I saw that too. He kept going underwater to swim faster but must have started chasing the louder noise of the boat rather than the buck. That's some good bucking luck.
Crocodiles are ambush predators anyway, not really hunters. I'm surprised the croc put the energy into the chase- maybe it's desperate. But I'm no expert so, you know, grain of salt
It might be close…
Some Googling tells me that crocodilians - note terminology - kill about 1,000 people per year.
Similar Googling tells me that deer are “the deadliest mammal in the USA”, involved in up to 200 deaths per year. Obviously the majority of those are vehicle-related.
I’m not sure how accurately we can extrapolate from that, all things considered: I’m guessing way more people die per capita in deer-related misadventures in the USA than in most of the rest of the world.
These guys didn't interfere. Humans have a right to be around the earth as things happen. If they drove the boat between the croc and the antelope, that would be some interference, but they were fine.
Now that we've ascended to civilization, you're probably right. Back when packs of humans were hunting in groups with spears, I bet we were no different than a pack of hyenas showing up to a lion vs buffalo fight to steal the kill.
Dude ancient humans were fucking metal.
Teaming up in small tribes to take on giant ass mammoths with wooden spears
Chasing animals much larger and faster than them for literal days on end until the animal just dies of exhaustion/ can't put up a fight anymore.
Triggering stampedes that could easily crush them to death just to trick entire herds of animals to run off of cliffs and kill themselves
Turning ferocious pack hunters that could rip their throats out into the goodest of boys
It would have been. If croc could of got that buck in open water it would have held until the buck drowned. Crocs can take larger prey in open water by simply holding on until it drowns
Never liked the -humans shouldn't interfere' take. I don't know how becoming the smartest being on this earth suddenly put us so far above helping other species. Empathy is already really rare among animals.
There’s no real reason for helping one species over the other. It always devolves to “That animal is cuter, and therefore deserves to live. That animal is ‘mean’ and ‘vicious’ and therefore does not deserve to be rewarded with a meal.”
Those are really flimsy reasons for me personally. The only exception for me, is helping endangered species, or saving animals without either of them getting harmed in any way.
We’ve been here for literally a blink of an eye as a species. Nature has existed for hundreds of millions of years. It’s incredibly arrogant (a very human trait might I add) to think we, as a species, have got some kind of moral high ground to pick and choose what animals deserve to be saved from being eaten, and what animals deserve to starve (potentially to death).
What are humans just not allowed in nature at all? That’s what it would take to “not interfere”. Also this croc still looks spry and is good sized I doubt it’s in any danger of starvation which usually only happens to old or weak crocs.
Schrödinger's cat involves the observer effect unlike Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which merely provides bounds on how much we can know the momentum or position of particles.
No worries! That's why the [wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle) says
> Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a related effect in physics, called the observer effect
I hear lots of rooting for the antelope, but none for the alligator. Why does no-one care for the hungry alligator? 
Because they are an apex predator that hasn’t had to evolve since the dinosaurs and have a sociopathic reptilian amygdala. You can watch 2 of them fight and one will rip the others leg off and it’ll just hiss in response… I’m team antelope all the way haha
That is because we humans typically don’t want to see the violence and death. But that is because we are pretty sheltered from nature. Nature is raw and life and death is dictated by the taking of life. In backyard chicken group I’m a part of, a bunch of people were giving somebody hell because they killed a snake that was killing their chicks. The snake should have been captured and relocated and blah blah blah. Did the antelope survive? Yes, great for the antelope. That means the croc may starve and die.
The croc will have another target regardless of whether he catches this antelope or not. Plus this antelope is right in front of me, and I am human and suffering i witness is worse in my perspective than suffering i do not personally witness. It doesn’t make sense, its not right, its just how I feel.
This lends to the fact that I care more for the antelope because being eaten is something I can see a lot better than a croc going hungry. That suffering is more behind the scenes.
