Safari Live - Day 246 | National Geographic

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

Oh, look at that! I have got one of the tallest animals in the world, and this animal is trying to feed from one of the long trees. Already, the animal has started showing some unusual behavior. For the first time, I'm seeing the giraffe breaking some of the branches in order to access the leaves. A very, very good afternoon and welcome to the beginning of the afternoon safari. I am Sydney from Grandma Cozy, and I am traveling with Davey, who is my camera operator. This afternoon, we are going to try by all means to give you the best wildlife experience ever. My plan for this afternoon is to look for the spotted cat.

And don't forget that this is an interactive activity! You can follow us on Twitter with the hashtag #safariLIVE. You can also follow us on the YouTube chat stream, so I'm just going to move now a little bit much closer so that we can have a lovely, exciting view. This giraffe looks very interesting at the moment, as it is displaying some of the unusual behaviors.

So, it’s just walking by itself. I cannot see other giraffes here because mostly, giraffes you find them in a group. A group of giraffes together is called a "cops" of giraffes, and you can also call it a "kindergarten" of giraffes. Look at that! This is a lovely sighting.

So, these animals can grow very tall. The males, such as this one, can go up to five to six meters. If you look at the legs, they can grow up to 1.8 meters. The amazing part is that the legs are the same size as the neck in terms of length. That is something amazing! You can see the spots; they are very dark. The males have got dark spots, whereas the females have got light spots. But both males and females, when they are getting old, they both develop dark spots.

So, when they are old, you must consider the following: you must have to consider the thickness of their horns. If you look now, this one, by looking at the horns, you can see that this is a male; they look very much thick. The females have got thin horns, and the females have got hair on top of their horns, whereas the males don't have hair on top of their horns. In fact, the giraffes don't have horns. What we are seeing there is something which is called an "osicones." An osicone is just a bone and skin, and a horn is something that consists of bone and keratin.

So, you can see that this giraffe is getting tired of looking up all the time. So now, let's go to David, who got one of the largest land mammals.

I am here with one of the tallest land mammals. David has got something very interesting by the Maasai Mara at the moment. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Masai Mara Trango Game Reserve in Kenya. I am trying to look at the commonalities, those similarities between giraffes and elephants. I would only say they'll both or they’re both happy brows and elephants.

They will be both browsers and grazers, with giraffes being more browsers. I don't see any other commonality or similarities between these two animals. A very warm day, or a very warm afternoon, we have in the Mara. As usual, my name remains David, and with me on camera today is Manu. A very good afternoon, Manu, you are all very welcome.

And remember always, our safari drivers are very interactive! Your questions or your comments are very welcome, as you sure can use the hashtag #SafariLIVE on Twitter, and we'll always be very happy to answer your questions or share your good comments.

Like seeing elephants and seeing zebras in the background, they are a pretty warm temperature afternoon, as I was saying before, 29 degrees and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Bye bye! I'll say the oldest elephants I know that still live could be about 60 years or 65 years old, I think that so. It was your question, there's a female just walking across there, and very majestic walking through the savanna. Very good!

I think the oldest elephant I have known, that I would say still alive is in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, and I think she’s about 66 years of age. The average age or lifespan of elephants is about 65, so going in at 66 to 70 isn’t bad. We always compared ages of ellies or elephants to that of human beings. To me, it feels a bit cold at about 29 degrees or 85 degrees Fahrenheit because these elephants always give us an indication when it's very hot when they keep flopping their ears.

But you notice it’s just walking, picking some either leaves or plants on the ground. There are those two around us; Tamid mound and being around Tamid mine shows that particular area of that mound—it’s very lush.

Notice the green; the grass is much greener. The same case to this cow and her calf, another Tamid mound. If you look carefully, the grass is much greener than the rest or the neighboring area because Tamid do a pretty good job when they leave.

Well, apart from myself and Sydney, there’s another gentleman who would like to say hello to all of you. Indeed, I would, David. That's always nice to hear from David up in the Mara. Now, you can see that there is a rather macabre image that is about to present itself. There lies a dead Nyala female, I'm afraid.

You can see the bite marks to her neck, and so this is a very interesting situation because this Nyala was killed probably in the early part of today. You'll see, as we come back, it’s down in a drainage line, and it's very, very close to where Husana and Tingana were this morning. My name is Tristan, as David mentioned, on camera, I've got a sense.

A very warm welcome to all of you as well. I hope that you're going to really enjoy your afternoon! It promises to be an epic one because this kill was made by Tandi. This is not secure footing on and Husana, and that tree on the other side of where I am, over there, so that one that's tall over there—that is where Husana and Tingana are, so that's where their kill is.

They apparently are both still there. Tandi somehow has managed to kill this antelope at some point without the two of them even realizing it, and she’s hidden a little bit, but she’s not sure at the moment. She’s probably lying up somewhere in the shade. We will try and find the two of them now, but the two of them, apparently, after we left, because some of the trainees said they followed her all the way around, and she walked with Klala all the way around back to this kill.

So, unfortunately for her, she is going to probably lose this. There's no way; at 150 meters, 100 meters from where their tree is, that Tingana is not going to find this, and his nose is going to lead into it, or Husana for that matter. But we have four leopards on two different kills within the space of 150 meters, which is absolutely ridiculous. It really is a phenomenal situation and not one that you'd really see all that often.

Now, you can see that that Nyala is very, very fresh, so for those of you that are squeamish, it’s probably a good time to look away. But if we go in onto the meat itself, you'll notice that the meat is still a very bright red color. Now we've had a lot of wind over the past few days, and that would have dried that out very quickly if it had been an older carcass.

So that was killed during, I think—it was during the day today. It could have been early hours of this morning before Tingana arrived at that kill. Tandi, when she bumped into these two boys, was actually coming back towards her kill and just bumped into the two boys, and that's why I maybe could elaborate and ran off. But either way, it was killed in the early hours of this morning or even during the course of the day today, and both safaris...

[Applause] Kill six—no... so given that... I mean, if she did kill it after we saw her this morning, well then the hyenas have all been sleeping. You know, it's the middle of the day; hyenas don't move around all that much, and they didn't spend time at the carcass.

