“While out monitoring lions, the staff stumbled upon a Black Mamba having an altercation with a Brown Snake Eagle,” wrote PaintedDog TV in a YouTube video caption. “The sighting took an surprising flip when the resident Lions arrived on the scene!” That’s proper, the staff at Rietspruit Game Reserve in South Africa witnessed a black mamba vs. an eagle vs. a lion. As if a black mamba vs. a lioness wouldn’t be attention-grabbing sufficient.
In a social media put up sharing a clip of the YouTube video, Painted Canine TV wrote: “A uncommon and harmful encounter—one in all Africa’s most formidable predators meets one in all its most feared serpents. Lions, although apex predators, aren’t resistant to the risks of the bush, and this lioness discovered that firsthand when she got here head to head with a black mamba. With lightning-fast reflexes, she swatted on the snake, seemingly startled by its sudden motion. However the mamba, recognized for its pace and lethal venom, didn’t again down simply, standing its floor in a tense standoff.”
The truth is, by the tip of the encounter there are a number of lions inquisitive about each the snake and the eagle, which is in some way nonetheless alive. This video is wild, and it’s one other instance of how, typically, fact is stranger than fiction. How do you assume this one ends?
Watch as a black mamba fights each an eagle and a lion right here:
And right here’s the lengthy model on YouTube: