Safari Live - Day 288 | National Geographic

Fricken Safari and may include animal kills and caucuses. Viewer discretion is advised. Look at the beautiful kudus! At the moment, they are all just trying to investigate what is happening in the surrounding. What a lovely afternoon! Most of all, welcome to the beginning of the afternoon Safari. This is Sydney from Ronnie, my cozy, and I'm travelling with Sansa, who is my camera operator. This afternoon we are going to try by all means to look for some cats. This afternoon, as this morning it was very much difficult by this side of the western side of the greater Kruger National Park, Juma Game Reserve.

This is an interactive live Safari. You can follow us on Twitter, hashtag Safari Live. You can also follow us on YouTube chat stream. So these kudus, I can see that they are feeding on something there on the ground. I just want to check nicely; maybe they must be doing this behavior of eating some old bones. Now they are just feeding on some of their small trees. I can see that they are not specifically feeding on any of the bones. You can see they are right there! One of them, that is the female. The male kudus have got horns; the female kudus don’t have horns. These males have got very beautiful spiral horns. Kudu males are one of the best good-looking males in the world. These animals are so very huge! Unbelievable! Same as the huge animal, huge like this can be able to jump four meters high! Sometimes standing from jumping from a standing position.

So now let’s quickly cross over to David in the Maasai Mara, who is also about to start looking for some animals this afternoon. A very good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Mara triangle! You were just with Sydney in South Africa, but now you've come to a different country because I would first like to show you a bird. This is the lilac-breasted roller, which is my favorite! My name is David, and with me today is Abunga. A good afternoon! Welcome! And since I welcome questions/comments, feel free to talk to us on hashtag Safari Live. Just like Sydney, I'm also planning to look for lions this afternoon. I am going through the whole of this area and make sure before long we'll be having some lions with us. That sounds good! Well, beautiful day here before afternoon! Not very hot; clouds are lying a bit low. Grace, not scary; nothing to give us any rain but hopefully we're gonna have a wonderful sermon! Be happy! Just hello to all of you too!

Well, good afternoon everybody! Hopefully, this will lead to a very exciting start to our day! It’s not very often that you’ll see me out of the vehicle so early in the drive, and there’s a very good reason for why I am out here. But before we get into it, my name is Justin, and on camera, I've got David this afternoon. It is a good welcome to Juma because here in the sand is something that we see very, very little of, and it’s right in the center part of Juma. We’re on the western side of Quarantine at the moment, and at the backyard you'll notice that there's a sort of low shape that's happened, and there's one, two, three, four toes with claws on the front. So for those of you that are a little bit kind of knowledgeable about your tracks, this is for a cheetah!

So there is a cheetah somewhere on Juma that has come through. It looks sort of like it did at the end of the rain last night and has walked around here during the course of the day. It’s very, very badly obscured, and a lot of vehicles have driven over it, but for sure, it’s a cheetah track. This is incredibly interesting because there have not been many cheetahs seen on Juma for quite some time. It looks like it’s a female track; it doesn’t look like a very young male, but like I say, the disturbance there is huge from the rain.

So it’s going to be interesting to check if this cheetah is still around. It might have gone all the way through and crossed again. I certainly have a really good scour of this area and see if maybe, just maybe, we get lucky with the cheetah somewhere on Juma. Wouldn’t that be a spectacular way to have a Sunday afternoon drive? I think so! So we're gonna try very hard to see where this cheetah goes. I want to probably check the sort of western side, and there are a lot more open sections and areas that are not bad for cheetah, as opposed to the more southeast.

The southeast becomes a lot more kind of liquidy in its environment. There's a lot more kind of thickets and drainage lines, whereas this western portion has a few more clearings and openings that will be conducive for cheetah to move around. The problem is, there are vehicles that have driven down this road during the course of the day today, or during the morning drive, and that's going to make it very tricky to be able to pick up where these cheetahs walked. At first, I wasn't sure if it was a cheetah when I first saw the track; I kind of umm and ah’d about it for quite a while. But one of the other guys that I spoke to, one of the landowners, said he saw the tracks actually this morning and he said to me there were definitely cheetah tracks.

He saw them in the soft sand before they drove over them. So yeah, it's good news in many respects that there is a cheetah kind of hanging around. But what I'm going to do is I'm not gonna do Quarantine just yet; I'm gonna go around and make a loop around, and then we’ll come back to Quarantine just now. I just want to check if it didn't go down towards kind of Impala Plains because Impala Plains would be a good place for a cheetah to hang out. It’s quite interesting that there is one moving around. There were tracks for one I believe before Hawk, not yesterday, but the day before, coming past the dam, then going towards sort of Torture.

So I suppose it’s possible that this cheetah is angled from there onto this side and is then kind of moved along through here. Jamie says to me, though, that she had wild dog tracks on a very similar trajectory. So there’s lots of rare and endangered things that have moved about during the course of the night last night, that’s for sure! You can see where the guys have been turning around trying to see where they can find these tracks. Anyway, we’re going to try and see what we can find. See if we get any signs of the cheetah further along in the road.

While we do that though, off to Jamie you go so she can say hello for the afternoon! If anyone can track down a cheetah, Juma, Tristan can. I have utmost faith in his cat-finding ability! A very good afternoon to all of you. My name is Jamie, and this afternoon Craig is on camera with me, also known of course as Batman, but don’t tell anyone because it’s something of a secret. So as you may or may not have heard from various people, this morning was quiet on the cat/dog/hyena front. We didn’t manage to find anything, which is pretty typical for this time of year, especially after a nice big storm like that.

So now, of course, the focus becomes trying to find something for the TV show this evening. I’m going to meander along. My plan is that it was a bit frustrating. Tingana was found yesterday evening just before the rehearsal, and then he vanished into a block. The person who found him moved off, and I didn’t get there in time to switch places and follow him. Now we know where he disappeared to, but we also know that he had last night. Now, if it’s Tingana, not to call, but that sort of time evening is unusual, which makes me think.

Hope, perhaps for some optimism here, that he has a kill in that direction. So that’s where I’m heading! The soft afternoon, you know why I didn’t think of it this morning although it was very, very far away. Okay, so that’s the plan! Anyway, we’re gonna hit across in that direction. While we do that, Davidson the Maasai Mara, which of course comes with its own challenges that Dave can best. Well, good luck for King Tingana. Tingana being the duke of Juma, it’s always such a big prize!

And I've always thought seeing Tingana alone is worth seeing maybe two other leopards, you know, just virtually because of his size. Above all, he’s huge! I’ve seen many leopards in Africa, but Tingana maybe Jamie made a grave me or Tristan and Sydney. Tingana has one of the largest jowls, I think we know of all the leopards that we see around Africa. So anyway, talking of lions and no little plans today or the new year, I’m sure some of you might have watched ours here in the Mara triangle. I was unlucky to have seen two leopards! You know, it isn't like Duma. You know, getting sightings of leopards in the Mara is a bit difficult to see leopards as much as we've got them here; they're all over, but usually say they blend in very well, they hide in some places so you may not be able to see them.

But that particularly remains very special to me because, one, it was New Year’s Day, the fastest year there of 2019, and it was not only one leopard there were two! And two are a cherry on the cake! They were meeting there! Too many people in North America! The feedback we got was at the stroke of midnight that was very special! So I have been looking at my clock from the first of January another 1995 days. Hopefully, if that female conceived and you know she’s changed around, we'll be able to see her cub or her new cubs.

I mean, unlike other cats like cheetahs that may move long distances or do not have territories, leopards and lions, yes, will have children and will be very good! I mean, as she says in front of control, to have newly, you know, babies that were conceived. All the Nui are thought to be very special. Well today, I want to look for one particular pride; the pride called the sausage pride, because it’s my favorite pride in the Mara. They've got loads of lion prides, but that particular one it's my favorite! The area we are going through is a little bit farther; another watch five kilometers or so or seven is an area we should see another pride, but it's called, oh, we know.

Or we know is four girls and one male. I think originally if that pride of we know used to be the same pride with the sausages, then this place sometimes in 2016 and they went separate ways when lions or when prides get very big. They tend to split; not far from the camp where we live in, there’s another pride there that is called ole ole pride. All are currently at 16, and I got a feeling that chill of the females there have given birth and maybe we have either two more new cubs or four new cubs! That figure might soon rise to 20—I mean, unlike before, 24.

The area they live in will be too large, and chances are the mates also stress very good! So let’s all work very hard! Let's make sure we get lions this afternoon, and I’m sure our Sydney is doing the same. I am working hard now; I am somewhere around the Buffel’s Hook area. I'm trying to check if maybe I can find those lions, the ones we saw yesterday—the mating pairs. The two couples were in this area yesterday, and since the rain, they have disappeared. They haven't been spotted yet since yesterday.

So after the rain, they went—maybe they went to Buffel’s Hook. From Buffel’s it’s just about five minutes! The mating pairs; that is quite a lovely question. Mating pairs on these lions, they can stay together for about seven days and more, less than two weeks. In that seven consecutive days, they've got to be mating four times, approximately an hour! That is quite a responsibility! So that is why sometimes lions are mating; they lose quite a lot of body condition and become thin! Especially if the females went on heat before they eat something, then it becomes a challenge because the male doesn’t want to go and interact with the other males where the food is.

So they always isolate each other for mating, so they lose body condition and look very much pale! But the one female and the one Avoca were lucky because they have been mating during the feeding on the buffalo! So they ate, and after that, they went for mating, and it started there. So we are still going to see them for a while because this mating started three days ago, so they still got a long way to go. So I'm just trying to check some tracks here around the Guara pen. This is more or less the same kind of an area we left them yesterday.

So far, there are no tracks here at all! So we are going to expect a lot of babies! It means at more or less the same kind of month, we might have babies from both females because all these females started mating at the same day! So now let’s quickly cross over to a man from far, David, with the lions! Well Sydney, keep looking! Keep looking because there is... getting some tracks that will lead you to something interesting now.

There's one major difference between the Mara triangle and Juma in terms of vegetation. The Mara is open; it is vast and you can spot an animal from sometimes five kilometers! Not every animal! I’m not talking of ants or earthworms; I’m talking of big game. For example, elephants, because you do not need to get your follow. Because to spot some elephants you just need to open your eyes and open them hard! And you'll end up with some Ellies! That's one of the differences between where we are and Duma in terms of the visibility. Good afternoon, more ladies than gentlemen I would say!

Because in elephants or in herds of elephants ideally you see more girls and maybe with the young ones and very few if any males unless there’s a bit of a meeting going on. So in herds like these, you may think all of these are girls and some youngsters; and of course, the youngsters could be either both boys or girls. One massive female that I’m guessing that is a female; she is huge by any standard! I mean, look at her!

Jenny, could we ever do bush walking tomorrow? Yes, it’s doable! But I think it has never been tried, and I think the management thinks it's a bit dangerous, but maybe one day they might do it. But we do not do any bush walks here and what I think, Jenny, I was just talking a few minutes ago that there’s a huge difference in terms of vegetation or the habitat between where we are and Juma, in the sense that here you see animals from a long, long way!

So should you see elephants out guess, it could be a bit tricky, and elephants can easily come and find you. You know why you aren’t right? Just trying to guess! But Jenny, we have not done any bush walks here, and maybe one day when you ask the authorities, they’re like “Well, they have their own reasons but it’s also possible with proper planning and with proper training because guys are trained!”

And they’re always just in kids. Carry a gun for protocol; they know areas to go, how to read the body language of animals, how to look at tracks. So maybe one day! But as it is, now there are no bush walks that are done in the Mara. Hello there! You can see the difference in terms of habitats, as I was saying earlier, the openness or the vastness of the Mara. You can see all the way to the horizon; the only visual pollution they got now are these elephants and the trees in the background there!

But you can see all the way to the sky and you’re not at a very high elevation, I’m talking about 2,000 meters—give or take 5,000 feet above sea level! But it all looks plain or flat kind of a 180 degrees. Pretty young ones there, some cubs trying to feed on that particular bush! It definitely looks like there’s something they enjoy in that particular thicket!

Child of the universe always got to good to hear your name! Well, no one—no particular animals would see each other; the universe in the Mara that will have a particular season together with, for example, elephants! Child of the universe, they breed all around! Rhinos the same, buffaloes the same, some turkey lows have the large animals that will think of buffaloes, elephants, rhinos; they will like to be breeding or meeting or having the cubs in charge of the universe all around!

So the only other animals I would think that could have a particular period to have the young ones are the wildebeest! But of course, those ones would get the young ones in Serengeti National Park or the Western Gordon borough conservation area in Tanzania! Well, elephants are very good at entertaining us! We need to move, and we also need to take you to South Africa! To my friend Tristan! Well, indeed, and so we’re not with a cheetah, but there you will see dangling in the bowels of a tree is a carcass!

Now unfortunately that carcass is not on our side of the road; it's sitting inside Tortured at the moment and we can't go in there. But we think that carcass might be for Husana! We weren't actually even on our way to him! We’re trying to get to Chitra to try and follow up on a report that some civility is around! And we kind of came across a carcass in the tree! And so apparently the guys say to me “You’ve gone there now; that's Husana!” Might it be the one that's—I'm just trying to see if I can get a view of any leopard actually at the tree itself.

But let’s see; there’s the kind of base of the tree! David, can you see anything? I see a tail! There’s a tail there! Yes! There’s a head and a tail! So if anybody can ID our leopard from that, then good luck! Hopefully, you can and you’ll be able to pick up! And I would say Husana! There we go, he’s turned his head! So there’s Husana! Hello boy! There’s lots and lots of vultures around. So I wonder if he didn’t steal this from something!

