Safari Live - Day 300 | National Geographic

And out of this afternoon, a Craig is on camera with me, and as you may have gathered, he does a little bit of a damp start to our sunset Safari. I'm a soaked, the jackals soaked, Craig is actually relatively dry back there. The rest of us are fairly... the roof in the rain covers beautifully designed, of course, to redirect all water onto the driver on the basis that the driver is waterproof, where the equipment is not.

So for whoever asked the question about whether or not this is live, well, if you needed any further proof than the start of this afternoon Safari, well, I'm afraid I cannot offer any further proof than that. Hey, we have a black-backed jackal, which is a lovely sight to see in South Africa. The reason being that about mine was it was about three years ago, there was a massive outbreak of rabies, a little wound on their leg, very comfortable around that area.

There's a massive outbreak of rabies which, unfortunately, killed off a large portion of the jackal population. We've always had a couple, a pair of them around this area, right up at the sort of sandy patch firebreak patch. Never a hundred percent sure if it's the same ones that live at the southern portion of Sandy Patch Road, really not a hundred percent convinced, but we've seen them every now and again. It's been a long time since I've seen them personally, and now we have one sitting beautifully relaxed, curled up against a quarry bush.

Now that, fortunately, the rain appears to have lit up. It wasn't particularly hard rain; it was just a sort of a soaking drizzle. It did the job well enough and then departed. Hopefully, that means I can very soon remove the voluminous poncho that I am currently donning on the basis I figured it would be quite bad for our TV show if I got hypothermia.

Then he says that they just, or she just wants to give him or her a blanket. I know it looks as though it could use a jolly good doggie blanket, maybe just a towel dry. I imagine, if it makes you feel any better, that the jackal would probably look at you and sprint off into the bushes with confusion. The life of luxury is not something that they know, but I do completely understand what you mean; it looks thoroughly damp and miserable, doesn't it? Soaking wet fur.

Unfortunately for the wild animals out there, there's no shelter to go to. There's not much they can do when it rains except, well, be in the rain, essentially, which is exactly what this jackal is doing. It's doing a magic impression of a yoga pose, actually; it's curling up, tucking its nose underneath... it's high! Wonderful.

I'm gonna sit here for just a little bit longer so you can think of some questions if you have questions on jackals. So while you do that thinking, or if you go to David, who is out and about in the Mara.

Hello everyone! And number one, lots of apologies for all the gremlins we have been having the last few minutes, but all seems to be good. And how nice to see jackals with Jamie! I mean, jackals are very small compared to my huge big elephants that they've got. Now, I'm sure most of you know me, and for those who may not have seen me before, my name is David, and that has not changed.

And in commercial is Bunga Bunga. Good afternoon, sir! Very excited to have you on board today. Welcome to tomorrow's triumph. I'm sure you met Isaak before, and we're gonna promise a wonderful game today. That's one of my favorite birds, and Bungay has been doing one of the things he knows are the things I like: all the animals they love.

And number one for the big mammals, elephants. For the birds, he knows I love the lilac-breasted roller. I didn't want to thank you, Bungay, because also this morning Bungay caught me off guard by showing me a lilac-breasted roller they could not see. What I was seeing was a buffalo right behind it.

Well, a warm afternoon! I'm sure Isaac told you here, and that is justified by the movement of the ears of those elephants, the African elephants. And remember, as much as Omeka, leave it up to you; your comments, questions are always more than welcome, and that keeps us going.

See that smoke? They're following the mother very closely, and I got a feeling they are heading to that little bush there because it's pretty warm to be out in the open, and once they get there, they'll enjoy both a feed and some nice shade because that's a good cover on those big trees that you see in front there. It's always good! I remember when, you know, in my village, as much as the mama toss did not come until the other day, we used to have a rough idea of how warm it would be by looking at elephants at a distance, and you would say the more they flop, we'd guess the more warm or harder it is.

Now this is my friend, the lilac-breasted roller, my favorite bird, as I said earlier, and I've always said it's the most celebrated bird in Africa, the national bird of Kenya, and also the national bird maybe of a few other countries. The one that I know for a fact is Botswana.

And having her opening her mouth again, my guess is he's, because of how warm it is. I wish she's trying to, you know, cool off. We're seeing sometimes some animals like crocodiles opening the mouth once pretty warm, and she has no other reason that they can guess apart from just, you know, cooling off by opening her mouth.

Well, I like about the roller. Vertical position, you are, and I'll suggest possibly go look for some shade, but if you need to be there to get some food, why not? You see how she's opening her mouth? My guess again; it was a pretty warm afternoon here tomorrow, and James is enjoying some primates on top of a tree.

So what we have here is the same troop of baboons. Yes, they are in the shade by virtue of the fact that it's so cloudy and there is no sun. But what we have there is the baboons sitting in a brown ivory tree that is in full fruit, and they are having a delicious meal. Look at them! They couldn't be happier.

I don't know why, but there is the troop has sort of wandered off towards the left. I don't know what on earth they're going to eat that could be better than brown ivory fruits like that one there. It seems to be the youngsters left behind, the sort of gangsters if you like.

It's always the ones that lurk on the fringes that are young males and young females, I guess, or a gang of unruly teenagers. It's like you were David. David is on camera, everybody. It was an unruly teenager at one stage about three years ago.

And what they do, of course, these baboons, not the unruly teenagers of which Dave was one, is that they get to these trees before the fruit is completely ripe. So if you and I were to try and eat what that baboon is eating, we'd spit them out and reject them as being either too hard or too sour, and probably definitely too taut. The baboons don’t mind that fruit, though, because the baboons are almost always...even clean. That said, it does seem to be going for the yellowest ones.

There are some very orange ones—they're just being quite selective. It's not just eating any old fruit! It'll be the most comfortable way to sit, and eat it is hilarious though. If you look, Dave just glares at one on top now. It keeps looking at us and saying, "What do you want?" I could watch these things all day long—there's a big chap. Look at him! He's having a go at the little one.

I suspect that the big fella is one of the dominants, so he seems to be a big, you know—he's an adult, and the other one is a sub-adult, and they're probably both male, which means that the youngster best just stay out of the way because if that big fella gets a hold of him, you probably also find the big fella at the back there is low down in the baboon troop hierarchy, which is why he's not with the rest of the troop and why he's hanging with the kids at the back.

What he'll do is take his frustrations at being a lowly ranked member of the troop out on the rest of the troop. All righty, I believe there are some more issues with the Juma feed. I do apologize for that. Let's get back across to Isaac, who has got some lions, Namara.

Yes, I have found the sausages! If you haven't joined us before, this pride is very close to us and very close to our hearts. It's called the sausage tree pride. Sorry for the genies that are getting into our equipment. Sorry for the hitches, but we're back and we're alive! This is safari life.

This is one of the old, oh no, pack big males. You can tell he's been feeding very, very well; it is a fine specimen! He's so fat! I'm glad he doesn't understand English; otherwise, I would lose my job. He's so big; he’s so healthy, and he is alive and kicking.

He is the dominant male together with his brother, who I think is somewhere in the long grass. That is another female, and I think it is Kinky Tail. When I arrived here, she's the one that gave away everybody else. She was walking in the long grass, and I don't know why she is the most experienced. I don't know why she's doing out there in the open in the hot sun like this.

