Safari Live - Day 35 | National Geographic

Big pigs of youngsters that would explain the very excited behavior between them. Wonderful, right? Well, it's not just the warthogs and myself and a man who that are joining you this afternoon. Jamie and Craig are in the other car, and they are heading up to the marsh. Let's go see how far Jamie is. I didn't get very far at all, and strangely enough, what has attracted the attention of the lions was in fact a warthog as well. So it's not just Taylor, the warthogs, and myself out here, but we've got the Ngama pride as well.

A very good afternoon to all of you! My name is Jamie, and this afternoon Craig is on camera with me. We're sitting right below the escarpment with the Ngama pride and the four females and their 13 cubs. Besides, you, there's 13 cubs here. It's a little bit tricky to tell, but it's lovely to have you all on board with us. Don't forget, because you're on a live safari, yeah, from the Maasai Mara and, of course, in the Sabi Sand in South Africa, you can send through your questions on hashtag Safari Live on Twitter.

We've actually got a really lovely scene in front of us. Of course, our lioness and her cubs are posing beautifully on a termite mound. Oh, you all! Those cubs are beautiful! You own a little one! And then if we have a look across to the right, we've also got a journey of giraffe, which is quite lovely as well. There you go! They've obviously spotted the lions from their vantage point, and they've been keeping a close eye on them.

Very typical standard prey and predator behavior to stare in the direction of something like a lion or a leopard. Those giraffe are staring. I assume after the other lionesses, which must be a little bit just past where we can see. The lovely thing about this particular pride of lions, of course, is the fact that we always pretty much always know where they are, which is really very helpful. They're always around this river system, and barring the few times that they've been into the thick forest at the base of the mountain, we've pretty much, if we want to, we can always find them.

We can't always get to them. Sometimes they're sort of out of reach. This is one of their favorite gardenia trees. I often see them hanging out around here. I know that a note was obtained, climbers that Taylor was with last night, I think it must have been. I know she was watching them hunt. Scenic, it is lovely to hear from you now. Scenic, I think perhaps you are—I don't know if you're a new viewer or not. I know I haven't asked answered a question from you yet.

The scenic, the males, well, never around. So essentially the males, sorry I'm distracted by a bird flying! I think it was just a vehicle that's catered this. Essentially, males are not part of the pride; they have a territory that encompasses the territories of several different prides. They kind of move between ladies and at the same time move off on their own to patrol the territorial boundaries, to roar and make sure that no other male lions think that it would be a good idea to come and disturb this particular patch of theirs.

So I'm not sure where the males are today. I would say that they generally spend time either here with the young cubs or close to the embankments. Or else generally speaking, they're a bit further to the south of us, to the southeast of us at the marsh, or at least the dominant males that we see here. And I spent the last two nights in Whistie-a-ra Marsh desperately searching for male lions, and we didn't succeed. But we did have a really stunning evening with the ridge pride.

I hope that this evening promises to provide those opportunities as well. And while we sit here and enjoy the company of the Ngama pride, let's go, of course we're not just here in the Mara; let's go across to South Africa to enjoy some sights there. Good afternoon fellow safari-ans, and welcome to our sunset safari from South Africa. My name is Tristan, and on camera today I do have Senzo. Today is quite a special day in South Africa. It is Heritage Day in South Africa, so we are going to be celebrating all things South African.

If you want to know a little bit about South Africa, you can use hashtag Safari Live on Twitter or on YouTube chat, and we will address some of the South African questions and theme it in a South African way. Now I forgot—I wanted to do a face painting, and I wanted to ask in the two area South African socks—but we both forgot because we were rushing around a bit to get on to the drive. I know we were a little bit late.

Note, yes, right now the reason why I'm down here is because I have a report that there are spotted cats in some way in where I am now, so I'm just going to have a look. I don't know whether or not it's on the Juma side or whether it was on Little Gauri, but there was a report by somebody that they saw one here, and whether or not it was actually visible for us, this is anyone's guess. But we're gonna try and have a little look and check and see, maybe we get lucky with it and we find something here.

Now you might also notice that there is an odd-shaped two eyes kind of peering from my steering wheel. Yes, that is Poogie! Poogie is back and visible! I couldn't find any way to put Poogie over the last little bit because Rusty doesn't have the best places for Poogie, so I was thinking, well, let me try and find somewhere that it will work—and so Poogie is now on a rollercoaster ride on the steering wheel! He's probably going to be thoroughly ill by the end of all of this.

But that's why we've decided to put Poogie! Hopefully, Poogie will have some fun where he is! Now this is apparently where this leopard was seen, but I don't see anything myself. Of course, that might not be the case, it might just be sitting somewhere. I haven't seen it, so I'm gonna do a little bit to the west of the driveway just to check if it's not on one of the termite mounds here or sitting somewhere in this general vicinity. Of course, it also could have gone south. There are some kudu right there, so that means that there's probably—oh, like you had not elected to anywhere here.

The kudu are a bit obscured to the south, so I want to just go forward a bit. There are also impalas to my north as well. So if there is a leopard sandwiched between quite a lot of prey animals, it would be nice if I could find some sort of sign of it to give me a better idea of where it's actually gone and which leopard this actually is. Here we go! Here's the tracks right here! So this leopard has gone somewhere in this general vicinity, and its tracks go up and then turn to the right now.

So if you look on the top of this mound here, you'll see I'm going to try and direct you, but if you look—where's that stick? Okay, from this stick here, just go a little bit up and to your right! There it is right there! So there you can see the little footprint for a leopard going over; it looks like a small female. So I think this could be Shadow’s cub's track, and maybe Shadow's track is also somewhere around here. So there is the track for this leopard crossing north into Juma, now it's just a matter of us actually finding it and trying to see where it's gone.

I wonder if Treehouse Dam is not a good place to go and check if we haven't seen anything just yet. We'll try and check around Treehouse Dam, but there's definitely—that is the tracks we're looking for. The good news is that they're going north, into where Taylor and Art are, which is fantastic. So I'm gonna try and follow these tracks and just see where they go.

Maybe this leopard is lying or trying, and I've just missed it now. I'm just gonna turn my car to get close. I think this is her! It's gotta be! Four, I mean, obviously it could also be Shangila given the size of it, which would be absolutely phenomenal if it's her because as we've been saying, we really desperate to try and see where she is and what's going on with her.

It looks like that's where it was lying down. I'm just trying to see the track from here, which way it goes. Senzo, can you see anything? See any leopard here? There's some falling-over branches. I just want to check as well, you see the kudu and the impalas look fairly relaxed. They're not in any way barking or making a noise, and they're just in front of me here. So I don't think there's a leopard lurking that side.

The kudu have come from the south and are moving slowly northwards, so I think any way this leopard must be on our northern side here somewhere, and maybe, just maybe just sitting in a little thicket watching what's going on. So I'll try and just check around. If I don't find tracks, yeah, go to Treehouse Dam because I think maybe, just maybe Treehouse Dam is the place where we're gonna find this leopard. She might have gone for water. It has warmed up considerably in comparison to this morning's drive. This morning, the wind was very cold, but that wind has settled and it's a much warmer feel this afternoon.

