Safari Live - Day 249 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised. It is a perfect summer's afternoon for a battler to be soaring about in the heat waves that are coming up from the earth. It's a very different sort of afternoon than it was. Sort of morning, it was very, very big change in the way that's a lot hotter and bright blue skies. There is not a single cloud as well.

My name is Kristen. On camera I've got Senzo, and it is a very warm welcome to all of you on this beautiful Sunday afternoon from South Africa. I hope that you all are having a wonderful day, night, wherever you may be, and I hope that you will engage with us for the duration of the afternoon. Remember, you can do that by using hashtag #safarilive on Twitter or @IFC on YouTube chat, and hopefully it'll be a good afternoon. We're going to go and try and see if we can follow up on where Hosana is and see what he's up to and whether or not he's still there from this morning.

How did I say who I am, Senz? Did I say? Did we forget? I don't know, so one of those afternoons. The hornbills are making so much noise. Up for, look there you go, well done good Tristan, it's all hardwired in there. Yeah, I think I've got something wrong with me because I can't even remember three seconds ago. I'm like a goldfish this afternoon. Hopefully, it's not going to carry on that way. But anyway, this morning we stayed with Hosana for quite a while after the show finished, and between myself, Brian, Jamie, and the trainees, we pretty much spent most of the day with him.

He managed to steal his kill back this morning, so he stowed it back, then lost it, and then stowed it back again and managed to hoist it up a tree before the hyenas really kind of got too much of it. So he didn't lose a little bit of it, but not much. All things considering, those hyenas were so full from whatever else they had last night that they just couldn't really actually fit too much more in. And so he got lucky, that Hosana. And that means we got lucky because now he should theoretically not be too difficult to find this afternoon. Well, that's the theory anyway.

You know with Hosana, it's not always the case. He might sometimes give a bit of a runaround and kind of make you work a little bit, but I think we'll be fine. I'm sure he's still there. Like I said, the trainees were the last ones with him, and that was a while ago, not that long ago, about an hour ago they left him and he was still sleeping away underneath his tree, very happy with himself I would imagine. Right now, it's not too far from where we are, so it'll take us a little bit of time just to get there.

But while we do that, let's send you to one of my colleagues who is joining us this afternoon; the ever entertaining and full of drama, James Henry, so he can say good day to all of you. Good morning? No, I made a mistake there, let's pretend. Let's start that again, shall we? Live good afternoon everybody and welcome to this end of the sunset safari on this Sunday afternoon. We are driving now down towards Chitra Dam, a very large waterhole, where hopefully there will be some elephants having a drink.

It has been very hot today. I think they said it was roughly 36 degrees Celsius out here, which I think is about 95. Yeah, 35 and 95, just over 29. What is that? Only 29 degrees? It can't be; it's much hotter than that. It's absolute rubbish. Anyway, ah 32 and 89, there we go. We got it straight now. That was my fault I didn't remember it. So, we're on our way to Chitra Dam. Please do talk to us, of course, using the hashtags #safarilive on Twitter. You can send us your questions; you can send us your comments, you can send us your insults if you'd like to. Can't promise we'll address them all but you can still send them.

Or you can use the chat stream on YouTube. We've got Craig Batman on camera today. That was his bat --is-- thumb flying past the lens like a whisper bat. Very little free-tailed bat perhaps, I'm not sure what kind of bat he is. And that's pretty much the housekeeping complete, so now we can get on with our game drive! Interesting stuff going on with the hyenas and with the leopards today. Hopefully, those interactions will continue.

Wait, stop! Chris, we have our first animal! Oh look Craig, Impala! Now if you look carefully, you'll see that these Impala are not in a good way. They really are not feeling very well, and that it's because of the dry season. But what you can see is that there's a little bit of green flush on those bushes, and so tough times hopefully pop over. And what is eating is the black monkey thorn! Senegal...ia Berkey. Beautiful! Now David is in the middle of a big storm, but I believe that he's opened the flaps so that he can show you something floating across the grassland.

A very good afternoon and welcome to the Mara Triangle, Kenya. From very small Impalas, we came into huge animals, the elephants. My name is David; as usual, with me on camera is Archie. Archie, good afternoon. And we have a very big storm that seems to be coming. If you look way out there in the background, you'll see there's a wall of rain out there. It feels a bit chilly for me. As much as the temperature is 80 degrees Fahrenheit and 27 degrees Celsius, but I think because of that rain, there it feels very cold for me.

Remember we love --oh it's wonderful to get questions from you and should you have any nice comments of the rain and elephant together, send them through using hashtag #safarilive on Twitter; as usual, ahead of the Ellie's here. And I wouldn't know what they are thinking as they are anticipating the rains to come. I can hear the thunderstorms and I guess they can hear them as well.

So what do you want to do? I just want to port for a little bit. There's one elephant I have seen that is missing one tusk, but also the trunk seems to be short. It doesn't have a full trunk, and I would just like to get a little bit closer and find out what could have happened to it. Not that I would know, but the things that will happen genetically. We got elephants that are born or do not develop or grow the tusks; we've got some that survive with one tusk, and also, we got others that are born without a single tusk.

Now, all right your Linux, there's one just first the other way we're going to show you in a minute. She just feasted the other side, way out there. Okay, if you go to the one fella, this one looks fine. Don't close to us; both tusks are intact pulling the grass from the ground. They'll sometimes check the grass to get rid of soil, and should there be anything else that they may not want in that munching or in that food, they'll also shake it and remove it.

Sometimes you have seen frogs or some other amphibians in the grass as they pick them up. And the elephants are very, very smart animals. They will know it's hard to shake the grass. Now if you pan to the left of the bed, those three on our left, you got to see what I'm talking about. Now all those three--that one on the right, okay. The big one is turning to us. Turn around this way, so if you look carefully, her trunk doesn't seem complete, and it could be anything. It's very difficult to know. And I would imagine the vet doctors will have an idea of what should have happened. But my theory, I just guessed it could be anything.

Then again, baby ellies enjoy the rain? I would say they do not. They're too small; where it rains, and I think their skin is quite delicate; and what should happen is they'll always go underneath their mothers, and that way they're sheltered from the rain. So if the rain gets bigger and scuttles in different directions, elephants have been known either to read the signs of the rain as they come, and if it gets bigger than what we can do to shelter their babies, they look for huge trees or big thickets where they can always go under. Like the thicket was in front of us, possibly they might move to the thicket to make sure they'll shelter the young ones from the rain.

Too much rain and if it's going to be cold will not be very good for the calves; it could easily give them something like pneumonia. You can see this particular one doesn't have any tusks, which wouldn't indicate her age is definitely less than two years. Well, scoots to have seen my face, but I'm sure you'll see a face with a big smile. Always mine a very beautiful elephant!

