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WEBVTT - https://subtitletools.com 00:01:22.832 --> 00:01:27.242 The night skies were once filled with stars. 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:35.094 Today our own lights eclipse the darkness 00:01:35.095 --> 00:01:38.085 and spread steadily each day. 00:01:41.726 --> 00:01:47.106 Slowly, the dark places in Africa become the last refuge 00:01:47.107 --> 00:01:52.017 for one of our planet's most iconic animals. 00:01:59.744 --> 00:02:06.166 Fifty years ago 450,000 lions lived here. 00:02:06.167 --> 00:02:10.617 And today there may be as few as 20,000. 00:02:13.508 --> 00:02:16.969 And yet, in these remote places, 00:02:16.970 --> 00:02:21.670 some of the most dramatic stories on Earth are played out. 00:02:24.644 --> 00:02:27.646 They are harsh, sometimes violent, 00:02:27.647 --> 00:02:32.097 never malicious, and always real. 00:02:35.196 --> 00:02:37.197 This is a story 00:02:37.198 --> 00:02:42.148 of some of the last wild lions on Earth. 00:03:03.349 --> 00:03:06.518 Here in a small pocket of this darkness, 00:03:06.519 --> 00:03:09.021 our story begins. 00:03:09.022 --> 00:03:14.562 It is an old saga of life lived by tooth and claw. 00:03:20.366 --> 00:03:23.856 A lioness in perfect condition. 00:03:41.763 --> 00:03:45.724 It's unusual for a lioness to be without a pride, 00:03:45.725 --> 00:03:48.393 but she's not alone. 00:03:48.394 --> 00:03:50.896 She has a mate - 00:03:50.897 --> 00:03:53.315 her companion and protector, 00:03:53.316 --> 00:03:55.943 and the father of her cubs. 00:03:55.944 --> 00:03:58.737 The beginnings of a new pride 00:03:58.738 --> 00:04:04.228 for this unspoiled land deep in Botswana. 00:04:23.429 --> 00:04:27.009 Tonight the bush is uneasy. 00:04:55.795 --> 00:04:58.130 The distant calls they've been hearing 00:04:58.131 --> 00:05:00.966 for some time are getting closer. 00:05:00.967 --> 00:05:02.968 It puts them on edge. 00:05:02.969 --> 00:05:06.959 Invaders! And they suddenly materialize. 00:05:12.103 --> 00:05:14.354 Lions from the north, 00:05:14.355 --> 00:05:18.515 forced here by the relentless encroachment of man. 00:05:22.697 --> 00:05:26.658 They're ready to risk everything to win new territory. 00:05:26.659 --> 00:05:30.859 Her male has no choice but to fight. 00:05:35.418 --> 00:05:39.998 It's a battle that could change the bloodlines here forever. 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.956 The invaders with a clear determination 00:06:14.957 --> 00:06:18.117 to win and to stay. 00:07:19.856 --> 00:07:23.108 When she finally emerges from hiding, 00:07:23.109 --> 00:07:26.319 her shoulder almost healed, 00:07:26.320 --> 00:07:29.150 she is ready to pick up her life. 00:07:30.116 --> 00:07:33.936 She starts by trying to find her mate. 00:07:39.625 --> 00:07:42.485 Every sound makes her freeze. 00:07:44.255 --> 00:07:48.495 Every breath of air brings unfamiliar scents. 00:08:12.867 --> 00:08:15.160 Until she finds him, 00:08:15.161 --> 00:08:18.701 she is a fugitive in her own land. 00:09:01.374 --> 00:09:04.534 By now her mate has had weeks to recover. 00:09:10.216 --> 00:09:13.126 He should be answering her calls. 00:09:45.793 --> 00:09:49.083 His wounds are too severe. 00:09:50.047 --> 00:09:52.207 His spirit has gone out of him. 00:09:53.676 --> 00:09:59.376 He has become old, damaged, broken. 00:10:12.612 --> 00:10:15.071 His reign is over. 00:10:15.072 --> 00:10:17.152 There are new rulers now. 00:10:21.412 --> 00:10:23.204 To survive here, 00:10:23.205 --> 00:10:26.791 she will have to submit to these new masters. 00:10:26.792 --> 00:10:30.128 But until the newcomers detect her presence, 00:10:30.129 --> 00:10:32.499 she still has a choice. 00:10:35.926 --> 00:10:39.626 The swirling air carries a hint of her unfamiliar scent. 00:10:41.057 --> 00:10:43.837 The hunt begins. 00:10:58.949 --> 00:11:01.451 She decides to leave... 00:11:01.452 --> 00:11:03.782 to leave immediately. 00:11:08.084 --> 00:11:10.418 For she has a secret - 00:11:10.419 --> 00:11:14.381 all that is left from her old life... 00:11:14.382 --> 00:11:17.082 A secret that must be protected. 00:11:23.265 --> 00:11:26.226 This will be her life now... 00:11:26.227 --> 00:11:29.387 To secure the survival of her cubs. 00:11:36.487 --> 00:11:40.977 With the males behind her, back-tracking is impossible. 00:11:46.706 --> 00:11:49.332 The females of the marauding pride, 00:11:49.333 --> 00:11:51.743 blocking her escape to the west. 00:12:11.230 --> 00:12:13.898 The leader will remember the violent night they last met 00:12:13.899 --> 00:12:17.059 as vividly as she does. 00:12:20.906 --> 00:12:23.533 The night she was left battered and bitten, 00:12:23.534 --> 00:12:26.074 bleeding to death... 00:12:27.913 --> 00:12:30.582 But she, in turn, left the largest of them 00:12:30.583 --> 00:12:33.203 with one eye blinded for life. 00:12:44.930 --> 00:12:48.099 It's a wound the silver-eyed leader of the pride 00:12:48.100 --> 00:12:49.970 will never forget. 00:12:54.565 --> 00:12:57.305 They can smell her tracks. 00:13:15.920 --> 00:13:19.540 The storm ignites the bush and she is trapped. 00:13:22.802 --> 00:13:25.220 Now she must choose: 00:13:25.221 --> 00:13:28.181 north towards the villages and people, 00:13:28.182 --> 00:13:30.600 or south along the fireline 00:13:30.601 --> 00:13:35.021 to an even more daunting obstacle for her... 00:13:35.022 --> 00:13:37.142 The swollen river. 00:13:40.820 --> 00:13:44.864 In this part ofAfrica, a mother is named 00:13:44.865 --> 00:13:48.735 after her first-born as its protector. 00:13:59.380 --> 00:14:03.466 He was always just a little smaller than the other two, 00:14:03.467 --> 00:14:08.297 slower, prone to getting lost. 00:14:41.672 --> 00:14:45.466 Today Ma di Tau, Mother of lions, 00:14:45.467 --> 00:14:48.747 earns her name as protector of her young. 00:15:02.568 --> 00:15:04.027 As the smallest, 00:15:04.028 --> 00:15:08.156 he must get used to being constantly bullied. 00:15:08.157 --> 00:15:12.607 It will either build him up, or wear him out. 00:15:21.045 --> 00:15:25.298 Ma di Tau knows the pride will be coming after her, 00:15:25.299 --> 00:15:28.301 but what lies ahead is terrifying. 00:15:28.302 --> 00:15:32.138 Lions detest deep, open water. 00:15:32.139 --> 00:15:36.179 It hides things that seem unnatural to them. 00:15:40.439 --> 00:15:43.599 But the options behind are worse. 00:15:50.199 --> 00:15:54.994 If she stays to fight, the male lions will kill her cubs. 00:15:54.995 --> 00:15:57.205 It's their instinct to wipe the face of the Earth 00:15:57.206 --> 00:15:59.776 clean of the old male's genes. 00:16:01.794 --> 00:16:04.664 She must make her decision now. 00:16:16.016 --> 00:16:19.143 The male cub doesn't hesitate this time. 00:16:19.144 --> 00:16:21.554 He knows to stay close. 00:16:25.025 --> 00:16:28.685 His sister wades in more cautiously. 00:16:30.322 --> 00:16:35.532 But the third cub holds back, scared of the water. 00:17:49.568 --> 00:17:52.737 By the time the third cub plucks up enough courage, 00:17:52.738 --> 00:17:56.449 she's become an easy target... 00:17:56.450 --> 00:18:00.610 both on the land and in the water. 00:18:35.197 --> 00:18:39.200 The males turn back into their newly won territory, 00:18:39.201 --> 00:18:44.281 satisfied that she and her cubs have been expelled forever. 00:18:51.964 --> 00:18:55.633 The silence is a condemnation. 00:18:55.634 --> 00:18:57.760 Ma di Tau, the protector, 00:18:57.761 --> 00:19:00.501 has failed for the first time as a mother. 00:19:02.683 --> 00:19:07.145 As she turns away, she is turning her back on her past, 00:19:07.146 --> 00:19:11.274 on the pride that was so desperate to be rid of her. 00:19:11.275 --> 00:19:14.986 And she steps forward into an uncertain future 00:19:14.987 --> 00:19:20.147 with her two surviving cubs: the little male and his sister. 00:19:25.831 --> 00:19:29.741 The battle for the territory has been decided. 00:19:32.838 --> 00:19:35.006 Ma di Tau and her cubs have escaped 00:19:35.007 --> 00:19:38.467 to an almost deserted island in the swamp, 00:19:38.468 --> 00:19:42.889 the only lions on this vast, isolated wilderness called Duba, 00:19:42.890 --> 00:19:45.510 in the middle of the Okavango delta. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.691 Here the land is plagued by seasonal floods 00:19:53.692 --> 00:19:56.527 and rivers that weave through it. 00:19:56.528 --> 00:20:01.268 If it is a refuge for them, it will be a wet one. 00:20:10.709 --> 00:20:13.544 A few weeks have passed. 00:20:13.545 --> 00:20:15.379 Food has been scarce, 00:20:15.380 --> 00:20:18.925 but there are still no signs of other lions, 00:20:18.926 --> 00:20:21.876 and they are starting to feel safe at last. 00:20:23.722 --> 00:20:26.724 The smaller cub has gained a renewed confidence 00:20:26.725 --> 00:20:30.005 by being one ofjust two cubs now. 00:20:31.772 --> 00:20:34.565 In his heart he is a hunter, 00:20:34.566 --> 00:20:37.610 always ready to explore the endless possibilities 00:20:37.611 --> 00:20:41.401 that lie in wait for a cub with a restless spirit. 00:20:41.925 --> 00:21:03.425 www.ZooCine.CoM watch movies and series! 00:21:12.729 --> 00:21:17.149 For the young male, it was a close call... 00:21:17.150 --> 00:21:20.611 He may have thought he so nearly notched up his first kill, 00:21:20.612 --> 00:21:24.982 but that little hunter's heart did skip a small beat today. 00:21:27.536 --> 00:21:29.912 The cowardly withdrawal by the elephant 00:21:29.913 --> 00:21:32.498 confirms that there will be another chance, 00:21:32.499 --> 00:21:34.909 perhaps when he's a bit older. 00:21:37.963 --> 00:21:43.050 Until today, she had only time to focus on escape and survival, 00:21:43.051 --> 00:21:46.012 but now she must find a way to get her cubs 00:21:46.013 --> 00:21:48.764 safely through their first critical year, 00:21:48.765 --> 00:21:52.143 until they can fend for themselves. 00:21:52.144 --> 00:21:54.103 And as a single mother, 00:21:54.104 --> 00:21:58.644 this will take every ounce of her energy and intelligence. 00:22:08.452 --> 00:22:11.495 The fire and march of human settlements 00:22:11.496 --> 00:22:14.790 to the north have driven other animal refugees 00:22:14.791 --> 00:22:16.991 towards the island. 00:22:18.545 --> 00:22:21.325 Duba is about to change. 00:22:26.011 --> 00:22:29.472 These are some ofAfrica's most aggressive animals. 00:22:29.473 --> 00:22:32.141 Their sharp horns and bone-crushing bodies 00:22:32.142 --> 00:22:34.226 are perfect weapons, 00:22:34.227 --> 00:22:37.387 and their massive numbers give them confidence. 00:22:43.737 --> 00:22:48.032 At the head of the herd is one of the most fearsome of them: 00:22:48.033 --> 00:22:52.533 a scar-faced bull weighing almost a ton. 00:22:57.542 --> 00:23:01.202 For the past few weeks this has been her island. 00:23:03.090 --> 00:23:11.555 The arrival of the buffalo brings hope as possible prey... 00:23:11.556 --> 00:23:13.716 but also fear. 00:23:15.685 --> 00:23:18.925 These will be her new enemies on the island. 00:23:26.405 --> 00:23:29.824 Buffalo are not easy prey. 00:23:29.825 --> 00:23:32.535 They dislike the scent of lions, 00:23:32.536 --> 00:23:35.026 and they don't hesitate to attack. 00:24:36.308 --> 00:24:37.725 For the cubs, 00:24:37.726 --> 00:24:41.145 life so far has been a litany of narrow escapes, 00:24:41.146 --> 00:24:44.398 one long line of enemies out to get them - 00:24:44.399 --> 00:24:48.059 a strange way to start life as king of the beasts. 00:25:01.666 --> 00:25:03.834 With more and more of the newcomers 00:25:03.835 --> 00:25:05.920 flowing onto her island, 00:25:05.921 --> 00:25:10.211 Ma di Tau and her cubs are destined to run into them again. 00:25:11.676 --> 00:25:14.094 The herd's pathfinder is now aware 00:25:14.095 --> 00:25:16.388 that this island has lions, 00:25:16.389 --> 00:25:20.299 and from now on he'll always be on the alert. 00:25:22.103 --> 00:25:24.939 It will be an almost daily conflict, 00:25:24.940 --> 00:25:29.180 unavoidable in this open, yet confined space. 00:25:50.549 --> 00:25:53.217 If she is not going to be at their mercy, 00:25:53.218 --> 00:25:57.708 she will have to learn more about this new presence. 00:26:08.567 --> 00:26:11.777 She will have to test them for weaknesses 00:26:11.778 --> 00:26:13.571 and she must look beyond 00:26:13.572 --> 00:26:16.942 the strong outer wall of their heavy armaments. 00:26:31.172 --> 00:26:37.886 In time she must become expert at finding those weak points... 00:26:37.887 --> 00:26:40.097 small, hidden chinks in the armor 00:26:40.098 --> 00:26:42.349 that will stumble out into view 00:26:42.350 --> 00:26:46.050 and excite her instincts as a huntress. 00:27:04.623 --> 00:27:07.458 Night is an advantage for her. 00:27:07.459 --> 00:27:10.461 She can hide in the shadows of a crescent moon 00:27:10.462 --> 00:27:14.372 and let her eyes brighten to take in her quarry. 00:27:46.206 --> 00:27:49.667 Now she has to become invisible. 00:27:49.668 --> 00:27:52.998 It is what a solitary hunter does best. 00:28:20.031 --> 00:28:24.660 The damp grass helps her perform like a silent ghost, 00:28:24.661 --> 00:28:27.361 flitting in and out of reality. 00:29:56.836 --> 00:30:01.298 Two mothers now battle for the survival of their young: 00:30:01.299 --> 00:30:04.384 buffalo desperate to deflect an attack; 00:30:04.385 --> 00:30:09.139 lioness eager to double back and strike quick, fatal blows 00:30:09.140 --> 00:30:11.630 to earn a meal for her cubs. 00:30:18.817 --> 00:30:21.637 It's the eternal dance ofAfrica. 00:31:02.694 --> 00:31:05.944 The young lions will go hungry a little longer. 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:13.704 When the buffalo calf escapes, it carries a chilling message 00:31:13.705 --> 00:31:17.945 of a near-miss written in blood back to the scar-faced bull. 00:31:57.415 --> 00:32:00.042 It's a race against time. 00:32:00.043 --> 00:32:02.794 The cubs are demanding more from Ma di Tau 00:32:02.795 --> 00:32:05.535 as they grow and her milk dries up. 00:32:18.937 --> 00:32:23.023 The small male doesn't seem to want to compete. 00:32:23.024 --> 00:32:25.943 But while he bonds with his mother, 00:32:25.944 --> 00:32:30.024 his sister grows stronger all the time. 00:32:34.953 --> 00:32:39.957 Her cubs survival is a hard taskmaster for her, 00:32:39.958 --> 00:32:44.294 and despite the searing heat and humidity, 00:32:44.295 --> 00:32:47.631 she forces herself up again, 00:32:47.632 --> 00:32:50.832 back onto the path of the buffalo. 00:32:51.970 --> 00:32:56.765 She seems to understand that the herd will provide, 00:32:56.766 --> 00:33:00.046 if she can just crack that code. 00:33:02.981 --> 00:33:05.931 She has a fresh tactic in mind. 00:33:22.041 --> 00:33:24.209 Having taken up her position, 00:33:24.210 --> 00:33:29.923 she tries something very sophisticated... 00:33:29.924 --> 00:33:34.754 a full on, out in the open, rather desperate charge. 00:33:40.018 --> 00:33:41.838 It panics the herd. 00:33:44.856 --> 00:33:47.607 A lion hunt is as much a mind game 00:33:47.608 --> 00:33:51.188 as it is a physical explosion of violence. 00:33:53.406 --> 00:33:57.034 What she doesn't know is that the commotion of the hunt 00:33:57.035 --> 00:34:01.872 has drawn interest from across the river... 00:34:01.873 --> 00:34:03.703 Silver Eye. 00:34:37.075 --> 00:34:39.576 Only a thin strip of water divides them 00:34:39.577 --> 00:34:41.567 at this point in the river. 00:34:52.090 --> 00:34:55.425 The intensity keeps Ma di Tau focused - 00:34:55.426 --> 00:34:58.296 perhaps too focused. 00:35:07.563 --> 00:35:11.933 The night hides many a bold and sinister thing. 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:02.576 Signs of change often come 00:36:02.577 --> 00:36:06.079 in the slight shift of grass in the breeze, 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:11.120 or a hint of a scent that brings disturbing news to Ma di Tau. 00:36:25.183 --> 00:36:29.060 She and her cubs once again stand directly in the path 00:36:29.061 --> 00:36:33.771 of an aggressive, half-blind lioness and her followers. 00:36:33.995 --> 00:36:41.995 www.ZooCine.CoM watch movies and series! 00:36:42.742 --> 00:36:44.826 Ma di Tau's hostile warning 00:36:44.827 --> 00:36:48.079 buys her time against these huge lions, 00:36:48.080 --> 00:36:50.832 who present a united force 00:36:50.833 --> 00:36:55.163 though lack the confidence of her local knowledge. 00:37:00.551 --> 00:37:03.553 The cubs understand her body language; 00:37:03.554 --> 00:37:05.844 they know what to do. 00:37:11.229 --> 00:37:14.231 This territory is her last option. 00:37:14.232 --> 00:37:17.025 There is nowhere else for her to go. 00:37:17.026 --> 00:37:18.818 If she flees from the island, 00:37:18.819 --> 00:37:20.362 she'll immediately have to face 00:37:20.363 --> 00:37:22.906 the males patrolling the far bank. 00:37:22.907 --> 00:37:24.991 And if she were to avoid them, 00:37:24.992 --> 00:37:30.992 at the horizon there are people, villages, guns. 00:37:38.256 --> 00:37:42.884 The river is her defense and her confinement... 00:37:42.885 --> 00:37:44.745 Her last stand. 00:37:58.943 --> 00:38:01.027 This island lives and breathes 00:38:01.028 --> 00:38:04.938 by a different set of rules to the rest ofAfrica. 00:38:31.350 --> 00:38:33.643 The pride has some lessons to learn 00:38:33.644 --> 00:38:36.146 before they can call it their own. 00:38:36.147 --> 00:38:38.315 The first is that it's a mistake 00:38:38.316 --> 00:38:41.776 to sleep too deeply on Duba island, 00:38:41.777 --> 00:38:44.654 especially when a scar-faced bull 00:38:44.655 --> 00:38:48.475 has smelled the spilled blood of his young. 00:39:30.868 --> 00:39:34.358 Ma di Tau hears the buffalo attack. 00:39:37.666 --> 00:39:40.986 She pictures the chaos from bitter experience. 00:40:23.796 --> 00:40:28.091 One sound - 00:40:28.092 --> 00:40:32.137 the crash of water as the buffalo retreat - 00:40:32.138 --> 00:40:35.968 takes on a new significance to her. 00:40:38.769 --> 00:40:40.478 Water! 00:40:40.479 --> 00:40:44.607 Each crystal clear splash clarifies an idea: 00:40:44.608 --> 00:40:48.438 buffalo flee to water to escape. 00:40:50.406 --> 00:40:52.699 They use it as a protective barrier 00:40:52.700 --> 00:40:54.784 between themselves and the lions. 00:40:54.785 --> 00:40:56.536 And yet, they still panic, 00:40:56.537 --> 00:40:58.777 bunch together and make mistakes. 00:41:10.468 --> 00:41:13.344 If she can make water her strength, 00:41:13.345 --> 00:41:15.585 it will be their weakness. 00:41:22.938 --> 00:41:27.817 Silver Eye has noticed the silent hunter on the move... 00:41:27.818 --> 00:41:31.518 and what she has left behind in the grass. 00:41:50.508 --> 00:41:54.511 The casual awakening is deceptive. 00:41:54.512 --> 00:41:57.889 She is giving the huntress time to leave, 00:41:57.890 --> 00:42:01.880 enough time to get involved in the hunt. 00:42:47.898 --> 00:42:52.478 Something bothers Ma di Tau for a moment, some instinct. 00:42:57.908 --> 00:43:01.028 But there seems nothing amiss. 00:44:53.023 --> 00:44:56.983 Beaten, or just deterred for the time being? 00:44:59.530 --> 00:45:01.114 It's a question that would haunt 00:45:01.115 --> 00:45:02.949 any mother with vulnerable young, 00:45:02.950 --> 00:45:05.702 driven by conflicting imperatives - 00:45:05.703 --> 00:45:07.912 to hunt and feed her young, 00:45:07.913 --> 00:45:10.533 or to stay and protect them? 00:45:32.396 --> 00:45:35.064 With the pride safely in retreat, 00:45:35.065 --> 00:45:37.567 the young male cub turns his attention 00:45:37.568 --> 00:45:40.361 to a much greater challenge... 00:45:40.362 --> 00:45:42.612 like being king of the hill. 00:45:43.699 --> 00:45:45.729 Even just for a moment. 00:45:50.873 --> 00:45:54.542 For a young lion, being lord of all you survey 00:45:54.543 --> 00:45:57.503 is almost your birthright. 00:45:57.504 --> 00:46:00.584 If only one's sister would accept it. 00:46:05.471 --> 00:46:09.432 Winning the high ground is something to fight hard for, 00:46:09.433 --> 00:46:14.103 but then when one's opponent unexpectedly gives up, 00:46:14.104 --> 00:46:18.604 then the triumph of victory feels a little hollow. 00:46:45.636 --> 00:46:48.471 With each day she hesitates or fails, 00:46:48.472 --> 00:46:51.172 her cubs get closer to starving. 00:47:15.833 --> 00:47:18.835 The disturbance is another indication 00:47:18.836 --> 00:47:21.796 of the sheer power of the scar-faced bull 00:47:21.797 --> 00:47:24.327 and the aggression of all buffalo. 00:47:55.372 --> 00:48:00.532 And then she seems to see the solution to her problem. 00:48:24.443 --> 00:48:28.112 This violent fighting will keep the pride away. 00:48:28.113 --> 00:48:30.072 If she can move her cubs 00:48:30.073 --> 00:48:33.075 up close to the herd but keep them hidden, 00:48:33.076 --> 00:48:35.453 they will be safe from Silver Eye, 00:48:35.454 --> 00:48:39.284 and Ma di Tau will be able to leave them to hunt again. 00:49:04.358 --> 00:49:08.558 As the herd moves, she tracks them silently. 00:49:11.406 --> 00:49:16.606 Keeping close, the cubs follow her every move. 00:49:18.413 --> 00:49:20.289 It's a risk. 00:49:20.290 --> 00:49:24.490 If the buffalo hear them, they could turn back and attack. 00:49:33.512 --> 00:49:36.052 They're surrounded by demons. 00:49:36.682 --> 00:49:38.922 It takes nerves of steel. 00:49:41.311 --> 00:49:43.980 But any thoughts of a single-handed defense 00:49:43.981 --> 00:49:47.351 are short-lived. 00:50:26.398 --> 00:50:32.111 By dawn she's in a position to attempt the unknown... 00:50:32.112 --> 00:50:34.272 a water hunt. 00:51:28.085 --> 00:51:31.170 With the cubs nearby but safe, 00:51:31.171 --> 00:51:35.581 it's time to concentrate on her new tactic. 00:51:49.606 --> 00:51:52.942 Now she has the advantage. 00:51:52.943 --> 00:51:56.278 She has already overcome most of her fear of water, 00:51:56.279 --> 00:51:59.189 but the buffalo won't know that. 00:52:07.332 --> 00:52:09.583 And they have hit the deep channel 00:52:09.584 --> 00:52:11.752 where they bunch together. 00:52:11.753 --> 00:52:13.587 The angry bull pathfinders 00:52:13.588 --> 00:52:16.458 horn each other out of the way in the confusion. 00:52:20.137 --> 00:52:23.297 Confusion is exactly what she is looking for. 00:52:31.606 --> 00:52:34.650 They don't expect her to come out of the water; 00:52:34.651 --> 00:52:37.736 they don't understand that shape, that wet smell, 00:52:37.737 --> 00:52:39.488 that calculated approach 00:52:39.489 --> 00:52:42.939 designed to cause stragglers to panic. 00:52:56.173 --> 00:52:58.382 This is a chance she can't let go - 00:52:58.383 --> 00:53:01.253 a lone cow isolated without help. 00:54:01.655 --> 00:54:04.815 The distress calls enrage the herd. 00:54:34.646 --> 00:54:37.176 They rally to the cow's defense. 00:54:51.371 --> 00:54:55.951 The one thing she will not confront is a large crocodile. 00:55:01.298 --> 00:55:06.128 But she still has the advantage of almost total concealment. 00:55:28.575 --> 00:55:32.328 Her first attempt has given her hope. 00:55:32.329 --> 00:55:36.123 The confused herd is just too enticing, 00:55:36.124 --> 00:55:41.334 and the deep water is now her speciality. 00:55:43.673 --> 00:55:45.833 Now is her time. 00:56:37.227 --> 00:56:39.895 Her success is celebrated... 00:56:39.896 --> 00:56:42.556 by anyone else who can take advantage. 00:57:49.632 --> 00:57:53.302 Africa is as dispassionate about great victory 00:57:53.303 --> 00:57:56.138 as it is about loss. 00:57:56.139 --> 00:57:59.475 It drives all to learn and accept fate 00:57:59.476 --> 00:58:03.346 and step forward towards the next day. 00:58:13.823 --> 00:58:16.658 At least Ma di Tau has eaten, 00:58:16.659 --> 00:58:20.621 and in a few hours she will produce milk. 00:58:20.622 --> 00:58:24.333 And later she will go boldly into the water 00:58:24.334 --> 00:58:26.914 and hunt the herd again. 00:58:40.850 --> 00:58:45.800 But that is for tomorrow; now she is exhausted. 00:59:14.217 --> 00:59:17.636 But that old lesson of never sleeping soundly 00:59:17.637 --> 00:59:20.457 is not to be ignored. 00:59:23.101 --> 00:59:26.019 There are risks attached to leaving the cubs 00:59:26.020 --> 00:59:29.890 in the path of the buffalo, stirred to panic. 01:00:39.302 --> 01:00:43.305 There are a thousand reasons to enjoy the dawn, 01:00:43.306 --> 01:00:46.506 especially after a successful hunt. 01:00:52.190 --> 01:00:55.980 There is only one reason that she quickens her pace. 01:00:59.822 --> 01:01:02.652 Her calls are not being answered. 01:01:44.325 --> 01:01:49.371 Every time she leaves them alone they wander off. 01:01:49.372 --> 01:01:52.374 The little male has been going farther and farther, 01:01:52.375 --> 01:01:56.195 but both always return to the same spot. 01:02:04.846 --> 01:02:07.046 But not today. 01:02:26.743 --> 01:02:30.078 Although there is a strong scent of buffalo, 01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:32.831 there is no sign of the pride, 01:02:32.832 --> 01:02:35.542 so she carefully follows the cubs' trail 01:02:35.543 --> 01:02:40.083 away from the hiding place and out into the open. 01:02:43.050 --> 01:02:45.385 A call! 01:02:45.386 --> 01:02:47.721 It's the female cub, 01:02:47.722 --> 01:02:51.266 way across the open terrain in the distance, 01:02:51.267 --> 01:02:55.047 clearly upset, but alive! 01:03:06.949 --> 01:03:10.869 Ma di Tau the protector has not failed completely; 01:03:10.870 --> 01:03:13.950 she has found one of the cubs. 01:03:16.459 --> 01:03:20.796 Her kill has brought a loyal following of scavengers, 01:03:20.797 --> 01:03:24.747 and they can sense some weakness about her. 01:03:41.317 --> 01:03:43.693 With no sign of the little male, 01:03:43.694 --> 01:03:45.362 she'll defend her last cub 01:03:45.363 --> 01:03:48.523 against the mob of hyenas at all costs. 01:06:47.003 --> 01:06:49.421 In this final hopeless moment 01:06:49.422 --> 01:06:54.676 she seems to understand the risks of following the buffalo, 01:06:54.677 --> 01:06:58.547 and what happened here last night. 01:07:11.569 --> 01:07:15.229 She hesitates just long enough to give hope... 01:07:19.368 --> 01:07:22.037 But she can't mend a broken back. 01:07:22.038 --> 01:07:28.198 No amount of care, licking, defending, will fix this. 01:07:37.136 --> 01:07:40.013 When she steps away, finally, 01:07:40.014 --> 01:07:43.558 Ma di Tau leaves behind her legacy - 01:07:43.559 --> 01:07:46.728 the last of her male's bloodline, 01:07:46.729 --> 01:07:48.929 and her name. 01:07:54.403 --> 01:07:56.154 She is Ma di Tau, 01:07:56.155 --> 01:07:59.895 mother and protector of lions, no more. 01:08:25.768 --> 01:08:28.853 We don't know about animal grief, 01:08:28.854 --> 01:08:33.817 or even the effect of any broken heart. 