Safari Live - Day 178 | National Geographic

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen! Welcome again to Juma in the Sabi Sands, Greater Kruger National Park. My name is Steve Falconbridge, I'm joined on the vehicle by Seb and we are out on safari this afternoon. You know I'm not on foot; I'm in the vehicle. We are out to search for everything wonderful and wild.

We've got Taylor McCurdy, she's on foot. We've got Byron Sarah, he is heading down to a surprise that was found towards the end of the drive this morning. We'll see if he can find it. I won't say anymore and I might just go and check if Komori is still in the same place. I'll just heave in there, maybe get some afternoon shots.

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Tomorrow being Monday morning, I'm going to be doing another medicinal plant segment in the morning hence the name "Missile Monday Mornings!" Yes indeed! But as we do, we still want to check all the roads as we go because you never know what might have been moving around during the daytime.

Good afternoon! My name is Byron and on camera with me is Seb this afternoon, and we are in search of more predators. We had a wonderful, wonderful morning! In fact, we had that male leopard who was high up in the Marula, feeding on the warthog that he killed yesterday morning. I think he’s still going to be in that area. But it’s been very, very hot and I’m assuming that he’s going to be resting in the shade somewhere. We’re gonna go and have a look around for some other predators and I think we'll keep it as a surprise.

I’m hoping that we have some luck with these ones, so you better stay tuned and see what lies in store for us this afternoon on our sunset safari. Hope you are all having a wonderful, wonderful weekend! It's been great for us here in the bush. We’ve had a lot of predators around. We had two leopards yesterday, we had leopards this morning, we had lions this morning with Taylor, so it's all happening which is great.

Now speaking of Taylor, she had the lions this morning; she’s walking around this afternoon, so I wonder what her plan is for bushwalk today. No burgers pointed out, a murder, a crime scene! Straight off the start of the sunset safari on this bush walk. I have absolutely no idea whose it is. It could be, I don’t know, an antelope of sorts? I assume maybe from — anyways, my name is Taylor McCurdy and on camera with me today is Cluck and Rickson assisting us.

So, say in the distance, very exciting stuff! So I’m not really sure what happened yet and when this happened because you know what it might be — it actually might just be… no, it's not dung. At first, I thought maybe it was just dung but it isn't; something has been plucked.

Yeah, there’s a bit of maybe… maybe it is dung; maybe it’s very old and we just didn’t notice it. I’m trying to work hard why we haven’t seen this before. No? Well, interesting, very, very interesting. Probably from the color of the head looks more bush back than a dozen Potter. It’s not quite sort of red like an impala, it’s a little bit darker. Hmm, oh well, we’ll never know! We will keep going.

So if you were watching the sunrise safari, you would have known that we found the Styx pride, thanks to Ol' Bree and William of the Juma for tracking them down, which was very, very nice. Nice to see them!

So what Rickson and I thought is because they've been sitting out in the sun for most of the morning and we didn’t see them move to the Shang. That’s quite a sort of treacherous area to get in with a vehicle, so why don’t we go in on foot? We’ll have lots of little, I suppose, high areas to sort of stand on, look down, and try and find the lions again.

So that's really gonna be our plan! Nice to head that way and hopefully find a feline surprise. Now I know that Steve said he was gonna be heading towards Hook Mori.

What’s he doing? And I bet he'll be sound asleep — he might be sound asleep! We had a bird a moment ago and he heard the words asking for a link and off he went! Was it the lilac-breasted roller? Folks, we thought we trials framed in my view and it is many people’s favorite bird! It is the prettiest colorful bird in the area and statistically, I think, the most photographed bird in the Lowveld.

They do like to pose! They like to sit there and watch and just wait. They are ambush specialists; they just sit and wait for insects and then they fly down, land on them, and grab them. But he did not want to stay, I’m afraid! He moved off!

Hello Dale! You want to know changes we can see in an ecosystem with regards to changing with winter weather. Well, the leaves fall off the trees, the grasses wither and semi-die, but the roots of a lot of them are still intact and are waiting for some rainfall.

A lot of ground cover will be covered on the ground; it’s not as hot this time of year so we don’t have as much solar radiation as you have in the summer months. There’s less erosion because there’s no water and a lot of the insects are pretty dormant this time of year, so from a change point of view, it’s just that sort of we get the wet season and we get the dry season.

And the wet season, as it says, it’s wet and the dry season is dry. So you see a difference in that. The roller was playing quite low; he’s not gonna stay, is he? Is he going to stay, Seb? Is it going to stay? No, a trailer was flying around!

So changes really are the fact that the trees and the animals have to adapt to lack of moisture. The trees are well adapted to it; they’ve been doing it for a long time. But extensive droughts mean that dry seasons get longer and longer, and when the rainy season comes, if it's less and we get periods of drought, that can lead to destruction or sort of increase in the woody component, meaning the trees because the trees have access to water generally because of the water table and the grasses don't.

So long periods of drought actually lead to increase in bush encroachment, but as a natural occurrence, we go through these cycles of wet and dry periods and what the droughts do provide is they provide harsh conditions which then enable only the strong animals to go forward.

We were talking about the herbivores yet that the leopards and lions seem to do very well in droughts and hyena because there are so many animals dying due to drought. But natural selection — weak fall down and succumb.

There we go! Since he wants to be photographed! Now he wants to be — he’s asking for it now! There’s the lilac-breasted roller doing his very nice casual flight. Don’t go to the sun! You’re gonna blind everybody! Yes, he’s going to turn — oh, that’s very bright! Watch out for the sun!

Here’s the lilac-breasted roller; it's difficult to view now because he’s right in the sun! The sun just melted his wings!

Now, what is it? Excuse me, I'm going to just quickly grab it. I'm gonna get a little branch! Yeah, there’s a funny little stick-like insect, so I'm going to use a stick that I’ve harvested here to get him without having to touch him; we don’t want to harm these little guys!

I think it’s his jump art; it’s a very funny looking guy! I think I actually had one of him a little while ago! Can you get him on the chair? Since it's a bit harder? Yeah, just get him on the stick — he jumps enormous distances!

Well, that stick was spring-loaded! I'm glad I wasn't looking at it! Well, it didn’t jump towards me! I think I would have lost an eye! Well he was camouflaged and he can jump like an absolute machine! Well, I don't know what it was — jumping stick insect thingy! Did you get all sins? It tried; it was a bit too close to the camera! Sorry, folks!

Well on we go! So, yeah, the dry conditions just make things more difficult for the animals. But then, as I said, the predators generally do a lot better!

Well, I wonder! I think some of the predators do a little bit better in winter! I don’t think so! I think that’s what Taylor said! Now, I’m looking for predators, as I said, and hold on! I think we’ve spotted something!

Look! We’ve got them! Look at this! Exciting! Exciting! Hold on! Have a look! Have a look! You squeeze three hair quickly! Actually, this is a little bit better over here! Have you all guessed what it is that I’m trying to show you? One day if you have! And they’re sitting up! This is exciting!

Careful, view! Through there! Is that — look at this! We’ve found some cheetah! Isn’t that amazing? No, I think this is the female with the two youngsters! And just lying, enjoying, and during the shade — our wonderful full bellies!

Sure! Really, really full bellies! And that’s perfect; that’s still really nice and warm! And I think perhaps that is why these cheetahs haven’t moved — full bellies, hot day, and just lying, enjoying the shade! How wonderful is this?

The last time I saw cheetah on Safari Live must have been when we were allowed to drive on Cheetah Plains! We usually see those males down on Mala Mala and Cheetah Plains, on that boundary, in those big clearings! That’s the last time I saw cheetah on Safari Live!

Seb, this is wonderful! I’m so dead — isn’t this amazing? Now Taylor, I think it got an update from someone this morning that said they had seen these cheetah cross onto our property, and that’s how we kind of knew where to start looking! I took a chance by coming here, thought they might still be in this area because of the temperature and the day that we’ve had!

I'm gonna try reposition for us to see if we can get a little bit of a better view; hold on a second! And they seem nice and relaxed, which is wonderful! So, I always gotta be sensitive, remember, with animals when you’re viewing, especially cheetah! And these ones do seem relaxed!

But we don’t want to cause them to feel any sign of distress! Nice view of our park over here and we’ve got a bit of shade. And my, up the way they — here we go, wonderful!

Taylor asking, what is the name of the cheetah in Shangaan? So in Shangaan, and I hope I say this correctly, it’s a pity we didn’t have Mr. Hendrie here to help us with the pronunciation, but it is "Shikank..." Shikankor! That is cheetah in Shangaan!

And I’ll have to ask James if I’m saying it correctly! Maybe he'll agree or disagree; who knows? But I think it is Shikankor — the correct way of saying it in Shikank! How beautiful are they? I really enjoy these cats — they're very different from the larger cats like lions and leopards, and we don’t see them very often, so it is always special!

And to see three of them and a female with two youngsters — that is just wonderful! As I said, the bellies looked fairly, fairly full! So perhaps they had a kill early this morning, or even yesterday!

I'm sorry, Lou, could you just repeat that? I lost you there a little bit! What did Skye say? Oh yes, Skye, you’re right! I definitely am going to enjoy spending time with the cheetah family! Wow, we’ve had, I must be honest, we've had a lot of luck the last two days with big cats! We’ve seen all of them! We’ve had lions, we’ve had leopards, we’ve had cheetah!

Now this is really special and unusual! Who has wished us luck for a big cat weekend? It’s worked! It depends! Sometimes I have seen females staying with the mother for longer periods of time! And males tend to form coalitions, so they’ll be not necessarily pushed out, but they are, to an extent, the female will say, "Right, it’s time for you to go off on your own!"

And she will usually push them out at about a year and a half to two years old; very similar to that of leopards! And from what I’ve seen, occasionally it may be a bit sooner, but usually, that is the time it takes for these big cats to become independent. So once they reach that age, they may get pushed out — the males often form coalitions, have a number of males together, and the females may hang around with the mother for a while!

Then often they tend to move off on their own! Now I know most of you have seen a lot of cheetah up in the Maasai Mara!

And I would guess that they definitely have seen more family behavior from the cheetah in terms of when the youngsters move off, how they, and what age they become independent, and the kind of the family structure of the cheetah! I haven’t seen too much of it, you know, working down here in the Sabi Sands!

We’ve seen the odd cheetah come through; the odd male that sits up territory and moves around by himself for quite a while! And I’ve seen a female cheetah once or twice with three youngsters! That was a few years ago! But I haven’t really seen coalitions!

I did see cheetah last week on one Deluzy — two young males! Not sure where they came from, but there were two young males that came through and they have been seen on one Deluzy! So I think they're potentially looking to find a territory for themselves! They did still look really young, not quite dominant and completely full grown just yet! This is really, really amazing!

And so great! I'm going to sit here for quite some time and watch these cheetah! But now, Taylor's challenged herself to the Ziziphus challenge! That just sounds dangerous!

Taylor! It's probably going to be dangerous; there might be blood! So if you're squeamish, look away now! I'm just joking! There might be a little bit of blood in case I pricked my finger!

Anyways, ha! When was it? I'm just trying to remember — the day that Steve decided to try and pick as many leaves as he could from a Ziziphus or a buffalo thorn! And he challenged me! And then I was cold, so I decided not to!

However, warmed up! And I’ve been stretching and I’m ready to take on the challenge! Fingers loose! That’s my tactic here! I’m gonna time myself! Let's see! I can — I'm going to have to do — how am I gonna do this because I’m gonna lose time?

Ready? Are you sure? Oh no! What a disaster! I gotta go so quickly! Three! I’m gonna drop it in! Four, five, six, seven, eight! Oh, this is hard! Nine! Ten! Eleven! Twelve! Thirteen! Fourteen! Fifteen! Sixteen! Seventeen! Eighteen! Nineteen! Twenty! Twenty-one!

Hey! This is really difficult! Twenty-eight! Twenty-nine! Thirty! Thirty-one! Yo! Thirty-two! Three! Four! Five! What’s the timer on? Why's it gone off here? Fourteen seconds? Where was that? Thirty-five?

Sixty-seven? How? Thirty-eight? Thirty-nine? Forty? Was it cranky while we were in? Count that one — forty-two! Forty-four leaves? Here’s the timer! Kids, don’t try that at home! 'Cause I totally did it! Totally did get some prickles there!

Steve apparently about 2300 the alpha male challenge, he’s now lost the ZZ4 challenge! We’re gonna have to — well, see if he’ll be able to redeem himself a little bit later! We’ll think of another challenge he can take part in!

As soon as that, I accepted a chance, it’s very good! So help me! Maybe you can all help me! Shall we do the same? Some suggestions through and what challenge do you think Steve and I could do? Hashtag Safari Live!

And yeah, it’s of course just a fun thing and it brings a bit of entertainment to the drive! That was really so! I don’t understand how I—I got pricked quite a few times, it makes you itch too when they do prick. It's not itchy hands! But anyways, all for science!

And that was quite cool in one minute; I mean, goodness gracious! And then, yeah! I probably would have been able to eat much more than any of those Ziziphus that I could’ve picked! Wonderful!

Anyway, speaking of, let’s go across to him and see what he thinks about me beating him! Well done, Taylor! Well done! Now that your hands are defrosted in the afternoon, you were able to pluck off more leaves than I did! How many did you eat, interesting?

Well in the afternoon when my hands are nice and warm, maybe I should have another go and see how we do! I think actually secretly, folks, she’s been practicing her technique since I challenged her three days ago!

Three days, folks! Can you imagine? Anyway, we are with Kumori and the very flat and full leopard from the west! He is— I have no idea where his bacon is! I have a very strong feeling it is all finished and he is as flat in the grass as can be!

So, we’re probably not going to stay with him for too long in the heat of the day! I don’t think he’s gonna do too much in the next hour or so, at least with a full belly! I think the only thing he’ll do is, as it starts to cool down, he will find his way to go and have a drink somewhere!

He doesn’t have the ability to carry water with him like we do! And I'm glad that he moved when we got — sure, because I don’t know how we would have found him very easily in this long grass! He’s moved off a few meters, sort of waist from where I had him yesterday!

Those of you who missed the show yesterday, Kumori killed a baby warthog yesterday morning! Dale, that's a great question! I think what your question really relates to when you say wild animals and parasites versus domestic cats and parasites, is where do the domestic cats come from originally?

And the parasites that they’re picking up are natural to the area that we’re in! And the cat, a domestic cat, is probably not natural to that area, so the parasites that they are accumulating haven’t evolved to cope with!

Whereas in this environment, the parasites have evolved with the animals that have lived here for a very, very long time! But most people that have got a dog or a cat somewhere in the world, that dog or the cat has been bred and come from somewhere! It’s not a naturally wild animal anymore!

That is evolved in a landscape, parenting and upbringing and selective in walk natural selection and a population of animals and then one dying and one surviving! Whereas our natural animals are coping with disease and those who don’t cope, they die!

That is essentially what happens to the natural immunity here developed over a very long time! Just like some people in Africa have got immunity to a lot of tropical diseases, but you come over here and if you come from the States or anywhere like that, the amount of inoculations you have to do before coming is quite scary!

That’s because you don’t have the natural immunity to do it! But if you were born here and bred in these areas, then generally, if you’re still alive, well, then something's working! If it hasn’t worked, well, then it’s just the natural ability to survive in an area!

And unfortunately, domestic dogs and cats didn’t evolve where we have them all over the world, and you’ll get parasites in and around there, that are transmitted by the natural occurring animals. And, like for example in South Africa, a lot of our dogs struggle with bilary tick-borne disease and it can kill them very quickly if you’re not careful!

It’s not that the dogs are weak or anything that Seb? Don’t have the natural sort of ability to deal with that! Lou said her dog had bilary and did pass away! Lou, sorry about that — can you treat it, if you pick up the symptoms very quickly? The dog’s mouth, the gums go from pink to grave very quickly! Very quickly!

Yeah, so Lou’s dog is fine; that's great! It does happen! They get very lethargic and their behavior changes, and if you just check their gums and you see the gums gone from blue, from pink to grey, then take them straight to the doctor, the vet, and it’s quite easy to sort out, I believe.

But that's just immunity; you know, just immunity. I, bitar, tolerance to things, antidotes develop in populations, and the weak ones will get fed out of it all or die out of the population! And the strong ones keep going; that's natural selection at its absolute pinnacle!

Okay, well I don’t think Byron is very far away, but I think his cats are also grateful and also quite flat! Well it looks like, if you have a look at that belly, you can see that they really are quite full! You see the panting slightly now, that is usually associated with two things!

One, when the cats are hot, they pant to cool themselves down, so breathing increases airflow through the body and that helps cool the temperature down a bit! And then, they’re now full! If they have full bellies, big cats tend to pant, or predators tend to pant — just it’s a bit hard to breathe with full bellies!

I kind of feel like that after a big meal sometimes! Stay, say you wanted to know why cheetah, lions, and leopards don’t — so I must be honest, I don’t know. I think they have a number of theories behind it, but I think one of the main reasons is the voice box!

So the voice box is quite different! If you think of the lions and the leopards, and the big cats that are in the Panthera genus, they’ve got that — I think it’s called the hyoid, but it’s kind of loose cartilage in the throat there, and that vibrates.

That allows them to roar! So the sound that lions give off, and leopards, it’s known as a roar, a very deep sound! I mean lions give that beautiful roar and leopards give that rasping sound that I saw in sand that we actually got to hear yesterday with Taylor!

Now the cheetah I don’t believe have that and they generally have very softer calls! But I’m not sure what it is actually that causes them to purr! But you are right in saying that these are the only big cats that — the other big cats don’t — they do not purr! I've heard the — a number of times from cheetah before and it does sound like a large house cat purring! That's the best way I can describe it!

But I know there are a number of theories behind! I think there are three theories behind it, if I’m not mistaken! I just can’t remember! I’ll try to find out! But I mean, I don’t know! I think, oh! I think there was another theory and this one for me seems the most plausible is that the cheetah obviously they do tend to overheat quite quickly!

So they've got generally, they've got a fast blood flow flowing through the body to help cool themselves down! If you see cheetah when they chase, they ain’t only chase for short periods of time and then they’ve got to stop because they overheat very quickly! And that blood flow, I think, helps try to cool them down!

They breathe quite heavily and that’s to cool the blood down! And I think there's a turbulent blood theory! So the constant moving through smaller veins and arteries, and I think that also is — that’s got something to do with the purring!

I stand to correction; these are theories that I’ve heard over time, but I don’t know! And how do we prove it? I’m not sure! But it'll be interesting! Maybe some of you back at home have heard some theories or can prove some of these theories or give us better information on them!

But it’s interesting to talk about these things and I don’t know! I’ve never found anything substantial to let us know why they purr and the other big cats don’t! But I do think it’s got something to do with the voice of voice box and the vocal cords that they are able to purr, and those big cats aren’t!

Carrie, yes! Cheetah are a particular area in this area; we don’t see them very often! Now the one reason for that is this isn’t typical cheetah terrain! I mean if you think of East Africa and the plains of the Maasai Mara and the Serengeti, then those huge open plains — that's ideal for cheetah!

They like big open spaces where they are able to view the prey from long distances away, stalk closer, and then run and chase them down using their speed! Now out here it’s thicker bush; it’s typically not cheetah terrain!

However, we do still get them moving through the area! Sometimes from here into Kruger and vice versa! There are big plains up in Kruger and also within the Sabi Sands! There are a number of large clearings and plains between Sangita and Londolozi in the south!

There are huge open areas, and that's generally where I’ve seen most of the cheetah in the Sabi Sands — has been out there! So there are areas! Occasionally they’ll move from one area to another!

Now this family infected James Richard, you gave us some information about this! Thank you very much James! You were saying that this family is a family that comes from Thorny Bush which is quite interesting!

So they’ve moved from there, from where they were originally! Now the Thorny Bush is not too far from us; it's that way! Yes, Thorny Bush is that way, and one of my friends actually works there, so I should ask him about this cheetah!

He’s been working there for about ten years! Nick works at Romulo on and he’s seen a lot of cheetah in that area! So this female is apparently an old female and she hasn’t had much success with cubs before!

But she’s got these two! A male and a female cub! And they were born last year sometime, so that's great! Thank you very much! So hopefully she has luck with these!

But apparently, the litter was originally five cubs and unfortunately now there are only two left! But that is the way it goes at times with other predators like lion and leopard around!

And the cheetah do not do very well; that’s one of the other reasons why they are quite rare! So hopefully these two survive right up into adulthood and continue moving through the areas and receive them a little bit later!

They seem to be resting but we’re not going to move anywhere — are we gonna stay here, spend some time with them? But Taylor is staring at a man on the moon! The Easter Bunny!

Oh, the Easter Bunny is in the moon! That’s what we see in South Africa, at least that’s what I was taught! Take it or leave it!