So maybe that's pushing this leopard to go and have a drink of water. Where else can I check? Just having a look, I didn't see any tracks on this road. Maybe the firebreak is worth having a little look as well. Now I do apologize that my head is out of the car. Most of the time, Jay, you're asking why am I driving an open vehicle. Well, Jay, it's quite simple. It's the open vehicle that just allows us to see a lot more of what's going on.

So from this open vehicle, I can be able to spot things in the trees. I can see birds flying over, and it allows the cameraman to be able to focus on all of those kinds of things. We don't have any obscurities to deal with, so we don't have to worry about, you know, branches or roofs or windows or anything like that. We can be completely open, and it allows us then to explore our environment in a really good way and allows us to show all of you what's going on! Sorry, I just heard a bit of a noise right next to me, so I thought maybe there was something moving next to me, but it's just a Franklin.

Now there's also an impala up front, which means that this leopard must be in between all of this, either that, or it's completely out of this area! So I don't know, but the open vehicle is just much better for viewing. It really allows us to be able to interact with the environment that much better and be able to bring all of you much better visuals from the comfort of your home. So roofs are also difficult because we off-road a lot! So unlike in Kenya where the guys are off-roading through grassy areas or sticking to the roads, we on the other hand, every different here, ours area—as you can see—is dense, it's thick, it's a lot harder for us to be able to off-road here, and a roof would really complicate that!

So we don't try and leave the roofs off as much as possible and only utilize them when we really have to! So any, when it rains, we would put a roof on just to protect the equipment from the rain. But otherwise, it's roof off and enjoying the sunshine when there is sunshine, the sort of weather that we get! And it's nice actually, it feels as though you're part of an open system and that you can kind of just spread your arms and feel air in your face!

I really thoroughly enjoy driving an open vehicle like we do now! We also don't even have doors on top of it, so that's another part of our vehicles that is a little bit different! Okay, I mean, attracts no leopard tracks here. I wonder where you leopards are! Maggie, I'm so glad you asked how we celebrate Heritage Day, because there's no better way to celebrate Heritage Day than to have a good old-fashioned Braai!

Now, a Braai for us in South Africa is basically a barbecue in the rest of the world. What we'll do is we get as much nice meat as we can find and we throw it on the fire! We'll have some vegetables that we'll do on the fire, basically corn on the cob. There'll also be salads and a bit of pup, which is basically a white polenta. It's maize meal that's ground down, mixed with water and boiled, and it makes this kind of hard and puff thick almost—I don't know what the texture is—polenta dish, and then we make a sauce with it called Sheba, which is a tomato and onion sauce that goes with the pup.

Then you have basically gamma, which is meat and pup and Sheba, and you eat that together! And you get all your friends that you can and you have the biggest Braai! Then you get well, some apple juices as well because you can't have the Braai without an apple juice at night! And that's how you do it! So that's how we will be celebrating this evening after drive. We're going to have ourselves a little barbecue all together with the crew that are here. We've even invited some of the chefs and we've invited a couple of other people, and it should be quite festive!

Well, I think it will be festive and very fun, so it's gonna be an awesome morning or evening! And that's the way we celebrate it! If I was in Johannesburg with my friends there or if I was wherever, that's how I would do it there as well! So that's typically what happens, and it's really is South Africans do love a good barbecue. We love to be able to cook the really good quality meat that we get out here, and well, we have any excuse just to have a bit of a social event and have a couple of drinks together! It really does go down a treat! So that's normally what happens with Heritage Day and what will be happening on our Heritage Day here at Juma!

I wonder if the Kenyan guys are going to celebrate with us. Ah, the Kenyan guys also games ever by excellent! Well done team in Kenya! It's just what we want to hear! We were—I would have been thoroughly disappointed in Brent Clear-Smith if there wasn't a Braai! Because Brent Clear-Smith loves a barbecue and loves to put a steak on the fire! And I remember talking to him the other day and he was so excited to have a steak that I think even I got excited for him to eat his steak on the phone because he was telling me how it got found this good quality steak in Nairobi when he was on leave and he was almost foaming at the mouth! He was so excited about his meat!

So I'm sure he's going to organise something delicious for everybody, and hopefully it will be delicious and they'll all enjoy it! We shall definitely have a toast for them! Kelly, you're asking other than all the Braai food, what other staple South African foods that we have? That's about it! We really simple, actually! We have combined a lot of different cultures together and at the end of the day a Heritage Day food you might be able to throw in a couple things depending on what culture you're part of, so you might do some mopani worms, although it's not a good time for those at the moment! And you might do if you're Afrikaans, you might do some koeksisters! Which is basically a dough that is deep-fried and then drenched in syrup, which yes, it is as good as it sounds, and yes, it has also caused thickening of the arteries, as it sounds as well.

So that's what you would have! If you know an African side of things, we'd have that! It depends on your culture! But you know, generally it's more just about the barbecue and about friends and about having people together! Some people do throw in some inspiration from their backgrounds as Italian or Spanish or Portuguese! We get it! We have a big population of Portuguese and Italian in South Africa, so it just depends on what your personal fancies are.

And most of the time, the theme is meat on a fire and a couple of drinks and friends! That's pretty much how we celebrate any day let alone just Heritage Day! Heritage Day just gives us an excuse to do it as big in as best as we can! And since I was laughing behind the camera because he knows exactly what I'm talking about and I'm right! So I might not censor exactly! Since it is nodding in approval and he's saying yes, that is exactly how it works.

And we all pretty much— that's how we theme it! It really doesn't matter what you have; it’s all just about the company and spending time with friends and family! Now I haven't found any further sign of this leopard. LM you're asking if a barbecue could ever include kudu meat? Most certainly! If you're that way inclined, venison is not something that will be sneezed at by many South Africans.

In fact, many South Africans are thriving and survive on venison. They have farms where it might be difficult to farm suits and other animals, but its wildlife thrives, and they will farm venison and they will farm wild animals, and that will allow them to be able to consume that! So certainly a kudu steak would not be off the menu! A kudu loin actually is what they generally go after. So kudu line, what else do South Africans like? Springbok! Bulls are pretty good! Blue wildebeest—what else? Pretty much anything! As long as it's edible, it generally kind of can be used!

I have no idea where this leopard has gone because I can’t find a track crossing the fire break! So I don’t know if this leopard hopped back across southwards—that's baboon tracks! Okay, I want to go quickly just check the quarry! See if there's anything there! If there's nothing there, then maybe this leopard must be at Treehouse Dam! And if not, somewhere in this grassy area, and I'm just driving circles around, it maybe it's stalking all of these animals and is low to the ground! So we have to keep our ears and eyes art's very carefully and hope that one of these animals alarm calls, and I'll be able to hear them and then be able to see the leopard like that!

But there is definitely a track for a leopard! I drove here yesterday afternoon and those tracks were not there! So we know somebody saw a leopard here; we just don't—I don't know exactly what time. I just got an update that a leopard was seen in this general vicinity. See any tracks here? For leopard! Here kitty kitty kitty kitty, come on! Now, the reason why I'm spending time here, even though I know we've got leopards on the property! I know we've got Tumba! I know we had no Sun, and apparently, a sauna late in the morning—one of the guys was out doing roads and you see the sauna was inches away from Impala!

