I was watching something on TV when this came on. I guess some guy was on a safari and caught this on tape. Not many have seen something like this, there haven't even been a lot of professionals able to capture it. Anyway, National Geographic found out and paid good money to have it, so the family must have made some good cash! Kind of long, but I believe it's worth it. I know this video seems awful, but hang in there, it gets better.
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Wow, what a thing to capture on tape! I've always heard that water buffalo are some of the most fierce animals in Africa, I guess it's true! Do NOT mess with the water buffalo!
ReplyDeleteWhat a capture! I wish the PC I was watching it on offered better quality. As I perceived it this is what happened. 1. Water buffalo herd strolling left to right along river's edge, 2. Lion pride (5) lazing (?) or dining (?) downriver along same bank, 3. Lions catch sight of buffalo and give chase, 4. Buffalo turn and flee, 5. Buffalo (?) falls into river (pushed by lions?), 6. Lions all latch onto buffalo in water, 7. Crocodile also latches onto buffalo, 8. Struggle for buffalo ensues, 9. Lions win and drag buffalo onto bank, 10. Buffalo herd returns, 11. Bulls pick off lions one at a time and chase each one away. Did the victim buffalo survive? Was it a young buffalo or something else. I couldn't make it out.
ReplyDeleteIt was a young buffalo that the lions grabbed, about half grown. Had hyenas gotten it, it would have been dead, since they eviscerate their prey, but lions hold onto the throat and wait for suffocation to set in. Evidently they didn't have a very good hold on this baby buffalo.
ReplyDeleteToward the end of the video, the baby gets back to the herd. I wonder if he survived. He got away from the lions and the croc, but cat bites are incredibly germ-laden, so who knows how long he may have lived after this.
That the herd organized and came back for him was pretty impressive. I'm rooting for him to live long enough to grow big and toss a lion or two himself!
when i was watching the show one of the guys working on the safari tracked the buffalo's and never found the babies corpse so he said that it most likely lived. He also searched the area around the plains they were on. so i believe he is still up and kickin'.
ReplyDeleteExcellent, that's good news, thanks for letting me know!
ReplyDeleteI suppose it's possible that it was eaten completely by various creatures and scavengers if it died, but I prefer to think no found corpse means it lived.
Incredible... it looked like the crocodile actually got a piece of something when it fought and went back into the water.. but since the baby water buff got up and ran back into the herd, maybe the croc actually got a piece of one of the lions while they were in the water? one did lurk away like it was injured..
ReplyDeleteThat was absolutly wild... seeing the herd come back to defend, protect and/or avenge it's young is really something.
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