Safari Live - Day 360 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised.

Hello everybody and good afternoon! How awesome is this? We're kicking off our sunset safari with awesome animals! Well, welcome aboard everyone! I am Shoshanna, and I've got said on camera with me, and we are of course coming to you from Juma Private Game Reserve here on the western fringes of the Kruger National Park.

Now, do remember to interact with us and use the hashtag #SafariLive on Twitter, or of course the YouTube chat stream to ask us any questions you'd like about these lovely Avoca males that we've got here. Now we do have two—so we've got this guy right here, who's quite tired, as lions do in the middle of the day, finding a good spot of shade.

Although I think he could have done a bit better with his choice of shade, but maybe he wants a bit of sun on him too. Absolutely beautiful! I always love to spend time with the Avoca males because I think that they're absolutely majestic.

Sound a bit funny actually—my mic has come out. Yes, it has! There we go! I'm sorry if I sound very funny, but I'm just going to fix this—way! Hello! Hello! Is that better? Yay! I'm so sorry, guys, but like I was saying, we're talking about these Avoca males. So we have the one here, and there's one behind us as well.

Well, not quite behind us—a little distance behind us. So I will keep up with them for most of the day, I think, until they feel a bit too sleepy. But I don't want to lose them once the sun starts to set, you see. Absolutely stunning!

Now, this gives you a really good impression of how these can be so camouflaged. Cheryl, you say this is an amazing start! I couldn't agree with you more; this is an excellent start! I'm so glad that we found them.

Now you can see in the really brown sort of dried-up grass in the sun that's hitting on it; these animals are really well camouflaged. Something just bothered him now! If we think of wandering about who we've got... yeah, he only picked his head up very briefly, so didn’t get a very obvious look at him, but he is either the blond or the dark-mane Avoca because I think the mohawked one is behind us. Look at the flick of the tail!

Now it’s really awesome to see these animals in their natural environment and something I’m really thankful for because so often most people see animals like this in zoos. I mean, it's one thing, and they're still absolutely amazing, but to see them in a natural environment where they're choosing to be here and choosing to sit down right here is just amazing!

I love how he swats himself every now and then with the little tuft of his tail. This is very exciting! I think I'm as excited as you guys are! I always love to see them, especially when you see their faces and you think, wow, what an amazing animal!

Now for those of you who don't know, the Avoca males are the dominant coalition in this area. The lions that you may be familiar with, the Inca Houmas, which is the resident pride here, basically kind of belong to this coalition. There're three of them: we've got the dark mane, the blonde mane, and the mohawked male, and they were born in about 2013.

You can see they have this nice big beautiful mane. Anyway, I’m going to stick around with them, of course I am—how could I leave them? This is an excellent start to the show!

Well, let me send you over to James and see if he can even trump this!

I am the ghost of the wilderness, and I am driving the car today. You can ask any questions you like using the hashtag #SafariLive on Twitter or just think of a question, and I will answer it for you. Not really—it was me. I know you're very surprised!

Hello, welcome to the sunset safari. As Shoshanna has explained, we are gearing up for television! Pressure is not quite as profound as it was last week when we had nothing at the start of the drive. Now we've got two flat lions, who will almost certainly walk west off the reserve at about 29 minutes past 6:00. Jamie Patterson will hopefully also be heading towards Buffel's Hook waterhole fairly soon to show you Tingana, who has been there for quite some time.

Lauren will have been sitting in the sun for roughly five hours by the time Jamie gets there; she's been babysitting Tingana. And so, while we've got a little bit of cat action at least this afternoon, our plan is to—well, apart from just enjoying the very pleasant temperature of the Sunday afternoon—is to head down sort of around the treehouse area, which is central south and central, central, central around the Mardy drainage system.

Because Herbert is on foot around the area looking for Columba. David, there's the animal that you and I will remember very well from last night's rehearsal.

It is in fact a duiker! Well done! That one has got a particularly impressive unicorn—that is of course a duiker. You and I think we think that that unicorn is there as a sort of deterrent. It’s just hair!

I had a unicorn when I was at school! David, he had a piece of hair. Wouldn't sit down. It was very embarrassing—too plucked! I hadn’t brushed my head! No I wasn’t brave enough for a mohawk, David.

Right, let’s continue along here. Shoshanna's powerful voice is coming into the airwaves, so Rusty and Herbie were tracking Columba over there.

What he and the trucks came into that area over there, which looks like very good leopard country indeed. And so Herbert has very kindly offered to help us try and find her this afternoon, and we will do our best to give him a hand, which will probably mean we'll just drive around aimlessly until he finds something for us! That’s not true!

I was having a talk with Jaime today, and she said to me—this is something I must confess, there are very few things I realized before Jaime Patterson—but this thing I definitely did realize before her! And we were talking about the fact that many people say that they are tracking a leopard.

I’m going to go and track a leopard! Well, what they actually mean is I’m going to go and find a leopard track, and then I’m going to blunder about in the general vicinity of where that track was made.

And if I find the leopard, I will say that I've tracked it! But in actual fact, what will have occurred is that it stepped out in front of me or I’ve managed to spot it at all, and nearly ran over it or I kicked it out of a bush! Basically, because it is so hard unless you have the skills of Herbert—skills born of not a three-month training course or a year-long training course but of years and years and years of refining the craft.

All right, let’s go across to Jamie now. She broke her aerial as she drove out of camp, and I think Marcel has now fixed it—It is fixed? It is fixed!

Many thanks to Marcel! A very good afternoon to all! Welcome to my portion of the sunset safari. My name is Jamie, and this afternoon Craig is behind the camera.

We got off to a truly auspicious start; we were probably about 50 meters outside of the camp, I went over a bump, and the antenna went! Look, it's actually quite funny—it just kind of broke! I guess it was probably more entertaining if you were there. One of those had to be there moments! But I thought it was hilarious!

Anyway, it's wear and tear through years of driving over bumps, or however long the antenna has been up there, and the plastic broke. But naturally, because I was driving, you can imagine the jokes are going to flow for days to come until people forget about it. Oh jeepers!

Squirrel! That made it back in the grass! Yeah! I would—please don’t add to the stress of my afternoon! Just bounced out almost under my tire! There, my word! The environment is not being kind to my poor adrenal glands.

Now once upon a time, a broken antenna before a TV show would have driven me mad with sheer stress, but now, it was just funny—no, I just laughed at it! Yes, apparently James did let the cats out of the bag! Obviously, poor old Lauren has had to sit much longer than intended to babysit Tingana, for which I am deeply thankful!

We're making our way there now; I’m still ages away and just left camp now. I’ll get there eventually; I'm not too worried! He'll start moving in the next half an hour or so!

