The Most Dangerous Lions | Hostile Planet | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary

The Most Dangerous Lions | Hostile Planet | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary. Dawn on the Serengeti, and 1.3 million wildebeest begin the longest walk of their lives, straight through lion country, where every pride holds the ground the herd is forced to cross. Across four hours of chained chapters, the most dangerous lions on Earth collect their toll from the great migration, while cheetahs, hyenas, crocodiles and killer whales wait at every bend of the route, because on a hostile planet the predators never need to chase: they only need to wait. Epic Moments in This Documentary: A cheetah exploding from the grass and winning the chase in one turn A lioness rising from the tall grass as the herd shatters around her A hyena singling out a late born calf on the plains of Ndutu Tens of thousands of wildebeest piling up on the banks of the Mara The river surface tearing open as a crocodile takes a swimmer midstream Vultures and marabou storks blanketing the shallows after the crossing A humpback mother lifting her calf onto her back as killer whales circle Turtle hatchlings racing ghost crabs down the beach at night Sockeye salmon leaping into the jaws of a brown bear at Brooks Falls Arctic terns driving a polar bear away from a chick on the gravel Millions of monarch butterflies cloaking the firs of central Mexico Lion prides hunting the migration herds in the chained chapters Behind the drama is a system. Predators do not follow the herds, they own the bottlenecks: lions in the Serengeti bring down prey not where it is most plentiful but where it is easiest to catch, hyenas spend up to 62 percent of the year commuting to the herds, and a Nile crocodile can go more than a year without a meal. Yet four decades of Serengeti data show that about 75 percent of migration deaths come from hunger, not predators, and at the Mara River the crocodiles eat only about 2 percent of the 6,250 wildebeest that drown each year. The toll feeds the route itself: wildebeest bones feed the Mara for seven years, and salmon carcasses supply up to 75 percent of the nitrogen in the forests of British Columbia. Disclaimer: This wildlife documentary contains raw and unfiltered footage of nature and animal predation. Viewer discretion is advised. #natureanimaldocumentary #ourplanet #WildlifeDocumentary #natgeo #planetearth #AfricanWildlife #savannah #naturesmoments