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an African safari and may include animal
kills and caucuses viewer discretion is
advised it’s a cool breezy afternoon
there’s some cloud cover in the perfect
conditions for a young male Stian book
to roam around the open plains of Juma
this is Safari live
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good afternoon and welcome to our sunset
Safari my name is Tristan on camera
today at what’s in the Sox boom TZ who
has decided this afternoon to wear his
very finest pair of socks which we’ll
get into just now now remember we are
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what’s going on now
since since we’ve started with an S and
the steelbook i think socks are a
perfect time to come out the clouds are
starting to break there was a bit of
sunshine alias ins has decided to whip
out his best and finest pair of socks
this often come on since a sucks out I
did my socks this morning you’ve got to
do your socks now here we go
so sensors got his socks out and they
are very patriotic socks look at that
we’ve got the South African flag socks
so we’ve got patriotic socks
this afternoon we also have another
member of the crew driving around with
us this afternoon and you might have
noticed his little eyes sticking out in
the dashboard that is pg me emoticon
speaker that gives us a lot of
entertainment and well it’s just for a
bit of vibe in us as Megan says before
we go out and drive in the parking lots
we kind of play a bit of music and get
ourselves into the swing of things so
peih-gee is riding along this afternoon
and we thought you look quite cool under
the dashboard with his little white eyes
poking out so he’s going to be riding
and hopefully he’ll bring us some good
luck because well there’s lots of
potential this afternoon we’re going to
probably just do our time lapse quickly
hello little males teen walk you very
relaxed are you going to run away from
us or stay there how relaxed does the
stand book that’s ridiculous no he’s not
running anyways this is my piece of
grass I’m not going to run away can see
he’s got his nose down sniffing I wonder
if he’s looking for his female companion
who’s around they also mating at this
time of the year so much like the darker
they’re also looking to mate and to find
female so that’s maybe why he’s sniffing
so much maybe he’s picking up the scent
of where female has walked and that’s
going to lead him to a mating
opportunity
TI smells all the little branches he’s
not actually eating maybe that’s also
why he’s not running for us too
preoccupied with the scent of a lady to
worry about this big
that is close by and like I said it’s
probably the most relaxed in what we’ve
seen in a long time
no way scared of us at all but I was
saying that this afternoon was full of
promise and hope we had hasanat twin
dams this morning the in Coomer with
hook hubs around us north of the lodge
and the high Nadine was active so lots
of different things that we can try and
schedule for this afternoon what I want
to try and do is probably head towards
the in kuma lioness and her fluffy
little Cubs and see if we can get a view
of them this often to start with because
remember that sighting will close when
it starts to get dark which will be
fairly early this afternoon with the
card cover that we’ve got and then we
gain to hit southwards towards probably
husana and try and get a little bit more
time with him than the last two three
minutes that we had this morning
apparently he was left very sleepy all
curled up in a tiny little ball in the
same place and there was lots of alarm
calls apparently to the north of him so
I’m pretty sure tumbles around and I
wonder if we’re not gonna get Tambor
husana 2.0 this afternoon so it will
head in that direction a little bit
later to see if we can find the two
young gentlemen of Juma but before we do
all of those and we get to interested in
all of the other things what we need to
do is we need to go and do our time
lapse so I’m going to take sensor to do
our time lapse so we can do that and
then we’ll have that out the way and
then we can get into the serious stuff
now I believe a lot of you are very very
fond of sensor socks I know they are
patriotic I do like them too since we’ve
done a sterling it for today buddy well
then so it’s always good to be patriotic
and I’m quite enjoy those ones so those
are fantastic and yes poogie is a
wonderful addition to the team he’s puts
right in as you can see he’s got a
perfect space it’s almost like wendy was
designed to house poogie on the
dashboard so peih-gee sits there he’s
got his big white eyes and he just
watches over what goes on and hopefully
he’ll like I say we’ll bring us lots of
luck the other nice thing about puji is
if we have some bird calls and things
like that now I no longer have to kind
of hold a phone to my head and pretend
like I am kind of concentrating on
looking at the backend of my phone I can
play it from here and Posie will emanate
that sound towards all of you into the
camera and it’ll be much easier for all
of us involved so he’s a good addition
I’m not sure if it to he or she it
haven’t decided Megan he or she Lou I
don’t know anybody not sure we’ll have
to think about that
he I think he making guys she I go he
synthesis are Megan it’s a he Lou says
he saw Megan you’ve been outvoted three
to one
we went so there we go crew G is a boy
so he’s going to bring us some luck this
afternoon I’m can feel it’s in my bones
okay Kanpur make him play a song I can
feel it in my fingers I can feel it in
my toes isn’t something like that yes I
think there is a song that goes
something like this now I won’t be the
only one out this afternoon it seems
like we might have the Mara as well in
full force it sounds like brain clear
Smith is going down the hill and so it’s
Taylor and I think Jamie’s also might
even be out somewhere near a river
somewhere and crossing that way so no
peih-gee don’t fall so it seems as
though we’re going to have a full crew
after this afternoon which will be
wonderful and I’m pretty sure then it’s
going to be very spectacular given that
this morning was anything what if we get
anything to go by but this morning it’s
going to be really quite wonderful
what’s wrong sensor I’m supposed to park
closer no we want to see your socks so
sins are things that I must park closest
that he can hide his socks but there’s
no chance and you can see since there’s
a colorful character not only does he
have colorful socks he’s got a bright
orange jersey nice bright green t-shirt
so he really is sporting some colors
this afternoon and he is certainly
adding some vibrance to our day so
fashion guru most certainly sends are
you are the fashion guru once again
standing by his tree waving there we go
since oh this is gonna become a thing
now it’s no longer the thumb of the
afternoon it’s going to be the socks in
sins are waving at the marula tree
because we keep doing to him but he
certainly is looking very very spiffy
this afternoon and he’s going to be
impressing whatever animal we come
across hopefully they will also increase
yet the brightness and bits of
joyfulness that since I was bringing to
this afternoon’s proceedings I certainly
have enjoyed it
now all dancing sir that was very
quickly becoming quicker than SIB at
this rates which is a mean feat so very
good job now I believe that I was saying
the morrow team out and that brain clear
Smith is out and well he’s raring to say
hello to all of you so let’s go across
to him and see what his plans are for
the afternoon on camera today and we’re
going to go try find that female cheetah
that we were so desperately after
yesterday but unfortunately the rain put
an end to that now we’re actually going
down the road that was a river and
looking a little bit drier to death and
if we fail with the female cheetah we’ll
probably head back towards this area and
see if we get any luck with the gamma
pride very exciting we got going a
little bit late this afternoon we have a
bit of early rain fortunately it wasn’t
too heavy so we are able to get out and
let’s hope the rain that stays away now
jamie is all the way on the other side
of the river and hopefully you might
have some luck with the amani girls or
even possibly the Bella shucker boys
please you don’t know other minor girls
a pair of female cheetah
and the British soccer boys are
coalition of six male lions Moo here we
go the first bit of fun
hold on
easy desert
remember hashtag is safari live if you
have any questions from us we would love
to hear from you it is a gorgeous our
theme Taylor is going to be heading down
towards the southeast seeing if she can
maybe catch up ahead there might be a
possibility of some of all the beasts
crossing around look Hart crossings so
fingers crossed there that there might
be some bull D’s back in the Triangle
shortly
so we’re gonna keep marching towards so
there the Southwest so the complete
opposite direction to Taylor we’re going
to move along against all our escarpment
and see if we can have any luck there
with that female cheater of course it’s
also a great sausage Pride country
lots of muddy spots yeah so I’m gonna
concentrate on where to go and and how
not to get stuck while we do that sounds
like China has got a special treat for
you before I even introduced myself
we’re gonna lose sight of this reiner
unfortunately they’re quite a few cars
here so I think let’s have a little look
at the Rhino first and then once we have
to reposition of the national introduce
myself to all of you but isn’t this
fantastic isn’t this incredible there we
go you can see someone’s head and screen
it’s very crowded yeah hello everybody
my name is saya and on camera with me
today is we’re gonna go with cutthroat
Craig and be good I think we’re gonna
make that stick aka Batman sometimes
people call him Craig but not ready now
this is live this is interactive this is
happening right now from the Mara
triangle in Kenya and we’re very happy
to have you so if you have any questions
for us remember hashtag did I say that
already
hashtag Safari though I think I may have
said that a room it doesn’t matter and
you can chat us on the YouTube chat I’m
trying to figure out how we’re going to
get a view of these rhinos because we
can’t really go off-road here it’s a
high high usage area so we’ve got to
stick to the tracks and there’s many
cars in front of us and I don’t know
everything you see praying me see if I
can do a little bit of positioning
but we’ll try how’s that get through
these two cars I’ll go a little bit more
there we go look how incredible that is
now the two of them yet one was most
certainly a male I didn’t really get to
have another proper look at the other
one but it could be either way it could
be oh there we go we can have a look on
the left this will give us a chance to
zoom in double-check well yes that looks
very much like a female so it is a male
and a female that have obviously joined
at the haps this lass is coming into
Easter’s and the male is perhaps
starting up in the courtship process
which was very cool to see I’ve only
seen rhinos mating once before and white
rhino it’s not even black runners so
wouldn’t that be quite exciting and it’s
the first time I’ve seen them out in the
open like this this is really really
amazing oh my goodness you won’t believe
our like a gap has opened up Wow
so we’re just gonna be a little bit
patient one more vehicle is moving and
then we’re just gonna let them reverse
and then we’re gonna jump back onto the
track Shane we’re gonna do it right not
we’re gonna steal a sneak spot
and we’re gonna stay on the track too
it’s gonna cost back to this so they
keep walking away from us but that’s
okay and we’re going to keep on distance
we’re actually not going to follow them
for too long
and the reason for this is because our
plan is to head to the far west where
rumblings from I don’t know hard Brent
gets all his Intel but brent has
whispered to me that apparently there
are some wildebeests that have crossed
back from the Mara National Reserve back
into the triangle so we’re gonna go see
if we can find them there are lots of
lines down in that area so it could be
quite exciting will tonight be the day
that I get to see my first tank down
from the start to finish in the Mara
because can you believe it I have not
seen a kill yet not that it’s
necessarily my favorite thing
betim it’s still quite interesting to
learn about the various hunting
techniques that the different lines
using the different areas so that’ll be
quite nice but I thought it would be a
great way to start a day off with one of
the endangered species of Africa and you
can see they’re living quite well here
they’re nice and healthy there’s lots of
vegetation for them to browse on and you
can see that these runners have actually
well a part of research they’ve got
notches in their ears so they were
obviously darted and blood samples were
taken and I’m sure they have their own
ID somewhere hidden safe very cool there
Wow and I really hope you’re taking as
many screenshots as you can because it’s
not often that we get to see them out in
the open for such a long time either
absolutely beautiful
now I could spend all day with these
animals one of my favorite things to do
down in the Eastern Cape under certain
watch them a huge horse fan are you
wondering how long are they pregnant for
you just wondering you glad to wonder as
much as you like well the gestation
period for a black rider is just a month
less than the white rhino so it’s 15
months
it’s quite a long time white rhinos 16
months and but really it’s it’s so close
I mean what’s a month they’ve been
wallowing is all they look like they’ve
obviously sat in a bit of mud during the
day
another up and feeding isn’t this great
no James how long is the courtship
process for a black rhino I’m trying to
think and the reserve that I worked with
you actually and he had males who didn’t
have any females and what we did and
unfortunately she died of natural causes
not from poaching or anything so I
wasn’t able to witness that courtship of
a black rhino and I wouldn’t imagine it
to be only a couple of days maybe three
to five days or so and maybe quite
similar to the white rhino I’ll have to
have a little look I did see quite a few
black rhinos in the sabi sand in the
South but they were so skittish as
always at a distance and all charging
through a lion sighting which I suppose
is pretty good how’s that scenery all
those tall trees the grass is lovely and
green fallen trees that really is
stunning Archer well in the fact that
you’ve also got two black wall at what –
how’s that – black white rhinos miners
walking to your screen look at those
pointy lips perfect for nibbling off the
leaves
I wonder what shrub they’re eating over
here has anyone ever seen their Rhinos
when they eat you for beers it’s
something that I used to watch them do
quite a bit it’s one of their favorite
foods in fact they eat quite a large
amount of the euphorbia and that is
present in this area – no Larry you said
that they are beautiful and they’re
prehistoric looking there are rhinos
haven’t really changed much in their
design for millions of years
so they really are one of the
prehistoric creatures archaea always
armor-plated but what we said they are
going to have to move off from here
we’ve got a long way to go still to get
to the southwestern corner of the
triangle and hope to find some
wildebeest which will be nice because
I’ve seen a total of 12 wildebeest today
and they were up on the escarpment and
that beautiful she’s got a bit of a he’s
got a bit of a split yeah my favorite we
recognise him
right
I’m going to see you all a little bit
later hopefully once I’ve arrived at my
destination I’m going to send you all
the way to South Africa now – dear
Tristan and I wonder if there are any
clouds looming in the sky there are some
clouds looming in the sky Taylor mercury
but they are fairly innocuous at the
stage they butt splits part but sort of
broken up there’s nothing really too
threatening in these clouds so I don’t
think we’re gonna get too much more
raining it was just that little bit that
we had this morning which was really not
enough like I say it’s even settle the
dust after the dryness that we’ve had
over the last few months so at this
stage then we’re gonna have nice weather
the soft and at least the wind has
dropped so the difference between
yesterday and today and why probably
today has been a little more successful
in terms of the types of animals that
we’re seeing and and the sort of more
species that are there always bother
them for what we’re seeing is because
the wind is down so if as soon as the
wind gets up a lot of the animals try
and find cover we got lucky that we had
the in comer pride and that the sticks
made a kill but if we didn’t have that
it would have been quite a difficult day
at the office but today no wind and
we’re seeing that the leopards are out
because I believed in Ghana was seen
this morning quarantine was seen this
morning hasana was seen this morning
there was tracks for Tomba as well so
there’s a lot of lipids moving around
and hopefully that means that we will
find them at some point this afternoon
as well and I’m right near where this
lioness was this morning buttons you are
asking about the Buffalo if they came
into Juma unfortunately not what
happened with the Buffalo as they went
back into Manya Leyte so they crossed
waste into Manya lady but I’ve just
heard the update now that they’ve come
back again into bottles hook and they
are slowly kind of moving in an easterly
direction now in terms of how far they
are away from the boundary they’re not
they’re about 800 to 900 meters north of
the boundary itself and there’s no
visual from our boundary with them but I
believe the herd is big big big the guys
say it’s a very big herd so I don’t know
exact
the army news in it but they say very
big which I’m hoping means at least 300
plus in that herd which is good news now
the interesting part about it is the way
that they walking they’re about to walk
themselves into an unknown pride of
lions that is hanging around in Buffalo
right on the money lady boundary at the
moment cool and they think it might be
the telemetry’s which is the first time
I’ve heard of them in a long long time
apparently there’s three sub adult males
that are around so two and a half three
years old and then there’s some younger
Cubs around a year old and in three or
four line is something like that so
you’re interesting to see how many they
are and to see what the actual story is
and whether or not they walk straight
into those lines and if those lines then
push the Buffalo hood southwards back
towards us which will be quite nice
right no let’s see there’s the termite
mound over there so I’m hoping she’s
moved slightly out of where we had her
this morning because this morning wasn’t
so pleasant where she was lying it was
really quite dense it was nice when the
Cubs were suckling because we could see
their little faces and we could watch
them moving around but I’m hoping that
this afternoon she’s moved a little bit
she’s gotten herself into a place where
we can see her quite nicely and that the
Cubs will be there as well I have an
idea that you might have left in these
cool conditions like we see now she
might have moved on and if that’s the
case then we’re gonna be leaving the
area immediately
with these Cubs we’re not here to try
and stress them out in any way we just
want to come and view them with mom and
if mom’s not sure then that’s the end of
that I’m afraid and then we have to
leave the area and leave them to
themselves
okay so doesn’t look like mommy’s home
at this stage so when we go forward a
little bit
mm I don’t think she’s yet once you just
check around slightly because I there
she is I can see it you see a sensor now
if you want to see what camouflage is
like on a line do you see which is when
you see how long it takes sensor to spot
this but sensor if you go that big tall
tree in front of me right over there is
where she’s sitting
in the long grass so she’s just can see
her face ever so slightly much from your
angle be a bit tough but if you zoom in
for me just over there you’ll see just
how camouflage this line is is go go go
go go little bit up to your left up up
and there she is you see her just behind
the trees there lays her back and her
head incredible it’s amazing the
camouflage of a line is you can see why
they’re difficult to spot sometimes but
luckily she put her head up for us and
that’s why we were able to see her I
wonder if the little Cubs are the side
off she’s left him behind me here in the
drainage and she’s now gonna start a
movement back towards the including my
pride and back towards the west where
the rest are but it would be nice if the
little cubbies are our chair because
it’s going to be very open and we will
get a nice view of those little ones
from here these she’s around I mean it’s
better that she’s around she might do
one last suckle but I don’t see any
signs of the Cubs and also I should be
in first year not in third year
otherwise we’re going to stall
the little Cubs I don’t think are here
we would have seen little heads popping
up already so I think they’re behind me
and back at the den sites where she was
suckling them and she’s now starting her
movement back towards the rest of the
pride so there we go she’s just lying on
her own and is taking it a little easier
I’m sure she’s been suckling them she’s
groomed them she’s made sure that they
well fed and is making sure that they’re
going to be okay and once they’re
alright they fade they groomed looked
after then she’s going to now start like
I say heading back to the pride to be
able to see if she can go and get some
nutrients for herself
remember these are cool ones are going
to drink from her and they’re going to
absorb a lot of the nutrients that she’s
able to produce and therefore she’s
gonna have a tough time of it and she’s
starting to yawn which means I think
she’s gonna start moving already I don’t
think it’s gonna be too long that she’s
gonna be up and going
now you want to know how long until the
Cubs join the pride permanently and
probably another I would say six to
eight weeks until they’ll be joining the
pride and moving around and even then
they’ll only join four caucuses in terms
of actually walking with the pride
generally it’s at about six months that
they’ll start to kind of move with the
pride all the time and there we go up
she gets you can see she’s a little on
the skinny side which is because she’s
having to move a lot more than the rest
of the pride she’s having to go back and
forth probably fine she’s also not
getting as much nutrients because she’s
missing out on some of the kills and so
it’s a tough life being a mom but if she
goes now she’s going to start striding
her way I think back towards the west
and towards where she came from last
night so it’s going to be a long walk
back that way unless the Cubs are hidden
somewhere there but I don’t think so
sparked so you’re asking what time they
usually hunt well there’s no specific
time for our Lions or leopards or any
other cats to hunt they’re opportunistic
animal to opportunistic animals which
means that they will hunt as soon as
they can when they can any opportunity
that comes along they will take it
whether that be night day
sunrise sunsets hot cold doesn’t matter
they just hunt whenever they can and
whenever an opportunity presents itself
so it will be could be now she might
start hunting if she sees an Impala by
herself you never know she might try and
hunt it by herself but in all likelihood
she’s probably gonna go to the rest of
the pride and they’ll then want to start
hunting this evening so we saw you last
night renew got to the in Coober pride
around sunset that’s when they woke up
and started to move but she’s definitely
left the Cubs now the Cubs must be in
the den they must be happy there and
it’s okay we got to see them this
morning and I’ll be interesting just to
follow her along I don’t think we’re
gonna be able to keep her for all the
time because she’s gonna cross a very
bad drainage at some point so we’re
going to just follow her anyway though
and see how she goes and whether or not
she goes all the way to the west because
that’s going to be a very very long way
to get to where that is now while I
follow these all her let’s go back to
Brent’s and see how he’s doing on his
quest for some of the Tony cats well we
went looking for cheetah and we’ve come
across lions
two lovely ladies of the sausage pride
as I said you never know what you’re
going to find and as you can see there’s
some potential meals in the background
walking through some zebra in the
distance now I haven’t seen these girls
stand up here so I’m not sure the skinny
there oh wow hungry there there goes
madam mccurdy rushing past us at a rate
of knots
thanks you guys here we go let’s have a
look yeah you can see Taylor here she
goes
but I thought you often we actually see
each other out art yet because it is so
big and we cover such vast distances and
that that we can sometimes go a couple
of days without actually seeing another
vehicle down on the valley floor by
Taylor now Taylor said is heading down
to the southeast and she’s hoping that
some of the wildebeest have crossed
around and look out hill and I think
we’re gonna sit we’re gonna stay local
we’re gonna sit with these girls I think
Jamie had the one has ever kill a few
days ago but there could be hungry they
do have quite a few Cubs to feed last
accountant he was nine in total between
the different lionesses of the sausage
ride so we’ve only got two lionesses
yeah the Cubs are probably closer
towards the escarpment there’s a couple
there’s a few spots that they really
likes you like to hide the Cubs in and
who knows and maybe they’ll head that
way or maybe you know wait for the zebra
to come a bit closer now these there are
quite a lot of zebra around so there’s
by no means a shortage of food for the
sausage right all these some babies as
well and in the distance we got more
happening yeah okay so yeah elephants
most just a little southwest of us
you can hear lots of wonderful sounds
apart from the wind lots of frogs after
that massive amount of rain we had
yesterday
you can hear some endorphin paddle frogs
here a natural toad somewhere Oh folks
found a bird oh hey guys it was a looked
like your green wood Sandpiper I didn’t
get a good enough look what’s this
figures found odd you found a frog I’ll
show you out of water this is Scotty is
wondering can zebras not see the lioness
not if they’re not if they’re not moving
if they’re sitting still like there are
at the moment in that distance they’re
probably not gonna spot the lines you
never know zebra argument going on over
there the back of that little group in
family and discussion about where to go
now that’ll be the stallion there we go
kick kick kick that’ll be the stallion
trying to sort out his ranks so with
zebras it’s absolutely fascinating the
oldest female must lead and if she
doesn’t and one of the younger females
tries to lead he will bite and kick the
rest of the harem into place so even
once that all those females we’re out in
front and there will be a set order that
he likes the rest of the herd to follow
in and the stallions will generally
bring up the rear
but it’s not always the case but quite
often the case especially when they’re
moving in straight lines and there will
be lots of at the back is he’s sorting
someone else again
someone’s out of place kicking and
biting making sure they stay in place
those efforts to be really really
aggressive and see be right in waiting
and see if anyone steps out of line I’ll
get sorted out quickly we can never be a
hundred percent certain but it’s
generally thought that the oldest female
leads she’s got the most experience in
avoiding predators so that’s that’s the
reason why she
that’s why the stallion wants to try and
make sure that his harem isn’t a less
one come time that they come into East
hrus and of course he wants to have as
many babies as possible
as there was a bit far at the moment for
the Lions to sort of spring up
immediately and starts talking also the
terrain isn’t in their favor you can see
especially now that it’s still light
very short open grass there and that
would be it would definitely be spotted
as they got up and started walking
towards where the zebra heading
Oh didi farming is running is there
tourists on the back of our vehicle with
it no Eddie that is our Ascari wild
Ranger and when we operate after Park
times we have to have a park ranger with
us so the third person on the back of
Taylor’s vehicle was Sammy who’s one of
the Rangers and who comes out with us at
night so no visitors just cameraman and
news oh no it’s Craig and Teller and
Sammy the Ranger for the evening these
lines look like they’re going to hunker
down for a bit
and here’s upset black wings in the
distance Scottie you would like to know
will zebra herd assist another zebra
that’s being attacked depends on
situation a male or female zebra from
the same harem will attack something
small like how you know which teacher or
even a leopard and wild dogs sometimes
that attack our attacking a member of
their their their their herd but with
lions that they’re white they’ll they’ll
generally move off as fast as possible
and I’m sure as it gets
oh what’s that is that a water walking
this way now you see what I’m looking
for so just to the right of the Lions so
yeah zoom now a little bit more to the
right here we go about Center for him
now what is that there oh no that’s all
it’s a secretary bird and she’s getting
bombarded that’s what all the commotions
from the lapwings are so of course if
they’ve got little chicks there
secretary bird is a predator and
although they normally eat snakes and
lizards and rodents a baby Lapwing would
have go down quite the treat you can see
how upset all the birds are looks like I
can’t see it this distance what the
smaller birds are probably so stick
EULA’s also very upset with their
presence in the area you can see how
that crown is up agitation flustered
from being attacked here comes the next
next load of bombardment coming I think
she’s out of the danger zone so
obviously where the chicks all the eggs
are and the secretary bird is moved
beyond so they’re not attacking her as
aggressively so let’s head all the way
back to South Africa to find out what
Tristan is up to lioness has gone
stationary for the time being she’s just
having a little sit down we haven’t
gotten too much further than where we
were just now she kind of moved a long
lay down and they nose up again in our
dot down for a little bit I don’t think
she’s gonna be down for too long you can
see she’s still looking around and he’s
quite awake she’s staring into the
distance and checking what’s going on
and she’s really not that sleepy quite
wide eyed as you can see there
so I don’t think she’ll be done for too
much longer I’m pretty sure she’s gonna
be up and moving and she’s got a long
way to go from where I gather the ink
uma pride is there close to from the
summer Amelie arethusa cut line but
quite far to the west so she’s got a
long long trick in order to find them
I’m sure she’s hoping that they’re going
to come East I spoke too soon it’s now
down to sleep again but I’m sure she’s
good they hoping they come east and then
I wouldn’t be surprised if maybe a
buffalo is on the menu at some point
hopefully like I said that pride of
lions in the north chases those Buffalo
south and into the waiting jaws of the
increment pride here on Juma because
that would just be the perfect way for
our evening to play out
and of course the in koomer pride and it
would probably only hunt that Buffalo
way off to drive but tomorrow morning
even it’s fine there in Kumar Prada can
wait until the morning and as we get
going in the Buffalo can come and we can
have a showdown between the two of them
in judging by the looks of the pride
they really could do with a nice big
meal it’s amazing though how lions can
go from emaciated and thin and looking a
little bit on the sort of side of skinny
to completely fat and healthy after one
meal we saw the sticks pride yesterday
and how they were big barrels off to
their water back and it would be the
exact same for the incomers if we had to
get a buffalo carcass for them they
would be massive by the time they
finished it they would be really in
great condition again so muscular
structure is really good it’s just that
she’s a little bit on the skinny side
because of all this moving that she’s
been doing up and down so I’m pretty
sure she will hope for a buffalo carcass
because it means that she can have a
good feed come and suckle the Cubs go
back feet again and keep that nutrient
level up for these little ones so that
they stay fat happy and healthy which is
what we want as well we want our Cubs to
be healthy and to survive and you know
she’s in a period now it’s the most
dangerous part for these Cubs the the
first three months it’s very difficult
for a lioness she’s got to go back and
forth and she explains masses of energy
trying to look after these little ones
and trying to keep up with a pride and
keep nutrient levels up and install
supply that to the Cubs and make sure
that they surviving well as well as
choosing the right places to leave them
in order for them to stay safe you
see now she’s leaving those Cubs all on
her own she’s gonna go and try get back
to the pride and those Cubs are gonna
have to fend for themselves for the next
24 hours or so until she comes back
hopefully she won’t be 20 files they
generally should be coming back every
sort of 12 hours we see them moving
backward and forth but it could be 24
hours a full day until she gets back to
where they are and then you’ll find a
situation where you know she’s got to
provide nutrient-rich milk for them to
survive and who knows what moves through
here at that time they could be hyenas
that comes through leopard other lions
and so those Cubs are really at a
dangerous point in life the other
problem that she’s got is that she’s the
only lion is staining remember last year
in the increment pride end there was two
lionesses pretty close together that
then and then a third one about a month
later so it wasn’t really too long until
the third one was and so those three
could help each other and share the
responsibility and they also moved
around as a unit which meant that
hunting wise they were able to bring
down small prey animals and also the
droughts halton that they could bring
down buffalo and that meant that the
Cubs grew quickly because these guys
were providing nutrition for them and
they were able to kind of stake when
close proximity which is a little bit
different to what we’re seeing this year
od farming you wondering why she’s the
only lioness with the Cubs well it’s
quite simple is that the three lionesses
that mean we know have the Cubs
currently so those sub-adults and they
still dependent on those lionesses so
those lionesses are not going to come
into Easter’s probably for another I
would say six months to a year maybe
even longer until they’ll come into an e
stress and start mating again so it’s
gonna be a while if those all those Cubs
survive all those sub-adults survive so
those sinuses are gonna be a while the
only other two lionesses is this one and
amber eyes and eyes
we don’t know we’ve never really seen
her with a cub where there was that one
mystery cub in the middle of the year I
think was in June that no one’s really
sure what happened or where it came from
or what its outcome was but that could
theoretically have been amber eise’s cub
and must have been a mother’s cover if
we think of the time frame because this
lioness must have been pregnant at the
time and so that cub unfortunately is no
longer there’s no ways that that cub is
alive and it means
then am buyers really is the only other
female that could potentially have a
chance to have Cubs and she would have
had to have mated which means that she’s
falling outside at the time that this
female is having Cubs so even if she’s
mating now it’s not gonna be three
months time until she gives birth to
hers and and so it’s a-you know they
haven’t been quite in sync so that’s why
she’s the only lioness with the Cubs
currently or new Cubs there’s no real
there’s no real sort of other lionesses
that can potentially produce now and in
the timeframe while she’s having her so
I mean amber Iser would be such a nice
thing if she did produce Cubs but as far
as we know she never has and it will be
really interesting if she ever will
because I suppose that little cub was
hers I mean it can’t be anybody else’s
if we just do the maths it has to be her
cub because this line is there’s no way
she could have mated and fallen pregnant
and had these Cubs in that time frame we
fought too close to that time for her to
have mated again in that Club so it has
to have been amber izes cub and and
maybe she can produce cubs and in the
future we will see her bringing cubs up
and raising Cubs when we saw her
yesterday she did have signs that she’d
been mating but a few bite marks on the
back of the neck and so I wonder if
maybe she hasn’t started mating again
and we’ll see her falling pregnant it
would be nice if she did and we be also
nice for this female if she then tend in
the next sort of six or to eight weeks
if she had fallen pregnant from the
mating and and was in this area and
helping this female art because it’s
interesting that a Myers and his female
must have had a very tight bond last
year because when the income of pride
spent so much time here on Juma we used
to find empires and this female often
roaming around together in random places
even the beginning of this year used to
see these two around tree hosta moving
around all over the place and so they
seem to have gotten on and have formed a
bond over the fact that they didn’t have
Cubs and so it would really I think
hopeless female vampires was around with
her and I’m sure the two of them
together would really do very well in
raising Cubs should they want you so it
would be really nice if she did for
pregnant and have Cubs and