Husana and Tingana were, because when Tingana and Tandi had their little altercation earlier, and the one hyena that was there ran for its life, it just tucked and ran as far as it could to try and get out of there. I think that hyena is still running when it heard all the growling and hissing and kind of snarling that was going on, and two leopards barreling down towards it, and so just ran off.

And so they haven't found it yet, but tonight, if neither of these four leopards doesn't tree this kill, then most definitely, we're going to find the hyenas will steal this. Unfortunately, but I'm very surprised from Tingana was in the tree that they didn't kill take place and then come in and actually take it for himself.

Now, interestingly enough, we've actually got some little white Tristan, who are bouncing around very close to the carcass, and I wonder if they would actually go and feed off any of the insects that could be close to the carcass itself. You don't really often see birds close to a leopard carcass because it's quite a dangerous place to be.

They're right above it right now, so you see they are sitting right above where the carcasses kind of bouncing along on the trees. I wonder if they just Hawking little insects that maybe are landing on that carcass itself, which is a very cool thing to see. You don't often—it's actually kind of hear them, but you can hear that clicking sound that is them as they sort of forage around this particular area.

Yeah, there we go—very cool! Right, now on that note, we're going to city area, trying to see if we can just find a visual of Tandi and Kalumba because we didn't get to see Kalumba this morning. And so while we do that, it sends you back across to Sydney, who I think is still with the very tall spotted creature.

Oh, Rizzo, look at that! I'm still here with the giraffe, and I just hear Tristan was enjoying a lovely sighting with a helmet shrike. Those kind of birds can be very much interesting, and there is a very interesting traditional story to do with them. If you see them, it means next week we are going to eat there, so it means- it’s I eat and drink.

So, getting back to the giraffe, you can see that this giraffe has now moved to another big tree. Now the giraffe is under one of the Marula trees, which is also covering at the moment, so it’s quite difficult to see the giraffe now because he's using the shade from the very same tree. So, it's eating in the shade at the same time.

This animal was just ruminating while standing there. It was very interesting to see the giraffe taking back food from the mouth—not a leopard! Giraffes, they do drink water, and how they drink is interesting. Yes, they do concentrate on a lot of moisturized leaves, which they drink water from, and when they come to the water holes, this is what they are going to do: they go, and they must have to bend their legs, go down, and get water.

After that, they have a procedure they must follow. They must have to shake their neck; when they're shaking their neck, that is when they are opening the valves before they go down for drinking. They must have to make sure that all the valves are plugged so that the blood doesn't flow to the brain; otherwise, if the blood flows to the brain, the giraffe is going to lose its life.

So, look at that! This animal has got a very long tongue, Rosalind. That tongue has about seven neck bones that are there to support them when they are feeding, so they never get tired. And they use, again, the very same necks for fighting purposes. So, in other words, these kinds of necks are very well adapted to face up and for them in order to strangle the others when they are fighting for the females as well.

So look at how that giraffe is walking! You can see that the body is moving swiftly. So, that is what the giraffe is—a "who walks swiftly." So, this giraffe is just moving very quickly from one tree to the next, which is now giving us proof that these trees have got some substances they are using in order to chase these animals.

So now, let's see—the giraffe doesn't have wings to fly, but David by the Maasai Mara has got a flying bird on the ground at the moment. Let's see what species he's got.

We just had a few seconds ago, but let me just find out first. I’m seeing a nightjar, and it just does fast a little bit! And this nightjar was very difficult to see during the day. It would be a fastener to judge to see during the day it’s anyone who keeps... boy, just hold for one second.

Okay, let’s see where the money is going to put you—the frame! This is a little odd right there, and it’s a nightjar. Very difficult to see during the day! You only see them at night. Man, who do you suggest? Back up more fodder!

Let me just forgot for a bit! She’s just hiding in that grass. It just jumped up and she landed there! Let me just move forward a little bit and see that maybe. Let’s just see how... and she’s right there.

You see how they are right there? You see? Oh no, yes, max, they’re excellent! Well done! Oops, she just took off! But anyhow, that was a nightjar; that’s very difficult to see. Absolutely giving up for one more view of—and you only see them at night. Nightjars, yes, and scrub hares you really see them during the day, but I just think this is a lucky day for me!

I don’t know what that luck translates into and I don’t know what Chai means, but it may get this could be the mountain nightjar. I don’t know—if their project's alpha is watching, project alpha will always get me when I get stuck. One thing I know for a fact—this is a nightjar, and you only see them at night; they are very nocturnal birds.

And you notice how she blends in very well there. I don't want to be very loud, neither do I want to get my book or my party just to flip the pages to know who she is. I also cannot see her very well but one thing is from the size of her eyes you can tell she’s a nightjar. They normally have large eyes.

Now you can see the beak. It’ll have some whiskers which they’ll use to catch flies at night, and they always have a very special tool that has something like a brush because they use that to—unless you say the right leg or the left leg—to just groom themselves and just to align or realign their fellows. So, if you get a nightjar and you watch carefully on one of its toes, it has been modified to something like a brush, and they will only use that to brush just to align the feathers, because if you look carefully, she looks very nice, Chris!

100%! I mean, until she jumped up, I had not seen her, so she blends in perfectly well! I will tell you, Grace, she’ll be there for the rest of the day, and she’ll only become more active at night when she goes out to feed on flies or sometimes where you get them on the road or some open areas.

But it’s no grass warm-up! Oh yes, nightjars will always nest on the ground in general; they do nest on the ground, but sometimes, depending on the particular species of nightjar, you might see them on trees, on branches. They usually blend in very well and at times you might mistake them for part of the tree. So, you would imagine this particular nightjar that we are seeing here on a branch of a tree or at a branch—at any very tree, that branches on one side would definitely look like part of that tree!

In general, they nest on the ground, and I think it’s usually much warmer for them. The only guess I would have here for this one is the mountain nightjar—I'm not 100% sure, but I'm just guessing. This could be the mountain nightjar. Apart from that, one feather doesn’t look very kept; if we look at her carefully, everything looks very streamlined.

I'm walking back to—there are many areas. Very good! I’d be more than happy, Cassie, if you—all of you viewers could just tell me who you think she is. But I’ve given you the most important clue: James Richard. Jumbo! How are you? Always a pleasure to hear your name!