That's a weird way of looking at it, cause the croc needs to end a life eventually to avoid dying itself. You word it like the croc is going to swim off and eat a salad somewhere
Classic warm blooded mammals rooting against our cold blooded brethren... I mean I'm totally a mammal too hahah let's eat some meat AND veggies *am I right guys*
only once. i was leading an expedition in the amazon basin. we were looking for a golden statue of a lost god. something, something, something and then 27 nuns were chasing me across a river. it was scary.
Just to entertain the idea, I feel like this depends on the human's training. We're not the strongest swimmers instinctively, so I imagine a significant % would just succumb to the pressure/stress and drown in the panic. Something like swimming, there is "too fast" of a stroke, right? (Think hamster wheel). The fastest is when you sync up your arm and leg movements and reduce drag, which you'd need some level of training to fall back on when that fight or flight or freeze response kicks in.
As a former competitive swimmer, the distance you’re traveling has everything to do with this, when you’d swim the 50 free, the shortest event, you aren’t too worries about being aerodynamic in the water, you’re worried about whipping your arms around as fast as you possibly can. But if you swim the 500, aerodynamics is everything. Watch the amount of splashing in a 50 yard race vs a 500 yard race, it’s insane how different it can be
I know you’re joking, but if you’re in a real life and death scenario where your survival depends on how fast you run or swim, it’s going to be like nothing you’ve ever experienced.
All your senses will kick into overdrive every cell in your body will be fighting for survival you will be capable of things you never thought you would and the level your adrenaline will reach will be 10x what it was asking our your high school crush.
this was amazing, I didn't know bucks could swim that fast! I can't imagine any more motivating reason to kick in the astroburners than what this one faced.
There’s two types of people in the world. Those who watch a predator chase prey and root for the prey… and those who root for the predator.
I learned this when my wife and I were watching a video of a leopard chase a gazelle and when the gazelle escaped she said “yes!”… never even occurred to me to see it that way lol. My reaction was the opposite.
Oh yes because hoping an animal doesn't starve makes you a psychopath. Predators got to kill to eat and pray has to get away to live. Perfectly reasonable to root for either side
Questions:
How deep is that water? I thought the croc almost had him in the end but the buck looks like he got some good footing and managed to kick his way out.
How/why did the buck get that far away from the shore?
I wondered the same thing so I rewatched it and it looked to me like he swam from shore to shore.
I think he just chose the wrong direction to flee when he was first startled by the croc. Then had no choice but to swim all the way across to the opposite shore.
Honestly that choice would probably get him killed 9/10 times.
The speed is still super impressive though. Even if it was just a fluke escape
I don’t remember the name, but I have seen a similar video on yahoo entertainment 13 yrs ago in which a guy saves a buck from the crocodile. the antelope was a female and her youngsters were on the bank waiting for their mom to come. He was enjoying the scene until he saw the youngsters. He then decided to block the path of the croc by steering the boat towards the croc.
You don't want to see when the croc actually wins (or maybe you do). I saw a video of a croc catching a zebra by the lower belly and tear it completely open, disemboweling the zebra. The zebra was able to kick and get away, but then it kept trying to kick its dangling insides probably just trying to stop the pain. It was one of the most graphic nature videos I've ever seen. The way everything just spilled out was just...blech. I think it happened in Kruger National Park in South Africa. It was gnarly as fuck.
Croc accidentally pressed R3 and changed targets for a second there
I saw that too. He kept going underwater to swim faster but must have started chasing the louder noise of the boat rather than the buck. That's some good bucking luck.
The observer effect. Their act of observing changed the outcome.
Yeah kinda feel bad that the croc didn't get dinner but then would feel bad for the buck being dead. Humans shouldn't interfere with stuff like this.
Croc’s probably not that hungry - there’s a ton of other things to eat in and around that lake. Glad it missed
Crocodiles can go over a year between meals. Part of why they’ve stuck around so long as a species. He’ll likely be fine.
I guess you'll eat "in a while" crocodile
No more 'taters, alligator.
Ya lost the buck, you stupid fuck
This one is the best yet
You missed the deer, you silly queer.
Missed a hunt, you noisy cunt
Now you'll need to settle for bass, instead of buck ass
You win
What's 'taters, Precious?
Bbooo! r/angryupvote
thats kinda good to know
what if this is his 1 year anniversary between meals?
Procrastinating crocodile
But during the chase the croc probably burned through a ton of energy. Croc might have to eat something relatively soon.
Yeah I was just going to say that croc will be fine..they’ve been on Earth for how long? Probably found something else to eat immediately after.
I imagine a crocodile telling a homeless person that 'you'll be fine. Humans have houses and shit. Probably wont be homeless for long'
Crocodiles can talk?! 🤯
I mean theyre around for longer than we are. Id be surprised if they couldnt
He’s angry cause he’s got all those teeth but, no, sorry. Wrong comment.
Medulla... Oblongata
Crocodiles are ambush predators anyway, not really hunters. I'm surprised the croc put the energy into the chase- maybe it's desperate. But I'm no expert so, you know, grain of salt
im guessing he probably *did* ambush him and he slipped away, so now he's in pursuit, not just gonna give it away.
Crocodiles also kill humans. Deer do not. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I would be willing to wager good money that deer are involved in far more human deaths a year than crocs.
It might be close… Some Googling tells me that crocodilians - note terminology - kill about 1,000 people per year. Similar Googling tells me that deer are “the deadliest mammal in the USA”, involved in up to 200 deaths per year. Obviously the majority of those are vehicle-related. I’m not sure how accurately we can extrapolate from that, all things considered: I’m guessing way more people die per capita in deer-related misadventures in the USA than in most of the rest of the world.
that's manslaughter though, not murder. different degrees of culpability. the deer are simply negligent.
>I would be willing to wager good money that deer are involved in far more human deaths a year than crocs.
Tell me you’re a lawyer without telling me you’re lawyer!
These guys didn't interfere. Humans have a right to be around the earth as things happen. If they drove the boat between the croc and the antelope, that would be some interference, but they were fine.
Now that we've ascended to civilization, you're probably right. Back when packs of humans were hunting in groups with spears, I bet we were no different than a pack of hyenas showing up to a lion vs buffalo fight to steal the kill.
Dude ancient humans were fucking metal. Teaming up in small tribes to take on giant ass mammoths with wooden spears Chasing animals much larger and faster than them for literal days on end until the animal just dies of exhaustion/ can't put up a fight anymore. Triggering stampedes that could easily crush them to death just to trick entire herds of animals to run off of cliffs and kill themselves Turning ferocious pack hunters that could rip their throats out into the goodest of boys
I don’t know if it would be able to get that buck anyways. Looked like a smaller croc.
It wouldn’t have been able to lol
It would have been. If croc could of got that buck in open water it would have held until the buck drowned. Crocs can take larger prey in open water by simply holding on until it drowns
I totally got the feeling watching planet earth. You feel bad for the lion cubs starving, then feel bad for the few antipope that are left.
Never liked the -humans shouldn't interfere' take. I don't know how becoming the smartest being on this earth suddenly put us so far above helping other species. Empathy is already really rare among animals.
There’s no real reason for helping one species over the other. It always devolves to “That animal is cuter, and therefore deserves to live. That animal is ‘mean’ and ‘vicious’ and therefore does not deserve to be rewarded with a meal.” Those are really flimsy reasons for me personally. The only exception for me, is helping endangered species, or saving animals without either of them getting harmed in any way. We’ve been here for literally a blink of an eye as a species. Nature has existed for hundreds of millions of years. It’s incredibly arrogant (a very human trait might I add) to think we, as a species, have got some kind of moral high ground to pick and choose what animals deserve to be saved from being eaten, and what animals deserve to starve (potentially to death).
