A herd of buffaloes, a pride of lions, and a lonely crocodile

by Amrit on 22nd May 2007

In the Krugar National Park, South Africa. Please watch the whole video.

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Mohan 23rd July 2007 at 2:20 am

Amazing! It’s a total team work!

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rajendra Prasad 23rd July 2007 at 1:30 pm

Late Team work.
Team work remain bfr something will happen.
not by looking environments

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preetha 27th July 2007 at 8:00 am

its nice to see them all live in perfect harmony!

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harshit 29th July 2007 at 8:15 am

Thats Nature at its “UNPREDICTABLE BEST”.

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NAUSHAD 5th August 2007 at 10:31 am

What a unity in the creature of animal kingdom . Better than mankind.Alhamdulillah,Keep all in peace

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shanthi 21st August 2007 at 6:56 am

Couldn’t have imagined that buffaloes could stand up to lions! Not always the case of brawn power winning, i realised..
Admirable teamwork, of course!!! Lions winning over crocs! and Buffaloes winning over lions!!!!!!!!!
Assess how much more strong you need to be and muster that much more… So many lions to fight 2 crocs and so many more buffaloes to fight 4 lions!! Paradigm shifts.. Laws of the jungle are also subject to change!!!!

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Dr/ Mohammad 24th August 2007 at 7:52 am

I hope presidents of Arab to see

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Anonymous 16th September 2007 at 5:05 am

?????

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Asha 21st November 2007 at 6:05 am

Could not watch

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koko 23rd January 2008 at 5:14 pm

cool

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ys 12th February 2008 at 2:43 am

koko, did you managed to view the video.
i saw it once but now cant seem to view it at all
if you know any other site showing this, pls share
thk!

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Mai 23rd March 2008 at 3:51 pm

Comment #165. Vaheguru!

From the YouTube Video Awards, just FYI:

Best eyewitness video was the epic “Battle at
Kruger,” which has drawn more than 26 million
views to its astonishing footage of a baby water
buffalo surviving an attack by lions ­ and a
crocodile! ­ in the African prairie. It was up
against the news-making clip of a University of
Florida student pleading “Don’t tase me, bro!” as
police removed him from a John Kerry forum.

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MANISH JHA 22nd July 2008 at 6:51 am

unbelievable

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ThatchnaMurthy 3rd December 2008 at 12:25 pm

Very Amazing… Wonderful…

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Michael Rudmin 23rd July 2009 at 11:09 am

I see something interestingly different in this. First of all, it looks like the lions have no power over the bison unless the bison (as a group) allow it.

Second, it is like the bison don’t just come back, but rather as if the bison hold a congress or trial, with some defending the cause of freeing the baby, and others not so sure. Perhaps they *are* unsure of whether this is a bad thing or not. But one seems to be very much in defense of the baby, and throws off a lion. Then a bunch chase the lions, while the remaining lions chew on the baby.

Others, then, seem to discuss what more to do, and finally prod the other lions away from the baby, freeing him to go back into the central herd.

It makes me wonder whether the youth was being tried for arrogance as a capital crime. Or whether the bison were discussing appropriate responses to each of the other lions.

Maybe I’m just anthropomorphizing here. But maybe other social creatures do have significantly developed social structures. Maybe courts and law are not unique to humans.

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Mai Harinder Kaur 23rd July 2009 at 1:12 pm

Michael Rudmin ji –

What an interesting take on this! Anthropomorphising for sure; still, very, very cool. We have no idea what goes on in the minds of beings of other species. You could be right. Who knows?

This would make a great short story with a little dialogue added. Do you write?

“Not only is the universe queerer than you imagine. It is queerer than you CAN imagine.” JBS Haldane, Scottish mathematician. (Please! “Queer” in the sense of “strange.”)

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