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Television must-see, if possible
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:27 pm
by silvercamaro
If you have the National Geographic Channel, watch for a re-run of "Caught on Safari: Battle at Kruger." Rearrange your life to watch it, if at all possible. Yes, it's wildlife footage, but perhaps the most amazing sequence ever taped. After a pride of lions chooses a baby water buffalo for the dinner menu, they bring it down near water. A crocodile decides the baby looks pretty tasty and enters into a tug of war with the lions. The big cats barely win that skirmish, when the entire herd of water buffalo -- about 150 strong -- return to face down the lions, with an astonishing finish and a satisfying ending.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:47 pm
by Estonut
It has been a popular (36 million viewings) video on YouTube for the past year:
Battle at Kruger
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:52 pm
by Estonut
I would have guessed that I heard about the video here. Around the same time that I was watching that one, I remember really enjoying this one, too. It is lighthearted and quite different in tone.
Gibbon taunts tiger cubs
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:58 pm
by silvercamaro
Estonut wrote:It has been a popular (36 million viewings) video on YouTube for the past year:
Battle at Kruger
I didn't know that! Cool. Thank you for the link. Now I can watch it again and again.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:01 pm
by silvercamaro
Estonut wrote:I would have guessed that I heard about the video here. Around the same time that I was watching that one, I remember really enjoying this one, too. It is lighthearted and quite different in tone.
Gibbon taunts tiger cubs
Somewhere in the world, a tiger is posting to the internet about Evil Apes.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:22 pm
by ulysses5019
I think I've seen the YouTube about 100 times myownself.
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:23 pm
by silvercamaro
ulysses5019 wrote:I think I've seen the YouTube about 100 times myownself.
Love your (temporary) avatar, Uly. Couldn't you find a clogging cat?
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:24 pm
by ulysses5019
silvercamaro wrote:ulysses5019 wrote:I think I've seen the YouTube about 100 times myownself.
Love your (temporary) avatar, Uly. Couldn't you find a clogging cat?
Heck, I couldn't find a clogging plumber.[/i]
Re: Television must-see, if possible
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:54 pm
by takinover
silvercamaro wrote:A crocodile decides the baby looks pretty tasty and enters into a tug of war with the lions. The big cats barely win that skirmish, when the entire herd of water buffalo -- about 150 strong -- return to face down the lions, with an astonishing finish and a satisfying ending.
Why is it a satisfying ending? Not satisfying for the hungry crocodile or the hungry lions and it won't be satisfying to the next thing they catch and eat. May not even be satisfying to the baby Buffalo if the cuts and bruises cause a deadly infection.