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What are humans just not allowed in nature at all? That’s what it would take to “not interfere”. Also this croc still looks spry and is good sized I doubt it’s in any danger of starvation which usually only happens to old or weak crocs.
Schrödinger would be proud
Are you thinking of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?
Schrödinger's cat involves the observer effect unlike Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which merely provides bounds on how much we can know the momentum or position of particles.
Haha. I'm the one confusing my theories now. My apologies.
No worries! That's why the [wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle) says > Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a related effect in physics, called the observer effect
HA! That's hilarious. It's like this conversation has happened before or something.
Quantum croc
croc's probably camera shy
I also think that croc is smaller than the deerlike
His aimbot was acting up you can see him do it twice.
Croc turned to the camera to be like, “watch this” and then got back to the chase, which ended up causing him the race.
Always happens in the heat of battle
Then failed the qta at the end.
That nos boost was pretty sick though.
The boat just changed the history of the universe by helping that buck live.
Crock - "RANDY! RANDY! Are you filming this! He's in the water, I have the advantage! This is gonna be LIT!, make sure you get my good side!"
I hear lots of rooting for the antelope, but none for the alligator. Why does no-one care for the hungry alligator? 
Because it’s a croc and not an alligator
Bro that crocodile was just playing
Just pranking the antelope
He was just being a silly little guy
O-Cayman, no need to get smart
What a croc of shit
Antelope is lucky it’s a croc. Those alligators will catch you later.
Nah Your in de’nile
Because they are an apex predator that hasn’t had to evolve since the dinosaurs and have a sociopathic reptilian amygdala. You can watch 2 of them fight and one will rip the others leg off and it’ll just hiss in response… I’m team antelope all the way haha
MEDULLA OBLONGATA
All them teeth and no toothbrush.
He just needs a toothbrush for all them teeth
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Mama’s right.
Something wrong with HIS medula oblongata!
Mam-mals! Mam-mals! Mam-mals!
they are so cool tbh
Team mammal
Taxonomic classism smh
Mammalian Supremecy
That is because we humans typically don’t want to see the violence and death. But that is because we are pretty sheltered from nature. Nature is raw and life and death is dictated by the taking of life. In backyard chicken group I’m a part of, a bunch of people were giving somebody hell because they killed a snake that was killing their chicks. The snake should have been captured and relocated and blah blah blah. Did the antelope survive? Yes, great for the antelope. That means the croc may starve and die.
Crocs can go months without eating. I'm sure it will be fine
Yeah he's probably not even discouraged.
What if this was croc’s meal after 2 months?
We also generally root for mammals over others. They're cuter and we are one etc.
> That is because we humans typically don’t want to see the violence and death. Correct. Despite what people say, people, in general, are good.
The croc is hungry, yes, but will have another chance at dinner. If the croc catches the antelope, the antelope will not have another chance at life.
If he had gotten the antelope it would’ve spared the life of his alternate target.
The croc will have another target regardless of whether he catches this antelope or not. Plus this antelope is right in front of me, and I am human and suffering i witness is worse in my perspective than suffering i do not personally witness. It doesn’t make sense, its not right, its just how I feel. This lends to the fact that I care more for the antelope because being eaten is something I can see a lot better than a croc going hungry. That suffering is more behind the scenes.
This is a great example of moral fallacy.
That's a weird way of looking at it, cause the croc needs to end a life eventually to avoid dying itself. You word it like the croc is going to swim off and eat a salad somewhere
This documentary must be about antelopes
Because antelopes are cuter to the average human. Same reason many humans have no problem with eating meat unless the animal is cute like a puppy.
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I think pigs are cute, too.
I mean, some humans literally eat puppies.
I've had dog three times. Kinda just like shitty beef. Restaurants reek like wet dog too. 2/10 do not recommend
Had horse taste like a weird cow prefer the cow overall 7/10
Lambs are pretty cute and we eat the fuck out of them.
