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Lioness Attacks Buffalo
A lioness attacks a water buffalo in South Africa's Kruger National Park. WARNING: PHOTOS ARE GRAPHIC.
Whitehotpix / ZUMA Press
Lioness Attacks Buffalo
A lioness attacks a water buffalo in South Africa's Kruger National Park. WARNING: PHOTOS ARE GRAPHIC.
Whitehotpix / ZUMA Press
Whitehotpix / ZUMA Press
Whitehotpix / ZUMA Press
Whitehotpix / ZUMA Press
Tourists who were lucky -- or unlucky -- enough to enjoy a safari-style drive through South Africa's Kruger National Park back in mid-August have some pretty stunning vacation photos to show off, thanks to a bloody "survival of the fittest" feat that occurred right outside their cars!
As reported by London's Daily Mail this week, what began as a pastoral scene -- a water buffalo grazing in the wilderness about 10 meters off the road -- quickly escalated into a full-on battle for blood as a female lioness crept out of the foliage, ready to pounce.
Recently, eyewitness photos surfaced on Flickr, along with play-by-play commentary detailing just how the lioness stalked her prey. In the end, the buffalo did manage to run away from its predator, although it appeared badly hurt. Those who witnessed the event, meanwhile, were lucky that the two male lions watching from the wilderness didn't jump in!
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reporters should get the facts straight before writing news that is a cape buffalo not a water buffalo
The lioness was clearly starving her backbone is showing through her skin. Also Lioness' rarely hunt alone. i hope she kille dthat damn thing and ate her fill...
Actually... most lioness have their backbone showing. starving or not. And a lioness that is hunting alone may have been disclaimed by her former pack. she may have some cubs to feed or she is feeding herself
I am glad the bufalo got away
Great pics but water buffalo don't live in Africa-that's a cape buffalo.And that poor lioness is on her last legs-look at her backbone-just about starving. That's why she can't make the kill.
In nature, it's the female lions that feed the family. The males would not have jumped in to help out. I could run with this comment, but I will let someone else.
I love it Lu Ann! LMAO! My mind was already running with it as I was reading your comment!! Thank you for the raw truth and the
the great laugh!!!
The prior comment was correct, lionesses do all the hunting. The male lions were not going to join in.
The writer should use a fact checker when they don't know what they are writing about.
I have a degree in journalism and worked as a staff writer and editor for several newspapers before leaving the profession six years ago. I can tell you that what is taught in college and what is practiced in news rooms are two different things. Part of the problem is the internet, used by all reporters, it contains much information that is either false or incomplete.
Another problem is simple economics. Newspapers are not as profitable as they once were and nearly all run with fewer staff who are expected to crank out more copy. Fact checkers are nothing but a memory in all but the largest newspapers and even there advice from fact checkers is apt to be ignored by editors.
Thirdly, more and more journalists are entering the profession with the intention of influencing the readers instead of simply reporting the news.
what does this have to do with the lioness and the buffalo??
Thanks for this posting. The article seemed so odd to me. First, the reporter didn't check her facts and second, the caption on the fourth photo stated that the visitors were "paralyzed with fear". This statement is wild hyperbole and should not be used in a news report. I agree with all you have said but I would add that the role an editor played in this story was nonexistent.
There's always got to be at least 1 dunce who brings race into everything! My advice to you zippy....zip your idiotic mouth shut!
Those big azz buffalo beasts in Africa will try to kill you faster than the lions will. All of you having sympathy for the buffalo must not know they are some of the meanest creatures on four feet.
Well, you'd be cranky too, Sambo... if you had rude critters pouncing on your back, biting and scratching your hide... not to mention, nipping your hind legs pretty near every time you went a-grazin'. It quickly gets to be a nuisance.
This is another example that questions the theories about natural selection. The question is why hasn't nature through the process of natural selection developed a water buffalo that would kill the lion? You would think that buffalo, being a herd animal, would have all the young bucks gang up on the lions instead of letting the lions eat the females and kids. Preservation of the species, instinct. From the photos, it would be pretty easy for a second buffalo to spear the lion. So, if you think the buffalo should be able to develop, then it means that there would be no lions. Likewise, if the grass would develop so that the buffalo could not eat it, then there would be no buffalo. So you end up with natural selection into nothing.
Actually, a cape buffalo is a very dangerous animal for a lioness to attack on her own. Prides of lionesses have a hard time bringing one of them down, and get this, buffalo actually kill lions in self defence. Am I a creationist? Yes. Do I also think that natural selection can breed desired traits into a species? Yes, you have to look no further than the AKC and the many many breeds of dogs. Not natural, but still selective breeding, the same as nature does.
Actually, a herd of cape buffalo do attack prides of lions--and the lions run away fast.
how sad that you feel the need to bring the issue of race into this discussion. I hope you can do better in the future
Zippy, that was hilarious- don't listen to that other narrow-minded guy. Funny is funny.
now thats funny!!!