Safari Live - Day 380 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised. Welcome to your sunset safari today, and of course we, Mr. Hosanna and I am Warren, and on camera today I have Davi.

Now we've come to the usual spot, Sano's usual hangout, where he was this morning. And of course he ups and moves around due to toilet, and he's repositioned himself right back down in the shade by his favorite pan in the world. Now this episode is brought to you by Metamucil, and we need you to talk to us, so please do use the hashtag #SafariLive and talk to us on Twitter or on the YouTube chat stream. Send in your questions or any comments; we are seeing in front of us.

So it wasn't exactly hard to find Hosanna because he was exactly where he was left this morning. He's definitely a lot easier than Tandi. I had my work cut out for me this morning; very happy that I got to spend some time with the Queen. However, it was no easy task, that's for sure.

And the weather this afternoon is absolutely risers and thick socks in anticipation for the coldness that will come out tonight when we're on our TV show. However, I slightly regretted my choice at the moment as we sit here and bake in the sun. So I'm sure Hosanna is also feeling extremely hot in the sun with that thick coat of fur that he has. But what he likes to do, he likes to be tucked away in the vegetation, get in the shade and the coolness, but he likes to have his eyes pop and look around and watch everything that goes past in terms of other wildlife and impalas.

Anything that goes past, he likes to be able to watch everything from a vantage point. Many of you call me in that it looks like a lovely sunny day, and indeed it is, which I'm not complaining about at all. But sometimes when you have to stare into the sun, it doesn't make life very easy. But I'm not complaining at all; it's deliciously warm and it's so good to actually feel some warmth. By the time we go out for our sunrise safari, it's rather chilly. On all levels, coffee, gloves, and scarves are essential.

So of course it really isn't just me out today; there are others. So let's go across to Steve and see what he's up to.

Good afternoon everybody! Well, we're also looking into the sun at the moment. My name is Steve, joined by Craig on camera. So apologies for my hat being so loaded down. But we are following up on the Uncle Homer pride from this morning, and then when we get in there, we will just turn around so the sun's behind us. Look into it if they're in the same place. I got a pretty strong feeling they should be in the same place, but you never know. Lions do move, and if they do move, we're gonna have to try and track them again.

And hopefully, we'll be as easy as it was this morning because this morning was one of the easier attempts at tracking a pride of lions. But for now, they have moved, which is kind of expected. Where though is the question now?

I got them again! James, the cats have been kind, and well, they are here. They just keep moving into shady areas. But as the day goes, when they're in an area like this, it's not that well vegetated. They'll just keep moving with the sun and keep moving. They were here this morning, and then they're here, and then by the time we left over there, and now they're about 30 meters more to the right.

Very good. The objective was to find them, to know that they're in the same place. We do have TV this afternoon, so we would like to find a character for Trish.

So once we get in, then just establish the sighting. We will probably get Bob. See, that was a little bit of a black monkey orange. They are a formidable encroaching species, which Rickson and his habitat team are cutting out. But so I don't feel too bad smashing them from time to time because they are encroaching, as I said.

Okay, I'm just gonna pull over on the side, yeah, so we can show everybody the lions first. Before we go over to Trish, let's just show everybody that we do in fact have some lions, yeah. And then once we've done that, then by all means, Emma, we'll send everybody over to Trish to say good afternoon. But just a quick hello; the Goomer pride, there you are in the shade of a leafless marula tree. Very good, they'll be here for some time.

So Craig and I are probably gonna stay here for maybe a segment, if we need to, or a second one. And then we go off and help Patricia track. But in the meantime, Shoshana has headed off towards the west.

Let's go and say good afternoon to her.

Hello everyone! Marcella and I are very well. My name is Trishala with Marcel on camera for the weekend, and we've been having some good sightings, so this good luck is going around. Like Steve said, we will be finding a notice; we all have something super special now.

I myself am just coming up north along the northern boundaries just on my left, and I'm gonna sniff around, yeah, and hopefully, if your hobbies spent time with him like I was lucky to spend the morning with one day, she got together with him instead.

Oh, I'm so sorry; sorry about my horrible breakup. But I'm gonna go to the den soon. Let me send you over to Steve in the meantime.

Er, with those live. Well, sorry about that, everybody. I don't know what's going on with Trish. I think she's so full of energy this afternoon that she is giving off all sorts of weird signals to the camera, and the signals are causing the gremlins to attack. They dart! You didn't miss anything while you were away from us for that minute; that minute and the lions are still here, and I'm certain they will be, yep, for the next two hours.

Well, we hope they'll be here for the next three and a half hours. As is always the case, five minutes before TV, now get up and walk out. But we are about eight hundred yards from the southern boundary, about a kilometer from the western boundary, and the northern boundary is probably about three kilometers north.

So we are in a good spot if they do decide to go north. Well, at least you'll be able to catch them for a fair amount of that time if they do walk through, no doubt on the path that they're on now, probably head up towards the open areas of quarantine to try and harass the herds of buffalo that like to hide out there or the many, many impalas we find out on the open plains.

There have been a couple of zebras around the last couple of days, but they seem to come into Juma and then out again without remaining for very long. Whatever it might be, food that will get the Goomer pride moving, well, maybe the needs to drink because it has been a relatively warm day today of 28 degrees Celsius. I'm sorry, I forget the Fahrenheit now; definitely the warmest time of winter.

Hello Sir Maya, you want to know where this is happening? We are in Duma in the Sabi Sands, South Africa, on the western fringes of the greater Kruger National Park in a province called Mpumalanga. About seven hours east as the crow flies from Johannesburg by vehicle, about an hour and twenty minutes in a plane, and Superman would probably take about fifteen minutes, eh Craig? Craig's not sure. Craig, wearing Superman pajamas, he doesn't know more about him.

Hey, Craig, how many jakey? I'm giving Craig a hard time this afternoon because I'm going to leave tomorrow giving Craig a hard time because I got in even in the morning, and so you've got to get all the things out that you want to say to everybody before you leave so they don't miss you too much.

So we are in the wilderness of the great - Kruger National Park. The Sabi Sands is a sixty thousand hectare property that adjoins the western side of the Kruger Park. It has been private property for probably about 80 years or so, and it has been at Wilderness sorts of ecotourism area for about sixty of those years.

As Paul actually been in private property for longer than that, I forget exactly when it was privatized, but for about 60 odd years, 70 years, maybe even getting there, people have been trying to conduct wilderness sort of events. And this is where it all started in southern Africa from a game drive point of view and film documentaries point of view.

This pride of lions, those of you who are new to our screens, is called the Uncle Homer pride. It is named after a beautiful tree called the brown ivory, which in Shangaan is called brown re M kuma. This pick all the viewers say you feel like this on a warm day. Well indeed, the lions are rather warm, and I was discussing this morning that it's the shade and the trees that the shadow tree in the shade the trees provide that allow such a diversity of mammals in this ecosystem.

Some animals can avoid the sun by going underground. You can imagine lions going in the ground. You'd have to get some really big burrows. I've seen leopards go into big holes in the ground. I've never seen a lion go in deep into the ground; I have seen them digging to get warthogs, but I've never seen them physically go in.

