This documentary takes viewers onto a unique battlefield in the Okavango Delta to witness the gruelling fight for survival of highly specialised lions that prey almost exclusively on Cape buffalo.
Relentless Enemies is a documentary shot over two intense years as Beverly and Dereck Joubert lived among a threatened pride of lions and a large buffalo herd in the Duba region of Botswana's Okavango Delta.
The Duba Plains is an amazing and remote part of Botswana, home to three prides of lions and just over a thousand buffalo. The interactions that happen each day are intense. Three prides compete for the prey but far from being a one sided relationship where lions hunt from the herd, it has become a battle between them with lions often being chased and occasionally killed as well.
It is a spectacle few have seen first-hand: two foes trapped on an island in a remote part of Africa - and a battle to survive captured in high-definition over two years by award-winning filmmakers.
The film includes dramatic first ever footage of lions hunting in water, demonstrating to biologists worldwide the surprisingly adaptive nature of these animals.
The intensity and rawness of this, almost exclusively day time, hunting, is unique. But the opportunity to witness their battles is a rare chance to see and analyse what makes Africa so interesting to us. It is a chance to see life so transparently on the edge, and to think about why we are so fascinated by these extremes.
Filmed by Dereck and Beverly Joubert
Narrated by Jeremy Irons
Produced by Wildlife Films Botswana for National Geographic Channels 2006
To view a preview video clip of this DVD please visit the Nat Geo Channel website
Reviews:
“This is one of the best lion documentaries I have ever seen. The Jouberts have done it again! Several giant-sized, powerfully built lionesses have specialised in hunting buffalo, massive bulls and newborn calves alike. The buffalo are equally dangerous defending their own. If you enjoy real world wildlife battles as opposed to fake, computer generated conflicts, this film is for you. The notorious hyenas make a cameo appearance, but the lions aren't all that concerned about them. The angry faces of the lionesses are hilarious at times. And a dark side of lion life is exposed.”
“The lions presented in this film are different from your open plains lions... these lions have a much larger built chest due to hunting in the shallow waters, building muscles that open plain lions would not. The story in this DVD is excellent as well and as it is in real life, it is not always happy times for the lions... There are sad times as well. Both are captured on this DVD.”
Please have a look at the other African wildlife DVDs by Dereck & Beverly Joubert that we stock - the next best thing to being in Botswana yourself!
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