I am worried that he's just going to go bye-bye into Buffel's Hook in time for the TV show! But at least you guys will get to see him before he does that. That's my standard TV luck—lions gone, leopards gone! So, you know—

But, also, of course, a big thank you to Sydney, who is the one who ultimately found him! This sort of in the middle of the day today; we had relay teams! So I went out this morning as soon as it got light, and then everybody jumped on board and searched for animals from there.

And of course, as we finished morning Drive, we got the reports that the lions had come wandering across onto Juma. Speaking of which, off you pop across to Trishala, so I can put my foot down and relieve Lauren!

Now I’ve got some really cute paws here, don't you think? So I know it's not the word usually associated with large male lions, but I do think they're very cute!

Now we’ve been joined by another vehicle too, so if you hear people chattering in the background, that's probably what it is. It's definitely not emanating from the lions. He is stunning!

No, he doesn't look as if he's eaten too much; you can see that slightly round in the belly! But not quite. So I hope they'll get something!

Roberts, you'd like to know if there's another male coalition that's a threat to the Avocas as well. The only one I could think of would be the Birmingham boys, and they have moved further south. So I doubt that they would actually come back this way considering that they vacated the area.

It's not as if they already—as if the Avoca males had fought for this territory; they sort of just left it vacant, and the Avoca males came in. So at the moment, I don't really think there’s going to be any issues, or there are going to be any issues for these males, and everything seems to be going smoothly so far.

Not that I'm any doctor of full-on lion social kind of relationships! But I feel like the Inca Houmas and them, it's a nice sort of stable lion family. It would be interesting to see what would happen if other males come in.

About a month ago, close to the Manya Letty boundary, I had seen another male that was actually—not I mean, if he wanted to come in here, he could come in here—apparently he had wandered in from the Kruger, probably a nomadic male that's just kind of moving about, maybe trying to join the coalition if it's slightly younger!

But it definitely hasn’t strolled down this way, and if it had, it would mean quite ferocious fights—in fact, fights to the death! If he didn’t retreat, you'll find that they might fight amongst themselves as well between the Avoca—well, as in within their coalition.

They would fight, especially when it comes to around mating time or even around a carcass they might, but when I say fight, it's more of a scuffle—they hardly hurt each other.

Unless there is a major—it’s just differences! There is really no need to fight because it doesn't benefit them to be able to fight!

Now, I can hear lots of you say the Avoca male is your spirit animal right now. I think so! I think it is brave and powerful and majestic! Is that what you are? Clearly, that’s what you are!

Now I’m telling in this direction because I can hear impalas—I just can’t see them yet, but in that direction I can hear them, and there were even some behind us.

And they’re very, very noisy as usual in the rutting season! But I thought that maybe it would get the attention of these guys, but clearly, they’re too tired and it is too hot!

Although I didn’t think it was that hot today! But maybe they just need a rest; they're not hungry just yet, or they just don't have the energy to do anything about it just yet. Look at that foot!

I like that you say—I couldn't get the name there, it was Volvo—oh, bold! Bold! But you say that you love seeing lions lying around! Oh, I do love it! I love a cheesy joke!

I absolutely do! Even better than a cheesy joke is a cheesy joke with a bit of science in it! Then I feel particularly nerdy. Very cute!

So after this, I think I might go out and see what the other one is doing! Robert, you'd like to know when we name these boys?

Well, as far as I know, when it comes to lions or really most big high-profile animals here, we don't particularly—we're not particularly involved in naming them on our own, so it has a lot to do with the other lodges that are around and all of that.

It's not as if they belong to us, that makes sense? So for me, until the name comes along, we just kind of use descriptive names like you would have heard—Mohawk male, blond male, dark mane male.

So we use these descriptive names; it's really helpful because it can—we can tell who's who just by the name! It just helps with memory as well. But they'd have to be a trio of some sort!

I think it is a beautiful day in the African bush! Look at that sunlight just creeping through! Buds are going—it is beautiful!

All these horrible pests that sometimes irritate them induce this little reflex of the ears and the tail! You’d have seen that at the same way as you automatically SWAT when something lands on you or scratch! It's almost just an automated response!

I want to swing around because he looks like he's fairly put and have a look at the other Avoca Male, but while I do that, let me send you over to James and see how his search is going.

Well, it's not going too badly, I must say! I was feeling slightly insulted there, I must tell you—insulted! I was feeling because not one of you has complimented me on my haircut!

I don't know if I feel that—that’s not really fair! Not even David, who’s on camera, even noticed that had a haircut! I think that’s very unfair!

All right, I’ll get over it eventually and you won’t see it, but it’s very bald—a little bit of fuzz on top! Oh yeah, Mr. Capote in the back did! Did I know?

Oh yes I did! They're just too bad—Asscar, by the way, if you're interested. Yeah, my grandmother’s ashtray, youngster!

Yeah, thank you! This is world toast! Sorry, everybody, and get this on an ordinary game drive! All my follicles are dead, David.

Andrew, you make a valid point! You say there’s a difference between a shave and a haircut! Yes, yes! I think that’s fair!

I suppose I have had more of a shave, haven’t I? That's what I do with the shaver! Right! So we hadn't got that play from Herbie and Herbie has found some old tracks!

Those tracks are heading towards the sort of area to the south of quarantine—hearings—which are just south of the camp. So possibly heading towards the waterhole here by way of avoiding the hyena den but possibly just hunting! I think she's just hunting!

And I think that if you keep your eye on the dam cam, that's gonna be your best bet for trances of Columba—but we'll keep trying.

Little giraffe calf tracks here! It’s a lovely afternoon! Apart from the fact that I didn’t shave very well! Anyway, we're also trying to find some other interesting creatures.

There's something on the top of that termite mound—I think it’s another piece of termite mound! Yes! Look at that, David! Gorgeous top of the termite mound!

Thank you, Mr. Nam Andrus! You say the bold and the beautiful, huh? Am I the bold and is David the beautiful? I'm sure that that’s—I'm happy about that!

It was just a termite mound that looked a little bit like a leopard! It’s around here. I'm not sure if any of you remember; I’m sure some of you remember that we had Tandi and Colombo together.

No, we didn’t! Sorry, we had only Tandi! And Tandi was looking for Telumbar, and she spent about two hours sort of calling and calling around here, and we thought perhaps that something terrible had happened.

But it was very characteristic of Columba in her early years because— or her early months because she was fiercely independent from almost the word go!

All right, let's go back to Jaime Patterson! She’s made her way to the northeast corner of Buffel’s Hook with a surprise!

I have made my way to Prague, but look, look, look! What we've got here—it must be James's misty honey badger; only, it's no longer misty!

How cool is this? Sorry, Tingana is here, but he is currently settled down on the dam wall and he's not moving! So obviously, we are extremely excited about this honey badger that is currently drinking from one of the mud puddles.