But in a buffalo as well, they can't go into the shell and to holes; all the best giraffe. So many adaptations have evolved Archer to allow animals to survive in these harsh climates.

Oh Craigie, there's a woodpecker just landed up there. It's moved if I spot him, I'll let you know. That marula tree is looking a little bit worse for wear behind. It's looking like it is a woodpecker's dream: lots of bark falling off. There is far right. Can you see him, Craig? Far at lowest branch there or medium branch? That one sticking out?

There we go! Woodpecker searching for, that's a golden tail, yeah, female golden tail looking for some grubs, some beetle larvae inside the wood. Wood-boring beetles will deposit their eggs inside the wood, and massive big larvae in grubs will actually grow inside eating wood themselves.

Okay, well, she's found that tree to be unsatisfactory and has now moved off. The tree is still providing shade, although I think it is going to die soon. I don't know why, maybe I'm completely mistaken. Very good; are we going to move off after this and see if we can help Trish find another leopard or something? And while we do that, let's go over to the lady herself.

I look, I'm not a picture broken up. Isn't that wonderful? Because the last thing I want is gremlins trying to attack me! Definitely not, not tonight anyway. We are heading down to the hyena den. I'm gonna just check up on them, see what they're up to.

Hello you guys! Nothing like a few doves on the road. Remember we were talking about dog tracks on the road? They're always walking in front of us. We pointed them out in bushwalk, I think, once. Luckily for them, they moved out of the way quick enough most of the time! I'm glad to say I haven't hit a bird.

Now I am looking about for birds as well because, oh, so this morning is a bird that we were looking at. I had a good look at a good old Cal six. You're wondering if David Attenborough has ever been to Juma? Cal six that day, I think, well, I don't know what I'd do, but he has not been to Juma, but I'd want to take him on Drive. But then I also wouldn't want to take him on Drive. But he hasn't been to Juma, but he's welcome to come to Juma if you are watching this, David Attenborough.

But I was talking to you about it this morning, this bird, the eagle that we saw for you. And I will show you, so I was not sure at the time. There have always been these juvenile birds; it can be a little bit more difficult. And I have now, oh, I am now satisfied that it is a juvenile tawny eagle, as some of you had said, actually. So good on you!

I just want to show you quickly, as soon as I find it. Tawny, tawny, where are you? So this is what I was looking at on that bed that made me believe that it is a juvenile tawny eagle. So that's the individual that we know.

There we go, we are looking at these group down, yes. So you can see there's quite a bit of variation that goes on, and when they are juvenile, they're sort of gaining some coloration and losing others. So what the individual we had still had sort of had adult brownie head, but the rest of it was still kind of pale, and it had all these very nicely feathered feet, faded legs down there.

So we knew it was a true eagle, and it had a nice long gape, and I got to see that from your screenshots. So I think it is a juvenile tawny eagle. I'm sure if you agree with me, please let me know. If not, let me know also, and if you do think it's something else, hashtag Safari Live and tell me, but your screenshots were really, really helpful with that.

And I think I did. I think I did let me see, I think I did save a picture of one, and that looked a lot like ours. There we go. So this one I thought that this... So this is a juvenile Tawny, and I thought it looked very much like the individual we saw today: brown head, but the body is still whitish, also has a pale band over here. Can you see that?

So that's why I was pretty convinced. I saw a number of these, yes, getting nice and tight there myself. Alrighty, well that is it! You do know of course, you know.

In the meantime, we'll head down to the hyena den and see if there's any obvious hyenas around, and also a mongoose and maybe that honey badger. I always get excited to go back to the same place because you think maybe, just maybe, those animals will be there again.

I am going to be there in 15 minutes, I think, with all the stopping and checking of tracks, etc., etc. So I'll see you just now. In the meantime, I'll send you over to Lauren, and she is, she pottering about. I'm not sure she's still with us on a, please, not sure it's good.

Well, so much for me, seeing that hassana was happy, sleeping, and enjoying the sun because ever since you left us, far might I add, but he's literally moved from sort of vegetation to log to very small termite mounds where he is right now. And as he moves, it's hilarious! He goes into stalking mode where he puts his body very, very low to the ground, and of course, his shoulder blades come right up.

And what he's trying to do, I think, is there are impalas up ahead, and he's just trying to get closer and closer to them. They are some distance off in this direction; I can't even really see them. But he's just slowly making his way there and keeping as low to the ground as possible so that they don't get any wind of him, if you like.

As soon as they do—impala, as you know, are very, very vocal, and they will of course try to stand up to him, and that's exactly what he's trying to avoid. So he's not actively hunting at the minute, but what he's doing, he's put himself in prime position, trying to use any sort of cover that he can find.

And Davi just gave you a view of what we're looking at, and it's actually quite thick. The grass is long here, and there's a lot of trees. But I can see two impala rams walking closer and closer just over here, and they haven't seen him, but he's definitely seen them. [Music]

We have a question: did he get anything to eat this morning or last night? I have no idea, I'm afraid—absolutely no idea. And we didn't see him hunt anything, so we can't vouch for that. I imagine he would have snacked along the way, potentially on a scrub hare or something small, but it doesn't look like he made a big kill. Could it that way?

But he potentially could have snacked along the way throughout the evening, but of course we didn't see that happen, so we can't vouch for it. But I do believe he made a hunt or a failed hunt, should I say. It was captured on the dam cam, and it's rather endearing. He stalks an impala who is taking a drink for quite a long time, and every time the impala moves his head, he freezes just like musical statues. And of course, as he gets closer, the impala gets away. It's very, very sweet.

So I don't personally feel he did make a kill last night, but once again, we can't vouch for that. So he's not actively hunting at the minute, but he knows the impala are there, and he knows he's got to keep himself low to the ground.

He's watching them in family. Hosanna loves watching everything when he's got his eyes open. Of course, he can barely keep them open at the minute. It's like, "I'm gonna have a mini tiny snooze and keep opening my eyes just to check where these impala are." And he hasn't.

Yeah, he's got shade; he's right next to these mounds, which I imagine would be quite cool, and he's got a sort of shrub fish in front of him. So he has got cover. But of course, impala are experts at spotting the predators coming. We heard impala barking everywhere today at Sandy; they were coming from all sorts of directions. I'm just checking we're obviously at the end of the rutting season now, but these two males I've just got, they're fighting.

Oh no, they've just gone behind the bush, but they're actually fighting. And what that means is that they're not paying attention to what's going on around them, which is exactly what Hosanna wants. Predators fully make use of the rutting season because the males are paying more attention to their sort of sexual health and their dominance and winning over females and battling it out with the males that they're actually not paying attention for predators.

And they actually lose muscle condition, become quite weak because they're also not eating properly. They're fighting. I think we've got the love. They keep horn clashing with one another. You see that? I don't pay any attention to what's going on. One of them's walking backwards.

Oh silly rams, obviously so got some testosterone on in them and driving for dominance. This one's walking backwards. Oh boys, you're getting closer and closer. One of them's got an oxpecker on his back, and this is exactly what impala do; they don't pay attention. These rams are still horn clashing; one of them does appear a little bit more alert than the other. Goodness, it's all happening in front of me right now.

