Animal metaphors

So it's like this. Did you ever see that nature video where the dry season ends, and all the animals get together around the watering hole and have their first drink in months? And all the animals from the Savannah are on sort of this implicit truce. No one wants to make any trouble, they all just want to drink. But see... don't think for one second... that that gazelle ever takes her eyes off that lion. Oh sure. He's supposed to be minding his own business. But that doesn't mean she's taking any chances. One eye on that lion always.