The 5 Musketeers Eat Together – Day 89 | Safari Live

Going to see, and you have to ask him about his ping-pong tournament. Well, tell I wish you luck on your endeavors to the Heiner's and a very, very warm welcome to Juma and sunny South Africa. It is as sunny as sunny can get; it is bright, it is breezy, and it is very pleasant to be out on a game drive.

Now, as television, my name is Justin. On camera today I've got Davi, which is always an absolute pleasure to have on board, and well we are going to be trying to see if we can't catch up with Tandy and Cubs. So that is the plan for this afternoon; hopefully we will be able to get some sort of luck with Tandy and cub this afternoon. We'll have to just try and see.

Now remember it is interactive, so it’s #safari live on Twitter or the YouTube chat if you want to get hold of us.

Now, Taylor, you were wondering about our ping pong. Okay, Taylor, well our ping pong was delightful. Toby, was it delightful? It was delightful! Now I've got a video to show all of you; for those of you that don't know what we're talking about, today was the Ping Pong Palooza challenge at Juma.

So what that entailed was basically the following. So I'm going to play you a video, and you will be able to see how this all wings.

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So that’s what happened today. So tell, it was a very successful event! And you want to know who won? Well, we had a team competition to start, which was the Black team – so Davi and I were on the Black team with Kirsty, Rebecca, and a few others; who else was in? Oh, she was in our team, and Louise, that's right.

So it was three girls, three boys, and so the six of us managed to beat the Red team, but unfortunately the overall winner was a member of the Red team, and that was James Henry, and I lost to him in the final, which is a disaster! And you can see there was much celebration after all of that, right?

Well, try to find Tandy and Kutner after we worked up a sweat in our ping pong challenge. And while we do that, I think we don't – Noelle? I'm not a hundred percent sure, but either way it will be one of our members of the Safari Live Crew for the afternoon!

It is a very warm afternoon. I'm so sorry to hear that you lost two games with Ping Pong Palooza. I sadly was cracking the books today for my practical examination, so I'm glad everyone had a good time!

How amazing everyone was – that sighting with Brent's cheetah and that warthog, super jealous! Brent, I hope you get some more action up there!

I am Noelle, and I'm Cameron to that camera. I can't talk on camera today. I have the Ville de B's VM; hello! Thumbs up! So yeah, we're just plodding along and waiting for it to cool down a little bit. I'm actually in search for elephants; I'd really like to see some swimming elephants today! So we're checking Biffle's Hook Dam and then we're gonna head down toward Chitwa Chitwa and see what we can find along the way.

As you know, Tristan's headed over to see if he can find Tundi and her youngster, and then we're hoping that maybe Husana pops up over on Chitwa side, but you never know what might happen. Also, maybe Shadow and her youngster maybe come up by Twins, Twin Dem, so we'll go and have a look down there now.

Amazingly, our hippo friend is not here in Biffle's Hook Dam. I don't know where he's gone or where he could be. Maybe he has decided that he is too lonely and needs to go and try and find some females, or maybe he's feeding out and about. This last evening, he managed to find a place that just suited him a bit better, but I'm sure he'll be back in a few days.

All right, we're gonna go check the corner because the other thing I would like to see is maybe the wild dogs. They haven't been over to us for a while, and the last time that we saw them they moved over a bit east. So as we're busy searching, we're gonna send you all the way back up to Brent in the Maasai Mara with his cheetahs who are still busy on their kill, and I'll let you enjoy the spectacular sighting that that is.

Sorry about that, everybody! Rimland attacking Brent, but he'll be back with you shortly, not to worry. For those of you that don't know what a Rimland is, it's just a cute little word that we use to describe some technical issues that come with forecasting and promoting Africa. But anyways, these things happen every now and then.

We're driving through the lovely golden grass at the moment, but we are edging closer and closer towards the high uniden, and we're not too far from the River Road. Now, basically where the next line of trees is is essentially where that highway is. We'll jump on that, and that should take us to our destination relatively quickly, although we've got a bit of time to spare.

What is the time, cut apart? Almost quarter past five Eastern African time. So yeah, I'm just trying to think it might take us again. The great thing about coming on a safari is that you have a plan to go and do one thing, and it can easily change because you know you've opted into something that's even more amazing!

So who knows? They might see the Mokoro pride; maybe we'll come across Scarface and his clan around McFadden's pride. Speaking of hyenas, not tennis, you've asked what animal do I think I'm most like? I find this Adam – this question hard to answer, so I'm gonna let you all answer it for me. Everyone says my spirit animal is a lion; I think it's because I have lots of pain.

But maybe you guys can come up with something quite funny, and don't worry, I don't get offended easily, so go wild! #safarilive or chat to us via the YouTube; what do you think? What animal do you think I'm most alike?

Now Megan, who's directing this afternoon, thinks I'm like a Marina trogon because I'm most unique. Thank you, Megan! That's very kind of you! I showed Megan a Marina trogon yesterday when we went on a little safari park, or a little exercise, and hiked, which was a lot of fun.

So it was actually quite surprising; we heard of calling, and then it ended up being right above us. It was so beautiful in the only patch of light in the forest – and normally with Marina trogons, they're quite shy birds and they tend to hide themselves away and always turn their backs; you see the green, which makes them very difficult to spot from the trees.

But we were so lucky! I said to Megan, "that's probably one of the best sightings of a marina trogon I've ever had!" I have a video, but it's not gonna do much for you, unfortunately, because it was up in the trees above us, basically through a hole about that big, and all you could see was the bright red of its breast, and it was just looking down and watching us.