So I don't know if he caught it or not! But we've got both of those options! But I just thought it would be nice just to check up on who this is! But at the end of the day, it's a small female track! It's in an area where both shadow and a cub as well as Shangila have spent time before! So it's worth checking, worth following up, and worth trying! You never know; maybe we get lucky and we can find one of those three! Because all of those three have been a bit M.I.A over the last little while and we really haven't seen too much of them, so I would like to try and see if I can find one of the girls!

Now while I explore and try and find exactly where this track goes, I'm going to send you back over to Jamie! I'm not going to send you back because unfortunately, it seems as though the picture in the Mara went down, so you're going to be staying with me for a little bit longer as I look around for this leopard! But there's so many prey animals here that are also relaxed! I find it very difficult that this leopard must be still here unless it's just sitting in plain sight and none of us have seen it, which is also very possible! At the end of the day, leopards are masters of camouflage, and this does happen where you can lose them completely!

So I don't know, maybe it is somewhere here! I’m gonna try and just sneak up towards Treehouse and just check at the waterhole itself because maybe this leopard hit it there! Like I said, it warmed up a little bit since yesterday and this morning! Hopefully, it's driving it to go and drink right now! It sounds like the Mara's sorted out the equipment issue; they booted them! Jamie's given it a hiking boot to the face, and the gremlin has departed! She has some lions, and I think they're still sleeping!

Okay, so back all the way halfway across the continent of Africa, back into the Maasai Mara, where we've moved around just a little bit to see what it was those giraffe are looking at! And just as we expected, it is one of the other members of the Ngama pride, and she has settled very comfortably! Hi guys! On a termite mound, and apparently, a few minutes earlier, she actually attempted to try and catch a warthog just before we got here, or at least try to stalk a warthog!

And she's basically having failed at that endeavor! She's basically found herself the most comfortable position that she can! And you could see she's after speaking, sure! They keep an eye on exactly where she is! She's the closest lying to them, so she's the most likely to draw their attention! It is impossible for her to hunt a giraffe not on her own! But together, as a pride, lions can and do catch and kill giraffe!

It is unlikely that she's going to make that sort of attempt tonight, and the reason behind that is she's got plenty of other options as they brought up towards the escarpment! There's buffalo, and a giraffe is a very dangerous thing for a lion! Stan for a lion to hunt—many a lion has been killed by a kick to the head during the mistime leap towards a giraffe! It does happen! Obviously, giraffes have exceptionally powerful kicks! You've seen how big their tracks are, so you've got an idea of how big their feet are! You can imagine the force of that hoof! So, lions have to be exceptionally careful if they decide to hunt a giraffe!

And I don't think that she's desperate enough to take that chance! Now certain lion prides specialize in giraffe! I used to work, then the lion prides would kill giraffe pretty much, I would say, about once a month or so, along with whatever else they manage to catch on the side! That was because there were very few buffalo for them to eat, and so they focused on the giraffe! And a couple of lion prides have learned to chase them over rocky terrain as a way of causing all over, or alternatively onto tarred roads! Lovely to hear from you, Mr. P!

As always, you say that your off in the background is beautiful, which one? Which one are we referring to? I mean, they're all lovely! They're all very, very attractive creatures! And I find that it's always such a pleasant thing for me; still, the novelty of a different species of giraffe, of the Masai giraffe, hasn’t yet worn off! So I always do a little double take when I see them! This one's got a saddle, actually! Oh, is that my imagination? Never settle! That's weird!

It's almost like it was out of focus at that one point on its back! Sorry, my brain is tired of not really making any sense! But you know what I mean? It's like those spots are out of focus! It's after something! He's landing on the ground there that that giraffe wants! Yoshi, you say that the giraffe looks like she's very close to the lion! Yoshi, the giraffe at its closest, I'd say, was about 90 feet away—30-odd meters! So it was relatively close!

I don't think the giraffe was afraid, though, because the giraffe you'll often find— not just her off, but you'll often find animals that could be considered prey to lions or leopards if they see the line! If they can see that the lion is fast asleep, then they're not going to be threatened in any way! And that's actually a lot of the time why things like impala, giraffes, they're brown; if you watch out a potential hunter that's failed, you'll notice that the animals don't run far and then they stop! As soon as they know that they're safe, they stop and they stare at the predator!

It's basically a way of saying, "Okay, there's no point in hunting us, we've seen you! We're going to keep an eye on you and we're make sure that you're not going to sneak up on us." The giraffe knows that will outrun that lion as well after a while, provided it's got a head start. Plus she also knows that one lioness is not a threat! LM, no, the giraffe, out, sort of, I'm starting with the second part of your question first, and sorry, lots of people are coming past and asking to take up a picture of our vehicle!

So essentially the population of giraffe, I'm actually not 100% sure exactly how many there are in the Mara ecosystem and the Serengeti in total! I can't tell you, though, that they do not migrate! So they're not migratory animals! Yes, we had a giraffe river crossing, but that's because sometimes they want to cross the river, it's as simple as that! All of the animals out here move across the river every now and again! But no, they don't migrate in the numbers of the wildebeest and the zebra!

And certainly, you're not looking at nearly as many wildebeest and zebra in terms of giraffe numbers! One thing that we do know and that we talk about quite regularly is the fact that although we often speak of the pangolin, the rhino, the elephant, giraffe have also faced a serious population decline throughout Africa! Something that's known as the silent extinction, because the giraffe numbers have been dipping alarmingly throughout the continent—not here, not just here, but throughout the African continent!

I'll find out a few! I'm sure there's a research paper somewhere on exactly how many giraffe there are in this particular case! I can see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven! Seven! So I can tell you that the population of giraffe in this particular exact spot is sim— oh, farming! While we unfortunately, our giraffe have decided to go for a little walk!

But okay, can you manage to get that one that's reaching up there, or was it stopped? There's one there under the balanitis tree that was stretching up! That's it, that's the one! No questions! Stretching right up to try and nibble on the leaves of the balanitis tree! And it basically is dwarfing the one that's next to it! So that's a bit of stick to me like a large bull giraffe!

Which brings us to the next question about the giraffes' social structure! An apology, Chantal, my brain didn't even grasp the name! If I could hear that again, it would be hugely helpful! Odie farming! Now, Odie farming, you want to know about the social structure of giraffes? I find it interesting! They're not territorial and they don't really have a set herd structure!

They're quite social creatures! They'll gather together in these herds, and then sometimes they'll just wander off on their own for a while and decide that they're bored of that company in the null, find some more giraffe to go and join up with! Demonstrating, you'd think you'd go for an easier one, wouldn't you?

So they don't have a statehood structure, and they don't really have a set hierarchy! They're not territorial! The only time you see lions—are lions—giraffe, the animals we're looking at through giraffe fighting is between males over a female! Sometimes what you'll notice is there's a general trend that daughters will stay with their mothers, and you can get herds of anywhere up to 20 and 30 animals out here! I think the biggest herd that I counted once was 40; that's unusually large!

Now speaking of the males and the way that they fight, Proud Cat Mama, good to hear your name once again! You wanted to know about the purpose of the ossicones, which is the actual official word for the protrusions on top of a giraffe's head. We don't call them horns because although they are solid bone, just like horns, giraffes are born with ossicones.

