Lions and Buffalos

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I was inspired yesterday after watching the animal documentaries. This is the favorite channel of my cousins as they are always interested in seeing different kinds of animals. I don't have interest in watching this stuff but I was captivated by how the Lions attack their prey. I was busy working online when I stopped suddenly to focus on the TV while I was watching the Lions and Buffalos.

At first, it was a lion calculating and targeting its prey. The way the lion was acting was amazing to me because I was surprised to see how it was busy targeting and making sure it didn't miss its aim. There are two ways lions get their prey. Either by pouncing on them or knocking them over until they win. Lions do not give up on their prey and won't stop until they achieve their aim and if they miss the first aim, they start all over targeting another prey.

The Lion was trying to catch a baby buffalo and its target was focused on the baby. In fact, they were two babies but its main aim was on one. I knew at that moment that when a lion has focused its eyes on a particular prey, even if there are many prey, it only focuses only on the one being targeted.

The Lion bent down and was tiptoeing to get its aim. I was shocked to see how sensible it was. This made me realize animals too are wise and smart, just like human beings. They know what they want from what they do not want. They can easily attack their prey if they aim well and they don't give up, especially the Lions when they are hungry. Suddenly, it pounced on the baby buffalo and other lions came out to start taking their shares.

The Buffalos came around in groups to see what the lions were eating. When they saw they had killed one of their babies, they got angry and started locking their horns and scaring the lions away. I can see they were bitter because of what they did

Animals too are caring and empathetic just like we human beings. They know how to protect themselves from others and would do anything to keep them safe.

I felt for the buffalos because I could feel the pain in them. One of them was killed and they had to fight back. They went in groups to attack the lions in their territory. I believe they must have held a short meeting to attack the lions for what they did to one of them.

The big buffalos were leading while the small ones followed behind to meet with the lions. Even though the Lion is the king of the jungle, there are some animals they are scared of, among them is the Elephant.

If I were to listen to them, they would be confronting the lions on why they had to kill one of them and a lion would speak up and say

"Your baby came to meet us and was looking for trouble and we decided to teach him a lesson"

"But you could have scared him away, instead of eating him up. This is unfair! You killed a baby just coming into the world and you think you will go scot free?" Said the big buffalo

"Get ready for a battle because we won't accept it until we get revenge".

The Buffalos went and came back ready to attack.

I love how they took the matter. They got hold of a baby lion and killed it too with the lions looking at them from afar because they couldn't do anything.

Seriously, in the animal kingdom, they are smart and are caring to their families. There are lessons to learn from animals when you watch them attentively and I did yesterday with the actions of the Lions and Buffalos.

I was able to see other kinds of animals I have never seen before. This made me watch another documentary on YouTube. The buffalo was attacked by a group of lions and they struggled to bring it down. The buffalo really tried even when it was surrounded by its enemies. They pounced on the buffalo and had no one to save it. Then another buffalo came around to see if it could try to save it but couldn't. It went back and a few minutes later, the elephants came in groups and scared the lions away but it was too late as they had already knocked the buffalo down. The elephants pursued the Lions away.

There is unity in the animal world and they watch out for each other even though they end up killing themselves for food. The animals can only eat themselves when they are hungry and so, this made it easier to hunt and kill their prey.

Perhaps I didn't narrate this clearly, especially to those who love watching animals, but I only tried explaining what I saw in my own way. So, if you didn't enjoy it, let me know in the comment section. 😁

Thank you for reading

[April 30, 2022] (No 120 article for the year)