Yeah, it could be a swamp nightjar, very, very good guest after this because I don’t want to be very loud. I don’t want to give a flip in my book, my birds book—how we look. But yes, James Richard, it could be a possibility.

I was saying earlier. I am trying to walk back to the very many years I saw a nightjar during the day, and that year is not coming. Man, when is the last time you saw a nightjar during the day?

Manu is saying the last time he saw a nightjar during the day was today! Thank you very much, Manu! Planning in very well there! And she’ll be there, as I said, maybe the rest of the day and only coming out at night.

I'll just try and move forward one meter. If she doesn't fly out, fine, if she does, well and good. And see, even a little more—hold on right there!

Mother! James recharged, does this help? So you can see the big eye on her and then look on the whiskers I was talking about—yes! Because I says this is awesome! And for me, it’s pretty good because at night when we see them, we see them, you know, using the infrared to see them during the day in natural light. I think it’s pretty special!

So it could be the swamp nightjar, James Richard might be right, it could be the mountain nightjar. What conspiracy—you can see it’s the big eye and the whiskers I was talking about! If you look on the beak, so you will see sometimes—and that's very good, Manu! Thank you very much!

They fly opening the mouth! Magic dragon with that. Yes, you’re right! What we do, we really drive off-road! And of course, we are always very careful!

And my guess is maybe she could be lying on her eggs, but apart from us, we have challenges—magic dragon! Daily! God! Through wood, we’ll be like animals, like jackals or bat-eared foxes or similar lizards who will always come and feed on their eggs.

Yeah, you’ve got a good point there! We always try and make sure we have very minimal impact when we are offloading! And right now, I am just on the road, and she's just on the side of the grass! And until she flew up, magic dragon, I would not have seen her completely! And as she just landed there, I think this to me to be a sign of good luck!

I might have a great drive today! Man! Did you feel like me? Manu says, “Oh yes, we might be having a very smashing afternoon on the drive to see a nightjar during the day!”

And this time, apart from the first few times she jumped up and down, yes, Cassie, I agree with you. This must be one of my greatest drives because she just laid down there, and she just took cooperative game with the best views!

I open and you can see it’s not like a round eye, and I think that way it makes it easier for her to see at night. It’s like an oval shape! And at one point, I'm going to open my book and have a look at who she is.

Hello there! In general, you see them, you know, once—it's not in pairs. You don’t see them in pairs when they’re meeting, and after meeting is done, they go separate ways. In that position, you would not even know there could be a bird right there!

Nights, thank you so very much! I’ll let you have some love and peace there, just rest, and hopefully, this could be a sign of a great drive for me and Manu this afternoon. Let’s see what that makes translate into!

How exciting! Some of these birds like the water thick knee, nightjars, owls, even at night when we see them, they are always on the move! But to see that at night, during the day, and she stayed there for us—that was pretty special!

And I really want to thank her! Excellent! Just driving away, slowly trying to... my big plan today is to look for lions. Yesterday, I see the sausage tree pride, and I'm hoping I’ll be able to see them today!

And as I do that, I think my other brother is in a tree. My radios are not working very well!

Hello, everybody! Good afternoon! Welcome to, well, this end of the sunset safari! We are on Torchwood, where the radios are not as fly, but we’re on Torchwood because, of course, there are some lions here! Brent Leo Smith came looking here with his friend Jamie Patterson, and we are just trying to now relocate where the lions are!

They apparently have killed a buffalo, which is very exciting! Let’s just hope I can actually find them just through here! Sorry, the game drive is now very loud in my ear! Something else I had to tell you! Oh yes, of course! Well, you can talk to me like you've been talking to everyone else! #safariLIVE, chat seen on YouTube, all that stuff! Now it should be right here, sir!

Have you got them, Sebastian? Can you see them? There are lions! There is a lion—there are lions! Minnie, there is a buffalo! The buffalo is no longer alive, but very... this is very exciting! We just interposition that!

The thermal drone is in the way of being killed, I believe that the lion has just come in, though, you well! Unfortunately, it sounds like James has got a few little gremlins there! Hopefully, I'll get this is great exciting—we came up boards! What an ending!

Now, once a show that anywhere it isn’t to see if Tanyan Columba might be hanging around with the two boys! Unfortunately, she’s not here; neither is the cubs! So it's just Husana that's lying here!

Tingana’s by the tree! We ain’t—probably in all likelihood just quickly sort of hand this off to Sydney, ours! Just coming up here in case the two of them might be hanging around with the two boys and almost just trying to kind of distract them somewhat to be able to sort of keep them away from their kill! Oh bless you! Did you have a big sneeze?

He’s such another story, this now! He’s so busy sleeping; he hasn’t even noticed that there’s an impala right here that he could potentially hunt! So just behind me over there is an impala that is really kind of not really in any way knowing that these leopards are here, but nervous!

Because the wind is blowing so much, if he actually just lifted his head and looked in that direction, he would spot that there’s an impala there. Of course, if he killed it, he would end up not having anything because Dingaan is going to steal it!

So, you know, I suppose it doesn’t really kind of work for them, and I’m 99% sure that Tandi is going to lose a kill to one of these two boys this afternoon or this evening! For now, the both of them are fairly sort of sleepy and fairly tired and are not really doing too much!

Like I said, Tengana spent his entire day at that tree, which can’t have been comfortable at all! He really must have been struggling quite a bit up there! I’m sure he’s going to be quite stuffed when he eventually does come down! But like I said, we’re gonna leave this with Sydney.

I want to try and see if I can find the two girls. So I'm gonna be driving up and down all over the place to try and see where they have gone! And so, while I do that and go off and try and find the two girls, let’s send you back across to David in the Maasai Mara! He's driving about Tricia!

And wow! Talking of Tandi, talking about paradise, I think the next job might have brought us good luck or the good omen I was talking about! We have been—or have been fine, been lucky to get the sausage tree pride! This is a sausage tree pride, and this is one of the males in that coalition that roams around.

This is it, right? Of course, males do not belong to pride, but they belong to a coalition! But before long, Manu is going to show you the females that we saw also a few seconds ago freaking their tails under some bush orange lift croton.