We stood for five or six minutes just in absolute awe, admiring it. So I don't know if I'm quite as unique as a marina trogon because there's something quite special; but thank you, Megan, that was very kind of you!

Here we have some water buck and giraffe sort of circling the outskirts of the marsh, the water buck jumping straight into it. Let's have a little look-see!

Okay, you said I'm like a jackal; is it because for some reason every time I see those jackal pups they run up to my car? So who, me? I don't know why that is. I don't know if they'd do that to everybody, if they just do it to me. I like to think they just do it to me. It makes me feel a bit better about myself, and that's quite a good one; it might not be as quick as them, as good as catching grasshoppers, but I do try!

No, the water buck, I'm not worried about grasshoppers; over there, waiting to eat them, they are feeding on all the lovely lush grass in the marsh. This is how you should be seeing water buck; you know, I haven't seen it for quite some time!

The last time I’d seen water buck in marshy sort of areas or wetlands was in Zambia and Lower Zambezi National Park, but we typically don't see this in the Sabi Sands. Unfortunately, there aren't enough areas – well, I don't think there are any areas – with these marshes. I'm trying to think. Nope, not that I could think of; everywhere that I've worked on in the sands quite have marshy areas, so it is quite nice to see that again.

The male has not lifted his head once! Now, this is quite interesting; what I find quite fascinating. I don't know if you remember a few weeks ago we were seeing two water buck bulls in this area? This is the same spot that Brent and I like to do a lot of birding as often when we see that Malachite kingfisher just for context, and we had two of them having a standoff; remember that morning?

It was beautiful in the golden light, and there were other male mutts. This one, when I think, was much older, and he had much bigger horns, but he got chased away by this young upstart, and I think that's quite nice to see that sometimes it's not always the biggest bull with the longest horns!

I suppose it's all about your technique in terms of fighting, and he must have won because he's still here with the same group of water buck that we see almost every single morning that we pass through on this River Road. Very, very nice!

Also, the same herd that I pointed out to you a couple of times; I've said the females are looking quite big now and their bellies are bulging, so hopefully, we'll start to see a few more youngsters popping out! But remember it will take a week or two before they bring them back to their herd because they'll give birth off on their own and in thickets.

So we probably won't see who might actually see that. See that's, can't the females? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So I can see nine here; there're no more on the other side of the road! I didn't count how many new water buck females were here the last time that I saw them, so let’s say that maybe one or two of them have already gone off to give birth because there was definitely one female that was very, very big.

Right! I'm going to send you as quick as I can down to the Sabi Sands because Noelle has got an exceptional sighting of a species of mongoose that I have not seen for a very long time.

We just came across this really cool slender mongoose, and he was finishing up the tail end of what looked like a lizard or a skinned kill. Now it seems as if he's sniffing around trying to figure out if there's anything left for him to eat. Now, unfortunately, we just got the tail end of it, and we're unable to put it on camera for you, but it looks as if he's managing to find tiny little bits. There he was finishing it off just there, where he's smelling, and now having a rest, licking his chops from his lovely little meal.

Mongoose will eat snakes; they're very good at killing and eating snakes. They'll also eat termites and large beetles and of course now, as we’ve sort of shown you, the lizards as well. Now he might stick around long enough to groom and clean himself. Most species, or most organisms I searched, they say after a meal we'll do a bit of cleaning, especially if the meal was a larger one, just to make sure everything's still in place.

We see it often with birds; we see it with lions and leopards, but it's also true of our smaller mammals as well. There he’s cleaning his paws off, making sure to get all the gunk. It's interesting, he's not too far from us, so I think he's just checking to see what we're up to as well every now and then, just to make sure we don't invade his space.

Sorry, I'm tripping over my words today, everybody! I'll drink some more water just now; that will help! As we're driving around, the breeze is even better, but as we sit still, the heat is pretty intense, and I'm not gonna lie; it dries your mouth out.

Also, this is a good sign because we don't usually get to see slender mongoose often! Catherine, you're saying how cute the slender mongoose is. Yes, mongoose are well, mongooses are cute! Definitely a cute little species.

So there's been a raging debate between myself and a few friends about what are we actually supposed to call a mongoose? Is it mongoose, mongooses, hmong guy? And then we were chatting with a biologist friend of ours, and he was saying it's just mongoose! But I do catch myself from time to time saying monkeys, which would make sense because you go from gusta to geese, but it's just mongoose!

All right, fantastic slender mongoose finishing up his kill there! We've picked up on a little bit of male leopard tracks in building. I have been debating about who this male effort could be. The tracks are rather large; both of us are sort of hedging our bets toward Tingana.

But the problem is, these tracks are not very fresh; they're probably from last night, and there's another vehicle that's driven on top of them, but in general, he's heading down this road. So another reason why we're thinking in certain Ghana is the fact that because he's sticking to the road, and he's going to the inside curves, and the way that he's moving, this might actually turn.

Let me just see if I can find a nice little sequence up here means that there's possibly some scent marking that's happening which would mean that it wouldn't be something like Tomba; Tomba is too small for scent marking. And also the tracks are very large, as we know Tomba has big feet, but these feet are very big!

Sorry, I'm just trying to see if I can find them for you again. I had one back there, but it wasn't the best to show on camera. No, I've lost them a little bit; it’s possible that he cut around the curve here.

