{"id":2189810,"date":"2026-02-09T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2189810"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:52:10","slug":"crocodile-attacks-lion-cub-on-zambian-river-heres-how-its-pride-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/crocodile-attacks-lion-cub-on-zambian-river-heres-how-its-pride-reacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile attacks lion cub on Zambian river. Here&#8217;s how its pride reacts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions are one of the most powerful apex predators on Earth, able to take down animals far larger than themselves.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re invincible, however.<\/p>\n<p>In footage captured for BBC\u2019s Kingdom, a pride of lions and their cubs are forced to leave their nursery ground after wildfires rip through the grassland.<\/p>\n<p>On their way back home to the heart of Nsefu, in Zambia\u2019s South Luangwa National Park, a stream blocks their path.<\/p>\n<p>And while one of the lionesses appears to be hesitant, one of the cubs is less so \u2013 and strikes out on its own.<\/p>\n<p>But the adults were right to be cautious, as a hidden predator lurks beneath the water waiting to strike.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the tense footage below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Lion Cubs Cross Croc-Infested Waters | Kingdom | BBC Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9oBeOS-32I\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/lion-cubs-cross-river-bbc-kingdom?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 9 December 2025. Lead Image:\u00a0BBC Studios\/Lauren Jackson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lions are one of the most powerful apex predators on Earth, able to take down animals far larger than themselves. That doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re invincible, however. In footage captured for BBC\u2019s Kingdom, a pride of lions and their cubs are forced to leave their nursery ground after wildfires rip through the grassland. On their way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2205600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/12\/Lion-cubs-in-BBC-Kingdom.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6985,5],"tags":[5216,1010,4294,558,2544],"class_list":["post-2189810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-crocodile","tag-lion-cub","tag-lions","tag-predators","tag-south-luangwa-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189810","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=2189810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}