And when I'm talking about the sausage tree pride, I’m talking about females! Definitely, the males do not form the pride! But now, if you look at the pole of this one chairman here or this guy, you can see it's full of flies and blood!

That definitely sees this! A bit of this crime scene around and not a mushroom war time! But they brought down a wildebeest. I’ll be trying to identify who exactly the tree riders are and how this marriage has charged because a few seconds ago, when they got here when the females rose up towards the keel and this bill just pushed it out, and you can see he must have been digging into it!

We'll be finding out; we'll try to get a little bit closer because my signal is a bit iffy now, but let's first go coast to Sydney as maybe I reposition myself, and it'll be a better place to keep narrating!

I look at that! I have got a very brave impala trying to charge a leopard! Now, decided to run away. And she charged that leopard a few times, and the leopard was just not interested in entertaining it! So that was a very brave impala!

She was just alarming and coming closer and charging, and decided to run away! You can see right next to me, I have got a very much in the next cat! This is Husana! It's not only the mood of hunting! That impala was not that very far away from where Husana is at the moment!

So, he looks very tired. Maybe he's got something in the stomach. I just have to see nicely if he’s going to change the position. We might be able to see if the stomach is full or not! Maybe that will be one of the reasons why it did not entertain the impalas that close!

So you can see that now he is getting excited! So you can see that he does things at his own time. He doesn't want to be guided by the impala's interest! Now, you can see that he is interested in something, maybe it’s very same impala, or else he has spotted something else.

I am very much interested to see what this animal is fascinated by! And I'm not alone here by the sighting! I do have some other guests who have just arrived now!

Don't get confused when hearing some camera clicks! James, their cats, they've got to sleep most of their times because of the following: look at what he’s doing now. So he’s showing you now it has been very much hot!

And he’s trying to cool the brain temperature in the head! So these cats spend much of their time sleeping because they’ve got to give their digestive system much time after eating something. But apart from that, animals such as cats, they are much more active between dawn and dusk!

So these animals when they wake up between dawn and dusk must have to be energetic and strong enough for hunting activities! So you can see that if these animals are not relaxing much more during the day, the chances of them taking something during the night they are going to be very much slim!

So you can see that Husana is now moving much more deep! Maybe he's just looking for some shade, so I'm just going to reposition now and see if we can have a better sighting from a different angle!

So I can see now he is slowly moving down towards all the drainage! So he's positioning here! I can see that he is standing while listening to something. You can see that Husana is now pretty very much relaxed!

And my apologies for the inconvenience due to the lack of internet! Alya, I am still here live with Husana! I can see that Husana is not doing anything. We are going to have some time with Husana!

Maybe somewhere around here we might also be lucky with Tingana, as we heard earlier that they were all two together in the same area! So I am going to be looking around here to try and see if we cannot find Tingana.

Oh, Dave has spotted him! He’s right up in one of the trees! Oh, that was a nice spot! It’s quite very difficult to see! Look at that! He has very much camouflaged! Doesn’t look like an animal in there!

You can see that the tree is still very green, and it’s very much bushy with quite a lot of branches! So it means now Tingana and Husana are just all together at the same sighting! This is interesting!

So it seems like Tingana is not having something up by the tree there! I'm not seeing anything unless maybe it’s I didn’t because of too many branches! So you can see that Husana—you can see that Husana is just waiting!

And every time Husana is waiting like this is when they see clearly and by which has been taken down by him! And Tingana arrived to come and take over! Maybe somewhere up by this tree is where the food is hiding!

And because of that, we are going to have all these cats together! I wanted to see what exactly is happening, but it's not moving at all.

So now, let's go to our Tristan! Maybe Tristan has got something interesting at the moment!

I do indeed! We've got something that we haven’t seen in a couple of days, but they are slowly making their way back! You can see just ahead of me is a small group of buffalo bulls!

Now, I wonder if these are not buffalo bulls that were potentially chased by the Akuma pride all the way from Torchwood to here because they are just slowly keeping their way along! And we haven’t seen any signs of buffalo!

But if the King Coons have grabbed one, maybe these guys are ones that have kind of run off from that area! But they’re nice big Dugger boys that are all together! It's not a herd structure that, so as far as I can see, the tracks so far just indicate that it’s just a few boys together!

And they are all boys and even though it’s, you know, five or six of them, you know, that still doesn’t mean that there’s it goes in amongst them! So this would be quite a formidable grouping to go after if the King Coons were to bring one down!

And out of this, well, they’ve done a phenomenal effort to be able to do so because these guys, they are big! They are strong, and they are powerful!

And the one on the far left is an absolute monster! He’s got huge, huge horns compared to all their—they’re straight in!

There’s look at the size of that guy’s horns! Really big! I mean, that must be probably, I would say, close to a meter from one sort of curl to the other! They are huge horns!

And it’s so nice to see these guys back again! While it obviously makes kind of bushwalking those things a little bit more dangerous, it really is nice to have them back around!

We’ve really missed them, and hopefully, they're kind of presence in this area is going to mean that the lions are going to spend a lot more time in and around humor than what they have over the last little bit!

Now, you’ll notice most of them are grazing at the moment, and they will be very excited because in amongst these sort of dry thickets there is actually green grass that is starting to sprout up!

And so it’s very difficult to see but maybe if you go quite close to the vehicle, there’s a little patch just on the right-hand side here!

Somewhere in this you’ll see that there is actually some green grass that is coming out between the sort of clumps! They are straight in from there! I’m not down a little bit; there we go!

So you see the greenery! It’s in amongst that dry brown grass! Well, for buffalo, that is exactly what they're looking for! They really need that kind of green lush new growth, and that’s from the little bit of rain we've had that’s now starting to come through!

And that’s what they'll be targeting! So, the days of browsing and eating dry horrible grass are almost over! They’re now going to be able to start eating nice greenery that you see there!

So, they’ll be very happy animals, and you’ll find they’re gonna walk along and just heads down and feed! Because the wind is blowing as heavily as it is, all the animals are a little bit on edge!

They are all kind of watching and stopping and looking, and it’s really kind of difficult conditions for these guys to be able to survive! They unfortunately have got to deal with this wind gusting like this, and it’s gonna hide the pizzas' noise when they’re moving as well as their scent!