But there is Husana; he’s unfortunately deep and tortuous, and there’s gonna be a lot of cars that want to go there! So we’re not gonna stay with him too long! But interesting that he is there! That’s definitely kind of good news; at least he’s got himself a meal, and now we know where he's been hanging out, which is down here on the sort of southwest but— I'm sorry, the eastern boundary and kind of just north of Chitra Dam.

It's pretty much where we are at the moment and explains why he’s been absent! But he’s definitely got a carcass! It’s not a very big carcass! He'll be a happy boy! The problem is that there were lots of vultures when we first got here! Now typically a carcass in a tree is not something that attracts vultures all that easily! So I wonder if he maybe didn't get this carcass from somewhere else and he's stolen it! You know, there's been a lot of wild dogs around, and those kind of things often leave bits of a carcass!

And that attracts vultures, and that's maybe why he’s found the carcass! I don’t know! But Carroll, you say everyone's been very worried about him? Yes, it’s never nice when we don’t see Husana for a few days! So it’s really nice that we saw him at least, albeit very, very far away and very brief! At least we’ve managed to kind of get some sort of visual of him.

And if he goes up into the tree, it would actually not be too bad! But you can see—look at his belly! It’s huge! So he’s been sitting on food for quite some time! He’s been eating a lot, and I don’t know if this carcass is it, and he’s just kind of been eating this one, oh man. Maybe he managed to find this carcass today and has been sitting on a different carcass through the course of the last few days! So it’s interesting! Either way, his tummy is absolutely massive!

So it’s gonna be interesting to see what happens! Now, intriguingly enough, Sabri and Cub, like I say, are some way in the Melua Nene, which from here to where Husana is, is all about I would say maybe 300 meters, 400 meters. And it’s gonna be intriguing to see if Husana actually heads that direction; it’s gonna be very, very interesting! But he’s kind of just laid down at the moment!

So we’re gonna carry on; we’re gonna leave him there! Unfortunately, there are two other cars that are coming in this direction! So maybe if a little bit later, if he’s up in the tree, we’ll come back and kind of spend some time with him! But very cool to see you, Husana! I’m very glad to see him! It’s not very nice visual Sonoran tea! Husana, you need to come back this way and then maybe we’ll get lucky!

In the meantime, Burt, let’s send you back across to Sydney, who I'm sure will be happy to hear that things are starting to change, and maybe our luck will change, and his luck will change too! Congratulations to Tristan for finding you, Husana! I ain’t seen him for quite a long time! Now, I am still around here by the Buffel’s Hook area, checking around this day. I am now checking the northern part of the dam to see if maybe we can find these lions!

And I am sometimes even stopping and killing the engine so that I can hear if there are any of their mating rituals taking place! Very much quiet at the moment! Yeah, but the lions when they are mating, they take a little bit of nap, wake up, and carry on! So maybe they are somewhere here just having a nap! I didn’t get you; if you can repeat that? That sigh that is quite a very, very important question and is one of the interesting questions! So let me explain this in full!

The ostrich cycle of the female has got nothing to do with the presence of a male! This is how it works. The female, when the air condition is right due to some of the ostrich hormones, she goes on oestrus and she can be on oestrus when the male is not there! If he is around, then he is lucky to detect oestrus at early stages! As these lions’ females are walking around is when they will meet these males and then mostly the females when they are excited, they’ll approach the males and the males will come and confirm by sniffing the genitals of the females and detect if she is ready for mating!

Sometimes they merge themselves; can also drive a female, female to go on oestrus. The following condition when the female has got the cubs after a fight with a new male or the dominant male when fighting an intruder, if the intruder with the fight we have seen a lot doing what is called infanticide—killing the babies of the previous male. When the female sees the babies dead, that gives the female a lot of stress! Female lions under stress, the oestrogen hormone gives a lot of more in order to drive the female back into oestrus so that the male can start their own generation!

So sometimes males can drive the female to go on oestrus! So but the mating pairs we saw, there’s oestrus; they all took place, and a normal condition! So now while I am still searching for the lions, let’s quickly go back to the fully belly to Husana! Well, it’s not Husana, Sydney! We’ve proven a few hundred meters! Cat sitting under the tree, so this is not civil and cub either!

You are also again not even 100 meters from where we are! So there are four leopards seemingly in a row here! Now it looks like Columbo to me! I haven’t really got a good look yet, and I haven’t been able to look with my binoculars properly! And so I would have—I wasn’t sure when we first caught you, and then I bumped into somebody that I haven't seen in many, many, many years! That was actually at Sangeeta when I was training there!

So I had a quick chat to him as we bumped into this leopard! And so I haven't actually had a chance to even ID who it is, but I think Columbo's who it looks like! Which makes me wonder if maybe that kill in the tree was not Tandy’s and Columbo’s and maybe Husana has come in and found it due to the vultures being around! But you can see there she’s sitting. She’s gonna hit kind of side and I can use my binders to have a little look at that spot. Button, here you go! You’ve gotten quite big if it is you!

It looks like you! So it’s crazy! There are just cats everywhere at this stage of the afternoon! Lots and lots of spotty bums, but all in the wrong places! So this is, in height, once again inside Tortured, which is not really ideal! I don’t see any sign of Tandy at the moment. You can see there’s a few vultures there, so I wonder if maybe there’s more of a kill somewhere in this side and maybe that’s kind of what’s going on!

But interesting to see! Michelle Vyas! Very possible! I mean, you misunderstand if Tandy killed the day before and then she kind of finished that up and came down here and killed again if Columbo ate a little bit, she ate a bird, and if Husana rocked up and ate as much as he looks like he’s eaten, then it’s very possible that that could have been—you know, it could have been what’s that now—24 hours, 36 hours?

So it’s a lot of food but there has been eaten. But you know these cats can put away quite a bit! So it’s interesting to kind of figure out exactly what happened! But the way that Columbo is sitting as close as she is to where Husana was makes me think that potentially Tandy had to kill or she’s also been attracted to the vultures. Much like, you know, predators are, they often do come and kind of get curious about vultures and they’ll come and try and investigate what’s going on and what’s happening and try and kind of see how everything’s going!

But it amazes me that we’ve got, like I say, Sibley and cub, Columbo, and Husana within a very small sort of space now! Sibley and cub is gonna be an interesting one because they're not going to be very happy about seeing Columbo! She’s gonna have to be very careful with Sibley being around! She would not want to tangle with her. Husana is not a problem because he’s bulky enough to take care of himself even with the likes of Sibley, and so it’s gonna be an interesting kind of evening that’s going to play out!

Hopefully, you know little Columbo actually hits north; it’s not good for us, and if she moves northwards. But in terms of the kind of way things go, it would be better in the long run if she went away from where Sibley is! It’s gonna be an interesting afternoon that’s for sure! I wonder if Husana will be kind of brave enough to leave his kill and wander down towards the Maloney need to come and investigate what’s going on down here and bump into all of these leopards on the side!

But from no leopards to lots! Return Monique, you say, did I cover myself in catnip? Once again, so no I didn’t! I was actually, to be honest with you, quite worried about this afternoon because we obviously have our TV show, and we had nothing this morning! And but kind of concerned as to where everybody is, but it seems as though everyone decided to have a party on the main road close to Chitwa! And so it was worthwhile kind of just coming down and seeing what’s going on this side!

