The Most Dangerous Predators of the African Savanna | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary

The Most Dangerous Predators of the African Savanna | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary follows the lion, the cheetah, the Nile crocodile and the gray wolf through two hungry seasons: the long dry season on the Serengeti, when every buffalo herd must come back to the Seronera River to drink, and a deep winter in Yellowstone, where the wolves brought back in 1995 hunt elk and bison in the snow. A hunter does not look for the fastest prey. It looks for a slower step. Through cinematic footage and educational storytelling, this documentary follows a lion pride that must hunt together or go hungry together. A lioness weighs around 280 pounds and a full grown African buffalo around 1,900, so when a herd bolts from a waterhole straight into the waiting pride, it takes the whole family to bring one down. At midday, a cheetah pushed into the hottest hours by lions and spotted hyenas chases an impala and gives up, and sensors on wild cheetahs in Namibia showed they stop to save energy, not because they overheat. Elephants dig wells in the dry riverbed that research in Ruaha and Kunene found far cleaner than the fouled pools, and a serval's oversized ears turn eighty one of every hundred pounces into a meal. What follows is the part most savannah films leave out. At dawn, a clan of spotted hyenas surrounds the pride over a single carcass and nobody wins. On the Grumeti, a giant Nile crocodile locks onto a buffalo's muzzle and the herd turns back to drive it off. Half a world away, a bull elk backs into a freezing Yellowstone river to hold off the pack, a red fox dives through the snow guided by Earth's magnetic field, and the wolves finally bring down a bison and a cow elk five times their weight, feeding ravens, bald eagles and coyotes through the winter. A hungry season does not measure a king by the times he wins. Epic Moments in This Documentary: A lioness wading through a muddy waterhole toward a buffalo herd A lion pride pulling down a 1,900 pound African buffalo in the shallows A cheetah chasing an impala through the midday heat of the Serengeti An elephant digging a clean water well in a dry riverbed A serval leaping straight up to pounce on prey it can only hear Lions and spotted hyenas facing off over a single carcass at dawn A Nile crocodile erupting from a Grumeti pool onto a buffalo A Yellowstone wolf pack bringing down a bison in deep snow ▶ Watch next: Apex Predators vs Prey | Herbivores and Carnivores → https://youtu.be/YG-JWOnvWwE 📺 Full series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZi86raOWGKI #natureanimaldocumentary #ourplanet #wildlifedocumentary #natgeo #planetearth #lions #naturesmoments