[BlogEntry] A Safari Brawl

I almost didn't make it through this video, which shows a herd of buffalo stumbling onto a bunch of lions, all while crocodiles await in the river next to them.

When the buffalo spy the lions, they take off running. But nature takes its course, the lions separate a weak young one from the pack, and the inevitable occurs….or does it? Here I turned the video off, because I'm not really into watching animals suffer, even if it is the sort of thing that happens in nature all the time. Then I realized that the video still had 5 minutes to go, so I turned it back on.

Turn it back on. The buffalo regroup and come back to save their own. Then battle is really on, and the lions don't fair nearly as well when they don't get to simply prey on the weak one. It was actually pretty uplifting to see a nature video that makes you realize that sometimes nature is more complex than just a simple foodchain.