Anyways, it’s a very, very pretty view! Now, sadly, it's been a bit slow on the bush walk in terms of insects and things such! I'm surprised by, because it's such a warm day!

I thought we would have seen plenty, plenty! And even though the insects haven’t really been out, we did see some leopard tracks! They looked like female leopard tracks that have come walking from this block over here! I wonder who it could be!

They look like they’ve come over the top of this morning’s vehicle track! So I think here’s — this is what I think had happened! In the early hours of the morning, the Styx pride made their way onto the property into an area Tandi likes to leave Kolamba!

Now yesterday morning, I lost Tandi and Kolamba’s tracks pretty much in the same spot that she normally drops her! Which was near those nice just off central! So I thought, "Okay," and then Tandi picked up Tandi’s tracks and she’s been on a bit of a walkabout!

Then this morning, they obviously come out of that block! I said Tandi was playing on the road and then all of a sudden picked up Tandi’s track! So she came to connect them! And they walked along central!

And I didn’t know if they were in south or if they had gone further east! I think that they may have gone through the east! And like I said, into that block where it’s very dense!

Because that would make sense! So Tandi has then walked this way and if she’s taken some animal pathways, it would have been fun! And she would have, you know, covered a bit of ground quite quickly and back towards Giraffe!

Did a dip on central! Right down sort of between Vultures Nest! There are lots of impala, lots of warthogs — such a prey species in this sort of area!

So that’s what I think has happened! But we’re still on our way towards the lions! We’re trying to march because, as you know, whether it be South African school holidays, it’s busy!

It’s busy on the reserve! So we need to try to get into the sighting before we get a lot of traffic! And because as soon as one vehicle approaches, that throws us all off! We can’t go back in there again!

So we’re gonna have to just keep marching! And yeah, just get as close as we can! So we are going to walk a little bit faster! We’re going to use the roads because we do want to check that they haven’t moved!

And then hopefully, we’ll be able to get on in there and figure out where on earth they have been laying about! Because not many people — well, there were some guys that went to the lions this morning! But not a lot of people!

They still claim! She claims more! Everyone was very excited about the cheetah through the end of drive! That was really cool winds, and then we managed to find them!

We’re about 20 minutes after drive finished! They were just relaxing in the shade! Maybe Byron will get lucky and be able to see them sort of on the go! But we’re just gonna carry our marching for now until we get a bit closer!

I still got a little while to go! Ah, it seems as though Steve hasn’t got his patient pants on today, and I don’t blame him! Because when Hukamari sleeps, he sleeps soundly, and that's a really sure — himself!

So let’s go and see what his plans are next! Yes, well I thought about staying! He had a belly twice as big as he did yesterday, and I didn’t think he was going to do anything for a very long time!

So we’ve decided to move off! And there we go — how’s that? Since we’ve decided to move off, and we’re going to go in search of other things while we wait! Because I have no doubt Hukamari is not going anywhere while we go and spot our little vulture family!

A white-backed vulture nest sitting here in the tree and beautiful Marula tree! They’ve been here for over a month and a half now, I’m thinking!

So I assume that the eggs are nearly there! And whenever we come, we find just the one sitting on the nest — just the one! The other one, no doubt, in search of food which will bring back in its crop!

Before that, the male or the female does not really matter; either one will do! That will do the brooding gives the other one a break to go out and see some friends and go see the sights!

But talking about vultures in and specifically today with this weather, it’s very, very warm wind! Very dry! And this is the kind of weather that can lead to very sort of dangerous and out-of-control fires!

So we were talking this morning about fires! And it’s important, most areas will all be on high alert in areas like this in days like this — because when it’s a dry wind in the afternoon, the temperatures quite warm, fires can burn pretty hot and can be very difficult to control them if they do get out of control!

And this would also be perfect where the vultures would be soaring looking for food, so they’ll be out there — they enjoy these sorts of weather! And also being that high up in the tree, they're completely free from any damage by fire!

But maybe a little bit hotter to be sitting on the nest in the sunshine! That’s a great question! I’ve heard them a few times! I haven’t seen one in some time!

But they have an enormous area that they moved through! Ground hornbills have a pretty specific habitat type when it comes to nesting; they like big cavities for nesting!

So really big jackal berry-like trees, and that is one of the reasons why their numbers are decreasing! Because that requires a really, really big area for food and forage!

And they walk through this entire area, no problem picking up anything that they can! And then they need to go back to those roosting sites and nice riverbed areas!

And I don’t know if there’s one recorded in the area since! Have you seen a nest site in your time, ground? No, there are definitely on that!

We’re on the decline! The Endangered Wildlife Trust has been putting a lot of effort into their reclamation! Because that the reserve could be bigger!

I know Kruger Park really — the cover of the park is pretty big, but it could still be bigger! And outside is agriculture, and that is habitat loss! You know, it’s not the same as it was before!

But I’ve been asked to find you one of the magnificent six birds! But we leave this male or female white-backed vulture with a very nice view that they have up in the tree!

And we get to go and do what we normally do on an afternoon like this! We check the watering holes! Then at some point, we’re going to follow up on the Styx ohoo Kumari all the pins!

We got spoiled for choice this afternoon, aren’t we? Spoiled for choice! But there’s no rush! We can just take it really, really slow!

Now, the cheetah have not moved yet! And just as I thought the same with Hukamari, with it being so hot! They’re now resting and lying in the shade there!

But you know what? It’s cooling down! And I think if we’re patient, we're gonna see these cheetah move fairly soon! Excuse me! I’ve just been trying to read up a little bit on this pairing theory or the theories of purring and that, and I think the one theory and the one with the blood, I don’t think that makes sense now I’ll think about it!

And I don’t think so with blood passing through and causing turbulence around the main arteries and that being causing the purring! Because if you think cheetahs — and I’ve seen it before with them — I'll just stand up and then move past one another, lie down, wrap up against each other in a purr!

Stefan Utley, a contact call of sorts! And I think so! I think the one that’s the soft palate theory, that makes sense to me!

So basically what it is, is the theory is that they’ve got these voluntary skeletal muscle fibers in the back of the pallet in the throat! And they can basically voluntarily flutter, for lack of a better word, these flaps at the back of the palate!

And that is what causes the purring! And that makes sense to me! I hope it makes sense to you back home! But basically little flaps at the back of the throat that they are able to flatten that causes the purring!

And I think those bigger cats in the Panthera genus, I don’t think they have that; they’ve got these big thick voice boxes! Bone-like structures and a lot of cartilage around there that cause them or gives the mobility rather to roll, whereas these cheetah do not!

So I hope that answers some of your questions! But yeah, it’s very interesting! It’s nice to read up and try to get information again!

These are theories! I don’t know of any that have been particularly proven! But that one sounds the most plausible to me! Zach, I have never seen a king cheetah! No, not at all!

It’s incredibly rare! And for those of you asking what is a king cheetah — actually, let me share very quickly! I’m just gonna turn around! Sorry, so I can face you! It’s a little bit easier for me to show you in the book!

The king cheetah is basically, it’s a recessive gene which comes through now and then in the cheetah! And it gives them very different markings! Let’s see if it is! Yeah, I hope so!

There we go! It is there! There is a picture of a king cheetah! zero-erulated! I’m allergic to cats! No, I’m joking! That’s a beautiful king cheetah! Now this recessive gene causes this blotching along the cheetah, not the prominent spots that you are used to seeing!

But look at that! Isn’t it phenomenal? Now this is a very rare gene! It’s not something that is seen in the wild very often! That’s normally what a cheetah looks like! Zach, I have heard! And a few years ago, there was a king cheetah spotted! A wild king cheetah cub that was spotted in Thorny Bush!

Which is that area I said, just north of here, not too far! So there was one spotted! I don’t know of any other sightings of king cheetah in the wild recently in the last few years!

There have been a few in captivity; they have been some king cheetah in captivity! And I know Hoodspray Tedder has got a cheetah facility!

Say, have you been there? Do you know where it is? Spread rehabilitation center, and they’ve got some cheetah! Then I think they had some king cheetah!

But in terms of the wild, no! I’ve never seen one! Beautiful, aren’t they? Really amazing! It’s amazing how you get these recessive genes which come through now and then!

So it’s an underlying gene, which can potentially be transferred to offspring and may come through now and then! Another example of that is the lions — white lions! Now the Timbavati, which is also just north of us, is known for the white lions!

And that’s the area that originated from, the white lions of the Timbavati! And there were some — they were in fact cubs born — white lion cubs born, was it earlier this year? A few months ago!

But I haven't heard anything recently! And I haven't seen any signs of them! I don’t know if they’re still alive; perhaps those cubs didn’t make it, unfortunately!

But there were some white lion cubs born! And they — that recessive gene is still in that area, found in that area in the prides of lions! Oh wow, now this is exciting!

We’ve got these cats! But Taylor has got cats on foot! They have seen — they’ve also heard us! We haven’t been very quiet; it’s been walking around — firstly because when you’re crunching around on the grass, it makes quite a bit of noise!

And it’s — sometimes hard to, of course, walk so quietly! There’s not many animal pathways here where we are right now, so I’ve seen that the whole pride is fairly spread out!

They did move into the shade! They moved just a little bit further down! And, yeah, we’re quite far away from them — probably about eighty to almost a hundred meters away from these lions!

Through the drainage line, we’re almost two little divots, I suppose! So they don’t feel too threatened by us at all because they’re so far away!

But they are going to watch us! There’s no point trying to hide our way, to pretend like they don’t know we’re here! But you can just see the one for now!

If the rest are all laying about! And like I said, it’s not a very nice view at all! So we won’t stay here very long! We’ll call Steve into the sighting and we wanted to come and try and read our case on foot!

It’s often easier to do that and then call a vehicle in, especially in a treacherous area like we’ve got at the moment! It’s not the easiest sort of place to navigate; not even with our small cars!

So that’s very nice! Very cool to see them! And interesting to see that the Styx also relaxed on foot! Perhaps that’s from my supposed being tracked by many, many other safari guards and matrixes trying to find them!

Although I haven’t seen too many prides and lions that run away! And you think they’d hit that and stir away! But we didn’t also walk them very often! Except when you dance, then you don’t do a lot of bush walks!

But yeah, this is walking central! And probably the best place to do walks! Awesome! Very, very nice!

But we won’t hang around here much longer! Like I said, we’ll call Steve in so that he can come and view the sight of the Styx pride!

Brunette! So we just chatted about how far I was from the lions! I said about 80 to 100 meters or so! So I’m in a fair sort of distance!

And so I said they’ve seen us, now they know we’re here! We don’t need to hang around for hours and hours; we can carry on! And we can actually move us and maybe head back towards the road!

And then get Steve in! It’s not a very nice view, I’m afraid! And I don’t think we’ll go around the car and see them again!

I don’t want to chase them; I don’t want them to move! So I’m very happy sort of with this approach that we’ve done! And we didn’t really startle them — even the youngsters are not too bothered by us at all!

But yeah, very nice! Very cool to sort of see! Wonderful! So we’re gonna go wait in a spot away! Steve can see us and try and guide him in the easiest way!

Let’s go see how far away he is! Oh, well done, Taylor! You found the Styx again! What’s that saying? Sticks and stones can break your bones!

I think very true! Sticks could eat you! So be careful! Be careful with those lions! I'm on my way! We have just left Treehouse Dam, we're not too far away but we will be there shortly! Five to ten minutes, with traffic! My GPS is 5 to 10 minutes; light to moderate traffic this afternoon!

Yes, I know it is a Sunday! The traffic is mild on a Sunday! Monday? It’s Mania Culture — absolutely manic! I hope most of you out there know that I am joking!

We have no traffic! Hello, a bee! I'm sorry if I didn't add to what I spoke about—the Magnificent Six birds! Basically, well, first of all, let’s explain what they are — they are six large species of bird we find in Southern Africa that are, and because they’re large, they breed slowly so they’re on the decline.

So number one would be the Southern Ground Hornbill, number two would be the Kori Bustard, which is the largest flying bird in the world, or in Africa anyway! Three is the leopard-faced vulture; they’re losing nesting sites and people think vultures are predators and they hunt their lambs so they will poison and kill them!

Saddle-billed stork, which we do see from time to time! I think there’s only about 60 breeding pairs in the whole of the Kruger! That’s got to do with habitat loss again because there’s only so many natural places for them to not only feed but to breed!

Either Pel’s fishing owl; there’s only two major areas in the Kruger National Park you will find them! That’s up on the north and the Leve River! A very special bird to see! It’s a nocturnal owl and a fishing owl is enormous!

It’s bigger than the giant eagle owl! Very cool! They are very cool! Black guys, I’ll show you a picture shortly! And then that’s five I said six — there is a sixth one, it’s not the ostrich, that’s for sure!

There’s nothing wrong with the numbers of ostrich in the world! There is a—I’m pretty sure there’s a sixth! I'm pretty sure there's a sixth, a bee! I’m gonna have to really think about it; it’s gonna come to me in a moment!

By the way, this is really where the other night the hyena came charging out, we've followed them with the Fleur camera; it was quite fun to watch as they disciplined one another!

And I must, on an apologize if I’ve got some hyena facts wrong, apparently there’s been a lot more new research that I was unaware of of the differences in clan hierarchies, males and females! Stuff! I’m gonna put a lot more attention into it! But I’m not going to be delving into that right now!

What is this sixth bird? Okay, well, maybe I’m going to think very hard about the sixth bird — it’s going to come to me in a flash! But in the meantime, let's go back to those very slow-moving cats!

The cheetah, they’re not so slow-moving these cheetahs! Still haven’t moved! But, you know, this morning in fact, I know just a lot of the time people come out tonight and they'll see animals like this and then they decide, well, the guy decides, “Okay, well they are…” and this is all of you know this is my worst term ever! I’ll never use it and I really don’t like it when people use it!

Sometimes they think other guys tease me and use it on purpose! Flat cats! Dispositively not flat cats! They’re just resting now! Resting cats! It’s a hot day! They’re in the shade and they’re enjoying their rest!

Now, a lot of the time I've seen people come in; they see them, they go, “Well, we can’t really see them that well!” and they move out! If you honestly believe if you are patient and you sit with animals, you get the best, best sightings that you will ever have!

And that is often the case with these predators! This morning, we were very fortunate! We got to the male leopard, Hukamari, spent some time with him and we got him going up into the tree!

And we had a wonderful sighting with him feeding up in that Marula, and then eventually, we went on and they in the grass! But you know, we spent time there and we sat and watched and saw amazing behavior!

It looks like there are some other vehicles that are joining at the moment! So potentially try and see these cats! It’s gonna be difficult, I think for everybody else to see them because it’s not really an easy position to view them!

We’re very fortunate — we've got the camera and our French Connection, Sebastian! You know, if lions had to come across these cheetah, yes, there's a good possibility of them attacking and killing cheetah!

I mean, cheetahs are really low on the predator hierarchies, so what happens is they do get threatened by larger predators like lions!

And there’s a good chance that if lions bump into them, they will potentially kill them! And mainly at night, you see them during the day, the cheetah almost like you see the lions and they'll be able to run away!

Don’t forget, the cheetah is very, very fast and it’s able to get out of the way quite quickly! But they do have to be careful that they don’t get surprised by the lions!

This is actually a wonderful sighting, and so great that people who are on safari at the moment are able to see these cheetah!

Matthew, yes! Generally speaking, cheetah are definitely more solitary cats compared to lions! Lions always, most of the time, are in prides! Now, I say most of the time because, don't forget, you’ve got males!

They tend to move around by themselves or in coalitions! And you can get coalitions of males for up to four, five, or six males at times moving through the area!

But remember, with the females, it's mostly prides! And so the females with sisters and youngsters, and that’s how the pride grows! Whereas cheetah, generally the females are solitary unless they've got cubs, as in this situation!

And these youngsters are still relying on their mother! The male cheetah, I ever do sometimes form small coalitions, two or three males together! But also what I’ve seen a lot in the Sabi Sands is a lot of males moving around by themselves!

We’ve seen solitary males too! So definitely more solitary than lions! The population in South Africa, I think it's pretty stable at the moment!

I think with conservation and the protection of areas, hopefully, the numbers will increase! But I'm — but you see again with cheetah, a loss of habitat very much like wild dog loss of habitat is the main reason for the numbers diminishing!

So we do have to be very careful in a way, from a conservation point of view, with these cats! And so I think with other predator numbers increasing, there seems to be a general balance!

You know, they’ve got to watch out for lions, even leopards! If there are a lot of predators around then the cheetah, if they do hunt, a lot of their kills get stolen by other predators!

And they’re very quick to be chased or very easy to be chased off, sorry — let me say that again! They’re easily chased off of kills!

And if you think, I’ve seen vultures come down and chase a cheetah for a kill before! Just to give you an idea! So interesting! But I think the main reason for the cheetah numbers not being very good is loss of habitat!

I also need large territories and open areas! But it seems to be pretty stable at this stage! So hopefully I’d continue, saying again, you know I always say this, but it’s true! Tourism is a huge, huge help for conservation!

With people coming out on safari into Africa, not just South Africa but into Africa! You promote areas or create areas! Or cause areas to continue looking after the wildlife because people are coming out to see them!

So it is very, very crucial! A beautiful view of the face there! You can see those very prominent black tear marks down the face!

And Ruined! You’re wondering why the cheetah have the tear marks! So the main theory behind that, Ryan — and again I say a theory because we don’t know if it’s definitely proven or not — but the theory is that, well the cheetah are generally diurnal hunters!

They hunt during the day! And especially in the harsh light of the day, those black markings help reflect light away from the eyes! So now able to see a lot better when they are chasing down prey!

One of the theories behind the black markings makes sense! If you think about — if we think about lions, those white markings under the eyes — and that’s to reflect light too!

They are for their nocturnal vision! So it would be the opposite for diurnal cats like a cheetah!

Now speaking of lions, Steve has got a surprise for you! I do, hello kitty kitty! Here’s a little youngster! It’s my first time seeing the youngsters since I think the 3rd of January! I saw them, the Styx Pride left a group of them just there on the side of the road down on the south on the boundary with Gar!

Little, little Gar! And I remember seeing loads of little bundles of joy in the grass! And they’ve grown quite a lot! Well, this one has anyway!

And the fur is not looking great! But I haven’t seen them! And I’ve heard only stories every time people seem to talk about the Styx, all I hear people talking about is the mange! Shame!

Maybe we can talk about something else today; it’ll be a bit more positive for these guys, you know!

But they are very social! You see the rubbing? Child of the universe — very good question! The vocal males coming in from the north will have no doubt influenced some sort of dynamic within the area!

Something I’ve seen through my own experience is lions with cubs — obviously, cubs younger than two years of age!

If they hear a male call, you’ll often see the lions get up and walk in the opposite direction! And obviously, well, I’m sure my lions can recognize each other’s calls! And they know if those are the Birmingham’s or if they're a new male lion!

And there’s just a different power and frequency in it! And I couldn’t tell you the difference between different male lions!

But when that is the only language you speak, you learn how to speak it well! So I’m sure they’re able to identify it! And I saw it many times in my accounting career with lions with their cubs!

And then they just get up and walk the other way! Because male lions announce themselves most of the time quite easy to avoid them if you want to!

And the purpose of that is so that other males avoid them, so they don’t need to fight all the time! And so it also helps for the females to avoid them! But every now and again the males roar and they might end up finding a pride because they can't smell them!

And then that can lead to some turmoil! But seemingly, the Avoca males don’t seem to be coming too deep into Juma! They’re just keeping — right up to the top spending time in Buffel’s Hook and a lot of their time in Manulete!

There’s a really, really big area out there and I think there’s more than enough area for them to cover! So, but definitely their presence will be a bit of a stirring pot! A melting pot of the dynamics in the area affecting however the lions will move!

And obviously these lionesses don’t want to lose their cubs, so they will move in response to those males! And generally away!

So I have no doubt it does influence the movement of them! But now here they are in pretty much the hearts of Juma!

So this is Tandi’s turf! We've had the Uncool rumors not far from here! So their right in the middle of sort of no man’s land, so to speak! Taylor probably showed you this morning on the map where they are!

I think if she didn’t, I’m more than willing to do so again; it’s kind of just kilometers to the south! But I’m gonna show you anyway, I just need to get it out of all my layers in my bag!

Yet in amongst layer after layer! Folks, you feel sorry for them, but it is part and parcel of being a lion, I suppose!

And this is what they do! They scratch and they lick and they’re clean in themselves! And it’s normally what they do! Anyway, the mange just makes a little bit more uncomfortable, isn't it?

Okay, into kill them! If anything, that their coats actually looking quite leggy! Maybe they’ve got the winter coat on!

Okay, well I found the map, and as soon as Seb is ready, I’m going to put it up on the dashboard! And we are about over here somewhere; somewhere here in the middle!

And the last time we had Ungulumas with a kill on the West, it was right over here! And then they killed another warthog over here!

And there’s two young individuals that were lost from the pride hanging around this area for most of the week! The Ungulumas that abandoned them so to speak have gone up to the north here where some action happens with Avoca males!

After dark, we don’t know! And then a buffalo is killed! And then Kumari went all the way back down nice! And you’re keeping up with me there!

And they’ve spent the rest of time over here! So that seems to be the facts! Because Amber Eyes is dating somewhere in here! And the whole pride seems to feel the need to stay close to her!

But a lot of that might also have to do with the fact the vocal males are sort of in and out of Juma in the north here! Not very, very prominent!

But they’ve got an enormous amount of area north of us — it just keeps going and going! So we are only a small spot in the spectrum of territories with these prides!

And they all cover an enormous area that we don’t even know about! For example, this is the second time I am seeing the Styx, and I’ve been here for six months!

And the first time I saw them was right over there! Was there! I was right there, on that junction! And then I got to see — as we left, we got Tandi walking in on the road being his original self when I arrived!

And then he went through a little patch of being a little bit unwell! I bet he’s had his medicine and he’s feeling much better, as we know! And he is around doing his thing!

Well, since enough with my map! Let's look back at these little Cubs that are playing a little bit! Little bit of loving going on there, oh!

Crafty stash! Well, you want to know what happens when the Cubs grow up? Generally the Cubs always grab — all that don’t make it to adulthood! But the females will be members of the pride!

The males will either be chased off or will stay with the pride until males arrive to chase them off! But essentially what happens is, once the Cubs are a year and a half to two years, the females are breeding again!

So which means, there will be an estrus! Which means that the urine that their deposits in and around the area will get the attention of a male!

And once one male gets the attention to males and then you might find a male, the two spending a few weeks with this pride while he services, not one but two of the females because they often come into estrus at a very similar time!

So that’s the dynamics of it happens! It moves in and out constantly changing! But that is what works! Either a male finds them first and kills the Cubs, and then they're coming into estrus just in a month!

All their natural arts had come into estrus just within sort of 15 months two years after the Cubs are born! That is hard works! Our chair! The evolution of lions!

There are lots of lions in the Kruger National Park! It is very cute! Isn't it? I’ve only seen a handful of lines! There’s probably a few more! I mean you see this morning, Seb, since 12 or 13!

Okay! Well thank you Taylor for finding these lions for us again! And are we going to get back over to her and see what she’s going to be up to the rest of the afternoon?

I'm surprised you haven’t actually heard my voice! You’ve just been chatting about all sorts of wonderful things that are happening out here on safari!

No, this used to be such a great area to find animals because the wallows are normally filled with water! So it was a favorite spot of elephants and always a favorite spot of buffalo, rhinos, and all sorts of wonderful critters!

Even the warthogs will come and wallow away in here! Now we’re probably not going to see much sort of fresh signs of animals here; this will dry up until the rains fill the mud wallows again and the various mammals can use this as a scratching post!

But it is definitely a scratching post that’s been used for a long time! Looks like it’s been chopped out! I’m not sure what happened here, maybe actually, don’t know! But it has been chopped; there’s no way that any animal can saw through a tree like this!

But this was done a long, long time ago! And now it’s just the perfect size! And the longer you look around here, the more sort of rubbing posts you’re actually fine!

But this is a perfect height for an elephant! And I’m sure they’d enjoy it too because they can get a bit of a baby scratch from this!

Another piece! Now most of you know if you look very carefully, you can often find ticks and things that are stuck in the mud! But you don’t normally see it once this mud has been here for quite some time!

Normally with fresh mud, you’ll see it quite nicely! All the parasites, but I can’t see anything at the moment! Now on Joe and I suppose not all of them!

Hibernation is a strong word to use in South Africa! The reason why I say that, Joe, is because conditions only get cold enough, especially here in the Lowveld!

I mean, the winters are beautiful; we've got the best weather in the country! So even though the mornings and evenings are fairly chilly, the days are warm enough!

Majority of the days are warm enough that you can see insects and reptiles coming out and moving around! So, we typically use the tone estimate, which is almost a temporary period of hibernation depending on weather conditions if you will!

So for instance, the tortoise might hide away when a cold front pulls through for a week, because the temperatures are lower than 20 degrees Celsius!

And then on a nice day when it's 25 to 26 degrees Celsius, all those tortoises go, “That was a nice sleep! That was a great race! I'm hungry!”

And then off they’ll go and they’ll try to find some things to nibble on! And they’ll have a tough time of course finding food! Grasses are not great; not a lot of flowers around!

And there definitely aren’t any fungus alike to eat! There! So the insects and things like that will also Easter bait ladybugs!

Normally congregate together and will hide in a crevasse of a tree or something along those lines! So again, they’ll also move around when it’s warm weather!

And some of the insects have such short lifespans, they’re basically time at the lifecycle ends after the summer! Then into winter! And then it all starts again! Pretty cool!

Anyways! We're gonna keep on walking and see what else we can find as we ventured on this way! If you go back to Byron with the cheetah cats and the youngsters, let's see if this is the male and the female! Beautiful light on those eyes!

Look at that! Those amber-colored eyes! Deep! That’s a pistol, just describing them! Now I think looking at these two, these are the two youngsters!

And I think, look at them! I think that is the female in the front that we can see and the male behind them! I said just judging by the size of the heads! Males, obviously, they tend to be slightly bigger than females!

Look at that! Tiffany, I wonder! These Cubs look like they are between nine months and a year old, I would guess! I would guess and quite big already! I’m not too sure!

I think update from James Richard! He told us when they were born, I think he had an idea! And I think he said September, on September!

So ten months! Okay, yeah! So ten months if they were born September last year! That makes sense! So just as I thought, maybe between 9 months and a year!

They’ve got that size — look a little older! I must be honest! But you know, you can see they are still young! Very playful! Usually at about a year and a half to two years old, they’ll be just about fully grown!

The male might get a little bit bigger! You can actually see their claws! Now this is the one interesting thing with the cheetah! You see those claws? Remember, they do not have retractable claws like the lions and leopards!

The cheetah claws are always out! And the reason for that, the main reason is for running at high speeds! It gives them that traction that they need to run!

Isn't that a beautiful view? Aiden, one of our young viewers, 7 years old! Aiden, you asked if cheetah fur is soft? I can actually tell you the answer today because most of the big cats I haven't touched!

But I've touched a cheetah before! It was one that I think a vet had to do some work on! And it’s actually quite rough, Aiden, believe it or not!

It’s not soft; I’ve heard that out of these big cats, the one with the softest fur is indeed the leopard! The leopard is the one with the softest fur! Lion has coarse rough hair, and so did the cheetah from what I felt!

We've got a silly song stuck in my head! I blame Louise! And I think some of the people in the final control maybe I instigated it! But it's just a silly song! Apple bottom jeans!

But Louise and a few others jumped on the bandwagon! And she’s singing it now in my ear and she says apple-bearing genes! And then we started going on, “Oh, apple-bearing genes, boots with the fur!”

