The Most Dangerous Lions of the Serengeti | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary

The Most Dangerous Lions of the Serengeti | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary The Most Dangerous Lions of the Serengeti | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary. In Serengeti National Park, more than thirty years of observation produced one rule: lions eat best around the new moon and go hungriest around the full. On a moonless night the pride becomes a perfect machine, each lioness holding her own position in the formation, and across four hours of chained chapters the African lion meets the one animal that fights back as a herd, the Cape buffalo, again and again on the open plain. But first, this documentary asks where the power of the king actually ends. An adult male lion averages 418 pounds, built to pin and to drag, with a heart only half a percent of its body mass. Hunting alone by daylight it succeeds fewer than one time in five. Put a granite kopje under its feet and a troop of baboons takes command of the summit. Put a tree above a leopard kill and the largest lioness slides back down the trunk with nothing. Through cinematic footage and educational storytelling, the film follows that question up the vertical arenas of the Earth: the cliffs of the Simien Mountains where a Verreaux eagle lives almost entirely on rock hyrax, the Himalaya where a snow leopard hunts blue sheep on ordinary blood and cannot roar, the Andes where an exiled puma brings down a guanaco three times her weight in Torres del Paine, the Rockies where no predator holds a throne and bighorn rams collide at forty miles an hour, and a cold northern channel where the largest deer alive meets an orca. Epic Moments in This Documentary: A lioness stopped cold on a granite kopje by a troop of baboons A leopard hauling an impala nearly its own weight up a tree while lions circle below A pride closing a zebra herd from two sides on a moonless Serengeti night A Verreaux eagle dropping out of the sun onto a hyrax colony A snow leopard riding a two hundred foot fall without releasing its grip on a blue sheep Two golden eagles fighting in a blizzard over a carcass killed by the cold A puma carried across a slope on the back of a bucking guanaco Two bighorn rams meeting at a combined forty miles an hour A moose swimming for its life ahead of a rising black dorsal fin A lion pride testing a Cape buffalo herd on the open plain A buffalo herd turning on the lionesses that singled out one of its own It is not claws that choose the king. The arena chooses the king. From a sea of grass to a wall of ice, every ultimate weapon becomes a burden the moment the ground changes, and a crown is only valid inside the arena that produced it. 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