Let me see, as we go along if I can find you on another nice sequence. Now on a hot day like today, right now it would be rare to find a leopard walking around, but that being said, I have friends that work in the Pylons Berg National Park, which is farther west north from us in South Africa, and it's a park that sees quite a lot of traffic from private vehicles.

Something that they found over the years they've been working there; there's a lot of the leopard activity actually happens in the middle of the day when the vehicles tend to be resting; and they tend to find leopards hunting in 40 degrees Celsius weather in the middle of the day at sort of 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock.

It's an interesting scenario, so I don't know if there's something else that plays up with it. There's also quite a large lion population that's there; there could be other mitigating factors, but my friends at work there are convinced it has to do with the amount of people that are coming into the park.

Now we've got a beautiful kudu that's just up here; now unfortunately moving away, and I don't think we're gonna be able to get too nice of a view. I think Brent's comms have come back, so let's head back up to him in the Masai Mara and see what he can show us with those cheetahs.

Sorry about all those gremlins with him, but it seems to sort itself out, so you must enjoy. Well, it's unfortunately when we were a bit closer to them, and we couldn't carry the final control, but they absolutely smashed that little warthog in no time whatsoever! They ate it all up; it's pretty much dance keys now!

I've been trying to check with my binoculars for the female; she's probably made good her escape. I might go look for a little later, but I'm pretty sure she would have jogged. But unfortunately for her, if she keeps in that direction, she's gonna run into me.

Oli, so Omi, Oli was in the direction where she started heading off with, and the boys started chasing this young warthog. If you're a warthog, it's a bad day; if you are a cheetah, it's a lovely Sunday! Wow, human equivalent of a suckling pig, I suppose. So good for the boys; they'll be quite happy with that!

Although I don't think it's gonna be enough to sate them; I think they might hunt again just now, but it should keep them a little bit less hungry for a little while. Remember this is all a hundred percent live coming to you from the Masai Mara, and the Greater Kruger in South Africa, and in Kenya, we are sitting in the Masai Mara. Of course, Tristan and Noelle are sitting in the Greater Kruger on Juma, and we've found our spotted cats. Well, we found eight different cheetahs this afternoon.

Let's hope that Noelle and Tristan can find you guys some leopards to finish off the big cat afternoon because we have seen lions already; so lions and cheetah, so we're relying on Noelle and Tristan to find us some leopards. No excuses today, okay?

Not all of them would have got a very good meal out of that. Oh, it sounds like we have a possible ID for the female! James Richards says that female might have been Rosetta, which is Rose's daughter. Now I've never heard of either of those two cheetahs, so there we go – you learn something new every day!

Now it looks like some of the boys are up and about already; that little warthog did not touch sides. Well, some of them are flopping down; others are on the move now. You will see there are other vehicles enjoying the sighting with us, but you can see still quite an empty belly; a little pig that doesn't go far when there's five of you.

Now guys, I'd be heading the other way; there's a lot more game where I came from than across this side. Now are you going to pluck, or are you going to keep walking? That is the question. I've got a feeling they might pluck for a little bit.

Well, maybe not! It wasn't a very long chase for them, so they wouldn't have utilized too much energy catching that little warthog. How's that for simultaneous sittings? Choreographed it has plunked our bottoms the exact same time!

Now d'Artagnan, the greedy guts that he is, is the last to leave. What is left of little Uli is striding towards the others, and apologies we are right on the edge of some of the signals. We're really down low in a river system, so hopefully the boys keep heading up, up, up, and away towards a better signal and comms area.

They normally do at this time in the day; they move out of the low-lying areas up towards the crests following the prey species, which normally do the same. And you can probably – yeah, it's quite windy at the moment.

The next – are you what are you up to? You going to plonk? Yep. Plonk! You never know what could happen next! Another poor unsuspecting warthog might wander towards them. We're gonna keep an eye on the boys for now! Hopefully, they do get moving, otherwise we do have plan B, C, and D now!

Me, Ali, the lions and Rosetta possibly want that name, so we're gonna see what happens here for a bit longer before we move on. While we do that, it sounds like McCurdy is racing off somewhere just trying to get to that hyena den, and he feels like it's getting further and further away.

But Brent, she'll be happy to know very, very briefly, you got to see this the straw-tailed wider! Yeah, you've been telling me about in you for one on screen the other day, which is very cool, and we just passed it for fools! Sadly, I didn't get to show all of you, but it was really nice to find me. See, I've been quite lucky with the birds this week in terms of how many new ones have actually added to the list, which is really quite cool!

That's supposed to go down the next one. The next hyena – just checking here for any more birds. The spot is quite nice, although it's dried up quite a bit, so they mustn't have had too much rain here last night! A little bit; it's a bit wet, but no one's home only? There’s a Goliath heron that lives here, only good stuff! Who is a Goliath here? And that's around here – no, no birds – not even the Egyptian geese today! That's unusual!

Rumor we've seen a couple of times! I've stopped sharing this; then whole flock! Bless you, Craig. Bless you! Another one? Just two now! Scenic, you're wondering what species of widowbirds are found in Kenya? Shall we have a look? Let’s bring the book out quickly and have a look.

I can rattle off all sorts of names, but I think it would be better if we actually took a look at them, don't you think? And luckily widowbirds should be right at the end too! When are we gonna start? 686? 600? And S are quite far away!

Am I here? Ah, here I hear feels like spider webs sometimes on my face! Almost promise we’re almost there! Right, next page!

