Greatest Animal Fight Ever Witnessed in Nature

The Romans had a great civilization, but their concept of sport and entertainment was bloodthirsty and extremely callous by modern standards. They made men fight with other men to the death as gladiators; they also sometimes arranged interspecies fights on a large scale between men and animals as well as between different animals as a sanguinary spectacle.

In this day and age, we have remnants of ancient practices that are considered legal, for example in professional boxing, bullfighting and Afghan polo known as Buzkashi, where ferocious cavalrymen fight over the carcass of a calf. Unfortunately, illegal practices such as dog fighting, bearbaiting, and cockfighting still flourish in different parts of the world.

The modern ethic frowns upon cruel practices that are organized by man. But same ethic does not permit tourists and photographers to intervene if they witness an attack by a predator against another wild animal.

About a year back a group of tourists at Kruger National Park witnessed and filmed a most remarkable animal fight, a tripartite war on land and water between buffaloes, lions and for a brief period crocodiles.

The photographer of this remarkable video is an amateur who used his video camera on rare occasions. The world is fortunate that he was able to capture a spectacle that far more accomplished professional wildlife photographers would have risked everything to match. Millions of people have seen and enjoyed this video footage from start to finish.