Safari Live - Day 276 | National Geographic

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

Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to Open Skies in the Maasai Mara! You can see there's a few little puffy clouds in the distance, but otherwise still a bit of blue around, and fairly warm today. Actually, it's been quite hot during the course of the morning which probably means we're going to get a bit of rain at some point. In fact, when I look over the escarpment, there are lots of clouds that are coming this way. But my name is Justin, and on camera, I've got to Manu this afternoon. It is a very warm welcome to the show that brings you animals live in your living room.

This means that we want to actually talk to all of you because otherwise, it is very boring if we just drive around, and none of you actually talk to us. We like to hear about all the things that you have to say. So, if you have questions, just hashtag Safari Live on Twitter or @FC on the YouTube chat, and you just have to keep it relevant to what you're actually seeing on the screen.

We’ll hopefully answer as many as possible. You can see Manu is showing you where the clouds are and maybe a little bit of rain that may be starting to fall, and also where we are heading. So Manu and I are going to be heading in that direction; we're going to be going onto the other side of that forest in the hopes that we can find the Olarush pride. We had them this morning. They were looking hungry. There were buffalo nearby, there were zebras nearby, there were waterbuck, and giraffe.

So hopefully this afternoon, we might get them up and moving, particularly if a storm starts to roll in. There’s the dark cloud that I was telling you about coming over the escarpment. If that starts to come in and rain starts to fall, I wouldn't be surprised if the Olarush pride decides to start moving and hunting. But I'm not the only one out here this afternoon. There are two of my co-workers that will be with me. One of them will be down south in South Africa, and his name is Sydney, and he wants to say hello to all of you.

So you can see that there is a movement of a very big animal behind the green bushes there. That is our largest land mammal: the elephant. A very, very good afternoon and welcome to the beginning of the afternoon safari. I am Sydney, and I'm traveling with Craig, who is my professional camera operator. We are going to be with you this afternoon, and we will try by all means to get you to see a lot of interesting animals. We are easily accessible; you can follow us for your questions and comments on Twitter, hashtag Safari Live.

So it's quite a small herd. You can see we've got also the big one, and the little one is also feeding on some of the small trees there. These elephants are very lucky because it rained a lot here by the Juma Game Reserve, and the bush is bringing all the nutrients. They must be enjoying the taste at the moment.

Elephants don't worry too much about the taming levels by this kind of vegetation. A tenon is a poison the trees are secreting in order to regulate the browsing activities. Browsing has got something to do with the consumption of the leaves from the trees. I am also enjoying the vegetation when it's looking very green like this. The only challenge by this time of the year is some of the trees flowering.

Plants, when they are bringing flowers, you pick up different kinds of scents. Some of the flowers smell sweet, and some of them smell bad, but there are reasons behind those smells. Some of these are meant to attract insects, whereas some smell bad in order to chase away the animals who might come and feed on the flowers.

James, the elephants' head of them, which consists of the daughters and the little ones is led by the oldest matriarch. The matriarch is the one responsible; she is the one in charge of giving orders to the head. So the elephants without the matriarch is always a challenge, but if they lose the matriarch, another one has to take over and lead the group. Unfortunately, here, the males are not responsible at all, and they don't have any say when it comes to the decision-making.

There’s no disagreement between male and females. Vicki, the elephants are very beautiful animals. You can see that one is feeding on a plant; that plant you can recognize from far, that is the sacral bush. The sacral bush is one of the plants which has very rich protein content; it contains over 4% of the proteins. Normally, you will get the amount of proteins up to 8%. That's why these big animals rely on acacia trees as well as the sacral bushes to get quite a lot of energy to move their very big body size.

Alex, the elephants don’t really have a favorite specific food, but they do have a specific favorite fruit which is the amarula. The marula fruit, the one that makes the Amarula, is a special kind of fruit, but when it comes to vegetation, elephants are not selective. They are park feeders, and that is why these kind of animals don't lose weight even during the dry season because they don't have that diet; it consists of a variety of vegetation types, including the grass.

So I can see that this elephant is moving away, and while it's moving away, let me lead you to Tristan who is also moving around the Kenya Masai Mara.

I am indeed on the move! Like elephants. I hope I don't look like an elephant in the way that's being portrayed here. It's probably very possible at this stage of the game for us. We're kind of moving along. You'll see we’re on the edge of the forest at the moment. It's just coming on the side, and what's really nice is that we had a brief view of the Kitchall male, the dark-maned one, and he's on the other side, so everybody has gone that side to go and look at him, which means that this side is going to be nice and quiet, and nobody really should be anywhere near us.

Now, Manu, do you think you can get a bird of prey? Oh no! It's quite far, but let's have a little look-see because we're still looking out for our snake eagle, which actually I have a nice update about. One very fortunate thing about what we do here is that we get to work with a lot of very knowledgeable people. The other really nice side of it is that we get to have a whole bunch of very knowledgeable viewers that watch our show daily, and a lot of you contribute a lot. There are a lot of different names that come to mind, so you know Julie H and James Richard, and one other gentleman also that helps us a lot is Project Alpha.

Now, Project Alpha this morning we were talking about the snake eagle that I was saying is very uncommon, and he was saying he has a feeling that we’ve seen it before on Drive. It was identified at the time as a black-chested snake eagle, a young black-chested snake eagle in its second plumage. He didn’t really think much of it; it did if they resembled that, so he kind of sent me the photos and said, “What do I think?” I forwarded it on to the Raptor guys here in the Mara and asked them what their opinion was, and they reckon that he’s spot on, in fact, it is that very special snake eagle which I still can't pronounce, by the way.

I actually think we might have found the other one that's spending time here. You know, this looks just like it, so it has supposed to have a little white throat patch, which this one actually does look like. It would be a coincidence if we did find it, so Project Alpha, your flattery will take us far; thank you. Hope so! Now I'm joking. It’s just that Roger Golf always helps us with some very interesting stuff.

He often sends through some really epic articles of arts studies that are being done and some very sort of scientific and technical stuff which is really hugely valuable. And that goes to every single one of you that help us out with all the things with IDs and everything like that. I don't think a lot of you realize how appreciate it often is by a lot of the presenters. Yes, I certainly appreciate it; I don't know a lot of the others do when we speak.

See, a lot of the guys, you know, everyone kind of really appreciates being helped out from time to time as much as we try and kind of gain knowledge and assimilate knowledge on our own. It’s just having a community and having so many different resources from everybody means that we all learn that much faster. That’s what makes what we do so special. And in many respects, is that there's nowhere else where you can have this many people all together twice a day for six hours discussing wildlife-related things and actually learn about it. So it's a pretty special thing. Right now, let’s double-check this bird because this bird looks very, very much like what we are really looking for.

This is a snake eagle; you can see it's got featherless legs right now. Its back is almost impossible to tell, but there you can see the barred tail. That is very much an indicative sign of the species, and it does have the white throats. Now, Project Alpha, what do you reckon? Want to see if we can maybe get a screenshot that we can blow up if we can just get the bird to turn again and see what we think.

I have a funny feeling that it might be one of them. Apparently, there are two or three of them that come to the Mara and into the Mara triangle every year. It's a very special bird. Like I said, it occurs in West Africa, so it’s worth watching. If it just turned, it would be so much easier. Now, you can see there’s a bit of the spiderweb that's blowing in the wind. It’s quite cool.

So Project Alpha, your Saramis Saricus, is worth watching if it just turned. It would be so much easier now. You can see there's a bit of spiderwebs that are kind of coming all over the place. Now, those will just be lines that the spider throws out and uses to be able to go to the next place. So when it wants to build a web from one place to another or wants to get a long distance, they'll basically do what's called ballooning. So they'll let art suck, and then they use that to be able to get to another point or basically suck to get to another point to then anchor.

Sometimes you get very long strands that will flutter in the breeze. You can see how long that one is; it's coming all the way, looks like possibly from even past that left-hand tree. This bird, I'm not sure, I hesitate to make a call on it to be honest. I’m hoping it will turn; it looks very much like it.

Right, well, we’re just going to spend a little bit of time here to see if it will turn or fly for me and see if we can get anything diagnostic from there. While I do that, though, David wants to say good afternoon, and he's with elephants just like Sydney was.

Hello, everyone! It’s a bit tricky sometimes when you see the eagles when they're juveniles. That's always a stage when they could be a bit confusing but I'm sure Tristan is very good in batting. He is going to figure out what exactly type of a snake eagle it is. Well, my name is David, and good afternoon everyone! And with me on camera is Archie.

It’s a very warm welcome to a drive. I’m on the other side of the Mara while Tristan is on the other side. Well, it's very nice to start with elephants on such a lovely day in terms of weather. The light is just perfect, but a single drop of rain, the elephant's just walking there, and it's a small family with the young ones. Remember, our safari drive is always very interactive, so your questions and comments give us lots of happiness.

I'm sure you know how to send them, but I'm very proud to be the first one to ask the question. I was just saying on how to ask questions. I'm sure you all know on Twitter hashtag Safari Live, or you can keep following us in the YouTube chat stream.

Well, Bravin, I'll tell you the African elephants to me have slightly larger ears than their Asian elephant counterparts. If we consider what Archie is showing you, in every part or in every video gun, I would say or body part of an African elephant, it's big by any standard. Talk of the ears, the tusks, you know, the legs, the trunks, the tails, I personally think that the African elephant is bigger by maybe 10-15%. I'd be happy to hear what Tristan and Sydney would say, but ideally, I would say they're big and brave.

I'm still looking at that ear. I remember when we went to college, we used to make jokes that to tell them apart, apart from the obvious differences, as you can see, that one doesn't have a tail, and that's not going to be one of the differences between African and Asian elephants. While in college, we used to make jokes to tell them apart. Males of the Asian elephants have tusks, and the females do not have, and for African elephants, it's both sexes, male and female.

But above all, coming back to your question, Bravin, if you look at that ear there, we used to say the ear of an elephant or the African elephants looks like the shape of an African map. The ears of Asian elephants look like the Asian maps. I do not know whether that makes sense, but that's what we used to say while we went to college. And those temperatures are warming up. What these elies will keep doing is to keep flapping their ears. I'm sure we all know the cooling of the blood is done around the ears.

So that young calf there, who you will guess could be going to about a few years of age because grants if it’s young or the small tusks coming out, she just approaches the whole plant for herself. So anytime they try to bring something out of the ground using their trunks and it doesn't work out, they'll always give it a small nod or a small knock using their feet, and that one helps to bring it out.

Now they got all their ears out. I was saying earlier just to help cool off. Cynic, good question! I’m always very happy to hear your names. Enoch, what the people around here have respect for the elephants very much. Unless Enoch is in a drought, and we see the elephants getting outside the game reserve and going out and terrorizing the locals, I'm talking of the elephants going to their homes, their homes per se, going to their gardens and attacking or eating their crops.

Enoch, ideally, they have a very good relationship between elephants and locals. The biggest challenges in akhira is between the hippos and the local community, and sometimes the buffalos. We have what’s called human-wildlife conflict. But we have lots of game rangers who will always come around and educate the locals on what to do and not what to do should they spot, for example, elephants from a distance and they think they're going in the direction towards their villages or their homes.

They have what's called community audience who they report to, and the game rangers will come and push them back to the game reserve. Lovely! My plans today, I don't want to look for lions; I want to look for the black rhino! But Archie spotted a very useless bud, and I'm sure as Christian is working on his bird at one point and she'll come back to me to show you one very special bud that Archie just spotted.

By the meantime, let’s cross back to Tristan.

Well, our bird unfortunately is not helping things at all at the moment. It's really not kind of playing the game; it’s stayed exactly the way it is. But what I can tell you is that it definitely has a very yellow eye and a black beak, which is the right kind of diagnostic features for that kind of bird, but so does the black-chested. It just doesn't look right to me for a black-chested youngster. It's so tricky in this particular part of the world. The short-tailed also looks quite similar.

So I don't know; I mean, could it be? I was hoping it was going to fly off. It ruffled its feathers a little bit just now. I was hoping that I was going to see it actually take off, and then we could actually get a better sort of look at it, but it really is tricky to see a lot of definitions. It's also against the light, which is not helping at all, but you can see below it is a giraffe head.

So far, we're kind of hoping that the bird will move, and we can discuss your office a little bit. You can also see there’s a lot of heat. I was saying that it’s fairly warm in the sun today, and it’s probably the warmest day we've had in the last weekend, and that will make things probably a lot drier, which is good for us.

But the problem with heat is it often brings about a lot more sort of torrential downpours in terms of rain. So, you know, I’m hoping that we don't get rained on this afternoon. Except that I do want the autolaugers to start moving. Oh, tricky Kathy, exactly, so you'll often see bark spiders use ballooning quite regularly when they build their webs across roads. So they'll often use ballooning to do that, and that will attach the into the other one from one side of the road to the other, and that will allow them to then kind of develop that web and be able to spin it. You'll often come across it at night, and it should be a good time of year for bark spiders now that we've had a bit of rain.

The guys should start seeing them early, early in the morning. You'll often come across them, more just as the sun is set. You'll find them. It's amazing how fast bark spiders are able to spin their webs.

Alright, well, we'll leave our eagle vet. Unfortunately, it has not decided to fly. I'm going to keep an eye out where the lions are not far, so hopefully it flies towards us at some point. Maybe some of you got some screen shots, and maybe we can figure it out. I don't know; let's try and see what we can do. Unfortunately, there is no road that goes any closer, so we have it hamstrung in that regard, but it sounds like David is also doing a spot of birding, and he's found something delightful to show you.

Well, from one raptor to another after, but I'm sure at one point we are going to establish quite a bit. The teas and screenshots will make us maybe sit tonight during dinner and we're going to call parents to find out who she is. But we have one here that is illegal. That's in black and white. You do not mistake the secretary bird for any other bird. She's very unique in every shape and form how she is designed.