They're too busy trying to see who's bigger, who's better, who's the more dominant one that they don't like, Sauce Collins right there. Oh, we just had a snore; I was a bit strained. He's not looking at Hosanna's direction, trying to keep my eyes on everything at the minute. Sorry, why the snore? Oh, oh, this one's running right in his direction!

They don't know he's there; they feel that something's there, but they don't know what is. They are. I think he was utterly bewildered by that situation as well. He's like, "What just happened?" The impala, I believe, did not actually see him. I don't feel the impala looked in his direction.

Well, the males have stopped fighting. One went in one direction; the other one, the other direction. So they strive for dominance and who's better than who is obviously over, and Prasanna looks utterly bewildered. The impala almost ran right into him; that's how much they were not paying any sort of attention there.

I'm sorry, boy, but it all happened a bit too fast for you. He's saying, "Come on Hosanna, yes, no boy." But you know what? He probably wasn't ready for it. Leopards have to be in control. Normally when they're hunting, they are, of course, stalkers, and they generally like to stock up on their prey.

So that probably, that just took him by surprise because he had two impalas come out, you know, one was fighting. And all of a sudden they walked right past him. So he obviously was not ready for it in any way, shape, or form. And it is extremely hot right now. I think he is just watching; this is his domain in quiche, just keeping his eye on what's gone on.

He loves fortune, what's going on, but he definitely missed an opportunity there. Oh dear, dear, dear. Of course, we're gonna stay here with Hosanna and see exactly what happens next because you never know what this boy—and while we do that, we're gonna send you back across to Steve.

We have left the lions; we're just gonna bumble around a little bit and check and give Trisha a little bit of a hand. Someone is on their way to the lions there.

Okay, so this is where some of them came from this morning; the tracks along the road. Yeah, this is an area where they often come in from the south, the Shabam, or dense ice road. Well, this is Cheba army Road, which actually means firearm rifle because the marriage makes the noise ababil.

A lot of local words actually relate to the sound that they make. Remember this is the dead sides over here where Komari led us to that one day, and we had so much joy with June and her cubs. Wasn't that incredible? I haven't really been using it too much since, but the lions came straight in from here in the south.

But I'm just gonna double-check that, whatever leopard that was that came down this morning, 'cause I was tracking a leopard, then I found lion tracks—far more lion tracks found the lions. Not really; the young lions are still regarded as sub-adults. The females will start sort of contributing to the breeding now; they actually would be breeding ready now.

And I think one of them, they might even be in estrus. I'm not sure. I know Jamie was saying that it seemed like one of the youngsters was actually pregnant last time. But I didn't notice anything today with any of the younger ones. But the males, you know, they're stopped too young to really get in the way of mating and to be dominant, so they're not really regarded as adults yet.

Generally about three years, they've sort of then reached that stage when they're really induction to the pride. Males quite often get chased away; then they live a life of a nomad until they become big and strong enough to compete for the breeding and mating success in other prides. But the females will definitely be contributing soon.

It's not that the males aren't able to mate; it's that they won't be allowed to. Just like with Hosanna, everyone was saying last year everyone was wondering could he mate, will he mate, can he mate? You know, any young animal or young individual can mate. It's whether they're allowed to mate, and with lions and leopards, they don't really want to allow a youngster to mate because of the fact that if a youngster mates with a female and she has cubs, there's no chance that youngster is going to be able to protect her and her cubs and the territory.

So they're generally going for big dominant males who haven't established themselves in the area. But a male lion is generally considered an adult from about—well, a little while ago—four years of age and in their prime, five, six, seven—prime, prime, prime! But if they're in a big coalition, they can be dominant at the age of three.

If they're in a big coalition—never too late! Some coalition males are four months old and then leave for sure. We had a pride in the Kruger that had nine young males; one ended up getting killed by a coalition of five. And there were nine, and at three, they were just formidable.

And three years old, there were eight of them! Imagine trying to compete with eight—you just don't know where to look to you! So it's possible for them to form a coalition earlier. It's one of the reasons why lions mate or synchronize to keep breed, so that they can have enough recruits into the pride for hunting, number one.

They can community suckle, number two. And if they have a sex ratio of 50/50, which is generally the case, those males can say, "There's so—there's ten cubs in father male, and five survive." Five males survive, then those five could form a coalition and move off, take the genetics of this pride away with them to another pride. So that's one of the other sort of added benefits of synchronous breeding, which is quite, quite interesting in lions.

We've seen it down in the hyenas, but it doesn't work the same sort of way. My ears have all been breeding at the same time, but there’s huge hierarchy. And as we know, generally the cubs inherit their rank from their moms, whereas lions don't really have that sort of hierarchy sort of thing. If you're big enough to feed, eat as much as you can.

Okay, well Shoshana is on the search still. Let's go see if she's had any luck catching up with any hyenas. Well, I'm in the right block, and I'm actually approaching the den. That's most news now ahead of us, just past what I call ribbons usual spot, or who used to be one of her favorite past-time spots. But I really hope that they are around. I really like to see June's two as well, which would be a treat.

I think there used to be a crazy mongoose that used to live on this mound, right? Yeah, and I say crazy because it actually had a—Alice! You'd like to know which one of Prissy's cubs are in the den, which one is Swasey? I will tell you in a moment; just look at the crazy mound from the crazy, crazy mongoose. And you can see my shadow; hello shadow!

But Pretty has two cubs, and she has a male and a female. So the male is Swasey; that helps you out a lot easier because also Swasey sounds a bit more masculine, at least in my opinion. Nobody's home, and coming here, so often having nobody be at home, but it's okay. I will come back and check periodically because I find, especially nowadays, it seems that it's the time.

It can be; it's almost as if you can't count it. She can tell they’re gonna be in either in the beginning or in the morning or in the evening. It's the sun setting; you can't tell anymore, so you've just got to keep on popping in and hoping that she'll be lucky, and they'll come round.

They seem to be a lot of movement within the Juma clan these days. Don't want to lose myself. There we go.

Huh, Sinead, you'd like to know why it's only wild dogs and hyenas that have a hierarchy. I think when you're speaking about the hierarchy, it's more for highly specialized social structure because hierarchies exist all over, all through nature. They exist in termites, bees; they exist even within buffalo herds—that's still a bit of a hierarchy going on.

So it's just as if groups like hyenas have really, really specialized that whole social system. Another interesting one, of course, are baboons with an oligarchy, which basically is a few individuals who have a particular influence based on their relationships and things like that, between people, between individuals. But the whole idea of having a system where—or a very intricate social system—is very, very interesting.

So as you know, I'm Tristan told you that he was looking for eyes for me, so I've been reading quite a bit about eyes, and you might think, how can the social structure of an animal be linked to its eyes or to vision? It's amazing how all these things are linked to.

But having binocular vision, so we had eyes in front of ourselves, right? We have eyes in the front of our heads, which means that offers us binocular vision—binocular vision. So depth perception. But in so doing, we lost the ability to have this overall vision.

