This video was taken by one of our Tanzanian Guides Hashim on a recent visit to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. It was early morning, near to where the road from the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge emerges onto the floor of the crater. In it, a large pride of lions have caught a male buffalo. Look at how the male lion has its mouth clamped over the buffalo’s mouth, trying to suffocate it, while the lionesses hang onto it from behind to prevent it from escaping or from attacking the exposed lion.
It took 20 minutes for the buffalo to finally collapse and die, leaving a large meal for this large and obviously hungry pride of lions.
