Safari Live - Day 316 | National Geographic

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

Good afternoon, everybody! Welcome to Juma in the Sabi Sands in South Africa, where we have found a beautiful European roller perched beautifully on the end, or the top, of a termite mound. It's looking such nice colors today, very fresh blue seams, some beautiful blues. Really, really interesting to see! It is a wonderful 33 or 34 degrees Fahrenheit, 34 degrees Celsius, 94 degrees Fahrenheit, and probably about 200 percent humidity. It is unbelievably sticky this afternoon as the bird has now opened its beak to do some gala fluttering to cool itself down, no doubt in anticipation for some termite alates to be coming out of the termite mound so it can pick up some bulk and with its new plumage in readiness for migrating back up to sort of Eastern Central Europe.

Good afternoon, everybody! My name is Steve, joined by BK on camera. Don't forget, we are interactive! We'd love to hear from you. Hashtag SafariLive or throw your questions in on the YouTube chat stream. Don't forget the all-important @FC. Should we have another look at this bird?

It's not often we get to see the European roller sitting like that on the end of a termite mound. Normally we find these birds perched on the top of a dead tree. They are insect eaters, and the European roller is silent in Africa. Oh, off it's gone! And off it goes. Beautiful! It is very, very sticky this afternoon, everybody, and we had a deluge last night of rain that came down and covered the landscape, wiping the carpet, or the ground, fresh and clean for any new tracks.

So, we're going to see what we can find this afternoon. I would love to see if we can find Chidulu, of course with her cubs, but it might be a little bit too early in the afternoon. But anyway, we're going to go around and see what tracks they might be heading in that direction. Because wouldn't it be wonderful? I had some fresh tracks of her yesterday, but after this rain all the old tracks are gone, and all that will be there are fresh activities. So maybe she's coming in and out again, and go have a look. Let's go have a look!

We'll do a big sort of loop around that block and see what has happened. There's been no reports of Hukumuri leaving the property. I have a feeling he's on a kill somewhere inside our property; we just haven't really found him. So that could be the chance or opportunity for this afternoon—to follow up on Hukumuri, follow up on Chidulu, and see if we can find any Hokudulus. Wouldn't that be awesome?

I know all of you back home are sort of choking it a bit to see some new leopard cubs, and well I hope we can provide them for you. But the rains that we had came down with enormous lightning storms, seemingly hitting the roof around where I was sleeping last night and woke me up at about half past two. Wow! It was frightening. I don't normally get afraid of lightning, but it honestly felt like the lightning bolts were hitting the building. So, I just unplugged everything that I had and climbed up to my bed and hopefully we didn't—well, I didn't die. I'm here, but it has added to an enormous amount of humidity; that is a thick fog blanket of moisture in the air.

Well yes, Nina, I can hear you there. That's the first I can hear you. So on we go! I'm going to check sort of our southwestern section of the property to see what has been coming and going. Some nice elephant tracks in the road; it's a good day for ellies. We'll go straight down this road. This is Zoe's! This is where we've got our initial tracks of Chidulu and her cubs heading straight down towards where they are potentially denning.

Those of you who aren't sure what's been going on, Chidulu has come back onto Juma with her two cubs. We haven't seen them yet, but we did see her yesterday morning, so I'm making it my mission to try and show them to you. I'm sorry, I actually have no idea—we don't keep our own records, so it's hard to say. I know that last week we probably got about 72 mils; that's what one of the landowners told me he'd measured on his property up in Buffalo. And last night it came down—I mean you can see the road in front of us has been washed—enormous amounts of erosion have happened.

Erosion, for those of you who are not sure what that means, is the movement of sediment from one place to another. So erosion is all of this movement of the road, sort of sediment, and a lot of it coming off from the side of the roads as well in something called sheet erosion, which is a really big problem due to overgrazing. So, too many animals in an area losing ground cover leads to sheet erosion, which eventually leads to very, very unmanageable areas. When sheet erosion turns into gully donga, and erosion that then becomes almost impossible to fix without serious management intervention. So the nice slow pattering rain that soaks into the ground is always the best.

