Safari Live - Day 150 | National Geographic
This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised.
Good afternoon everybody and welcome to this subdued Sunday sunset Safari. It's the glorious afternoon here in the western fringes of the great Kruger National Park in South Africa. My name is James Henry.
There we go, and over there we have an Impala, and filming that Impala we have got Craig the Batman. He's lost the Impala now; I have as well. I think he's behind the bush. We were told earlier by our security detail, Herbert, cause are standing over there, you see nificent man that he is, that we should leave the Impala alone because he's under stress. That, of course, is true; the Impala are under a tremendous amount of stress at the moment given that they're rushing and trying desperately to set up territories that will be acceptable to the great bevy of wives they wish to attract.
Please do talk to us using the hashtag safarilive on Twitter and of course the chat stream on YouTube. It would be wonderful to hear from you during the course of this afternoon. I find myself often walking on Sunday afternoons. I've now got something stuck up my pants, but that shouldn't worry you. I like to walk on the Sunday afternoon because of course it's what one should do on a Sunday afternoon. The sun is out, the sky is blue, and birds are chipping away.
Yeah, well done. Well as it might be it's very pleasant to be out here on foot on a Sunday afternoon. That will be with you until 6 o'clock probably tomorrow plus five on bush walk. But now I wish to hand you over to the finest specimen of humanity that East Africa has ever produced, a Mr. David Quito.
Hello everyone and look at me! Anybody who saw me eight, nine hours ago this money, one, two, three, four, five layers and a blanket on top of myself. Huge difference! The temperatures, as James might have said, have doubled to about 30 degrees Celsius, 80-something odds Fahrenheit. Look at those temperatures and what you heard this morning; it's a huge difference. The temperatures have gone up and my number of layers and me have gone down. I have only one layer at the moment.
What a bill world! So many people will be leaving this block built by the termites and you could have Malta lizards in here, schoolers who live in here and sometimes even snakes. Without notes I have to go back to the car. A very big welcome to all of you! And remember to keep in touch with us on Twitter, hashtags are alive and on the YouTube chat. Tell us your feelings, what you'd like to see, and ask us as many questions as you can.
My plans this morning I will be the same loop I did earlier as I just jump in the car what I did in this morning. What happens in the wilderness? You might take a particular track one way and see nothing and maybe come back the same way and see lots of stuff so I'm not worried that towards I did in the morning might still be a bit quiet. You never know what could be happening there. So you're going to take the same track as I did this morning and see what will be there.
All right! With me today is my very good friend Sebastian; he's on camera. Yes, and he does such a great job on camera. Leah you're very welcome, son.
Yeah, nice one of you on board. Let's see, how are they? Will be sorry casting doulas. What, sir? What was her name? George! Thank you very much and good to hear you love my belt! Yes, this is a beaded belt and it's made by a tribe in Kenya called the Masai people. I'm happy you liked my belt and maybe one day if you come on safari with us I'll get you one!
All righty, and as Jen said earlier we also have another gentleman who is on full drive like me and his name is Steve. Thank you David, thank you David and welcome all of you to the show again. Beautiful afternoon here in the Sabi Sands, South Africa. My name is the Falcon Rich, I'm joined on camera by Thomas Ito otherwise known as David and we are out in search of everything wonderful and marvelous, obviously, that is what we do. I share, we talk about things marvelous. Let me show you beautiful things and we would like to find some cats because apparently this morning nothing was found.
Told tracks, tracks, and tracks and that's all there was. But I was nosing around over there and I stuck my head in the fallen Marula, look what I found—the beak of a hornbill. Very, very cool! Now, hornbills like to nest in cavities of trees and it's possible that maybe it died in there. It's not a fully mature beak; it's quite small but maybe there was a youngster in there when the tree fell over. Maybe it was killed by its sibling; sometimes it happens because hornbills have got something known as a synchronistic breeding.
So, in there lay their first egg, they start hatching it. So once the first egg is laid, they start hatching and then the next day they lay another egg and then the next day another egg. And so you get this stage of development where the first one hatches first takes more food than the second and more than the third. And if it's a year of plenty of food, all three do well but if it's a year of low food then one of them is not going to do very well.
This Marula has definitely fallen down more than a season ago, so maybe it happened during the drought, I'm not sure; I wasn't here. I've only been here since January but marvelous nonetheless. And my scratching has continued. Now I am actually going to do a little tree quiz with you this afternoon but look at what I found on this branch here. Can you see? Eddie's Racha in front of my finger? Dave? It looks like a stick!
It is an insect of sorts; it is unbelievably camouflaged. I wonder if any of you insect lovers up there can take a screenshot and tell me what it is. I've never seen something like this. It's not a stick insect, but it's a stick-like insect which looks just like the plant. Can you see that? It's an insect! I was blown away! It moved when I cut the branch off! It's a barking sect? Cursed? Is it okay? Bark insect—that's Kirsten from FCS summary, bark insects! So let's see if anyone else up there can hashtag so far alive or put comments on the YouTube stream, what insect is this?
But I'm gonna go put it back on the tree in a moment, but first I wanted to see if any of you out there can tell me what tree this is! Hashtag sacrifice alive! It is a very common tree. Those of you out there I have spoken about this, I am gonna get back on to my tree vibes to see if you've all been listening and this tree is marvelous for—Is it working there? This tree is marvelous! If you break the leaves off you can make a lovely tea!
So an animal that would like to eat these leaves—David's got one of them so let's go over there! Right! And I'm sure all of you have seen this antelope here many times on your screen brought to us, and I'll give you my first quiz today and anybody who would tell me what these animals are I'll give him—oh ha! Some big applause and claps from Africa! Just simple coos—he is a ruminant as you can see him there and he is regarded hitting and chewing cud.
Look at the huge fringe hair that he got on the neck on the jowl up there, and the spots on the face! Very good job there! And there’s a female just passing in front of him! So anybody who'd be able to tell me the species or the type of antelope we got here, as usual, Twitter! Hashtag so far alive!
And there's one female running behind him! I'm not sure if she wanted a spoke or two to him. Let's see what the female wants to do there! And the two females there calmly; you get it right and I can haul!
I hope you hear my clubs all the way from Africa! Well done! Well done to all of them! Well done! You must have been very good viewers! Well done!
Yes! It’s cool and precisely there, greater kudu! Well done! I'll give you another cruise much later, maybe this time get a bad species for you instead of an antelope. I think that was so easy! Right, I'll give you something tough and we'll not try to see. Yeah, the male kudu is moving following that female's there and they do not know whether they had an issue between them, and the males is slowly following them with some bad on top of its back getting a hitchhike.
But ideally, those birds there will get the parasites out of the bodies, and that is what is called red-billed oxpecker, red-billed oxpecker. And whilst the male slowly walks away, we’ll also try... Yeah, it’s coming out again! Those two females there they were going for each other. I do not know why! Sometimes you know females will have an issue of a male which rarely happens; it’s normal males that fight over females and the baying browsers in general. You will see they’re only eating leaves, because mainly the kudos browsers.
He’s got huge rock horns! Charlie, I hope you agree they are huge ones where I come from when you see the kudos when they would naturally die. People would make, or people would get the horns and they would make some very nice musical instruments and you’d play music like you know a flute and we’d play the music during wedding ceremonies in the background.
I'm not sure you can hear, there's some Mill impalas rutting and snorting and making all this right cause the females there now the number is growing up. We’ve got four; we had initially two. And the oxpeckers will still keep busy in getting the ticks and the parasites out of the bodies. So what you see them doing now is they're not chewing or they just eat a cheat a little bit, follow it and regurgitate a letter and re-chew it much finer because they go for chamber stomachs—the kudu or most ruminants.
And because of the heat of the day you notice they're enjoying some very nice shade from where they are eating. And the quizzes continue and Stephen is waiting to get his answers.
I am indeed! How is everybody this afternoon? And did you manage to come up with anything on my quiz? It wasn't the best sample but that is the way it works. Such, there were no fruits, there were no flowers, there were seeds.
Michelle, no it was not a maroon. I'll show you once again just so that we're clear this is a simple leaf plant, pea heart? No it’s not; it's Amber Tea! There are simple leaves that are oppositely arranged. You can see there's one on that side, one on that side and a very characteristic leaf twist.
James, you're in the right sort of family but the wrong tree! This twist on the tip of the leaf here is what gives it away! Very nice twist over there, and these trees occur what we would say high up on the slope because they like to pump lots of moisture up from the roots down deep and they're losing their leaves soon!
They have got fruits and pods around but I haven't shown you them so James you're very close but we were not correct! Sir, if we give another few minutes now that I've given away the twist in the leaf, very characteristic! And that with these trees you find them on the top of the slope where we are here.
And there's no thorns in the trees! Stick, stick mantis Catherine? Okay it didn't seem to have any sort of mantis type sort of appendages. But I need to maybe have a look at that screenshot again! I've never seen anything like that before. He was very new! But when we look up on the slope here, the trees have got large leaves to pump the water from the bottom.
And we don't have too many thorny trees up here because they don't really want to slow down the feeding from herbivores. They mainly have tannin in them to prevent them being eaten by insects and as you saw that insect on the plant itself was there. If we look at this tree over here, the branch, the leaf has been munched away there by some form of caterpillar!
So no thorns up on the slope, you mainly find the thorns down on the bottom where the browsing is a lot sweeter and tastes a lot better! When up on the top you've generally found more chemicals and if we look just left of us you can kind of see a band of solver cluster leaves and I'm not going to eat one of them again no matter how nicely anybody asks me to remember Brent the Aerosmith's challenge!
I still haven't gotten him back for that! He challenged me to eat a leaf and it’s loaded with tenon and chemicals! Project alpha twig start bug—that sounds about right. Project alpha never seen one before but thank you! Twig snapped bug! Send those through on Twitter with the screenshots so I can save them for later reference. Projects alpha that does sound about right!
Anyway if you made that up well done! Whoa, Matt it's not a worry! We are on top of the slope we found glories. Normally at the bottom loads down the way down at the bottom I will find you a glory though!
I love how I've got everybody guessing lots of names. Remember that son! Bertie right at the bottom, the jackal berry right at the bottom those occur in the drainage; we're on top of the catena right now folks! So very common! And I'm going to give it away! Are you ready for its dun dun dun? The big reveal! This is the red bush willow, the most common tree we find up on the top of the slope here.
And this is called mixed bush willow—a very common tree up here, come Britain a pickle Adam is the species name because the apex of the leaf. Let me show you a pic. You lots of means to have a twist in the apex right over there! So that is the dead giveaway for the tree and all the bush willows have got this double leaf so they're opposite. And nearly these leaves are far larger than the russet bush willow and the rest bush willow generally have growing down at the bottom and so not the same but the same family Richard!
So very, very similar but the leaves are very, very big here; that's about three inches or so whereas the russet bush willows probably only about that big in size and rounded at the top. Okay very good, very good everybody's awake now now we can do a hard one. So let's go over the bush walk team and see what interesting information James is going to impart.
Well, I was trying to find something interesting to impart to you at the moment. I thought about doing a sarcastic tree quiz by doing something like this: What tree is that? But then I thought some of you were in fine the sock hasn't been amusing! So I didn't do that.
Let's carry on! Kirsten says that Sally who sees people like her that I was worried about! You know, I thought about my tree quiz. Anyway, we've come almost to the far northern fringes of Jummah where we're hoping to pick up on tracks of the Minka Puma pride from this morning. We may or may not be lucky; who knows?
But what we have here, Craig, is some cotton wool that is growing in a plant—a grass of some sort! What is that? Let us investigate and find out! For I have no doubt that all people around the world watching this broadcast and I'll saw amazed! Perhaps a spider is it perhaps a mmm hibiscus seed caught up? Can I pull it towards myself? Pray, thank you so much!
Now it's been tied together very deliberately! I don't see the seasons across and I'm not gonna destroy it! There’s a spider inside there or something inside there! It's leave it alone! I don't know what it is but that’s been produced by an animal! Absolutely no idea! Could have been a spider! Perhaps a small caterpillar? It is very, very thick, anyway!
It's sitting on the tips of a tuft of guinea grass or panicum maximum! This is the kind of place well you quite like to spend the rest of your afternoon! I tell you looking at the waving combs and seeds as the Sun Goes Down! Wouldn't you Craig? Yes! Craig's is alright!
I believe that this segment is going to finish now because Kirsten says we're going to go to David who can actually find an animal, right? Yes, said after the segment there, and we got something or we could some antelopes that we do not have in Kenya and this is the Nala or this annulus! And apparently in the whole of East Africa we do not have vanilla females as in most antelopes you'll have the females without horns and the nails of the horns! And this Neela's here also do not have horns!
And people exactly the last few days every time I've seen onion on a drive because back home in East Africa where I come from the Nala do not exist! We'll move for a little bit see whether you can capture the a little bit more on the left here! Let's see Savi we can get the ones on the left again! So there, and this young male's cones are just starting to pop up and the stripes not very different from like what you see in the kudu and also them being exclusively browsers!
But once the whole like you see there you'll see them foraging on the ground looking for small low hubs! If you want to try to cross the road there, Seb! Sorry to look at them consider Christian is do they have the same number of stripes? Only a few. I'm sorry! I am NOT a hundred percent sure of that answer! I might want to find out!
But if I would want to compare that question to a question I would get in Kenya say about the Zebras with your stripes how they see the Zebras got different stripes! No one zebra is like the other! I'll find out later on and know if the stripes will be the same number here for the annales! I'll find out and I'll let you maybe know! If not today definitely tomorrow!
A huge male also was trying to curse there! I'm not sure whether the male won't come and join the females here! It's just pop for a little bit so they can get the male equally huge! Nothing big like the male could be! So earlier Kirinda you say you confess little between Kudo and Daniela? And now if you look carefully now you can see the difference!
The females here are a little bit like brown chestnut in color and the kudu I would say they're more brown! The males of the nail are not as big and their homes, if you look the one walking away there, it's not as spiral as we saw before with a kudu! And I'll show you later on just keep enjoying that view there and I'll show you how the males of the kuru would be very, very different off to you!
So the male we had before, if not I'll show you and you’ll see why they are quite different! The two species are quite different Aravinda! All right Sam! Sourav inda look at the size of that hunter up there and that's the greater kudu and you can tell or you can see the horns are huge!
And you see they are all very, very spiral! I like the yellows that don’t take all those twists and turns! This rock of horns here are huge! The massive! Sorry if you have some glare there but shoot me now! I'm gonna show you how and Yanis male horns look like and you see they're quite different!
Alright Ravinder hopefully you see the difference there! I said if you can show them now you'll see that's a male yalla and see this have only say one twist? That's it! If you look at the amount of the fringe here the Nala has all the way from the neck to the abdomen it considers a huge difference between the two!
And Ravinder yes, you are very welcome! Thank you for like you know that you've seen the difference; you're very, very welcome Ravinder! Right! And we'll move on and hopefully, we'll see more of the crews, more of the dollars and the difference will still keep playing out!
Right now forgetting the crews, hours equally heavier than the knowledge as we kept tracking here on for Hulan where a gentleman who is on two-wheel! And let's find out what he's doing! Well, what we have here everybody is the same plant that I found the other day in dem! Very kindly, we have a suggestion from Judy H! Solanum Tom Antos! M synonymous with Solanum Bocelli!
I didn't remember that, I’m actually reading it Solanum Bocelli! I synonymous with solanum; the other word I’ve not forgotten! One second! Solanum meant awesome! So Judy H! I and I had a Sabri f-- discussion on the tweets! Tweet about whether or not this was in fact the case because it's not always a spiny plant!
And I found it the other day not with nearly this many fruits on it! And that's how Judy H managed to identify it! And I'm not convinced that she's in fact correct as usual! This is it! It is solanum virtually a high cost element Ozon!
Now we’ve got here Craig said to me he said that looks like a tomato! And so I said Greg, yes it does look like tomato because indeed it is thought of the same family! It is the deadly nightshade family to which of course the aubergine and the peppers belong! Yes! Does the tomato potato and the poison apple here!
And in this solanum Craig would you like to eat this? Tomatoes look nice! Hmm Cody! I'm gonna say NO! You can't eat them because I think that although they look like tomatoes many of these are the flowers here! All of the plants related to the deadly nightshade are quite toxic! And so I'm not going to eat this!
And often, the orange ones are toxic! I don't know why that is the case but you can see it really does look like a miniature tomato bush! This was not quite as thorny as the other one but has got some nasty spines on it! Carol and you say you like the colors! Be nice to plant um yeah, the colors are quite nice! I know what the flowers look like now you should have been asked to paint not plant!
Yes! I think it would be nice to paint! It's got a smell about it not unlike a tomato bush! Which I don't, there's not a particularly nice smell I don't think!
Anyway, then also here I'm going to pick this thing, a piece of the flower that keeps on giving! That is of course the little beetles, the wharf area; sorry the wall period indica! You see them, Greg? Very sweet little black and white bee-gees!
I know what kind they are! They're only about two millimeters across! And they're devouring the small leaves at the top of solanum, not solanum of the wharf area! Just put that one back there; they might survive into adulthood! They have decimated the small plant! But isn’t the solanum fantastic?
I’m very grateful Judy H! Thank you very much for identifying! Food you know Katmandu if you look around where I am sitting over here you can see that the grasses no longer particularly green; it’s taken on a sort of goldish hue, and that is typical of the drier season!
So yes it is getting drier certainly; it's noticeable in the grass but there's still plenty of good forage for the animals out here! So I didn’t think they have anything to worry about from a forage point of view!
And it's been a very good rain season! So I don't see that there's going to be any particular shortage going into the summer! I mean yes, little vivid rough come over September! But after that, it should be fun! So I think everything is in pretty good shape at the moment for... well, pretty good shape for an easy winter for most of the animals!
So that in summary Solanum Bocelli or solanum tormentors and synonymous with each other! Those two—a magnificent example of the deadly nightshade family!
Okay, Steven is now taking over the mantle! I see from Brent Leo Smith and he is the quiz master in chief! Did James just call me the chief? I'm very proud! James never said something so nice to me before!
Well, we are on the western side, we've had tracks of the uncle homers that they were following up on this morning! And while I'm here actually that's a lovely tree!
There are two lovely trees here for those who got a little bit confused with the trees earlier! But we're looking at tracks and the big tree you're looking at now is a jackal berry! It’s a marvelous big specimen, very long elliptical—sorry, lanceolate leaves without the twist!
And they're generally occur around water—a good indicator of water in fact! And then someone who guessed jackal berry that is the jackal berry! And then behind Davie you know the Guara just here—one of David's favorite trees! This is in fact the hairy guar!
They're also very, very evergreen long greeny leaves! You can confuse the jackal berry and the hairy guar quite easily! But do not confuse them with the red bush willow that we saw earlier! Much rounder and broader leaves, not the same sort of greenness either!
The scent they've got a bit more yellow to them! And these two plants here are indicating that there's some form of moisture in the undergrowth! But we've just come on to the western side to see where the tracks of the Oklahoma's might have gotten to!
And I've been chatting with her be on the radio! He's with the bush war team! And the tracks have come to here but that happened across over! So we had to go back again and see if we can give or help Toby and James aren't far away so we're gonna see what they come up with!
But are we gonna keep driving around? We might go dancing to have a look where there's some water because we know lions like to drink especially when it gets hot but it doesn't appear as if they've gone west across the boundary here which is great! So hopefully we can find them for you!
But the bush walked in their tracks all over the place from here this morning but Herbie doesn't seem to think that the lions are gone! They're here somewhere! I think they must have just run out of time!
I can see the big track there of Brent Leo Smith who has now gone on leave! He looked very happy to be departing! I think he gets to see Jamie in a few days; I'm sure that's another bonus!
Okay, so lions could be anywhere in here! As I said the bushwalk team is out and about and we are enthusiastic and we're excited! And I don't think in this temperature the lions are going to be doing too much!
As you saw with James Henry last night he spent some time with them and only right towards the end of drive did their start moving! That's just typically the way it is! So ideally we need to find some fresh tracks and curbing them are really close by!
So I'm sure they're going to be back here soon! But I've got a feeling—the lions are in this block over here on the left—and marvelous indeed!
Another tree that we were getting confused with before! This one right next to us, Davi, the russet bush willow! You can see the leaves are very, very small! And obviously, I didn't show you pods earlier but look at those leaves!
They're almost the same size as the pods themselves! But they are very round, not very broad in their size! So lots and lots of trees are today and this is definitely a tree that the crews like to feed on!
Side of the red bush winners don't actually get very big! They're generally grown up, as I said, up on the slopes and so they only experience a wet season growth!
So they are probably one of the hardest woods you find in the area! Nick, they make phenomenal, phenomenal firewood—not that that's the only function! But there are too much resistance!
I'll show you a relatively decent-sized one, but they don't get much bigger than that! They're only growing in the wet season and, because they're high up, they lose moisture—they drop the leaves into through winter! They're completely dormant!
But they're related to the lead wood! But the lead woods grow down in the drainage lands so they're growing all the time! That's why they get so much bigger!
But anyone you ask, a farmer, any farm will tell you the tree that grows at the top of the hill produces the hardest wood because it is growing in the wind in the summer! And then in the winter, it goes dormant!
So just lignified gets harder and harder and harder! Okay, well let's go back to the bush hawk team and see if they've managed to find any tracks! And found a few tracks and we're now in some fairly dense bush over here!
And in that dense bush we're hoping we might have flush their pride of lions! Herbert, do you think we're going to flush a pride of lions in? So they killed an Impala there last night we think! Which is quite a long way from where they were hunting!
Make sure it's about a kilometer or so! Surprised it took them that long! I'm also surprised that the wildebeest survived their evening on quarantine keyrings! Because the fact that there's lions doesn't go for one of them—I think speaks volumes for their kind of random approach they have to hunt!
Anyway, their tracks, then we went across our Western laundry and then came back again! We think so we're quite close to the western boundary now and you can just imagine how easy it would be for lions to hide here!
And so we're just stepping carefully! You don't want to give them a fright! Mostly we don't want to give the frost ourselves and we don't want to, as Herbert says, dance too much today!
That's what happens when you all know, step on lions! So, hippies just checking on the ground there! Only he will be able to see tracks on ground, heart and see some things walk there! And what was in?
I'll tell you now, one of the things that people are most concerned about out here is whether or not it's safe! Rasham, bee is safe! This is not a Red Bull sort of adrenaline sport that we're doing!
Yet! Oh hang on a second! I'll get back to you on this! Steve's got an interesting bird! We do! We found ourselves a southern white crown shrike! And you can clearly see the tip of the beak is very, very sharp—a very characteristic feature of the lenio or shrike family!
And this is one of the cooperative breeding strikes! And easily seen by that white crest all the helmets! Should I say, always generally found in groups? I don't know where his family is, maybe they’re out foraging! This one stayed home for a bit of a view!
But they are omnivores and will feed on small mammals even! If they can, lizards, potentially even small snakes! But then lots and lots of insects! And the reason all these strikes they fall into what we called the butcherbird family as I say, omnivores but also predatory.
They will use sharp spines and thorns to impale their prey! And enables them to then rip it apart! They don't have a strong foot like many of the raptor species that you find that will use the foot, obviously to hold the prey as they rip it apart!
They’ll often impale it on a spike! Very commonly seen with barbed wire! It acts as a larder for advertising territory! Advertising the ability to provide food and it also assists in the ripping much bigger prey!
If you've seen the birds most birds they swallow their prey whole! But if you're a shrike, you generally catch prey that's too big to swallow holes you need to be able to use some form of mechanism to assist in tearing it apart!
Marvelous how he's just sitting there for us! Hey Dave, I wonder if he knows where the lions have gotten to! This is a beautiful bird it goes! And I don't know if you could hear that! That noise it made as it flew off! It sounds like a squeaky toy that you give to your dog and they squeak with their mouth!
Very easy to identify when you hear them flying! Okay, and on we go! Okay well seems that bird has flown off! Let's go back to here, the end of James's tale bird! So no, it's not dangerous out here!
And I would—people often ask that as if we in some way have an adrenaline junkies view on life! Which of course Greg behind the camera does but for the rest of us no it's not unsafe out here at all!
As long as you're trained to deal with the animals and you know what to do if you see an animal! So if we would have to happen upon those lions, we know not to run! We don't stand still!
I feel good to come across a buffalo! Well you'd hopefully see it before it saw you! So we're always looking carefully under every bush around every tree just to make sure that we're not surprised by anything!
But mostly the thing is that animals are afraid of us as human beings on foot especially! And that's what makes us a relatively safe operation! You wouldn't be doing this in an area where there were polar bears for example which tend to see us as fair game!
You wouldn't swim in a lake full of crocodiles! They also see us as fair game! And so you know it is in Africa! It's generally relatively safe as long as you know what you're doing! And of course, as long as you're out in the daytime things change at night!
When you get things like em lions and leopards and hyenas are much more confident and they can tell of course that we can't see what's going on at night time! You know you stand around trip over things can’t see properly and they pick that up immediately!
We're heading towards a pan now! Little pan of water over here! Spent beautiful of the pan and perhaps the lions stop there for drink but perhaps a whole lot else did as well!
There's definitely a huge amount of impala activity through here which would expect from a hot day like this! 30 degrees Celsius odd 18 degrees was it's an 85 odd Fahrenheit! Not bad for winter and we're now on a major game path!
And this major game path goes all the way up to dam just north of us! And that's called Sydney's dam! All right, David has returned to piste and he is now on cheated cut line right!
We are still hunting for our cuts this afternoon and most importantly also learning the boundaries itself! So I know where I am and why I'm not! And we have seen a few trucks behind us a few minutes ago and they just disappeared!
They didn’t look another going forward or backwards, very, very clearly! And you're trying to find out when it gets more fine sound we can follow them again! And maybe they may lead us to something interesting!
Will tran sing by any watering hole around this area because what's warm like this cats will either very quickly go for a drink as it gets hot, as they you know dehydrate! And it will be good for us traction lunch here!
They do magic unlike in Kenya where you have physical air to look for the animals here we do the trucks! So ginger you say you would like to see a zebra?
Hopefully you'll see one! And a rubber sternum! Sorry ginger, just ginger! I hope I got Union correct! And you're saying you would like to see a zebra!
I would be happy to see it! But you haven't seen one zebras who will be maybe sharing our happiness and celebration together as I see! And you see your zebra, which I'm sure you might have seen many before!
It's gonna be my first dobrze to see here in South Africa! Just let you know this, what some subspecies of each other here! We have what you call Grant's zebra, the ground zebra!
And in East Africa, we have the plains zebra! Very identical but the patterns can be slightly different! You know a subspecies of each other ginger!
I do not know why you come from whether you have zebras or not, and I'd be happy if you could also let me know on Twitter or specifically you'd like to see the zebra and not see any other species! And not see any other animal!
If you heard me the other day! You might have gotten me saying I love zebras! The black and white colors my favorite colors! And anything black and white, be it clothes, wear, shoes, hearts, you know, any coat, any jumper, anything black and whites I'll always go for it!
Still trying to look for any signs ofcuts! And you never know! And with this very fine sand, it's very, very easy to pick tracks! And more so of leopards!
We said the Newcomb Alliance yesterday so today we'd be happy to see some mass sported leopards! And James got some interesting amphibian!
We were just discussing what these frogs are! Everybody I don't know what they are! And who he was asking if that one stuck in the mud there was actually stuck! I don't think it's stuck!
I wonder if they have been actually sort of Easter fighting under the mud there! One day lovely! I've got no idea what they are but I have a frog applicator on my door that!
So I'll see if I can find out! The first thing we need to do is go to the my location section so that they will basically eliminate anything that isn't here! There's another one! Let me see the other one!
No! So there's a point with my shadowed stick there, still there now! To me, that looks like some kind of—I actually don't know what it is! And it's looking!
It looks a little bit like an ornate frog but I'm pretty sure it's not! No nightfall doesn't have any green on it! River for now, okay?
Maybe a striped stream frog! Ah! How about that? A striped stream frog, yes! I think that's what he is! And just check his distribution to make sure I'm quite lucky!
I think it's probably one of the stream frogs! You just put that in the stream! Oh they make it call for you! Give this chat responses! Hmm it's watching a fly!