Energy is the most experienced; she should be somewhere...there's another one there; you can see it slightly! It's breathing heavily—I don't know which one it is; it could be one of the hard otters.

So we are actually surrounded by the sausage pride. In case you don't know, yesterday evening they managed to bring down a fully grown buffalo and looks like the males joined in later in the night, and everybody looks to be here. I haven't seen everybody; they seem to be very hot, and so they are lazing around and lying around in the long grass.

I haven't accounted for everybody, but easily, I can say that is about six members here, which means the rest are all here. I don't know if Kinky Tail went back to the den where she's given birth. In case you don't know about her story, she is the mother of the four females. Plus how there are five females; she gave birth about maybe a week ago, and we haven't seen the new cubs.

The first time since last time I saw her was yesterday, and they made the kill then she is here. I think maybe she didn't go see the cubs. It is normal for lionesses when they feel comfortable to leave cubs for about 24 hours, then going back to give them a bit more milk.

And I think right now, maybe she is gaining some energy, gathering some energy so that she can go to where they are and maybe spend the whole night giving them the milk that they need. I don't know how many there are. And I would give all of you some homework, which is how many do you think they will be? How many? I think there will be three!

Let's see how many gets it correct at the end of the next few coming weeks! Either David, who's gonna be coming here, is my mate, and also I'll be coming here. Please keep us updated on how many you think they are, and I'll tell you once I see them.

We’ll get you back to this girl; she is rather sleepy. Hopefully, she can turn around, and I can tell you which one she is. Sometimes it’s the only way, or the only easy way to identify lions is to look at the mammary glands.

Jemma, you asked me how long I think the carcass will last and also how long they feed on it. Well, as long as it’s still fresh, as long as they still meet, they’ll stay on it as much as possible. What I think is happening here is that it got too hot in the day, and so they seek aid or seeking refuge under the shade here, and that's why they're here.

They're going to go back, but definitely, they have left guard there because I can see the vultures on top of trees, which means they haven't fed. So, there is somebody watching the carcass. Shortly, we will take you there, and when we come back, maybe I will show you it.

If we zoom in there, you will see the vultures; they are all in the trees, and they're all waiting for whoever is watching the carcass to go, then they will come down. So it means there is still plenty of meat. Yeah, while I'm observing these guys, I'll send you to David, who’s got another lovely bird right here in the Mara.

Excellent. Either coffee, your lions will be doing more or show more activity. And from vultures, now we come to a totally different bird. Because sometimes we group vultures as predators very high on the food chain, but now we’ve got a very spacious stock.

But the first thing I pick from this stock, she got her mouth open, do you hear me? And a couple of minutes ago, we had my favorite birds: the lilac-breasted roller with a mouth open, and that justifies how warm it is in the Mara. It’s why I'm good today, I read Bungay, yeah, we had a cause!

I think he's saying some more rain maybe it'll help cool off, and this is a yellow-billed stock of the stocks family. I guess this is one of the most beautiful because of all the colors that you can possibly see. In search about them looking at one, two, three, four, maybe four different colors, maybe five—wouldn't that...well, they—they all...she's a Vida!

Always found in water or wet areas, swamps, little springs by the side of rivers, but more so on water that is not moving, stands still. Water, because the heat of the dish is drawn to rely on how Phyllis, and from a distance, pretty tricky to tell males from females.

But we have lunch if you get closer to them. You'll notice that Smears got like brown eyes, you know? Well done, Bungay! All the females got yellow eyes. Let’s see if she’s gonna turn very really to see them in twos.

You’ll see them in ones. Unlike certain birds that are monogamous, turn around, would want to know what sex you are? As I said, if she’s got yellow eyes which maybe is pretty close to what I'm thinking, then it’ll be a female, and anything brown will be a male. And then males have little, you know what, those cillos hanging down at the base of the head.

Yeah, this is a yellow and yellow. Yeah, I'll guess a gown. It's one of the tallest stocks we got around in Africa, definitely. She’s looking for some crustaceans where she is, and stocks in general are very patient but very patient and never in a rush to hunt or to look for food.

So they always wait very patiently until something moves—maybe fish or worm of some sort. Perfect! I don’t know where that would be, where she is, because of the heat of the day. Yes, it’s true! I mean, you didn't know whether this stock might have delivered.

There comes Isaac of the sausage tree pride. I think having done so well! Because she, you would say, she delivered four cubs with Isaac, then she definitely needs some rest. She definitely needs some rest, and because you can see how wide she is.

Reuben opening her beak is a clear indication of the warmth and as a patient... When they go hunting, they always wait for any movement in the water. Sometimes they may use their feet to feel anything under them. If anything would move, they would definitely feel a movement.

And very quickly, you see how long beak they got and, just dry bits right inside, grab whatever it is! Haha! Yes, talk! It’s pretty one for you. And you can notice she doesn’t have any competition where she is—she’s all alone and most likely she’ll be enjoying any food that could be available there.

Well, she's going to stay right there. I don't see her moving, and my stock remains on the ground. But I think James Henry has birds that like staying on top of trees, like the monkeys he had earlier. Now we have got a bird that is an Idol, and that idol is a Wahlberg's eagle.

Now a pale form for Wahlberg's—whether or not this is the pale form from the north, I don't know. They were sitting on a nest before I went on leave; they're not there anymore. It could be part of the couple that lives on Twin Dan Road, which is not far from here.

They are lovely eagles; these pretty quite small compared with many of the others, but they've just got a lovely vibe about them. Because I think they represent two things for me anyway—they may not represent this for you. They represent summer for me, because they arrive as one of the first arrivals in August to tell us that spring is on the way.

And they also have this kind of mostly monogamous pair bond where they come back home every year. And what they do, I don't know what they do when they're away, if they philander about the place, but I like the fact that they come back to the same nest every year. There’s something very comforting about that, I find.

Many of you might think I'm talking utter nonsense, but I mean, you probably think that most of the time. The Viet Miss Farish rock there, David, studied about that little bit of gunk in the sort of top left-hand corner. Yeah, that’s supposed to be a relatively atmospheric yes. And you'll see that the feathers are very ruffled, and that's because the bird, the Wahlberg's eagle, is rather wit fires at which you might ask yourself.

Well, it's wet because it has been raining. It has not taken a bath, nor has it had a shower! I will say the tur - we almost didn't have a shower before the drive today, everybody, because the water went down in the camp. But you'll be pleased to know that I did have a shower.

Other than the, well, you'll be very pleased to know that you won't be smelling me throughout the drive. David smells like butterscotch and lemons. I know where I came up with that front. All right, I don't think I can tell you anything more about that!

Well, those eagles—I told you everything else. They love lizards, by the way; they’re big lizard fans. So leave just about anything, but lizards they're like Foca dog. Emma, is that you trying to put on a German accent, or was this really somebody called Volk a dog? Is it Walk A Dog, or have you just made it Fork A Dog?