I'm just gonna make life a little bit easier for Craig here! I'm gonna shift around so that we've got some space in that we can actually see the lion and the giraffe through it! Craig just there to just himself right round!

So the reasons that they have ossicones is essentially just for fighting! That is the main purpose of them! When males fight, what they do, okay, what they do is they swing their necks round! That's the process known somewhat humorously as nicking! And they swing their heads round and they work each other on the sides or on the necks around the shoulders, and they can do some serious damage!

The ossicones just add to that! And if you look at a male giraffe versus a female giraffe, one of the things you'll notice is that it's not just the two ossicones on the top of their heads! They've also got protrusions around the front of the ossicones as well as behind the ossicones! So their heads are built like—what would be a good comparison?

They're essentially built to hurt! And that's one of the reasons—one of the theories as to why giraffes have long necks! Because it's not just about feeding! A lot, obviously, always the theory was based on the fact that being able to reach up higher than everybody else was one of the reasons why giraffes have long necks! Another reason that's been put forward for giraffe as well as for dinosaurs, things like Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, is that it's actually a way of—it's a reproductive strategy!

So the longer the male's neck, the more he can actually fight with another male, and therefore over many, many, many years, obviously, the males with the longer necks had more opportunity to pass on their genetic line! And so you've got the giraffe ancestors next getting on run longer until you get the giraffes that we have today. So that's one of the theories that's been put forward to replace the idea, or to contest the idea that giraffes have long necks just for food!

And I mean it ties in, because if you think about the really sort of complex shapes of the horns of antelopes, male-male antelope. Okay, let's go back to our stretching-up giraffe since it's the only one that's really sticking out its tongue! Unfortunately, it is now really far away!

I could go all the way around, but it'll take me too long to actually get past everyone and to those giraffes! Let's go! A giraffe's tongue is quite rough! It is not as rough as a lion's tongue, because of course, the lion has those spurs adapted for getting rid of the fur on the animals that they feed on, as well as cleaning away meat from bone! Giraffe tongues are very, very tough, though!

They're not as rough as mine, but they are exceptionally tough! That makes sense because they use them to feed or fawn trees! It's really as simple as that! And so they have dark deposited—the tongue of a giraffe is purple and very, very long, and about half a meter long at its full stretch!

And it's purple in color thanks to the melanin deposits which apparently help to protect it from the Sun! It's something that I've read! A lot! I remember having a discussion with some of our viewers about that! It seems curious that a giraffe would need to protect its tongue from the Sun because you don't really see them sunbathing with their tongues out!

But also to toughen it against the impact of thorns! Those very tough tongues are highly entertaining to watch them feed and highly entertaining to watch them clean their nostrils with it! As our giraffe make their way away from the lions and towards the herd of elephants in the forest of the escarpment, it's going to find out! I know Taylor mentioned she was wondering about this garden! Let's go find out if she's had any luck!

Just as I think I've spotted something! Yep! I did spot a termite mound! I promise it looks just like a lion! Anyways, that's um... yeah, Jamie! Now, I'm not having much luck at the moment! The sausage tree pride seem to have given me a slip!

So we're looking with the help of our wonderful Ascari! As you even know the area really well, so he's giving us a hand! Other than that, that's all that's happening! I'm gentle! I forgot the question—not the question, but you asked the question! So I'm sorry, goldfish! Yes! Selling wonderful question for you!

Seeing as though it is not a good on there, we could not Sally savvy! Let's see if that's that sound! I didn't get a correction! Haha! Okay, so you're wondering what my favorite dishes for Heritage Day are! And I was thinking about it, and I actually said, any enough, two days ago I really must Braai Boerewors!

Now for those of you who don't know what boerewors is, it's very English! You can say Putin, of course, as well! But I'm gonna say that! Very well! So it's basically spicy sausage, and it's absolutely delicious! You can flavor them with different things! Normally, it's coriander! But not typically you would have that in a freshly baked, we would say, a roll—a fun bread roll!

I don't know what everyone else in the world calls them! A little bit of pup, and then it has to be in tomato relish, so many quite a spicy tomato relish with onions! And you put that on the boerewors on the bread roll! That is the best South African dish, I reckon!

And that's my favorite thing for Heritage Day! I think that she used to try and do boerewors rolls often growing up as a kid! But yes, there we go! So, I think that the sausage tree pride has moved out of the area that they've been hanging around in because your faces, I suppose they're just moving around within their home range!

Wherever there's animals, they move, you know the lions will move to! So we're checking an old favorite! When I first started, when I first arrived up in the buyer, oh sorry, this is where the Sausage Tree pride used to hang around! We're going back! We're gonna check! And if not this one, we'll check the next one!

We're lucky; there's actually quite a few of them that run off of the escarpment! Lots of buffalo down here, but I haven't really seen much of anything else! But reading zebra, hardly any topi, one or two impala here and there! So it's been quite acquisitive! We'll keep searching! And this was very windy, so maybe these cats have moved closer to the thicker vegetation!

Right! We're gonna keep holding our hats down in this wind today, Tristan is our tracking! Will he find you all a bit? Bit this evening? Well, we're busy trying! I've just checked Treehouse Dam, and the tracks turned back the way we've come and heared waste again!

So going back towards Obama Nixon's in the area helping me, which is great news because he's got James with him! So some of you may know James, who helps us out when we have our TV shows! As one of our trackers that goes out with Herbie and also a very good tracker just like Herbie! And James on foot, and he's walking through this section just to have a little look, see if he can find anything!

So hopefully, it's going to be between us, we all find her! But she went to the dam and has gone back to the side! So I think it must be shadow! Just give him the route that she has taken and how she's kind of walked back towards the area that she came from!

So I would imagine it must be shadow and the cub! I don't see any sign of the cub track! Though, the only track I saw was the one that was on the main road that we first spotted! So I think that's the cub track! And since then it's just been this female's track walking around here, so I'm pretty sure we will find them wherever they are!

Just got to check around! But definitely for a female that's for certain! So whether it's Shadow or Shadow, I don't really know at this stage, either one of them will be nice to find! I'm not really worried either way! So when I go back towards Obama pans and back up Shabam!

Rick says he's gonna go round from the north and he's gonna let me know if we find something on his side! But the best way to do this is just to close out the area and to double-check and to see what's going on and make sure that you're checking nicely wherever you're going that there isn't a sign of them!

So there we go! And Rick's actually, I just heard on the radio, Rex's Farber! So just to my western side, right here in fact where we're going and driving! Rex has actually spotted it, which is fantastic news! So there we go!

There's Rex actually right there! And right where the leopard is! So that's very cool! Now, I'm not sure which leopard it is, like I say it could be shadow; it could be Shangilia! It could be either one! But sitting atop a termite mound, I would imagine is where this leopard is at the moment!

So fantastic news for since I says, we were just here! We were since! Sins oh! We just didn't open our eyes very well, and we got too sidetracked with the tracks! And got too excited about tracks heading towards Charles Dam; we didn't look very well on top of a mound! Because this is a leopard!

