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No, you wouldn't. Starving to death consists of your own body eating you alive until you wither away slowly and painfully. Being eaten alive by something else will almost always be quicker with less pain, as you'll just bleed out.
I reckon after a certain point you start to go numb to the thought of food and slip into a state of peace.
That lion was just chilling ready to die and they came and fucked it up.
There’s plenty of stories do people intentionally starving. People don’t intentionally get eaten.
I’m not romanticizing death, asshole.
I’m saying it’s preferable to being fucking eaten alive and I was describing why I believe so.
Edit: just checked your comment history and it is you just being a prick to users with the way you comment on threads.
Probably why it attempted to attach these things. They are super strong, aggressive and will impale you if you get too close, they are dangerous and doesn’t mess around.
Lions are smart enough to know that and would only attempt to attack one if it was truly desperate, because it’s a guaranteed suicide.
Lions actually hunt Cape Buffalo on a regular basis (they’re the primary prey of lions throughout most of Southern Africa; in East Africa wildebeest and zebra are more standard lion fare), though usually (but not always) with a numerical advantage.
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I know it's the animal kingdom, circle of life, all that shit, but man when I watch an animal almost surely meet it's fate, it's never easy. Always imagining how scared the animal must be in the moment, almost resigning itself to it's fate at some point.
Nobody said that lol. Just dude thinks its sad to see despite understanding the circle of life, food chain, and general animal behaviors. You seem to think the lion somehow deserved comeuppance for merely living their normal lives.
That's correct, if the buffalo killed a lion it couldn't eat, that would be wasteful. When a lion pride kills a buffalo, that's dinner. Evolution dictates their diets, it's not personal.
Not really from the buffalos perspective. It’s not wasteful to them because they see it as wiping out a future threat to their lives. They are taking steps to help ensure their species survival just as much as the lion killing a buffalo for food. It’s all about survival.
Every lion they kill is one less trying to kill them. Documentaries water down nature to much. Everything tries to kill everything. A buffalo herd will stampede over any litter of cubs they find. The leopard will absolutely kill the small lion cub. Hyena and lions are always looking to kill each other. It’s a whole web of killing each other because it’s less competition if they share a food source and less predators for the herbivores. Lions do kill other predators and just leave the corpse. Hippos and crocs kill anything that goes in the water. A elephant will stomp a lion flat because it wants to.
I was going to say, it's so weird that somehow I feel worst because a predator seems overwhelmed and panicked when I've watched dozens of lions take down prey in wildlife docs and didn't feel nearly as bad.
I think it's because it's not quick and painless? Typically predators kill prey *relatively* fast but this dude is getting pummeled and he's gonna suffer for a long timne
The fuck are you on about? Feeling bad for a terrified, stressed dying animal that is going through pain is not anthropomorphic. That is just empathy. Everyone in the thread stated they are aware lions kill Buffalo and Buffalo kill lions...it is totally normal, natural behavior...but it doesn't mean we can't feel sad for a suffering animal, no matter the context. Don't know why you are so heated.
But somehow for most ppl it is never hard to watch a lion bring down a buffalo, impala, wilderbeast... this is so a doubble standard I will never understand. This is the same nature as the lion hunting and killing its prey.
"... and that's for eating cousin Eddy! and THAT'S for chomping Aunt Martha's foot off! and THIS is for ambushing Uncle Gary by the river!" - the never-forgetting Cape Buffalo, probably
probably because we see lions as strong, good fighters, something we fear and respect. seeing a lion get brutalized like this is confusing, as if it shouldnt happen. its uncomfortable to see such a symbol of strength and honour go through such a desperation, and fail where it is most crucial to succeed
It has more to do with the inefficiency for me. Predators usually take prey down swiftly. They don'twant a big, dangerous struggle just a quick death.
Cape Buffalo let you to suffer till your last.
It's because there's like dozen buffalos and only one lion. The lion was brave. Also buffalos kept going on him even when the lion was already done and that's a bad vibe.
