Safari Live - Day 325 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised. Very exciting start to this drive! Don't even worry about coming to my face. My name is Patrick, and on camera is Manu. We have lions very, very close to a buffalo right now. We are just seconds away from a hunt.

We are coming to you live from the Masai Mara here in Kenya. Any questions or comments, please use that hashtag #SafariLive. These lions are literally 10 meters (30 feet) away from the buffalo, and the buffalo you have not noticed yet! This is edge-of-your-seat stuff. The other day we had the old Oynose pride with three buffalo, but they were one down. Now there is Butternut thrown into the mix, one of the older, more experienced. Sorry, this is anyone's game today.

Very close now. This is intense stuff. Very exciting start to this drive, almost as if it was on cue. Oh, wow! Okay, so the Butternut lion is oh so close now, sitting there looking at it from literally five meters (15 feet). This is unreal! I'm ecstatic right now. I wonder which one they're going to make a move on.

Okay, so the buffalos know the snares, alright? And now we're on, we're on! Got one at the back there; we'll try and get the angle up. I'm gonna move up now. I'm gonna move up. The chase is on! This is hectic stuff; this might get a little bit bumpy.

Okay, making the attempt at the angle again. Okay, so one is on the back, one's got the back position now. Okay, keep it off again! Kicked off again! So I am trying to get this point as soon as possible; they are moving very quickly right now. Crazy!

Okay, so we’ve got another attempt at the back. Please hold on, guys; thank you for pushing through this bit. Okay, so the action has slowed down a bit, which is good; gives us a chance to catch up. The lion is still on these buffalo; I haven't made an escape yet.

Alright, so here we are, we've caught up. The buffalo is just trying to keep this one at bay. We can see the other one on the side; we'll be helping out here. So it is two buffalo versus five lions right now. So the male's coming into the back but still sitting too far away to make a move.

Alright, so both the buffalo are involved in this snare; the lions are just sitting and patiently watching. I can see four lion heads all pretty much surrounding the buffalo here. So one of the lions will try and get the angle down in the back, and then the next point will probably be the Achilles tendons that they will want to get trying to sever and stop them from being able to step forward.

Okay, so I can see all five lions now, and they are closing in on this one. I am a bit lost for words right now—this is intense. He's going to make the move, just not being able to get into the position right now. As I did say, there are only three females in this pride, but these two females have made successful buffalo kill on their own, and the two younger females of this pride and the younger male are still not old enough to be able to participate in hunting.

So they have the experience; they have the numbers. It's just a matter of whether they can piece it all together. Okay, I'm just going to move a little bit further forward now. [Music]

So if anyone did join me yesterday, you would have seen a very similar situation unfolding almost as if déjà vu. Alright, there's a road here that's even better. So we have been following the old Oynose pride for about two or three hours now since they have been reunited with Butternut, and they did try to hunt a warthog that failed. But these buffalo came right after; now it’s just gonna be a matter of wearing the buffalo down and getting into a good spot.

This could play out for a while, definitely a better chance than they did yesterday. Oh, they didn't even give the buffalo the courtesy to finish its meal. We can see its grass hanging out of its mouth but they’re still keeping moving forward.

Okay, actually, I’ll try and come around and get absolutely insane stuff here in the Maasai Mara in Kenya. We are watching along; please do use the hashtag #SafariLive on the YouTube chat stream to communicate with us. Tell us what you think is going to happen here. It is anyone's game at the moment.

Buffalo keeping the lions at bay; they are being worn down, and the lions are definitely not giving up the hunt. They are being pushed into higher ground now—the buffalo has a nice position on the top, looking down. Oh, that could have been a silly move separating it from the other buffalo and allowing the lions to get into a better spot.

The male seems just a bit timid in hunts; it does have a lot of scars from a past injury, and that may contribute to it being a little bit timid. Buffalo is showing it that it does not want any part of them, keeping them away right now.

I can only see three of the lions; the male has just jumped out the back. It’s always keeping its distance. Where have the other two gone? Wow, things are settling, but this is definitely not over.

I'm just wondering where these other two lions are. They've come around the back and they could be in a good position, but I’m not seeing any heads in the grass at the moment. So just, yeah, stay quiet for a little bit, let you listen to this buffalo and the grunts.

Very exciting stuff! So the two buffalo have regrouped now; it's likely gonna be on the run again. Do we know if the lions are going to keep up the chase? Yes, they are! Okay, so I can see the other three now. Okay, so they're not out of it.

Sorry, it’s still not over. So you have three on the left of the buffalo and two on the right—see these three here? Wow, this is déjà vu, isn’t it? If the Oynose versus the two buffalo two days in a row it has been very lucky. It has been very interesting to follow along with this pride now.

But Butternut did show up without cubs today, but they were in hunting mode; they were on the move after they were reunited. So there is potential that she could have stashed the cubs away, or the cub. I only saw her with one yesterday, after four days ago there were three.

So we can finally really hope that she has stashed at least one of them or waiting for this hunt. Wow! Looks like it is settling down a bit; I still don’t think it’s over. Buffalo doing a very good job the last couple of days.

Okay, so now we’ve got one of the lionesses walking away. Mmm, I wonder if they're trying to get a better position and whether they have given up. You say that's three failed hunts in a row. I've seen three buffalo and one warthog said they were hunting warthog earlier, but they didn't make a great attempt at it.

Amina Murray wants to know how do the lions kill a large buffalo? Well, there is something called the "kiss of death" that is very effective. If they can get their mouths over the snouts and mouths of the buffalo, they can actually stop their breathing and suffocate them that way. You'll see also a lot of biting, a lot of tearing going for those vital organs.

So once they have the buffalo on the ground, that's when they can really start to punch in and make that kill. So the male lion is moving off in the other direction. It looks like they may have given up. So we can see that scar there just on its hip from its former injury, and that's why I say I think it's a bit timid.

Okay, yeah, so we will wrap up this unscheduled broadcast, but we are going to stay with the Oynose pride to see if they do decide to make another hunt. They are looking very hungry, and anything could happen.

So if you do want to follow along with all the action, sign in on YouTube and go to Safari Live, and you can watch along and interact with us using the hashtag #SafariLive on Twitter. I hope to see you all in a few moments.

Wow! It is all happening this morning! We are going to send you back down to South Africa where the action is continuing with some wild dogs. Yes, it is all happening this morning. We’ve got wonderful wild dogs!

How exciting is that? And of course, it's not the morning; it is the afternoon. The sun is set. Safari, so glad to have you guys on board with me. I am T’Challa, and sitting on camera with me, yes, coming here from Juma in South Africa. Now you are up there with Pat in the Maasai Mara!

Lots of things happening this morning! This afternoon, I keep thinking it's the morning, but we have wonderful wild dogs. Now these are the same ones that we had, or say part of the same pack that we had this morning in this area, and this is the Ambani investing by Kawaii pack as far as we know.

Now we can only see a few individuals. I haven't seen them all, and what you are looking at right now is about three guys just lying down in the grass there. Of course, it is hot! It's blistering 33 degrees Celsius here, and so that’s, I think, about 91 degrees Fahrenheit, so it's really hot. The dogs think so too, and they've perched themselves on this nice patch of grass.