Well, I think it's drinking; it could, of course, be digging for something as well! Possibly a frog—then get all sorts of things! Maybe even catfish in the bottom of this dam well!

But I think looking at its face now as it pops back up, I think it might be water! How cool is this? This is the best afternoon ever! There's a leopard; there's a hippo! Sorry!

Oh, okay. Craig’s having an issue with his camera; we need to actually just try and sort that out quickly as quickly as possible! This is a truly auspicious afternoon! It's bizarre, I know!

Okay! All right! We'll be back shortly, guys! We're going to send you across to Trish while we problem-solve the camera! We’ll be back, hopefully!

Well, I have come to the other male now, and we have the Mohawk male here! You can see he's really obvious because he has kind of male pattern baldness at the top just a little bit, but it's really obvious!

Now, he tends to be a little bit skittish, and he was when I first entered here! And they were kind of split! I thought, let me come to him first because he was not asleep! But as soon as he saw me moving towards him, he was just kind of very skittish!

But then when we sit with him for a few minutes, he gets fine, and he’s comfortable like he is now! It’s always nice to have a lion that's awake in the day! You can see that he's very sleepy!

You look very tired, boy! You can see all those scratches on his face, which are sort of testament to, I suppose, all he's experienced! So pretty—handsome, should I say?

I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to call you pretty, but I do think you're pretty too! Very lazy lions, as you can see! But I do hope that in the evening, they will start to be on the move!

They'll probably be on the move slightly earlier these days because the sun is setting earlier and the temperatures are lower! So who knows? Maybe they may just go ahead and hunt!

We'll be lucky! Anyway, let’s go to Jamie with that honey badger that I’m so jealous about! We don’t want to miss a moment of the honey badger!

Unfortunately, it seems as though Craig hasn’t managed to sort out his camera issues! This is so exciting! I haven’t seen a honey badger in forever, and I always enjoy them!

They’re one of my favorite animals—just obviously I think most people feel this way! So what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna bring in a slightly wider audience just because this is—so they’re so exciting!

Welcome, welcome to a truly unusual sighting at this time of day—a honey badger digging through the dried and cracked mud of a waterhole! As we move off into our dry season, this of course is 100 percent live, and you’re watching us here in the greater Kruger National Park area of South Africa!

So right up in the top, sort of northeastern corner of one of the world’s most beautiful countries! And biased of course! And we’ve got an animal that we hardly ever get to see! They’re very very shy!

But of course, an animal that most people are familiar with purely due to their fearsome reputation! So a honey badger, of course, is known for its incredibly—four tiny little creature, it's incredibly gutsy behavior!

And the way in which it will tackle predators much larger than itself! Helen says that he is so cute; he is really cute! Don’t let—oh, look at him! He's covered in muddy water!

He’s trotting away; there’s some Franklin there! And it’s really, really unusual! They’re typically nocturnal creatures! Or largely nocturnal creatures! You do occasionally see them during the day!

But there are times that you actually get to see them are pretty rare! That was really very, very cool! And there’s actually quite a bit happening! There’s a hippopotamus at the edge of the waterhole as well!

Hey Shelly, our honey badger has run off but you want to know if he is fishing or if he was fishing? I think it’s a possibility, Shelly! He might have been digging for water! But I think he was looking for frogs and fish in the dry, derred mud!

There’s a much happening here at the moment! He’s really, really cool! So I think he was looking for something else! I think he was looking for food, and I think that's why that particular honey badger has been hanging around this waterhole!

Which of course upsets the local inhabitants—not that he is a threat to the hippopotamus! Yes Susan, it is! I’m pretty certain that it is the same honey badger that we saw the other day!

This hippo is a little bit upset; it’s not upset at us, though! No, you don’t need to worry! There’s so much going on at this waterhole.

Shame! All of the animals get increasingly stressed out as their water dries up! And it’s obviously particularly difficult for the hippopotamus of this area! We are going into the dry season!

Patty, Patty says that this is such a beautiful sighting! Patty, it really, really is! It is a spectacular way to spend a Sunday afternoon! I really can’t think of a better way to do so!

He’s moving down into the water! Boy! Here you go scattering his dung with his tail! Remember that you can also ask your questions as well in the comment section now!

Chris, you want to know if it’s normal for the hippos to be around an area where there’s no water at this time of year? Chris, yes it is! It really is! Because there are certain areas where the waterholes have retained a little bit of water, but they are chock-a-block full of hippopotamus at the moment!

And for bulls—the males—like at this one, it becomes very difficult for them to secure a spot in a place like that! So as a result, males that aren't able to compete with other males will actually need to move out to other areas!

Now, I’m going to have to do some shuffling around in a moment, and I’m probably going to have to move and turn around! It’s been amazing being joined by all—absolutely fantastic! I hope you enjoyed that honey badger sighting!

And I hope that we get to see you again! Remember, if you want to see more of the safari, you can google #SafariLive, and you will find us every day, twice a day! Hope you had fun, and we’ll see you on safari soon!

All righty, guys! Obviously, Scuba Steve is decidedly unsettled by all of the activity that’s going on in the water around Tingana! So Tingana’s lying on the dam wall! You can't see him from where I’m parked at the moment, but there are other vehicles here!

And that’s actually what’s causing Steve’s response! And that's why I was sort of getting a little bit nervy there at one point because one of the vehicles is trapped—not trapped down there, but one of the vehicles is down there, and it's obviously he’s now come down out of the drainage line!

He wasn't in the water when the vehicle made its way down there, but he's now popped out of the bushes, and he is discomforted! Hence why I was trying to suggest we might need to shuffle around! So it's not us that he’s upset with, but there’s absolutely nothing the guys can do except still sit still for a little bit and hopefully not add to any of his stress!

This is just what happens with hippopotamus when they are—in this kind of position where there's no water around! The vehicle's gonna try and move now while he’s where he is and going to try and move out of the area that they're in. I think they’re gonna manage to get around without getting too close to him— that’s what they’re gonna do! They’re gonna give that a go!

All right guys, while we try and sort this all out and I get you back into position to see Tingana! How cool is that? We saw a honey badger as well!

Oh he gonna send you across to Trishala, who is still with her lions!

Oh, how awesome! Honey badger! Tingana! And these two, how awesome is that? That’s actually very, very, very cool! It’s gonna be a great drive! This guy’s still sussing us out just a little bit!

He lifts his head up every now and then to give me a look. In fact, he gave me a yawn and a lick of his lips! I fear— I don’t think you’ll get too much meat off me!

And we’re asleep! But not quite! No, he looks quite OSE! Like, what an interesting question you’d like to know if I know whether nomadic males come from the Kruger to mate?

