A hungry lioness captures a young calf. But before she decides to kill, something very unusual happens.
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Wildebeest : it's my child Lioness : *Our child*
🇻🇳 you’ve dropped
*communism intensifies*
@@kimovvo2444 Bruh, that's a vietnamese flag
Thanhtam Tran are you dumb
@@thanhtamtran184 They were commies also bro
the lion felt bad for spawn camping
Peter Nguyen absolutely love this comment (I play Pubg mobile and COD mobile)
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@@horriblekids lol
Yeah but she left as soon as the calf switched teams
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Lioness: *"Ima eat you!"* Baby wildebeast: "Mommy!" Lioness: "....ok"
😂 "Gotta go find something else then. 😒"
or a tummy ache or she ate and full
Ahahahahhahaha
For the last part lioness huh and you will not br dying
Lioness : OK but only for this one phuking final time.
The lioness just didn't have the heart of a lion that day, she had the heart of a mother.
Cats play with and delay eating their food..
or the hormones of a mother, because she may have recently given birth to her own offspring and her motherly instincts still resonated. It's happened before, may have happened here, but it's more unlikely here since the lioness did seem to be hunting.
@@ChannelingByChantal recall that this is a big cat, a lioness, but yes, it may have been a situation of the lioness already being full and simply toying with the calf, the only reason to it charging after the calf may have been predatorial instinct.
@@Redmalicious Rumour has it she has Post Natal depression
@@rasher331 is that something possible in animals?
Lioness on the phone with her friends: Girl I was fixna eat him, but when I saw the momma just up and leave the baby to die like that it ruined my appetite.
Lol
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BuzzKillington Fucki** funny 😅😂
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Imagine you’re just born and within 30 seconds you’re running from a lion
Life's too short to not always be living on the edge.
That’s the life of a prey animal in Africa
So i m become tarzan
It’s like living in the hood. 0_0
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Calf: "my stepmom is a lioness." Other wildebeests: "prove it."
She's the cool mom who would show off her weapons collection
Lioness shows up. Other wildebeests: (Scared.) Okay, we believe. Please don't eat us!
Wow it’s fascinating to see her conflicted between eating, smelling the fluid and being compelled to mother the calf. Motherly love wins in the end. Beautiful to see the wildebeest was reunited. What a beautiful miracle this one is
You should watch some other videos then. This was pure luck. A predator, mother or no, won’t hesitate to eat a newborn prey animal.
@@logicalblackman8228 I said "motherly love wins in the end." I didn't say "motherly. love. wins every time with wild animals." Maybe you assumed too much.
@@blueskies773 I actually didn’t say a single thing about what you said. All I did was inform you that the outcome is different in other videos Maybe you assumed too much LOL.
@@logicalblackman8228 I won't waste my time with this.
@@blueskies773 then why did you bother to reply?
Baby Wildebeast: Mom what's for dinner tonight? Lion: 👀
I fuking cant 😭😂
im dead 😂😂😂
you made my whole day omg
and I, oop-
@@victoriareyes1348 you beat me to that 😂😂😂😂😂 m dead
Wildebeast calf: mama Lioness: *dO i LoOk LiKe-*
Vishal Marar I remember that vine 😂
Lioness: Well no but actually yes
Oh boi old school memes were great 😂😂😂👌
Congrats i liked you comment I was the 1000th who like this
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This is a very rare, lucky and magical sight. An incredibly rare occurrence. I'm so glad the baby wildebeest survived.
With the lions is not rare.
It's not rare humans behaving like that is rare
Wow, that lioness was clearly hunting but seemed conflicted about killing the calf. Then when it started to nuzzle her in an act of confusion & helplessness, she seemed to warm completely. My guess is her maternal instincts overpowered her hunting instincts when she recognized it was a baby. Incredible video, I’ve never seen anything like that. Thanks for sharing!
💯 true
You got any proof for this?
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206"my guess is"
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206logic
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206well as seen in the video, the way she treated the baby animal (whatever that animal is😅) ..
calf: "your my mama right?" lioness: "ugh what" calf: "i love you mom" lioness: "ok"
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Narrator: there is a spy in the grass. Lion: why you telling everyone
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Everyone knows how glorified symbols male lions are for the tufts of fur around their necks, but there’s something deeply maternal about a lioness. Fierce yet delicate. Unwavering and cautious.. yet so bold. The very backbone of the pride. They have even been known to nurse other species and will fight till their last breath to save their offspring. For that, they deserve their own title of recognition.
