Buffalo puts up epic fight against four Lions (photos)

Buffalo puts up epic fight against four Lions (photos)

Four Lions against one water Buffalo, what are the odds? A  simple straightforward battle you may think but this Buffalo had other  ideas, it wasn't going down without a fight. It took the Lions all of  ninety minutes to bring it down and even at that, the feisty Buffalo  left its mark on one Lion.

The entire brutal scene was captured by game reserve ranger Roan Ravenhill, 28, at the Mala Mala game reserve in South Africa. See more photos after the cut...

 

Mr Ravenhill, who was about 20 metres away for the entire  attack, said: 'There was a fight going on between the cape buffalo bull  and a pride of lions and we could see them leaping upon it. Suddenly we could see that a young male had managed to get  hooked by the buffalo's horn underneath his left front leg. He ended up  stuck there for a good 20 minutes. 

'After that time, he managed to get unhooked, but was limping for days afterwards we noticed. By a long way, it was the longest battle we have ever seen  between lions and a buffalo - it was hard to watch, but that is the  reality of nature.'

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