Big Lion Breaks Spine Of Youngster | Explanation | Maasai Mara/Zebra Plains

hi everybody unwrap the Ranger and welcome to my channel before we get started this video does contain scenes that may cause distress to some viewers so if you are one of those viewers - please don't go any further there's a link somewhere on top above my head where you can go watch something you can cuddly instead alright so a week ago I shared this video that you're gonna see on social media there's one young lion getting attacked though much bigger lion we're gonna go straight into that video and then afterwards we'll discuss and give it a little bit more context about so no particularly nice sighting to see interesting yes a bit of excitement yes but unpleasant with the ending and when watched without any context it seems fairly unnecessary as well so what we're gonna do is kind of break it down give it a bit more context and understand why and how the situation came about let me start by adding some context to the situation the lionesses and youngsters in the video the topi primers sometimes known as a minor Ridge pride they are afraid that earlier of 2018 I lost one of their dominant males complications of old age and the second male that was with them then left the area due to the pressure put on by younger stronger coalition the two males in the video are two of that younger stronger tarnishing the billa shaker males they are six males in total and they are currently taking over the pride of the topi pride that is seen in the video so as these builders shaker males came into contact with the tofu pride obviously there was no resistance as the males had gone the youngsters of the pride that was signed by the previous males were of varying ages and quite a few of the older sub-adults moved off and formed a little splinter group which we can see here some of the remaining sub adults were females which the males seem to accept as potential breeding stock and two of the very much younger males that were part of the pride stayed around where their mother was one of those has not been seen for a few months and the other one is the one featured in the video so generally the young male here had been staying out of the way of the big males only joining their females to feed when the big males weren't around what seems to be the situation here is that the lionesses had made the kill and the extra joined them to eat and the males have been turned that taken over the kill now to start with the females were around the youngster the males were concentrating on feeding so he was still safe why they didn't move him away at that time we don't know so when I started filming this situation was the lioness of some scattered around everywhere one big guy on the kill and second male lying in the long grass with one of the females at that point that didn't seem to be any undue aggression going on obviously the male one that kills the bit grumpy defending it from the others wanted it also himself and just gonna be a nice sighting of a lion eating after a while the second male suddenly got up and started stalking around and you can see here that the young South adult male had put his head up in the grass I think it was at that point they realized that it was a seventh man rather than one of the other younger lionesses he went stalking around and you see the female the mother getting up throwing to distract the second males attention which left the younger male on his own unattended and as the male moved around the tree the younger male obviously moved a little bit too close to the male who was feeding and so now the young male is in basically double trouble too close to the now that's feeding wants to defend the carcass but also not being the son of either of the males that are there and they will want to take him out in order to bring his mother back into Easter so they can produce their own cups so the opportunity suddenly presented it's on the carcass and he goes in for the attack as we see so we see the attack won't slow down a little bit here that's a bite shaking a drag and then release the other words fairly quick but very very efficient typically when lions are going after rivals they do go for the spine for the back like that it is a weak spot and with a gun demanding this happened looking at the aftermath is that either one of the teeth has gone straight through the spinal cord and severed it or that dragon shake has snapped the spine again just to reiterate the reasoning behind what happened that young male had gotten too close to the male gotten the opportunity first to defend the kill but also to take out the youngster whose mother was spending time looking after him and therefore not mating with the males the youngster being the son of the previous dominant males not being yes I think we're fairly clear now while into the wild leave the young male like that why did the big male not finish him off there was a question I saw a lot when the video was first posted on social media the simple fact is there the big man has done his job he doesn't need to do anything more the the threats eliminated the young male is it completely immobilized he's not going to carry on it doesn't need to waste any more energy on that young male when he's got other things to think about I will move on to the what happened next the original video just shows the unveil dragging his broken body away there was quite a big time gap between the attack and that particular image and we'll see some of what was going on here now a lot of people in are the vets gonna town and so on and so on and yes the vets were called but not immediately they attack happening so quickly and when you look at the mail there's very little blood we weren't sure how much injury there was so we stayed and we watched and waited we weren't sure initially it was just saw or if there was something worse off obviously he was lying there looking sorry for himself we couldn't see a lot of moving because there wasn't a lot of movement the lioness next to him with her tail flicking gave some hope because we weren't sure if it was his tail or her tail eventually she moved away and we could see and he tried to roll over and it was very noticeable that there was something wrong with the back end of his body and then when he eventually sat up in the back was at the funny angle then the vets were called now obviously the veterinary dream has a very large area to cover they didn't come immediately because even if they did leave immediately if the cork would still possibly take a couple of hours to get there so we weren't there when they actually arrived but they would have come they wouldn't have been able to fix him at all and that sort of injury it's not fixable even in a hospital let alone after the bush what they would have done this by the evening the mail was gone and the pride carried on that's just an unfortunate effector of an airline takeover when they do take over reprise subs especially the sub males are gonna be the ones that are targeted the females back into Easter so hopefully this has bought a little bit more light to the situation giving you guys that are watching a little bit more understanding as to what and why happened there hopefully I didn't ruffle on too much for you it's served a good insight as to what happens during a takeover it's a good insight as to why only one in six young males do make it to adulthood and why a pride prefers having a stronger coalition being in control because there's less chance of a takeover whilst they're raising cups anyway that's all we've got on this subject so see you next time comment down below buy a t-shirt ding the notification bell all those YouTube things see you next so here's a couple of links to more videos on my channel that you might want to check out also social networks you can follow me there for live updates pictures etc from Safari