Well, it seems like Sydney, who spent a lot of time this morning trying to find the lions, has managed to relocate on them again this afternoon next to the border between Juma Game Reserve and the Buffels.

A very, very good afternoon, and most of all, welcome to this spectacular sighting! I am traveling with Senzu, who is my camera operator this afternoon, and for in case if you need our attention, we are highly available! You can follow us on Twitter, #SafariLive; you can also follow us on the YouTube chat stream.

So I just want to count because this morning it was very difficult for me to count them.

Look at that! This is an amazing experience! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven! So let me just repeat that just to make sure—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. Yes, they are eleven at the moment!

It's quite a very big pride, and this is the pride we normally see as a result of the presence of buffalos. But unfortunately, I haven't seen the buffalos for quite a while. The last time I have seen the buffaloes it was just the tracks, and that was about three days ago, if not four days ago somewhere around the sandy page area. There were some fresh tracks of buffaloes the day we saw the mating young Unkuhuma female with one of the avocado males.

So you can see that now it's time for them to rest, but it's difficult at the moment for me to judge where they're going to go for a drink after. Because here, where we are, it's not very far away from Sydney's dam; it's just about a few minutes away. And the Galago Pan is on a distance unless they've got a mission of going to do some hunt much more towards the Galago Pan area.

I'll be here for the whole day to try and see what their intentions are! What their intentions are by looking at the stomach, I can tell that they're not very hungry, but lions are so very opportunistic!

While walking down to the waterholes, they can show us some of their hunting skills. I have seen a white lion before—not once, not twice. The white lions, they are completely different from what we are seeing now in terms of the color, and what causes the white lions is a phenomenon called leucism. Leucism is whereby the melanistic pigment is not very there, and as a result, the color of the body turns white, which is not nice for a wild animal, because when it comes to hunting, they can easily get spotted.

So mostly the white lions do depend on these ones when they're going out for hunting. Uh, John, I am not seeing the lioness you are referring to. If you can just repeat that. But what I can promise you is that there is quite a lot of fighting amongst the big cats such as the lions and leopards. So their fightings can be so very much vicious. They do get injured sometimes during the fighting for food, and sometimes when fighting the other females who are trying to enter into their territories, they can be very much protective, too—not only the males are protective, so by these territorial animals, females as well. They do fight against other animals of the same sex.

So it's time now for some of them to groom themselves. You can see we've got this one in front, and the other one in the back is also lifting up his leg there. So this is very normal! Lions do spend much of their time just grooming, trying to get rid of the parasites and also trying to take off some of the debris or the dead hairs from the body.

So you can see that this area is so very much quiet—they're not making any noise. So sometimes, if the wind is from their favor, it's very easy for a prey animal to bump onto them.

So what I like about the lions is when they wake up afterwards, you will see maybe that is going to happen while we're still here. They normally go and isolate themselves from the group and start defecating and urinating. So they go just to defecate when they wake up all the time, and after that is when you see them starting to do like this—they will go and do some scratching. You'll see them even holding branches from the trees like this when they're doing some stretching when they are now becoming active, preparing in order to walk long distances or going for hunting activities.

So look at that pole! So you can see this is what we see on the ground! So it's just that it's not showing us the underneath paths nicely. So this is how the domestic cats as well do clean themselves. So they lick the front legs and clean the face. So you can see that other one is now busy doing some cleaning. Normally they do like this early in the mornings.

Now I want us to see what Steve is looking for while I'm still waiting to see if these lions are going to entertain us more this afternoon.

Hello, everyone! We've stopped at a termite mound that was flourishing with birds a moment ago, and now they've all gone. All of our swifts and swallows were flying and bombing this termite mound. There are still a few coming around, bombing this termite mound that probably had some flying termites alates coming out, as their European roller was doing before.

You get sort of bursts of energy or bursts of individuals coming out after the rain. That's when a lot of reproductives will come out when the ground is nice and soft, and then they can go and do their new colonies. But the birds take huge advantage of it, and we had probably 50 odd birds a moment ago just sort of dive-bombing this termite mound.

