Wildlife documentaries are powerful and show that absolutely anything can happen in the animal kingdom.
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Footage from a BBC Earth documentary series called Dynasties shows a young male lion being surrounded by a pack of over 20 blood-thirsty hyenas.
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Red, the young lion, is fit and healthy and can take on a lot of the pack, but twenty is a lot and things start to not look so good.
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They bite and paw at him in an attempt to wear him down while he roars at them in an attempt to fend them off.
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“As they mature, young males begin to explore the boundaries of the pride’s territory.” – the narrator explains
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“Red has ventured out alone. And blundered straight into the middle of the hyena town.”
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“He’s trapped. By over 20 of them.”
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“The pack tries to wear him down. this number of hyenas could kill him.”
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“It’s impossible to fight them all at once. He can’t keep them at bay for much longer. He is tiring fast.”
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Watch the video of the thrilling fight to see what happens next:
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