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Title: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: rustyme on February 20, 2008, 04:07:20 pm

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/02/lions-versus-buffaloes-and-elephants.html
 
here is a video clip that doesn't end as you may think it would ....worth watching....
 
Russ

Title: Re: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: Hilbillie on February 20, 2008, 05:59:22 pm

Wow brilliant!  I was there cheering the buffaloes along, and the baby buffalo - what a hero!

Title: Re: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: Francis Bacon on February 20, 2008, 06:41:29 pm

Def worth watching - Love the ending.  :)

Title: Re: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: Guy on February 20, 2008, 11:34:05 pm

nice one russ - tenacious b*ggers those buffalo - i know its nature "red in tooth and claw" but hurrah for the young 'un getting away

Title: Re: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: rustyme on February 20, 2008, 11:59:33 pm

yes I thought it well worth putting on ..... it is nature and all that , but it is nice to see the outcome as it is in this clip !!! good ole baby buff...well done big buff... nice one.....

Title: Re: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: Rosemary on February 21, 2008, 09:13:58 pm

When I started to watch it, I though "the calf will get away" but as the clip went on, I started to think that there was no way it woudl survive, given the tug-of-war, with it as the rope and the number of lions around it. I was sort of watching it with one eye closed.

Title: Re: buffalo lion and croc....
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on February 22, 2008, 02:03:17 pm

hehe :)