
Relentless Enemies
- Year:
- 2006
- 90 min
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There are predators
and there are prey.
And then, there are enemies.
From ancient times,
Africa has been the place
where huge cats ruled the flooded forests
and swamps of prehistory.
It was a violent time,
when the nightmare of massive predators
stalked the land and nothing was safe.
Well, those nightmares are back.
There is an unusual pride of lions
stalking these swamps.
Cats that live in water and hunt a single herd
of Cape buffalo.
Evolution favors predators
that can hunt a range of prey,
but these lions are defying that trend
by becoming specialists,
relentless hunters of this one prey.
The explosive sky spitting fire
from the heavens
is an unsettling prelude to the battle ahead.
When two old adversaries
come head to head,
the conflict is a war of wills.
The outcome will hang in the balance.
There is an island in Africa,
a place where the ghostly shapes
of over 1 ,000 buffalo
drift over the domain
of the resident pride of lions.
The Tsaro pride are buffalo hunters,
made up of nine lionesses of enormous bulk.
Thick necks and heavy chests define them,
features that serve them well
for this unique hunting.
Amongst them, a silver-eyed female,
possibly blinded in combat with the buffalo.
She carries her battle scars well
and leads many of the hunts.
The heaviest set is a skew-eared female.
And the twins.
Two identical lionesses that often give birth
to cubs at the same time
and always hunt together.
Then there is the large older female,
a good huntress,
but there is something different about her.
She sits off to the side,
watching the pride, always distant.
The skew-horned buffalo bull
is the herd's pathfinder,
and he has led it around
the Tsaro territory for years.
He is a survivor
There is a magical moment
in any hunt, each time,
just one first moment,
a time somewhere between the initial
stalking approach of individual lions
and the coordinated run-in of a unified pride.
At that moment, the decision is made,
"We will attack, and we will attack together."
There is no fight like the fight for survival
and for the life of your offspring.
But these lions will not accept failure.
A charging buffalo doesn't strike fear
in their hearts.
It spurs them into a deadly game
of attack and counterattack,
thrust and parry, a relentless duel.
This hunt is far from over.
Blood has been tasted,
and like some invisible thread,
it will lead them back
to the injured calf time and time again,
For this is an island surrounded
by an intricate web of thick papyrus swamps
and deep water to the south and west.
The buffalo are unable
to cross the fast-flowing
and crocodile-infested rivers.
And to the north,
deep channels carved out by hippos
make it difficult for the herd
to swim to safety in that direction.
There is no escape for the buffalo.
When they do wade into the maze
of channels that ring fence Duba Island,
they get entangled, confused,
and ultimately are forced to return
to the waiting lions.
So, what to us may seem a watery paradise
is for the buffalo a deadly confinement,
shrinking during the seasonal floods
before drying out to a faded savanna,
where two great warriors rule,
They are masters of all on this island,
in particular the buffalo,
seldom let out of their sight.
There is a significant
new addition to the pride.
Growing up against this backdrop of buffalo,
he needs to be nimble
and confident on his feet
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