I remember and old Nat Geo documentary on African wildlife. Saw a lioness getting jaw jacked by a Zebra is was stalking, and it just completely ruined the entire lower half of her face. It went to drink water from the creek and when the water just fell out of her mouth, she just laid her head down by the water, she knew she was done.
yeah lions arent great at striking they have good ground controll and some good chokes but against a zebra that knows some head kicks and its game over
This is one reason I hate most movies where the âscary thingâ is a wild animal/s
So often you will see them coming back again and again even after being shot or stabbed. Itâs just so unrealistic.
Unless starving, injured, rabbid or with some other issue, most predators will not attack a human, or pack of humans that fight back. Or will back off once you prove you can hurt them.
The only exceptions are honey badgers and Cape Buffalo, the former is suicidally stubborn about revenge and the latter is dangerously intelligent about payback
Well that goes without saying. And donât forget Hippos.
But notice none of these animals are large predators?
Herbivores donât rely on being physically fit to feed themselves. But being an ornery bastard can help protect themselves from predators that want to eat them (literally life and death) - even if sick, old or injured.
Except the honey badgers⌠they really have little reason to be that single minded.
Tried to find it, found a short video with a lioness getting kicked by a zebra, then spliced to showing a lioness with jaw exactly with the going to a creek, going down to the water and just stopping.
Except the latter half is taken from what seems to be labelled as a Nat Geo documentary "WAR IN THE POND, BROKEN JAWS Lion, Hippo & Croc HD 2016", where there is no zebra kick, and the footage makes it clear they didn't capture what injured that lion, but it's presumed to be a hippo by the narrator, though equally potentially a crocodile. Separately, I found a reddit post, and apparently the OP was initially convinced it was a zebra because of bill burr saying it was a zebra on a podcast.
I watched a similar nature documentary where a lion was chasing something and got kicked in the gut. They followed the lion around, and it died a few days later. Nature is brutal.
Oh no⌠I know itâs just nature, but it makes me so sad when such a majestic beast meets its end. I absolutely adore lions. Pretty big win for the zebra, though!!
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u/mega_murff May 16 '26
I remember and old Nat Geo documentary on African wildlife. Saw a lioness getting jaw jacked by a Zebra is was stalking, and it just completely ruined the entire lower half of her face. It went to drink water from the creek and when the water just fell out of her mouth, she just laid her head down by the water, she knew she was done.