Safari Live - Day 118 | National Geographic

Good afternoon and welcome to the sunset safari! Off to a great start already! We did in fact have a butterfly sitting on a piece of grass. It was a cabbage white, but of course it flew away just before we went live. Naturally, my name is Taylor McCurdy and I'm hopefully going to make no more references to the sunrise safari. Behind the camera, bringing you the most amazing wildlife footage, is Sebastian.

I feel like it's been a while since we just keep skipping one another's funny rotations; I feel like it's sabotage. Anyway, if it is your first time joining us on this live safari, we will show you animals at some point when we can find them. But in the meantime, if you'd like to ask us any questions, you can pop them through. All you have to do is hashtag #SafariLive on Twitter, and then you can also talk to us via the YouTube chat.

But we're going to get on it, so, I mean, I can't tell you how long I've been trying to get butterflies on camera for. It's still look. I still have my butterfly book; I've got two butterfly books, so hopefully... sorry, yes, a bomb went off the road there. We're hopefully going to find some cool things. We'll try and check and have a look at some of the wildflowers and the center plants and see what's lurking on them as well.

Well, I feel like it's going to be a good day to maybe find some butterflies or perhaps even find a leopard. So, I've got some exciting news for all of you. Sebastian's wife, Shannon, was young, and she just left this afternoon, in fact, just before drive starts. She said she bumped into a male leopard from quarantine! How exciting! And she said it wasn't a big male leopard, and it sounds like it's probably going to be Hosanna. She said it wasn't Tumba, and Shan knows the leopards quite well in this area, so that's really nice.

So, what we've done is—basically all the teams are deployed; there's an army unit today for a search and rescue, but not really a rescue, just a search kind of part. So, we checked Philemon's dip, and we saw where he came up. So, if you were watching the sunrise safari, you would have known that I was tracking him for the young male leopard from Cheetah Cutline down number three through the Malarati and sort of coming northwest, so that's what was happening. I suspect that it is him, and we saw his tracks coming out Philemon's step.

So Scott's also driving around, and then, of course, the bushwalk team is going to hopefully be the ones that locate him. Speaking of Scott, he's already starting the afternoon off with a bird. Yes, we are starting the afternoon off with one of the most beautiful little birds called a little bee-eater. You'll notice it's got a turquoise—well, you may have noticed that—a bit of kind of a turquoise eyeshadow, very fancy makeup artist.

My name is Scott; I'm teamed up with Dave on camera, and as Taylor's already mentioned, some exciting prospects with Hosanna being seen nearby to where we are now! I'm hoping it won't take Steve too long to track him down. Well, it's not the only leopard that has been moving around Juma over the last 12-24 hours or so in the same area that we are now. He had tracks of both Tandi and Hokumori, both older, more established leopards.

And how cool are these birds? They often like hunting from the same perch; that's what flowers off once it sees an insect and then comes back and lands on its same little hunting podium. Laurie, I'm really happy that we've got you—your favorite bird already—good stuff! So, as I say, not the only leopard that could be seen this afternoon on Juma. There was also Tumba finishing off his kudu kill, as well as tracks of Tandi and Hokumori—all the leopards: one male, one female. Now, Hokumori ended up quite close to our southwestern boundary this morning; there are no guarantees they crossed.

I'm actually thinking of swooping through that area, and then we're not too sure where Tandi ended up. We just had tracks kind of around the water hole where we are here—not in the best kind of area for us to be searching for her and her cub because we feel that her cub will be a lot further away from this area where Hokumori spends time. The reason why is because he's a new male to the area, and he will kill her cub if he finds it, so that's that.

Let us continue. Another good prospect about this afternoon is that the Inka Huma pride of lions weren't too far from our western boundaries. So lots of big cats are on! It's just a matter of us trying to find them. And as we said earlier, with the help of Steve on bushwalk, hopefully that will happen sooner rather than later. Why don't you go and see whereabouts he is on his quest for Hosanna?

Very excited to share! This afternoon, I am Steve Falconbridge, joined by Senzo on camera, and obviously, the legendary magician Herbie is on the walk with us. We had reports that Hosanna was seen after drive this morning, and we've come out on a mission. We would like to see him; Sally would like to see him, and we got the task of following him on foot. We have found a fresh track here; it's the beautiful back pad of a male leopard.

The easily distinguished three lobes and then the one, two, three, four toes. Where he was seems further off to the west, and these tracks come and cross the road and sort of head towards, in a general idea, Chela Pan via the Tella Dam. We are with Herbie; we’re going to be getting off-road here, following these, see how far we can go. Hopefully, we can find him. It's always very, very special to find a leopard on foot, and because it's been quite warm, I don't think he'll be too far, but you never know! If he's maybe found a herd of buffalo and chased them all the way to the other side of the Sabi Sands, it could happen! But as you know, I'm sure Scott and Taylor have told you to send in your questions or comments to #safariLive or follow us on YouTube stream.

Let's see: are we going to find a sonless afternoon? I have a very strong feeling we are. He is my good friend, and he likes to come and say hello to me. If Scott was with me, he would probably more so, but I think he likes Senzo very well. Since it is, he doesn't like Senzo, so I believe he's going to look past that today. Senzo was looking stylish, so maybe he's interested in coming to see the Senzo style. But we're going to continue off here, so please come and join us on a bushwalk! I hope you have your water and your binoculars!

Here’s another track, clearly indicating that he's heading off in this direction. The temperatures have been relatively warm today, about 30 odd degrees Celsius in the high 80s. I mean, I don't think he's gone very far; if he's gone, he's gone to drink. That's the only thing that makes sense.

Okay, so while we continue on our mission into the wilderness here, let's go over to Taylor with a net slope. Look at what we've got! Now, again, I'm going to bring reference to the sunrise safari that if you were watching, we stopped and we had a look at a beautiful kudu bull, but he only hung around for a couple of seconds. I'm almost certain that it's the same kudu bull because we kind of are in the same spot now. Look, I've focused on his ears, ears pricked forward, not even acknowledging us, eyes focused sort of down to the southwest.

I wonder what he's seen or what he's heard or what he smelled. Now he's acknowledging—I see that nose working overtime there, flaring his nostrils, both ears moving independently! There could be another leopard in the area now. Kudu have got the most exceptional, exceptional senses; their eyesight is really good, their hearing is phenomenal, and so is their sense of smell.

It's one of the animals that we definitely do trust when we hear them alarming, and also we pay attention to the kudu to the bush to the in Yala. Linda, you said you think that the kudu has got amazing horns, so do I! I feel like we've been very lucky finding animals with rather large horns. Unfortunately, one was yesterday on bushwalk, and that, of course, came from a waterbuck that is no longer alive and was taken down by the lions.

But how exciting! We actually measured those horns—or Conrad did, one of our technical geniuses—and they measured 28 and a half inches! That's pretty substantial for a common waterbuck. This kudu, I think his horns trump the size of the waterbuck's horns; however, they look much longer—at least if not even more than that. They're exceptionally long, but of course, it's two different species of antelope.

The kudu has got the beautiful, beautiful twist in them. It's Danny! He's like a statue in there, and I'm really intrigued as to what he's looking at in there. Must be something! And Bobby, you're wondering if he's an older bull? Yes, definitely, I don't think he's a particularly young fella; I think he's been around for quite some time and has a bit of experience.

How lovely is that? That dead tree looks like it was once a marauder tree at some point in its time, and it's very old. Nothing even sitting up there, I'm afraid, and he just hasn't moved. He's a lovely, lovely fella. Look at that! Look how he's lifting his head again. Hmm. We're going to search. I think we're going to spend a few more minutes with this kudu and just listen and watch and see what he does. Maybe we'll even take a drive in there to see if he is looking at something—could be something like a small cat, maybe! And even a jackal could even just be a waterback!

I mean, warthog or a steinback? He's just uncertain as to what it is. But while we figure out what the kudu has spotted, let's go across to Scott and see if he's found any more signs on hosana.

No, we've kind of moved out that area, made space for Steve and Herbie to come in and do their thing. Wouldn't it be nice if he hopped straight onto that kudu's back that Taylor's but he's busy sitting with that? That would be epic! What a showdown that would be. Now, I am initially going to start off the afternoon by heading towards where we last had tracks of Hokumori this morning just to try and establish where in fact he may have gone, and once we've checked around there, if we don't have any luck, then I'll head into some kind of usual areas where we could expect to find any tracks or signs of Tundi, who we are long overdue for a visit from.

Well, she's been visiting us; we just actually haven't been finding her! She's definitely been around, so I'm looking forward to trying our best to work out where in fact she is each day that goes by that cub grows so much that I think we last saw that cub probably about a week ago. That cub will be changing quite a lot or would have changed quite a lot since we last saw her!

Taylor, would you like to know something about menopause in the wilderness? Interestingly enough, there was a question on that this morning, and I don't know anything about menopause with anyone! Maybe Taylor's the right person to ask. But sadly, I don't even know what your whole question was, but I do know that I know very little about menopause with wild animals, so I'm just going to leave it at that.

If you could, maybe just give me the question one more time, just in case there's a small miracle and I do actually know something about it. That's not coming up with anything...yes, right now, Faith? Yeah?...Are there any animals that have the equivalents of menopause in the wild? Not that I'm aware of! You would think that some of our primate cousins would be quite similar to us, but that's just me trying to think mildly rationally. I mean at least you know, like our closest relatives. You would think there might be something similar.

Or...sure, yeah, exactly! Match for saying it's a bit too much of a girly question for me, so yeah, possibly! Maybe Taylor's better suited to answering it. Wonderful! Okey dokey! Well, it sounds like Steve is on the trail of Hosanna, so why don't you tighten your laces and go give him a hand trying to work out where he's hiding?

Thanks, Cody, yes, we are on the trail now! The tracks are sort of headed in a directly east direction from where he was last seen this morning! Look who I'm with—it's the legendary Herbie—and we are on foot, and we are looking for those invisible trails. Remember, Herbie's the tracker guy who sees one toe, two toes. As soon as we find a track with four toes, we'll do another segment! So that we can guarantee that you can see it. But with this man, Roger, we're just going to follow this invisible trail!

I think he's actually smelling the leopard as it walks, which is what you did the other day to find Tumba. You found Tumba by smelling the smell of that kudu! Who knows, we could find Tumba! Let's continue on! We're doing a bit of concentric circles here because what you do when you walk through the bush, you're looking for any of the sandy patches. I mean if you just pan that way, you can kind of see the most obvious routes an animal would take would be that path.

If there's nothing on that path, go back to the fork in the road and have a look; there's another path! That's kind of the route that the animals like to traverse on. It's difficult to walk through this long grass as I'm comfortable for them in their eyes, and so they'll often follow game pads! That's what you do: you head in the direction you see an idea of where they're going—like we were doing with the lions—the ones that we found very quickly after!

So let's hope the same is today. The case is the same, so on we go! Check in the game paths, never to walk on the game path itself because if you walk on the game path and you follow in the track and you end up stepping on the tracks, you lose it! Because the animal can just go left or right. You need to go back to the last point you had, but if you're walking on that trail, it's very hard to go back because my feet are a lot bigger than that of Hosanna. If we do step on his track, it could easily be eradicated.

But think about it! There is water in that direction! It's moving in that direction! See, because that's kind of what an animal would move for in the middle of the day—water! Or to hunt! And if he hunted, that's very hot! Who knows, he might have been really, really hungry!

Okay, so as we continue to make head or tail of these tracks, let's go over to Taylor McCurdy who is driving.

Yeah, we moved on from that kudu. Actually, you would not believe it! We drove on into the thicket to try and see what that kudu was looking at; he didn't move. He kind of just stared at us, and then he was listening to Scott. When we switched off, we were quite far in the bushes, and we could actually hear Scott on Rebecca's road too, which was really quite funny.

I don't know; maybe he's just enjoying the shade as well, just relaxing a little bit. We couldn't see anything! In my opinion, kuz's got so much bush around him! If it was something... I think if it was a leopard or a lion, I reckon he would have been alarming. If it was something small like a caracal or a jackal, there's no need for a fully grown kudu bull to alarm, and I think he knows that.

So maybe he was just staring intently, but we couldn't see anything. We drove all the way around in there, so we gave it a bash! Guess what!? We did today—a quick change of subject! You know—because! We played soccer! Which we haven't played, well, I've never played soccer with anybody since I've been working! Rather, we went up to quarantine which is the big open plains, like pretty much the only open plains on Juma just behind camp, and we kicked the ball around a little bit!

I took more tumbles than I actually spent time on my feet, which was quite funny! I have lots of grazes all down my legs now. I broke my watch—no more watch! That was fun! Nikki and I, you know, of course, Nikki, who's one of our directors, we kind of did a classic YouTubers well—normally, a video that gets lots of hits where we collided with one another with the ball between us, so like, you know, those big medicine balls? We bounced like that! That was quite funny, but we didn't get that on camera!

He said, "not that one!" I think it was before you'd sit up, you know, Sebastian maintains sets out the time-lapse, and then watch the last! And then I tripped over my own feet for the rest of the game! Haha! Which was quite funny because that’s—we had a lot of fun! We’re all exhausted though! We played that—they crawl over at clock during the day, probably not a great idea! But it was good fun!

Anyways, sadly, no sign of Hosanna—no idea where he is! Right, we're going to go through here and then jump up onto Gauri Cutline and have a look at some of the mud wallows to see if there's any animals!

And Palin, you're wondering how many animals suffer from heatstroke. It's hard to say hey! I dunno! I think most vulnerable on exceptionally hot days like today are sick animals, animals that are already weak, and brand-new animals. Ones that have just been born will definitely run the risk of suffering from heatstroke.

It's again with the cold shock, the complete opposite, when the temperatures drop all of a sudden overnight we see a lot of impacts dying from this. The adults don't necessarily suffer from it, so young animals and definitely sick animals, maybe exceptionally old ones too, I suppose! Sure, there's been a lot of elephant activity here today! They've all been pulling out the grass!

Look, it looks like they were kicking in the road and trying to loosen some of the sand to throw over their body! So this might be a good spot! Let's see if we're lucky enough to catch a herd on the move! Otherwise, what I'm thinking, we obviously saw a really cool herd of elephants this morning! We saw them twice!

I'm wondering if they might not pop out and purfles hook down! It was quite a big herd! They were on their way! They went down the drainage and did a bit of feeding, so maybe they're going to go to Bubbles Lake Dam! So perhaps we should go check there sooner rather than later!

Wow! Oh, that's so gross! Look at that pond over here! That's not nice at all—all the algae on top of the surface. That's not going to be very good! Now, unfortunately, what happens when algae sort of forms on the surface of the water like this often the plants that are living underneath it and the water plants, they all die because the sunlight cannot reach them!

So all those insects, little flies! However, of course, it forms a perfect spot for things like these tiny little midges or flies or whatever they may be sitting on the surface gives them something sort of to walk across! Normally they wouldn't be able to do that! I couldn't imagine that would be nice for an elephant!

I wouldn't imagine the elephant coming through here and sort of splashing themselves with it! However, a dugga boy, a buffalo bull, would probably find this quite fantastic! Palin, you again, you said that this looks like pea soup! Oh yeah, Sebastian, you only jump out and never taste what today, are you sure? Maybe it's a—it'll taste like a good pea soup?

Mm-hmm! We'll give that a skin, I feel like that can give you a dose of bullhacia in a heartbeat! Right, so I think we're gonna let the bushwalking team and Scott have some fun with that leopard. And hopefully—ah, look!

We're going to chase watering holes and see if we can find some elephants! Let's go and see where Scott is now!

Good idea, Taylor! If I was an elephant, I'd be swimming as we speak! So we are getting closer towards the kind of wooden treehouse warthog; basically, it's off to our left, and hoping we're going to find some further sign of the Hukamore male!

Some way in this area, his tracks are very, very close to the wartog, literally probably 50 feet from them, and did a kind of loop around towards the end of the saphire, but couldn't actually work out exactly where in fact he had gone.

Hello, very cool bird! This is the yellow-billed hornbill, and they look like they are straight out of a comic book! If you try the one below, Davi, it's in a bit of a spot! It's also got something in its beak—carrying something there!

Nope, it was just the Sun glistening on those fine little tips there, chattering away! What are you saying? Are you reprimanding your spouse for bad behavior? It seems like you really do have a lot you would like to say to him or her! It's hard to sex these guys; the other one’s got absolutely nothing to say in return; it's just this guy going full-tilt with the chatting!

Cool! So yeah, as I was saying, we couldn't work out exactly where he had gone this morning; this large male leopard, we are 99% convinced that it’s him because he’s got one toe that's longer than the other and for those of you who were on the sunrise safari, I showed quite clearly how big that discrepancy is between his toes.

Basically, of their four toes, how does it go? Yeah, it goes like this, kind of... now you need to imagine that this is in line with my pinky, and that these two are supposed to kind of be level with one another, but this one here, his kind of left long toe, is longer than his right long toe! If that helps you!

Okay, good! It sounded like it may have been helpful; it seems like it's on his right foot that the problem is not so pretty! Bird yet—hello! Very fancy outfit! Where are you heading off tonight? You’re going to a very fancy ballroom dance! You look so beautiful!

I love the remark; you said this is a beautiful bird, and it certainly is! The speed at which your remark came through there! Nice! We think that you could have been referring to the hornbill, but we'll bill bark both very good! Both carnivorous, the hornbills and the lilac-breasted rollers!

I love the hornbills! And this—I’m surprised at how neatly tying in! When they are going around with a chameleon in their beak, that’s a tricky one for me to digest! I don't like it when they eat the chameleons, but you can't blame them, I guess! But I wasted rollers, mainly insect eaters though, all those small snakes and small reptiles are on the menu!

So I think even a baby chameleon would do just fine for this guy! I thought it was about to fly! That kind of flinched! Maybe it's seen an insect! It hasn’t done the tell-tale head wobble; it kind of often shakes their head—not shakes their butt! Move their head kind of from side to side!

I'd like to lock targets and then sweep down! Actually, what I'm gonna try and do here is wait a while and see if we can't actually get to see it flying down and catching something, so we’re going to do a bit of a stake-out!

And it often happens so quickly that if you blink, you miss it! Or if you're just watching at the regular live speed, you can also kind of miss it! So maybe we can think about doing a bit of a slow-motion replay if, in fact, it does decide to do the sweep!

Thinking about it, even if we don't get to catching whatever it wants to catch, what would be nice to do in slow motion is just that takeoff because its wing coloration is really, really beautiful when it does take off—a little electric wash of turquoise!

Jaime, you'd like to know if that kind of more pale coloration on its head is for reflecting sunlight away from them and keeping them cool? It may have something to do with that; it may also have something to do with letting more light in!

I know whites around the eye will help let more light in when it is low light early morning or late evening, but such a small portion of white with that greenish cap on top, that I'm not convinced it is for anything to do with keeping cool! But possibly something to do with letting more light in?

Are you gonna take off? Oh, there it goes! Very good! Well done, Dave! Sweeping off to the lilac-breasted roller! And we’ll see—I mean we’ll get the team in FC to see what a slo-mo replay looks like of that! If it's any good, we'll replace! If not, we'll keep trying to get the right shot for you!

Over to Steve on bushwalk!

Thanks, Scotty! Definitely one of my favorite birds, that colorful lilac-breasted roller! So we've been in this block here and Hosanna seems to have been hunting! There’s tracks of antelope; his tracks have been running! We just—I mean, Herbie's been spotting just sort of partial prints of a leopard, and then tracks of Impala running, and so all around!

And now suddenly we've got a beautiful clear track! Just the back pads over here, if you can see that! One, two, and three! That's a beautiful track of where he's stopped running! He's put his foot down nicely! We've been searching around as he's done this bit of a loop and a spin and a spin!

Now the tracks are heading directly in that direction! So once again, after he's lost interest into his loss to the chase, he's then back onto a pathway, and off he goes again, down towards possibly Chela Pan or something like that!

So we’re gonna keep going on him! Maybe he was lucky! Maybe he got quite hungry and he actually managed to kill an Impala! Who knows? We're gonna keep following and we'll keep you updated! It's really quite something trying to track a leopard because it's just one track through this thick stuff here!

The ground is quite hard! After the rain, all you're really seeing is a little bit of a scratch! Herbie, there's a question for you from Justin! Justin would like to know what is Herbie's favorite leopard?

Herbie, what's your favorite leopard? Herbie says it's Tandi! I think she's just got so much attitude, so much spunk, and she's a marvelous leopard indeed! And she is the proud mother of many on the concession, many in the area! And Herbie's been here for a long time!

You've got something else, Herbs? Okay, so once again, we're kind of on a sort of game path! There are some open patches! This is what trackers generally like to do! As you walk to an area, this area gets thick again! Get through that area and look on these sandy patches and see if you can find anything!

But look at what we’ve got to work with! Look at this! I mean, if even if I walk, I mean that’s all you’re gonna see of my entire track! So all he's really looking for is the smoothness! The smoothness you often find associated with the back of elephant tracks!

That's all he's got to work with is just a little bit of disturbance! So that's where the experience comes in! A lot of people can't track unless they see that perfect, perfect track! But what people at the level of Herbie's experience do is they're just looking for partial tracks! Just a little bit of a scuff of the outside of the foot, a little bit of—as we saw the other day, the two-toed leopard that we were tracking!

Fantastic stuff! Okay, so we're gonna carry on over here! For some reason, Faith, Scott is talking into my ear again! Which I think is not supposed to be happening! He's given me an update on something; maybe we can check that out!

The terrain is quite thick! The vegetation is good for tracking if you've got a very good tracker with you! But this is not for the beginner tracker, I can assure you that! Ladies and gentlemen, this is definitely the expert tracking!

By no means do I put myself in that bracket! Okay, so we're gonna continue on here! Let's go over to Scotty D and see what updates he has for you!

Welcome back and good luck, Steve! I'm very envious of the fact that you're on some steaming fresh leopard tracks and possibly the best leopards you could have... tracking!

Because you know when you find him, he's not going to be too concerned about your presence! Now, we've got some wonderful news; the team in the final control has been very swift and efficient at making a small highlights! It's not something we do very often!

I mean, I'm not convinced this is going to be the best one because Dave wasn't as tight as you would have liked him to be! Because when you're expecting a fast movement and a flag for a cool, you want to give yourself a bit more space!

So let's have a look at what it looks like and you guys can let us know! Just yes, any feedback on the thoughts of highlights just to slow things down a little bit that we do see in real time! I think it's something we've kind of been skipping a beat on, personally!

So here goes! Alrighty everyone! Well, I hope you enjoyed that! I've got no idea what it looks like, but I hope it was quite cool! And you would have seen that electric turquoise flash that I was talking about as it opened up its wings and fluttered off!

Oh, hurry along there is something mating with Steve! No idea what species! Do you know? Is that the male? Extremely! What I do know is that the female is much bigger than the male! The male's one on the back!

Even if the viewers out there are able to tell me what species this is! Obviously, it's not too hot for them! Lizards are very sun-loving! If anything, the Sun has probably made them more active than they would have been!

But these marvelous things that we see on bushwalk and tracking a leopard, we have to stop for the smaller things! And we couldn't help but stop and watch this! This is super cool!

Oh, it's very interesting about mice lizards! They've actually got something known as a Hemi penis! Which means they've got two penises, but only one will be used at one time! What the purpose of that exactly is hard to put my head around, but maybe it's for extended periods of copulation? I'm not sure!

Okay, copy that, Faith! We are gonna just hold off speaking for a short little while as if see to get some tick down! And I'd like to do a little bit of a broadcast for us! Wonder if any of the viewers can send their comments through the hashtag safari live!

I'll let you know what species these are! I'm sure that I've even seen them before! Extremely camouflaged and he's being—the male is pent up quite hard! They are rather pretty, very gray, back legs, pretty mottled back!

But you can noticeably see how much bigger the female is than the male! She's almost twice his size! There are multitudes of ants crawling all around the area, and it's a wonder that they're so calm, so consumed with their mating! And they're obviously not hungry, as there must be some lizard experts!

Are they very good?

Very good afternoon and welcome! There, gentlemen!

To Drew Murr in the cyber sense where we have come across a mating pair of lizards! I am unsure of the species, and I dare not go much closer lest I break up their population performance! This is marvelous to see!

We're on bushwalk! My name is Steve Falconbridge, and I'm joined by Senzo on camera! Feel free, please, to drop your comments in the text below! Let us know your thoughts! Let us know who you are! Let us know you're on board! If you possibly know the species, let me know because that is a species I am not too familiar with!

And the female is almost double the size of the male! They are quite enjoying the afternoon! There’s a nice warm sunny day with a gentle breeze coming in from the West and bushwalking the big five safari area!

We were actually on the trail of a beautiful male leopard by the name of Hosanna, and we have halted our tracking for a moment to stop and watch this fantastic performance between these two!

Yes, Richard, it does look like they're attacking the lizard! It's their chance to have a go at the lizards because normally if the lizards were not copulating, they'd probably be munching down quite heavily on those ants! And also the disturbance that they're doing by moving along the ground like that is probably inciting ants to a little bit of violence, should you say!

They'd always have a little bit more ego in something larger than themselves! Yes, Cheryl, this is very cool, very amazing indeed! I'd love to know from any of you out there if you know what species this is for sure! I don't have my reptile book on hand; it's probably the heaviest book I own, so it's one I tend to leave at home!

We don't find too many reptiles on Walk! I often take a photo with my camera and then go back and identify it! Seems as if she's a little bit over the task and trying to get away, but he has got her clasp behind the ear with his jaws and he is holding on very tightly with his front legs!

Enormous what you'd call an in-grip or clasping! In frogs, I've never seen this before in lizards! Elyse says it's a large spiny lizard! That is incredible! I've never seen one before, and in fact, they are not very large! If anything, their female with her tail is maybe about 10 centimeters now—probably more, probably closer to 15 with her tail!

And Gina thinks it's a plateau lizard! I seem to have some confusion out there! I hope someone can give me the correct answer or stomach invalidate either of the two previous answers!

Remember, folks, we're coming to you live! This is happening live in the wilderness! She is being almost seems like she's been molested right now, live on TV! He is very interested! What's noticeable with most lizard species? Yes! Yes, Cheryl! She is far bigger than the male! That is often a case in many reptile species that the female is bigger!

But hopefully, she doesn't turn around and eat him after the job is done! But I was mentioning just before we started the action broadcast that most lizards have what we call a Hemi penis, which means they've got two penises and only one at a time is actually used!

And I need to do some reading up about that and find out exactly why they have to! It is quite a bizarre thing, really! Kathy, you’re asking me questions—I don’t know the answer to—how long will it take these lizards to produce eggs, and then how long will they take to hatch?

So generally, if we look at birds, for example, birds lay eggs within 24 hours! I would assume that because reptiles lay their eggs outside their body as well, that the production of the eggs is quite short in relation to when you look at gestation periods in mammals! Because a lot of the incubation happens externally!

So I would assume it would be quite a short turnaround time for the laying of the eggs, or production of the eggs, and then the incubation! Oh, she has escaped his grasp! And he is not happy with her! And now he is eating! I'm not sure what he is eating!

Wow! Look at their posturing! Her mouth is wide open! She is giving him their... I think she is saying no means no! Yes, Linda, this is amazing! This is absolutely sensational! The lovers have now parted, and now having what seems to be a screaming match, except there is no sound!

She is showing a very black mouth, and he was doing something similar! It's almost like they seem to be a warning sign! She's possibly saying, "Come back here, little man, and I shall eat you!"

And off they go! The lovers have parted, and they move off back into the thickets! And that is it from us on this live-action broadcast! If you feel that you'd like to follow us further on safari life, please google us and follow us further!

We still live for another two hours or so! Thank you for your comments and feedback! Have a fantastic afternoon, and see you later!

How's that, folks?! There wasn't sensational! I wonder if any of you can back up those two claims on what species that lizard was! Herbie has just been around us while we've been talking, and he's just done a little bit of a segment around us here, and he's just trying to find that way Hosanna has gone.

Okay, well, we're gonna keep up with Herbie! Let's go over to Taylor for an update!

Well, I think that's quite cool that you got to see lizards mating! Not always something that you get to see every single day! Now this may look familiar, considering that we've been here for the last couple of days in a road that 10. This is where Tumba has been, but he's not here anymore!

Now, I know the closest water source to us is, of course, for Utilidad, so I don't know if he's gone down there to perhaps have a drink during the day and then found a bit of shade somewhere else! So, we'll have a little scratch around and see if we win!

Otherwise, we'll continue with our plan of finding some elephants! Now, he's gone! Grasses so tall! Again, he could just be sitting under any shrub, any ordinary shrub, and just concealed by the grass! But I bet he's happy either way, because at least there's a bit of a breeze around now, and so things are going to start cooling off quite quickly!

Alright, watch your heads, even all of you who are watching! Duck, please! No, I'm just joking! You don't have to duck! Oh, good! Very good! So I think what we'll do from here is perhaps ooh grab Gauri Cutline and then hit among Bubbles of Boundary towards Levels of Damn!

Palin, you feared how many animals suffer from heatstroke. It's hard to say, hey! I dunno! I think most would be the most vulnerable on an exceptionally hot day like today! Sick animals, animals that are already weak, and brand-new animals—ones that have just been born will definitely run the risk of suffering from heatstroke!

It's again with the cold shock! The complete opposite when the temperatures drop all of a sudden overnight! We see a lot of impacts dying from this! The adults don't necessarily suffer from it—so young animals and definitely sick animals, maybe exceptionally old ones too, I suppose! Sure!

There's been a lot of elephant activity here today! They've all been pulling out the grass! Look, it looks like they were kicking in the road and trying to loosen some of the sand to throw over their body! So this might be a good spot! Let's see if we're lucky enough to catch a herd on the move!

Otherwise, what I'm thinking—we saw a really cool herd of elephants this morning! We saw them twice! I'm wondering if they might not pop out and purfles hook down! It was quite a big herd!

They were on their way! They went down the drainage and did a bit of feeding, so maybe they're gonna go to Bubbles Lake Dam! So perhaps we should go check there sooner rather than later!

Wow! Oh, that's so gross! Look at that pond over here! That's not nice at all—all the algae on top of the surface. That's not going to be very good!

Now, unfortunately, what happens when algae sort of forms on the surface of the water like this, often the plants that are living underneath it and the water plants, they all die because the sunlight cannot reach them!

So, all those insects, little flies! However, of course, it forms a perfect spot for things like these tiny little midges or flies or whatever they may be sitting on the surface gives them something sort of to walk across! Normally they wouldn't be able to do that!

I couldn't imagine that would be nice for an elephant! I wouldn't imagine the elephant coming through here and sort of splashing themselves with it!

However, a dugga boy, a buffalo bull, would probably find this quite fantastic!

Palin, you again, you said that this looks like pea soup! Oh yeah, Sebastian, you only jump out and never taste what today, are you sure? Maybe it's a—it'll taste like a good pea soup?

We'll give that a skin! I feel that can give you a dose of bullhacia in a heartbeat! Right, so I think we're going to let the bushwalking team and Scott have some fun with that leopard.

And hopefully—ah, look! We’re gonna chase watering holes and see if we can find some elephants!

Let's go and see where Scott is now!

Good idea, Taylor! If I was an elephant, I'd be swimming as we speak!

So we are getting closer towards the kind of wooden treehouse warthog; basically, it's off to our left, and hoping we're going to find some further sign of the Hukamore male!

Some way in this area, his tracks are very, very close to the wartog, literally probably 50 feet from them, and did a kind of loop around towards the end of the saphire but couldn't actually work out exactly where in fact he had gone.

Hello, very cool bird! This is the yellow-billed hornbill, and they look like they are straight out of a comic book!

If you try the one below, Davi, it's in a bit of a spot! It's also got something in its beak—carrying something there!

Nope, it was just the Sun glistening on those fine little tips there, chattering away! What are you saying? Are you reprimanding your spouse for bad behavior? It seems like you really do have a lot you would like to say to him or her!

It's hard to sex these guys; the other one’s got absolutely nothing to say in return; it's just this guy going full-tilt with the chatting!

Cool! So yeah, as I was saying, we couldn't work out exactly where he had gone this morning; this large male leopard, we are 99% convinced that it’s him because he’s got one toe that's longer than the other, and for those of you who were on the Sunrise Safari, I showed quite clearly how big that discrepancy is between his toes.

Basically, of their four toes, how does it go? Yeah, it goes like this, kind of... now you need to imagine that this is in line with my pinky, and that these two are supposed to kind of be level with one another, but this one here, his kind of left long toe, is longer than his right long toe! If that helps you!

Okay, good! It sounded like it may have been helpful; it seems like it's on his right foot that the problem is not so pretty! Bird yet—hello! Very fancy outfit! Where are you heading off tonight? You’re going to a very fancy ballroom dance! You look so beautiful!

I love the remark; you said this is a beautiful bird, and it certainly is! The speed at which your remark came through there! Nice! We think that you could have been referring to the hornbill, but we'll bill bark both very good! Both carnivorous, the hornbills and the lilac-breasted rollers!

I love the hornbills! And this—I’m surprised at how neatly tying in! When they are going around with a chameleon in their beak, that’s a tricky one for me to digest!

I don't like it when they eat the chameleons, but you can't blame them, I guess! But I wasted rollers, mainly insect eaters though, all those small snakes and small reptiles are on the menu!

So I think even a baby chameleon would do just fine for this guy! I thought it was about to fly! That kind of flinched! Maybe it's seen an insect!

It hasn’t done the tell-tale head wobble; it kind of often shakes their head—not shakes their butt! Move their head kind of from side to side!

I'd like to lock targets and then sweep down! Actually, what I'm gonna try and do here is wait a while and see if we can't actually get to see it flying down and catching something, so we’re going to do a bit of a stake-out!

And it often happens so quickly that if you blink, you miss it! Or if you're just watching at the regular live speed, you can also kind of miss it! So maybe we can think about doing a bit of a slow-motion replay if, in fact, it does decide to do the sweep!

Thinking about it, even if we don't get to catching whatever it wants to catch, what would be nice to do in slow motion is just that takeoff because its wing coloration is really, really beautiful when it does take off—a little electric wash of turquoise!

Jaime, you'd like to know if that kind of more pale coloration on its head is for reflecting sunlight away from them and keeping them cool? It may have something to do with that; it may also have something to do with letting more light in!

I know whites around the eye will help let more light in when it is low light early morning or late evening, but such a small portion of white with that greenish cap on top, that I'm not convinced it is for anything to do with keeping cool! But possibly something to do with letting more light in?

Are you gonna take off? Oh, there it goes! Very good! Well done, Dave! Sweeping off to the lilac-breasted roller! And we’ll see—I mean we’ll get the team and FC to see what a slo-mo replay looks like of that! If it's any good, we'll replace! If not, we'll keep trying to get the right shot for you!

Over to Steve on bushwalk!

Thanks, Scotty! Definitely one of my favorite birds, that colorful lilac-breasted roller! So we've been in this block here and Hosanna seems to have been hunting! There’s tracks of antelope; his tracks have been running!

We just—I mean, Herbie's been spotting just sort of partial prints of a leopard, and then tracks of Impala running, and so all around! And now suddenly we've got a beautiful clear track!

Just the back pads over here, if you can see that! One, two, and three! That's a beautiful track of where he's stopped running!

He's put his foot down nicely! We've been searching around as he's done this bit of a loop and a spin and a spin! Now the tracks are heading directly in that direction! So once again, after he's lost interest to his loss to the chase, he's then back onto a pathway, and off he goes again, down towards possibly Chela Pan or something like that!