So now we became kind of vulnerable because of the vision. When I say we, I mean the mammals that evolved to have fun television. And then due to the fact that we couldn't see all around us anymore, living in groups became really beneficial because it meant that everyone could have a lookout. And then the living in groups was really beneficial, so now you're living together; your eyesight is better because you can be focused, and you have this front-fold facing eyes that are well-developed.

And now you are starting to recognize little things within your group. You sign in to build relationships; you start to see features and expressions, and that's how social structures all sort of sort of develop from that idea. Because now it becomes an arms race; your vision's getting better, your visual cues that you can pick up on—oh, someone's asking about the hyena; I'll respond to them in a moment—but that whole idea of now I've got to see, or now I can interpret people's feelings based on the expressions. A lot better, and then vision becomes better because that trait becomes something.

That's good quality because now you can better respond to people based on animals or your kin based on your visual cues. So that whole social structure has actually risen out of this binocular vision, which is just mind-blowing. But it gives you a good idea about the intricacies of all things in nature, and the way there are all kind of ties together, not kind of; it does tie together.

Exactly! Our Larimore, you have to watch each other's backs, and by watching each other's backs, something else comes in. Now you may have the ability to deceive, and maybe your ability to deceive has a visual cue, and maybe that visual cue helps people see if someone is lying, or something is lying, and something's trying to deceive them. So it's just snowballs; it's a snowball!

We can see better; we're getting more cues. I said it's getting better, and it's just it's almost like we have to keep up with each other and maintain that contact, maintain these social bonds—all because of the position of our eyes.

Pretty neat, I think!

Anyway, I've checked the dens, like we saw them, and they are not around, but we can keep on moving a little bit west. Oh, well let's go over to Steve while I keep on bounding about.

Sure, because his pupils must be very, very small with the sun in his eyes. Well, really struggling! I was struggling because the sun was in my eyes, but now I've turned the corner, and everything's fine.

So I find that very interesting, social standing through our sights. Obviously, plumage is something that's very incredible with birds. Birds had formed these legs, so males that display and dance and get colourful long tails, whatever it might be, you can look at them as a human. You could probably capture a lot of them; you could weigh them; you could measure them; you could do everything you want to.

You won't be able to see a difference between them, but the ladies standing on the outside watching those guys dance, watching them perform, will time in and time again pick the same male. Did off to the side, they'll have a mate, he'll come back in the middle of his little center, and he'll dance again.

I find that incredible. But fast we can't see can't see the difference; social standings through our sights is probably. Maybe that's the males secure through dominance; he secures a middle splattery—secures the best area, whatever it might be. I find it fascinating.

And obviously, all of the most of the birds that do that are polygamists, which means that they'll mate to as many females as they possibly can. And those lay ladies will choose him because of something special about him with long tails. They call the handicap hypothesis, if the guy's still alive with this enormous tail and plumage, he's the man for me!

Or if he's got some very specific dance, the birds of paradise from Madagascar blow me away! If you've never seen anything like that before, you should check it out. The birds of paradise—they are incredible how far those guys have gone to impress ladies, and it's the same as with Weaver nests and with long tails and with dances—it's very, very picky females that have led to this evolution of unbelievable displays in the bird kingdom.

Incredible! Okay, so anyway, we've checked treehouse dam; we don't have any tracks coming down there. So we're just gonna go down a chick twin dams area and see if we can find any sort of sign of Tony, and then I'm gonna go and check the bat aliya den that I found—got all the sites I found.

So my N is that the other day, just to double-check that people have been checking in the right spots because it's possible that they haven't. I know Lauren and Trisha both gone in that area to check, but I heard Texan on the radio now say he's seen hyenas at the same spot, so maybe it's just the time of day. Not sure! But I know you would all like to see Corky and Plonk and some of the newly named hyenas—one of the newly named hyenas as well. I haven't seen June in ages; I haven't seen June in so long.

Okay, well this is a very nice area to check for tracks of Sabri intermingling with Tandy up ahead. See what we can find, and I would do that. Seems like Tricia's found some birds with their very own eyes.

I do have a feathered friend now! This is a very, very, very big eagle! Oh, it's beautiful! I think it may be—there's a pier, and I think they may be Marshall Eagles. The other one I saw definitely looks like one.

Hello, you guys! And it was massive! The way you're seeing it now is just a speck; it's quite far off. But when we saw it just around Jay, it was massive; it was huge! It's been there forever since I saw a bird that size against that beautiful, beautiful sky.

Yes, well done, Marcel—beautiful! Just watch that thing glide through the air! Marshall Eagles are big birds; they certainly look at that against those clouds in that sky. It is unbelievable!

Are you guys saying it's a good one for your bird list? Certainly! The martial eagle is wonderful! It's a nice big bird to get your ID kind of right with it. It's got really nice features, like you saw that prominent brown head and whitish chest in flight, and that's something that's really, really obvious.

Okay, well we have some—we have some other painted wolves. You'd like to know if it is a true eagle? It is certainly one of our true Eagles. And just want to go back and see the vultures for a bit now—the true Eagles are of course Eagles that have modified feathers all the way down their feet.

No, you have some friends! Yeah, though it's been a long time since I've seen my friends! Oh, where did you go, friends? Ah, there you are! It's a white-backed vulture! So there's actually two of them hanging about, yeah? There's another one in the second tree—same one, pack vulture.

And I'm wondering about why they're hanging around. Yeah, oh, you wrote a white-backed vulture? How you, oh man, get out of the way of the leaves, guys, if you can ID him in this light—that is, oh, there we go!

See, another one right by now; it's time by nose; time! Oh, really long cape, brown head—let's see that! See, I'd love to see its back if it would be so obliging. So these guys are quite big! I must say, if you're looking at them in real life, they do look quite big!

It could be a tawny; let's have a look. Booted? No. War bags? No, where are you, Tony? There you are! What definitely looks—has the tawny eagle look! Barbara, you also reckon it's a tawny eagle? Yeah, I am quite satisfied with tawny eagle as well! So this is quite a nice spot!

We've got 220 eagles in that tree right there! None of which are the one that we saw this morning, because the one we saw this morning was kind of slightly colored or was in between colorations; it was a juvenile. And then we've had the Marshall Eagles in the same area, and the two white-backed vultures. And that is interesting—very, very interesting!

Must be a big bird party! I’d like to see where they're looking!

Hello, white-backed vulture! Mmm, I love when you just see them fly off! Any bird for that matter!

Let's go down further and see if that martial eagle is still here! Monique, did you ask if there are any birds that use tools, if I heard that correctly? I'm not sure, Marcel. Let's move forward and check if that martial eagle is still there—that was nice! Oh yes, that is what you asked!

You like—I feel like I've heard this. Yes, well, you in fact, Marcel, and I were just chatting about how smart ravens and crows are, and they sometimes use tools to assist them for things like—they'll put a tortoise if they catch it—there they go, there they go! I'm just gonna—I'm just gonna park here!

No, no, no, no, no! This will be tough! This will be tough, Marcel; you'll be a monster if you can catch that!

So the ta-da! Well done! They’re flying quite a bit! I wonder what's going on now! Ravens and crows, they've been known to take pieces of things and then go and slide down sort of banks just for fun! They've been known to put tortoises in the road for cars to run over so they can break them!