Oh yes! It might kill it! You might have a live killed everybody! Do you think he's going to kill it?
I'm also not sure, and the advances on striped stream frog! I'm very happy to take any ideas from all of you sitting at home looking at our frog! He's a magnificent fellow!
You know we don't get to look at folks like this! He's too big to be a reed frog but he shows no! It's just that you can't surely be the standard-issue bubbling Cocina flight!
Oh my goodness this is fantastic! Look at that! It's a big fly! Come on frog, take that fly! This is the most wonderful, always fern away! It's a pity!
Do you think this is a Snapchat frog? I'm happy to look at that! Just snot-nose trove, let's keep watching him! I don't have snot-nosed frog in my on my app! Any other name for snot? What do you call a snot-nosed frog?
Penny is still looking just down through the list! I think that that's what it is! And this has got a very pointy nose! Our sharp-nosed frog! Project author!
You say shop nosed frog! That's actually a really good call! Just looking at it now! Sharp nose they have got a sharp nose, he's got yellow underneath his belly and a little bit of red!
He's got a little bit of red underneath his eye! Sharp-nosed frog! I'm happy to go with us! Check the distribution! Yes, distribution is good! Could easily be a shop-nosed frog, actually! Well done!
So he's a kind of a grass frog! Yes! That's actually much better isn't it?! Definitely not a herd! That's a much better sort of general look striped grass frog!
He loses his stripes though on his body doesn't he? Yeah! I'm gonna go with a striped sharp-nosed frog that I project off!
And I think you were! You've done a great job finding that! Well apparently our sharp-nosed frog isn't nearly as entertaining as a feeling bird!
Yeah well you got a bed! It was sitting in the open a moment ago and now it's flapped down into the cover of that small gory bush! You can just see the very long tail on the screen there!
It goes on the ground now! Yeah, what's it feeding on? I wonder if any of you out there! I'd love to know the bird is amongst their group! What bird is this?
Hashtag safari live! What bird is that? Black and white! Long tail? Hmm probably munching on ants right now!
And so termites, most likely ants because they're a little bit more active in the heat of the day! And by the way it's moving around so quickly and munching it's definitely a lot of little things on the ground!
So I would assume ants! But it is another omnivore and is related to the other bird we saw any moments ago! It's also a cooperative breeder! It also falls under the family!
But who can tell me? Hashtag for alive! What bird is that busy foraging? Not too bothered by the formic acid that the ants might be exuding as a defense mechanism!
Ravinder, it's actually way bigger than a wider! And we don't get any black and white only wide as the waters have got a little bit of color in them!
And even if it's just the beak, and this is probably about three terms maybe? Twice, twice as big as a wider! Angie you got it spot-on!
Anybody else want to have a guess before we announce Angie's victorious name for the bird? Well done Ally! Well if those of you have correctly identified it as the magpie shrike! Hundred percent to you and it is also a cooperative breeder as we said!
And for some reason the cooperative breathers all alone today! I don't know what's going on! It is a lonely Sunday! Is it Sunday? This Sunday, yes it is!
Okay, so we're going to go from one species that spends time together to another! Right! The species changes now and we have another one here and we got some nice piggies around here!
And you can see how when they want to reach the grass they will live down to reach the grass! What hopes young female they'll kill them! And you notice carefully the lonely is nil!
And what do we need to eat the grass? Is because they'll use their upper nose or muddy ball to be able to scrub or to dig if they’re eating some tubas there from the grass or rhizomes!
And by so doing that gives them some very good leverage on the head and the neck! And you can see one! It's pretty wet! We've got some pan of water not very far from where we are!
So must have been in there because of the heat of the day! It was maybe trying to cool off! Very interesting how you see them eating kneeling! What did the fluffy says? Hurry Pumbaa!
All right fluffy, yes this is very good! For agree with you yes this is Pumbaa! And look at the big boy coming in behind there!
And if you look carefully he got more mud on the hind legs! So he must have been laying or wallowing the water! On the bumps I'd see the shiny left leg!
And truly is Pumbaa! You notice he is not kneeling down like the other young ones swirling down eating! He can comfortably reach the dress and a big boy is there!
An interesting to see them, you know, feeding like that! Because some of the big ones could be anything 60 or like so kilograms! And they're heavy heavy!
And it's not commonly you'll see! You really see leopards coming for the warthogs! And what I want to do, I really like to see the big one! He looks really big with big you know testicles there!
We won't try and get a little closer to him! And see whether we could get a little bit more view of it! Cause Pumas always exciting pigs to watch!
Let's just get a little close and see how far they’ve gone! And this pool of words not very far from where we are and simply they go left to right!
Let's fight! Yeah! Yeah, right! Here! It’s interesting when they run the females will go ahead!
And then the male always comes last and he was so much big Bella is what I was saying earlier! Sorry they're huge! And some of them would be anything like 65, 70, 80 kilos!
If you got for our Hosanna chief here or the leopards bringing them down! Because of the size! And how huge they are! I would still want to have one more look!
And see if they're gonna set it down! Aiden that's a very good question and you're asking why do they love to play in the mud!
Number one is could be only for one obvious reason! Well, it gets hard! I remember I was talking about all the temperatures have gone pretty high maybe you know 80 plus degrees Fahrenheit over 30 plus!
I don't know what the two bridges are Celsius! That gets very, very hot! And the only one way this water cooled himself down is jumping in the water!
And by so doing they'll be able to cool off! And sometimes on the jump in the water also what should happen they may come out with a lot of mud Aiden on their bodies!
And that mud will just cut their bodies like sunscreen! And watch it to do it will kill any parasites that will be on the skin of the Pumas or the warthogs!
It suffocates them! They’re not able to breathe and then they die and they just fall off! So for those two reasons that's why the watch hogs will go in the mud!
They've given us a good goodbye, which was fine! That was a good show and Steve is he is by a tree! Yes we have found a beautiful specimen of the red bush willow!
And I forget who asked before but how big do they get? This is about as big a specimen as I have ever seen! It is enormous!
And it is a beautiful tree! Have you hugged the tree today? You should! It is beautiful! It’s magical!
I am officially, and I will admit it! I am a tree hugger! I'm not shy to admit it! Beautiful specimen the red bush willow growing here just above the slope the saw the class leaf lion in front of me there!
And we have another vehicle then I parked in the road so I'm going to have to move to get out of the way! I do apologize for my quick movements back to the car now!
I have caused the traffic jam when it's good! David who's got a magnificent animal!
Yes, we just spotted one of the tallest animals—the tree got in Africa or the tallest one in the world! One minute we get there, which said my apologies!
And it's a huge male giraffe! And this is my first giraffe I am seeing in Juma! This is my first giraffe to see in South Africa!
I'm not sure it have a lesson or a big wound in that area there! It seems like it has an infection; I'm not sure! Ease of tango a fungal disease, some kind of skin disease!
I'm sorry I don't close closely with my binoculars and see! And on the other side of snakes you can see the ox because trying to get all the parasites out carefully looking to investigate!
Very nice! And I'm equally excited like you, seeing a giraffe for the first time! Just I was talking about the zebra!
I'm equally excited to see the giraffe for the first time in South Africa! I can't—I'm trying to explore and find out whether that would have been some fungal infection or a wound of some kind!
