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so you can see the beautiful skies there
clouds are still everywhere and it’s
nice and warm at the moment not too bad
good for the Predators and the thickness
of the bush here is where our sonic got
disappeared this morning a very very
good afternoon and welcome to the
beginning of the afternoon Safari
I am Sydney former enemy cozy and I’m
traveling with Michelle who is my camera
operator this afternoon we are going to
try by all means and get hold of a sauna
dip in these thick bushes is where we
left him earlier this morning and for
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stream without any waste of time I want
to go back to where I have left him this
so husana this morning I was
demonstrating some of his hunting
capabilities so chances of finding him
with a kill they are also very high he
was looking very hungry and he was
trying he was trying just that the prey
animals they were so very much clever
this morning amidst Steinbeck right in
so now let’s cross over to the Maasai
Mara the David is ready to show you
hello hello and a very good afternoon
from the Mara tryingo in Kenya and the
sagoo John I’m not sure that meant
saying good afternoon to all of you
wherever you are in the world it’s very
exciting to start our sunset driving
with two lionesses they are lets belong
to them oh la la la pride this is very
close to a cup and I’m sure nobody else
because my name and just in case my name
remains the same my name is David and
Archie is hidden camera Archie how are
you doing today we were excited to start
to lionesses right they’re in such
gorgeous light well I’m sure Sydney told
you one very important thing that we
love questions who would love comments
because that one keeps us going and as
he told you hashtag Safari live on
Twitter just wonderful after we got here
about 24 degrees Celsius and 75 degrees
Fahrenheit and that feels very
comfortable for me and I would guess is
the same to these lions yeah
they look to like two youngsters or two
young males I’m looking at much better
than before in my monitor you can sit a
bit of Maine coming out to that neck two
young boys who at a particular age will
always tend to be on their own as I said
earlier they’re from a pride that we
called oh la la la la la is an
escapement that is very close to where
we live in our camp is not very far from
here just started coming down this
government and this was our first stop
and how fast sighting it’s going to be
good looking day the way I feel it and
apart from myself and Sydney in this
another gentleman also would like to
thanks David good afternoon everybody
welcome to June at the sabi sands my
name is Steve I’m joined on camera by
hat and well it is a beautiful afternoon
a little bit overcast not too hot but
then I did spend a little time a
swimming pool today which was fantastic
we are going to head up towards buffa
sook dam there’s potentially some tracks
of ting ghana up there and well I
haven’t seen the old boy in some time
I’m sure you have been told by David or
Sydney how to get hold of us hashtag
Safari live or throw your questions in
on YouTube chat stream remember the
all-important FC @ FC keep your
questions relevant we’d love to hear
from you if any of you would like to see
think on this afternoon well jump on
board we’re gonna go see if we can track
him down he’s been up in Buffalo the
last few days and well as we know the
juma is his dukedom and he will come up
and down and cover quite a large area
all the way into torchwood Linda is the
power team on today we’re all very
excited we’ve got a s ABC live TV show
after this Drive so we would like to
find some of our special characters to
show the people of South Africa who are
quite new viewers to the show show them
live on TV this afternoon evening which
I think will be marvelous what a better
way to start off David with a lion
Sydney if he can find the little chief
we know how popular the little chief is
he’s got an agent and well whenever TV
rolls around we know him don’t we he
can’t get enough of the spotlight ting
Ghana well he is just a star in his own
right he might be a little bit old now
but still a very strong and courageous
gentleman who I’ve not seen in some time
and I’m very excited to feast my eyes on
him again but anyway David is with an
all a lot old lioness let’s go all the
way back up to the Masai Mara and see
exactly what his lion is up to well I’m
very excited to hear Steve got plans of
looking
for the Duke of jummah Tinga now who
should be very exciting news and if you
do lots you’ll make me a very happy
gentleman ting Ghana is one little
respect out of his age and size and
above all the develop and Tigana would
not compare to these two young boys here
I would say this one just jokers
compared to the mighty and strong and
very good-looking thing Ghana but it
will be just a matter of time you know
before this voice also grow into size
and you can see wind is picking up and
it’s the wind picks up they gets not
really nervous but you can see their
body and language changes in the matter
triangle we got so many prize of lions I
would get over ten fights but the two of
them belong to the Hall of pride as I
said earlier and oh la la la is the
largest pride of lions that we got in
the Mara triangle and this is just two
of the sixteen strong alliance of this
particular pride one big advantage they
got is when they go for a hunt they
would be able to their even the very big
and dangerous prey I’m talking about
Buffalo’s at two weeks ago they brought
two buffaloes down in a span of about
half an hour and in a radius of only a
hundred meters apart that was really
special and you know it was very cool
sighting to see like six my own son one
Buffalo and maybe ten on another Buffalo
this young Sathya I’m looking at there
maybe go into two years and for them to
be alone they’re starting slowly showing
signs of independence and of course they
said two and a half they’ll be on their
it’s pretty windy but all goods the
light is just fantastic on behind them
that little tree line there this a small
natural stream and just society could
have been alia in there having a drink
but also where they are is quite a
vantage point because this government is
just on the other side from them the
scum is behind them and they’re just
looking below this government and that
one gives them good angle to see any
movement of prey down here well the
migration is gone I’m talking about the
wildebeest and most of the Zebras that
one have seems to have a little scar
there if we look on the left cheek he
got a scar and I do not know where he
might have picked that scar from snake a
little wound and it could have been a
claw mark or a cheese mac and so many
things happen here out in the wilderness
well I spent a few more minutes with
these two boys and find out what they’re
doing and I say do that I’ll tell into
you back again to South Africa to Steve
oh yes well we found a leopard already
and I decided to get out of the vehicle
and go and have a look this little guy
he is a tiny leopard tortoise let me
just move the stick out the way for you
and then you can see look at that now if
you’re watching the show this morning
we saw some leopard tortoise is getting
a little bit jiggy with it and well on
this legend gentleman is the byproduct
and this is still a relatively aged
tortoise they often are when they come
out babies their baths this small giving
a bit of a head there so the scoots each
of these is called a scoot and that’s
the protective shell which is growing
season Lee with tortoises ed apparently
if you count the ridges the down and up
ridges those are the seasonal growths of
the animal and basically if you then
divide that by two you then get the age
so for example here one two three four
five six could you believe it that this
individual is possibly three
years old criticized him herbivores they
feed on grass and wherever they go is
their home so he’s very cute he’s not
too bothered by us at the moment I’ve
moved this stick and he obviously that
is what tortoises do they just walk in
to a thicket plug themselves down and
the camouflage as you can see is
incredible so the difference between
this and the specs tortoises you can see
how sort of how sorts of balls it is
it’s more of a cut more of a dome than
the specs which is quite flat ladybird
you I don’t know how long they live for
I think they can live up to the 70s
maybe even more than that obviously
different species of tortoise can get to
different ages or fella don’t go and get
stuck in there now it’s like a
four-wheel-drive machine just moving
through I’m thinking in the region of
between 70 and 80 years of age but there
might be other species both that are
able to get older than that but the one
unique characteristic feature of this
very camouflage one is apparently
leopard tortoises are the only tortoise
that is able to actually swim I love
that fact but no cars disappeared and
that is what they do he needs to hide
there from all sorts of predators and
well if a sauna found this of a guy and
a shell would probably small enough and
soft enough for him to break needs to
get much at with two very large ones
this morning well in comparison to that
one and maybe they are other parents
anyway great spot from cats very good
eyes grace did you say feisty little guy
okay yeah I suppose tortoises are feisty
feisty little guy indeed okay just gonna
move out the way here we’ve got a bit of
a Herbie family grouping going on we’re
just going to wave okay well
okay so we’re gonna head up towards
buffers with dam to see what we can find
because I’m in ten Ghana is in the area
and well you never know we might be able
to get in for the TV show this yielding
that would be first class but for now
back to David and his lion yes
buffers Hawk tosses are you might see
scuba stiva
I’m not sure how much water was having a
dumb but to be happy to see people there
now this to boy is about a month God
tried to bring one or these two but part
of the youngsters are the young males in
the olala pride tried to hunt a hippo
and I thought they were just jokers
because he was very big and was and
rather dangerous you can see the tail of
one of them there that’s just rough from
the back of the brother and guess these
two youngsters are of the same litter
the kind of bonding they have they
definitely must be on the same mother
and the same father you can see the
spots they are still showing on that
young one there and this is just how we
load up there’s a tick or fly on his
tummy if you can see how his tummy is
going to flies they’re just breathing
but I would say the temperature is
pretty good to have an up so I’m not
surprised wondering where the other 14
would be and maybe the two boys here are
starting to fill his time they
excommunicated themselves from the 14
and start their own life chances are
they might start their own coalition us
noodle how are you and I gather you are
a new viewer and it’s very excited to
have you on board and a very warm
welcome and just to let you know
should you not know we’ll always have
two drives one in the morning and one in
the afternoon
both from Kenya and in South Africa well
most of us have different origins and
different trainings but most important
noodle we all have a background in world
life studies we have done our word life
from college and we have trained in
different fields so what life is whole
thing and we do not only deal with
outside animals we also do a lot of
flora to Steve for example it’s very
good when you talk of botany so that’s
our background for all of us we love
what we’re doing and we have all been
trained to be in the African wilderness
thank you very much for joining us make
sure you always stay with us so if you
just joined us now these two youngsters
or these two lions here belongs to all
our la pride and all our pride is the
largest spread in the Mara Triangle
noodle and of course all the other
viewers remember your questions and your
comments give us lots of joy so keep
sending us questions and noodle that was
a good question to know the background
of all the wildlife guides so buying in
the bush or biology is our stuff so most
of us have lunch botany because we need
to know what our animals are made of
ideally all of us a naturalist because
we have grown with this animals and this
is where we are we are here on daily
basis except when we break and go home
for a couple of days to see your
families or have a little break just to
breathe and every load of us house and
Reno joyous and then we come right back
and that’s how we end up doing these
lions we can tell them by face we can
tell you the numbers if we see one or
two missing will Elias will always let
you know three of them are missing five
four missing because we know all of them
we leave them them every other day so
give you one more quick look noodle and
over there the viewers of these two boys
here because we are going to move on I
want to go look
for maybe the rest of the parade and
find out where the other 14 are I still
believe they are not independent enough
to be away from their mothers or the
auntie’s and cousins so it’s just a sign
of teenage you know we can be away then
back to the fold we can be our induction
effort maybe after a few other times
they’ll be gone and they’ll have their
own life see the black spots on the ears
there the black marks in the ears which
sometimes we see the use as follow me
sign when they walk through the grass
they had his orders up and you can only
see the black marks I don’t the es or
sometimes when they keep flicking their
tails up well my friend Sydney in South
Africa is so determined to get a leopard
for all of us let’s find out how he such
is going I am right now in the middle of
one of the drainage lines where we left
Hosanna here this morning and I’m just
trying to carry on from previous he
might be somewhere around the same area
it was already late when we left him
normally it doesn’t suffer that much
so the speeders are so very quiet a lot
of animals I am relying on everyday they
have very quiet at the moment so this is
the area where he was hunting a
he likes the peek drainage area the area
here is that area where I saw him
playing with the elephant dung some time
ago he likes this place yeah that
sighting took place somewhere here so
so he must be lying down somewhere in
this Kali here but I’m not going to give
up I’m going to look for him until we
Catherine it is so beautiful indeed
everything is green at the moment and
this green color is the one which can
easily hide the spotted hassanein so
it’s disappearing in between these
so now let’s quickly go back to Steve
thanks it is talking about the little
chief Hosanna I remember early this year
I was driving down this exact same road
over here and a camera on the corner I
think I was talking about it we really
want to find a leopard now and we came
around the corner and we found him
looking at his reflection in this little
pan a little green pan just to the right
of the screen there and it was really
quite funny we followed him after that
and then we got him killing a scrub here
so you know we can actually spend some
time on this drivers roll rim and
missing on all the places we found these
interesting animals because always the
antics that they they carry out while we
watch them is always quite funny I
remember finding him he was just looking
quite said his reflection just like that
was before hue in turn is on his
walkabout remember he went away was just
before that yeah he is a clown but we
loved him very much
we loved him very much but the reason
why we’re checking is little water muddy
pans is exactly that the cats like to
come and drink and quite often you can
find them in and around close to where
the water is and it’s one of the reasons
why this time of year it’s quite tricky
to find cats because oh well there’s an
Egyptian goose who’s a little bit
confused maybe he wants to go to that
little water pond as well it’s lost his
mate
it’s very quiet so this must be the male
he’s gay it’s going to come over to the
little Maddy Maddy pond over there so
the animals obviously need to drink
every day but when there’s an abundance
of water all over the place they don’t
have to go very far and seem Egyptian
geese goose this far away from permanent
water is very very interesting obviously
going to new pastures or maybe going out
on it on a tinder date maybe was
swapping was told to come and meet by
the pan maybe it’s for sauna playing a
trick and trying to ambush this
individual goose by luring him in to a
pan where can you say that okay images
made a joke so it’s known by Egyptian
goose as a gimbal not a tinder very
clever Emma very clever
so anyway maybe Hassan is trying to lure
this goose out on a promise of a grassy
meal some seeds thrown in it as well we
know Egyptian geese are grazes and they
quite enjoy a couple of the seeds off of
the grasses and it’s walking very
precariously towards the thickets there
it’s not a really good idea if you ask
me a very interesting note at a desire
on its own I’m not going to say that am
i no well going straight to this little
water puddle yes therefore this could
very likely beam Hassan as Christmas
duck or he could have already had the
other one because as you all know ladies
and gentlemen who watched the show all
the time
Egyptian goose is in fact a duck which
is a very strange because gooses are
supposed to honk and ducks are supposed
to quack and well if you’ve ever heard
an Egyptian goose make a noise there’s
absolutely no honking in oh no quacking
in that at all it’s all very definitely
coming to the water maybe accan knows
the waters yet might feel quite safe
there who knows
so you haven’t positioned you very well
am i reversing skills this afternoon or
something to be not something to be
anyway the thing with going out in
search of a cat is we are spending time
out in the wilderness so there are
tracks where birds we had a very brief
visual of a quite a large flock of
red-billed quelea switch I wanted to
show you quickly because it’s the first
ones of the season that up see that is
not what I want to show you first ones
of the season and they are according to
certain David Attenborough accumulate in
the largest flocks of bird known to man
and there is the breeding plumage of the
male just try get that the angle of the
light how’s that it’s very beautiful and
accumulate in hundreds of thousands of
birds obviously the small flock we saw
just now was only about fifty maybe but
they accumulate enormous flocks and
they’re migratory throughout the country
they don’t really go in much further
north another proper migrant it’s just
sort of like a an altitude ”’l migrant
if for once of a better word right now
and they feed on seeds and they are
waiting for the rainfall and they all
accumulate in very large colonies
generally in in very sort of stunted nob
thorn vegetation where they’ll have
their nests and hundreds of thousands of
birds will nest there huge amounts of
seed are ingested by them daily as they
go into the feeding grounds and they are
the food of stalks marabou storks lesser
spotted Eagles they feed thousands and
thousands of predators that come and
feed just on them and you just walk
around the bay so here comes a very
interesting looking Nala you just have
to stop for five minutes out there and
the animals will the geese and the
Nuala’s will just pop out it comes a boy
about across the road in this very
beautiful young man is on his own I
don’t know well in saying that you’ve
spent five minutes with an Jana and
suddenly you see six and seven come out
of the thickets and that is exactly the
strategy they have to move in and
disappear lending in with the
environment but the queriers feed on
enormous amounts of seed and around the
base of the trees is huge amounts of
obviously droppings
seed dispersal as well and those trees
get boosted with a huge amount of
nitrogen big nutrient recycling big seed
dispersal and well they are well known
on the African continent as a pest to
farmers but in essentially the quelea
was here first and so we need to live
with him but unfortunately they are well
are destructive to people who grow seed
bearing crops anyway enough about that
we’re going to move on a seat if we can
find you some other animals along the
way but as we do move along all sorts of
things pop up and well we’re not just
going to find in Ghana we’re gonna find
you whatever comes along as I said
through your tweets we’d love to hear
from you but in the meantime David do
too I think is still with his lion in
the Mara and I don’t think it’s raining
today very good to see Angela and even
better to see elephants with calves look
at that smaller family of elephants
there and what I’m feeling I’m feeling a
