Safari Live - Day 65 | Nat Geo WILD

Welcome back everyone! Sorry about the gremlins that have beset us here in the Morrow for the last little while, but it seems like we're back and we're still with this incredible scene playing out in this lagoon.

We've got some more hyenas that arrived. They don't look too excited to jump into the cold water. Oh, look at that! They brought that one! Chase! Kaylynn says, "I just love the hyena falling in the water!" Well, cat, and I'm hoping we get a bit more of it, on a bit more of a spectacular leap, and sort of give them points out of 10 for their jump into the putrid water.

Our vultures are having the best time of it. They’re being chased again—the bonus of flight enabling them not to have to swim to get to their meal. Here we go! Is the little one gonna be the first to make the leap? Being really exciting, chasing each other about two out in the river.

You welcome back everyone! Again, apologies for the technical difficulties this afternoon. There are a huge amount of very large storms around, but one of the hyenas took the plunge and has now decided maybe, after a big chunk of rotting buffalo, that it’s probably nicer outside of the water.

So again, they keep falling in and out, trying to find their way. That looks like a much more sensible place to get out of the water, but there are still two hyenas who haven't made the plunge yet and are scuttling about on the edge. Oh, here we go! Billy is wondering, with the flesh in a carcass—does it rot quicker out of water or in water?

I'd say it all depends on the climate around. So normally, I would say out of water, in hot parts of Africa like for example, but in cooler parts, it'll probably rot slower in the water—hot spots for that matter. So I wasn't making much sense there! It’s so incredible watching these vultures.

Oh look! It's Doe now! Joy is wondering whether lions ever try to get in on this! Enjoy! It is a possibility, but it all depends on how hungry they are. If they're hungry enough, they definitely would try to get in on it, but if they're not, they'd probably choose not to eat this difficult carcass.

Now, you might find lions go into the water there to pull the carcass to the side. I have seen them do that before. Let's see if this hyena possibly does that—push it! Oh, stay away! The vultures! Have you got a problem solving? Is it greed and food gonna get the better of it before it manages to push it into the shallow water?

Hello, Francis in Israel! Francis says, "There must be really, really hungry to be doing this!" Not at all, Francis! A hyena is the ultimate opportunist, and they have no problem eating absolutely putrifying rotten meat. Their stomachs are able to handle it, and this is a lovely, easy, free meal for them. They're also quite big fans of water, so it's a double bonus for them!

Dave is wondering: Are vultures safe from the hyenas? Their diners will chase the vultures, but it's very, very seldom they actually ever catch one. Can't eat and balance on a carcass at the same time! And you can see that the rain is starting to fall a little bit where we are. You'd think the hyenas would push it towards shallower water and then it would make it much easier for them to feed on it.

Apparently, a lot of people are saying "yak, yak, yak." Wow! I think I might go for a swim in there just now! No, of course I’m only joking! That water is very, very smelly. Now that little one—is it finally going to make the plunge?

Kathy is wondering: Are hyenas strong enough to pull it completely out of the water? They are, Kathy, most definitely! Maybe not yet, but once it breaks up a little bit, they could definitely, with the buoyancy of the carcass, push it towards the shallow side.

Here we go! See, it's a floating buffalo carcass! That—oh lost sight of it for now. It's the one biting! Everyone else can see, it's slightly bigger than the other vultures and it's got that pale beak.

Dave is wondering, am I sure the buffalo wasn’t struck by lightning? I'm not, Dave, but I don't know how the buffalo died. I spotted the vultures and hyenas from a distance and came in here. So we also need to get a bit of rains. I'm just lifting up the windscreen, and we have closed up the one side of our vehicle, but it looks like we might get engulfed from both sides by storms.

Oh, next vulture crash! Oh dear! And out again! Now is the little hyena gonna chase it for good measure? Why not! Emesis, I’m gagging just at the thought of the smell! Well, yes, it's not the best smell I've ever smelled, I won’t lie to you. But if you're a hyena or a vulture, it's an absolutely delicious smell! It’s as good as a three-star Michelin restaurant!

Giraffes intricacies—do I think the buffalo might have fallen in while trying to get a drink? I don't! There's a lot of areas on the side of the little river that the buffalo could have very easily walked up to along here, and no problem at all.

Oh, what are you doing? I saw some more vultures just landing, so there could be a bit of competition! There’s a nice one coming in now! John! Landing gear out! Dig, dig, dig, dig! Then! Is the little hyena frustrated because it hasn’t tried to take the leap for some rotting buffalo? So it keeps chasing the vultures around.

Now the hyena den’s not too far from here, and that’s a little worse sub-adult, probably just under a year or so old. Ladybird would like to say, is that a mini waterfall? Well, "a waterfall" might be a strong word. I'd say a little drop, possibly, yes, in a little lager.

Okay, so I think we're going to say goodbye to, oh wait, all our friends who've joined us for this action broadcast. And we're gonna say goodbye, others! Check for a bit longer, see what else gets going, see if more hyenas arrive, so you never know when we could go live!

So from myself and Joey, it's been great! Hopefully, we'll see you but soon! You never know! We might find lions hunting five minutes down the road! But toodaloo for now!

And back with me! So hey, it sounds like Brent has been having the most amazing time with his hyenas! It really, really does! I’ve given up on trying to predict which way the storms blow. And in this place, I could have sworn that storm was coming straight at us, but it's blown away and it's actually headed more in Brent's direction!

And left us with almost patches of blue sky! So I put one side up and left one side down in the hope that... oh, goodness! Sorry! In the hope that somehow that’s covering both of our bases! And if the storm hits, then we can cover up quickly!

I don't know! I give up! I can’t see when the covers are down! We can’t keep dry when the covers are up! No sign of the indigo maidans! I’ve been searching for them while you’ve been with friends. I've been looking in all of their favourite places and I just can’t find them!

Oh, this road's a mess—rainy, rainy miss! Wait a minute! This isn't the road I want to be on! It is the road I want to be off! That's a really very good question from possibly Toady! Possibly somebody else! I couldn’t really hear LS there, but it’s a very good question about Tony!

It was Tony! Why do animals migrate out of the Mara when it's so green at this time of year? And that is a really very good question! And the answer is because it’s even better! Essentially, it’s even better where they migrate to!

So they've done away with most of the grasses in this area and they go across, and it’s nature’s way of ensuring that a place doesn’t get over-utilized! So remember, not every animal migrates, it’s just the million-odd million-class wildebeest and a good couple of hundred thousand zebra! But not all of them migrate!

So a lot of them stay here, sorry! A lot of them stay in this area, so it's still being utilized, but it’s nature’s way of ensuring it’s not over-utilized! Because there are places in the Mara when the wildebeest came through in the numbers that they did! It looked like a fire had been through! And if they stayed in those massive numbers, it would have done eventually quite serious damage to the grass!

But grasses are meant to be grazed, but not too much! So they go back with these good quality grasses to the south, back into Tanzania! And then they give birth! Haha! David says the grass is always greener on the other side! That is essentially hard work!

So they basically bounce backwards and forwards! To oversimplify a considerable amount, they basically bounce backwards and forwards! They eat all the grass and then they come over us, and then they do it again!

