Pair of young lions are chased of by herd of buffalo they foolishly tried to attack
Win an iPhone 11: http://bit.ly/2Od5erf. Pair of young lions are chased of by herd of buffalo they foolishly tried to attack. The thrilling moment two feisty lions are scared off by a herd of buffalo - proving that there really is strength in numbers.
The spectacular encounter took place in Zimanga private nature reserve in South Africa, and shows a bold young lion launch an attack on the herd of muscular buffalo, before the intended victims regroup and charge at the apex predators, sending them fleeing.
The remarkable photos were captured by Swedish wildlife photographer Staffan Widstrand, 60, who was taken aback by the unusual incident, even describing it as 'cute'.
'The whole area used to be a huge cattle ranch,' explains Staffan, who started photography nearly 50 years ago as 'a way of showing off to his friends' when he was a teenager.
'Shortly after they sold the Hereford cows, the area was left to nature and before you it, it was rewilded. First the grazers - like the buffalo - came and then a couple of years later, lions were introduced. These photos show the first time that the buffalos, that have been here for some years, and lions met.
'All the animals knew instinctively what the roles were supposed to be - the role of predator and prey - but it seemed to take a little while to sink in. At first, the young lion chased the buffalo until they thought, "hey, wait a minute, there's more of us and we're bigger than that young lion", so instead the buffalos chased the lion. The hunter became the hunted.'
That was not the end of the fascinating encounter, however.
'Realising something wasn't right, the lion eventually concluded that, "I'm supposed to be the chaser and you the prey", so back he went,' adds Staffan, who uses the Instagram handle, @staffanwidstrand.
'So, it continued, off and on for a long time. Then night came and both camps rested. A few days later the lion killed its first buffalo and the food chain reasserted
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