WILD ETOSHA | The Last Waterhole Where Everyone Must Drink | Wildlife Documentary

A young lioness lies flat in the dark while a herd bends to the water. In Etosha, Namibia, when the rains are gone, every animal must come to the same few pools. So who dares to drink, and who is eaten? Follow five standoffs at the waterholes of Etosha National Park: a lioness ambushing a herd at night, a cheetah racing antelope across the open plain, a spotted hyena clan facing lions at a kill, a black rhino and an elephant contesting the same pool, and gemsbok horns clashing in the dust. Along the way: why the vast white salt pan gave the park its name, why a springbok can go without drinking, what a study of 486 coordinated lion hunts revealed, and what recent GPS collars say about lions and hyenas. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Last Pool 1:19 The Great White Place 2:55 First Hunt: The Ambush 6:14 Second Hunt: The Race 8:42 Third Fight: The Clan and the Lion 11:18 Fourth Fight: The Giants 13:29 Fifth Fight: The Horns 14:50 Who Drinks? SOURCES Etosha National Park overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etosha_Natio... Etosha Pan and the name "Great White Place": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etosha_Pan Namibia Ministry of Environment, Etosha National Park: https://www.meft.gov.na/national-parks/eto... Africa Geographic, Etosha: https://africageographic.com/stories/etosha/ Waterhole visitors and timing, Okaukuejo and Moringa (University of Namibia): https://repository.unam.edu.na/items/5a7bf... 486 coordinated lion hunts (Stander 1992, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology): https://link.springer.com/doi/10.1007/BF00... Etosha lions, nocturnal hunting: https://conservationnamibia.com/blog/etosh... Cheetah speed and hunts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheetah Springbok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springbok Spotted hyena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_hyena Lions and hyenas tracked by GPS for four years: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/experts-... Black rhinoceros: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rhinoc... Elephant population in Etosha (African Elephant Database): https://africanelephantdatabase.org/popula... Gemsbok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemsbok Hunting scenes are illustrative; animal characters are composites, not individual animals. Footage: licensed stock (Envato Elements). Music: original score by the channel. Narration voice: AI (ElevenLabs). The Hunted Earth follows Africa's predators and the prey that lives under their shadow. New wildlife documentary every Wednesday and Saturday. #wildlife #documentary #etosha #namibia #africanwildlife