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Female Wildebeest vigorously defending Calf from an African Wild Dog pack.The Dogs decide to discontinue the assault.
When you're a Nile Crocodile, you have lots of breakfast options. http://video.nationalgeographic.com/?source=4001
A hungry crocodile lies in wait for the wildebeest to enter the water. But this one wildebeest puts up more of a fight that this reptile had expected! Amazing nature footage from BBC Worldwide.
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In the wild African jungle, it's every lion, wildebeest and crocodile for itself! It's an African animal mash up as everyone attempts to eat or avoid everyone else! From the BBC.
Mother lion makes a kill to feed her baby cubs. The lions demonstrate how they can share the food amongst the females and the cubs. Dinnertime on the African safari. From the BBC.
A large herd of Wildebeest crossing the Mara River.This was an awesome sight and a prvilage to witness it...
Wildebeest and Zebra crossing the River Talek, Masai Mara, Kenya - August 2007
Derome West of American Valor Outdoors bowhunts the Blue Wildebeest using the new Nightmare broadhead from NAP in South Africa with Phillip Bronkhorst Safaris.
Blue wildebeest are large African bovids with robust muzzles and cow-like horns. The wildebeest is a grazer and needs water almost daily. Wildebeests thrive in areas that are neither too wet nor too dry. They can be found in places that vary from overgrazed areas with dense bush to open woodland floodplains. Wildebeests prefer the bush lands and grasslands of the southern savanna. The wildebeest is a territorial, gregarious animal. Small herds are made up of females and their calves. gnoe - wildebeest - blouwildebees - blue wildebeest - connochaetes taurinus Visit WWW.STOCKSHOT.NL for highres version or broadcast video footage.
A lioness chasing 2 wildebeest in South Africa.
Thousands and thousands of wildebeest (gnus), as well as many zebra and gazelle migrate between the Serengeti (Tanzania) and the Maasai Mara (Kenya) in a yearly cycle. This multitude of animals also attracts a lot of predators. Seeing animals from horizon to horizon is one thing, but watching them cross a river is unbelievable! With a little patience, you have the best chance of witnessing such a spectacular river crossing between August and October in the Western part of the Masai Mara. I will be escorting a small group (max. 12) to Kenya for the "Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" safari, Sep. 27 -- Oct. 10, 2008, where participants have an excellent chance of seeing such a river crossing with their own eyes (and cameras)! For more details, call toll-free 1-877-GO-ON-SAFARI (1-877-466-6723), or read the details on my website: http://YourSafariExpert.com (you must have Acrobat Reader installed). - Video clip shot by Christine Eichin, Your Safari Expert, Above and Beyond Africa, in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, October 2007 - Movie setting on Olympus SP550-UZ camera. Unfortunately, the clip is too large to upload a decent quality. Sorry!
More safari footage at youtube.com/loracain. We went with the most incredible company CCAfrica.com to see the Greatest Show on Earth - the Great Migration: 2.5 million animals who cross Tanzania's Serengeti National Park into the Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya. Almost 2 million are wildebeests (Gnu) who have to cross 2 rivers to find grassland. Watching them and over half a million zebras and gazelles spread across the prairie (it looks like it's been mown by the time they're through)makes you understand just a little of what the buffalo herds in America must have been like. We were so touched by this baby hippo and had to share the story.
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Bella observes a group of wildebeest crossing a river. Making one excellent kill she tries another. Only for the first lucky wildebeest to recover and escape! From the BBC.
Crocodiles dining on a wildebeest in the Grumeti River, western corridor of the Serengeti. Keep an eye on the stork towards the end of the movie
CLICK ON "WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY." A collection of shots I captured showing herds of Wildebeest out on the plains in Tanzania. The commentary you can hear was recorded while out in the field and comes from Christopher Samuel, an excellent safari guide who was a joy to spend time with. Listen closely, and you'll learn what month baby Wildebeest are born, and where, in case you ever wanted to be there to see it for yourself. One of the amazing points he makes is how it takes a baby Wildebeest only 12 minutes to go from being pushed out in to the world to running around on their own four feet. Can you imagine if humans could do that? All I could think of was that old horror movie, "It's Alive." Following the interview, the sound reverts to the cacophony of grunts and bleats you hear coming from the herds of Wildebeest as they go about the business of being... well, Wildebeest. Noisy things, aren't they? At the very end you can glimpse a Hyena as it moves in to frame. Now, despite the fact that Hyenas are virtually harmless to humans, they make the most frightening sounds I have ever heard in my life (this is included in another post which will be uploaded soon). Sitting alone inside my tent in pitch black darkness, Hyenas would often come very close in the night and call to each other. What is chilling is the SOUND and the way they use their voices. I swear to you, it sounds like an insane person who is hiding out in the darkness, just trying to scare the crap out of you. Absolutely and utterly primal in it's deeply chilling effect. Even being a lifelong fan of horror movies and creature features, it's the most heart stopping sound I've ever heard.
On this episode of Animal Planet's "Fooled by Nature," we'll meet grazing wildebeest during their annual migration. Remarkably, wildebeest migration is driven by grazing on phosphorus rich grass.
Wild cheetah hunts for prey among the African animals. This cheetah has attitude. From the BBC.
Hyenas pigging out on a wildebeest thay'd just taken down, Vultures stand by waiting for the remains. A pair of jackals are also interested. Video taken in the Masai Mara plain in Kenya