Her body morphology basically, she is very different from all the other birds. Well, I call her the ground eagle as much as she is now on top of a tortured tree. She's one of the most beautiful parts of that size that I would say. I don’t know what Archie thinks; it could be a favorite for him, but he goes off these highs. This is my favorite one, and they tend to spend most of their time on the ground.

But we now know more convinced than ever before that they got a nest there. Sharon, how are you today? You saying you adore the secretary bird. I agree with you a hundred percent. It could not be anything better, Sharon! Think of this bird when she walks on the ground. I'm sure you've seen how the ground there is very majestic when they walk and the feathers how they stick out behind their heads.

You said that tail feather there, it is very unique; it doesn't remind me of the peacock because when she got her wings out, she doesn't look like a peacock. But that tail when, if you know the tail feathers when they're out, they make her very, very good-looking.

Well, she's an eagle, as I said earlier, and she spends most of the time feeding on the ground. We call her the secretary bird, which I think is Arabic, a French corruption of Arabic secretary, which means hunt as bad. So many birds will eat snakes just like exactly horde twisting hard, but this one seems to be an expert in eating snakes. Not experts as snakes being the main diet, but it's how they kill them. You see them tramping snakes, you know they have a skill in how they bring down snakes. They walk very majestic in the grass, and the moment they spot one, you see them live just like that, like a servo catch step on it, using the other foot, ding-ding-ding-ding, and they kill it, and interestingly, more often than not, they'll always swallow the snakes live.

Well, there are two on that tree; let me see if we could be lucky to see the other one. As I found out whether there could be two, all the visuals will be good! We'll take you back to South Africa to Sydney, who got some very huge vamos. So the elies are now starting to come out of the clear space. You can see that they are not deep in the thick bushes anymore, but say they are still concentrating on some of the thorny trees now.

They are feeding on one of the Virginia, which is the acacia. This is the biggest I have seen so far, and not very far away. This is even a little one; this one might be the female which is nursing their little ones. If you look at the trunk when it's trying to pick up some leaves, you will see that this trunk does not have the knobs. Sometimes elephants you will see the trunk having some kind of knobs on it when it is having the knobs; it is a sign of a milk deficiency. Normally, you will see those kind of knobs by the small ones if the mother dies when having a lactating small one.

If that small one is not going to get a lot of milk, you will see the milk deficiency in the sign of the symptoms will be the knobs on the trunk. So about elephants, they are so very social in such a way that other lactating females can also nurse the little one when the mother is dead. So the little ones, they are going to be Lisa, the elephants eat quite a lot. The elephants eat approximately 400 kilograms a day, and from the 400 kilograms they eat, they're only just to go. They only just go and digest for 8%, and 48% is too little—that's why insects, my favorite insects such as dung beetles prey on elephant dung because there is quite a lot of whole nutrients available in their droppings, so their droppings looks very much green, and if you open them up, not finally digested and rich in terms of water.

So if we check there, you will see that King says that it is true, it is quite a lot. So it's a sign to us that elephants need quite a lot of vegetation to survive. So it is punishing the elephants having the elephants in the area, which is not having a lot of trees and a lot of grass for them to eat.

And they drink 150 to 200 liters a day, so it's not only about the trees. They must also have to be quite a lot of water availability so that they can be able to digest the trees nicely. Some people will tell you that an elephant has got a poor digestive system, and I don't think they've got a poor digestive system; that’s how they digest. They’ve got to defecate after every 45 minutes, so every 45 minutes, you will see the droppings coming out. So that is clear that they do digest the food and this food has to come out after a very short period.

So you can see now it's time to eat the grass! Child of the universe, fortunately, the thorns by the trees don't really affect the elephants, and the inner parts of the elephant mouth is adapted to eat this kind of thorn trees. Thorns are nothing compared to the spines. Elephants eat the sickle bush; the sickle bush is a spine tree. A spine is that modified stem which has got some of the leaves growing on it, and it's very hard; sometimes you can even punch your tires by driving over the elephant dung; that is how strong the spine is.

So it's not ideal at all to drive over the elephant dung. But apart from running away from the thorns, in spines, by this time of the year after their heavy rainy season, the dung beetles are back, and some of the dung beetles feed from underneath the elephant's dung, and as I stated earlier, they prefer the elephant dung and because of that, they stay underneath the elephant dung droppings.

So you must have to avoid driving over the elephant dung by all means; otherwise, you are going to kill the significant insects such as dung beetles, who are here in order to facilitate a lot of decomposition in the bush. So you can see that a very big animal can easily hide behind these bushes.

So now let's cross over to the Maasai Mara where David is waiting also to take over.

Well, very good sitting and talking of dung beetles. I have always noticed dung beetles prefer more buffalo poo to make their dung balls than maybe elephant dung. The elephant dung, I don't know what's silly; you might think we have gotten ourselves a small herd of buffaloes here, and they’re taking advantage of the grass. Now having all the migration or all the wildebeest gone back to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, this is the African Buffalo, its heart of males and females together.

You can see that these elephants are slowly moving much more towards our side. I can see that some of these herd members are slowly making their way in. It’s just that they are being kept busy by these trees—they're getting excited with the nutritious trees. So I'm just going to try and pull forward a little bit as the big one is now approaching a nice and very clear space, so we're going to have a good sighting from there.

Here they are, nice and close! So you can see that they are just coming from the mud bath. A child of the universe, the trees, just that a lot of people give different temps when it comes to the chemicals produced by these trees. Some will tell you, "The trees, they release a trifennel in order to regulate browsing." Some will tell you they produce something called a prompt aconitine, and some will tell you the trees produce aotene.

All these things serve the same purpose, which is a regulation of the browsing activities on this space. So you can see that now these elephants are feeding on the grass; it's not only specifically feeding on trees. So it's a confirmation effect that elephants are baraka feeders. They are not even taking the grasses completely from the ground.

Sometimes when there's a shortage of food availability, you will see them taking the whole plant and shake it in order to get rid of the sand before they take the grass toodle to the mouth. But now they are just taking the top part every time, taking the top part, which is something good. So this shows that elephants do play a significant role when it comes to the stimulation of the growth by the grasses.

So now let's cross over to the Maasai Mara where the buffaloes are also having some grasses at the moment. The difference between buffaloes and elephants when it comes to feeding, the elephants will vary and diversify. And in terms of the drought, we have always seen say the two species die because of starvation. Elephants may die last; elephants are able to diversify from the grass. They’ll go to the leaves, from the leaves, they will go to twigs, from twigs, and they’ll go to tree bark.

When a situation becomes very bad here, they’re also able to dig food for themselves on the ground, which the buffaloes will not be able to do. Now look on the horizon there, and that is the eastern side of the Mara Triangle, and what we're seeing are very thick and heavy clouds—an indication that it might be a bit too much later. But from where we are, so far so good.