I think you'll find the backbone of the pride is the male.
@@yehldyehld Well, in Lion prides females are the primary the hunters and providers. They are also better hunters than their male counterparts. Males are stronger and bigger but they usually protect cubs and their territory from threats, and rarely go hunting. Both are essential for the pride, but it is the Lioness, the queen of the Savanna, who provides.
@Judybee what???
Yesss the queen of the jungle❤
Male lions hunt all the time dude. What do you think they do when they spend months patrolling the territory? Just starve? Or how about the years they spend as nomads? Male lions are great hunters. But in a pride they have a different role that they take on.
This is one lucky baby wildebeest! First, not eaten by the lioness then to be reunited with his mother when they say it is rare; so fortunate. ❤️
When you just spawn into a game and have a 1 minute grace period
Ej StickGod 😂😂😂
Good gal lionness not being a camper
I like the start of your post.. would like to change it to.. spawn protection
true true 💀😂
LoL
Mother Wilderbeast: “Screw this I’m out” Lioness: “Yo what the hell?”
It's like playing a game and all your friends leave you all alone to die and the killer feels so bad he lets u win😂
Why i can hear this 😂
I can hear this in longbeach griffy's mouth 😂
life is so cold man.
And the lioness responds, Lil buddy I can't even do you like this.
This video is sufficient to realize how lucky we are to have born as human. Never complain about life. We have been given the best.
Yep endless bills to pay til our last breath lolol
Correct. It's called "moral luck"
@@costellofratelli9625 and? Paying bills is better than being eaten testicles first by hyenas.
@@adammonks591 It's all survival. As a Human you can get attacked by a pitbull or a knee to your neck by a cop...
@@costellofratelli9625 but those are statistically very unlikely to happen. Unlike being a herbivore avoiding predators... Humans have a preferable life to other species on earth. You do realise that human life expectancy doubled during the industrial revolution? We like in the most utopian age known to man.
she must have been a mother to know the feeling - maternal instinct
It definitely did have a predator instinct but motherly instincts overpowered.
Could be the amnotic fluid smell that triggered her senses
Servants of God Only we all are.. Allaah he is too.
@FOMO FUD if you say if saying imaginery Person then that's a proof your speaking without Knowledge which i hope is from Ignorance and not arrogance.
Don't depress yourself though as none of us are perfect as can see from my comments to you...smiles
@FOMO FUD Just to finish you off, there is unanimous agreement from the Creation as the Majority of them believe in God. Your in the 1% or 2% lol.
Wildebeast: sees a loiness and runs away. Lioness: um.. mam your child.
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It's SIR
Lol
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@@Akimoto4u Dad :0
Only a mother can understand a mother.
WHAT MYSTERIOUS REASON? The lioness is mother too. she has a kind heart
It's the smell, newborns are covered in amniotic fluid, it must have triggered the maternal side.
*And this is how the first lion started agriculture!*
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Inside The Dog-World that’s how lions turned vegan
Animal Husbandry*
Yeah, and now she has a chicken farm.
If you guys need an update the lion recently settled on 20% custody.
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With one specific condition: in any circumstance or what so ever, the lioness should not teach the calf to hunt and prey another wildebeast.
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@@MulaBatiswaHutagaol 😭🤣
It's amazing how a brand new, new born within seconds learn to walk and in more seconds already know its in danger and should run
I think the lion recognized the afterbirth smell on the newborn.
The lioness is like damn you just gon leave ya baby like that👀
Myss Hoyt exactly
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haha she did look surprised.....
*THE LIONESS WANTED TO TAUNT THE MOTHER SAYING I'LL BE IT'S MOMMA SINCE YOU DITCHED YOUR NEW BORN BABY.*
She didn’t even want to eat the calf no more!😂
This reminds me of that one episode of Tom and Jerry where Tom was gonna eat the duckling but he called him 'mama' and Tom just adopted him. 😔❤️
I still watch hanna and barbara's Tom and Jerry episodes on KZhead. I watched them on Cartoon network 15 years ago as a kid
Aparna Sahai mommy💀
@@xonichelle 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Tom always had a good heart💕
Tom: NOOOOOOOO
Imagine getting adopted by a parent that could eat u at any point...That's tough
I like how they show a different young wildebeest like it’s the earlier one being reunited with its herd
Calf - "It's 2019 and i identify as lion now".
💀 underrated comment now im gone.
Lol
dazhibernian dead 💀 I
@ᅳ ᴋᴀᴏʀɪ Shut up liberal
ᅳ ᴋᴀᴏʀɪ different sense of humor buddy.