A very, very good afternoon and welcome to the beginning of the show. I am Sydney for me cozy, and I'm travelling with Dave, who is my camera operator. For your questions and comments, you can follow us on Twitter, hashtag #safarilive. I've already established exciting, but it's very very far at the moment. I just want to quickly get there now. I can see a huge herd of the buffalo rushing towards the Via Telepan, so those buffalos were looking very thirsty. So they don't want to come to the Gallagher Pan at the moment; I've just gone past the Gallagher Pan when I saw them from a distance I thought they were going to opt for the Galago Pan instead of the Via della Pearl. But they've just decided to go towards the Via della Pan, so the sun is very hot at the moment. I'm sure those pose so I am hoping to see they spotted cats during this drive today.

So now let's go to the luckiest Tristan, who's got the spotted cat! We do indeed; we managed to catch up with Hosana who is, well, I'm doing what I would imagine most cats are doing at this point in the day because he is very, very sleepy. You can see his belly is moving at a rate of knots, not only because he's full, but also because he's just trying to control his temperature. It's a very warm afternoon, and it's crazy to think that this morning we were all wrapped up in jackets, and we're feeling a little chilly.

It is as hot as it is now. So he is heavily breathing at the moment, just trying to kind of keep that body temperature down as possible, and he's found himself a nice little spot that kind of blends into the log, and you can see he's got his little footrest there, so he’s feeling very, very, very comfortable with life at the moment. Isn't that nice? Now, his kill is up in a tree, like I was saying earlier; well, it's quite far from where we actually are at the moment. Why he's lying in this particular spot, I'm not quite sure, but his kill is in a sort of dip where we are, and it's on the other side of where that is in a sort of drainage line.

Now, if any of you watching a few weeks ago when we had a very cool elephant sighting in the afternoon or the thing was one of our Safari lives that we did on foot, the way the emus walked very, very close, that's exactly where we are with Hosana, which is quite cool. So it's just in that sort of drainage section, and he's kind of found a very nice tree to put it in. It's going to be perfectly safe there from all of these scavengers that hang around, except for maybe his dad. His dad is one that he's got to worry about. But interestingly enough, this morning, we obviously were following tracks all around the hyena den as we kind of finished up here and handed over to Brent and Jamie, who kindly came and sat for a while during the course of this morning just to make sure that Hosana didn't disappear.

They got a notification that there was a male leopard that was crossing from Triple A or on Triple A, and pretty much where we had been tracking that male leopard all day. So we were very close! I think he was still around all morning while we were driving around. Now who it is no one is sure because there was it couldn't have been Tingana at the end of the day because he was actually all the way on Sullivan at Sullivan should I say which is very far to the west. So whether it's Tingana's first safari into Arethusa, or maybe Amperica's or maybe potentially, you know, one of the others that hang around we don't know. But maybe that explains why we didn't actually see it this morning is because it was a little shy and skittish, and kind of just avoiding us as we went along.

But he just goes to show that there is a male leopard walking around. Now that leopard walked all the way from Zoe's App for a Teller access and on to Aubrey's, so quite something to think that there is another leopard that's moving around if it's not Tingana. Anyway, we're going to spend our afternoon with our lazy boy, and while we do that, they'll send you across to Sydney who's got something that is not being very lazy at all.

At the moment, you can see now the buffalos they’ve just decided to start running. One of them gave an alarm call and they all just decided to run away. I'm not too sure if they have spotted something dangerous here in the area. I'm just waiting for all of them to go past so that we can go behind them, following them to the waterhole. We might be lucky and see what they were complaining about. Now I can see the last two crossing now at the road. I am going to push further and see if we can get very close. Some of them are still very far; I can see there, but a lot of them have crossed already. So I think now we have got an opportunity to pass and go to their waterhole.

Maybe it's lions, or maybe they saw something small such as a snake which frightened them and decided to run because there are no signs of the predators here where I am. So these animals, they are much more gifted. They can sniff from very far, and they can hear from far. I am not too sure if they hear the lions or any other predator. So I can see some of them are still running towards their waterhole, but there was a very loud alarm call given.

They didn't just run away first; one of them gave a warning call, which gave the other ones signals in order to run away. So now let's go to James, who got some very interesting things by the Chitra Dam at the moment. What we have here at Chitra Dam is a pied kingfisher. It is not fishing at the moment. I think it's probably investigating the nesting site that it has used before in the bank over here. We can't see him there, but the nest that he had is just if you go over the top of my right shoulder, there's a hole in the bank there, and we've seen them nesting in there. You can see there is quite a lot of dung around there as well, guano. That's not from the kingfish, I don't think. I suspect, but that is mostly Egyptian geese.

And I wonder if there isn't an Egyptian--no, you know what? It is quite possibly hardy-dar. It must be a nest there somewhere; I know that there was a nest in one of these trees of hardy dars before, but all those little chicks seem to die, I'm afraid. Anyway, now we see if they try again. Here at Chitra Dam, we do also have a lot of hippopotami. The hippopotami in the last bits of water, I'll say this dam is getting pretty shallow. I think you'd be able to wade just about all the way across, lots of places where the hippos can stand. All of those hippopotamus are standing; they are not floating, so it gives you an idea of how shallow it is.

A long way to go before this dam dries up, but it does accumulate. The kind of loss of water accumulates over the years, so unless we have a pretty wet year, it won't recover. You know what I mean into the wet season? Now there's something very odd going on on the far bank there Craig; all of those blacksmith lapwings are over there. There are about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 blacksmith lapwings! Absolutely unbelievable! Now they're not supposed to be like that. They're quite territorial birds and they nest in pairs. So I have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

Yes, they are having some sort of convention. Mary, what sort of convention it is, I'm not really sure. I'll try and do a bit of research and do exactly what kind of convention is going on here while you go to a buffalo convention. Oh dear, what's going on there? How very interesting! Possibly a little scuffle between a young bull and a cow. Certainly in the air, there is the smell of hippopotamus dung, which of course must cover the floor of this waterhole.

All righty, let's now go to all the buffalo having all the water! So the buffalo has just arrived now by the Via Telepan. I can see a lot of them out drinking at the moment; some are still waiting to have a chance. Some of them are also right deep in the dam, trying to cool off their body temperature. Some of them are also standing under the trees. It is quite very hot at the moment here where I am. Some are just playing in water here, so if you can look at the conditions of these buffaloes, you can see that the bush is very dry but not yet showing any impact when it comes to the nutritional status because these buffaloes are still looking very good.

They are in very good condition, so they must be feeding on a lot of dry grass and drinking a lot of water. Rosalyn, they keep buffaloes. You can easily stop them all. All you've got to do is to keep a distance. You know, animals they don't judge charge; they first consider the distance between you approaching and where they are. If you approach to a distance of about a hundred meters, all these animals are going to be comfortable with your presence. If you trespass that hundred meters, let's say, and you go through about eighty meters, you will be getting very much close, and that animal is going to take a decision. It means at eighty meters is a critical condition where anything can happen.

However, when the buffalo is charging, you have got to reverse and give them space. But if you are on foot, you must have to stand still. And if there is a nice barrier, you must have to consider a barrier. And if you are with the team, a Scout who is there responsible for safety, it will then give you directions and deal with the situation. It's one of the very much dangerous animals when on foot. So I can see now that the oxpeckers have also arrived; some of them are now jumping on top of these buffaloes. When they got here, they were not escorted by the oxpeckers; they have just arrived while the buffaloes are here already.

