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Three-way fight between a herd of Cape buffalo, several lions, and two crocodiles. 8.5 minutes long, but worth watching.

It shows actual wild animals engaging in actual hunting and fighting behavior, so if that sort of things throws you off, don't watch.

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Oh, wow. That's incredible! I'm amazed the buffalo rallied their troops and went back in to get the calf back. I wonder if it lived. Man. That's amazing. *stares*

I was like "Wow. Herd behavior becomes tactics!" I want to know how the bull managed to go get the herd - my thought is that maybe he's the lead bull anyway (well, he was in front of the herd to start with), so they naturally followed him.

I knew that lions kill by suffocation, but didn't realize how long it took - I'd figured by the time the croc attack was over, the calf was pretty much dead.

The commentary hurts but the video was pretty cool.

:D I wanted to smack that one woman who kept asking if it was dead. XD

I was just shocked. It sounded like no one has ever watched the Discovery Channel before.

People don't like being confronted with the reality that animals hunt and kill each other, and it's often not a nice, quick, clean kill. I grew up in Tanzania, so it was part of my life from the start. I do remember a classmate in fifth grade who asked me, upon hearing that I lived in the Serengeti National Park, how they fed the animals. Er, they EAT EACH OTHER.

Yeah I know, but the youtube information says they were on a safari so I figured these people had paid to go see the animals and stuff. It just sounds like they didn't know anything about animals at all. I actually felt pretty bad for the lions as I wouldn't be surprised if that calf dropped dead later. He got bit by how many different animals? I don't think he is going to walk away without some kind of infection.

...Are you serious? How they feed the animals?

Honey, it's the food chain calling. It wants to have a word with you.

That was amazing!
The stuff the nature shows don't show us. "Oh, how boring. The little calf survived. Oh man! We can't show lions getting their butts kicked!"

The Cape buffalo is the most dangerous animal in Africa, IIRC.

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