If a predator is downwind from these guys, they are going to have absolutely no idea because of how strong this wind is blowing! And so it’s a predator’s dream—the kind of conditions that we’re having today!

And it’s probably why there's ended up with three different carcasses spread across the area! So the lions have got a carcass, and then four different leopards on a carcass is because of the weather that we're having!

Rosalind, most definitely, in the many recorded cases of buffalo killing lions, it’s not something that doesn’t happen! I’ve personally seen two different lions that have been killed by buffalo!

And the one was an adult female that was completely disemboweled by a buffalo! Its horn got stuck between its legs, and he just threw her, and as he threw, he kind of ripped through her stomach and killed her like that which was really quite something!

Not a nice thing to see at all, but yes, buffalo do kill lions! It does happen—you often find old, sick lions do get hurt from time to time, and they will get unfortunately kind of maimed by buffalo, and also lion cubs!

So if buffalo find lion cubs hidden, they’ll trample and kill them! They are very dangerous to lions—even if, even though lions had their is a lot of danger that it’s involved in accessing one of these guys!

You can imagine those horns can do some serious damage if you're on the receiving end of them! Now, they’ll see that they’re slowly kind of drifting away from us!

I think they’re going to be hitting over the boundary! We just came around hiding the road to try and see if we can find Tandi until 11:00! And so while we do that, let’s send you back up towards David in the Mara, and I think he is with some lions!

And I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind being latched on to the back end of these guys as a potential meal! Well, once in a while, we have seen sometimes prey fighting back! And not once— we have seen buffalo is trying to go for the lions!

Which, oh hi, let's be chasing them! Or trying to bring them down! Now, I doubt this would happen to this particular male lion here, which shows all the signs of being mighty and strong!

And you can see how he is panting, having eaten—not sure how many pounds or kilos of that wildebeest that’s not very far from where he is now! This particular male comes from a coalition of lions that we call the sausage tree!

For those who are joining us now who have never been with us before—the particular pride of lions you call solitary pride, and the males that will be in this particular territory where we are!

And this is one of those young males! This male and another male! But now let's find out if Husana could be up to something!

Look at that! I have got Husana now trying to stalk one of the hyenas who has just arrived in the area, and he’s very much camouflaged! He’s just flat! The hyena is just in front of him less than 15 meters away from Husana! Anything can happen at any time here!

Now, you can see that now the hyena has just spotted Husana! You can see that the hyena is trying to avoid him now! Look at that! He’s still following the hyena!

And he can see the hyena from the top of the termite mound! It’s very much interested in that hyena! And that hyena is avoiding Husana by all means—not even checking what is happening behind!

So you can see that now Husana is going in between the branches, and he’s using his paws to camouflage! But now the hyena is looking—it’s looking back, and Husana has just stopped!

When the hyena is moving is when Husana is also taking a move! So, I’m going to just keep following and see what is going to happen here!

So maybe we might be lucky and see them chasing each other! So it seems like Husana is building quite a lot of strength now in order to defend himself against these hyenas! So, it seems like he gave up now!

As I can see, he's just now looking at the hyenas, which are now going away! So you can see that now he is just sniffing the ground—that is where that hyena has gone past!

So, look at that! So, it is very much rare to see this kind of cats challenging the hyenas, whereas there is no food! They are not competing for anything! The food is high up by the tree with Tingana, who is now feeding at the moment!

So you can see that this cat is sniffing on the ground, and after that, it's opening the mouth to try and confirm something! So I'm not too sure what this investigation is all about!

So, I can hear quite a lot of bones breaking from the tree behind me, which is where Tingana is! What I'm going to do now is that I am going to leave Husana and go back so that we can see what Tingana is feeding on at the moment!

From where I am, I'm just hearing quite a lot of bones crashing from the impala which has been caught by Husana earlier on! So it seems like we might have a better sighting waiting on—so you can see that these sightings are just very close to each other—not very far!

These animals, the cats, mostly—if you can check, they don't really eat these hyenas! But cannibalism is practiced by some of these animals! But I’ve never seen a leopard eating a hyena!

But sometimes, yes, they can when they are too hungry! So you can see there is some meat we can see from here which is much more red! But it is very much difficult to see the actual animal!

You can see that some pieces of meat are falling to the ground! Maybe Husana is going to get something at the moment!

So I can see that now Husana is making his way back! And while Husana is making his way back, let's go through the Maasai Mara and see what David is having at the moment!

Seems like David is enjoying something! Well, leopards could do anything at any time! And especially when it cools off that will not be the case with the lions!

And our male here is still looking very snoozy, just enjoying the sleep! Apart from the flies that we see on his front right paw, which are happy trying to digest or eat the blood that is left on his paw there!

But he doesn't seem very concerned by that! So I was talking earlier that this coalition or the lionesses around here, we’ll call them the sausage tree pride!

Of lions or lionesses! The reason for that—the particular trees in the Mara that you can associate trees to those trees are very iconic just like the phone trees.

And we have followed this pride for a very long time! For a long time, we have always found them going on top of those trees, either to look for some nice shade because such trees have very huge leaves!

And the box all the tree branches have very smooth boxes! And when they climb on top of them, they are always very comfortable! And the reason that should make this lionesses, like the one you see there, going on top of that tree is to go away from the flies!

If there are a lot of flies, you know—in the grass, for example, where she is—they will always do that! And that's how they got the name—the sausage tree pride!

Remember this is a very interactive safari that you know we do both here in Kenya in the Masai Mara triangle and in South Africa! You are always welcome to ask questions should you have some nice comments to give!

You can do that using the hashtag #safariLIVE! Righty! We now move down again to South Africa to Tristan! Indeed, and you can see little Kalumba is feeding off the carcass with much glee and relish.

So, where she was just now when we came here, I have absolutely no idea! We couldn’t find her at all! Don’t know where mom is, can’t see her sitting! But I’m sure she’s watching from a distance somewhere in the shade, just making sure that this one is safe.

The problem is, with Tingana and Husana where they are, they will be attracting hyenas because of the smell of that carcass up on that ridge as they start to come down this—this side!