bit of a feeling a bit of we’re spirits
coming to me and I’m not sure we are
going to get a strong anytime now and if
they look to overclock from where I am
look at adult stone it was carried out
and that’s very very dark well so far so
good and I’m getting some wonderful
showers as I am but hopefully I got a
feeling this range will just come and
pass but as it is now it’s
just starting to fall and what am I want
to do now
em it’s maybe to bring the covers down
we got a very expensive equipment in the
car and you can see the rain if you move
to the right Archie you can see that
huge wall of rain in the background
there that is about a kilometer away
from where we are and that is the Masai
Mara for you we are having the short
trains which I don’t think i short
trains so what we’ll do for now I’ll
first in use back to Sydney and you’re
gonna monitor the situation and see how
it goes
then I’m sure at one point you’ll be
back with me Sydney Leicester stall
what’s your update enjoying quite a lot
of rain by the Maasai Mara as it is
raining almost every day these days
there and here we are still hoping to
get more rain so apologies for that I am
right on the main road which is a
so this is the area where I am going to
try my luck but I can’t find any office
and Astrix coming out of the block from
Juma to their buffers who I’m right now
ginnifer girl the biggest challenge when
looking for hosana specifically the area
where i am now is the drainage lines
they or the dry riverbeds this old dry
riverbed some of the areas are not
easily accessible even by the four by
fours so that is the biggest challenge
when looking for this cat by this side
of the game reserve so when in the
drainage you cannot see him until you
drive along parallel to the drainage
line is when you can see if it’s lying
down in the middle some of these
drainage hole drainage lines we can be
so I am very sure now that he is still
much more decide I didn’t see any of his
tracks coming out towards the buffers
book and it’s only a few animals yeah
way I am maybe is due to his presence in
so now let’s quickly go back to Steve
who is good a bad yes well I must
apologize for jinxing David with my last
link sending him all all the way back up
to the Mara I said it was not raining
and now I have brought the rain very
powerful words I do apologize David
but anyway down here Indra it is not
raining but I wonder all of you bird
enthusiasts out there that have been
watching the show for a long time
same to you answers about what bird this
might be the colors aren’t that great
right now because of the lights but very
easy to understand what it is if you’re
not short same through hashtag Safari
live or what a bird is this let’s see he
couldn’t be first on the button wait for
your answers but what is interesting is
it’s part of a family of birds that live
in cavities in trees and so the tree
that it’s on is a dead tree that’s
either been killed by elephants or maybe
even a porcupine damaged in overtime it
has died and many many species of bird
actually use cavities in nests of trees
that have been created by the burrows or
by excavations for beetle larvae and by
woodpeckers and barbets so many birds
then live in those cavities in the trees
where there then rear their chicks and
that this bird has to compete with lots
very very nice to see one of the
prettiest of the birds we have archaea
once again a pretty bird with not a very
nice voice hopefully it will turn for us
and show us its face Vicki and Andrew
you’ve got at hundred percent right I
wonder if anyone else is going to get it
right and then we’ll give the answer
don’t want to give the answer way too
quickly but it is an insect eating bird
catches most of it either on the wing
key heart is not a woodpecker but it is
a family birds that have just landed
just below it their family of white
crested helmet racks have landed on the
tree they’re doing a bit of
cleaning P hard is not a woodpecker is a
bird that catches insects either by
flapping onto the ground on them or or
in aerial pursuit but it doesn’t create
the holes itself woodpeckers are known
for making the holes they create the
cavities which are bird like this who’s
very hot you can see his beak is open is
cooling down Chris it is not a European
roller you are on the correct family
their European roller is very blue in
color this bird has got a very
distinctive are bra strap do you see
that very distinctive white stripe on
the eye you can see the long beak with a
little tip at the end is very
characteristic of the roller family and
while you see the tail the tail has got
a it kind of just ends abruptly so it is
not the common lilac breasted roller and
which has got sort of Lolich on the
breast and all sorts of other colors it
is the family favorite one of my
favorite birds indeed whose being while
enjoying a little bit of time with some
fellow friends that is the purple roller
the biggest of the road of species and
well it makes a very funny noise would
you like to hear it have a listen to
this chimpanzee in the sky how crazy is
that I think is a very interesting call
purple roller but an insect eating bird
they flop down onto the floor to catch
their insects or catch them on the wing
where as you can see the white Chris
that helmet tracks their jumping through
the branches they’re very agile and they
do a lot of what we call gleaning of
insects if you don’t probably different
species of insects different areas
within the tree but they’re able to
access sort of areas that the rollers
are not able to you often find their
owners perched conspicuously out on the
end of a branch
now where is these beautiful beautiful
white helmet racks white crested helmet
racks who are a family unit they move
through the tree in unison
gleaning and picking insects off almost
working like a dolphin family would
assisting each other in rearing the
chicks and collecting the food scenic I
have seen all of the South African
roller species and they are very very
special Bunch and I’ve got them all here
for you on my phone I can once you just
pan out there you can have a look they
are probably one of the coolest family
of birds next to the bee-eaters with
regards to coloration and also that
Soraka as I suppose here we have on the
top we’ve got the very blue European
roller then underneath that is the very
blue but with long special ated feathers
underneath is the racket-tail or earlier
you find those up in the northern kruger
national park and very common in
zimbabwe up here is the very common
racket and lilac breasted see the
streamers on the end of the tail which
make it different from the the purple
roller which is flat at the end then one
of the coolest ones to see is the broad
bald who’s got a very purple body very
yellow bright contrasting beak and then
at the bottom the biggest of the species
the purple roller so those are the five
that we see and I’ve actually seen all
five of them on one walk in the McCool a
key area in northern Kruger National
Park so if you are an avid birder for
savanna bird species the northern kruger
national park is where you have to go
racket-tail rollers are there probably
one of my favorite places to go to
had a ladybird are we do indeed get
swans in Africa but I don’t think any of
them are indigenous I think they were
all imported from North America or
Europe I’m not 100% sure if they came
from North America but possibly from
Europe but not indigenous pretty much at
every sort of pond and lake we have in
sort of suburbia of South Africa you
will find geese and swans doing all
sorts of things
they’ve all been imported of course and
well the kids love to feed them bread
crumbs and wherever there’s a park or a
play area with some form of water well
you’ll find lots of these birds my uncle
actually used to have a few swans at his
house and they were the best security
guard dogs or pets they used to chase
any intruder that came into the garden
and they can be very aggressive and they
could bite quite painfully as I
experienced once on my bottom I never
liked going some uncle’s house after
he beat me on the bottom that’s what
happened okay so this is an area right
here that I’ve had Tandy many many times
going up this road now this is
drakensberg Road named after the Joker’s
who bounces that you can normally see it
but today there are some clouds so we
won’t even try to show you just off yet
not far away is our eastern boundary
with tortured but this area here on the
right is an area that while we’ve had
Tandy and Columba sort of in the the
five six month area of when Flambeau is
five six months old she was here often
that was the stage when Haku moody had
moved into the area and was sort of
moving in on the western side of jumma
and tiny kind of moved this side because
it’s in Ghana was kind of a little
betrayal at the time and go after some
bouts of illness he had a little
sabbatical and well who Komori was
around doing his thing on the west and
Tandy was here very very often and so
hopefully we’ll be able to bump into one
of these individuals this afternoon but
while we are moving along there’s so
much more to see and to do and talking
about rollers here is the much more
common of the species and you’ll be able
to see the very characteristic streamers
on the bottom of the tail which make it
much easier to identify then the purple
roller that we saw and this is the very
common and most photographed bird in the
Kruger National Park look at the
streamer on the in the tail that Finan
band this is the lilac breasted roller
the national bird of Kenya and David
Gita’s favorite bird as well there’s a
Hannah bird that looks as if you’ve
given a child a color in drawing and
they’ve taken every ridiculous color
imaginable and put them together
beautiful beautiful the Afrikaans name
is called a throw bunt which basically
means a wedding band and it is well
known to take a lilac breasted roller
feather and to wrap it in a ring and to
basically give it to your betrothed as a
promise for what is to come in the
future which i think is very interesting
and up in Zimbabwe back in the days
before it was Zimbabwe long time ago
there was a chief up there of the
Matabele air people
old chief lobbying gula who was of Zulu
origin they moved up many many many
years ago in the 1800s and while it was
his color his feather of choice and if
any one tried to adorn themselves with
the lilac breasted roller feather he
would have his head chopped off so from
a very nice matrimonial ceremony in the
Afrikaans culture to beheadings it
sounds a little bit like Henry the
eighth
right yeah but anyway enough of my
babbling you’re gonna keep on going up
this road yeah which is going to wind us
although a perch above us look at em in
the Northeast and hopefully as it starts
getting cooler we might be able to find
Tim garner Mike there are plenty of
insects Archer that are poisonous and
generally poisonous insects have got
coloration that is bright and
contrasting blacks with yellows oranges
with blacks those sort of contrasting
colors that make them stand out the the
monarch butterfly is a very good example
their larval phase of Caterpillar
actually takes in a toxic plant called
milkweed and that then leads to the
adults being poisonous and there’s lots
of other insects archaea that if
ingested could kill us but a lot of the
birds have actually evolved to either
deal with it or because the colors are
so bright and contrasting to avoid them
altogether and when talking about the
monarch butterfly there is a species of
monarch butterfly called let me remember
hyper luminous Mississippi’s how did I
remember that I don’t know but I can t
remember the common name but that
scientific name is etched in there and
they mimic the monarch butterfly and it
is a term known as the Bayesian mimicry
now mimicry is when you mimic something
to benefit yourself now if all of the
hyper luminous Mississippi’s butterflies
had to mimic sorry I’m not trying to
sound smart by saying that long word
it’s just the only name I can remember
alright now I will come back with it if
all of them had to mimic V we’ll just
frame this other bird over here while I
continue to talk my nonsense
we got a magpie or long-tailed Shrike
over here so if all of the hype
aluminous
species had to mimic the monarch
butterfly well there’s a good chance
that a birds gonna taste one and realize
it’s not poisonous
so Beaty’s in mimicry means 25% of the
population so 25% 50% being female 50%
being male and 25% in total it would be
females of that species have the same
coloration as the monarch butterfly the
males I actually quite sort of white
with necessary black with white spots
very easy to identify and while they’re
not poisonous at all but the females
happen to get by by looking like a
poisonous individual that is hence why
we know birds can seek a lap because not
only do they have feather adornments but
they also can see fruits which are
needed to obviously you want to eat ripe
fruits and you don’t want to eat a
poisonous insect because if you do well
either make you very sick or you will
die and as you know most animals through
survival of the fittest have learnt that
dying is not the way forward if you want
to well keep on living but anyway we’ve
got wonderful birds this afternoon I’m
talking a lot of nonsense but that’s
okay we’re going to go to David who is
sheltered from the rain and hopefully
well here we are and if you look through
there that’s the situation we are in now
and it’s not raining here I would say
dogs and cats but it’s raining elephants
and buffaloes if you got through not
sure whether anything can go through
here but at the brewery and there at one
point just one minute
I try and clear this and he put
something you put some elephants there
yeah but if you
chicking the whole cupboard reify now
we’re gonna wait tight be back in action
so let’s really we open that side where
the Archie can see anything just fallin
for a minute I’ll catch it this is
wonderful
actually let’s see where they can see
I had my Pia earpiece off and that’s the
situation we are in now in the morrow
triangle it’s heavy heavy rains and they
apparently meant to be the short rains
but to me they feel they look and they
sound even bigger than the long rains we
had in June July August but again this
is Africa this is the kind of weather we
go through it has been very rutting the
last couple of years not very far from
where we are we had those two lions as
of the Olfa and I think about 100 metres
from here we go to the front of
elephants we saw before but at the
moment we’re going to remain in this
kind of situation until the rains
subsided and how beautiful is this I’m
just enjoying it thundering the canvas
top of a box here you can see it and the
intensity is getting bigger and bigger
which means big fun elephant should not
be affected by this rain because they
still keep grazing and then what they
need to do well we think we may have to
a David is enjoying some rain and now he
is on a shower break maybe the time in
come back I will be having the beautiful
cat already so I’m checking back again
by the galaga pen because this is the
only nearest dam in the area I’m sure
it’s going to come and drink here so the
squirrel was just complaining now but I
saw that the squirrel were complaining
about the presence of one of the Raptors
in the area so they were against one of
so when this animals are against Hassan
or Cheng Ana
you will hear also the antelopes not
only just the bed but if it’s just the
best then it means something small
daily I have never seen a meerkat
inhuman I’m not too sure if it’s one of
those animals who are caring here
because there is different kind of small
animals that we see some we don’t see
very often so the Juma Game Reserve
defenses has been taken down it is
connected with all the other areas all
the way down to the Kruger National Park
so sometimes we do see the rare animals
so the meerkats are very much where is
something which is very very difficult
and to find you don’t have to be very
lucky to see the meerkats I have never
operate so the mierqis they do have free
daters but mostly you will see them as a
mob and they do protect each other
normally when it comes to the animals
such as snakes you will see they can
easily mobilize and charge that snake
so no one is around the pain at the
moment Nina they are like the dwarf
mongoose and they’ve got a similar kind
of the behavior because you’ll see the
normal stand up red staining and
binocular vision in check and check and
they do make quite a lot of noise if
they are not happy or when they see a
predator such as levers they do make
so the the banded mongoose I have seen
them here in Juma the other day I was on
a guided walk and they were all just
migrating from a big termite mound very
quickly but it was a good sighting I
so these are the suitable areas for
these animals to hide when is too hot
so here sometimes the Lionel’s they also
Paula the Mongoose I have never seen
them combining normally I see specific
species walking together as a sa troop
but to see them mingling is very much
rare a report abilities of inbreeding if
they mingle they are very much higher
animals they do interpret if they
staying together or whereas their
mic the Maasai Mara is over thousand
kilometres away from where we are so the
weather on the other side there is
different from where we are at the
moment but if you check also here the
clouds is overcast possibilities of us
to have rain as well
tonight they are also very much high we
but so far the Maasai Mara is getting
quite a lot of rain
it is raining there now very often so
welcome back we are still on drakensberg
just having a little listen quickly Rex
ins talking to me on the radio if you
just give me one moment
standing by rx someone drakensberg you
yeah now someone else is getting very
okay well that’s not for me there’s a
whole different conversation going I do
apologize there’s another guy on a
property called sips and Stephen sips
they kind of became very similar they’re
they right now that the confusion is out
the way
David is enjoying himself in the rain
that are provided for him thanks David I
do apologize no doubt it will be a quick
downpour and then it’ll be gone again
we hope do you hope anyway we’re
continuing up on our eastern side we
will be getting towards before sook
watching Hall in a little bit taking it
slowly having a little listen and a look
around there’s glory pan coming up on
the left
Oh there is a third roller species this
is the European roller on the right hand
side
sorry about my brakes there and you
could see the very blue coloration and
almost I am indeed on a roll
there was a drum roll indeed thanks Emma
so the European roller which comes to
South Africa this time of year for for
feeding they don’t come and breed at all
so there’s no competition between them
and the other roller species for the
tree cavities and they also arrive here
competing for insects though of course
you see how they’re conspicuously
perched on the end of the branch there
but they come here and they’re a silent
they are silent visitors to South Africa
because there’s no point in making a
noise and expending energy in that
regard if you are not breeding most
birds that create noise and make all
sorts of songs and do all sorts of
display as well they all try and to
demarcate territory for the purposes of
having youngsters obviously either the
more defensive orders of great oh.hello
yawn or the greater the display might be
or the most beautiful song well the
bigger the Terauchi or the more ladies
you might have so you can see the
rollers will sit on the end of a branch
and use very good eyesight to look for
any insect that but me moving around on
the ground and then they’ll fill up down
on it Adele you say we’ve got beautiful
birds I think we have some of the most
gorgeous birds in the world
I would like to go birding all over the
world though to be able to compare but
once you start birding somewhere it is a
passion you can take with you anywhere
because well the world society of
birding has become very very well and
truly United and the roller is a roller
that siroccos at Soraka so if you have
seen a roller before and you see a bird
that you’ve never seen before but kind
of has the same characteristics as the
roller well guaranteed it is one you
just need to find the local area and
bird species and have a look so you’ve
noticed we’ve seen three but rollers
today the shape the form the everything
about them really apart from a bit of
color is very very similar and that is
why they have been grouped into the same
group but where the name roller actually
comes from is in their display rollers
when they are demarcating or fighting
over territories and in this form it is
looking for tree cavity holes for
nesting they will do these up and down
sort of diving bombarding dives which
end in a sort of left and a right wing
going up in a barrel sort of roll up and
down and it is very very traumatic for
other birds to experience of course
because they get chased away but
obviously the male with a better diving
role is more dominant than another one
and what ladies are looking for all
sorts of things like that aren’t there I
just look how he uses his wings what a
marvelous fellow and then what in the
birding Kingdom most of the time it is
the ladies who choose most of the time
beautiful that is three-railers
today if I managed to get you a broad
bull rider well I’ll do a backwards
somersault on the spot how’s that I will
and we’ll try helps right ah giraffe
girl now when you talk about the top of
the list that means of birds that I
still want to see okay that is it I’m on
619 South African birds now and there is
a bird there two birds one that comes to
mind immediately a lot of people who
know me know it
African Peter is a bird that I have not
managed to see it an old student of mine
is in Zimbabwe I’m gonna find it for you
and he sees it regularly and posts
pictures and teases me not very nice is
he
Luke wherever you’re out there I’m
talking about you let me find this pizza
for you
African pizza okay let me show it to you
it’s a beautiful bird really is a
beautiful bird there it is there how’s
that beautiful coloration and it’s a
forest specialist
there are lots of records of them in
South Africa but there’s no sort of set
area where you will find them but
Zimbabwe much more common to see they
got this very characteristic way of sort
of standing with their back to you and
then doing this interesting sort of jump
up and flap when I was doing some
training in Malawi years ago my last day
the students that I was training
actually surprised me they want to do a
surprise lunch and they didn’t know how
to get me there and so they set up the
surprise lunch around the corner and
then there came running it’s a quick
quick we’ve got an African pizza I came
running and I ran headlong into all of
the students there to say farewell in
heaven last lunch it was it was very
sweet but I was very disappointed I
didn’t see that pattern I was before I
start there let’s have a listen to this
it doesn’t that’s stopped for some
reason it jumps up into the air have you
seen my hat how does it see one okay
well it’s not the crudest called in the
world obviously I want to see one I
don’t adhere one but common in Zimbabwe
and there are records of them all over
the eastern side of South Africa but not
for me yet we all get one get one the
bird list continues Dell we do we do get
lots of finches fire finches they are at
least two species that we should get in
this area that Jamison and the red world
fire finch now in the forest areas
you’ll get the African fire fitch
possibly possibly get it here sometimes
in sort of more thicker areas then sort
of up in in the more dry areas of the
Kalahari you get the scaly feathered
Finch there’s a very cool bird called a
cutthroat trench
you don’t I’ve never found one here I
found them up in the north of Kruger
it’s a little whitish bird with the red
line across the neck and the name is
quite easy to understand cutthroats it
looks like it’s been severed to the neck
very cool here we are at Gauri Pan so
there’s a lot of finches a lot of
finches I can’t tell you all of them off
the top of my head now lots of wax bulls
and finches here is the next paddlin pan
where many times Tandy and Colombo have
been seen so we’re just going to be
checking all these areas for tracks
maybe if we spend enough time here we
let me see if I can quickly find a page
of finches cut yeah I’ll show you the
cutthroat Finch really quickly before
you run off to David let’s quickly have
a look at the cutthroat finch and then
you’re going to leave with that red line
a crosses through it he’s bleeding out
for don’t worry he’s going to survive
let’s hope David survives the rain Billy
yes this is where I am this is where
Archie is and this is where we are the
good news we are surviving and we are
enjoying every minute as I said earlier
is pulling elephants and buffaloes and
Archie’s telling us we need to change
that and get something more serious than
that but either way we got elephants
just Foster’s here a few months ago
which were not worried of the rain so we
are going to remain here until things
get better still raining
hopefully we’ll wait until things get
better and what will happen is you know
it just drops at one point when we love
the camp alia it looked so clear so good
as talking to em in the final control
and just me how does Heather look like
sky blue – so clear but all of a sudden
now Pooh I couldn’t believe it
so the good news is at one point it
might stop so I will not live here I’ll
stay here just making sure I don’t get
stuck because this is one time you make
a mistake and the geology of the Mara if
you look at the soil we have what put
the black cotton soil which could be
very tricky so a heavy car like this the
cat’s office if you’re gonna take you
back to the rain the catch off is heavy
plus he’s
and you’d read it aloud you’ve kidding
yourself and you might have to get a
grader to get you up to the game Rangers
will be very happy asking you what do
you think you are doing there I was
Shawn temperature that could be too cold
for ions I’m looking at anything below
10 but somehow they have always managed
to adopt themself Shawn and what gets
very cold you see lions calling
themselves and just tucking themselves
in and holding just to keep their body
temperatures going not once we have seen
friends of Lions coming together next to
each other well it’s very cold but
somehow in Africa we have never seen I
mean Lions are shown suffering because
of cold temperatures but our guests
anything below 10 would be a bit of a
worry even for us as human beings as
much as we shall always know what to do
to air one or two layers anything below
ten to ten ten degrees Celsius could be
a bit of a concern for lions well you
can see the amount of water that’s
raining there so what you’ve done we
brushed the flaps down brought oash
windshield up and just sing here resting
and talking stories of rain ooh gotcha
and I’m telling him how I used to like
the rain one of your small boy and he’s
saying he doesn’t care about the rain
who the choice he doesn’t want even to
see it for me it looks pretty good so
let me see we cut little turn around
here but they have to be very careful if
I do one small mistake who may be stuck
here for the next couple of hours and
the challenge would be to get someone to
come and tell you out because they’ll
wonder how do we get there you know so
people will be like we’ll see you later
or they’ll wants to come with a game
Ranger with a gun for example and make
us walk to their car or where they know
they’re safe and they take us back to
the camp and they’ll tell us we shall
come back here tomorrow to get the car I
don’t think we want to do that what you
want to do is to of course fingers as
much as we want the rain and hopefully
it’s going to subside maybe after that
10 15 minutes who knows but sometimes
or I’d feel a little bit chilly but
we just want to change the angrily
director because we’ve got water coming
giraffe girl I’m not sure whether your
question was what’s the best weather
I’ve been in was that a question from
giraffe da da da Chi the Commission
okay there’s a custom from giraffe girl
there
just bring it again yes and that’s good
this way and you want to the weather I
have been in ah keep going on like Egon
okay a giraffe go to this an angle I
wanted a she’s always very particular on
the angles he likes in terms of shooting
well there’s so many weather’s have been
here and I think the wash would have
been in was in the middle of this year
we had massive rains and was raining so
very heavily and it was not good because
we only had to stay on the big doors you
see like the can you see passing there
definitely there’s some guests in and
you can see they are running back to the
camp because they know being out here it
will not help them they cannot see any
animals and you cannot leave the big
road to try and venture away from the
road you see everybody’s just now going
back home and nobody won’t take any
chances but again as I say giraffe girl
me and Archie are not going anywhere
so May June July I know you can hear any
thunderstorms there so those
thunderstorms giraffe girl are the ones
that sometimes give us a bit of a
concern or worry because we may have to
power down with such an expensive
equipment to that we surely have in the
car we fear laitanan could be sometimes
a big concern rain doesn’t worry us so
much but the lessening and the
thunderstorms are always a bit of a
concern while a drop got many thanks for
your question and always very happy to
hear you but a giraffe car and the other
viewers why don’t we continue more with
a cut with Steve oval we’re gonna do the
Tinga Nanna dance and we’re gonna do the
tingitana dance look at what we found
tin gana the Juke of Juba well we set
out looking for him he had been in
before sook in the north
herbie had tracks of him coming in south
we picked drakensberg road and well we
have been fortunate
Rickson the other gentleman who works at
via teller was in the area and then he
happened to come across him so we were
in the right area at the right time but
he is on a very particular route I know
this route quite well I followed him
along this before I’m going to reverse
back keep up with him exactly where I
spoke about Tandy five minutes ago or so
when I started rambling I that might
have been at the beginning of the drive
this is where Tenggara is now exactly on
that spot so he’s walking straight down
in this jar can spur great this is a
road over a hill called lead word which
are followed him on a number of times
and what he did those last couple times
it just have a look you there at their
hat what he did that twice two times
that I followed him is he crossed in to
chitwa because this pathway will take it
straight at should trap but he crossed
just since the other side should look
down towards the dam sat down by the pan
and just started calling to the world
and then he stood up and walked parallel
road and then went into Torchwood so it
was very special to spend time with him
then that when he was just coming back
he was still limping he wasn’t looking
in good form but he was giving it
everything in with regards to the
territorial calling and well now he is
on another walk this is what they will
do regularly after rainfall to remark
and resent mark the areas that they have
claimed to be theirs and investigates
the presence of new females investigate
the occurrence of what if he spotted
there boy you see the body language
change I can’t see what is seen but he’s
running after something let’s go and
have a look
Eagle Scout he does look hungry
sorry I’m just dropped okay he’s just
run into the thickets they’re not sure
exactly what he’s seen what’s he got
there eggs okay
so that niala we saw earlier that wasn’t
looking very healthy
he seems have spotted him so we’re just
going to give him a moment Rex can see
him we don’t want to influence they want
that the Duke to win necessarily or the
Nuala to win necessarily can you see him
okay so then y’all is very close I’m
just gonna move up a couple meters so
that we can maybe get him in maybe get
every guy he’s just yeah okay that’s
just it just moving out the way we’ve
got another vehicle on the way yeah Rose
Marie is definitely making well at the
moment he’s keeping to a very normal
sort of territory line but now he is
looking to maybe catch some food but
most certainly Emma if you’d like to
invite some more viewers onboard we
don’t know where this could go
he could most certainly catch this niala
I haven’t seen than Jana he saw
something very camouflaged Erickson
spotted it told me there’s an e all of
good afternoon ladies and gentlemen
welcome to trimmer
private game reserve in the sabi sands
South Africa we’ve just framed up a
hyena for you it is not what we in the
citing for we have got a big male
leopard just here in front of us by the
name of King Ghana he is the Duke of
Jummah and he has spotted a what we
believe to be a frail-looking Nala some
way hidden there in the thickets
anything could happen right now please
feel free to send any comments and
questions you might have food to hashtag
Safari larval dropped him in on the
YouTube chat stream below we’d love to
in the comment section below I mean I’d
love to hear from you his intention this
is the reigning Duke the reigning
dominant leopard of this area he’s been
up in the north after summer rainfall he
is now filing the need to move through
his territory Indy market through Saint
marking the rainfall has washed away the
scent that he’s laid down but along
these long one drinks he gets quite
hungry I’m not going to move we are in
the sighting with other vehicles but I
don’t want to disturb him or vignola
each individual needs to have their fair
chance and well leopards as we think are
very successful but the camouflage stuff
and alertness of the antelope animals is
very very good and well they often avoid
being caught when they’re on their own
sometimes it’s quite tricky Ramat you
want to know how far away it is I can’t
quite see it at the moment there’s a
vehicle behind us that ahead in fact I
seen it we’re just having a look through
the thickets now I’m gonna look with my
binoculars because I’m in a slightly
he’s going to go for it sooner you – or
quickly just introduce ourselves hello
my name is Steve joined by hats on
camera and well the man of the hour is
right here ahead of us Joan is he Ilona
lipids lipids are loners actually you
don’t find lipids with other lipids
generally males stick to themselves
females to themselves unless they have
Cubs but the hierarchy that happens
Archer in Duma private game reserve we
are seeing some incredible scenes of
late with well the smell lipid stealing
from his son and a smelly but stealing
from his previous girlfriend and while
having interactions with a year old cub
as well so the dynamics here are
incredible and well we documented okay
Thomas you wanna know if leopards are
more successful at hunting than other
cats well lions and leopards have
invariably got roughly about a twenty
percent success rate when it comes to
hunting cheetahs probably a little bit
more than that but it’s all about
terrain experience and well anything can
happen you can watch a leopard hunt
three times and it can be successful
that could just be luck it could be
terrain it could be the day but then you
can also watch a leopard a lion and
numerous times and be unlucky so they’re
not known to catch as many prey or every
single animal that they see and so that
is how the balance in nature works if
they’re caught everything their sort
would just be a bloodbath
the antelope are as well adapted to
surviving an invading predator predation
there he is well he’s making a move he’s
probably gonna come out a little bit on
to the road where it might be a little
bit quieter for him to move or he’s
gonna go through the thickets there
don’t want to do too he’s gonna come
around that tree and I want to do too
much movement
okay he’s lost sight of the gnyana so
he’s trying to move in just swath of
something running across that open area
that I was looking in before I’m going
to move slightly purchase
meena anything can happen anything can
happen an injured leopard could catch
anything really it was all about the
time of day it’s all about the the
experience of that animal and all about
the vigilance of the individuals that
are hunting or that are being hunted
if leopard comes across an injured
animal it can catch it quite easily but
if it’s are very very able to catch
things and well even when injured are
still very very adapted what they do
just trying to move around yet redock
one to influence anything as soon as I
get a view of him I’m going to stop I’ll
try to answer their question a little
bit better for you you might see another
vehicle in the sighting they’ve kept to
the road on the other side their last
sight well I actually haven’t even seen
what a me his crouched down in the long
grass masters a camouflage injured
leopards the reality is is that an
injured leopard or leopard doesn’t
require much in the way of speed
sometimes to catch prey if they can lie
down camouflaged like this individual is
doing and an unsuspecting animal walks
directly towards them they still have
the ability to pounce and to catch them
so that can happen in any stage not
necessarily every time and obviously the
luck of the draw meaning that the animal
say my name Kangana has been injured we
don’t know what happened to him it seems
like he’s given up on the hunt you can
see his body language has changed
something happened all of the hyenas
coming in on the front there that’s
what’s going to happen I you know it’s
probably scared away at the Nala yes I
you know are well known to follow the
leopards around the Leopards catch the
food and the hyena try and steal it from
it’s just in here he’s gonna come in say
hello to us he’s gonna give that house
that hat
oh he’s gonna come and give it the hyena
a bit of a snore there’s a vehicle to
the left there there are in the road
having a look there’s always fantastic
into actions to see hyena and leopard
naina seems have lost – teams have lost
sight of waiting Ghana is but could
definitely definitely smell that he’s
here so he’s watching the movements of
the hyena you know quite often just
growl and lay flat if I and it comes
close and a big man lipid lurked in
Ghana has got a reputation and hyenas
quite often just staked yeah sure it is
all about camouflage our chair and this
is the lipids paradise this is exactly
where they belong
no see he’s going to walk just around in
front of us yep and well are we going to
be hard pressed trying to keep up with
it’s him ah heen is cackling they’re not
sure what happened but in Ghana had a
little look well he’s gonna keep on
wandering we’re going to follow him but
what a marvelous afternoon not sure
Bonnie when the last time he ate
hopefully we’ll get him eating now I
haven’t seen him in months his belly is
looking very empty and I’m sure he is
hungry
he’s not moving very fast on the
territorial sort of movements that they
do have and I haven’t heard him call he
marketing quietly so as to also snatch a
meal along the way well folks we are
going to still be live for the next I
think
hour maybe 45 minutes
google has to see you there but please
feel free to enjoy your afternoon
further and we’ll catch you soon thanks
for your comments or questions and
welcome back everybody sorry about any
noise complaints from my lapel mic there
I think we are back on track now you
don’t have to see if we can keep up with
ina is coming towards me on the right
yet he’s trying to follow it in garnet
because someone is too high in it they
are very keen to snatch whatever he
might catch because well leopards arch
here are far more efficient in the way
of hunting then we record me hyena rock
it’s another one right yeah head is
coming right up to me listen I don’t
you smell foul I just got a whiff of her
she’s got the scent of him now she’s
going to try to find him we followed to
our hina this morning and we realized
that we followed them for a long way and
they actually went away from her sauna
Sydney found sauna pretty much where we
started following in the hyena so that
obviously found him really didn’t any
food we realized he didn’t have any food
sorry about my head there I’m having
some difficulties with my microphone
Andrew doesn’t have any food and then
well I decided to just go off in the
other direction
these two they are trying to ascertain
whether the Duke who they’ve picked up
on his smell whether he has got some
everyone’s saying that they look very
curious well there’s nothing accurate
more curious then a spotted hyena and
that’s really interesting being back
here we go get a two-shot chair opt in
Ghana and that leopard just straight
through their hat I wonder if you can
get him some ganas just through the back
just disappearing behind there and well
the owners are going to follow him and
probably really give him a heart
um they won’t really do too much towards
him but if he’s got some meat they might
try and snatch it off him but as I was
saying
ting Ghana develops a very nice sort of
repertoire with these hyena a reputation
that they very well know and they’ll
probably leave him alone even if he’s
got a kill on the ground but if there’s
two of them three of them it might be a
different story one definitely leave him
alone they can’t afford to combat the