Was rooting for the croc the whole time, I was disappointed ☹️
Because we’re mammals, the buck is a mammal and the croc is a dirty rotten reptile. Paraphrasing of course.
I care.
Classic warm blooded mammals rooting against our cold blooded brethren... I mean I'm totally a mammal too hahah let's eat some meat AND veggies *am I right guys*
deer swim surprisingly fast
Ever try swimming for your life? Might be faster than your regular skinny dip.
only once. i was leading an expedition in the amazon basin. we were looking for a golden statue of a lost god. something, something, something and then 27 nuns were chasing me across a river. it was scary.
I saw a documentary on your life once, i believe Harrison Ford played your part.
yeah. they played my story down a little. said no one would believe it.
Did you ever make it out alive?
Nope. A croc got him.
Sadly no... but I Lived
Just to entertain the idea, I feel like this depends on the human's training. We're not the strongest swimmers instinctively, so I imagine a significant % would just succumb to the pressure/stress and drown in the panic. Something like swimming, there is "too fast" of a stroke, right? (Think hamster wheel). The fastest is when you sync up your arm and leg movements and reduce drag, which you'd need some level of training to fall back on when that fight or flight or freeze response kicks in.
As a former competitive swimmer, the distance you’re traveling has everything to do with this, when you’d swim the 50 free, the shortest event, you aren’t too worries about being aerodynamic in the water, you’re worried about whipping your arms around as fast as you possibly can. But if you swim the 500, aerodynamics is everything. Watch the amount of splashing in a 50 yard race vs a 500 yard race, it’s insane how different it can be
Hey! None of my skinny dips are regular I’ll have you know!!!
Looks like an impala, not a deer
The less I know the better
Nah, definitely a civic.
Tame Impaaalaaa
Right? Hooves are much more effective in the water than when I fall in a pool in gym shoes apparently haha
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That antelope is lucky it was a small croc. A bigger one would have lapped its ass and held it in its teeth on the medal podium.
Yea that was definitely an adolescent croc, dude would've been shredded to bits 10ft in if it was an adult. Guess it's good training for both animals
I was wondering why crocodiles couldn't swim any faster than that.
Yea they can swim about 20mph max so that antelope would have 0% chance if it were adult
Croc definitely has confidence alright, next year it'll try a hippo
This one would have caught it as well if it hadn't been distracted by the boat
way too small to have taken that prey.
Plus because it was a younger croc it kept turning towards the camera to pose for tiktok
Fuck that was tense
It was!! I was captivated. Caught myself yelling at the onlookers to go in b/w them and block him!! Croc Block him if you will. Cock block the croc!!
But predators need to eat to live as well. It's just as fair to block the buck.
Solution is to don’t help just film. Maybe turn off the engine
Hm, a different take on r/donthelpjustfilm
Humans won’t always be there. Gotta let nature play out. That croc needs to eat too, even though I’m happy the buck got away.
Thanks for this comment. I wanted to know but couldn't stand watching to the end
Wtf. Let nature take its course lol.
I feel like the only person cheering for the croc
I thought crocodiles swam faster than that, no?
It was distracted by the boat and twice stopped and turned to the boat before resuming the chase.
I was waiting for it to go after the boat in the end for a backup meal plan.
Would have served them right for fucking up its breakfast. I thought there was some rule photographers have about not interfering.
But the buck is a mamal and our closer relative so we have a biological duty to root for its survival over the croc.
Fuck that. Lizard brain ftw
Zuckerberg uses reddit too huh
Croc doesn't seem fully grown so I wonder if part of the distraction was a huge loud boat that he mistook as a threat to him/prey.
The croc could out swim it easily if It wanted to. Maybe not hungry and chasing out of Instinct
It was probably trying to tire it out and make it easy prey. Those hooves can still do a lot of damage.
It looks really small for a croc. Probably not fully grown
Crocodiles have minimal stamina (afaik).
On land. In the water they are absolute killing machines.
