Here’s an incredible sequence of shots attributed to Jean-Francois Largot in which a lion cub is rescued by its mother from a deep river gully in Kenya’s Masai Mara where migration safaris are the big attraction.

…things are getting precarious as the mother tries to get down to the stricken cub…

…she retreats back up the bank whilst the cub hangs on in quiet desperation…

…the lioness is nearly there but the cub’s seriously rattled by now…

…as the cub loses his grip he’s snatched by the scruff of the neck!