{"id":225657,"date":"2026-01-03T18:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225657\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:34:12","slug":"she-has-only-minutes-wild-dogs-stop-buffalo-from-trampling-their-pups-then-disaster-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/225657\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShe has only minutes.\u201d Wild dogs stop buffalo from trampling their pups. Then disaster strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African wild dogs are known for their teamwork and highly social nature \u2013 as shown in this heart-wrenching clip from BBC One\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/tv\/kingdom-bbc-attenborough-nature-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Zambia, thousands of cape buffalo start to move towards the Luangwa River.<\/p>\n<p>But in doing so, they trudge ever-closer to pack leader Storm\u2019s hidden hideout, which protects a group of pups.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs work together to drive away the enormous buffalo. But what they can\u2019t prepare for is the sudden collapse of the den \u2013 with all of the pups trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the tense footage below.<\/p>\n<p>Top image: Storm&#8217;s pack in BBC One&#8217;s Kingdom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"African wild dogs are known for their teamwork and highly social nature \u2013 as shown in this heart-wrenching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-225657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}