So curled up on top! Pink nose! Yes! Is everything not John Gilly, that's for sure! That looks just like shadow to me! So I'm sure that is shadow that's sitting on top! Which is good news! Now there was a track for the cub as well! So maybe the little cub is also around!

Jen with us settling down! Maybe the cub will come back after! I'm not sure how relaxed the cub is these days! But it seems as though Musa Ramathorn is not too unrelaxed! So hopefully, we will be able to find the cub coming up! The last track ahead for the cub was just south of us coming north!

So it should be somewhere in this general vicinity! But that's super awesome! Nice! Another female! So we were talking about it yesterday then! We haven't seen too much of the girls! And well, there's one off the list! And while it's not showing delay, at least it's a female leopard!

One that hopefully we will be able to spend all afternoon with! I know the boys are around, but we've really had a lot of time with them! So I'm going to enjoy spending time with shadow! And there are so many other antelope in this area! There's an impala I can see that’s not even 150 meters away!

So it will be good just to spend time with shadow! See if maybe she's gonna go on to the hunt this afternoon and move around! So exciting news! I'm sure a lot of you are happy to see her! Believe a lot of you are very excited to see a female lipid! But I know we saw Tony last night!

Well, I don't know if we can classify seeing her bum in her tail and just paws dangling and seeing Timely nicely! But this is at least a lot better! She's up on a mound and hopefully will wake up at some point in the afternoon! I'm pretty sure she will!

The nice thing for is that it's overcast, cloudy; she can lie on top of this mound not have to worry about the Sun beating down on her! Looks as though there's a little bit of a bump on that tummy! So it would mean that hopefully she's had a little bit of food!

And that means maybe why she went to go and drink! Is just after eating! They often do go and drink! Remember yesterday Rix had tracks for a female and cub that had lost their Impala kill and can only have been shadow! It was north of where we are now!

So it can only have been her! And she must have lost her kill to hyenas! And maybe this is the after-effects of all of that! Is that she's still digesting a little bit! And that's why she's so sleepy! And out cold and out for the count of the stage! But how wonderful isn't that?

Really cool! What a wonderful way to start our drive! Right! So James, you say definitely shadow! I agree! And that's—well! James is probably one of the best people to consult with leopards! Is very good with IDM and matching up the spot pattern! So I'm glad that James agrees!

And it could really only be her in this particular section! And with the nose like that, she's the only one that has that finger! It's now, while shadow sleeps, and while we reposition ourselves to get into a sucky bit of position, I believe Taylor McCurdy has got something—well, that I haven't seen on Juma in quite some time!

And is apparently a very big example of one! I've called you a buffalo! But look at the size of this fella! This has to be the biggest buffalo I have ever seen in my life! And I wish one of the other Dugger boys would walk towards him! So that I can show you how he dwarfs them in comparison!

Look at the size of those horns! Firstly—and there are quite a few other Dugger boys around! And they're not—it’s not like they're young! But he is taller and longer than all of them! It is outstanding! And like I said, I really wish he'd just hang tight and not run off and wait for the rest of the group that he's with!

That is a big buffalo! And he looks mean as well! I don't know if I'd want to get on his wrong side! Look at the size of it! There is only muscle on this buffalo! No, I don't know what size-up of pride of lions you'd need here to take down this boy!

Because we've seen with buffalo, they don't put up with lions' nonsense at all! And they definitely are larger than the buffalo in South Africa! Even the other ones not needed! I mean, he is exceptionally big and they struggle to take them down!

So I wouldn't imagine how a pride of lions would be able to do this! Maybe there's six young males that have been seen quite a bit; they were trying to take down the hippo with Brent! I think they do that on a regular occasion!

Maybe they this would be an equal match, but wow, he really is big! Chasten, you said law! I don't think I've ever said law out loud before! First for me! You have said that that disgusted look he has! I don't know why these buffalo always look so angry! A shame! It must be really terrible!

Especially men's I'm trying to make friends than you both! Because grumpy is one another! So I just want to show you the others that we've got here too! So you can see—I mean, pan across them! There's so much smaller! So these are also adult males!

And there's a cow on the left, so you can see she's smaller than the ones on the right-hand side of the screen! It is a big breeding herd up ahead! So I think she's probably looking towards them hoping to catch up!

She's of—as you've just fallen behind slightly! But she also looks very round, so I wonder if she isn't due to give birth! There are lots of buffalo calves around at the moment! And she's exceptionally large, isn't she?

And not in the—not in the large manner as that big buffalo bull! But in the fact that maybe she's going to have a calf soon! Maybe that's why she's nagging behind the herd! Hopefully, these boys will stay with her to help her!

Here's another angry buffalo, and another one! And look at the size of their horns! Nowhere near the other boys! Anger that small African pygmy buffalo compared to the one we've just seen! I'm just joking, of course! Maya's camera work—my new nice, that was a great shot!

No Piper Pancake! You're wondering if it would be any predator that would be a threat to this buffalo? Most certainly! Lions are indeed a big threat to the buffalo! Actually, he's just showing off from the West! Now he snorted and trotted forward!

So now he's really standing tall to look at that! You know, thank you! I'm okay—I don't think I'd want to mess with this boy! So lions would be his biggest thing! Maybe a crocodile if he was brave enough to go down to the river!

Although I think one of his hooves would—oh no! A crocodile would not be very nice, but they're so tough! Those perches lines! But I think he's kept a few at bay before! He is honestly an absolute brute!

Non-Lori wondering if the horns of the buffalo differ in the Mara? No, no they're the same as the buffalo in South Africa! So they're made of keratin, so there's no difference there! And again buffalo horns are unique just like people's noses! You know this buffalo doesn't have a particularly big boss, but his splay is massive!

And then you get others that have got really big bosses but their horns don't sort of cork out as why they seem to curl back a little sooner or combination of either! And so again, it's just got to do with genetics! If maybe that's what you have noticed!

I've seen both: big boss, very long and curved horns, some that almost touch the boss again so tightly curled! He's not particularly young either! I think he's in—I think he's in the prime of his life, this boy!

Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang! You're wondering who kills more—wild buffalo killing more lions and lions killing more buffalo! It's hard to say! I think up in this area it’s probably an equal match!

I reckon down in South Africa, lions are killing more buffalo! But here, the buffalo, they don't play games! I mean, if I said not every single sighting I've seen so far where lions and buffalo have interacted, and this is just up here in the Mara that I'm talking about, the buffalo have won hands down!

Every single time! The lions have not come close! Not close to catching a buffalo! So it always ends up in them retreating and heading towards the lugger, the drainage line! Funny enough, it's the same situation over and over again!

So these big animals have learnt that you've just got to show a bit of confidence! And it's very risky for those lions! So even the cubs are running out as well! You don't want the tables to turn! Don't be terrible!

Wow, well, there we go! Whoo! That was quite cool! And she made me quite nervous to realize that there's a mess of buffalo like this! Aren't you glad I'm not doing bush walks? But I'm gonna send you back to a Tristan who has got shadow, and I wonder how she's doing!

At the moment, I'm not quite sure she's lying down! She looks fairly healthy and looks good and as though she's moving around just fine! I was checking her tracks just now and she's not got any discernable limp that I can see! So I'm hoping that she's moving around okay!