As Tristan was saying earlier, we are on the onset of the short rains in Kenya, in East Africa in general, and the Mara Triangle is not exceptional. So every other day, I would say we have had about 40-60 millimeters of rainfall, that's my guess, and there are a couple of days we’ve had like a whole 36 hours of rain now. That reminds me of June and July in the middle of South Africa; we had very heavy rains.

King, that's a very good question. In Kenya outside, we have two seasons of rainfall: the short rains and the long rains. Apart from that, normally we have summer all around. The long rains end around June and July. What we have now are the short rains, but I would say there are parts in the last few years in Africa have been quite erratic; what I would call short rains might turn out to be very big rains.

I mean yesterday I was out on the drive in the afternoon, and I got stuck for minutes—not because of the rain of yesterday but just because of the mud. The kind of geology here we have water called black cotton soil, and when it rains, it becomes very sticky, so I and Kristin when we drive, we have to be very careful.

Well, I'm not going to wait for the rains to come, and I'm not sure whether this top is aware that rains are coming, what it wants us to go, or we would want Tristan to show us some lions before maybe the storms arrive. Yes, we have found exactly what we were hoping for, and look at that! She's going to walk right past us, as she came to walk within a few meters, which is my favorite thing when lions do this.

She should be walking probably, I would say within about a meter of where we are, which you can see that she is looking at them, so food is going to be high up on the list of priorities for that lioness. I wonder if now with the rain and the wind just starting that this is going to be the start of them starting to wake up and moving and trying to go.

The problem is the rest of them are all fast asleep, as you can see. That's one of the young boys that's taking a nap at the moment! Hopefully he is going to be able to wake up soon and will be able to see whether or not they are actually going to wake up properly and decide to move. But you can see it is very fast asleep. Now, he's got a slightly fuller belly there; I'm sure that stole from the buffalo that they had a few days ago. They finished that buffalo two days ago, so as far as we know, they haven't eaten since then—unless they ate something very small, which is possible.

They could have eaten something like an impala or maybe something like a warthog—a small warthog. So they haven't had a big meal though, as far as we know. Yeah, and that means that these guys, in all likelihood, given the size of the pride, will want to probably try and find some semblance of food. I’m just going to see where she’s going at the moment. So she’s on the road walking, but before we get into that, right, I had a quick sort of thing just to hold on, Manu.

Sorry, let me just try to sort this out because I've got the wrong thing on here. Now, give me two seconds. Okay, yeah, alright! So this is that eagle; what it's supposed to look like in flight! Right? So this is what the image is when I search images—that's in flight. Now we managed to get one in flight, so that's a shot that I got of this bird in flight.

To me, they look very, very, very similar and so I think it is actually a very special eagle. So that should be a lifer for many of you! Now I’ll make 100% sure and send it off just to double-check, but I think that we managed to find the bird that we were looking for, which is how cool is that.

Considering we were talking about it, doesn’t happen like that very often, and it's happened to me twice this week. Last week, I mean nearly on the week I said it would be a nice place to find the Rufus-belied Heron, and we caught a Rufus-belied Heron. And then we talked about the sneaking; we've got that too! But the lioness is walking, so enough about our snake eagle, which I'm excited about.

So it’s nice when you get to see a lifer as a guide. You don’t get to see them all the time, especially when you get to spend a lot of time in the bush. Life has become fewer and fewer and fewer and harder and harder to come by. So, Project Alpha says you’re convinced—that’s the one! Thank you!

Exclamation points! Absolute pleasure. Very, very cool that we can actually confirm and we can have that. I would like to know from some of you, particularly those that have kept extensive Maher Ellis, what number it is for you guys. I know a lot of you do keep records—so it’s nice that you do. I find it very cool that you do.

It's a special thing that you can say that you've seen this many birds on cameras in Africa, which is very cool! So I would like to know from—I apologize for the inconvenience on behalf of the team; the signals are bad at the moment by the Maasai Mara, but it will come back soon. Now, I am heading much more towards the buffalos, hoping to see if we cannot find any of the spotted cat in the area.

My specific target is Husana. I have seen what yesterday! I'm just going to check it from previously. It just went towards the torchwood, and he was doing some hunting. Maybe we might be lucky around the buffalo's hook here, Marion. So he was coming from this area yesterday afternoon, and we escorted him all the way down from the buffalos to the fire break. So I have not yet picked up the tracks of any of these spotted cats at the moment, neither the lions nor the leopards as yet.

So now let’s quickly go back to the Maasai Mara and carry on from previous. My apologies again; there’s a challenge to deal with the network this afternoon. So let's see what we are going to find here by the buffalo's hook. You can hear the woodland kingfisher giving us a warm welcome to the dam, so that was quite a lovely call from the woodland kingfisher.

Oh, more elephants are here where we are at the moment! And this elephant has got some small babies. So the elephants are moving much more towards this side. Look at that tiny little baby underneath the mom is crossing just underneath. You can see it's so small; it can be able to pass in between the legs, between the front and the hind legs. So maybe it's time now for the little one to have something to drink.

So elephants are one of those animals that can get up girl, and the elephants, they don't choose the trees, but some of the trees elephants are now. I've never seen them eating trees such as the euphorbia trees. The euphorbia trees are those kinds of species of trees which have got a very high milk production. So when the tree is secreting quite a lot of latex, the latex is that milk coming from the leaves; elephants do avoid those kinds of trees.

Apart from that, elephants don't like chilies. They don't like the pepper chilies because of what is called a capsaicin molecule—a molecule that gives a chili a hot sensation. Elephants can be able to pick it up from a distance and avoid those kinds of trees, and sometimes they even avoid those kinds of areas.

So you can see that this elephant looks wet a little bit, which is a sign that they have been to the water, or maybe the mud is from here where we have just arrived. The buffalo's parts work them; if not from here, it means it's from... Oh, look at that tiny little one! If it's not from here, it means it's from one of the water holes they have created.

Elephants, they are very good when it comes to the creation of the natural water holes. Look at that little one there! So elephants are very peaceful animals, but when the little ones are still small and when they've got injuries, when the bulls or must is, they can be very much dangerous. So that little one is very much small, but the little one at the moment is relying on the mother for feeding purposes until they get to three years when they are going to start feeding by themselves.

But from here, they remain with the other ones; we've got to leave until the sixteen years after 16 years is then that their little ones are going to become independent. So it is normally when it comes to us humans, 18 years is when we are starting to become independent.

So the elephants, they're just doing it; it’s two years before that. MW chilies is something which can... But chilies are also very much important. Where I come from in Benda, we strongly believe that eating quite a lot of chilies will fight against flu. It will also help you against the flu, so in other words, you can use chilies for medicinal purposes.

So these animals, the elephants, are one of those species that can be able to regurgitate water. If you look at the elephant here, if you look at the elephant here on the mouth path, the lower jaw—after the lower jaw, they've got a space like this. This is Ferengi approach; sporangia poor is what is used in order to collect water. And when hearing the elephants making that sound of this Ferengi approach, it amplifies the sound. That sound is not directly coming from the stomach; it’s coming from...

And Tristan is already lucky with one of the cats. He's got the lions at the moment, and let's go see them by the Maasai Mara. Indeed, I am lucky, Sydney, because we have the most epic backdrop with our pride of lions! We've managed to find a few more of them that were kind of in this area.

The female was walking, and so we thought we'd come to the side, and we can actually see a whole lot. They just popped their heads up in front of us, and even though half of them were there, in front next to that mound, as you can see, is a bunch of them that we didn't have any idea they were even around. So one, two, three, four, five, six of them are sitting over there, at least there might even be more!

That's a lot of the sub-adults. It doesn’t look like any adult females within that group, I don't think, and they're just kind of having a bit of a look. But the storm is blowing in, and you can see the lions are a lot more awake than when we first got you. Now, if you look at this storm, what is going to happen is this should sweep in kind of and come along this escarpment; it often does.

So it often comes along the escarpment here and starts to rain along here. If it does that, well then the conditions are right for lions because, one, this is going to be wind, which is going to make it very difficult for things like zebra or waterbuck or giraffe, which are all around this area—warthogs—to hear anything. The other thing is that you're going to get rain, which makes it very difficult to see, and so the lions then utilize that to their advantage; it also gets a lot darker, and so they blend in a little bit better.

That could be the perfect kind of thing for them. I'm just sad, and in some respects, is that that buffalo herd is still milling around. I'm sure it's the same herd that David has gotten. They must have gone back down towards the marsh area, and it's a bit of a shame because in these conditions, lions...

I think these lions would have had a crack at those buffalo. It would have been a really interesting kind of development and watching how they go about it, given that there's a lot of sub-adults. Yeah, I would have been intrigued to watch them try and hunt buffalo because I think it would have been a tough assignment for them, but isn't that beautiful?

The light is seriously amazing! There’s also a little bit of a rainbow that's just starting to develop now, so hopefully, what we are going to get is we're going to get the typical kind of lion in the open and the big tree, and then the storm in the background with a bit of a rainbow forming. Wouldn't that be quite a spectacular kind of image? I hope that's what happens because I think it's absolutely beautiful!

That kind of image right there, for me, is always an image of East Africa and its kind of lure that it often has had. But you can see there a little male that's kind of walking off now, but what you'll notice with him too is also in need of food again. It's amazing how fast they digest— you wouldn't expect these guys to kill two buffalo this week and still be in the shape that they're in. You would have thought they’d have nice big round tummies, but it just goes to show how quickly these guys can digest buffalo when they have fed on that.

So hopefully this afternoon, and I’m sure we won't see this afternoon will pay off—so child over the universe, it is a big pride of 16 in total without the coalition males; the ones that produced these cubs, and it’s the Olarula or N gamma pride. We used to call it the N gamma pride, that's the most of the guides see; I call it the Olaruma or Ngama pride, which is the name of the Cisco plant that's in the background.

So it provides the perfect backdrop for where they are and what you'll probably find is I have a funny feeling that these guys are not going to hunt their way into the reserve. I think they're going to head their way up the escarpment, which obviously means we're not going to follow them too far, but let's see how our heart plays out.

I'm just going to catch up with those guys there for you wonderfully. You're not right on the longest end of your lens; hopefully, the rest of them will slowly start to come through. The rainbow is developing nicely, which is great news. So we should really nice rainbow and lion—sort of storm me. Nice! Alright guys, one of you needs to sit on top of the mountain. Arthur, I can get you out of the grass; we'll be in treatment and where we going to line it up so that we can get this right.

So I don't know how long our rainbow is going to last so to try now while we've got it visible. And if you guys can actually see it, it’s very faint in the background there, so kind of going over the left-hand line. So it’s where that rainbow will roughly be; there it is! So Manu is trying to kind of get it! It’s not bright, bright, bright, but hopefully it will brighten up and strengthen a little bit.

And then don't you think it will be absolutely beautiful to have rainbow lions in the long grass and that storm just kind of going across the plains? I think it will be a wonderful kind of way to spend our afternoon! I thoroughly am looking forward to watching them go about their business, exactly that we will do.

But you can see they’re definitely a lot more alert than what we had when we finished driving this morning. It’s exactly what we thought the view they would do, so it’s kind of raced up—and now when the weather starts to turn with the heat that we had today, it was bound to happen and start to now come into their own and start to think about finding any sort of sustenance they can get.

Kathy, in Juma, you see them going for shelter very quickly. And there's a waterbuck right up on the ridge that they probably are watching at the moment. So in Juma, you'll find they'll get under the concern— they’ll just kind of curl up in their. Here in the Mara, sometimes the nearest tree is quite far away, so sometimes they just tough it out.

They just sit, and then they get pelted or they'll try and get to the nearest big tree in which case they'll kind of get under and they'll just lie there and I mean they still get weight there is really very little in the way of cover for a lot of the cats, Archer. They, unfortunately, unless they're very close to a forested section, they’re going to just get wet.

The problem with being in the forested areas is that those are very prone to flash flooding affect, and so it's actually not the great place for them to be either. So they just have to be toughened and take it. And they, were so used to it, these lions! I mean they've been getting hit by rain for most of their lives now!

You'll see the last two that we left all the way back down there where we first started, they’re on their way. So that’s the young male and the little young female. They’re kind of moving up towards us as well at the moment, which is good. So the whole pride should come together now. If you want to know where the kind of Kitchell male is, he’s pretty much directly across from where we are now.

So on just on the other side of the forest, so if you look at those guys just on the other side of the forest area, that's where the Kitchell male is at the moment. We saw a whole bunch of Kazi, and I could see him through my binoculars when we drove fast! But I wanted to come to the side just to make sure these guys hadn't gone there as well.

And now, sorry, I mean if you can just repeat the name for me, the wind is howling and I’ve got the escarpment and animals living there, but I didn’t get the name. So if you can repeat that? Deadly Spunky! That is quite the Twitter handle or handle whichever one it is on YouTube.

Here, it's a bit deadly spunky; do any other animals live on the escarpment? So primarily on the escarpment, not too many! You’ll find elands, reedbuck like it's up there quite a bit. They spend a lot of time; although they do come down during the day. See, what else do we see going up and down? Impalas up and down; a lot of baboons, they love it here!

So this is a great place for baboons. They've got both thickets where they can roost, then along the escarpment too, feed during the day. I’m pretty sure you’ll find a very small animals. I'm pretty sure there are certain mouse species that will probably exclusively live within the rocky sections on the escarpment itself. Lots of different types of birds that you see up there, so or down into these forested sections.

There we go! You see, we just have to talk, and they will listen eventually. Named Puma Duck Duck; exactly! They'll be up there, and these two live very close to our camp, funny enough, and you can see them most days if you look out for them. So they're up, and they’re not gonna say it – a few reptiles, a few different types of birds.

It’s actually a really beautiful snake that occurs up here that is called a Jameson's Mamba. We get a black mamba, and there's one called a Jameson, which is a beautiful greenish colored snake—very, very pretty, and they occur in this forested section up on the escarpment as well. So it’s a great place to actually find them!