I'm here, I really wouldn’t know! I mean, a female in oestrus is gonna mate with any males that are around. But the problem is you don’t want these males to find out, basically!

So the potential for it to happen is obviously there! But I don’t know if that’s the purpose of them moving out or just simply because they’re nomadic males—they’re constantly moving!

But that’s really interesting! It’d be nice to be able to actually monitor a few males coming from there! And actually see what they do when they get showed!

Just transition through, until they find a coalition! Or have just—there's another really distinctive feature that kind of uneven—but on his bottom incisors he’s got a—oh, kind of—can you see it? There we go!

He’s showing it to us! But yes, yes, as we were saying about the nomadic males, yeah, I’m really not sure, but the possibility is definitely there, as long as they don’t get caught!

I wouldn’t want to be caught with one of these peoples—ladies! Look at them! They're going to smash anyone else that comes in! But of course, only if they know!

Since I’ve been here, at least, there hasn’t been any other males that have come in! I mean, adult males, of course! We had the monkey and email who came and the Tell Amati male!

Oh Linda, you say if we look closely at his nose, we will be able to see the letter A for Avoca! Well done, Mr. Lion! You have labeled yourself very easily!

So you can see now exactly why this is such an easy one to ID! Because now that we know he’s got an A on his nose! Hopefully he’ll show it to us!

He’s eyeing us out properly, and the one on the side is a little bit open! He seems restless! I wonder what it could be!

He's not comfortable in his spot every now and then! I can hear him when he kind of—with his tongue in his mouth—hopefully he'll do one slightly louder just now!

Oh, he looks adorable! Slightly curled up there! Susan, you’d like to know if the Avocas ever venture into the Kruger? Well, the Kruger’s actually not that far from us—the boundary for the Kruger is just kind of beyond Buffel's Hook and my near Letty, I think.

And as far as I know, these guys actually came from the Timbavati! So I’m not sure that they had needed to cross into the Kruger, or whether they eventually did because they can!

But considering, like I had said, that there were other males around in that area who had already come in or come out of the Kruger towards the side, even though not very closely!

I think that would deter these guys from being on the property at the same time! I’ll bring in that area at the same time as there are other males, you see?

Even though animals do fight and they do defend territories quite fiercely, they don't want to be injured, because if they’re injured, it means that their fitness goes down! And they don’t want their fitness to go down, because that means that their survival chance of survival is gonna be lower!

So that’s not something that any animal wants! So they will really only fight if it’s necessary for them to fight or they feel that the outcome of the fight is more beneficial than the detriment of having that injury!

So it’s kind of to find them, the kind of balance! So a lion or a leopard, when the other kind of predator, would rather avoid confrontation than actually actively go out and seek it!

He's just finally turned in! I think as soon as I turn to the camera, he eyed me out again! Oh, he reminds me of a house cat when he sits like that, all curled up in a little bundle! Very sweet in the tail!

You’ll find that cats in general have a very interesting lineage! And though they have—that are distantly related to our house cats and our smaller cats, the big cattle in lineage is a sort of a bit of a mystery!

But anyway, we’ll talk about it a little more in a bit! Let's go and see how James's search for La Londe's going!

Narcs? Well, is the answer to that question! Not well at all! Roberto has continued to find more tracks! But if he says that she's hunting, it means she's going up and down!

Or in local parlance, if a tracker is talking to his ranger who doesn't speak to Kruger, he'd say mean corns or leanza law up and down! That’s what is going on, so they're going up and down, because she's hunting, looking around the place, turning around, walking back the way, having a second thought, hearing impala—their bird call there!

And so it’s not easy to follow exactly where she's gone! Never mind though! I know that you all have fair concern for my efforts, but I shall prevail! I believe so today!

And David’s efforts, of course, when he is not feeding his face with biltong! Biltong, a South African delicacy! And the wise known as survival rations in the west of the world as jerky!

We’ve been through the many times; I think we’ve been through South African cuisine! Well, unfortunately, because I don’t have any animals, I’m going to be kept to a minimum length of segment!

So we’re going to get back to the leopard, because that’s actually something we’re looking at! I’m sorry James, but we already just managed to get a good view of him, so I’m gonna cut you off!

I promise you you'll find an animal, Herbie! We'll find Claire Lumber for you or something! I don’t know, as well as James's choice! Though he did send me here, and he did say Trish to the lions, and I think that's just because that's the sort of person that he is!

Mm-hmm! So there’s Tingana! I promise you; up until James linked, we had a really lovely view of his face! Now we do not! But never fear! Scuba Steve has calmed down! He's back in his water! The vehicle is safe! All is well!

I will be able to shift around! Mm-hmm! Oh, there’s an elephant coming! There’s an elephant coming! Is that the limpy one? He’s looking so much better! That is really, really good news!

Oh my word! You see, this is why non-intervention is the policy taken by the various people in this area! My word! Everything’s coming to office up! Damn! This is epic!

A little boy, he’s looking okay, guys! He really is! He’s definitely walking better than when I last saw him! Coming for a drink!

So he’s limping badly! I don't know exactly what's wrong with him! Let's see if we can figure out which limit is! I haven't managed to do that yet!

Hey, my boy! Hello, you! So he’s walked all the way from where James saw him yesterday! Tibbles Hook down! I think he's gonna be okay!

Left front? No, right front! Sorry! Although left front looks a bit wobbly as well! Ben says that he is so happy to see that he is doing so much better! I know, me too!

I’m really relieved! You know, it’s always a difficult thing! Although he’s gonna now have to try and get around Scuba Steve! I don’t think Steve’s gonna let him drink! I really don’t!

They already—he’s starting, just snorted him off! Shame! He's smaller than Scuba Steve! He’s going to be intimidated! Come on, Steve!

He just wants a little bit of water! He’s having such a rough time of things here! You go little one! Here we go!

But older than I thought he was, which is also good news! It could mean that he is a lot less stressed about being separate from the rest of his herd!

And you start to develop a certain sense of independence at around about this age! It definitely is a car swollen! I think that right front wrist is the wrist joint decidedly uncomfortable!

That’s where the injury is! Well, now he's lifting up his back leg as well! I don't know what's going on here, to be honest! I'm not one hundred percent sure because no way the way he’s holding that back leg is also—I mean elephants reach their weight on their hips!

But Giraffe Bell wants to know if it could possibly be from a snakebite! Giraffe girl, it's possible but highly unlikely!

Typically because snakes tend to avoid trying to bite elephants because their skin is so thick, it ends up causing the snake more injury! Oh boy, come on Steve!

Just let him have a drink! Just a little bit! Oh, he’s so much smaller than Steve! I don't know if he's gonna be brave enough! But he’s walking really, really well compared to a few days ago when I saw him!