I'm so very much impressed with the condition and health status of these buffaloes. You can see some of these oxpeckers right there on the sides. It looks very, very hot at the moment, that is very true. Normally, by this time of the day is when buffaloes are hiding in the big dongas. The very big open dry riverbed is where they hide, where it's nice and cool and also in thick bushes. So the numerical art for drinking somewhere just before the sunset is too early for them to show up. These activities may be the problem. Now is that some of the dams are starting to become very dry, and they are travelling long distances from one dam to the other.

So this is what is called a breeding herd. It is consisted of the females, males, as well as the little ones. So the buffaloes do have two kinds of structures; sometimes you will see only the males, they can form a group of bachelor heads together feeding together and still go back and join the herd, and they don't mind even walking just by themselves. So now while still waiting for any developments here, let's go to Tristan who is still with the sleepycat, Hosana. Indeed he is very, very sleepy at the moment, and like I said, I don't think we're gonna get too much from a young boy just yet. I think he's going to, unfortunately, only have a bit of a nap for quite some time.

Like I said, we're quite loving the fact that he's got his foot up, and he's got two feets up on at the moment on this fallen-over stump, and he looks very comfortable, doesn't he? I'm sure he's doing that because he can get a bit of a breeze on his tummy that will just help cool him down. But this is the back paw and the front paw both perfectly poised on his log, making him feel very comfortable, I would imagine. Just now at one point, yeah, that leg completely stretched over that log. Come on, Astrid oh, he kind of was flexing his leg out, and he looks very, very, very kind of relaxed and as though he was reclining at a swimming pool on a Sunday afternoon.

I suppose if you're a leopard, it's about the right time of day to be sleeping and taking it very easy, and in weather like this, I'm not surprised. He's got a meal; he's had a busy morning, and so it makes sense why he wants to have a bit of a nap. But I'm very tough for him that he managed to get his kill back, if it was his, and was able to get food. So Nico, Nico view of what's the breeding rates of leopards depends on the area that you're in, depends on how dense the population of other predators there is, what food availability there is, what all of those kinds of things will dictate the amount of cubs that they have.

But generally you'll find in terms of a success rate in this particular area that we operate, you'll find that most of the time and the cubs will kind of be, it's about a one in every sort of 9/10 that actually makes it to a full-grown and territorial adult, which is not very many at all. And obviously that number could jump up and down depending on the seasons and those kinds of things, but it can go as many as three out of every ten. Generally, it's one out of every ten cubs that actually makes it to adulthood and becomes a territorial individual, whether it be a male or a female. So, you know, success rates are not very high, and that's because in this particular area, there is a very high density of other predators: a lion, hyena, high density of male leopard, which is probably the number one cause; well, not probably; it is the number one cause of fatalities within leopard cubs. You've got snakes; you've got those kinds of things that cause a lot of issues; and even birds of prey.

So, you find in this area, cubs are quite tricky to raise to adulthood, and other parts where there are probably fewer of those areas where there's no lions or no hyenas, then they'll have a much easier time of it. But generally in those places, their biggest problem then becomes loss of habitat and human interference where their cubs will then get killed. So, you know, it just depends on the area.

Concerning this particular section, between one and three cubs out of every ten generally survive, and how often they will breed intake is always dictated by whether or not their cubs survive. If they have cubs that die before, you know, they become independent, you'll find it will take the female probably, you know, a month or two until she's actually starting to mate again, and then it's a three-month gestation period before she’ll give birth. So often when they lose a set of cubs, it's normally about five, six months until they have their next set. If they have cubs that go independent, well, often they mating before that cub goes independence and the ones that are actually forcing that cub out, sometimes even when they're already pregnant; and Tonya was a prime example of that.

She had cubs and then pushed them out as they were kind of as he was getting a little bit older, and she was already pregnant. Right, so we're going to keep sitting with him, but while we do that, James and be relieved has got something very interesting. Who really astonishing exciting here, there's a side-striped jackal. There it is in the shade, not the best picture I've ever got, but it's made a friend, a waterbuck bull! They seem to be entirely comfortable in each other's company. Of course, the jackal poses no threat to the enormous waterbuck bull, and the waterbuck bull obviously feels no threat from the jackal. But why they should have chosen to lie in such close proximity, I couldn't really tell you other than to say they found some shade and got too hot, and they thought, well, you know what, it doesn't really matter; we don't mind each other necessarily, so well that's fine; we'll just stay together.

That is very funny and that gorgeous. Now we don't often get to sit with these jackals because mostly they're running away from us; they're quite skittish. And so, to find one that has been basically cooked by the sun is quite nice! It doesn't want to move out of its nice cool shady patch, and so it's going to put up with us for the next while. Now, Lindy says what a great ticket, absolutely is! The side-striped jackal now I suppose for those of you that don't know jackals, jackals are much the same ecologically as coyotes. They live singly and in pairs; the side stripe often singly, the black-backed normally in pairs. They are predominantly scavengers although they catch a lot in the way of rodents, and they will certainly eat things as widely varied as lizards and carrion, like I said birds if they can catch them, especially mislings.

And I think they'll probably even take the odd scorpion, and the side-striped jackal is known for eating fruit—not exclusively, but it does eat quite a lot of fruit in comparison with the black-backed! Now I believe you saw jackal with Tristan this morning; that's very interesting! Thank you, um car for reminding me of that; was it a side stripe or a black-backed jackal that you saw this morning with Tristan, does anyone remember? Ah, it was black-backed, which in theory should be slightly rarer in this area. Now when we came driving along, we saw the waterbuck one—we saw it with a little one, and we thought, oh that's odd, it's a waterbuck cow lying with the bull and then we stopped and realized that no actually they're not related at all.

We have the wolf-like side-striped jackal and, of course, the big waterbuck bull, neither of whom seem like they want to move an inch today! I don't blame them! Sunday afternoon and the Sun be very nice to have a little bit of a snooze in that shade myself! I feel don't worry; I'm not going to! I shall keep searching around the place.

Well, Fiona, yes and no. I mean jackals and foxes are related in so much as they come from the same family. So they all come from the same family: the Canidae, or the dog family. So do coyotes, so do wolves, so do African wild dogs. But I don't know how closely related they are, so what I shall do is open my book, and I'll tell you! Right, so they all come from the order Carnivora, which is the taxon apple the group up from the family, and then they all belong to the Canidae family, but they don't all belong to the same genus. So the African wild dog belongs to a different genus, but the jackals: side-striped, black-backed, Ethiopian wolf, the European wolf, the gray wolf all belong to the genus Canis, and you'd probably find that they could interbreed; certainly, they could hybridize.

But when you get on to the foxes that we have here: the bat-eared fox, the royal fox, the fennec fox, the Cape fox and the pale fox, and the rumple's fox, and the red fox, these are all African foxes; they belong all of them but for the bat-eared fox to the genus Vulpes, the ULPES. And I suspect that the European versions belong to the same genus. The bat-eared fox has its own genus; it's called Otocyon, which is interesting! So they do not belong to the same genus as most of the other dogs. The foxes, the jackal, is much more closely related to a domestic dog probably even an African wild dog and certainly a wolf than it is to any of the foxes that we have.