battle-scarred veteran and well he can’t
really afford to battle with them but
just through sort of aggressive response
or growling quite often can get away
hold on folks get out of here Rickson
has still got sites often guys we’re not
going to lose him in your time see just
the problem being if he keeps up with a
southerly trajectory of movement well he
might cross south hopefully he will stay
it because as I said at the start of the
show him and his son are both movie
stars and they received the email about
us being on s ABC 3 again on Sunday at
6:30 p.m. and well he’s in time he’s
just he feels like he needs to eat a
little bit before because you know he’s
a good a bit of stage fright and a belly
of of meat belly of niala always seems
to do the Juke very very well as we’ve
seen in the past even if he snatched it
from his son you’ll take it but anyway I
wonder how citizens getting on I know
he’s in search of the aforementioned
husana let’s go and see exactly where
he’s at I am still looking for Sanne
Steve and congratulations for finding
Tinga on the other side I am sure Hassan
is also gonna come out somewhere in one
of these areas so I can feel that now
the temperatures are going down and this
maybe might start encouraging the cat
such as wasana
to come out now and start looking for
we saw this morning he didn’t get the
breakfast so now he’s gonna have to look
so this is the area where we have left
him um back again in that area just to
check if there is any other developments
but it looks like it is quite still
maybe he went to one of the water holes
in the area here so he was very close to
the border between us and the buffers
walk maybe he crossed over to the other
yeah they are very far apart at the
moment as the debt is much more to us
the eastern side and he is much more
toward a western side so the debt is
verify the moment I DJ your sauna is so
sneaky indeed but I will find him in
somewhere here he is somewhere he must
be lying down somewhere in these thick
so you can see that the bush is very
much peaking at the moment so maybe this
is what is making it difficult for a
so Elia one we saw the impalas here but
now the impalas are gone everything is
gone is so very much quiet maybe this
not even the Squealer to give us a phone
so unless the spirits in this area feed
from the ground cause those ones by the
other side normally they see him from
yeah I that is why I am trying by all
means to find him so that at least I can
have him for tonight
now unfortunately the animals they don’t
really have a Sunday afternoon if you
check the leopard the vast majority of
their time is dedicated for sleeping
during the day so it’s normal for them
to just relax and spend all day just
lying down incidentally is doing it
maybe somewhere this side but yeah I am
smelling quite a lot of elephant scent
so it looks like the elephants we hear
those elephant is the one that put him
from this area because there’s quite a
lot of evidence as well as strong scent
showing that they’ve been here not very
so now let’s go back to the Duke of
Jummah well hopefully David we will find
him again he moved into the drainage
line they’re very thick we try to get
our tricks and tried to stay with him
all Rickson can see at the moment is one
of those hyena so Exxon’s on the other
side of the strange line i’ve come to
this side of it if he moves through here
we’ll hopefully catch him I’ve had him
walking through this exact path here and
I found him again just over here on the
road which was very fortunate I think
ours with sins oh then he disappeared
into this very difficult block to access
and well then out of nowhere he suddenly
was over here so that was very nice for
hopefully he’s going to do the same
thing or if not okay sir Xing has heard
me and taught me come in North yeah copy
thanks Rex
okay so Rex is calling me in directly
here use this on the other side very
likely we might see the Duke just pop
out somewhere hey it’s probably going to
either lie down because he’s going to be
annoyed with my unit because they will
follow him until he catches something or
he will run away from them I doubt he
will run I don’t think it’s in the Dukes
sort of nature he’s just gonna walk with
that sort of regal ting gana sort of
stride summon Yala yeah yeah I can see a
vehicle see where we can spot him if
he’s here we might be able to get a view
some urologist in the thicket this is
when your eyes need to really sort of
so in the spots of the cats make them
invisible well some of the viewers want
to know when is it more difficult to
spot a leopard when it’s green and when
it’s dry the interesting thing is that
when it’s green there’s far more cover
which it’s tricky to see you can’t see
very deep but the amazing part is that
leopards camouflage is so camouflage
that when there’s hardly any occur any
cover they blend in so it’s kind of
designed for both purposes really of
blending in when there’s thick stuff and
also blending in when there’s almost
nothing I’ll just have a little listen
two meters forward and then you can at
least frame up a family of Nala here
that are seemingly completely unaware
that there is a male leopard somewhere
in this area the hyena will probably
keep Rickson moving towards Tenggara
luckily we’ve got him in the scene so we
can at least assist each other in the
movement but can see how dense the
vegetation is the niala blend right in
takes everything in the leopards ability
to be able to stalk these animals out
hello Minami I don’t know how long the
Duke can survive with that food well
they reckon lions and leopards or what
they call starvation resistant which
means they can go for about two weeks
without adequate meal but they don’t
choose to they will eat regularly
they’ll eat all the time they’ll eat as
much as they possibly can but when they
get hungry so they’re – it starts
changing and then what problem is this
when they get old and maybe sick they
lose the ability to hunt and that’s when
they can potentially become dangerous
because when starvation kicks in an
animal loses its fear of all sorts of
things that might have once before held
in sort of a high regard or had some
fear of but yeah about two weeks would
be about the limit but they will eat
much more irregularly rivendell well we
are looking for a leopard but if you
were in India most certainly you’d
probably be seeing a tiger with those
stripes there of the Nala
if only than the allas could thoughtful
the leopards into thinking there were
Tigers and they wouldn’t get eaten as
regularly as they do okay so I’m just
going to get an update from Rex in here
to see if you can see anything the
Raider is quite busy so just trying to
get a gap orexin
Rex and Steve okay thank you so patience
pays off follow the animals follow the
I’m gonna stay right where I am because
the niala all right yeah the same yalla
we’ve been looking at and they have no
idea so folks just bear with me stay
with us yet the Duke with his regal stay
and his twitchy tail is looking directly
at him and he’s trying to figure out – I
wanted the baby or any of them weak
which one of them will be easy to catch
no I’m gonna lie down well there we go
maybe he can’t see them that is
incredible
he’s not far away from these nada and
seemingly because of their camouflage
and their ability to stand still
he has lost sight of them he knows that
they’re here he probably heard them
little footfalls the drop of some dung
on the ground but he’s looking around as
if he has lost them all together if he
comes straight down this game path
because we’re we’ve got him here just
down in front of him there’s a game path
that runs straight towards me and this
was the path I was hoping to to access
and when I came around onto the road
when Rex told me to come around onto the
road behind us on led wood this is most
likely the path that he would have
followed straight through onto the next
Road it’s ease of access lipids Lions
rhinos elephants often will walk along
pathways most animals in fact because
it’s very easy to do so if you’ve ever
driven a vehicle on the main road it’s
very easy and I’ll take the same vehicle
and drive it straight into the bushes
well it is not as easy to drive through
the bushes that it is too sick to a
well-worn path and when you are a
hunting leopard or a leopard that is
trying to cover as much ground as
possible in a territorial display you
want it to be as easy as possible or as
quiet as possible if you are stalking
and walking along a path makes it quite
easy to walk quietly pag make it I can’t
smell him oh you asking if he can smell
them the wind direction
it’s blowing pretty much towards him so
I’m not was not very strong very gentle
wind but I have no doubt he moved where
is now cuz of this family that he’s seen
or he saw maybe he these are the
individuals that were spotted not so
long ago that I didn’t even see maybe
the hyena caused him to run a little bit
but they have all got their backs to him
I’m not going to show them to you at the
moment cuz I don’t want to make any
noise I want all of us to play art as it
shall naturally he seen be putting some
tension directly towards one of the
animals that has now moved a little bit
you see the intention on the body if he
picks a target we’ll see him start to
crouch low and move quite quickly he
might be waiting for this group to split
up
only slightly can you see them had I’m a
tricky game there they are that’s what
he’s looking through he’s looking
through a thicket like that so that is
why it is hard for animals to be seen
out yet when you are as camouflaged as
eniola they are they the Duke knows
they’re somewhere nearby
and nothing like a leopard to when
everything is slowing down to suddenly
close his eyes and have a nap like
father like son
let’s see if Sydney has managed to pick
up on any tracks of husana this liberal
sauna is still sleeping somewhere here
because I can’t even see the tracks
coming out in and out is just very quiet
and I saw one of the Steinbach is maybe
is that Stan Brock he was talking this
morning in the very same area but here
where is this is not very far away from
the Gallagher pen maybe he’s gonna go
so there is quite a lot of takers in
this area he likes to be this is the
drainage where he had the two dead knee
so but there’s not a lot of animals
which are carrying here by this drainage
I can see that animals don’t really like
to come here but when the food is cursed
you will see animals there because by
this all the dry riverbed they still
quite a lot of green grass growing on
so maybe somewhere deep in this drainage
I will be very happy to find him in this
the thing lie down flat
it’s gonna be very difficult for us if
there is quite a lot of things happening
by the Christmas I remember South Africa
is consisted of quite a lot of different
diversities there is quite a lot of
different food eaten by the Christmas
Day a lot of people by Christmas Day he
prefers pork some they eat lot of goats
and some is when they are taking down
I is going to be a very big day on a
Christmas day and I will be here I’ll be
in the bush by the Christmas Day
it is an honor meant having a Christmas
Day in the bush with these wild animals
so the ladies from the AFC they are busy
preparing some of the Christmas food for
us I’m not too sure specifically of what
kind but I have been told that is going
biltong for christmas we do eat quite a
lot of real tongues very often but for
christmas to those who are going out for
picnic years biltong is guaranteed
because that is part of our snacks packs
right right in the alphabet where these
apologies for the network difficulties
these kind of problems do okay a lot
these days because the trees they are
now growing very big and they are now
having quite a lot of lot of lives I am
still tracking for asana here in this
area and still hoping to find him
this afternoon I am not relying on any
of the course none of these animals are
giving anyone in Collier but that does
not mean he is not here maybe he’s
very difficult this afternoon to get
hold of a David by the Maasai Mara due
to a heavy storm
apologies for those kind of technical
difficulties again so it’s not only
affecting us is also affecting the
some of them they even go and play in
the rain like the elephants you see the
let’s play and electracy well it’s
raining from that is where they are
going to sometimes the rain moisturize
distort the the graph is and when this
kind of animals are think the grass is
wet that is when they are going to be
a cross spider I didn’t copy your
yes I have got to be very careful here
now the trees the coming back heavily
and the right to maneuver in between the
trees this days here the dry season it
was very easy I have been here on
several occasions and there was no
problem but now too much problem in the
sorry for any tech difficulties but ting
Ghana has yearned for you all you know
back with us and we are with the Duke he
is walking along those prominent
gamepads and well keep going that way
sir you’re gonna walk straight towards
us what a gym
what a gentleman the knee allas all
moved off and he walked right past where
they’d been standing without even a
cursory glance it just goes to show and
that leopards won’t expend energy when
animals are in groups unless and the
advantages are on their side mainly
being it quite dark or if the wind is
blowing if the wind is blowing makes her
much easier for them to stalk close up
but he’s a very very well experienced
cat and so he knows that trying to sneak
up on a herd is a much harder than an
individual on its own and very
opportunistic they will take and fight
their battles when they need to and run
when they need to
so cosider you say his tongue is hanging
out well his bottom jaw because if that
jewel app is just so heavy and just
hanging down low isn’t it and well he’s
also quite warm it’s still not cold and
he’s been walking for quite some time
today for judging by the distance the
tracks have covered he um has waddle
away from bull suck all the way down
it’s not an enormous distance but for a
leopard with fur covering its body
walking in at the heat of the day it is
quite something and well he’s walking on
exactly the same a pathway and then I’ve
had him on before we’re going to try and
keep up with him but first he’s going to
stop and give us a very regal pose he is
not walking in a very territorial sort
of fashion he is obviously very
interested in getting something to snack
on the rain was two three days ago now
he’s probably done a lot of scent
marking and well this time of year it’s
very hot and he maybe assumes it’s going
to be more rain again hi bacon what’s
ugly skin well he does seem to have a
fair bit of soggy skin they around
chest and his throat area but that the
julep on the neck is part and parcel of
what happens with male leopards as they
get bigger it adds to their to their
strength and to their size and I’m going
to move because I’ve got him behind a
little stick that is how you do it in
Ghana you know how to pose like the best
these are the kind of shots that on
Safari if you can get your guests into
these positions with a leopard sitting
on a termite mound well it is a first
prize so many of the leopard sightings
I’ve had in my life before coming to the
sabi sands are just the faintest glimmer
of a cat disappearing through the
thickets or looking at leopard through
the thickets with binoculars as it
stares back at you from a vehicle of
course and so the photography of
leopards in the sabi sands is
world-renowned and if you want to
capture leopards on camera and you want
to show and film and frame these
beautiful photos to put on your
mantelpiece
well these are the areas to come to
obviously they are the reserves as well
but sabi sands is world-class when it
comes to leopards and well isn’t he a
beautiful and beautiful boy Kimberley
indeed I think I said that before
already he is very regal but the skin is
loose around sort of the chest area I’m
sure he’s lost a little bit of weight in
his age he’s still a big leopard but he
definitely isn’t as bulky as he once was
as with everything as we get older we
lose a little bit of condition but he’s
still looking in fine form and well
we’re probably going to experience a
little bit of a sawing motion from him a
little bit those of you who don’t know
what sawing is I’m not talking about the
actual cutting of wood but it’s the
territorial core of a male or female
leopard that sounds like a plank of wood
chopped with a bow saw but for now we’re
going to try and follow him as he
continues to head on south and
fortunately he is on a pathway that I
have been on with him before where he
might jump over to Chitra I hope not
maybe he’s going to do a bit of a left
turn somewhere over here we will just
follow him and see exactly where he goes
just sent mark to this little bush a
moment ago maybe prepared for one of the
nicest smells and sorry about the
branches they’re cut one of the nicest
smells in the bush is leopard scent
marking hmmm I don’t smell it it smells
like popcorn he’s gonna rub his head
again in a moment or two against the
branch he’s moving stopping moving
stopping he’s not on any serious mission
at the moment listening as it goes
listening as he goes the beautiful
backside of the leopard this is what I
saw off a sign and the other down foot
was just his rear end as he moved away
from us easily to identify a male
leopard by the size of that neck it’s
not SM it’s not a bad rear ended or a
leopard male or female the females got
very delicate what’s he done he stopped
like a pointer dog a bloodhound Tina’s
got a very delicate and sort of elegant
necks in most species the liquid species
of course and the male’s have got this
big thick set dewlap obviously when
they’re younger there don’t have it but
there’s still a lot more thick set than
obviously size
yes everyone is saying he is in need of
a meal well I don’t know if anybody
knows when last he ate need to chat to
the butcher super sorry there hat but
wassup guys cuz he’s been up north for
the last couple of days so I wonder if
he has had a little snack oh this that’s
what he looked at there was a water back
straight across over there that looked
at him and those of you who with me a
few months ago I don’t even know how
many months ago he was on this exact
same path and he spotted probably this
exact same big male water buck and he
gave him one cursory look and then he
keep walking and water buck is way out
of his weight class the baby water buck
or small female most certainly and I’ve
seen a male leopard with a couple of
sort of sub adult water backs up a tree
that was incredible to see never seent
in Ghana with a water buck seen tündi
with a couple babies but before we lose
him keep up I don’t think he’s going to
stalk up to that water back that’s just
it’s just on an ass Sunday stroll Wendy
let me just get it up here and I’ll talk
to bud he’s he’s doing a bit of a facial
scrub again it’s probably a very common
tree that he’s come across maybe a tree
that Tandy is rubbed on let’s quickly
get in this sorry there we go
when do you want to know how we missed
it sorry folks
when do you want to know if if I tasted
one of the leaves if it would taste
black popcorn well most certainly not
that is the sprite here it comes Oh up
it goes onto the branch so I’m going to
ask haft afterwards to go up to that
little wet spot and give it a lick and
tell us if what it tastes like
hurt he’s just smiling at the back there
he says why not you only live once you
only live once and well how many of you
can say you’ve tasted lip and urine
before I certainly can’t well I eat a
lot of leaves so it may be one of these
days or maybe you’ve already eaten some
but I’ve never tasted any popcorn II
sort of taste just that smells like
popcorn for what purpose for what reason
it smells like popcorn it’s beyond me to
understand I’m just going to stop yep
majouk is walking across the frame
that’s exactly what we’ve seen him do a
thousand times in the past we are not
far now from our southern boundary with
lower gallery and chitwa chitwa but I’m
just going to move one more time to get
on the other side of him because well
he’s going to walk behind the bush
before the closing of the show and
that’s just not how we wanted ting
garnet we want you to stop sit on this
lovely branch for us and give all the
viewers a wonderful final couple of
screen shots this would be the final
display of the Duke as he walks only
metres away from the front of our
vehicle
he clearly seems to be hungry what a
marvelous achievement this afternoon we
saw some interesting birds we found the
Duke
David got rained on Sydney is art and
having a ball thank you everyone for
your questions comments we’ll see you
again tomorrow
morning bright and early have a beautiful beautiful day
