Foolishly aттacĸιng a wild buffalo, the lion was gored repeaтedly ιn the stomach.

𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑝, 3 𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑚𝑝. 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 “𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘”, 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 2 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 3 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜.

𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 “𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑” 𝑏𝑦 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒, 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜, 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜, 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑑, 𝑟ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡.

𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ, 𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝 𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑦, 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑡.

𝐼𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎. 𝐼𝑓 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑗𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑒.