{"id":2189056,"date":"2025-11-15T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2189056"},"modified":"2025-11-15T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:06:33","slug":"watch-nail-biting-and-emotional-bbc-footage-of-a-pregnant-hyena-being-attacked-by-a-pack-of-wild-dogs-will-she-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/watch-nail-biting-and-emotional-bbc-footage-of-a-pregnant-hyena-being-attacked-by-a-pack-of-wild-dogs-will-she-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch nail-biting and emotional BBC footage of a pregnant hyena being attacked by a pack of wild dogs \u2013 will she survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this first clip from upcoming BBC TV series Kingdom, David Attenborough narrates a tense encounter between a pregnant hyena and a pack of wild dogs<\/p>\n<p>In the new BBC TV series Kingdom, the power struggles of four animal families across a Zambian river valley are revealed \u2013 and in this first-look clip narrated by David Attenborough, the stakes couldn&#8217;t be higher.<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant hyena Tandala wakes from a nap to see a pack of wild dogs, led by matriarch Storm, tucking into a fresh kill.<\/p>\n<p>Believing it to be an easy opportunity for a meal, Tandala attempts to steal the carcass.<\/p>\n<p>But a pack of wild dogs against one hyena is more difficult than she thinks \u2013 and she is soon left in a vulnerable position trying to protect both her back and her belly from their bites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Wild dogs attack pregnant hyena | Kingdom \u2013 BBC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DfQ-whJ7xrE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/bbc-kingdom-wild-dog-pack-attack-hyena?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=BBCWildlife%2Fmagazine%2FBBC%20Wildlife%20Magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article<\/a> by Sophie Ellis was first published by Discover Wildlife on 6 November 2025. Lead Image: An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) harasses a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in Kingdom.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What you can do<\/h2>\n<p><em>Help to protect wildlife by donating as little as $5 &#8211; it only takes a minute!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/install-popup-button.js\" id=\"donorbox-popup-button-installer\"> <\/script><a id=\"preview_inline_popup_button\" class=\"dbox-donation-button\" style=\"background: #0dc5dc; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; display: flex; gap: 8px; width: fit-content; font-size: 16px; border-radius: 5px; line-height: 24px; padding: 8px 24px;\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/focusing-on-wildlife-needs-your-support?default_interval=m&amp;amount=50\" data-reminder-widget-enabled=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 75w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 100w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 150w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 240w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 320w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 500w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 640w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 800w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 1024w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 1280w, https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/images\/white_logo.svg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wildlife-charities-supported-by-focusing-on-wildlife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">conservation partners<\/a> spend at least 90 percent of the money raised on actual fieldwork\u00a0rather than administration and fundraising.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 1px solid white;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this first clip from upcoming BBC TV series Kingdom, David Attenborough narrates a tense encounter between a pregnant hyena and a pack of wild dogs In the new BBC TV series Kingdom, the power struggles of four animal families across a Zambian river valley are revealed \u2013 and in this first-look clip narrated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2205242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/Kingdom-hyena-vs-wild-dogs.jpg?w=1200&webp=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6985,5],"tags":[2940,2941,5473],"class_list":["post-2189056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-african-wild-dog","tag-lycaon-pictus","tag-spotted-hyena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}