So they are definitely birds that use tools! There's also birds, obviously, that use the sort of natural environment around them, and I suppose in a way using the grass and maneuvering it to make a nest is also a bit of a tool!

We can get a bit of view; I can hear something rustling. Hmm, recipe! Okay, I'm gonna try and figure out what's going on here with my birdie friends! But I'm glad you got to add it to your list! In the meantime, I'll send you over to Lauren, and see how her following of Hosanna has gone!

Well, not much has changed in the world of Hosanna; here he is doing the exact same position with his sleepy looking face! But he does keep looking around, scanning the area, and we are getting to that sort of golden hour, my favorite!

Where the light just shines across the whole landscape and gives it that golden glow! Which means, of course, the sun is starting to set! It is still up in the sky, but it's starting to set. And of course, this is Hosanna's praying!

This is when our cat will get up and will get mobile and probably start moving around and potentially thinking of hunting because he clearly wasn't thinking about that earlier when the ram went past! We seen something behind us! One of the Impala rams went off that way, but I definitely can't see anything!

But it looks like something's caught his attention. Well, Sammy caught his attention; he's looking. But his eyes are drooping. You know that way when you're so tired and you're trying to watch a movie at night and your eyes swim in your head and you cannot keep them open? That looks like what Hosanna's doing!

Hi, Devon! Welcome to Safari Live! Yes, this is live! This is happening right now! We are sitting here with Hosanna, this male leopard, and it's completely live and completely interactive! Hence why things happen in the most unexpected ways, things happen that we really don't expect!

Of course, sometimes we all make mistakes; even the animals make mistakes like Hosanna! So yes, this is completely live, and you are welcome to and ask more questions, which we will do our very best to answer!

Even Hosanna gives you a little note there of acknowledgement! Welcome, Devon! And of course, you have just joined us! So Hosanna is a male leopard that Safari Live has actually followed since he was a cub, since he was a teeny tiny furball, and we have watched this cat grow!

Oh, he's looking at the birds! Singing, he is now almost three and a half— not quite; his birthday's in February, at the very, very start of February. He is almost three and a half years old, and he's not the only leopard we have around here. We have lots of his family members around too!

He's just gazing up at the sky! No, nobody's ghetto! I don't know if that's a tawny eagle that just went past us earlier, but there's a bird very, very high up in the sky, and that's exactly what he's giving it!

Everything's catching his attention right now! But if he didn't meet a hunt last night, and he hasn't really sort of made any smacking attempts, and he won't be hungry! He looked rather skinny when he got up to do the toilet right in front of our vehicle, which was lovely!

He does look like he's in need of a good meal! And of course, leopards need about, well, roughly five kilograms of food per day. But they don't have to have it every day!

Laura's asking what the Inka Hoomas hear him if he made a kill—very good question! Because the animals out here all have excellent senses! So potentially not—if he made a kill, that ended up being very, very silent.

But if the scent of the kill traveled in the air to the Inka Hoomas who were not too far away, and of course they could pick up on the same. Hosanna actually has been seen—many of you know, been chased up a tree by a lioness!

So of course they all scavenge off one another! Hyenas get this terrible reputation for being these scavengers, but I can assure you all the predators scavenge off one another! Right here, it's a free, easy meal where they don't have to spend any energy hunting!

So of course, if the Inka Hoomas did get wind of it—literally the same felon in their nostrils he could, of course, be drawn to it; especially if there was many lionesses against Hosanna, one leopard! Hosanna would definitely flee, and the lionesses would be able to come in and steal food from him!

It's not worth Hosanna's life, basically, to take on the Inka Hoomas, they're strong, and especially if there's more than one! He could risk serious injury or even worse; it could be fatal!

So he wouldn't do that; Hosanna would most likely flee! So yes! The Inka Hoomas could indeed—the same if he made any sort of noise— they could also pick up on noise, but generally leopards try to make silent kills.

So they try to stalk, and they really focus on that element of surprise! Of course, if the impalas are barking, they've normally given the game away, and the leopard generally tends to walk away! Because of skiing over!

Otherwise, they try to do it yes; they try to do it as silently as possible for that reason to avoid attracting any sort of unwanted attention. No—just from lions! But from the hyenas too!

Also, hyenas are notorious for coming in and stealing from anything and anybody! They do also hunt on their own, but they also do steal just like Hosanna would steal!

And they normally see it's a ratio of four to one! So, four hyenas and one lion or leopard until the leopard or lion will give up! So they normally take on a couple of hyenas! But once it sort of reaches number four, then they generally wouldn't take on any of those hyenas!

Because it's not worth it! Hyenas are also incredibly strong, resourceful, and they equally have large teeth and a very strong jaw! But Hosanna knows that, he's been through these wars and adventures, and he's very aware of what he can take on and what he can't!

So even after his incident with Inka Hoomas, where he got chased up the tree, he's still here! He's in the exact area that tree was just, oh, maybe a hundred meters behind us!

Possibly I'm not very good at judging distance! But basically, we're in the exact same area where that tree was, so it hasn't put him off is what I'm trying to say! He's still around for now, but generally we do tend to find that when the lions are around, and such big numbers, especially because lions are so vocal, the evoke us!

And the Inka Hoomas, that we do tend to see our leopards a little bit less! They're either hiding or they have crossed off into other properties presumably because the lions are around! What are you looking at, boy?

That sun's really starting to get lower now! I can feel the temperature of the air really changing! Though he's just given you a beautiful look at the sun starting to set! Everybody's saying that they can see he's hungry! Yes!

I think yes, of course, to make hunts and stalk the way he stalks, going along the ground like that—it's not a natural gait! So by him just keeping his tummy low to the ground, bending his legs, his shoulder blades up, that's expending a lot of energy!

It's a lot of energy into stalking and making potential hunts! So of course he will be hungry now, wasting all that energy and not replenishing it! He will absolutely need to eat soon!

No just, no, I'm not gonna go anywhere! I am gonna stay with him and see if he gets lucky and manages to make a kill! So while I wait and see exactly what this boy gets up to, it looks like Raja has had some luck with the hyenas.

No luck except luck in the slight form—came or very slightly claim in the form of Steve! So Si said he saw some hyenas around the same place that he had seen them before!

So I'm going to head there while he makes his way to the lions! Hopefully, I'll be able to see Cookie, because it's in that same area that Steve saw them before, sort of the eastern area of the reserve! Where ordinarily they're in the western sort of quadrant or central and western!

Oh, I love them! No, don't go! No!

Hello! Gosh, I really love them! They're both bobbing—they've both got black collar bars! But the black collar bar would call— I really, really like! I could never do it to save my life! I couldn't do it!

Oh, beautiful! Even with slightly grey clouds in the background, still absolutely stunning! There you go! Wipe your beak off and clean yourself! Yes, well, like birds, start the day, of course, with a bit of a bit of preening and a bit of food, a snack!

So they close their day! It's been a while since I've seen them; it's always nice! There's one that hangs out near camp, but even that one I haven't seen in a while!

Kristen Babbitt said all over at the moment around camp! They've joined, though, the hornballs and the starlings and terrorizing us when we're near the kitchen! Gorgeous!