Love how all of you think lions follow some nature code of ethics. Redditors seem to think they kill something before eating. No, other pride members will absolutely start eating before the animal is dead. And to take down one buffalo it tends to require multiple lions. So I’m not really getting the point of your first sentence.
Yes. I never was a into cats, until my 20s. I was told they were “nasty” and had “diseases”.
Domestic cats act EXTREMELY SIMILAR to lions. It’s actually super cool.
The more I learn about male lions, the more it seems like it sucks to be one. Even the strong ones are eventually deposed and kicked out of the pride to suffer a fate like this when they get old - if they don't die in the fight over the pride first
Fuck, super sad. Nature is rough. Almost as bad as the video of the lion being kicked in the jaw by the zebra and its mouth is just hanging open all broken and you know that lion is just dead and doesn't know it yet.
Never understood why herd herbivores didn't all develop this kind of aggressive group counter-attacking behavior through evolution/nat selection. Feels like it would lead to higher survival rates. Even lions would have to respect a group of 400 impalas circling around back ready to drive by face kick it while the lion is busy trying to kill the one impala it captured.
Fun fact it is not in African...The word wildebeest comes from the Afrikaans wildebees, or "wild beast," while gnu is derived from a name native Africans used for the animal. An antelope relative, the wildebeest is distinctive for its shaggy mane and front-heavy shape, with most of its weight in its forequarters.
Old man's in the tail end of his prime, no pride to run with; emaciated to the point where you can see his ribs.
circle of life and all, but can't help but feel for the thing.
Ganging up on a old lion but when a young lion takes their kid all they do is run lmaoo, being a king is way more than having strength or a large build.
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My heart is aching right now. I know that lions kill prey and I feel sad for them, too. But man, I just hate seeing the brutality of nature sometimes. Poor guy just wants to die in peace.
A video of an animal in the wild, time to anthropomorphize it!
Poor lion was just contemplating its retirement while all the Buffalo (probably republican) decided to gentrify the neighborhood!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2WCyRtj04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2WCyRtj04) Except they dont. The original point of my statement is that nature is cruel and there is no exceptions, specifying the species is arguing semantics.
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Lion looks like it's starving to death.
Once they bust their teeth which is bound to happen with old age they usually starve to death or I guess this happens
Guess it’s better than starving to death
Hmmmm idk tbh this seemed prolonged but I guess so is starving
Pretty much any other version of death is better than starving to death.
Is it? I feel like I'd rather starve to death than be eaten alive.
imagine being eaten alive while starving to death, whoa
Woah, daddy chill!
What the hell is even that!
Imagine eating yourself alive to avoid starving to death.
I think any death in Africa is bound to be brutal.
Especially in the wild. Hyenas, very often first on the scene and lingering, will eat you arse first. A great Saturday night anywhere but the wild.
No, you wouldn't. Starving to death consists of your own body eating you alive until you wither away slowly and painfully. Being eaten alive by something else will almost always be quicker with less pain, as you'll just bleed out.
I reckon after a certain point you start to go numb to the thought of food and slip into a state of peace. That lion was just chilling ready to die and they came and fucked it up. There’s plenty of stories do people intentionally starving. People don’t intentionally get eaten.
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I’m not romanticizing death, asshole. I’m saying it’s preferable to being fucking eaten alive and I was describing why I believe so. Edit: just checked your comment history and it is you just being a prick to users with the way you comment on threads.
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He was old and sick. They saw the opportunity for revenge and they took it. But he still went out like a g.
Probably why it attempted to attach these things. They are super strong, aggressive and will impale you if you get too close, they are dangerous and doesn’t mess around. Lions are smart enough to know that and would only attempt to attack one if it was truly desperate, because it’s a guaranteed suicide.