But I've noticed sometimes with some of these animals as a move for a little bit! Sir, if you allow me!
We have seen some of the ox speakers when they remove the parasites from the Hobby boss! There is a place or the time to keep packing on a particular area!
And if you can't buffaloes on the faces buffer or sometimes emits some to MUX below there because the ticks we love to come on this area below the buffaloes!
And they have like they have other eyes kind of stop right there right below them! They have little patches; I'm not sure that could be a case here!
But it's very interesting to know what could have happened there! Have you seen the drug before Sebastian?
Yeah! Do you know what curve in the problem thank you very much! Carsten think you said yes and you know learning to do that tear it must been a fight before!
And you know, you realize males fight a lot and fight some terms are very, very fertile! And the horns maybe or the ossicles could have done its damage!
I try and get a little closer to it again because I'm really interested to see that kind of wood and try and calculate how that blow was that even tore the skin of the dropper!
And cuz it survived then I think it must have been very, very lucky! You imagine such a giraffe with such a huge scar!
That's an area without a doctor or without medication! Medication but it must have done very, very well to have recovered from a tune when unlike the would we have been seeing on one of the lionesses of the new kuma lionesses!
Here this one looks to be very well healed as he majestically walks over there! That's you asking how would you tell the age of Azeroth? That could be a very difficult question!
And I haven't done that before but in general you'd look at size—size would help you more to tell! Because if we talk of color sometimes the colors could be misleading!
We have seen some very odd giraffes looking very dark and samyamas also looking very dark! So it could be very difficult to tell!
I do not—you have an idea how you tell the age of a giraffe honestly! For me, I have no idea completely! But I would say any guesswork out!
Do I start by looking at the size, right! I still have one more look on it and then we'll get to looking for other animals!
Child of the universe you are asking whether I can tell the differences between the giraffes of East Africa and the giraffes here? Yes, there are huge differences!
I'll tell you! And the only way we tell different species of giraffes is by the patterns on their bodies! We got four species of giraffes in the world!
We have the southern giraffes here in Kenya! We have the Masai giraffe and you realize the massage giraffes are, you look taller than this one!
And the patterns are more well developed than the patents that we just saw there of the southern giraffe! Yes, the patent child of the universe is what tells me the different species of giraffes in Kenya!
We should go to another type! That's called the reticulated giraffe, which button of the body looks like a fishing net! A very good question! They are child of the universe!
Yes! Excited a giraffe for the first time! And this morning elephant sir things are getting better! Sept for me James, who is walking is still looking down!
Well yes! One last look down if one is looking at something on the ground! I find that is the most helpful place to be looking! That was a yellow pansy!
Let's just see if he settles again! Please settle again, yellow pansy! Come on, yellow pansy! Settle! Immediately, yes!
And sit and sit and sit! Let's just wait for him to sit! He is a most beautiful butterfly! All there is! Look at that! You got in there, Craig!
Well done! Reminds me, of course, at the older English dog handler Barbara Woodhouse! I guess an early precursor to the years! What's that dog whispers name, says or someone anyway she used to say sit!
Sit! And all the dogs would sit and say that's what I've done to the butterfly in hopes it will sit! Now of course it's current resting position is much more the norm for a butterfly!
Normally there is to their wings up! And it is one of the distinguishing features between butterflies and moths! Moths will normally register their bring wings down!
So to have him sat on the ground of his wings open like that is quite unusual! We're all our far western boundary now and I think that these lions have probably—oh look at that!
They're probably headed off into arrows or someone beating these lions! And you know we've found lots of small interesting things!
Kestrel Fox you say a pretty flutterby! Yes, this is a very Sunday sentiment that I pretty flutterby! And there were some common or some African jokers around here as well which I can't see at the moment!
Oh okay! We're going to get back to our Kenyan genus! It was managed to find, I think is fifth or sixth mammal of the day! Just look at this and how things are just rolling!
And I'm getting some red work red carpet welcome in South Africa! And look at the alleys there! When we found them initially we saw they had a lot of mud baths on their bodies!
But now you can see they're doing a dust bath! So they're getting a second coat of the sunscreen from what they had just gotten a few minutes ago!
Is it that beautiful? Look at that! If you look at them carefully you can see the amount of Matt! Yes, yes they are rumbling there!
And if you look at them carefully you can see they've got a lot of a mud, the mud cover, which is very, very wet! Sorry about that, just some nice guests also enjoying the view like us!
And just look at that! So what should happen is, cause the first cut, oh they have of the mud is wet! So the dust will tend to stick!
You know how we build homes here in Africa? We'll put mud which marred and cover it with dry! Excuse me, excuse me just like that!
And that one makes a very, very good piss and covers them very, very nicely! Why don't we get a little closer to them because that's a great view!
And I'm getting excited every other minute, having seen elephant this morning and now what a blessing to see them again in the afternoon! Eh?
They were very busy eating this money and this time we’re seeing on similar moment joining them having adjustable! And that's why I've always said in my life every day in the bush is a different day!
Every day is like reading a new page on a book! And look at that! See how deluxe they are!? Hrothgar, your question is did I find out what could have been wrong with the elephant we saw this morning?
I posted that question to my colleagues in the camp, and all of us are going to meet tonight after dinner! And try and explore and find out what could be the possibilities of those pink ears, and why we saw a bit of blood coming it from its anise!
We'll definitely explore and yes giraffe cow please be with us tomorrow again! And most likely we'll have an answer for you how relaxed they are!
And you can tell if you treat animals nicely they'll also treat you the same way! You don't get so close to them! You're not so loud! Excuse me thrashing you, asking how do they keep the dust or the dust out of the eyes!
If you look at the elephant's carefully and I'm sure Seb being such a wizard on camera will bring us close to an elephant! I look at the very long eyelashes you see on that one there!
Look at the very long eyelashes! So what they will do is as they throw up or this plush like that when exactly speak of the devil they're just on their bodies!
They very quickly close their eyes and the eyelids will cover the eyes! And of course, the long eyelashes will help in making sure the dust doesn't get into their eyes!
Just like you, you know how when you walk and you know something is coming! Try how you very quickly close your eyes the elephant also do the same!
Isn't that amazing? What a woman said there! Mmm-hmm, it's very exciting for me, eh! Absolutely! I agree with all of you that this is a great sighting!
And you see the position of your feet there as they keep picking up the dust! And doing a bit of scratch there on the temporal ground!
We've got impalas snorting there! And I'm not sure yes, and the elephants have says they also look in the same direction!
And the baby their eyes trying to nurse! And you never know, we'll see a combination of that call from the Ellie's! I mean from the impalas!
And the behavior of the Ellie's here! They all look in the same direction! The nails have just stopped teaching! Now he is out on both of them!
It could have been a for solemn and they seem like all is good in the deciding to do the thing! See that young one there! Look at it, look at it, look at that!
Definitely, definitely! Very good! Very good that submitting to me tells me there could be something in this little block here!
And I'm sure we will try and try and compete out and find out what that could be because that trumpeting was not variable!
This had an elephant! I think they are all related! But that something to me doesn't sound very, very normal!