It's a rather long-winded but relatively detailed explanation of their realization to the other canids. He's got something; he's eating something; he's got something quite nice to eat there! Oh, that looks disgusting! So yeah, you can probably hear the game drive radio going; nay, here, deeply irritating! Definitely got a nice piece of meat! All righty, well we're going away from this dog over to some cats! The cats are not close by, and yeah, well that must be a very big party!

Jackals, Nala's, and now guinea hens; that's huge! We may be having what could have been a big party here a few minutes ago! We got the sausage tree pride, and you can see all those females there with the cubs with the young ones! And they were trying to bring down or they gave a shot to bringing down a buffalo! Let's have a quick look on this one, as close as I can go! If you look at her closely you can see she's panting, and on the shoulder you can see some blood spots. You see that panting? That actually shows definitely she was in a big action a few minutes ago, and the blood on the shoulder there, the front side.

Because her and their members of this pride of lions tried to bring down a huge buffalo, but what is interesting is just about to choke or suffocate it and kill it. The other members of the buffalos, the big herd, mobbed and ganged up together again! As to this sausage--excuse me, on my head--and you might be going to show you now where those buffalos are at the moment! You're going to see how big that herd was, and the one that was attacked and survived is in that herd.

You want me to move for sure, but you consider from them, very good! Now it is in this herd which I think most of them are bulls, males. There's one in the middle that has survived and you'll have a story to tell because just shortly before, he was suffocated to death all these others that you see here came and rescued it! And you'll have a story to tell because it will be shortly before he was suffocated to death all these others that you see here came and rescued it!

And got it out of the teeth of the sausage tree pride that tried. I'll be going a little bit close to them. I've got fast; I'll show you the lions, and then I'll be going close to these harder buffalos to see if we can zero in on the one attacked. Le Gow, that's very interesting! Or good question! The cubs of the substrate are here, and what happens when the lions illegally go to hunt, they always stay back. Of course, very quick message is sent to the cubs by the mothers: stay put, stay still, don't move!

And then the mother moved, but after they aborted the hunt, the cubs have rejoined the mothers. Let's have a look at them, see if now they could be playing and telling the mothers: well done! You did very well! You didn't make it, but chances are on the next hunt you'll definitely bring a buffalo down! Oh, another play now! Elega, if you look carefully from a distance, you can see these two cubs are being very playful, and the mother is keeping a very close watch on them. Remember your questions are always very welcome; any nice comments, please send them using hashtag #safarilive on Twitter.

And for those who have never joined us before, this particular pride of lions is called the sausage tree pride! Kalena, great comment; I mean it's always a question of safety in numbers. And either way, as much as lions know that buffalo is a good prey for them, they also know the dangers we face. We have been having the migration for the last couple of months. We have been, you know, thousands, and hundreds of wildebeest surrounding this area.

And zebras, all of them have gone further down south to Tanzania to Serengeti National Park; and this season, all that we have is what we call a green season! In green season means the lions have to look for bigger prey to hunt, buffaloes, giraffes, islands, some big, big animals. So they know the risk they face. In Kalena, you're right, it was very nice for the buffaloes to come back! I just got there and missed by a few minutes!

And just mobs and rescued one of their own! So what I want to do is maybe go close to those buffalos and see if we can identify this one particularly because I think he is still bleeding to me! And Archie, if you allow me, we're going to move on and see how close you can get to those bulls. Well, I'll get close there, but from my buffalos in the Mara Triangle, let's send you to other buffalos in Douma in Kruger National Park!

From the buffalos in the Maasai Mara to the buffaloes here, you can see our buffaloes because of the temperature at the moment. They are very much relaxed now at the waterhole! A lot of them are done drinking. I can see now it's just about every fun there by the assuming pool. Now, Nico, Nico viewer, both of them are very dangerous; hippo and buffaloes! The hippos can be very dangerous, specifically if they find you between them and the waterhole!

That is when they can be dangerous! But the buffaloes, these ones, the problem is when it's too hot, they've got to find a nice shade! And if you come, they're not seeing them! And if they see you from a long distance, we're not aware that they are there is when they're going to give it a problem! So if you can check the hippopotamus, it's one of the animals who attacked quite a lot of people in the world!

So in terms of the group of mammals, the hippopotamus is the first group leading when it comes to the killing of people around the world! But the biggest animal, the animal that's killing the people the most is not the hippopotamus, no! The buffalo is! The mosquito! Mosquito also falls under the kingdom Animalia in Sector is just a class trish.

That is a lovely comment! At least these buffalos had something to drink considering the season at the moment, and they have enough water availability; buffaloes are in a very good condition! Toby the buffaloes, they are ruminants. The ruminants are those animals which are good with a four-chambered stomach. Some other people, they call it a compound stomach or a complex stomach.

They've got a rumen and a room, and they've got rumen, omasum, abomasum, and reticulum. So a rumen is a big portion whereby these animals are eating and saving the food which is then later on taken back to the mouth and be eaten again, which is a process called rumination. Also, it's called to chew the cud. So unfortunately, buffaloes, they are part of the reticular... Oh, Dr. Dick is a group of animals who are forming part of the ruminant!

James, the little ones indeed look like American cars; also the South African cows look similar to the baby buffaloes! So now when they've got the buffalo, the little ones like this, this is when they can be very dangerous if you go towards them on foot! So most of their feeding is taking place at night; during the day is just their time to relax. Soon as the sun goes down is when they concentrate a lot on feeding!

So these animals, they look very big, but they can go very, very fast. So the reason why the buffaloes are now standing in the water is that they are already done with their drinking. Now it's about cooling the body temperature! So if there were a lot of mud here, we are going to see quite a lot of males as well doing the mud wallowing in order to have the mud and cover their bodies to prevent sunburn! So now from the buffaloes, let's go to Tristan. Tristan is still with us, Hosana!

I am indeed still with us and you can see very little has changed. We had vehicles come and go, and so our boy has been sleeping. As well, this is Ivy's date really, I suppose, it's a very tough time to meet. I'm sure he's going to move shortly. The funny enough, as usual, seer, on his rag wears on his shoulder area. The sun is hitting him properly now, so it's probably going to get quite hot on that shoulder area and on his head.

You'll find when that happens, then often they do move, and you might just get up and move a little bit closer to where we are. And there's a nice shady block; there's kind of between us and him and he might just kind of go into there. You can see the nice shady section. I wish that we had a bit of shade ourselves; unfortunately, our shade is also disappearing very quickly. We're starting to also get into the sun a little bit, which is not as pleasant as I would have hoped for! I was hoping the sun was going to just come down a little bit to the left, in which case we would have been perfectly lined for some shade, but alas no.