Essentially, right! As we continue on our search for the lions, as I said, I think Prince is having the most amazing time with his hyenas! Let's go back across to them and see if they are enjoying a floating dining room!

A13 diamond indeed! The problem for this little hyena, the one who sort of been aiming and hiring about getting in is it’s not quite as tall as the others! So it can’t put its back legs on the ground while feeding, and the fetching dining room tends to move from time to time!

Especially when the vultures land on it, it sends the hyena sort of plummeting under the water! And isn't very upset when that happens! And it is enjoying it immensely at the moment! The others have just flopped down in the grass around here and they’ll possibly feed off this carcass for a couple of days!

Here we go! Another one has appeared! Oh! I want that climbing up! Dimitri is wondering, are hyenas still considered to have the strongest bite in the animal kingdom? Not in the animal kingdom, but in the mammalian... thoroughly miserable when it’s swimming around!

But in the mammalian kingdom, yes! They have the strongest bite force! Over 900 pounds! Oh yeah! See the vultures spun it around, and the boy is struggling! Oh! Come on, climb back on! Get onto that rotten, smelly buffalo! Slipping again!

And the vultures now got themselves in a prime position! Yes! There we go! Safely on for now! The floating carcass! And it’s starting to rain a bit harder now! Kestrel, fox bobbing for burbine! Oh dear! Oh, you nearly went over again!

Now what really needs is another hyena to join in the fun! And from the opposite side! Let’s see if they can keep sort of balance the buffalo-based vulture! Stop moving!

And let's see how long it takes for that! Candice says, "Hyenas look adorable when wet!" Let's see how long it takes for the vultures to join again! Well, of course, you know, looks like it’s gonna take the plunge!

Making funny noises before it does! Mmm cold, cold! I mean, for a more sensible way to approach the water’s edge! (Laughter)

Jessica is wondering if vultures also eat everything, even the bones? Jessica, the vultures aren’t able to break bones with their beaks! Well, this is the first hyena who’s used the easy way in! Still doesn’t look too excited about going any further just yet!

First, it's going to add some urine to their mix of rotting buffalo that is in the water at the moment! Maybe they’re trying to warm it up a tad before going deeper! It really looks like someone who doesn’t like the cold who’s trying to ease their way into a swimming cold swimming pool!

Dave says, "Go on, little man!" David, I’m not sure whether it’s a little man or a little girl, but I’m sure there’s a little drop off at some point! Because I’ve seen adult hyenas underwater! Yes! A little bit further forward! There we go! Slowly, slowly!

I think it’s going to be very funny when it finds that deeper hole! Giraffe centric says, "This is so interesting and so funny at the same time!" It is a fascinating sighting, and it is always wonderful to see stuff you don’t see every day!

Serval is wondering if the hyena is probably thinking, "Water equals crocodiles!" Well, these Mara hyenas have spent a lot of time in the water!

Well, there we go! Oh, deeper! Are you gonna try to scuttle for the side now? (Laughter) You've just got a little bit of floating meat that’s come off that buffalo without having to go all the way into the deep water!

Oh, you're gonna keep moving! James is wondering with jackal, do they do the same thing? I don’t think so, James! Jackals wouldn't go this deep into thought of their much feed off it! If it's right on the edge, but not plunging like that!

Now, let’s see if two hyenas could also fight feed on a floating buffalo or are they going to find each other? No complaining at the one that’s just arrived now! We just need the third one up top to just bomb drop onto the buffalo!

Oh, there we go! Upset the apple cart! Deciding, no, this is not fun! Alrighty! Yeah! Hi, Lily! She's six years old! Nice to have you with us today, Lily!

Lily says they should just eat the birds and they wouldn’t get so wet! Yes, I agree, Lily! But unfortunately for them, the birds are quite quick and always just manage to keep out of their way! And well, they don’t have to!

Well, if this one is fighting to go try get to the buffalo, normally with that buffalo carcass it’s much easier! The meat's nice and rotten, so it's soft, so they don’t have to chew too much!

Because I think of all shell, so it probably doesn’t taste quite as nice as buffalo! Are we gonna get another leap? Come on, you can do it! Jump! Jump!

Hello! Joy is in Hong Kong, and Joy is wondering why there are so few hyenas! Joy, the rest of them actually are quite close by! They’re just having a nap! They’ve probably been feeding on this carcass all day, and there’s quite a few adults!

These are all sort of sub-adults, but the rest of them are lying in the long grass around here! So there are probably close to ten! It’s the vultures away! Climb back onto your buffalo!

There we go! It’s probably... I’ll probably 10-12 hyenas around! Yep, so there are quite a few hyenas! We just can’t see all of them at the moment because they're in the long grass!

The brown fox is wondering how fast are hyenas in comparison to vultures? You know but of tripity, tripity! Yep! So vultures are quite quick, and they can take off quite quickly!

And that’s obviously a development from being able to avoid predators around carcasses! But more specifically for lions!

But for hyenas there’s no real reason for them to really attack and kill a vulture just to try to keep them away from the carcass! I'm just gonna move the car slightly just to change the drop so it's not dripping in time!

So now move a little bit! We’ll be back with those hyenas in a second! Just trying to stop the rain dripping in on me and more importantly on some of our electronic equipment!

Here we go! EP is wondering whether this watering hole has a leech! I don't know, and I don't plan to find out anytime soon either! But it is possible! I know there are leeches in Lake Victoria, which is not too far from me! I’m sure there are leeches in the Mara River as well!

But you've got lots of different types of leeches, and in this part of Africa, as far as I'm aware, most of the leeches are the small, very small sort of half a centimeter also in size! And they don’t take too much blood!

But I have had big leeches on me in the Central African rainforests before! And then seems to have found at the right sort of spot to be able to balance and eat at the same time without falling over for now!

Kellen once known as any health risk to the hyenas for eating a buffalo in that state of decay and in the water? No! Hyenas will eat stuff that's far more rotten than that!

They are evolved to do that! This is their ecological niche, so now they’re quite happy eating stuff that’s even worse than that! And so a vulture saw a lion! So, elected, they’re all able to eat completely putrid meat! Dang, green, smelly! Literally green slime meat that sort of just disappears!

They can all eat that! But good news! While a hyena continues to munch upon this decaying buffalo, let’s go across to Jamie, who's got some kitty cats!

I found one kitty cat, but it's quite a big kitty cat! So it comes as a tremendous relief now the storm has blown away!

We’ve come across towards the... how do I describe this... the lager that runs between the little Governors entrance and the Olare Gate, or at least towards... oh listen! Listen! Listen! She’s calling!

Listening! 30 is one of the marsh breakaway lionesses! She stopped calling for now! Calling for the rest of her pride! And I know this line is one of the life—one of the three marsh breakaway lionesses! So this is the pride that we regularly see around here!

They’ve got some gorgeous cubs! I don’t see any sign of the rest of them! When I first arrived she was looking across at a herd of buffalo! I’m not sure how hungry she is! Odd, I don't know if it's because we're not often here! So we don't watch them enough!

We don’t observe them enough! It is an area where we can't off-road so we can't often get a lot of the time close to them! But this is the third time I found one lioness all by herself and calling for the rest of the pride in this exact spot!