an African safari and may include animal
kills and caucuses viewer discretion is
so you can see the beautiful skies there
clouds are still everywhere and it’s
nice and warm at the moment not too bad
good for the Predators and the thickness
of the bush here is where our sonic got
disappeared this morning a very very
good afternoon and welcome to the
beginning of the afternoon Safari
I am Sydney former enemy cozy and I’m
traveling with Michelle who is my camera
operator this afternoon we are going to
try by all means and get hold of a sauna
dip in these thick bushes is where we
left him earlier this morning and for
incase if you need our attention you can
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stream without any waste of time I want
to go back to where I have left him this
so husana this morning I was
demonstrating some of his hunting
capabilities so chances of finding him
with a kill they are also very high he
was looking very hungry and he was
trying he was trying just that the prey
animals they were so very much clever
this morning amidst Steinbeck right in
so now let’s cross over to the Maasai
Mara the David is ready to show you
hello hello and a very good afternoon
from the Mara tryingo in Kenya and the
sagoo John I’m not sure that meant
saying good afternoon to all of you
wherever you are in the world it’s very
exciting to start our sunset driving
with two lionesses they are lets belong
to them oh la la la pride this is very
close to a cup and I’m sure nobody else
because my name and just in case my name
remains the same my name is David and
Archie is hidden camera Archie how are
you doing today we were excited to start
to lionesses right they’re in such
gorgeous light well I’m sure Sydney told
you one very important thing that we
love questions who would love comments
because that one keeps us going and as
he told you hashtag Safari live on
Twitter just wonderful after we got here
about 24 degrees Celsius and 75 degrees
Fahrenheit and that feels very
comfortable for me and I would guess is
the same to these lions yeah
they look to like two youngsters or two
young males I’m looking at much better
than before in my monitor you can sit a
bit of Maine coming out to that neck two
young boys who at a particular age will
always tend to be on their own as I said
earlier they’re from a pride that we
called oh la la la la la is an
escapement that is very close to where
we live in our camp is not very far from
here just started coming down this
government and this was our first stop
and how fast sighting it’s going to be
good looking day the way I feel it and
apart from myself and Sydney in this
another gentleman also would like to
thanks David good afternoon everybody
welcome to June at the sabi sands my
name is Steve I’m joined on camera by
hat and well it is a beautiful afternoon
a little bit overcast not too hot but
then I did spend a little time a
swimming pool today which was fantastic
we are going to head up towards buffa
sook dam there’s potentially some tracks
of ting ghana up there and well I
haven’t seen the old boy in some time
I’m sure you have been told by David or
Sydney how to get hold of us hashtag
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think on this afternoon well jump on
board we’re gonna go see if we can track
him down he’s been up in Buffalo the
last few days and well as we know the
juma is his dukedom and he will come up
and down and cover quite a large area
all the way into torchwood Linda is the
power team on today we’re all very
excited we’ve got a s ABC live TV show
after this Drive so we would like to
find some of our special characters to
show the people of South Africa who are
quite new viewers to the show show them
live on TV this afternoon evening which
I think will be marvelous what a better
way to start off David with a lion
Sydney if he can find the little chief
we know how popular the little chief is
he’s got an agent and well whenever TV
rolls around we know him don’t we he
can’t get enough of the spotlight ting
Ghana well he is just a star in his own
right he might be a little bit old now
but still a very strong and courageous
gentleman who I’ve not seen in some time
and I’m very excited to feast my eyes on
him again but anyway David is with an
all a lot old lioness let’s go all the
way back up to the Masai Mara and see
exactly what his lion is up to well I’m
very excited to hear Steve got plans of
looking
for the Duke of jummah Tinga now who
should be very exciting news and if you
do lots you’ll make me a very happy
gentleman ting Ghana is one little
respect out of his age and size and
above all the develop and Tigana would
not compare to these two young boys here
I would say this one just jokers
compared to the mighty and strong and
very good-looking thing Ghana but it
will be just a matter of time you know
before this voice also grow into size
and you can see wind is picking up and
it’s the wind picks up they gets not
really nervous but you can see their
body and language changes in the matter
triangle we got so many prize of lions I
would get over ten fights but the two of
them belong to the Hall of pride as I
said earlier and oh la la la is the
largest pride of lions that we got in
the Mara triangle and this is just two
of the sixteen strong alliance of this
particular pride one big advantage they
got is when they go for a hunt they
would be able to their even the very big
and dangerous prey I’m talking about
Buffalo’s at two weeks ago they brought
two buffaloes down in a span of about
half an hour and in a radius of only a
hundred meters apart that was really
special and you know it was very cool
sighting to see like six my own son one
Buffalo and maybe ten on another Buffalo
this young Sathya I’m looking at there
maybe go into two years and for them to
be alone they’re starting slowly showing
signs of independence and of course they
said two and a half they’ll be on their
it’s pretty windy but all goods the
light is just fantastic on behind them
that little tree line there this a small
natural stream and just society could
have been alia in there having a drink
but also where they are is quite a
vantage point because this government is
just on the other side from them the
scum is behind them and they’re just
looking below this government and that
one gives them good angle to see any
movement of prey down here well the
migration is gone I’m talking about the
wildebeest and most of the Zebras that
one have seems to have a little scar
there if we look on the left cheek he
got a scar and I do not know where he
might have picked that scar from snake a
little wound and it could have been a
claw mark or a cheese mac and so many
things happen here out in the wilderness
well I spent a few more minutes with
these two boys and find out what they’re
doing and I say do that I’ll tell into
you back again to South Africa to Steve
oh yes well we found a leopard already
and I decided to get out of the vehicle
and go and have a look this little guy
he is a tiny leopard tortoise let me
just move the stick out the way for you
and then you can see look at that now if
you’re watching the show this morning
we saw some leopard tortoise is getting
a little bit jiggy with it and well on
this legend gentleman is the byproduct
and this is still a relatively aged
tortoise they often are when they come
out babies their baths this small giving
a bit of a head there so the scoots each
of these is called a scoot and that’s
the protective shell which is growing
season Lee with tortoises ed apparently
if you count the ridges the down and up
ridges those are the seasonal growths of
the animal and basically if you then
divide that by two you then get the age
so for example here one two three four
five six could you believe it that this
individual is possibly three
years old criticized him herbivores they
feed on grass and wherever they go is
their home so he’s very cute he’s not
too bothered by us at the moment I’ve
moved this stick and he obviously that
is what tortoises do they just walk in
to a thicket plug themselves down and
the camouflage as you can see is
incredible so the difference between
this and the specs tortoises you can see
how sort of how sorts of balls it is
it’s more of a cut more of a dome than
the specs which is quite flat ladybird
you I don’t know how long they live for
I think they can live up to the 70s
maybe even more than that obviously
different species of tortoise can get to
different ages or fella don’t go and get
stuck in there now it’s like a
four-wheel-drive machine just moving
through I’m thinking in the region of
between 70 and 80 years of age but there
might be other species both that are
able to get older than that but the one
unique characteristic feature of this
very camouflage one is apparently
leopard tortoises are the only tortoise
that is able to actually swim I love
that fact but no cars disappeared and
that is what they do he needs to hide
there from all sorts of predators and
well if a sauna found this of a guy and
a shell would probably small enough and
soft enough for him to break needs to
get much at with two very large ones
this morning well in comparison to that
one and maybe they are other parents
anyway great spot from cats very good
eyes grace did you say feisty little guy
okay yeah I suppose tortoises are feisty
feisty little guy indeed okay just gonna
move out the way here we’ve got a bit of
a Herbie family grouping going on we’re
just going to wave okay well
okay so we’re gonna head up towards
buffers with dam to see what we can find
because I’m in ten Ghana is in the area
and well you never know we might be able
to get in for the TV show this yielding
that would be first class but for now
back to David and his lion yes
buffers Hawk tosses are you might see
scuba stiva
I’m not sure how much water was having a
dumb but to be happy to see people there
now this to boy is about a month God
tried to bring one or these two but part
of the youngsters are the young males in
the olala pride tried to hunt a hippo
and I thought they were just jokers
because he was very big and was and
rather dangerous you can see the tail of
one of them there that’s just rough from
the back of the brother and guess these
two youngsters are of the same litter
the kind of bonding they have they
definitely must be on the same mother
and the same father you can see the
spots they are still showing on that
young one there and this is just how we
load up there’s a tick or fly on his
tummy if you can see how his tummy is
going to flies they’re just breathing
but I would say the temperature is
pretty good to have an up so I’m not
surprised wondering where the other 14
would be and maybe the two boys here are
starting to fill his time they
excommunicated themselves from the 14
and start their own life chances are
they might start their own coalition us
noodle how are you and I gather you are
a new viewer and it’s very excited to
have you on board and a very warm
welcome and just to let you know
should you not know we’ll always have
two drives one in the morning and one in
the afternoon
both from Kenya and in South Africa well
most of us have different origins and
different trainings but most important
noodle we all have a background in world
life studies we have done our word life
from college and we have trained in
different fields so what life is whole
thing and we do not only deal with
outside animals we also do a lot of
flora to Steve for example it’s very
good when you talk of botany so that’s
our background for all of us we love
what we’re doing and we have all been
trained to be in the African wilderness
thank you very much for joining us make
sure you always stay with us so if you
just joined us now these two youngsters
or these two lions here belongs to all
our la pride and all our pride is the
largest spread in the Mara Triangle
noodle and of course all the other
viewers remember your questions and your
comments give us lots of joy so keep
sending us questions and noodle that was
a good question to know the background
of all the wildlife guides so buying in
the bush or biology is our stuff so most
of us have lunch botany because we need
to know what our animals are made of
ideally all of us a naturalist because
we have grown with this animals and this
is where we are we are here on daily
basis except when we break and go home
for a couple of days to see your
families or have a little break just to
breathe and every load of us house and
Reno joyous and then we come right back
and that’s how we end up doing these
lions we can tell them by face we can
tell you the numbers if we see one or
two missing will Elias will always let
you know three of them are missing five
four missing because we know all of them
we leave them them every other day so
give you one more quick look noodle and
over there the viewers of these two boys
here because we are going to move on I
want to go look
for maybe the rest of the parade and
find out where the other 14 are I still
believe they are not independent enough
to be away from their mothers or the
auntie’s and cousins so it’s just a sign
of teenage you know we can be away then
back to the fold we can be our induction
effort maybe after a few other times
they’ll be gone and they’ll have their
own life see the black spots on the ears
there the black marks in the ears which
sometimes we see the use as follow me
sign when they walk through the grass
they had his orders up and you can only
see the black marks I don’t the es or
sometimes when they keep flicking their
tails up well my friend Sydney in South
Africa is so determined to get a leopard
for all of us let’s find out how he such
is going I am right now in the middle of
one of the drainage lines where we left
Hosanna here this morning and I’m just
trying to carry on from previous he
might be somewhere around the same area
it was already late when we left him
normally it doesn’t suffer that much
so the speeders are so very quiet a lot
of animals I am relying on everyday they
have very quiet at the moment so this is
the area where he was hunting a
he likes the peek drainage area the area
here is that area where I saw him
playing with the elephant dung some time
ago he likes this place yeah that
sighting took place somewhere here so
so he must be lying down somewhere in
this Kali here but I’m not going to give
up I’m going to look for him until we
Catherine it is so beautiful indeed
everything is green at the moment and
this green color is the one which can
easily hide the spotted hassanein so
it’s disappearing in between these
so now let’s quickly go back to Steve
thanks it is talking about the little
chief Hosanna I remember early this year
I was driving down this exact same road
over here and a camera on the corner I
think I was talking about it we really
want to find a leopard now and we came
around the corner and we found him
looking at his reflection in this little
pan a little green pan just to the right
of the screen there and it was really
quite funny we followed him after that
and then we got him killing a scrub here
so you know we can actually spend some
time on this drivers roll rim and
missing on all the places we found these
interesting animals because always the
antics that they they carry out while we
watch them is always quite funny I
remember finding him he was just looking
quite said his reflection just like that
was before hue in turn is on his
walkabout remember he went away was just
before that yeah he is a clown but we
loved him very much
we loved him very much but the reason
why we’re checking is little water muddy
pans is exactly that the cats like to
come and drink and quite often you can
find them in and around close to where
the water is and it’s one of the reasons
why this time of year it’s quite tricky
to find cats because oh well there’s an
Egyptian goose who’s a little bit
confused maybe he wants to go to that
little water pond as well it’s lost his
mate
it’s very quiet so this must be the male
he’s gay it’s going to come over to the
little Maddy Maddy pond over there so
the animals obviously need to drink
every day but when there’s an abundance
of water all over the place they don’t
have to go very far and seem Egyptian
geese goose this far away from permanent
water is very very interesting obviously
going to new pastures or maybe going out
on it on a tinder date maybe was
swapping was told to come and meet by
the pan maybe it’s for sauna playing a
trick and trying to ambush this
individual goose by luring him in to a
pan where can you say that okay images
made a joke so it’s known by Egyptian
goose as a gimbal not a tinder very
clever Emma very clever
so anyway maybe Hassan is trying to lure
this goose out on a promise of a grassy
meal some seeds thrown in it as well we
know Egyptian geese are grazes and they
quite enjoy a couple of the seeds off of
the grasses and it’s walking very
precariously towards the thickets there
it’s not a really good idea if you ask
me a very interesting note at a desire
on its own I’m not going to say that am
i no well going straight to this little
water puddle yes therefore this could
very likely beam Hassan as Christmas
duck or he could have already had the
other one because as you all know ladies
and gentlemen who watched the show all
the time
Egyptian goose is in fact a duck which
is a very strange because gooses are
supposed to honk and ducks are supposed
to quack and well if you’ve ever heard
an Egyptian goose make a noise there’s
absolutely no honking in oh no quacking
in that at all it’s all very definitely
coming to the water maybe accan knows
the waters yet might feel quite safe
there who knows
so you haven’t positioned you very well
am i reversing skills this afternoon or
something to be not something to be
anyway the thing with going out in
search of a cat is we are spending time
out in the wilderness so there are
tracks where birds we had a very brief
visual of a quite a large flock of
red-billed quelea switch I wanted to
show you quickly because it’s the first
ones of the season that up see that is
not what I want to show you first ones
of the season and they are according to
certain David Attenborough accumulate in
the largest flocks of bird known to man
and there is the breeding plumage of the
male just try get that the angle of the
light how’s that it’s very beautiful and
accumulate in hundreds of thousands of
birds obviously the small flock we saw
just now was only about fifty maybe but
they accumulate enormous flocks and
they’re migratory throughout the country
they don’t really go in much further
north another proper migrant it’s just
sort of like a an altitude ”’l migrant
if for once of a better word right now
and they feed on seeds and they are
waiting for the rainfall and they all
accumulate in very large colonies
generally in in very sort of stunted nob
thorn vegetation where they’ll have
their nests and hundreds of thousands of
birds will nest there huge amounts of
seed are ingested by them daily as they
go into the feeding grounds and they are
the food of stalks marabou storks lesser
spotted Eagles they feed thousands and
thousands of predators that come and
feed just on them and you just walk
around the bay so here comes a very
interesting looking Nala you just have
to stop for five minutes out there and
the animals will the geese and the
Nuala’s will just pop out it comes a boy
about across the road in this very
beautiful young man is on his own I
don’t know well in saying that you’ve
spent five minutes with an Jana and
suddenly you see six and seven come out
of the thickets and that is exactly the
strategy they have to move in and
disappear lending in with the
environment but the queriers feed on
enormous amounts of seed and around the
base of the trees is huge amounts of
obviously droppings
seed dispersal as well and those trees
get boosted with a huge amount of
nitrogen big nutrient recycling big seed
dispersal and well they are well known
on the African continent as a pest to
farmers but in essentially the quelea
was here first and so we need to live
with him but unfortunately they are well
are destructive to people who grow seed
bearing crops anyway enough about that
we’re going to move on a seat if we can
find you some other animals along the
way but as we do move along all sorts of
things pop up and well we’re not just
going to find in Ghana we’re gonna find
you whatever comes along as I said
through your tweets we’d love to hear
from you but in the meantime David do
too I think is still with his lion in
the Mara and I don’t think it’s raining
today very good to see Angela and even
better to see elephants with calves look
at that smaller family of elephants
there and what I’m feeling I’m feeling a
bit of a feeling a bit of we’re spirits