When I saw him a few days ago, he barely moved! Come on, another one! I think Steve’s gonna let him near the water’s edge!

Oh, by the way, I did update—I do keep providing updates to those concerned with regard to this little boy!

So the management of the reserve is aware of him, and they’re monitoring his condition to see how he’s faring at the moment! There’s no—they did go and check him, and there’s no indication that this injury was man-made!

It looks like a natural injury! Oh boy, get your drink! There’s big Mean! Come on, you can do it!

Chris says it looks like his right rear leg is swollen as well! I mean, the wrist of the right front is definitely swollen! But you’re right!

I mean that the back leg—the left back looks much thinner and smaller than the right! Maybe he fell on his right side, and that’s what—that’s why I’ve been struggling to tie down exactly where the injury is!

Looks like he’s gonna get to the water without being chased by Steve! He’s refused to be intimidated! Good boy! Here we go! Oh yeah!

Didn't like that very much, both better! Cleaner water! The elephants are notoriously picky! Well done having a drink at the separate side of the dam too, Steve!

He is looking a little bit thin! So apparently lots of you wondering if a car could do that to an elephant! Oh, sorry, hold on one second!

Yeah, um, guys, I've been trying to fill up—I’d like to make my way in! He is fun! Oh sorry! I was answering a question about the car!

It’s possible, but it is highly, highly, highly unlikely! I think that is people looking for a reason to help treat him! Rather than it actually being a factual thing!

I think the most likely explanation is he got shoved over by a big elephant! And he went over on the wrist joint and possibly the ankle joint as well!

He is looking very sore, but it has massively improved! And you know, it comes down to the conversation we saw often have!

And people are allowed to disagree, but ultimately, it’s never our decision! Ultimately it is the decision of—and it’s the approach of most of South Africa that’s in big open systems where nature can manage herself!

She is allowed to do so! And a far more likely explanation—look, if he'd been obvious evidence of a bullet wound or a snare around those limbs, then he absolutely would be treated!

But also bear in mind that if it is a fracture or a break, there is actually nothing anyone can do!

Are you chiming in, Tingana? Yes? No? Any more you’ve got to say? No, you just gave us a little snore there!

Hmm! So, the non-intervention issue ultimately is a decision made by people who’ve been doing this for a very long time! And it’s not made without compassion!

It really isn't! But a fractured bone, there's nothing that can be done! He is them, but I think he is recovering to be honest! I've never seen him move like this before!

I think it might be a sprain! Michael wants to know whether or not this really could get sick from drinking this water!

First of all, Michael! Welcome! It’s lovely to have you on board! It’s not a name that I've heard before!

Secondly, no! The digestive systems of these animals and their immune systems are such that it takes a lot to actually upset them! And to make them ill!

So no, he won’t be made ill by that! He is absolutely fine! Look! Elephants are picky! If they have the choice, they will—oh boy!

They will definitely drink fresher water! They often dig water as well! But it will not make him ill!

You’ll see as you continue to watch these live safaris, we’ve seen all sorts of creatures eat as well! The most unimaginable things!

Green carcasses with maggots dripping off them! Sorry, I don’t mean to put you off watching! I realized as I said that—that sounded quite revolting!

My intention was not to chase you away! But no, he won't get sick from drinking this water! He will, however, be on water in about a month’s time!

And then it becomes more difficult! He's going to have to recover soon so that he can start covering larger distances to get to other water! Definitely, definitely walking better!

Oh not! Speaks, not! Where is this leopard gone? I've lost the leopard! Hang on! I think he’s snorting at the leopard! Where’s the liquid gone?

Pretty interestingly enough, he pretty wants to know if it could be some kind of arthritis! Look, he is a young elephant! And the only—and I only know this from working in Safari Life actually!

The only times that you find elephants with arthritis is when they have been living in captivity! There is something—oh! Popcorn leopard urine, popcorn scent!

The only time that you find elephants get arthritis is if they had been living in a circus or a zoo! And they haven't moved about enough! Where is he gone, Craig? I can't see him!

They're all looking this way though! So he must be just below me! Mm-hmm! Is he walking? Oh yes, there is! Which way should we look, elephant?

Okay, guys! There’s a good chance my signal is about to disappear! I’m gonna give you a brief look at him quickly because we can’t see him now, and then I’m going to have to loop up and around to get to where he’s moving to! So while I do that, off you pop across to Trishala, who is still with the Avoca males!

Oh, I really hope your signal doesn’t disappear, Jamie! The last thing we want in gremlins today! I really hope that they don’t interfere!

We need to all pull some money and send them on vacation to the North Pole, preferably now! This guy’s only moved around a little bit!

But let's go, of course, what I expect! They still seem a bit restless! It’s not a hundred percent asleep! He does get up every now and then, give us a bit of a yawn stretch!

And then he's flopped over on to the other side again! Now we were talking about how the big cat adds his ancestry is a bit of a mystery!

Or sort of nobody has been able to find too much fossil evidence for them! In fact, the fossil that is currently be found—or the most—the fossil that most closely resembles modern-day lions!

It's from about two million years ago when Tanzania, which is very recent, in the whole cat lineage to be honest! Because the cat family that is normal, small cats plus the big cats and all of that have a history of about 40 million years!

Or at least their ancestors branched out at that point! But these big, big cats, they have sort of a gap! So we don’t really know what the kind of missing link between the small cats and the big cats is!

There was also a fossil found that was three-and-a-half million years ago, also in Tanzania! And those ones are the ones that I’m saying resemble this cat particularly or resemble big cats particularly!

So they are a bit of a mystery! Some recent work has actually pointed to an extinct animal now called Panthera birighta, which was found probably about four point one to five point nine million years ago!

So it adds a little bit more to their lineage! A few extra years to the lineage! Nora, you would like to know if I ever feel odd, or if there’s ever a time when I make eye contact or feel the need to break eye contact!

In fact, just when I got here, he stared at me so intently that I felt the need to break my eye contact! And that’s happened before—not really with—well, it has happened with Avoca’s as well!

But not intense like this was, because his eyes were bright orange, and had the sun coming in on it, and he was staring at me! But the last time that had happened was with Tingana! And he stared at me quite intensely, and I had to actually avert my eyes!

It's a creepy thing! It's almost as if you feel safer if you don't look! It's a weird way! But in the same way, when you look at them, then you have this kind of connection!

It's a weird thing, but I love it! It makes you feel alive! As you'll see when he does tend to look at us, he's got quite an intense stare!

Even when I’ve taken photographs of them, he particularly has a very intense gaze into your soul almost! He has just lifted his back leg for what appears to be nothing because it only picked up about 10 centimeters off the ground and then he promptly put it back down!

Are you dreaming? No, you’re not quite asleep! Puma, you’d like to know if I know where Lions evolved?