Almost within a couple of meters or 50-meters radius! Why does that always happen? Unless there’s one lioness that keeps coming into heat or estrus because she doesn’t have cubs! Because that would sort of explain it if she keeps getting separated while she’s mating and then she’s trying to find them again!

Because not all of the three lionesses have cubs! So maybe that’s why! But I don't know! I'm not certain on that! That's speculation! Pure and simple!

Maggie, you want to know if lionesses are ever solitary? Yes, occasionally! Almost, in fact invariably under some kind of tragic circumstance!

So what I mean by that is the rest of their pride has been killed or they’ve tried to get away with cubs! And from a male takeover! And then the cubs have died, and they haven't managed to regroup with their pride!

They are not naturally solitary beings! A natural unit of lions is a pride! They don’t like to spend time on their own! They don’t like to be solitary! And you'll see it even when a lioness is mating with a male!

To be honest, in the times that I’ve seen them, although they accepted with a sort of calm resolution, they do still want to be with the rest of the pride.

Mule! Watch! The male blocks the female all the time while she’s trying to rejoin! The rest! So their natural state is social! So to see a lioness on her own, it’s usually quite a tragic situation!

And occasionally you get stories of lone lionesses! There are so many flutterings! My taillights, and I keep trying to fly into my face! Occasionally you hear tales of lionesses on their own because the rest of their pride is being killed by people, which is utterly tragic!

For whatever reason, whether it’s through poison or they’ve been hunted, killed as retribution for damage to livestock! Now that’s not something that we’d encounter here! I can safely tell you that this lioness is not on her own!

She is at the moment, but the rest of her pride will be around possibly further up the lagoon here! She’s calling to them but she’s not really making a huge effort yet! She will tonight, I imagine, when it comes time to reunite!

But I think we’re going to sit with her until we've summed up the situation properly! I don't see any other vehicle so it doesn’t look like anybody else has found the rest of the pride!

And I can guarantee there'd be vehicles because there'd be cubs there! So people would be around! Hey pretty girl! You are a lovely-looking lioness!

The three males or three of the kits were males or somewhere around this region! I know this because I was told! So that’s actually why I came in this direction—was to try and find them!

Let’s try and get a bit around towards the front of her head! The front of her head! That doesn’t make any sense! And just get a better angle is what I was going for!

Perhaps you call softly for us again! And if we’re really lucky we might even see the reunion! Don't know why she's on her own though!

Oh! Sitting right on the edge of a bank! Let me just do a bear with me! I’m just gonna go ahead, and then turn around and come face the other way!

You’re a quick chick! Make sure there’s no lions here! Dave, she looks like an older lioness!

Oh, she’s falling! She looks like an older lioness to me! Let’s have a look at her teeth! Such a stunning or inspiring sight!

Now she’s gonna listen for them to call back! Last time this happened, the other lionesses listened, but they never actually responded! How beautiful is that?

Francis from Israel, you say it sounds like she's in pain! I don’t think she is! I think she’s absolutely fine! I really do! It’s just the way that she’s calling!

Now she’s listening very, very intently for the sound of a response! I said she was an older lioness, but now that I look at her teeth, I've changed my mind! I don’t think she is that old!

Tatty is often a sign that there are or that an animal is a bit older, but not always! She’s got quite a dark nose but she’s also got very, very intact teeth and they don’t look overly yellow!

I’ll find out for you! It shouldn't take me too long to find out! I can research that pretty quickly now that I know which pride she belongs to! Alice, I’m so sorry! I'm struggling to hear you! What was that name? Gus? Gus? Apologies now!

Gus is how far can lions call for each other? Their calls will cover a distance of potentially—depends on the temperature and the ambient conditions and where they are in terms of the layout of the land!

Obviously, if they're in a dip, then their call is not gonna travel as far because the sound is absorbed by the land around them! But you’re looking at, on average, between 5 and 10 kilometers—possibly even more!

Remember that their hearing is so, so, so much more sensitive than ours! A lion's roar! Louder! Something I learned from our viewers! He's a hundred and fourteen decibels!

She might just call again! She's still listening intently! There's no, there’s no sign or any sort of noise around her! There’s no calling in response! Lots and lots of buffalo around, but they're not too bothered!

They know that she’s there! They’ve seen her! So you will— you’ll have seen them around behind her just listening! No! I think she's going to an eighth term! I tell you, it’s everywhere!

I think she might just call again! So let's just sit patiently with her for a second! I’ve seen those too on her own! Almost always!

I could remember 2003! Shears! Okay! I’m gonna rack my brains because I know this lioness! I know her well! I know she’s part of the marsh breakaways!

I'm just trying to remember which individual she is! So while I figure that one out! Let's head across to Brent and find out if his afternoon is continuing in the same vein in which it began!

Well, it is! We're still playing! Well, not so much patience—we're just enjoying! Because there’s another hyena that's just arrived that looks very interested in jumping into the water!

But again, it’s sort of that hesitant "Oh! Should I? Should I?" I must be so tantalizing because the carcass is so close! Come on! You can do it! Jump! Jump into the cold water!

So close yet so far! Now the brown fox is asking what is the difference between male and female hyena? Well, it's sometimes quite difficult to tell the difference between them, especially in a scenario like this!

But oh, we’re sneaking so! Because the female hyenas have pseudo penises and pseudo testes and very high androgen levels and can be bigger than the male hyenas!

So it can be quite difficult to tell the difference between them! But other than that, the male has a real penis and real testicles whereas a female has pseudo testes and a pseudo penis!

The pseudo penis is actually an enlarged clitoris and they don’t have a normal birthing canal like most female mammals! They actually give birth through that pseudo penis!

And it is also almost, well, every single one of their first litters, every female hyena has a litter of cubs—the first litter dies! Because that canal is quite small and quite tight, they actually suffocate—and only normally the second litter of cubs that’s born survive!

Now there could be, apart from the fact that they need to open up that system so that the cubs can pass, there could be an evolutionary advantage!

That during that first litter, other females may not be old enough or experienced enough to care for cubs! So then once she has a second, better, she’s probably in a better position to be able to raise those cubs successfully!

But generally, the biggest difference you can tell with the hyenas is their behavior! The females are rampantly more dominant over the males and will often beat them up!

So your lowest-ranking female hyena is still higher-ranking than the highest-ranked male in the clan! Lady Bird is wondering if there's a wet hyena smell worse than a wet dog!

Indeed it does! Much worse! Well, and your dog has been eating rotting meat! Strangely! And I've heard I have spotted a dog that’s been eating rotten meat and smells quite well!

But a definite away! A hyena smells a lot worse! Now what happens is that a lot of people—many, many people have their domestic dogs at home think that their dog would never do this!

What this hyena is doing at the moment! And I won't mention any names! But there’s quite a well-known lady who is Ben! He lives in that small town in northern Botswana where I grew up!

And she was the only person there who had French poodles! White, immaculately groomed French poodles! And a donkey died in the tamale Akane River in front of her house!

And with all the village dogs that were getting stuck in the water with this rotting donkey, there were two not-so-white French poodles after their being inside the stomach area of the donkey fighting the local village dogs off!