coming to me and I’m not sure we are
going to get a strong anytime now and if
they look to overclock from where I am
look at adult stone it was carried out
and that’s very very dark well so far so
good and I’m getting some wonderful
showers as I am but hopefully I got a
feeling this range will just come and
pass but as it is now it’s
just starting to fall and what am I want
to do now
em it’s maybe to bring the covers down
we got a very expensive equipment in the
car and you can see the rain if you move
to the right Archie you can see that
huge wall of rain in the background
there that is about a kilometer away
from where we are and that is the Masai
Mara for you we are having the short
trains which I don’t think i short
trains so what we’ll do for now I’ll
first in use back to Sydney and you’re
gonna monitor the situation and see how
it goes
then I’m sure at one point you’ll be
back with me Sydney Leicester stall
what’s your update enjoying quite a lot
of rain by the Maasai Mara as it is
raining almost every day these days
there and here we are still hoping to
get more rain so apologies for that I am
right on the main road which is a
so this is the area where I am going to
try my luck but I can’t find any office
and Astrix coming out of the block from
Juma to their buffers who I’m right now
ginnifer girl the biggest challenge when
looking for hosana specifically the area
where i am now is the drainage lines
they or the dry riverbeds this old dry
riverbed some of the areas are not
easily accessible even by the four by
fours so that is the biggest challenge
when looking for this cat by this side
of the game reserve so when in the
drainage you cannot see him until you
drive along parallel to the drainage
line is when you can see if it’s lying
down in the middle some of these
drainage hole drainage lines we can be
so I am very sure now that he is still
much more decide I didn’t see any of his
tracks coming out towards the buffers
book and it’s only a few animals yeah
way I am maybe is due to his presence in
so now let’s quickly go back to Steve
who is good a bad yes well I must
apologize for jinxing David with my last
link sending him all all the way back up
to the Mara I said it was not raining
and now I have brought the rain very
powerful words I do apologize David
but anyway down here Indra it is not
raining but I wonder all of you bird
enthusiasts out there that have been
watching the show for a long time
same to you answers about what bird this
might be the colors aren’t that great
right now because of the lights but very
easy to understand what it is if you’re
not short same through hashtag Safari
live or what a bird is this let’s see he
couldn’t be first on the button wait for
your answers but what is interesting is
it’s part of a family of birds that live
in cavities in trees and so the tree
that it’s on is a dead tree that’s
either been killed by elephants or maybe
even a porcupine damaged in overtime it
has died and many many species of bird
actually use cavities in nests of trees
that have been created by the burrows or
by excavations for beetle larvae and by
woodpeckers and barbets so many birds
then live in those cavities in the trees
where there then rear their chicks and
that this bird has to compete with lots
very very nice to see one of the
prettiest of the birds we have archaea
once again a pretty bird with not a very
nice voice hopefully it will turn for us
and show us its face Vicki and Andrew
you’ve got at hundred percent right I
wonder if anyone else is going to get it
right and then we’ll give the answer
don’t want to give the answer way too
quickly but it is an insect eating bird
catches most of it either on the wing
key heart is not a woodpecker but it is
a family birds that have just landed
just below it their family of white
crested helmet racks have landed on the
tree they’re doing a bit of
cleaning P hard is not a woodpecker is a
bird that catches insects either by
flapping onto the ground on them or or
in aerial pursuit but it doesn’t create
the holes itself woodpeckers are known
for making the holes they create the
cavities which are bird like this who’s
very hot you can see his beak is open is
cooling down Chris it is not a European
roller you are on the correct family
their European roller is very blue in
color this bird has got a very
distinctive are bra strap do you see
that very distinctive white stripe on
the eye you can see the long beak with a
little tip at the end is very
characteristic of the roller family and
while you see the tail the tail has got
a it kind of just ends abruptly so it is
not the common lilac breasted roller and
which has got sort of Lolich on the
breast and all sorts of other colors it
is the family favorite one of my
favorite birds indeed whose being while
enjoying a little bit of time with some
fellow friends that is the purple roller
the biggest of the road of species and
well it makes a very funny noise would
you like to hear it have a listen to
this chimpanzee in the sky how crazy is
that I think is a very interesting call
purple roller but an insect eating bird
they flop down onto the floor to catch
their insects or catch them on the wing
where as you can see the white Chris
that helmet tracks their jumping through
the branches they’re very agile and they
do a lot of what we call gleaning of
insects if you don’t probably different
species of insects different areas
within the tree but they’re able to
access sort of areas that the rollers
are not able to you often find their
owners perched conspicuously out on the
end of a branch
now where is these beautiful beautiful
white helmet racks white crested helmet
racks who are a family unit they move
through the tree in unison
gleaning and picking insects off almost
working like a dolphin family would
assisting each other in rearing the
chicks and collecting the food scenic I
have seen all of the South African
roller species and they are very very
special Bunch and I’ve got them all here
for you on my phone I can once you just
pan out there you can have a look they
are probably one of the coolest family
of birds next to the bee-eaters with
regards to coloration and also that
Soraka as I suppose here we have on the
top we’ve got the very blue European
roller then underneath that is the very
blue but with long special ated feathers
underneath is the racket-tail or earlier
you find those up in the northern kruger
national park and very common in
zimbabwe up here is the very common
racket and lilac breasted see the
streamers on the end of the tail which
make it different from the the purple
roller which is flat at the end then one
of the coolest ones to see is the broad
bald who’s got a very purple body very
yellow bright contrasting beak and then
at the bottom the biggest of the species
the purple roller so those are the five
that we see and I’ve actually seen all
five of them on one walk in the McCool a
key area in northern Kruger National
Park so if you are an avid birder for
savanna bird species the northern kruger
national park is where you have to go
racket-tail rollers are there probably
one of my favorite places to go to
had a ladybird are we do indeed get
swans in Africa but I don’t think any of
them are indigenous I think they were
all imported from North America or
Europe I’m not 100% sure if they came
from North America but possibly from
Europe but not indigenous pretty much at
every sort of pond and lake we have in
sort of suburbia of South Africa you
will find geese and swans doing all
sorts of things
they’ve all been imported of course and
well the kids love to feed them bread
crumbs and wherever there’s a park or a
play area with some form of water well
you’ll find lots of these birds my uncle
actually used to have a few swans at his
house and they were the best security
guard dogs or pets they used to chase
any intruder that came into the garden
and they can be very aggressive and they
could bite quite painfully as I
experienced once on my bottom I never
liked going some uncle’s house after
he beat me on the bottom that’s what
happened okay so this is an area right
here that I’ve had Tandy many many times
going up this road now this is
drakensberg Road named after the Joker’s
who bounces that you can normally see it
but today there are some clouds so we
won’t even try to show you just off yet
not far away is our eastern boundary
with tortured but this area here on the
right is an area that while we’ve had
Tandy and Columba sort of in the the
five six month area of when Flambeau is
five six months old she was here often
that was the stage when Haku moody had
moved into the area and was sort of
moving in on the western side of jumma
and tiny kind of moved this side because
it’s in Ghana was kind of a little
betrayal at the time and go after some
bouts of illness he had a little
sabbatical and well who Komori was
around doing his thing on the west and
Tandy was here very very often and so
hopefully we’ll be able to bump into one
of these individuals this afternoon but
while we are moving along there’s so
much more to see and to do and talking
about rollers here is the much more
common of the species and you’ll be able
to see the very characteristic streamers
on the bottom of the tail which make it
much easier to identify then the purple
roller that we saw and this is the very
common and most photographed bird in the
Kruger National Park look at the
streamer on the in the tail that Finan
band this is the lilac breasted roller
the national bird of Kenya and David
Gita’s favorite bird as well there’s a
Hannah bird that looks as if you’ve
given a child a color in drawing and
they’ve taken every ridiculous color
imaginable and put them together
beautiful beautiful the Afrikaans name
is called a throw bunt which basically
means a wedding band and it is well
known to take a lilac breasted roller
feather and to wrap it in a ring and to
basically give it to your betrothed as a
promise for what is to come in the
future which i think is very interesting
and up in Zimbabwe back in the days
before it was Zimbabwe long time ago
there was a chief up there of the
Matabele air people
old chief lobbying gula who was of Zulu
origin they moved up many many many
years ago in the 1800s and while it was
his color his feather of choice and if
any one tried to adorn themselves with
the lilac breasted roller feather he
would have his head chopped off so from
a very nice matrimonial ceremony in the
Afrikaans culture to beheadings it
sounds a little bit like Henry the
eighth
right yeah but anyway enough of my
babbling you’re gonna keep on going up
this road yeah which is going to wind us
although a perch above us look at em in
the Northeast and hopefully as it starts
getting cooler we might be able to find
Tim garner Mike there are plenty of
insects Archer that are poisonous and
generally poisonous insects have got
coloration that is bright and
contrasting blacks with yellows oranges
with blacks those sort of contrasting
colors that make them stand out the the
monarch butterfly is a very good example
their larval phase of Caterpillar
actually takes in a toxic plant called
milkweed and that then leads to the
adults being poisonous and there’s lots
of other insects archaea that if
ingested could kill us but a lot of the
birds have actually evolved to either
deal with it or because the colors are
so bright and contrasting to avoid them
altogether and when talking about the
monarch butterfly there is a species of
monarch butterfly called let me remember
hyper luminous Mississippi’s how did I
remember that I don’t know but I can t
remember the common name but that
scientific name is etched in there and
they mimic the monarch butterfly and it
is a term known as the Bayesian mimicry
now mimicry is when you mimic something
to benefit yourself now if all of the
hyper luminous Mississippi’s butterflies
had to mimic sorry I’m not trying to
sound smart by saying that long word
it’s just the only name I can remember
alright now I will come back with it if
all of them had to mimic V we’ll just
frame this other bird over here while I
continue to talk my nonsense
we got a magpie or long-tailed Shrike
over here so if all of the hype
aluminous
species had to mimic the monarch
butterfly well there’s a good chance
that a birds gonna taste one and realize
it’s not poisonous
so Beaty’s in mimicry means 25% of the
population so 25% 50% being female 50%
being male and 25% in total it would be
females of that species have the same
coloration as the monarch butterfly the
males I actually quite sort of white
with necessary black with white spots
very easy to identify and while they’re
not poisonous at all but the females
happen to get by by looking like a
poisonous individual that is hence why
we know birds can seek a lap because not
only do they have feather adornments but
they also can see fruits which are
needed to obviously you want to eat ripe
fruits and you don’t want to eat a
poisonous insect because if you do well
either make you very sick or you will
die and as you know most animals through
survival of the fittest have learnt that
dying is not the way forward if you want
to well keep on living but anyway we’ve
got wonderful birds this afternoon I’m
talking a lot of nonsense but that’s
okay we’re going to go to David who is
sheltered from the rain and hopefully
well here we are and if you look through
there that’s the situation we are in now
and it’s not raining here I would say
dogs and cats but it’s raining elephants
and buffaloes if you got through not
sure whether anything can go through
here but at the brewery and there at one
point just one minute
I try and clear this and he put
something you put some elephants there
yeah but if you
chicking the whole cupboard reify now
we’re gonna wait tight be back in action
so let’s really we open that side where
the Archie can see anything just fallin
for a minute I’ll catch it this is
wonderful
actually let’s see where they can see
I had my Pia earpiece off and that’s the
situation we are in now in the morrow
triangle it’s heavy heavy rains and they
apparently meant to be the short rains
but to me they feel they look and they
sound even bigger than the long rains we
had in June July August but again this
is Africa this is the kind of weather we
go through it has been very rutting the
last couple of years not very far from
where we are we had those two lions as
of the Olfa and I think about 100 metres
from here we go to the front of
elephants we saw before but at the
moment we’re going to remain in this
kind of situation until the rains
subsided and how beautiful is this I’m
just enjoying it thundering the canvas
top of a box here you can see it and the
intensity is getting bigger and bigger
which means big fun elephant should not
be affected by this rain because they
still keep grazing and then what they
need to do well we think we may have to
a David is enjoying some rain and now he
is on a shower break maybe the time in
come back I will be having the beautiful
cat already so I’m checking back again
by the galaga pen because this is the
only nearest dam in the area I’m sure
it’s going to come and drink here so the
squirrel was just complaining now but I
saw that the squirrel were complaining
about the presence of one of the Raptors
in the area so they were against one of
so when this animals are against Hassan
or Cheng Ana
you will hear also the antelopes not
only just the bed but if it’s just the
best then it means something small
daily I have never seen a meerkat
inhuman I’m not too sure if it’s one of
those animals who are caring here
because there is different kind of small
animals that we see some we don’t see
very often so the Juma Game Reserve
defenses has been taken down it is
connected with all the other areas all
the way down to the Kruger National Park
so sometimes we do see the rare animals
so the meerkats are very much where is
something which is very very difficult
and to find you don’t have to be very
lucky to see the meerkats I have never
operate so the mierqis they do have free
daters but mostly you will see them as a
mob and they do protect each other
normally when it comes to the animals
such as snakes you will see they can
easily mobilize and charge that snake
so no one is around the pain at the
moment Nina they are like the dwarf
mongoose and they’ve got a similar kind
of the behavior because you’ll see the
normal stand up red staining and
binocular vision in check and check and
they do make quite a lot of noise if
they are not happy or when they see a
predator such as levers they do make
so the the banded mongoose I have seen
them here in Juma the other day I was on
a guided walk and they were all just
migrating from a big termite mound very
quickly but it was a good sighting I
so these are the suitable areas for
these animals to hide when is too hot
so here sometimes the Lionel’s they also
Paula the Mongoose I have never seen
them combining normally I see specific
species walking together as a sa troop
but to see them mingling is very much
rare a report abilities of inbreeding if
they mingle they are very much higher
animals they do interpret if they
staying together or whereas their
mic the Maasai Mara is over thousand
kilometres away from where we are so the
weather on the other side there is
different from where we are at the
moment but if you check also here the
clouds is overcast possibilities of us
to have rain as well
tonight they are also very much high we
but so far the Maasai Mara is getting
quite a lot of rain
it is raining there now very often so
welcome back we are still on drakensberg
just having a little listen quickly Rex
ins talking to me on the radio if you
just give me one moment
standing by rx someone drakensberg you
yeah now someone else is getting very
okay well that’s not for me there’s a
whole different conversation going I do
apologize there’s another guy on a
property called sips and Stephen sips
they kind of became very similar they’re
they right now that the confusion is out
the way
David is enjoying himself in the rain
that are provided for him thanks David I
do apologize no doubt it will be a quick
downpour and then it’ll be gone again
we hope do you hope anyway we’re
continuing up on our eastern side we
will be getting towards before sook
watching Hall in a little bit taking it
slowly having a little listen and a look
around there’s glory pan coming up on
the left
Oh there is a third roller species this
is the European roller on the right hand
side
sorry about my brakes there and you
could see the very blue coloration and
almost I am indeed on a roll
there was a drum roll indeed thanks Emma
so the European roller which comes to
South Africa this time of year for for
feeding they don’t come and breed at all
so there’s no competition between them
and the other roller species for the
tree cavities and they also arrive here
competing for insects though of course
you see how they’re conspicuously
perched on the end of the branch there
but they come here and they’re a silent
they are silent visitors to South Africa
because there’s no point in making a
noise and expending energy in that
regard if you are not breeding most
birds that create noise and make all
sorts of songs and do all sorts of
display as well they all try and to
demarcate territory for the purposes of
having youngsters obviously either the
more defensive orders of great oh.hello
yawn or the greater the display might be
or the most beautiful song well the
bigger the Terauchi or the more ladies
you might have so you can see the
rollers will sit on the end of a branch
and use very good eyesight to look for
any insect that but me moving around on
the ground and then they’ll fill up down
on it Adele you say we’ve got beautiful
birds I think we have some of the most
gorgeous birds in the world
I would like to go birding all over the
world though to be able to compare but
once you start birding somewhere it is a
passion you can take with you anywhere
because well the world society of
birding has become very very well and
truly United and the roller is a roller
that siroccos at Soraka so if you have
seen a roller before and you see a bird
that you’ve never seen before but kind
of has the same characteristics as the
roller well guaranteed it is one you
just need to find the local area and
bird species and have a look so you’ve
noticed we’ve seen three but rollers
today the shape the form the everything
about them really apart from a bit of
color is very very similar and that is
why they have been grouped into the same
group but where the name roller actually
comes from is in their display rollers
when they are demarcating or fighting
over territories and in this form it is
looking for tree cavity holes for
nesting they will do these up and down