But you get moments of lots of alerts coming out, and then obviously they start dying down as their numbers dwindle. Anyway, they'll continue on. There's a lot of birds with fork-tailed drongos as well as black-headed orioles all going absolutely crazy for the termites, although we couldn't actually even see any, but the birds were showing us that definitely something was going on!

Okay, so we're still carrying on down this road. The ground is very nice for tracking on this road particularly because it's nice and soft. Cat lady, we work all day every day. We never stop and never have a breather. Don't eat lunch, breakfast, or dinner. We're just constantly working.

No, I'm joking. Well, we present in the morning and in the afternoon, so that's six hours, but half an hour either side of that for preparation on the vehicle. And then there's always different reviews on a Friday. These days, we're doing a half an hour to an hour review on the week, but when there's TV shows, there's a lot more extra effort that goes in. For example, the SABC, there's an extra hour or so each day for that, for the show.

And then there's also an extra hour the next day for a review. There's a morning meeting every morning which takes up between 10 and half of 10 minutes and half an hour. There's also vehicle maintenance on Wednesdays that we do cleaning, and that can take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour as well. And then obviously, as the presenters and guides, we are constantly learning, constantly refreshing our brains and learning new techniques and strategies and information so as to impart it on you lovely people back home.

So we should never stop working, but we need time in the day to reflect on ourselves. We exercise while most of us do get some exercise in. We definitely have to make time for eating and... well, socializing as well in the evening of course! It's just a little bit of sitting around and chatting. I wouldn't call that work, but we live here, so we're pretty much on call, if that makes any sense.

It's not like people who can have a nine-to-five, then they go home, and then they got free to themselves. There could be anything going on in an evening, but invariably most evenings are our own and most of the time during the day is our own time as well, but that is not always the case.

Hope that answers your question! But in the guiding industry, you guide all the time, you're constantly busy. Zen, you want to know where this is being filmed? Well, we are in Juma in the Sabi Sands, which is on the northeastern side of South Africa, between Mozambique and, well, six hours from Johannesburg—six and a half hours east of Johannesburg in a vehicle. Or if you fly, not very far! So the Greater Kruger National Park...

Okay, so just having a look at some tracks of some impala that have been running over here. I'll just show you back there. It's possible that they've been fighting. Though there we go, you can see these tracks over here of a male impala—very dug in in the ground. It looks like they’re probably either running, or there's a little bit of fighting going on between two males.

But anyway, from our very nice impala tracks in the sand, let's go over to Cooley, who's found a much bigger antelope!

Good afternoon and welcome again to Sunset Safari! We are here with this beautiful water buck. We can see the male at the far end and the youngsters all over the place. We have the female youngsters and the male youngsters. My name is Oli and joining me behind the camera is Uncle James. We are in Chitwa; that's Chitwa Dam right here!

So for any questions or comments, you can catch us on hashtag follow on Twitter or YouTube chat stream. What's happening here? It's so amazing because we have these little ones right here sitting and chilling. You can see they're chewing their cud, and these ones here, the females, see they don't have horns. Oh! They're fighting! They're on top! Uncle James, look there! Look! Oh, that male is chasing that female. I'm sure he wants to mate with her, and that one, that female there—it's still young. I'm sure he's trying to tell her something about mating or something or move away from him!

So what's happening here? It's so amazing because we have two adult male water bucks, and last time I checked, the water bucks—they have territories around waterholes. And so I think these ones are the testosterone levels are low; that's why they tolerate each other. But sometimes they can tolerate other males from different territories when they are here to drink water or to graze around, and they go back to their territories.

And you can see this is a full-grown male teaching his tail there, chasing away the flies and insects. It's hot today! You can see these young chips are in the shade. There's not a lot going on right here, so that's why I will drive to Chitwa with them.

Rosalind, how fast can the water buck run? Remember, water bucks— they're big animals, and they can reach up to the speed of 60 to 75 kilometers per hour. They're not as fast as Thompson's gazelles, but they are quick enough to outrun a predator. You can see they are looking in different directions because they have to be safe at all times, and more especially next to a dam where everyone likes to drink, and then they are looking out for predators. And if they spot one, they will alarm and they will take off.