Sun has positioned himself perfectly so that he can get the best shape possible! Now there's not really any other way to kind of view him from the other side; there's almost impossible to get him, lots of tongue boots! He's on the other side, so we're just going to have to be patient and wait for him to move. I think it's already cooled down quite a lot considering compared to what we had a little bit earlier, so I'm pretty sure it will be a case just now and see for him to wake up and move around!

I'm hoping before the end of Drive he decides to show his face and maybe go and have a little feed on his carcass and he'll take him a little bit of a walk to get there. But I would imagine that he's only going to really feed as the sun goes down. I don't think he's really going to go up before then. I think he's going to enjoy his nap, and I can say he was a busy busy morning for him!

We know that last night he had a fairly busy night. He got bored and played with the terrapins, and then from there he somehow magically flew to Philemon's Tipple. It's quite funny this morning because we're all looking for him around Gallagher Pan and Avid St. Pan area that northern side. I don't know why, for some reason, I thought I would just come check down and up in case he somehow got this side.

But no one expected him to be, you know, when I spoke to Herbie afterwards, he said he didn't see any tracks. I didn't see any tracks for him either, and how they managed to get this side, I'm pretty surprised! Anyway, he did! And we got lucky with the vultures. If it hadn't been for the vultures and then hyena walking past when it did, I don't know if we would have found him, to be honest. It would have been a lot trickier, and this kill would not have been easy to find now where he's put it, so we got lucky!

And I suppose a bit of luck is always a good thing, especially when it comes to leopards. And we've had a tough kind of day yesterday, and, you know, this morning wasn’t going very well at all until we got lucky late in the morning. So all good for now, and hopefully he's going to keep this kill. I'm hoping that his dad somehow doesn't snuff it out and find it good sushi!

Well, the reason why cats like to be clean is because they got OCD, so they like to make sure that every little bit of dust is off them in case the cameras come around and make sure that they are looking good for the paparazzi that arrive every day, twice a day! It's part of the contract that they signed when they joined us, is that they have to basically groom their coats every single day and make sure that they clean and tidy.

You know we've got a few other members of our staff that are the ragged kind of looking fellas; we don't need to worry too much about that! We need some clean, well-groomed cats! And so part of the contracts is that they've got to sign on the dotted line to make sure that they clean. Now the reason why they clean? Well, from the pure point of view that most of what they eat is meat, and that means that they get bits of blood and things on them which mess with their fur.

And that can cause disease; that can cause attracting flies; it attracts parasites. And so to keep themselves clean means that they avoid having an overdose of those particular parasites and irritations in their life. So if they have blood all over them, they're going to just be bothered by flies all day long. Whereas if they clean their coat meticulously and they make sure that they're well-groomed, then you're going to find that they are not going to be bothered nearly as much!

It also means that their fur stays in a healthy condition. If it's covered in blood all the time, it's going to start to stick together, and it's really not going to be very pleasant at all, and they're going to smell very bad; that's going to alert prey animals to them, so it's all about just making sure that they're nice and clean and well-groomed.

So what have you seen this in just him? Then his coat, but you can see Hosana is in beautiful condition! Very few ticks on him; more, we can't see too many! Just one or two little flies that are in his coat at the moment, which you would expect; they're landing all over us as well, and that's more because we are sweating that these flies are landing on us!

We've got a few stingless bees and a few biting flies that are trying to get the salts and the liquid off us, whereas with him, you know, it's probably due to the fact that there may be other few little bits of meat on them. But generally, that's the reason why is that they need to maintain a very clean coat, for one, to stop, like I say, parasites, and two, to be able to not smell bad and still be able to hunt fairly good.

Now, you would think that he's having a fit, the way that he's breathing! Shame! He's getting hot now because his whole head is in the sun, Hosana. All you have to do is just move one meter, and you'll be absolutely fine! But alas, he's not going to! Anyway, we're going to wait for him to move! I'm pretty sure he will! And while we wait, let's send you across to James, who's got two of the biggest animals we get!

Archer! Yes, we've got an entire herd of elephants over here! Now, I went on a little training drive this morning, and we noticed a couple of large completing trees that had been pushed over. Now, while we've been sitting here, this large cow in front of us has pushed over yet another large can read some preachers and pushed it all the way over, but she's pushed it over enough to expose the roots, and clearly there's not a lot of greenery around just yet. And so the trees, their roots, bark, and stems are still taking a bit of a hammering.

She's also very, very heavily pregnant. Hello, my dear, very nice to see you! I hope you're not insulted! Look at this; this is special! Watch this too big! I think she decided it was just a little bit too large; she gave it a bit of a test, the one in front of her— not so much! I'm just going to keep my voice nice and low because she's pretty close to us investigating each branch of common Britain.

Here we go! That's quite a difficult one to get out of the ground! That's it, little one! Now, I think if she could, she'd go for the root rather than just that little bit at the end there that used to be attached to the root. I'm just watching her belly as well to see if there's any sign of a kicking fetus, and she breaks it on her task! Well, you see, mgm, this is possibly not a serious comment you've made, but maybe it is. They are a natural deforestation project, and without them, this landscape, as I keep banging on about, would look completely and utterly different! They are ecosystem architects or keystone species.

She's not showing any sign of discomfort with us, so I'm just going to sit here while she walks a little bit closer and has a look. She's smelling Craig’s haircut—not haircut, his shampoo! I think she likes it! Craig winds blanc straight over the top of us onto this beautiful, beautiful elephant! This is so special! She's only about three meters from us, nine feet or so! Showing any signs of discomfort; look how prehensile the tip of her trunk is!

As you can see, she was just trying to pull a strand of bark off that branch. And can you imagine how difficult that must be keeping a body of this size fed in conditions like this? Now she is definitely pregnant, and Kathy that situation will remain for about 22 months! So, they'll have a gestation period of just under two years, which is a very long time to be pregnant, I imagined personally.

No matter how I try, I’ll never be pregnant myself, and so I cannot comment on whether or not a two-year gestation is a trial or not. But I imagine, given what I've heard people say about the nine months that we have as human beings, it probably is quite trying! She's just letting out a bit of gas, and now we have her youngster! The reason you've got bits and pieces of car in the way is that I don't want to move with them so close. They've been so trusting of us that I don't want to make a nasty noise, and now she's moving the other side!

Our brilliant question from a Japanese viewer watching on niconico! Yes, the answer is that they would eat a little bit of tree if the grass was green! Look! There goes a big can-beaten problem! Big can-beat tree right down! Isn't that amazing? That's just fantastic! I'm sorry we're not in a better position; I can move now and we just keep answering that question!

So the grass will go green, and they will almost universally then, yes, select for grass! But they will still eat some leaves, and they'll certainly go for fruit! Get into a position where we can see which bit of it she's eating! Trees coming up! So I'm just gonna stop here now. You can imagine with the 15 thousand elephants odd that there are in the Kruger National Park, all of them or all of the adults pushing over trees like this from time to time.

You can imagine how they are modifying this ecosystem! Now some people see that and they say, oh the elephants are destroying the trees! We can't have that! Well, the elephants are probably just opening up habitat for other creatures! Look at that big piece of root she's chose there!