01:08:33.818 --> 01:08:37.445 But something happens to the lone lioness 01:08:37.446 --> 01:08:41.032 when the storm of emotion brews up in her eyes 01:08:41.033 --> 01:08:44.693 and she leaves her cub behind for the last time. 01:09:00.928 --> 01:09:04.139 When she roars, she calls to no one. 01:09:04.140 --> 01:09:08.050 Her voice just adds to the turbulent day. 01:09:20.948 --> 01:09:24.868 On this day when she has lost everything, 01:09:24.869 --> 01:09:30.165 she seems to draw on a deeply held instinct 01:09:30.166 --> 01:09:37.076 and transforms herself once again into a lone huntress. 01:09:57.860 --> 01:10:00.028 For a single lioness to run directly 01:10:00.029 --> 01:10:03.656 into the buffalo is virtually unheard of. 01:10:03.657 --> 01:10:06.910 To take on the largest male in that herd - 01:10:06.911 --> 01:10:10.701 a fit, fighting bull - is almost suicide. 01:10:46.909 --> 01:10:49.244 Too much for her. 01:10:49.245 --> 01:10:51.815 Too much hardship for one day. 01:11:20.985 --> 01:11:24.475 Is it a lament to the gods? 01:11:27.241 --> 01:11:29.575 A cry for help? 01:11:29.576 --> 01:11:33.396 Or a last battlecry of frustration? 01:11:37.751 --> 01:11:40.411 The pride again... 01:11:47.761 --> 01:11:51.306 Their arrival is always sparked by any disturbance. 01:11:51.307 --> 01:11:54.837 But this time she will not retreat. 01:12:06.822 --> 01:12:10.152 And now the past strengthens her. 01:12:50.366 --> 01:12:53.534 The submission extracted from Silver Eye 01:12:53.535 --> 01:12:56.275 is enough for the lone lioness. 01:12:57.373 --> 01:12:59.993 She has something left to do. 01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:21.187 And in this moment of strength something fundamental changes - 01:13:21.188 --> 01:13:24.941 something the pride recognizes. 01:13:24.942 --> 01:13:28.152 They sense it in the determination in her step 01:13:28.153 --> 01:13:30.988 and the look in her eye... 01:13:30.989 --> 01:13:33.229 Something unseen... 01:13:37.746 --> 01:13:40.906 She is transformed into a leader. 01:13:55.097 --> 01:13:59.100 It's more than Silver Eye can do to follow her old enemy, 01:13:59.101 --> 01:14:01.227 especially across water, 01:14:01.228 --> 01:14:04.638 especially as a lower ranking huntress. 01:14:45.105 --> 01:14:47.940 Lions hunt with coordination, 01:14:47.941 --> 01:14:50.234 and when the stakes are high 01:14:50.235 --> 01:14:53.265 they depend on being well rehearsed. 01:14:53.822 --> 01:14:58.493 Now, hunting together for the first time, 01:14:58.494 --> 01:15:03.204 every instinct drives them to find that rhythm. 01:15:19.515 --> 01:15:24.143 All they can rely on is the leadership of a lioness 01:15:24.144 --> 01:15:26.854 who has never led before. 01:15:31.527 --> 01:15:35.897 When she makes her move, it is clinical and precise. 01:16:05.894 --> 01:16:09.564 But the bull has led this herd for ten years or longer. 01:16:09.565 --> 01:16:12.725 He has won the herd's allegiance with blood. 01:16:14.570 --> 01:16:17.900 They won't abandon him now. 01:16:28.417 --> 01:16:31.367 She is used to standing alone. 01:16:35.090 --> 01:16:39.051 Suddenly the scales tip in the bull's favor. 01:16:39.052 --> 01:16:42.221 The loyal horde fights back, 01:16:42.222 --> 01:16:46.601 winning the advantage and forcing the lions into disarray, 01:16:46.602 --> 01:16:51.312 destroying their confidence and scattering them to the wind. 01:17:12.961 --> 01:17:17.965 With her pride divided and weak, she can't push forward again. 01:17:17.966 --> 01:17:19.746 They're exhausted. 01:17:32.147 --> 01:17:35.149 But something beyond the buffalo catches her eye, 01:17:35.150 --> 01:17:37.310 a disturbance in the herd. 01:17:39.321 --> 01:17:43.824 A lion cub... 01:17:43.825 --> 01:17:46.485 Her lion cub. 01:17:49.665 --> 01:17:53.084 Her reaction is a violent explosion of motherhood 01:17:53.085 --> 01:17:57.825 that drives the buffalo back, away from her defenseless cub. 01:18:03.387 --> 01:18:06.013 At last, she has hope. 01:18:06.014 --> 01:18:09.350 She might still be able to fulfill that ambition 01:18:09.351 --> 01:18:12.641 to raise at least one cub. 01:18:37.045 --> 01:18:40.423 A mother who has lost and then found her offspring 01:18:40.424 --> 01:18:43.134 must be overwhelmed with emotions. 01:18:46.763 --> 01:18:50.391 The lone lioness has her name again... 01:18:50.392 --> 01:18:55.182 Ma di Tau, the huntress, has purpose once more. 01:19:03.071 --> 01:19:05.156 The transition from fierce tormentor 01:19:05.157 --> 01:19:09.410 to compassionate mother attracts the buffalos' interest. 01:19:09.411 --> 01:19:13.361 A slow, determined march of aggression. 01:19:45.447 --> 01:19:50.227 And then, out of nowhere, a lioness arrives. 