Wild Animal Fights Caught On Camera (Wildlife Documentary) | Caught In The Act | Real Wild

on the African plains life moves fast to capture wildlife on camera dedicated professionals stake out the harshest terrain often for months on end their perseverance can reap rich rewards images which take the breath away but you don't always have to be crouching in a hide to film incredible animal behavior you have to be in the right place at the right time there's an army of holidaymakers and adventurers out there who stumble across the most incredible scenes and keep their cameras rolling these natural history home movies can be every bit as exciting and every bit as revealing as their professional counterparts but their chance encounters can be terrifying it was dark and we were so nervous it's one of those things which I don't think I'll ever see again in my life combining the very best footage from the professional and amatuer worlds reveals more than ever before Africa raw real and caught in the act our first story unfolds on the South African coastline home to one of the ocean's deadliest predators the great white shark can grow to 6 metres 3 times the length of a man it's awesome jaws can clamp down with an estimated pressure of three tons per square centimeter inflicting a giant deadly bite [Music] when it comes to the chase the great white is capable of propelling its two-ton body at 40 km/h before launching clear out of the water in pursuit of Prem that alone is enough to keep most people out of their way but not everyone Andre Hartman has observed shark behavior for more than 10 years now he gets up close and personal free diving with these reputedly deadly killers Andre runs a shark dive charter taking his clients out to sea so they can experience the thrill of a close encounter from the safety of a cage to attract sharks cage dive tour operators throat Chum a mixture of chopped up fish into the water some consider chumming controversial because it can make sharks more aggressive but it's a common practice while I go out a group of photographers on the boat and they had big strobes and things and they needed the gap that we had in the cage blended bigger but the modified cage would allow the adventurers to get close-ups they never dreamed of not even in their nightmares you're in the deeper water they're gonna swim around and round the boat once we've established him he should stay 14 15 20 minutes away guys of the thousands of shark dives that happen every year off the coast of Southern Africa very few result in injury Andre had no reason to think this dive would be any different I was next to the cage outside trying to get a shuttle of their faces and the shock but from a different angle the shark came and I grabbed the bait the blue touched the side of his face and a turn around and I've got a spook and it ran wildly to try and get away and it winds smack bang into the gap of the cage [Music] to the helplessly do whatever I look to point to the camera these guys were of course terrified inside I'm next door they underwater they can't hear me I can't speak to them [Music] the shark's jaws past just centimeters from the divers but it's not attacking them its response to being stuck is flight not fight it keeps swimming and tries to escape [Music] sharks don't generally prey on humans in fact many attacks are believed to be cases of mistaken identity where sharks confused bathers with seals but in such a tight situation the Sharks violent thrashing can be every bit as brutal as its bite [Music] somehow they dodge its gaping jaws before making a miraculous escape they're seriously shaken but unharmed [Music] and after that we lifted the cage up tilted it sideways swam inside the shark was tired at that time from struggling and then weight came in one window it's just lifted his head out the next window now we just I just helped a shark out like that thing that came out within about 30 seconds Africa is a land of giants recently rescued from the brink of extinction the southern white rhino sports one of the largest horns in the animal kingdom when it comes to defending territory rhinos usually just push and shove serious injuries are rare but when there's a female to fight for things can get Savage we came around a very wide bend and the Arats before ours were these pterano f.2d locked and battle Tracy and Chris Jacobs were on holiday in Etosha National Park Namibia when they found they were center stage for a Clash of the Titans it was innocent excitement Chris just slammed on brakes he didn't want to go another inch further forward because they were clearly very aggressive and he was afraid they were going to ram the vehicle and I was shot him never mind the vehicle I'll just go forward I've got to get this footage so half hanging out the window we inched forward until eventually we were as close as we did one of the rhinos has an extraordinarily long horn but its size seems to hamper him not help the shorter horned challenger definitely has the one appeared to be stronger and fitter than the other one and former aggressive the weaker of the two would keep turning around and trying to run away and the more Greece of Rana would run up behind them and literally lift them right off the ground with his horn it's amazing to think that he was lifting up 3,000 kilograms and he did it so easily that's 3 tonnes the weight of a large SUV on the tip of a horn made of keratin the same substance as our fingernails the rear end of the victim was very puncher and bleeding from the mounted Tom Chapin dreamed extreme aggression like this is rare in rhinos and it's almost always caused by the presence of a female ready to mate usually