They might move in this way if Husana chases them, and they might then steal this! So this little one is eating quite a bit! I'm sure she’s not far! But I’m hoping that she’ll be able to get down and hoist this kill long before hyenas arrive! Because otherwise, she’s going to lose out!

But little Kalumba, it looks so small in comparison to seeing the boys! I haven’t seen her in a while, and she’s still very little compared to the likes of Husana and Tingana!

You forget just how small these little females are when they're around the year old! She’s got a lot of growing still to do, but look at the size of her tummy—she's eaten a lot!

I think these two must have come off a kill already this morning, when we saw Tandy, she was quite full already! She didn’t look like she had eaten off this carcass!

So I wonder if these two weren't sitting on a kill since the last time Breyn saw them, and then they went off and Tandy—we saw yesterday afternoon killing that scrub here, and then they made another kill here today!

So, very cool to see! But the fact that we’re sitting within 150 meters of two male leopards, we've got a young female here, her mother must be somewhere close by as well, means it’s just ridiculous for leopards on two different kills in the span of about 100 meters!

This is almost unheard of, so we are seriously being spoiled on our leopards this afternoon—or this morning, should I say. Just lately, in general, actually!

And I’m so excited to catch up with her! I haven’t, you know, in such a long time, it’s really good to kind of see her going about her business and how kind of dwarfed she is by that nyala! It’s quite funny!

Now, you’ll notice, you can see her mouth is moving quite quickly! So you can see there, she’s actually not chewing at the moment as much as she’s licking! She might be licking a lot of the blood up, and they will consume blood, and they will lick up blood, as it contains a lot of water, and it allows them then not to have to, you know, go towards things like a dam or a pan.

She’s also probably got herself a good chunk of meat. And sometimes you’ll find they’ll actually win the carcass, like this lap—a blood that’s pooled and an eel in the cavity of this particular animal!

So she’s really going to town though! Since she—that is so cool! I’m so glad we managed to catch up with her and that she’s actually here now!

I just hope the naughty hyenas don’t steal from these two because if it’s not hiding—as I suppose is, he’s going to be a male leopard—they're pretty doomed either way when it comes to this kill!

The only saving grace that these two have got is that the wind is coming the complete opposite direction to where the boys are!

So if they were the other side of the boys, the scent would be blowing right onto them, and I can pretty much guarantee that they probably would have lost it by now already! But the way the wind is blowing, it’s blowing from them to—I mean from the boys, kind of—it’s blowing across between them, so it means that unless they walk in line with this carcass southwards from where they are!

They probably won’t pick up the scent, and with the amount of wind that’s blowing, the noise of her eating is not going to be easily heard at all!

And so she should be able to get away with the time—hope that they’ll get away with it! But you know, knowing Tingana and Husana, both of them have noses unlike any other cats, and will probably, in all likelihood, pick up that scent and kind of figure it out and move this way!

We’re in for an epic evening either way! And, you know, as that sun starts to set in that carcass that Tingana is on starts to diminish, we might see a kind of interaction between all four of them as well!

As hyenas in the mix, it’s going to be a really kind of special fan of afternoon, and so it’s a hold on to our seats to see how this all plans out. It might all just fizzle out into nothing, and everyone just stays in their respective places!

But it could also just be a spectacular kind of afternoon of leopard chaos, which would be very, very cool! But I’m surprised—still can’t get over how much smaller she is than what Husana is!

For Husana, you know, I forget how he’s grown! I remember, you know, last year he was a little boy! Now you kind of see just because I just saw him just now, and use to compare him to the size of Kalumba!

And he really is that much bigger than her—he’s dwarfed her completely! But so cool to see this at all! And she’s got so much kind of sass to her! I really thoroughly enjoy her!

Tandy must be driven mad by the subtle cub! Ever since the first time we spent time with this little cub, it would just do its own thing and kind of very seldom listen to mom!

And so I’ve thoroughly kind of enjoyed her attitude towards life and just a general kind of disposition and who she’s sort of about herself! She’s going to be an interesting female!

She’s going to be a tricky one in many respects because she doesn’t come out all that often! It’s very seldom we just find her sitting by herself! She doesn’t really like to be seen—other than, you know, if mom is around or on a kill like this!

So she’s going to be a bit tricky when she gets older! Especially if she spends time, kind of, hanging around this area! We’re going to have our hands full, I think, with her!

But I’m hoping that as she kind of grows older and hopefully gets into motherhood, she’ll calm down a little bit to not be so full of beans as she has been over the last year at all of a theoretical!

Yes, I mean she could because she should be going for a liver and, you know, kidneys and hearts and those kind of things! But I suppose maybe she’s gotten maybe a kidney!

And she’s just kind of eating away around all of that! Sam! Opening everything up! Whatever she’s got, she’s thoroughly enjoying!

So I can't see nicely what it is exactly that she's got! You might even be eating a fetus! You know that, which would be a bit kind of macabre by now, so you never know what’s really inside!

There’s that stomach cavity that hasn’t really been opened properly! You can see a bit of the intestines have been pulled out, and in bed, the stomach has been exposed, but there’s still a lot going on inside!

So, she’s actually opening the cavity as we speak, and so I wouldn’t be surprised! She’s still getting towards the liver and towards, you know, the heart!

And all of those kind of internal organs that are so tasty! So she'll get there! And the problem is, is her belly is already full! So it’s going to take her quite some time before she actually is able to eat much of that meal!

I mean, she's not exactly skinny, and I doubt a nice, very skinny either than pretty short Tandi, who has got a fairly full belly as Brains agreed with me!

So actually what happened this morning is that we kind of trailed with Brents and Tandi! And they came out and they followed!

We just sat and watched as everything played out in the hope that, you know, everybody would settle! And then managed to follow Tandi down here and find her with the kill!

So you know, between everybody, it was a real team effort to be able to find this carcass! It was kind of just a long vigil that took place from when we saw Tandi this morning on safari all the way till now!

Somebody is kind of been with these cats, which has been quite something to be able to spend that much time, and that just goes to show that sometimes it’s rewarded if you just kind of put a bit more effort in!

To be able to see these things—so like I say, the entire Safari Live team or guiding team, particularly spend time after day to try and kind of keep these sightings for all of us, which is always good!