01:19:52.120 --> 01:19:55.247 The light in this lioness' one eye 01:19:55.248 --> 01:19:58.908 should still stir terror in Ma di Tau. 01:20:02.631 --> 01:20:04.673 But it doesn't. 01:20:04.674 --> 01:20:07.802 The two lionesses share a look that in an instant 01:20:07.803 --> 01:20:11.013 sends a message in some silent language. 01:20:14.976 --> 01:20:20.397 With a wall of buffalo ahead and a vulnerable cub behind, 01:20:20.398 --> 01:20:23.234 somehow Silver Eye conveys 01:20:23.235 --> 01:20:26.028 that she is not here to take advantage; 01:20:26.029 --> 01:20:28.859 she is here to help. 01:20:30.492 --> 01:20:32.827 There are moments before every conflict 01:20:32.828 --> 01:20:35.162 when the fighters have a choice: 01:20:35.163 --> 01:20:37.832 to back away and let the moment pass, 01:20:37.833 --> 01:20:42.623 or to unite and step forward behind their leader into battle. 01:20:52.097 --> 01:20:56.100 Silver Eye knows what she must do. 01:20:56.101 --> 01:20:59.011 She must follow Ma di Tau's lead. 01:21:25.380 --> 01:21:30.920 And in this moment a pride of lions is born. 01:21:53.909 --> 01:21:56.577 And now they seem to understand 01:21:56.578 --> 01:21:59.914 that their future will be determined right here, 01:21:59.915 --> 01:22:02.041 as a pride. 01:22:02.042 --> 01:22:03.918 With just one less of them, 01:22:03.919 --> 01:22:06.837 the scales would tip in favor of the big bulls 01:22:06.838 --> 01:22:09.748 and shatter their hopes... 01:22:26.942 --> 01:22:31.942 And the future of this new pride's one remaining cub. 01:22:38.453 --> 01:22:41.323 It is now or never. 01:22:43.792 --> 01:22:47.622 Ma di Tau splits the herd and routes the front rank. 01:22:50.173 --> 01:22:51.674 She seems to understand 01:22:51.675 --> 01:22:55.285 that behind her Silver Eye will lead the attack. 01:22:56.805 --> 01:22:59.005 It's a moment of trust... 01:23:00.308 --> 01:23:02.678 The trust is well placed. 01:23:29.671 --> 01:23:32.001 And it is over. 01:23:34.009 --> 01:23:35.968 It is his first experience 01:23:35.969 --> 01:23:39.930 of seeing lions do what they do best. 01:23:39.931 --> 01:23:44.977 It's his introduction into a world of hunting and killing, 01:23:44.978 --> 01:23:48.008 a necessary part of his legacy. 01:23:52.193 --> 01:23:54.445 With the bull destroyed, 01:23:54.446 --> 01:23:58.782 Ma di Tau has created a safer world for her cub. 01:23:58.783 --> 01:24:01.903 She has unified a hunting coalition. 01:24:03.038 --> 01:24:06.528 But one last thing remains to be done. 01:24:07.709 --> 01:24:10.586 To raise her cub successfully, 01:24:10.587 --> 01:24:14.867 she needs to accept this pride as her own. 01:24:18.386 --> 01:24:23.223 When she and Silver Eye finally make peace, 01:24:23.224 --> 01:24:28.604 they mend themselves and bind their pride, 01:24:28.605 --> 01:24:32.265 their future, together. 01:24:38.406 --> 01:24:41.408 And will this unlikely survivor, 01:24:41.409 --> 01:24:45.788 a straggler with the heart of a lion, 01:24:45.789 --> 01:24:48.409 be one of the last? 01:24:50.752 --> 01:24:53.337 Will he get to grow a mane 01:24:53.338 --> 01:24:57.216 and strengthen through adolescence? 01:24:57.217 --> 01:24:58.926 Will he have a chance 01:24:58.927 --> 01:25:02.096 to wear the battle scars of a mature male, 01:25:02.097 --> 01:25:07.877 each one a badge of honor that started here today. 01:25:17.445 --> 01:25:21.765 Will he be one of the last wild lions on Earth? 01:25:32.252 --> 01:25:37.589 Will he wander alone in the last of these wild places, 01:25:37.590 --> 01:25:41.718 as our world fills up with lights, clutter, 01:25:41.719 --> 01:25:43.629 noise and people? 01:25:45.181 --> 01:25:50.891 In 1 5 years there will be 8 billion human beings on Earth. 01:25:58.778 --> 01:26:03.532 How long these last 20,000 lions survive 01:26:03.533 --> 01:26:09.533 will depend entirely on us. 01:26:22.635 --> 01:26:25.795 We are losing cats at an alarming rate. 01:26:28.183 --> 01:26:31.643 It's time for an emergency effort by all of us. 01:26:32.187 --> 01:26:34.479 At this rate, these beautiful animals 01:26:34.480 --> 01:26:36.770 are heading for extinction. 01:26:47.869 --> 01:26:49.870 Can you imagine our world 01:26:49.871 --> 01:26:53.121 without any of these iconic animals? 01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:55.834 It's not too late. 01:26:55.835 --> 01:26:57.865 We can take action now. 01:26:58.755 --> 01:27:01.785 We all have the power to turn it around. 01:27:03.384 --> 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