Well interestingly, we’ve always kind of assumed that they evolved in Africa, and that would be a pretty safe assumption considering how well adapted they are and how they’ve kind of taken over in terms of being the top predator!

One of the top predators! But the recent work I was telling you about where in the Himalayas they found this Panthera birighta is actually pointing to Central northern Asia as being where they had originated!

So it's quite different to what we first expected! But in that area, apparently, their lineage, or at least we have evidence for their lineage at about ten point seven million years!

So it’s quite interesting to see how they have primarily kind of stuck around in Africa, or they have been very successful in Africa!

I always find it very interesting to think about how these animals came about and why they are the way they are! And so much of it has to do with ecology! It’s not just the animal; it’s about the environment and all of that as well!

Anyway, I did tell him at the top of the hour I will be going into his brother and going to go visit him! So this is the top of the hour. Let me move on and go to the other Avoca male and check on him!

In the meantime, let’s go over to James and see how his search is doing!

We have got some starlings, which I know are not quite as exciting as lions! But you know we are doing our best! I promise to find you some cats!

There are two different species of starlings, no less! We have got the Cape glossy Starling, the one with the yellowish shine, and in came a virtual Starling as well, the one with the black eye!

I actually stopped here because there was a squirrel sitting! Very nasty, sort of bathing in the sun, and then David threw himself around on the back of the car, and the squirrel ran away!

And so now we are substituting the squirrel for the starlings! Also quite a nice picture up top there, David!

Yeah? But you might not like it! It's got pretty colors! But there’s an Impala sitting there; it’s quite nice! I like it too!

Am I taking the legal photograph of it? The light is superb on it! Even say you think it’s very beautiful! That's cool!

Thank you, Faith! We do what we can, you know, for the cause! One of them is going the other Tim that’s a very interesting question, and the answer is very seldom do male impalas kill each other during the rut!

They break their horns! I've seen a couple of eyes that have been stabbed out, which is quite unpleasant! But I have—I don’t actually think I've ever seen an impala that’s been killed by another impala during the rut!

And if you see them having their fights, that’s quite surprising! They do have some fairly vicious contract or confrontations! And yeah, and I’m sure they get nasty headaches!

But they don’t seem to actually ever kill each other, which is very interesting! Could you probably kill each other more when they get their horns locked up?

They get killed quite a lot! Waterbuck apparently are responsible for the most antelope deaths! Sailfin for conspecific and caused deaths!

I've tried to say that in a fancy way and failed horribly! Basically, Waterbuck kill each other more than any other kind of antelope does!

But yeah, I mean, despite the fact that these guys seem to be much more violent, they don’t tend to wipe each other out nearly the frequency that waterbuck do.

I wish this bunch would try and find me a little looking sort of in our direction! Oh little swifter! Hundreds and hundreds of greater blue yet glossy starlings in Juma!

And in fact, the one with the yellow eye that we saw earlier could have been a great blue eared glossy starling!

I didn’t hear a call, and if you don’t hear that call, it’s very easy to confuse them with a Cape Lagasse starling!

And in the light that we had, I could easily have been a greater blue eared glossy starling! We get both of them in abundance around here!

So absolutely, you're obviously a bit of a birder! And for sure, we get them! They make! The easiest way to distinguish their calls—I find the easiest way!

I’ve actually never met anybody else who knows what the hell I'm talking about! But I’m gonna try and tell you! The greater blue eared glossy starling has got a sort of swizzle, Uncle if you like!

And no—doesn’t! The Cape glossy starlings got a bubbling call! And the great abbreviate glossy starling has got a kind of whiny call!

Again! So I like to think of it saying, “Oh!” Well, the Cape glossies darling gentle bubbling cool sounds like darling, darling!

So now I’m sure you’ll all definitely be able to identify the difference! Not so everyone? Good nice picture there, David! David’s taking a nice picture, don’t you think everybody?

That’s an aging actually! My taking legal one myself too! Obviously not nearly as pretty as David’s! That’s because David is a professional!

There’s a very gorgeous picture indeed! All of your green! That’s David, despite his general repulsor trances managing to produce a gorgeous picture now of course, the Sun Goes Down the tracking becomes that much harder!

Called Herbert! I will have to go home very soon! We’ll keep trying!

All right, Sharlala is on shift with the two Avoca males! She's moved from Hana to the other!

I have and I did warn the mohawked male that I will be moving on soon, and it will now be his brother's show! Now the vehicle has joined us again! If you can hear the engine in the background, everyone wants to get their eyeful of these guys!

Now, like I was saying before, I really hope that they’ll get up a little bit earlier on the hunt! Because, of course, of the temperature and the length of the days! Now, the darkness that's coming in slightly earlier!

So cute! I hope they both are not offended by me using cute to describe them, but I do think that they are! Now, talking about hunting and them being waiting for it to cool down before they actually get on the hunt!

It's actually quite relevant for something else! And that is climate change and the rising daytime temperatures!

Now we may not think that it could affect predators in this kind of way, but we know that predators don’t do well in the heat! And we know that they can overheat easily!

And if it is hotter in the days and during the day, then the time that they can actually invest in possibly what they would have hunted, even if it was towards the end of the day, or just when the Sun is bright, will be affected!

Maybe even those times when they may be active are no longer good enough for them because it's too hot! So that's actually an implication of global warming that we don't often think of!

And especially for wild dogs, this can be very true because they will hunt in the day! And when they do that, that time that they can in hunting is really really shortened!

Not only is it shortened, the intensity of the heat while they are on the hunt for those few parts of the day when it is cool enough, it's still going to be higher than they would normally be exposed to!

So there’s also those types of things to think about! And especially when it comes to male lions and of course the mane and the testosterone that evolved in the growth of the mane has a lot to do or apparently has a lot to do with temperature and climate!

So if the lion was in an area where it was particularly hot, then that can actually influence how—and its mane grows!

The darkness which it grows its mane and the length to which it's grown! But apparently, the length at which or how long the mane is only really matters between males sizing themselves up!

And doesn’t actually matter to the females! And that the color is what matters to the females!

We’re talking about temperature! Let’s actually have a look at his mane, even though we can’t see it too well! But it’s nice and thick! Whereas the other males mane is slightly less thick!

And apparently in the heat, this mane is very uncomfortable! And you would think so! I would think so! You’ve got this horrible really big scarf around your neck constantly!

But that means that females think you can deal better with the climate than the other males do! So all these little pieces of the puzzle kind of fitting in the evolutionary puzzle!

Anyway, hopefully he will get up in a little bit! In the meantime, let me send you over to Jamie with her cat hopefully doing something—of course, Tingana doesn’t have a mane!

But he is still intimidating in his own right! He has a jowl instead, which is a massive sort of pouch of skin that extends from his jaw right down to his chest!