The thing is that, you know, there’s obviously been kind of some interaction between Easley and Sibley! I don’t think that they can all be in the same place at once with this many vultures without anybody kind of realizing that there’s a liquid here! So I think they’ve all kind of come in for the same reason! I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s another leopard behind us!

Hello, Dundee! So there’s Tandy behind us! I think it’s Dundee behind us! Yes! There comes Columbo! That’s very, very cool! So there’s actually five leopards in the space of I don’t even—it’s not even 500 meters that these five cats! And you can see their tummies are full! So I think they were on that kill as well! But how awesome is this to have Tandy, Columbo, and Husana?

Hopefully, they’re gonna move into Chitwa because that will allow us to be able to follow them! So we’re just gonna turn around so we can actually see them! Hello Tandy! It's exciting! There’s a cool one! If they got another kill, it looks like it! They do! So they’ve got another kill here! So there’s actually three kills in the space of 500 meters by the looks of things! So you can see there’s another kill right over there which is absolutely crazy!

So we’ve got—what’s not on the kill, these two wanna kill and Sabri and cub wanna kill down in the Malloy and Nene! So three different leopard kills in 500 meters, which is pretty insane any way that you look at it! But good fast! This is good news! It means that, you know, we’ve got at least lots going on in the course of this evening! But what it also means is that maybe Sydney wants to come and head down towards Chitwa!

I’m not sure if it’s possible of tech-wise to forget these things these days! But if he wants to maybe head down towards Chitwa and he can kind of come and maybe go to one of the other leopards! I think that would be a probably a good idea given that we’re not gonna be able to cover all of these by ourselves! And I’m sure you guys want to see Sabri cub—and I don’t think the cub’s ever been seen on any of our live drives! So it would be nice if she was also kind of put on camera at some point!

But either way! Very, very cool kind of an afternoon that’s developed out of absolutely nowhere! And it’s blustery kind of conditions and I thought we can have a really kind of tough afternoon to be able to see, you know, Tandy and Columbo and Husana, and have all of these cats come out! It’s been pretty insane! So I’m very, very lucky at this stage! The only problem with a sighting like this in this particular area is that it’s going to be a complete fun fight!

Because there are going to be cars going up and down, and being on the main road, it's obviously going to be a bit tricky! There’s gonna be a lot of people moving on, and so what I hope that's gonna happen is Tandy’s actually gonna move this deep into Chitwa and that will just kind of make everything a little bit more sorte of settled as we have as many cars! But how cool is this? I’m so happy right now that we managed to find these two! I kind of driving along, going down towards where we thought Sibley was, and kind of there was a little alert, but just sitting on the side of the road and I actually didn’t even look to my right because I spotted her first! And I must have just driven straight past Tandy, which she probably did not enjoy at all!

Yeah, very cool though, but we might just reposition ourselves and just get into a bit of spots, while we do that though let’s send you back up to the Maasai Mara and David who I think is on the search for his sausages and hopefully with some luck, he'll manage to find them by the end of the evening! We left the elephants! Kept moving, heading towards the area I’m hoping to get some lions today; but of course, although as usual along the way, you meet a lot of traffic and you have found this traffic of elephants! The largest antelopes that we’ve got in Africa! Huge! And my guess is the males! It seemed like to be four boys—massive in size!

How is a little bit bigger than the females in terms of horns and body morphology and everything else? Now when we took off, my aggression will always talk of wildebeest, zebras, but also we got a small percentage of the migration that consists of this antelope Sia that I could announce. And one of it or the one you see on the back and this aboard the train either to get some ticks or mites to birds actually from its body! You’ll get most of these herbivores being happy you know inhabited by ticks or mites! And these birds that you call oxpeckers will always help them or remove them in a kind of relationship that you call symbiosis or a symbiotic relationship!

And the two types of oxpeckers are the red-billed or the yellow-billed oxpeckers! Now my guess is these are four boys here! There isn’t a single cow! Males in general begin residency regression colors! It’s a massive jubilee till the half was the one in the front, a young male, could be a little younger than the other four! Well, we will just have to move a little bit so that we make it to our destination where I'm hoping to go and get the lions! All right! Wonderful light at the moment just looking nice! Feels very, very good! And in the kind of grass you have now, I will not be surprised to spot something from a distance and comfortably I'll be able to pick whatever I see!

Excellent! Just friends of ours who are just moving—are they are very good! Hooked up to you! Very good! Very good! Let's go back to Tristan and see how it looks like! Yes! We're still sitting at these two leopards while we've been kind of off! I've been trying to chat to everybody, and there’s obviously mass confusion because everyone thought this was Sibyl and cub! And obviously, you quite clearly—it’s quite clearly it’s not! It’s Tandy and Columbo!

So everyone was a little bit—our thoughts! It would be odd for those two to be this close to these two and not be any sort of altercation! What was going on like 100 meters between those two cats given that we know Tandy and Sibyl have already fought before! Would be very odd! And this position forcibly would be strange, is never come up this far! And to drag a cub this way would have been quite interesting!

So, it's a little bit of a mystery solved. It's Tandy and Columbo and not Sibyl and cub that are kind of in this area! But it's really good news for us because, you know, you can see she’s got a substantial meal! It's gonna probably keep her here for most of the afternoon—the problem is, the hyenas will eventually come and they will, you know, basically if she doesn’t get it up into a tree, it’s gonna be a bit of a problem! The other thing is that she hasn’t chosen, you know, a nice tree! If she goes up the tree that she’s in, I don’t think we’ll even see her; there’s so much kind of vegetation around it!

And it’s a pity because there are so many nice marillas just to the back from where she is, and it would have been so nice to kind of see! But as far as we know, so boys—Cubs theoretically should have been fathered potentially by this unknown male that’s kind of been hanging around little Gauri vessels. The one that has been who sorts, I think it was Taylor was it? Or somebody got a visual of him one day! And so he’s around!

And we think it’s him or potentially maybe a male from Walla Walla! But quarantine could be an outsider! But I don’t think Tinganna—there was never a sign of him mating with her, and he didn't really go down much at all. But now you can see little Columbo! She’s trying to kind of be submissive and playful, and she’s trying to almost show off to Tandy to try and kind of let her feed on this impala! But Tandy’s having nothing; she’s eating as much as she can and is really kind of going to town!

What I wonder is maybe if this particularly impala maybe didn’t get killed and had a little baby inside, and maybe Husana has gotten the baby and Tandy and Columbo have gotten this part of it! It’s interesting because they’re just too close for them not to have known about each other! Leopards are very, very perceptive! They’ll watch birds of prey; they’ll smell things! And the way the wind is blowing, this wind is pushing straight to where Tandy and Columbo—oh, I mean where Husana has been!