Rhino fights end when an opponent retreats but the short horn challenger wants to make sure victory is his sadly in this case surrender isn't an option terribly said it was a very sad thing to see at the same time also very exciting because you know you're getting footage that is very rarely seen battles over fertile females are common throughout the animal kingdom and often involve some unusual weapons generally perceived as a gentle giant the giraffe is the tallest animal on earth their height gives them a head start when it comes to getting food from the tallest trees but their long necks and armored skulls also make powerful weapons territorial necking battles often seem slow and graceful and few of these fights result in severe injuries but the clash steward basil and his family witnessed in the kruger national park showed just how powerful the gentle giraffe can be instead of graceful sideways swipes these battling bulls use their skulls like battering rams an adult giraffe's neck can deliver a bone crushing blow one bull is cut beneath its eye both sports severe bruises but the worst is yet to come as they lock horns and their tussle intensifies events take a highly unexpected turn you know something there's no card the challengers horn hits the junction between its opponent's skull and spine causing instant concussion the giraffe's head has actually received not one but two heavy blows the first from its rival and the second as it crashes five meters down to earth unconscious the giraffe is highly vulnerable its unprotected neck an easy target for any passing predator but over to me one kiss Becca jamesy [Music] did you Texas now fortunately the battered bull soon regains consciousness and staggers into the bush dazed and defeated but lucky to be alive defending a territory ensures access to food and makes the driving forces of survival in the wild when it comes to territorial disputes between Africa's most powerful predators the struggles can be fearsome in the depths of the kruger national park gordon Dyer was on holiday when he captured a scene professional cameramen could wait a lifetime to film Africa's largest predator turning on its own [Music] we came across streamer lands and they seemed very perturbed we were following them and I looked in my rearview mirror Nuttall what's this I'm seeing double Sonic I saw the huge black mane two lions and they made chase of these two lines two brothers caught on the run whilst one makes good his escape his sibling is surrounded and in big trouble you'd felt like the car was vibrating from this wrong you could actually feel it in your gut with that roar I was gonna sit there boy I was not moving knowing it sounded like they were trying to get a message to these two blocks yeah you're getting in our way get out of here it is so intense it is actually fracking see that deep intense raw that it is hitting you in the chest [Music] but what drives such a savage attack behaviorist Kevin Richardson has spent the past decade working with large predators he believes that this conflict is a turf war it's two old males coming to the end of their reign and four young males who are quite a tightly bonded coalition of either brothers or cousins saying hey it's time for us to take on a new territory it's time for us to take over your pride and if you don't want to get out of here we might just kill you the four of them really circle this old male each taking their turn to show him that they are younger they fit her they're stronger he's very submissive he turns his backside and he tries to protect his hindquarters and he certainly doesn't want them to get anywhere near his threat as vicious as it seems this fierce competition is the way Lions get rid of weaker animals and keep their population fit and strong when it was finished I'll put the camera down and we just sat they took a deep breath to realize we were in nature I was born in Africa I've lived in Africa all my life I've been going up the Kruger Park for 30 years it was just one of those things which I don't think I'll ever see again in my life for some species territorial disputes are not resolved only in head-to-head clashes between warring males some seen even more barbaric and deeply tragic a zebra herd is ruled by a single stallion that possessively guards his harem of females and foals he will protect his herd and his genes at all costs however brutal Jenny Pappas was on safari in etosha when she came across a zebra stallion showing unusually ferocious behaviour as we were making our way up we stopped at one of the water holes where there were a herd of zebra I was looking through my binoculars the next thing the stallion took this little fall and I was so engrossed in it I just kept on looking through my binoculars and my partner Graham shouted at me get the camera get the camera the stallion attacked this fall it was horrific he was throwing him around he had him by his leg oh he was horrible he was jumping on him and he threw him in the water [Music] I couldn't believe what he was actually doing it was really terrible the mother in all our efforts tried to save the the baby and she was kicking him and biting him and he just wouldn't make her he just would not let go he obviously wanted to get rid of that fault when the mayor joined the herd she must have already been pregnant with another stallions foal I didn't realize that zebras were so vicious I found out since that the stallions instinct is for his gene to be the one to continue down the line he's not going to accept another males gene in his herd eventually he did leave the fall the herd left the waterhole and the mother stayed behind and they were communicating