Right now he's fixated on something in the bush! I think he spotted some impala, and he is definitely in need of a nice meal!

He’s not the chubby eating ghana that we are so accustomed to seeing! His ever-present limp is there! It was worse when he got up earlier!

It's now sort of stretched out and warmed up! But life is about to get quite difficult for us because he is definitely interested in something in this vegetation!

His ears, of course, far more powerful than ours! He’s obviously picked up the sound of movement! It doesn’t necessarily have to be Impala!

No! In quiet! There just to listen because I thought I heard him—impala their bird call! I think it is a sign of his age that he is looking so thin during rutting season!

Because it really is! It becomes so much easier for the predators to catch themselves! Male Impala that you don't generally see if—and looking leopards at this time of year!

Maybe he’s just had a run of bad luck! I suppose! And he has been absent enough that I thought he was on a kill!

Okay, Mr. Ketchum! I'll catch him! Obviously, fraud! You viewers! I'm not going to go and grab him!

This is good! South! South is good! We like south! South is away from Buffalo!

Where are you going? Onto that termite mound? No! We’re changing direction! We are sitting on a termite mound!

I just want to see where I’m trying to see what he's seen! No, Kathy wants to know if Tingana would ever attempt to go after the injured elephants!

I'm sorry guys! There's another vehicle, okay! Alright! Stand by! Sorry, Craig! Viola chuffing around there!

We obviously can't put people on camera! So if we can avoid it, so I've gotta just reposition! Hmm! No, that elephant is too Big Foot in Ghana!

There's no way if that elephant died naturally! Yes, you would eat it! Eat it!

Hello, my boy! I'm sorry! I'm enough to sneak quite close to you! But I don't see your hunting target yet!

So I think you'll be okay with that! Minister, it’s about as good as I can do for now! I wonder if he's found a water buffalo!

That’s what he’s heard! Something in this hole! That would be exciting for tonight!

So while I speculate, poor James has been doing a lot of speculating! It hasn’t necessarily worked out in his favor yet!

What we have got here, however, is a hyena! And it’s written as far as I can tell! And I’m going to follow her because I think she might be as effective as a tracker as any out here!

I believe the den was active a little bit earlier, and therefore I’m sure she’s just lifted, and it’s possibly leading us to where she can smell some meat!

So I think now! Interestingly, when you do follow our hyena off-road, you’ve got to keep your distance, because they don't tolerate it quite as well as lions and leopards do!

But they also tend to walk in straight, dour directions! So you can give them a little bit more space! She is often along well-worn paths, so let's see where she takes us!

I'm done! If any of you managed to get a good enough view there to decide if that was ribbon, but I’m pretty sure it was from the ear! That looks like a bee—not a buzzy bee! A bee litter bee!

Little bit! And also, she could just be heading to the dam can for a bit of a drink! She’s turning!

'Cause I don’t think you're high! You know, whatever intentionally lead us in the wrong direction—no! She felt threatened enough, and we were near a den, and she thought we were after her!

Maybe she might!

She definitely smelling something! Look at her!

Oh, here we go, here we go! She’s picked something up on the wind!

Hold on tight, everybody! David, where’d she go? She goes to right there! You got her!

Have you? One o'clock going at high speed! Though, this is a nasty patch of ground with some dirty stumps!

Just smelling it is fantastic! Now that's the block that Herbert's in tracking! I don’t think he is in any danger whatsoever from her!

But I think that her intentions are precisely the same as his! Not amazing! Turn our head to the little breezy!

It’s gonna let her try and get a direction! Okay, carry on! She’s running now! Oh! Going straight into the block, everybody!

It’s going to get a bit rough running off here! Oh yeah! Do you see her there, Dave? She went up the rewards! The lift!

Zeki, where that was going?

Alrighty, we're going to hand you back over to Jamie while we try to figure out what's going on here! Very exciting stuff!

Alright, so while James unravels that puzzle! All that ribbon! Huh! We are trying to unravel a mystery of our own!

It seems Tingana has seen something in the distance, or is he deliberately open? He has gone to wait it out on this termite mound!

This termite mound is active! It is an active burrow! All the grass seeds in the eyes! Hey, my boy! Mark his territory!

Oh, his face looks a lot thinner, you know that! I gotcha, video! I gotcha, video! Somebody said shoot to me when they moved in to see the lip, that was quite appalled!

I had no ego! No, you can see him here! He goes! He’s definitely either seen or heard something off in the distance!

Oh! It’s going to be tricky now as he moves through this area! I don’t like this block, but oh well!

Now Lauren, you want to know if the female leopards will find the large jowls attractive! No, not necessarily!

But biological selection will favor males with a large jowl! Because it means they can get an ideal territory!

I’m just gonna make sure I don’t lose him! Just bear with me! Oh, spiderweb! Craig! I’ll save you!

I didn’t save you! I’m sorry! I did my best! So I’ll just get into position here!

Let's go across to James, who by the sound of the game drive radio has found something potentially interesting!

Something to the block! Not everybody! We found what she’s got! She’s got a rotting porcupine!

Everybody said this is exactly where he had the fresh track! But this animal is rotten! You can smell it! You can't, obviously! You got lucky!

You can’t—unbelievable! Look at that! I’m sure Telo Mer would have tried to feed on it! Even if it wasn’t her that killed the porcupine!

This is the first porcupine I've seen here in Juma! This is ribbon! Now ribbon is not a high-ranking member of the Juma clan!

So let’s see if the theory plays out that the lower anchors will not take food back towards the den, and indeed!

She’s not heading anywhere near the den! She’s to also keep a high lookout for the possibility of Columba being right around here!

You know how--you know! If you managed to eat that thing! I tell you what you've got a stomach a second to none, because the odor coming off it is profound!

Where is she taking it? There! And, noses are so amazing! It is amazing, isn't it?

It’s underneath! But that thing’s been dead at least two days! Really doesn't! If something cruel...

Where she's trying to take it! I'm just going to try and keep my distance a bit there!

So I know this might not be the best picture, but she seems a little bit like she's trying to get it away from us!

Oh yes! Tim, the crows can still hurt her for sure! The only difference is of course that they are not attached to them!

Well, they are attached, but they’re not attached to working muscles, which means that the porcupine cannot face them and make them stiff! And point them at the hyena!

She’s also can’t back into the hyena! She’s having a full ger now! Oh my goodness! Is now scratching herself on the quills!

Or possibly trying to pick up the smell of the rotting carcass! Goddamn my dinner tonight, David! I'm going to try and get us a little bit closer so we can at least like a bit of you!

Oh, would Tingana scavenge a meal from Ribbon? He might, he might! It’s a female hyena, a small female hyena!