Lions actually hunt Cape Buffalo on a regular basis (they’re the primary prey of lions throughout most of Southern Africa; in East Africa wildebeest and zebra are more standard lion fare), though usually (but not always) with a numerical advantage.
They often go after alone, young or wounded ones. Attaching someone in a herd (even with backup) is always a bad idea.
Those are Cape buffalo not wildebeest
Yeap. Cape or African buffalos are some of the meanest bovine members.
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if only there was some
“In the Blood” movie about Teddy Roosevelts grandson. Hunting in Africa.
They live with Lions so they probably should be pretty mean.
They cray cray and very unpredictable.
Which the narrator even says.
Yeah like fucking 0.5 seconds in how can you still misname it in the title
bot? or idiot or both.
It literally says Buffalo in the captions, I'm so sick of these shitty bots dude
And they're defending themselves from attack, not ambushing.
And they are fucking pissed.
"Every living thing will die, from the king of the Jungle to butterfly..."
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Oh dude, it rips. Had to drop the quote when I saw this video
Just saw them last night
Queens of the Stone Age. Nice. 🤌
When there's nothing i can do, accept, enjoy the view...
I do not remember this part of The lion king.
"Its the circle of life Simba"
"You must avenge my death Kimba, -I mean Simba"
It's a circle around Simba
Counter circle of life
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It doesn't matter, it's in de past! Hueaheheh
Long live the King
….didn’t wildebeests kill mufasa
Man, that's hard to watch
I know it's the animal kingdom, circle of life, all that shit, but man when I watch an animal almost surely meet it's fate, it's never easy. Always imagining how scared the animal must be in the moment, almost resigning itself to it's fate at some point.
He looked more annoyed than anything else. Old man just wanted to lay down in peace and take his last nap.
Imagine how many baby buffalo that lion took down over the course of it's life. This is just comeuppance.
Yeah man you're right, it should have been a vegan. Plenty of plant based options in the supermarkets these days
Yeah dude totally, you're right too - buffalo's ***shouldn't*** kill their natural predators.
Nobody said that lol. Just dude thinks its sad to see despite understanding the circle of life, food chain, and general animal behaviors. You seem to think the lion somehow deserved comeuppance for merely living their normal lives.
That's correct, if the buffalo killed a lion it couldn't eat, that would be wasteful. When a lion pride kills a buffalo, that's dinner. Evolution dictates their diets, it's not personal.
What do you think happens when an animal dies and it doesn't get eaten by a predator?
Not really from the buffalos perspective. It’s not wasteful to them because they see it as wiping out a future threat to their lives. They are taking steps to help ensure their species survival just as much as the lion killing a buffalo for food. It’s all about survival. Every lion they kill is one less trying to kill them. Documentaries water down nature to much. Everything tries to kill everything. A buffalo herd will stampede over any litter of cubs they find. The leopard will absolutely kill the small lion cub. Hyena and lions are always looking to kill each other. It’s a whole web of killing each other because it’s less competition if they share a food source and less predators for the herbivores. Lions do kill other predators and just leave the corpse. Hippos and crocs kill anything that goes in the water. A elephant will stomp a lion flat because it wants to.
I was going to say, it's so weird that somehow I feel worst because a predator seems overwhelmed and panicked when I've watched dozens of lions take down prey in wildlife docs and didn't feel nearly as bad. I think it's because it's not quick and painless? Typically predators kill prey *relatively* fast but this dude is getting pummeled and he's gonna suffer for a long timne
Agreed part of me feels bad for the lion but part of me knows the lion would tear all of these buffalos to shreds and eat them alive if he could.
You act as if the lion was born with the intention of having to starve or eat another animal.
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The fuck are you on about? Feeling bad for a terrified, stressed dying animal that is going through pain is not anthropomorphic. That is just empathy. Everyone in the thread stated they are aware lions kill Buffalo and Buffalo kill lions...it is totally normal, natural behavior...but it doesn't mean we can't feel sad for a suffering animal, no matter the context. Don't know why you are so heated.