Bulk A Dog! Bulk A Dog! Bulk A Dog! Right, whatever! Belka Dog, hello! And your question is, is this the eagle that changes partners? Well, no, not normally. Normally they don't, but there was great upheaval in the pale form pair that lives quite close to our camp this year.

They normally arrive back every year, the two of them, set up in their nest, lay an egg, sometimes the egg becomes an eagle; other times, before that happens. But this year, Mrs. Wahlberg arrived back with a new list, a juvenile. No list for more bursts than we thought we saw the oddness bear right behind him.

And so, well, either she divorced the old fellow and moved on to a younger model, or the old boy died somewhere on the migration, or up in, you know, south of the Sahel during the course of the Northern Hemisphere summer. So yes, normally, bulk a dog, they do stay together!

We are now going to go to Thwart Wha. Well, as I say, I did hear rumors of Gu Chava on a kill, so we'll try that now. Isaac is still sitting in the Maasai Mara—where else would he be unless he was trespassing into the Serengeti? And he's with the sausages!

I have left the comfort of the sleeping lions and now heat with the reality of the truth. This is the circle of life! We saw this guy breathing and life yesterday afternoon, and this is all that is left of him. I'm sure there is a lion somewhere here in the long grass that I haven’t picked up yet because there is nobody feeding on him and there is still plenty of meat.

Alindo in the neck, the head, the chest, the legs—they are still very intact. I’m sure there is a lion somewhere here because the sanitary crew are all parked in the best parking that they have, all waiting for the chance to come for a nibble.

This is the most common vulture, the African white-backed vulture—our commonest vulture! And it's also one of the most endangered bird vultures in Africa! They're all parked in those trees telling me that definitely there is a predator on the lookout taking care of this carcass. Lions will protect the carcass until they're sure they have utilized everything.

Over there, we have two different types of vultures. The one on the right is the Griffon vulture and the one to the left, the African white-backed. These are two of our most common vultures in the Masai Mara! That is another African white-backed vulture backdrop; back there is the Oh La La La, Syria Escapement.

These guys don't actually nest here; they fly all the way from the western corridor of the Serengeti in the gold mountains, and they fly all the way here, which is around 200 kilometers every morning and going back in the evening to nest. There are a few that actually nest here, but not very many. All this we see here are here because of these carcasses.

Yes! That is the beautiful backdrop of the Maasai Mara Plains! The reason I'm saying that you know there is still plenty of meat is because I'm here—the parrot! Are you asking me if there is any hyenas? I haven't seen any so far, and it does tell me that maybe they got beaten.

Maybe they came and got just away because, sorry, it’s Kazakh. Yes! I think they got chased away by the lions. Lions are very protective of the carcass if they think, you know, there's still some meat! It’s starting to smell a little bit; that’s why I’m packed quite a distance.

All those white spots mean every now and then there was a lucky vulture that came and had a quick bite, a very tense quick bite, and then got away, and those were the droppings that it left. It does tell me that maybe it is one of the big males that's taking care of this carcass because I counted and I could account for all the five females of the sausage tree pride.

And so it tells me that maybe it is a male. I'll try and drive around here enough; hopefully, I can pick him up, and then I’ll go back to the females because the smell—it's rather smelly! And while I do that, I’ll send you all the way to Duma in the Greater Kruger, where Jaime has something nice to show you.

Oh, the joys of rotten meat on hot days! It certainly carries an indelicate woof to it. We, fortunately, are able to counteract the tales of horrendous smells with a very delicate antelope standing on top of a termite mound. And so far, she has been at the most obliging kudu that we've ever had at the joy of filming because most of the time, being an antelope that prefers dense vegetation, when we stop for kudu, they're there for brief, brief periods.

And then they wander off into the thickets. They don't exactly run, but they just prefer to be somewhere where they're a bit more hidden. She's posing really, really well for us on the top of this termite mound, doing exactly what Topi do as well, which is using it to stare out across the open area.

Listen - it's been a scary few days for the various antelopes out here, particularly I think for these kudu because I think the lions were around this area—not yesterday but the night before last—and hunting in this windy rainy weather, there were kudu tracks absolutely everywhere. You can see her staring out, ruminating.

Chris and I were talking; we think that Husana caught a kudu yesterday in that block. That's where all of us vultures were, and we think that he probably lost it to the hyenas. We couldn't quite figure it out, though. It was all just guesswork and supposition.

Emma thinks that perhaps it’s the reason why this kudu was so still; she is having an existential crisis after the death of one of her herd members. Presumably—not! I think she’s just ruminating. I’m not sure kudu have existential crises.

There’s the plural of crisis—crises. Right! We’ll go with both for what is...what is grass? What is life? Why are my ears so big? Why couldn’t I be born a lion or leopard? I'm not sure what sort of existential crisis a kudu would have. She looks like she might be pregnant; there’s definitely a little bulge to her belly.

Tristan, I think, has seen one tiny baby kudu. I haven’t yet, and some of those things that I quite look forward to... I really look forward to, actually. At this time of year, little baby kudu with their long, long limbs and absurdly large ears! Because she’s so damp, it looks like those white stripes have washed down her sides.

Right! We really do have to focus on finding something! I'm not sure what the something is. I'm hoping it's a hyena den. Meanwhile, off to Lauren and the romancing hippo, presumably of Bivouac Dam.

I have indeed found something, and it is almost becoming a guarantee these days. There's no point in driving past Bivouac Dam if you're not going to say hello to Scuba Steve and Snorkel Sarah! So both Sam and I were just talking about how it would be really lovely to come by and see them doing something other than, well, what exactly they are doing right now.

So we did get a yawn or two from Sarah, who we believe to be the one on the right-hand side. If you actually look at them closely, there is quite a size difference between the two of them, especially within the head. So the males are always much bigger than the females.

So Scuba Steve is on the left, and Snorkel Sierra is on the right, and she did sort of get out, and I think she gave us about three yawns, but of course, the minute we go live, she decides to turn her back actually and completely face the other way!

So I wonder if they do much with their lives because it appears to me that they are the version—over the hippo version of the couch potatoes! They really do not do anything other than chill in the middle of Bivouac Dam. Now, when you go out in the morning the sunrise safari, you see hippo tracks everywhere around here—everywhere!

So obviously, at nighttime they do wander; they do explore, but during the day, they just chill. I wonder what you could call the couch potato version for a hippo? It would be interesting to hear some ideas on that one!

Nina’s seen she's camera shy, yes. Hmm, that was a little flirtatious side! But yes, I do believe she is camera shy! She's probably not too happy that we're here and interrupts in their nap time—their afternoon nap.

So we just thought we would say hello to them because there's absolutely no point in just driving on by and not checking up on two of our lovely characters we have here. Are you gonna give us a yawn, Steve? Obviously not! And, of course, the minute you leave, Steve stands up and goes back down!

That's the most we've seen him do! So you can see they actually can stand on the bottom here—that's some standing. So when you see them sort of just looking like they're completely submerged, you're obviously just laying flat on the bottom or they've maybe got their legs bent.

So that isn't fully standing up in the water—is not completely submerged and of course, their Latin name is Hippopotamus amphibious; amphibian meaning to life easy! So we do require the land and the water, but in case of a hippo on land would be a completely different experience to encountering one sitting in the water!

Oh, Yes, Sab says thank you Sarah! You give us exactly what we were hoping for—a wonderful look inside your huge mouth! Now, that was probably most likely Becky on hippos, who do sort of do that; it's a territorial display, and I don't believe that act was very territorial—that's maybe just either a yawn or telling us, “Please go away,” you know you’re talking too much!

But what a mouth that was! And you could see those huge, not very clean teeth inside the mouth. So we believe these hippos—and let them go about—they are busy daily life. But for now, we're gonna send you up to David and Amara!

Well then, Lauren, and insolently, I'm also very close to some water body that we call the Mara River—very close to the famous Mara River! And this is where all the migration, almost of the wildebeests, will always close, either when they come into this side of the Mara.

Mara is divided into two. We have what we call the Mara triangle and the main Mara. We are always best in the Mara triangle, and what you see is the very famous Mara Arriba. And many times, you come to any water body in Africa, chances are you’ll always see something moving, or something drinking.

As we say, water is life! And maybe even game it have sports. It’s maybe a crocodile there! And yes, Rockman game. Okay, looks like one, and quite there, but if you're Bungay, if you go to the left, there could be one that can only see the back!

Sorry to make you move in such a tight angle, but I've always known you are capable of getting anything. There’s an Egret right there, and if you go further to the left, there’s one croc! Then if you go further left... And if you sing a little bit, keep going! Yes, that was very sneaky, and it lied to me.

And that’s what you call rock-looking! I know that’s what they like; all them are lay, and this one croc, they are sitting quite difficult angle for you! But well done, Bungay; I’ve always trusted you! You can always get anything for me and for the viewers!

And let’s croc! Now that’s right underwater there, so in that position, and that’s how they chance or wait for any animals that should be crossing! And not necessarily the wildebeest; because most of the wildebeest have gone now back to Tanzania—that I'm talking about the Serengeti National Park—and I think all the carving or the dropping of the young ones is done!

But once they’re gone, with other animals that you'd come for a drink of—impalas or Thomson’s gazelle or, you know, a few zebras will remain around. And if you look at that croc just like the sneaky one that we saw earlier, the rock and crocodiles almost look the same in the water.

And these animals, when they come for a drink, they never tell the difference between the two! And crocodiles have been known to hide in the water—they'll stay in the water with the eyes open, and you can see what is happening in the outside world.

There's a stock there, very different from the one who is before, and this is called the yellow-billed stock! They have a commonality—always you find them in places with water. No, she’s doing...she's a very different...a little different feeding habit with the sundry-built stock that twists.

So before she moves very slowly because on her feet, she's got like sensors or fillers—and that’s what she’ll use to sense any prey or any food under the water. You can see the reflection of herself in the water and also using her beak to disturb the soil or the base of the river, and that way, if anything moves, she'll either very quickly spear it with a big...you just grab it depending on the situation!

This is so cool! I agree with—or infinite control, and since it’s pretty cool! And above all, I'm looking at how affectionate control—you’d like to know whether he got to the river at night! No, we don’t because it’s very difficult to see anything, and anything we’d see in the river would be like, say, hippos!

Like now and for a bit at night, they'll definitely come out to go and feed! Hippos will remain in the water the better part of the day, and anything six, seven o'clock out! Legal feeling, but should we come? We'll always come and chance—see or crocs because definitely the crocs will not leave water!

We have seen once a royal croc on the base, on the bank rather of the river, because it's pretty cool because you know being reptiles and they are cold-blooded and they might try and capture the last heat or warmth of the day!

How they happen? So that one is just going to rest there! So, we're gonna move on! And I was chanting to see if we could get anything crossing the river. And the water level, to me, looks quite low, and the rains when they stopped—because where this river starts, or the source of this river, is an area that you call Mouth, the Mouth Forest.

So it's not raining anymore, so the water levels in the river have gone quite! So I think Isaac is doing better than me because he’s got his lions. He hasn’t left them yet! It got too smelly for me!

And I’ve had just had a very good lunch; I didn't want to lose it, so I decided to leave the buffalo and whoever is looking after it! And decided to come down to where all these girls are waiting for the temperatures to drop so that they can go back and finish off what is left in that carcass of the buffalo.

This is one of the old Ono Piatt males; he hasn’t moved! All we know is he is alive, but he hasn’t...no reason his head; he hasn't reasoned his leg or anything—all I can see is he’s panting and actually quite, you know, previously because he is very hot from, you know, trying to digest whatever he ate—which is the buffalo—and at the same time, trying to lose excess heat!

Lions lack sweat glands on the skins, so all excess heat is lost through the mouth. A brief history about this beautiful pride of lions is that they have five females, two males, three, no actually five months old cubs and about four weeks old cubs—in total at the moment they’re about fourteen!

And they are going to get more because there are two females that we think Kinky Tail has given birth. We haven’t seen the cubs, and then there's another one that quite soon, she's gonna get be giving birth! So the pride is going to be very big, and because they depend on buffalo to earn us their livelihood here, I think they're going to get better at that because the buffaloes are becoming less and less, and actually they have eliminated almost all the weak ones!

And the ones I've seen today are actually quite healthy! The one yesterday, I would say, you know, he was big; he was a bit old, but it took about five hours for them to bring him down. So I wonder how often they will be killing because they will need more food as the pride gets bigger.

This is one of the females; you can tell she’s been a little bit active than the others. She’s rolling around, and I'm hoping maybe later on in the evening they will be able to take us to where the cubs are. I know where the four cubs are, but I don't want to go there without the mother because I know for sure they are hidden.

So there's no need to go there—we wait until maybe the figure goes there, then I’ll go and show them to you! This long grass is ideal for these great cats because it's good for ambushing; it's good for keeping off, you know, other animals from detecting where they are.

So it C is perfect! It is perfect for these lions! Yes, these guys are still quite lazy over here! I'm hoping they're gonna get active! So let me send you to Jamie, who’s looking for the same kind!

Thank you, Isaac! Thank you very much indeed! We could do with all the luck being sent our side! Look how Solly there has a way of showing up for TV shows! It's as though he knows that we need him! He arrives at our time of need!

But what I'm doing is I'm not even trying to search for Hasana—the tracking now today is going to be next to impossible, so I'm just driving around hoping that I'm going to bump into something. Might get lucky!

Who can worry might decide all his scent marks have been washed away, but really what I'm doing is looking for a concentration of hyena tracks going backwards and forwards from an area we—the only way we're gonna find this day— I think—is either with a drone, a drag mark of a kill, because of course Corki will take food back to the den, as we know, or following Corki or pretty into the den itself!

It's moved from little Gary! I don't know if it's moved back here. I checked the dens last night during the rehearsal! Ever knows why laughing. I had one of those moments where I was going into an ad break; it was my first segment in this practice run.

And you know we get counted into an ad break and we have to hit it fairly on the mark because otherwise, it doesn't fit in with the ads for TV, so I had about 40 seconds to go! I talked to my own spit and was trying desperately to not cough! But you know when you get that kind of tickle that the more you talk, the more it tickles, the more you cough.