Okay, theoretically the Yellow-crowned – no, that's a bishop! That's all one branch has been telling me about that I need to keep an eye out on there! Not that one; here we go! Yellow Minned old widowbird, so number four down here on the bottom right! I'm so sorry, Krieger, I can't even see my monitor at the moment, but that one they were – my thumb is – that is one that we get to see!

So we get quite a few down here. Let me go to the next page. Yes, these look familiar! Then top left is the fantail Twitter bird, which I think is the most common one that we're seeing at the moment! And the white-winged widowbird, which is number two; I've seen that in South Africa!

Yes, we see that in the Greater Kruger area! That's one that we see quite often! Mike, it just occurs on the border of Kenya and Tanzania! And in Tanzania, so maybe we'll see it down on the border route! Number three: the red-colored widowbird; we must certainly see lots of them!

And then the – yes! So there we go! So one, two, three, maybe a few more species of widowbirds too, but the most common ones that we're seeing at the moment are the red-colored and the fantailed ones!

Oh, and then where's the Jacksons? Why can't I find Jacksons? Ah, there's another page of widowbird! Brent was also telling me that I need to keep an eye open for number two, which is that one! And the Jacksons were a bird which I haven't seen just yet, so I'll keep an eye out for the – I think he said he did! I don't know if he managed to put one on screen, but I know he was trying the other day; I don't think it was sitting still, but very cool!

So there's a variety of widowbird species and that we get to see out here in the Mara! It's very nice! I think the only one that I haven't seen so far is the Jacksons! I really, really need to make an effort to go through my birds and figure out how many I've actually seen over the years because I've completely lost count!

I also don't have my – well, now with my Kenyan birds, I think I'm probably seeing quite a few more birds since I've been here in the Mara. But for me, it doesn't matter about numbers; it's just constantly learning about the new birds and seeing them! One day when I'm bored, I'll eventually go through and count them or on a rainy day!

Right, but I am gonna send you back across the Mara River. Are we gonna go from the triangle for the Masai Mara National Reserve? Brent is not leading those cheetah out of his sight!

Well, welcome back everyone! We're still sitting with the boys, and as I predicted, they have plunked for now doing a bit of grooming after their little piggy afternoon rest.

I say it's gonna be interesting to see if they're handy, and I'm not sure that they're going to, to be honest, but you never know! And I think they are worth spending the time with the sloth. So don't look quite settled just yet; there's quite a bit of up-and-down movement!

Let's go across to the grooming. Yeah, let's clean the blood off each other's faces! There we go, and there they are practicing a little bit of low grooming!

So definitely looking about to see if there's any potential prey around! Hello Ben, who's nine years old! And Ben, all I heard is that something – somebody told me that it was possibly your birthday!

Unfortunately, I couldn't hear what your question was; it was a bit broken up, but happy birthday, Ben, who's nine years old! I think Megan is saying how fast – what's the cheetahs' maximum speed?

They're documented doing as much as a hundred and ten kilometers an hour, but that was quite a long time ago. Now it's thought that probably top speed is between 90 and 100 kilometers an hour. So it's still very, very fast and much faster than any people or any person could run.

I think the fastest person ever recorded was Usain Bolt, and I think he’s – I think was 45 km/h or something like that! So, well, more than double what a human being can run!

And we get some lovely tender moments from the boys now! These moments of grooming, which mean sort of social grooming, are very important when it comes to re-establishing the bonds that they have while they often will fight and scrap with each other.

So after those moments of fighting and scrapping, the little licks and loves are to reaffirm that they are all still friends while they're on the move, which is a good thing for us!

And they're moving in a good area for us because hopefully, I'll be able to hear Megan if I go a little bit higher. Oh no, you know what they're doing? Cheeky cheetahs! They’re using the shade where one is using the shade of the safari vehicle to sleep in.

There's no trees around, so if there is a convenient safari vehicle, just…death, lie in that shade! I thought they were going to keep moving; hopefully, they will! But for the moment, they're lying in the shade of the safari vehicle. But I'm gonna have to go up the hill a little bit, see if I can hear Megan!

Okay, wow! We're gonna wait to see what these guys get up to while we do that. It seems like Noelle is with something that is a lot bigger and a lot scarier than a cheetah!

Made it over to chat with them, and it is a beautiful scene right now. We've got lots of hippos playing in the water! They're also enjoying this sunshine as well as this little bit of a breeze!

We had one hippo that was out of the water, but she climbed quickly back in as we came up! So these are the youngsters that have been giving us such great antics that passed a few times we've been here! As they get older, they get more comfortable in their space, and they get more playful!

And then obviously a lot of the play that they're doing is going to help them later in life when they're all grown up; whether they're male or female, whether they need to defend their little ones or defend their territories as males!

So hippos have a very thin epidermis, a very thin skin, and they don't sweat. Like most of the mammal species we see out here, they don't sweat, and they have no hair to help protect them from the sun or the heat.

So by staying in the water during the day, it makes up for all of this and also is protecting their skin! Remember, their skin is very sensitive because of that thin epidermis, because of that thin top layer of skin!

So a lot of the times when you do see them out of the water, they appear quite pink! And that's that very special secretion that they make that works like a sunscreen! It's basically a mucus over their skin, and they lose more water through their skin than any other mammal!

Which is something that we talk about, so if we were similar to a hippo and we lost as much moisture through our skin as they did, we would need to be in the water or in a moist environment often or else we would dehydrate excessively or desiccate!