in this sort of time period and
obviously for the growth of the in comer
pride the more females that have Cubs
the better but either way it’s out of
five lionesses turf all of them with
Cubs currently is really very good
there’s a testament to the Birmingham’s
ability to defend the area our Larry Moe
is saying you wonder why lions don’t
bring food to a lioness with cubs you
know wolves do it and and the painted
dogs or wild dogs they also will do
those kind of things well the thing is
about it is because the lioness is it
depends at the moment the the rest of
the lionesses they trying to protect
their cubs that are at the carcass
themselves so coming back all the way
here expending the energy leaving their
carcass unprotected or bringing bits of
that caucus all the way here is
difficult to remember also that Lions
are hunting big animals they hand
something like a buffalo
there’s no ways that the in houma pride
can drag a buffalo from some Amelie all
the way to where we are now I mean
that’s over sort of seven eight
kilometers and a buffalo weighs almost
2,000 pounds so even if the entire pride
took turns I can guarantee you they
wouldn’t even get halfway in a day so
it’s gonna be that’s the other side of
it is taking food like that is almost
impossible and then the third thing is
if you take food to a den you are taking
a scent to a den so you’re taking the
smell of meat and rotting meat and that
means that that means sort of predators
and scavengers are going to follow that
scent and come in and then it’s going to
bring things like hyena lion leopard
into where the den site is for their
female and is going to put those Cubs at
risk so rather than that they eat they
make sure that they consume meat that
then gets pushed into the milk the milk
nutrients then get transferred to the
Cubs the Cubs grow very fast during that
first little period and once they reach
that 3-4 months phase they then starting
to be taken to the carcasses so the
mother comes and features them and then
walks them all the way to the carcasses
and then they will stay and spend time
there and then they’ll follow the moms
around so it’s much better system that
way she can look after them a lot better
and they’re not also being at caucuses
where things like hyenas can arrive and
they then endanger this way
she’s bringing no scent she’s not having
any vultures around she can suckle him
in peace and there’s really little
that’s going to follow her you’ll also
find she’s gonna use different pathways
to get you she’s never gonna walk
exactly the same and that means that the
hyenas won’t be able to track her scent
every single time so she’ll take maybe
she’ll go west this time tomorrow she
goes south the next day she’s north and
so it makes it a lot harder for the
hyenas to pinpoint where she’s got
coming and going from and therefore the
Cubs survive so here’s all method in
their madness
remember also with ten animals like wild
dogs and and wolves there is generally
one member that is left permanently with
the Cubs or the pups or sa and they can
then sort of disorientate a predator and
lead a predator away from that area
lions don’t have that ability to do that
because they are needed with the hunting
and like I said they roam quite big
distances and they don’t use a central
point for the den the den is fairly
mobile and gets moved all over the place
as opposed to what we see with things
like wolves and wild dogs with is a
central den and then the pack moves
around that area so just slightly
different with them and it works for
both species lions are fairly successful
you’ve seen that you know the numbers
within the sabi sands are doing okay
it’s just that we’ve had a lot of
different males come through and that’s
what’s affected them in terms of den
sites and actual females keeping Cubs
alive it’s actually not been too bad the
sabi sands most of the females are
pretty good at what they do it’s just
unfortunately the coalition males have
been such a turnover that that’s led to
a decline in the population of lions and
the decline in all the prides throughout
the sabi sands really there’s not many
prides that have actually grown in the
time that I’ve been here in fact the
only prize that have grown since I’ve
been here is the man gained pride the
man gained breakaway pride and the salal
as those are the only ones that have
actually in some way expanded every
other pride has actually reduced and as
no longer there’s the same numbers as to
when I started here so it’s an
interesting dynamic and like I say it’s
because of the change in coalition males
that keep coming through
Lolita here asking if lionesses from the
pride will come back for these Cubs if
this line is dies in all likelihood no
and the reason why I say that is because
none of those females currently have
very small Cubs if there was a female
that had very small Cubs and it’s
possible and and they have been sort of
applying cases where females have
adopted the offspring of sisters or
aunts or mothers or whatever the case of
may have been and we know the Charleston
female down the south she adopted her
sister’s Cubs and raised them so they do
do it sometimes but in the case of the
Charleston females she her Cubs got
killed and I think that mothering
instincts when her Cubs got killed plus
the mother of the other Cubs meant that
she took on Cubs because you’re still
producing milk that that instinct to
mother was still there and that’s why
she did it
if it was a lioness that has got older
sub-adults that she’s stolen too
dependent on her she’s not going to not
have the burden of trying to suckle Cubs
because she’s not producing milk
remember she’s got her own cubs to worry
about
and so these Cubs are still too young to
survive without milk they still need
milk up until they’re around 6 7 months
old so they need to have a female that’s
producing milk in order to save them
they’re not gonna survive just on meat
at this age they need that milk and they
need all the antibodies and the me all
the bits that of nutrients that the mom
is passing on that’s gonna help them
fight infections and get the digestive
tract working properly and and all of
those kind of things that’s all needed
before they’re able to start consuming
meat full-time and it means that you
know she’s got it unfortunately in this
there’s another lioness and as Cubs
fairly soon is producing milk these ones
would then be unfortunately left by
themselves and not looked after at all
right Arun Kumar female is out cold so I
think we’re gonna carry on we’re gonna
leave her be I was hoping that the Cubs
would be here and we know that brains
near Smith and Amara has got two
lionesses then it seems like they’re on
the hunt so we’re gonna try and find a
spotted creature of our own and while
those lionesses look for food well we’re
still with the two girls from the
sausage pod they have not moved a muscle
baby’s moved a muscle I think it’s the
biting insects that have caused her to
move lots of biting flies and we had a
hot day today
after the rain last night which will
have caused an absolute exposed
explosion of insect life and speaking of
that right next to us and making art
there are thousands of little midges and
of course we right near some water as
well so with water and rain and Sun
comes lots of horse
so those you don’t know what horrors are
cause are they sort of a South African
ism
sort of a nickname for bugs trying to
think well in Swahili they’re called the
doodoos that is a swipey word for
insects or bugs doodoos when we were
little kids we used to call them new
news
now notice that has that tail fix
occasionally out of the grass it’s got a
very distinctive black tuft ELISA is
wondering why is the tuft of a lion’s
tail black well it’s lots of different
reasons actually say but all of them to
do with that non of non-vocal old non
vocal communication as their will to
signal and Cubs are able to follow that
through thick grass and when they’re
hunting the back black behind the ears
and the black tips of their tails are
used as ways to communicate now I was
talking about bags just look on here
Betty there look at that and I said that
the biting flies art and force after the
rain and fortunately for us there on the
lines and not on us because I think I’d
be slapping myself silly trying to get
rid of that many flies on me
you know you can see she’s getting a
little bit flustered by them and that’s
one of the reasons why quite a few
different prides in the Mara liked to
climb trees to try get up into the the
the breeze and away from all the biting
bags oh very pretty on the horizon fig a
tipple sketch it’s gonna be silhouetted
against ortley and see I’m walking
they’re very very pretty
giraffe walking a little bit to the left
should go there we go a little bit to
the right there it is silhouetted
against that lovely orangey pink hue of
the western horizon now come on keep
walking for the pretty shot
don’t stop first neck we have female
Masai giraffe I was a few there now I
could only see with my naked either the
one that was silhouetted and there’s
quite a few snacking around that area
difficult to see what they’re eating on
from this distance I’m afraid they’re
probably seven eight hundred metres away
from us
Paul is wondering do we wear any
specific type of bug sprayer while we’re
on Drive
we don’t Paula um bug spray is pretty
much ineffectual against most of the
really nasty biting insects um
occasionally I might use some mosquito
repellent but very very seldom and not
really here here we are at lovely herd
of elephants as well having a late
evening snack it’s amazing how much you
can see if you’re sitting in one spot
and you just carefully check all around
that’s exactly what I’m doing now having
a quick scan with my binoculars saying
if there’s something we might have
missed it doesn’t look like it just some
zebra topi and an Egyptian pair of
Egyptian geese and you can hear that
that’s it bubbling cocina starting to
wake up as a sid but right nice this
where logger drains out into the old
Geppetto swamp so we’re probably going
to hear lots of frogs this evening you
can see maybe they’re a great spot to be
if you’re a frog and the frogs are
probably one of the only things that are
celebrating after all the rain last
night
therefore you found their fig needs
algae thoughts very good found a frog
look technically taking upstream frogs
and that sounds like paddle frogs and
then you’ve got that lovely sort of
liquid wattle of the bubbling cocina and
not so lovely where we’re of one of the
toads not sure exactly which sounds a
little bit too soft to be guttural
raucous and of course they could be all
hosts of Toad species for me to learn in
East Africa our lions are still not
moving at all a slight head up every now
and then and looking like they’re about
to charge off and go look for something
else
now quite often at this time of the day
it’s not good to be a warthog and quite
a few warthogs sort of get snagged at
this time of the day because they’re on
their way home and the home could be
amongst any of the many termite mounds
that are around here and they can
stumble upon a lion that’s fast asleep
but of course these big cats can wake up
in a split second
it’s not even a oh here we go as I said
now let’s have a look at the belly oh
not too hungry but definitely could eat
actually think that I didn’t have a good
luck the fact it might be carrying
that weight quite far back
who knows maybe she’s pregnant but I
think it is the flies that caused her to
just move and flop a few meters away
this lioness is practicing zin with the
fly’s incomplete I’m trying to
completely ignore them
now of course as I said there’s quite a
lot of zebras and things around and you
can actually see the wear on the edge of
the ears from the biting flies so that
they’re the animals have bitten so
prolifically that the hair starts to
fall out in certain spots where those
flies are biting I’m glad they’re biting
her and not me they can’t be quite
painful those little biting flies
I said there isn’t not even a breath of
wind we’re starting to get some lovely
birdsong coming through I can hear Rufus
nape lark
I can hear yellow-throated Longclaw oh
we can hear blackberry busted or as I
said that the wind is picked up and I
can’t hear any more of the birds well it
seems like Tristan’s being on such a cat
streak he’s decided to go see if he can
find something else let’s go find out
ah so thanks very much for that sins oh
because my comms are not working once
again our broken earpiece seems to be at
its finest if it’s once again so it’s
interesting though to see differences
between the lines and the more in the
ones years it’s watching some footage
this morning they look absolutely
massive some of them some of them look
like cubes as Lucy’s walking through the
grass and it’s been amazing to see how
different the dynamics are and how fluid
the movement is is during the migration
it’s a lot more fluid than what we see
from our lines are lines tend to be very
stacked together so quite interesting
sort of differences that side and I’m
super jealous of Taylor this afternoon
already because she’s got to see those
black rhinos and well obviously black
rhino here is the most rare and special
thing possible so we see very very very
very very very very few black rhinos in
the kruger national park system
unfortunately so and she is very
fortunate to have got to spend some time
with him this afternoon
which is good
like I say I’m envious of her although
I’m pretty sure she’s going to be
envious if we find her sana just now
because we know Taylor also loves her
spotted cats as well I believe she got
to see a leopard in the Mara the other
day which is fantastic and she’s seen
all kinds of interesting things the
serval with the bullet with the hyena on
the world of East and the stripe polecat
and lots of crazy things have gone miss
McCurdy’s way over the last little bit
and I’m sure she’s having an absolute
blast that side as well as and Jamie and
Brent and it’s one of the more louder
groups of people together now Ellie
hoping to find shadow and her cub well
yeah I know the guys check for her this
morning so the guys had a little look
and they checked in those areas around
Mendoza road and and in pilot planes
Triple Aim but unfortunately no sign of
her at all so I think she might still be
in either a loser or in Hoffman’s
somewhere in those areas it’s difficult
though to know for sure we know that she
can be quite elusive so no sign on our
side though at the moment and it would
be nice to find her they certainly would
love to see shadow and the cub again but
I think my the one that I want to see
the most right now is probably Shawn
Gila that’s the female that I would like
to see more than any other Didache say
last night that if we don’t see her and
she’s staying safe then that’s
absolutely fine but I would really like
to see her and really like to spend some
time in
generally and just see how she’s doing
it just to know that she’s okay and just
one sighting would be fine and then she
can go back to being elusive and again
now before I go anywhere there is
something that does not belong here in
the sabi sands and certainly does not
belong on the grounds or in the bush and
that is a plastic packets and so I don’t
know how this has gotten here but it is
going to not be picked up by us quickly
and Iceman purified ice is certainly not
what we want to see Archer like I said
I’m not quite sure how the Scott yeah
but well it’s going to stay in the car
from now on and we make sure that it
doesn’t blow away sensor so if you can
tuck it in there somewhere so that it
just stays that would be pretty good as
well sometimes what happens is with the
wind I mean the the guys come to fetch
the rubbish because we’re trucks that
come in sometimes a little wind gusts
and off goes a bit of it or monkeys
raids have been or hyenas ray Durban and
then these plastic bags end up
unfortunately archers it’s our
prerogative just to kind of pick them up
and make sure that we keep this as clean
as possible and litter free this is
ultimately the animals home not ours and
so we should not impose ourselves too
much on them
I thought we were gonna have a lot more
of a sort of Sonya afternoon it seems as
though it was a lot more was clearing up
at lunchtime but it’s now gotten all
overcast and dingy again and if we will
get a sunset I’m hoping that the clouds
do clear because if we do get a sunset
then we’re gonna have a situation where
it’s gonna be very pretty with all these
cards lighting up the different colors
and we’re gonna get a really nice clear
kind of view of the Sun
our our you’re asking if the roads are
made randomly if they made by the ranges
well our our the roads are made by the
basically the landowner and some of the
ecology guys that come together and they
try and work out where the best places
for roads are unfortunately in the back
in the day we didn’t quite understand a
lot of the dynamics within the bush
environment and what it takes for roads
to be built and where they should be in
order to not cause environmental damage
and so some roads are not quite in the
right pace but generally there’s some
planning that goes into them and then
they are built by the ecology teams or
even the Rangers sometimes as well so it
is a planned thing these are not just by
mistake and not just tracks that are
made and these are all planned roads you
will see sometimes little two tracks
that go into places so it looks as
though vehicles are driven there that’s
generally when we’ve had a big sighting
that’s loss of a few days in a road
develops which is generally because
there’s been multiple cars going in and
out and the grass gets squashed but as
soon as the rain comes that all
rejuvenates and spruces up again and up
comes the grass and everything looks
alright and wonderful I’m just trying to
adjust the blankets that I sit on
because the blankets that I sit on or
helping me I don’t know I’d like to be a
little higher and the seat on windy and
rust here both of them I seem to have
lost a lot of this sponge and you kind
of sink into them and when I got out
there the blanket and quite go right and
so just adjust that quickly my apologies
for me bouncing around in my seat like a
hooligan the reason why I’ve come down
this road though is because I want to
quickly just check on our Wahlberg’s
Eagle pay if they at the nest I did see
them on my way home this morning after
Drive they were sitting in the nest and
they were not in the nest they were just
next to it and it was the pale form
individual that was there the dark form
one was flying above but the pale form
one was actually then that’s the one
that seems to be on the nest a lot more
we saw it yesterday on the nest and so
hopefully in this kind of weather being
a little bit sort of dingy and gray and
dull maybe one of them will be somewhere
where the nest is and hopefully we can
get a view of them they are beautiful
birds particularly their pale form one
sheet
she or he depending which one it is very
difficult to six or bugsy there’s no
difference between male and female and
so it would be really nice in fact both
of them are here I can see them already
I was gonna try go a little bit forward
so we get a better view of them
hopefully they won’t fly away stay there
guys
and they unfortunately gonna be a little
bit silhouetted because of where they
sitting and the white sky that we’ve got
a gray white sky that we’ve got today
but there they are sitting on top of the
tree itself although they look like both
pale form individuals where am I wrong
they do look both pale are they both
pale certainly looks that way as our
dark form male been chased all dark form
female been traded for a pale form
individual looks like it looks like the
plot is thickened that’s interesting
it’s definitely too pale form
individuals that are busy grooming each
other and it’s too early in the season
to have a young one already we know that
these guys have only just arrived so
it’s can’t be the chick but that is
really quite strange because this
morning there was the dark form and the
pale form together but you can clearly
see there that is too pale form
individuals that are grooming each other
and I wonder if maybe the dark 4 male
has been ousted which would be very
unusual generally Eagles pair for life
so really quite strange I’m not sure why
the dark form male would relinquish this
area or even there would be territorial
baths between them hmm
that’s very strange she said it’s the
first time I’ve seen it to the
Wahlberg’s Eagles because generally all
the nests that we have in these areas
are the same pace every year you come
and you see the same groupings I mean
obviously it’s quite difficult to tell
individuals apart but you know the
combinations are normally you can tell
because they have these different color
forms and you can normally tell who’s
who by just looking at those color forms
and where they are and
like I said we know for sure that there
was a dark formed one with this light
formed one yesterday in the morning and
in afternoon and this morning so very
confused as to why those two are
together I hope something bad didn’t
happen to our dark formed well bears
that’s not good well I suppose two pale
form ones are beautiful but I would have
liked it to stay the same and to have
the same pay as we always do but
interesting dynamic I’m gonna have to do
a bit of research on this I wonder if
Wahlberg’s Eagles do fight for pays and
we’ll try go after each other so makes I
cannot hear you at all I’m getting is
every half a word every three four
seconds which is not ideal so we’re
gonna try and see if we can fiddle with
these comms and try and get this right
because otherwise I can’t answer any of
the questions that you’re all asking
which is not ideal Mexican we try again
maybe we can do a little Russian are you
saying a triangle love story that you so
there we go I can copy Megan now it
seems like it’s I adopt the dog for
males games more females going to be
very impressed with this triangular love
story given that it’s not here but very
strange like I say I’ll have to do a bit
more research since the first time I’ve
seen this situation where there’s been a
individual user ping another and taking
over an list this is a different pair
and they’ve taken this nice for
themselves and they’re the dark Foreman
and pale one that we normally see has
moved to a different section that
potentially could happen maybe pairs
Fortin we’ve now just got a new pair in
this area but very strange indeed and
I’m gonna like I said I have to do a lot
more research on this and see if there’s
any documented findings on Wahlberg’s
and whether it’s pairs that fight or
whether it’s individuals within the
ranks that will chase one another art
and form a new pair but it’s unusual to
say the least
Rebeca they only mate once in a year so
they mates now and then they have the
young one and the young one then
obviously develops develops and then
leaves here at the end of summer and
then flies northwards but they only
breed once a year and at the end of the
day birds of prey they Lodge which means
that they’ve got two incubates eggs for
a while and then the birds gotta learn
how to fly and that takes a bit of time
we know with vultures it’s pretty much
almost a year and a half or I mean just
over half a year for them to kind of get
them out the nest and so it’s the same
thing with the Wahlberg’s Eagles it
takes about three four months for those
birds to get up and moving and flying
and being able to look after themselves
and so it’s only one chick in the summer
months and then they don’t breed when
they go to the northern hemisphere they
just breathe down here in South Africa
that’s very odd nice to see them though
they are beautiful birds like I say the
pale form Wahlberg’s are incredibly
pretty so nice to see them and I’ll try
to get a little bit closer so we can get
a bit of a closer view and see if we can
get some sort of pattern on them that we
can recognize them in the future and
whether or not they’re individuals that
will stay here and maybe some of you
that are very clever and can see some
sort of pattern will recognize some sort
of markings on the feathers can work out
whether it’s one of the birds we saw
yesterday or it’s a different pairing of
birds it’s definitely not the lights now
that I’m closer they most certainly are
pale form both of them it all fluffed up
obviously because it’s cold and I was
saying that it’s not good conditions for
flying and that’s why you’ll find both
of them are down at the moment and just
resting on the tree and look at the size
of those talons on their feet and long
long long long long rectangular tails
that will help them to be able to
stabilize in flight because remember
these birds hunt other birds they birds
that hunt on the wing regularly and so
long tails need to stall them be agile
as much like a cheetah has a very long
tail and helps just to be able to turn
on a dime and be agile as they move
around and so that’s why you see such a
long tail and he’s
beautiful hmm
another mystery that jhummer I’m not
100% sure why these two are here
interesting that three the way try get
round and see something quickly because
where they sitting is off the nest a
little bit that’s now I’ve got no comms
again there we go I can just share Megan
every second word it’s getting worse
unfortunately which is not good right so
we can quickly go across to Taylor
because I’ve missed mining completely so
let’s go to her we’re gonna stay this
side in the triangle we just need to
figure out where about the world of Isla
the crust
come on remember friend said they’re
crossed
oh these inside of the bridge versus the
waste inside of the bridge we’ll have a
quick look around to find ourselves upon
a vantage point of some sorts and then
use our binoculars and haven’t seen any
lines though and twenty elephants around
although
the liens haven’t seemed to have
acquired the taste for elephants
wildebeest several water kind ouch air
and that’s very specifically warthog now
with their most of the animals moving
out of the triangle they’ve got to go
back to catching pigs
you’re just gonna keep looking as I keep
reaching up on these Ron Rises I’m
starting to see the tree lines you must
be getting closer and closer to the
morrow
quite exciting our check we can find
some herds of wildebeest
I haven’t really spent much time
massage brain Tesla this is one of his
favorite areas hopefully it will become
my favorite area – speaking of brain
let’s go back to him and see what he
stands off there is do the evening
well as you can see our lines have
decided it’s much better to nap
then do anything else for the moment at
least now you’ve got to remember that
patience is the most important thing
when you are in the bush and because you
never know what’s going to happen next
unsuspecting warthog might come
careering in unknown pride of lions
might come careering in and cause
absolute havoc so sometimes we have to
play the patience game and sit and wait
for those incredible sightings there not
much else has changed and we’ve actually
lost our elephants that were near us
they’ve moved off the giraffe have
disappeared the only thing left is the
Egyptian geese that are grazing
comfortably out on that lovely short
green grass where the little lager
empties out into the swamp all
stretching and I think we’re going to
lose them shortly as well as they’re far
fly off to find somewhere to roost now
the one thing a lot of people don’t
realize that an Egyptian goose is not in
fact a goose at all
it is a form of shield duck and it is
actually what they are but there are
grazers so they eat grass so you will
find them munching along on any lovely
short green grass now I’ve seen
something quite amazing I’ve only ever
seen it once and it was here a few weeks
ago or probably maybe in a few months
ago now and and that was an Egyptian
goose eating the stomach contents of
evolved bees that have been killed by
lions and quite a fresh kill so the the
the geese were eating that undigested
grass that was left behind
now being the vast open grass and that
it is these piece might not even have
files to find somewhere to roost they
might just stay right where they are
Alana is 14 years old would like to know
have we seen any odd in the Mara oh
I’ve seen about four or five and we
actually did a facebook live once on
that Lions hunting art and that was
quite special that’s definitely not
something you get to see every day Lions
hunting hard and that was actually
just over the horizon over there and it
was the Egyptian goose pride and they
nearly nearly got that artifact he
managed to get down the hole and then
while the young male was trying to dig
him out and the art was digging at
a much faster rate and given sand into
the male’s face it was quite funny but
yes no we’ve seen quite a few art
seen I’ve said on both sides of the
river in fact I’ve also seen the other
art that lives geometers the art wolf so
one of those way down south near the
Tanzanian border seen a striped polecat
or Cirillo which is a African form of
skunk I’ve seen a edge hogs what else
have we seen lots of funny little things
at night
caracals serval seen both sides striped
and black-backed jackal bat-eared Fox
white-tailed mongoose water mongoose so
I’ve seen quite a lot of there the
smaller nocturnal critters and Janet’s
Bush babies the like these lions are
truly truly flat as I said they’re
reasonably well fed not too skinny I was
hoping that although zebra and which
have now gone might prompt them to do
something so they might take a little
wonder just now and then come back here
a little later because it really doesn’t
look like these guys are going anywhere
too soon
a winds starting to pick up but
fortunately not bringing any rain
towards us just yet
well we’ve got a new viewer who named
Dakota who is 15 years old a big welcome
to Dakota lovely to have you on the
vehicle with us and Dakotan wants to
know how do we get so close to the Lions
well Dakota when were in a vehicle the
Lions don’t know that there are people
here they do not have an evolutionary
instinctive response to the vehicle so
the vehicles only been around for just
over a hundred years so if you drive
carefully and considerately and it
doesn’t smell like anything nice to eat
it’s too big really and they prompt just
ignore you after time but it does take
time to obituaries but if I were to get
out of the car and start walking we
would definitely get a reaction now it
is still light so they would probably
run away
so Lions are actually quite scared of
people during the daytime hours but at
night they become a different animal and
they are the dominant nocturnal predator
and we are the dominant diurnal predator
so they’ll eat us at night but normally
unless you corner or put pressure on
Cubs or an injured line during the day
they will try and move away from you on
foot that’s why we can get very close to
to them in vehicles because they don’t
recognize a vehicle and they recognize
the human shape as the dominant daytime
predator
now something we’ve got quite used to
get is ominous skies they seem to be
around every evening since I’ve been
back from leave but it sounds like
Justin has got an ominous sky of his own
all the way back in South Africa no not
really
Rinty it’s not too bad like I said this
morning it was ominous and this morning
there was big dark clouds and it really
did look like we were going to get some
rain at some point and we got a few
droplets here and there but nothing too
major so it wasn’t too bad this morning
but it imagine now it’s starting to sip
the rate often and I think that’s the
end of the rain for us the more I look
up the less likely it looks that are we
going to get any more rain and the fact
that the winds dropping and there’s
really no solid bank that’s being gusted
in by the wind means that I think we’re
done for the day
unfortunately remember we’d love to have
more rain we need it I’m looking very
carefully because this is the area where
I had those tracks for that’s young male
lipid that was moving and I had lots of
alarm calls in the section so I’m just
checking very carefully as I’m going in
case little tumblr is maybe somewhere in
this general vicinity as well and just
hiding out we know he likes it in this
area so just having a look around
checking some of the termite mounds and
some of the trees and he doesn’t seem to
be a cat that spends much time in the
trees in fact I don’t think I’ve ever
seen him in a tree have I no I didn’t
think so
didn’t think I’ve seen him in trees but
I seen him on lots of termite mounds and
in lots of river beds so he seems to
favor the smaller Watchi system maybe as
a young individual it’s just more
comfortable for him to be down there
interesting that I haven’t seen him in a
tree before him in a tree before it’s
actually quite crazy when I think about
it given how many sightings I’ve had of
him I would have thought that at some
point I would have had him up a tree but
so far no
what have I no I don’t think so I’m
trying to Rack my brains but I honestly
don’t think I’ve ever seen him up in a
tree but I think we are going to get a
nice sunset it looks as though the
clouds are breaking on the western side
and a little bit of color starting to
creep in that side so hopefully we will
get a good sunset I’m just making my way
towards twin dams as I go along and like
I said looking for tumblr as we go but
we our main goal is to get back to me I
had a sauna this morning and see if he’s
sitting in the same place I would
imagine he is I don’t think he’s gonna
have gone too far he’s an individual
that once he’s at twin dams generally
spends the afternoon fairly relaxed and
sleepy and doesn’t actually move around
too much
I would guess he’s going to be there
whether or not he is is well we’re going
to be all revealed in the next two
minutes
so George you wondering what happened
with tumblr and husana the other night
when they faced often what the outcome
was well George it seems both of them
just splits amicably where we lost him
fairly soon after the Drive finish so I
was looking and I was trying and
unfortunately they were instant a really
dense thicket and there was just no way
to keep up with them given how fast they
started moving they were kind of
trotting and after each other and so I
lost them with that regard but they
seemed fine both have been seen since
I’ve seen both of them Nanna neither one
is support sporting a scar a scrape
scratch any sort of limp so I think what
happened was tumblr ran into thickets
who Sanne lost him him completely and
the two of them then just kind of splits
amicably and that was the end of this
there was no major threat in it and
given that they neither one is
territorial yet I don’t think they’re
going to go after each other right we
are you little Hosanna
I don’t see him anywhere though it’s not
where we left him this morning so he’s
not here where we left him he was just
on the left hand side when we left him
this morning trying to check for him
we have you gone maybe he’s lying on the
other side of the damn wall
who is he in front here somewhere
interesting we’re going to have to
scratch around and check for him but I
don’t see him anywhere oh there is this
is sitting right in front of us if he
was a snake as they say he would have
bitten me so I’ll just try and get down
a little bit but he is fast fast fast
fast fast fast fast asleep at the moment
he’s in his usual spot that he seems to
favor which is just along the edge of
the banks here and on this wall itself I
don’t know why he likes it so much there
but he seems as though this is where he
wants to spend his time it was exactly
the same place a few weeks ago or a few
days ago he was lying really in the same
way just on the edge and and you can see
he’s still very relaxed how we missed
him from far away I have no idea it just
shows you their camouflage because I was
looking at the damn wall and I didn’t
see him until we got a little bit closer
and that’s where you sitting
just resting and he was fast asleep at
the moment but you can see no scratches
on him anyway on the ramp area so it
seems as a human tumbler just had a
little faceoff been investigating each
other a few snarls and hisses and growls
and to say you’re not my brother you’re
not my relative and I’m going to move on
and off I go it was such an interesting
interaction though between the two of
them because tambour who seemed to just
really not care at all he kind of sought
time by approaching and I mean sauce on
approaching and just carried on drinking
and then once asana got really close
then he started this relate display abut
submissively and kind of lie on his side
and growl and hiss and show his teeth
but otherwise they weren’t too
aggressive to one another was a bit of
sniffing going on and then they kind of
chased each other around so I think they
still in that young phase where they’re
not quite sure how to handle those
interactions when they see one another
and when things get a little bit sort of
hairy and they just do what they used to
doing which is chuffing and being
submissive and keeping themselves alive
that way so it’ll all change though once
they start scent-marking and once they
start to go into that adult phase and
testosterone is flooding then you’ll
find that they’ll be far more aggressive
to any opponent that they face it might
not be each other but they will end up
having to face off with some male
somewhere and you’ll find that
interaction will be a lot more
aggressive and a lot more teeth and cos
and all kinds of other things as they
try and defend a territory or gain the
territory first before they defending
anything some males have it easy some
are like quarantine where he just bosses
his way in doesn’t have to really fight
with anybody he just calls and st. marks
and there is in position and and has
himself a territory others have to fight
for it and earn the right to be
territorial and that takes a bit of time
and effort and so it’s interesting just
how the differences work between some of
them and so hopefully for asada and Tom
bear I really hope either one of them
that they get a nice territory and they
