Extremely Rare Footage: Pack of Dingoes Hunting Asiatic Water Buffalo in Australia 

Dingos be watching too many lion documentaries

Interesting that the dingo has learned to hunt an introduced species such as the Buffalo. I have heard recently that crows, have learned to eat cane toads, by turning them upside down and eating the safe bits. Shows how intelligent these creatures really are!

It is amazing to see, because canids have been hunting placental herbivores for millions of years. Some 5,000 years ago, dingoes reached Australia, and they took to hunting rather different prey. Then Anglo settlers introduced rabbits, pigs, and buffalo, and dingoes were ready to hunt such animals once more, just as they always had. Amazing indeed. Unfortunately, this meant they were also ready to hunt sheep and cattle, much to the chagrin of farmers. But that's another story.

Perfect example of were Australian cattle dogs get there witts from. Split the mother and calf from the herd then took turns keeping the mother busy while others focused on the calf. Intelligent team work at its finest.

Dingos are amazing, I love them! I can’t believe they can take on these animals, they keep the balance in Australia! ;D I love dingos!

To this day I still wonder how dingoes are still alive because I have almost never seen them catch their prey.

I wish more studies were done on Dingoes, they're fascinating animals and not enough information on them.

Really cool footage, I have only heard of this kind of behavior through anecdotal evidence, but seeing it is a completely different experience.

That's my neighbor's dog

Predators have to try to evolve and adapt to hunting the prey they live side by side with.

Wow, they hunt like their cousins (wolves, african wild dogs, dholes, etc) Yep, every wild dog always hunt big prey and these dingoes must've adapted to hunt much larger prey, larger than kangaroos

I wonder if the dingos will start forming bigger packs to better their chances of hunting the buffalo

as an aussie cheers Donnie, we hardly ever see footage of dingos hunting

Now if only the aussie government can show the same initiative that the Dingos and Crocs are when it comes to hunting ferals. Now if can we just reintroduce the Tassie Devils and Quolls back to the mainland so they can take on feral cats, foxes, rabbits and rats that would be great.

I believe that the Australian government (and all other governments, really) should take a different approach to invasive species. As we see here, native species have the capacity of adapting to new challenges. If the government tried only to contain (not exterminate) invasives, natives could then adapt and fight back. It would be cheaper than trying to kill everything.

Thank you Donnie! This is VERY important. I understand that this is a very complex range of topics and that there are endless shades of grey, but indulge me here... *While all attempts must be made to conserve endangered species, the conservation of broad, ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS trumps that of individual species, and in-fact entire communities. I.E What's more important; the reversal of desertification OR the particulars of which species facilitate that process? *In order for the soil/rangelands of BRITTLE ecologies (precipitation

Unsuccessful hunt

Didn't see anything Unbelievable. .lol...African Hunting Dogs would have disembowled and eaten the Buffalo Alive...😆

The way these dingoes go after the buffalo is the same way my heeler herds other dogs at the dog park. Now I know where the behavior comes from.

never seen a dingo go after such a big pray

You can look at this in another way, it could be cattle dogs rounding up some cattle. Cattle dogs go in and bite hard on the hock or the nose. These dingo pups were just playing chasey.

A part of me would often wonder that is somehow, and actual wolves was introduced and interbred with dingoes, what kind of change would that make to the ecology? I can imagine that it would make these dingoes become more big game hunters....

I have never seen Dingo hunt in the wild before.. Thank you for sharing the video

Brilliant! very well done! an amazing capture,to see that with your own eyes must have been one of the best feelings ever!

You know, you can get these feral animal populations under control if they introduce komdo dragons to the continent. Fossil evidence have shown the animal had once lived their and most of the invasive animals are their natural prey, also can you imagine the scene of dingoes taking down a water buffalo from a leg infection then a giant dragon charging in laying claim to a rightful kill.

We need to reintroduce Komodo dragons to Australia

This is excellent footage indeed. But it wasn't hunting.

Australia not long ago had megafauna, the arrival of humans changed that, but the land is still capable of supporting them

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Amazing footage. Thank you for sharing with us. I really look forward to upcoming films from you.

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Considering the size of these two species is comparable to grey wolves and american bison we could assume that both canines use the same strategy for hunting these wild bovids. I have read that when wolves hunt bison they form larger hunting packs of over a dozen wolves. Even then, adult bison are near impervious to wolf predation and they hunt juveniles. If dingos formed large hunting packs they could regularly hunt water buffalo juveniles. But like wolves, dingos probably couldn't take down an adult buffalo unless it is sick/injured beforehand they are just too large. These dingos need more hunters to up their hunting success rate. Just my two cents on the video.

Australia's ferral buffaloe problems can easily be solved. Just hunt them for meat.

Why doesn’t Australia introduce lions.(an endangered species)There seems to be a lot of big introduced herbivores and no big predators left(apart from crocodiles)

I wish there were more videos like that instead of every one wanting to kill them

The coordination of the Dingoes is second to none

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It's amazing do you have incredible lucky for saw this. It reminds me of a pack of wolves coordinating to attack an american bison.

So you have an ancient introduced species hunting another introduced species in Australia. Perhaps they came from the same part of the world and were enemies long long ago.

Dingos are essential to the Australian ecosystem! They need to receive legal protection throughout the territory!

awesome ..... i love dingo's

Absolutely beautiful shots there, subbed

Dogs, man. Class.

But fails in hunting

What stunning footage

Dingoes are like aussies .wild !