So they should know about each other making here! She’s getting upset! Tandy’s hissing and growling while trying to eat at the same time! It can’t be easy to have a hooligan child like Columbo! She’s got her work cut out! We know over the past year and a bit it’s taken a lot of effort to sort out Tandy Elam and kind of keep her safe! Let’s go! So nice to see! Right now our day has infinitely gotten better with a lot of spots! But it’s also some tawny cats that have appeared and crept out of the woodwork, and Jamie’s managed to find them!

Don’t even think about it, my boy! Ah! No, no, no! I’m gonna sit very still! I will move back from him when I can! Okay, my boy! Okay, I’m gonna explain everything in a second, okay? All right! I’m gonna move back from you in a sec! Slowly! That’s it! Lie down! Here we go! Okay, okay! All right! I’m gonna move very, very slowly! Uh-huh! Very sad words! This is the skittish Voca male, presumably! Sorry I couldn’t take my eyes off him for a second there! Because there is a very good chance that he was going to come at the car!

Cool, just occur; I didn’t park on top of already when we drove in! He was a bit unhappy! But then obviously when the female walked towards us, there was nothing I could do! I couldn’t move then because that aggression while he was about to mate with her would have provoked him! So all we’re doing is we the space here! Oh! Did you get that shot of him hissing at us? Awesome! I wish I had my camera! Very cool! Very, very cool!

Okay, cool! So we’ve settled down a nice comfortable distance! The female’s going to keep doing that to us, which is, well, I mean, we’ve got cats coming out of our ears now! I mean, I know these were the lions that Sydney was looking for! We were looking for Tingana but we’ve stumbled upon them instead! If anybody says to you that the feeling of a lion’s growl doesn’t travel through their chest, then they’re lying to you! It does! And it has a kick start straight to your adrenal gland, whether or not you want to admit it!

Lots of people have been in the bush for many years and will refuse to concede that, but they're wrong! It does! Right! I apologize for the breakup! Apparently, every time we move our vehicle, it causes a few issues, which of course is par for the course! That’s okay! Well, probably the correct decision here is for me to go home and for Sydney to make his way in! Because if they move further into the straining or if they move around like that, then we will have to move with them!

So if we’re having a problem while we’re moving, I think Em’s, yeah, ah! Okay! All right! Well, we’ll figure this all out as we go along! And so Sydney, it is apparently with Tandy! Now we’re playing, we’re playing swap the lions! Round cats round! Yes! No, it’s not Sydney; Jamie! It is with me! But anyway, what you don’t often see is that, as what I was about to say is tulip! It’s feeding on a carcass at once!

And you can see why they don’t like it when it’s not like lions or lions or often feed on the carcass at the same time! Leopards are not like that; they generally get a little bit upset if somebody else is feeding on the exact same as what they are! And Columbo’s kind of pushing her luck a little bit! She’s managed to find herself a little snack there that she’s going to kind of feed off and try to get! But these two cats are absolutely full, full, full enough to making a kill two days ago!

We were talking about it just now! Would they be able to make another kill? Well, most definitely! And as you can see there, it’s a rather large kill too! Now what is Tandy doing? She’s almost dragging it along and is going to feed off it! Maybe she’s just prepping just so that it’s close enough to a tree! That if she needs to get it up, she can! I mean that’s going to be a heavy carcass for her!

The chances of her keeping this during the course of the night are gonna be quite tricky! And yes, I made a lot of aggression today! Everybody’s getting a little bit grumpy with one another! Hello, little fella! Number what are you doing? She’s such a funny cat this as well! How cool is this? This is absolutely awesome to have these two cats here together!

I’m so glad that they are around! It’s lovely to kind of be able to find them and spend time with them! The problem is we’re not gonna be able to spend much time with them here! Unfortunately, now there are many, many, many, many cars that want to come through the sighting! And so given that, we would like to have them a little bit later! We’re probably going to make some space just now! I’m gonna allow everybody else to rotate through and then we can come back a little bit more in the evening!

So Jenny, while dogs are most difficult, it’s leopards! That’s very cool to see two leopards feeding off a carcass! It’s not very often that you’ll get that at the same time! Like I say, they very seldom all tolerate one another feeding! It’s just lucky that this carcass is so stretched that they’re actually doing it! But back to the question; while dogs can be dangerous to leopards, for sure! Both can be dangerous to one another!

It depends obviously on the circumstance and numbers! So if you know an adult male that comes across a puppy or something, like a dog, it’s going to be able to kill it! But like there is 18 dogs we saw the other day would be a major threat to leopards! And your final epidural try and get up into a tree as quick as possible in order to try and get away and to try and sort of establish themselves as, you know, get away from that kind of area!

I mean a nap into a tree and stay as safe as possible! So you know it’s one of those kind of things in the way it kind of works! That they'll often try! And now we've got a tug of war between mom and daughter! Look! You silly cats! Well you can see Tandy is much stronger than Columbo! Go! I don’t know what she was thinking! That little fella thought she might be able to pull mom back! But he certainly tried for a little bit, didn’t she?

You would like your cousin, your brother, should I say, who saw a half-brother! Absolutely! Clowns! Cats! But she’s so much fun to watch! I believe in lots of you enjoyed that! Very, I did! You as well! Right, now, like I said, unfortunately, we are gonna have to make space! And there’s a lineup that is longer than the number of fingers on my digit on my hands! And so I’m going to have to give up a spot and just let other people come through!

Like I said, we’ll come back later once we went to sort of leave it until too late! We’ll come back before the end of the drive! But while we do that, let’s send you back across to David in the Masai Mara! See if he’s had any luck on his side! Hopefully he does because it seems as though the tables are turning and slowly but surely luck is starting to come my way!

How exciting to see Leopards, you know? And especially to see such a young star, Leclerc Columbo! Now, I remember a few days ago, we were having a little poll on Cubs of all sorts of cats! We think of cheetahs, leopards, and lions, and we were asking the viewers who think is most entertaining in play! I think the majority of people agreed that leopard cubs are the sweetest! And I think that is true!

And initially, we started the poll amongst ourselves! I think those between myself and Christian and Sydney! And we started lions and leopards! And three of us in unison agreed perhaps more fun! Which I think should be the case! Well, I was saying earlier, we will show two leopards meeting here at the beginning of the year! And hopefully if we’re gonna have our own Cubs in the Mara, we shall see a new, you know, Kenyan to Lambeau playing maybe by the end of March or early April! Who knows? I’m almost getting to the area I call the sausage republic!

And I have given it that particular name because the pride of lions around here defend this territory with your teeth, you know, with your claws, with your might! And they do not allow any other lions or lionesses around here. Not only do they fight other lionesses, oh, you know, they also fight other predators like hyenas! So should a hyena come here just by mistake and threat crisco this area, the sausages will always do a very quick piece of work to get them out of this area!

Well, I think Jamie got more interesting predators than myself! We’ll go back to her! And of course, they chose to mate right behind the car once again! Quite an enthusiastic mating this! And by that, I don’t mean, you know, the 30 seconds or so that the actual act takes! I just mean that the frequency with which they’re mating is quite impressive! We know that it’s early days because apparently they were on a buffalo kill two days ago!