Oh! Heapers are shouting at me! Kimberly, you want to know how often do these guys mate? As you can see now we have a lot of youngsters over here. These youngsters are more or less the same age. It means they love mating, or they would mate just right at the beginning of the dry seasons so that they can give birth around the wet season; that's what they normally do.

You can see these youngsters, these young chips, they have their males there; their horns just came out not long ago. And it seems like they're staying far apart from each other. And if you can check, those are the only young males, and these ones here are the only young females. So they need to have some girls' chat and some boys' chat. So I'm at Chitwa Dam, and I'll be going to check what's happening there.

So for now, let's go to Sydney with the animals that would love to eat the water buck.

We are still here enjoying the Umkuhumas who are still now in bed. They are not showing any sign of doing something at the moment. They've all—we have seen them battling with flies. As some of them, we can see they've got some small wounds. Maybe it's as a result of moving in between the branches when chasing some prey animals to feed, and the flies are just everywhere. So you can see they're not enjoying their sleep.

There's a big difference between the dry season and the rainy season. The rainy season has got quite a lot of insects active, and flies are some of those! You can see that one has got quite a lot of flies and is the one who's battling the most, even trying to vibrate the skin there.

You can see all the time, they chase those flies, but it looks like those flies are not listening! Gizmo, the lions, they do sometimes secrete a very distinctive smell. Normally after the rain like now, we are here—if it rains any time from now—we know that when they wet, the smell is going to be different. But their scent is not bad; it is something that we can tolerate.

It's not something that is going to make me leave the sighting because of any suffocation, no! So they do, yes, smell bad because of the water. So sometimes, yes, after feeding on carrions, remember lions, they do eat fresh meat, yes, they hunt, but sometimes they also scavenge and they eat carrions. They also eat rotten meat. After feeding on rotten meat, the smell is going to be different, and that is the smell which maybe I can say it can be very much bad.

I have experienced it before—not once and not twice. So these animals, when a big animal such as an elephant is dead, they can even go deep in the stomach. Safari, sorry, is quite very difficult for the wound to get the markets because these kind of animals, they do look after themselves. And every time what makes the wound to take time to reheal is the following.

Safari Sally, when these kind of animals have got a wound, they have got to lick it all the time. And when they are licking it is when they are cleaning it, and that also makes it difficult for the wound to recover very quickly because the tongue of the lion is coarse and because of that when they're licking they are taking off the dead tissues, and when the wound is trying to recover they can open it time again and again.

Now you can see the wound there. Look at those flies! There are quite a lot of flies right on top there. So you can see that that lion is not even above that anymore because he has been having that wound for quite a long time. So I have been seeing this wound since I have arrived here in Juma. I think it is an old injury.

Becky, I'm trying to check here. You know, the easiest way for me to recognize the Mangani boy is to check the tail. I can see, I think that one there, Senzo—the one which is facing the other side, the opposite side—that one must be the Mangani male because the Mangani male lost the tassel of the tail. You know, the lions are the only cats amongst the big cats who have got a tassel at the tip of the tail.

So the Mangani males, as a result of mange, they have lost that tassel. Let's look at that! So I cannot see that very well, but I can see that the tassel there is not highly developed. So I am suspecting that that lion we are seeing there with that very beautiful tail must be the Mangani. As the Mangani males are also recovering from mange at the moment, they are getting much better.

So mange is not something good to have because it is a contagious disease which can get transmitted from one animal to the other, especially when animals are sharing food together, when animals are sharing the same shelter and sharing the breath as well, so it can also pose danger.

So I don't know if maybe in a very short space, we will start to see some developments on this one, or maybe they will survive it. So the way these lions are sleeping, you can see that they are so confident that nothing can predate them. None of them is on a watch out.

Brent, that is quite a very interesting question! What I must tell you now with regards to that is that to be a cub, whether it's from a lion or from a leopard, it is not easy. It's a very difficult stage of life. These animals when they are like this now, at the ages we are seeing them, they have survived danger. When the lions have got cubs, the biggest threat first is the other male lions from the neighboring territories trying to come over, trying to take over the pride or trying to take over the territory.