So your domestic dog at home would do exactly the same as these hyenas with just as much rotten meat! Just as rotten! Oh, have you got a waterfall jumper? Are you going to jump off the ward for now?

I think we’re probably gonna move on from here now! See if we can find any lions or whatever else might be here! Might pop back in here a little bit later!

See if more hyenas have arrived! Or there’s more leaping off the ward for with Minnie waterfalls into there! Into the putrid water that we know for sure is full of rotting buffalo!

And some hyena urine and so far! But I’m sure there’s probably quite a lot of vulture dung as well! Okay! So we’re gonna move off!

And while we do that, we're gonna send you back to Jamie who seems to have figured out the mystery of that lioness!

Kimmy! Her name is Kimmy! It was driving me absolutely mental because I knew her! So it was within this pride! We’ve got G-Chow meaning I, Achille and Kimmy! Achille is the youngest! I haven’t seen her in a while!

I’ve seen Duccio a few times, but that is who we're looking at! So Kimmy, I can find out her age for you because quite a huge amount is actually known about the Marsh pride and of course therefore the marsh breakaway lionesses!

Now she's got very, very, very distinctive ears, and that’s how I recognised her! It was driving me absolutely crazy because I knew I’d seen her before!

You see those notches particularly out of her right ear! So if I had to guess, I’d put her somewhere around seven or eight years old, but I’m not sure exactly how old she is!

If I remember correctly, Achille, I think is her daughter! Or is it? I can’t remember! There are so many different facts and line pride that we have to try and remember that it keeps them straight in our heads!

Initially, it can be a confusing thing! But I know that she’s from the Marsh breakaway females! I know her name is Kimmy! As for where Chee-Chaw and Achille are, well, that’s a different question!

I've just been watching the cars investigate! Kimberly, you say good job for solving the mystery! Thank you! I should have actually solved it a long time ago!

It was just one of those blank moments where I could remember seeing her knowing exactly where I saw her! And it was actually me who solved any kind of a mystery!

I got that information from Stan Starr who runs one of the... who's a very Maura enthusiast and actually runs one of the groups, the Facebook groups on the big cats of Mara!

He was the one who told me exactly which lioness this was! So I mean it's largely thanks to them that this was known about them!

No, sorry! I think I’m about to get in trouble for being two meters off the road! Let’s find out! Give me one second, Jobar! Nobody!

So we have solved the mystery of the lioness! There we got no trouble at all! I was actually turning around! I don’t mean to park here! But then she started roaring and it sort of just kind of happened!

So we've solved the mystery! But actually, technically, I don’t claim any credit for that! And Sandy was the one who... actually, what is that?

Can you see it there, Arch? What on earth is that? Can you see it? No, no, no! Sorry! Hold on! I’m gonna have to move us! What is that? A trip, sucker? Is it a pig? No, it’s a dog!

I’m just gonna catch the rain just quickly! Sorry, Arch! Can you... can you come back? I’ve got a race to catch! The rangers have just come past me! It’s a dog!

I knew it was a dog! Right! The immediate urgency with a situation like this is the dog walked in from the communities! When a dog walks in from communities it could just be lost!

It could also be disorientation from rabies! So there are no fences between the reserve and the pup! Obviously, you can see that dog it’s wandered in! I'm gonna catch up with the rangers to tell them!

Because I’ve got to tell them immediately! You cannot, cannot, cannot have dogs wandering around in the Mara Triangle!

Come back! I've got phone numbers! I've got phone numbers to call! Oh! Sorry, Arch! But that dog’s gonna disappear into the forest!

It's not the first dog I've seen, but most of them are very close to the villagers! Flashing my lights in the hope that it’s going to attract their attention!

I just don't want the lionesses to see it! Okay, guys! I'll be with you in a second! I just have to go and catch up with the rangers and I want to tell them immediately and possibly help them find it again!

So bear with me! I’m gonna send you over to Brent so that I can have this conversation with them!

Stop! Hello! Welcome back! Well, that’s a little bit sad! But as we've explained in the past before, domestic dogs are a really big threat in a wildlife area!

So a very good friend of ours did his master's thesis on rabies, and one of the first signs of rabies which only came out from his master’s thesis is confusion in domestic dogs!

So basically, the further you find a dog away from its home, the more—in a wildlife area—basically, I think it’s every five kilometers. Eating that, the chance that it has rabies increases by 20%.

So that’s why Jamie is getting a hold of the rangers quite quickly there! And of course rabies is a very, very dangerous disease, especially in social animals like lions and hyenas!

Because they're so social, that if one of them gets it, it can go through a whole population or a whole pride, a whole clan, very quickly! So that’s why it needs to be dealt with!

Brent, ah! Now I know this spot! It doesn’t look so bad, but it is! It’s quite deep! Well, pi, see what I mean! There we go!

Okay, so while we meander on, we’re going to switch across to the Juma stream, which seems to be more stable, and hopefully will help deal with those gremlins!

So bear with us for a few minutes while Juma starts up their side! So toodles! We’ll see you just now!

Good afternoon, everyone! Welcome to South Africa, to the Sabi Sands, to Juma! I am Noelle, and on camera I have said hello!

Sub says hello! So, it is 26, which is 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have a little bit of a blue sky that was showing with a bit of clouds! Beautiful puffy, puffy clouds!

Lots of insect activity with all of this bit of overcast, but it’s nice and warm! It's slightly humid from all the moisture we've been having, and hopefully tomorrow, with a bit of sunshine, everything’s gonna be even more green than it already is!

So, seven! I am busy gonna go check the western side of our property! I’m not quite sure what I feel like seeing today! I’m kind of in the mood for wild dogs again!

But while I'm busy trying to find something wonderful to show you, Ralph has already found something cheeky to show you!

Good afternoon, everybody! And welcome on our afternoon game drive here on Juma concession in the Sabi Sands of the Kruger National Park in South Africa!

It's a lovely afternoon! My name is Ralph Kirsten! And please join us on Twitter! Hashtag Safari Live! And on the YouTube live chat!

At the moment, we've just started out! And we found some monkeys! They are feasting on the flying ants! We call them flying ants even though they aren't ants!

Like termites! All the alates have come out, and they are exiting their nests! And they're forming an amazing food source! So we’re going to see all sorts of birds and monkeys coming to feed on them!

And we just stopped! – Joe, we saw a whole host of monkeys! They literally sit right in front of the hole, then they started to feed on the termites as they come out of the hole!

We also see a lot of the frogs and things like that! I like lizards, etc.! And they go right in front of the holes and they start to feed on it!

So we’ve been looking out for a couple of small little things, like this feeding on the termites! Lovely source of protein!

Now, this afternoon’s game drive, we’re going to be looking for the big cats! The rain that we’ve had is gonna have washed all their markings away, so I’m pretty sure that a lot of the leopards are gonna be out remarking their territories!

And as VMs just showed you there, there’s still a little bit of a chance of rain! However, it is a nice 20 degrees around 70 degrees Fahrenheit in that region! It is fluctuating as the clouds come and go as the sun pokes through!

But our aim for this afternoon’s drive is to look for some of the predators moving around! But with this amazing food source coming out, there’s also going to be all sorts of smaller things that we can stop and have a look at!