This is some Disney shit right here
Seriously what I was thinking this could make a good movie 😂
@@721rena the movie would end either with a carnivorous wildebeest Or a dead one and a heartbroken lion
Lmao
Dead
Lol I'm amazed!
Incredible. This is nature- Sheer strength & Determination, Heartbreak, Violence and a Rare, Random flash of compassion. All in the blink of an Eye
It's a sign that kindness and innocence softens the heart ❤️
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Imagine being born just to get eaten alive a few minutes later
So pretty much like veal Xd
Yeah that's awlful
Imagine thinking climate change actually existed
@@joshgen8533 imagine thinking almost the entire scientific community is somehow wrong
Augusto Vasconcellos imagine thinking consensus is science
The calf must be as famous as Harry Potter, the calf who lived
Ashish nath yep
Lmao
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how do u know?
Hilarious
Maybe it’s the lioness mother instinct that kept the calve alive. One lucky calve!! A unbelievably reunion and a happy mom.
That wildabeast be like when it grows and is in front of stranger Lions: *Um... Ya'll can't prey on me coz I'm actually a kind of a lion myself*
I see you everywhere with mustache with no mustache and sometimes with... never mind
@@hajarhouda8169 The ones you see are my real versions. I'm neither of the two
If lion stopped killing their preys and started to raise them for food, lion could have its own agricultural and civilization.
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Yeah. Like humans. 😐
ItsMeLorraine stop
Just like us ;)
@Jorge Minjarez nah people can laugh lol.
Title should be..... Baby wildebeest tries reverse psychology on lioness
That was super effective lioness is confused
@@robertromancarratala1373 Her predatory instinct couldn't get any lower
Another example that Lions are not just ruthless killers. They are well coordinated, driven by insticts, whatsoever mother insticts involved. Lion is gentle cat compared to other predators.
Lions have hearth. Look at the eyes of the Lioness after 3:40 untill the end. You can clearly see what a good mother and happy animal is.
Further proof of why lions are a national treasure....❤️
Those dislikes are from hyenas 😂😂
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ngXrazor omg lmfao
Bahahahaha that’s a good one 😂😂😂
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You forget to mention wild dogs 🤣
Plot twist: Lion didn't eat the calf cuz it knew it was being recorded
Hashim Nawaz 😂🤣😂🤣
Bad reputation hahaha
Just like i dont hit big dogs (of other hood who hv murdered our hood 3 puppies & mother) when i am in cctv or crowd
@@manojbamnia4756 wat
Like "to catch a predator" "I wasn't going to eat him, we were just going to watch TV and drink soda pop, see"
"Mom, why do I look so different from you ?" "Honey I have something to tell you..."
It's as if the lioness knows it is a baby 😢so precious
Imagine being the wildebeest in the herd that gets to say, "I was chilling with a lion a couple minutes into my birth."
Focking humans!!! Lol!
wildebeast: look at this bulshitter (in a bostin accent) baby: here she comes ( roar in the distance) wildebeast: 👀
Yeah! 😆
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Too bad she'd get eaten before the lion would let em leave!
When, the calf gets older: Lioness: You're adopted. Calf: :O
so the lioness raised that calf as a carnivore? 😳
Haha super cute
Lol, like Heffer from Rockos Modern Life.
**surprised pikachu face**
Lol
There were thousands of calves there but also photographer and videographer manage to record such a loving moments, thank a lot🙏
The glory goes to the lioness here. This shows how royal these beasts we call lions are. It was NOT a mistake that the lioness left that calf, it was deliberate because she saw that the calf was too easy a meal for the lioness to feel proud of. She remembered that as the queen of the Jungle even when she eats she must eat the right food. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cringe
The mum of the calf was lowkey like wait that's illegal
Lol I seen this Before
Lol I seen this Before
Lol I seen this before
Is math related to sciencem
Huh
Lions:Hey where the food at-“ Lioness:HE’s MY SON!
D Jackson Did you just assume the wildebeest gender
I don't know why I read this in Catylin Stark's Voice - "He's my son, my first son."
Wow, I am thinking that lioness wasn't very hungry, or just didn't have the heart to smoke that little one, maybe she just had a litter of her own, idk, but the more I watch these animals the more I am fascinated by them .
Other kid wildebeest be like “why are you so aggressive?” Simba the wildebeest: “er... i was raised by lions..”
