aug-2006 04:25
Great series.

Guest		31-Aug-2006 00:10
Incredible images, voted.

Guest		30-Aug-2006 20:09
Wonderful chronicle of nature's circle of life. Voted.

Arno Meintjes Wildlife		30-Aug-2006 07:42
I missed this one. Fantastic work Chris.

Peg O'Brien		29-Aug-2006 05:07
Not every day do you get to witness this event! Very well done, Chris!

Ray :)		28-Aug-2006 23:22
Incredible!

Guest		28-Aug-2006 12:14
Very dramatic and impressive series.

Guest		28-Aug-2006 12:01
Some great shots here! Voted!

G.Pietro Munaretto		28-Aug-2006 11:58
excellent gallery

Hodero		28-Aug-2006 08:13
Fantastic gallery.Some excellent shots ! Time to go to McDonald ;-))gmv

Guest		26-Aug-2006 23:04
Outstanding

Big Bob		24-Aug-2006 17:01
They even ate the stripes!

MacPhot		24-Aug-2006 15:10
wow - this is powerful stuff! great catch.

Guest		22-Aug-2006 14:54
Wow - incredible series.

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