And I couldn’t contain us, and then I started to giggle! I just lost it because of the hilarity of the situation! It hit me at around about 15 seconds to go! At which point Emma then started to giggle as she was giving me the countdown and subdued in just for good measure!

So all three of us were giggling away frantically while if they was trying to count me in to the practice ad break! Sort of like ten, nine... it was very funny! We were we’re proper giggling Gertie—that's what's known as corpsing! We corpse!

By corpse, I was the one who was doing all the talking! I corpse—corpse quite spectacularly! I hadn’t corpse like that in a very long time! No weird turn of phrase! Where does that come from? Is it... I’m sorry that your mustard?

It was hilarious! Maybe one day you are no sip didn’t record it! He said he experienced it; he thought it was hilarious! But after that, expressed deep regrets that he hadn't recorded it. But maybe one day it'll make it into a blooper reel!

Emma says that corpsing comes from Shakespearean plays, or she thinks! I Nina tracks knew no hyena tracks or leopard tracks! Ah, Emma said that it is on three plays! So you never know, it might make it into one of our blooper reels one day! Me trying to get the words?

We'll see you after the break! Out of while I was giggling hysterically, and I started to laugh so hard that I started to cry! As her anus, so everything about it was just exuded professionalism!

No, definitely not a good idea when the ad break's only two minutes long! And Emma wanted to come out with me; she eventually abandoned me and went to someone else! So hey, I hope that makes an appearance one day so you can watch it!

We watched it twice this morning in review! I have no animals for you! There's no tracks, there's no hyena tracks! I really thought I'd get lucky here; I haven't got lucky! Oh, I have to admit it drew my attention earlier this afternoon, but I didn't comment on it!

Perhaps it's James; perhaps James is more insight into the brightness of his jackets this afternoon! We don't want to talk about my jacket! What we will talk about is this capris! We have Fugit! Can you get the bird?

Now this is not why we've stopped here, everybody; we've stopped here because we've found a kill that Chava made! Now she's not at the kill as far as we can tell; we will go back there and have a look! But I'm wondering if perhaps she hasn't gone to fetch her little babies!

And that would be special! She's got two cubs apparently; they'd be roughly three months old now, which means they're about the right age to come to a kill! Those are writs as helmet strikes giving that eagle a bit of a hard time!

And it is a Wahlberg’s eagle! And I wonder if it’s not a Wahlberg's eagle from this year! I wonder if it’s not a new one! You see how it has that mottled sort of feathering there? It says helmet rights are really quite beautiful when they sit still; it's quite gorgeous!

David, this is not in the background. You can hear the Diederich schulkill; I think these are beautiful birds, and I just think that that sky behind is so atmospheric. Oh, and Haupt rush forward to get another view! I will take you to the kill as well! Promised at some stage!

Oh, they’re too—maybe they don’t have babies! They’re both very odd colors though. You see them both? How’s that? One of them has just flown off! No gosh, I parked you beautifully!

Howven, what a floor fan! I’ve had an almost completely white head! That’s a gray-headed Bush! Right, you can hear very nice! The sky is fairly ominous as many of you are commenting, but it's not too bad! It's quite atmospheric, I think! The combination of the bird, the green of these false marula trees and the eagle, just wonderful!

Oh, I must just tell you! I told you a lie earlier by mistake—the balloons that we were watching were not, in fact, sitting in a brown ivory tree! We were sitting quite far away from it! So that's my excuse; it was in fact a false Melinda tree like these ones here.

And to apologize for lying to my promise. You, it wasn't on purpose! Alright, let’s again see if we can find the limit—kill. It's just done! Yeah, we did find a ditch! Let’s get back to David and look at his giraffe!

Well, thank you, James! And a world back said to be free, but watch! And we got a huge male draft just striding very steadily, even very majestically in the Mara Triangle or in the Mara savanna! Wonderful light!

And it's only been said when giraffes walk and they seem to move two legs of one side at the same time! Kaneesha has thought Bungay see that Chi—the symptom Chi! You know, and I've always, you know, said to myself, I think almost may do that!

But I think it's more conspicuous to the drafts. It's more clear! He is crossing the road and finding out maybe asking to view us! Why do they think that particularly rough crossed the road? My guess is for a few reasons either to catch up with other giraffes on the other side or for some other reasons I would not know why he crossed the road.

I'm sure the viewers can tell us why this Masai Giraffe crossed the road! Hitchhiking on him! Few oxpeckers—you can see some birds right on his backbone, up and down on the ground trying to weave through the mane on her neck. Thank you, Bungay, for showing us that!

And those are the oxpeckers—they could either be yellow-billed oxpeckers or red-billed oxpeckers, and they could very sharp beaks, and they use the beaks like scissors! Sometimes they tend to cut the fur and access any ticks or mites on this huge or tallest mammals that we got in the world!

On the other side, we've got some impalas, and we can, in wartime, would know what I sell presents my personality! Well, let me think! I don't have to think! Either I'll say an elephant because I love elephants!

I’m a weakening! I would say for me anytime, the elephant! I don't know what Bungay would say about that! Bungay, what do you think is the animal that represents your personality? Bungay, a rhino!

We joined you, Disabled Gay! Well, I were kidding. My cameraman, yep, Engage, my camera registered a...and VIN Gaze, his array! No, I'm not sure why he sees a rhino! I’ll ask him when he got back to the camp later today why he thinks he should be a rhino!

But for me, I reckon an elephant! One very intelligent animal, and the things they do show a lot of empathy in them, a lot of emotions in them, a lot of, you know, intelligence on the stage—very bright, big animals—and they let human beings in so many ways!

You know the times when it gets very dry and rivers dry? You know springs or any water points will dry! Elephants have been known to dig water and up to them drinking! They'll make sure that other animals benefit!

And close on the other side near that bush, we have lots of other antelopes! Mark has a very good question, and like to with the giraffes are strictly vegetarian! I would say yes! I mean, I haven't seen ruffs eat anything else!

But Markers are likely to know that! You know, there we have, you know, for the vegetarian! So for the Hobby boss, we divided them into two! We divide them into browsers and to grazers—like those zebras you see there!

Markers, we would call them grazers! They tend to graze on the grass, not sure where they're heading to, in the direction of the Mara River! No markers looking at giraffes, drafts sweet browsers! Browsers in the sense that they tend to browse the tension, eat anything on top.

Nothing on the ground! As much as we see sometimes giraffes spreading the legs out and feeding on the ground but not to graze entirely! But any small plants, it is more hops they get; they'll be picking the leaves! But in general, you'll always see them—in each country—so I'd say, in short, giraffes are 100% vegetarians!

Alright, Marcus, that makes sense! What won't do now is to move this small little baby zebra here! I don't know why she's not joining the rest! She's pretty young! Rosaleen, good question—what's a giraffe?

How fast can a giraffe run? Difficult question! I might give very quick hands and say maybe 40, 50 kilometers an hour! But my other concern with that kind of speed loss, really, I'm giving you, is watch train!

Let's do that! You know, at what kind of vegetation with a giraffe cover that speed? Maybe per kilometer, so it's very vague on some giving you because, unlike other animals that we have been able to domesticate, for example, resilient cheetahs, they have been domesticated, and that will put in open flat areas and given a chase, and roughly you can have an idea on the speed!

