Watch These Lion Cubs Look Over a Wildebeest Herd Like It's Thanksgiving Dinner - A-Z Animals

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When we are hungry on Thanksgiving we simply go to the kitchen and fill our plate up. We often fill our plate up just a little too much at that. However, for animals in the wild Thanksgiving is a bit different, that is if they celebrated it. Hunting is a matter of life and death for them. So, they know not to rush in unless they are positive they can take their prey down. Don’t miss the video just above!

Wildebeest Migration Sighting in Africa

This video brings us to seeing the great migration happening in Africa. This video was filmed and shared by the Wild Earth YouTube page. This channel has daily live safaris that they share that help to connect their viewers to nature, according to their mission. Let’s see what happened with these lion cubs in the video just above during this migration.

Lion Cubs Wanting to Hunt Wildebeest

At the start of this video posted at the top of this blog post, we are taken to Africa. The great wildebeest migration is like a feast in the eyes of predators just like lions. If they can successfully cut animals off in this migration such as wildebeest and zebras, they can have their fill and feed their entire pride.

However, we see these young lion cubs that are overlooking this herd. And they hope that one day they will get big enough to be able to hunt. But, they wisely stay put because they know they aren’t ready to hunt on their own yet.

When Do Lion Cubs Start Hunting?

Have you ever heard an adult say to a child “Don’t grow up too fast?” It means that the adult knows that life goes too quickly. We need to enjoy every phase of our lives, especially our childhood. However, things are a bit different in the wild. Young animals such as lion cubs have to grow up fast to survive in the wild.

Lion cubs rely heavily on their mothers. Cubs will drink milk from their mother’s teats. Around six weeks (or two to three months) the cubs will start to hunt with their mothers. Of course, they are not old enough to go out on their own but they will begin to learn how it’s done.

According to the African Lion & Environmental Research Trust, “At around two to three months, they begin to eat meat as well with their small milk teeth.”

The “cubs” that we see in the video posted above are likely teenage-type years, so to speak. Even still, they are not equipped to try and cut one of these wildebeest off from the herd on their own. They will have to settle for looking over this herd like it’s Thanksgiving dinner and daydreaming about what it would be like to stuff themselves full.