Kruger National Park: Buffalo vs Lions vs Crocodiles
Jason Schlosberg and David Budzinski, from National Geographic, found themselves in an amazing filming opportunity in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. While filming at a watering hole, a group of lionesses attacked a young water buffalo, throwing him into the water. As the lionesses began to drag the buffalo out, a crocodile found interest in the situation and snapped at the lions and young calf.
The lions struggled to keep their meal by pulling the poor calf onto dry ground only to be met by a rescue squad…the entire herd of water buffalo! Angered by the attack on their calf, the water buffalo sprang into action, executing ninja like moves on the unsuspecting lionesses; chasing, kicking, and flinging. Check it out:
The capture of such footage was quite amazing. This exhibited a protectiveness that I had grown to think was not present due to the numerous other herd-footage documentaries. From what I had seen in the past, when lions attacked and grabbed a young one, the herd would typically give up the young for dead. Not this time! Go Water Buffalo! w00t w00t!
Thanks to Dee for telling me about this video!
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7 Responses to “Kruger National Park: Buffalo vs Lions vs Crocodiles”
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paul gray
Posted: Sep 5th, 2007 at 9:07 am1 -
BERTRAND from France
Posted: Nov 10th, 2007 at 12:34 pmReply to this comment.THaNK you so much
this is really amazing
What a great show2 -
sharubu
Posted: Jan 9th, 2008 at 5:26 amReply to this comment.1 - They are Cape Buffalo
2 - They are a bunch of tourists and not from NatGeo
3 - Buffalo almost *always* come back to defend one of the herd, whether young or old
4 - It’s still a fecking amazing video3 -
farfafle
Posted: Jan 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pmReply to this comment.sharubu is correct, it was a group of very lucky tourists(right place, right time) and their tour guide. National Geographic has picked up the story and, from what I’ve read, are planning a documentary telling the story of the event. I wonder if the calf survived in the end. I can’t imagine how it wouldn’t have been terribly wounded, having been attacked by so many. A great video, though!
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fuscilli
Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 7:39 amReply to this comment.It was NOT filmed by anyone from NatGeo. Please correct this on your site. NatGeo initally turned down the purchase, after getting many hits on youtube, they reconsidered.
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MissyJanie
Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pmReply to this comment.Fantastic!!!!
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thinker
Posted: Jul 13th, 2008 at 12:06 amReply to this comment.This is what is Kamma in buddhism is all about .even it was born as a bufflo for its bad kamma in the earlier life. it has save some ones life in the earlier life too ……
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this shows when a member of the herd is attacked poticulaly a young offspring, if a buffaloe herd can surouned the attacking lions ,they can defend the calf very effectively, buffaloe are magnificent animals and i look 4ward to seeing them in future documentarys.