Yeah, apple-bottom jeans, cats with the fur! It was also at one stage apple-bearing jeans, shoots with the fur because Ferg was on camera the other day!

That is from Fergalicious! See what we start talking about? With me enjoying these sightings!

Yeah, we’re gonna have to find a song for the fringe connection! You know what? I’m really enjoying sitting with these cheetah! Because we do not see them very often!

And I think it’s special to spend time with these cats! And at the moment, we’re the only ones! Yeah! It’s a really great sighting!

And you can see they are starting to become a bit more active! Their heads are up, moving, looking around! So perhaps, we get to see them move up and walking through very soon!

So I think we should stand! I'm sure most of you are happy with that! So you can really enjoy the sighting! Because we don't know when we’re gonna see cheetah again!

And saying that we will probably find them tomorrow! But you never know! It's a very peaceful afternoon, and still quite warm! But it is cooling down quite quickly; I’m sure it’s gonna get quite chilly again tonight!

Alright! We’re gonna stay here with the cheetah, as I mentioned! Let’s go and find out how the lions are doing! The lions are doing fantastically well!

Nice to be able to spend some time with them! And this individual is an absolute poser! She's repositioning and repositioning and saying, “Come on, take my photo!” The side — that side!

As Byron says, it is cooling down! A lion deliberately moving into the sunshine means that it’s hoping to warm itself up a bit with the radiation from the sun!

So look, so look good on the thermal camera! Later! I'm only checking; we’re not using the thermal camera tonight! It was fun last night though!

It’s really struggling to be comfortable though! We're thinking, pretty, the individual are you looking at definitely is old enough to kind of be a part of the hunt!

I wouldn’t say to make a major effort in actual hunting itself! But I’ll definitely play a part in flustering or chasing the prey which it could potentially catch itself with assistance or frightening the prey into the waiting arms of the adults!

But the other cubs that you saw first, no by no means are they old enough to take part! They’re just too playful and too small!

They can still frighten! I’ve seen lionesses with cubs about the small, and a check, they saw a parlor — and away from them!

And then the adults pull down the impala! But I don’t think it was something that happens very often! The cubs don’t play too much of a role for the first year and a half or so!

They need their pens there sometimes! They basically just wait! They were waiting for food! And that often will be left behind! And then Mom will come and call them to come and eat!

What’s that scent? So mirror shots! Enzo, say they both got the same foot in the air! “Look what I can do!” “No, but I can do it better!”

“Look at me!” You know there must be some really itchy bits in the toes there. The tongue of a lion is very rough! Like sandpaper! So it’s very helpful in getting those itchy, itchy spots!

And also cleaning dirt and food! There you can see the claws! Byron is talking about in the lion this time!

Look at those claws! How they’re able to protract! So it pushes them out! Doesn’t keep them out! They pull back! That’s busy pulling them out!

By clenching the foot today, as soon as it stops licking, it will probably relax that foot! You see that the foot on the left is very relaxed! No claws visible!

The foot on the right is very tense and the claws are out! So protract are very sharp! And look it’s just a small little cabin!

Look at those claws! That would hurt your leg! Well, minimum! I mean, mange is a skin-to-skin contagious mite!

So it could balance across! But it’s very easily treated in people, I do believe! It can, sarcoptic mange can be faithful to dogs if not treated!

So it’s important to pay attention to the symptoms early on! But in lions, you know, it just passes through them!

And I've never seen a bad case like this before, but it's not as bad! I’ve just been listening to the sawyers for the last while about everyone talking about how gross or how poor the condition looks on these cats!

But they’re better looked at as bad as ours expecting! Since what’s your thoughts? I think they’ve been proved, oh, from a lot so long ago!

And that individual is looking directly at scents! Oh, I don't know what! It’s just realized we’ve been here the whole time!

This one looked too into Zed! Gaby! And the other one, like ooh, what happened? What happened? I think the wind has changed, and they've smelled us!

Don't worry; we are completely harmless over here! Well, I believe Taylor's got one of the favorite animals we all like to see on foot!

I've somehow become a giraffe magnet! I'm not sure if it's me or if it's because of Ferg! Because Ferg is also the other constant!

And in this situation, the last time you did a bush walk, Rosie, not yesterday afternoon but the afternoon before that, yeah!

We had such a great time! We had about a giraffe staring at us which was awesome to see! Their heads popping up from behind the trees!

But this — yeah! Yum! This lovely young less — wait, great spoonerism! A very good at doing this!

And she’s just staring at us at the moment! I don’t know if she’s the only one! She does look around occasionally!

So there could be a couple of others! Oh, okay, do you want to have a look? Good! Or 180 very quickly!

We’re being watched! We’re being surrounded again by the giraffe! But we, if I need to say every time I forget I do a bush walk!

If we start getting the same sightings — not quite eight! This time we’ve got three around us at the moment! But that’s not to say that there aren’t a few others about!

But isn’t that beautiful? Silhouette — two giraffes! Are they Ferg? Very, very nice! Just keeping an eye on us! One looks like a male and the other one looks like a female!

So I’m actually — I’m almost certain it’s the same group of giraffes that we saw at mushroom! And then we actually saw them very briefly this morning!

But unfortunately, they were down in a dip on Central! So not too far away from here! And it was quite difficult to actually get a view of them!

And we didn’t have signal, the gremlins class! That’s why we didn’t show you back! They had made an appearance this afternoon!

So that’s an ugly — they really are truly a special animal to see! From this distance away they don’t look too big until they get closer and closer to them!

Here at the firm — the whisper of some kind of animal! Because it's not lions and leopards, that's for sure!

They always give me the slip! Although I think everybody has been given the same treatment by Tandi! So I’m starting to feel a little bit better about myself and perhaps it’s not my scent that’s repelling her!

But yes, that’s rather been really, really kind lately! And it’s nice to have a group on the property! And they’re still insane from Juma!

So I think they might hang around for a little while! And they've been eating a variety of different things from the bush willow!

And yeah, lots of bush willows! That’s what this cow was just feeding on! And then they’ve been sort of particularly fond of the buffalo thorns! Oh, she’s dribbling!

I thought you were telling me that I'm dribbling! The densest is my mouth numb — do I not know that I'm drooling? But yes, there we go! So she is salivating now!

Often giraffes elevate quite a bit! She’s staring at Rickson! She’s just watching Rickson at the moment! And I've heard that some books say that giraffes' saliva has something in it that can combat the tenants!

And just often why they celebrate quite a bit! True that is! I'm not so sure; I'm not a scientist! I can't test this either slyly to see what sorts of things are in there!

But you do often see a big gob strand—not a spider web, as it's why nice when the light catches it! They’re very intrigued, but very relaxed around us!

It's fantastic, man! I wish you were all here with me on foot just watching! Watching them stare at us! And she’s got both ears facing towards us, but every now and then you see the other one sort of flick back just to listen!

To anything that’s behind her! And again, if these animals felt threatened by us, they would have moved away — but we were discussing this! Remember with the Styx pride and the big giraffe bull?

That one of their tactics is also just to stand and