You can see she's, every now and then, disgust! She’s got that instinct down, that way every now and then she just stops, listens around, kind of makes sure that she’s not being ripped on by males, hyenas, or lions, or anything like that!

And that’s going to stand there and could stay particularly in conditions like this because it must be very difficult to hear what’s going on!

Right, we’re gonna sit with little Kalumba. We’re gonna figure out where Tandi is! While we do that, though, we’re going to send you across all the way to the Maasai Mara with David, and apparently, he's got some very snoozy sausages!

Who I’m sure are replicating Tandi that was having the leopards! Christian, which is much more active than my lioness here!

Which is just flicking! You know, doing much. Very typical for lionesses or lions just to sleep! You can see both of them there are just flat out sleeping!

Just like the male, and this explains what I’ve always said—we don’t only have the males! People of Syria, like when you say kings of the jungle, males, because they sleep for many hours! But for me, it’s both males and females!

Now this particular pride—or they may around here, they got a kill here of a wildebeest that they have hidden very well in that particular bush that you see there! If you look in the slight opening, there’s something dark on the inside!

This bush is what you call the orange live croton! These are wildebeest to them, that’s the kill! I’m sure it could have been, you know, they brought one down during mid-day!

Now, there’s something very special about this particular bush that we call the orange live croton! The leaves and those green leaves you see there do not attract any flies!

And lions, I think, time immemorial have known that any time they’ll bring a kill there, any time they will lay down there, they are granted not to be disturbed by those irritating flies! Like, you know, the saucer flies or the big ones!

Oh, the most creatures and any flies that will come to them will be not of much concern! So you see the male, he’s not very far from that bush! Just like the females, just laying on top of that trunk!

And I'm sure he’s getting a bit of warmth from the rock he’s laying on! Remember, this is a very interactive safari! Should you have any questions or comments, like saying, “Wow, how nice to have him just sleeping there!” Please send it through!

John, I would say lions have the largest cannons! Lions have the largest cannons if you compare to all the big cats that we have!

Of course, the good leopards! We’ve also got jaguars, and we got tigers! Tigers which are much bigger than lions. As much as we don’t have any tigers in Africa! But I'll say, tigers, if you look outside Africa, do have the largest cannons!

But looking at cats, but we are in Africa to the taste, and they will need them because they need to subdue the big just choking them or chokehold when they suffocate them before they start eating them!

You can see him just punching them! Sorry about that crash cart, everybody! We do seem to have some signal issues!

Well, these are not the Inka Homer pride as you can see! That is Husana; he is, of course, below Tingana!

Which you all knew! And I have taken over the sighting from Sydney because Sydney is gonna go to the lions and see if he can't find some signals there with Wendy!

If he can’t, he’ll probably come back here! Then we do, of course, have our ABC 3 show coming up at 6:30 this evening!

6:30— that is Central African time! And we will be live, all four of us, from here!

Whoops! And Sebastian’s there—sorry about that! And so we need to try and maximize what we have! Tristan's obviously very stable with Tandy and Kalumba!

We are sitting here with the two males! And it would be great if we could have those lions! But I have a hammy Deutz that even Sydney and Wendy will be able to get signal at the line!

But he will be there probably in the next 20 minutes or so! And we'll keep you posted! Quite a remarkable day has been had by all here!

I don’t know if Tristan told you! I think he did! But the trainees were sitting here all day babysitting the leopards! Which was great for them and for us!

And quite astoundingly, they’ve arrived here pretty well! I mean, they’ve got some bush experience, and they’ve got lots of biology behind them!

But they’ve driven in, and they’re suddenly they’ve got four leopards within about—oh, I don’t know—an acre of each other! Quite astounding, that's a pretty good turnout!

Des Santos might be entirely rubbish! It’s all based entirely on conjecture and a bit of reading, but mainly conjecture! Tristan is just across this rather deep river!

Indeed, I know exactly! James saw him just now—briefly through the thicket, so I can’t really see him anymore! But you can see now that Tandy has come in instead of Kalumba!

She’s moved off a little bit, not far, and then Tandy came and took her place and is now tucking in to feed! But when I was saying earlier that she’s got a full belly, you can see it quite clearly now!

If you look at the size of that tummy in comparison to you know how much has actually been eaten—they’ve definitely come off a really decent meal in the last little bit!

What have you seen? I’m sure she’s very nervous of the boys arriving in this area now since I can see just now!

Because, well, there is a liquid it’s also a very cool little lizard that’s cruising right next to us! It’s very, very close! There it is!

It looks like a little bushveld lizard that we've got! And straight in! Straight in! Straight in! Straight in! There it is!

In the middle there, slightly up a bit! There we go! Straight there! We go! You can see how camouflaged that these little guys have got! Isn’t that cool?

You often find them, these particular ones moving around in areas like this where they are able to go up onto small trees like a Tambuti tree and they can camouflage and go into the cracks underneath the bark and hide out there!

But very cool to see! I know there’s a lipid around, but sometimes you've got to look at the smaller things that are around you too!

It's always nice to have kind of up-close views of lizards because generally we see them from so far and we don’t really get to see much about them!

And this one is Goodwin! There’s one that is very close! And I mean, that is as close as you could ever get towards a lizard on a vehicle! I mean, it’s probably less than a meter from where I'm sitting right now!

And there it goes off up the tree! I’m pretty sure it’s gonna go and try and find a little hideout spot to stay nice and safe!

Yes, be careful! There’s two lizards around! And petite! I mean, too! Like lipids or in particular Kalumba, who will chase little lizards! I’m pretty sure she does all the time!

And it’s probably, unfortunately, taken quite a few of these guys! You know Tandi still feeding! She’s quite alert at the moment!

I’m hoping yes, it does look like a good of its tail was kind of disappeared! Oh, it’s just got a bit of a new tail! It’s growing after it lost it!

They often find it’s certain lizards do you lose their tails as part of the defense mechanism! So the tail drafts often stays wiggling and it allows them to move off while the predator is preoccupied with the wiggly tail!

Now Tandi won’t have that ability! So in something like I mean arriving today, she’s not gonna be able to do that! Instead, she’s going to have to use all her strength to try and drag it up a tree!