So I’m gonna start up and move on a little bit! These monkeys have moved off a little bit because of our presence! They are some impala up in front here, so we might... and then, as I say, we’re going to get onto the track of these big cats!

The sticks pride and in Coomer’s have been around, but they’re up in the northern parts near Buffalo K, so we’re not too sure we're gonna catch up with them just yet!

However, I think the leopards are going to be showing themselves quite early this afternoon, trying to re-establish those territories!

So as we pull up here, I'm just going to switch off because we can see some of these lovely young impala up front! Nice little babies!

We’re seeing a whole host more of them at the moment! So please, far away your questions and your comments! And there’s that little youngster! Look, he’s still not so sure on his feet just yet!

But everything seems to have enjoyed the overnight rain! And we've had a whole host of different insects and reptiles at all the tortoises! Were out on the road this morning!

And it's almost like the animals have come out of their holes after the rain! And everything's starting to show itself again! So it's a very exciting time to be out on this afternoon's game drive!

Because I think we’re gonna find some amazing sightings! And those little babies, even though they’re so young, they already start to have their little head butts!

Alright, let’s move forward a little bit! And let’s see what these impala might show us! We did hear off onto the southern side. Youngsters said that he spotted these monkeys again!

Let’s have a look! Let’s see those monkeys were feeding lovely on the flying termites! Remember, they’re going out now to start their new colonies, taking with them the spores from the mushrooms that they need to cultivate underneath the ground!

So they’re going to be going out and starting the new colonies! As monkeys, they’ll also eat these termites! They taste very much like peanut butter and an extremely good source of protein!

So with these monkeys having seen that, then our exiting their the holes! They’ll also be after that! And something quite interesting that we often think about—if you watch monkeys, generally humans can eat almost everything that monkeys can eat!

So if you see monkeys eating something, it’s generally safe for humans to eat as well! They've got a very similar stomach acid to us! However, if you see baboons eating certain things, you must not mimic the boons!

Because they can eat things that we cannot! So it will turn your stomach inside out! Poisonous things that they'll be able to digest, but not us humans!

So if you’d like to know what we can feed on, you mimic monkeys! They show us the way! Yes, everybody mentioning our cuteness! Little monkeys!

And as I say, he’s going to be chasing all those lights! The primary reproductives, they’ll be coming up the nests and lovely food sorcerer!

He's just gone behind that bit of brush there! They're all chasing the alates! Donna, how do I know that termites taste like peanut butter?

Well, because I've eaten quite a few of them! We've also set, like the monkeys! I do consult with Sidda! Myself, a bird of a monkey!

We've also set eating these termites as they come out! They could rather tasty! And some of the local people, what they actually do is they fry them up!

And they actually taste quite nice! So if you’ve ever had a loss for bar snacks or anything like that, and there’s a lot of termites coming around, especially at night around the lights—you should ever try! And not too bad!

Okay, so I'm going to be carrying on looking out for all these little things and see what those termites are going to attract!

But I think Dole has something else with wings to show you! I do have something to show you! I have a woodland kingfisher!

There! You could just hear it there, but it was sitting so beautifully with the most gorgeous light on it! And of course, as birds do, it just flew away!

It's alright! There’s two of them! There was a pair, and then there was a third one that came in and was busy trying to get into that little scenario there and it didn’t quite work out the way that any of them were hoping!

So I can still hear them in the background! We’re gonna maybe—maybe be able to get another visual right now! I just want to check the western boundary and see if we have any tracks from those wild dogs coming in and out!

Because I haven’t been on the property for I think about a week now! So we’re about due to have some wild dogs! So I'm just gonna turn the vehicle around and we will head up that way!

And cross fingers and hold thumbs that not only do we get tracks, but maybe they just want to come running down the road in our general direction and give us a bit of a show, which would be nice for everybody involved!

Today's been slightly, slightly quiet! I know this morning it’s a really great insect activity! And a few little bookies in here! And it seems as if everything big and hairy has gone to ground!

It’s Sunday! You never know! Maybe they’re off having a rest day! So when we check roads like what I’m doing now, basically for leopard, we’re looking in these sort of little drainage systems!

You just saw me go down! See if they’re crossing over! Not that they always cross in the drainage systems! But it’s a good place to start!

And then, for something like wild dog, look! They might cross straight over! But they generally like to come straight down a road as well!

And it also depends on what they’re after and what their purpose is! If they're coming over for hunting, it could be a little bit different!

Phillipa, you're wondering what is the status of African wild dogs in the Kruger Park these days? So it’s about the same as everywhere else in sub-Saharan Africa!

They're highly, highly, highly endangered! The last numbers I had for the whole continent is about 3,500! Probably just under! I believe the numbers for the Kruger Park area sit somewhere between 250 and 300!

Sorry! Sorry! This is a little bit of a bumpy patch! And so there’s not many left, unfortunately! I do know that there’s a concerted effort to do a lot more research on them!

A friend of mine started something called latest sightings! And specifically, latest sightings in Kruger! And I know from chatting with him and sharing with some of the research guys that it has actually helped with the research in the Kruger National Park!

Because before, it was just one or two guys having to traverse two million hectares! So, that’s about four million, four and a half million acres! It’s a huge property! You could fit Israel inside of Kruger National Park!

It’s ginormous! And now, because of this app that was created and people add sightings onto there, it allows the wild dog researchers to gain more information!

So I know that that has helped quite a bit! Another thing that’s kept the numbers down is the fact of just human encroachment!

So the more humans push in towards wildlife areas, the more they bring things like dogs with them! And dogs bring with them canine distemper and rabies, and just the normal interaction between predators is also an issue for numbers as it!

Sorry about that! Just lost a little bit of signal through that dip there! Mmhmm! So I think in general, the status is better than it has been!

Oh my goodness! We have a duiker! Are you gonna stay in the road or no? He's just gonna cross the road!

Let’s see if we can sneak up and maybe he’ll stay put for us to get a nice visual! So in general, the status of wild dogs is better than it has been, but it’s still not excellent!

It is still something that we have to monitor and keep an eye out for! Alright! That’s there! I can just see this little duiker! But let me know when you want me to stop! It’s just here at our 11 o'clock!

It’s gonna push up to our 10 o'clock just now! See there! Alright! Don't move, tiger! Stay where you are!

They usually small antelope like this either want to freeze or they want to run away! Now this little fellow here is being very nice to us and at least allowing us a little view of its behind before it runs away!

So I say fellow has tiny little horns! The females don’t have any! There you can just see them there, and he is a browser, carrying on eating leaves!

With a very strict territory, him and his mates, they mate for life! Well! Hold on to their territory together! Sorry he’s just gone behind the little thickets there!

You can see how well his camouflage blends in! And Ralph was discussing with you guys this morning, and we did it with our Niala about the colors of antelopes and how they blend into their surroundings!

Let me just see if I can back up a little bit and get another view! There we are! So the tawny color with a little bit of lighter color underneath!

Fantastic! Doing a little bit of scent marking there! There’s a little pre-orbital gland—a little gland that’s right under the eye! It’s the thing that looks similar to a duiker as a klipspringer!