Imagine if the lioness takes care of the baby wildebeest and all of a sudden when its older the wildebeest starts hunting other wildebeest. That would be the biggest Uno reverse card. Its like switching to the winning team on cod
@darkey the cat that helped america and more uñderrated comment
Haha funny
A mole in the wildebeest community
Learn More *y e s*
you watch to much movies.. lol
Predatory instinct kicks in: "Oh, here is lunch." Then, motherly instinct kicks in: "Oh, here is my baby."
Why'd you say the same sentence twice
Hyenas never come out of the predatory instinct.
This shows that a family can have any animal as its member and thay grow and live together happily 😊
A breath of fresh air in compared to how most these calfs end up. This was great 👍
'Modern problems call for modern solutions" Baby calf - I identify as a lion
ಬჩítიeყ elaíიe LOL
That...may...cause some problems.
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ಬჩítიeყ elaíიe 😂😭
And lion says don’t worry the Democrats will pay for you to have a species change operation in no time
Mother: I'm outta here!! sorry kid you're on your own. Baby wildebeest: mom it's only aunt Leona🤣
Family beef.
Guest 666 your comment makes me dead😂😂
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A very appropriate name choice as well hahaha
@@oofbruv2528 bruh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wow what a nice Lion. Looks like every creature love babies😊
3:22 It's called the maternal instinct. And it is universal in all mothers, but some have it much more developed.
This calf is gonna be so confused in the future about if Lions should be feared or not
Anon LOL! She imprinted for sure. luckily she found her mom again so maybe she can relearn. Imprinting’s a powerful thing; just ask Jacob 😹
These scenes are pieced together that first calf definitely got ate, that’s why they didn’t show it again, what you think the lion just licked all the new birth off and the was gonna raise the calf. Lol
@@pushtostart1377 I've seen weirder in nature
PushTo STARt maybed it dried off
Letter Letter the other calf shown is visibly older by a couple weeks. The first one definitely got chowed down
Lioness: PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DEMISE Calf: mama Lioness: My sweet child my precious bebby I will never leave your side ever again come to mommy
Funniest comment so far
Ram Sri 😂😂😂
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Ram Sri 😂😂😂
tv documentaries are much tamer than what really happens, but usually this occurs for a short amount of time before the female big cat eats the baby (it's when instincts sort of get mixed up)
I wonder if the lion lost her own baby recently and she knows this baby was just born so she feels compassion for it and wants to love it like her own that passed away. Just a thought.
Its possible.
Amazing reunion God bless both 🙏🙌😇👌💫✨💞❤
She didn’t want to risk a shit storm on twitter.
wow
That's the funniest thing I've ever read on KZhead. Well done!
wrg
HAHAHAHA fucking hell
this made me laught so hard im crying
I'm gonna need a part 2 "Where are they now" of this story.
In the lioness belly. Usually, the reason lioness didn't kill the newborn was to lure the mother so they could kill both of them.
Mike turned into Croc food
What are you expecting an interview with the now grown up wilderbeast😂
Most Likely She Was Saving It 4 Dinner
@@karenstraborvsky5235 *Damn..nature. .you scary.*
I reckon this is proof motherly instinct can over power to the most primal of instincts
Mother's pray is the best pray of this world ❤
Lioness *goes back to the pride* Lion: yo where’s the food?! Lioness: food called me mommy and gave me a hug Lion: ....
Lawd Help lioness: Awwwww my goooodddd it was like the cutest thing ever, like we should get one, like food is overrated, I care about nature and stuff
Lion: How many times are we gonna go thru this Karen, we are not ready for a child yet
LOL lioness " I just couldn't do it after that I didn't have the heart"
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this is why the males hunt in most species
That lioness was raised by keanu Reeves.
This comment deserves 1000 likes
And that's why she's breathtaking
Number 100 good sir lol
*everybody liked that
I think that lioness had a problem with johnwicks puppy
Respect for the lioness on her progressive pro adoption outlook.
“In those predators eyes I never forgot the truth of what I saw down in that lioness eyes. First I saw death. When I felt her jaws on my body I was not afraid. She was a mother. Tho we may have been enemies, in those moments I felt her sadness and a bit of joy as she smelled me. My mother found me after the lioness left. Years after the day of my birth I carry a piece of that eternal moment. It gave me…hope.” Lion Speaker, Wildebeest Elder
Calf: "Born a min ago".... Everyone running!..what's happening guys!?!
the predators were literally spawn-camping
@@ristotenno6438 broooo hahahahaha
Welcome to life.