They can infanticize the little ones, and apart from that, the lions, when they are left behind hiding by the hidden places, the wild dogs and other predators such as hyenas can also kill them. So the competition is too high! Lions have also got a problem when it comes to teething. During the development of teeth, they do experience severe pains, and some of these animals, because of the severe pains, they do lose their lives.

Something else which can be a stretch is what is called a failure in infanticide. Failure in infanticide is a kind of infanticide which is conducted by the females themselves when the females have done a diagnostic assessment and see that the little one is not going to make it because of diseases or because of the bad condition, they can be able to kill their own cubs themselves.

Okay, so now let's go to Tully! Cooley has got one of the biggest predators!

I can say, he's jogging or he's swimming around to get fit or to check what's happening around here. So what's happening here is this beautiful crocodile!

You can see right over here, you can only see the upper part—you can see the spike-like things—and these things are so strong! You see the eyes? Sorry! And during this time, you can see the way that this dam is just drying slowly and surely, and then there will be hunting for fish. They can find fish in this pan or in this dam and they can store food. If they have a big meal, they will store food in their tails, so when the food gets lesser and lesser, they will start utilizing the food, the nutrients that they'll find from the tail.

You can see right over there, the water is getting shallower and shallower. So crocodiles are known to travel long distances from a waterhole to another waterhole when it gets dry. They tolerate each other around the waterholes, but when it gets dry and dry, that's where the conflict starts.

Submerged, it's coming up now! And these are the beautiful biggest reptiles you can find here. The second largest is the water monitor. Let's listen to the sounds of the world from the hippos.

The birds we have, the spoonbills—all have never heard a spoonbill making a call! I'd love to hear a spoonbill making a call! I saw something interesting about a spoonbill yesterday; it was hunting but walking in the water, and it was submerging its head in the water. It was my first time seeing such behavior. So it was very hungry!

Do I need to see through the water? We have our famous spirit! Oh, and the little ones there! Ravinder, you want to know if there are any baby crocs in this river?

That one, I'm not sure whether there are any youngsters here. But sometime last month, I spotted one small croc. So I don't know whether there's still any young ones, but let's hope we'll see the youngsters! You know it's so nice to see the youngsters all the time.

Yeah, we have this beautiful bird right there for ratcheting and around, fixing the nest. You can see that bird is called a red-billed buffalo weaver. They utilize this nest. If you see this huge nest on top of a tree or a dead tree or maybe in total for an anthill, these network aerials—long ones—you find most of them, they have this huge nest, and these nests belong to the red-billed buffalo weavers.

And there's a cheetah (Chita) Achieve our reserve there; I'm sure they're having a very nice view! Oh, we have ourselves a terrapin! So I've seen a biggest terrapin on my way to Chitwa, but I didn't have a nice view there, so for now, let's go to Steve. He has some fresh cat's tracks.

Welcome back, everybody! Well, we've come around onto Triple M—the main boundary on the western side—and, well, you can clearly see in the muddy ground over here a leopard track—a beautiful, beautiful leopard track! And she's so tempted to take a mold of this, but the sad part about this track is, is if we go back a few meters, and...

What's happened over here is here are the two cubs—two tracks of the cubs in the mud—and they've gone across and down and west into Arathusa, I think. If you just scan the vegetation here, BK, you'll see how much rain fell! Apparently, the cubs with mom were just upstream over here! So no doubt with the amount of rain that fell last night, it would have encouraged her to probably move the cubs to an area that was maybe a little bit drier.

Unfortunately, they have now gone straight across here, and seemingly all the tracks come here just there in the mud—just there—and then they follow her across into Arathusa. I'm just going to have one more little look, but it definitely seems as if they have gone directly out.

Yeah, back into the drainage system just on the other side of the road, which is... Sorry about the aerial there... which is out of our area, unfortunately. Well, that's disappointing, but at least we know that they have crossed. But there's always a good opportunity that she might come back again in the coming weeks.

But for now, unfortunately, folks, the Hukudulus have seemingly gone west! So on we go! We're gonna go do a little bit of a water point patrol. There's a really nice sort of breeze that picked up now, which is cooling things down quite nicely, which I'm quite happy about.