And it's obviously very dangerous, but a very pretty snake. What else is up in these areas? They have been reports in the sort of forested sections of the escarpment of giant forest hog, but I mean, I don't know, I think that's a bit of a push— a little bit now.

Right! What is that? One, you want to get a two-shot? Sure! Let me get Manu in sacred place! Manu! I like working with Manu because one, he's really creative when we are sure; he likes to get some really epic imagery and is constantly looking for nice ways to kind of show off all the animals that we see on a regular basis and new kind of techniques and often comes up with some very, very cool concepts.

So it’s cool to work with Manu because he often likes to do things differently, and he will ask and try to point things out. This really helps to be able to get visuals like that where we can watch the incoming members moving towards the rest of the pride. Isn’t that cool?

So you can see them kind of striding towards the one up on the mound, so well done, Manu! Very good eyes—they’re good to the thinking! But I'm glad they went up the mound; they listened to us! So he said to them they need to go up and sit on top there because we want the storm in the background and we want them, and now the others approaching have just made it so much better!

Very, very cool shot that! Yeah, but a Sunday in the background as well! Absolutely amazing! How cool is this shot? It was very cool! Manu is a real artist, you’re right! Like I say, it’s very good with this kind of stuff!

Every year, I enjoy a lot of his footage that I’ve seen! I mean, obviously, I haven’t worked with him as much as I probably would like to, and I would like to one day see Manu and Archie and James all come down to South Africa and start doing some filming of leopards and various other things. But I mean, Manu definitely has a good way with the camera—an incredibly fast with it.

He’s taken a leaf out of Liam and Brian’s book! I don't know why I said Brian, but they kind of pace with movements with a camera, and it’s obviously some of the cheetahs and set Manu's for doing his very, very cool work. I mean, we are fortunate. All of our cam ups have their strengths. They’re all very good at what they do, and as much as we give them a lot of trouble, they are a professional bunch.

They generally are the first guys on the vehicles, things always done well, and they really do strive to make sure that they bring you the best images. I can promise you because we do reviews and various other things that they are as hard on each other and themselves as anybody could imagine, and so, you know, they really do try to give you guys the best that we can possibly give, given that it’s a very difficult thing that they're doing.

You must remember that most documentaries that you guys are watching, the cameraman aren’t having to worry at all about doing a live show. They’re having to just sit on the side of a car. They know generally the cause of both perfectly for filming, and they’re able to kind of get the camera as low as possible, and they sit there, and they have nobody moving the car. It’s just them normally, and they don’t have to worry about anything!

Now, our cameramen have a camera that's probably not in the most ideal place for filming of wildlife. It’s great for the way we do our safari, but obviously not in a way of filming wildlife! And on top of that, they've got these hooligan guides that move around and will shake and make these shots unsteady from time to time, and really just cause havoc!

So, you know, they have a tough time with us. And we, you know, I’m very lucky that we do have the guys that we do. So well done to all of our camera ops. So don’t think they get enough of a pat on the back at times, that’s for sure! Anyway, how cool was that? That was very, very cool!

I knew you did well. You can see the storm is now coming across, and we’re going to get hit soon! If you’re looking straight ahead of us, it's quite nice because you can actually see the sort of edge of the rain there on this sort of edge of the hill as it’s coming down.

You can see how if the hill is slowly just but surely disappearing as the rain is coming towards us. So we will probably have to drop cover shortly, but in the meantime, that sends you back down to Sydney and see how he’s getting on.

So I am now hitting much more to the Chitra area. I am driving just by the border between us and the Thai food, which is the area where Husana went to yesterday. So I’m trying to check if he’s back at the property or still by the Chitra roadside, but I have not yet picked up any convincing evidence about him going in or out.

I didn’t copy the question clearly; if you can repeat that, Emma. I’m live from the western side of the greater Kruger National Park! Now, so this show is an interactive live safari. As I’m talking now, you can talk to me. It’s happening now, so let’s hope to see Husana. That is also my hope for this afternoon, and this is the area where I have seen Husana disappearing to the touchwood and have also met a hyena yesterday coming towards the same direction!

You know, the hyenas, I am using them for orientation and navigation of the spotted cat these days! So now I’m just going to carry on and make a turn by the Chitra Chitra waterhole and see if we cannot find any of the cat or any of the interesting animals in that area.

I’ll come back later on here and listen; maybe we might hear Tigana throwing! We might be lucky and come across the fresh tracks of Husana. The weather is now getting better; it’s getting cool, which is going to obviously encourage Husana to do some hunting, as yesterday we left him hunting. Unless he already got a kill at the moment and he was so hungry yesterday afternoon, so maybe he’s already got something.

If it was something big, it would be tough for him; the Chitra would be difficult for me to see him for a couple of days. So let’s all be caught something on our side, so there’s quite a lot of impalas in the area where we are at the moment—a lot of impalas in the area!

And when there’s too many impalas like this, it gives me a lot of confidence that the spotted cats might be around! So we might be lucky as per your request and see the hyenas! I will also try and visit the den maybe during the final stage of the game drive!

We do see it as a call six here in Juma; it’s just that the sightings for those kind of beautiful cats are very much rare. But we do see them! So I just want to check some tracks here. Craig, my professional camera operator, spotted something. I just want to see what is it that he has just spotted now!

So he has just spotted some lion tracks. I just want to confirm where these tracks are heading to. Maybe we can be able to see these tracks from here. So there are some lion tracks somewhere here, and we were just going to try and go to the nearest waterhole, which is the cheetah cheetah. Maybe we might be lucky when we get there. Otherwise, I've got to come back and carry on by the Juma side!

And to conclude—the lions have very good eyesight both during the daytime and at night. Those kind of animals at night can see very well; what helps the animals which are much more active during the night to see well is the following: if you look at the lions, not only the lions but also leopards and other cats, sometimes dogs as well, you will see their good whiskers here. Those whiskers are called are very sensitive; those whiskers are not there just for decoration. They serve a very significant purpose because they are connected with the brain. They can pick up what is coming in front and measure the space in within the trees as they are walking at night.

Some birds as well, they do have those kind of whiskers; it’s just that they are not called whiskers, but they do. So we are now slowly approaching the cheetah chitra without a doubt. You can see right in the middle of the road, we have got the Egyptian goose that is very big signs that we are not far away from the waterhole.

So this is an Egyptian goose, just a few of them crossing the bushes. There they are—just about a few kilometers, a few meters away from the waterhole. Maybe it's approximately a kilo—so they are leading us to the Chitra sheet or towel at the moment where we are hoping to see something interesting this afternoon.

So it's a Gyptian goose that’s just led by all the water points. But this is not a cheetah; this Chitra without— I will show you those kind of areas where we sing. You can see they’re living in small—and what about that? Probably has been designed by the elephant. That's why that water point does not have a shape. Because elephants, when they come, they don't worry about the shape of the water point; what they do is to dig the ground, and the ground starts collecting water.