don’t actually have to worry about
fighting too much and they can get nice
and settled and get big before they then
actually start competing with other
males that’s what I hope Chat Noir you
say such a beautiful cats for Sonia is
beautiful he’s looking ever-ever
prettier I think he’s starting to lose
the cub look but he’s starting to gain
that sort of steamy male look that they
get the more serious look but he’s got a
nice coloured coat I always liked her
sanas coat it’s a yellowy color and as
long as gold is what you see I’m Tom but
um it seems to have a darker gold color
than what asana does but I like the
color of his coats and he’s got these
eyes that are becoming more vibrant
by day by day and their earlier years
joys of watching and lately he’s been
endearing himself a lot more to all of
us by the way that he’s played around
and messed around and done his thing
he’s been very entertaining to watch
that’s for sure I remember him the other
day with the stick that he had in his
mouth and he was playing the stick and
biting it and so he is a very cool cat
and like I said whoever he ends up
hopefully it is in this area but if it’s
not somebody is going to inherit a very
very special little chief in their area
and hopefully he’ll become the big chief
somewhere somewhere close by and if not
here so that we can monitor him and know
where he goes and when he gets up too
because I thought the worst thing about
having young males is that’s kind of
invest all this time and you get so
emotionally attached to them and then
they shift often especially when they go
into places like Kruger and the
sightings and the updates on them become
so slim and and few and far between that
it’s what’s frustrating in a way because
you want to know how they doing and want
to know how they progressing and so it’s
nice when they end up inside a sabi
sands system or a timber Vaati system
where there’s a lot of the commercial
lodges that have constant updates on
them it really makes it a lot better and
a lot easier for us to kind of know okay
well they’re doing all right wherever
they are and I think that’s the hardest
part we know miss you and do nourish of
and Malana
all of those have just a burst into
Kruger and that the sort of updates on
them are very few and far between
there’s one every now and then but it’s
not exactly commonplace to see them it’s
not like now with asana that we see him
probably every sort of have some sort of
update on him every day if we’re not
seeing him we know exactly where he is
or somebody else is seeing him on
another property so we can work out
exactly what’s going on but look at the
size of that massive front paw it’s
getting bigger and that head as well
starting to get a little bit of a dewlap
for me you can see his skin is starting
to hang a little bit from the chin so he
is growing and slowly but surely
becoming the male that he needs to be
and so while we watch asana
let’s go back to brent with his
lionesses see what they’re up to
we didn’t go for a bumble because there
was some zebra distress calls in the
distance and the Lions popped up like
they were going to move but
unfortunately it was very very
short-lived before those heads that went
straight down again oh I’m tired Kitty’s
probably had a few unsuccessful hunts
and sleeping off the tour at a time they
might have might have been having not
being able to catch anything so I think
we are going to leave them nap and go on
a little bumble and come back to them a
little bit later
I had one cloud over us it was that one
it also rained all over us not really
too hard but enough to start start me
whirring slightly is it sort of came out
of no and that happens quite often in
the dark so you’re sitting there with
lions the vehicles open everything’s
wonderful and then you use here this do
on your roof and you go I can’t see any
stars this is the problem and then you
get them to me and then you have to rush
to try pull the tent down and that
generally means you’ve got to drive away
from the Lions of course we don’t want
to be running around putting our tent
style next to the lines and sometimes
can be quite comedic
you think a bit chilly you shook her
over my legs
now as most of you like no I like my
Birds quite but and Russian years
wondering how different is the birding
during the different seasons well Russia
I suppose I haven’t spent a full yeah
yeah it’s I can’t tell you for sure but
in the summer season I’m looking forward
to seeing some of the migrants around
but I would say a lot of the Mara bird
species are resident and and that’s due
to the weather yeah lots of lots of
water all year round so it is it is
quite quite quite nice oh okay there’s
an Alfred
say hello quickly
I offered very good in yourself any
liens apart from the ones there and they
on gama’s on the other side okay okay
maybe tomorrow
just one it was over here oh that’s on
runner ridge very beautiful is so
Alfred’s been watching and he said he
saw Jamie with the Cheetahs this morning
okay well good luck I’m gonna go see if
I can find the rest of the pod there’s
only two females yeah so I’m sure the
other ones up here somewhere I know
tonight’s our only stout to maybe eight
o’clock nine o’clock but our other cars
at pulling that I’m and she’ll be out to
midnight one o’clock sometime there
thank you very much
okay
okay well we’re gonna see if we can find
the rest of the sausage tree pride or
maybe we’ll get lucky with that female
gesture while we do that let’s go to
Tristan who’s looking at four little
things I’ve had twin dams I am looking
at little things at random so you’ve got
a little water boatmen and you can see
why it’s called a boatsman because of
that oval-shaped body with those two
oars basically they come out and help it
swim around underneath the water and
it’s not every day we get to see them so
super cool watching them shoot about and
swim around and go crazy means the odd
little fish around as well there’s
another water boatman going that way you
can see there’s a big elephant ball of
dung so you can work out just how big
our water boatmen are they are tiny in
comparison to the elephant dung now they
were one or two fish around swimming in
the background I can’t see them now they
seem to have moved off and there was a
dragonfly Lavi that also was there but I
don’t know where that’s gone but it just
gives you an idea of how small is
another water boatman there you can see
is always quite clearly very cool little
bit darker that one so nice to see and
it’s not something we get to see very
often at all it while Hassan is sleeping
since I spotted all of these different
insects moving around in the shallows of
twin dams and it really is very cool to
see and mist all of these insects and
varying other small invertebrates that
are around water and I wonder if they’re
not feeling off the vegetation
inside the hip inside the elephant dung
so you can see they’re all latching onto
it you see varying others they also
probably be using it a little bit for
safety because it’ll be a place where
they are able to go down and fish can’t
get them they looks like a fish at the
back
is that a fish looks like a little fish
that’s darting forward so it doesn’t
look like the boatman that’s one that
looks like a small type of fish that is
swimming what kind of fish it is I’m not
quite sure there’s probably little barbs
is what they are three spot barb is what
we get in this area George you’re asking
if we can eat the fish in the lakes at
Juma George um no these fish would be
far too small these fish are
tiny tiny tiny like I said that’s a ball
of elephant dung to give you an idea of
just how small those fish are they are
minut so they wouldn’t even be a snack
and no I don’t know anything the water
here is so sort of stagnant sometimes
I’m not sure I’d want to try one well
though I suppose it’s as if we cook them
properly you could there are bream
species that we do get here that can be
eaten and catfish species that we call a
bobble and those will get eaten from
time to time and are okay but I’m not
sure I would be hugely into eating fish
out of some of these given what I’ve
seen go on in these water holes from the
elephant’s defecating and urinating and
buffalo and all kinds of other things
that go on inside yeah but amazing to
watch isn’t it it’s not something we get
to really see very often at all so
they’re not fish they are boatsman even
those lighter colored ones I thought
they were fish but they’re not they’re
an insect that is moving around it’s
quite difficult to see because obviously
it’s through some murky water and a
little those are not very dark like that
other boat when we saw just now and so
they tough to see I thought like I say
that they fish but they they’re not
they’re insects and then I’m moving
around in the water but well spotted
sensor that is super cool Bri Bri you
say so much activity there is so much
hasana was completely sleepy and but
he’s waking up now starting to groom
himself he’s been yearning a little bit
so I think he’s had a day of rest and I
wouldn’t be surprised we’re gonna start
getting going now hopefully it’s not
gonna be southwards I’m hoping he’s
gonna start hitting north wouldn’t be I
wouldn’t mind going on a hunting
expedition with husana it would be
really nice to see him hunting again and
you can see there’s a bit of sunlight
now coming out and look at how beautiful
his colors look in that sunlight he’s
getting that little bit of color coming
through in but if grooming going on and
this is very typical of a cat that’s
prepping to me so they groom they get
rid of any parasites that have gotten
onto them in loose fur that is developed
through the day get their coats in good
condition and cease cleaning between his
toes there and making sure that they’re
all prepped and ready for the evenings
moving around and making sure that his
feet are in good condition like a little
pedicure that he’s going through right
now and making sure that he looks
and is healthy so this is a typical sign
before cats get going and like I say
yawning coupled with this generally
indicates that we’re gonna see some sort
of movement in the near future so
hopefully like I say it’s north and not
south I really don’t want him to go down
into little gari because that will put a
bit of a ruin ooh
damp now on my plans this afternoon I
was hoping that we’d get here now and
husana would start waking up maybe have
a little drink and then from there start
moving up the mula watse and maybe go on
a little hunting expedition lots of
Yala’s and push back in in parlors and
Steinbach and duiker
in the actual I’m gonna watch on my way
down so hoping that he’ll head that way
and do a little bit of hunting there but
isn’t he beautiful very dexterous too as
well by the way that he’s able to groom
almost on his own back which is pretty
amazing so nice to see the way he does
things really is very pretty lipid or
sauna but I was also amazed about it’s
just the size between oh they went to
darvid of almost landed right in front
of him you can see kind of turned his
head a little bit
so the dove is just on the left hand
side they saw me I can’t see where it’s
gone now since I think it’s flown a
little bit past but you saw a dove
coming in and his eyes lit up for a
second and then decided no I’m not going
to have any of that and then decide to
carry on grooming his brother his older
brother Siobhan Bella and that’s how he
got his name is by catching a emerald
spotted wood dove because that’s what
Siobhan B’Elanna means so that’s where
you guys is doing exactly this was busy
grooming and then a dove flew past and
he just grabbed it out of nowhere but
how beautiful is the reflection in that
greenish colored water very very pretty
well done since I this light is just
getting better it’s almost starting to
full turn become a soft yellowy light
you often get the soft terrain you get
this most wonderful life developing in
the afternoons and it was exactly what I
was hoping for so I’m sure Hassan is
going to put on a wonderful show as he
sits there and enjoys the last of the
afternoon sunshine
now you can see he’s now moved on from
the front legs to the back legs and is
doing the exact same thing just grooming
the toes maybe a bit of sand in between
there keeping everything in check and
we’re gonna stay with him in monitor
whether he gets up and moves but from
one spotted cats in the sunset to
another let’s go across the tail in a
beautiful cheetah whoa we made it
finally we found wildebeest we have also
found with this beautiful spotted cat
who I want to see is if it is a male or
a female you look very much like a girl
I did not see any other bits that make
you a man but we’ll have a quick look
and he just keep up with her so I have a
story to tell you I met with one of the
wardens and he actually gave me the info
on this cheetah how kind of him he said
that he watched it chase after Impala
and grab an Impala lamb and then
unfortunately lose it to the hyenas
which is sad for the cheetah but it
works out well for us because it means
someone’s hungry
except we want this cat that’s not it’s
not drivers in Jenny halls we want this
cat to of course stay on the left-hand
side we don’t want it to come to the
right because we can’t all thrown on the
right-hand side so I’m gonna give her a
bit of space and this paint a wildebeest
around there’s also loads of what else
is then some a parlour some zebra I’m
just scanning some trophy
yeah
what we will have to do though at some
point before this gets too exciting is
very quickly predict infrared light on
but I just wanted to show you all this
beautiful cat it’s so nice to see
Nielson just upon quadruple check that
is not a boy
doesn’t look like it very lean though
could do with a meal don’t you think
let’s see what’s going to happen where
are you going to go who you’re gonna go
for now she better be careful
go that you’re going that way though
because I did see some lions in me an
area where we can’t offer open they’re
so far off the road that unfortunately
it’s no good for us
especially when it gets dark you know
during the day it’s different but we
lose light and our infrared lights can
only go so far Oh built for speed
I mean have you ever seen anything as
fantastic as a cheetah
I think I’d choose a cheetah over a
sports car and I think it’s a job –
never seen a sports car catch an Impala
but hopefully we’ll see this cheetah
catch one this is very cool now I don’t
know what cheetahs roam around this area
I’ve never been here before this is my
first time so we’ll have to learn
together we’re basically what are we we
are East ish of pouran gate gate but
still in the Triangle so I don’t know
what cats like to hang around here at
all hmm let’s see Craig let’s follow her
but I think I said we’re gonna lose
light fast and before it gets too
exciting before she does go and chase
something
we’ll have to put those infrared lights
on otherwise you are not going to see
anything we’re going to miss the hunt it
became a racing yeah
I’m telling you still there
now Bree are you wondering how much a
teacher ways she should expiry for
underweight because of Welsh hasn’t had
a meal
oh that you might you not how much she
weighs huh how much the tale ways well
that tells just about the length of her
body
I wouldn’t know I’m should scope but a
cartilage muscle I’m gonna be much fat
there I don’t know if it’ll weigh too
much at all maybe less than a kilogram
but who knows I’m quite happy not ever
knowing how much your cheated tail
weighs just because I can only imagine
one way that you’d where’d and that
would be a cheetah with outer tails and
it’s let’s not even worry about how much
shaking way it’s keep it on is it a good
she can’t see very well
Craig can we zoom right we needs good
right in there see I can’t you know I
see I’m fairly confident that it is a
female but watch it surprise me she’s
very tall I suppose I’m so used to
seeing so many leopards Asuna but that a
a cheetah and well in in statures
obviously a lot more slender the cheetah
different be taller than those methods
it was so lovely we didn’t find the
leopard that it was also apparently an
epic sighting we had a little look but
there’s the possibility though no
because there are quite shy archer
they’re not like sabi sand leopards that
possibly adduct off into one of the
drainage lines
now Chantal I don’t know if you heard me
but reenact for our infrared light song
because she’s obviously on the move so
she might be looking for something to
eat
what on earth are you okay can you see
that tiny little bird on the ground I
have no idea what that is someone take a
screenshot please and share it with me
because I’d like to try and figure out
what it is I don’t think it’s a
mannequin no it’s running
Pazhani on the ground that runs like a
ground dwelling bird never seen that
before
but I shall figure out what it is if you
take screenshots remember hashtags fire
it up and then I can identify it for you
later I’m gonna be out for most of the
night so I’ll be able to do that I’m
Chantal you still there
wonderful right I’m gonna send you back
to Tristan and wasana but don’t worry I
won’t be gone for too long we’re just
going to add our infrared lights
now Sanne is having a game with a
fruitful Franklin that keeps running
back and forth towards him he’s now
lying flat pretending like he’s not
interested in the Franklin is running
for its life but just now the Franklin
was actually coming straight towards him
there you go you can seize popped his
head up now because the Franklin has run
away but the Franklin was walking
straight towards him and he kind of
hunched down and was trying to pretend
like he was not interested but you think
he’s quite upset that if the Franklin
has gone all the way over that side but
look at how majestic he looks on the
edge of this water he’s really turning
into a beautiful individual he’s
watching the Franklin’s on the other
side of the dam you can hear the
Franklin’s are chasing each other around
larysa you’re asking if cheetah lions
and leopard males and females reach
maturity at the same age or does it
differ between the sexes well it’s it’s
not that they reach maturity at
different ages that the opportunities to
mate come at different ages so a male
lion male leopard even a male cheetah to
a degree they have to get stronger and
big enough to be able to compete with
other males and that Mommy takes a
little bit longer then when they’re
actually sixteen mature and able to mate
if you look at something like a female
leopard she’s already starting to mate a
two and a half years old even lionesses
turn off three years old they can start
mating and they’ll normally conceive
their first Cubs around four years or
three and a half four if it’s sometimes
a little bit earlier if they lucky but
males generally don’t come right with
mating until they’re around four to
seven years depending on on individuals
there are anomalies obviously outliers
on on that scale but generally the males
only are able to mate at a much later
stage but look how serious he looks
isn’t he magnificent Mehsana you are
looking beautiful my way he’s very very
well fairly he’s healthy he’s definitely
growing by the day starting to get a
very wide round face thick neck and the
male leopard in him is starting to come
out and blossom and he’s in his teenage
years now so you know he’s gonna start
going towards that two-year mark and
then once he starts to get to three four
then that’s when he’s gonna really put
on quite a bit of size and then when he
gets dominant and that testosterone
flush happens that’s when you’ll do that
last bulking up and then become massive
so hopefully he’s gonna be an impressive
male and I’m pretty sure he will be
wherever he ends up but he is looking as
regal as one could ever want to see from
a leopard he’s sitting beautifully for
us at the moment sitting almost looks as
though he’s kind of surveying his
landscape from his throne which is twin
dams wall it seems to have become his
place he loves spending time here and
watching what goes on is varying
different types of birds and animals and
all kinds of things that come down to
the section and drinking so it’s the
perfect place for
lipid to spend their time and isn’t that
beautiful I think so I think there’s not
very many things in this world that can
drive a a beautiful male lipid when it’s
sitting head up like that legs crossed
on the edge of a waterhole it’s a
magnificent scene we even got a bit of
card drama to our afternoon so you can
see that’s kind of seen that we are
looking at at the moment and it really
is a beautiful one but you can see now I
saying it’s not difficult to spot him
you can see me camouflage when he’s up
against that wall you’d think that
yellowy color would really blitter stand
out but as you can see from that it
doesn’t the spots actually blend into
this mottled wall effect and he can
blend in very very well beautiful
carsten from denmark you asked me if any
of the big cats have the falling or
landing on their feet part that domestic
cats have yes leopards when they fall
out of tree I’m yet to see a leopard
land funny they always generally land on
their feet even when they fall and lines
her to be they don’t really fall
graciously but they will land on their
back legs or their front legs or a all
four of them but they generally don’t
land on their backs ever they kind of
twist themselves in the air and land on
their feet so it is the same with
domestic cats as our lipids they do do
an alliance they do do the same thing
cheetah never seen a cheetah fall out of
a tree so I wouldn’t know but leopards
I’ve seen fall out too many times and
they generally do land on their feet
quite well unless of course you’re
Anderson male and you’re dragging a
carcass up a tree and then you basically
fall with the carcass that throws you
off balance and you don’t then land on
your feet at all you end up landing on
your back and side how he didn’t injure
himself for those of you that don’t know
what I’m talking about ants and mail was
videoed once taking an Impala up into a
tree and he then fell for some reason he
fell out with the Impala and landed in a
heap at the bottom of the tree so that
wasn’t ideal and not very elegant but
it’s very seldom as we see things like
that happening I’m just watching the
water
you’re watching the Terrapins maybe he’s
watching that’ll water boatmen that
we’ve been seeing flocking past and
swimming past and he’s intrigued by all
of that it’s just a wonderful wonderful
sight to see him like this
he’s almost looking as though to say
well the animals that come and drink at
this time of the day it’s not a a
hot day so maybe the animals are not
coming down and he’s going to have to be
patient and wait a lot longer for
anything to move into this area so I’m
just looking behind me to see if there
is any impalas or anything drifting but
nothing nothing nothing for him at just
yet
but I don’t he’s gonna be done for too
much longer I really do believe that he
is going to meet is gonna yawn laughs
and I really believe that he is going to
start getting up and going short yet
maybe come down for a bit of a drink and
then he’s going to start going now Hasan
is sitting patiently waiting looking
around and he really doesn’t seem to
care too much about any of the other
animals that we get in this area but one
animal that will be worried about
running into other spotted predators Act
we had the swing is the cheetahs and I
believe tailors cheetahs are having a
tough time look who’s sitting low on the
mound as a term and not as a Amma
termite minders the hyena came charging
past him she’s not having much luck in
coming back again the song you know
definitely knows that the cheetahs here
now there have been a couple of them
calling about I suspect there might be a
den here Barker’s a sort of a couple of
heads popping up from the ground but in
a non off-roading section maybe this is
the one that stole her meal earlier it’s
come in the direction that she was in
but it is heading off to the whooping
sounds that we heard just a moment ago
to obviously the rest of the clan there
you go don’t worry girl Yuna’s Winehouse
all got too much if she doesn’t have a
kill I mean there’s no point
Venus don’t necessarily go around just
killing other predators that isn’t that
absolutely gorgeous he’s staring across
at a herd of wildebeest but they’re very
far away still she’s still got quite a
bit of distance to travel if she’s
thinking of taking on a wildebeest there
will be a couple of youngsters on there
that’ll be suited to her size especially
because she’s on her own which is
typical for a female cheetah unless
she’s got Cubs
well Sabadell to litter but otherwise
this is how you normally see female
cheetah it’s the always that you’ll see
forming coalition’s so I was just
reading a message Jamie was saying that
double crossing which is a crossing on
the other side is completely flooded so
they aren’t able to cross it at the
moment so it just goes to show how much
rain that area actually had it must have
been spectacular that side and last
night
why don’t I suppose this
different areas once brington I was six
kilometres away and I was sitting in the
pouring rain and he was counting the
stars so you just never know but it’s
looking good for us so far hopefully I
don’t jinx it and hopefully it’ll be
good weather for this lovely girl
because if it does start pouring with
rain maybe she’s gonna go seek shelter
who knows predators do like to hunt in
the rain too they might have a better
chance that is gorgeous to see a cheetah
walking with rain falling in the
distance and the sky on fire it would
only get better if she heads up a bit
higher so that we can get a silhouette
shot of her let’s see if we can follow
her actually I’m gonna stay oh no no
sorry losses caused a disaster I’m
trying to get it into low range but it’s
really not the easiest there we go
sometimes force is the way forward
history with these cars
now we’re gonna navigate some rocks very
quickly well there’s no such thing as
navigating rocks quickly that’s for sure
but I want to try and
keep on the side of her
so you can get that silhouette
she needs to move up a little bit higher
than anything where it’ll be perfect
I’ll try get up so we don’t have to keep
moving
now any wondering of loans with cheat
are more successful than lions when
hunting well it depends unfortunately
cheetah and lions don’t have the strike
rate like a pack of wild dogs they
really are the winners when it comes to
being successful when they hunt you know
we know she’s made just made a
successful kill she killed an empire
lamb but unfortunately it was stolen for
from her how many times she has tried
before she got her hands on that in
pirate paws on that Impala I’m not sure
and it’s it’s really a tough one I
haven’t seen a cheetah kill from start
to finish I’ve only watched a couple of
attempts and I’ve seen them I’ve just
missed them catching things because they
were behind a tree and all something
along those lines I would say that lions
maybe have a better success rate because
they hunt in prides if it’s a coalition
of male cheetah a while look at that
then then probably about the same oh my
gosh that is like an absolute dream come
true I’ve always wanted to see the
silhouette of a cheetah walking along
the skyline on a high ridge so there we
go I can take something off my bucket
list and I hope that one of you can take
something off too I mean we dream of
shots like this Craig give you a film
cheetah like this before Craig says no
and he’s jumping for joy now so if the
camera starts to shake it’s not me being
excited a promise shoots Craig this is
beautiful I really hope we’re going to
see our first hunt shall we keep going
because she’s actually caught up well
she’s jumped ahead of us and I know
there’s a few rocks and what cheetah
anything can happen
she could spot something
just on top of the ridge and we could be
too far behind her and off she goes
that’ll be hard ones to eat but but I
don’t even think I had to keep up with a
cheetah
while goes yeah give you a run for your
money but I think of cheetahs on a whole
nother level so let’s see what she’s
going for she does seem to be moving
towards those wildebeest there were a
couple watching he on this side too
which is just heading further and
further up who’s in a buff alone you
were fine hunter Buffalo
see what she’s gonna do not Francis from
Israel wondering if the hyenas pesky
things follow a cat’s around and they do
indeed they love following leopards are
on predominantly in the sabi sand they
often feed on the same carcass and then
well cheetah they just take the kill
from them so you say well so I’m sure
that I you know hang around in the area
like I said I think there’s a den nearby
there’s a buffalo up ahead but she’s not
interested in the buffalo I mean we’ve
seen the lines being chased around by
buffalo search is really no match you
know young Buffalo Calf perhaps not a
problem but again you’ve got a fight
with a big herd of buffalo and we know
how dangerous that can be so I don’t
know if you would take that chance
there’s a lovely cat though I think
we’ll probably try and follow her for
most of the night and tall she’s
successful he makes it kill let’s be
optimistic here there’s just stopping
the staring looking back scanning
dreaming this must be about a hundred
thousand wildebeest just on the other
side of the Mara River quite close to
the pro rata bridge so it might be a
good good spot it’s just sort of head to
that she she’s going towards tree I go
towards the tree whoa
turbo kicks in there of like it just
jumped
Willoughby’s moogle wildebeest running
way they going I’m coming here there’s a
young wildebeest calf and amongst the
said I’m just gonna stop again we have
seen it with predators when they are
moving through an area will get their
prey coming into an obvious spot saying
we know that you are here don’t try and
catch us because we can see you but a
cheetah can run particularly fast it
doesn’t look actually showing too much
interest just yet she’s just sort of
walking this is not a picnic spot of
this tree there’s one young wildebeest
calf in there that could be tasty for
her are you gonna go stand on that
little block that would be great
wouldn’t it put your paws up there
looking up to the top of the tree let’s
see no I’m sure there’s plenty of other
animals that have sent marked up against
there but oh she is coming into e stress
which I’m I’m not sure maybe she’s going
to mark maybe she’d be picking up on the
scent of a male I’d see just having a
good old smell a little beacon and from
those things she can sell who exactly
has been partially I’m sure she knows
the saint of a yeah it looks like she
well she’s hidden herself but I’m pretty
sure the way that she’d just rocked her
tail that she was perhaps ain’t marking
up on that tree so may she may be she’s
interested in a potential boy that’s
around I can hear the hyenas making all
sorts of funny noises down below
wildebeest anon running alongside the
cheetah that’s quite cool actually
oh the sky everything is so beautiful
oh wow I mean even you can just see with
the sky behind me it’s absolutely
amazing
now roshni as we drive I’m gonna try and
get another good spot yeah you’re
wondering about this cheetah and what is
the largest size of prey that a single
cheetah could take down yeah all on its
own well for a male Chi do because
they’re slightly larger and again if he
was hunting by myself say wasn’t a part
of a coalition they take down wildebeest
I mean I’ve heard stories of you know
coalition’s taking down adult wildebeest
I would say for a for a single female
cheetah like this you’re probably
looking at a Sbarro all the beasts would
be big enough now when you are on your
own like this and we see it in the sabi
sand alight when a female cheetah in
particular or males on their own are by
themselves in the sabi sand they would
catch lots of Sternbach and Baker it’s a
small meal they can eat it fairly
quickly without without too much hassle
and this is some hyena or there’s a
leopard or something that’s you know
maybe nearby that will come through and
see that there’s zebra
there’s topi there’s a certain parlor
there’s lots of game around here so
we’ll just keep up with it and they
would catch the smaller things and and
sort of have a bit of chance of holding
on to it you know if you’re on your own
and you kill a sub-adult wildebeest it’s
gonna take you quite a bit of time to
feed on that now you’ve also got the
worry of right in front of us is
incredible of having something harass
you because it’s such a large kill so I
don’t know if it’s the same thing out
here you don’t really see I haven’t seen
as many smaller antelope species besides
the Thomson’s gazelle the odd already
here and there and of course their
Impala around but not in numbers like we
see in the sand Kara let’s carry on
like I said we’ve just got to make sure
that we try and keep up with her for as
much as we can
no we saw her smelling up against that
tree again said that the nineties tree
and I suspect that she also sent
marketed herself at the wrong name and
there was a question from reverie about
her senses on whether she uses her sense
of smell to help her find food I think
it’s a combination of things I think
they use combination of hearing link
cheese’s eyesight is particularly good
just like any predator that has got
binocular vision and I think that their
sense of smell definitely plays a part
so I don’t think it’s just one thing
that they’re relying on it’s a little
bit of everything wow this could be very
pretty because the wildebeest and the
zebra on are silhouetted and hopefully
she heads towards them if she heads up a
bit higher will get another silhouette
oh my goodness but even just that of the
herbivores of the back is fantastic and
you can hear the classic know that of
them Pilar that didn’t even sound like
an Impala a long call that was hopeless
you think I’d know better especially
since a over animal that we see why
would we see more every single day we’re
in the sand
doing a little zigzag technique there
aren’t you girl what have you found the
scrub here any mouths may be lurking in
the grass that got her attention or the
scent of some sort
she’s definitely soldiering on though
see how everybody’s just watching her
not really paying too much attention
well not yet when they’re all alarming
saying hey we know you there don’t even
try anything
I reckon though she finds another group
of Impala maybe some Thomson’s gazelle
she could go for it okay well I’m gonna
carry on again before she yeah she gets
away from us so that’s great though I’d
said to you before I came to the morrow
that one of the things I wanted to do
was spend the time
Cheeta and I unfortunately hadn’t really
had the opportunity to do so because of
the high density of vehicles within the
private areas of the Cypress and and
wanting to see
Cheeta all the time and because they’re
not particularly common so I’m
definitely gonna spend as much time as I
can with this guy that spent some more
time at the Musketeers the rain sort of
ruined that for us the last time all the
first time I found them unfortunately
what are you gonna do go oh you know
what let’s see make sure she doesn’t go
running off to anything but look how
gorgeous that is
I told you I’ve been dying to get a
silhouette shot of Impala bounding
across the skyline well we won’t get
that yet we’ll start with the zebra and
the topi because that is absolutely
magnificent isn’t there that is that is
really a postcard is it any possibility
we can have a little bit closer look so
I’ve got a shot for all of you that
you’ve got to try and get and you’ve got
to tag me in it because I I’m not going
to take any pictures of this you you
must all just enjoy this look at that
trophy zebra you’ve got to get all of
that in and remember hashtag safari live
add it to your silhouette collect rom
that’s so cool we hear the crown
black-winged very unhappy with that
cheetah marching through those I don’t
think she’ll be particularly interested
in two tiny eggs or three tiny eggs I
don’t think that would be a very tasty
no you want something a little bit more
substantial don’t you but she’s also
smelling that she stops and she zigzags
and that’s not but I don’t think that’s
a particular hunting technique you have
never seen that happen I know I zigzag
when I walk towards a giraffe but she’s
picking up sense on the grass so maybe
she’s looking for something who knows
there’s a left wing okay let’s go again
always a couple of Thompson’s gazelle
Richard you know what the success rate
for cheetah is I wouldn’t imagine that
it’s very good very high at all maybe
slightly less than the line but I and
not one to ask because I cannot talk
from experience I can only tell you what
the books is saved because I’ve never
seen that she’s a hunter from start to
finish like I said I either get there
and then they chase and then they kill
something behind the bushes and I’ve
missed the whole thing because it is a
lot dancer in the sabi sands so my best
chance is actually here and I’m gonna be
completely honest with you because I’m
also here to learn unless I said I want
to spend as much time with the cheetah
in this area so I can learn all about it
and crush those theories that people
have said things cheetah do they maybe
then I completely disagree with it I’m
just trying to I’m focusing quite
heavily now I’m also gonna quickly scan
with my binoculars as soon as see if
there’s any any other prayer are maybe
she’s just sick of it and she doesn’t
even want to eat anything else tonight
but I would imagine as Nina she is that
hunger must be is setting in now so cool
this is so great I was turning out to be
a magnificent evening but we’re gonna
sit you for a little bit longer like I
said I’m gonna try not let her out of my
sight and hopefully it pays off
Tristan however is searching for the
young Prince horse Anna I am indeed
you can see his Donna’s book turn around
he did a little pirouette and he’s now
grooming the other side of his body so
no don’t land there but that’s not the
place to land it was a thick me that
came in oh now he’s gonna play a hairy
casual and just kind of lean back is
that not there’s a thick knee that came
flying in so that’s a water thick knee
that we’ve got there with a white strap
on the edge of the wing on the wing
itself just looking at her Sanne
probably wondering what are you doing
got a bit of a fright I was about to
learn right away hasana was and then
decided no against that but you can’t
get much ganks more gangster than that
he’s got the gangster lean he’s leaning
up against the bank and was busy
creaming himself he’s looking super
chilled it’s laughs now and the auto
bull did come down
and drank and he kind of watched it but
I think he realizes inaudible is just a
bit too much for him to to grab at the
stage it’s also he was in no position to
be hunting anything from where he was he
was had to crept around the entire edge
of the dam which is near impossible
actually at this stage and given that
it’s so open here that Yana would have
spotted him in two seconds so he’s not
gonna be able to do that hello beautiful
way look at how wonderful his eyes are
getting they almost going more orange by
the day they sort of lightining up but
going orange orange orange an
interesting Estonian tea at an almost
loo mullah eye color and those of you
don’t remember Himalayas a male that we
used to see around Chitra Hoffman’s a
little bit into Shirley’s I think he was
once or twice seen on the live drives
I’m not I haven’t percent sure but he
might have been seen on Safari live a
few times he had the most incredible
orange eyes and then there’s the flat
rock mail which has also got very
similar as to what Hassan has got so
then becoming very mesmerizing those
eyes and it’s amazing that our two young
boys both have incredible eye colors so
husana is getting these orange colored
eyes and then on the opposite spectrum
you’ve got tumble with these Bluegreen
eyes and they were both are absolutely
striking when they look at you it’s
quite something they kind of both have
this this look that you get a bit
mesmerized by them so nice to see that
both of ways are going to be good
looking lads later in life
so Lily here saying how do I know this
lipid is there are so many names
well maybe the thing is is that it’s not
so much I mean somebody with some people
use spot patterns and and will use
certain markings to kind of indicate who
exactly he is and how they tell him
apart so as far as I know Hassan is a
3/3 but for me spot patterns are helpful
in the beginning but once you see a
lipid for a long period of time you
generally kind of get a sense of who
they are by just what they look like
much like you would recognize your
cattle dog that you have at home it’s
the exact same thing with these lipids
as we get to a point where we start to
recognize them as individuals just
because of spending a lot of time with
him so for me Hassan is just got a
certain look about him that I get and I
know in this particular section the
young males that we see here it really
can only be Hassan or tumblr and they
they look very different the two of them
like I say they have different colored
eyes so it’s really quite simple for to
see him he’s got this kind of pinkish
nose orangey colored eyes the three
three spot pattern which is those spots
over the whiskers and that just helps to
be able to work out exactly who there
are so general some kind of appearance
for me is always more helpful in a spot
pattern because a lot of the time we see
these leopards from far away and you
can’t see the spots from 20 meters even
from here I can’t tell you how many
spots Hassan has got on his face but
what I can tell you is that he’s got the
husana look about him which is that pink
nose there’s orange colored eyes and
that general sort of roundish face that
he has a race typical cruller family
face I got stopped and muzzles and
Roundy faces and they are beautiful now
I was talking about Hassan as camouflage
the camouflage of that thick knee oh no
it’s now stood up but it was sitting
down and I promise you it was impossible
to see and so pity it’s now gone down to
the water I’m hoping it will will go
back to where it was and sit down again
and I’ll be able to show you exactly
what I’m talking about
I think our husana is starting to wake
up but look at him dreaming I always
love when lipids scream they pause like
this when they have they pour out in
front and you see that long pink tongue
kind of go along the length of their
poor there is is a beautiful way to see
them
are you surveying your landscape wasana
1.diff one day this will all be his
imagine if it does it’ll be interesting
that’s for sure definitely not be
something that I would have expected
Lindley asking what’s happening – what’s
happened to crude his territory and who
should get it while it’s being courted
and divided and split up in chunks – all
the females in the area so at the moment
Tandi has moved made the most movement
into Kunis territory she’s not taken
this whole south east corner even up I
suppose into the central parts of German
and even northwards the other day she
was seen close to the force of dam so
she’s pushing quite far and taking that
whole eastern section and then shadow
seems to be taking the whole western
section at the moment so shadows being
seen along on the western boundary not
as far north as what time he’s been
going but still pretty much the western
section is now shadows so the two
daughters have pushed in there and then
we know Sheila at one stage was moving
around just on the northern section and
there we go is starting to think think
about getting going just got it
alleviate some issues when we’re doing
this you can see a few dark cars in the
background and interesting
the first insects that I’ve heard at
night since we’ve been in the winter it
sounds like the cicadas almost starting
to call a little bit now this is soft
sand going up what do you got your nose
in there’s a little hole then you see is
digging a little bit wonder what you
found the asana how beautiful is that
there him just creeping over the top of
the damn wall just checking slinking
over and if he’s just gonna sit and give
us a little look over his shoulder it
would be really nice if he did what I’m
gonna do though is I’m gonna just go
back up onto the damn wall because I
want to be able to look at that
I’ll just stop there cuz he’s looking at
result isn’t that beautiful that is as
good as it gets
when coming to a leopard that’s for sure
the only thing that could be better
would be if he just walked slightly
across outside of those branches that
we’ve got then sat in a nice clean part
of the damn wall that would be the only
other way that this could be any bit
than what it is right now that is
absolutely beautiful especially
silhouetted against that dark sky that
we getting on the eastern horizon
warmest looks like we might get some
more rain now that there’s some big dark
cards coming from the east and so he’s
just kind of watching them but that’s
the sky that he’s under isn’t that
magnificent very very pretty and nothing
is just watching and checking what’s
going on
Megan quintessential whoo see you using
my words now Megan certainly but surely
be teaching Megan the quintessential
ways she makes fun of me because I use
it so often pitching again this will
each between the shoulder blades this
you can scratches or it’s not like us as
people when we struggle to be able to
scratch out issues that we have on our
shoulder blades it’s really not ideal
when we get those issues but at least
he’s able to do it when a cookie shoot
around makers I think he’s going to
cross parts of our Traverse he’s going
to hit South which means that we’re
probably not going to see him for too
much longer so I want to try and just
get up and art as quick as possible then
keep up with him and see the last of him
going over
let’s try and get through the section
without killing Sims oh and myself are
you going back now the other way looks
like it looks like you might head north
now which is good news it means he might
be hitting deeper back into Juma or he
could have just gone round the back of
this vehicle and then we’ll turn south
from there we are you hitting no he is
turning north by the looks of things
which is fantastic means he’s turning
deeper into Juma so I’m trying to just
cross this Maggie little section which
is very bouncy and I’m bouncing around
all over the place so bit of a workout
getting over here for the old core
muscles there he goes he’s just going
north and that’s great news guys as is
perfect this is exactly what we wanted
we wanted him teared north because North
for us it means that we get to see him
for longer so fantastic
now it’s almost time where I’m gonna
have to get my spotlight art until we’re
able to put on our infrared so we’ll
have to just use the spotlight for a
little bit because we don’t have our
infrared just yet so it’s just crossing
not just yet he’s looking around he’s
seems to be quite varies obviously heard
something that he’s now listening to and
just checking but he must keep pushing
northwards he needs to go down into the
Milwaukee and northwards and that would
be much better for us than if he goes
south we are you off to a sauna he looks
as though he’s a little bit kind of
unsure which way he wants to go there’s
a few Aramark gobblers that are shouting
at him hang on is creeping away any
salivating as well what have you seen
husana that I haven’t seen you seen
something
blue reckons it’s tumblr that’s here so
I want to go down and just see you’re
gonna let somebody else go in front
because they haven’t had a chance to go
and so I want to just have a look back
here because he’s looking at behind this
damn wall hmm I wonder if tumblers not
here or somebody else like ton me that
could also be another lipid that could
be around but I’m gonna go drop down
into the drainage line and just see if
he’s gonna pop that side he looks like
he’s heading down in towards the
Milwaukee so I wanna head into the
Milwaukee and see if there isn’t another
leopard lurking that side we also note
in Ghana he could also be even though he
was on in coral and cheetah Plains this
morning by now he could easily be in
this direction given the weather that
we’ve got so I wonder what just who is
looking cuz all of a sudden there’s a
bit of salivating he went into a very
different position where he was kind of
stalking lower which is a little bit of
a change so I wanna heads round in sea
and we know that there’s been lots of
alarm calls around here lots of sort of
audio for birds charting and also tracks
for a young male leopard so maybe tumblr
I don’t know it’s gonna be interesting
nonetheless
because somebody is around that’s
causing husana to go into a very
different sort of mode than he what he
was for most of the our theme is kind of
relaxed and ambling along him all of a
sudden just stopped and then he started
hunting down and it’s typical of either
seeing a prey item or seeing sorry or
seeing another leopard the salivating
part generally means another little come
on windy off you go
come on come on
here we go so we just had to get windy
through the soft sand and now she’ll be
okay and she’ll be able to maneuver
through here just fine kicking because I
was driving here today I wanted to see
it was look like there was some sort of
tracks inside my vehicle tracks I was
wanting to see who exactly that was but
some put spider webs all over my face so
I tried get rid of those googly before
we actually look at what these tracks
are has he really crossed over no I
don’t think so I think he’s probably
still on this Bank
there we go who’s that there’s another
lipid there but it looks a course oh no
no there’s another lipid yeah I don’t
know who it is
is this quarantine knows that who’s that
no it’s wasana that’s this side but how
did he get here so quickly how did you
run across so fast I don’t know if maybe
there’s another lipid but here is four
sauna this side it’s not another lipid
this is living in a sauna so I don’t
know how he got to here so quickly and
why he’s facing this way now you booked
another England this one is for sauna
wood so I’m just asking the guys but
that is husana for sure
so how he got across I’m not quite sure
he must have run across in ours I don’t
know it looks it’s very odd because his
behaviour also as though he’s watching
something decide now
yeah it must be hunting something in
this general vicinity either that or
there’s another lipid lurking around
here somewhere but he’s kind of run
across and now he’s coming back again so
what he’s seen but it’s definitely
husana for sure that is him through and
through his light up his legs they give
him a bit more color what’s have you
seen boy he must have chased something
this way and missed that’s the only
thing I can think of because for a
second there I wondered if maybe his
older brother was around deer watching
you say he looked spooked he does
doesn’t he looks as though there’s
something going on and I’m not 100% sure
what’s happening at the moment of it is
definitely something that’s intrigued
him and like I say either he’s chased
something over this riverbed and is now
coming back or he saw somebody else and
went this way and checked but I don’t
see any other lipids around here like
100% sure it’s a mystery what are you up
to hasanah this always seems to be
something going on with this cat win
either hand he seems to always have some
sort of intriguing stuff happening look
how beautiful he’s looking though he’s
really starting to fill out properly so
I for a second I thought it might have
been quarantine just because of how big
he was
Prodi’s
six-years-old you want to know why he’s
got black around his mouth well Cody
that’s just how it is it’s unfortunate
with lipids they have these markings
like this and it’s all there to help
break up his face so what I assume and I
mean break up his face it’s when he’s
staring at an animal and he wants to be
able to be his camouflaged as possible
so he wants to hide as well as possible
and those black markings help to match
the light in the shade and make it very
difficult for the prey animal to see him
so that’s why he’s got black in those
areas just to make sure that it helps
keep him very well hidden from any other
of the prey animals and that he can then
hunt and stalk I have no idea what he’s
doing
maybe there’s a dyke or Asti invoker
that’s run this direction he’s now
coming back to check but he certainly
watched something or ran off to
something down here and who knows what
it was because it was another lipid we
would have found that they would have
had a face off they wouldn’t have to
submit as dispersed as quickly as this
and look nice coming straight back
towards us again I’m just gonna drop my
life down as he walks towards us and you
don’t go southwards though way
can see how relaxed he is they’re just
walking behind the car
typical husana maneuver okay but don’t
lie down like your sister older sister
did the other day I think he’s moving
down the river bid though and he is
going to sit there right I want to just
try get out of the way of the vehicle in
front of me so I mean just turn a little
bit is he still close close is he close
we’re not gonna be able to turn much yet
he’s still too close behind us at the
moment I thought he is a little bit
further than what he is he’s literally
right behind the corn he’s pull pulling
the same stunt that Tandy pulled the
other day where they sit right behind
the car don’t know why they like to do
this but for some reason behind the car
is where he wants to be and so is he
going to go to the toilet looks like it
don’t go to the toilet in the tire track
because in somebody’s got to drive over
that and they bits of lipid dung in your
tires is never a pleasant experience it
smells quite a bit and it steams to
stick to the tires and so not very
pleasant at all what has he seen I don’t
know he seems to be in a state of
undecided whether it’s toilet time or
time to move on but it can’t be
comfortable either way now I believe I
need to link I’m not sure to who I’ve
got no comms
so we’ll go across to whoever it is and
hopefully it will be a beautiful
sighting any has we got back to where
those two lovely girls where they were
on the move now there’s one just in
front of us and one to the right I can
just make them art at the moment so we
will be using infrared light to view
them and hopefully they’re heading out
on the hunt
now I mean you can barely see anything
in front of me but you’re gonna have to
believe me there’s a line right there
there we go I’m looking infrared dish is
moving west and the other line is just
off to the right somewhere she can’t see
her at the moment so has it got dark
they decided it was time to get moving I
think yeah I don’t have to keep up with
them you’ll see I have to put my
headlights on every now and then so you
don’t fall in a hole or bump into a
termite termite mound
as I was explaining earlier patience is
incredibly important when you’re
spending a lot of time with big cats
because they do tend to sleep a lot
Lions in particular 20-plus hours a day
the other line is gone
and she’s around there somewhere there
she is having a sniff
the toy is the fun part now which one do
we stick with I think we’re gonna stick
with the one wheel with initially is
just my cart and now I will flash a
spotlight every now and then to see what
might be coming ahead of the lines
nothing so far
now Lily’s wondering why are they called
the sausages Livie it’s because they
like the sausage trees so they do tend
to climb sausage trees or there was a
jackal I heard alarming at them it
sounded quite press the little jackal
there it is this two pair of them just
over there and so they might have a den
close by so that’s why I just heard this
well well well they don’t like lions
around their babies and the wind is
picking up I guess they’re gonna take a
large awesome and the wind is picking up
which is great if you’re a lioness on
the hunt strong winds or help mask the
sounds of them moving as you can see
they’re getting right to the edge of the
infrared light so I’m gonna have to move
again
see I didn’t find any Woolfolk holes
this evening
as I say Tristan’s Catron continues so
we’re gonna stick with these girls while
they head off into the darkness and
Tristan is still with one of my favorite
leopards and possibly the only leopard
who’s ever stoped me on foot her Sylar
we are still with him in e he’s I don’t
know what he’s up to he’s all over the
place huh
and a big jump down their bank little
big boy what are you doing you he’s like
running around as though there’s
something that he wants and something
that he is trying to hunt but I can’t
see what it is so I’m trying to just
kind of reverse and stay with him and he
keeps moving up and down the bank he’s
making it difficult for us to kind of
predict where he wants to go here he
comes now slowly but surely he’s hitting
kind of towards where we are he comes
look at that he’s almost like he’s on
the prowl he is hitting South so we’re
not gonna have him for I reckon we’ll
have him maybe for another five minutes
at the most but don’t know what he is
seen and he has decided I want to hunt
it and he is chasing things but we can’t
see what it is I don’t know if there’s
maybe a little rodent or something that
he’s seeing I’m not sure at all what’s
are you watching the way
Livan are you asking if the spotlights
are bothering him I don’t think so he’s
used to the spotlight so we’re going to
infrared anyway just to make sure that
we can kind of keep him without having
to worry about spotlights but here he
comes now just walking down the road and
he’s going straight into the pool Gary
within the next five seconds I would say
really not going to be very long at all
and this he stops on the side no he’s
heading straight towards little Gary now
I don’t know what it’s been all about
this afternoon he’s kind of been went
north and you in South than you in East
than you in West and now he’s heading
towards the main road and out of our
area I’m gonna try quick here it’s
beautiful with him spot look like that
isn’t it roshni you say leopards are a
lot more active compared to lions they
are and that’s why I love spending time
with him the Lions are amazing when
they’re active but that’s not that often
at least with the Leopards you know if
you spend a bit of time with them they
will get active fairly soon and you will
end up with a really kind of interesting
sighting at some point but there we go
he’s busy crossing into little Gary now
oh no maybe not so nice since marking at
least going to the toilet that is
let’s just see what the spotlights just
saw that you were saying if they were
worrying him you can see we’re not
shining on his face so we shine down on
the ground in front of him and just kind
of bounce the light up towards him and
make sure that we’re not in any way
shining in his eyes and so if he wasn’t
sure about the spotlights you most
certainly would avert his gaze from them
whereas now you can see he’s really kind
of not too concerned about it so just
shine in front and make sure that we
don’t shine into his eyes and then
everything’s okay and there he goes it’s
all going to be our last views of
Hosanna as he disappears into little
Gary so he came from there today and
well now he goes back and he crossing
exactly the same place that he crossed
this morning coming in so back down to
the south and venturing into his
territory that he had walnut territory
but his area that he moves around down
here he seems to spend a lot of time
down in the south in little Gary these
days and so kind of bounces between the
two and you can see just how he’s gonna
melt into the darkness as the range of
the light gets too far and so well
hassanis links off into the evening and
disappears into the thickets of the sabi
sands and little Gary we were talking
about cats being active and lions on as
much as the leopards but it seems Prince
lions are up and moving so let’s go
across to him
you know he’s still with these gorgeous
sausage girls naeun see they are hungry
they’re not starving by any means and
here’s a apps you might have heard
something up ahead just had worked opium
zebra in this area a little bit earlier
I can we need to keep up with her again
and check where the other one is
as a retired wildebeest from when all
the baldies behind it some carcasses
strewn around this area okay I’ve got
both the girls I just want to get up
ahead a little bit so in case there is
something there
some giraffe coming up but to Linus’s
giraffe might be a little bit big
and if there is a baby drop that they
would definitely have a gander ass
and they’re moving quite quickly as you
can see that and they’re really marching
now he’s gonna pop up next to us and you
can see how pitch-black it is till we
put the infrared on so the grass is
quite short after the ball the beasts
have been through here so you can see
them using the slightly more bushy areas
providing a little bit more cover
listen giraffe at the head I don’t know
if there’s a baby with them there
Oh hold on the it’s a mud to deal with
we did all the zebra disappear G lots in
this area yeah
so far ahead of them devoid of life
apart from giraffe on the horizon up
there you know walking parallel to us
just in the nice thick thick it’s a
watch out the only a bit of a bump
they might have heard zebra in the
distance that we can’t see it that could
be over the next little rise this is a
slightly Angela tin country here
ya know he’s got both of them on the
March
you can see that front line this is
quite a bit bigger back line this looks
to be a little bit younger
winds starting to pick up even more
which is great for the Lions roshni’s is
wondering what differences in hunting
strategies have we noticed between the
greater Kruger area and the Mara now one
must remember that lion hunting
strategies will vary wherever there are
in Africa in the lines and in in the
greater Kruger are far more proficient
at hunting Buffalo for example but
that’s just because they don’t have the
amount of choice for these Lions D and
Jimmy it seems to be only the males and
certain prides little and by flow
normally only during the the wet season
when the volu be staunch yeah
lines are taking us off the road down
bumpy bumpy
so I mean the Lions have they’ve got
that the migration so they’ll charge
into the migration no real stalking or
anything and just wait to see if
something happens or feza
and injured wine or lots of different
active Sam they’re also quite a lot of
water hunters here so they’re actually
waits around burrows but again a lot of
those tactics could even change season
me and never put put put around the
whole I mean a round peg in a square
hole was the other way around around a
square peg in a round hole because as
soon as you do that you are going to
find them doing something you say they
don’t do and that’s the wonderful thing
about being out there with these animals
is that their their behavior can change
and to a certain degree certain
behaviors are learned from from each
other like for example elephant hunting
in Botswana it’s very much a pride thing
rather than a lion thing and it’s only
in areas where they’ve been forced to
take advantage of the massive amount of
elephants and very little other game
during certain times of the year
I just need a mission these girls
special I’m not seeing any eyes up ahead
and aren’t any so far set time to keep
up
whole
looks like they’re not favoring the
roads this evening
I remember this is a hundred percent
live from the Mara in Kenya where with
two lionesses on the hat in the pitch
black
if dick knee has been a day full of cats
lion leopard and cheetah so let’s go see
how Taylor and her cheetah are getting
on
so cheetah has decided that she needs a
little bit of a rest which I don’t blame
her for she means she ran around on she
caught herself a meal she had stolen
from her you probably who stuff quite a
bit of energy doing so and then to find
her just resting up on a termite mound
not for very long and then getting on
the move and she actually travelled
quite a distance I’m very impressed with
how quickly she covered that ground but
that’s also quite typical with the
cheese and sauce sometimes if you leave
them in one spot you can come back
between minutes later and there will be
kilometres away they really really do
move there was not an uncommon sight in
the sabi sand it should be following a
male cheetah from the southern section
of the reserve this was down in the
south of the sabi sand and then within
an hour’s time crossing out on the
northern boundary when they want to go
they move and we see it all the time he
sit with wild dogs how quickly they go
but their Gators normally a little bit
quicker and more constant than that of a
cheetah she’s just obviously walking and
it’s the same like a leopard or a lion
male-line going on a serious territorial
patrol they also cover well areas very
quickly now even though it’s completely
dark Archer and she has sat down in the
long grass I think she’s just waiting
for everything to settle it’s not to say
that cheetah don’t hunt at night that’s
a big misconception they most certainly
can hunt at night and I have sort of
come across cheetah at dusk just after
the sunset – feeding on animals when we
were with him you know 20 or 30 minutes
prior to that and and and had to leave
though because when you’re a guide and
you have guests around we don’t have
infrared cameras of course so you have
to leave a cheetah at just at sunset no
spotlighting of cheetah and no Cubs of
course as you know and things like wild
dog we don’t spot that either when you
spot laughs they’re nocturnal creatures
so but you’ll bump into them you know
have a quick look keep the lights off
them of course because you’ll know that
the hyenas will come charging in or even
a lion or a leopard and still their
kills so you just want to keep them as
hidden as possible and that’s what we’re
doing here and that’s where we are so
lucky is that we are able to sit
in complete darkness I can’t even see
how far away she is from my car at the
moment I’m just sort of guessing she’s
listening to lions roaring now very very
very far away and very faint so I doubt
that any of you will be able to hear
because I’m just hearing it but there’s
lines surrounding us there’s lines to
the west of us is lions to the north of
us and the designs to the east of us
and these plaintive will to be sarong
are they going to be on the right side
of the river I only hope so now
Ellucian you’re wondering if this
cheetah could climb tree she most
certainly can she won’t to climb a
vertical tree you know something as tall
as a morula like in the sabi sand at
most certainly one that’s been pushed
over by elephants it’s one tree that’s
got low-lying branches it would make it
quite easy for her to climb up but
she’ll be climbing trees for a
completely different reason than that of
a leopard would you know she doesn’t
take her kills up trees she feeds down
on the ground but when you live in open
areas like this it’s quite tough to see
over the tall grass and you can see it’s
really quite high here the wildebeests
haven’t been through this section and
grazed it short just yet that will
change over the next few days and so
she’ll be using it as a vantage point
just as we see animals using termite
mounds they will do the same thing and
it came they’re actually not too bad at
getting up but the problem comes in with
leopards and nothing if it’s with
cheetah and lions it’s coming down and
they don’t seem to be as coordinated as
they are when they go up that’s where
lipids take the cake and of course they
can go up a tree and come down just as
well but we’re gonna sit with us girl
and see what she gets up to she’s not
completely flat just yet she’s still
pricking her ears Tristan is not sitting
in the cover of darkness he’s got his
spotlight out and I wonder what he’s
searching for
well just bumbling back but I’ve just
found tracks for this other lipid on top
of my track from this morning and we
know that Masada was at the dam the
whole morning and day so it must be
tumbler that’s moving around here but
checking very carefully and very slowly
the last tracks I had were coming out of
the mullah Artie again right where his
tracks went in this morning and heading
back to this general vicinity so I’m
just driving slowly and scanning around
all this light trying to hope that I
pick up his eyes some way in this area
but definitely the tracks are on top of
my tracks from today which is
interesting they’re not on track on top
of the tracks from this afternoon from
some of the other vehicles but they are
on top of mine from the morning which
means that he must be some way in this
general vicinity I like I say I just got
to find him wherever that may be
you might be just sitting underneath one
of these bushes or maybe he’s begun to
move around now and I’ve just missed him
by him not facing towards the spotlight
because if he’s not close and he’s not
facing towards me and he’s dark the
ground well then I’ve got no chance of
spotting him but it’s a good kind of
coup for tomorrow morning to come and
check on here for our little green eyed
boy
then maybe he’ll be around and dams
instead of a sauna in the morning hmm
interesting there’s Divini a lot of
lipid movements around the milliwatts he
at the moment I wonder if the rains are
gonna change that right remember when I
first started at Safari live I didn’t
see lipids in the mawashi at all in fact
I think it’ll took me about four months
until I saw my first leopard in the
mawashi and now in the last two weeks I
think I’ve seen about 40 in this in
there and it’s obviously not 40 but
there’s been a vast majority of the
sightings have been in and around the
milliwatts drainage section so it must
be somewhere there must be something
about the dry season maybe the shade
that comes in to the area and causes
much better place for them to July down
also I suppose twin dams is a huge
benefit as well because that’s water for
these cats within there’s no water
anywhere else they also go up to Gauri
dam so it’s nice connective kind of
to have when you have a drainage line
that runs from one being water source to
another one it helps to be able to then
find these guys because they’ll go from
one to another and back and forth and
that’s why I’m sure we’re seeing so many
moving around here but nothing that’s
not much happening a few in partner a
one or two little scrubbers have popped
over the road while I’ve been driving
and there’s updates at the income with
female that we had oh yeah she’s crossed
into the West so she’s gone back to some
emini so I had to go rejoin the Pride
apparently they heard a calling that
buffalo hurt is turning north towards
Runyon lady which is not ideal for us
and what else is happening that’s it
that’s the only updates I’ve got they
didn’t find him gone in this afternoon a
cheetah planes it seems to have vanished
I think I ended in with green was active
for some part of the oxygen and anything
the whole afternoon with some part of it
it was active then was working and going
and so we’ll try maybe check there in
the morning to I didn’t do it you’re
asking where are the elephants well in
this area get them up we have weather
like just us today and so going to be
pretty god they won’t be too many era
that’s whether they try and get into
dense thick areas try and hide out from
the wind and the cold and so you’ve
received very little of it and surround
cold front but prior you know it was hot
we also didn’t see too many until the
all-star afternoon before the cold when
I thought well the elephant’s of back
now and all of a sudden the weather
changes and that’s the end of that but
we didn’t have those two herds and I
believe there was a herd seen today on
Torchwood this general direction so
maybe tomorrow morning you’ll have some
alien ask to have some elephants
tomorrow morning given that’s the wind
is sickening it looks like it’s breaking
up overhead I can see a few stars and so
that would generally mean that we are
going to experience some clear where
they’re hopefully warmer weather which
will drive the elephants to come and
drink at some of the war tolls
particularly if the Sun is out now for
those of you that are also wondering
about the penguin tracks that I found
the other day and whether I’ve been
checking around I have every night’s
driven the same
Road to come and check for this Pangolin
every morning every night to try and see
if there’s any more tracks coming back
over the roads but so far there’s been
absolutely nothing and it’s exactly
where we are now so we’re just checking
slowly along seeing maybe by some
miracle this pangolins still around it’s
not going a little bit far for us to
probably expect it to be here if we
haven’t found any more science you can
see this is where it crossed that’s the
mark that we made to indicate this area
and unfortunately if it’s three four
days and no more signs chances are that
it’s probably moved on a little bit sand
is no longer actually in this particular
section which is a bit of a bummer but
now as the year when you see pangolins
you’ll find a lot more in August
September October and so their breeding
season from what I read and they tend to
be a lot more active and they try and
find one another and find mates and so
you find them kind of going across roads
and moving and looking for each other
and so it’s a good type patterns
apparently August September October is
apparently the best time for them that
would be a really nice surprise I’d be
super happy for one of those
like I say otherwise it feels a little
bit quiet Archer no sons of any Isles no
Jin it’s in any of the holes and they’ve
been checking extensively in all of them
trying to find ricci you once in an all
in an aardvark well odd would be
well we do flick flap we saw an art
a very uncommon to see well
that’s right either for them overcast
conditions they means they’ll be out a
little bit earlier than normal so that
would have been a knife but also
something that we could have done but I
can’t fight any yet so I’m gonna check
there’s a tree up ahead not too far I
might have to get a little bit of a move
on to see if I can get there in time
because we running towards the end of
show now but I’m gonna try get towards
where this tree is that there is a scopz
I’ll pair that sometimes sits in it so
we’ll try to find them quick mean it’s
just like I say get a bit of a move on
to where I need to be it’s it’s a tree
coming up in the distance yeah it’s
actually maybe it’s this one yes it is
this one so actually sorry I thought it
was the one in front but it is this one
so now I’ve just got to try and scan
around so these are scoffs I’ll pay and
they are quite difficult to spot
let’s wait I can actually hear one no
they’re not here they further on today
so that’s quite try and track it down
quickly by sound but it sounds like it’s
calling somewhere here maybe this big
tree is actually where they are this
evening
it’s gonna be very difficult in this
tree to find them come on call for us
see any eyes we should get eyes quite
quickly from the spotlights so no it
doesn’t seem like they’re in this tree
either it’s just go forward and see if
we can find one more big tree it’s
somewhere in this general vicinity so
Tony you want demonstration of how Fuji
works and we’re gonna have enough time
that tape poogie so that he stays where
he is we’ve got to turn pootie on and
he’s got a fancy little time when he
turns on so I’ll try it turn him on oh
there we go alright bujji the stage is
set for you so there we go
now I’m going to play let’s play an
alcohol let’s pay this cops I’ll since
we were looking for them
but bad day Fuji’s got some good lungs
on him you can actually hear the other
scopes Isles answering back because of
how loud it is so there we go that’s poo
jeez what other spurts hours to be here
pearl spotted let’s see if it’s better
than Barron’s pearl spotted harlot stop
back actually Fuji has got a good set of
lungs that’s for sure so there we go
that’s pre G’s debut we will use PG more
often let’s put PG back where he needs
to be though so that he’s taped up back
on the dashboards so he doesn’t fall but