They were playing around they never even bit one......click bait

The Australian pit bull

Huge fan of you, your believes, thoughts and adventure footage man. Who could thumbs down these videos! Outstanding stuff!

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Badass Dogs becoming wolves

Last time I went to Australia, I killed 8 dingoes

The Asiatic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is a species of cattle native to Southern Asia, it is the largest of the six living buffalo species and one of the largest cattle species alive today, it is one of the two extant species belonging to the genus Bubalus, the other is the Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis), there are only two recognized subspecies of asiatic water buffalo: the Indian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis bubalis) and the Southeast Asian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis hosei), the former is found only in the Indian subcontinent, while the latter is found only in Southeast Asia.

Maybe Donnie Vincent recorded something on the dingoes that we'd attribute easier to apes, cetaceans and crows: the creation of a new culture among the members of a given pack. See that these dingoes aren't afraid by a much larger buffalo and are even trying to find weak spots on something that can be seen like a "tank of nature" no matter if it's an Asiatic or African one. There are some abnormalities on nature that even biology people doubt if they aren't aware of, like the Savuti lions that not only aren't afraid of elephants but are also capable to hunt adult individuals by forming a huge pack. Theoretically, only baby elephants would be in danger against lions, but in Savuti things are a bit different and lions don't seem to take attention to that hunter-prey size ratio that happens to be the norm on nature. Maybe dingoes are following the same path and knowledge is being developed and transmitted on the packs by try and error. If a pack manages to perfect the strategy and be successful, they'd be the "Aussie Savuti lions".

If david attenborough voiced this in a documentary about Australia this would be even more epic

it looks more like they pet them

I feel like if given time dingoes might evolve to be bigger and form larger pack to compensate for the larger prey on offer for 4,000 years they only had to hunt deer sized prey but know with so much introduced megafauana like water buffalo, dromedary and several deer species and a shit ton of feral pigs roaming the Australian mainland they have more to gain if they adapt to the situation

excellent shots and images

Dingoes aren't indigenous. Sure they've been here a long time, but they aren't indigenous like our marsupials, or Eucalypts. They did not evolve here as our other species of animals did. And to think they're not responsible for the loss of any truly indegenous 'native species' is delusional.

When you know they regularly hunt domestic cattle it’s not a big stretch for a big enough pack to take on buffalo. A sign of this hunting going on is that many have missing tails from the previous attacks. And really they don’t like domestic herding dogs and will come after your dogs on sight.

They say that these amazing animals are in danger. I hope thsy can be saved !! Very full bloods left.

Who else came here from the Joe Rogan podcast . . . Forget the guest biologist . . . But yah . . .anybody?

If dingoes don't hunt buffalo and they did this. That means dingoes must have a complex language system to organize to do something that is out of their natural behavior.

Wow! That video would've been awesome... if there wasn't any music drowning out the sound of the hunt.

The Asian Buffalo is much less aggressive than its African cousin. I wonder how a dingo pack would fare against that species ?

Dingoes are the wolves of the outback

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Reminds me of African Wild Dog hunts Cape Buffalo or even Wolves hunts Bison

Australlians need to take care of these wild dogs. These dogs will bring back balance once ausies let them do their job as apex predators.

It buffaloes use the same strategy of hunting in packs and singling out a Dingo then buffaloes can kill the dingoes one by one since they have outnumbered dingoes in this instance.

Buffalo’s are officially the dumbest creatures in the outback

amazing donnie. hats off to the sicmanta crew!

Imagine dingoes get super huge from eating buffalo and evolve in a wolf sized predator

For Dingo, to hunt African Buffalo, would have been a lot different.

Haha Australia top predator couldn't even take down a baby buffalo

Wait, water buffaloes 🐃 don’t live in Australia 🇦🇺.

Nothing happened. No more interesting than a dog chasing a car! Dislike!

I wonder if dingoes could solve the camel overpopulation?

Well The Dingo's Got To Eat!😒🐶🐕🐃🏞️🇦🇺

Australia have a big problem with Invasive species 😕

did they actually kill a buffalo that day the footage doesnt show the Dingo killing one ?

amazing :)

This is how they evolve

Those are the guys goes up and down in school cafeteria,

They should start hunting Feral Camels too

The Asiatic Water Buffalo being chased by the Asiatic Wolf! A seen thats hundreds of thousands of years in the making!!

id like to see the dingos get one they must be sucessful or they wouldnt try

Cause the most amount of mayhem in the shortest amount of time

A Had to see the this after finding out from the Shorts 😱🔥

I wonder if Dingo Dogs can defeat Kangal Dogs?

And the results is, they had the skills. But Mum is just to much for em. To the comment below, I think a potential 8000+ years is more than enough to say they're native to Australia. Fully adapted to Australian conditions eons ago. Dingo's are genetically a separate species called Canis dingo. See www.dingofoundation.org/

Did the dingo eat their baby or not?

Bring Komodo dragons to Australia, they’d be a beneficial predator to control invasive species populations

Does Dingos and Red Fox cross path? I hope they can eradicate Red Foxes in Australia because it’s becoming a real problem because they’re driving native species to extinction especially the rodents.

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Horns on these are useless

If only they had the sense to beat up the wild dogs

Probably Thousands of years ago, dingoes hunted in the wild with humans on horses. Dingoes always try to stop the prey, not to fight directly-this behawior same as hunting dogs, because dingoes are dogs without owners

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