But nobody has been able to domesticate giraffes, so it becomes very difficult to give a speed, but anything 50, 60 kilometers an hour I would say it should make sense as a speed of a giraffe! But again, Hills, the rocks, the mountains, and other encumbrances on their way, as they are!

Well, I think we've been looking for hyenas this afternoon! As much as a hunts not say that's my plan, but I think Lauren could be having some—or one hyena! And it's pretty—it is pretty—the hyena, who I have not seen in a very, very long time!

So let’s just see if Zedd can get a good view of her! Hopefully, she's not gonna disappear from us! Okay, we have our rain roof on, so this is where it becomes a little bit tricky! Now hyenas can mean lots of things, especially at this time!

She's just crossed over into Torchwood, and I am wondering if she’s possibly heading to the Dane! I don’t know! Obviously I should just up ahead I’m just gonna give her space! Hey, pretty! You're so pretty!

Oh, I'm so happy to see her! Honestly, I know that sounds really crazy, but from going to see these hyenas every single day to not seen them at all! I think this might be the best forest we can follow her at the moment!

She has gone onto Torchwood; I will Emma, can we follow Pretty onto Torchwood? I'm just checking to see if we can follow her because if she leads us to the den, this is going to be a huge moment for us!

Okay! Yeah, I think we’re gonna lose our—oh but you know this would make sense actually. I’m running through everything in my head because this is where we've been seeing the hyenas, and we have thought very, very few corn!

We have thought that she was acting—with a bit of doom—sorry we’re back on Juma and sort of the southern boundary latitude area! But this would make sense if they've actually seen things on the southern boundary of Torchwood area!

Ahh! The mystery is slowly unraveling! So that wasn't the best sighting we could have ever given you, but it was Pretty 100% and it was just so wonderful to see her again! I'm just keeping my eyes over here! She was walking at a rather fast pace!

Okay! Well that brings us further ahead in our mystery! Emma has just said we can go into Torchwood, but I have lost sight of her! Okay, let’s see if we can find her again! Chrissy, please come back! Now she wandered off this way!

This is the only indication I have of where she may be! Save is also looking out for her because it's gonna be a good moment if we are able to locate a stain once and for all!

Linda’s in—woohoo! Yes, I agree! Woohoo! That's it be! Oh, I just told fabulous! The ground is very uneven here! Yes, Linda, woohoo! That would be some woman!

So what I'm scanning for are obviously Pretty herself but potential Tara might moans because I don't think they're far into Torchwood. Because of where we've been seeing them and where we've been seeing tracks, I think they could just be on the boundary here!

And that's... there’s a big termite mound over here! And that’s why we've been thinking that they have potential to also… yeah! And the rain started again! Fabulous!

It's been a rather wet day for me but this time, I'm more prepared! Okay! So she… okay! Forget what I was just about to say! Pretty is up ahead on the road, right? Walking along the road!

And it’s ideal when animals walk on the road because you can track them, you can see them and it’s easy to follow them! It gets tricky when they start going through all the vegetation! Now we’re driving right into the rain, which is joyous!

Gudivada says, “Oh, she’s climbing up an embankment now!” Oh! Now disappeared completely! Going! And we can't get across because there’s a rather large log in front!

Okay, we’re gonna turn around; she's in there somewhere and see if we can keep trying to follow our Pretty girl! Here I am! And it is very exciting because in front of me is all the cubs, lionesses, and the big male!

And I think they are drinking—they are looking for water right here! So I’m gonna go and pack and then wait for them to come close! It is quite a sight! I'm hoping to give you the picture right now! Just hold on there, don't go anywhere!

I'm looking for the big male—he's drinking! Yeah! He’s here! But yeah, he’s drinking! Yes, he's having drinking some water, and the others are coming here for a drink also!

So we just gonna wait here and see what's gonna happen! He's right there! This is one of the older Nu Piatt males—he’s the one meal with one testicle! Sorry for the language, but that's the truth!

He's got only one and we know him for that! The other one has got two that are joined and we know them for both—for that they are two quite rather very unique males! And you know, he's there, and he's gonna be there for the next like two, three minutes lapping water.

It's rather hard—they're using just a time to drink! So they'll go on and on and on and on and on some more! And some more are coming, so just wait! They're coming, can you see them?

No, they’ve headed out, sorry! And actually, I can see some young cubs! Very young cubs! I don't know how many! I see one! Yeah, they're quite a distance! We'll show you those!

Yeah, let's stick with this guy who's drinking fast! Yeah, this is, you know, fully grown male! He's got his eyes closed, and he's enjoying his drink!

He's been out in the open the whole day! I'm so, you know, a drink of cold water is very quenching! And he will drink, you know, for a bit longer! Yeah, I saw him from a distance heading this way; I didn't know exactly what he was going to do!

But this is what he's doing! Yeah, he's still lapping the water! Yeah, just gonna reposition slightly, like, you know, so we can have a better view! When he stands up, yeah, he's gonna be—we gonna be, I think, that's better over there!

Yeah, sorry, it's right into the sun, but I hope you're getting a good picture—this is the best we can do! It's wet in front of me! And you hear how he's lapping the water? Everything he does is in, you know, big quantities!

It's a lot! He drinks a lot! When he gets it because he doesn't know! That seems, let’s see him stand up! Oh, I thought you're gonna stand up and look at me, or look at him!

Wow! Beautiful! Look at him! You can see he's headed out! It's hard enough! Is he gonna lie there and wait? And then drink some more later?

Well, look at how full he is and how big he is! You know, he's a good 220 kilos! Blue! Yeah, see how hard it is! You didn’t know he was there to know that he’s there now!

He's gonna be plum—and you cannot see him! He's hiding there! You cannot believe there is a big male lion there! Just, you know, there! It's there! But we cannot see it!

Yeah, he’s—actually—yeah! Even James couldn't find him with a super powerful lens! See this tummy, breathing! Yeah, I'm gonna leave him! Let me send you to Jamie and see what he sees, what he's looking for.

Alright, have a look at the miserable, miserable view in a second! I'll get you there! Hold on! It's back! We had a bit about an hour's worth of respite from the weather! Let me tilt this up a bit! That didn’t work out so well, but knit mud! You can get the idea with a nice artistic dead tree!

Sorry, my bad! Take my foot off the brake! Here comes the rain again! Amazing how it gives everything an extra layered look! Wish there was a leopard in it somewhere!

There is a leopard somewhere there, can guarantee it! We just haven't found it! I'm really excited, though, for Lauren! I really, really am! I hope she succeeds in her mission of following Pretty!

It is not fun following a hyena off-road for a couple of reasons! One, they don't—they’re not used to it! Nobody really follows them so they get a bit disconcerted! And two, they don't stroll; hyenas trot!

Oh dear, Craig! I can still hear the generator, which means we are definitely not getting power back in the course of the next few hours! It is Sunday—the power went out, I don't know, sometime around 3:00, 4:00 in the morning this morning and we haven't seen back since!

And the generator, of course, keeps our broadcast stuff going, but very little else! So none of us have had showers! Well, I haven't had a shower! Craig managed this morning, I haven't had a shower because where I am, and Inga's, the water pump runs off the electricity!

