Author Topic: buffalo lion and croc.... (Read 6225 times)

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

Hilbillie · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2008, 05:59:22 pm »

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

Francis Bacon · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2008, 06:41:29 pm »

Def worth watching - Love the ending.

Guy · « **Reply #3 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

rustyme · « **Reply #4 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.....

Rosemary · « **Reply #5 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.