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The circle of life: A baboon feeds her baby, while buffaloes mourn their dead

2019-07-28 7 Dailymotion

Touching scenes as a baboon feeds her newborn and grooms a young male, while buffaloes gather around the carcass of a comrade killed by lions.<br /><br />The Chacma baboons (papio ursinus) -- the largest non-human primates in Southern Africa -- were filmed in a huge Nyala Tree on the bank of the Mphongolo River in Kruger National Park in South Africa.<br /><br />The African or Cape buffaloes (syncerus caffer) were also filmed in the park, off the H1-7 road, 6.5km north of Babalala Picnic Spot.<br /><br />The beasts waited around the corpse of their comrade for about 15 minutes, sniffing at its body and appearing mournful.<br /><br />The dead buffalo was killed by a pride of nine lions. Buffalo are also capable of killing lions.

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