Come in on our fire break road, and we're right in the southwestern corner. The big junction over here indicates all the other properties. Becky, are you asking where is Tingana? I have no idea where Tingana is! I haven't seen him since last week's Sunday!

So he, we haven't even heard any reports of him in the north. But the Buffalo Suk landowners have been pretty short supply— there haven't been many of them around, so they haven't been covering Buffalo stock probably as much as they'd like to. And we also haven't had the Juma guards in attendance for a couple of days, so I'm sure he's around somewhere, but he's probably in the north.

The last we had of him was tracks going north, and he's probably up there probably on a kill! Sometimes they can be on a kill for a couple of days, and then you don't see their tracks. And if you're not covering that area well, you won't see him come out.

We cover our property quite deliberately every day. We really do drive around and check for tracks. But if a leopard just happened to cross there on a little bit, a little bit of a harder or grassy patch on the road, very hard to see, it could be right there on a kill somewhere nearby, just in the north! But we just don't know. Anyway, we're going to continue on down this lovely road, which is going to take us to the hyena den.

And while we're just gonna have a pop, pop, our nose in there and see what they're doing because there seems to be a little bit of sort of cloud developing down in the south, which is sort of obscuring the sun, which is keeping it a little bit more cool. But hopefully the lions will get up shortly and start moving, because, well, they don't do too much when it's very hot.

We are still here with the lions, and they are still lying down just like a carpet. And I am so fascinated by this one here, look at this, this freeway lion is just lying down and having his legs on top of the other, and the other one is not even worried. So when these animals are so lying down close to each other, it helps to insulate them when it's too cold.

But now it's very hot, and look at that one is doing. So this is a sign that animals such as lions, they've got very strong social bonds. Apart from that one, there's even another one there is also doing more or less the same. I'm going to show you now—look at that!

So you can see that these animals don't have problems with each other. And when they wake up later on, you see them even grooming each other. That is a sign of a good social structure! These animals, by licking each other and cleaning each other or grooming each other, it helps in order to maintain their relationship.

So we have not seen any of the big males here, but yeah, obviously, that Mangani is one of the Mangani males. So this is showing you that, yes, the pride of lions normally—the females spend much of their time just by themselves, and the males can be very much nomadic and come back here when the female is on heat. They serve others.

They've got to learn how to hunt! Remember, hunting is part of their survival. So these animals, when they are less than a year old, it is too risky and dangerous for the little ones to accompany the adults and participate in hunting activities. But once they become 16 to 20 months, two years in full, is when they start to learn how to be independent, so they learn how to hunt when they're about 18 years.

So that is when they can be able to do hunt in full by themselves. But when they're younger than that, the chances of them taking down something is very much low. And again, they can spoil the chances of the well-experienced lions here taking down a prey.

I didn't get that question very well! If you can repeat that! Look at that! That is the pole! That is what we see on the ground when we are checking. This is what we look for! You can see the three loops there nicely. This is confirming this is a cat! As the dogs, they have got two loops, and the cat has got three lobes.

Look at those beautiful toes there! And they have got some claw sheath right here after these toes, which helps them when they are feeding. Macy, unfortunately, here by the lions, when they're sleeping, they're all lying down!

So lions don't worry too much about the other animals coming to predate them. They've got good sense of smell and good hearing ability. So when they're lying down like this, you must know they don't have any of them who is on a watch out or on a lookout!

But when they've got a kill, well they must have to guard against the kill. The behavior is different when they've got a kill from when they just hide when they're just lying down, relax, like we see now. So now, let's cross over to my other friend.

This guy is looking afraid! You can see his eyes are wide open! We are so lucky to see such animals during the daytime because around this time, they like to hide and they create these nests that are called form in a thicket. They will stay there until it gets dark.

So now, it saw an opportunity to come out and feed. I think he—he didn't eat enough last night! You can see his nose is getting his information from the air! And you see the eyes are huge! This man says good eyesight! And they are chewing, feeding, and remember they can also feed on their droppings because their digestive system is not as great as other animals!