sort of diving bombarding dives which
end in a sort of left and a right wing
going up in a barrel sort of roll up and
down and it is very very traumatic for
other birds to experience of course
because they get chased away but
obviously the male with a better diving
role is more dominant than another one
and what ladies are looking for all
sorts of things like that aren’t there I
just look how he uses his wings what a
marvelous fellow and then what in the
birding Kingdom most of the time it is
the ladies who choose most of the time
beautiful that is three-railers
today if I managed to get you a broad
bull rider well I’ll do a backwards
somersault on the spot how’s that I will
and we’ll try helps right ah giraffe
girl now when you talk about the top of
the list that means of birds that I
still want to see okay that is it I’m on
619 South African birds now and there is
a bird there two birds one that comes to
mind immediately a lot of people who
know me know it
African Peter is a bird that I have not
managed to see it an old student of mine
is in Zimbabwe I’m gonna find it for you
and he sees it regularly and posts
pictures and teases me not very nice is
he
Luke wherever you’re out there I’m
talking about you let me find this pizza
for you
African pizza okay let me show it to you
it’s a beautiful bird really is a
beautiful bird there it is there how’s
that beautiful coloration and it’s a
forest specialist
there are lots of records of them in
South Africa but there’s no sort of set
area where you will find them but
Zimbabwe much more common to see they
got this very characteristic way of sort
of standing with their back to you and
then doing this interesting sort of jump
up and flap when I was doing some
training in Malawi years ago my last day
the students that I was training
actually surprised me they want to do a
surprise lunch and they didn’t know how
to get me there and so they set up the
surprise lunch around the corner and
then there came running it’s a quick
quick we’ve got an African pizza I came
running and I ran headlong into all of
the students there to say farewell in
heaven last lunch it was it was very
sweet but I was very disappointed I
didn’t see that pattern I was before I
start there let’s have a listen to this
it doesn’t that’s stopped for some
reason it jumps up into the air have you
seen my hat how does it see one okay
well it’s not the crudest called in the
world obviously I want to see one I
don’t adhere one but common in Zimbabwe
and there are records of them all over
the eastern side of South Africa but not
for me yet we all get one get one the
bird list continues Dell we do we do get
lots of finches fire finches they are at
least two species that we should get in
this area that Jamison and the red world
fire finch now in the forest areas
you’ll get the African fire fitch
possibly possibly get it here sometimes
in sort of more thicker areas then sort
of up in in the more dry areas of the
Kalahari you get the scaly feathered
Finch there’s a very cool bird called a
cutthroat trench
you don’t I’ve never found one here I
found them up in the north of Kruger
it’s a little whitish bird with the red
line across the neck and the name is
quite easy to understand cutthroats it
looks like it’s been severed to the neck
very cool here we are at Gauri Pan so
there’s a lot of finches a lot of
finches I can’t tell you all of them off
the top of my head now lots of wax bulls
and finches here is the next paddlin pan
where many times Tandy and Colombo have
been seen so we’re just going to be
checking all these areas for tracks
maybe if we spend enough time here we
let me see if I can quickly find a page
of finches cut yeah I’ll show you the
cutthroat Finch really quickly before
you run off to David let’s quickly have
a look at the cutthroat finch and then
you’re going to leave with that red line
a crosses through it he’s bleeding out
for don’t worry he’s going to survive
let’s hope David survives the rain Billy
yes this is where I am this is where
Archie is and this is where we are the
good news we are surviving and we are
enjoying every minute as I said earlier
is pulling elephants and buffaloes and
Archie’s telling us we need to change
that and get something more serious than
that but either way we got elephants
just Foster’s here a few months ago
which were not worried of the rain so we
are going to remain here until things
get better still raining
hopefully we’ll wait until things get
better and what will happen is you know
it just drops at one point when we love
the camp alia it looked so clear so good
as talking to em in the final control
and just me how does Heather look like
sky blue – so clear but all of a sudden
now Pooh I couldn’t believe it
so the good news is at one point it
might stop so I will not live here I’ll
stay here just making sure I don’t get
stuck because this is one time you make
a mistake and the geology of the Mara if
you look at the soil we have what put
the black cotton soil which could be
very tricky so a heavy car like this the
cat’s office if you’re gonna take you
back to the rain the catch off is heavy
plus he’s
and you’d read it aloud you’ve kidding
yourself and you might have to get a
grader to get you up to the game Rangers
will be very happy asking you what do
you think you are doing there I was
Shawn temperature that could be too cold
for ions I’m looking at anything below
10 but somehow they have always managed
to adopt themself Shawn and what gets
very cold you see lions calling
themselves and just tucking themselves
in and holding just to keep their body
temperatures going not once we have seen
friends of Lions coming together next to
each other well it’s very cold but
somehow in Africa we have never seen I
mean Lions are shown suffering because
of cold temperatures but our guests
anything below 10 would be a bit of a
worry even for us as human beings as
much as we shall always know what to do
to air one or two layers anything below
ten to ten ten degrees Celsius could be
a bit of a concern for lions well you
can see the amount of water that’s
raining there so what you’ve done we
brushed the flaps down brought oash
windshield up and just sing here resting
and talking stories of rain ooh gotcha
and I’m telling him how I used to like
the rain one of your small boy and he’s
saying he doesn’t care about the rain
who the choice he doesn’t want even to
see it for me it looks pretty good so
let me see we cut little turn around
here but they have to be very careful if
I do one small mistake who may be stuck
here for the next couple of hours and
the challenge would be to get someone to
come and tell you out because they’ll
wonder how do we get there you know so
people will be like we’ll see you later
or they’ll wants to come with a game
Ranger with a gun for example and make
us walk to their car or where they know
they’re safe and they take us back to
the camp and they’ll tell us we shall
come back here tomorrow to get the car I
don’t think we want to do that what you
want to do is to of course fingers as
much as we want the rain and hopefully
it’s going to subside maybe after that
10 15 minutes who knows but sometimes
or I’d feel a little bit chilly but
we just want to change the angrily
director because we’ve got water coming
giraffe girl I’m not sure whether your
question was what’s the best weather
I’ve been in was that a question from
giraffe da da da Chi the Commission
okay there’s a custom from giraffe girl
there
just bring it again yes and that’s good
this way and you want to the weather I
have been in ah keep going on like Egon
okay a giraffe go to this an angle I
wanted a she’s always very particular on
the angles he likes in terms of shooting
well there’s so many weather’s have been
here and I think the wash would have
been in was in the middle of this year
we had massive rains and was raining so
very heavily and it was not good because
we only had to stay on the big doors you
see like the can you see passing there
definitely there’s some guests in and
you can see they are running back to the
camp because they know being out here it
will not help them they cannot see any
animals and you cannot leave the big
road to try and venture away from the
road you see everybody’s just now going
back home and nobody won’t take any
chances but again as I say giraffe girl
me and Archie are not going anywhere
so May June July I know you can hear any
thunderstorms there so those
thunderstorms giraffe girl are the ones
that sometimes give us a bit of a
concern or worry because we may have to
power down with such an expensive
equipment to that we surely have in the
car we fear laitanan could be sometimes
a big concern rain doesn’t worry us so
much but the lessening and the
thunderstorms are always a bit of a
concern while a drop got many thanks for
your question and always very happy to
hear you but a giraffe car and the other
viewers why don’t we continue more with
a cut with Steve oval we’re gonna do the
Tinga Nanna dance and we’re gonna do the
tingitana dance look at what we found
tin gana the Juke of Juba well we set
out looking for him he had been in
before sook in the north
herbie had tracks of him coming in south
we picked drakensberg road and well we
have been fortunate
Rickson the other gentleman who works at
via teller was in the area and then he
happened to come across him so we were
in the right area at the right time but
he is on a very particular route I know
this route quite well I followed him
along this before I’m going to reverse
back keep up with him exactly where I
spoke about Tandy five minutes ago or so
when I started rambling I that might
have been at the beginning of the drive
this is where Tenggara is now exactly on
that spot so he’s walking straight down
in this jar can spur great this is a
road over a hill called lead word which
are followed him on a number of times
and what he did those last couple times
it just have a look you there at their
hat what he did that twice two times
that I followed him is he crossed in to
chitwa because this pathway will take it
straight at should trap but he crossed
just since the other side should look
down towards the dam sat down by the pan
and just started calling to the world
and then he stood up and walked parallel
road and then went into Torchwood so it
was very special to spend time with him
then that when he was just coming back
he was still limping he wasn’t looking
in good form but he was giving it
everything in with regards to the
territorial calling and well now he is
on another walk this is what they will
do regularly after rainfall to remark
and resent mark the areas that they have
claimed to be theirs and investigates
the presence of new females investigate
the occurrence of what if he spotted
there boy you see the body language
change I can’t see what is seen but he’s
running after something let’s go and
have a look
Eagle Scout he does look hungry
sorry I’m just dropped okay he’s just
run into the thickets they’re not sure
exactly what he’s seen what’s he got
there eggs okay
so that niala we saw earlier that wasn’t
looking very healthy
he seems have spotted him so we’re just
going to give him a moment Rex can see
him we don’t want to influence they want
that the Duke to win necessarily or the
Nuala to win necessarily can you see him
okay so then y’all is very close I’m
just gonna move up a couple meters so
that we can maybe get him in maybe get
every guy he’s just yeah okay that’s
just it just moving out the way we’ve
got another vehicle on the way yeah Rose
Marie is definitely making well at the
moment he’s keeping to a very normal
sort of territory line but now he is
looking to maybe catch some food but
most certainly Emma if you’d like to
invite some more viewers onboard we
don’t know where this could go
he could most certainly catch this niala
I haven’t seen than Jana he saw
something very camouflaged Erickson
spotted it told me there’s an e all of
good afternoon ladies and gentlemen
welcome to trimmer
private game reserve in the sabi sands
South Africa we’ve just framed up a
hyena for you it is not what we in the
citing for we have got a big male
leopard just here in front of us by the
name of King Ghana he is the Duke of
Jummah and he has spotted a what we
believe to be a frail-looking Nala some
way hidden there in the thickets
anything could happen right now please
feel free to send any comments and
questions you might have food to hashtag
Safari larval dropped him in on the
YouTube chat stream below we’d love to
in the comment section below I mean I’d
love to hear from you his intention this
is the reigning Duke the reigning
dominant leopard of this area he’s been
up in the north after summer rainfall he
is now filing the need to move through
his territory Indy market through Saint
marking the rainfall has washed away the
scent that he’s laid down but along
these long one drinks he gets quite
hungry I’m not going to move we are in
the sighting with other vehicles but I
don’t want to disturb him or vignola
each individual needs to have their fair
chance and well leopards as we think are
very successful but the camouflage stuff
and alertness of the antelope animals is
very very good and well they often avoid
being caught when they’re on their own
sometimes it’s quite tricky Ramat you
want to know how far away it is I can’t
quite see it at the moment there’s a
vehicle behind us that ahead in fact I
seen it we’re just having a look through
the thickets now I’m gonna look with my
binoculars because I’m in a slightly
he’s going to go for it sooner you – or
quickly just introduce ourselves hello
my name is Steve joined by hats on
camera and well the man of the hour is
right here ahead of us Joan is he Ilona
lipids lipids are loners actually you
don’t find lipids with other lipids
generally males stick to themselves
females to themselves unless they have
Cubs but the hierarchy that happens
Archer in Duma private game reserve we
are seeing some incredible scenes of
late with well the smell lipid stealing
from his son and a smelly but stealing
from his previous girlfriend and while
having interactions with a year old cub
as well so the dynamics here are
incredible and well we documented okay
Thomas you wanna know if leopards are
more successful at hunting than other
cats well lions and leopards have
invariably got roughly about a twenty
percent success rate when it comes to
hunting cheetahs probably a little bit
more than that but it’s all about
terrain experience and well anything can
happen you can watch a leopard hunt
three times and it can be successful
that could just be luck it could be
terrain it could be the day but then you
can also watch a leopard a lion and
numerous times and be unlucky so they’re
not known to catch as many prey or every
single animal that they see and so that
is how the balance in nature works if
they’re caught everything their sort
would just be a bloodbath
the antelope are as well adapted to
surviving an invading predator predation
there he is well he’s making a move he’s
probably gonna come out a little bit on
to the road where it might be a little
bit quieter for him to move or he’s
gonna go through the thickets there
don’t want to do too he’s gonna come
around that tree and I want to do too
much movement
okay he’s lost sight of the gnyana so
he’s trying to move in just swath of
something running across that open area
that I was looking in before I’m going
to move slightly purchase
meena anything can happen anything can
happen an injured leopard could catch
anything really it was all about the
time of day it’s all about the the
experience of that animal and all about
the vigilance of the individuals that
are hunting or that are being hunted
if leopard comes across an injured
animal it can catch it quite easily but
if it’s are very very able to catch
things and well even when injured are
still very very adapted what they do
just trying to move around yet redock
one to influence anything as soon as I
get a view of him I’m going to stop I’ll
try to answer their question a little
bit better for you you might see another
vehicle in the sighting they’ve kept to
the road on the other side their last
sight well I actually haven’t even seen
what a me his crouched down in the long
grass masters a camouflage injured
leopards the reality is is that an
injured leopard or leopard doesn’t
require much in the way of speed
sometimes to catch prey if they can lie
down camouflaged like this individual is
doing and an unsuspecting animal walks
directly towards them they still have
the ability to pounce and to catch them
so that can happen in any stage not
necessarily every time and obviously the
luck of the draw meaning that the animal
say my name Kangana has been injured we
don’t know what happened to him it seems
like he’s given up on the hunt you can
see his body language has changed
something happened all of the hyenas
coming in on the front there that’s
what’s going to happen I you know it’s
probably scared away at the Nala yes I
you know are well known to follow the
leopards around the Leopards catch the
food and the hyena try and steal it from
it’s just in here he’s gonna come in say
hello to us he’s gonna give that house
that hat
oh he’s gonna come and give it the hyena
a bit of a snore there’s a vehicle to
the left there there are in the road
having a look there’s always fantastic
into actions to see hyena and leopard
naina seems have lost – teams have lost
sight of waiting Ghana is but could
definitely definitely smell that he’s
here so he’s watching the movements of
the hyena you know quite often just
growl and lay flat if I and it comes
close and a big man lipid lurked in
Ghana has got a reputation and hyenas
quite often just staked yeah sure it is
all about camouflage our chair and this
is the lipids paradise this is exactly
where they belong
no see he’s going to walk just around in
front of us yep and well are we going to
be hard pressed trying to keep up with
it’s him ah heen is cackling they’re not
sure what happened but in Ghana had a
little look well he’s gonna keep on
wandering we’re going to follow him but
what a marvelous afternoon not sure
Bonnie when the last time he ate
hopefully we’ll get him eating now I
haven’t seen him in months his belly is
looking very empty and I’m sure he is
hungry
he’s not moving very fast on the
territorial sort of movements that they
do have and I haven’t heard him call he
marketing quietly so as to also snatch a
meal along the way well folks we are
going to still be live for the next I
think
hour maybe 45 minutes
google has to see you there but please
feel free to enjoy your afternoon
further and we’ll catch you soon thanks
for your comments or questions and
welcome back everybody sorry about any
noise complaints from my lapel mic there
I think we are back on track now you
don’t have to see if we can keep up with
ina is coming towards me on the right
yet he’s trying to follow it in garnet
because someone is too high in it they
are very keen to snatch whatever he
might catch because well leopards arch
here are far more efficient in the way
of hunting then we record me hyena rock
it’s another one right yeah head is
coming right up to me listen I don’t
you smell foul I just got a whiff of her
she’s got the scent of him now she’s
going to try to find him we followed to
our hina this morning and we realized
that we followed them for a long way and
they actually went away from her sauna
Sydney found sauna pretty much where we
started following in the hyena so that
obviously found him really didn’t any
food we realized he didn’t have any food
sorry about my head there I’m having
some difficulties with my microphone
Andrew doesn’t have any food and then
well I decided to just go off in the
other direction
these two they are trying to ascertain
whether the Duke who they’ve picked up
on his smell whether he has got some
everyone’s saying that they look very
curious well there’s nothing accurate
more curious then a spotted hyena and
that’s really interesting being back
here we go get a two-shot chair opt in
Ghana and that leopard just straight
through their hat I wonder if you can
get him some ganas just through the back
just disappearing behind there and well
the owners are going to follow him and
probably really give him a heart
um they won’t really do too much towards
him but if he’s got some meat they might
try and snatch it off him but as I was
saying
ting Ghana develops a very nice sort of
repertoire with these hyena a reputation
that they very well know and they’ll
probably leave him alone even if he’s
got a kill on the ground but if there’s
two of them three of them it might be a
different story one definitely leave him
alone they can’t afford to combat the
battle-scarred veteran and well he can’t