apparently we bouncing down and
unfortunately that’s the end of the show
so from sins and myself goodbye we’ll
see you all tomorrow morning on the
Sunrise Safari
you
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Safari my name is Tristan on camera
today at what’s in the Sox boom TZ who
has decided this afternoon to wear his
very finest pair of socks which we’ll
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since since we’ve started with an S and
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perfect time to come out the clouds are
starting to break there was a bit of
sunshine alias ins has decided to whip
out his best and finest pair of socks
this often come on since a sucks out I
did my socks this morning you’ve got to
do your socks now here we go
so sensors got his socks out and they
are very patriotic socks look at that
we’ve got the South African flag socks
so we’ve got patriotic socks
this afternoon we also have another
member of the crew driving around with
us this afternoon and you might have
noticed his little eyes sticking out in
the dashboard that is pg me emoticon
speaker that gives us a lot of
entertainment and well it’s just for a
bit of vibe in us as Megan says before
we go out and drive in the parking lots
we kind of play a bit of music and get
ourselves into the swing of things so
peih-gee is riding along this afternoon
and we thought you look quite cool under
the dashboard with his little white eyes
poking out so he’s going to be riding
and hopefully he’ll bring us some good
luck because well there’s lots of
potential this afternoon we’re going to
probably just do our time lapse quickly
hello little males teen walk you very
relaxed are you going to run away from
us or stay there how relaxed does the
stand book that’s ridiculous no he’s not
running anyways this is my piece of
grass I’m not going to run away can see
he’s got his nose down sniffing I wonder
if he’s looking for his female companion
who’s around they also mating at this
time of the year so much like the darker
they’re also looking to mate and to find
female so that’s maybe why he’s sniffing
so much maybe he’s picking up the scent
of where female has walked and that’s
going to lead him to a mating
opportunity
TI smells all the little branches he’s
not actually eating maybe that’s also
why he’s not running for us too
preoccupied with the scent of a lady to
worry about this big
that is close by and like I said it’s
probably the most relaxed in what we’ve
seen in a long time
no way scared of us at all but I was
saying that this afternoon was full of
promise and hope we had hasanat twin
dams this morning the in Coomer with
hook hubs around us north of the lodge
and the high Nadine was active so lots
of different things that we can try and
schedule for this afternoon what I want
to try and do is probably head towards
the in kuma lioness and her fluffy
little Cubs and see if we can get a view
of them this often to start with because
remember that sighting will close when
it starts to get dark which will be
fairly early this afternoon with the
card cover that we’ve got and then we
gain to hit southwards towards probably
husana and try and get a little bit more
time with him than the last two three
minutes that we had this morning
apparently he was left very sleepy all
curled up in a tiny little ball in the
same place and there was lots of alarm
calls apparently to the north of him so
I’m pretty sure tumbles around and I
wonder if we’re not gonna get Tambor
husana 2.0 this afternoon so it will
head in that direction a little bit
later to see if we can find the two
young gentlemen of Juma but before we do
all of those and we get to interested in
all of the other things what we need to
do is we need to go and do our time
lapse so I’m going to take sensor to do
our time lapse so we can do that and
then we’ll have that out the way and
then we can get into the serious stuff
now I believe a lot of you are very very
fond of sensor socks I know they are
patriotic I do like them too since we’ve
done a sterling it for today buddy well
then so it’s always good to be patriotic
and I’m quite enjoy those ones so those
are fantastic and yes poogie is a
wonderful addition to the team he’s puts
right in as you can see he’s got a
perfect space it’s almost like wendy was
designed to house poogie on the
dashboard so peih-gee sits there he’s
got his big white eyes and he just
watches over what goes on and hopefully
he’ll like I say we’ll bring us lots of
luck the other nice thing about puji is
if we have some bird calls and things
like that now I no longer have to kind
of hold a phone to my head and pretend
like I am kind of concentrating on
looking at the backend of my phone I can
play it from here and Posie will emanate
that sound towards all of you into the
camera and it’ll be much easier for all
of us involved so he’s a good addition
I’m not sure if it to he or she it
haven’t decided Megan he or she Lou I
don’t know anybody not sure we’ll have
to think about that
he I think he making guys she I go he
synthesis are Megan it’s a he Lou says
he saw Megan you’ve been outvoted three
to one
we went so there we go crew G is a boy
so he’s going to bring us some luck this
afternoon I’m can feel it’s in my bones
okay Kanpur make him play a song I can
feel it in my fingers I can feel it in
my toes isn’t something like that yes I
think there is a song that goes
something like this now I won’t be the
only one out this afternoon it seems
like we might have the Mara as well in
full force it sounds like brain clear
Smith is going down the hill and so it’s
Taylor and I think Jamie’s also might
even be out somewhere near a river
somewhere and crossing that way so no
peih-gee don’t fall so it seems as
though we’re going to have a full crew
after this afternoon which will be
wonderful and I’m pretty sure then it’s
going to be very spectacular given that
this morning was anything what if we get
anything to go by but this morning it’s
going to be really quite wonderful
what’s wrong sensor I’m supposed to park
closer no we want to see your socks so
sins are things that I must park closest
that he can hide his socks but there’s
no chance and you can see since there’s
a colorful character not only does he
have colorful socks he’s got a bright
orange jersey nice bright green t-shirt
so he really is sporting some colors
this afternoon and he is certainly
adding some vibrance to our day so
fashion guru most certainly sends are
you are the fashion guru once again
standing by his tree waving there we go
since oh this is gonna become a thing
now it’s no longer the thumb of the
afternoon it’s going to be the socks in
sins are waving at the marula tree
because we keep doing to him but he
certainly is looking very very spiffy
this afternoon and he’s going to be
impressing whatever animal we come
across hopefully they will also increase
yet the brightness and bits of
joyfulness that since I was bringing to
this afternoon’s proceedings I certainly
have enjoyed it
now all dancing sir that was very
quickly becoming quicker than SIB at
this rates which is a mean feat so very
good job now I believe that I was saying
the morrow team out and that brain clear
Smith is out and well he’s raring to say
hello to all of you so let’s go across
to him and see what his plans are for
the afternoon on camera today and we’re
going to go try find that female cheetah
that we were so desperately after
yesterday but unfortunately the rain put
an end to that now we’re actually going
down the road that was a river and
looking a little bit drier to death and
if we fail with the female cheetah we’ll
probably head back towards this area and
see if we get any luck with the gamma
pride very exciting we got going a
little bit late this afternoon we have a
bit of early rain fortunately it wasn’t
too heavy so we are able to get out and
let’s hope the rain that stays away now
jamie is all the way on the other side
of the river and hopefully you might
have some luck with the amani girls or
even possibly the Bella shucker boys
please you don’t know other minor girls
a pair of female cheetah
and the British soccer boys are
coalition of six male lions Moo here we
go the first bit of fun
hold on
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have any questions from us we would love
to hear from you it is a gorgeous our
theme Taylor is going to be heading down
towards the southeast seeing if she can
maybe catch up ahead there might be a
possibility of some of all the beasts
crossing around look Hart crossings so
fingers crossed there that there might
be some bull D’s back in the Triangle
shortly
so we’re gonna keep marching towards so
there the Southwest so the complete
opposite direction to Taylor we’re going
to move along against all our escarpment
and see if we can have any luck there
with that female cheater of course it’s
also a great sausage Pride country
lots of muddy spots yeah so I’m gonna
concentrate on where to go and and how
not to get stuck while we do that sounds
like China has got a special treat for
you before I even introduced myself
we’re gonna lose sight of this reiner
unfortunately they’re quite a few cars
here so I think let’s have a little look
at the Rhino first and then once we have
to reposition of the national introduce
myself to all of you but isn’t this
fantastic isn’t this incredible there we
go you can see someone’s head and screen
it’s very crowded yeah hello everybody
my name is saya and on camera with me
today is we’re gonna go with cutthroat
Craig and be good I think we’re gonna
make that stick aka Batman sometimes
people call him Craig but not ready now
this is live this is interactive this is
happening right now from the Mara
triangle in Kenya and we’re very happy
to have you so if you have any questions
for us remember hashtag did I say that
already
hashtag Safari though I think I may have
said that a room it doesn’t matter and
you can chat us on the YouTube chat I’m
trying to figure out how we’re going to
get a view of these rhinos because we
can’t really go off-road here it’s a
high high usage area so we’ve got to
stick to the tracks and there’s many
cars in front of us and I don’t know
everything you see praying me see if I
can do a little bit of positioning
but we’ll try how’s that get through
these two cars I’ll go a little bit more
there we go look how incredible that is
now the two of them yet one was most
certainly a male I didn’t really get to
have another proper look at the other
one but it could be either way it could
be oh there we go we can have a look on
the left this will give us a chance to
zoom in double-check well yes that looks
very much like a female so it is a male
and a female that have obviously joined
at the haps this lass is coming into
Easter’s and the male is perhaps
starting up in the courtship process
which was very cool to see I’ve only
seen rhinos mating once before and white
rhino it’s not even black runners so
wouldn’t that be quite exciting and it’s
the first time I’ve seen them out in the
open like this this is really really
amazing oh my goodness you won’t believe
our like a gap has opened up Wow
so we’re just gonna be a little bit
patient one more vehicle is moving and
then we’re just gonna let them reverse
and then we’re gonna jump back onto the
track Shane we’re gonna do it right not
we’re gonna steal a sneak spot
and we’re gonna stay on the track too
it’s gonna cost back to this so they
keep walking away from us but that’s
okay and we’re going to keep on distance
we’re actually not going to follow them
for too long
and the reason for this is because our
plan is to head to the far west where
rumblings from I don’t know hard Brent
gets all his Intel but brent has
whispered to me that apparently there
are some wildebeests that have crossed
back from the Mara National Reserve back
into the triangle so we’re gonna go see
if we can find them there are lots of
lines down in that area so it could be
quite exciting will tonight be the day
that I get to see my first tank down
from the start to finish in the Mara
because can you believe it I have not
seen a kill yet not that it’s
necessarily my favorite thing
betim it’s still quite interesting to
learn about the various hunting
techniques that the different lines
using the different areas so that’ll be
quite nice but I thought it would be a
great way to start a day off with one of
the endangered species of Africa and you
can see they’re living quite well here
they’re nice and healthy there’s lots of
vegetation for them to browse on and you
can see that these runners have actually
well a part of research they’ve got
notches in their ears so they were
obviously darted and blood samples were
taken and I’m sure they have their own
ID somewhere hidden safe very cool there
Wow and I really hope you’re taking as
many screenshots as you can because it’s
not often that we get to see them out in
the open for such a long time either
absolutely beautiful
now I could spend all day with these
animals one of my favorite things to do
down in the Eastern Cape under certain
watch them a huge horse fan are you
wondering how long are they pregnant for
you just wondering you glad to wonder as
much as you like well the gestation
period for a black rider is just a month
less than the white rhino so it’s 15
months
it’s quite a long time white rhinos 16
months and but really it’s it’s so close
I mean what’s a month they’ve been
wallowing is all they look like they’ve
obviously sat in a bit of mud during the
day
another up and feeding isn’t this great
no James how long is the courtship
process for a black rhino I’m trying to
think and the reserve that I worked with
you actually and he had males who didn’t
have any females and what we did and
unfortunately she died of natural causes
not from poaching or anything so I
wasn’t able to witness that courtship of
a black rhino and I wouldn’t imagine it
to be only a couple of days maybe three
to five days or so and maybe quite
similar to the white rhino I’ll have to
have a little look I did see quite a few
black rhinos in the sabi sand in the
South but they were so skittish as
always at a distance and all charging
through a lion sighting which I suppose
is pretty good how’s that scenery all
those tall trees the grass is lovely and
green fallen trees that really is
stunning Archer well in the fact that
you’ve also got two black wall at what –
how’s that – black white rhinos miners
walking to your screen look at those
pointy lips perfect for nibbling off the
leaves
I wonder what shrub they’re eating over
here has anyone ever seen their Rhinos
when they eat you for beers it’s
something that I used to watch them do
quite a bit it’s one of their favorite
foods in fact they eat quite a large
amount of the euphorbia and that is
present in this area – no Larry you said
that they are beautiful and they’re
prehistoric looking there are rhinos
haven’t really changed much in their
design for millions of years
so they really are one of the
prehistoric creatures archaea always
armor-plated but what we said they are
going to have to move off from here
we’ve got a long way to go still to get
to the southwestern corner of the
triangle and hope to find some
wildebeest which will be nice because
I’ve seen a total of 12 wildebeest today
and they were up on the escarpment and
that beautiful she’s got a bit of a he’s
got a bit of a split yeah my favorite we
recognise him
right
I’m going to see you all a little bit
later hopefully once I’ve arrived at my
destination I’m going to send you all
the way to South Africa now – dear
Tristan and I wonder if there are any
clouds looming in the sky there are some
clouds looming in the sky Taylor mercury
but they are fairly innocuous at the
stage they butt splits part but sort of
broken up there’s nothing really too
threatening in these clouds so I don’t
think we’re gonna get too much more
raining it was just that little bit that
we had this morning which was really not
enough like I say it’s even settle the
dust after the dryness that we’ve had
over the last few months so at this
stage then we’re gonna have nice weather
the soft and at least the wind has
dropped so the difference between
yesterday and today and why probably
today has been a little more successful
in terms of the types of animals that
we’re seeing and and the sort of more
species that are there always bother
them for what we’re seeing is because
the wind is down so if as soon as the
wind gets up a lot of the animals try
and find cover we got lucky that we had
the in comer pride and that the sticks
made a kill but if we didn’t have that
it would have been quite a difficult day
at the office but today no wind and
we’re seeing that the leopards are out
because I believed in Ghana was seen
this morning quarantine was seen this
morning hasana was seen this morning
there was tracks for Tomba as well so
there’s a lot of lipids moving around
and hopefully that means that we will
find them at some point this afternoon
as well and I’m right near where this
lioness was this morning buttons you are
asking about the Buffalo if they came
into Juma unfortunately not what
happened with the Buffalo as they went
back into Manya Leyte so they crossed
waste into Manya lady but I’ve just
heard the update now that they’ve come
back again into bottles hook and they
are slowly kind of moving in an easterly
direction now in terms of how far they
are away from the boundary they’re not
they’re about 800 to 900 meters north of
the boundary itself and there’s no
visual from our boundary with them but I
believe the herd is big big big the guys
say it’s a very big herd so I don’t know
exact
the army news in it but they say very
big which I’m hoping means at least 300
plus in that herd which is good news now
the interesting part about it is the way
that they walking they’re about to walk
themselves into an unknown pride of
lions that is hanging around in Buffalo
right on the money lady boundary at the
moment cool and they think it might be
the telemetry’s which is the first time
I’ve heard of them in a long long time
apparently there’s three sub adult males
that are around so two and a half three
years old and then there’s some younger
Cubs around a year old and in three or
four line is something like that so
you’re interesting to see how many they
are and to see what the actual story is
and whether or not they walk straight
into those lines and if those lines then
push the Buffalo hood southwards back
towards us which will be quite nice
right no let’s see there’s the termite
mound over there so I’m hoping she’s
moved slightly out of where we had her
this morning because this morning wasn’t
so pleasant where she was lying it was
really quite dense it was nice when the
Cubs were suckling because we could see
their little faces and we could watch
them moving around but I’m hoping that
this afternoon she’s moved a little bit
she’s gotten herself into a place where
we can see her quite nicely and that the
Cubs will be there as well I have an
idea that you might have left in these
cool conditions like we see now she
might have moved on and if that’s the
case then we’re gonna be leaving the
area immediately
with these Cubs we’re not here to try
and stress them out in any way we just
want to come and view them with mom and
if mom’s not sure then that’s the end of
that I’m afraid and then we have to
leave the area and leave them to
themselves
okay so doesn’t look like mommy’s home
at this stage so when we go forward a
little bit
mm I don’t think she’s yet once you just
check around slightly because I there
she is I can see it you see a sensor now
if you want to see what camouflage is
like on a line do you see which is when
you see how long it takes sensor to spot
this but sensor if you go that big tall
tree in front of me right over there is
where she’s sitting
in the long grass so she’s just can see
her face ever so slightly much from your
angle be a bit tough but if you zoom in
for me just over there you’ll see just
how camouflage this line is is go go go
go go little bit up to your left up up
and there she is you see her just behind
the trees there lays her back and her
head incredible it’s amazing the
camouflage of a line is you can see why
they’re difficult to spot sometimes but
luckily she put her head up for us and
that’s why we were able to see her I
wonder if the little Cubs are the side
off she’s left him behind me here in the
drainage and she’s now gonna start a
movement back towards the including my
pride and back towards the west where
the rest are but it would be nice if the
little cubbies are our chair because
it’s going to be very open and we will
get a nice view of those little ones
from here these she’s around I mean it’s
better that she’s around she might do
one last suckle but I don’t see any
signs of the Cubs and also I should be
in first year not in third year
otherwise we’re going to stall
the little Cubs I don’t think are here
we would have seen little heads popping
up already so I think they’re behind me
and back at the den sites where she was
suckling them and she’s now starting her
movement back towards the rest of the
pride so there we go she’s just lying on
her own and is taking it a little easier
I’m sure she’s been suckling them she’s
groomed them she’s made sure that they
well fed and is making sure that they’re
going to be okay and once they’re
alright they fade they groomed looked
after then she’s going to now start like
I say heading back to the pride to be
able to see if she can go and get some
nutrients for herself
remember these are cool ones are going
to drink from her and they’re going to
absorb a lot of the nutrients that she’s
able to produce and therefore she’s
gonna have a tough time of it and she’s
starting to yawn which means I think
she’s gonna start moving already I don’t
think it’s gonna be too long that she’s
gonna be up and going
now you want to know how long until the
Cubs join the pride permanently and
probably another I would say six to
eight weeks until they’ll be joining the
pride and moving around and even then
they’ll only join four caucuses in terms
of actually walking with the pride
generally it’s at about six months that
they’ll start to kind of move with the
pride all the time and there we go up
she gets you can see she’s a little on
the skinny side which is because she’s
having to move a lot more than the rest
of the pride she’s having to go back and
forth probably fine she’s also not
getting as much nutrients because she’s
missing out on some of the kills and so
it’s a tough life being a mom but if she
goes now she’s going to start striding
her way I think back towards the west
and towards where she came from last
night so it’s going to be a long walk
back that way unless the Cubs are hidden
somewhere there but I don’t think so
sparked so you’re asking what time they
usually hunt well there’s no specific
time for our Lions or leopards or any
other cats to hunt they’re opportunistic
animal to opportunistic animals which
means that they will hunt as soon as
they can when they can any opportunity
that comes along they will take it
whether that be night day
sunrise sunsets hot cold doesn’t matter
they just hunt whenever they can and
whenever an opportunity presents itself
so it will be could be now she might
start hunting if she sees an Impala by
herself you never know she might try and
hunt it by herself but in all likelihood
she’s probably gonna go to the rest of
the pride and they’ll then want to start
hunting this evening so we saw you last
night renew got to the in Coober pride
around sunset that’s when they woke up
and started to move but she’s definitely
left the Cubs now the Cubs must be in
the den they must be happy there and
it’s okay we got to see them this
morning and I’ll be interesting just to
follow her along I don’t think we’re
gonna be able to keep her for all the
time because she’s gonna cross a very
bad drainage at some point so we’re
going to just follow her anyway though
and see how she goes and whether or not
she goes all the way to the west because
that’s going to be a very very long way
to get to where that is now while I
follow these all her let’s go back to
Brent’s and see how he’s doing on his
quest for some of the Tony cats well we
went looking for cheetah and we’ve come
across lions
two lovely ladies of the sausage pride
as I said you never know what you’re
going to find and as you can see there’s
some potential meals in the background
walking through some zebra in the
distance now I haven’t seen these girls
stand up here so I’m not sure the skinny
there oh wow hungry there there goes
madam mccurdy rushing past us at a rate
of knots
thanks you guys here we go let’s have a
look yeah you can see Taylor here she
goes
but I thought you often we actually see
each other out art yet because it is so
big and we cover such vast distances and
that that we can sometimes go a couple
of days without actually seeing another
vehicle down on the valley floor by
Taylor now Taylor said is heading down
to the southeast and she’s hoping that
some of the wildebeest have crossed
around and look out hill and I think
we’re gonna sit we’re gonna stay local
we’re gonna sit with these girls I think
Jamie had the one has ever kill a few
days ago but there could be hungry they
do have quite a few Cubs to feed last
accountant he was nine in total between
the different lionesses of the sausage
ride so we’ve only got two lionesses
yeah the Cubs are probably closer
towards the escarpment there’s a couple
there’s a few spots that they really
likes you like to hide the Cubs in and
who knows and maybe they’ll head that
way or maybe you know wait for the zebra
to come a bit closer now these there are
quite a lot of zebra around so there’s
by no means a shortage of food for the
sausage right all these some babies as
well and in the distance we got more
happening yeah okay so yeah elephants
most just a little southwest of us
you can hear lots of wonderful sounds
apart from the wind lots of frogs after
that massive amount of rain we had
yesterday
you can hear some endorphin paddle frogs
here a natural toad somewhere Oh folks
found a bird oh hey guys it was a looked
like your green wood Sandpiper I didn’t
get a good enough look what’s this
figures found odd you found a frog I’ll
show you out of water this is Scotty is
wondering can zebras not see the lioness
not if they’re not if they’re not moving
if they’re sitting still like there are
at the moment in that distance they’re
probably not gonna spot the lines you
never know zebra argument going on over
there the back of that little group in
family and discussion about where to go
now that’ll be the stallion there we go
kick kick kick that’ll be the stallion
trying to sort out his ranks so with
zebras it’s absolutely fascinating the
oldest female must lead and if she
doesn’t and one of the younger females
tries to lead he will bite and kick the
rest of the harem into place so even
once that all those females we’re out in
front and there will be a set order that
he likes the rest of the herd to follow
in and the stallions will generally
bring up the rear
but it’s not always the case but quite
often the case especially when they’re
moving in straight lines and there will
be lots of at the back is he’s sorting
someone else again
someone’s out of place kicking and
biting making sure they stay in place
those efforts to be really really
aggressive and see be right in waiting
and see if anyone steps out of line I’ll
get sorted out quickly we can never be a
hundred percent certain but it’s
generally thought that the oldest female
leads she’s got the most experience in
avoiding predators so that’s that’s the
reason why she
that’s why the stallion wants to try and
make sure that his harem isn’t a less
one come time that they come into East
hrus and of course he wants to have as
many babies as possible
as there was a bit far at the moment for
the Lions to sort of spring up
immediately and starts talking also the
terrain isn’t in their favor you can see
especially now that it’s still light
very short open grass there and that
would be it would definitely be spotted
as they got up and started walking
towards where the zebra heading
Oh didi farming is running is there
tourists on the back of our vehicle with
it no Eddie that is our Ascari wild
Ranger and when we operate after Park
times we have to have a park ranger with
us so the third person on the back of
Taylor’s vehicle was Sammy who’s one of
the Rangers and who comes out with us at
night so no visitors just cameraman and
news oh no it’s Craig and Teller and
Sammy the Ranger for the evening these
lines look like they’re going to hunker
down for a bit
and here’s upset black wings in the
distance Scottie you would like to know
will zebra herd assist another zebra
that’s being attacked depends on
situation a male or female zebra from
the same harem will attack something
small like how you know which teacher or
even a leopard and wild dogs sometimes
that attack our attacking a member of
their their their their herd but with
lions that they’re white they’ll they’ll
generally move off as fast as possible
and I’m sure as it gets
oh what’s that is that a water walking
this way now you see what I’m looking
for so just to the right of the Lions so
yeah zoom now a little bit more to the
right here we go about Center for him
now what is that there oh no that’s all
it’s a secretary bird and she’s getting
bombarded that’s what all the commotions
from the lapwings are so of course if
they’ve got little chicks there
secretary bird is a predator and
although they normally eat snakes and
lizards and rodents a baby Lapwing would
have go down quite the treat you can see
how upset all the birds are looks like I
can’t see it this distance what the
smaller birds are probably so stick
EULA’s also very upset with their
presence in the area you can see how
that crown is up agitation flustered
from being attacked here comes the next
next load of bombardment coming I think
she’s out of the danger zone so
obviously where the chicks all the eggs
are and the secretary bird is moved
beyond so they’re not attacking her as
aggressively so let’s head all the way
back to South Africa to find out what
Tristan is up to lioness has gone
stationary for the time being she’s just
having a little sit down we haven’t
gotten too much further than where we
were just now she kind of moved a long
lay down and they nose up again in our
dot down for a little bit I don’t think
she’s gonna be down for too long you can
see she’s still looking around and he’s
quite awake she’s staring into the
distance and checking what’s going on
and she’s really not that sleepy quite
wide eyed as you can see there
so I don’t think she’ll be done for too
much longer I’m pretty sure she’s gonna
be up and moving and she’s got a long
way to go from where I gather the ink
uma pride is there close to from the
summer Amelie arethusa cut line but
quite far to the west so she’s got a
long long trick in order to find them
I’m sure she’s hoping that they’re going
to come East I spoke too soon it’s now
down to sleep again but I’m sure she’s
good they hoping they come east and then
I wouldn’t be surprised if maybe a
buffalo is on the menu at some point
hopefully like I said that pride of
lions in the north chases those Buffalo
south and into the waiting jaws of the
increment pride here on Juma because
that would just be the perfect way for
our evening to play out
and of course the in koomer pride and it
would probably only hunt that Buffalo
way off to drive but tomorrow morning
even it’s fine there in Kumar Prada can
wait until the morning and as we get
going in the Buffalo can come and we can
have a showdown between the two of them
in judging by the looks of the pride
they really could do with a nice big
meal it’s amazing though how lions can
go from emaciated and thin and looking a
little bit on the sort of side of skinny
to completely fat and healthy after one
meal we saw the sticks pride yesterday
and how they were big barrels off to
their water back and it would be the
exact same for the incomers if we had to
get a buffalo carcass for them they
would be massive by the time they
finished it they would be really in
great condition again so muscular
structure is really good it’s just that
she’s a little bit on the skinny side
because of all this moving that she’s
been doing up and down so I’m pretty
sure she will hope for a buffalo carcass
because it means that she can have a
good feed come and suckle the Cubs go
back feet again and keep that nutrient
level up for these little ones so that
they stay fat happy and healthy which is
what we want as well we want our Cubs to
be healthy and to survive and you know
she’s in a period now it’s the most
dangerous part for these Cubs the the
first three months it’s very difficult
for a lioness she’s got to go back and
forth and she explains masses of energy
trying to look after these little ones
and trying to keep up with a pride and
keep nutrient levels up and install
supply that to the Cubs and make sure
that they surviving well as well as
choosing the right places to leave them
in order for them to stay safe you
see now she’s leaving those Cubs all on
her own she’s gonna go and try get back
to the pride and those Cubs are gonna
have to fend for themselves for the next
24 hours or so until she comes back
hopefully she won’t be 20 files they
generally should be coming back every
sort of 12 hours we see them moving
backward and forth but it could be 24
hours a full day until she gets back to
where they are and then you’ll find a
situation where you know she’s got to
provide nutrient-rich milk for them to
survive and who knows what moves through
here at that time they could be hyenas
that comes through leopard other lions
and so those Cubs are really at a
dangerous point in life the other
problem that she’s got is that she’s the
only lion is staining remember last year
in the increment pride end there was two
lionesses pretty close together that
then and then a third one about a month
later so it wasn’t really too long until
the third one was and so those three
could help each other and share the
responsibility and they also moved
around as a unit which meant that
hunting wise they were able to bring
down small prey animals and also the
droughts halton that they could bring
down buffalo and that meant that the
Cubs grew quickly because these guys
were providing nutrition for them and
they were able to kind of stake when
close proximity which is a little bit
different to what we’re seeing this year
od farming you wondering why she’s the
only lioness with the Cubs well it’s
quite simple is that the three lionesses
that mean we know have the Cubs
currently so those sub-adults and they
still dependent on those lionesses so
those lionesses are not going to come
into Easter’s probably for another I
would say six months to a year maybe
even longer until they’ll come into an e
stress and start mating again so it’s
gonna be a while if those all those Cubs
survive all those sub-adults survive so
those sinuses are gonna be a while the
only other two lionesses is this one and
amber eyes and eyes
we don’t know we’ve never really seen
her with a cub where there was that one
mystery cub in the middle of the year I
think was in June that no one’s really
sure what happened or where it came from
or what its outcome was but that could
theoretically have been amber eise’s cub
and must have been a mother’s cover if
we think of the time frame because this
lioness must have been pregnant at the
time and so that cub unfortunately is no
longer there’s no ways that that cub is
alive and it means
then am buyers really is the only other
female that could potentially have a
chance to have Cubs and she would have
had to have mated which means that she’s
falling outside at the time that this
female is having Cubs so even if she’s
mating now it’s not gonna be three
months time until she gives birth to
hers and and so it’s a-you know they
haven’t been quite in sync so that’s why
she’s the only lioness with the Cubs
currently or new Cubs there’s no real
there’s no real sort of other lionesses
that can potentially produce now and in
the timeframe while she’s having her so
I mean amber Iser would be such a nice
thing if she did produce Cubs but as far
as we know she never has and it will be
really interesting if she ever will
because I suppose that little cub was
hers I mean it can’t be anybody else’s
if we just do the maths it has to be her
cub because this line is there’s no way
she could have mated and fallen pregnant
and had these Cubs in that time frame we
fought too close to that time for her to
have mated again in that Club so it has
to have been amber izes cub and and
maybe she can produce cubs and in the
future we will see her bringing cubs up
and raising Cubs when we saw her
yesterday she did have signs that she’d
been mating but a few bite marks on the
back of the neck and so I wonder if
maybe she hasn’t started mating again
and we’ll see her falling pregnant it
would be nice if she did and we be also
nice for this female if she then tend in
the next sort of six or to eight weeks
if she had fallen pregnant from the
mating and and was in this area and
helping this female art because it’s
interesting that a Myers and his female
must have had a very tight bond last
year because when the income of pride
spent so much time here on Juma we used
to find empires and this female often
roaming around together in random places
even the beginning of this year used to
see these two around tree hosta moving
around all over the place and so they
seem to have gotten on and have formed a
bond over the fact that they didn’t have
Cubs and so it would really I think
hopeless female vampires was around with
her and I’m sure the two of them
together would really do very well in
raising Cubs should they want you so it
would be really nice if she did for
pregnant and have Cubs and
in this sort of time period and
obviously for the growth of the in comer
pride the more females that have Cubs
the better but either way it’s out of
five lionesses turf all of them with
Cubs currently is really very good
