Gimme a hand - and make it snappy! Baboon looks doomed when croc traps its arm… but there's a surprise ending

Dramatic pictures amusement a baboon with its limb trapped wrong the jaw of a crocodile arsenic it struggled to flight becoming the reptile's adjacent meal.

The photos were snapped in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya, and amusement the tiny monkey putting up a brave combat arsenic it is dragged nether the water.

The yellowish baboon tin beryllium seen on the banks of the Tsavo stream - which runs done the parkland - with its arms firmly wrong the croc's jaw. 

It appears to beryllium attempting to fly from its predicament arsenic the primate lunges towards adust onshore - seemingly crying retired successful pain.

The crocodile past pulls the baboon nether the h2o and it appears arsenic though the combat is over. 

Remarkably the monkey someway manages to flight from the h2o and fly earlier becoming the crocodile's adjacent meal.

It did not permission the combat wholly unscathed arsenic the determined croc managed to inflict a nasty gash connected the monkey's cheek.

Nicolas Urlacher, who teaches Spanish successful Nairobi, was the lensman down the terrifying pictures.

The 46-year-old Frenchman said: 'I saw galore Baboons successful the adust riverbank of the Tsavo river, I saw that determination was a baboon successful a puddle.

'I thought however archetypal is this one privation to marque of a video of this baboon having a bath, this is truthful unusual. 

'So, I began to movie it and aft a fewer seconds I saw that it was precise strange, baboons were wholly stressed watching this baboon successful the water.

'They began to shriek similar brainsick erstwhile helium tried to get retired of the water, truthful I thought for 1 2nd that it was a large combat betwixt baboons and that this 1 was escaping from the others.

'Then I rapidly saw that the baboon was not having a bath but was caught by a crocodile.

'The baboon managed to flight by a miracle, done cunning and patience.

'What I emotion astir astir these photos is, archetypal and foremost, the aggravated play they capture.

'It's a play of the harshest broadside of nature: a baboon with human-like traits falling unfortunate to an carnal that seems acold and astir robotic. 

'These are hard photos to look at, yet they picture a wholly mean and earthy situation-one we indispensable judge due to the fact that it is portion of the earthy order, contempt our instinctive compassion for the baboon's plight.'

The Yellow baboons are autochthonal to eastbound Africa and tin beryllium recovered roaming connected the savannahs of Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

They are among the astir palmy African primates and are not listed arsenic threatened oregon endangered.