Born just now and immediately can't catch a break lmao
The predator are bot.. They know where you are land 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
She protecc She attacc But most importantly She doesn't see the calf as a snacc
Foca cicciotta 😂😂😂
You use that same comment format for many different videos.
Shut up.
Your a poet and you don’t even know it
@@soap885 Hahahahahah thank you
Thanks for the marvelous images!!!
Extremely rare at the place where hunt is merciless!
Disney could make this a movie and I’d totally watch it.
But you've already watched it!
@Anthony Gomes What?
@Anthony Gomes No. He said if this video was made into a movie he would watch it. But he's seen the video so he's already watched it!
In the Disney movie the Lioness has an affair with the wildebeest’s husband. They get into a feud, and so the lion adopts the baby wildebeest out of spite. The mama wildebeest becomes a sorcerer & sings a song about how dark & mysterious the world can be. Credits roll and we all go home
@@kevindube7096 then that would be 3D
"Yeah I COULD kill the calf physically...But EMOTIONALLY? Naw"
Lol
emeowtionally? meow.
These predators catch their prey and hold it alive for their young to practice pouncing, stalking , grappling and killing. Nothing emotional here
@@90sNomad /r Whoooshhh
@@90sNomad but the lioness just left it there instead of taking it away from the herd
Lioness : Hey, I lost my son... you remind me of him
It's not really a mystery, but it IS Beautiful - a mother's instinct is very strong.
imagine abandoning your child and then minutes later found it hanging out with your enemy... sounds like a soap opera to me 😂
This is Cobra Kai season 1 plot. :o
Just like Eastenders...............isn't it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Enemies to lovers
Baby wildebeest : mom, I'm hungry Lion : me too. me too...
Awwww 😭🥺
Wow, that was surprislyng deep
Me too yahan bhi🤣🤣🤣
The landscape is itself extraordinary
That lioness had a good heart perhaps. I guess the tenderness of the wildebeest calf melted her heart
Natural selection: Am I a joke to you? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
This has nothing to do with natural selection
@@keksdose6340 ok it's just a joke
But the final result by definition is natural selection.
😁YASSS
Tom Chagas *instinct, not natural selection
How to not get killed by a lion: Act like she was your mom
سبحان الله وبحمده
@@ericolens3 lool
This is due to its amniotic sac spread over the baby wildebeest.
@@witscorpian what is ITS effect ?
@@ericolens3 just shut it ur not funny at all
Lioness: "Look our new born" Lion: "So this is what you are doing behind my back"
This wildebeest is a Jedi "You will not eat me" "You will be my mama" "You will now leave us be"
The calf meeting with the lioness and returning to his mother safely is extraordinary.
I'd bet my next paycheck, that's not what happened. This was edited together. Wasn't the same calf.
@@antwan17 I was wondering how this happened.
i seen a clip where a male lion comes up and kills the calf
So gullible... you know that calf never found its mother and died to another lion
antwan17 ok, then explain the “other” calf in the video that the lioness didn’t eat.
She knows there are hidden cameras.... ain’t trying get caught up 🤷🏾♂️
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🤣🤣🤣lol indeed
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Man 🤦🏾♀️
Calf is so adorable! I don’t blame the lioness for not killing him.
O instinto de mãe falou mais alto.💓💕
She just did that on camera to promote her utube channel
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one look at the calf,it was pure black covered in amniotic fluits,then later,the calf has some greyish color and the fluid has dried up completely,i tink there is some level of high graphics editing here.
@@DanMlayah it's hot in Africa....
Lol
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I was just thinking that maybe the lioness lost her own cubs not long ago and upon seeing/smelling a newborn the mother instincts took over
Anton EightBall mhhm I am aware that my comment was and is not correct, that's why I was using "I was just thinking" and not "Most likely"/"probably"/etc. I'm not that naïve if that's what you're thinking. But please excuse my... "womanly emotions" for not treating this as a quiz on wildlife and simply stating what comes to mind seeing an interaction like this. Next time I'll make sure to not simply enjoy a video but to biologically analyse even the smallest of details - without my womanly emotions.
jenni dont listen to this washed up fool theres a big change you right girls have more mercy and kindness thats what i see with my sister and mother
Anton EightBall ‘your womanly emotions’ oh screw off, edgelord
@Anton EightBall you're gonna cut the lioness with your edge.
Anton EightBall No she isn't. She wasn't hungry at all. She was hunting because she bored. That's what cats do.
Crazy! Crazy! Only heavens can give us the explanations, motherly instincts so real here👍🏼👍🏼
Its really thankful you to capture lion right decision 😊😊