Amazing Baby Buffalo Rescue

[Marisa]

This is the link:
http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/Player.aspx?id=556758

[Martin]

Hi Marisa,

Sounds interesting. Is there a better link? The above doesn't work for me, even when posted to the brower's address bar.

[hjens]

I guess this it the one:

http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/Player.aspx?id=556758

Edit:
I know it is LIFE, and one tend to love the Baby Buffalo. But I am suspired that the lions didn't kill the Baby Buffalo very soon - normal within a few minutes?

[Marisa]

Sorry Martin about that, I fixed it thanks to Henning. I was really trying to embed the video and it didn't come out.

Henning, I couldn't believe it either, but from what I could see; the baby did stand up and go back to the herd; whether it was wounded after so much pulling and chewing from the lions and crocodile, probably so. But remember it was also struggling to get away; so maybe it avoided a mortal wound by doing this. Also the lions did pull it by its horns too; so that explains why there wasn't a sudden death.
You still don't believe it?
Does anyone know how long a pack of these predators take to finally kill a victim?

[hjens]

I was really trying to embed the video and it didn't come out.

I used the "Share It" botton and then the lower link

Henning, I couldn't believe it either, but from what I could see; the baby did stand up and go back to the herd; whether it was wounded after so much pulling and chewing from the lions and crocodile, probably so. But remember it was also struggling to get away; so maybe he avoided a mortal bite by doing this.
You still don't believe it?

Yes Marisa the baby went back and I believe it this time - may due to that the lion get the grab in the trough of the baby while still in the water so the lion may have missed the correct grab? Else it would be died very soon normally (as no air/oxygen).

[Marisa]

Yes, I also think they grabbed it by the thorns; and maybe they bit him through the outer skin; I guess the stronger the victim struggles to get away; the longer it takes the predators to kill it.

[psquared]

Thanks for sharing. That has to be one of the best videos I've seen in some time. Amazing that someone caught that on tape.

[bksecret]

Wild for sure. Nothing like bringing back rienforcements to take back your own.

Thanks for sharing.

-Landon

[RKing]

They punted this out on the national news here. If they put it in a film, you wouldn't believe it - TWO crocodiles? Lions? The herd coming back for their own?

[Marisa]

It's kind of symbolic if you think about it. Like a member of you family getting kidnapped and you want your relative back; preferably alive; but you also want them back even if they're dead. Someone in AOL posted in a forum that the calf may have died from infected wounds; even if they were not major ones. No one will never know. But the buffalos sure made a statement. Maybe someone will find out later whether the calf made it or not.