Just a trifle overmatched.

“An angry elephant impales an African buffalo like a shish-kabob, lifting it in the air before savagely flinging it away, during a deadly tusk-to-horn face-off in the Serengeti.

The buffalo had been napping near a bush in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve when it was startled awake by the approach of the elephant and three of its family members.

Although clearly out of its weight class, the buffalo head-butted the elephant. But the impact staggered the buffalo, and the pachyderm, about six times bigger, retaliated by fatally sinking a tusk into its neck.

The lopsided clash was captured by amateur photographer Kimberly Maurer as she visited Maasai Mara with a tourist group.”

HT: Sea Run.

An enterprising crocodile grabs a cape buffalo by the leg, and finds out the hard way why the cape buffalo is regarded by many authorities as very possibly the most dangerous of the Big Five.

Hat tip to Field & Stream.

African video of lions attempting to take young Cape Buffalo.

8:23 video

I think Glenn Reynolds would say that those Cape Buffalo behaved like “a pack, not a herd.”