Anyway, guys, I've got to make my way down there to the hyenas! The spot where the hyenas were seen because I don't want them to go anywhere! The problem is I suspect that they're where they are may not—because where Steve had them last time. I'm not sure if he had them at the den site or they moved to another site, so I want to get there as quick as possible so I can see!

Hello! Hello! Call it Bob! That she would follow us! Are you gonna follow us? No, no, you just above us! She'd never look up when there's a bird above you because it most definitely will take that opportunity to christen you! Almost always happens that way!

Sometimes I've gotta vet my eyes! Me, no! Don't, don't, don't!
I am having great bad luck! So maybe during the TV show, I could hope for a few hours; which I wouldn't find at all!

Tell if you'd like to know if black-colored barbets are endangered? They're not! I think they are not even listed; they are vulnerable! Not threatened; it’s probably the right word! But to be honest, most of the animals are in decline! Anyway, I think something like a ridiculous amount of species—more than 50%—in decline!

So it probably is in decline, er, but that all—all that threat and things like that is linked a lot to climate change! And the way things have been going, she's not particularly great! And how sneaky was I with this one? Because this one is pretty sneaky in my opinion!

Now it's not speaking anymore because I didn't do it! But a lot of these things are caused by climate change! And on this day in 1988, a very well-known scientist—why did I just—I just thought I heard something!

Well see if you can get in there! So if you see, there's a nice gap! In there, next down to the more wanty and I just thought I heard the beginnings of something that's going to start soaring! And I was really hoping that it would, but alas not!

Hmm, okay! I just—I just want to just stay here for ten seconds just so I can listen! I'll talk to you while I listen! But it was James Edward Hansen in 1988 that actually had this discussion on climate change and the problems associated with climate change!

And that seemed to spark the whole scientific community being involved in the fact that it needs to be mediated right now! Everything needs to mitigate it right now! And we need to have some sort of plan in place! Camps satisfied! We definitely need to have a sort of cannons in place!

And the amount of species that are going to really really be affected by it is just ridiculous! It's a huge amount because so many of us are dependent on temperature! If you go a few degrees out of your normal body temperature, you can be a goner because your enzymes and your proteins will all be denatured if it's too hot!

And once it's denatured, it doesn't come back! You have to generate a lot of those benefits, which would be good, but it certainly would! There are some—she don't wanna be that off there!

Little bit less, actually, has to be the same thing happens a lot in the tropics! Anyway, I will send you over to Steve well while I make my wage to where those hyenas possibly! Well, and hopefully when you get back I'll have them there on the move!

And they headed straight towards tree house dam! So I made that call to come back just in time! Otherwise we would have lost them! The problem is if they decide to go to treehouse dam and then head off South again, and they're gonna leave the property! Hopefully they hunt!

I think they're looking hungry! They've just been jogging off to something! But let's see if we can follow them through here! Here comes another female! Very good, very exciting! Lions on the move! Sorry Craig, I'm gonna have to squeeze under this bush here for you!

Hello there! We go! Is ridge nose with her belly? Hmm, do you know what's going on here? There's a few vultures here! Sorry, Josh! I'm gonna get to you now with the vultures!

Yeah, that's how the lions have jogged in here! They're probably, you know, they're busy sniffing the ground over there! Just sure, yo! How many lions are in the park? Honestly couldn't give you that answer right now! It's a very good question!

Very good question! Lions are all around— something over there! But it's not uncommon for lions to follow vultures! They’re even looking up the tree where the vultures were sitting! So, Craig, oh sneezing!

And hello, beautiful cats! Oh, they're gorgeous! Look at all of them! Maybe they killed something here this morning because their tracks did come from this sort of area!

And looking up the tree! Who, the vultures?
Okay, what do you guys have for us? They're also looking down the way there. I don't know what they've seen; they've got very good senses of smell and hearing insight!

And this is marvelous to cut all of in there! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight—now nine! One of the males is missing; I can't! They're gonna come and lie down over here!

Very good! Very good! I wonder if there's something there on the floor—they're all sniffing! At the moment before it's awesome! Yes, go north! That's it, ladies!

It's also possible that because we saw the pride had sort of joined up this morning coming from different directions, it's also possible that some members of the pride made a kill here! And the ones that have been walking very slowly behind are probably involved in that!

That's why they weren't too keen to move forward, and now the others, after following the vultures' activity, now decided to plop down! One of the things I like about winter is that the lions get up a lot earlier!

So Joshua, I'm not 100% sure how many lions are in the Kruger National Park. I'll have to research that for you! Alice, as far as I'm aware, the Birmingham boys are indeed the fathers of all of the youngsters in the pride, and it was before my time!

But they were the reigning dominant males for the last few years, which would make them indeed dads. Make the group of them fathers who exactly would be the actual fathers of each cub—it's hard to tell sometimes!

But sometimes you can actually see the look on the lion's face; you can kind of tell who is dad or if it's a male legacy! You get a very similar main development to dad! Genetic traits passed on!

Okay, do you hear people over there? Okay, I think there are people having a sundowner! Nancy, a lion picnic is definitely an interesting affair! They don't normally carry much with them; they normally grab it along the way.

Okay, I ain't in that pier for a little bit, and then probably go down and have a drink! Okay, well, Hosanna, he is probably also going to be having a picnic at some stage!

Let's go back over to Lauren, who is enjoying a sundowner with the little chief, Hosanna! Hosanna is indeed having a sundowner! He has moved yet again, and he has perfectly positioned himself on a termite mound, which gives him a great view of the landscape!

Perfect vantage point! And of course, he is just looking around! Every bird that soars ahead, he checks it out! Every movement that's happening in the thicket, he also has a look to see exactly what it could be! Typical Hosanna!

Always claiming up into the praying position where that gorgeous sun sets behind him! And we actually had a question earlier about the lions attracting the lion's attention, and it's about somewhere between five and ten percent of all leopard kills, which aren't too regular, well, in comparison to the amount of attempts that they make, that are actually stolen by lions, especially!

And also some other predators like your hyenas! Spot lions especially! It's somewhere between five and ten percent! So imagine every time you make yourself a nice dinner, and you put a lot of effort into it, and kill, then, of course, you lose it! And someone comes along and steals it from you!

It's not exactly the best feeling in the world! So luckily, Hosanna will know that! He will know that the other predators are around, and that is exactly why leopards do what they do and hoist, which we see on a regular basis!

Leopards just making sure they just get their pre—other dead prey, their dinner up the tree! Even Tinned Ghana the other night with his python, which was just incredible! He knew he had to get it up the tree as soon as darkness came because they know exactly what will happen!

It will attract normally, through scent, it will attract the attention of other predators in the area! Two leopards on ostriches—very interesting question! I don't believe they do! Ostriches are far too big for a leopard even!

Obviously, we don't get off trees too often coming through here!
Oh, I think Marshall had some epic silence with them! But they're too big! And of course, the kick of an ostrich is incredibly powerful! One kick is enough to completely kill a predator or even rip the jaw right off the mouth!

So for a leopard size, even the heaviest meal, which would be up to about 90 kilograms, approximately 200 pounds, they are about! I really don't believe they would go for ostrich, of course! If it was a very, very young ostrich, and it was maybe alone and lost and wandering around, then, of course, they would seize that opportunity!

