Excellent YouTube video from somebody’s South African safari vacation: Lions attack baby buffalo next to water hole; crocodiles try to steal the baby from the lions, and fail; buffalo herd returns and rescues the baby from the lions’ grasp. Check it out.
Sounds a little like the time my dad saw an osprey grab a frog out of a lake. The osprey was on its way home with a meal when it was attacked mid air by a red-tailed hawk. The osprey dropped the frog, who fell a few hundred feet back to the lake.
I would love to hear the stories that frog told its tadpoles