Probably a slightly lighter than Tingana; not much though! And not a dominant hyena! So you might try as luck!

She’s covering herself now in the stink of this thing! Was that right? Let’s just keep an eye out! Because there’ll be a little leopard somewhere around here!

Absolutely astounding! I mean, I'm assuming that's the porcupine's bladder, not her own!

It’s a little bit like getting some ice cream, David! And then pushing your face into it! You can’t leave it there!

You're just going to leave it general! You're a new viewer, and you say I'm scared being first to her like this?

No, not Janet! Janet, the reason is that she’s used to our vehicles! She's used to us! And she doesn’t see us!

All the vehicles as a threat! And most importantly, she doesn't see us as something to eat! And no, apparently, does she see that porcupine as something to eat!

I'm going to leave the carcass there because I want to follow this hyena! I think she may well lead us to our ultimate goal, which is Shalem alphas!

What Andy fascinating was that incredible! Like I said, I wonder if Columba didn’t kill that porcupine and then reject it because it was too difficult to eat!

And then it's been rotting for two days at least! And dark! Now see if she goes back towards the den! The den is down off to my left-hand side there!

She’s not going towards there! She's going back sort of towards where she found the target! I can smell it! In fact, we're driving exactly on our own tracks here!

Drink! That's quite a nice! Alright! The Sun has gone! It's getting dark! And I'm sure their votes are going to get up soon!

I'm sure they will! And I really hope that they do! And I have a feeling they will because I think they're hungry! I do! Their stomachs are not particularly large!

They definitely don't look unhealthy! They both look in great condition! You can see the light cut in a bit pink, which is because, of course, the Setting Sun has cast them in its lovely light!

Very, very pretty! Now, we were talking about manes! And we spoke about the testosterone influence on the manes of the males!

Now typically only males have manes! But there have been a few incidents of females having manes as well! I can recall one in Botswana—a few females in Botswana possibly that grew manes and started actually to behave a bit like male lions!

And they would send Park often! And Korb often or more often than females normally do because males will call and send mouths more often than the females do!

And it’s time to behave in that way! So that sort of tells us that there must be quite a direct link between having the mane and the amount of testosterone in the animal!

In fact, there was another example—it was in South Africa, but I can’t recall where exactly—and there was a female that had a mane as well!

And it was found that she actually had an issue with her ovaries and she was producing more testosterone! And after she had sorted that out or the vet had sorted that out, she returned to normal lions behavior—calling less and scent marking less!

So there kind of gives us the direct link between testosterone and the mane! But of course, there might be a lot more genes and chemicals that are influencing it!

But for short, testosterone does play a key role! This is what I’m waiting for! I'm waiting for the very slow waking up that the lions do before they get up for the night!

Tweet-tweet! You are a new viewer! Welcome aboard! So glad to have you with us! You would like to know if the Avocas would form a new pride!

Well, there are a few things to talk about there! Firstly, males like the Avocas, they form coalitions! So when males are about three years old, they’re kind of pushed out of their pride by the adult males!

And then they form a coalition in the years to come! Sometimes it can take them a bit of time, but eventually most of them do! Although you do get some nomadic males!

And if pride is the group of females and their offspring, a pride would sort of belong to a coalition! So the Avocas won’t make or create their own pride or try to join their own pride!

They are already part of a group of family of lions that we have here! And they form a coalition that is males that are working together!

And of course, the females, the pride! They always come together and they'll see each other very often! But the males will leave for a long time—sometimes weeks and that I haven't seen them with the Inca Houmas!

But Inca Houmas also move around quite a bit! And sometimes a male coalition of the territory that a male coalition occupies can overlap quite a few prides!

So that a few prides can belong to a lion! And that is of course an area where the lions are ready at a high density!

But in an area like this, from what I know, the avoca is linked only at the moment to our coalition! Think of Houmas and I think this Torchwood pride!

But I'm not sure about the sticks! So in fact, if you guys know, you can actually let me know! Because I do know the Torchwood pride and the Inca Houmas pride do belong to them!

But I think—I think I’m leaving anybody out! L'marti pride as well! They’re impalas rutting all around us!

And add to the noise that I'm hearing! So that's why I’m hoping these guys will get up and start to pick off what is really easy prey for the moment!

Considering that the condition will be kind of low—the impalas, that is, I'm talking about! So we tweet back to your question; the Inca—

The Avoca males will not form their own pride! Rob, you’d like to know if I know where the third Avoca is—I don’t know where the third Avoca is!

But in my experience with them, I have noticed that when two of them are kind of down this wire down the side, the other one usually hangs around a bit north!

Now that’s just something I’ve observed! I don’t know if that’s where he is right now! But in my past experience, that’s what I’ve seen!

Now I said I was waiting for this! I was waiting for the slow awakening of the lions, which is what happens around this time when the sun is setting!

And it starts with a few movements! Some stretching, some yawning! Then there’s, of course, the defecating that goes on! They relieve themselves!

And then they are on the move! So this is a good sign that he’s turned over! Goat Face, you would like to know how old the Avoca males are!

Well, they were born in 2013! So I don’t know exactly which month that they were born! It's sort of hard, especially if you haven't followed them from Cubs!

But I’m sure someone out there knows exactly which month they were born in! But 2013 is the year! So either they're coming on six, or they are already six years old!

Do you have an interesting question you would like to know? If it’s always the same one that’s missing or do they kind of rotate?

Well, it's not always the same one that’s missing, because I have seen them all! So I suppose they do sort of rotate!

But also, they're not constantly sticking by each other's side within a few meters! You know, they can always go off in their own and explore a bit and then come back or regroup!

But I have seen them all! In fact, I’ve seen them all on one day as well on Juma!

So they must rotate in a way! Or I guess it’s also a bit of chance! This one feels like coming this way!

Oh! Are you dreaming? There was a small jaw shudder there! Right now, it's moving even in the slightest!

And just the fact that he's moving is making me slightly happy! So let’s see what they may get up to once the sun is completely down!

In the meantime, let me send you over to James and see how his search is going!

Well, it’s not going too well! I’ll have to keep that short! I’ll fold up the hunt!

So our plan will be to reveal more happenings in the Kruger, especially when we have your viewers out there! I will bet you we may have an elephant out there!

Or things we haven’t even planned! You know, ambient sounds now you noticed too?

Have you ever seen wild dogs at this time?

You asked the question, you know, the ones with the tradition!

They knock tables and we take turns! Well, we’ve had the best of luck!

And a few so wild ones! So sometimes, where the lions look worse than ours—it's spectacular!

Gorgeous! As we wait in vain this season, we shall look around waiting for our break!

Stay tuned! See you all again soon with Tingana and Juma safari! It has been a pleasure to have you with us! Goodbye, and good luck out there!