And the ears are wide open because he knows that eagles, small cats, big cats, they might hunt for him! And I remember when I was still a boy, very hungry, I used to have a dog. And we used to go out with my friends to hunt these things! What happened was they have this survival strategy or strategy that they do when it comes to predation!

Because they are most—they must live in pairs! You can find them in pairs; you can find them singly. But when they're in pairs and they're being chased by a dog, one will stay there and hide, and one will take off! Then the dog will go for that one that took off.

And when it gets tired, it will go to the very same spot where the one is hiding! Then the one that was hiding will take off! And this other one will rest there until the one gets tired! And those are the things you—we—I had to learn while I was still a point hunting these things!

You can see where he is right now! It's well camouflaged! You can say that! But a bird of prey can spot it easily! Yes! So let me leave this guy because he's not comfortable here. Let's go to Steve with the hyena!

Welcome back everyone! Well, we've come down to the hyena den, and there was no one in attendance! But we came around the corner, and we found one individual! I think it's June in the mud wallows on the other side of the road! But she's got a bit of a limp to her, and she's gonna go to the den site, which is exciting! There's a little bit of cloud cover, as I suggested before; she was in the shade of that tree in another mud wallow where we often find buffalo.

And um, she's been very, very saturated, but she's now going straight back to the den! So I think maybe we will follow her, because if she does go to the den, sorry, she's going behind the car! How rude she is! June, we parked so lovely here so that she would drive in front of us, walk in front of us, and then we could show everybody! So June is the hardest of the ladies to sort of identify because she doesn't have too much of a spot pattern on the right-hand side, and on the left-hand side, she doesn't have much of a spot pattern, but the right hand side is... Jamie suggests you're looking for the word juice that comes out, and well, that is now... now that Jamie's explained it to us all so well, it's impossible not to see!

But the other side of her, there's nothing! She's going—oh! Oh! We just drove through something! That was June! June left something there for us! Whoo! She's going straight to the densite, which is very positive because she'll make a noise, and her little youngsters will probably come say, "Mama! We want to eat! We want to suckle!" which is very exciting!

We're just pulling in now, everybody! Hold on to your horses, June! Please don't drop one of those again; that was really, really bad! Beacon are both sort of caught ourselves there. Okay, so she's just popping up onto the densite over here. She's going to go to the shaded east wing, which is the favorite side when it's nice and warm, and let's see if there's going to be any babies that are going to come out!

I'm certain it's June due to the fact that she's got the non-descript spots, and um, she's got two very intact ears. Okay, but she looks like she's got a bit of a limp. Everybody got a bit of a limp! Enlarged mammary glands! Yes! A little bit of a cut on the top of her right ear now! So I don't know what's going on, but maybe... Where are your babies? Are they going to come out and suckle?

Everyone's hoping they will! They're looking inside; she's not making any noises. They often make a noise when they want their youngsters to come and suckle, and I wonder why she didn't take her kids to the swimming pool with her. Maybe she—oh! There they are! I think she needed some me time! Somehow, some June time!

Everybody, here they come! And there's Plonk! I think that's Plonk. Here they come! They can't help themselves, they're all smelling here as well again! June, what did you do? There's something very smelly about you this morning, this afternoon! Okay, so it's not Plonk; it's Pretty's two youngsters that have now popped out! And they are always a lot of fun! They like to smell my shoe and Trisha's shoe!

I suppose they like to smell everybody's shoe! Why are you guys going to that side of the mound? That is the north wing! That is where it's normally quite warm! Maybe June wants a little bit of privacy! Oh, and here comes a third! So the Plonk is definitely among them! I'm just going to try to figure out which one is he. He's a little bit darker than the other two.

I've found his spot pattern! He's also quite inquisitive! Don't forget, folks! We are interactive! Would love to hear from you! Hashtag throw them in on the YouTube chat stream! Hello! You're coming out very tentatively there, little one! One of the adults is back! Kids can come out and play! Precious, very precious!

Okay, well here comes in one of the inquisitive ones. All sorts of smells coming from our vehicle, but for the moment, June is the one with all the smells that they are interested in! Everyone's excited to see the clan! We are indeed as well! It's early in the afternoon for them to be coming out, but there's a really big system building sort of in the south over there, BK, if you want to just show them that system building, which has obliterated the sun! Look at all of that!