It’s a little bit smaller! And they use that gland under the eye quite a lot! They stick sticks in it and put the gland secretions on the stick!

It almost looks like tree sap when it hardens! But as you saw that duiker, he went right up to the tree and then just sort of rubbed the scent there!

And that’s to make sure that no other males come into his little territory or females possibly for that matter! Very, very quiet as it walks!

They do similar! We were chatting this morning about Nyalas doing track-on-track walking! So putting one foot down and the next foot in the same spot!

And duikers will do that as well! Not a hundred percent of the time, but a good portion of the time! Again to minimize the sound they make in the bush!

There! That’s a beautiful view! I think that’s probably the best view of a duiker I’ve had in a while! Thank you, Sid! He’s looking a little bit slim for my liking!

But I mean look, it’s difficult to get all the nutrition that you need in the dry season! It is a little bit of a push! Not that he’s sick by any means!

But a little bit! They’re usually a little bit more round and a little bit more rotund! And it’s interesting! I mean we’re looking at some leaves now! Not every leaf is edible!

Joy, you're curious to know why he wouldn’t want females in his territory! Because usually, Joy, with the territoriality, it’s him and his female! And his mate for life that are territorial together!

And so that would be the reason! But that being said, I mean, let’s say maybe his partner passes away; then he wouldn’t mind a female coming through!

But I’m sure they have a little bit more of an advertisement for something for the scenario that would work through that! But yeah, it's the territoriality!

It’s usually the pair together! These smaller antelope species tend to do mating for life! Klipspringer, duiker, sthenbork, dik-dik mate for life!

And it allows them to have their own little corner of the bush, and to monitor this corner of the bush, and to function within that little space quite well!

As opposed to something that’s larger, like impala or niala or kudu that function within a sort of herd structure or a bachelor herd structure!

And roam a little bit farther because they’re a larger group, not just the two! Okay! Down our bumpy road we go! Woo!

So speaking of wild dogs and speaking of domesticated dogs that can affect wildlife, Jamie is up in the Mara and has seen a feral dog, or possibly a rabid dog depending! I’m not quite sure!

Let’s head up to her and see what updates she has for us on that situation! All desperate to know exactly what’s happened! Let me try and explain the whole situation now that it wasn’t such a rush!

I really, really wanted to get to the rangers as quickly as possible because I know how difficult it’s going to be to find this dog again!

So chances are it's just a dog that wandered in from one of the communities! There’s a lot of... there’s a closed village not far away from here!

Obviously, it’s closed! There's a village up at the top of the escarpment! There are dogs around—domestic dogs, some feral dogs! And they do put her about and do their own thing!

It’s very, very unusual to see them here because this entire place has got the most amazing ranger system to make sure that something like that doesn’t happen!

But of course, sometimes things slip through the cracks! As I said, chances are it’s just a lost little dog! There’s a possibility—a small possibility!

That it is a rabid dog! And because rabies causes disorientation, it’s one of the early symptoms! And dogs don’t tend to stray outside of their territory, so it’s always a little bit of a warning sign when it’s come wandering in!

But it could also have had a fight with another male or something and come this way! So it was really quite essential just on that small, small off chance!

We notified the rangers! I caught them! Fortunately, they were as close as they were! And they have immediately called for backup! They responded as quickly as possible!

They immediately turned around and raced back in the direction where we’d seen the dog! Unfortunately, it’s vanished, which I was worried about!

But there's not—I had to make a call and it was going into a forest where I wouldn’t have been able to follow it anyway!

So I’m helping them look for it! Essentially, hopefully, we’ll find it! Once we find it, then we'll gauge on its behavior! Exactly what the situation is!

And it’ll probably—most likely get transported back towards the village, and no harm will come to it! That is provided it’s not showing any signs of rabies!

And a rabies outbreak would have an absolutely devastating effect on the animals out here! And that is something that is definitely to be avoided!

I think I can hear your name! I think it was Kalin, possibly Helen! I apologize! I can't fully hear Kirsty! But you want to know how rabies kills? Sorry! Cursed, I think you asked how rabies kills!

It skyrockets the animal’s temperature! It infects the brain! The lining of the membranes of the brain! And ultimately results in all sorts of catastrophic events within the animal itself!

So you’ll get the symptoms of excessive salivation—hydrophobia in most cases! And then massive organ failure from an incredibly high temperature and dehydration!

Dehydration will also play an enormous role because, as I said, the animal’s hydrophobic! It doesn’t like water! It’s afraid of water!

I’m just gonna focus quite hard while there's still a little bit of light! I’m trying to help them find this dog! I’m gonna send you back to across to Ralph, I couldn't hear what he has, but that makes it even more of a surprise!

Odd facts! I did say we were looking for the big cats and in particular leopards! But we did find something quite similar in name!

In a couple of leopard tortoises! Now the one in the front chair is feeding and the other one is quite interested in it! Now, not sure if it’s a male at the back that was quite interested in the female in the front or if it’s a male sizing a male, which they can also do!

But quite interesting there! If the one on the back—if you can go in nice and closely there on the scoots! Now, that’s what we call those sort of blocks they’re on, on the shell itself!

Those are scoots! If you look at those scoots, you can see the ridges! If you count those ridges, it’s very similar to that of rings on a tree!

If you cut a tree down and you look at the rings, you can actually age it! So I’m just looking on the screen here! It’s quite difficult to do just on the screen! Without having being right next to it!

But you can actually age them by counting the little ridges on the skin! I would say this small one at the back is ranging between 12 and 15 years old!

So the one in the front I would say is probably between 15 and 18 years old at least! But quite interesting that you can age them by those rings on the scoots!

Quite similar to that of fish as well! If you look at the scales of fish, very similar to the scoots of a tortoise! You can age them in exactly the same way!

Take a scale and you will see the rings, almost identical to the scoots of a tortoise! And you'll be able to age the fish!

Now these are quite small specimens! If you look at how big leopards can grow! And already these two are in the middle to later teens!

And the one in front is definitely looking like a female! And I think the one at the back is a male, indeed! And that’s just because of that little tail section!

It’s obviously making it available for the male to be able to mate! Now the one on the back is underneath! You can see there is a little bit of an a...sort of indent, where he would be able to climb up on the female!

Question from Phillip! Would a male mount another male as a sign of dominance? I haven't seen them mounting each other! What they do do however is they bash into each other with their shells!

And the idea being to actually knock the other one upside down and leave him to possibly be exposed upside down, not being able to return himself and in such a way actually kill him!

So I haven't seen them mount each other—they do have that indent to enable them to be able to mount the females shell itself to make it a little bit easier!

I’m just going to reposition for young to be able to view those tortoises! Now the reason we do have our roofs though, on, as I said, is because there’s still a real possibility of rain!

Noel took a bit of a gamble! I’m not a gambling man myself! Maybe it won’t pay off! Maybe it will! But I’d rather be out with the roof on anyway!

There does seem to be a hot chase going on here between these two tortoises! And the one in front is looking to be definitely like a female! But I love to watch tortoises moving around!

Now down in the Eastern Cape, where I am from, they get three to four times that size! In general, obviously these ones can get that big!