It might be a bit stiff after walking, but we'll circle and stick around to find out! It seems to say, you know, she's coming right! In fact, the fact that she survived as long as she has, if that injury was really that bad, we would probably have seen a reduction in her condition!

Whereas, as you can see, she looks pretty good! She's got a slight bump on the tummy, which means she's feeding! We know that she's been on carcasses in the last few weeks from varying other lodges around us, and so that leg must be healing up quite nicely!

Now, it was at one point looked really bad! And she's even lying on it now! It was her right front leg, so her right front leg was the one that was damaging all that was! And she was really favoring the left leg heavily!

As far as I remember, I think it was has been a while since you know walking! But if it is the right front leg, you can see she's lying on it, which means that there’s definitely not too much pain involved.

Cats would avoid lying on whatever limb is really sore, so on even if it is the left leg! The left leg is firmly down, and it looks all okay! So I think she's fine! And if she's catching food—and we know that yesterday she had an impala carcass stolen from her!

As long as she's catching food, then she's going to be okay! She'll be able to survive! And the best thing about it is that she's managed even with this injury to keep this cub alive and to keep feeding it and looking after it!

So it really is a testament to that! As soon as now things have been a lot more settled in her territory in terms of the males, it's been a lot easier for her to raise this cub! And she's also that coupled to the fact that we have four nice hyena presence here on Juma than we did a few years ago!

And it means that, you know, she's caught some breaks now and she's actually done quite well—and so far, touch wood—has been able to raise this female and get her to some sort of independence, which is especially not independent yet!

But she's at that age now where the most dangerous period is over! You know, we’re fast approaching sort of nine months, and by nine months that cub will be pretty street smart and will be able to move around! And we'll be able to know what's going on!

And we shouldn't have a situation where it should be able to even fend for itself—even at this age! We know Tamba, Husana, Shangila—they've all been left fairly young! They've all managed to eke out an existence!

And hopefully, Shadow's cub is at that age now where even it would be able to slowly but surely find food if it was to be abandoned! Anyway, and we'll be able to avoid things like either leopard and hyenas and the varying other sort of threats that it has!

Parcher, so she's done well! And it's a positive sign! And if you think with Cindy, let you know, she did quite well with him—got him to a point where he was able to kill something for himself! You're albeit a rabid dog, but nonetheless he was able to kill and he was able to find a food item for himself!

And she pretty much did all the hard yards! The fact that he survived, obviously, was because there was intervention and they were treating him for rabies and all of that! But that wasn't really her fault! It wasn't a situation that was natural! You know, a dog should never have been inside here that had rabies!

And so, at the end of the day, it’s not her fault that he—the dog—is now a quarter-ton! And that so she did well with Cindy Lee, which was the last one! And now, you know, this cub that she’s got now she’s managed to do quite well with it as well!

And we know the girls have been a little bit on the quiet side on Juma! The young boys have been dominating what's been going on! So I would like to try and see if I can find one of the girls! Now, while I explore and try and find exactly where this track goes, I’m going to send you back over to Jamie!

I'm not going to send you back because unfortunately, it seems as though the picture in the Mara went down! So you're going to be staying with me for a little bit longer as I look around for this leopard! But! There's so many prey animals here that are also relaxed!

I find it very difficult that this leopard must be still here unless it's just sitting in plain sight, and none of us have seen it, which is also very possible! At the end of the day, leopards are masters of camouflage!

And this does happen where you can lose them completely! So I don't know; maybe it is somewhere here! I’m gonna try and just sneak up towards Treehouse and just check at the waterhole itself because maybe the snippet hitted there!

Like I said, it warmed up a little bit since yesterday and this morning and, hopefully, it's driving it to go and drink right now! It sounds like the Mara's sorted out the agreement issue; they booted them!

Jamie's given it a hiking boot to the face, and gremlin has departed! She has some lions, and I think they're still sleeping! Okay, so back all the way halfway across the continent of Africa, back into the Maasai Mara, where we've moved around just a little bit to see what it was those giraffe are looking at!

And just as we expected, it is one of the other members of the Ngama pride, and she has settled very comfortably! Hi guys! On a termite mound, and apparently, a few minutes earlier, she actually attempted to try and catch a warthog just before we got here—or at least try to stalk a warthog!

And she's basically having failed at that endeavor! She's basically found herself the most comfortable position that she can! And you could see she's after speaking! Sure they keep an eye on exactly where she is! She's the closest lying to them, so she's the most likely to draw their attention!

It is impossible for her to hunt a giraffe, not on her own! But together, as a pride, lions can and do catch and kill giraffe! It is unlikely that she's going to make that sort of attempt tonight!

And the reason behind that is she's got plenty of other options as they brought up towards the escarpment! There's buffalo! And a giraffe is a very dangerous thing for a lion! Stan for a lion to hunt—many a lion has been killed by a kick to the head during the mistime leap towards a giraffe!

It does happen! Obviously giraffes have exceptionally powerful kicks! You've seen how big their tracks are! So you've got an idea of how big their feet are! You can imagine the force of that hoof! So lions have to be exceptionally careful if they decide to hunt a giraffe!

And I don't think that she's desperate enough to take that chance! Now, certain lion prides specialize in giraffe! I used to work; then the lion prides would kill giraffe pretty much, I would say, about once a month or so, along with whatever else they manage to catch on the side!

That was because there were very few buffalo for them to eat, and so they focused on the giraffe! And a couple of lion prides have learned to chase them over rocky terrain as a way of causing all over, or alternatively onto tarred roads! Lovely to hear from you, Mr. P!

As always, you say that your off in the background is beautiful! Which one? Which one are we referring to? I mean, they're all lovely! They're all very, very attractive creatures! And I find that it's always such a pleasant thing for me; still, the novelty of a different species of giraffe of the Masai giraffe still hasn’t yet worn off!

So I always do a little double take when I see them! This one's got a saddle actually! Oh, is that my imagination? Never settle! That's weird! It's almost like it was out of focus at that one point on its back! Sorry, my brain is tired of not really making any sense!

But you know what I mean? It's like those spots are out of focus! It's after something! He's landing on the ground there that that giraffe wants! Yoshi, you say that the giraffe looks like she's very close to the lion! Yoshi, the giraffe at its closest, I'd say, was about 90 feet away—30-odd meters!

So it was relatively close! I don't think the giraffe was afraid, though! Because the giraffe you'll often find—not just her off, but you'll often find animals that could be considered prey to lions or leopards if they see the line! If they can see that the lion is fast asleep, then they're not going to be threatened in any way!

And that's actually a lot of the time why things like impala giraffes, they're brown! If you watch out a potential hunter that's failed, you'll notice that the animals don't run far, and then they stop! As soon as they know that they're safe, they stop and they stare at the predator! It's basically a way of saying, "Okay, there's no point in hunting us! We've seen you! We're going to keep an eye on you! And we're make sure that you're not going to sneak up on us!" The giraffe knows that will outrun that lion as well after a while, provided it's got a head start.