But an adult ostrich would be far too big for a leopard! I have seen footage of lions killing them, however, and it's a risky, risky business! The lion is risking potential injury, potential death from an ostrich!

Their extremely large, tall, and very, very powerful birds—Hosanna would definitely not attempt an ostrich, put it that way!

Now, obviously, I did spend some time with the leopards up in the Mara, and every time we saw them with a kill, it was very similar to here! They always had Thomson's gazelles or impalas! They have to take down what is suitable to their size and strength!

And of course, they're solitary, so lions can hunt cooperatively in groups, whereas leopards don't! So they can't take off! Well, they can't bite more than they can chew! Let's see! Even although I'm sure their eyes are too big for their belly, and they would love to take that something like that—of course, they can't risk that!

I would really not be a good idea! Look at him just perfectly positioned! They are! You are a photographer's dream, Hosanna! Compared to the likes of Miss Randy and Columba the past few days, they are not photographer's dreams!

Well, I'm sure they are, but they are just notoriously difficult to actually get to see! To take photos, so I'm—whereas here, Messiah is doing a perfect job! Oh, posing for all of us right on cue! And of course, it's sunny! He always appears and hangs around on a Sunday!

Nancy's saying it's a lazy Sunday! Yes, I love lazy Sundays! It was my favorite day of the week, of course before I came out here! And I forget exactly what day it is! I even forget what month it is sometimes! But generally, I do love a lazy Sunday! And clearly, so does Hosanna!

Oh, something has caught his attention! Well, it looks like he's positioned himself perfect because he heard every word I see, and apparently Trish didn't have hyenas, but of course she's looking very hard to find them, so let's go and get an update!

I am on the move, but let's have a quick drive-by! I'm actually going to scratch around for some adults because when you can have a look at them here—we have two cubbies! Yeah!

And in the thickness—hello? It's one of Pretty's and then one of June's at the back there! I'm just gonna drive about; I'm still in the road, so I'm okay! But I'm gonna drive on and see if there's any adults around. Because Steve did say that he saw an adult when he came through here!

So let's go around this mound! They seem to almost be in the thicket or the sort of drainage at the bottom there! I'm just gonna check up this way! I'm just gonna push in here, see if we can see any movement!

Lauren, you would like to know which one of Pretty's cubs has ET on it? Let's actually—let me show you the different types! So this one is Swasey, Pretty's male cub! This is debated! This one here looks like the ET one!

I haven't seen them in so long! So we have Swasey, we have Indi, Bailey, Plunk, we all know Plunk, Swana! Okay, sorry, guys, but we're gonna have to go because this little one is getting curious and walking towards the car! Even though I've moved away from the den, excuse me, do you have an adult present?

See, this is the problem; this is why we can’t—you're gonna get scared when I start up! Hello, it's basically that the bonnet—then it's gonna get a very big scare! No? Okay, no, we have to go! This one's out too! Sorry guys! I'm gonna have to scan you! It's for your own good! Mischief-makers!

See if they were there! Or if they had a—if we had an adult around, this would be awesome! I’m just trying to scratch it on, and I'm he—they were all the way down! That's why I’ve driven on the road for a bit!

It still came this way, and that's why they're following the vehicle! And that is not a good thing, especially if there's no adult around. The older cubs are slightly better because they're not gonna be by the den.

Anyway! I'm talking about pretty and pretty sync up and plunk! But these small ones, those are the ones that I worry about! Anyway, I'm going to keep on trying to figure out if there's an adult anywhere around yet!

Maybe just drive the length of the road! But in the meantime, I'll send you over to Hosanna and Lauren since they seem to be having a better luck!

Makers hyena cubs are indeed and it's quite a few times now we've gone to that saying we are we've actually seen the cubs of three of them—Ribbons one and June's two! And it's been beautiful moments, a beautiful sighting!

But of course, we can't see there because there's no adults around! So what I'm starting to feel is that they are getting to that age where the mothers are not returning every single day.

So there's a lot of studies done that analyzing the milk of hyena mothers, and it shows that they often do need to spend time or we nourish in themselves eating as much as they can—sorry, I keep catching what's on his face, and it just makes my heart melt!

I'm nourishing themselves as much as they can, and then, of course, they come back and return; and this actually provides the cubs with a much higher energy level nutrition, fatty acids, proteins—all sorts of things, including calcium!

And so the mothers do spend a lot more time away from the dens when the cubs get that little bit older! When they're very, very young, especially in that black bear stage, of course, they depend on the mother quite heavily. Similarly with cats or your lions and the leopards—they will be born and stashed away in a really secret den!

The lioness will also move herself away from the prey, and a leopard will find a really, really hidden den somewhere to keep the cubs until they're actually ready to sort of face the world, if you like!

And lion cubs can even start eating meat at around six weeks to train themselves to sort of build up their immune system, practice eating! But of course, the mother will continue to suckle for a little while longer after that!

So hopefully, maybe if Trishalla pops back later, the adults might be around! I named, of course, we can spend far more time in the day! And if they are, and believe it or not, where Hosanna is right now, is really not that far from the dens—not too far at all!

And not too far from the lions either, which is really interesting! Everything is in very close proximity to everything else out here! So of course, they will all bump paths more often than not!

And we see sightings with Hosanna and hyenas regularly, and it is rather entertaining—because they're not gonna attack one another! Generally, they make their feelings known!

Hosanna both snarl, he'll growl sometimes, I you know even snarls! But generally, they tend to just avoid and ignore each other as much as possible! How Sanne knows that! He's been through these wars and adventures, and he's very aware of what he can take on and what he can't!

So even after his incident with Inka Hoomah, once where he got chased up the tree! He’s still here; he’s in the exact area that tree was just, oh, maybe a hundred meters behind us!

Possibly! I'm not very good at judging distance! But basically, we're in the exact same area where that tree was! So it hasn't put him off is what I'm trying to say!

He's still around for now! But generally, we do tend to find that when the lions are around and such big numbers, especially because lions are so vocal, the evoke us!

And the Inka Hoomans, that we do tend to see our leopards a little bit less! They're either hiding or they have crossed off into other properties presumably because the lions are around!

What are you looking at, boy? That sun's really starting to get lower now! I can feel the temperature of the air really changing!

Though he's just given you a beautiful look at the sun starting to set! Everybody's saying that they can see he's hungry! Yes! I think! Yes, of course, to make hunts and stalk!

The way he stalks going along the ground like that—it's not a natural gait! So by him just keeping his tummy low to the ground, bending his legs, his shoulder blades up, that's expending a lot of energy!

It's a lot of energy into stalking and making potential hunts! So of course, he will be hungry now; wasting all that energy and not replenishing it! He will absolutely need to eat soon!

No just, no I'm not gonna go anywhere! I am gonna stay with him and see if he gets lucky and manages to make a kill!

So while I wait and see exactly what this boy gets up to, it looks like Raja has had some luck with the hyenas. No luck except luck in the slight form—came or very slightly claim in the form of Steve! So Si said he saw some hyenas around the same place that he had seen them before!