really afford to battle with them but
just through sort of aggressive response
or growling quite often can get away
hold on folks get out of here Rickson
has still got sites often guys we’re not
going to lose him in your time see just
the problem being if he keeps up with a
southerly trajectory of movement well he
might cross south hopefully he will stay
it because as I said at the start of the
show him and his son are both movie
stars and they received the email about
us being on s ABC 3 again on Sunday at
6:30 p.m. and well he’s in time he’s
just he feels like he needs to eat a
little bit before because you know he’s
a good a bit of stage fright and a belly
of of meat belly of niala always seems
to do the Juke very very well as we’ve
seen in the past even if he snatched it
from his son you’ll take it but anyway I
wonder how citizens getting on I know
he’s in search of the aforementioned
husana let’s go and see exactly where
he’s at I am still looking for Sanne
Steve and congratulations for finding
Tinga on the other side I am sure Hassan
is also gonna come out somewhere in one
of these areas so I can feel that now
the temperatures are going down and this
maybe might start encouraging the cat
such as wasana
to come out now and start looking for
we saw this morning he didn’t get the
breakfast so now he’s gonna have to look
so this is the area where we have left
him um back again in that area just to
check if there is any other developments
but it looks like it is quite still
maybe he went to one of the water holes
in the area here so he was very close to
the border between us and the buffers
walk maybe he crossed over to the other
yeah they are very far apart at the
moment as the debt is much more to us
the eastern side and he is much more
toward a western side so the debt is
verify the moment I DJ your sauna is so
sneaky indeed but I will find him in
somewhere here he is somewhere he must
be lying down somewhere in these thick
so you can see that the bush is very
much peaking at the moment so maybe this
is what is making it difficult for a
so Elia one we saw the impalas here but
now the impalas are gone everything is
gone is so very much quiet maybe this
not even the Squealer to give us a phone
so unless the spirits in this area feed
from the ground cause those ones by the
other side normally they see him from
yeah I that is why I am trying by all
means to find him so that at least I can
have him for tonight
now unfortunately the animals they don’t
really have a Sunday afternoon if you
check the leopard the vast majority of
their time is dedicated for sleeping
during the day so it’s normal for them
to just relax and spend all day just
lying down incidentally is doing it
maybe somewhere this side but yeah I am
smelling quite a lot of elephant scent
so it looks like the elephants we hear
those elephant is the one that put him
from this area because there’s quite a
lot of evidence as well as strong scent
showing that they’ve been here not very
so now let’s go back to the Duke of
Jummah well hopefully David we will find
him again he moved into the drainage
line they’re very thick we try to get
our tricks and tried to stay with him
all Rickson can see at the moment is one
of those hyena so Exxon’s on the other
side of the strange line i’ve come to
this side of it if he moves through here
we’ll hopefully catch him I’ve had him
walking through this exact path here and
I found him again just over here on the
road which was very fortunate I think
ours with sins oh then he disappeared
into this very difficult block to access
and well then out of nowhere he suddenly
was over here so that was very nice for
hopefully he’s going to do the same
thing or if not okay sir Xing has heard
me and taught me come in North yeah copy
thanks Rex
okay so Rex is calling me in directly
here use this on the other side very
likely we might see the Duke just pop
out somewhere hey it’s probably going to
either lie down because he’s going to be
annoyed with my unit because they will
follow him until he catches something or
he will run away from them I doubt he
will run I don’t think it’s in the Dukes
sort of nature he’s just gonna walk with
that sort of regal ting gana sort of
stride summon Yala yeah yeah I can see a
vehicle see where we can spot him if
he’s here we might be able to get a view
some urologist in the thicket this is
when your eyes need to really sort of
so in the spots of the cats make them
invisible well some of the viewers want
to know when is it more difficult to
spot a leopard when it’s green and when
it’s dry the interesting thing is that
when it’s green there’s far more cover
which it’s tricky to see you can’t see
very deep but the amazing part is that
leopards camouflage is so camouflage
that when there’s hardly any occur any
cover they blend in so it’s kind of
designed for both purposes really of
blending in when there’s thick stuff and
also blending in when there’s almost
nothing I’ll just have a little listen
two meters forward and then you can at
least frame up a family of Nala here
that are seemingly completely unaware
that there is a male leopard somewhere
in this area the hyena will probably
keep Rickson moving towards Tenggara
luckily we’ve got him in the scene so we
can at least assist each other in the
movement but can see how dense the
vegetation is the niala blend right in
takes everything in the leopards ability
to be able to stalk these animals out
hello Minami I don’t know how long the
Duke can survive with that food well
they reckon lions and leopards or what
they call starvation resistant which
means they can go for about two weeks
without adequate meal but they don’t
choose to they will eat regularly
they’ll eat all the time they’ll eat as
much as they possibly can but when they
get hungry so they’re – it starts
changing and then what problem is this
when they get old and maybe sick they
lose the ability to hunt and that’s when
they can potentially become dangerous
because when starvation kicks in an
animal loses its fear of all sorts of
things that might have once before held
in sort of a high regard or had some
fear of but yeah about two weeks would
be about the limit but they will eat
much more irregularly rivendell well we
are looking for a leopard but if you
were in India most certainly you’d
probably be seeing a tiger with those
stripes there of the Nala
if only than the allas could thoughtful
the leopards into thinking there were
Tigers and they wouldn’t get eaten as
regularly as they do okay so I’m just
going to get an update from Rex in here
to see if you can see anything the
Raider is quite busy so just trying to
get a gap orexin
Rex and Steve okay thank you so patience
pays off follow the animals follow the
I’m gonna stay right where I am because
the niala all right yeah the same yalla
we’ve been looking at and they have no
idea so folks just bear with me stay
with us yet the Duke with his regal stay
and his twitchy tail is looking directly
at him and he’s trying to figure out – I
wanted the baby or any of them weak
which one of them will be easy to catch
no I’m gonna lie down well there we go
maybe he can’t see them that is
incredible
he’s not far away from these nada and
seemingly because of their camouflage
and their ability to stand still
he has lost sight of them he knows that
they’re here he probably heard them
little footfalls the drop of some dung
on the ground but he’s looking around as
if he has lost them all together if he
comes straight down this game path
because we’re we’ve got him here just
down in front of him there’s a game path
that runs straight towards me and this
was the path I was hoping to to access
and when I came around onto the road
when Rex told me to come around onto the
road behind us on led wood this is most
likely the path that he would have
followed straight through onto the next
Road it’s ease of access lipids Lions
rhinos elephants often will walk along
pathways most animals in fact because
it’s very easy to do so if you’ve ever
driven a vehicle on the main road it’s
very easy and I’ll take the same vehicle
and drive it straight into the bushes
well it is not as easy to drive through
the bushes that it is too sick to a
well-worn path and when you are a
hunting leopard or a leopard that is
trying to cover as much ground as
possible in a territorial display you
want it to be as easy as possible or as
quiet as possible if you are stalking
and walking along a path makes it quite
easy to walk quietly pag make it I can’t
smell him oh you asking if he can smell
them the wind direction
it’s blowing pretty much towards him so
I’m not was not very strong very gentle
wind but I have no doubt he moved where
is now cuz of this family that he’s seen
or he saw maybe he these are the
individuals that were spotted not so
long ago that I didn’t even see maybe
the hyena caused him to run a little bit
but they have all got their backs to him
I’m not going to show them to you at the
moment cuz I don’t want to make any
noise I want all of us to play art as it
shall naturally he seen be putting some
tension directly towards one of the
animals that has now moved a little bit
you see the intention on the body if he
picks a target we’ll see him start to
crouch low and move quite quickly he
might be waiting for this group to split
up
only slightly can you see them had I’m a
tricky game there they are that’s what
he’s looking through he’s looking
through a thicket like that so that is
why it is hard for animals to be seen
out yet when you are as camouflaged as
eniola they are they the Duke knows
they’re somewhere nearby
and nothing like a leopard to when
everything is slowing down to suddenly
close his eyes and have a nap like
father like son
let’s see if Sydney has managed to pick
up on any tracks of husana this liberal
sauna is still sleeping somewhere here
because I can’t even see the tracks
coming out in and out is just very quiet
and I saw one of the Steinbach is maybe
is that Stan Brock he was talking this
morning in the very same area but here
where is this is not very far away from
the Gallagher pen maybe he’s gonna go
so there is quite a lot of takers in
this area he likes to be this is the
drainage where he had the two dead knee
so but there’s not a lot of animals
which are carrying here by this drainage
I can see that animals don’t really like
to come here but when the food is cursed
you will see animals there because by
this all the dry riverbed they still
quite a lot of green grass growing on
so maybe somewhere deep in this drainage
I will be very happy to find him in this
the thing lie down flat
it’s gonna be very difficult for us if
there is quite a lot of things happening
by the Christmas I remember South Africa
is consisted of quite a lot of different
diversities there is quite a lot of
different food eaten by the Christmas
Day a lot of people by Christmas Day he
prefers pork some they eat lot of goats
and some is when they are taking down
I is going to be a very big day on a
Christmas day and I will be here I’ll be
in the bush by the Christmas Day
it is an honor meant having a Christmas
Day in the bush with these wild animals
so the ladies from the AFC they are busy
preparing some of the Christmas food for
us I’m not too sure specifically of what
kind but I have been told that is going
biltong for christmas we do eat quite a
lot of real tongues very often but for
christmas to those who are going out for
picnic years biltong is guaranteed
because that is part of our snacks packs
right right in the alphabet where these
apologies for the network difficulties
these kind of problems do okay a lot
these days because the trees they are
now growing very big and they are now
having quite a lot of lot of lives I am
still tracking for asana here in this
area and still hoping to find him
this afternoon I am not relying on any
of the course none of these animals are
giving anyone in Collier but that does
not mean he is not here maybe he’s
very difficult this afternoon to get
hold of a David by the Maasai Mara due
to a heavy storm
apologies for those kind of technical
difficulties again so it’s not only
affecting us is also affecting the
some of them they even go and play in
the rain like the elephants you see the
let’s play and electracy well it’s
raining from that is where they are
going to sometimes the rain moisturize
distort the the graph is and when this
kind of animals are think the grass is
wet that is when they are going to be
a cross spider I didn’t copy your
yes I have got to be very careful here
now the trees the coming back heavily
and the right to maneuver in between the
trees this days here the dry season it
was very easy I have been here on
several occasions and there was no
problem but now too much problem in the
sorry for any tech difficulties but ting
Ghana has yearned for you all you know
back with us and we are with the Duke he
is walking along those prominent
gamepads and well keep going that way
sir you’re gonna walk straight towards
us what a gym
what a gentleman the knee allas all
moved off and he walked right past where
they’d been standing without even a
cursory glance it just goes to show and
that leopards won’t expend energy when
animals are in groups unless and the
advantages are on their side mainly
being it quite dark or if the wind is
blowing if the wind is blowing makes her
much easier for them to stalk close up
but he’s a very very well experienced
cat and so he knows that trying to sneak
up on a herd is a much harder than an
individual on its own and very
opportunistic they will take and fight
their battles when they need to and run
when they need to
so cosider you say his tongue is hanging
out well his bottom jaw because if that
jewel app is just so heavy and just
hanging down low isn’t it and well he’s
also quite warm it’s still not cold and
he’s been walking for quite some time
today for judging by the distance the
tracks have covered he um has waddle
away from bull suck all the way down
it’s not an enormous distance but for a
leopard with fur covering its body
walking in at the heat of the day it is
quite something and well he’s walking on
exactly the same a pathway and then I’ve
had him on before we’re going to try and
keep up with him but first he’s going to
stop and give us a very regal pose he is
not walking in a very territorial sort
of fashion he is obviously very
interested in getting something to snack
on the rain was two three days ago now
he’s probably done a lot of scent
marking and well this time of year it’s
very hot and he maybe assumes it’s going
to be more rain again hi bacon what’s
ugly skin well he does seem to have a
fair bit of soggy skin they around
chest and his throat area but that the
julep on the neck is part and parcel of
what happens with male leopards as they
get bigger it adds to their to their
strength and to their size and I’m going
to move because I’ve got him behind a
little stick that is how you do it in
Ghana you know how to pose like the best
these are the kind of shots that on
Safari if you can get your guests into
these positions with a leopard sitting
on a termite mound well it is a first
prize so many of the leopard sightings
I’ve had in my life before coming to the
sabi sands are just the faintest glimmer
of a cat disappearing through the
thickets or looking at leopard through
the thickets with binoculars as it
stares back at you from a vehicle of
course and so the photography of
leopards in the sabi sands is
world-renowned and if you want to
capture leopards on camera and you want
to show and film and frame these
beautiful photos to put on your
mantelpiece
well these are the areas to come to
obviously they are the reserves as well
but sabi sands is world-class when it
comes to leopards and well isn’t he a
beautiful and beautiful boy Kimberley
indeed I think I said that before
already he is very regal but the skin is
loose around sort of the chest area I’m
sure he’s lost a little bit of weight in
his age he’s still a big leopard but he
definitely isn’t as bulky as he once was
as with everything as we get older we
lose a little bit of condition but he’s
still looking in fine form and well
we’re probably going to experience a
little bit of a sawing motion from him a
little bit those of you who don’t know
what sawing is I’m not talking about the
actual cutting of wood but it’s the
territorial core of a male or female
leopard that sounds like a plank of wood
chopped with a bow saw but for now we’re
going to try and follow him as he
continues to head on south and
fortunately he is on a pathway that I
have been on with him before where he
might jump over to Chitra I hope not
maybe he’s going to do a bit of a left
turn somewhere over here we will just
follow him and see exactly where he goes
just sent mark to this little bush a
moment ago maybe prepared for one of the
nicest smells and sorry about the
branches they’re cut one of the nicest
smells in the bush is leopard scent
marking hmmm I don’t smell it it smells
like popcorn he’s gonna rub his head
again in a moment or two against the
branch he’s moving stopping moving
stopping he’s not on any serious mission
at the moment listening as it goes
listening as he goes the beautiful
backside of the leopard this is what I
saw off a sign and the other down foot
was just his rear end as he moved away
from us easily to identify a male
leopard by the size of that neck it’s
not SM it’s not a bad rear ended or a
leopard male or female the females got
very delicate what’s he done he stopped
like a pointer dog a bloodhound Tina’s
got a very delicate and sort of elegant
necks in most species the liquid species
of course and the male’s have got this
big thick set dewlap obviously when
they’re younger there don’t have it but
there’s still a lot more thick set than
obviously size
yes everyone is saying he is in need of
a meal well I don’t know if anybody
knows when last he ate need to chat to
the butcher super sorry there hat but
wassup guys cuz he’s been up north for
the last couple of days so I wonder if
he has had a little snack oh this that’s
what he looked at there was a water back
straight across over there that looked
at him and those of you who with me a
few months ago I don’t even know how
many months ago he was on this exact
same path and he spotted probably this
exact same big male water buck and he
gave him one cursory look and then he
keep walking and water buck is way out
of his weight class the baby water buck
or small female most certainly and I’ve
seen a male leopard with a couple of
sort of sub adult water backs up a tree
that was incredible to see never seent
in Ghana with a water buck seen tündi
with a couple babies but before we lose
him keep up I don’t think he’s going to
stalk up to that water back that’s just
it’s just on an ass Sunday stroll Wendy
let me just get it up here and I’ll talk
to bud he’s he’s doing a bit of a facial
scrub again it’s probably a very common
tree that he’s come across maybe a tree
that Tandy is rubbed on let’s quickly
get in this sorry there we go
when do you want to know how we missed
it sorry folks
when do you want to know if if I tasted
one of the leaves if it would taste
black popcorn well most certainly not
that is the sprite here it comes Oh up
it goes onto the branch so I’m going to
ask haft afterwards to go up to that
little wet spot and give it a lick and
tell us if what it tastes like
hurt he’s just smiling at the back there
he says why not you only live once you
only live once and well how many of you
can say you’ve tasted lip and urine
before I certainly can’t well I eat a
lot of leaves so it may be one of these
days or maybe you’ve already eaten some
but I’ve never tasted any popcorn II
sort of taste just that smells like
popcorn for what purpose for what reason
it smells like popcorn it’s beyond me to
understand I’m just going to stop yep
majouk is walking across the frame
that’s exactly what we’ve seen him do a
thousand times in the past we are not
far now from our southern boundary with
lower gallery and chitwa chitwa but I’m
just going to move one more time to get
on the other side of him because well
he’s going to walk behind the bush
before the closing of the show and
that’s just not how we wanted ting
garnet we want you to stop sit on this
lovely branch for us and give all the
viewers a wonderful final couple of
screen shots this would be the final
display of the Duke as he walks only
metres away from the front of our
vehicle
he clearly seems to be hungry what a
marvelous achievement this afternoon we
saw some interesting birds we found the
Duke
David got rained on Sydney is art and
having a ball thank you everyone for
your questions comments we’ll see you
again tomorrow
morning bright and early have a beautiful beautiful day
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