That’s okay, it's another word for dehydration; usually desiccation refers to lizard species and snakes and things like that, but we can also use it for us as well! And then of course, because of all of this, that's why they move outside the water when it's cooler or at nighttime for their feeding practices to mitigate all their circumstances.

Other animals that live in sort of drives, very, very dry areas that have the probability of possibly dehydrating will also do a lot of their feeding at night. Something like a hemlock or even springbok, which we don't get here, but in more arid areas, they'll do something similar, and they get a lot of the moisture they need from eating the plants during the time of the evening or early morning where the dew collects.

Now, just right in front of our car, maybe two meters from our vehicle, we have a beautiful little print and call that's sitting here in some old elephant dung! And these prayers and calls – I'm look, before I moved here, I stopped printing calls every now and then, but we have these ones that nest in this area!

We had that really great sighting of an egg maybe about a month or so ago, and then every time I've popped up here, I keep seeing them, but I haven't seen any chicks yet, and I have a feeling that not many of the eggs have survived because this is where the elephants like to walk down when they come to drink.

And obviously, elephants have very big feet, and so it can sometimes be difficult for these birds to keep their eggs alive because remember, they're not making a nest; it's just a tiny little scraping in the ground and then putting that egg right there and the egg is meant to camouflage!

Kevin, you're curious to know, are there any crocodiles here at Chitwa Dam? There are crocs, and I'm actually happy to look around from our vantage point right now to see if we can see any! I'm not seeing any from here; they could possibly be in the water or they could be up on the island where I cannot see, or Billy, do you see one on the other side there?

Yeah, we’re just taking... oh, there's some bushbuck on the other side there! Again, an antelope species we don't see often; they like to hide in the thick bush! These ones particularly like to be around the dam!

And just on the right-hand side of your screen as well there's a spoonbill, that white bird with a spatula type bill. And then it looks like some white-faced whistling ducks and maybe an ibis that's over there on the other side!

It's quite far away from where we are; it's on the stoop of Chitwa main lodge! They're just checking the rocks that side! Willow, who's three years old, hello, Willow! You're curious to know if hippos talk to each other!

And I'm not quite sure if you heard all that grunting that just happened now, Willow – they do indeed talk to each other! Most organisms communicate with each other in some manner. Hippos outside the water make that funny and laughing grunts on that hat we just heard a little bit of now.

And then they also communicate underneath the water – they – they're related to hippos too! – to whales! Hippos are related to whales; they're in the same order. So all of the organisms that we work with – whether we're human or we're a bird or we're a plant or we're a hippo – we all have these different sequences that we fit into.

And so hippos and whales are cousins of each other! And I'm not sure if you've ever heard whale song underwater. I'm gonna do my best to imitate, but it's a sort of [Music] singing noise, and hippos will do that underwater in a similar fashion.

There they laugh using their lower jawbone; they're able to communicate that way with vibrations! Yes, it's such a beautiful afternoon here!

Well, though, I don't know if you're coming to us from the States, but if you are – when I was a kid there was a really wonderful program with Ben Affleck called "Voyage of the Mimi," and there's some really great stuff on humpback whales from there!

I didn't know maybe you guys can google it with your mom and I think you'd find that super interesting! So while we're busy looking for things like crocodiles and maybe a little Husana here at the Chitwood Dam, let's head on over to Tristan and see what he's up to!

Well, I'm busy watching a poor African Harrier hawk – will resume for any of you that remember the old name being mobbed and chased by multiple folle drummers! You can see the little drongos dive-bombing this poor African Harrier hawk!

And the reason why they're doing that is because the Harrier Hawk obviously is a bird hunter, and so it goes into the nests and goes and hunts all of the little chicks and things like that, and so it gets disciplined very quickly by the folle drummers!

It gets chased away and is made to get out of the area and to try and go somewhere else! Now the reason why we know it's an African Harrier is you see it bank like that into the light; you can really get a nice indication of its coloration.

It's got that gray color with those yellow legs and face masks which can change to red sometimes when they're in breeding phase, and then it's got a very heavily broad barred tail, so white and black on the tail itself, which is very, very cool!

So it's a beautiful bird to see, and we often see them around quarantine and various other parts of the reserve, going from military to military, sticking their long legs inside those trees to try and get into the nests and try and find things like squirrels, babies, and obviously, chicks of birds.

And that's why the birds get a little upset with them and try and kind of chase them away and send him somewhere else! But that was very good; well done, Davi! Good camera work with it!

And it's not easy to follow a soaring bird; they look like they're just kind of circling very slowly, but they actually move incredibly fast, particularly when they are being chased by other birds!

But so far no luck on Tandy! We've done a few loops around; I drove where James said you saw Tandi and her cub this morning, and while there are tracks absolutely everywhere, we haven't been able to find anything as yet!

We've seen, you know, where she was moving up and down; there are tracks for her. It looks like they might have gone north again into sort of Rebecca's side and westwards, and maybe she's got a kill somewhere there!

I'm not sure, so I'm just trying to do a few loops now towards sort of treehouse down Zoe's Road just to make sure she hasn't popped out in any of those areas! If she has, well then, we'll be able to pick up tracks and follow them from there! But otherwise, we'll just keep looping around!

And as it gets cooler, hopefully, that's going to mean she is going to start moving and either go for some water or maybe just go back to a cub or maybe back to a kill that she might potentially have!

Right! Well, I will be going towards treehouse dam now and trying to search for what I am looking for! But it seems that Taylor McCurdy has managed to find what she was looking for, and hopefully, it’s a very active day!