They come from what? Wallowing elephants come to the very same area where rocks, clouds, you will see them there. And suddenly, this is going to be a very big natural waterhole! So naturally, animals do try and create their own water holes; it’s just that the water holes which are dug by the animals don’t necessarily meet the requirements for predation because a predation needs quite a lot of thick bushes nearby so that they can hide when the animals come to drink.

So when it’s done naturally like this, you can see it’s much more open. Is this a termite mound here and some of the trees which can assist some of the predators to come and with that? Everybody! Sorry that we have a few gremlins; unfortunately, the way things are with storms on the side and a few issues in Juma!

But we have the most epic scene! Look at this! Isn’t that everything that you could have asked for? You’ve got a rainbow and lions at the bottom of a big tree on the right! East Africa right there spoiling us better than we could ever imagine!

Is that not sensational? I think so! I think it’s possibly one of the most kind of epic sorts of scenes I’ve seen in quite some time. So really, really beautiful, and we're fortunate that the rainbow is just kind of somehow lined up exactly where this line is on top of this mound. We’ve been spoiled in this regard, and I’m super excited that we managed to actually get it live!

Because I was a bit worried at one point, I thought, maybe just maybe we were gonna have a bit of an issue, and we weren’t going to get it right. But we’ve managed, somehow, to sort everything out, where our tech geniuses have, and we’re back with you!

Now Emma suggested a very good idea that it's probably a good time for a one-word tweet as to what you think of that image right there! I think it’s pretty spectacular! So I want to know from you guys what your one-word tweet is for that image! Yes, Emma, sometimes you have moments a billion!

So now I think you guys see that there’s a second rainbow forming as well! So it’s not just one rainbow; there are actually two that are forming which is quite something! Like I say, we are being spoiled by the fact that we have that kind of shot right there, and it's everything!

I was hoping it would be! I was really hoping we were gonna get a really epic sky and in one of them on the mound that didn’t quite expect to get a beautiful rainbow as strong as colored as that! But you know, we risk it, we gamble it, and that's what you kind of get! Silent for me; that’s absolutely beautiful!

And, you say, “Wow! Double rainbow lion cuddle puddle!” I agree! Isn’t it something? And this noise of the storm as well while it’s kind of sitting here! So far, we haven’t got wet! I’m pretty sure we’re about to get absolutely drenched! Manu and I have risked it! We’ve decided we’re gonna go for the risk, and we’re going to keep the rain covers off for now!

I’m pretty sure we’re going to probably not be very impressed with ourselves just now when we have to scramble when the rain really does come down! But it seemed like a worthwhile risk, doesn’t it? I don’t know what you guys think!

Dave, you say, “Awesomeness”! Yes! Well there's not very much else you can say about something like this is there? It is awesomeness at its very best for me at least! I think it's very, very cool! I’m thoroughly thrilled that we managed to get it for you guys!

More than anything else! Like I said, I was giving up! It’s kind of stressed because I was thinking, short with the kind of gremlins and lions on a mound and rainbows—doesn't really last all that long! And so we’re gonna cut it fine in terms of being able to show you!

But somehow, someway, we pull together and we ended up with what we wanted, which is perfect! Very, very, very fortunate to have gotten that! Now hopefully we’ll get one more that will kind of go up onto the land! You can see everyone's kind of looking around and sort of listening, and if there’s to any kind of who are roaming lions are also used to thunder and lightning.

You can see they’re not to space! I think if a crack of lightning hit right here next to us, they would probably jump and run a little bit! But you must remember, like I say, for them, this is par for the course almost daily—hearing thunderstorms like this!

So these guys get quite used to the fact that rain is part and parcel of their life! And so you'll find that they're not that fazed by it! You can see off of them still sleeping! They don’t even actually worry too much about thunder and lightning.

And we can hear a lot of thunder and lightning already coming our way! So are there some giraffe as well? Isn’t that pretty? Some giraffe that are coming from behind the lions at the moment. Roxy! They’re all my pots of gold now! Wouldn’t it be something now— we’re gonna throw this out there, because why not?

Wouldn't it be living the dream as it is, what if these giraffe walk behind the lions—rainbow giraffe lions like in a little constant teen effect? I think that would be pretty something. I think it would be really, really nice! That would be winning!

I think exactly something from The Lion King! The problem is that the rain is going to start! So what I might do is actually just turn us around so that what I can do is have the back flaps and one side down, and we could still watch what goes on!

Because the storm will come in from the left, so if I'm the way that I am, I’m gonna have a bit of troubles as you get it right! So you just give me two seconds just to turn around! Quickie! And then I can drop one side, and we’re going to have too much of an issue! So I do apologize! Right!

So while we do that and while we sort ourselves out, I'm gonna send you quickly across to Sydney and see how he’s getting on! So I am still looking for this spot of cars! Here I am now just around the Chitwa Chitwa doing and tracking my means!

But still no sign of any of these leopards in this area! So where I am is the suitable area for checking, but I am not seeing any evidence here showing that this cat has been here! I’m just trying to investigate one of the tracks here, but I saw it was a check from one of the dogs!

So the only animal I'm seeing at the moment here are the guinea fowls! Let’s see the guinea fowls are also having something to eat here at the moment! So the guinea fowls nest on the ground, but for safety, you will see them high up by the trees!

So look at what these guinea fowls are doing—that's why they're called a confusion! You can see they are just running everywhere confusing at the moment with the spots on the feathers! This helps them in order to confuse their predators! They also do get rotated; sometimes big cats such as leopards do predate on this kind of pairs!

So you can see they can run very fast! Look at that! So by this time of the year is when the guinea fowls are having the tapeworms! We can eat the guinea fowls; we just got to be very careful because by demand with letter R is when they've got quite a lot of tapeworms in the stomach!

So eating the guinea fowls by this time of the year can jeopardize you when it comes to the tapeworms! Mrs. Lefty! The guinea fowls are so pretty; you can see they are joined by a hammer cop! So the hammer cop is somewhere on the right side there, so they are both feeding together!

So the guinea fowls are some of those birds which will always give you an alarm call, and it’s very easy to distinguish their call from the rest. They don’t have the same call; they have got different kinds of calls! When they are not happy about something, they are going to be vocal and making use of a very unique call!

Frances, the guinea fowl, is good to eat because this kind of bird—the African tribes, do eat their eggs! So their eggs are not bad to eat!

So now let’s cross over to the Maasai Mara where Tristan is having one of the tallest animals! I do indeed! I've got the tallest of the tall that have moved in, and they are just watching the proceedings with the lions at the moment! They are not too stressed, though, because you can see the lions, well, they haven’t even noticed the giraffe ears! I didn't think so!

It's all just a case of them having a bit of a nap, and everybody is fairly relaxed at this stage! And I don't think, in all likelihood, these lions would hunt these giraffe just given the fact that there’s not really any young giraffe there, though it's all quite large! If there was a small baby, then yes, and I think we might see the lions get a little bit more kind of interested!

But with just the size of those two off, I think they'll watch them, but I don’t think they'll actually have a real go at them, to be honest! Isn’t it beautiful? There you can see the giraffe have seen the lions; they’re fully aware that there are lions around!