So we’re gonna keep going on him! Maybe he was lucky! Maybe he got quite hungry and he actually managed to kill an Impala! Who knows? We're gonna keep following and we'll keep you updated!

It's really quite something trying to track a leopard because it's just one track through this thick stuff here! The ground is quite hard! After the rain, all you're really seeing is a little bit of a scratch!

Herbie, there's a question for you from Justin! Justin would like to know what is Herbie's favorite leopard?

Herbie, what's your favorite leopard? Herbie says it's Tandi! I think she's just got so much attitude, so much spunk, and she's a marvelous leopard indeed!

And she is the proud mother of many on the concession, many in the area! And Herbie's been here for a long time! You've got something else, Herbs? Okay, so once again, we're kind of on a sort of game path! There are some open patches!

This is what trackers generally like to do! As you walk to an area, this area gets thick again! Get through that area and look on these sandy patches and see if you can find anything!

But look at what we’ve got to work with! Look at this! I mean, if even if I walk, I mean that’s all you’re gonna see of my entire track! So all he's really looking for is the smoothness! The smoothness you often find associated with the back of elephant tracks!

That's all he's got to work with is just a little bit of disturbance! So that's where the experience comes in! A lot of people can't track unless they see that perfect, perfect track!

But what people at the level of Herbie's experience do is they're just looking for partial tracks! Just a little bit of a scuff of the outside of the foot, a little bit of—as we saw the other day, the two-toed leopard that we were tracking!

Fantastic stuff! Okay, so we're gonna carry on over here! For some reason, Faith, Scott is talking into my ear again! Which I think is not supposed to be happening! He's given me an update on something; maybe we can check that out!

The terrain is quite thick! The vegetation is good for tracking if you've got a very good tracker with you! But this is not for the beginner tracker, I can assure you that! Ladies and gentlemen, this is definitely the expert tracking!

By no means do I put myself in that bracket! Okay, so we're gonna continue on here! Let's go over to Scotty D and see what updates he has for you!

Welcome back and good luck, Steve! I'm very envious of the fact that you're on some steaming fresh leopard tracks and possibly the best leopards you could have... tracking!

Because you know when you find him, he's not going to be too concerned about your presence! Now, we've got some wonderful news; the team in the final control has been very swift and efficient at making a small highlights!

It's not something we do very often! I mean, I'm not convinced this is going to be the best one because Dave wasn't as tight as you would have liked him to be! Because when you're expecting a fast movement and a flag for a cool, you want to give yourself a bit more space!

So let's have a look at what it looks like and you guys can let us know! Just yes, any feedback on the thoughts of highlights just to slow things down a little bit that we do see in real time!

I think it's something we've kind of been skipping a beat on, personally! So here goes! Alrighty everyone! Well, I hope you enjoyed that! I've got no idea what it looks like, but I hope it was quite cool!

And you would have seen that electric turquoise flash that I was talking about as it opened up its wings and fluttered off! Oh, hurry along there is something mating with Steve! No idea what species!

Do you know? Is that the male? Extremely! What I do know is that the female is much bigger than the male! The male's one on the back!

Even if the viewers out there are able to tell me what species this is! Obviously, it's not too hot for them! Lizards are very sun-loving! If anything, the Sun has probably made them more active than they would have been!

But these marvelous things that we see on bushwalk and tracking a leopard, we have to stop for the smaller things! And we couldn't help but stop and watch this! This is super cool!

Oh, it's very interesting about mice lizards! They've actually got something known as a Hemi penis! Which means they've got two penises, but only one at a time is actually used! What the purpose of that exactly is hard to put my head around, but maybe it's for extended periods of copulation? I'm not sure!

Okay, copy that, Faith! We are gonna just hold off speaking for a short little while as if see to get some tick down! And I'd like to do a little bit of a broadcast for us!

Wonder if any of the viewers can send their comments through the hashtag safari live! I'll let you know what species these are! I'm sure that I've even seen them before!

Extremely camouflaged and he's being—the male is pent up quite hard! They are rather pretty, very gray, back legs, pretty mottled back!

But you can noticeably see how much bigger the female is than the male! She's almost twice his size! There are multitudes of ants crawling all around the area, and it's a wonder that they're so calm, so consumed with their mating!

And they're obviously not hungry, as there must be some lizard experts! Are they very good?

Very good afternoon and welcome! There, gentlemen!

To Drew Murr in the cyber sense where we have come across a mating pair of lizards! I am unsure of the species, and I dare not go much closer lest I break up their population performance! This is marvelous to see!

We're on bushwalk! My name is Steve Falconbridge, and I'm joined by Senzo on camera! Feel free, please, to drop your comments in the text below! Let us know your thoughts! Let us know who you are! Let us know you're on board!

If you possibly know the species, let me know because that is a species I am not too familiar with!

And the female is almost double the size of the male! They are quite enjoying the afternoon! There’s a nice warm sunny day with a gentle breeze coming in from the West!

We were actually on the trail of a beautiful male leopard by the name of Hosanna, and we have halted our tracking for a moment to stop and watch this fantastic performance between these two!

Yes, Richard, it does look like they're attacking the lizard! It's their chance to have a go at the lizards because normally if the lizards were not copulating, they'd probably be munching down quite heavily on those ants!

And also the disturbance that they're doing by moving along the ground like that is probably inciting ants to a little bit of violence should you say!

They'd always have a little bit more ego in something larger than themselves!

Yes, Cheryl, this is very cool, very amazing indeed! I'd love to know from any of you out there if you know what species this is for sure!

I don't have my reptile book on hand; it's probably the heaviest book I own! So it's one I tend to leave at home! We don't find too many reptiles on Walk!

I often take a photo with my camera and then go back and identify it! Seems as if she's a little bit over the task and trying to get away, but he has got her clasp behind the ear with his jaws and he is holding on very tightly with his front legs!

Enormous what you'd call an in-grip or clasping! In frogs, I've never seen this before in lizards! Elyse says it's a large spiny lizard! That is incredible! I've never seen one before and, in fact, they are not very large!

If anything, their female with her tail is maybe about 10 centimeters now—probably more, probably closer to 15 with her tail!

And Gina thinks it's a plateau lizard! I seem to have some confusion out there! I hope someone can give me the correct answer or stomach invalidate either of the two previous answers!

Remember, folks, we're coming to you live! This is happening live in the wilderness!

She is being almost seems like she's been molested right now, live on TV! He is very interested!

What's noticeable with most lizard species? Yes! Yes, Cheryl! She is far bigger than the male!

That is often a case in many reptile species that the female is bigger!

But hopefully, she doesn't turn around and eat him after the job is done! But I was mentioning just before we started the action broadcast that most lizards have what we call a Hemi penis, which means they've got two penises, and only one at a time is actually used!

And I need to do some reading up about that and find out exactly why they have to! It is quite a bizarre thing, really!

Kathy, you’re asking me questions—I don’t know the answer to—how long will it take these lizards to produce eggs, and then how long will they take to hatch?

So generally, if we look at birds, for example, birds lay eggs within 24 hours!

I would assume that because reptiles lay their eggs outside their body as well, that the production of the eggs is quite short in relation to when you look at gestation periods in mammals!

Because a lot of the incubation happens externally! So I would assume it would be quite a short turnaround time for the laying of the eggs, or production of the eggs, and then the incubation!