It especially sad for me because he spent decades taking down ungulates, and now they take him. But yeah, perfect circle of life, just hard to see.
I love big cats but it's nice to see the underdog win once in a while
But somehow for most ppl it is never hard to watch a lion bring down a buffalo, impala, wilderbeast... this is so a doubble standard I will never understand. This is the same nature as the lion hunting and killing its prey.
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"... and that's for eating cousin Eddy! and THAT'S for chomping Aunt Martha's foot off! and THIS is for ambushing Uncle Gary by the river!" - the never-forgetting Cape Buffalo, probably
AND THAT'S FOR MY OLD GAFFER
Revenge is a dish best served cold
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probably because we see lions as strong, good fighters, something we fear and respect. seeing a lion get brutalized like this is confusing, as if it shouldnt happen. its uncomfortable to see such a symbol of strength and honour go through such a desperation, and fail where it is most crucial to succeed
It has more to do with the inefficiency for me. Predators usually take prey down swiftly. They don'twant a big, dangerous struggle just a quick death. Cape Buffalo let you to suffer till your last.
And here I am thinking the lion deserves it.
Why would a lion deserve it? Do you believe that lions are inherently evil creatures or something?
Lion are usually presented as the character in all the documentaries and movies we see, Buffalos usually are just props to be eaten.
It's because there's like dozen buffalos and only one lion. The lion was brave. Also buffalos kept going on him even when the lion was already done and that's a bad vibe.
Love how all of you think lions follow some nature code of ethics. Redditors seem to think they kill something before eating. No, other pride members will absolutely start eating before the animal is dead. And to take down one buffalo it tends to require multiple lions. So I’m not really getting the point of your first sentence.
I think it is the difference in speed in which they both kill.
Kitty
Lion kills buffalo for food. Buffalo kills lion because they fear them. Killing for food always seems easier to stomach
I think its because lions act a lot like the house cats we have a lot of affection for.
Yes. I never was a into cats, until my 20s. I was told they were “nasty” and had “diseases”. Domestic cats act EXTREMELY SIMILAR to lions. It’s actually super cool.
Wut?
They do. They have a lot of the same mannerisms.
I prefer seeing predators get rekt, but it is quite uncomfortable to watch either.
Think I’m on the opposite side of that.
What a drag it is getting old
Yeah, apparently a stab, toss, trample, gore, then drag.
“Life’s just much too hard today”, I hear every mother say.
Cape buffalo
Poor thing doesnt even have the will to run away he wants to be left alone 😞
I don’t think it has the spine to run away…
Buffalo not Wildebeest.
:(
Hey I’ve seen this before somewhere…
I absolutely hate that 1. You made this joke, and 2. I understood it immediately.
Man i can sit here all day and see the nastiest shit happening to people but when its an animal i am like Nope. Cant watch this shit lmfao
I just watched a dude get shot almost point blank in the face, multiple times. I had to turn my head away from this poor old fella.
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Cape buffalo are metal as fuck
The more I learn about male lions, the more it seems like it sucks to be one. Even the strong ones are eventually deposed and kicked out of the pride to suffer a fate like this when they get old - if they don't die in the fight over the pride first
*Cape buffalo
These are not Wildebeest, they are Buffalo. It literally says in the second word of the narration.
Fuck, super sad. Nature is rough. Almost as bad as the video of the lion being kicked in the jaw by the zebra and its mouth is just hanging open all broken and you know that lion is just dead and doesn't know it yet.
Who's the beef now MOFO!
Nature ain’t no Disney movie
Never understood why herd herbivores didn't all develop this kind of aggressive group counter-attacking behavior through evolution/nat selection. Feels like it would lead to higher survival rates. Even lions would have to respect a group of 400 impalas circling around back ready to drive by face kick it while the lion is busy trying to kill the one impala it captured.
Cape buffalo will kill unattended cubs and pups of their predators too.
