Buffalo saves the calf from lion - Nepal Travel Book

Monday, March 2, 2015

Buffalo saves the calf from lion

Buffalo saves the calf from lion
Lions are big cats known as the “King of the Jungle. They are found in Africa and India where they sit at the top of the food chain. African lions – The scientific name for the lions in Africa is Panthera leo. There are lions located throughout much of the middle and southern portions of the African savanna. Asiatic or Indian lions – The scientific name for the lions in India is Panthera leo persica. These lions are only found in the Gir Forest of Gujarat, India. These lions are endangered as there are only around 400 left living in the wild.
Unlike other cats, lions are very social animals. They live in groups, called prides, of around 30 lions. A pride consists of up to three males, a dozen related females, and their young. The size of the pride is determined by the availability of food and water. If resources are scarce, the pride becomes smaller. Beside these, lion is very dangerous animal but it scares with others animals.

When most Americans hear the word buffalo, they probably think of the American bison. In fact, buffalo originally referred to the water buffalo (an animal that was introduced to Western Europe from Asia in late antiquity) and other large bovid animalsof Eurasia and Africa. The history of buffalo begins with the Greek word boubalos, “antelope.” The Romans borrowed this word asbūbalus, “antelope.” In his work on natural history, however, the Roman author Pliny the Elder notes that the common people usedbūbalus to refer to the urus, the huge wild ox (now extinct) that once roamed northern Europe, and Pliny considered this to be a mistake.

In the video you can look that buffaloes saves the calf from lions. Lion attacked calf but buffalo saves calf from mouth of lion. Here, in the video you can look that there brave buffalo charged three loins after they grabbed a young calf from herd. The hungry lions crept up on the buffalo and calf in north-west Tanzania, East Africa, causing them to disperse in a terrifying 90-second ordeal. We can understand that unity is strength. When many lions attacked one calf many buffaloes came there to save the calf. Due to the wider impressive horns buffaloes capable to save calf.