Oh, she has escaped his grasp! And he is not happy with her! And now he is eating!

I'm not sure what he is eating!

Wow! Look at their posturing! Her mouth is wide open! She is giving him their...

I think she is saying no means no!

Yes, Linda, this is amazing!

This is absolutely sensational! The lovers have now parted and now having what seems to be a screaming match, except there is no sound!

She is showing a very black mouth, and he was doing something similar! It's almost like they seem to be a warning sign!

She's possibly saying, "Come back here, little man, and I shall eat you!"

And off they go! The lovers have parted, and they move off back into the thickets!

And that is it from us on this live-action broadcast! If you feel that you'd like to follow us further on safari life, please google us and follow us further!

We still live for another two hours or so! Thank you for your comments and feedback!

Have a fantastic afternoon, and see you later!

How's that, folks?! There wasn't sensational!

I wonder if any of you can back up those two claims on what species that lizard was!

Herbie has just been around us while we've been talking, and he's just done a little bit of a segment around us here, and he's just trying to find that way Hosanna has gone.

Okay, well, we're gonna keep up with Herbie! Let's go over to Taylor for an update!

Well, I think that's quite cool that you got to see lizards mating! Not always something that you get to see every single day!

Now this may look familiar, considering that we've been here for the last couple of days in a road that 10.

This is where Tumba has been, but he's not here anymore! Now, I know the closest water source to us is, of course, for Utilidad, so I don't know if he's gone down there to perhaps have a drink during the day and then found a bit of shade somewhere else!

So, we'll have a little scratch around and see if we win!

Otherwise, we'll continue with our plan of finding some elephants!

Now, he's gone! Grasses so tall! Again, he could just be sitting under any shrub, any ordinary shrub, and just concealed by the grass! But I bet he's happy either way because at least there's a bit of a breeze around now, and so things are going to start cooling off quite quickly!

Alright, watch your heads, even all of you who are watching! Duck, please! No, I'm just joking! You don't have to duck!

Oh, good! Very good! So I think what we'll do from here is perhaps ooh grab Gauri Cutline and then hit among Bubbles of Boundary towards Levels of Damn!

Palin, you feared how many animals suffer from heatstroke. It's hard to say, hey!

I dunno! I think most would be the most vulnerable on exceptionally hot days, like today! Sick animals, animals that are already weak, and brand-new animals—ones that have just been born will definitely run the risk of suffering from heatstroke!

It’s again with the cold shock, the complete opposite when the temperatures drop all of a sudden overnight! We see a lot of impacts dying from this!

The adults don't necessarily suffer from it—so young animals and definitely sick animals, maybe exceptionally old ones too, I suppose! Sure!

There's been a lot of elephant activity here today! They've all been pulling out the grass!

Look, it looks like they were kicking in the road and trying to loosen some of the sand to throw over their body! So this might be a good spot!

Let's see if we're lucky enough to catch a herd on the move!

Otherwise, what I'm thinking, we obviously saw a really cool herd of elephants this morning! We saw them twice!

I'm wondering if they might not pop out and purfles hook down! It was quite a big herd!

They were on their way! They went down the drainage and did a bit of feeding, so maybe they're gonna go to Bubbles Lake Dam!

So perhaps we should go check there sooner rather than later!

Wow! Oh, that's so gross! Look at that pond over here! That's not nice at all—all the algae on top of the surface. That's not going to be very good!

Now, unfortunately, what happens when algae sort of forms on the surface of the water like this often the plants that are living underneath it and the water plants, they all die because the sunlight cannot reach them!

So all those insects, little flies! However, of course, it forms a perfect spot for things like these tiny little midges or flies, or whatever they may be sitting on the surface gives them something sort of to walk across!

Normally they wouldn't be able to do that! I couldn't imagine that would be nice for an elephant!

I wouldn't imagine the elephant coming through here and sort of splashing themselves with it! However, a dugga boy, a buffalo bull, would probably find this quite fantastic!

Palin, you again, you said that this looks like pea soup!

Oh yeah, Sebastian, you only jump out and never taste what today, are you sure? Maybe it's a—it'll taste like a good pea soup?

Mm-hmm! We'll give that a skin, I feel like that can give you a dose of bullhacia in a heartbeat! Right, so I think we're gonna let the bushwalking team and Scott have some fun with that leopard.

And hopefully—ah, look!

We're gonna chase watering holes and see if we can find some elephants!

Let's go and see where Scott is now!

Good idea, Taylor! If I was an elephant, I'd be swimming as we speak!

So we are getting closer towards the kind of wooden treehouse warthog; basically, it's off to our left, and hoping we're going to find some further sign of the Hukamore male!

Some way in this area, his tracks are very, very close to the wartog, literally probably 50 feet from them, and did a kind of loop around towards the end of the saphire, but couldn't actually work out exactly where in fact he had gone.

Hello, very cool bird! This is the yellow-billed hornbill, and they look like they are straight out of a comic book!

If you try the one below, Davi, it's in a bit of a spot! It's also got something in its beak—carrying something there!

Nope, it was just the Sun glistening on those fine little tips there, chattering away! What are you saying? Are you reprimanding your spouse for bad behavior? It seems like you really do have a lot you would like to say to him or her!

It's hard to sex these guys; the other one’s got absolutely nothing to say in return; it's just this guy going full-tilt with the chatting!

Cool! So yeah, as I was saying, we couldn't work out exactly where he had gone this morning; this large male leopard, we are 99% convinced that it’s him because he’s got one toe that's longer than the other and for those of you who were on the Sunrise Safari, I showed quite clearly how big that discrepancy is between his toes.

Basically, of their four toes, how does it go? Yeah, it goes like this kind of now you need to imagine that this is in line with my pinky and that these two are supposed to kind of be level with one another, but this one here, his kind of left long toe, is longer than his right long toe! If that helps you!

Okay, good! It sounded like it may have been helpful it seems like it's on his right foot that the problem is not a pretty bird yet! Hello! Very fancy outfit! Where are you heading off tonight? You're going to a very fancy ballroom dance! You look so beautiful!

I love the remark! You said this is a beautiful bird, and it certainly is! The speed that which your remark came through there! Nice! We think that you could have been referring to the hornbill, but we'll bill bark both very good! Both carnivorous, the hornbills and the lilac-breasted rollers!

I love hornbills on this—yeah!

They're flying around with a chameleon in their beak that's a tricky one for me to digest!

I don't like it when they eat the chameleons, but you can't blame them, I guess, but I wasted rollers are mainly insect eaters though!

All those small snakes and small reptiles are on the menu so I think even a baby chameleon would do just fine for the guy! I thought it was about to to fly! That kind of flinched!

Maybe it’s seen an insect! It hasn't done the tell-tale head wobble! It kind of often shakes their head—not shakes their butt—move their head kind of from side to side!

I'd lock targets and then sweep down!

Actually, what I'm gonna try and do here is wait a while and see if we can't actually get to see it flying down and catching something!

So we're gonna do a bit of a steak arch! It often happens so quickly that if you blink, you miss it!

Or if you're just watching at the regular live speed, you can also kind of miss it!

So maybe we can think about doing a bit of a slow-motion replay if, in fact, it does decide to do the sweep!

Thinking about it, even if we don't get catching whatever it wants to catch, what would be nice to do in slow motion is just that take off because it's wind coloration is really, really beautiful when it does take off!