Just get so close and find out what could be happening here because that's a straw man! And you should behavior of Ellis, they were not trumpet for no reason!
We're not very far from my favorite tea to a hot water hole! But that trumpeting leaves with a few questions!
Hopefully the final destination of this Ellis will be the to go for a drink or possibly even a swim! This is very exciting for me!
Say we standing up to get the highest vantage point! Linda, I couldn't agree with you, Father! That you could watch elephants all day! For the big mammals this is my favorite anymore!
As I said before by what did you how they behave, and they will be here at all the Impala si are going crazy!
And it could be a combination of writing for the impalas! It could be a combination of any concern of a predator around here!
But again, you never know! We got one huge male coming down here! I'm not sure he's coming to say hello David!
And welcome to South Africa! If you decide to move here, David! We shall give you enough entertainment and you will forget East Africa!
Huge bull just walking so close to us; very majestic! Can hear him cracking and breaking the sticks!
It's working, Craigie—sorry about the poll there! And your question is: have I ever seen elephants innocent Craig or we had them sneeze?
I'll be happy! I can tell you, I haven't heard of that! And if that should happen, I'll be one very happy boy!
But that's a very interesting question, Craig! Bear hopefully today could be the day we hear them sneeze—who knows?
The zone is a fast same for everything! So the seams have come down now! Because initially the trumpeting we had before to me was a big concern!
And the impalas give some alarm! The ellies did the same! But now things seem to have come down! And it could be a predator also that came very quickly and took off!
And once the reality is gone, everything comes down! Let’s say that! Yeah the cheetah waterhole is not very, very far from here!
And I’m crossing fingers hoping that they might be getting there for a quick drink! And if that happens I can tell you we'll be expecting to get better sure!
And I do not know what James is doing with trees the whole afternoon! Being a Sunday can he tell us what he's doing?
Well I suspect you probably won't be able to tell you what Tell him what I am doing because there's nothing secret about it! But this tree I told you the other day was a rare tree on Juma!
And in fact, this tree isn't on juvenile—it's, you know little secret! It's just on feyza! I'm standing one foot off the road!
But I figure they were in - looking at their tree! I'm pretty sure this is the centered thorn and it's one of the most common acacia trees or Virgilio trees down on the river sort of side of the Sabi sands!
Was gainful! And it’s called the centered thorn because if you break open the pod and smell the SAP it smells like those Apple sweets!
You know if you have those apple flavored boiled sweets! Oh! And if you get them where you happen to be in the world! That's what it smells like! It's a delicious smell but you are immediately induced to do this sort of thing but beyond measure it is absolutely unspeakably better!
And their tiny little drop has fooled my whole mouth with a taste of bile! And so the sweet gentle childhood nostalgic smell of apple boiled sweets!
All those lollipops used to get his pops and called! He's ruined by the taste! That's why it's called the scented thorn or the chillier nylock ticker!
And I showed you one that had died the other day that fallen over; it's been killed by elephants I think and they're so few of them!
They're a couple of quarantine keyrings just outside the camp but otherwise, there really are not many down here up at least up here! Down in the south, quite a few!
And certainly, as you head down towards Kwazulu-Natal there are many, many! It came from anyway! So no! I will just quickly sneak out!
Carrot cube! I don't think even sugar would make a difference— that tasted really is very disgusting! It leaves the same aftertaste!
However, it's quite interesting! As the bark, the inner bark of Knob form, if you cut open a knob form and slice out the inner bark and eat that! It's quite a nice kind of chewing gum type thing!
As relatively sweet, but it doesn't—it leaves the same aftertaste as that very bitter bile tasting sap! Yuck!
Party! We’re going to head back into Juma! We've given up on there any lions! The Cossack Stefan didn't come back yet!
So we're gonna head down to tree house down and see what's going on there! I don't think anyone knows the answer to this question! Cherie, the rarest tree in the world!
I think probably has not been described by science because nobody's bothered to see it! There are a number of protected tree species in South Africa!
The bio lab is one of them! The jackal berry is one of them! But I think these are protective trees because they're sought after for their wooden and for their and their fruits!
And that sort of thing the human harvesting is causing a sort of decline in their numbers! But I don't know what the rarest tree in the world is!
I suspect, like I say, it's probably some forest tree somewhere in the jungles of the Congo or perhaps South America or Southeast Asia that hasn't been described yet!
I'd be happy to take any feedback that you might have on that! School, here is not a particularly rare treat! That seemed to be able to have a tree day today!
I will try and find some mammals! This is, of course, the force marula tree! For some reason vm's favorite tree!
Kevin, why it shouldn't be so! But this is what it is! Then you can see once the elephants have taken the bark off, its opened it up to borer beetles!
I think that's no in fact that's definitely not a boring beetle! These little things here are borer beetles! You see the little ones? Possibly even some carpenter bees!
But what this is is a woodpecker hammering a hole to pull out the larvae of the insects that have laid their eggs in the wood! Isn't that cool?
Say it's cool Craig! It's very cool apparently! Okay carry on! It's a life on that little tree! Sitting as it is watching the Sunday sunset!
David, I would can see is now not only finding the animals but correctly predicting their movements which is most impressive!
This is unbelievable for me because what I anticipated is happening! And yes, I agree with you Cassie! I guessed what could happen!
And the chances were they were heading right for my favorite waterhole! Chitwa waterhole! And look at them now online! I’ll keep quiet for a few seconds for you to just enjoy this view!
This is for me magnificent! My anticipation has worked fine! And my guess was they might be coming to have a drink!
And yes, right they're having a drink and we got the Egyptian geese next to them! And they're like you mind your business—you mind our business!
It's time for us to drink! We know you live here but you also need this water to quench our thirst! Look at the big board is just walking in front of us!
Look at his size! Debbie! This is also called a fiesta! I agree with you! This is a fiesta! True party here!
Funny that the drinking and same time doing the number two business, I don't understand the behavior of that particular young youngster!
Looks like to me is a boy, and I would easily say boys will be boys! You come to drink in it respect your water in holy service!
Laughing, that was not very so that was out of character! Yeah, I mean Sarah Grizzly! You don’t pee and you poop in your nice watering hole!
If you're getting some nice cold orange juice for example! And then you behave like that, it's not very, very good for the next guest!
You notice how the big male stands out! He doesn’t show any signs of being in must! So that's why you see the females are very, very comfortable with him!
There in general sometimes when you get the big bulls in must and when they come close to the females you see the females reacting angrily!
And not getting very happy with a militant must see this is a very young baby there! If you look absolutely absolutely this is magnificent!
As I said look at that young baby! Trying to catch up with mama! Teeny, teeny, teeny! Oh Tay is still under 1 year young young young young!
Great stuff! Yeah, and he maybe takes very, very good cover from everybody! And you see how the drops! Well done good camera work there Seb!
Just look at the drops! How they fall back right in the water! And look at that!
And it’s the water or the drop bounce right from the surface of the water! See that? Well done good camera except there!
So the scoop as much as you know, as much what is possible for them to quantity a fast here! And you can see that has like ha an eyelash or someone was doing some beauty work on her face!
The young one there! But that's a little line of dust that wasn't covered very well by the mud!
It's like someone was trying to do an eye brown, the wrong side! Thirsty, thirsty alleys they may not seem to be drinking a lot!
