If what you were about to see hadn’t been caught on camera, you probably wouldn’t believe it actually happened. Imagine you’re very hungry and someone brings you a delicious 5-star meal. You eat with great interest, but a quarrel breaks out among the family members. The fighting gets so intense that you can no longer eat food.
This happened when a pride of lions attacked a buffalo. The buffalo fell to the ground, ready to breathe its last, before several lions began fighting. This video is absolutely unbelievable and it shows that these lions are confusing their priorities!
In a cooperative hunt, the lioness will usually start the kill. Lions will follow their prey and, when close enough, attempt a short charge in an attempt to pounce on it or knock it down. Ironically, it was the lioness who started the fight.
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It may not be clear that the two males and the two females in the video are from different prides. By chance, both males and females were able to kill the females when they herded the herd towards them. The four seem content to eat together, killing the hapless buffalo without seeming to have any conflicts.
The video below has an interesting undertone. You can see a male lion holding down the buffalo’s neck after trying to escape. The lion lowered his paw, almost saying, “Where do you want to go?”
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As expected, the male cats had no problem with their female stepping in, but the other female feline immediately showed a little enthusiasm. This conflict is not unexpected, since lion prides are built around the females in the group rather than the males, who arrive and leave the pride more frequently than the females. Female members of a pride are usually receptive to interference from other females, which led to brawls like this one.
Although they are land animals, buffalo rely heavily on water. They waste most of their time in mud puddles or waterways. They may live in herds of up to 30 individuals and are social animals. Subadult females, their young, and adult females usually make up a herd.
Eventually, the entire pride became involved in the fight, leaving the buffalo entirely. The buffalo took advantage of this opportunity and climbed up as if nothing had happened! You can see him climbing up the hill and back to his herd. It really is like something out of a movie!
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