Craziest Animal Attacks (VIDEO): Animals Stalk Their Prey

Watching the predator-prey relationship in the animal kingdom never really gets old. We've compiled some of the best videos of animals hunting their prey-- from a lioness mauling a zebra to a mouse taking down a centipede, the attacks can be surprising, and never fail to amaze.

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[Vickster]

12:59 AM on 01/30/2010

I watched a female Coopers Hawk stalking my bird feeders today. She swooped three times to no avail. The last time she swooped, a red-bellied woodpecker sounded the alarm and jabbed her chest. Then, frustrated, my hungry hawk chased sparrows around a burning bush before she flew away.

[Davidthompson20]

11:19 PM on 01/29/2010

If you liked this video, you might like this blog: www.hitchhikinganimals.blogspot.com .

[onalimb]

02:37 PM on 01/29/2010

The fox is amazing!

[MCJanes]

10:29 PM on 01/28/2010

Hopefully, with the help of B-list celebrities and nude porn stars, PETA will raise enough millions of dollars to put an end to this barbaric cruelty.

[Alhitch]

04:24 PM on 01/28/2010

Leopards are one of the most amazing animals on earth.

[KentuckyBrit]

03:36 PM on 01/28/2010

Watching this makes me realise how much I miss the BBC. OK, OK, I'm biased. Dreadfully biased, and BBC America is a very poor example of what the BBC can and does do. There really is no comparison to the mindless junk offered by NBC, CBS and ABC. The Natural History unit in Bristol has been responsible for most of the lasting television images of my life, and although some are now joint productions (for example the awesome Planet Earth, produced with Animal Planet, as was I think The Blue Panet) that small unit has produced an almost limitless amount of incredible footage. All shown in prime time in the UK. These shows are almost national events... great stuff. It's also a great shame that Sir David Attenburgh isn't a household name here. His understated commentary is brilliant. I remember Life on Earth, probably first broadcast when I was about 7 years old. I'm 38 now and Attenburgh has been as constant a part of my life as anyone outside my family.

[Cuthach]

01:46 PM on 01/28/2010

That BBC nighttime leopard one is amazing.

[wm1066]

01:44 PM on 01/28/2010

Galway Kinnel has an excellent short poem about a man hunting a bear..with a sharpened bone. It takes days to hunt and has an unexpected ending. "The Bear" by Galway Kinnel.

[bleve1]

01:14 PM on 01/28/2010

Talk about fluff content... why is this in the "Green" section, or any section for that matter?

[KIVPossum]

01:40 PM on 01/28/2010

Part of nature. Learn how these beautiful creatures live and maybe it will help protect them.

For me, watching a big cat stalk prey is lovely and fascinating. Or, watching my cat stalk my toes.

[rfshunt]

03:51 PM on 01/28/2010

Green implies environment. Animals live in the........ you get the idea.

[bleve1]

06:19 PM on 01/29/2010

Spare me , "Green" implies a reference to the "green movement" and eco friendly habits, products, etc... this is merely something the twenty year olds at hufffpo ripped off youtube to get quck hits from brainiacs like you.

I bet you'd bust out the popcorn for an animal poo_ping marathon eh... it happens in nature all the time.

[Poiks]

12:21 PM on 01/28/2010

Best such video ever (happy ending, believe it or not):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

[MCJanes]

10:08 PM on 01/28/2010

I'm surprised that one didn't make the last.

[knightinNYC]

10:29 AM on 01/28/2010

Perhaps there's some understanding to be gleaned from this type of footage but for the masses, it just seems like buying your meat all shrink-wrapped rather than butchering it yourself. If evolution has been the driving force of what makes or breaks any species, we see that young, crippled or just plain unlucky creatures find themselves fading from consciousness in a final adrenal rush of pain and panic, not unlike modern slaughterhouses.

The entire planet just seems like one big ball of energy exchange at the corporeal level. We expect physical death to be part of the equation but not so with animals. They are in the moment constantly. Their instincts merely cause them to react (like the cheetah and the baby gazelle).

As higher processing creatures, our self-awareness gives us the ability to express empathy, compassion and mercy. And yet, watching these animals take out their prey (what they do out of instinct and necessity, not out of pleasure or psychopathy) makes me wonder if we're adequately expressing enough empathy, compassion and mercy.

[rf dude]

10:01 AM on 01/28/2010

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Crazy doesn't begin to describe the meat counter at Costco on Saturday...

[Mantle]

06:40 PM on 01/28/2010

Yeah, that's an idea -- turn those lions lose at @Costco. The meat isle will surely clear in a hurry ..

[Hamatreya]

09:22 AM on 01/28/2010

National Geographic has joined the race to the bottom with this type of commentary. The narrative accompanying these videos is base and meaningless -perhaps necessary to attract ignorant couch-potatoes, but useless for education.

[NoMercy]

09:59 AM on 01/28/2010

Did you watch the first one? From the BBC? I learned a lot from it. For instance, that lions (a lioness in this case) are not good tree-climbers - "they're heavyweights, too cumbersome" - is part of the narrative.

[Ivar Bernes]

02:45 PM on 01/28/2010

I do agree on that, BBC is way more classy.