there’s a testament to the Birmingham’s
ability to defend the area our Larry Moe
is saying you wonder why lions don’t
bring food to a lioness with cubs you
know wolves do it and and the painted
dogs or wild dogs they also will do
those kind of things well the thing is
about it is because the lioness is it
depends at the moment the the rest of
the lionesses they trying to protect
their cubs that are at the carcass
themselves so coming back all the way
here expending the energy leaving their
carcass unprotected or bringing bits of
that caucus all the way here is
difficult to remember also that Lions
are hunting big animals they hand
something like a buffalo
there’s no ways that the in houma pride
can drag a buffalo from some Amelie all
the way to where we are now I mean
that’s over sort of seven eight
kilometers and a buffalo weighs almost
2,000 pounds so even if the entire pride
took turns I can guarantee you they
wouldn’t even get halfway in a day so
it’s gonna be that’s the other side of
it is taking food like that is almost
impossible and then the third thing is
if you take food to a den you are taking
a scent to a den so you’re taking the
smell of meat and rotting meat and that
means that that means sort of predators
and scavengers are going to follow that
scent and come in and then it’s going to
bring things like hyena lion leopard
into where the den site is for their
female and is going to put those Cubs at
risk so rather than that they eat they
make sure that they consume meat that
then gets pushed into the milk the milk
nutrients then get transferred to the
Cubs the Cubs grow very fast during that
first little period and once they reach
that 3-4 months phase they then starting
to be taken to the carcasses so the
mother comes and features them and then
walks them all the way to the carcasses
and then they will stay and spend time
there and then they’ll follow the moms
around so it’s much better system that
way she can look after them a lot better
and they’re not also being at caucuses
where things like hyenas can arrive and
they then endanger this way
she’s bringing no scent she’s not having
any vultures around she can suckle him
in peace and there’s really little
that’s going to follow her you’ll also
find she’s gonna use different pathways
to get you she’s never gonna walk
exactly the same and that means that the
hyenas won’t be able to track her scent
every single time so she’ll take maybe
she’ll go west this time tomorrow she
goes south the next day she’s north and
so it makes it a lot harder for the
hyenas to pinpoint where she’s got
coming and going from and therefore the
Cubs survive so here’s all method in
their madness
remember also with ten animals like wild
dogs and and wolves there is generally
one member that is left permanently with
the Cubs or the pups or sa and they can
then sort of disorientate a predator and
lead a predator away from that area
lions don’t have that ability to do that
because they are needed with the hunting
and like I said they roam quite big
distances and they don’t use a central
point for the den the den is fairly
mobile and gets moved all over the place
as opposed to what we see with things
like wolves and wild dogs with is a
central den and then the pack moves
around that area so just slightly
different with them and it works for
both species lions are fairly successful
you’ve seen that you know the numbers
within the sabi sands are doing okay
it’s just that we’ve had a lot of
different males come through and that’s
what’s affected them in terms of den
sites and actual females keeping Cubs
alive it’s actually not been too bad the
sabi sands most of the females are
pretty good at what they do it’s just
unfortunately the coalition males have
been such a turnover that that’s led to
a decline in the population of lions and
the decline in all the prides throughout
the sabi sands really there’s not many
prides that have actually grown in the
time that I’ve been here in fact the
only prize that have grown since I’ve
been here is the man gained pride the
man gained breakaway pride and the salal
as those are the only ones that have
actually in some way expanded every
other pride has actually reduced and as
no longer there’s the same numbers as to
when I started here so it’s an
interesting dynamic and like I say it’s
because of the change in coalition males
that keep coming through
Lolita here asking if lionesses from the
pride will come back for these Cubs if
this line is dies in all likelihood no
and the reason why I say that is because
none of those females currently have
very small Cubs if there was a female
that had very small Cubs and it’s
possible and and they have been sort of
applying cases where females have
adopted the offspring of sisters or
aunts or mothers or whatever the case of
may have been and we know the Charleston
female down the south she adopted her
sister’s Cubs and raised them so they do
do it sometimes but in the case of the
Charleston females she her Cubs got
killed and I think that mothering
instincts when her Cubs got killed plus
the mother of the other Cubs meant that
she took on Cubs because you’re still
producing milk that that instinct to
mother was still there and that’s why
she did it
if it was a lioness that has got older
sub-adults that she’s stolen too
dependent on her she’s not going to not
have the burden of trying to suckle Cubs
because she’s not producing milk
remember she’s got her own cubs to worry
about
and so these Cubs are still too young to
survive without milk they still need
milk up until they’re around 6 7 months
old so they need to have a female that’s
producing milk in order to save them
they’re not gonna survive just on meat
at this age they need that milk and they
need all the antibodies and the me all
the bits that of nutrients that the mom
is passing on that’s gonna help them
fight infections and get the digestive
tract working properly and and all of
those kind of things that’s all needed
before they’re able to start consuming
meat full-time and it means that you
know she’s got it unfortunately in this
there’s another lioness and as Cubs
fairly soon is producing milk these ones
would then be unfortunately left by
themselves and not looked after at all
right Arun Kumar female is out cold so I
think we’re gonna carry on we’re gonna
leave her be I was hoping that the Cubs
would be here and we know that brains
near Smith and Amara has got two
lionesses then it seems like they’re on
the hunt so we’re gonna try and find a
spotted creature of our own and while
those lionesses look for food well we’re
still with the two girls from the
sausage pod they have not moved a muscle
baby’s moved a muscle I think it’s the
biting insects that have caused her to
move lots of biting flies and we had a
hot day today
after the rain last night which will
have caused an absolute exposed
explosion of insect life and speaking of
that right next to us and making art
there are thousands of little midges and
of course we right near some water as
well so with water and rain and Sun
comes lots of horse
so those you don’t know what horrors are
cause are they sort of a South African
ism
sort of a nickname for bugs trying to
think well in Swahili they’re called the
doodoos that is a swipey word for
insects or bugs doodoos when we were
little kids we used to call them new
news
now notice that has that tail fix
occasionally out of the grass it’s got a
very distinctive black tuft ELISA is
wondering why is the tuft of a lion’s
tail black well it’s lots of different
reasons actually say but all of them to
do with that non of non-vocal old non
vocal communication as their will to
signal and Cubs are able to follow that
through thick grass and when they’re
hunting the back black behind the ears
and the black tips of their tails are
used as ways to communicate now I was
talking about bags just look on here
Betty there look at that and I said that
the biting flies art and force after the
rain and fortunately for us there on the
lines and not on us because I think I’d
be slapping myself silly trying to get
rid of that many flies on me
you know you can see she’s getting a
little bit flustered by them and that’s
one of the reasons why quite a few
different prides in the Mara liked to
climb trees to try get up into the the
the breeze and away from all the biting
bags oh very pretty on the horizon fig a
tipple sketch it’s gonna be silhouetted
against ortley and see I’m walking
they’re very very pretty
giraffe walking a little bit to the left
should go there we go a little bit to
the right there it is silhouetted
against that lovely orangey pink hue of
the western horizon now come on keep
walking for the pretty shot
don’t stop first neck we have female
Masai giraffe I was a few there now I
could only see with my naked either the
one that was silhouetted and there’s
quite a few snacking around that area
difficult to see what they’re eating on
from this distance I’m afraid they’re
probably seven eight hundred metres away
from us
Paul is wondering do we wear any
specific type of bug sprayer while we’re
on Drive
we don’t Paula um bug spray is pretty
much ineffectual against most of the
really nasty biting insects um
occasionally I might use some mosquito
repellent but very very seldom and not
really here here we are at lovely herd
of elephants as well having a late
evening snack it’s amazing how much you
can see if you’re sitting in one spot
and you just carefully check all around
that’s exactly what I’m doing now having
a quick scan with my binoculars saying
if there’s something we might have
missed it doesn’t look like it just some
zebra topi and an Egyptian pair of
Egyptian geese and you can hear that
that’s it bubbling cocina starting to
wake up as a sid but right nice this
where logger drains out into the old
Geppetto swamp so we’re probably going
to hear lots of frogs this evening you
can see maybe they’re a great spot to be
if you’re a frog and the frogs are
probably one of the only things that are
celebrating after all the rain last
night
therefore you found their fig needs
algae thoughts very good found a frog
look technically taking upstream frogs
and that sounds like paddle frogs and
then you’ve got that lovely sort of
liquid wattle of the bubbling cocina and
not so lovely where we’re of one of the
toads not sure exactly which sounds a
little bit too soft to be guttural
raucous and of course they could be all
hosts of Toad species for me to learn in
East Africa our lions are still not
moving at all a slight head up every now
and then and looking like they’re about
to charge off and go look for something
else
now quite often at this time of the day
it’s not good to be a warthog and quite
a few warthogs sort of get snagged at
this time of the day because they’re on
their way home and the home could be
amongst any of the many termite mounds
that are around here and they can
stumble upon a lion that’s fast asleep
but of course these big cats can wake up
in a split second
it’s not even a oh here we go as I said
now let’s have a look at the belly oh
not too hungry but definitely could eat
actually think that I didn’t have a good
luck the fact it might be carrying
that weight quite far back
who knows maybe she’s pregnant but I
think it is the flies that caused her to
just move and flop a few meters away
this lioness is practicing zin with the
fly’s incomplete I’m trying to
completely ignore them
now of course as I said there’s quite a
lot of zebras and things around and you
can actually see the wear on the edge of
the ears from the biting flies so that
they’re the animals have bitten so
prolifically that the hair starts to
fall out in certain spots where those
flies are biting I’m glad they’re biting
her and not me they can’t be quite
painful those little biting flies
I said there isn’t not even a breath of
wind we’re starting to get some lovely
birdsong coming through I can hear Rufus
nape lark
I can hear yellow-throated Longclaw oh
we can hear blackberry busted or as I
said that the wind is picked up and I
can’t hear any more of the birds well it
seems like Tristan’s being on such a cat
streak he’s decided to go see if he can
find something else let’s go find out
ah so thanks very much for that sins oh
because my comms are not working once
again our broken earpiece seems to be at
its finest if it’s once again so it’s
interesting though to see differences
between the lines and the more in the
ones years it’s watching some footage
this morning they look absolutely
massive some of them some of them look
like cubes as Lucy’s walking through the
grass and it’s been amazing to see how
different the dynamics are and how fluid
the movement is is during the migration
it’s a lot more fluid than what we see
from our lines are lines tend to be very
stacked together so quite interesting
sort of differences that side and I’m
super jealous of Taylor this afternoon
already because she’s got to see those
black rhinos and well obviously black
rhino here is the most rare and special
thing possible so we see very very very
very very very very few black rhinos in
the kruger national park system
unfortunately so and she is very
fortunate to have got to spend some time
with him this afternoon
which is good
like I say I’m envious of her although
I’m pretty sure she’s going to be
envious if we find her sana just now
because we know Taylor also loves her
spotted cats as well I believe she got
to see a leopard in the Mara the other
day which is fantastic and she’s seen
all kinds of interesting things the
serval with the bullet with the hyena on
the world of East and the stripe polecat
and lots of crazy things have gone miss
McCurdy’s way over the last little bit
and I’m sure she’s having an absolute
blast that side as well as and Jamie and
Brent and it’s one of the more louder
groups of people together now Ellie
hoping to find shadow and her cub well
yeah I know the guys check for her this
morning so the guys had a little look
and they checked in those areas around
Mendoza road and and in pilot planes
Triple Aim but unfortunately no sign of
her at all so I think she might still be
in either a loser or in Hoffman’s
somewhere in those areas it’s difficult
though to know for sure we know that she
can be quite elusive so no sign on our
side though at the moment and it would
be nice to find her they certainly would
love to see shadow and the cub again but
I think my the one that I want to see
the most right now is probably Shawn
Gila that’s the female that I would like
to see more than any other Didache say
last night that if we don’t see her and
she’s staying safe then that’s
absolutely fine but I would really like
to see her and really like to spend some
time in
generally and just see how she’s doing
it just to know that she’s okay and just
one sighting would be fine and then she
can go back to being elusive and again
now before I go anywhere there is
something that does not belong here in
the sabi sands and certainly does not
belong on the grounds or in the bush and
that is a plastic packets and so I don’t
know how this has gotten here but it is
going to not be picked up by us quickly
and Iceman purified ice is certainly not
what we want to see Archer like I said
I’m not quite sure how the Scott yeah
but well it’s going to stay in the car
from now on and we make sure that it
doesn’t blow away sensor so if you can
tuck it in there somewhere so that it
just stays that would be pretty good as
well sometimes what happens is with the
wind I mean the the guys come to fetch
the rubbish because we’re trucks that
come in sometimes a little wind gusts
and off goes a bit of it or monkeys
raids have been or hyenas ray Durban and
then these plastic bags end up
unfortunately archers it’s our
prerogative just to kind of pick them up
and make sure that we keep this as clean
as possible and litter free this is
ultimately the animals home not ours and
so we should not impose ourselves too
much on them
I thought we were gonna have a lot more
of a sort of Sonya afternoon it seems as
though it was a lot more was clearing up
at lunchtime but it’s now gotten all
overcast and dingy again and if we will
get a sunset I’m hoping that the clouds
do clear because if we do get a sunset
then we’re gonna have a situation where
it’s gonna be very pretty with all these
cards lighting up the different colors
and we’re gonna get a really nice clear
kind of view of the Sun
our our you’re asking if the roads are
made randomly if they made by the ranges
well our our the roads are made by the
basically the landowner and some of the
ecology guys that come together and they
try and work out where the best places
for roads are unfortunately in the back
in the day we didn’t quite understand a
lot of the dynamics within the bush
environment and what it takes for roads
to be built and where they should be in
order to not cause environmental damage
and so some roads are not quite in the
right pace but generally there’s some
planning that goes into them and then
they are built by the ecology teams or
even the Rangers sometimes as well so it
is a planned thing these are not just by
mistake and not just tracks that are
made and these are all planned roads you
will see sometimes little two tracks
that go into places so it looks as
though vehicles are driven there that’s
generally when we’ve had a big sighting
that’s loss of a few days in a road
develops which is generally because
there’s been multiple cars going in and
out and the grass gets squashed but as
soon as the rain comes that all
rejuvenates and spruces up again and up
comes the grass and everything looks
alright and wonderful I’m just trying to
adjust the blankets that I sit on
because the blankets that I sit on or
helping me I don’t know I’d like to be a
little higher and the seat on windy and
rust here both of them I seem to have
lost a lot of this sponge and you kind
of sink into them and when I got out
there the blanket and quite go right and
so just adjust that quickly my apologies
for me bouncing around in my seat like a
hooligan the reason why I’ve come down
this road though is because I want to
quickly just check on our Wahlberg’s
Eagle pay if they at the nest I did see
them on my way home this morning after
Drive they were sitting in the nest and
they were not in the nest they were just
next to it and it was the pale form
individual that was there the dark form
one was flying above but the pale form
one was actually then that’s the one
that seems to be on the nest a lot more
we saw it yesterday on the nest and so
hopefully in this kind of weather being
a little bit sort of dingy and gray and
dull maybe one of them will be somewhere
where the nest is and hopefully we can
get a view of them they are beautiful
birds particularly their pale form one
sheet
she or he depending which one it is very
difficult to six or bugsy there’s no
difference between male and female and
so it would be really nice in fact both
of them are here I can see them already
I was gonna try go a little bit forward
so we get a better view of them
hopefully they won’t fly away stay there
guys
and they unfortunately gonna be a little
bit silhouetted because of where they
sitting and the white sky that we’ve got
a gray white sky that we’ve got today
but there they are sitting on top of the
tree itself although they look like both
pale form individuals where am I wrong
they do look both pale are they both
pale certainly looks that way as our
dark form male been chased all dark form
female been traded for a pale form
individual looks like it looks like the
plot is thickened that’s interesting
it’s definitely too pale form
individuals that are busy grooming each
other and it’s too early in the season
to have a young one already we know that
these guys have only just arrived so
it’s can’t be the chick but that is
really quite strange because this
morning there was the dark form and the
pale form together but you can clearly
see there that is too pale form
individuals that are grooming each other
and I wonder if maybe the dark 4 male
has been ousted which would be very
unusual generally Eagles pair for life
so really quite strange I’m not sure why
the dark form male would relinquish this
area or even there would be territorial
baths between them hmm
that’s very strange she said it’s the
first time I’ve seen it to the
Wahlberg’s Eagles because generally all
the nests that we have in these areas
are the same pace every year you come
and you see the same groupings I mean
obviously it’s quite difficult to tell
individuals apart but you know the
combinations are normally you can tell
because they have these different color
forms and you can normally tell who’s
who by just looking at those color forms
and where they are and
like I said we know for sure that there
was a dark formed one with this light
formed one yesterday in the morning and
in afternoon and this morning so very
confused as to why those two are
together I hope something bad didn’t
happen to our dark formed well bears
that’s not good well I suppose two pale
form ones are beautiful but I would have
liked it to stay the same and to have
the same pay as we always do but
interesting dynamic I’m gonna have to do
a bit of research on this I wonder if
Wahlberg’s Eagles do fight for pays and
we’ll try go after each other so makes I
cannot hear you at all I’m getting is
every half a word every three four
seconds which is not ideal so we’re
gonna try and see if we can fiddle with
these comms and try and get this right
because otherwise I can’t answer any of
the questions that you’re all asking
which is not ideal Mexican we try again
maybe we can do a little Russian are you
saying a triangle love story that you so
there we go I can copy Megan now it
seems like it’s I adopt the dog for
males games more females going to be
very impressed with this triangular love
story given that it’s not here but very
strange like I say I’ll have to do a bit
more research since the first time I’ve
seen this situation where there’s been a
individual user ping another and taking
over an list this is a different pair
and they’ve taken this nice for
themselves and they’re the dark Foreman
and pale one that we normally see has
moved to a different section that
potentially could happen maybe pairs
Fortin we’ve now just got a new pair in
this area but very strange indeed and
I’m gonna like I said I have to do a lot
more research on this and see if there’s
any documented findings on Wahlberg’s
and whether it’s pairs that fight or
whether it’s individuals within the
ranks that will chase one another art
and form a new pair but it’s unusual to
say the least
Rebeca they only mate once in a year so
they mates now and then they have the
young one and the young one then
obviously develops develops and then
leaves here at the end of summer and
then flies northwards but they only
breed once a year and at the end of the
day birds of prey they Lodge which means
that they’ve got two incubates eggs for
a while and then the birds gotta learn
how to fly and that takes a bit of time
we know with vultures it’s pretty much
almost a year and a half or I mean just
over half a year for them to kind of get
them out the nest and so it’s the same
thing with the Wahlberg’s Eagles it
takes about three four months for those
birds to get up and moving and flying
and being able to look after themselves
and so it’s only one chick in the summer
months and then they don’t breed when
they go to the northern hemisphere they
just breathe down here in South Africa
that’s very odd nice to see them though
they are beautiful birds like I say the
pale form Wahlberg’s are incredibly
pretty so nice to see them and I’ll try
to get a little bit closer so we can get
a bit of a closer view and see if we can
get some sort of pattern on them that we
can recognize them in the future and
whether or not they’re individuals that
will stay here and maybe some of you
that are very clever and can see some
sort of pattern will recognize some sort
of markings on the feathers can work out
whether it’s one of the birds we saw
yesterday or it’s a different pairing of
birds it’s definitely not the lights now
that I’m closer they most certainly are
pale form both of them it all fluffed up
obviously because it’s cold and I was
saying that it’s not good conditions for
flying and that’s why you’ll find both
of them are down at the moment and just
resting on the tree and look at the size
of those talons on their feet and long
long long long long rectangular tails
that will help them to be able to
stabilize in flight because remember
these birds hunt other birds they birds
that hunt on the wing regularly and so
long tails need to stall them be agile
as much like a cheetah has a very long
tail and helps just to be able to turn
on a dime and be agile as they move
around and so that’s why you see such a
long tail and he’s
beautiful hmm
another mystery that jhummer I’m not
100% sure why these two are here
interesting that three the way try get
round and see something quickly because
where they sitting is off the nest a
little bit that’s now I’ve got no comms
again there we go I can just share Megan
every second word it’s getting worse
unfortunately which is not good right so
we can quickly go across to Taylor
because I’ve missed mining completely so
let’s go to her we’re gonna stay this
side in the triangle we just need to
figure out where about the world of Isla
the crust
come on remember friend said they’re
crossed
oh these inside of the bridge versus the
waste inside of the bridge we’ll have a
quick look around to find ourselves upon
a vantage point of some sorts and then
use our binoculars and haven’t seen any
lines though and twenty elephants around
although
the liens haven’t seemed to have
acquired the taste for elephants
wildebeest several water kind ouch air
and that’s very specifically warthog now
with their most of the animals moving
out of the triangle they’ve got to go
back to catching pigs
you’re just gonna keep looking as I keep
reaching up on these Ron Rises I’m
starting to see the tree lines you must
be getting closer and closer to the
morrow
quite exciting our check we can find
some herds of wildebeest
I haven’t really spent much time
massage brain Tesla this is one of his
favorite areas hopefully it will become
my favorite area – speaking of brain
let’s go back to him and see what he
stands off there is do the evening
well as you can see our lines have
decided it’s much better to nap
then do anything else for the moment at
least now you’ve got to remember that
patience is the most important thing
when you are in the bush and because you
never know what’s going to happen next
unsuspecting warthog might come
careering in unknown pride of lions
might come careering in and cause
absolute havoc so sometimes we have to
play the patience game and sit and wait
for those incredible sightings there not
much else has changed and we’ve actually
lost our elephants that were near us
they’ve moved off the giraffe have
disappeared the only thing left is the
Egyptian geese that are grazing
comfortably out on that lovely short
green grass where the little lager
empties out into the swamp all
stretching and I think we’re going to
lose them shortly as well as they’re far
fly off to find somewhere to roost now
the one thing a lot of people don’t
realize that an Egyptian goose is not in
fact a goose at all
it is a form of shield duck and it is
actually what they are but there are
grazers so they eat grass so you will
find them munching along on any lovely
short green grass now I’ve seen
something quite amazing I’ve only ever
seen it once and it was here a few weeks
ago or probably maybe in a few months
ago now and and that was an Egyptian
goose eating the stomach contents of
evolved bees that have been killed by
lions and quite a fresh kill so the the
the geese were eating that undigested
grass that was left behind
now being the vast open grass and that
it is these piece might not even have
files to find somewhere to roost they
might just stay right where they are
Alana is 14 years old would like to know
have we seen any odd in the Mara oh
I’ve seen about four or five and we
actually did a facebook live once on
that Lions hunting art and that was
quite special that’s definitely not
something you get to see every day Lions
hunting hard and that was actually
just over the horizon over there and it
was the Egyptian goose pride and they
nearly nearly got that artifact he
managed to get down the hole and then
while the young male was trying to dig
him out and the art was digging at
a much faster rate and given sand into
the male’s face it was quite funny but
yes no we’ve seen quite a few art
seen I’ve said on both sides of the
river in fact I’ve also seen the other
art that lives geometers the art wolf so
one of those way down south near the
Tanzanian border seen a striped polecat
or Cirillo which is a African form of
skunk I’ve seen a edge hogs what else
have we seen lots of funny little things
at night
caracals serval seen both sides striped
and black-backed jackal bat-eared Fox
white-tailed mongoose water mongoose so
I’ve seen quite a lot of there the
smaller nocturnal critters and Janet’s
Bush babies the like these lions are
truly truly flat as I said they’re
reasonably well fed not too skinny I was
hoping that although zebra and which
have now gone might prompt them to do
something so they might take a little
wonder just now and then come back here
a little later because it really doesn’t
look like these guys are going anywhere
too soon
a winds starting to pick up but
fortunately not bringing any rain
towards us just yet
well we’ve got a new viewer who named
Dakota who is 15 years old a big welcome
to Dakota lovely to have you on the
vehicle with us and Dakotan wants to
know how do we get so close to the Lions
well Dakota when were in a vehicle the
Lions don’t know that there are people
here they do not have an evolutionary
instinctive response to the vehicle so
the vehicles only been around for just
over a hundred years so if you drive
carefully and considerately and it
doesn’t smell like anything nice to eat
it’s too big really and they prompt just
ignore you after time but it does take
time to obituaries but if I were to get
out of the car and start walking we
would definitely get a reaction now it
is still light so they would probably
run away
so Lions are actually quite scared of
people during the daytime hours but at
night they become a different animal and
they are the dominant nocturnal predator
and we are the dominant diurnal predator
so they’ll eat us at night but normally
unless you corner or put pressure on
Cubs or an injured line during the day
they will try and move away from you on
foot that’s why we can get very close to
to them in vehicles because they don’t
recognize a vehicle and they recognize
the human shape as the dominant daytime
predator
now something we’ve got quite used to
get is ominous skies they seem to be
around every evening since I’ve been
back from leave but it sounds like
Justin has got an ominous sky of his own
all the way back in South Africa no not
really
Rinty it’s not too bad like I said this
morning it was ominous and this morning
there was big dark clouds and it really
did look like we were going to get some
rain at some point and we got a few
droplets here and there but nothing too
major so it wasn’t too bad this morning
but it imagine now it’s starting to sip
the rate often and I think that’s the
end of the rain for us the more I look
up the less likely it looks that are we
going to get any more rain and the fact
that the winds dropping and there’s
really no solid bank that’s being gusted
in by the wind means that I think we’re
done for the day
unfortunately remember we’d love to have
more rain we need it I’m looking very
carefully because this is the area where
I had those tracks for that’s young male
lipid that was moving and I had lots of
alarm calls in the section so I’m just
checking very carefully as I’m going in
case little tumblr is maybe somewhere in
this general vicinity as well and just
hiding out we know he likes it in this
area so just having a look around
checking some of the termite mounds and
some of the trees and he doesn’t seem to
be a cat that spends much time in the
trees in fact I don’t think I’ve ever
seen him in a tree have I no I didn’t
think so
didn’t think I’ve seen him in trees but
I seen him on lots of termite mounds and
in lots of river beds so he seems to
favor the smaller Watchi system maybe as
a young individual it’s just more
comfortable for him to be down there
interesting that I haven’t seen him in a
tree before him in a tree before it’s
actually quite crazy when I think about
it given how many sightings I’ve had of
him I would have thought that at some
point I would have had him up a tree but
so far no
what have I no I don’t think so I’m
trying to Rack my brains but I honestly
don’t think I’ve ever seen him up in a
tree but I think we are going to get a
nice sunset it looks as though the
clouds are breaking on the western side
and a little bit of color starting to
creep in that side so hopefully we will
get a good sunset I’m just making my way
towards twin dams as I go along and like
I said looking for tumblr as we go but
we our main goal is to get back to me I
had a sauna this morning and see if he’s
sitting in the same place I would
imagine he is I don’t think he’s gonna
have gone too far he’s an individual
that once he’s at twin dams generally
spends the afternoon fairly relaxed and
sleepy and doesn’t actually move around
too much
I would guess he’s going to be there
whether or not he is is well we’re going
to be all revealed in the next two
minutes
so George you wondering what happened
with tumblr and husana the other night
when they faced often what the outcome
was well George it seems both of them
just splits amicably where we lost him
fairly soon after the Drive finish so I
was looking and I was trying and
unfortunately they were instant a really
dense thicket and there was just no way
to keep up with them given how fast they
started moving they were kind of
trotting and after each other and so I
lost them with that regard but they
seemed fine both have been seen since
I’ve seen both of them Nanna neither one
is support sporting a scar a scrape
scratch any sort of limp so I think what
happened was tumblr ran into thickets
who Sanne lost him him completely and
the two of them then just kind of splits
amicably and that was the end of this
there was no major threat in it and
given that they neither one is
territorial yet I don’t think they’re
going to go after each other right we
are you little Hosanna
I don’t see him anywhere though it’s not
where we left him this morning so he’s
not here where we left him he was just
on the left hand side when we left him
this morning trying to check for him
we have you gone maybe he’s lying on the
other side of the damn wall
who is he in front here somewhere
interesting we’re going to have to
scratch around and check for him but I
don’t see him anywhere oh there is this
is sitting right in front of us if he
was a snake as they say he would have
bitten me so I’ll just try and get down
a little bit but he is fast fast fast
fast fast fast fast asleep at the moment
he’s in his usual spot that he seems to
favor which is just along the edge of
the banks here and on this wall itself I
don’t know why he likes it so much there
but he seems as though this is where he
wants to spend his time it was exactly
the same place a few weeks ago or a few
days ago he was lying really in the same
way just on the edge and and you can see
he’s still very relaxed how we missed
him from far away I have no idea it just
shows you their camouflage because I was
looking at the damn wall and I didn’t
see him until we got a little bit closer
and that’s where you sitting
just resting and he was fast asleep at
the moment but you can see no scratches
on him anyway on the ramp area so it
seems as a human tumbler just had a
little faceoff been investigating each
other a few snarls and hisses and growls
and to say you’re not my brother you’re
not my relative and I’m going to move on
and off I go it was such an interesting
interaction though between the two of
them because tambour who seemed to just
really not care at all he kind of sought
time by approaching and I mean sauce on
approaching and just carried on drinking
and then once asana got really close
then he started this relate display abut
submissively and kind of lie on his side
and growl and hiss and show his teeth
but otherwise they weren’t too
aggressive to one another was a bit of
sniffing going on and then they kind of
chased each other around so I think they
still in that young phase where they’re
not quite sure how to handle those
interactions when they see one another
and when things get a little bit sort of
hairy and they just do what they used to
doing which is chuffing and being
submissive and keeping themselves alive
that way so it’ll all change though once
they start scent-marking and once they
start to go into that adult phase and
testosterone is flooding then you’ll
find that they’ll be far more aggressive
to any opponent that they face it might
not be each other but they will end up
having to face off with some male
somewhere and you’ll find that
interaction will be a lot more
aggressive and a lot more teeth and cos
and all kinds of other things as they
try and defend a territory or gain the
territory first before they defending
anything some males have it easy some
are like quarantine where he just bosses
his way in doesn’t have to really fight
with anybody he just calls and st. marks
and there is in position and and has
himself a territory others have to fight
for it and earn the right to be
territorial and that takes a bit of time
and effort and so it’s interesting just
how the differences work between some of
them and so hopefully for asada and Tom
bear I really hope either one of them
that they get a nice territory and they
don’t actually have to worry about
fighting too much and they can get nice
and settled and get big before they then
actually start competing with other
males that’s what I hope Chat Noir you
