The Lions Wrote Off the Old Buffalo. He Fought Back | WILD OKAVANGO

In the Okavango Delta the flood arrives in the dry winter, and an old buffalo bull called Kago has to find his way through it. A herd that votes before it moves, a flood that breaks the plains into islands, lions that hunt by day and swim between the islands, a night attack in the dry grass, and a long road back to the edge of the herd. Kago and Tiro are composite characters. Their story is built from documented African buffalo and lion behaviour in the Okavango Delta, not from the life of one animal. The facts come from published research: herd voting (Prins, 1996); male lions taking buffalo more often than females in Kruger (Funston et al., 1998); oxpeckers keeping wounds open (Weeks, 1999/2000); buffalo status on the IUCN Red List: Near Threatened, about 400,000 mature individuals (2019 assessment). Footage: licensed stock video (Canva Pro). No AI-generated footage. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:44 The Delta 1:52 The Old Bull 3:59 The Herd 4:53 The Afternoon 6:23 The Vote 8:40 The Dagga Boys 10:48 The Flood 13:44 The Lions of the Islands 15:15 The Second Night 16:55 The Call 18:49 The Loss 20:47 Alone at the Last Pool 22:35 The Vampire Birds 24:22 The Night 26:31 The Morning 27:31 The Rains 30:16 The Edge of the Herd 30:58 Outro Subscribe for more true stories from the wild