An electric wash of turquoise! Jaime, you'd like to know if that kind of more pale coloration on its head is for reflecting sunlight away from them and keeping them cool!

It may have something to do with that; it may also have something to do with letting more light in!

I know whites around the eye will help let more light in when it is low light early morning in late evening but such a small portion of white and it's kind of got that greenish cap on top that I'm not convinced it is for anything to do with keeping cool but possibly something to do with letting more light in.

Are you gonna take off? Oh, there it goes! Very good! Well done, Dave! Sweeping off to the lilac-breasted roller!

And we'll see, I mean we’ll get the team and FC to see what a slo-mo replay looks like of that! If it's any good, we'll replace, if not, we'll keep trying to get the right shot for you over to Steve on bushwalk!

Thanks, Scotty! Is definitely one of my favorite birds, that colorful lolly-breasted roller!

So we've been in this block here and hasanah seems to have been hunting!

There's tracks of antelope; his tracks have been running, and we've just—I mean, Herbie's been spotting just sort of partial prints of a leopard!

And then tracks over of Impala running! And so all around!

And now suddenly we've got a beautiful clear track just the back pads over here if you can see that one, two, and three!

That's a beautiful track of where he's stopped running!

He's put his foot down nicely! We've been searching around as he's done this bit of a loop!

And a spin! And a spin!

Now the tracks are hitting directly in that direction, so once again after he's lost interest to his loss to the chase then back onto a pathway and off he goes again down towards possibly Chela Pan or something like that!

So we're gonna keep going on him!

Maybe he was lucky! Maybe he got quite hungry and he actually managed to kill an Impala!

Who knows? We're gonna keep following and we'll keep you updated!

It's really quite something trying to track a leopard! Because it's just one track through this thick stuff here!

And the ground is quiet, and the ground is quite hard off to the rain so all you really see is a little bit of a scratch!

Herbie, there's a question for you from Justin! Justin would like to know what is Herbie's favorite leopard!

Herbie, what's your favorite leopard? Herbie says it's Tandi! I think she's just got so much attitude, so much spunk and she's a marvelous leopard indeed!

And she is the proud mother of many on the concession, many in the area and Herbie's been here for a long time!

You've got something else, Herbs? Okay, so once again we're kind of on a sort of a game path!

There's some open sort of patches! This is what the trackers generally like to do!

As you walk through an area a dissenter gets thick again! Get through that area and look on these sandy patches and see if you can find anything!

But look at what we've got to work!

Look at this, I mean if even if I walk!

I mean, that's all you're gonna see of my entire track!

So all he's really looking for is the smoothness, the smoothness that we often find associated with the back of elephant tracks!

That's all he's got to work with is just a little bit of disturbance!

So that's where the experience comes in!

A lot of people can't track unless they see that perfect, perfect track!

But what people at the level of Herbie's experience do is they're just looking for partial tracks!

Just a little bit of a scuff of the outside of the foot!

A little bit of it as we saw the other day—the two toed leopard that we were tracking!

Fantastic stuff!

Okay, so we're gonna carry on over here!

For some reason, Faith, Scott is talking into my ear again!

Which I think is not supposed to be happening! It's given me an update on something; maybe we can check that out!

The terrain is quite thick; the vegetation is good for tracking if you've got a very good tracker with you!

But this is not for the beginning tracker! I can assure you that! Ladies and gentlemen, this is for the definitely the expert tracking!
By no means do I put myself in that bracket!

Okay, so we're gonna continue on here!

Let's go over to Scotty D and see what updates he has for you!

Welcome back and good luck Steve on very envious of the fact that you're on some steaming fresh leopard tracks and possibly the best leopards you could have to be tracking!

Because you know when you find him, he's not going to be too concerned about your presence! Now we've got some wonderful news! The team in the final control has been very swift and efficient with making a small highlight!

It's not something we do very often and I mean I'm not convinced this is going to be the best one because Dave wasn't as tight as you would have liked to have been, because when you're expecting a fast movement and a flight for a cool!

You want to give yourself a bit more space!

So let's have a look at what it looks like! And you guys can let us know!

And just yes, any feedback on the thoughts of highlights just to slow things down a little bit that we do see in real time!

I think it's something we kind of been skipping a beats on, personally!

So here goes!

Alrighty everyone! Well, I hope you enjoyed that! I've got no idea what it looks like, but I hope it was quite cool!

And you would have seen that electric turquoise flash that I was talking about as it opened up its wings and fluttered off!

Oh, hurry along there! Is something mating with Steve!

No idea what species! Do you know? Is that the male? Extremely! What I do know is that the female is much bigger than the male! The male's one on the back!

Even if the viewers out there are able to tell me what species this is!

Obviously, it's not too hot for them! Lizards are very, very sun loving!

If anything, the Sun has probably made them more active than they would have been!

But these marvelous things that we see on bushwalk and tracking a leopard!

We have to stop for the smaller things! And we couldn't help but stop and watch this! This is super cool!

Oh, it's very interesting about mice lizards!

They've actually got something known as a Hemi penis! Which means they've got two penises, but only one will be used at one time!

What the purpose of that exactly is hard to put my head around!

But maybe it's for extended periods of copulation? I'm not sure!

Okay, copy that!

Faith, we are gonna just hold off speaking for a short little while as if see get some tick down!

And I'd like to do a little bit of a broadcast for us!

Wonder if any of the viewers can send their comments through the hashtag safari live!

I'll let you know what species these are! I'm sure that I've even seen them before!

Extremely camouflaged! And he's being—a male is pent up quite hard!

They are rather pretty, very gray back legs, and pretty mottled back!

But you can noticeably see how much bigger the female is than the male!

She's almost twice his size!

There are multitudes of ants crawling all around the area, and it's a wonder that they're so calm, so consumed with their mating!

And they're obviously not hungry, as there must be some lizard experts!

Are they?

Very good afternoon and welcome!

There's gentlemen!

To Drew Murr in the cyber sense where we have come across a mating pair of lizards!

I am unsure of the species!

And I dare not go much closer lest I break up their population performance!

This is marvelous to see!

We're on bushwalk! My name is Steve Falconbridge, and I'm joined by Senzo on camera!

Feel free, please, to drop your comments in the text below!

Let us know your thoughts! Let us know who you are!

Let us know you're on board! If you possibly know the species let me know that is a species I am not too familiar with!

And the female is almost double the size of the male!

They are quite enjoying the afternoon!

There’s a nice warm sunny day with a gentle breeze coming in from the West!

Bushwalk in the big five safari area!

We were actually on the trail of a beautiful male leopard by the name of Hosanna!

And we have halted our tracking for a moment to stop and watch this fantastic performance between these two!

Yes, Richard!

It does look like they're attacking the lizard!

Well, it's their chance to have a go at the lizards because normally if the lizards were not copulating, they'd probably be munching down quite heavily on those ants!

And also the disturbance that they're doing by moving along the ground like that is probably inciting ants to a little bit of violence, should you say!

They'd always have a little bit more ego in something larger than themselves!

Yes, Cheryl!

This is very cool! Very amazing indeed!

I'd love to know from any of you out there if you know what species this is for sure!

I don't have my reptile book on hand; it's probably the heaviest book I own!

So