It was only yesterday that they started mating! And they’re obviously really going into the full sort of cycle of her oestrus now! So he’s very, very possessive of her which is partly why the combination of the fact that he’s not entirely relaxed with vehicles! And the fact that, well, he’s mating, combined to make a slightly more aggressive lion!

Aggressive is the wrong word, really; that implies some sort of fault! Well, city’s coming, Syd! He’s arriving at the speed of light! Everyone, I could hear him! Oh, I can hear him coming from—my goodness, here he comes! High-speed Sydney! Speedy Sydney! He needs a name! Awesome! Here he comes! Cool! Alrighty! We’re going to guide Sydney in! He is enthusiastically making his way towards us!

Let us send you across to David while we do that to see what he has to say! Yes, or no saying, you know, the sausages also did not only fight other lions that should come to this area and especially females! But they also fight other predators like hyenas! So this is the reason or what's the reason why I call this area the control of the sausages! And there’s no any other lions we have seen come here!

The only thing or the only power at the top is to cause the coalition of West! Ideally, I'm sure you're a lion's kingdom! Then else will always decide who will be meeting with who or who will be Hoya! But ideally, the females make sure no other females come around! We have heard before the current tumors that have been made to the sausages, that I called the old Anja Pike to the youngsters! Third column or two males before them there was another coalition of males and was one dominant whether to spooky bully who joined most likely our two youngsters from this particular pride!

And they formed a coalition! Now it has been some time we haven't seen them! We do not know where they are, and I think the two boys now of the old Anja Pike are the reigning champions of this particular territory! Yesterday, we saw the sausages had brought down a buffalo! A male buffalo! Which was very good of it! I feel right Fried of the Fried capable of dreaming a steep terrain, I think to me is a very— But of course, there are two lions with me!

And one of them is called king tail! King still has bent on hotel, but as they try to find out where they could be today! We’ll take you back to Sydney in South Africa so you can see the pause that we are right now, with the mating pack just taking it over! At the moment, all the credits for this afternoon with these lions goes to Jamie! She’s the one who found them! And congratulations to her!

So you can see that the mating continues as we left them yesterday! So they are going to have a very busy week! So now you can see that the male is right there! He doesn’t want to hear anything! He doesn’t want to move away from this female! And this is normally—this is normal! Every time the male's got a female, they become so very much protective!

And sometimes they are even active and they’re even much more aggressive against also the vehicles coming to have a sighting! Oh, this is the same one we were with yesterday! Can see the smiley! I saw that! So when the female is starting to wave, wave! Details! A lot is when she’s gonna wake up and ask him to come and carry on with his responsibilities!

Can see this male looks very beautiful! But look at all those scratch marks! You can see that he has been fighting a lot! They are focused; they are not that very much old! They’re just now close to four years or about four years! But if you look at the scratch marks, you can see that he has been really fighting for dominance most of the time! So it's good that the other brother who is together with him is also having a companion!

So you can see now; you can see that it’s lions are just very, very much relaxed! As I have indicators, see the female is starting to wave the tail! They can see the tussle of the tail! Magic juggle with that! This is a sleeve indeed! You can see that these clowns, they look very tired! But at least we know the reason why they are so very much tired!

But apart from this kind of responsibility, it’s normal! This kind of big cats during the day prefers to sleep! But now the weather is changing! I can see that it is becoming overcast! And when it’s overcast the temperature, when it is low, the lions, they do start walking around! But at the moment, there’s no need for this to walk around!

Because they are mating! But those who are not part of any mating activities, that’s the ones who are now encouraged by this kind of weather for them to go out and do some hunting! Kathy! And it’s very much young to have this kind of scars! Why am I saying this? Because if these kind of lions are just now about—focus! Just now above four years old?

When this kind of animals reached four years, is when they are reaching the right level of maturity! Some of them, they start to mate when they’re four, some even more than five! That is determined by the strength and competition in the area! So this kind of scars on this kind of aged animal, I think, is too much at this stage! So this is what we expect when he is much older than these! You can see that the meat's bald a little bit!

It’s moving the ears all the time! So now let’s quickly cross over to David by the Masai Mara, who’s got something very interesting! My feather friend is one of the most unique mods you’ll see in Africa! Because actually, this bird here is an eagle! And we call her the secretary bird! Because she will always spend most of her time on the ground! That's why I’m saying she is unique! And I’m sure we all know eagles will be up in the air, patched up on trees!

And I would say, not exactly an eagle, but she is very closely related to eagles! And this is the secretary bird! Bad its into a hunter’s bird! That’s why they call it secret bird, which is friends say crops s SIN of Arabic! Secretary! You always get them on the ground while they’ll be looking for prey of all sorts you might think of! And they do a lot of cannibals! I’m talking of them getting grasshoppers, getting locusts, getting small mammals, rodents, mice!

And once, some world you also got them catching snakes! And they used a very strong feat to, you know, kill the snakes! They stamp on them! As you see them, they're working very strong feet and talents they got! And in generally going to a male and a female, not sure where the other one could be! They’re very monogamous! But they'll always tend to have the nests on top of tall trees!

Make you see they’re quite funny-looking! And especially when they walk, you know, they're nothing similar to like the vultures! You see they're up on that phone tree there! And I think the secretary bird was more appealing or more beautiful than the vultures you see on this country! They look like flowers! What do you think? They look like flowers on this tree here!

And a few different types of vultures, yeah! African of white back vultures, I guess! And there's a good hooded vultures! And naturally, we’ll always think, "I should vultures with kills!" And I was saying earlier when I was around this place yesterday, the sausages had brought themselves—had brought themselves some dinner for the naivety! And they had a huge buffalo that they had preyed on! I think the night before last!

And when I left, they had eaten almost half of it! And I guess chances are they still have most of it left! Or if finished, do not have moved very far from that particular area! And seeing these vultures here is a clear indication that the sausages are still there! Very good! So I leave his fortress and try to go to the same place I saw the sausages yesterday!

And even blacky would be able to see them! But let’s first go back to Sydney! So these vultures will always indicate that there’s something dead somewhere, and we will ascend with something that somewhere! Then the owners of that tray or that kill could be there! And chances are there’ll be some sort of predators! Now vultures, to me, are always associated with big predators like lions!

And I’m talking of this for those of you who are joining us now! When I talk of the sausages, it’s a particular pride of lions that sleeves in this particular area! And we call it the sausage tree pride because they’ve been found to climb particular trees here in Kenya or in the Mara triangle! We could associate trees, and they love climbing them! And to get away from the flies! If there are so many flies in the grass on the ground here or if it’s too hot and they want some shady area, they tend to climb those particular trees!

If you're lucky today and you see those trees, I will tell you why we also call them the sausage trees! Because when they bear fruit, the fruit take the shape of a sausage! A sausage that we eat at home! Earlier we had a secretary pardon! I’m sure all something different there! We got different on tops! And we got what we call a twist! Very good job, Bungay, on the horizon!