Yeah, it's really hard to see almost, but you can see that artistic coat through the cross, which I love. Gorgeous! Remember, this is a totally interactive safari. Oh, I know you've lifted up your head.

See this guy would like to, please interact with us and use the hashtag #SafariLive on Twitter, of course, the YouTube chat stream! Always wonderful to hear from you guys. I'm hoping when these dogs actually get a kill and they can eat nicely, and maybe we’d be able to see it as well. Very, very cool!

Yeah, everyone's happy to see the wild dogs again. I am absolutely happy to see the wild dogs since I've been back from leave; I haven't seen them. Hello! People are starting to get up a bit!

Look at those huge ears listening around! Like I said, it's really hot, and they have positioned themselves in a really nice place where they've got a bit of water across the road. Their child of the universe, you'd like to know if they have hunted today. Well, Rusty has them earlier this morning, and they were not successful from what I understand.

So I really hope that today, maybe once the sun goes down a little bit, it gets a little bit cooler because that's what they need. That's what all these predators need. They need it to be slightly cooler because in the day it's just way too hot to expend your energy that way; just these animals would just overheat.

So they’re waiting until it gets cooler, and then hopefully, we'll be able to see them in action; that would be something. They have moved a little bit; they went completely flat in the grass when we got you. They were under a nice quarry bush in the shade, and they moved a little bit too.

They got a little bit startled by something. There was a loud sort of elephant's scream. If we catch it again, we'll definitely point it out to you, but it does do that laughing; it’s such a disparate scream and that kind of picked their heads up, and they ran around a little bit, and then they moved to another shady spot. So I really thought they were gonna go in the hunt. No, they were just a bit startled, and then they popped right back down.

Baby Jess, you want to know if wild dogs bark like domestic dogs? No! The song that they make is a really, really strange noise. I mean, obviously, they whine like a dog, don't you hear that kind of thing? And then you hear that noise that they usually make, which is so sort of quintessential wild dog; the sound sounds like a siren going off.

So that's how they communicate. Remember, animals don't only communicate with sound; they also communicate with smell and with touch: tactile communication. So there's all that going on as well. They know exactly who's part of their group, their members.

They know where they are. They are very, very big complex mammals. Because now you see them kind of turning, and a vehicle in the east, and that just shows you how sensitive their ears can be. A vehicle near in the airstand on their engine, and there's been satellite dishes—huge satellite dishes that kind of move around to listen. You see it with caduceus as well; very cool!

So I will sit with them a little longer. There are, of course, other people that want to join our sighting, so we'll see how much longer we can stay here. In the meantime, I'd likely send you over to Deirdre, a lovely, lovely lady, and she is a freelance guide for us.

So let me introduce you to her. Afternoon everyone, my name is Deirdre, and you've joined me here in Juma Game Reserve, also still in the Kruger National Park, and we're on the hunt with cameraman Craig and Jamie, and we're on the hunt for Tangalala, the great duke of the north.

We were fortunate enough to see him this morning at the Guara Penn, which is just around the corner. So keep your eyes peeled and look for the spots. He was quite full, so he was quite lazy this morning, so we're gonna see if we can catch up with him. [Music]

As most of you know, and your regular viewers will definitely recognize, it's a new face on Safari Live. I have to admit that we both share a friend, a longtime friend, Stephan Venter Boot. He's been nagging and nagging for me to come and join an interview drive for Safari Live for years. I have been resisting, but I have to tell you, Steph, Paul, you’ve won. Here I am!

So this morning, Jamie suggested, "Let's quickly check Gouri Pen for a leopard." We drove here, and as we stopped, we almost got a chance to look for the tracks. And Single I was lying right down here on the left side of the vehicle in the grass, fast asleep.

He didn't even bother; he didn't even lift his head; he just lay there sleeping, and then what he did after that was he got up and moved a little bit further down the road and found another shady spot. So we're just gonna carry on a little bit further and see if we are able to relocate.

Now, obviously, most of you have started to see that the bushes are still pretty thick at this time of year, and because he's got such good camouflage, we're gonna just drive nice and slowly so we don't drive right past him.

Thanks, everybody, for the welcome. He's right; yeah, he's on the lift. Oopsie, I did give him a bit of a surprise. So we're just gonna let him settle. He's right next to us. I'm gonna just reverse. Let me know when you've got him. Oh, he's just hiding just behind this bush.

No, he's gonna go back; I can't even see his spots! He's trying to hide in the shade. I'm just gonna give him a second; he's just gonna come out. You might be able to see him. No, here he comes! That perfect camouflage that I was talking about.

Well, here we go! I'm just gonna reposition the vehicle so that you're able to get a bit of a view. This is pretty much how we left him this morning, sleeping. He appeared to have eaten something last night because you can see he's got a nice fat belly.

Many of the viewers think Tangalala is their favorite leopard. So a little bit of background about myself is a question from some of the regular viewers. I've been guiding for about twenty years, started my career in the Kruger National Park as a very young 18-year-old safari guide, and then moved on to the Eastern Cape.

I did three and a half years there—all in South Africa—then moved on to the Waterberg and then to the Kruger for about eight years, and then for the last two and a half years pretty much spent time traveling on Overland Safari.

So I was fortunate enough to have traveled right up through Africa from South Africa, Cape Town, all the way up to Nairobi and Uganda. He's just sleeping so nicely; they're very unlikely for him to think about doing anything active this afternoon now.

With a full belly like that, he's likely to just spend the afternoon sleeping. He's quite close to the pen, as you saw, so if he wants to drink some more water, that’s as far as he's probably going to move.

Always marveled at the size of the feet! Wow, here you’re got some action with Trishala with the wild dogs, so enjoy that! Tiana's beat—I in fact, huge, aren't they? He was such a pleasure to see this morning. You can see he's a nice big leopard.

Always nice to see him! I'm so glad that Deirdre found him so she could have something really nice for her first drive, which is cool. Anyway, I have, as you can see, left the wild dogs. There are other people that wanted to come in and watch as well.

Then we said let's come back later when they might be doing something. So we decided let's go check out the Gauri Pen. It's a nice hot day; like I said, hyena dens are a good place to maybe have a look.

Then I will make my way further down sort of to the south of the reserve. Oh, I think that's a good plan! Let's see what's happening at the hyena den. Always good value entertainment I find at the hyena den, so I’m excited!

Hope you guys are excited! Of course, you can also let me know what you want to see or what you would like to see. Of course, nothing too crazy!

That was our stop. You'd like me to find you a pangolin? Of course, you can let me know, but I don't know. I'll be able to help you just yet. So here we are. This road here is Galago, and then I go shortcut and this will take us to Penn. That's why I want to see if anything's having a drink.

It’s always nice to go to those areas, especially when it’s soft like this. We have had a bit of rain, so there are a few little puddles here and there, and when you have that, you can't really rely on the big pads because really an animal can access water in any little dip it finds.

But it has been a bit drier lately; I was there a few nights ago. So let's try our luck now. I have a request for... yes, I knew it was a request! A request for hornbills!

Strangely, this morning, when we were driving back from... we were just kind of... went out on a little drive with Jamie, Deirdre, and myself, and we were on our way back; not even half a K from camp, there were two ground hornbills right outside!

They’re always a pleasure to look at, always, even to hear them! It’s so cool! Can you see how thick the bushes got? I mean, you can even, with the ground hornbills, you could sort of just see them because they’re on the grass was the height that they were, but they have that obvious black plumage and the red, of course, underneath, so it was easy to see.

Ah! We have the murderer! The aerial murderer! That’s her ugly! We have camera killers and aerial murderers on this property! Okay, let's see! Almost there, guys! Almost there! What do you think is gonna be there?

I'm gonna say, I think I think there will be... let's be honest, I don’t think there'll be anything. But if there is something, it'll be an antelope, I would think. Let's see.

Wow, it is so thick that you can hardly even see the pen. What do you think will be there? A dove? Because I think a dove will be there. You know, you could probably be very right, Kersey! Hey, look at how tall the grass is; you can barely see that pen.

Well, always worth a look; sometimes you just have a feeling, and you just got to go with it. If you don’t try, as is with everything in life, you will never know. Who knows, there could be a hippo in there!

Just here for a little bit. Oh, that's actually a nice bush scene! We really love it! Kerry says they have beautiful flowers in the river!

Well, while I look for something special, Deirdre has got something very special for you. But of course, you know what that is! Hi! We're still with Tangalala! He's still there, sleeping!

And I keep calling him Tangalala, and I'll tell you why! I work for a very long time on a reserve where we actually had a small little female leopard, and her name was Tangalala.

So it's eight years of ingraining in me a leopard's name. And she actually got her name because the first time she became independent and left her mother, she stumbled upon some lion cubs, and she actually killed them, which we were surprised that a leopard would kill a lion cub.

And that's how she got the name Tangalala, which means little lion. So no disrespect to Tangalala, which means shy, which clearly is not. He's definitely grown into a different leopard from being shy, so comparative to other leopards I’ve seen in my career. He's actually pretty good looking for his age!

I believe he's around about 11, maybe almost 12, so he's got a lot of experience under his belt as a big territorial male, and I'm sure most of the viewers that have been watching him for a long time and have seen a lot of his accomplishments—his mating with the females, his territorial markings, his hunting skills—I saw the clip from Tristan the other day where he went right into a water burrow hoping to find a water but he was not so lucky.

So, as they get a little bit older, hunting sometimes becomes a little bit harder. Obviously, they're getting pressure from potentially other territorial males wanting to move in; maybe they're younger but stronger, so there may be a challenger on the horizon for him.

So he may also start to start stealing some of the ladies' kills even. I believe he steals from his own son sometimes. So I don't know if he necessarily stole the kill, 38, because we haven't seen any evidence of any other leopards around.

But he certainly got quite a full belly. Many of the viewers got any questions about leopards? We're in the best spot to ask me that question! Lauren, my favorite animal is in fact a leopard, and probably because the first half of my career I worked in places where leopards were very scarce and very shy, so I didn't get to see them often.

And then, towards the latter half of my career, I spent time in a new reserve that didn't really have relaxed leopards at all, so we've got to go from completely wild leopards to, over years, working with them that they eventually became very relaxed with the vehicles.

And if you’d like this, but just the sheer beauty, those spots, just everything's just perfect!

So you use the spots on the top lip to tell them apart, literally just the top row of spots will help you identify different leopards from different areas. You can also use the tackiness of the ears; sometimes that's a distinct giveaway.

But with male leopards, sometimes that becomes quite hard, especially if they've been fighting and they get some new nicks and notches in their ears; then you may confuse them. But fortunately, when they're the size of Tangalala and they own a very large territory, you're generally finding the same male in the same places and areas.

Wow! So now you're racking my brain here! I've got to go back quite far and just been asked, sir, I didn't get the name, but my favorite leopard sighting would probably have to be when a female introduced her tiny little fluffy cubs to us, and we were right next to them, and she brought them out, and the two cubs started playing.

It was just in a river line in a nice little drainage area, and those two cubs became also the stars of that particular property year over time.

Okay, now they're just flooding my head! I just keep remembering all sorts of sightings that I remember! You'd see them! One of them was stalking a scrub here, and unfortunately, the scrub here wasn't so lucky and wasn't so alert and got grabbed! While also a young female leopard—and by the time she got hold of it—and unfortunately dispatched it!

But she had to obviously pluck all the fur out, and it didn't really look like she actually enjoyed that meal for a while because all she was doing was spitting the scrub here fur out of her mouth before she actually got a bite to eat!

You can see the flies are bothering him a little bit; every now and again, his nose twitches, and he gets his paw ready to swat them away.

Look at the size of those feet! You can see very, very nicely the claws sticking out, and for them, they sort of cling on. They are retractable claws, but the leopards will obviously bring them up when they’ve stopped their prey and they jump on the prey to grab.

They'll use their claws to hold onto the prey, particularly with hard prey, like warthogs, and then it helps them hold on until they get the throat grip.

But also with them helps them climbing trees! So some of the trees here have very loose bark, and it allows them some nice grip, especially for a male leopard or a female carrying a nice heavy meal up the tree to hide it from the hyenas.

So, question for the viewers: In one tweet, which is your favorite leopard of the Safari Live shows? It's just snoozing! This is what you would call a Sunday afternoon snooze, everybody!

The only thing is not doing is snoring. Giraffe Girl is asking, why did I decide to become a guide? Well, I grew up on a farm, so I'd always had the opportunity to be outdoors with animals—granted, they were farm animals.

We had donkeys and ducks and geese and chickens—even had a pet chick, and that was one of my first pets, and then when I was in high school, I decided to do some volunteer work in the zoo, which was also working with farmyard animals, which I was familiar with.

And just the love of animals my entire life! So then working with those animals, I left that and I studied conservation, and I've been in the bush ever since! But this is like a dream career! I've just spent the last six months behind the desk being a desk jockey, and I definitely would rather be sitting on a land rover!

A kingfisher—nice woodland kingfisher just landed on the branches just above Tangalala! Did you see that?

So it seems like the unanimous decision is Husana as the favorite leopard of the show. I have to admit I'm yet to see him, but I’m clearly looking forward to it when he comes back.

So that's a woodland kingfisher—it's probably a little bit difficult with the light, but they have the most awesome call that you hear around about November in the bush! They've just migrated all the way from northern Africa, coming down here to spend the summer season.

So they're starting to think about moving back north, and what's interesting about them is that they actually land up going over an entire population of woodland kingfishers that hang around at the equator.

So the woodland kingfishers in the Mara, these ones, overlap in the natal feos, probably also just coming in to have a good look at Tangalala. He doesn’t obviously feel threatened by a leopard because he can fly off, but you do sometimes get other birds that will alarm at leopards, particularly some of the Franklin's like the crested Franklin and the spurfowl as well as even the grey go-away bird.

They often have something to say if there's a leopard actively moving around in an area. They just try to give everybody else a warning to say, "Hey, there is a predator in the area!" And as a guide, that's almost like sound you can't ignore. You have to go and have a look and see what the birds are telling you.

If you're seeing his whiskers there, he's got such nice long whiskers, and for cats, that's a very, very important thing for them—their whiskers help them from a sensory point of view.

Okay, after having a look at his whiskers, we're gonna send you across to Tristana to see what she's up to. Whiskers, what beautiful whiskers he must have indeed!

But I have something pretty to show you! You know these African hoopoe? They like to follow me around! I've seen so many since I've been back! Oh, even now there are about four on the road, and this beautiful one perched on that branch!

I think it looks so nice! Lovely long beak! Ah, Christy! Really, really cool! One of the understated birds, I think, because we see them so often that you kind of get spoiled, and then you forget how incredibly beautiful these birds are.

And then you look closely, you can see the coloration on the wing—it’s just a stunning bird! There you are, moving to the wind, swinging your branch! Isn't it? Wind through the wood! Beautiful!

Well, I am on the road heading to the den, and Shane says this is your favorite! But I'm glad to hear it! Shane, it is definitely one of my favorites! Like I've said to you guys before, it's very hard for me to choose favorites. It's one of the things I least like to do!

I choose a favorite because everything is my favorite! I know that's a bad thing, but it's true! I love everything! I just can't stop! Anyway, I am on the road to the hyena den—or almost on the road to the hyena den, so we will end up there very soon.

So let us drive on! Also, guys, please remember that the Wild Earth Expedition—the second one—will be open for bookings today, after the sunset safari! And of course, you can find out any extra information you'd like and to actually book after the sunset safari has finished!

You can go onto our website, which is wilder.tv and it folds slash expeditions, and then you can read all about it and get an idea and, of course, come and join us! We had an excellent time the last time that everyone was here! It was also really nice to meet you all and kind of get an idea of who are these people that watch us!

And kind of, you know, we have a relationship now! So it's always nice to meet you guys! So please, please book! We want it fully booked so we can meet as many of you as possible! Really nice! Sit down! Have a nice dinner! Get to chat! Really cool!

So please do that once the safari closes and go onto our website. Oh, I'm so glad it's starting to cool down! A bit! Whoo! It was hot earlier! It was really hot!

Still so amazed at how big everything has gotten! When I was off-roading through, I can't remember when it was, one of these days recently, and the grass actually came to my knee where this door is open—just on my right! The grass was touching me even though I'm in the car! It was that high!

I must say I do enjoy just leisurely cruising through the bush! You see all the wonderful things! I mean, even the dead branches look beautiful! Even the dead branches!

So many trees! Now, we also had tracks of a female leopard apparently spotted this morning around this area as well, so also keeping an eye out for that! But nothing so far! Now also had wonderful elephants around this area!

You can see this contribution; there are a few little pens along the road here! So I'll often see elephants kind of cleaning and slipping in it, which is really nice! Hey, you can have a look at the bush as we drive past!

Look! It's like you're right here! How cool is that?! Slow it down for you; you can actually see it nicely! Can pass all the big trees—beautiful! Stunning! Love what I do!

I mean, I'm almost at the den! When I come back, we will be there! Hopefully, it'll be busy! In the meantime, let me send you over to T'Challa with that beautiful spotted cat!

So T’Ghana is still a flat cat! And speaking about flat cats, I believe I’ve got to get in my little pits as well!

So I don't have any cats, but we have five dogs at home! Most people that come from Johannesburg have the odd one or two dogs and generally small dogs! But I'm going to show you the first one here, which is a very greedy lab—black lab!

Her name is Bella, and as you can see, she's pretty much wishing that that popcorn will jump out of the popcorn pot! And then, oh wait! We’ve got more! We have another four!

So they all live happily together in the household—three Belgian Malinois, one special one in the middle that kind of thinks he's a wolf! So that’s Dejan and Titan and Zeus and Duke!

Believe me! When the postman goes past, we definitely know about it! And no doubt maybe they're here meals before Alive, and you'll get an interesting clip on the safari hashtag Safari Live Pets!

So speaking of cats, I've been here for two days and had the very fortunate opportunity to spend some time out with Jamie when we were with Columbia. Unfortunately, she was in the rain, so she just finished her darker kill that Tristan had seen in the morning, and she was out of the out of the tree, and she was on the ground!

And then it started to rain! And if there is one thing that a cat hates, it's getting wet! If we look on the western horizon, there seem to be some storm clouds brewing! But the good news is the wind is blowing them away from us!

So I'm hoping that we're not going to get wet tonight on safari because today we didn’t put a roof on! What Columbia didn't decide to do was hide in the bushes!

James is asking a question: am I keen on birds? Very, very much, James! I wouldn’t call myself a twitcher that I’ll run around and spend time going to specific areas to find a specific bird, but certainly if I’m in a new area, then I will try and find as many of the new birds as possible!

Probably the one that’s on my wanted list has to be a shoebill! I'm going to Uganda; I just weren't in the right places at the right times to have actually seen a shoebill! But plenty of favorites! But the shoebill, definitely top of the list!

So that’s interesting; a lot of the birds at this time of year, because we're heading into winter now, a lot of our migrants—like that woodland kingfisher that we were looking at earlier—are on their way to move!

I didn’t catch the name in there, but the question is how large a meal can the scat eat? Well, a very good question because what you will find with very young leopards when they're inexperienced is they often start with small things!

So they'll try and catch squirrels, birds, anything that can stalk—anything small! And even, like, T’Ghana, she starts with small things! So she started with the daycare! And as she improves her hunting skills, she'll probably be better at catching Impala, and that would probably be about the biggest for a female leopard!

But one lacked T’Ghana; you'll find large, large waterbuck, and sometimes some adult kudu. They'll just eat a variety! For them, it's also what they're able to stalk up and catch!

But in this area, probably, the majority would swing towards feeding on impala! I'd love to know what he ate, because the average leopard male leopard probably weighing anywhere over 80 kilos, T’Ghana might even be a bit more than that, and he's certainly a few kilos heavier after his last meal!

So this heavy, heavy panting is twofold; it's because he's got a full belly, and he's in the heat. But good news is that the Mara, Pat, is ready to show you a thing or two in the Mara!

Wow, what an exciting start to that drive! I almost feel as if I need to redo my introduction, as I was so caught up in the action that I just kind of everything went blue! My name is Patrick, joining me on camera is Manu, and we are coming to you live from the Masai Mara here in Kenya.

If you have any questions or comments, please use the hashtag #SafariLive! Let you all let me know if you're feeling as O as I am after that—two buffalo hunts in two days! Unfortunately, both unsuccessful for the lions, but fortunately for the buffalo, and I'm sure many of you who like to see the prey get away, it was a good thing!

So yeah, it kind of leaves that bittersweet taste in your mouth where yeah, one loses and one wins. But the winners are looking very hungry, and poor Butternut is not looking well. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but there is something all over her neck!

I thought it was big flies until they weren't moving; then I thought it might have been massive ticks! But then we had a closer look, and it appears to be some big black welts all over her neck. So I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it doesn't look pleasant for the poor girl!

And even further bad news, I did catch up with her yesterday and she only had one cub with her! She was desperately, desperately trying to find the other ones! We followed her from tree to tree! She went back to that original den site where we first saw the three and just couldn't find it then!

So yeah, for poor Butternut and today as well, we didn't see her with a cub! But then again they did go out hunting, so we caught that with him, just when Butternut actually reunited with the rest of the Oynose pride!

But then after that, there were no cubs! So perhaps she has stashed them, or the hunt! We can only really hope so because otherwise, that would mean it has gone from three cubs to no cubs!

Oh, anyway! What an exciting start to this drive! And Charlotte found wild dogs! Auntie Auntie new guide! Everyone is concerned about why I'm not wearing green—well, actually I am! I am!

It is St. Patrick's Day! I did, so in all of the excitement, I forgot about that, but I don't actually have anything like proper, proper green to bring it out with me! So I do just have my khaki green jumper! And it is starting to get a little bit chilly! So I will pop it on for St. Patrick's Day! Yes, as I say, fountain governor as well.

So very cracking start to the drive! Maybe if someone has a photo editor, they can edit this a little bit of a lighter, more St. Patrick II shade of green! This is the only green attire that I had!

Well, I did have also a green floral hat as well, but it's just probably not appropriate to wear on Drive! So unfortunately this is all I have! But happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone around the world! I hope you are enjoying it!

I've, of course, Irish heritage, and so we'll probably have a little celebration later on! So it seems like Trishala is trying to continue like this morning and checking out!

I mean, this afternoon, she's checking out the fire! I definitely am trying to continue my life, and I think my luck will even continue into the evening when we have a celebration for St. Patrick's Day as well!

Well, nothing like after the drive to sit back and relax just a little bit! We really wanted to have a fire as well, but it’s just a bit warm! Hopefully, it'll get a bit chilly, and we can have a nice fire!

So I am lucky! Yes, I am very lucky! I've had the wild dogs, and now I have these beautiful guys! You know how much I love them! Absolutely love them!

So we have Koki that's at the entrance there, slumped over what she does! Miss you know when she’s not being a beast, she’s the cutest thing on earth! And of course, we have the two other cuties! You know, I think these both are prettiest because we know that Plonk has the much really dark spots, and he has two patches of white just on each side of his spine.

And he also has that kind of a C upon his thigh, and then I also think on the other side he has kind of a triangle without corners, if that makes sense.

And so these two, I’m pretty sure prettiest too, and we had a ribbon on the other side of the termite, the den. Oh, we’re dozing off! We can barely keep our eyes open! Where's your friend Plonk?

See the flinch of the ear? It's as if, oh, just like a little baby! I'm sleepy, but I'm not gonna sleep! Oh, what was that? What did I miss? Something? No, speed puppet?

Oh, now! I was asked if hyenas have territories that play hell. I couldn't quite hear what that was. And they do; each clan has their own territory and area that they will defend!

Oh, Playhouse, Playhouse! Very nice, like a theater. And yes, they do! They have territories that they will defend, especially areas where they have dens like this!

So, for example, we were discussing it this morning with Jamie about the den! We were talking about whether we see the hyenas because all the only hyenas that we've seen or that we mostly see are Juma clan.

The Juma clan, there aren't a huge number of members, but for what their apparent territory kind of encompasses, it seems like it's a lot for a small amount of hyena. But then Jamie also told us that when there was an elephant carcass, then there were other hyenas that had come in as well.

Obviously, they were fighting and other sorts of things. But it's interesting; in fact, I was just thinking about it today about the territories and exactly who else would come in and how would they come in!

So far, I have just been lucky enough to be with our little Juma clan here! Everyone's sleepy. Look at those! There, you can clearly see it! So when you see a hyena track, that's exactly what you're seeing!

And I always love to see the actual paw because it gives you a good understanding of the shape and size of that track. So you can see that the back pad only has two lobes, whereas with a leopard or lion, you see the three lobes!

And also, if you think of your own hand, when you take paint and you pop it in the paint and you pop it on a piece of paper, then you also kind of have two lobes at the bottom by your wrists!

Look at the legs' crust! Yes! You are! You are! Anyway, sitting here for longer, of course, because these guys are just in the meantime.

Let me send you up to the Masai Mara, wooden pad! Well, we were here with a front-on elephant! What appears to be a lone bull, but in a very rude turn of events, he has turned around and faced his bottom towards us!

So obviously, it must be a little bit camera shy! We just came across it grazing on the side of the road right now. I thought, well, why not balance out the exciting start with a little bit of mellowness!

Now, I did move off from the Oynose pride. We were just having a bit of a signal and comms issue there, and they had also gone quite flat after their efforts! So I probably will circle back through them and just check in later!

Because there’s one of two things that could happen; they may go back to hunt, and they also may—poor Butternut may also lead us to her cub again!

If she has stashed them! But right now, I’m held up in a bit of a roadblock; it's the best roadblock it could be! And though we can see a little bit of drivel coming out to your pending there!

Hey, showing us a little bit of attitude! Look at that! Those eyes! The other day when we had that—yeah, yesterday morning—well, yeah, it was yesterday morning! I've had so many cool—so I think lately TWiki say his love is ring whose!

Yes, the wrinkles are great around that eye! And yesterday morning when we had a very close-up encounter with those elephants, I was just staring into the eye!

And it was almost seemed like it was staring at right back at me! One was actually giving me a little bit of attitude, and I just sat there and looked at it, and I am definitely making this up!

I'm sure this wasn't actually the case, but it nodded at me and then walked off calmly. So it was almost as if it checked me out and then just gave me a nod to say, “Hey, you’re alright, mate. Keep moving!”

I think I'm just a few minuteizing the elephants. Nice, nice little sighting there. It's always good to have ellies thrown into the mix.

We know quite a lot of ground birds on this road as well. We just went past a whole heap of guinea fowl, and there was a red-necked spurfowl just down here, but it’s disappeared into the grass!

I was going to show you, but gone, gone! But yeah, so, and then a Corky Franklin as well! Later, lots of ground birds around this afternoon.

Alright, well, I think that we are going to head up north and potentially try to find cheetah cubs! Not making any promises, but that is the plan!

In the meantime, let's go back down to South Africa and see what is going on down there! We've been here with Scooby Steven, Snorkel Sarah, and a funny thing just happened!

There were two Egyptian geese; they were paddling their little legs or swimming, and they swam straight towards the hippos! And the hippos submerged!

And when the two geese got to the middle, the two hippos popped up, and it was a rather scary moment for the two Egyptian geese! They seem to have moved off a little bit, and they sort of waiting for the heart palpitations to get back to a normal rate!

And then they'll probably carry on swimming! But it was a rather silly thing for them to do, and they could see that the hippos were there, and they just swam straight toward them!

So, Steven, Sarah, our resident hippos at the Bufulsok Dam, and a male and a female. The male, the bigger one of the two, and then the female! So it looks like, okay, Steve on the left there! On the right, we call them Snorkel and Scooby because they spend so much time under the water!