When you raced on over because I was worried that we were gonna start running out of time because it gets so dark so quickly! We were, of course, talking about that hello, little one! You seem to be very excited matching up to that female that one has just come out of the den!

No, I don't think that’s your mom! There is a young cub that is suckling at the moment just hiding in the grass that is slightly older than the little one that’s being a bit cheeky!

Remember how I said this clearly one young hyena cub that's still quite black in color isn't probably between five and seven weeks old, somewhere around there! That it walks around like it owns the place!

And I can only imagine it must be one of the higher-ranking females' cubs! But there's not many adults or – best better be careful when mom's not home to be quite cheeky towards the other adults!

But the race to them undercover at the moment…they're hiding away from the wind that's here, and I suppose it would be quite nice and cozy down in that burrow!

We did also see two other hyenas closer towards the road – they actually look like males to me! They could have also just been very young females, but not too close to the den, so they do scatter themselves.

Aren’t like we said, it was hard to spot them, so mom could be around here somewhere! Also, a herd of elephants, I think, moved through! We can still see the elephants! But I think we would have missed the interaction maybe about 15, 20 minutes!

Unfortunately, you can see them just off into the distance. I think they would have come straight through this den; that would have also sent the hyenas running!

And I'm sure the youngsters will be very nervous of encountering these large giants, and maybe you know they actually got a bit of a fright and sent them down into that burro!

So it does, it's not particularly active at the moment! Not 15 seconds! You said you found hyenas very interesting! I did you! And that's why we spend so much time at the den sites when we can!

Unfortunately, they're not always active when we want them to be; like right now! At least it's a little bit of a sight of a hyena just to get your fix, of course!

But there are really fascinating creatures, and I like to spend time with them because I think there's a whole lot that I don't know about hyenas that goes on behind the scenes!

So I always look forward, and I said pretty much with my notebook in hand and my pen waiting and watching the various behaviors that I see, and hopefully, I'll start to get to know the individuals of the North clan and go from there!

But for now, they're very relaxed, just suckling away, filling up that belly before the adults have to search for some food again! It all starts again, of course! It’s a big routine! Come back, feed the cubs, go off, look for some dinner, come back to the den, and sometimes they don't come back to the den for a, you know, day or two!

But we'll search here for a…oh, never mind! What I spotted that looks like it's a little bit more interesting is just to the right of that hyena up on the shrub is a white-breasted kooko!

Although I haven't seen lots of them at the moment, hello! I've been seeing lots of juveniles too, which has been quite fascinating, and we saw that the other morning!

And I said she had never seen juvenile white-breasted kooko before! Not alarming at the hyenas, I would imagine that this one lives within the vicinity and sees them often!

Now, bird would not necessarily be on a hyena's menu, and even though there are very good hunters, we don't typically see them going after the avian species! However, to a young leopard or a lion cub, of course, they would be quite entertaining!

I can't say that I've ever seen young hyenas sort of chasing around birds like we see with leopards and lions, for example! Oh, no, I've never seen that before!

I don't think that there's any need for them to be chasing after those characters! Just yeah, listening to the elephants feed! Not as well as a few little sis tequilas and things shouting! I'm not sure what they're shouting about; I don't think it would necessarily be the hyenas!

Now, Davi, wondering if hyenas would ever hunt alone! But possibly if the males are out on their own, or these two cubs – they – I didn't even see them! They're so camouflaged!

And I've actually never have seen hyenas hunting and chasing kudos! Because we used to see that a lot done at Sabi Sabi! The kudos were petrified of the hyenas, and I have seen hyenas chasing kudos on quarantine, which is that big open plain that you see down in Juma in South Africa. But I haven't seen one on its own before!

It wouldn't surprise me! They remember hyenas are not necessarily always together; they do spread out! All right, what's happening now, girl? You done suckling, your cubs?

They do look like they've got nice full bellies, and there is another side. There’s a sub – but going toward their kuku! That’s quite funny! Here we go; look! It's actually looking at the cuckoo!

You can't see it right now; it's quite camouflaged! But it's still in their truck, and it wasn't really managing to see it! But let's see if that little hyena is actually seen it because it's marching over in that direction!

Let's see if that youngster has spotted it yet and what its reaction is going to be! I don't think it's seen – oh, here we go! Oh, look at that! Did you see the hawk behavior change very quickly?

Here we go! No, we'll find out if hyena cubs chase birds or not! I could have been completely wrong! Very excited by though! He's stalking! Maybe it's going to shoot out of that hole and race toward that cuckoo!

However, that little hyena cub is not going to be quick enough to catch that cuckoo. I can assure you, and I think that's why that cuckoo knows that it's quite safe playing around on the ground!

Most of the youngsters are out in the open where it can see adults. How, you know, won’t be interested in that bird? No, no interest whatsoever! It's just popping back out again!

Right! Well, it's been a beautiful afternoon with the hyena cubs! I think we'll come back here first thing tomorrow morning and hopefully spend a bit more time with them.

Perhaps you'll see some more action! Noelle's down in South Africa, as you know. She hasn't got a leopard, but she's got something that has got lots and lots of feathers!

And we found a really nice view of an African Jacana! We are just trying! It keeps moving down the way here; let me just see. There we go, let's get a view! There! Gorgeous! Gorgeous!

It's been hunting around the edges here for aquatic insects and also non-aquatic insects! Notice the large, large feet to help it through muddy areas! It also allows it to stand on top of floating vegetation like water lilies!