And I honestly don't see any really nice trees for her that are going to be easily climbable! And easy for her to pull this carcass up!

I’m very surprised to see that she hasn’t dragged it to a bit of a different spot where maybe it’s a little bit more hidden or, you know, out of the way!

But for now, she’s got kind of a lot of trees around! You might be thinking I’m absolutely mad because you can see trees all over the place, but they're all straight-stemmed timber trees with very few nice comfortable Vs for this carcass to actually hang in!

So I would be very surprised if she sort of picked any of these— they’re not ideal trees for it to hang! They might actually be one towards the back end if he might be able to get into, which you see luxury!

Look at her! She’s kind of licking in the sort of bottom part of that carcass! So not only will she be getting rid of meat, but she’s also licking up all that pooling blood that's sickling in that area!

And like I said before, if you’re squeamish, it’s probably not the best time to look! You know, lipids when they feed, particularly on a new carcass like this! You can often see a lot of kind of blood coming out of the carcass, as well as, you know, a lot of the internal organs!

Well done, girl! How you have managed this, I’m not quite sure! She’s managed to bring this down without the attention of both the boys!

Depends, I mean, I’ve seen aggressive males and aggressive females! I must be honest, more aggressive females than males! But it depends on the upbringing in where they come from and their experiences!

Females obviously have a lot more to lose in a male leopard in terms of, you know, male can often just run away and move off, whereas a female leopard, she’s often what cubs—which means that she’s got to be able to try and kind of look after those cubs!

And that causes her to be a lot more kind of defensive of her area and makes sure that she is constantly on the offensive if she’s trying to defend those cubs and try to keep their, you know, whatever predator is at bay!

Now since, I say, he can spot the little baby or the fetuses in there! There we go! So exactly what sins was trying to say now is—looking at the thing that was saying that this nyala might be pregnant!

And I’m sorry if you’re in our squeamish, you nearly need to look away now because that is a little baby nyala that hasn't been born! And it’s quite well developed; it's really got its stripes!

And that’s what she’s busy pulling out! And I said it earlier that it looked like that stomach was very big! And I’m afraid there is a little baby nyala!

That’s always very, very sad to see these things! As much as it’s great for our leopards to feed, it’s very, very difficult to watch!

And you have to watch them feed off little unborn animals! It’s never a very pleasant thing at all! And you know, it’s—it’s unfortunately part of life!

And we're going to see a lot of it over the next couple of months! You know, as the impalas and the nyalas and many of the animals gear up to have their babies in time for summer!

You sort of start to kind of see these sights! And believe me, a lot of you are saying, “Oh no!” And it’s not very pleasant at all! It’s not something that any of us really like to look at! Especially a little baby like that, you know, that’s kind of got fur!

It's got its stripes already! So never nice that’s all! But it is nature, and it is the way things can go!

In case, if you can just repeat the name for me, sorry! I just got the dream part, I didn’t get the first part of it!

So tears from a dream, you say this is all about nature, and this is kind of the raw part about it! And it is sometimes difficult to watch, and difficult to process, but like I said, that’s what for me makes this particular sort of job that I do and this program that we’re part of, that you guys are able to watch!

So special is that we were able to kind of show you guys pretty much everything that goes on out there! Whether, like I say, it’s a roller trying to swallow a frog or, you know, a leopard eating an unborn fetus!

It kind of all fits in at some point! And there are a lot of animals that die—it's only the way it has to be for all of these predators to survive and for us to have a magic moment of Kalumba and Changi playing!

It's required energy to have gone into a kill and for them to feed on it! And so that process of watching all of that, it’s just part and parcel of their life!

And, like I said, I don’t mean to sound insensitive to those of you that do kind of have a little bit of a sort of a stand or frown for nuts and off!

But it’s a sort of hesitancy to watch something like that! It’s by all means your own choice! I’m just trying to put it in from my point of view as to why we sit with animals on carcasses and why we watch it!

And I know this afternoon, it’s been a pretty macabre afternoon in many respects! We’ve got three different sightings or four different sightings, I suppose, of animals being fed upon!

And it is difficult to watch, and you know a lot of you will think that as guides, that we sometimes such a M.B working!

You know you will think that us as guides are stone-hearted when it comes to these kind of things!

Seeing a little baby in a Niala like that is never pleasant! It’s not something that I go out and thrilled to see! It's just part of what my job is!

And being able to show you guys the raw part about it is what makes this, like I say, so special!

Now, in case if you can just repeat the name for me! Sorry! I just got the dream part! I didn’t get the first part of it!

Later, try and you know what, when we see animal kill, we give a warning before! But it is also very educational!

It’s in many respects! The point about it shows you how a lipid goes about feeding what organs it will start to go for, how muscle structures are broken down on that animal!

What the techniques are in order to be able to stop it being stolen from them like Tandi just now scraped a whole bunch of soil and debris over the top of that after she finished eating in order to try and just cover it!

So that’s it, and I hope you enjoyed that moment of pandemonium! And we’ll hopefully see you all again on Safari Live! If you want to see what plays out, remember that you can just google Safari Live and carry on watching us!

But from scenes and myself, it’s been an absolute pleasure!

We’ll see you all soon! Well, how was that? That was absolutely insane!

We have just been witness to one of those very special moments in the bush! And this is part of what goes through to what we were talking about earlier!

That’s actually spending time watching an animal eat a carcass! Sometimes these are the things that kind of take place and interactions and behavior that we wouldn’t have witnessed had we left that alone!

So very, very special to see what we’ve just seen! Well, I need to catch my breath! That was all a bit chaotic to be honest!

And so hopefully, it kind of settles down a little bit! But it is that time, though, that we are going to be signing off!

Remember, we are going to be coming to you again at 6:30! Our time, or Central African time, we lead kickoff as a premier on local South African television!

So remember to tune in again in about half an hour’s time! And hopefully, the madness will be continuing at that stage!

It’s going to be certain— is lined up to be an action-packed evening! So from all of us that have been out this afternoon, it’s been an absolute pleasure!

Hopefully, we'll see you a little bit later! Otherwise, we'll see you tomorrow morning on the Sunrise Safari!