So when a hippo decides that he wants to submerge himself, he's got the capabilities to spend at least about 6 minutes underneath the water! And if they want to move, they generally then walk across the bottom!

But where they are now, they're not floating; they’re standing where they are! So all they have to do is just lift their heads up, open their nostrils, take in a nice deep breath, and then they can put their heads down again!

It's been quite a warm day, so that's why they're still in the water! When it starts, when the sun goes down and it starts getting a little bit cooler, that's when they'll think about moving on to go and find some grass!

Walking out of water for you, bird lovers out there? We’ve got also a blacksmith lapwing to the right on the edge of the water!

I'm just, I've just heard that there's a question coming; I'm waiting for it. So what is the gestation period of the hippo? Someone from the universe, Child of the Universe! Apologies, I've still got to get all those handles!

So the gestation period of the hippo quite interestingly is actually only eight months! And you would think, "Wow! Why so short for an animal so large?" Because you compare them to an animal relatively of the same size like a rhino, a female white rhino, about 16 months!

And a hippo only eight months? But the development of the calf is pretty quick, because they have the comfort of being in the water. So that sort of the buoyancy of the water, the calf is quite small; it is very tiny when it comes out or only weighing a couple of kilos when she gives birth.

What she'll do is she won't give birth in the water, generally close to the shallows to the edge where she's able to push the calf to the edge of the water so that it can take its first breath.

At that point, she will be extremely protective of that young calf; she doesn't allow any other hippos to get close by, and she wouldn’t allow even other animals or people to approach her— that would be when they would get really, really aggressive!

And then if she needs to take it to deeper water, obviously the calf is tiny, so it almost sinks to the bottom; it almost has to bounce off the bottom to come up to take a breath of air!

Sometimes during the day, you'll actually find a hippo calf lying on the back of the mother so that it can stay in the safety and the security of the deeper water, but it doesn't have to struggle so much to bob up and down in the water!

So that would always be a hope that we have a baby part of these two in the near future! So another tall animal that has a very long gestation period would be a giraffe! And that’s going to tell you a little bit about that!

Yes, very long gestation period indeed! Does the Masai giraffe giraffe have typical scree-chi? So yeah, another mammal along this Drive! Something intimate and close up again!

It's been very cool, cool little experience so far! Now these ones are being absolutely harassed by some oxpeckers! You can see them on this one's neck here!

But there was another one whose neck was absolutely thick with them and was shaking its head around, running about! The poor thing looked absolutely devastated! It was swarmed by these little fellas!

See, going about their business there! It looks like they are picking something off the giraffe! I can only assume it’s ticks, but they also may be going for the blood underneath the ticks as well!

The giraffe is very happy with me right now! Yes, sir! I think every time I find giraffes in our draft gal, it can just be dedicated to you, because I always come across them by chance!

Whenever I say I'm going to find one for you, I always end up—well, sometimes I find them, but other times I haven't been able to show them because it’s infrared range and all that jazz!

So yes, every time I find a giraffe now, Giraffe Girl, you can be sure that it is for you! He's poor. Poor giraffe!

All these oxpeckers all over them! I could only imagine that would be quite annoying! This definitely was the other one, so we’re actually surrounded by them!

We don’t only have them on the right; there are many on the left as well! So they are all around the road! I mean, not the road, all on the side of the road right now!

Soaking up the piece of Amar of the Mara! After seeing a couple of hunts over the last couple of days, it’s been very exciting stuff actually following the Oynose around!

I've really grown to love them and really started to get to know them! Anyway, continuing on, so Manu was telling me that there are cheetah cubs stashed somewhere, and we are going to go and just have a look around and see if we can actually find them!

Because wouldn’t that be something? It’s definitely something I didn't think, I don't think I would ever have seen! So if we could find them, I would be over the moon!

But there are also plenty to see along the way! Well, I will continue on my search for cubs! But it sounds like Trishala's search for cubs is already complete, and she has some cute little hyenas to show you!

Speaking of cubs, these two tiny ones came out of the den! Just really, really cute! I think these are June's two and pretty's two who scampered off with Koki. She started to call. I think she was calling for Plonk!

You often hear that noise she does—that when she wants to call for him! And even she doesn’t into the den, and then that's when all the cubs come on! So I think that she's going to look for Plonk!

What is she calling? Plonk! And then she had these two little friends until now! Ribbon is on the other side! Don't have these two? We'll go down to her!

One seems to be trying, but this one is a little bit curious! Now, I love when they're really tiny, and they have these lines on their heads and their foreheads and their eyes look so, so cute—it's just totally innocent!

Earlier, they got a bit startled! What are they responding to? And then we saw a big elephant bull the other side of the water, and he was not interested in this area at all!

But the cubs freaked out! Everyone says how cute! I think they're stunning! Absolutely stunning! And those big ears! Oh, they're just too cute, like little bears!

Sniff, sniff, sniff! I need to learn! Speaking of elephants, we had lots of trees pushed over around here and bits of dugout land, and we thought, "Jeez, when the elephants come around here, if they've been here when it comes out, they would have had such a scare!"

I would love to see what a cub does when it sees a big elephant! Views, you guys are asking if these are June's on ribbons' cubs? So you know, I was actually thinking the same thing!

I haven't seen ribbons' cubs yet, and you didn't know that they came out as she joined at the den when I had when I was on leave, and now when I look at these two, one definitely looks younger or darker than the other!

But then also, you know, coats change in spots coming in at different times, so I can’t be sure! Now we do know that ribbon is on the other side, but the cubs have been behind her! So maybe these are June's cubs, and we'll soon see!

I mean, if they go to the ribbon and they suckle, then we’ll know for sure that they’re ribbons’ cubs! Oh, if June comes and joins us, then we’ll know! But since I've been back, I haven't seen ribbons; I've only seen pretty's two—Plonk, of course, and then June's two!

If you guys know and you've taken pictures of these cubs and you know their spots, then let me know because I would love, love to know exactly who's who in the zoo! Use that hashtag #SafariLive! Please let me know!

How’s that side glance—that's so cute! Because it's similar sitting in similarly to how Koki was sort of on that. Michael, you say these are June's cubs? That did suspect so!

I think ribbons' cubs would be smaller and darker, so I would suspect so! Hey, you two growing up so fast! All is listening around in the bush! Oops! What's got your attention?

It's nice and cool now, so that's probably why Koki's moved off! Maybe she's taken the two little ones with her, or I say taken, but they voluntarily follow her, and she didn’t have enough in her to shoo them away!

But maybe they will bring back Plonk, and she will carry on hunting. It's a nice time of day! It's cooler! I think I might move around to where ribbon was and just have a look at her too!

Janet, you'd like to know if I think that these cubs are thin or if they look like they haven't been fed? Well, I kind of know what you mean; I know what you mean!

They look a bit ganley—oh, they do! But I wonder if that’s just the phase of growth that they're in! Because you’ll find that the legs will grow, and then the rest of the body kind of needs to catch up! The ears go first, and then the legs will grow, and they look a bit disproportionate!