But on average in the Eastern Cape, we have the largest tortoises in Southern Africa! And there you see them three or four times the size of these individuals that are moving off here!

And they get about 80 kilograms! They can live over a hundred years! And the Chelonia, or the shield reptiles, one of the oldest reptiles still living on the planet!

Okay! Since we’ve spotted those leopard tortoises, I think it's a good sign! I think it’s a lucky sign! We’re gonna start moving off and we're gonna look for the namesake there!

But the big cats! And Jamie, up in the Mara, has got something a little bit more horned!

Oh! We found ourselves a rhinoceros! In the search for the dogs! Or not what I was looking for, but it was the direction that the dog was running in!

So I figured sitting still might be just as productive as moving about! And since there’s a rhino here, I would love to show it to you!

Hey! You marching about! Of course, it's nice and cool and getting towards evening time, which is when the rhinos are their most active!

They are essentially crepuscular! They spend most of the morning and the evening wandering about and feeding! They do also move around a lot at night! They often go to waterholes after dark!

So there is a nocturnal aspect to their behavior as well! And this was actually what the two rangers were looking for! Now! Well then! You where it was roughly!

And that was why they were in the area that they were in! Because they’re actually dedicated to keeping an eye on the Mara’s rhino! Should we go see if we can get a little bit close to it? Might take us some time to get around!

Always popping out and going away! But I see the road heads in that direction! And again, it’s the direction that the dog was heading in!

So it’s bush! I’m good! Paranoia! Now looking all around me! Now let's catch up with it quickly because we’ll get a really—we should get a really nice view!

Look like a male from the way that it was urinating earlier! It's difficult to tell with size, especially at distance, whether you're looking at a male or a female rider!

But I think in this case, judging by the backwards direction of the urine, it was a male! Here we go! I can see him up ahead!

I wonder how close he’ll let us come! I saw him earlier, actually! I didn’t know he was here! But that was during the more frantic search!

Oh! Hold on, everyone! So the rangers know I’m in this direction keeping watch as well!

So they have moved! We are! It’s all sort of rotating around each other to look for it! Hello? Okay! I can see your head up!

I know you look! I know you’re listening to me! That’s alright! You know what vehicles sound like! It’s gonna—if we keep going on the line that we’re in we’re gonna be right up close to it!

We should be wonderful! And rare, not often we get to experience that! Nice and slow! Just gauge his reaction, very carefully!

I don’t want to frighten him! But they are black rhinoceros that are completely comfortable! Hello, Billy! Who is five years old! Alone!

Welcome! Now, Billy wants to know how old rhinos can get to! They can live up to 40 years old, believe it!

So they can actually get quite old! 40 years! Between 30 and 40 years! Hello, my boy! No, no, no! Okay!

As soon as he backs down I’m gonna back off! Because he is definitely thinking about giving us a charge! Hello boy! Don’t do it!

So I'm talking because his eyesight's bad! I know! I know! I'd be full of nonsense! Okay, my boy! Alright!

Definitely a male! Okay! So as soon as he moves backwards, I’m gonna move backwards as well!

Okay, because as soon as I start the engine, there’s a chance he's gonna want to come straight at the sound!

Okay! Okay, my boy! Alright! You've heard people before! See, I’m a person! Yeah, you might help a creature!

Okay! Here we go, my boy! Here we go! Alright! Yeah, yeah! Okay!

So this is indecisive! Still, I’ve seen rhino do this! They turn around and then they come back again!

So we're just gonna sit nice and still! Okay, boy! Hey! Which way is the wind blowing? It’s barely blowing!

So what he’s probably gonna try and do is get downwind of us! So he might circle us a little bit!

Just hold on a moment! Just wait and see what he does! Because, yes, there he is! He’s coming around us!

That’s what black rhino often do! So he’s gonna try circle! Hello, boy! Okay, okay! It’s calmed down a lot!

There we go! So in a situation like that, obviously, I don’t want to frighten him! But he’s now relaxed again!

And I could cause more potential fear by racing or revving away from him! And also, quite honestly, he’s just like an elephant!

He’ll learn that that’s a fun game! And he can chase cars away! All I wanted to do was talk to him!

Now, as soon as he gets at a comfortable distance where I can turn the engine on, then I’m gonna move away from him! A Mr. though, he’s doing it all by himself!

Quite calm and relaxed! Now his thoughts turning his head back towards the sound of my voice! But he’s just moving off!

Sorry, boy! I didn't mean to give you a fright! Okay! And off he goes! So I’ve had black rhino encounters where they're as comfortable with the vehicle as a cow!

So they can be entirely, entirely relaxed and already! He’s relaxed again in our company! So I’m going to move off! Give him his space!

Carry on the search for the dog! Let’s head across to Brent who really truly is having an afternoon for the scavengers!

Well, this is very exciting! I’m just very sad this thing didn’t appear yesterday! This is definitely a new bird for everyone’s Morrows!

And Joe and I was shocked when we saw it take off! It’s a bit lost! They’re not supposed to occur yet, but it is a juvenile palm nut vulture!

Isn’t that exciting? That is a definite first for me in the Mara! We saw quite a lot of them while we were in Uganda, but I didn’t think their cursor—and I checked my map—and they don't!

But there we go! That is a lovely record of a palm nut vulture in the Maasai Mara! I have to speak to my birding friends! See how many of them have seen palm nut vulture in the Maasai Mara!

I think a few of them are gonna be a little bit jealous! Wasn't that exciting? You can see the very distinct beak!

So palm nut vultures are quite interesting! They do a lot of competing with fish eagles, normally around the big river systems and lakes!

And they will steal a lot of food from fish eagles! Chase them off the fish that the fish eagles have caught! Now, of course, they get their name the palm nut vulture because during, or when, the raffia palms start fruiting, they are very, very fond of eating the palm fruit!

And it is so exciting! I’m not vulture! That is a really big bird for the Mara! So yay! Oh! More common bird for the Mara! But looking quite nice and puffed up after getting a bit wet!

Now it’s normal call, hopefully it does its normal call shortly! And you can see the midges that are exploding out after the rain!

Buzzing around the Google! Okay! Now we’ve got a lovely little vantage point down to the Mara River at the head!

Yes! Let’s go have a look! I’m still it’s gonna be interesting to see! I’m gonna definitely come back through here tomorrow!

Because sometimes during big storms, problem juvenile palm nut vultures get blown around and appear in areas where you don’t expect them!

And they can actually hang around! So I will definitely come past chat tomorrow morning and I'll hope that we’ll be able to get a bit of a better view of him and maybe some baits and lights!

Or her, at the moment! It's quite far away, but they can hang around! So I’ll show you their distribution when I stop after going through the muddy, muddy bits!

Yeah! (Laughter) Once we get to the edge of the magnificent Mara River. Ah, Larimore would like to know, does that vulture have a less bald head than the other vultures? Indeed it does!

Okay! So while we wait, I’ll show you a little bit better! What there? So as I was saying, its distribution—there we go!

So we are up here somewhere, just up there! So you can see it’s not traditionally occurring in this area at all! When we were on the other side, we saw quite a few palm nut vultures, but not on this side.

