We could just do a pet blog this summer, especially since they are cleaning up the Tour de France, and that's no fun without the drug addled superstars.

Or I could leave the house in the summer:



(from married to the sea)

Or watch nature fights on youtube (most likely scenario):



stupid stupid cheetahs.

- L.M. 5-24-2007 2:47 am

They must have hit that buffalo pretty hard for the air bag to have gone off like that.
- rob (guest) 5-24-2007 3:28 am

This is a cool one I saw today on presurfer:



mean mean lions!
poor little buffalo calf!
crocodiles WTF?
hurry up and do something herd of buffalo!
- L.M. 5-24-2007 3:59 am

holy shite. HOax! it's not a hoax. That's the best nature footage I ever saw. I always cheer for the lions. Wild Kingdom drilled it into me.
- sally mckay 5-24-2007 5:06 am

i always felt a little like the ox, you know big and wandering and kind of stupid, and prone to be eaten by the fast guys. when i was a kid, i cried at mutual of ohama docs, because of that
- anthony (guest) 5-24-2007 6:22 am

Wow, you find pain and humiliation in the weirdest places.

You don't have to be an indecisive ox or a mean lion, you can be a WTF Crocodile.

(We should do an advice blog for the summer)
- L.M. 5-24-2007 6:37 am

Why is there no Real Time Strategy game based on this? Build more Buffalo! Build more Buffalo! Cloak your gator! AARG tourists! who's invested in flight?
- joester 5-24-2007 9:05 am

Ideal scenario: buffalo charge across the Savannah and flatten the eco-tourists; lions and crocs snack on the remains.

Nice jumbo interspecies GIFs at the top of the page.
- tom moody 5-24-2007 5:30 pm

Thanks Tom.

Those eco-tourists crack me up. Like, why did they start their engine? "Oooh, this is getting exciting, let's turn on the car." As with all nature footage from Disney to Steve Irwin and including the now-infamous otters-holding-hands home video, the embarrassing dorky human voice-over is an integral and essential narrative element. After all, those lions and buffalos and crocodiles ain't gonna video-tape themselves!
- sally mckay 5-24-2007 8:25 pm

To be fair, I think if I were there I'd want the car idling. What if the baby buffalo decides to try and hide in the back of the jeep?
- joester 5-25-2007 7:46 am

he'd have to swim across a pond full of crocodiles to get there!
- sally mckay 5-25-2007 8:06 am

Dude just survived being chewed on by several lions, you think a little swim it going to deter him? might be just the thing he needs to clear his head.
- joester 5-25-2007 10:54 pm

If baby buffalo did make it to the jeep, I would take it home as a pet.
- L.M. 5-25-2007 11:00 pm

I wonder if these creatures all knew in some Heisenbergian sense that they were being filmed, and therefore performed harder for the camera? (Three Way Interspecies Tussle! Who will win? You will shriek with terror!) Psychedelic thought of the day.
- tom moody 5-25-2007 11:16 pm

I wondered that too. I definitely believe the holding-hands-otters were messing with our heads on purpose.
- sally mckay 5-25-2007 11:23 pm

The otters want me to own them.
- L.M. 5-25-2007 11:24 pm

I think they groove on the audio of high pitched human squeals. I saw some otters in captivity recently and they were teasing us, popping up right under our feet and then doing a little otter-LOL-dance when we jumped.
- sally mckay 5-25-2007 11:33 pm

Wow, I finally watched that. If you're bothered by the dorky narration, it can always be set to music.
- rob (guest) 5-26-2007 3:26 am