So unless I wanted to try and shower in a drip, it was no way it was going to work! Could be worse, though! It could be poor Tristan whose neck is frozen in spasm! He woke up that way! So we are powerless in many senses of the word! Powerless to find leopards! Powerless in general!

Luckily, the Mara team has been honored from the start! I miss you! Can I? Well, very good! We got some difference apart from the Lions! We got some hornbill here! Joshua, he’s coming to us where we are!

I’m saying the he because I’m looking at the water below his neck, and there’s no blue in it! If it's a female, then what you see there would be a little smaller than that ballooning thingy below his neck! Build smaller, and there'd be a bit of polish bluish colors!

Bcause it doesn’t have that, this is definitely a male, and this is the solvent ground hornbill! And either is tearing apart some poo of an elephant, and it's definitely looking for either beetles or something like that in it to feed on!

It's the largest hornbill we got in Africa, and the size of that big because we know the digestion of elephants is not very good and very efficient on what they eat. We have known them to eat beetles; they come out through the system still alive!

And I'm sure that is what he is looking for! You know, a cleaner beak! Well done, you better! And interesting anytime—even when they seem to have shut their beak, there’s a huge open space there like the open bill stocks!

Monogamous bats always growing a male and a female together! Allisyn have young ones! Remember your comments or questions are very welcome! Hashtag safari live on Twitter!

Outsi looking at the IUCN Red List this bad have been listed as quite vulnerable or very and danger! I'm talking of losing a lot of the habitat because you have seen people logging and bringing down huge trees which they need to nest on! They prefer very long, very solid, and big trees to build their nests and very old trees at the same time!

And unfortunately, the same trees are very good for furniture or for constructions of buildings—very clean! But I would say it eaten as much as to get a lot of junk on the big, it very quickly cleans himself! Where is your partner? Because I would guess you're not alone!

As I said, very sure to see them on their own! And my guess is he is only swallowing some kind of insects, not the poo! Very clean, very good table manners! And I'm sure he's using his beak like a napkin just to clean his mouth!

And how killing! It's even better! I better toughen up, King! I think the first one was much softer! This shows how clean you are, Mr. Hand! I'm surprised you alone!

And I would guess he could be having—whoops! Tend to have a public course! I agree with you; they look very intelligent! Look at how he was fitting! He opens up the dung and he knows exactly where to get the beetles because definitely the beetles will be right inside the dung!

Feels very quickly! But of course, in the process goes hider of swallowing the insect, think that a bit of dung, you know, in you know, on his beak! He definitely sees his toes to clean himself!

And how killing! It's even better! Yes, talk! It's pretty one for you! And you can notice he doesn't have any competition where she is! She is all alone and most likely she'll be enjoying any food that could be available there.

Well, she's going to stay right there! I don't see her moving! And my stock remains on the ground! But I think James Henry has birds that like staying on top of trees like the monkeys he had earlier!

Now we have got a bird that is an idly! And that idly is a Wahlberg's eagle! Now a pale form for Wahlberg's; it is whether or not this is the pale form from the north! I don't know!

They were sitting on nest before I went on leave; they're not there anymore! Oh, it could be part of the couple that lives on Twin Dan Road! Twin Dan’s Road, which is not far from here! There are lovely eagles! These are pretty, quite small compared with many of the others!

But they've just got a lovely vibe about them! Because I think they represent two things for me anyway—they may not represent this for you! They represent summer for me because they arrive as one of the first arrivals in August! To tell us that spring is on the way!

And they also have this kind of mostly monogamous pair bond where they come back home every year! And what they do, I don't know what they do when they’re away, if they Philander about the place!

But I like the fact that they come back to the same nest every year! There’s something very comforting about that, I find! Many of you might think I'm talking utter nonsense! But I mean, you probably think that most of the time!

The Viet Miss Farish rock there! David studied about that little bit of gunk in the sort of top left-hand corner! Yeah, that’s supposed to be a relatively atmospheric yes! And you'll see that the feathers are very ruffled!

And that's because the bird, the Wahlberg's eagle, is rather wet! Fires at which you might ask yourself! Well, it's wet because it has been raining! It has not taken a bath! Nor has it had a shower!

I will say the tour—we almost didn't have a shower before drive today, everybody! Because the water went down in the camp! But you'll be pleased to know that I did have a shower! Other than the, well, you'll be very pleased to know that you won't be smelling me throughout the drive!

David smells like butterscotch and lemons! I know where I came up with that front! All right, I don't think I can tell you anything more about that! Well, those eagles—I told you everything else! They love lizards, by the way; they're big lizard fans!

So leave just about anything but lizards! They're like Foca dog! Emma, is that you trying to put on a German accent, or was this really somebody called Volk a dog? Is it Walk A Dog, or have you just made it Fork A Dog?

Bulk A Dog! Bulk A Dog! Bulk A Dog! Right, whatever! Belka Dog, hello! And your question is, is this the eagle that changes partners? Well, no, not normally! Normally they don't!

But there was great upheaval in the pale form pair that lives quite close to our camp this year! They normally arrive back every year, the two of them, set up in their nest, lay an egg! Sometimes the egg becomes an eagle! Other times, before that happens.

But this year, Mrs. Wahlberg arrived back with a new list, a juvenile—no list for more burst, and we thought we saw the oddness bear right behind him!

And so, well, either she divorced the old fellow and moved on to a younger model, or the old boy died somewhere on the migration or up in, you know, south of the Sahel during the course of the Northern Hemisphere summer!

So yes, normally bulk a dog, they do stay together! We are now going to go to thwart wha! Well, as I say, I did hear rumors of Goo Chava on a kill so we'll try that now!

Isaac is still sitting in the Maasai Mara! Where else would he be unless he was trespassing into the Serengeti? And he's with the sausages!

I have left the comfort of the sleeping lions and now heat with the reality of the truth! This is the circle of life! We saw this guy breathing and life yesterday afternoon, and this is all that is left of him!

I’m sure there is a lion somewhere here in the long grass that I haven’t picked up yet because there is nobody feeding on him and there is still plenty of meat!

Alindo in the neck, the head, the chest, the legs—they are still very intact! I’m sure there is a lion somewhere here because the sanitary crew are all parked in the best parking that they have, all waiting for the chance to come for a nibble!

This is the most common vulture, the African white-backed vulture! Our commonest vulture! And it's also one of the most endangered bird vultures in Africa! They're all parked in those trees telling me that definitely there is a predator on the lookout taking care of this carcass! Lions will protect the carcass until they're sure they have utilized everything!

Over there, we have two different types of vultures! The one on the right is the Griffon vulture and the one to the left, the African white-backed! These are two of our most common vultures in the Masai Mara!

That is another African white-backed vulture backdrop; back there is the Oh La La La, Syria Escapement! These guys don't actually nest here! They fly all the way from the western corridor of the Serengeti in the gold mountains, and they fly all the way here, which is around 200 kilometers every morning and going back in the evening to nest!

There are a few that actually nest here, but not very many! All this we see here are here because of these carcasses! Yes! That is the beautiful backdrop of the Maasai Mara Plains! The reason I'm saying that you know there is still plenty of meat is because I'm here—the parrot!

