Amazing Video Of Lions vs. Buffalo/Crocadiles

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  • Flannel Shirt
    Flannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
    One of the most baffling things I have ever tried to wrap my head around (the post by B Nice). The video was pretty good too.
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  • gue_barium
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    polaris wrote:
    i think it's cuz they can't get kicked there ... animal has no defense for the back area ... i could be wrong tho ...

    that, and, they're trying to slow it down and throw it off balance.
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  • gue_barium
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    tybird wrote:
    Crushing the windpipe is probably the main method used by lions to finish off prey....that is if they can't snap the neck of the victim or cut through some of the main veins/arteries that tend to run through mammalian necks.

    The odds are long....but the calf could have survived...thick skin and what-not.


    I think the calf did survive. The easier the prey, the more they dilly-dally around, like a cat with a mouse. I get the feeling they weren't even all that hungry, but the ease of the original situation was too hard to resist.
    The lions weren't hunting, they were just resting.
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  • boxwine_in_hell
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    polaris wrote:
    anyone been on safari? ... was talking with someone last nite who has as well and the weird thing is that about a day into one - all you want to see is something get killed by something ... :| ...

    that would have been cool to see - beats watching a baboon jerk off and eat his own spooge ...

    I've been on one. I can't say that I was wanting to see something get killed, but I will say that it was the single most incredible experience of my life. It's hard to explain to someone that hasn't been. It was a very primordial and spiritual experience for me. Any one that has the opportunity should take an African safari at least once in their lives.
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  • gue_barium
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    If you can't do Africa, try Yellowstone. :)
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  • boxwine_in_hell
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    The lions really didn't scare me much, the elephants were badass. These aren't your sweet, peanut eating, circus elephants. These are huge, pissed off elephants. And when you get a young male in Must, look the hell out. They do this mock charge at your vehicle as a warning and I just about crapped my pants. Coming face to face with a 10,000 pound animal that you know can crush your vehicle like a tin can is a very humbling and awe inspiring experience and one I'll never forget as long as I live.

    What blew me away is that any schmuck can take their car into a National Park if they pay the fee and South Africans seem to do this with no problem. At least with a Game Ranger they know elephant behavior backwards and forwards and they know what to look for and when an elephant is getting agitated and how to handle it.
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  • polaris
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    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    I've been on one. I can't say that I was wanting to see something get killed, but I will say that it was the single most incredible experience of my life. It's hard to explain to someone that hasn't been. It was a very primordial and spiritual experience for me. Any one that has the opportunity should take an African safari at least once in their lives.

    one of the most surreal experiences in my life: riding a bicycle past a pair of giraffes about 100 metres away ...
  • boxwine_in_hell
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    polaris wrote:
    one of the most surreal experiences in my life: riding a bicycle past a pair of giraffes about 100 metres away ...

    Giraffes are amazing. I remember when I went on a walking safari most of the grazing animals will run away when they hear you coming. Giraffes don't seem to give a damn, they just kind of stare at you and you can get quite close to them.
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  • NMyTree
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    gue_barium wrote:
    If you can't do Africa, try Yellowstone. :)

    Or Newark, NJ.......Detroit, MI ......or Birmingham, AL

    Plenty of animals there....in all shapes...colors and sizes.
  • gue_barium
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    NMyTree wrote:
    Or Newark, NJ.......Detroit, MI ......or Birmingham, AL

    Plenty of animals there....in all shapes...colors and sizes.

    ummm, got a message in there somewhere?

    I'll stick to Yellowstone. It is sometimes referred to as the North American Serengeti.
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  • polaris
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    gue_barium wrote:
    ummm, got a message in there somewhere?

    I'll stick to Yellowstone. It is sometimes referred to as the North American Serengeti.

    yellowstone is beautiful part of the country along with the tetons but it is not comparable to a safari in africa ...
  • gue_barium
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    polaris wrote:
    yellowstone is beautiful part of the country along with the tetons but it is not comparable to a safari in africa ...

    That's a matter of perspective, I think. Someone who grows up in Africa may have a completely different view.
    Besides, I wasn't comparing the two that way. I'm just saying that there's places here in our country with the same sorts of availibity to wildlife viewing as there is anywhere...if you don't have the budget for Africa.
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  • polaris
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    gue_barium wrote:
    That's a matter of perspective, I think. Someone who grows up in Africa may have a completely different view.
    Besides, I wasn't comparing the two that way. I'm just saying that there's places here in our country with the same sorts of availibity to wildlife viewing as there is anywhere...if you don't have the budget for Africa.

    i think we were talking about the experience of going on safari ... in that regard they aren't comparable ...
  • gue_barium
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    polaris wrote:
    i think we were talking about the experience of going on safari ... in that regard they aren't comparable ...

    Well, thanks for the opinion. Not that I asked.
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  • boxwine_in_hell
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    gue_barium wrote:
    That's a matter of perspective, I think. Someone who grows up in Africa may have a completely different view.
    Besides, I wasn't comparing the two that way. I'm just saying that there's places here in our country with the same sorts of availibity to wildlife viewing as there is anywhere...if you don't have the budget for Africa.

    It's not even close. I grew up going to Yellowstone every year, my Dad loved that place. You see more wildlife in one day on an African safari then you'll see in a month in Yellowstone.
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  • gue_barium
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    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    It's not even close. I grew up going to Yellowstone every year, my Dad loved that place. You see more wildlife in one day on an African safari then you'll see in a month in Yellowstone.


    Variety of wildlife, maybe, but there is always wildlife to see in yellowstone.

    I'm not making this into a contest. I simply made the suggestion to those readers who aren't going to Africa anytime soon, Yellowstone is a great place to visit here in the good ol USA.

    sheesh.
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  • NMyTree
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    gue_barium wrote:
    ummm, got a message in there somewhere?

    I'll stick to Yellowstone. It is sometimes referred to as the North American Serengeti.


    Yeah, the message was an attempt at tounge-in-cheek dark humor.

    LOL!
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    gue_barium wrote:
    Variety of wildlife, maybe, but there is always wildlife to see in yellowstone.

    I'm not making this into a contest. I simply made the suggestion to those readers who aren't going to Africa anytime soon, Yellowstone is a great place to visit here in the good ol USA.

    sheesh.

    Although I will say that I saw a tourist get jacked up by a moose at Yellowstone. Some jackass was trying to get really close and take a picture and the moose charged him and kind of gored him. It would have been really funny if the guy didn't get hurt so bad. Funny thing is when he got out of the hospital they probably fined him for walking off the designated trail.
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  • tybird
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    NMyTree wrote:
    or Birmingham, AL

    Plenty of animals there....in all shapes...colors and sizes.
    Sad, but true......lots of different animals around here.....just don't get in the way when they're having a go at each other. :rolleyes:
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  • gue_barium
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    NMyTree wrote:
    This video while filmed by spectators, is unbelievable!

    What amazing footage of teamwork, unity and the resulting strength.

    http://www.break.com/index/a-brawl-in-the-safari.html



    Too bad human beings can't learn to come together like this and work as a team.

    This is an incredible video.
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