We go! It's like a really tasteless carrot! Now, she's eating! Elephants don't go long without water! In fact, I think there's actually some statistic on that! Which two days or so before they start to really struggle? I seem to remember reading it! If you just give me a minute or two, I'll see if I can retrieve it! Unfortunately, not from my brain, but from my very impressive mammal application!

Here we go, let me have a look! Description, oh we know they look like they're large and gray! Skull, no reproduction reproduction! No? And Google says four days without water, I wouldn't necessarily trust that. This app that I have has got some very impressive research and I...

Excuse me, give me a minute and I'll just quickly, quickly have a look-see! Lots of interesting information here! Habitats—200! I just remember reading a sentence which very nicely described it! It might not be here; we go! Let me have a look!

They can go without water for four days! Alrighty, let's now get back to the elephants! Yes, we've got a very cute little elephant over here! Awwww! Look at him! Who's got it? So what we can see is that all behind on the other side there are some more elephants! And if they choose to move out but at the moment they will be sitting there nicely!

And let’s send you now, it would seem that the sausage tree pride's attempt at the buffalo have not ended yet! They seem to be about to make another approach! Well done James with a lease! And ellies happens to be my favourite animals because elephants will never bow you! They'll always be doing something!

Now back to the sausage tree pride here in the Mara Triangle, Kenya! And that's from a distance; you can see twelve other lions walking slowly towards these herd of buffaloes! Now the buffaloes we're talking about is in the midst of this group! Now I've been looking closely at them and I think this is a bachelor herd!

The one made a difference between females and males welcomes the buffalos! It is the size of homes; the males have much bulkier heavy horns! And we shall see, if we look at them carefully, they got like a boss! Now you see, that one to the right: look on the nose very carefully; it got a very bloody nose! Left bottom left of your screen!

And this is the buffalo that has a story to tell! And two of the lionesses guessed, or one of them, was trying to suffocate it! Then maybe two or three were just trying to hold it down from the back! But shortly before that happened, the main group came and rescued it!

Well, for me, it looked like good bleeding nose, but I'm imagining those are all the teeth marks or how deep the teeth went in because players know once they suffocate these big animals, that's always an easy way to subdue them and bring them down to death! Now what I guess would happen much later on, the other buffaloes might not want to stay very close with this particular one!

Let's see if she turns back! Look at the back there! And you can see the hindquarters especially below the tail; it's all bloody! And that is a typical formula for lions to bring their prey down: bring it down from the back and then try to suffocate it!

And lions can comfortably do out of 40, 50, 60 miles an hour! But the females had here did not give a very good chase, I guess! And what could have happened is there was no mare to help them to bring down the buffalo! Buffalo is a big animal, and they're very strong!

And lions know if they're not very careful the buffalos can easily cut them with the horns because the herd is solid! And I think the moment the lionesses realize all these buffaloes are coming, the best bet for them is to place if they had to let go! And that's exactly what happened!

Well, now I want to move! Sloth will be down until they can see the buck or the hindquarters of this particular buffalo one more time before we go check the lions! And find out if they won't come close to this particular buffalo! He is walking down! And if you look carefully, you can see this two cubs are being very playful!

And the mother is keeping a very close watch on them! Remember your questions are always very welcome! Any nice comments like from a legal? Please send them using hashtag #safarilive on Twitter! And for those who have never joined us before, this particular pride of lions is called the sausage tree pride!

Kalenna, great comment, I mean he's always a question of safety in numbers! And either way, as much as lions know that buffalo is a good prayer for them, they also know the dangers we face! We have been having the migration for the last couple of months, we have been you know, thousands and hundreds of will be surrounding this area!

And zebras, all of them have gone further down south to Tanzania to Serengeti National Park, and this season, all that we have is what we call a green season! In green season, it means the lions have to look for bigger prey to hunt: buffaloes, giraffes, islands, some big, big animals! So they know the risks they face!

In Kalena, you're right, it was very nice for the buffaloes to come back! I just got there and missed by a few minutes! And just mobs and rescued one of their own! So what I want to do is maybe go close to those buffaloes and see if we can identify this one particularly because I think he is still bleeding to me!

And Archie, if you allow me, we're going to move on and see how close you can get to those bulls! Well, I'll get close there but from my buffaloes in the Mara Triangle, let's send you to other buffaloes in Douma in Kruger National Park!

From the buffaloes in the Maasai Mara to the buffaloes here, you can see our buffaloes because of the temperature at the moment! They are very much relaxed now at the waterhole! A lot of them are done drinking! I can see now it's just about every fun there by the assuming pool!

Now, niconico viewer, both of them are very dangerous! Hippos and buffaloes! The hippos can be very dangerous, specifically if they find you between them and the waterhole! That is when they can be dangerous! But the buffaloes, these ones, the problem is when it's too hot, they've got to find a nice shade! And if you come, they're not seeing them! And if they see you from a long distance, we're not aware that they are there is when they're going to give it a problem!

So if you can check the hippopotamus, it's one of the animals who attacked quite a lot of people in the world! So in terms of the group of mammals, the hippopotamus is the first group leading when it comes to the killing of people around the world! But the biggest animal, the animal that kills the most people is not the hippopotamus, no! The buffalo is! The mosquito!

Mosquito also falls under the kingdom Animalia in Sector! It is just a class Trish! That is a lovely comment! At least these buffaloes had something to drink considering the season at the moment, and they have enough water availability; buffaloes are in a very good condition!

Toby the buffaloes! They are ruminants! The ruminants are those animals that have a four-chambered stomach! Some people call it a compound stomach or a complex stomach! They've got a rumen and a room, and they've got rumen, omasum, abomasum, and reticulum! So a rumen is a big portion whereby these animals are eating and saving the food, which is then later on taken back to the mouth and be eaten again, which is a process called rumination!

Also, it's called to chew the cud! So unfortunately, buffaloes, they are part of the ruminants! Dr. Dick is a group of animals who form part of the ruminant! James, the little ones indeed look like American cars!

Also, the South African cows look similar to the baby buffaloes! So now when they've got the buffalo, the little ones like this, this is when they can be very dangerous if you go towards them on foot! So most of their feeding happens at night; during the day is just their time to relax!

So soon as the sun goes down is when they concentrate a lot on feeding! So these animals, they look very big, but they can go very, very fast! Now the reason why the buffaloes are now standing in the water is that they are already done with their drinking! Now it's about cooling the body temperature!

So if there were a lot of mud here, we are going to see quite a lot of males as well doing the mud wallowing in order to have the mud and cover their bodies to prevent sunburn! So now from the buffaloes, let's go to Tristan! Tristan is still with Hosana!

Indeed, he is very, very sleepy at the moment, and like I said, I don't think we're gonna get too much from a young boy just yet! I think he's going to, unfortunately, only have a bit of a nap for quite some time! Like I said, we're quite loving the fact that he's got his foot up, and he's got two feets up on at the moment on this fallen-over stump! And he looks very comfortable, doesn't he?

I'm sure he's doing that because he can get a bit of a breeze on his tummy! That will just help cool him down! But this is the back paw and the front paw both perfectly poised on his log, making him feel very comfortable! I would imagine just now at one point, yeah, that leg completely stretched over that log!