And this bird, there, it gets an aquatic insect there, and you just saw another one floating past! Aquatic insects are really interesting; they need to breathe still, but they have different ways of being able to breathe!

So for them to habitat these areas that this chick – oh, we got one! This Jacana is fishing in, they can attain the water underwater from plants using a snorkel! They can also fill up their lungs and can stay underwater for long periods of time!

Or some of them have evolved self-contained underwater breathing mechanisms like some spiders and some adult insects; and they trap air bubbles over their spiracles. Their spiracles are how they breathe! And then mosquito larvae are quite interesting; they have sharp spiracles to penetrate plants to get air bubbles, or they use a snorkel on their back end that they hang upside down in and then get water that way!

Also, some aquatic beetles trap air under their wings! So all of those insects are able to live in this habitat, and then because they can live and breathe in this habitat, something like this Jacana is able to obtain food sources!

And then its body has developed to be able to access some of their species that other birds wouldn't necessarily be able to do because of the foot structure and where it can live. David, you're saying this is now number 47 on your list! Fantastic!

I'm hoping that's 47 for 2018; that's a good list so far! Tristan and I were talking today! Tristan's going on leave soon, and I asked him what he was doing – and he's good!

There I caught one there – nice little aquatic insect! Tristan's gonna go birding in the Kruger National Park, and he's gonna go look for some lifers there, and I’m very jealous of the lifer list that he's aiming for this leave!

And if he gets them, I'm gonna then have to go on leave very shortly and try and take them off as well! Now, Jacanas are polyandrous! So basically what happens; the female will come and lay eggs, and then she goes away!

And then she does it with another male, and then another male, and then another male! And then the males are all the ones that take care of the chicks. Interestingly enough, it happens in some bird species but not many!

And it happens in very few mammal species, if any! So I was also watching this Jacana earlier! It was picking insects off a dead log that were non-aquatic insects, but I think he’s found a nice little spot to access them at the moment!

Another fish! We were talking about fish earlier, and I forgot about this one! Another fish that we would find in a lake like this or a dam like this would be a barnable or a catfish! Found a catfish carcass here the other day!

Most likely brought up by something like a fish eagle! This Jacana won't necessarily eat that catfish, but many of the other species might scavenge off of it! Gorgeous! Absolutely fantastic!

Well, that was a special little sighting! Bill D is very keen for some leopard! I am also very keen for some leopard, so we're gonna carry on and go have a look! And we're gonna head back over to Tristan, who’s still with his elephants!

I am indeed, and they are slowly but surely coming right past at the front of the car! So we've got a few of them right next to us, right? Yeah, so you can see they’re very, very close!

So I'm trying not to move too much with them, but the whole herd is just slowly but surely tracking across the front side of the vehicle. I was hoping that we would get them all coming past!

It's a beautiful, relaxed herd! At first, they were a little kind of nervous of us, so we saw a situation where there were a few years that were out, and a little bit of sort of hesitancy from them, but now they've all relaxed quite nicely.

And you've got a beautiful view of this – not a huge herd, but at least a decent-sized herd coming past! You can see some of the youngsters are now filing out of the background and the adults are still sitting feeding all around us!

And you can see they don’t spend long in the sun! As soon as they get into the sun, they start moving quite quickly because otherwise it just gets too warm! And even though they have this incredible ability to cool their body down with their ears, they still are having to try and just kind of get out into some semblance of shade!

Now excuse my head there – I held it in frame; I'm trying to duck down! But it is very, very difficult to! In his all around you, and so the touch...sorry, Davi!

It was my fault, but there's…I think a little baby in amongst it! Yes, there’s the little tiny one! Let’s see how cute that is! That's a fairly newborn baby, I would say, maybe a couple of months old, if that! And it's a fairly active little thing as well! It keeps following everybody around all over the place!

Right, Dave, let’s reposition once again because they’ve now abruptly moved past us! And we've had news as well for those of you that are wondering about the Inkoor pride.

Now the Inkoor pride for some reason… I don’t know if James found their tracks today, but Rick’s reckons their tracks are from during the day today have walked through Juma and have crossed into Arethusa, chasing buffaloes!

I was hoping we would be able to find them, he said the tracks were heading in this direction! So that's why I was just sitting with these elephants in the hope that maybe the elephants would help me find them in one of these blocks!

But it seems as though they've crossed into Arethusa on the trail of some buffalo! And so we're not going to be able to find the Inkooras today, which is very, very sad!

I actually don't even know the last time I saw the Inkoora pride! The last time I saw them was when we were in rehearsals for TV, which was at the beginning of December! And so I haven't seen the Inkoora pride for quite some time, and it really has been a little time with him over the course of the last year!

So it would be really nice if they did decide that it would be pleasant to come back to the human and not stay away as much as they have over the last little bit. Right, so this should get better now, Davi! I'm just gonna try to get around once more!

So what we're trying to do is just try and kind of head around their head a little bit! Except, park looking their way! But just park close by and just watch them come past us in a sort of 45 degree angle! That's the idea behind this, anyway!

Whether or not it works, we shall soon find out! But at least we have a fairly nice view from where we’re sitting now! You can see they’re just kind of coming broadside to us at the moment!

And it is the most beautiful day; big blue skies, green summery bush, and gray coast of Africa moving through! It's just one of the best ways to spend a day! Look at that! Isn't that picturesque?

It certainly is a stunning summer's day! You couldn't ask for much better, and thank goodness there’s a bit of a breeze because otherwise, it would be stiflingly hot!