say such a beautiful cats for Sonia is
beautiful he’s looking ever-ever
prettier I think he’s starting to lose
the cub look but he’s starting to gain
that sort of steamy male look that they
get the more serious look but he’s got a
nice coloured coat I always liked her
sanas coat it’s a yellowy color and as
long as gold is what you see I’m Tom but
um it seems to have a darker gold color
than what asana does but I like the
color of his coats and he’s got these
eyes that are becoming more vibrant
by day by day and their earlier years
joys of watching and lately he’s been
endearing himself a lot more to all of
us by the way that he’s played around
and messed around and done his thing
he’s been very entertaining to watch
that’s for sure I remember him the other
day with the stick that he had in his
mouth and he was playing the stick and
biting it and so he is a very cool cat
and like I said whoever he ends up
hopefully it is in this area but if it’s
not somebody is going to inherit a very
very special little chief in their area
and hopefully he’ll become the big chief
somewhere somewhere close by and if not
here so that we can monitor him and know
where he goes and when he gets up too
because I thought the worst thing about
having young males is that’s kind of
invest all this time and you get so
emotionally attached to them and then
they shift often especially when they go
into places like Kruger and the
sightings and the updates on them become
so slim and and few and far between that
it’s what’s frustrating in a way because
you want to know how they doing and want
to know how they progressing and so it’s
nice when they end up inside a sabi
sands system or a timber Vaati system
where there’s a lot of the commercial
lodges that have constant updates on
them it really makes it a lot better and
a lot easier for us to kind of know okay
well they’re doing all right wherever
they are and I think that’s the hardest
part we know miss you and do nourish of
and Malana
all of those have just a burst into
Kruger and that the sort of updates on
them are very few and far between
there’s one every now and then but it’s
not exactly commonplace to see them it’s
not like now with asana that we see him
probably every sort of have some sort of
update on him every day if we’re not
seeing him we know exactly where he is
or somebody else is seeing him on
another property so we can work out
exactly what’s going on but look at the
size of that massive front paw it’s
getting bigger and that head as well
starting to get a little bit of a dewlap
for me you can see his skin is starting
to hang a little bit from the chin so he
is growing and slowly but surely
becoming the male that he needs to be
and so while we watch asana
let’s go back to brent with his
lionesses see what they’re up to
we didn’t go for a bumble because there
was some zebra distress calls in the
distance and the Lions popped up like
they were going to move but
unfortunately it was very very
short-lived before those heads that went
straight down again oh I’m tired Kitty’s
probably had a few unsuccessful hunts
and sleeping off the tour at a time they
might have might have been having not
being able to catch anything so I think
we are going to leave them nap and go on
a little bumble and come back to them a
little bit later
I had one cloud over us it was that one
it also rained all over us not really
too hard but enough to start start me
whirring slightly is it sort of came out
of no and that happens quite often in
the dark so you’re sitting there with
lions the vehicles open everything’s
wonderful and then you use here this do
on your roof and you go I can’t see any
stars this is the problem and then you
get them to me and then you have to rush
to try pull the tent down and that
generally means you’ve got to drive away
from the Lions of course we don’t want
to be running around putting our tent
style next to the lines and sometimes
can be quite comedic
you think a bit chilly you shook her
over my legs
now as most of you like no I like my
Birds quite but and Russian years
wondering how different is the birding
during the different seasons well Russia
I suppose I haven’t spent a full yeah
yeah it’s I can’t tell you for sure but
in the summer season I’m looking forward
to seeing some of the migrants around
but I would say a lot of the Mara bird
species are resident and and that’s due
to the weather yeah lots of lots of
water all year round so it is it is
quite quite quite nice oh okay there’s
an Alfred
say hello quickly
I offered very good in yourself any
liens apart from the ones there and they
on gama’s on the other side okay okay
maybe tomorrow
just one it was over here oh that’s on
runner ridge very beautiful is so
Alfred’s been watching and he said he
saw Jamie with the Cheetahs this morning
okay well good luck I’m gonna go see if
I can find the rest of the pod there’s
only two females yeah so I’m sure the
other ones up here somewhere I know
tonight’s our only stout to maybe eight
o’clock nine o’clock but our other cars
at pulling that I’m and she’ll be out to
midnight one o’clock sometime there
thank you very much
okay
okay well we’re gonna see if we can find
the rest of the sausage tree pride or
maybe we’ll get lucky with that female
gesture while we do that let’s go to
Tristan who’s looking at four little
things I’ve had twin dams I am looking
at little things at random so you’ve got
a little water boatmen and you can see
why it’s called a boatsman because of
that oval-shaped body with those two
oars basically they come out and help it
swim around underneath the water and
it’s not every day we get to see them so
super cool watching them shoot about and
swim around and go crazy means the odd
little fish around as well there’s
another water boatman going that way you
can see there’s a big elephant ball of
dung so you can work out just how big
our water boatmen are they are tiny in
comparison to the elephant dung now they
were one or two fish around swimming in
the background I can’t see them now they
seem to have moved off and there was a
dragonfly Lavi that also was there but I
don’t know where that’s gone but it just
gives you an idea of how small is
another water boatman there you can see
is always quite clearly very cool little
bit darker that one so nice to see and
it’s not something we get to see very
often at all it while Hassan is sleeping
since I spotted all of these different
insects moving around in the shallows of
twin dams and it really is very cool to
see and mist all of these insects and
varying other small invertebrates that
are around water and I wonder if they’re
not feeling off the vegetation
inside the hip inside the elephant dung
so you can see they’re all latching onto
it you see varying others they also
probably be using it a little bit for
safety because it’ll be a place where
they are able to go down and fish can’t
get them they looks like a fish at the
back
is that a fish looks like a little fish
that’s darting forward so it doesn’t
look like the boatman that’s one that
looks like a small type of fish that is
swimming what kind of fish it is I’m not
quite sure there’s probably little barbs
is what they are three spot barb is what
we get in this area George you’re asking
if we can eat the fish in the lakes at
Juma George um no these fish would be
far too small these fish are
tiny tiny tiny like I said that’s a ball
of elephant dung to give you an idea of
just how small those fish are they are
minut so they wouldn’t even be a snack
and no I don’t know anything the water
here is so sort of stagnant sometimes
I’m not sure I’d want to try one well
though I suppose it’s as if we cook them
properly you could there are bream
species that we do get here that can be
eaten and catfish species that we call a
bobble and those will get eaten from
time to time and are okay but I’m not
sure I would be hugely into eating fish
out of some of these given what I’ve
seen go on in these water holes from the
elephant’s defecating and urinating and
buffalo and all kinds of other things
that go on inside yeah but amazing to
watch isn’t it it’s not something we get
to really see very often at all so
they’re not fish they are boatsman even
those lighter colored ones I thought
they were fish but they’re not they’re
an insect that is moving around it’s
quite difficult to see because obviously
it’s through some murky water and a
little those are not very dark like that
other boat when we saw just now and so
they tough to see I thought like I say
that they fish but they they’re not
they’re insects and then I’m moving
around in the water but well spotted
sensor that is super cool Bri Bri you
say so much activity there is so much
hasana was completely sleepy and but
he’s waking up now starting to groom
himself he’s been yearning a little bit
so I think he’s had a day of rest and I
wouldn’t be surprised we’re gonna start
getting going now hopefully it’s not
gonna be southwards I’m hoping he’s
gonna start hitting north wouldn’t be I
wouldn’t mind going on a hunting
expedition with husana it would be
really nice to see him hunting again and
you can see there’s a bit of sunlight
now coming out and look at how beautiful
his colors look in that sunlight he’s
getting that little bit of color coming
through in but if grooming going on and
this is very typical of a cat that’s
prepping to me so they groom they get
rid of any parasites that have gotten
onto them in loose fur that is developed
through the day get their coats in good
condition and cease cleaning between his
toes there and making sure that they’re
all prepped and ready for the evenings
moving around and making sure that his
feet are in good condition like a little
pedicure that he’s going through right
now and making sure that he looks
and is healthy so this is a typical sign
before cats get going and like I say
yawning coupled with this generally
indicates that we’re gonna see some sort
of movement in the near future so
hopefully like I say it’s north and not
south I really don’t want him to go down
into little gari because that will put a
bit of a ruin ooh
damp now on my plans this afternoon I
was hoping that we’d get here now and
husana would start waking up maybe have
a little drink and then from there start
moving up the mula watse and maybe go on
a little hunting expedition lots of
Yala’s and push back in in parlors and
Steinbach and duiker
in the actual I’m gonna watch on my way
down so hoping that he’ll head that way
and do a little bit of hunting there but
isn’t he beautiful very dexterous too as
well by the way that he’s able to groom
almost on his own back which is pretty
amazing so nice to see the way he does
things really is very pretty lipid or
sauna but I was also amazed about it’s
just the size between oh they went to
darvid of almost landed right in front
of him you can see kind of turned his
head a little bit
so the dove is just on the left hand
side they saw me I can’t see where it’s
gone now since I think it’s flown a
little bit past but you saw a dove
coming in and his eyes lit up for a
second and then decided no I’m not going
to have any of that and then decide to
carry on grooming his brother his older
brother Siobhan Bella and that’s how he
got his name is by catching a emerald
spotted wood dove because that’s what
Siobhan B’Elanna means so that’s where
you guys is doing exactly this was busy
grooming and then a dove flew past and
he just grabbed it out of nowhere but
how beautiful is the reflection in that
greenish colored water very very pretty
well done since I this light is just
getting better it’s almost starting to
full turn become a soft yellowy light
you often get the soft terrain you get
this most wonderful life developing in
the afternoons and it was exactly what I
was hoping for so I’m sure Hassan is
going to put on a wonderful show as he
sits there and enjoys the last of the
afternoon sunshine
now you can see he’s now moved on from
the front legs to the back legs and is
doing the exact same thing just grooming
the toes maybe a bit of sand in between
there keeping everything in check and
we’re gonna stay with him in monitor
whether he gets up and moves but from
one spotted cats in the sunset to
another let’s go across the tail in a
beautiful cheetah whoa we made it
finally we found wildebeest we have also
found with this beautiful spotted cat
who I want to see is if it is a male or
a female you look very much like a girl
I did not see any other bits that make
you a man but we’ll have a quick look
and he just keep up with her so I have a
story to tell you I met with one of the
wardens and he actually gave me the info
on this cheetah how kind of him he said
that he watched it chase after Impala
and grab an Impala lamb and then
unfortunately lose it to the hyenas
which is sad for the cheetah but it
works out well for us because it means
someone’s hungry
except we want this cat that’s not it’s
not drivers in Jenny halls we want this
cat to of course stay on the left-hand
side we don’t want it to come to the
right because we can’t all thrown on the
right-hand side so I’m gonna give her a
bit of space and this paint a wildebeest
around there’s also loads of what else
is then some a parlour some zebra I’m
just scanning some trophy
yeah
what we will have to do though at some
point before this gets too exciting is
very quickly predict infrared light on
but I just wanted to show you all this
beautiful cat it’s so nice to see
Nielson just upon quadruple check that
is not a boy
doesn’t look like it very lean though
could do with a meal don’t you think
let’s see what’s going to happen where
are you going to go who you’re gonna go
for now she better be careful
go that you’re going that way though
because I did see some lions in me an
area where we can’t offer open they’re
so far off the road that unfortunately
it’s no good for us
especially when it gets dark you know
during the day it’s different but we
lose light and our infrared lights can
only go so far Oh built for speed
I mean have you ever seen anything as
fantastic as a cheetah
I think I’d choose a cheetah over a
sports car and I think it’s a job –
never seen a sports car catch an Impala
but hopefully we’ll see this cheetah
catch one this is very cool now I don’t
know what cheetahs roam around this area
I’ve never been here before this is my
first time so we’ll have to learn
together we’re basically what are we we
are East ish of pouran gate gate but
still in the Triangle so I don’t know
what cats like to hang around here at
all hmm let’s see Craig let’s follow her
but I think I said we’re gonna lose
light fast and before it gets too
exciting before she does go and chase
something
we’ll have to put those infrared lights
on otherwise you are not going to see
anything we’re going to miss the hunt it
became a racing yeah
I’m telling you still there
now Bree are you wondering how much a
teacher ways she should expiry for
underweight because of Welsh hasn’t had
a meal
oh that you might you not how much she
weighs huh how much the tale ways well
that tells just about the length of her
body
I wouldn’t know I’m should scope but a
cartilage muscle I’m gonna be much fat
there I don’t know if it’ll weigh too
much at all maybe less than a kilogram
but who knows I’m quite happy not ever
knowing how much your cheated tail
weighs just because I can only imagine
one way that you’d where’d and that
would be a cheetah with outer tails and
it’s let’s not even worry about how much
shaking way it’s keep it on is it a good
she can’t see very well
Craig can we zoom right we needs good
right in there see I can’t you know I
see I’m fairly confident that it is a
female but watch it surprise me she’s
very tall I suppose I’m so used to
seeing so many leopards Asuna but that a
a cheetah and well in in statures
obviously a lot more slender the cheetah
different be taller than those methods
it was so lovely we didn’t find the
leopard that it was also apparently an
epic sighting we had a little look but
there’s the possibility though no
because there are quite shy archer
they’re not like sabi sand leopards that
possibly adduct off into one of the
drainage lines
now Chantal I don’t know if you heard me
but reenact for our infrared light song
because she’s obviously on the move so
she might be looking for something to
eat
what on earth are you okay can you see
that tiny little bird on the ground I
have no idea what that is someone take a
screenshot please and share it with me
because I’d like to try and figure out
what it is I don’t think it’s a
mannequin no it’s running
Pazhani on the ground that runs like a
ground dwelling bird never seen that
before
but I shall figure out what it is if you
take screenshots remember hashtags fire
it up and then I can identify it for you
later I’m gonna be out for most of the
night so I’ll be able to do that I’m
Chantal you still there
wonderful right I’m gonna send you back
to Tristan and wasana but don’t worry I
won’t be gone for too long we’re just
going to add our infrared lights
now Sanne is having a game with a
fruitful Franklin that keeps running
back and forth towards him he’s now
lying flat pretending like he’s not
interested in the Franklin is running
for its life but just now the Franklin
was actually coming straight towards him
there you go you can seize popped his
head up now because the Franklin has run
away but the Franklin was walking
straight towards him and he kind of
hunched down and was trying to pretend
like he was not interested but you think
he’s quite upset that if the Franklin
has gone all the way over that side but
look at how majestic he looks on the
edge of this water he’s really turning
into a beautiful individual he’s
watching the Franklin’s on the other
side of the dam you can hear the
Franklin’s are chasing each other around
larysa you’re asking if cheetah lions
and leopard males and females reach
maturity at the same age or does it
differ between the sexes well it’s it’s
not that they reach maturity at
different ages that the opportunities to
mate come at different ages so a male
lion male leopard even a male cheetah to
a degree they have to get stronger and
big enough to be able to compete with
other males and that Mommy takes a
little bit longer then when they’re
actually sixteen mature and able to mate
if you look at something like a female
leopard she’s already starting to mate a
two and a half years old even lionesses
turn off three years old they can start
mating and they’ll normally conceive
their first Cubs around four years or
three and a half four if it’s sometimes
a little bit earlier if they lucky but
males generally don’t come right with
mating until they’re around four to
seven years depending on on individuals
there are anomalies obviously outliers
on on that scale but generally the males
only are able to mate at a much later
stage but look how serious he looks
isn’t he magnificent Mehsana you are
looking beautiful my way he’s very very
well fairly he’s healthy he’s definitely
growing by the day starting to get a
very wide round face thick neck and the
male leopard in him is starting to come
out and blossom and he’s in his teenage
years now so you know he’s gonna start
going towards that two-year mark and
then once he starts to get to three four
then that’s when he’s gonna really put
on quite a bit of size and then when he
gets dominant and that testosterone
flush happens that’s when you’ll do that
last bulking up and then become massive
so hopefully he’s gonna be an impressive
male and I’m pretty sure he will be
wherever he ends up but he is looking as
regal as one could ever want to see from
a leopard he’s sitting beautifully for
us at the moment sitting almost looks as
though he’s kind of surveying his
landscape from his throne which is twin
dams wall it seems to have become his
place he loves spending time here and
watching what goes on is varying
different types of birds and animals and
all kinds of things that come down to
the section and drinking so it’s the
perfect place for
lipid to spend their time and isn’t that
beautiful I think so I think there’s not
very many things in this world that can
drive a a beautiful male lipid when it’s
sitting head up like that legs crossed
on the edge of a waterhole it’s a
magnificent scene we even got a bit of
card drama to our afternoon so you can
see that’s kind of seen that we are
looking at at the moment and it really
is a beautiful one but you can see now I
saying it’s not difficult to spot him
you can see me camouflage when he’s up
against that wall you’d think that
yellowy color would really blitter stand
out but as you can see from that it
doesn’t the spots actually blend into
this mottled wall effect and he can
blend in very very well beautiful
carsten from denmark you asked me if any
of the big cats have the falling or
landing on their feet part that domestic
cats have yes leopards when they fall
out of tree I’m yet to see a leopard
land funny they always generally land on
their feet even when they fall and lines
her to be they don’t really fall
graciously but they will land on their
back legs or their front legs or a all
four of them but they generally don’t
land on their backs ever they kind of
twist themselves in the air and land on
their feet so it is the same with
domestic cats as our lipids they do do
an alliance they do do the same thing
cheetah never seen a cheetah fall out of
a tree so I wouldn’t know but leopards
I’ve seen fall out too many times and
they generally do land on their feet
quite well unless of course you’re
Anderson male and you’re dragging a
carcass up a tree and then you basically
fall with the carcass that throws you
off balance and you don’t then land on
your feet at all you end up landing on
your back and side how he didn’t injure
himself for those of you that don’t know
what I’m talking about ants and mail was
videoed once taking an Impala up into a
tree and he then fell for some reason he
fell out with the Impala and landed in a
heap at the bottom of the tree so that
wasn’t ideal and not very elegant but
it’s very seldom as we see things like
that happening I’m just watching the
water
you’re watching the Terrapins maybe he’s
watching that’ll water boatmen that
we’ve been seeing flocking past and
swimming past and he’s intrigued by all
of that it’s just a wonderful wonderful
sight to see him like this
he’s almost looking as though to say
well the animals that come and drink at
this time of the day it’s not a a
hot day so maybe the animals are not
coming down and he’s going to have to be
patient and wait a lot longer for
anything to move into this area so I’m
just looking behind me to see if there
is any impalas or anything drifting but
nothing nothing nothing for him at just
yet
but I don’t he’s gonna be done for too
much longer I really do believe that he
is going to meet is gonna yawn laughs
and I really believe that he is going to
start getting up and going short yet
maybe come down for a bit of a drink and
then he’s going to start going now Hasan
is sitting patiently waiting looking
around and he really doesn’t seem to
care too much about any of the other
animals that we get in this area but one
animal that will be worried about
running into other spotted predators Act
we had the swing is the cheetahs and I
believe tailors cheetahs are having a
tough time look who’s sitting low on the
mound as a term and not as a Amma
termite minders the hyena came charging
past him she’s not having much luck in
coming back again the song you know
definitely knows that the cheetahs here
now there have been a couple of them
calling about I suspect there might be a
den here Barker’s a sort of a couple of
heads popping up from the ground but in
a non off-roading section maybe this is
the one that stole her meal earlier it’s
come in the direction that she was in
but it is heading off to the whooping
sounds that we heard just a moment ago
to obviously the rest of the clan there
you go don’t worry girl Yuna’s Winehouse
all got too much if she doesn’t have a
kill I mean there’s no point
Venus don’t necessarily go around just
killing other predators that isn’t that
absolutely gorgeous he’s staring across
at a herd of wildebeest but they’re very
far away still she’s still got quite a
bit of distance to travel if she’s
thinking of taking on a wildebeest there
will be a couple of youngsters on there
that’ll be suited to her size especially
because she’s on her own which is
typical for a female cheetah unless
she’s got Cubs
well Sabadell to litter but otherwise
this is how you normally see female
cheetah it’s the always that you’ll see
forming coalition’s so I was just
reading a message Jamie was saying that
double crossing which is a crossing on
the other side is completely flooded so
they aren’t able to cross it at the
moment so it just goes to show how much
rain that area actually had it must have
been spectacular that side and last
night
why don’t I suppose this
different areas once brington I was six
kilometres away and I was sitting in the
pouring rain and he was counting the
stars so you just never know but it’s
looking good for us so far hopefully I
don’t jinx it and hopefully it’ll be
good weather for this lovely girl
because if it does start pouring with
rain maybe she’s gonna go seek shelter
who knows predators do like to hunt in
the rain too they might have a better
chance that is gorgeous to see a cheetah
walking with rain falling in the
distance and the sky on fire it would
only get better if she heads up a bit
higher so that we can get a silhouette
shot of her let’s see if we can follow
her actually I’m gonna stay oh no no
sorry losses caused a disaster I’m
trying to get it into low range but it’s
really not the easiest there we go
sometimes force is the way forward
history with these cars
now we’re gonna navigate some rocks very
quickly well there’s no such thing as
navigating rocks quickly that’s for sure
but I want to try and
keep on the side of her
so you can get that silhouette
she needs to move up a little bit higher
than anything where it’ll be perfect
I’ll try get up so we don’t have to keep
moving
now any wondering of loans with cheat
are more successful than lions when
hunting well it depends unfortunately
cheetah and lions don’t have the strike
rate like a pack of wild dogs they
really are the winners when it comes to
being successful when they hunt you know
we know she’s made just made a
successful kill she killed an empire
lamb but unfortunately it was stolen for
from her how many times she has tried
before she got her hands on that in
pirate paws on that Impala I’m not sure
and it’s it’s really a tough one I
haven’t seen a cheetah kill from start
to finish I’ve only watched a couple of
attempts and I’ve seen them I’ve just
missed them catching things because they
were behind a tree and all something
along those lines I would say that lions
maybe have a better success rate because
they hunt in prides if it’s a coalition
of male cheetah a while look at that
then then probably about the same oh my
gosh that is like an absolute dream come
true I’ve always wanted to see the
silhouette of a cheetah walking along
the skyline on a high ridge so there we
go I can take something off my bucket
list and I hope that one of you can take
something off too I mean we dream of
shots like this Craig give you a film
cheetah like this before Craig says no
and he’s jumping for joy now so if the
camera starts to shake it’s not me being
excited a promise shoots Craig this is
beautiful I really hope we’re going to
see our first hunt shall we keep going
because she’s actually caught up well
she’s jumped ahead of us and I know
there’s a few rocks and what cheetah
anything can happen
she could spot something
just on top of the ridge and we could be
too far behind her and off she goes
that’ll be hard ones to eat but but I
don’t even think I had to keep up with a
cheetah
while goes yeah give you a run for your
money but I think of cheetahs on a whole
nother level so let’s see what she’s
going for she does seem to be moving
towards those wildebeest there were a
couple watching he on this side too
which is just heading further and
further up who’s in a buff alone you
were fine hunter Buffalo
see what she’s gonna do not Francis from
Israel wondering if the hyenas pesky
things follow a cat’s around and they do
indeed they love following leopards are
on predominantly in the sabi sand they
often feed on the same carcass and then
well cheetah they just take the kill
from them so you say well so I’m sure
that I you know hang around in the area
like I said I think there’s a den nearby
there’s a buffalo up ahead but she’s not
interested in the buffalo I mean we’ve
seen the lines being chased around by
buffalo search is really no match you
know young Buffalo Calf perhaps not a
problem but again you’ve got a fight
with a big herd of buffalo and we know
how dangerous that can be so I don’t
know if you would take that chance
there’s a lovely cat though I think
we’ll probably try and follow her for
most of the night and tall she’s
successful he makes it kill let’s be
optimistic here there’s just stopping
the staring looking back scanning
dreaming this must be about a hundred
thousand wildebeest just on the other
side of the Mara River quite close to
the pro rata bridge so it might be a
good good spot it’s just sort of head to
that she she’s going towards tree I go
towards the tree whoa
turbo kicks in there of like it just
jumped
Willoughby’s moogle wildebeest running
way they going I’m coming here there’s a
young wildebeest calf and amongst the
said I’m just gonna stop again we have
seen it with predators when they are
moving through an area will get their
prey coming into an obvious spot saying
we know that you are here don’t try and
catch us because we can see you but a
cheetah can run particularly fast it
doesn’t look actually showing too much
interest just yet she’s just sort of
walking this is not a picnic spot of
this tree there’s one young wildebeest
calf in there that could be tasty for
her are you gonna go stand on that
little block that would be great
wouldn’t it put your paws up there
looking up to the top of the tree let’s
see no I’m sure there’s plenty of other
animals that have sent marked up against
there but oh she is coming into e stress
which I’m I’m not sure maybe she’s going
to mark maybe she’d be picking up on the
scent of a male I’d see just having a
good old smell a little beacon and from
those things she can sell who exactly
has been partially I’m sure she knows
the saint of a yeah it looks like she
well she’s hidden herself but I’m pretty
sure the way that she’d just rocked her
tail that she was perhaps ain’t marking
up on that tree so may she may be she’s
interested in a potential boy that’s
around I can hear the hyenas making all
sorts of funny noises down below
wildebeest anon running alongside the
cheetah that’s quite cool actually
oh the sky everything is so beautiful
oh wow I mean even you can just see with
the sky behind me it’s absolutely
amazing
now roshni as we drive I’m gonna try and
get another good spot yeah you’re
wondering about this cheetah and what is
the largest size of prey that a single
cheetah could take down yeah all on its
own well for a male Chi do because
they’re slightly larger and again if he
was hunting by myself say wasn’t a part
of a coalition they take down wildebeest
I mean I’ve heard stories of you know
coalition’s taking down adult wildebeest
I would say for a for a single female
cheetah like this you’re probably
looking at a Sbarro all the beasts would
be big enough now when you are on your
own like this and we see it in the sabi
sand alight when a female cheetah in
particular or males on their own are by
themselves in the sabi sand they would
catch lots of Sternbach and Baker it’s a
small meal they can eat it fairly
quickly without without too much hassle
and this is some hyena or there’s a
leopard or something that’s you know
maybe nearby that will come through and
see that there’s zebra
there’s topi there’s a certain parlor
there’s lots of game around here so
we’ll just keep up with it and they
would catch the smaller things and and
sort of have a bit of chance of holding
on to it you know if you’re on your own
and you kill a sub-adult wildebeest it’s
gonna take you quite a bit of time to
feed on that now you’ve also got the
worry of right in front of us is
incredible of having something harass
you because it’s such a large kill so I
don’t know if it’s the same thing out
here you don’t really see I haven’t seen
as many smaller antelope species besides
the Thomson’s gazelle the odd already
here and there and of course their
Impala around but not in numbers like we
see in the sand Kara let’s carry on
like I said we’ve just got to make sure
that we try and keep up with her for as
much as we can
no we saw her smelling up against that
tree again said that the nineties tree
and I suspect that she also sent
marketed herself at the wrong name and
there was a question from reverie about
her senses on whether she uses her sense
of smell to help her find food I think
it’s a combination of things I think
they use combination of hearing link
cheese’s eyesight is particularly good
just like any predator that has got
binocular vision and I think that their
sense of smell definitely plays a part
so I don’t think it’s just one thing
that they’re relying on it’s a little
bit of everything wow this could be very
pretty because the wildebeest and the
zebra on are silhouetted and hopefully
she heads towards them if she heads up a
bit higher will get another silhouette
oh my goodness but even just that of the
herbivores of the back is fantastic and
you can hear the classic know that of
them Pilar that didn’t even sound like
an Impala a long call that was hopeless
you think I’d know better especially
since a over animal that we see why
would we see more every single day we’re
in the sand
doing a little zigzag technique there
aren’t you girl what have you found the
scrub here any mouths may be lurking in
the grass that got her attention or the
scent of some sort
she’s definitely soldiering on though
see how everybody’s just watching her
not really paying too much attention
well not yet when they’re all alarming
saying hey we know you there don’t even
try anything
I reckon though she finds another group
of Impala maybe some Thomson’s gazelle
she could go for it okay well I’m gonna
carry on again before she yeah she gets
away from us so that’s great though I’d
said to you before I came to the morrow
that one of the things I wanted to do
was spend the time
Cheeta and I unfortunately hadn’t really
had the opportunity to do so because of
the high density of vehicles within the
private areas of the Cypress and and
wanting to see
Cheeta all the time and because they’re
not particularly common so I’m
definitely gonna spend as much time as I
can with this guy that spent some more
time at the Musketeers the rain sort of
ruined that for us the last time all the
first time I found them unfortunately
what are you gonna do go oh you know
what let’s see make sure she doesn’t go
running off to anything but look how
gorgeous that is
I told you I’ve been dying to get a
silhouette shot of Impala bounding
across the skyline well we won’t get
that yet we’ll start with the zebra and
the topi because that is absolutely
magnificent isn’t there that is that is
really a postcard is it any possibility
we can have a little bit closer look so
I’ve got a shot for all of you that
you’ve got to try and get and you’ve got
to tag me in it because I I’m not going
to take any pictures of this you you
must all just enjoy this look at that
trophy zebra you’ve got to get all of
that in and remember hashtag safari live
add it to your silhouette collect rom
that’s so cool we hear the crown
black-winged very unhappy with that
cheetah marching through those I don’t
think she’ll be particularly interested
in two tiny eggs or three tiny eggs I
don’t think that would be a very tasty
no you want something a little bit more
substantial don’t you but she’s also
smelling that she stops and she zigzags
and that’s not but I don’t think that’s
a particular hunting technique you have
never seen that happen I know I zigzag
when I walk towards a giraffe but she’s
picking up sense on the grass so maybe
she’s looking for something who knows
there’s a left wing okay let’s go again
always a couple of Thompson’s gazelle
Richard you know what the success rate
for cheetah is I wouldn’t imagine that
it’s very good very high at all maybe
slightly less than the line but I and
not one to ask because I cannot talk
from experience I can only tell you what
the books is saved because I’ve never
seen that she’s a hunter from start to
finish like I said I either get there
and then they chase and then they kill
something behind the bushes and I’ve
missed the whole thing because it is a
lot dancer in the sabi sands so my best
chance is actually here and I’m gonna be
completely honest with you because I’m
also here to learn unless I said I want
to spend as much time with the cheetah
in this area so I can learn all about it
and crush those theories that people
have said things cheetah do they maybe
then I completely disagree with it I’m
just trying to I’m focusing quite
heavily now I’m also gonna quickly scan
with my binoculars as soon as see if
there’s any any other prayer are maybe
she’s just sick of it and she doesn’t
even want to eat anything else tonight
but I would imagine as Nina she is that
hunger must be is setting in now so cool
this is so great I was turning out to be
a magnificent evening but we’re gonna
sit you for a little bit longer like I
said I’m gonna try not let her out of my
sight and hopefully it pays off
Tristan however is searching for the
young Prince horse Anna I am indeed
you can see his Donna’s book turn around
he did a little pirouette and he’s now
grooming the other side of his body so
no don’t land there but that’s not the
place to land it was a thick me that
came in oh now he’s gonna play a hairy
casual and just kind of lean back is
that not there’s a thick knee that came
flying in so that’s a water thick knee
that we’ve got there with a white strap
on the edge of the wing on the wing
itself just looking at her Sanne