So we’ll see! I’ll have a better look! But I don't, I don't think they’re too bad to be honest! And when did we see June last? I definitely saw at the den the last time I was here, and she would have fed them!

So I think they're okay, little ones!

Okay, they've moved over to the other side! Let's see! Ribbon is there, let's go visit her! In the meantime, let me send you over to Deidre, who is doing some... who is doing something! We do a lot!

So I believe there's quite a few questions and answers expected, so fire away!

Wow! So, Magic Dragon is asking, what is my favorite place to guide? I'd probably say the Kruger National Park, and that's based on being one of the largest areas in South Africa to guide in!

And I see when I started my career as a guide, I was very young! As I said, I was 18, and I was driving a big safari vehicle for like 20 people, so we didn’t really get out of the vehicle or do anything.

But over the years, to be able to be in foot in one of these last big wilderness areas of South Africa has been really, really awesome! And the best part about guiding is the fact that every day is different!

You just never know what you're gonna get next! Christine from Bob: Have I seen mountain gorillas? I have, in fact, seen mountain gorillas! That was a lifetime dream to go and see them!

So last year, I went up into Uganda in the windy impenetrable forest! Very fortunate enough to go! And if anyone is ever thinking about going, doing gorillas, do it! It's a must! It's the most incredible—the most incredible hour you get to spend with them!

We were so fortunate we had a troop of about 21 large silverback variety of infants from nine months old all the way up to adult females!

And just the sheer interaction, I couldn't believe that animals so large we could see so close that were relatively undisturbed by our presence! They just did their thing!

And towards the end of the hour, they landed up in a nice open clearing, and we had 14 gorillas in an open clearing! The big silverback was in the middle; he pulled over a large stump, and they were picking with their fingers in that rotting stump for all the grubs in the larvae!

So, absolute must, Bob, if it's on your bucket list, do it! So the next question—sorry, I didn’t get the handle there—but do I enjoy bush walks and tracking? Absolutely!

And if all goes well, I'll be joining Jamie on a bush walk tomorrow morning! So we'll absolutely see what type of tracks we can find! We have been looking for some this afternoon!

We've actually just found a very interesting thing if one of the mud pans is a random egg that was just deposited on the side of the pan, and there wasn't too much evidence around to suggest who left it there!

But certainly a nice parcel for the next monitor lizard that comes along! We might be lucky—we're heading into a view into the west of spatial clouds!

Might be a very nice sunset this evening! Just have a look at those clouds while we do this little bit of a rainbow on the left!

And while we do that, you can head on to T’Challa with the trishula, sorry, with the hyenas! I'm sure it will be a beautiful sunset this afternoon!

This morning was one of the most stunning sunrises I've ever seen! There were huge layers of mist and then the sun popped out like a golden ball from behind! It was stunning!

Much like you, Ribbon! Yes, it's a sleepy day at the hyena den! Everyone's just kind of keeping trying to keep their eyes open!

And you see all these depressions they've created, even she's sitting in one! Oh, who was that? You saw the moment of collapse? Bumblebee, you’d like to know if there are albino hyenas?

The possibility exists, I'm sure, but I would think it's more likely that someone would see a leucistic hyena! And I know that Brent saw a leucistic hyena in the Mara, so that would be really, really interesting!

In fact, it'd be great to see a picture of that! Because I don't know if you guys have noticed, but pretties, bigger cub looks really, really pale! So it'd be interesting to know if maybe that could be a logistic cub!

Though everything else is fairly dark! So I don't think so! But I think that would be really cool, and I’d really like to see a leucistic hyena! Imagine! Imagine an albino hyena!

The light white hyena! It looks like a spotty—you will feel things very cute! I think maybe blue eyes like a husky would be nice!

But no, not here in Juma! Definitely not! Change humor! But Brent was lucky enough in the Mara to see that, as I'm sure you all know!

Those type of trades—being albino or logistic or melanistic—you are still the exact same species! It just means that you are carrying the recessive gene for basically increasing your production of melanin or inhibiting it in some way!

That's how you have lions—white lions! There are leucistic lions! There's lots of animals I'd like to see that would be leucistic!

Do you know any leucistic hyenas? Ribbon said, “Oh no!” I think you know something like crow-boo! Child of the universe, you'd like to know when the last time I saw a hyena that was not part of the Juma clan was?

Well, like we were discussing earlier, I have only seen Juma clan hyenas. I’ve not seen anyone that is from outside sort of the clan! And from what we know, hyena territories, especially or specifically to the Kruger, can be about 150 kilometers squared!

So that is a big, big space, and I think that that's something that’s more appropriate for a bigger clan! So I don't think that this clan occupies that kind of space!

I really don't think so! But that being said, I haven't seen other hyenas around, members of other clans around! Like I said, Jamie has seen it when there was an elephant carcass not too far from here, but I'm not sure even when that was! Must have been a while ago!

Okay, Apaches, where have you gone? I thought they were going to go fetch Plonk, but you know, it's really bad to make promises that you may not keep!

But I have faith in Pat; he says that he promises! So let's go over to him and see what he promises to give you this drive!

I did not promise; I specifically said as soon as I said I was looking for cheetah cubs, and I'm not making any promises! But anyway, so we are in the area now!

I've been told to keep my eyes out from anywhere here on out, so I will be searching a lot! While I'm talking, so you may not get all the eye contact in the world, but I do have two extra pairs of eyes with me! Manu and our Ascari on the back, so all is well!

We have a 22 look for! So were the cheetah cubs; it would be unreal to see! I can't even... I don't think I've actually even seen a video or a picture of them! So to see them in the flesh would be unreal!

But I'm not going to hype things up there too much! And just, yeah, slow down and have a bit more of a scan! It doesn't seem to be a whole lot of anything around here, which may make citing an animal a little bit easier; the grass is a little bit shorter around here!

But still, cover could easily hide away in here! So speaking of cheetah, Bruce Ara finally got herself a killer! I'm sure you all have heard that! I was very happy to hear about myself!

Christy, what is my favorite baby animal to see? Well, I very, very much love lion cubs! [Music]

Yeah, yeah, I think lion cubs! I mean puppies, I also love puppies! They're hard to knock! What other baby animals have I seen that have been absolutely cute? I think I saw a baby—yes, it was Baby Jaguar in Costa Rica in one of the rehabilitation centers I went to! That was a super, super cute!

So that was definitely up there as well! But I think all babies are quite cute! Now, everybody, just bear with me; we’re just gonna have a chat to this ranger! And see if he has any information on these cheetah cubs! So just hang on one second!

And well! Alright! Well, I’m gonna link it to D.J.! Well, I have a decent yet! How's it going? Look what I found! Two little Easter bunnies!

It is a little bit early for Easter, but they're also out early! This is two scrub hares, which is quite strange! You normally see them when the lights have gone down, but they have obviously decided that they’re coming out early to get a quick bite!

Eat who knows they may even be on a date! So what a good stretch there! He's just warming up his legs there in case any predator, like Columbia, comes along! Because that's his defense, is his speed!