They I was trying to go in! And you can see the legs up to the knees! You know, oh the whole trunk was in the world! If you look carefully which was a thing first attempt to go in the water!
And oops, come on the mud check there! I guess the big one days the magic in general! The oldest, he's always the mature!
He is trying to put some order in the heart here! And we're waiting for her to give the command! Uncle Ian would like to know what sorry crusty fumbling!
You'd like to know if elephants could get an infection from drinking dirty water? I'll tell that one; I do not know!
But I would say in the wilderness where we are, it's very very difficult to get any dirty water! I wouldn't know if there's no outside human interference in the wilderness!
Everything tends to remain clean! Unless for example outsi is some dangerous sea or poisonous snake who died in the water or the solid by mistake!
I highly doubt that should happen! But they could very good mechanism to take care of or don’t eat! And I mean what they drink!
I would highly doubt don't get an infection and if that should happen! I think Mother Nature, depending on what they eat would take care of that very very quickly!
A few more aliens have just come in! And they might go back to the water to have more drinks! I'm just loving this!
So I think a decision has to be made there! I think there's an agreement! And they are discussing something! You can see the change in the body language there!
How many have had enough drink?! How many have not? We need to do this! I'm just guessing! I wouldn’t know what they're talking about!
But definitely, you can tell there's some important discussion going on there! We're just very quiet, wait and see what they agree to do!
Only you'd like to know if there's a difference between the South African and the Kenyan elephant? I would say no!
Everything behavior reproduction habitat habits! Everything remains the same! Gas station period! Like you know what I might have picked up and I'm still trying to talk with my presenters or my colleagues here in South Africa!
I thought the alleys or the elephants in South Africa a little bit rounded as compared to the elephants in Kenya! I'm thinking so! I’m yet to see more!
Houses of elephants, my second hand! Luckily today my second has a very fun to see! I'm here to see more!
And look at them closely but I would be happy to know if the same! But I think this one here are more rounded than the ones we have in Kenya which I think they are more angular!
Well, it's time to move and you can see the big one there's the magic one has changed the direction! I was walking the other way and the magic was I said this is the direction you're going!
We are all going south! Mover! Great wat—hallelujah! And as the elephants are leaving, Seb, you see the smaller crop may be broken over there right now!
We're changing from the Mamas and we got our tail water activity! What a great spot to be at this waterhole!
And the croc doesn't seem to be worried! And Steve have a different type of mammal! Mmm a mammal that likes water almost as much as elephants do!
For water back and we are sitting here with a male who is licking his lips for unknown reasons! He's just been standing there staring into the distance!
Not eating, not ruminating, just the odd lick of the lips from time to time! And we are on our way to tree how two twin dams!
We have just visited two treehouse dam waterhole and no animals moving in and around! And the temperatures slowly starting to subside, so we hoping at any one stage now we might get the movement of some spotted a feline of sorts!
But this water buck is very relaxed! Don't know what's going on with him! Maybe he's hoping his ladies are going to be returning soon!
And she just loved that nose and so wet! What's he doing, Dave? Do you know? Man! It's just thinking! Just thinking!
He's enjoying a Sunday afternoon! K, you're right! What did you hear boy! The beautiful horns, that white ring on the bottom!
David would be familiar with this one! But then also that a faster water buck that has got the entire white circle, not just the ring!
And there we go now we get the other profile! It's like this is my better side! Let's go Dabs quickly! Great!
We just so 100 just come in! Just listen to that! [Applause] I'm not sure what could have gone wrong!
Because the pastor of Aires had their jump drink and all full and they were ready to leave! And now all right, another hand of about eight ten was coming in!
In the heart that was living with a very quick u-turn! And came back towards these other ones! And there was a little confrontation!
Not very big between the two hearts! I think now what they're doing is trying to know each other! And dream meet and greet as the hippos is wondering what could have gone wrong!
I think the one had that had finished drinking now is making a move! They won the heart behind them has not had a drink, not even had dropped!
So there could be two definitely different families that met! And I'm not sure how! I do not want to meet! And it's a huge bull following them there!
And you can tell a hundred and fifty percent that's a boy! Now this could be a bit of a concern!
Deb! Yes, those sounds of Ellie's trumpeting there was great the aquatic awesome! You know, echo tones or natural tones of the earth or of the wilderness!
How majestic when you see them walking there on the edge of the waterhole! Great lighting! And almost you're meant not even hear them walk as much as they look so huge!
And behind them the male is following them very, very closely! I'm not sure this milk could be in must and that's why the Ellie's got very uncomfortable!
And they're going away from him! I'm still convinced the second hand of elephants, the second I might come for a drink!
Because they didn’t drink any water as soon as the other heart turned around! And they came to meet them! And there was a little bit of a scuffle there!
Four-wheel drive to get over large to keep going! Go good girl! Yes! And that's another boy their youngsters in this heart! Very, very good light coming through there!
After leaving the waterhole! I still believe the second heart of elephants will turn around and come for a drink! I mean they eat so much elephants, they also need to drink equally as much!
Amelia, your question is do all families have a magic? Yes all families will have a magic!
And she's a female who makes the most crucial or the most important decisions! However, a family might be be it of two or three members or two about fifty members!
It's always one family that will always be a magic! Emilia, in every family of the elephants it doesn't have to be necessarily the largest!
But in general is always the oldest! The oldest definitely will have had lots of experience in life insurance! Making good calls and good judgments when they'll be you know any concerns or any doubt in the harder!
But also you tend to see in general also the mass trucks are big in size! That only still enjoy the green grass cause is pretty fresh!
And it gets very soft being near the water hole! Hopefully, it doesn't lag behind so much! And it's left by the others!
The things very slowly! They one had a dent or hadn't had a drink at the very end of the water hole is thinking of getting in the water now to have a drink!
I think it's their time! The disagreement that was there might have been sorted amicably now!
And elephants mostly always very closely related! Andrea, you'd like to know why is so many elephants in Kenya don't have tears or their tails are missing!
We have been having this debate for quite some time! And we all of us have different theories of why these tears are missing!
And one of the theories that have personally had is genetical! And you know that happens if the mother or the father didn't have a tail that might happen to the calf too!
We have got when they're playing or when they're being playful sometimes you see them either grubbing the tails when they're young with your trunks!
And when one tried to flee the tail we just snap! We have seen some bloody alize when they're young! And the tails look in bloody and quantities are missing!
And we have said chances are that is what could have happened! That theory doesn't carry so much water to me is occasionally!
Maybe when they're very young predators like lions have gone for the babies when the mothers are not very very watchful!
And I mean I mean we have those three theories in Kenya! But hopefully some of the experts will tell us for a fact what could have you know happened to these Ellis's missing tails!
In a part for missing tails their life has continued as normal! I haven't seen one elephant missing after a while!
Haven't seen many! This is my second heart of elephants to see! And from what I saw in the morning and all what I've seen here!
All their tails intact and in place! I'm still looking for the LED! So this model the pink here we haven't seen it!
See could definitely be in a different hard! James is working towards another waterhole! I am walking towards another waterhole!
I'll here we go! Come on David! At least one Craig! What we have here is Poli rankest the