And that's why they just slowly kind of walking along—making sure that there’s no others that are close by! Every now and then gasp! It’s difficult to know how many times they hunt a week because it is variable! Some weeks they’ll hunt a lot more; some weeks a lot less! So when the migration is here, sometimes they’ll kill indiscriminately and kill six, seven, eight, nine wildebeests a night for the whole week!

Other times, like now, they might have a lean week where they get a buffalo, and that lasts them for the entire week! So it’s difficult to say! But generally, from kind of statistically speaking, every sort of three days is what we'll see from these guys in terms of actual hunting and, in terms of meal, if you have to average it all out every three days!

But sometimes more, sometimes less! For me, you know lions, animals at all hunt whenever the opportunity comes their way! So a big pride like this probably hunts more regularly than others because there's so many mouths to feed!

That even if they bring down something like a zebra, they’re still going to have to try. They will miss to get more food to be able to sustain everybody! So it just depends on kind of the individual pride and the structures that you have! Very special, though! What we are witnessing this afternoon, not from a kind of behavioral point of view, but just from a aesthetic point of view, I think is probably the best word for this up for me!

It's kind of one of those very special sightings in many respects! The light is very, very pretty! Isn’t it? Now you’ll see, look at that, isn’t that special? Very, very cool! Well, I think so! Like I said, you guys don’t have to agree with me, but that’s how I think! I think it's as good as it gets!

And well with us coming here from the same point, for me, it’s worthwhile! I’m semi-based in certain areas! Yes? Hopefully, it does appear! We’ll probably go and have to see!

Again, I would love to see the other side! Hopefully, they’ve learned if at all come out! So not bad at all to get a look at it! Nice some five minutes already, then they’ll probably hang around! So David's way back with you!

And then, just as the companions turn south! I am right at the cheetah cutline where I have not seen any sign of any of this cat here! But, I’m going to just keep going and going until I now check the buffer’s hook again to see if there are no other tracks by the cheetah cutline!

So the difference between me and David is that I am driving while it’s dry! David is driving in the rain! So let’s have an experience of both these game drives! How interesting to have two different worlds—one with rain and one very dry!

We’re sitting knees, and I'm wondering whether it is Tristan or 100 that we've achieved because it's not me who did the rain dance! And once you do the rain dance, this is exactly what happens.

I suppose that I... I’m not sure he is hearing me or he's just ignoring me, but it’s very strange! We can get rains here, but not as big! I remember way back in my village, my grandfather told me the times were very dry!

If those big drought people had plans of trying to bring the rain and what they did, they would forget one particular sheep! And that sheep had to be only one color! One color, I'm saying if it was black it wasn't even one!

Five—not one here that could be white! It was spotless black or spotless white! And they only would do your particular trees—they would go and make a ritual near those trees! And those trees would you call a fig trees!

I’m sure all of you know the fig trees. And there were particular elders; there were particular people in the village who could only do that—not every other, you know, Tom and Dick and Harry would do that!

So the particular elders and the villagers would go to them and beseech them! You know, this drought is so bad! No crops! Our aunt was dying! We’re going hundreds of miles looking for, you know, water to fetch for cooking or laundry! You need to do that ritual!

So the moment they’d get a couple of those sheep—be it five or ten; I can’t remember how many! Our hood they’d get them together! And this elders would drive these sheep towards those fig trees!

And they wouldn't let these sheep go under those trees, and they would slaughter them! And they did not touch any meats from what is or should! And all the stomach contents would be spread around those trees!

And particular prayers, you know, they would make—although a particular way they would talk either to the traditional God! I can’t remember what! And that process would take about a day or two! And as soon as they finish doing that, they’d start heading back to the village!

And what I gathered or what I remember is before even the leaves were drawn would rain! So now, we'd be too far by the time we actually go back!

By the time we'd reach back to the village, the heavens would have opened and it would rain! I’m sure I can’t remember who said; “I mean no dogs and cats! It should be raining buffaloes and elephants!”

And truly, the dynamics, the ball game would change! Lots of rain and juice and green in a very short time! And the villagers would be like, “Well done to those elders!”

No Schwa! What about today? I do not know! And the times I've always thought, “Well, can I go and try it?” Hola!

I agree with you; I think dancing is a shower could be something very special! So, I do not know; I mean, Paula would blow that! The particular elders would easily do that!

The only other thing for which I remember is that instead of going to the river or the dams to bathe ourselves, well just in the rain! You know, without clothes on, excuse my language! And rain would fall on us!

We’d use some leaves for the widow from which we could make some form, and just bet in the rain! And come back home in the village being very clean boys! You know, and our mothers would look at us like this! Shake their heads!

And the only one thing I remember my mother used to tell me, she doesn’t want to hear anybody cough! “If you cough, go back in the rain! Just spend the night out there!”

And I don’t know whether today’s children are able to do the same! And I’m thinking we were either less than 10 years old sway back! Well, you’re still soldering on! The rains haven't stopped! The app knots relenting! They still keep hammering us, and we’re gonna keep trying to chance on anything on the road!

Actually, how are you doing back there, Archie? It’s just going like this! I’m not sure what that means, but still, we're gonna keep trying in the rain! But I think that the gentleman who is driving in the very dry weather, I am right on the cheetah cut line!

Where I am not seeing any of the sign of any of this cat here! But I’m gonna just keep going and going until I now check the buffer's hook again to see if there is no other track by the cheetah cut line!

So the difference between me and David is that I am driving where it is dry! David is driving in the rain! So let's have experience of both of these game drives! How interesting to have two different worlds—one with rain, and one very dry!

We’re sitting knees, and I'm wondering whether it is Tristan or 100 achieved! Because it's not me who did the rain dance! And once you do the rain dance, this is exactly what happens!

I suppose that you—I'm not sure if he is hearing me or he's just ignoring me, but it’s very strange! We can get rains here, but not as big! I remember way back in my village, my grandfather would tell me times when it was very dry!

If those big drought people had plans of trying to bring the rain and what they did, they would forget one particular sheep! And that sheep had to be only one color!

One color, I’m saying, if it was black, it wasn't even one! Five, not one here that could be white! It was spotless black and spotless white! And they only would do your particular trees—they would go and make a ritual near those trees! And those trees you call a fig tree!

I’m sure all of you know the fig trees! And there were particular elders; there were particular people in the village who could only do that—not every other, you know, Tom and Dick and Harry would do that!

So the particular elders and the villagers would go to them and beseech them! You know, this drought is so bad! No crops! Our aunt was dying!

We’re going hundreds of miles looking for, you know, water to fetch for cooking or laundry! You need to do that ritual! So the moment they would get a couple of those sheep—be it five or ten; I can’t remember how many!

Our hood they’d get them together! And this elders would drive those sheep towards those fig trees! And they would not let these sheep go under those trees! And they would slaughter them!

And they did not touch any meats from what is or should! And all the stomach contents would be spread around those trees! And particular prayers, you know,