with each other you could hear them in the distance neighing and she would answer them back us to say I'm not going I'm staying here and I need to look off to my baby the next morning early the foal was still they'd obviously had died in the nights we couldn't understand it because they were hi Hina all over when they drove further into the park they discovered the grim reason why the foals body had been left alone we saw that the I he knows that actually attacked the mom although you're watching at you're feeling said you know its nature and nature looks after its own it is a cool act what we as humans think is cruel but an animal doesn't know cruelty nature is phenomenal you know the natural instinct that a mother has to save her young even to her death when predator and prey collide the odds are often in the hunters favor but a good hunter needs more than just brute force hunting is a dangerous business even for the most skilful predator horns and hooves are designed to protect and as we're about to see not all prey go down quietly the Deneau uses every ounce of its energy to try to shake off its assailant but the lioness has a vice-like grip eventually the news got nowhere left to turn the big cat gets what it came for the lioness was trying to reach its quarry spine and deliver a paralyzing bite the new attempted to keep its vulnerable vertebra safely out of reach by whirling like a dervish but ultimately exhaustion overcame it bringing the battle to an end leopards rely on the element of surprise to sneak up and snag their prey the ultimate stealth hunter this big cat is renowned for its ability to creep up undetected before striking like lightning and killing with a single swift stranglehold but this leopard is about to find out that it's not the only one that employs the element of surprise the tables are about to be turned the zebra might be a prey animal but it can deliver a powerful kick with the leopards cover blown the zebra poses a serious threat cowering in the treetops a hunter in hiding this African rock monitor is about to meet the hitchhiker from hell it may be a giant amongst lizards but as herpetologist Graham Alexander tells us it has no shortage of enemies monitor lizards like this belong to the family of this is that includes the Komodo dragon so it's the largest lizards in the world predatory birds are probably the most important natural enemies or predators of monitor lizards martial eagle are the largest Raptors in Africa and they can take prey up to about 32 kilos in size that's been the record so they'll take small antelope often they'll take things like monitor lizards rabbits and normally with the eagle coming down onto the back of the prey just the impact of the Eagle hitting its preys enough to kill it which is why this martial Eagle was probably very surprised to be taken for a ride on its intended supper spine so the body masses of the monitor lizard and the eagle or probably about the same maybe the Eagles even a little bit heavier than the lizard but the extraordinary strength of the Seleucid allows it to to carry that eagle right across the road and into the vegetation on the side of the road marshall eagles are powerful enough to knock a grown man off his feet but this hunters playing a waiting game so normally if monitor lizards are attacked they'll first make a break for it but if you corner them they'll lash out with their tails if that doesn't work they'll rake with these claws and then if I can get a hold on you with their mouths they've got a vast lack grip and that's what that eagle was trying to prevent in the clip we see what the martial eagle had come down and grabbed hold of the lizard he's just in front of the back legs and just behind the front arms here it hadn't got it around its neck that's probably where it would have been able to exert some force to actually kill the monitor visit and probably it was just trying to stay out of the way of the tail and the lizard trying to bite back and self-defense the reptiles have got really powerful muscles pound-for-pound reptile muscles about four times as potent as mammal muscle it's about twice as potent as bird muscle the circulatory system of these monitor lizards are unique for reptiles they are able to separate oxygenated and deoxygenated blood much more effectively and that means that monitor lizards have got much more endurance they can supply oxygen to the muscles much more efficiently and there explains why monitor lizard was able to carry the eagle right across the road whereas other reptiles would have failed long before in spite of the lizards amazing stamina it's exhausted and has no energy left for a fight the eagle is able to claim its supper at last [Music] in the city of Cape Town even the urban jungle can be full of surprises I was on holiday in Cape Town and I'd left my car out in the streets and when I walked outside I couldn't believe my eyes there was a car in front of my car which was covered in baboons three of them were sitting there eating watermelons as if they're on a Sunday picnic they just ignored me It was as if I wasn't there and so quickly ran inside and got my camera to film them and they just carried on with their antics they were sliding down loading screens and they were disturbing an absolute ball these wily creatures are Chandler baboons on the run from the Cape Point Nature Reserve they go up town looking for food but heading into trouble it's not widely known but these riotous primates live life on a knife edge as the suburbs expand they're losing their natural habitat Cape Town's wild baboon population has been all but obliterated but they're still unwelcome visitors to urban areas [Music] [Music] they seem to be causing a lot of trouble they're tearing open bins they're pulling light bulbs off of walls and ruining people's properties one of them was actually missing a leg which was quite interesting it could have been caught in a snare or even caught in the electric fencing so although they're becoming it a bit of a pest to the residents it's equally dangerous for the baboons to be in that area because they are becoming troublesome causing chaos and ransacking properties drives many residents to distraction the biggest threat to this dwindling population comes from humans but not all people see them as a menace this was the most wonderful experience I've gone down to Cape Town thinking it was just this big city and I love wildlife and there I was in the middle of the city with these baboons around me and it just goes to show that you don't actually always have to go on a safari or go and find the wildlife sometimes the wildlife comes to you and luckily I got it on camera South Africa's coastline is host to an amazing annual marine spectacle the sardine run every year millions of sardines migrate up the coastline in a gigantic shoal attracting predators from far and wide the sardine run is also a phenomenal filming opportunity for professional cameraman like Peter Lamberty but getting these sardines in the can means pulling out all the stops professionals leave nothing to chance [Music] I've been forming the sardine run for 17 years now and to get the action on the sardine run can sometimes be very difficult and we approach it in quite a professional way we have Markel at sets but from there to help us find and get to the action on turn try and find us an action and we're going on it over [Music] only twice before in the Saudi Yuna and have we ever encountered killer whales and once I was in the water with them but didn't get a shot I was about ten meters away from rent Edison and he got the shot not all of the predators are lured by the promise of a feast of fish in these seas the hunters can just as easily become the hunted these killer whales are targeting mammals not fish [Music] the one had a dolphin a full-grown dolphin in its mouth it had torn big chunks out of the dolphin and lacerated it [Music] it swam towards me almost as if it wanted to offer me the dolphin arcade on filming by this time hoping and praying that I had the camera switched on and it was actually recording what I was seeing because it was absolutely awesome to be in the water with these two huge killer whales killer whales are renowned for their curiosity and it seems that Brent and his camera have caught their eye the chance to get this close to walkers in the wild is incredibly rare and seriously daunting you must remember killer whale is 40 tons the size of a human being and here it's got this little dolphin in his mouth it could have eaten it in about two bites and see by all the little marks on it that has been playing with this thing for a while but it hasn't started to eat it yet and I think that is quite amazing Brent and Peter are in the water with the largest predators of mammals on earth but these giants don't show any aggression towards the divers at all in fact rewinding this footage reveals that the killer whales are so preoccupied with Brent and their kill that they barely noticed they've got an audience of seals a favorite prey it's a rare sight to see these enemies swimming at such close quarters but the potential prey were wary the seals were visibly worried about the killer whales because they didn't let them out of their sight they were all huddled together in a little ball like hanging upside down on the surface watching as a wildlife cameraman you spend your life trying to get yourself in the right place at the right time and sometimes all the animal behavior knowledge you've got the help that you get from scientists and all the technical backup that you can get can't actually achieve that because nature doesn't play by any rules and it often puts the unsuspecting amateur right in the right place and they get these amazing moments [Music] in the wild size matters Africa's giant herbivores are virtually untouchable as prey because very few predators have the build or strength to bring them down catching big game is a job for specialists and we've got a radio call from another vehicle that was out there already and say guys we think something is going to happen yeah we should move it as quickly as we can yon and Francie du Toit were filming in Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa when they chanced upon a desperate seen a large pride of lions surrounding a bull giraffe time was of the essence the heat was on we had to get the camera ready we had to get their sounds ready it was literally seconds that it's the action started lions are an adult giraffes deadliest threat and this unfortunate bull is in trouble his escape routes are blocked and there's nowhere to run or hide [Music] it's a calculated attack teamwork and its most effective but their victims no soft target he's not going down without a fight [Music] if a man gets hit by a kick like that you're dead for sure I was established at the Lions even after being kicked like that that would get right back up again and attack again it was amazing experience by itself not just the witnessing what happened in front of me but just to hear what happens when those femurs jumped up there and they were like drop down as the giraffe kicked him you could hear the nails going through the skin like when you taste sandpaper it was unbelievable the Lions are relentless but they can't reach the giraffes vital organs the only way they can succeed is to