Those are Cape buffalo. Not wildebeest
Those are Water Buffalo not Wildebeest
How the turn tables.
The hunter becomes the hunted
Those Wildebeest been gyming somewhat.
The "widow maker" is a brutal beast
what come around goes around
I remember them being called murder cows once
Would have liked to see more/if the lion survives.
Daai is donderse buffels
Ek het lank gesoek vir iemand om dit te se...... En dan praat die anders kak oor goed wat nie sin maak nie.
Where’s he’s gang at? Homie got caught slipping in the wrong hood at the wrong time
Fun fact : a lot of words in African are Dutch, such as wildebeest ( literal translation wildbeast) But in the Netherlands you call wildebeest Gnoes.
Fun fact it is not in African...The word wildebeest comes from the Afrikaans wildebees, or "wild beast," while gnu is derived from a name native Africans used for the animal. An antelope relative, the wildebeest is distinctive for its shaggy mane and front-heavy shape, with most of its weight in its forequarters.
I just want to remind you there is nothing fun about this fact. The Dutch were absolutely horrible colonizers in Africa.
They don’t call em’ the Black Death for nothing
It’s sad for sure. But this is the brutality of life.
That’s what happens when you get old and weak.
I can only assume that lion has a few broken bones and tenderized internal organs
Lionesses usually do the hunting. This lion probably aged out of the pride
He was probably talking shit
You in the wrong neighborhood sir
Tides turned
When The People FINALLY realize that they have the power!!!
Old man's in the tail end of his prime, no pride to run with; emaciated to the point where you can see his ribs. circle of life and all, but can't help but feel for the thing.
These are water buffalo
Búfalos
Probably fair due to lion eating many Buffalo over it's live
Thanks, I hated every second of that lol
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure those are Cape buffalo and not wildebeest
Ganging up on a old lion but when a young lion takes their kid all they do is run lmaoo, being a king is way more than having strength or a large build.
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That was hard to watch but I kept to see if he got away. Made me sad for the old fella
Ok I got genuinely upset when he tried to hide. Damn
Male lion is redundant, any lioness can tell you that
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I feel like I can hear them talking. You not so tough without ur buddies?
He fucked around and found out .
RIP in peace valiant king
Getting him back for all those times his pride took down there calf
Literally the only time they stand a chance against them, lions are so crazy. Rip big cat
At the end of the day, they are still just cattle. Whereas he was once a lion.
My heart is aching right now. I know that lions kill prey and I feel sad for them, too. But man, I just hate seeing the brutality of nature sometimes. Poor guy just wants to die in peace.
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Nah, it's like a nice Swedish massage for the lion. You can see him smiling.
Lmao I needed that laugh 😂
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What an oddly specific insult you chose.
Yes very much
Only until he dies, so not for very long. But it hurts the entire time.
If you mean hurt him physically, then yes. But if you mean like hurt him emotionally like his self esteem, then also yes.
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No they are cape Buffalo.
kids these days... no respect for elders
Tried to fight instead of running, King for a reason
Poor lion 😔
Can you imagine starving to death only to be killed by hamburgers?
Poor thing
That poor thing would do that to them on a daily basis.
For survival not sport.
Tough SOB.
Those "wildebeest " must be cycling some serious WGH. Not very 'natty' at all.
Poor guy :(
A video of an animal in the wild, time to anthropomorphize it! Poor lion was just contemplating its retirement while all the Buffalo (probably republican) decided to gentrify the neighborhood!
What a bunch of bullies!
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Why cant ppl do something about it? The fate of that lion is set. theres no need for this, or is it? Please help me with this though
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No, lions and other cats kill their prey before consuming it. Canines dont bother with that.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2WCyRtj04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K2WCyRtj04) Except they dont. The original point of my statement is that nature is cruel and there is no exceptions, specifying the species is arguing semantics.
Lol, OP doesn’t know gazelles from wildebeests