probably wondering what are you doing
got a bit of a fright I was about to
learn right away hasana was and then
decided no against that but you can’t
get much ganks more gangster than that
he’s got the gangster lean he’s leaning
up against the bank and was busy
creaming himself he’s looking super
chilled it’s laughs now and the auto
bull did come down
and drank and he kind of watched it but
I think he realizes inaudible is just a
bit too much for him to to grab at the
stage it’s also he was in no position to
be hunting anything from where he was he
was had to crept around the entire edge
of the dam which is near impossible
actually at this stage and given that
it’s so open here that Yana would have
spotted him in two seconds so he’s not
gonna be able to do that hello beautiful
way look at how wonderful his eyes are
getting they almost going more orange by
the day they sort of lightining up but
going orange orange orange an
interesting Estonian tea at an almost
loo mullah eye color and those of you
don’t remember Himalayas a male that we
used to see around Chitra Hoffman’s a
little bit into Shirley’s I think he was
once or twice seen on the live drives
I’m not I haven’t percent sure but he
might have been seen on Safari live a
few times he had the most incredible
orange eyes and then there’s the flat
rock mail which has also got very
similar as to what Hassan has got so
then becoming very mesmerizing those
eyes and it’s amazing that our two young
boys both have incredible eye colors so
husana is getting these orange colored
eyes and then on the opposite spectrum
you’ve got tumble with these Bluegreen
eyes and they were both are absolutely
striking when they look at you it’s
quite something they kind of both have
this this look that you get a bit
mesmerized by them so nice to see that
both of ways are going to be good
looking lads later in life
so Lily here saying how do I know this
lipid is there are so many names
well maybe the thing is is that it’s not
so much I mean somebody with some people
use spot patterns and and will use
certain markings to kind of indicate who
exactly he is and how they tell him
apart so as far as I know Hassan is a
3/3 but for me spot patterns are helpful
in the beginning but once you see a
lipid for a long period of time you
generally kind of get a sense of who
they are by just what they look like
much like you would recognize your
cattle dog that you have at home it’s
the exact same thing with these lipids
as we get to a point where we start to
recognize them as individuals just
because of spending a lot of time with
him so for me Hassan is just got a
certain look about him that I get and I
know in this particular section the
young males that we see here it really
can only be Hassan or tumblr and they
they look very different the two of them
like I say they have different colored
eyes so it’s really quite simple for to
see him he’s got this kind of pinkish
nose orangey colored eyes the three
three spot pattern which is those spots
over the whiskers and that just helps to
be able to work out exactly who there
are so general some kind of appearance
for me is always more helpful in a spot
pattern because a lot of the time we see
these leopards from far away and you
can’t see the spots from 20 meters even
from here I can’t tell you how many
spots Hassan has got on his face but
what I can tell you is that he’s got the
husana look about him which is that pink
nose there’s orange colored eyes and
that general sort of roundish face that
he has a race typical cruller family
face I got stopped and muzzles and
Roundy faces and they are beautiful now
I was talking about Hassan as camouflage
the camouflage of that thick knee oh no
it’s now stood up but it was sitting
down and I promise you it was impossible
to see and so pity it’s now gone down to
the water I’m hoping it will will go
back to where it was and sit down again
and I’ll be able to show you exactly
what I’m talking about
I think our husana is starting to wake
up but look at him dreaming I always
love when lipids scream they pause like
this when they have they pour out in
front and you see that long pink tongue
kind of go along the length of their
poor there is is a beautiful way to see
them
are you surveying your landscape wasana
1.diff one day this will all be his
imagine if it does it’ll be interesting
that’s for sure definitely not be
something that I would have expected
Lindley asking what’s happening – what’s
happened to crude his territory and who
should get it while it’s being courted
and divided and split up in chunks – all
the females in the area so at the moment
Tandi has moved made the most movement
into Kunis territory she’s not taken
this whole south east corner even up I
suppose into the central parts of German
and even northwards the other day she
was seen close to the force of dam so
she’s pushing quite far and taking that
whole eastern section and then shadow
seems to be taking the whole western
section at the moment so shadows being
seen along on the western boundary not
as far north as what time he’s been
going but still pretty much the western
section is now shadows so the two
daughters have pushed in there and then
we know Sheila at one stage was moving
around just on the northern section and
there we go is starting to think think
about getting going just got it
alleviate some issues when we’re doing
this you can see a few dark cars in the
background and interesting
the first insects that I’ve heard at
night since we’ve been in the winter it
sounds like the cicadas almost starting
to call a little bit now this is soft
sand going up what do you got your nose
in there’s a little hole then you see is
digging a little bit wonder what you
found the asana how beautiful is that
there him just creeping over the top of
the damn wall just checking slinking
over and if he’s just gonna sit and give
us a little look over his shoulder it
would be really nice if he did what I’m
gonna do though is I’m gonna just go
back up onto the damn wall because I
want to be able to look at that
I’ll just stop there cuz he’s looking at
result isn’t that beautiful that is as
good as it gets
when coming to a leopard that’s for sure
the only thing that could be better
would be if he just walked slightly
across outside of those branches that
we’ve got then sat in a nice clean part
of the damn wall that would be the only
other way that this could be any bit
than what it is right now that is
absolutely beautiful especially
silhouetted against that dark sky that
we getting on the eastern horizon
warmest looks like we might get some
more rain now that there’s some big dark
cards coming from the east and so he’s
just kind of watching them but that’s
the sky that he’s under isn’t that
magnificent very very pretty and nothing
is just watching and checking what’s
going on
Megan quintessential whoo see you using
my words now Megan certainly but surely
be teaching Megan the quintessential
ways she makes fun of me because I use
it so often pitching again this will
each between the shoulder blades this
you can scratches or it’s not like us as
people when we struggle to be able to
scratch out issues that we have on our
shoulder blades it’s really not ideal
when we get those issues but at least
he’s able to do it when a cookie shoot
around makers I think he’s going to
cross parts of our Traverse he’s going
to hit South which means that we’re
probably not going to see him for too
much longer so I want to try and just
get up and art as quick as possible then
keep up with him and see the last of him
going over
let’s try and get through the section
without killing Sims oh and myself are
you going back now the other way looks
like it looks like you might head north
now which is good news it means he might
be hitting deeper back into Juma or he
could have just gone round the back of
this vehicle and then we’ll turn south
from there we are you hitting no he is
turning north by the looks of things
which is fantastic means he’s turning
deeper into Juma so I’m trying to just
cross this Maggie little section which
is very bouncy and I’m bouncing around
all over the place so bit of a workout
getting over here for the old core
muscles there he goes he’s just going
north and that’s great news guys as is
perfect this is exactly what we wanted
we wanted him teared north because North
for us it means that we get to see him
for longer so fantastic
now it’s almost time where I’m gonna
have to get my spotlight art until we’re
able to put on our infrared so we’ll
have to just use the spotlight for a
little bit because we don’t have our
infrared just yet so it’s just crossing
not just yet he’s looking around he’s
seems to be quite varies obviously heard
something that he’s now listening to and
just checking but he must keep pushing
northwards he needs to go down into the
Milwaukee and northwards and that would
be much better for us than if he goes
south we are you off to a sauna he looks
as though he’s a little bit kind of
unsure which way he wants to go there’s
a few Aramark gobblers that are shouting
at him hang on is creeping away any
salivating as well what have you seen
husana that I haven’t seen you seen
something
blue reckons it’s tumblr that’s here so
I want to go down and just see you’re
gonna let somebody else go in front
because they haven’t had a chance to go
and so I want to just have a look back
here because he’s looking at behind this
damn wall hmm I wonder if tumblers not
here or somebody else like ton me that
could also be another lipid that could
be around but I’m gonna go drop down
into the drainage line and just see if
he’s gonna pop that side he looks like
he’s heading down in towards the
Milwaukee so I wanna head into the
Milwaukee and see if there isn’t another
leopard lurking that side we also note
in Ghana he could also be even though he
was on in coral and cheetah Plains this
morning by now he could easily be in
this direction given the weather that
we’ve got so I wonder what just who is
looking cuz all of a sudden there’s a
bit of salivating he went into a very
different position where he was kind of
stalking lower which is a little bit of
a change so I wanna heads round in sea
and we know that there’s been lots of
alarm calls around here lots of sort of
audio for birds charting and also tracks
for a young male leopard so maybe tumblr
I don’t know it’s gonna be interesting
nonetheless
because somebody is around that’s
causing husana to go into a very
different sort of mode than he what he
was for most of the our theme is kind of
relaxed and ambling along him all of a
sudden just stopped and then he started
hunting down and it’s typical of either
seeing a prey item or seeing sorry or
seeing another leopard the salivating
part generally means another little come
on windy off you go
come on come on
here we go so we just had to get windy
through the soft sand and now she’ll be
okay and she’ll be able to maneuver
through here just fine kicking because I
was driving here today I wanted to see
it was look like there was some sort of
tracks inside my vehicle tracks I was
wanting to see who exactly that was but
some put spider webs all over my face so
I tried get rid of those googly before
we actually look at what these tracks
are has he really crossed over no I
don’t think so I think he’s probably
still on this Bank
there we go who’s that there’s another
lipid there but it looks a course oh no
no there’s another lipid yeah I don’t
know who it is
is this quarantine knows that who’s that
no it’s wasana that’s this side but how
did he get here so quickly how did you
run across so fast I don’t know if maybe
there’s another lipid but here is four
sauna this side it’s not another lipid
this is living in a sauna so I don’t
know how he got to here so quickly and
why he’s facing this way now you booked
another England this one is for sauna
wood so I’m just asking the guys but
that is husana for sure
so how he got across I’m not quite sure
he must have run across in ours I don’t
know it looks it’s very odd because his
behaviour also as though he’s watching
something decide now
yeah it must be hunting something in
this general vicinity either that or
there’s another lipid lurking around
here somewhere but he’s kind of run
across and now he’s coming back again so
what he’s seen but it’s definitely
husana for sure that is him through and
through his light up his legs they give
him a bit more color what’s have you
seen boy he must have chased something
this way and missed that’s the only
thing I can think of because for a
second there I wondered if maybe his
older brother was around deer watching
you say he looked spooked he does
doesn’t he looks as though there’s
something going on and I’m not 100% sure
what’s happening at the moment of it is
definitely something that’s intrigued
him and like I say either he’s chased
something over this riverbed and is now
coming back or he saw somebody else and
went this way and checked but I don’t
see any other lipids around here like
100% sure it’s a mystery what are you up
to hasanah this always seems to be
something going on with this cat win
either hand he seems to always have some
sort of intriguing stuff happening look
how beautiful he’s looking though he’s
really starting to fill out properly so
I for a second I thought it might have
been quarantine just because of how big
he was
Prodi’s
six-years-old you want to know why he’s
got black around his mouth well Cody
that’s just how it is it’s unfortunate
with lipids they have these markings
like this and it’s all there to help
break up his face so what I assume and I
mean break up his face it’s when he’s
staring at an animal and he wants to be
able to be his camouflaged as possible
so he wants to hide as well as possible
and those black markings help to match
the light in the shade and make it very
difficult for the prey animal to see him
so that’s why he’s got black in those
areas just to make sure that it helps
keep him very well hidden from any other
of the prey animals and that he can then
hunt and stalk I have no idea what he’s
doing
maybe there’s a dyke or Asti invoker
that’s run this direction he’s now
coming back to check but he certainly
watched something or ran off to
something down here and who knows what
it was because it was another lipid we
would have found that they would have
had a face off they wouldn’t have to
submit as dispersed as quickly as this
and look nice coming straight back
towards us again I’m just gonna drop my
life down as he walks towards us and you
don’t go southwards though way
can see how relaxed he is they’re just
walking behind the car
typical husana maneuver okay but don’t
lie down like your sister older sister
did the other day I think he’s moving
down the river bid though and he is
going to sit there right I want to just
try get out of the way of the vehicle in
front of me so I mean just turn a little
bit is he still close close is he close
we’re not gonna be able to turn much yet
he’s still too close behind us at the
moment I thought he is a little bit
further than what he is he’s literally
right behind the corn he’s pull pulling
the same stunt that Tandy pulled the
other day where they sit right behind
the car don’t know why they like to do
this but for some reason behind the car
is where he wants to be and so is he
going to go to the toilet looks like it
don’t go to the toilet in the tire track
because in somebody’s got to drive over
that and they bits of lipid dung in your
tires is never a pleasant experience it
smells quite a bit and it steams to
stick to the tires and so not very
pleasant at all what has he seen I don’t
know he seems to be in a state of
undecided whether it’s toilet time or
time to move on but it can’t be
comfortable either way now I believe I
need to link I’m not sure to who I’ve
got no comms
so we’ll go across to whoever it is and
hopefully it will be a beautiful
sighting any has we got back to where
those two lovely girls where they were
on the move now there’s one just in
front of us and one to the right I can
just make them art at the moment so we
will be using infrared light to view
them and hopefully they’re heading out
on the hunt
now I mean you can barely see anything
in front of me but you’re gonna have to
believe me there’s a line right there
there we go I’m looking infrared dish is
moving west and the other line is just
off to the right somewhere she can’t see
her at the moment so has it got dark
they decided it was time to get moving I
think yeah I don’t have to keep up with
them you’ll see I have to put my
headlights on every now and then so you
don’t fall in a hole or bump into a
termite termite mound
as I was explaining earlier patience is
incredibly important when you’re
spending a lot of time with big cats
because they do tend to sleep a lot
Lions in particular 20-plus hours a day
the other line is gone
and she’s around there somewhere there
she is having a sniff
the toy is the fun part now which one do
we stick with I think we’re gonna stick
with the one wheel with initially is
just my cart and now I will flash a
spotlight every now and then to see what
might be coming ahead of the lines
nothing so far
now Lily’s wondering why are they called
the sausages Livie it’s because they
like the sausage trees so they do tend
to climb sausage trees or there was a
jackal I heard alarming at them it
sounded quite press the little jackal
there it is this two pair of them just
over there and so they might have a den
close by so that’s why I just heard this
well well well they don’t like lions
around their babies and the wind is
picking up I guess they’re gonna take a
large awesome and the wind is picking up
which is great if you’re a lioness on
the hunt strong winds or help mask the
sounds of them moving as you can see
they’re getting right to the edge of the
infrared light so I’m gonna have to move
again
see I didn’t find any Woolfolk holes
this evening
as I say Tristan’s Catron continues so
we’re gonna stick with these girls while
they head off into the darkness and
Tristan is still with one of my favorite
leopards and possibly the only leopard
who’s ever stoped me on foot her Sylar
we are still with him in e he’s I don’t
know what he’s up to he’s all over the
place huh
and a big jump down their bank little
big boy what are you doing you he’s like
running around as though there’s
something that he wants and something
that he is trying to hunt but I can’t
see what it is so I’m trying to just
kind of reverse and stay with him and he
keeps moving up and down the bank he’s
making it difficult for us to kind of
predict where he wants to go here he
comes now slowly but surely he’s hitting
kind of towards where we are he comes
look at that he’s almost like he’s on
the prowl he is hitting South so we’re
not gonna have him for I reckon we’ll
have him maybe for another five minutes
at the most but don’t know what he is
seen and he has decided I want to hunt
it and he is chasing things but we can’t
see what it is I don’t know if there’s
maybe a little rodent or something that
he’s seeing I’m not sure at all what’s
are you watching the way
Livan are you asking if the spotlights
are bothering him I don’t think so he’s
used to the spotlight so we’re going to
infrared anyway just to make sure that
we can kind of keep him without having
to worry about spotlights but here he
comes now just walking down the road and
he’s going straight into the pool Gary
within the next five seconds I would say
really not going to be very long at all
and this he stops on the side no he’s
heading straight towards little Gary now
I don’t know what it’s been all about
this afternoon he’s kind of been went
north and you in South than you in East
than you in West and now he’s heading
towards the main road and out of our
area I’m gonna try quick here it’s
beautiful with him spot look like that
isn’t it roshni you say leopards are a
lot more active compared to lions they
are and that’s why I love spending time
with him the Lions are amazing when
they’re active but that’s not that often
at least with the Leopards you know if
you spend a bit of time with them they
will get active fairly soon and you will
end up with a really kind of interesting
sighting at some point but there we go
he’s busy crossing into little Gary now
oh no maybe not so nice since marking at
least going to the toilet that is
let’s just see what the spotlights just
saw that you were saying if they were
worrying him you can see we’re not
shining on his face so we shine down on
the ground in front of him and just kind
of bounce the light up towards him and
make sure that we’re not in any way
shining in his eyes and so if he wasn’t
sure about the spotlights you most
certainly would avert his gaze from them
whereas now you can see he’s really kind
of not too concerned about it so just
shine in front and make sure that we
don’t shine into his eyes and then
everything’s okay and there he goes it’s
all going to be our last views of
Hosanna as he disappears into little
Gary so he came from there today and
well now he goes back and he crossing
exactly the same place that he crossed
this morning coming in so back down to
the south and venturing into his
territory that he had walnut territory
but his area that he moves around down
here he seems to spend a lot of time
down in the south in little Gary these
days and so kind of bounces between the
two and you can see just how he’s gonna
melt into the darkness as the range of
the light gets too far and so well
hassanis links off into the evening and
disappears into the thickets of the sabi
sands and little Gary we were talking
about cats being active and lions on as
much as the leopards but it seems Prince
lions are up and moving so let’s go
across to him
you know he’s still with these gorgeous
sausage girls naeun see they are hungry
they’re not starving by any means and
here’s a apps you might have heard
something up ahead just had worked opium
zebra in this area a little bit earlier
I can we need to keep up with her again
and check where the other one is
as a retired wildebeest from when all
the baldies behind it some carcasses
strewn around this area okay I’ve got
both the girls I just want to get up
ahead a little bit so in case there is
something there
some giraffe coming up but to Linus’s
giraffe might be a little bit big
and if there is a baby drop that they
would definitely have a gander ass
and they’re moving quite quickly as you
can see that and they’re really marching
now he’s gonna pop up next to us and you
can see how pitch-black it is till we
put the infrared on so the grass is
quite short after the ball the beasts
have been through here so you can see
them using the slightly more bushy areas
providing a little bit more cover
listen giraffe at the head I don’t know
if there’s a baby with them there
Oh hold on the it’s a mud to deal with
we did all the zebra disappear G lots in
this area yeah
so far ahead of them devoid of life
apart from giraffe on the horizon up
there you know walking parallel to us
just in the nice thick thick it’s a
watch out the only a bit of a bump
they might have heard zebra in the
distance that we can’t see it that could
be over the next little rise this is a
slightly Angela tin country here
ya know he’s got both of them on the
March
you can see that front line this is
quite a bit bigger back line this looks
to be a little bit younger
winds starting to pick up even more
which is great for the Lions roshni’s is
wondering what differences in hunting
strategies have we noticed between the
greater Kruger area and the Mara now one
must remember that lion hunting
strategies will vary wherever there are
in Africa in the lines and in in the
greater Kruger are far more proficient
at hunting Buffalo for example but
that’s just because they don’t have the
amount of choice for these Lions D and
Jimmy it seems to be only the males and
certain prides little and by flow
normally only during the the wet season
when the volu be staunch yeah
lines are taking us off the road down
bumpy bumpy
so I mean the Lions have they’ve got
that the migration so they’ll charge
into the migration no real stalking or
anything and just wait to see if
something happens or feza
and injured wine or lots of different
active Sam they’re also quite a lot of
water hunters here so they’re actually
waits around burrows but again a lot of
those tactics could even change season
me and never put put put around the
whole I mean a round peg in a square
hole was the other way around around a
square peg in a round hole because as
soon as you do that you are going to
find them doing something you say they
don’t do and that’s the wonderful thing
about being out there with these animals
is that their their behavior can change
and to a certain degree certain
behaviors are learned from from each
other like for example elephant hunting
in Botswana it’s very much a pride thing
rather than a lion thing and it’s only
in areas where they’ve been forced to
take advantage of the massive amount of
elephants and very little other game
during certain times of the year
I just need a mission these girls
special I’m not seeing any eyes up ahead
and aren’t any so far set time to keep
up
whole
looks like they’re not favoring the
roads this evening
I remember this is a hundred percent
live from the Mara in Kenya where with
two lionesses on the hat in the pitch
black
if dick knee has been a day full of cats
lion leopard and cheetah so let’s go see
how Taylor and her cheetah are getting
on
so cheetah has decided that she needs a
little bit of a rest which I don’t blame
her for she means she ran around on she
caught herself a meal she had stolen
from her you probably who stuff quite a
bit of energy doing so and then to find
her just resting up on a termite mound
not for very long and then getting on
the move and she actually travelled
quite a distance I’m very impressed with
how quickly she covered that ground but
that’s also quite typical with the
cheese and sauce sometimes if you leave
them in one spot you can come back
between minutes later and there will be
kilometres away they really really do
move there was not an uncommon sight in
the sabi sand it should be following a
male cheetah from the southern section
of the reserve this was down in the
south of the sabi sand and then within
an hour’s time crossing out on the
northern boundary when they want to go
they move and we see it all the time he
sit with wild dogs how quickly they go
but their Gators normally a little bit
quicker and more constant than that of a
cheetah she’s just obviously walking and
it’s the same like a leopard or a lion
male-line going on a serious territorial
patrol they also cover well areas very
quickly now even though it’s completely
dark Archer and she has sat down in the
long grass I think she’s just waiting
for everything to settle it’s not to say
that cheetah don’t hunt at night that’s
a big misconception they most certainly
can hunt at night and I have sort of
come across cheetah at dusk just after
the sunset – feeding on animals when we
were with him you know 20 or 30 minutes
prior to that and and and had to leave
though because when you’re a guide and
you have guests around we don’t have
infrared cameras of course so you have
to leave a cheetah at just at sunset no
spotlighting of cheetah and no Cubs of
course as you know and things like wild
dog we don’t spot that either when you
spot laughs they’re nocturnal creatures
so but you’ll bump into them you know
have a quick look keep the lights off
them of course because you’ll know that
the hyenas will come charging in or even
a lion or a leopard and still their
kills so you just want to keep them as
hidden as possible and that’s what we’re
doing here and that’s where we are so
lucky is that we are able to sit
in complete darkness I can’t even see
how far away she is from my car at the
moment I’m just sort of guessing she’s
listening to lions roaring now very very
very far away and very faint so I doubt
that any of you will be able to hear
because I’m just hearing it but there’s
lines surrounding us there’s lines to
the west of us is lions to the north of
us and the designs to the east of us
and these plaintive will to be sarong
are they going to be on the right side
of the river I only hope so now
Ellucian you’re wondering if this
cheetah could climb tree she most
certainly can she won’t to climb a
vertical tree you know something as tall
as a morula like in the sabi sand at
most certainly one that’s been pushed
over by elephants it’s one tree that’s
got low-lying branches it would make it
quite easy for her to climb up but
she’ll be climbing trees for a
completely different reason than that of
a leopard would you know she doesn’t
take her kills up trees she feeds down
on the ground but when you live in open
areas like this it’s quite tough to see
over the tall grass and you can see it’s
really quite high here the wildebeests
haven’t been through this section and
grazed it short just yet that will
change over the next few days and so
she’ll be using it as a vantage point
just as we see animals using termite
mounds they will do the same thing and
it came they’re actually not too bad at
getting up but the problem comes in with
leopards and nothing if it’s with
cheetah and lions it’s coming down and
they don’t seem to be as coordinated as
they are when they go up that’s where
lipids take the cake and of course they
can go up a tree and come down just as
well but we’re gonna sit with us girl
and see what she gets up to she’s not
completely flat just yet she’s still
pricking her ears Tristan is not sitting
in the cover of darkness he’s got his
spotlight out and I wonder what he’s
searching for
well just bumbling back but I’ve just
found tracks for this other lipid on top
of my track from this morning and we
know that Masada was at the dam the
whole morning and day so it must be
tumbler that’s moving around here but
checking very carefully and very slowly
the last tracks I had were coming out of
the mullah Artie again right where his
tracks went in this morning and heading
back to this general vicinity so I’m
just driving slowly and scanning around
all this light trying to hope that I
pick up his eyes some way in this area
but definitely the tracks are on top of
my tracks from today which is
interesting they’re not on track on top
of the tracks from this afternoon from
some of the other vehicles but they are
on top of mine from the morning which
means that he must be some way in this
general vicinity I like I say I just got
to find him wherever that may be
you might be just sitting underneath one
of these bushes or maybe he’s begun to
move around now and I’ve just missed him
by him not facing towards the spotlight
because if he’s not close and he’s not
facing towards me and he’s dark the
ground well then I’ve got no chance of
spotting him but it’s a good kind of
coup for tomorrow morning to come and
check on here for our little green eyed
boy
then maybe he’ll be around and dams
instead of a sauna in the morning hmm
interesting there’s Divini a lot of
lipid movements around the milliwatts he
at the moment I wonder if the rains are
gonna change that right remember when I
first started at Safari live I didn’t
see lipids in the mawashi at all in fact
I think it’ll took me about four months
until I saw my first leopard in the
mawashi and now in the last two weeks I
think I’ve seen about 40 in this in
there and it’s obviously not 40 but
there’s been a vast majority of the
sightings have been in and around the
milliwatts drainage section so it must
be somewhere there must be something
about the dry season maybe the shade
that comes in to the area and causes
much better place for them to July down
also I suppose twin dams is a huge
benefit as well because that’s water for
these cats within there’s no water
anywhere else they also go up to Gauri
dam so it’s nice connective kind of
to have when you have a drainage line
that runs from one being water source to
another one it helps to be able to then
find these guys because they’ll go from
one to another and back and forth and
that’s why I’m sure we’re seeing so many
moving around here but nothing that’s
not much happening a few in partner a
one or two little scrubbers have popped
over the road while I’ve been driving
and there’s updates at the income with
female that we had oh yeah she’s crossed
into the West so she’s gone back to some
emini so I had to go rejoin the Pride
apparently they heard a calling that
buffalo hurt is turning north towards
Runyon lady which is not ideal for us
and what else is happening that’s it
that’s the only updates I’ve got they
didn’t find him gone in this afternoon a
cheetah planes it seems to have vanished
I think I ended in with green was active
for some part of the oxygen and anything
the whole afternoon with some part of it
it was active then was working and going
and so we’ll try maybe check there in
the morning to I didn’t do it you’re
asking where are the elephants well in
this area get them up we have weather
like just us today and so going to be
pretty god they won’t be too many era
that’s whether they try and get into
dense thick areas try and hide out from
the wind and the cold and so you’ve
received very little of it and surround
cold front but prior you know it was hot
we also didn’t see too many until the
all-star afternoon before the cold when
I thought well the elephant’s of back
now and all of a sudden the weather
changes and that’s the end of that but
we didn’t have those two herds and I
believe there was a herd seen today on
Torchwood this general direction so
maybe tomorrow morning you’ll have some
alien ask to have some elephants
tomorrow morning given that’s the wind
is sickening it looks like it’s breaking
up overhead I can see a few stars and so
that would generally mean that we are
going to experience some clear where
they’re hopefully warmer weather which
will drive the elephants to come and
drink at some of the war tolls
particularly if the Sun is out now for
those of you that are also wondering
about the penguin tracks that I found
the other day and whether I’ve been
checking around I have every night’s
driven the same
Road to come and check for this Pangolin
every morning every night to try and see
if there’s any more tracks coming back
over the roads but so far there’s been
absolutely nothing and it’s exactly
where we are now so we’re just checking
slowly along seeing maybe by some
miracle this pangolins still around it’s
not going a little bit far for us to
probably expect it to be here if we
haven’t found any more science you can
see this is where it crossed that’s the
mark that we made to indicate this area
and unfortunately if it’s three four
days and no more signs chances are that
it’s probably moved on a little bit sand
is no longer actually in this particular
section which is a bit of a bummer but
now as the year when you see pangolins
you’ll find a lot more in August
September October and so their breeding
season from what I read and they tend to
be a lot more active and they try and
find one another and find mates and so
you find them kind of going across roads
and moving and looking for each other
and so it’s a good type patterns
apparently August September October is
apparently the best time for them that
would be a really nice surprise I’d be
super happy for one of those
like I say otherwise it feels a little
bit quiet Archer no sons of any Isles no
Jin it’s in any of the holes and they’ve
been checking extensively in all of them
trying to find ricci you once in an all
in an aardvark well odd would be
well we do flick flap we saw an art
a very uncommon to see well
that’s right either for them overcast
conditions they means they’ll be out a
little bit earlier than normal so that
would have been a knife but also
something that we could have done but I
can’t fight any yet so I’m gonna check
there’s a tree up ahead not too far I
might have to get a little bit of a move
on to see if I can get there in time
because we running towards the end of
show now but I’m gonna try get towards
where this tree is that there is a scopz
I’ll pair that sometimes sits in it so
we’ll try to find them quick mean it’s
just like I say get a bit of a move on
to where I need to be it’s it’s a tree
coming up in the distance yeah it’s
actually maybe it’s this one yes it is
this one so actually sorry I thought it
was the one in front but it is this one
so now I’ve just got to try and scan
around so these are scoffs I’ll pay and
they are quite difficult to spot
let’s wait I can actually hear one no
they’re not here they further on today
so that’s quite try and track it down
quickly by sound but it sounds like it’s
calling somewhere here maybe this big
tree is actually where they are this
evening
it’s gonna be very difficult in this
tree to find them come on call for us
see any eyes we should get eyes quite
quickly from the spotlights so no it
doesn’t seem like they’re in this tree
either it’s just go forward and see if
we can find one more big tree it’s
somewhere in this general vicinity so
Tony you want demonstration of how Fuji
works and we’re gonna have enough time
that tape poogie so that he stays where
he is we’ve got to turn pootie on and
he’s got a fancy little time when he
turns on so I’ll try it turn him on oh
there we go alright bujji the stage is
set for you so there we go
now I’m going to play let’s play an
alcohol let’s pay this cops I’ll since
we were looking for them
but bad day Fuji’s got some good lungs
on him you can actually hear the other
scopes Isles answering back because of
how loud it is so there we go that’s poo
jeez what other spurts hours to be here
pearl spotted let’s see if it’s better
than Barron’s pearl spotted harlot stop
back actually Fuji has got a good set of
lungs that’s for sure so there we go
that’s pre G’s debut we will use PG more
often let’s put PG back where he needs
to be though so that he’s taped up back
on the dashboards so he doesn’t fall but
apparently we bouncing down and
unfortunately that’s the end of the show
so from sins and myself goodbye we’ll
see you all tomorrow morning on the
Sunrise Safari
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