Come on Astrid, oh, he kind of was flexing his leg out! And he looks very, very, very kind of relaxed and as though he was reclining at a swimming pool on a Sunday afternoon! I suppose if you're a leopard, it's about the right time of day to be sleeping and taking it very easy! And in weather like this, I'm not surprised!

He's got a meal; he had a busy morning, and so it makes sense why he wants to have a bit of a nap! But I'm very tough for him that he managed to get his kill back, if it was his, and was able to get food! So Nico, Nico view of what's the breeding rates of leopards depends on the area that you're in, depends on how dense the population of other predators there is, what food availability there is! What all of those kinds of things will dictate the amount of cubs that they have!

But generally, you'll find in terms of a success rate in this particular area that we operate! You'll find that most of the time and the cubs will kind of be, it's about a one in every sort of 9/10 that actually makes it to a full-grown and territorial adult which is not very many at all! And obviously that number could jump up and down depending on the seasons and those kinds of things!

But it can go as many as three out of every ten, but generally, it's one out of every ten cubs that actually makes it to adulthood and becomes a territorial individual, whether it be a male or a female! So, you know, success rates are not very high! And that's because in this particular area, there is a very high density of other predators: a lion, hyena, high density of male leopard, which is probably the number one cause; well, not probably; it is the number one cause of fatalities within leopard cubs!

You've got snakes; you've got those kinds of things that cause a lot of issues, and even birds of prey! So, you find in this area, cubs are quite tricky to raise to adulthood! And other parts where there are probably fewer of those areas where there's no lions or no hyenas, then they'll have a much easier time of it! But generally in those places, their biggest problem then becomes loss of habitat and human interference where their cubs will then get killed!

So, you know, it just depends on the area! Concerning this particular section, between one and three cubs out of every ten generally survive! And how often they will breed intake is always dictated by whether or not their cubs survive! If they have cubs that die before, you know, they become independent, you'll find it will take the female probably, you know, a month or two until she's actually starting to mate again and then it's a three-month gestation period before she'll give birth!

So often when they lose a set of cubs, it's normally about five, six months until they have their next set! If they have cubs that go independent, well, often they mating before that cub goes independence, and the ones that are actually forcing that cub out sometimes even when they're already pregnant! And Tonya was a prime example of that!

She had cubs and then pushed them out as they were kind of as he was getting a little bit older, and she was already pregnant! Right, so we're going to keep sitting with him, but while we do that, James and be relieved has got something very interesting! Who really astonishing exciting here, there's a side-striped jackal! There it is in the shade! Not the best picture I've ever got but it's made a friend!

A waterbuck bull! They seem to be entirely comfortable in each other's company! Of course, the jackal poses no threat to the enormous waterbuck bull! And the waterbuck bull obviously feels no threat from the jackal! But why they should have chosen to lie in such close proximity, I couldn't really tell you other than to say they found some shade and got too hot, and they thought, well, you know what; it doesn't really matter!

We don't mind each other necessarily, so well, that's fine; we'll just stay together! That is very funny, and that gorgeous! Now we don't often get to sit with these jackals because mostly they're running away from us! They're quite skittish! And so to find one that has been basically cooked by the sun is quite nice! It doesn't want to move out of its nice cool shady patch, and so it's going to put up with us for the next while!

Now, Lindy say what a great ticket! Absolutely is! The side-striped jackal! Now, I suppose for those of you that don't know jackals, jackals are much the same ecologically as coyotes! They live singly and in pairs; the side stripe often singly, the black-backed normally in pairs! They are predominantly scavengers! Although they catch a lot in the way of rodents, and they will certainly eat things as widely varied as lizards and carrion, like I said birds if they can catch them!

Especially mislings! And I think they'll probably even take the odd scorpion! And the side-striped jackal is known for eating fruit—not exclusively, but it does eat quite a lot of fruit in comparison with the black-backed! Now, I believe you saw jackal with Tristan this morning! That's very interesting! Thank you, um car for reminding me of that! Was it a side stripe or a black-backed jackal that you saw this morning with Tristan? Does anyone remember? Ah! It was black-backed!

Which, in theory, should be slightly rarer in this area! Now, when we came driving along, we saw the waterbuck—one—we saw it with a little one—and we thought, oh that's odd! It's a waterbuck cow lying with the bull! And then we stopped and realized that no actually they're not related at all! We have the wolf-like side-striped jackal! And of course, the big waterbuck bull, neither of whom seem like they want to move an inch today!

I don't blame them! Sunday afternoon and the Sun be very nice to have a little bit of a snooze in that shade myself! I feel! Don't worry, I'm not going to! I shall keep searching around the place! Well, Fiona, yes and no! I mean jackals and foxes are related in so much as they come from the same family! So they all come from the same family: the Canidae, or the dog family!

So do coyotes, so do wolves, so do African wild dogs! But I don't know how closely related they are! So what I shall do is open my book, and I'll tell you! Right, so they all come from the order Carnivora! Which is the taxon apple! The group up from the family! And then they all belong to the Canidae family! But they don't all belong to the same genus!

So the African wild dog belongs to a different genus! But the jackals: side-striped, black-backed, Ethiopian wolf, the European wolf, the gray wolf all belong to the genus Canis! And you'd probably find that they could interbreed; certainly, they could hybridize! But when you get on to the foxes that we have here: the bat-eared fox, the royal fox, the fennec fox, the Cape fox, and the pale fox, and the rumple's fox, and the red fox.

These are all African foxes! They belong, all of them but for the bat-eared fox to the genus Vulpes! The ULPES! And I suspect that the European versions belong to the same genus! The bat-eared fox has its own genus; it's called Otocyon, which is interesting! So they do not belong to the same genus as most of the other dogs! The foxes, the jackal, is much more closely related to a domestic dog, probably even an African wild dog, and certainly a wolf than it is to any of the foxes that we have!

It's a rather long-winded but relatively detailed explanation of their realization to the other canids! He's got something; he's eating something; he's got something quite nice to eat there! Oh, that looks disgusting! So yeah, you can probably hear the game drive radio going; nay, here, deeply irritating! Definitely got a nice piece of meat!

All righty, well we're going away from this dog over to some cats! The cats are not close by, yeah! Well that must be a very big party! Jackals, Nala's, and now guinea hens; that's huge! We may be having what could have been a big party here a few minutes ago!

We got the sausage— the trip ride! And you can see all those females there with the cubs with the young ones! And they were trying to bring down or they gave a shot to bringing down a buffalo! Let's have a quick look on this one, as close as I can go!

And if you look at her closely, you can see she's panting, and on the shoulder, you can see some blood spots! You see that panting? That actually shows definitely she was in a big action a few minutes ago! And the blood on the shoulder there, the front side— because her and their members of this pride of lions tried to bring down a huge buffalo!

But what is interesting is just about to choke or suffocate it and kill it! The other members of the buffalos, the big herd, mobbed and ganged up together again! As to this sausage— excuse me, on my head— and you might be going to show you now where those buffalos are at the moment!