There we good harvest and how to be sad! Some antelopes that are similar to other antelopes that we call topis! Very particular, this harvest definitely happy was and fitting at that very top area! Wow! We’re going to be moving because I need to get the sausages before it gets dark! And as they do that, we’ll take you back to Tristan!

Well, you are back with me! And we are slowly bumbling down to Chitra Dam to go and see what's happening at the dam! We need to go and see if there's any sign of any of the pretend calls that often hang around here! And just kind of generally just take it easy for a while until the sort of madness settles up there! And then we can go back again to many corners of crazy up there!

So you know how I have a phobia for cars! I'll try and avoid there as much as I can when it comes to sort of that area! And so rather come and have a little look! That trip to the dam, and see what’s happening on this side of the world! It’s always a good sight to come! I haven’t been here in so long, I don't even know what it looks like really anymore!

I can’t actually remember the last time I was sort of live from Chitra dam and did any sort of segments of any sort of description! Actually, it’s been a long time! Anyway, it’s still a big puddle of water! In fact, it’s actually not as big as it should be! It’s still quite low! Actually, you can see the island hasn’t taken place! Sorry, excuse me— I pick ups a little bit there! So the Lions have—I mean there—the island hasn’t taken place!

And while I’m seeing lions, maybe it’s because I heard lions just now! And having an absolute nightmare to talk the soft! And you know, I don’t know what's going on! I’ve been struggling to speak to anyone really! So it’s been a bit tricky! Yes, the words get them out! I need to do the word exercises during the break before we start our TV shows!

But anyway, hippos are everywhere! No sign of any of the practicals that are here! So I don’t know if they’ve arrived or maybe they’re not going to come this year! Which will be quite sad! It’s one of the few places, in fact, it's the only place in the soybean sense that I had know of that you can get a regular sighting of them!

Or used to be able to get a regular sighting of them! So it’ll be a bit sad if they don’t come to this area! But nice to have the hippos; they’re busy bobbing about as they do! I'd like to kind of pop in the water and take it very easy! And especially on a day like today! I suppose it’s not exactly bad weather! The water will probably be very pleasant to be in!

It’s been fairly warm during the middle part of the day, and it’s not slowly starting to cool down a bit! There’s a bit of a breeze and clouds that are blowing in! But I suppose being a hippo in water in some months is your best friend! The Chitra dam it definitely has a lot of water to still kind of gain and fill it up! And the fact that these islands are no longer islands, they’re really big one on the right, means that it’s still very, very low!

And it means a lot more water until it’s back to its normal sort of state! And that’s obviously going to take a bit of time! But at least this process has started! It must have been very low before the kind of rains arrived recently! And when you've got an expanse of water like this, the problem with it is that it’s a lot of evaporation! You get a huge amount of wind that blows as well as Sun!

And that causes this to dry out quite quickly! So especially in very hot temperatures! Now, this is my favorite little birds that we see at Chitra are around, though! There’s that little three-banded levers! And remember Lost was last year—the year before actually? I can’t even remember now! And where we had the little tiny baby chicks and the eggs that we found!

And so these are all three abandoned clubbers—or very cool little birds! I always love watching them kind of move around and pick around for insects! No sign of any little ones with them today! But maybe their chicks are somewhere here, and we'll be able to find them at some point! Scenic! No, no fish eagles that I can see! Was scouting about! But they don’t see any fish eagles at all at this stage!

I’m looking in the jackal berry that’s off to the downside, looking in the dead trees! But no sign of where he likes—where they like to normally sit! They might be on the other side of the dam somewhere! They often do sit; there’s a tree that’s kind of in front of the last rooms that they sometimes sit right! Well, we are going to mill about Chitra! We’ll amble and see what we can find!

In the meantime, they’re back up there to David, who has been successful and has found exactly what he was looking for! Very good, Tristan! Chitra area is always a wonderful and very productive area! And I got a very hungry gentleman here! Who, at a quick look on one of his left eyes, I got he got an injured left eye!

But that is not stopping him from devouring this male buffalo that I was talking about! I was here yesterday! And I’m saying I do not have to work very hard to come and trace this wonderful setting! And for those of you who could be literally disturbed or scrimmaged by watching something like this, you may choose not to watch, and maybe do something different or switch onto another channel or switch off!

And maybe come back later! But again this is how things go here! This is the chain! This is the food chain here in Africa wilderness! Now this man belongs to the old owner pike’s! He’s the coolest of bears! I was talking about—oh! I do not know where the other one is! I just found this one feeding on this particular buffalo that was, I think, killed the night before last!

I don’t know why the gazers but definitely I was sure they’re not very fun! Look on his left eye, and I think he is injured! Even what's wrong? You got a scar there! And he looks a little bit bloody! And you can see he isn’t opening it properly! And I think, yeah! It must have either he was involved in the fight! Because it looks really infected! It looks a little bloody!

And you can see he’s got a scar! So it could be both! It’s an infection or it’s the infection that would have come from a scar! Because if you look at the very own eyelids, there’s a scar! I think even a gay! It’s bloody! So maybe it’s got a claw back there! It’s got a teeth mark there! And of course, in the process, he was wound, and then because of the flies and all that, I should definitely get an infection!

And I guess he was a proper infection! Then both eyes would be affected, but it’s going to be investigated and find out what could be happening! The good news is this cuts very resilient, and they very quickly recover from such infections! He was the infection of course if it's a wound! Definitely, it will come out of it! There’s a particular coalition of mayors in Amara Triangle that you call this coffee and that’s the main male iron in that particular coalition!

And he’s got such a huge scar on the eye! And that’s how he was named disk office! And of course males every other few months will definitely go for each other for takeovers of Preds! And when that happens, he’s always sometimes life and death! It’s not, it’s never walk over! So there’s lots of clawing, a little of teeth! And sometimes they lose the eyes! Giraffe, rape! Young yes!

I mean personally, I’m thinking, well, this could make some very nice ribs if we could do some roasting! You know? It could be very nice rib-eye if someone could roast it for us! Julie, you’re saying this is the lion? Yes! And this is Mel, and it belongs to a coalition of our tumors that we call the old owner pike! And definitely can tell if you see the other one, the male, the the main is maca and much longer than this one here!

So this one sometimes we call him blondie; and when they compare the characters of the other to this one here, he is always a little bit moody! A little bit between moody and grandpa there! And the other on his own is very cooperative! The times when he looks at him, he’s like, “What are you looking at me?” No! And I’m guessing chances are he might have found the girls eating, and he pushed them out with the characters!

And until he eats enough! And some of the lions have been known to eat up back to 20% of their body weight! You would imagine if this guy could be anything 250 kilos or 500 pounds or so! He could be eating almost 50 kilos—almost going to help pounds of meat in, you know, one sitting! I mean they eat locked! Lions, and that’s why they end up going flat to be able to adjust what we have written slowly and surely!

