If you're like me, you're the kind of person who either a) never sees wild shit happening in the world or b) sees wild shit and never thinks to pull out a video recording device to capture it for prosperity. This couple on safari in South Africa are not like me (or you, if you're like me), and pulled out a camera to cover the natural savagery that was a crocodile trying to drag a wildebeest into the water. Not for a play date, mind you; it was hungry.
NOTE: This footage might work with Ennio Morricone's "L'Ultima Diligenza di Red Rock (Versione Integrale)" from The Hateful Eight playing underneath it.
I know, that looks terrifying, right? I mean this crocodile is fully clamped onto the wildebeest's leg, and it can't escape at all. It makes me wonder about what I'd do. How much would I fight if a crocodile was on my foot? Would I be willing to Saw myself to break free? For a while, it looked like Willy the Wildebeest (yes, I had to name him) was fighting for his actual life.
Sadly, the wildebeest didn't have much it could do, and Willy seemed resigned to the fact that it was going to be crocodile excrement in the near future.
Now it's not said what prompted this dynamic pair of hippos to roll through this area of the water, but somehow they rolled through and threw the fear of Mufasa into this crocodile.
The croc must not have had any choice, letting Willy go, although you can see that the hoof that was in the crocodile's mouth appears to be all kinds of fucked up.
This story truly ends one of two ways: either Willy's back hoof heals and he's able to live the rest of his wildebeest life like a normal wildebeest. Or ganggrene or something sets in, he ends up not being able to move, and Mufasa really comes through and has Willy for lunch/dinner/second dinner.
Oh stop crying; this is real life. Survival of the fittest and all. Didn't you listen to The Infamous?