So that was a really nice find for this area! And if we have a look at—here we go! So it doesn't have a bald head at all!

So I think we had a juvenile one that was in between changing from juvenile to adult colors! So there’s the juvenile there!

You can see the bald bear around the eye! They’re very distinct bull! And that’s what they look like! And if like they’re very pretty birds when they're flying!

From New Zealand says, “Egyptian vulture next!” I would be very excited to see an Egyptian vulture! It is one of my nemesis birds!

And I have not seen it! Let me just—I’ll find you a picture of an Egyptian vulture! Now I've been in places where people have seen them just before in the Serengeti!

And see—I can't spell today! There we go! That’s the Egyptian vulture there! So it’s the rarest! One of the rarest of the vulture species!

Now also one of the only birds that's quite well, very clever—and what they’ll do is they’ll take bones and they'll fly really high!

And then drop them onto the rocks, to open up to get to the marrow! So quite an intelligent vulture! And you can see how spot... there they might be here! They can be here, but it’s very, very rare to see them in this part!

They’re much more common up towards northern Kenya and into Ethiopia! Now we have some hippopotamus! But before we go to them, we have some spurring left wings on the little sand bank there!

No crocs today! Oh! Yeah! Hello, lapwings! Let’s just move around the corner a little bit so we can get a better view of those!

He pushed my—oh! One got a fright! It was just below us! But anything—realized, oh! The male's giving some threat displays! Opened his mouth! Oh no! There’s a bit of an argument going on!

But they got a bit of a fright! Sorry, hippos! Here we go! Calm down! It’s all okay now! These two seem to not be getting on too well!

Back there, we go! What’s going on? I thought they might have a little bit of an argument! Now Joe, if we just look at that wake that hippo’s up there, now I can tell you from being on small boats in rivers like this, all over Africa!

When you see a wake like that coming for you, you really, really do get a bit worried! And I’ve been in a few boats that have been actually hit by hippos!

Fortunately, we didn't capsize! Well, they didn’t put a hole in the hippo—oh, well, through the boat! One hippo, I’ve got a very big headache ‘cause he decided he was very strong!

And he attacked a stainless steel balustrade, and Cam was sick, and best with a headache, I’m sure! Okay, well, we said! Yeah! Enjoy the view of the magnificent, murderous Mara River!

Let’s go to Noel, who’s doing some bedding! Super jealous of Brent’s palm nut vulture! Very, very, very cool! I haven’t seen one in a few months, and the last time I saw, I was up in Zambia!

But we do have a bird for you here! We've got a red-crested korhaan! Unfortunately, this korhaan has injured itself! So we came up and it’s sort of hobbling away!

And you can actually see how it’s holding its one leg up! So it’s either going to sort itself out or, unfortunately, become food! So it’s not necessarily the nicest thing to talk about, but it is something to talk about!

In terms of everything functions within the ecosystem to perform its role! And then after it’s finished its role, it then becomes food!

It either its body then goes into becoming the nutrients in the soil or it physically becomes food! So this little korhaan I think is deciding whether or not to keep trying to move with us here!

But it’s also keeping an eye on these little winged a lights that are flying about! And it’s amazing how close it is! Because we really are getting some nice shots with the detail around the eye!

And you can see the textures of the feathers along the head, and a nice, good look! I’ve been busy over the years taking photos of birds to put into a slideshow just for myself, like a bird catalog!

So if there are any viewers out there who are as keen as I am for something like that, this would be a good one to do!

Maybe there, with a little bit of a screenshot, just to add into your birding standpoint—encyclopedia! Now!

We had our birding big day yesterday! And there were a few people that are asking what apps can I take off the apps that I personally use!

And I know several of my friends use the Roberts bird app! But also, you can make your own from the show! And do a PowerPoint like what I do to keep my knowledge going off!

Shame, buddy! So that’s a thought there! Curses saying you had a lapwing with a sore foot this morning as well!

Maybe it’s sore foot bird—shame! These poor guys! It happens that when you’ve got such slender legs and you’re running about as quickly as these birds do, especially these birds that do fly a bit, but dwell on the ground, you are going to twist a foot every now and then!

So with that bird up, I was talking about, I know Tristan plays a lot of bird calls for you! I think Brent also likes to play bird calls!

Everybody! So the calls are also on there! So that’s also something you can download and put on your PowerPoint!

But if you feel like a project, that might be a good project! You can do it with flowers because we’re coming into flowering season! You can do it with the birds! You can do it with trees that we do!

I’ve also got a flower PowerPoint going! And, oh! Get it almost! Not quite! Shame, bunny!

Okay! Well, yeah! Yeah! I feel sad for him as well! But again, everything happens for a reason! And it’s very important to let wild animals be wild!

Also, the utilization of resources for something like that! Those resources are most likely better spent somewhere else! And it’s heart-wrenching and it’s difficult!

But you kind of let to have to let things be! When we as humans interfere too much in the bush, it can sometimes have consequences that we didn’t necessarily foresee!

So as sad as it is, it’s alright! It’s gonna... what will happen will happen! And it will either sort itself out or it becomes food for something else that also needs to carry on and live!

Ralph has some crickets! Let’s head over to him! Alrighty folks! We just, we’re doing a little bit of a full bar flying, and we came to a little pan!

And we had a little Jacobins cuckoo that we were watching right there as he’s flying off! As birds like to do, as soon as we put the camera on them!

Very similar to that of the giraffe—they like to move off! But we’re moving through the thick stuff! Yeah, we were trying to follow up on where the elephants had been sighted near to one of the pans in the area!

Seems they’ve shifted off slightly! So we’ve just been going through the thickets! And we’re just gonna move a little bit forward!

I’ve just seen some squirrels running around in front! But I like coming on these lesser-used tracks! Sometimes you never know what you're gonna find!

And it masks a little bit of a feeling of discovery! I can hear that Jacobins cuckoo calling now! It’s just a ring-necked dove drinking hard!

And if M can spot it over there, there he is! Something quite interesting! Watch what he does! You see he’s actually able to drink straight!

Now, not all birds have got a gullet! And what you see there, he’s drinking straight! It’s very similar to that of a kori bustard!

Where they have to bring their head up to swallow back! So they're actually able to swallow with their head down! Not all birds are able to do that!

So that’s something quite special! With the doves and the bastards, the kori bustard in particular! I'm not quite sure if all the bastards can do that!

I know the kori bustard in particular can! But the doves can do that as well! So, and I’m sure you’ve seen, especially a very common one, that you see like ducks!

If they drink, they take a couple of mouthfuls and then have to literally lift the head up and swallow! That's because they don't have a gullet! But doves and bastards do!

Okay! Why are we watching this? And while I’m carrying on through the thickets! Up in Amara, Jamie's got a lovely lion pride for you!

Oh, this today is just full of unusual stuff! This is the N gamma pride! This is the angle of pride! Almost at the Samaki swamp!

This is the furthest I have ever seen them in this direction! When’s this lioness digging for? Was she just digging for a possible—in a very cat-like manner—for a possible toilet spot?

Well, the cubs are playing too much there for it to be anything like a warthog or anything like that! I have never seen the angle map ride this far east!

That is not in itself, that unusual!