So very long legs! And that's the big difference between hares and rabbits! Rabbits generally tend to have pretty short legs! And his have nice long legs for running!

So you can see both of them just nibbling away there at the fresh grasses or those nice grass shoots! There’s been recently good rains, so they'll be eating the nice little fresh shoots that come out! Also having a look at their very large pink ears, and that helps them just like elephants have got large ears!

That helps them thermoregulate, so they'll actually use a very thin membrane! And if you look closely, you can see even the blood vessels in the ears! And of course, the ears are for hearing!

They need to be able to hear if there’s any predators sneaking up on them! It's also very nice to see two of them! You don’t often get that! Sometimes a scrub hare is literally a flash across the road, and they disappear!

You also notice that big white ring around the eye, and that'll aid them in moving around in the dark! So if any of the available light will reflect on that white around the eye, it’ll actually enhance what they're seeing! The one obviously didn't like the other one being in the way and stealing his grass patch!

So we're gonna move on, and we're gonna just keep on making our way back towards King Ghana to see if he’s doing anything else other than sleeping!

But we have a little bit of a ways to go, so we're gonna carry on and see what's there! Sunil, Ikaris asks a really good question—do I have a least favorite animal?

Wow! I would probably say a snake! And the only reason I would say a snake is an altercation once, and it was a spitting cobra that decided it didn't like me and spat me in my eye!

So me and that particular individual snake have a bit of a beef! But otherwise, snakes in general I do respect them! But that particular one, definitely not!

So as it's getting a little bit cooler, we're actually hoping that T’Ghana is actually going to do some movement! Maybe some grooming—he might be stretching! He might think if he actually still has some remains of a kill, he might decide to make his way back to their kilner!

Who knows? Cross your fingers, and maybe we get to see that! Yeah, he definitely hasn't been anywhere further than the pen for the whole day!

But one never knows, so I love snakes! It's asking a question! Am I keen on birds? Very, very much, James! I wouldn't call myself a twitcher that I'll run around and spend time going to specific areas to find a specific bird!

But certainly, if I’m in a new area, then I will try and find as many of the new birds as possible! Probably the one that’s on my wanted list has to be a shoebill!

I'm going to Uganda; I just weren't in the right places at the right times to have actually seen a shoe ball! But plenty of favorites! But the shoe bill is definitely top of the list!

So that's interesting; a lot of the birds at this time of year, because we're heading into winter now, a lot of our migrants—like that woodland kingfisher that we were looking at earlier—are on their way to move!

I didn't catch the name in there, but the question is how large a meal can the scat eat? Well, a very good question because what you will find with very young leopards when they're inexperienced is they often start with small things!

So they'll try and catch squirrels, birds, anything that can stalk—anything small! And even, like, T’Ghana, she starts with small things! So she started with the daycare!

And as she improves her hunting skills, she'll probably be better at catching Impala, and that would probably be about the biggest for a female leopard!

But one lacked T’Ghana; you'll find large, large waterbuck, and sometimes some adult kudu. They'll just eat a variety! For them, it's also what they're able to stalk up and catch!

But in this area, probably, the majority would swing towards feeding on impala! I'd love to know what he ate, because the average leopard male leopard probably weighing anywhere over 80 kilos, T’Ghana might even be a bit more than that, and he's certainly a few kilos heavier after his last meal!

So this heavy, heavy panting is twofold; it's because he's got a full belly, and he's in the heat. But good news is that the Mara, Pat, is ready to show you a thing or two in the Mara!

Wow, what an exciting start to that drive! I almost feel as if I need to redo my introduction, as I was so caught up in the action that I just kind of everything went blue! My name is Patrick, joining me on camera is Manu, and we are coming to you live from the Masai Mara here in Kenya.

If you have any questions or comments, please use the hashtag #SafariLive! Let you all let me know if you're feeling as O as I am after that—two buffalo hunts in two days! Unfortunately, both unsuccessful for the lions, but fortunately for the buffalo, and I'm sure many of you who like to see the prey get away, it was a good thing!

So yeah, it kind of leaves that bittersweet taste in your mouth where yeah, one loses and one wins. But the winners are looking very hungry, and poor Butternut is not looking well. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but there is something all over her neck!

I thought it was big flies until they weren't moving; then I thought it might have been massive ticks! But then we had a closer look, and it appears to be some big black welts all over her neck.

So I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it doesn't look pleasant for the poor girl!

And even further bad news, I did catch up with her yesterday and she only had one cub with her! She was desperately, desperately trying to find the other ones! We followed her from tree to tree!

She went back to that original den site where we first saw the three and just couldn't find it then!

So yeah, for poor Butternut and today as well, we didn't see her with a cub! But then again they did go out hunting, so we caught that with him, just when Butternut actually reunited with the rest of the Oynose pride!

But then after that, there were no cubs! So perhaps she has stashed them, or the hunt! We can only really hope so because otherwise, that would mean it has gone from three cubs to no cubs!

Oh, anyway! What an exciting start to this drive! And Charlotte found wild dogs! Auntie Auntie new guide! Everyone is concerned about why I'm not wearing green—well, actually I am! I am!

It is St. Patrick's Day! I did, so in all of the excitement, I forgot about that, but I don't actually have anything like proper, proper green to bring it out with me! So I do just have my khaki green jumper!

And it is starting to get a little bit chilly! So I will pop it on for St. Patrick's Day! Yes, as I say, fountain governor as well!

So very cracking start to the drive! Maybe if someone has a photo editor, they can edit this a little bit of a lighter, more St. Patrick II shade of green! This is the only green attire that I had!

Well, I did have also a green floral hat as well, but it's just probably not appropriate to wear on Drive! So unfortunately this is all I have! But happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone around the world!

I hope you are enjoying it! I've of course, of Irish heritage and so we'll probably have a little celebration later on! So it seems like Trishala is trying to continue like this morning and checking out!

I mean, this afternoon, she's checking out the fire! I definitely am trying to continue my life, and I think my luck will even continue into the evening when we have a celebration for St. Patrick's Day as well!

Well, nothing like after the drive to sit back and relax just a little bit! We really wanted to have a fire as well, but just a bit warm! Hopefully, it'll get a bit chilly, and we can have a nice fire!

So I am lucky! Yes, I am very lucky! I've had the wild dogs, and now I have these beautiful guys! You know how much I love them! Absolutely love them!

So we have Koki that's at the entrance there, slumped over what she does! Miss you know when she’s not being a beast, she’s the cutest thing on earth! And of course, we have the two other cuties! You know, I think these both are prettiest because we know that Plonk has the much really dark spots, and he has two patches of white just on each side of his spine.

And he also has that kind of a C upon his thigh, and then I also think on the other side he has kind of a triangle without corners, if that makes sense.

And so these two, I’m pretty sure prettiest too, and we had a ribbon on the other side of the termite, the den. Oh, we’re dozing off! We can barely keep our eyes open! Where's your friend Plonk?

See the flinch of the ear? It's as if, oh, just like a little baby! I'm sleepy, but I'm not gonna sleep! Oh, what was that? What did I miss