# Lioness Battles Baboons to Protect Her Cubs - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2115853927816265872 - Source account: [@AnimalAddaHub](https://x.com/AnimalAddaHub) - Source language: English - Duration: 5:46 - Published: 2026-10-30 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs ## Transcript [0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=1) This time there is no warning. And for one moment, the troop remembers what a lioness is. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=9) But a troop is a family, too, and families answer. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=21) She is drowning in hands. And every second she spends fighting here is a second her cubs spend alone. [0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=47) The troop breaks and runs, and she follows, exactly where they want her. [0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=54) Behind her, the grass goes quiet. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=61) One baboon didn't join the chase. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=70) Far ahead, she is winning the wrong battle. [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=76) The rocks belong to them. They always have. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=91) And a small scream splits the air, a sound no mother ever forgets. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=98) She turns back too fast, too late. One, two, three. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=107) There should be four. The grass still holds his scent and nothing else. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=115) Somewhere in those rocks, a cub is crying in a stranger's arms. [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=122) She cannot climb after him, not without leaving three more behind. [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=127) So she chooses the three, and the troop comes down for more. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=133) They've learned the trick now. [2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=140) Draw her out, strike behind her. Now she stops chasing. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=146) She keeps them so close they walk inside her shadow, but a shadow can only stretch so far. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=157) A simple tactic. [2:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=162) They're wearing her down like water on stone. [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=170) Still three, and the troop still wants more. [2:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=176) They are not planning on letting her go, not quite yet. [3:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=182) Every charge she makes leaves a door open behind her, and someone always walks through it. [3:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=191) Same door, same mistake. [3:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=199) Two. Another one carried into the rocks like stolen fruit. [3:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=208) She is no longer protecting a family. She's protecting what's left of one. [3:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=220) It happens faster every time. And now there is only one. [3:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=229) One small cub running to the only safe place left in the world, her. [3:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=234) But she hasn't stopped listening for the others. [3:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=237) The crying leads her to the oldest tree on the plain. [4:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=242) Up in the branches, out of reach, her cub is being held like a prize. [4:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=248) A prize for the baboons. For the lioness, a price for crossing. [4:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=256) She could wait beneath this tree forever. [4:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=260) But at her feet, the last one is watching her. [4:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=267) And sometimes the bravest thing a mother can do is walk away. [4:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=274) She doesn't look back. She can't afford to. [4:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=280) Four began this crossing. One will finish it. [4:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=287) The troop will forget her by tomorrow. The plain will forget her by the next rain. [4:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=293) She never will. [4:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=298) Far from the rocks, she finally lets her body stop. [5:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=305) And the last cub does what cubs do. It plays as if the world were still kind. [5:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=312) Maybe that's the gift of being small. You don't count what you've lost. [5:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=317) She does, every single step. Somewhere behind them, three small voices are still calling from the trees. [5:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=328) She hears them in every gust of wind. But one is still here, still close, still hers. [5:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=337) And for a lioness, one is enough to keep walking. [5:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/uxx7EvoTtLzM/en/lioness-battles-baboons-to-protect-her-cubs?t=342) This time, nothing follows them into the mist.