Tourists on a vacation in the heartlands of Africa caught the sight that they will never forget.  The family of four, the husband and wife and two kids, a girl and a boy around 10 and ll saw the lion grasp a zebra around the neck.  The Zebra tumbled and fell to the grasslands unable to get out of the toothy grasp of the hungry lion. They watched the zebra as it laid  on its side with the lion's iron hold onto its neck.  The Zebra was lifeless as the lion prepared its prey for  its  main course. 

The family was only a few yards from the Zebra and the lion as they stood just inside of the fenced area that barred the vacationers from the wilds of nature.  Though the scene was graphic as the Zebra was losing quite a lot of blood, none of the spectators turned away from the scene.  The family continued to watch as the Zebra now appearing  lifeless laid still as the lion continued to gnaw at its neck.

Zebras are known to gallop in a pack for safety and use the black and white stripes to confuse the lions or any other beast of the wild who tries to hunt them down.  This Zebra was indeed away from the pack and was just about lifeless as it laid there with the lion still gnawing on the left side of its neck.

Then, suddenly as the family of four watched hoping for the Zebra to get up and maybe use it body to crush the hungry lion, the Zebra started moving its black and white limbs in an effort to get up.  With each effort of the  Zebra to get up from underneath the hungry lion, the beast seemed to sink  its teeth deeper into the neck of the weak looking Zebra.  With stauch determination, the Zebra used its back legs and lifted its huge behind from the grasslands of the African country and the jowls the hungry lion. 

Now the Zebra was standing on all fours;  but the lion was still holding tight to its neck.  That lion must have been very hungry because as the family watched, it did not let go of the Zebra's neck.  But now the Zebra was standing and all it would take is a firm shake ot its head to loosen the hold of the hungry lion.  The family watched as intently as they could to see what the wounded Zebra would do about the hungry lion that would not let go of its neck.

The Zebra wrestled the lion down with several firm shakes of its huge head and found itself almost sitting atop  the lion.  Yea, the Zebra was finally freed from the steel grasp of the hungry lion.  At one time during the Zebra's struggle, it found itself almost sitting on the lion. You could almost hear the family thinking and telling the Zebra to sit its huge rump again as it tried on its persistent assailant.  The family watched as if hoping that the Zebra could loosen the lion's grip and then with sheer determination, it happened.  The Zebra was completelyl  free of the lion and immediately tried to get away with the speed that nature had equipped it with.  The lion was in hot pursuit, angry that its dinner was getting away.  The Zebra gave the lion a mighty kick with its back hoops as the lion was now running in pursuit of its prey. After the kick of the Zebra and the long tug of war trying to keep its hold onto the the neck of the Zebra, the hungry now tired lion gave up the fight.

The family like the TV audience of Animal Planet thought that the Zebra would fight the lion.  The Zebra used what nature gave it, which is the speed to get away and galloped quickly away  from the hungry lion.  After a few yards through the watered grasslands chasing after the Zebra that was quickly getting away, the lion gave up his chase.  The Zebra got away as the family cheered to have witnessed such a facet of nature:  the hunter and the hunted.

The hungry lion turned away from the chase, a bit dissappointed  but as a part of nature's life cycle, began the hunt for its next meal of Zebra or whatever animal it would capture.  The family of four smiled as they left a scene that seemed almost hopeless, happy that the underdog who happened to be a Zebra, was again free to roam to wilds of Africa.