Lion Attack - male lion attacks zebra

A rear sneak attack by a male lion on a zebra in rut whose attention was directed toward two female lions in front of him. Location: Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Doc Justin's photo safari out of Tucson.

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• Lion attack
• zebra
• Africa
• Tanzania
• Ngorongoro
• safari

[piketyl000]

wow every time i watch videos like this with tourists its always british people, those brits just cant stay out of the countries they have oppressed and exploited for so many hundreds of years :(

[EmPBee]

@piketyl000

If you are going to be pickety, you should learn to identify accents. The tourists (hunters with cameras), were not even close to being British. Try South America.

[thundag0d]

okay what the hell just happened. I don't care if male lions don't hunt that was pretty embarassing. Why the hell would he go for the back, he shouldve gone for the throat. Back claw on attacks should be used on buffalos instead because they are bigger

[EmPBee]

Here's a little bit of post game analysis of the lion attack event.

Part I

Notice in the slow motion section of the video that:

1) The hind legs of the lion are first moving in a running fashion.

2) As the lion closes the distance to the zebra, the hind legs switch to a

paired motion in preparation for leaping.

3) The lion has paced his leap stride to give a final lunge onto the zebra

on the third stride.

[EmPBee]

Part II

4) The plan would have put the lion way forward on the zebra's back and

would have given him access to the throat.

5) In the last 0.8 of a second, however, the zebra detects the on-coming

lion and lurches forward about one-half body length.

6) The forward lunge of the zebra threw off the lion's attack pace .

7) In having to correct his stride, the lion lost not only the element of

surprise, but also the momentum of the leap.

8) Therefore, he lost.

[survivalofone]

I'm sure the zebra lost his erection quite quickly after that incident.

[nomadlion1985]

@EmPBee

Hi, is it possible to get this video in higher quality? Its brilliant video, showing big male lion in action, whatis pretty rare !!

[MissAlyy88]

The Loin was jealous of the Zebras HUGE picker LOL

[MissAlyy88]

Male loins can't hunt

[Frenchkisssss]

@EmPBee Sought America ? So why they speak in english ?

[dumitrache]

@streethustla24

HAHAHA definetly dude, 100%. He's the fucking king, the fucking alpha, he does what the fuck he wants. Listen to this dog :"GO ZEBRA GO" =))))))) What the fuck!!!!! :)))) He doesn't give a fuck if he missed this one , tommorow he will hunt again better and more vicious, he will get 2 zebras hahahha go zebra go

[coleheiserman]

at the beeginning of the video, it says the zebra was in "rut" which means the female zebras are prepared to have sex...poor zebra was just tryin to get some but ended sadly

[streethustla24]

its a honor to be killed by a male lion

[argom110]

Silly male lions....they can't be as good as the lionesses.

[StikkenMoov]

On animal planet/natgeo they always say: A adult zebra can kick a lion dead(with one kick), but this male lions had some bad kicks in his face etc but no problem for Mr Lion! Everybody can laugh here about the male but nature had other purposes with the male lion, pure designed for battle and therefore the females do the hunting! But this vid shows us that male lions are tough animals. Respect for this truely "extraordinary" animal that,s an symbol for courage, bravery and fearless etc!