The elephants looked fairly relaxed about life as all they have had their mud water. So they'll be cooled down, and well, for them, it's just a bounty of food at the moment as they moved through these green grasses and these treed areas with lots of foliage!

It's like a mixed salad on a buffet for them, so they’ve kind of just moved in, and they just take whatever they want with their trunks! And they will be quite selective about what they feed off at this time of the year because they've got so much to choose from!

They can find the tastiest treats! And so you see there, she's kicked up a small acacia tree, and those will be the tastiest leaves that she has! Archer, what amazes me is that if I had to go and pick up that tree or any one of you, you would lacerate your hands completely!

But yet that infant has just shoved that entire tree into its mouth with no worries whatsoever, and eaten it all! So it just goes to show you how hard their palate is, but they absolutely love those occasions! It's one of their favorite things to eat in particularly in the summer months!

If they've got a few flowers on them, they get these tiny little yellow flowers that are full of nectar, and they absolutely love them! And you'll find that they'll chomp them down! The one in the back there is targeting some Guinea grass by the looks of things!

And it's got beautiful sticky sweet seeds on it, and that is also fairly tasty if you're an elephant! So lots to each other, and really good nutrition for all of them as they kind of work their way through the thickets!

From one water point to another, because I'm pretty sure this herd is going to start heading towards the Red dam! That's where the kind of angle that they're going in at the moment! They’ll go past human into Arethusa towards that dam!

This is how elephants grow at this time of the year! I mean, it's very hot; as they literally just feed their way from one water source to the other, where they'll top up water, and they'll then cool themselves down and then carry on again with the feeding process to satisfy that massive gut system that they've got!

Very cool! You can see how completely relaxed they've become! Now, it started out that they were a bit kind of – no, there’s a vehicle in amongst us, and they were paying attention to us!

Whereas now you can see everybody is completely calm, and they're just doing their own thing! And that's one of the nicest things about being out here with the ellies in this particular part of the world is that most of them are super relaxed!

And you get these intimate sort of moments where you're in amongst the Emmys; they're all around you! It's just the nicest thing to do and to spend time with! So a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon in my opinion!

It's actually quite nice just listening to them ripping up bits of grass! I’m not sure if you guys can hear it, but as they pull up tufts, you can just hear this ripping and then the slow walking as they kind of go through it!

And in the avenue, I mean leaves brushing on their skin – it's a lovely sound to listen to! And that coupled by the breeze – present a way to spend the afternoon!

Now, funnily enough, actually where these elephants are standing right now just to the right of them on the ground!

You'll see a big sandy patch that's there; so that area over there Davi, now that little patch there, some of you may remember a few months ago is where Shadow went chasing after a warthog!

And she was digging around in there! And as she turned her back and walked away, and water came flying out! So if she'd just been a little bit more patient, she might have gotten lucky!

But it's amazing to see the difference! When we filmed that there was absolutely no grass around it, and it was a fairly bare patch! Now it’s incredibly well hidden! I only just noticed it now as the only kind of pastured!

It's exactly that spot where we had Shadow peeking for toe! So amazing how things change in the summer months! But I mean, let's just repositions like Eastern; we need to try and get into a different area once again!

It's a nice little gamet path I must remember; this game path because I'm pretty sure that's going to be a big hole! But I was going to say that these game paths are really good for a lot of our predators!

Now I'm trying to see how big a game path we've got; that's okay! So it's a nice big art for pyro that is, yeah! So it's difficult to see, but then maybe you can see it!

But basically, it goes in like this; we park now on top, and this will be done by odd fox or something like a porcupine that was a dig there! And so every now and then, if you're not paying attention too much and you're not really looking, you can end up inside one of those!

I actually had a friend of mine that was once being chased by a buffalo, and he was running away from the buffalo! And as he was running away, he ended up in a situation where he fell down one of those!

And thank goodness he did because if it wasn't for that, the buffalo would have got to him, and he managed to fall down! These are alcohols! Right, let me reposition myself, and while I do that, let's go back across to Brent Lee-O-Smith and his – well, I think he's left the cheetah now and is probably racing home and trying to get out of the way of a rather large storm!

Look at that! Look at that! That is a massive wall of dust that's being – I stopped for yes! Apology to mittens and flax you, and we're already starting to get raindrops!

But that read there, that is dust! It is a monster! And we're going to be night because the Rufus will be too flooded to cross! So I'm gonna keep moving now! Oh! Meoli's chasing something! They know the cheetah!

Hang on, hang on, hang on, there's a cheetah chasing its sheets! Hang on, it's a long way away! I just saw the eyeless shoots out of the bush he was in and take off at high speed!

I'm out of that foot sweet! It's where the chief may be! We're gonna get on second cheetah, kill in a day or in the afternoon, actually! Oh, rain go away! Rain go away!

Just wait to let me find a cheetah! She missed it! Looks like she missed! Where are my binoculars? We're not! Kiss my nose, my nose, where are you? Is that here?

There, it definitely looks like it! Yeah, she missed! You see her? You see ahead? And just hang on! Go back! Zoom right in the center of the screen there where my finger is! She missed whatever she was chasing!

Oh, yeah, there's so much excitement right at the end of the Safari! But now I am going to make a like a cheetah! Probably not drive as fast, but I'm gonna try to get away from that storm before it hits us!

And there we go! Adrian is gonna give you one last look! There’s a rainbow the wall of dust and the massive storm behind! Isn't that beautiful? Actually, just take a moment! Stunning!

Now, I really have to – let’s go back to Tristan!