A number of months in the past our Managing Director Marc and his son launched into an epic journey to Tanzania’s well-known Serengeti. While there, they visited plenty of completely different camps together with Alex Walker’s Serian, Nomad’s Serengeti Safari Camp and Asilia’s Namiri Plains.

The Serengeti is understood for its well-known wildebeest migration that sees hundreds of thousands of those herbivores comply with the rains in the hunt for greener pastures. Probably the most well-known a part of this migration is the immense river crossings which see the wildebeest and zebra chancing their luck as they cross the Mara River. Enormous crocodiles and powerful currents all result in spectacular drama and 1000’s of individuals flock yearly to bear witness to this.

Away from the drama of the migration there are many aspect tales that individuals typically neglect about. Massive cats comparable to cheetah and lion don’t comply with the migration and subsequently must make do with what’s left round them. After the ungulates have handed via their territories prey choices could be fairly restricted. Elephants and rhino nonetheless roam the plains as do the lesser seen felines like servals and caracals, but these aren’t the very best sources of meals for a lion.

On Marc’s journey it was one in every of these aspect tales that caught the attention of hundreds of thousands!

Now it has been nicely documented in Botswana and South Africa that lions like to hunt buffalo, and buffalo like to retaliate in opposition to their nemesis. On a day sport drive at Namiri Plains, the information determined to comply with up on lion tracks that had been noticed earlier within the morning. As they manoeuvred across the low shrubs, a scene was unfolding that stored them on the sting of their seats till darkish got here.

A pleasure of lions numbering nicely over ten had stumbled throughout a lone buffalo bull. Also referred to as dagga boys, these buffalo are thought of to be probably the most harmful animals of all of the Massive 5, and rightly so. Their cranky temperament has seen many individuals charged and loads of lions gored and killed over time. Weighing in at a few tonne, they’re definitely not simple prey.

Being opportunistic, this pleasure of lions thought they’d probability their luck and attempt to seize a meal that may maintain them for just a few days.  They’d surrounded this lone buffalo with the intent to kill. The bull nevertheless, had different concepts. With pace which will come as shocking to most, the buffalo manoeuvred itself quite a few occasions to keep away from a couple of lion having the ability to get close to sufficient to it. Utilizing the terrain to its benefit the buffalo cleverly used the close by shrubs to protect one aspect of itself from potential assaults.

While this was occurring Marc began to movie the scene that was unfolding, little did he realise how a lot traction this video would achieve. After importing it to our YouTube channel Tanzania Odyssey, the video surpassed ten-million views in a matter of months.

Though the lions have numbers on their aspect, it’s fairly apparent the buffalo has the wits. It’s like watching a sport of chess unfold with either side taking turns to attempt to out-manoeuvre the opposite.

It’s really fascinating to see and is it probably questioning the standing of the lion as King? Have a look beneath and determine for your self