Are you asking me if there is any hyenas? I haven't seen any so far, and it does tell me that maybe they got beaten! Maybe they came and got just away because sorry it’s Kazakh! Yes, I think they got chased away by the lions!

Lions are very protective of the carcass if they think, you know, there's still some meat! It’s starting to smell a little bit; that’s why I’m packed quite a distance!

All those white spots mean every now and then there was a lucky vulture that came and had a quick bite, a very tense quick bite, and then got away, and those were the droppings that it left. It does tell me that maybe it is one of the big males that's taking care of this carcass because I counted and I could account for all the five females of the sausage tree pride.

And so it tells me that maybe it is a male! I'll try and drive around here enough; hopefully, I can pick him up, and then I’ll go back to the females because the smell—it's rather smelly!

And while I do that, I’ll send you all the way to Duma in the Greater Kruger where Jaime has something nice to show you!

Oh, the joys of rotten meat on hot days! It certainly carries an indelicate woof to it! We, fortunately, are able to counteract the tales of horrendous smells with a very delicate antelope standing on top of a termite mound!

And so far, she has been at the most obliging kudu that we've ever had at the joy of filming because most of the time being an antelope that prefers dense vegetation when we stop for kudu, they're there for brief, brief periods!

And then they wander off into the thickets! They don't exactly run, but they just prefer to be somewhere where they're a bit more hidden! She's posing really, really well for us on the top of this termite mound! Doing exactly what Topi do as well, which is using it to stare out across the open area!

Listen - it's been a scary few days for the various antelopes out here, particularly I think for these kudu because I think the lions were around this area—not yesterday, but the night before last—and hunting in this windy, rainy weather, there were kudu tracks absolutely everywhere!

You can see her staring out, ruminating! Chris and I were talking—we think that Husana caught a kudu yesterday in that block! That’s where all of us vultures were, and we think that he probably lost it to the hyenas!

We couldn't quite figure it out, though; it was all just guesswork and supposition! Emma thinks that perhaps it’s the reason why this kudu was so still; she is having an existential crisis after the death of one of her herd members! Presumably—not!

I think she’s just ruminating! I’m not sure kudu have existential crises! There’s the plural of crisis—crises! Right! Both will go with both for what is...what is grass? What is life? Why are my ears so big? Why couldn’t I be born a lion or leopard?

I'm not sure what sort of existential crisis I could've had! She looks like she might be pregnant; there’s definitely a little bulge to her belly! Tristan, I think has seen one tiny baby kudu!

I haven't yet, and some of those things that I quite look forward to! I really look forward to, actually! At this time of year, little baby kudu with their long, long limbs and absurdly large ears! Because she’s so damp, it looks like those white stripes have washed down her sides!

Right! We really do have to focus on finding something! I'm not sure what the something is! I'm hoping it's a hyena den! Meanwhile, off to Lauren and the romancing hippo, presumably of Bivouac Dam!

I have indeed found something, and it is almost becoming a guarantee these days—there's no point in driving past Bivouac Dam if you're not going to say hello to Scuba Steve and Snorkel Sarah!

So both Sam and I were just talking about how it would be really lovely to come by and see them doing something other than, well, what exactly they are doing right now! So we did get a yawn or two from Sarah, who we believe to be the one on the right-hand side!

If you actually look at them closely, there is quite a size difference between the two of them, especially within the head! So the males are always much bigger than the females! So Scuba Steve is on the left, and Snorkel Sierra is on the right, and she did sort of get out, and I think she gave us about three yawns!

But of course, the minute we go live, she decides to turn her back actually and completely face the other way! So I wonder if they do much with their lives because it appears to me that they are the version—over the hippo version of the couch potatoes! They really do not do anything other than chill in the middle of Bivouac Dam!

Now, when you go out in the morning the sunrise safari, you see hippo tracks everywhere around here—everywhere! So obviously, at nighttime, they do wander; they do explore! But during the day, they just chill! I wonder what you could call the couch potato version for a hippo? It would be interesting to hear some ideas on that one!

Nina’s seen she's camera shy! Yes! Hmm, that was a little flirtatious side! But yes, I do believe she is camera shy! She's probably not too happy that we're here and interrupts in their nap time—their afternoon nap!

So we just thought we would say hello to them because there's absolutely no point in just driving on by and not checking up on two of our lovely characters we have here! Are you gonna give us a yawn, Steve? Obviously not!

And of course, the minute you leave, Steve stands up and goes back down! That's the most we've seen him do! So you can see they actually can stand on the bottom here—that's some standing! So when you see them sort of just looking like they're completely submerged, you're obviously just laying flat on the bottom or they've maybe got their legs bent!

So that isn't fully standing up in the water—it's not completely submerged, and of course, their Latin name is Hippopotamus amphibious! And amphibian meaning to life easy! So we do require the land and the water! But in the case of a hippo on land, it would be a completely different experience to encountering one sitting in the water!

Oh, Yes, Sab says thank you, Sarah! You give us exactly what we were hoping for—a wonderful look inside your huge mouth! Now, that was probably most likely Becky on hippos, who do sort of do that; it's a territorial display, and I don't believe that act was very territorial—that's maybe just either a yawn or telling us, “Please go away,” you know you’re talking too much!

But what a mouth that was! And you could see those huge, not very clean teeth inside the mouth! So we believe these hippos—and let them go about—they are busy daily life! But for now, we're gonna send you up to David and Amara!

Well then, Lauren, and insolently, I'm also very close to some water body that we call the Mara River! Very close to the famous Mara River! And this is where all the migration, almost of the wildebeests, will always close!

Either when they come into this side of the Mara! Mara is divided into two! We have what we call the Mara triangle and the main Mara! We are always best in the Mara triangle! And what you see is the very famous Mara Arriba!

And many times, you come to any water body in Africa, chances are you’ll always see something moving or something drinking—as we say, water is life! And maybe even game it has sports! It may be a crocodile there!

And yes, Rockman game! Okay, looks like one! And quiet! There, but if you're Bungay, if you go to the left, there could be one that can only see the back!

Sorry to make you move in such a tight angle, but I've always known you are capable of getting anything! There’s an Egret right there! And if you go further to the left, there’s one croc!

Then if you go further left, and if you sing a little bit—keep going! Yes! That was very sneaky, and it lied to me! And that’s what you call rock-looking!

I know that’s what they like— all them are low, and this one croc—they are sitting quite difficult angle for you! But well done, Bungay! I’ve always trusted you! You can always get anything for me and for the viewers!

And let’s croc! Now that’s right underwater there! So in that position—and that’s how they chance or wait for any animals that should be crossing! And not necessarily the wildebeest!

Because most of the wildebeest have gone now back to Tanzania! I'm talking about the Serengeti National Park! And I think all the carving or the dropping of the young ones is done!

But once they’re gone, with other animals that you'd come for a drink of—Thomson's gazelle or, you know, a few zebras will remain around! And if you look at that croc just like the sneaky one that we saw earlier, the rock and crocodiles almost look the same in the water!

And these animals, when they come for a drink, they never tell the