So I'm going to head there while he makes his way to the lions! Hopefully, I'll be able to see Cookie because it's in that same area that Steve saw them before sort of the eastern area of the reserve! Where ordinarily they're in the western sort of quadrant or central and western!

Oh, I love them! No, don't go! No! Hello! Gosh, I really love them! They're both bobbing—they've both got black collar bars! But the black collar bar would call— I really, really like!

I could never do it to save my life! I couldn't do it! Oh, beautiful! Even with slightly grey clouds in the background, still absolutely stunning! There you go! Wipe your beak off and clean yourself! Yes, well, like birds start the day, of course, with a bit of a bit of preening and a bit of food, a snack!

So they close their day! It's been a while since I've seen them; it's always nice! There's one that hangs out near camp, but even that one I haven't seen in a while!

Kristen Babbitt said all over at the moment around camp! They've joined, though, the hornballs and the starlings and terrorizing us when we're near the kitchen! Gorgeous!

Anyway, guys, I've got to make my way down there to the hyenas! The spot where the hyenas were seen because I don't want them to go anywhere!

The problem is I suspect that they're where they are may not because where Steve had them last time! I'm not sure if he had them at the den site or they moved to another site, so I want to get there as quick as possible so I can see!

Hello! Hello! Call it Bob! That she would follow us! Are you gonna follow us?

No, no, you just above us! She'd never look up when there's a bird above you because it most definitely will take that opportunity to christen you! Almost always happens that way!

Sometimes I've gotta vet my eyes! Me, no! Don't, don't, don't! I am having great bad luck!

So maybe during the TV show, I could hope for a few hours! Which I wouldn't find at all! Tell if you'd like to know if black-colored barbets are endangered?

They're not! I think they are not even listed! They are vulnerable! Not threatened; it’s probably the right word! But to be honest, most of the animals are in decline!

Anyway, I think something like a ridiculous amount of species—more than 50%—in decline!

So it probably is in decline, er, but that all—all that threat and things like that is linked a lot to climate change!

And the way things have been going, she's not particularly great! And how sneaky was I with this one? Because this one is pretty sneaky in my opinion!

Now it's not speaking anymore because I didn't do it! But a lot of these things are caused by climate change!

And on this day in 1988, a very well-known scientist—why did I just—I just thought I heard something!

We'll see if you can get in there! So if you see, there's a nice gap! In there, next down to the more wanty and I just thought I heard the beginnings of something that's going to start soaring! And I was really hoping that it would, but alas not!

Hmm, okay! I just—I just want to just stay here for ten seconds just so I can listen! I'll talk to you while I listen!

But it was James Edward Hansen in 1988 that actually had this discussion on climate change! And the problems associated with climate change that seemed to spark the whole scientific community being involved!

In the fact that it needs to be mediated right now! Everything needs to mitigate it right now! And we need to have some sort of plan in place! Camps satisfied! We definitely need to have a sort of cannons in place!

And the amount of species that are going to really really be affected by it is just ridiculous! It's a huge amount! Because so many of us are dependent on temperature!

If you go a few degrees out of your normal body temperature, you can be a goner! Because your enzymes and your proteins will all be denatured if it's too hot! And once it's denatured, it doesn't come back!

You have to generate a lot of those benefits, which would be good! But it certainly would! There are some—she don't wanna be that off there!

Little bit less, actually, has to be the same thing happens in the tropics! Anyway, I will send you over to Steve while I make my wage to where those hyenas possibly!

Well, and hopefully when you get back, I'll have them there on the move! And they headed straight towards tree house dam! So I made that call to come back just in time!

Otherwise, we would have lost them! The problem is if they decide to go to treehouse dam and then head off South again, and they're gonna leave the property! Hopefully they hunt!

I think they're looking hungry! They’ve just been jogging off to something! But let's see if we can follow them through here!

Here comes another female! Very good! Very exciting! Lions on the move! Sorry, Craig! I'm gonna have to squeeze under this bush here for you!

Hello there! We go! Is ridge nose with her belly? Hmm, do you know what's going on here?

There's a few vultures here! Sorry, Josh! I'm gonna get to you now with the vultures! Yeah, that's how the lions have jogged in here! They're probably, you know, they're busy sniffing the ground over there!

Just sure, yo! How many lions are in the park? Honestly couldn't give you that answer right now! It's a very good question!

Very good question! Lions are all around— something over there! But it's not uncommon for lions to follow vultures! They’re even looking up the tree where the vultures were sitting!

So, Craig, oh sneezing! And hello, beautiful cats! Oh, they're gorgeous! Look at all of them! Maybe they killed something here this morning because their tracks did come from this sort of area!

And looking up the tree! Who, the vultures?

Okay, what do you guys have for us? They're also looking down the way there. I don't know what they've seen; they've got very good senses of smell and hearing insight!

And this is marvelous to cut all of in there! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight—now nine! One of the males is missing; I can't! They're gonna come and lie down over here!

Very good! Very good! I wonder if there's something there on the floor—they're all sniffing! At the moment before it's awesome! Yes, go north! That's it, ladies!

It's also possible that because we saw the pride had sort of joined up this morning coming from different directions, it's also possible that some members of the pride made a kill here! And the ones that have been walking very slowly behind are probably involved in that!

That's why they weren't too keen to move forward, and now the others, after following the vultures' activity, now decided to plop down! One of the things I like about winter is that the lions get up a lot earlier!

So Joshua, I'm not 100% sure how many lions are in the Kruger National Park! I'll have to research that for you! Alice, as far as I'm aware, the Birmingham boys are indeed the fathers of all of the youngsters in the pride, and it was before my time!

But they were the reigning dominant males for the last few years, which would make them indeed dads! Make the group of them fathers who exactly would be the actual fathers of each cub—it's hard to tell sometimes!

But sometimes you can actually see the look on the lion's face; you can kind of tell who is dad or if it's a male legacy! You get a very similar main development to dad! Genetic traits passed on!

Okay, do you hear people over there? Okay, I think there are people having a sundowner! Nancy, a lion picnic is definitely an interesting affair! They don't normally carry much with them; they normally grab it along the way!

Okay! I ain't in that pier for a little bit, and then probably go down and have a drink! Okay!

Well, Hosanna, he is probably also going to be having a picnic at some stage! Let's go back over to Lauren, who is enjoying a sundowner with the little chief, Hosanna!

Hosanna is indeed having a sundowner! He has moved yet again, and he has perfectly positioned himself on a termite mound, which gives him a great view of the landscape!

Perfect vantage point! And of course, he is just looking around! Every bird that soars ahead, he checks it out! Every movement that's happening in the thicket, he also has a look to see exactly what it could be! Typical Hosanna!

Always claiming up into the praying position where that gorgeous sun sets behind him! And we actually had a question earlier about the lions attracting the lion's attention!

And it's about somewhere between five and ten percent of all leopard kills, which aren't too regular, well, in comparison to the amount of attempts that they make, that are actually stolen by lions, especially! And also some other predators like your hyenas! Spot lions especially!

It's somewhere between five and ten percent! So imagine every time you make yourself a nice dinner, and you put a lot of effort into it, and kill, then, of course, you lose it