How a Dead Elephant Is Consumed In Under Two Minutes

This is a time relapsing of what happens when you will a dead elephant on the savanna . Yes , it ’s like the Lion King , but really gross . Do n’t play it if you do n’t want to see Panthera pardus , hyenas and fly sheet putting all those proteins and carbohydrates back into the ecosystem .

Filmed with remote cameras and night vision paraphernalia , this fascinating video is part of The Elephant : lifetime after Death , a program filmed in the Tsavo West National Park , Kenya , and hosted by biologist Simon Watt for UK ’s Channel 4 along with a squad of experts in biology and animate being behaviour .

The above is just a timelapse of the whole process , but the documentary goes through it all in stunning item , showing “ six million calories worth of fat , meat and guts ” get transformed by big animals — like leopards , hyaena and vultures — and small creatures — like mallet , flies and maggots—”feeding a whole new cycle of life sentence . ” All in just a few days .