force their victim to the ground despite the Bulls brave fight the outcome is inevitable it's a grim scene but at least the hungry pride will feed well such epic struggles are rarely witnessed and very seldom caught on camera if it would have been five minutes later we wouldn't have got it we would have missed it so it's all about timing it's this extraordinary ability to take down prey ten times their size that has earned Lions a reputation as the top predators in their field but surprisingly they're smaller cousins often put them to shame by combining speed with stealth cheetahs usually have a higher kill success rate than lions cheaters live life in the fast lane there light live bodies can reach speeds of over 90 kilometres an hour when they're chasing prey few animals can stand the pace even fewer can escape but being at the very top of your game doesn't make you popular with the competition particularly when you and your rivals are after the same food potential predators do come across each other quite often in the wild and they really don't tolerate each other this can happen with lions hyenas lions cheetah lions and leopards most predators are territorial to some degree or another but with Lions territory is everything George monteri ol from France had his camera rolling during a game drive in Namibia spotting a pair of cheetahs was a great thrill but George wasn't the only one watching [Music] the cheetah and its brother were in the wrong place at the wrong time with disastrous results for one sibling [Music] to [Music] the cheetah should have been paying more attention it's a slightly slender built creature and really doesn't have the power to take on a lion the lion sees that cheetah as competition for food so does this happen often lines interacting or killing other predators happens more often than we think it's inevitable territories are getting smaller and smaller animals are crossing each other's paths more frequently any predator that comes into Alliance territory is deemed competition [Applause] [Music] [Music] there are very few predators with the size and strength to challenge a lion one cunning creature uses brains rather than brawn to take on the king of the beasts the hyena [Music] hyenas are probably one of the most underestimated predators in the carnivore society renowned for devouring carrion and stealing other hunters kills hyenas will indeed snap up any opportunity to claim a free meal but these Body Snatchers are also formidable hunters when they need to be hunting in packs these cunning carnivores can kill prey many times their size they got strong crushing teeth big powerful jaws up to 700 pounds per square inch can crush a bone with ease and although there are really a third of the size of the land what really makes them formidable is their attitude and this is what allows them to get in close when lions are on a kill and for hyenas to taunt them working in packs hyenas mob lions after a kill creating chaos and confusion amidst the commotion the big cats are distracted long enough for these bandits to swoop all the pleasure of the feast none of the pain of catching it it's no surprise that lions and hyenas are mortal enemies when tussling with a lion pride hyenas know there's safety in numbers [Music] unfortunately the lioness we're about to see had no such advantage we were working early one morning for this horrendous noise of hyenas very close by Myke Raymond witnessed a gang of hyenas turning the tables on a lone lioness it was a grim scene it was no playing around to give her a fright they were there to killer this was a very emotional and traumatic thing particularly to see this thing to actually get overwhelmed by this mob of of hyenas there's a deep-seated hatred between these animals there's no question the lioness seems to be weakened possibly by pregnancy or an earlier injury making her a soft target for the baying pack these are not just the scavengers that occasionally kill these are serious serious killers when they pee deters and killers in their own right [Music] working in ecotourism throughout Africa Jurgen vault is well-acquainted with the raging power struggles of the wild so when he spied a lioness eagerly eyeing a leopards kill amongst the trees he was quick to set his camera rolling but he was in for a shock around the base of the tree there was a very thick thicket and she walked up to that and had a long sniff I'd have no a hyena appeared the lioness left up the tree grabbed the kill in seconds the hyena was on top of the lioness that was an unbelievable sight to see this hyena launching into the lioness and the two of them fought over the kill absolutely amazing yet stopped and there was almost silence and the two of them lay down side by side and started to co feed which was something absolutely amazing we had never seen anything like this before and we knew he had some really special footage side by side a temporary truce as to mortal enemies share a slap-up meal a rare moment of harmony captured for posterity the two of them fed for about 25 minutes together eventually though he no lost patience with the lioness the two of them fought again over the carcass amazing the Mahina won the battle and walked away with the Lions show the lioness is probably three times the hyenas size and she could easily have sent the scavenger packing but as Jurgen discovered a little later this big cat had other concerns she was heavily pregnant a vicious scuffle could have cost her and her unborn Cubs their lives food was her focus not fighting [Music] protection of unborn young is a basic instinct where endangered species are concerned birth becomes an even more significant event