Also conserving their energy! Remember, I should have any questions or any comments, you may send them using hashtag Safari Live or Twitter! We get lots of joy to hear from you, boy! Did you rise? Do you want to have a change? But it’s crush! There either way! He is very handsome! I mean, comparing to the other one, I think he’s smarter and handsome than the other one!

Well, gonna be waiting! Hopefully, the brother or the other pride male will be coming around! Let’s first go back to see me! I can see that my pride, as well as one representative of the focus, are now resting! But the Avoca is very much worried! I can see that he is trying to judge something around here! So they have just been mating the past 5-10 minutes! While you away, we have just missed that action due to some technical poor signal difficulties!

So here I can see that tired at the moment! And they are just like that! Look at how beautiful that male is! That is so charming! I’m not surprised why this female is staying together with this beautiful smiley maned male! Look at that! This is so amazing! It is a gorgeous maned! You can see that! So the lions, they’ve got to mate mostly every 15 minutes! And they are going to do this for about five to six, sometimes seven days or more!

And if you can check, if they do five to six days in full after every 15 minutes, it means they can mate up to 250 times a day! So now let’s quickly cross over to Tristan with a bird! Not just with the bird! Sydney, it’s a bird that is as beautiful as your male lion! And could rival it for good looks! Especially when it sets amongst the greenery of that weeping wattle! To have that bright kind of iridescent blue ring and that red beak and white chest, makes that wooden Kingfisher looking as glorious as you could ever imagine!

You see, it’s got little pond there! It’s had a bit of a dip in order to just clean itself up and make sure that its feathers are all nice and clean and looked after! They often do this, and then people will think that they’re actually fishing, and they’re not! They basically are going there to essentially clean their feathers out! And so they’ll just drop into water, soak themselves a little bit, and may have a little bit of a bath, and then they groom themselves out and sure that they are really well after!

These guys are seriously beautiful! But we're not sitting here looking at them just now! I was thinking about a Kingfisher that I saw in the Congo! And while we were there, and it’s got to be one that’s really kind of, I suppose, rivals for me, rivals these wooden in terms of just striking it! And the reason why is is I'll show you now! I’ve just got to try and find a picture of it if I can! Hopefully, I will be able to! But they really have this seriously kind of blue appearance to them!

They are incredibly pretty birds! The vibrant, vibrant, vibrant blue! Right now I found the picture, but apparently, Sydney's still with mating pay! I wonder if they may be gonna make some—well quickly, send a move to you, and then I’ll show you the kingfisher when you come back! So you can see that we just caught them by the right time now! But listen to the rich birds! Listen, that was amazing!

You can see that the female is losing all the energy! She can’t even fight him back now like the beginning a few days ago! Whereby after the withdrawal of the male, or during the withdrawal, she was turning and scratched his head and tried to fight back! And he was also—Italia' ting back! So you can see these two that are not gonna go far as they have been here for quite a while now! They have only moved for a distance which is less than 60 meters!

And 60 meters they have already mated three times! So already they have mated three times! So which means if we can add more meters away from where they are, they are still going to do the same! I saw that! Every time the female is interested to move, the male is going along side her and tries to bite her on the ear, pushing her to go down! And after doing that, she’s lying down on the ground, and things are happening!

So yesterday, and a few days ago, the female is the one who was doing the dance! Now the female is not doing the dance anymore! The male is the one who is pushing the female in order to mate! So you can see that this Armoured screams! What a lovely question! And that question is one of those very much important questions!

Today, when having this kind of a sighting, if another male comes here, whether big or small, this male we’re seeing, Langdon here, is going to stand up and defend the female! Whether the lion is just passing by or is coming with the intentions of taking over! There's going to be a very big fight! This male lion doesn’t want any other male to come near this female!

We are going to see a very big fight which can be vicious! You can see he’s got quite a lot of scratch marks already! And I can promise you, I don’t think there’s any other male which will be able to challenge him here at this stage! From what they have witnessed, when he was challenging others! But yeah, that does not mean if another male comes here is not going to win the fight! The thing is he has been mating consecutively in a very short space!

I’m sure he doesn’t have much strength to challenge another fresh male who is coming from feeding! I can see how his sleeping is looking very much tired! And the females don’t mind mating with other males! So she can be able to mate with several males from the very same oestrus occur! If the males are competing and some are winning, some are losing, she will just consider the winners!

So now let’s quickly cross over to Jamie, and hear how she’s doing! Okay, so this is the last active den site that we know of! It’s the one just south of Philemon scut line! And there’s a track or two in the mud, and I’ve noticed while I’ve been sitting here, there are flies around the entrance to the den site itself!

I think there is a possibility that they’re still here! Something a little bit scuffed about that! Although that could have just been washed in, it’s really difficult to tell! And I’m not gonna go stick my head down the entrance-hole if there’s potential for cubs in there! It would terrify the absolute daylights out of them! So we're not going to do that! We’re not going to terrorize tiny hyena cubs! That’s a little bit unfair!

And so I think it is that we have to move on and just see what else we can find! I was hoping—I’ve just been sitting here for a minute just to wait and see whether or not there’s any sign of movement or sound from within the den! But nothing! I don’t know! I don’t know! I don’t know where they’ve gone! It’s going to be very difficult to find them! If they haven’t gone to one of their regular dens, because it’s so thick! Now that’s not the other—different!

Oh! Well, onwards we go! We’re going to go back, and we’re going to go around to where Tristan says he might have seen—or Dave might have seen, sorry! Craig, watch out! Might have seen a colored spot on a termite mound! You know, so we’re really clutching at straws here! When Tristan was racing to Husana, you never know! This routes to Treehouse Dam, and we'll see from here!

All right! While we do that, let’s send you across to the man who let us know himself! And find out if he thinks we’ll get lucky! Well, good luck Jamie! David only told me about the colored spot a while ago! And he’s not—when we were actually then, so I couldn’t look and see what it was! I hope it wasn’t that cheetah that we missed completely!

But he kind of just came past quickly where Husana's kill was! Hoping you might be in the tree! He’s not in the tree unfortunately! We can’t see where he is! So we’re just going to carry on towards Tandy and Columbo, back into that sighting! Now that we can, this little freak marks though! Always like seeing Husana’s little pug marks! You can see them in the road! Very good, very cool!

It’s got nice feet, doesn’t it? Yes! We like a young lad! He’s a very cool animal! And hopefully, he’s going to spend some time coming towards Tandy and Columbo tonight! It will be very, very nice! Just now! So we’re gonna hopefully get a view of him! We’re gonna head off like I say hopefully have them on the kind of unkillable I don’t know!

I heard something about Tandy moving, but I didn’t really kind of listen! I was too busy talking about hippos and stuff! And at that stage, missing what was happening! And so we’ll just check and see! I'm hoping that she hasn’t disappeared and that she’s still here! We’re surprised when she left! Maybe she’s going to go and see what her delinquent half-brother has been up to! And what he’s doing so close to her!

You know how she loves to have other leopards around! Tandy is always so grumpy when it comes to other deputies! Was he seeing Raleigh and Snarly? So maybe