Ultimate Predators: Kings of the Savannah | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary

Ultimate Predators: Kings of the Savannah | FULL EPISODE | Wildlife Documentary. On the burning sand of the Namib, a lone gemsbok lowers thirty three inches of horn and a whole lion pride cannot break through. Across four hours of chained chapters, the kings of the savannah are followed to the edge of their world and set against every other great hunter, to answer one question: is the largest predator the freest of all, or a prisoner of its own menu? Through cinematic footage and educational storytelling, the first hour crosses two continents. Desert lions of Namibia bring down a giraffe in the dry Hoanib riverbed and stay beside it for seven days through a sandstorm, while a pride on the Skeleton Coast holds a home range of 1,825 square miles, the largest ever recorded. Orphaned lionesses learn to hunt cormorants and Cape fur seals on the Atlantic shore, until 86 percent of their food comes from the sea. Then the smallest cat in Africa, the black footed cat, lands six pounces in ten while a lion lands one in seven. In the dry forest of Tadoba, a Bengal tiger with no pride to share the bill is exposed by langur alarm calls, a dhole pack takes its larder, and a sloth bear mother with a cub on her back charges a male tiger at a shrinking waterhole. 0:00 Is the Strongest Truly Free 0:45 Namib: a Gemsbok Holds Off the Pride 2:48 Thirty Three Inches of Horn 4:17 The Forty Seven Pound Line 6:14 The Prey Window 8:11 Desert Lions vs Giraffe 11:04 Seven Days Beside a Giraffe 11:42 Why Lions Live in Prides 13:11 The Largest Home Range Ever Recorded 15:38 Porcupines: Stooping Below the Line 16:18 Skeleton Coast: Orphaned Lions Hunt Seals 21:07 From Cormorant to Giraffe 22:30 The Black Footed Cat 25:15 Six Pounces in Ten 27:13 Tadoba: a King With No Pride 29:52 Langurs and Chital: the Two Tier Alarm 31:12 The Tiger Ambush That Failed 33:12 One Meal Every Eight Days 36:35 Dholes: the Pack on the Line 39:29 Dholes vs Tiger at the Carcass 42:15 The Sloth Bear: a Storehouse of Termites 47:35 Sloth Bear vs Tiger 49:14 The Mother Bear Charges 52:15 The Weight Scale From Bottom to Top 54:30 Freedom Is Measured in Ways to Eat 58:00 Kings of the Savannah: Lions vs Zebra 1:58:00 The Lion Pride on the Open Plain 2:58:00 Kings of the Savannah: Rivals at the Carcass Epic Moments in This Documentary: A lone gemsbok facing a whole lion pride without taking a single step back Desert lions bringing down a giraffe at dusk in the Hoanib riverbed A pride staying seven days beside one giraffe through a sandstorm Orphaned lionesses hunting sleeping cormorants on a foggy Atlantic beach Lions stalking a Cape fur seal colony on the Skeleton Coast A black footed cat landing pounce after pounce through one night Langur alarm calls exposing a Bengal tiger ambush at a waterhole A dhole pack running a relay chase through the monsoon forest Ten dholes standing their ground across a carcass from a tiger A sloth bear prying open a termite mound with three inch claws A mother sloth bear with her cub on her back charging a male tiger African lions hunting zebra on the open savannah in the chained chapters Behind the drama is a system. Above a line of about 47 pounds, every land predator must hunt prey as heavy as itself, so the bigger the body, the shorter the menu. A lion hunting alone in Etosha succeeds only 2.3 percent of the time against 27 percent for a pride, a tiger in Kanha needs ten to twenty ambushes for one meal, and the predators that escape the law are those that find prey gathered in a crowd: rodents in the grass, seals on the beach, termites in the mound. Lions and tigers are both listed as threatened, and the prey base of the northern Namib has fallen by up to 60 percent in a decade. This documentary contains raw, unfiltered footage of nature at its most intense. Viewer discretion is advised. All footage is captured in the wild with no interference to natural animal behavior. #NatureAnimalDocumentary #ourplanet #WildlifeDocumentary #AfricanSavanna #natgeo #planetearth #AfricanWildlife #naturesmoments