and attracts plenty of human interest the Shelby Anderson is an avid naturalist nine years ago she and her friends John McLaren and Ernst grayling then Rangers at South Africa's rhino and lion park discovered that no wild Rhino births had ever been filmed they wanted to be the first to video the big moment but it was no easy task it's incredibly difficult to form a birth of a runner specifically because the mother moves away from the herd for that reason you literally have to follow her 24 hours a day you cannot let her out of your sight for one second Rhino mothers usually leave the herd just prior to giving birth perhaps to protect the newborn from being trampled or injured by other herd members but following the pregnant Rhino was a dangerous challenge we followed them on foot which was quite scary because you're surrounded by hyenas and Jeckle all the time you've got to watch your back wherever you go we had cut feet we had cut knees we'd fallen in the dark I cannot begin to tell you how cold it actually was we had to be very careful as far as LAT was concerned as well because we couldn't always put the spotlight on them there's every possibility that she could turn around and storm you she has no regard for who or what you are she would trample you to pieces the first expectant mother they followed disappeared before the birth and they had to start all over again finally after six months of perseverance their patience paid off [Music] the nerves the the feeling of this is it this is what we've been doing for six months this is the time where I can't even explain it was something unbelievable there or soon turned to anguish they realized the baby was in the breech position where it's born feet rather than headfirst this meant that the newborn could be starved of oxygen in the birth canal and possibly brain damaged it was an ell batting moment we sat waiting for this little bra note to get up because we thought that maybe he had been damaged and eventually after about two minutes this little thing shook itself off and the mommy cleaned it up was absolutely awesome [Music] it was such a phenomena at that stage to see that the herd was all around her and so involved with what she was doing this just never happens normally she'll just chase them all away [Music] we just came to the end of a combination of many days and crying and farting and performing and worrying and we got it [Music] another great moment caught in the act [Music] even in the world of wildlife documentaries filming unique animal behavior is not something that only happens to hardened professionals sometimes a novice can get lucky so this was my first shoot in the African bush and we did a trip to Botswana our main focus for the day was to film cheetah and their various day-to-day happenings but what unfolded in front of us was just amazing as they were just relaxing in the heat of the Sun we basically saw the one getting pretty interested in something behind us and there there was this jackal circling and just pushing in a little bit closer every second black-backed jackals are renowned for their boldness but this one seems to be looking for trouble all of a sudden this cheetah got up and started stalking this jackal before you knew it the chase was on we thought this jackal is gonna get eaten but before you knew it it had escaped it was amazing it was like a scene where you didn't know what was gonna happen next the jackal keeps coming closer and closer and just circling and pushing and pushing and pushing just to give them enough irritation to try and get them out of the Jackals area you could clearly see that the cheetah wasn't messing around I think it meant business that's the agility of the jackal and it's ours just made it so difficult to catch this jackal running from this cheetah it just lets at this Yelp I must admit it was quite amusing to all of us once the jackal got away we all had a bit of a chuckle our initial thoughts for this behavior was obviously the cheetah wanted to kill the jackal but then after a lot of thought we decided that that jackal were probably Denning in the area and we're just trying to put enough pressure on the cheetah to move them out the area before they found the den and the pups the next morning we went to go and check up on our theory and there we found those exact two jackal in their den with two pups having spent a lot of time in the bush one thing I've realized is that the smallest animal if it has babies will do anything to protect them on his very first shoot Rianne learnt an invaluable lesson for all budding wildlife camera people always expect the unexpected and always be ready for anything it's the unpredictable nature of life in the animal kingdom which keeps us intrigued and our cameras ready to roll capturing these incredible acts on film is all about being in the right place at the right time these startling images help us unravel nature's mysteries what are the breathtaking moments Lions store just waiting to get caught in the act [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 50min 5sec (3005 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 24 2018

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[u/Manus_2]

I mean, for fuck's sake, at one point they show a video recorded by some random lady of an infant zebra getting tossed around like a ragdoll by some out of control male and all she can say when interviewed about it is; "Well, it's horrible and all, but the male zebra is only acting on instinct. Besides look at how the mother zebra tries to protect her baby! We humans think it's cruel, but the male zebra doesn't know cruelty. It's just nature at work and nature knows best!.".

I mean, god damn it. How can you have borne witness to all that and STILL come away from it thinking that the natural world is in any way redeemable? The male zebra might not know that what it's doing is cruel, but so what? It's still the height of cruelty. Even when the mother zebra is trying to stop him; she fails utterly. It's also interesting the double standard here. The male zebra apparently can't be blamed for being cruel, yet the mother zebra is praised for showing love and self-sacrifice. Yet, I'd argue, the mother zebra has no concept of love, just like the male zebra has no concept of cruelty. So, which is it? Are they driven by unconscious instinct, or aren't they? If you acknowledge one, then you have to acknowledge the other. Yet people want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to pretend that their definition of the good exists, while ignoring and even outright denying the existence of the bad. In the end, both were driven by instinct, and their DNA, to create a situation of extreme torment and agony. The male zebra can't abide the presence of another male's foal in his territory, so he mercilessly stomps it to death. The mother zebra can't abide her foal being killed, only because that would mean a waste of her time and resources. Ultimately, the foal dies an agonizing death and is left to rot and be eaten by ravenous hyenas. Think of how many times this has happened across the spans of not just nature as it exists now, but throughout the eons of time that has already occurred. It's fucking mind boggling.

And that's not even getting into the rest of what's present in that video. Like the 4 lions ganging up on and tearing apart one of their own, as what is otherwise seen as a fairly common place battle for dominance. Even something as brutal, ugly, and disgusting as that, is perceived by some as being an awe inspiring example of nature and natural selection. "The weak are crushed by the strong. Good, that's how it should be.", as some sadistic lunatics would no doubt, and often do, say (just look at the comments). These are people who literally get themselves off to the amount of pain present in the world. The more of it there is, the better. I honestly can't imagine anything more sickening. What's more pathetic is that they somehow think they're examples of the strong, instead of the weak. It's sad that this is the way most of humanity operates. They'd rather be the brutalizer, instead of the brutalized. This "conan the barbarian" type logic where might always makes right is fucking disgusting to the core. And yet most people, on some level, subscribe to and believe that exact sort of thing. Thank goodness for omnicide. Thank fucking goodness.

[u/antinatalist98]

I remember when I was a young child in the early-mid 2000s there was this channel called animal planet we had on cable. It showed stuff about wildlife and animals some of it was interesting and cool. However though like anything related to nature it showed some gruesome and disturbing things. I hated seeing stuff like that. So when a tv show would come on that showed stuff like that I would turn the channel or stop watching TV and do something else. I never understood how people could watch animals Kill eat and do other horrible things to each other and think it's ok simply because it's nature.

If people had to experience what nature is truly like without modern technology and medicine to help them from common injuries and illnesses or save them from dying very painfully. I don't think many of them would find it beautiful anymore.

[u/ruiseixas]

Because you always identify yourself with the winners... Everyone identifies themselves with lions ignoring that lions only live up to their 15s!

[u/PrimarySupply]

Nature counts as a synonym for “pure” for most people. They watch documentaries with a narrator that has a friendly voice and quirky personality and correlate this to their view of nature. At least that’s how it was for me back then lol, I was like awe animals are so wholesome. But rarely are you ever stuck in a cage with a lion to witness their sheer brutality and have them trigger your survival instincts so they can’t fathom how nature could possibly be evil