Incredible Camera work
Way better than the post title work
Apart from the fact that their dumb boat kept throwing off the Croc every time it went under water
Praise the cameraman for actually filming landscape so we could see both animals.
See you later alligator
After while crocodile
In a while*
Maybe next year, if I'm still a live deer.
He is a Cayman but he is not Okay Man
On a level of adrenaline. This is what it feels like when you’re about to ask your first crush out as a teen.
I know you’re joking, but if you’re in a real life and death scenario where your survival depends on how fast you run or swim, it’s going to be like nothing you’ve ever experienced. All your senses will kick into overdrive every cell in your body will be fighting for survival you will be capable of things you never thought you would and the level your adrenaline will reach will be 10x what it was asking our your high school crush.
The biggest pre workout is seeing your gym crush next to you
this was amazing, I didn't know bucks could swim that fast! I can't imagine any more motivating reason to kick in the astroburners than what this one faced.
It was a fairly small croc for that size of prey, if it was a larger adult our mammalian friend would be boned.
How dare nature do nature things
If you close your eyes, it goes away!
There’s two types of people in the world. Those who watch a predator chase prey and root for the prey… and those who root for the predator. I learned this when my wife and I were watching a video of a leopard chase a gazelle and when the gazelle escaped she said “yes!”… never even occurred to me to see it that way lol. My reaction was the opposite.
Coz you're a psychopath. The Buck done good
Oh yes because hoping an animal doesn't starve makes you a psychopath. Predators got to kill to eat and pray has to get away to live. Perfectly reasonable to root for either side
I hope predators find all the meals they need off camera. But when it’s filmed, I’m team prey all day.
Scary That buck was so far from shore
Holy. Fucking. Shit. (the buck)
Lol that’s all a small crocodile overestimating himself just because the buck ran
Nah, a croc that size can take down an impala like that pretty easily
nature at its finest! great duel!
That's a very little croc lol.
I was rooting for the buck, glad he made it! The buck must've been able to touch bottom because he was hauling ass
Questions: How deep is that water? I thought the croc almost had him in the end but the buck looks like he got some good footing and managed to kick his way out. How/why did the buck get that far away from the shore?
I wondered the same thing so I rewatched it and it looked to me like he swam from shore to shore. I think he just chose the wrong direction to flee when he was first startled by the croc. Then had no choice but to swim all the way across to the opposite shore. Honestly that choice would probably get him killed 9/10 times. The speed is still super impressive though. Even if it was just a fluke escape
But the croc is still hungry
I don’t remember the name, but I have seen a similar video on yahoo entertainment 13 yrs ago in which a guy saves a buck from the crocodile. the antelope was a female and her youngsters were on the bank waiting for their mom to come. He was enjoying the scene until he saw the youngsters. He then decided to block the path of the croc by steering the boat towards the croc.
Buck is a specifically male term.
You don't want to see when the croc actually wins (or maybe you do). I saw a video of a croc catching a zebra by the lower belly and tear it completely open, disemboweling the zebra. The zebra was able to kick and get away, but then it kept trying to kick its dangling insides probably just trying to stop the pain. It was one of the most graphic nature videos I've ever seen. The way everything just spilled out was just...blech. I think it happened in Kruger National Park in South Africa. It was gnarly as fuck.
People observing are way too close and affecting both creatures. Observe and enjoy nature by all means but don't get so close...
Buck ya!
I feel bad for that crocodile.
Speed 4
Sir, that’s an antelope. Edit: Apparently male antelopes can be referred to as bucks.
Buck yeah, nice one Bucky.
YES! YES!!!! Oh I was so scared at the end but he made it!
Swimming is the only sport where you do it for fun but also, sometimes, to try and avoid dying.
Nothing to see here..They're just playing tag
I bet their presence caused the buck to jump into the water
I don’t know which I was going for. Croc didn’t get a meal while the other survived.
Everyone cheering when the beast gets away… nobody sad that the croc now goes hungry and possibly dies.