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00:00 The most important survival skill the youngsters can learn is to hunt, and it's time for class.

00:08 The pride's favorite food is buffalo. The thousand-strong herd comes to the river most days to drink.

00:17 But each is half a ton of power, with lion-killing horns and hooves.

00:25 The elder sister, their teacher, selects a safer target for demonstration.

00:32 Hunting needs more work.

00:51 The three brothers are 18 months old and will be allowed to stay with the pride for maybe two years more, but then they'll be on their own.

01:01 Hippos retreat to the river by day, but come on land at night to graze.

01:11 Baby hippos are a regular meal, but adults are huge, much bigger than buffalo, with 12-inch long teeth and bad tempers.

01:22 This morning, the teenage gang has one trapped and is blocking its route back to the river.

01:31 Potential predator and potential prey fight a battle of wills.

01:35 The young lions try intimidation.

01:38 One of the young lions is trying to get the other one to come.

01:43 The young lion is trying to get the other one to come.

01:47 The young lion is trying to get the other one to come.

01:51 The young lion is trying to get the other one to come.

01:55 The young lion is trying to get the other one to come.

02:00 The young lions try intimidation, while the hippo slinks off round the back.

02:08 The chatter of brightly colored birds distracts the hungry teens.

02:12 A colony of car-mined hippos is on the move.

02:17 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:21 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:25 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:29 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:34 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:38 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:42 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:46 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:50 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:54 The young lions are on the hunt.

02:58 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:03 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:06 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:10 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:14 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:18 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:22 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:26 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:31 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:34 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:38 The young lions are on the hunt.

03:42 Lions are meant to be nocturnal, active at night.

03:48 But they're teenagers.

03:52 Lions are meant to be nocturnal, active at night.

03:56 But they're teenagers.

04:01 The hippos are braving the land to feed.

04:05 They graze and eat fallen fruit through the night.

04:14 For hungry lions, three tons of slow-moving meat is just asking for trouble.

04:23 This time, if they work together, so many lions should be able to take on one hippo.

04:31 Yet the hippo is more intimidating than they are.

04:37 The hippo's sheer bulk is their protection,

04:46 as are their massive teeth, trampling feet, and belligerent courage.

04:53 Teenage lions have attitude too, and they spar with the hippos, like matadors with bulls.

05:01 For the lions, it's part game and part lesson.

05:07 Experienced lions rarely hunt adult hippos.

05:13 They're too dangerous, but the teenagers keep trying.

05:19 They'll eventually learn to look for calves or injured adults, which are easier prey.

05:25 After taunting the hippos, the big sister leads the class inland.

05:32 Hunting antelope requires specialist teamwork, and they practice most nights.

05:42 They spread out.

05:44 The idea is to drive an impala or a puku into an ambush.

05:50 Antelope are faster than lions, and they work together too, alarm calling.

05:58 It's time for the teens to test their strategy.

06:05 Lions assign themselves different jobs in the hunt. Some become wingers, left or right. Others, part of the charge or the ambush.

06:15 Once a lion learns its job, it'll eventually fulfill that role in each hunt for the rest of its life.

06:25 These teenagers are working out what their jobs are.

06:29 The three brothers coordinate well, but they've not caught anything yet.

06:36 The lion is a little bit more aggressive.

06:43 He's a little bit more aggressive, but he's not afraid of the lion.

06:50 He's not afraid of the lion, but he's not afraid of anything yet.

06:55 The elder sister drives a puku straight towards them.

07:17 Behind the younger brother, there's one of the cubs, lost and alone.

07:24 The younger brother is a little bit more aggressive.

07:28 He's a little bit more aggressive, but he's not afraid of the lion.

07:34 He's a little bit more aggressive, but he's not afraid of anything yet.

07:40 The younger brother is a little bit more aggressive, but he's not afraid of anything yet.

07:48 The cubs are terrified. There are leopards and hyenas around, and he lutches onto the teenagers.

07:54 They stop hunting. The rest of the pride can't be far away.

08:14 But the cubs' older siblings may not give him the safety he seeks.

08:20 Teenagers play rough. There's still resentment towards the cubs.

08:27 Jealousies within a family are normal.

08:32 Before the cubs came along, life was better.

08:37 And now they wait at the door to see if the lion will come.

08:43 Now they wait at the back of the queue.

08:46 Adolescents have many conflicting instincts.

08:52 They recognize their little brother. He's one of the family.

08:56 But lion males are cub killers, an instinct needed for when they take over a pride.

09:03 [music]

09:06 Just as the game looks like being the cubs' last, his mother appears.

09:26 [music]

09:53 The teenagers want their plaything back.

09:58 [music]

10:23 The cub is battered, confused, and lucky to be alive.

10:48 Reprimanded, the adolescent gang heads back to the pride.

10:54 [music]

10:57 [music]

11:00 (upbeat music)

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Teenage Lions Hippo Hunt Gone Wrong Love Nature

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