You're going to see how big that herd was, and the one that was attacked and survived is in that herd! You want me to move for sure; but you consider from them; very good now! It is in this herd! Which I think most of them are bulls, males! There's one in the middle that has survived!

And you'll have a story to tell because shortly before he was suffocated to death, all these others that you see here came and rescued it! And got it out of the teeth of the sausage tree pride that tried! I'll be going a little bit close to them! I've got fast; I'll show you the lions, and then I'll be going close to these hardest buffalos to see if we can zero in on the one attacked!

Le Gow, that's very interesting! Or good question! The cubs of the substrate are here! And what happens when the lions illegally go to hunt, they're always stay back! Of course, very quick message is sent to the cubs by the mothers: stay put, stay still, don't move!

And then the mother moved! But after they aborted the hunt, the cubs have rejoined the mothers! Let's have a look at them, to see if now they could be playing and telling the mothers: well done! You did very well!

You didn't make it, but chances are on the next hunt you'll definitely bring a buffalo down! Oh, another play now! Elega, if you look carefully, from a distance, you can see these two cubs are being very playful! And the mother is keeping a very close watch on them! Remember your questions are always very welcome; any nice comments, please send them using hashtag #safarilive on Twitter!

And for those who have never joined us before, this particular pride of lions is called the sausage tree pride! Kalena, great comment, I mean, he's always a question of safety in numbers! And either way, as much as lions know that buffalo is a good prayer for them, they also know the dangers we face!

We have been having the migration for the last couple of months! We have been, you know, thousands and hundreds of will be surrounding this area! And zebras, all of them have gone further down south to Tanzania to Serengeti National Park! And this season, all that we have is what we call a green season!

In green seasons means the lions have to look for bigger prey to hunt: buffaloes, giraffes, islands, some big, big animals! So they know the risks they face! In Kalena, you're right, it was very nice for the buffaloes to come back! I just got there and missed by a few minutes!

And just mobs and rescued one of their own! So what I want to do is maybe go close to those buffaloes and see if we can identify this one particularly because I think he is still bleeding to me! And Archie, if you allow me, we're going to move on and see how close you can get to those bulls!

Well, I'll get close there, but from my buffaloes in the Mara Triangle, let's send you to other buffaloes in Douma in Kruger National Park! From the buffaloes in the Maasai Mara to the buffaloes here, you can see our buffaloes because of the temperature at the moment! They are very much relaxed now at the waterhole!

A lot of them are done drinking! I can see now, it's just about every fun there by the assuming pool! Now, Nico, Nico viewer, both of them are very dangerous! Hippos and buffaloes! The hippos can be very dangerous, specifically if they find you between them and the waterhole!

That is when they can be dangerous! But the buffaloes, these ones, the problem is when it's too hot, they've got to find a nice shade! And if you come, they're not seeing them! And if they see you from a long distance, you're not aware that they are there! Is when they're going to give it a problem!

So if you can check the hippopotamus, it's one of the animals that attacked quite a lot of people in the world! So, in terms of the group of mammals, the hippopotamus is the first group leading when it comes to the killing of people around the world!

But the biggest animal, the animal that's killing the most people is not the hippopotamus, no! The buffalo is! The mosquito!

Mosquito also falls under the kingdom Animalia in Sector! It is just a class Trish! That is a lovely comment! At least these buffaloes had something to drink considering the season at the moment, and they have enough water availability; buffaloes are in a very good condition!

Toby the buffaloes! They are ruminants! The ruminants are those animals that have a four-chambered stomach! Some people call it a compound stomach or a complex stomach! They've got a rumen and a room, and they've got rumen, omasum, abomasum, and reticulum!

So a rumen is a big portion whereby these animals are eating and saving the food which is then later on taken back to the mouth and be eaten again, which is a process called rumination! Also, it's called to chew the cud!

So unfortunately, buffaloes, they are part of the ruminants! Dr. Dick is a group of animals that form part of the ruminant! James, the little ones indeed look like American cars!

Also, the South African cows look similar to the baby buffaloes! So now when they've got the buffalo, the little ones like this, this is when they can be very dangerous if you go towards them on foot! So most of their feeding happens at night; during the day is just their time to relax!

So soon as the sun goes down is when they concentrate a lot on feeding! So these animals, they look very big, but they can go very, very fast! Now the reason why the buffaloes are now standing in the water is that they are already done with their drinking! Now it's about cooling the body temperature!

So if there were a lot of mud here, we are going to see quite a lot of males as well doing the mud wallowing in order to have the mud and cover their bodies to prevent sunburn! So now from the buffaloes, let's go to Tristan! Tristan is still with Hosana!

Indeed, he is very, very sleepy at the moment, and like I said, I don't think we're gonna get too much from a young boy just yet! I think he's going to, unfortunately, only have a bit of a nap for quite some time! Like I said, we're quite loving the fact that he's got his foot up, and he's got two feets up on at the moment on this fallen-over stump! And he looks very comfortable, doesn't he?

I'm sure he's doing that because he can get a bit of a breeze on his tummy! That will just help cool him down! But this is the back paw and the front paw both perfectly poised on his log, making him feel very comfortable!

I would imagine just now at one point, yeah, that leg completely stretched over that log! Come on Astrid, oh, he kind of was flexing his leg out! And he looks very, very, very kind of relaxed and as though he was reclining at a swimming pool on a Sunday afternoon! I suppose if you're a leopard, it's about the right time of day to be sleeping and taking it very easy!

And in weather like this, I'm not surprised! He's got a meal; he had a busy morning, and so it makes sense why he wants to have a bit of a nap! But I'm very tough for him that he managed to get his kill back, if it was his, and was able to get food! So Nico, Nico view of what's the breeding rates of leopards depends on the area that you're in, depends on how dense the population of other predators there is, what food availability there is!

What all of those kinds of things will dictate the amount of cubs that they have!

But generally you'll find in terms of a success rate in this particular area that we operate! You'll find that most of the time and the cubs will kind of be, it's about a one in every sort of 9/10 that actually makes it to a full-grown and territorial adult which is not very many at all! And obviously that number could jump up and down depending on the seasons and those kinds of things! But it can go as many as three out of every ten, but generally, it's one out of every ten cubs that actually makes it to adulthood and becomes a territorial individual, whether it be a male or a female!

So, you know, success rates are not very high! And that's because in this particular area, there is a very high density of other predators: a lion, hyena, high density of male leopard, which is probably the number one cause; well, not probably; it is the number one cause of fatalities within leopard cubs! You've got snakes; you've got those kinds of things that cause a lot of issues; and even birds of prey!

So, you find in this area, cubs are quite tricky to raise to adulthood, and other parts where there are probably fewer of those areas where there's no lions or no hyenas, then they'll have a much easier time of it! But generally in those places, their biggest problem then becomes loss of habitat and human interference where their cubs will then get killed!

So, you know, it just depends on the area!

Concerning this particular section, between one and three cubs out of every ten generally survive! And how often they will breed intake is always dictated by whether or not their cubs survive! If they have cubs that die before, you know