Posted on 07/27/2016 1:45:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono
SOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK, Zambia, - An elephant in Zambia demonstrated his ability to keep a cool head under pressure when he escaped being made into a meal by 14 female lions.
The video, filmed by Jesse Nash on a tour with Normal Carr Safaris at the Chinzombo Safari Camp in Zambia, shows a group of 14 lionesses descending on a young elephant. Advertisement
The elephant, keeping calm, swats at the lionesses with his trunk while making his way to a nearby body of water.
The pachyderm reaches the water, but only a handful of the predators decide to stay on shore while the more daring members of the pride give pursuit in the shallows -- including one lioness riding piggy-back on the elephant's rear.
The elephant flees further into the water, causing the lioness to jump off its back, but the big cats continue to stalk the elephant.
The video ends with the elephant, finally fed up, charging the lionesses and causing him to flee.
The safari tour group said the elephant survived the encounter and earned the nickname Hercules.
Donkeys on Trump.
Can’t touch him.
The kick at 1:28 was pretty entertaining
That looks like the ride at Gilley’s.
I wonder if any of our bleeding hearts are going to show up and who they will be crying for, the lionesses or the elephant?
I had no idea that lions ever went for elephants. I guess extreme hunger knows no bounds.
I see lots of dead lions in Zambia’s future. That elephant will go out of his way to make toe jam out of every lion he comes across for the rest of his life.
They would have had something like this in the Roman Circus Maximus.
Or media
This needs to be sent to trump..
“The video ends with the elephant, finally fed up, charging the lionesses and causing him to flee”
Do they even proof read anymore?
Looks like a young elephant, somehow got lost from the herd. I doubt they would try that on a full grown bull. I have seen films of them taking down baby elephants.
My first thought was the elephant should walk out into the water. Took him a while but he figured that out.
Lion Ted?
Pachyderm wins...this time.
so encouraging. thank you.
I have seen a horrid video of a baby elephant slowly being consumed by lionesses. It is truly the saddest thing...they grab the trunk to make it stop crying.
And scoop out one eye, after which it pauses in crying for a moment, as if it doesn’t understand why it cannot see any longer ( the other eye is facing the ground ).
And so, now I say hunt and kill all the lions. Yep.
Kill many many Cecils.
That’s pretty stupid...it’s NATURE....the damned lions are trying to eat, for God’s sake,....they aren’t being thugs or anything. What they do, how they interact with potential prey, is a natural thing, no matter how “cruel” you think it is.
We don’t need that nature. Cruelty such as this event is unacceptable.
PS I don’t worship nature. Man is in charge, not nature.
http://www.earthtouchnews.com/videos/wildlife-raw-uncut/lions-eat-elephant-alive/
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