Plus she also knows that one lioness is not a threat! LM, no, the giraffe out, sort of, I'm starting with the second part of your question first, and sorry, lots of people are coming past and asking to take up a picture of our vehicle! So essentially, the population of giraffe, I'm actually not 100% sure exactly how many there are in the Mara ecosystem and the Serengeti in total!

I can't tell you, though, that they do not migrate! So they're not migratory animals! Yes, we had a giraffe River crossing, but that's because sometimes they want to cross the river! It's as simple as that! All of the animals out here move across the river every now and again! But no, they don't migrate in the numbers of the wildebeest and zebra!

And certainly, you're not looking at nearly as many wildebeest and zebra in terms of giraffe numbers! One thing that we do know and that we talk about quite regularly is the fact that although we often speak of the Pangolin, the Rhino, the elephant, giraffe have also faced a serious population decline throughout Africa!

Something that's known as the silent extinction because the giraffe numbers have been dipping alarmingly throughout the continent—not here! Not just here! But throughout the African continent! I'll find out a few! I'm sure there's a research paper somewhere on exactly how many giraffe there are in this particular case! I can see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven!

So I can tell you that the population of giraffe in this particular exact spot is sim— oh, farming! While we unfortunately, our giraffe have decided to go for a little walk! But okay, can you manage to get that one that's reaching up there, or was it stopped?

There's one there under the balanitis tree that was stretching up! That's it! That's the one! No questions! Stretching right up to try and nibble on the leaves of the balanitis tree! And it basically is dwarfing the one that's next to it!

So that's a bit of stick to me like a large bull giraffe! Which brings us to the next question about the giraffes' social structure! An apology, Chantal, my brain didn't even grasp the name! If I could hear that again, it would be hugely helpful! Odie farming! Now, Odie farming, you want to know about the social structure of giraffes? I find it interesting!

They're not territorial and they don't really have a set herd structure! They're quite social creatures! They'll gather together in these herds and then sometimes they'll just wander off on their own for a while and decide that they're bored of that company in the null, find some more giraffe to go and join up with!

Demonstrating, you'd think you'd go for an easier one, wouldn't you? So they don't have a statehood structure, and they don't really have a set hierarchy! They're not territorial! The only time you see lions—are lions—giraffe, the animals we're looking at through giraffe fighting is between males over a female! Sometimes what you'll notice is there's a general trend that daughters will stay with their mothers, and you can get herds of anywhere up to 20 and 30 animals out here!

I think the biggest herd that I counted once was 40; that's unusually large! Now speaking of the males and the way that they fight! Proud Cat Mama, good to hear your name once again! You wanted to know about the purpose of the ossicones, which is the actual official word for the protrusions on top of a giraffe's head! We don't call them horns because although they are solid bone, just like horns, giraffes are born with ossicones.

I'm just gonna make life a little bit easier for Craig here! I'm gonna shift around so that we've got some space in that we can actually see the lion and the giraffe through it! Craig just there to just himself right round!

So the reasons that they have ossicones is essentially just for fighting! That is the main purpose of them! When males fight, what they do, okay, what they do is they swing their necks round! That's the process known somewhat humorously as nicking!

And they swing their heads round and they work each other on the sides or on the necks around the shoulders, and they can do some serious damage! The ossicones just add to that! And if you look at a male giraffe versus a female giraffe, one of the things you'll notice is that it's not just the two ossicones on the top of their heads!

They've also got protrusions around the front of the ossicones as well as behind the ossicones! So their heads are built like—what would be a good comparison? They're essentially built to hurt! And that's one of the reasons—one of the theories as to why giraffes have long necks!

Because it's not just about feeding! A lot, obviously, always the theory was based on the fact that being able to reach up higher than everybody else was one of the reasons why giraffes have long necks! Another reason that's been put forward for giraffe as well as for dinosaurs, things like Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, is that it's actually a way of—it's a reproductive strategy!

So the longer the male's neck, the more he can actually fight with another male, and therefore over many, many, many years, obviously, the males with the longer necks had more opportunity to pass on their genetic line! And so you've got the giraffe ancestors next getting on run longer until you get the giraffes that we have today!

So that's one of the theories that's been put forward to replace the idea, or to contest the idea that giraffes have long necks just for food! And I mean, it ties in because if you think about the really sort of complex shapes of the horns of antelopes, male-male antelope!

Okay, let's go back to our stretching-up giraffe since it's the only one that's really sticking out its tongue! Unfortunately, it is now really far away! I could go all the way around, but it'll take me too long to actually get past everyone and to those giraffes! Let's go! A giraffe's tongue is quite rough!

It is not as rough as a lion's tongue because, of course, the lion has those spurs adapted for getting rid of the fur on the animals that they feed on as well as cleaning away meat from bone! Giraffe tongues are very, very tough, though! They're not as rough as mine, but they are exceptionally tough!

That makes sense because they use them to feed or fawn trees; it's really as simple as that! And so they have dark deposited—the tongue of a giraffe is purple and very, very long and about half a meter long at its full stretch!

And it's purple in color thanks to the melanin deposits which apparently help to protect it from the sun! It's something that I've read! A lot! I remember having a discussion with some of our viewers about that! It seems curious that a giraffe would need to protect its tongue from the sun because you don't really see them sunbathing with their tongues out!

But also to toughen it against the impact of thorns! Those very tough tongues are highly entertaining to watch them feed and highly entertaining to watch them clean their nostrils with it! As our giraffe make their way away from the lions and towards the herd of elephants in the forest of the escarpment, it's going to find out!

I know Taylor mentioned she was wondering about this garden! Let's go find out if she's had any luck! Just as I think I've spotted something! Yep! I did spot a termite mound! I promise it looks just like a lion!

Anyways that's um, yeah, Jamie! Now I'm not having much luck at the moment! The sausage tree pride seems to have given me a slip! So we're looking with the help of our wonderful Ascari! As you even know the area really well, so he's giving us a hand!

Other than that, that's all that's happening! I'm gentle! I forgot the question—not the question, but you asked the question! So I'm sorry, goldfish! Yes! Selling wonderful question for you!

Seeing as though it is not a good on there, we could not Sally savvy! Let's see if that's that sound! I didn't get a correction! Haha! Okay, so you're wondering what my favorite dishes for Heritage Day are! And I was thinking about it, and I actually said, any enough, two days ago I really must Braai Boerewors!

Now for those of you who don't know what boerewors is, it's very English! You can say Putin, of course, as well! But I'm gonna say that! Very well! So it's basically spicy sausage, and it's absolutely delicious! You can flavor them with different things! Normally, it's coriander!

But not typically you would have that in a freshly baked, we would say, a roll—a fun bread roll! I don't know what everyone else in the world calls them! A little bit of pup, and then it has to be in tomato relish, so many quite a spicy tomato relish with onions!

And you put that on the boerewors on the bread roll! That is the best South African dish, I reckon! And that's my favorite thing for Heritage Day! I think that she used to try and do boerewors rolls often growing up as a kid! But yes, there we go!

So I think that the sausage tree pride has moved out of the area that they've been hanging around in because your faces, I suppose they're just moving around within their home range! Wherever there's animals, they move, you know the lions will move to! So we're checking an old favorite!

When I first started, when I first arrived up in the buyer, oh sorry, this is where the Sausage Tree pride used to hang around! We're going back, we're gonna check, and if not this one, we'll check the next one!

We're lucky; there's actually quite a few of them that run off of the escarpment! Lots of buffalo down here, but I haven't really seen much of anything else! But reading zebra, hardly any topi, one or two impala here and there! So it's been quite acquisitive!

We'll keep searching! And this was very windy, so maybe these cats have moved closer to the thicker vegetation! Right! We're gonna keep holding our hats down in this wind today! Tristan is our tracking! Will he find you all a bit? Bit this evening?

Well, we're busy trying! I've just checked Treehouse Dam, and the tracks turned back the way we've come and heared waste again! So going back towards Obama Nixon's in the area helping me, which is great news because he's got James with him!

So some of you may know James, who helps us out when we have our TV shows! As one of our trackers that goes out with Herbie and also a very good tracker just like Herbie! And James on foot, and he's walking through this section just to have a little look-see if he can find anything!

So hopefully, it's going to be between us; we all find her! But she went to the dam and has gone back to the side! So I think it must be shadow! Just give him the route that she has taken and how she’s kind of walked back towards the area that she came from!

So I would imagine it must be shadow and the cub! I don't see any sign of the cub track! Though the only track I saw was the one that was on the main road that we first spotted!

So I think that's the cub track! And since then, it's just been this female's track walking around here! So I’m pretty sure we will find them wherever they are! Just got to check around! But definitely for a female, that's for certain!

So whether it's Shadow or Shadow, I don't really know at this stage, either one of them will be nice to find! I'm not really worried either way! So when I go back to America pans and back up Shabam!

Rick says he's gonna go round from the north, and he's gonna let me know if we find something on his side!

But the best way to do this is just to close out the area and to double-check and to see what's going on and make sure that you're checking nicely wherever you're going that there isn't a sign of them!

So there we go! And Rick's actually, I just heard on the radio, Rex's Farber! So just to my western side, right here in fact where we're going and driving!

Rex has actually spotted it, which is fantastic news! So there we go! There's Rex actually right there! And right where the leopard is! So that's very cool!

Now I'm not sure which leopard it is—like I say, it could be shadow; it could be Shangila! It could be either one! But sitting atop a termite mound, I would imagine is where this leopard is at the moment!

So fantastic news for since I says, we were just here! We were since! Sins oh! We just didn't open our eyes very well! And we got too sidetracked with the tracks! And got too excited about tracks heading towards Charles Dam; we didn't look very well on top of a mound!

Because this is a leopard! So curled up on top! Pink nose! Yes! Is everything not John Gilly that's for sure! That looks just like shadow to me! So I'm sure that is shadow that's sitting on top! Which is good news!

Now there was a track for the cub as well! So maybe the little cub is also around! Jen with us settling down! Maybe the cub will come back after! I'm not sure how relaxed the cub is these days! But it seems as though Musa Ramathorn is not too unrelaxed!

So hopefully, we will be able to find the cub coming up! The last track I had for the cub was just south of us coming north! So it should be somewhere in this general vicinity!

But that's super awesome! Nice! Another female! So we were talking about it yesterday then! We haven't seen too much of the girls! And well, there's one off the list! And while it's not showing delay, at least it's a female leopard!

One that hopefully we will be able to spend all afternoon with! I know the boys are around, but we've really had a lot of time with them! So I'm going to enjoy spending time with shadow! And there are so many other antelope in this area, there's an impala I can see that's not even 150 meters away!

So it will be good just to spend time with shadow! See if maybe she's gonna go on to the hunt this afternoon and move around! So exciting news! I'm sure a lot of you are happy to see her!

Believe a lot of you are very excited to see a female leopard! But I know we saw Tony last night! Well, I don't know if we can classify seeing her bum in her tail and just paws dangling and seeing Timely nicely! But this is at least a lot better! She's up on a mound! And hopefully, will wake up at some point in the afternoon!

I'm pretty sure she will! The nice thing for is that it's overcast, cloudy! She can lie on top of this mound not have to worry about Sun beating down on her! Looks as though there's a little bit of a bump on that tummy! So it would mean that hopefully she's had a little bit of food!

And that means maybe why she went to go and drink is just after eating! They often do go and drink! Remember yesterday Rix had tracks for a female and cub that had lost their impala kill!

And can only have been shadow! It was north of where we are now!

So it can only have been her! And she must have lost her kill to hyenas and maybe this is the after-effects of all of that, is that she's still digesting a little bit!

And that's why she's so sleepy and art cold and out for the count of the stage! But how wonderful isn't that? Really cool! What a wonderful way to start our drive!

Right! So James, you say definitely shadow! I agree! And that's—well! James is probably one of the best people to consult with leopards! Is very good with IDM and matching up the spot pattern! So I'm glad that James agrees!

And it could really only be her in this particular section! And with the nose like that, she's the only one that has that finger! It's now, while shadow sleeps, and while we reposition ourselves to get into a sucky bit of position, I believe Taylor McCurdy has got something—well, that I haven't seen on Juma in quite some time!

And is apparently a very big example of one! I've called you a buffalo! But look at the size of this fella! This has to be the biggest buffalo I have ever seen in my life! And I wish one of the other Dugger boys would walk towards him! So that I can show you how he dwarfs them in comparison!

Look at the size of those horns! Firstly! And there's quite a few other Dugger boys around! And they're not—it's not like they're young! But he is taller and longer than all of them! It is outstanding!

And like I said, I really wish he'd just hang tight and not run off and wait for the rest of the group that he's with! That is a big buffalo! And he looks mean as well! I don't know if I'd want to get on his wrong side!

Look at the size of it! There is only muscle on this buffalo! No, I don't know what size up of pride of lions you'd need here to take down this boy, because we've seen with buffalo, they don't put up with lions' nonsense at all!

And they definitely are larger than the buffalo in South Africa! Even the other ones not needed! I mean, he's exceptionally big! And they struggle to take them down!

So I wouldn't imagine how a pride of lions would be able to do this! Maybe there's six young males that have been seen quite a bit; they were trying to take down the hippo with Brent! I think they do that on a regular occasion!

Maybe they... this would be an equal match! But wow, he really is big! Chasten, you said law! I don't think I've ever said law out loud before! First for me! You have said that that disgusted look he has!

I don't know why these buffalo always look so angry! A shame! It must be really terrible! Especially men's I’m trying to make friends than you both! Because grumpy is one another!

So I just want to show you the others that we've got here too! So you can see—I mean, pan across them! There's so much smaller! So these are also adult males!

And there's a cow on the left, so you can see she's smaller than the ones on the right-hand side of the screen!

It is a big breeding herd up ahead! So I think she's probably looking towards them hoping to catch up! She's of—as you've just fallen behind slightly! But she also looks very round, so I wonder if she isn't due to give birth!

There are lots of buffalo calves around at the moment! And she's exceptionally large, isn't she? And not in the—not in the large manner as that big buffalo bull, but in the fact that maybe she's going to have a calf soon!

Maybe that's why she's nagging behind the herd! Hopefully, these boys will stay with her to help her! Here's another angry buffalo, and another one!

And look at the size of their horns! Nowhere near the other boys! Anger that small African pygmy buffalo compared to