It's hidden the sun from view and has dropped the temperature dramatically! And well, we're going to be watching that very closely! Jennifer, sizes in hyenas comes from male and female. Generally, a male or a female is generally a little bit bigger than a male. But especially, a matriarchal female is bigger as well due to sort of testosterone imparted on the youngster while in the womb.

I think that one is Plonk on the left—he's got a few more dark spots! So there is just a sexual dimorphism between hyenas in general. And so generally, the females are bigger than males, but a dominant female is generally even bigger, so than others! Males are generally much smaller, but these three look very similar in size at the moment, and it's very difficult really to tell them apart!

I haven't quite figured out their spot pattern yet, so I do apologize! But I think Plonk is the darker of the three when it comes to spots! That one's quite pale! The one in the front is also quite pale! BK, and the one sitting in the back looking at us longingly has got a few darker spots, and I thought that was Plonk because I've seen him suckling Corky a few times!

Debbie, I'm not sure if she's been seen! I mean, this is the second, third time, fourth time that her cubs have been seen here at the den! But I'm not aware of where Pretty's been! I haven't heard of her being seen! I mean, Trish never mentioned seeing her last time! And I think James and Paulie have had bad luck every time they've come here! Sydney has certainly been seeing them!

I don't think Sydney's actually even seen them out of the den yet! It's a bit of a hit or miss when you come down here, but I haven't seen Pretty since these youngsters have been at this den! But considering that her two cubs are here, it's very likely that she is around, but she probably just keeps a very different time to the others, and we've only seen Corky here a few times.

June obviously being more sort of around due to the age of her cubs! But I'm sure she's fine! I'm sure she's fine! She will materialize at some point! You're looking so sad there! How sad it's looking! They always look either very naughty or very sad!

Okay, so June is going to come around again, and joined by no doubt her two little ones that are right—oh! They're doing some squittering! Let's see if you can listen! I might have to drive around! They are very, very keen to get some milk from her! So let's just reverse around that, too, BK!

Let's go and get it a nice spot! I've never live heard Hyenas doing that squittering that Jamie spent so much time with the North Clan! I didn't even know it was a word, but indeed squittering is a word, and it's that high-pitched squealing sound that hyenas make when they're begging, and they're begging for milk or food from mom!

Ah, June! You've gone right inside the den to hide your babies from view! That's okay! You're still very pretty! It's still very pretty, and we can get everybody from this view! Apart from the two youngsters that have told mom, "Mom, put your bottom inside the hole so we can at least drink your milk in the shelter of the den because it's still hot outside!"

Okay, so looking at the spot patterns of them, you'll see the one right up at the top seems to be the darker of the three in my opinion! In my opinion, I think that's Plonk! Who is going to be right in June's way now? He doesn't care! They all want some attention!

And now this one here has got two very nice almost vertical lines on the body of spots you can see that! Well, the other one doesn't have too much to work with at the moment! Here we go! This is exactly what I anticipated! This is one of Pretty's youngsters! The first one always to come and say hello!

Hello, cheeky! You want to come smell my shoe again, do you? I love how inquisitive they are! They are not scared at all! Are you? Do you just like the sound of my voice? Hmm? What do you smell on the tire there? You probably can't see him now!

Okay, try to identify whether this is a male or female, but very brave! Very brave, aren't you? It's just so precious! Are you going under the car now?

Okay, now comes the other one! A little bit more, you know, egged on by the sibling, and to come down and say hello! First, a little bit of pasting on the branch! This one's a little bit bigger! What are you doing?

So the one that's by my foot is a bit darker in color! The one that you can see in frame is a bit paler in color! You are very naughty! This is priceless! This is priceless!

There's one right over here, and one right over there! Hello! So I think this first one is a female, and the one on the right is a male! You can see there's a size difference between the two of them, can't you? The one on the left!

But then, I'm not 100% sure! I think they have been sexed before! I haven't spent enough time here to accurately identify the male and female between them! But I do believe one was male, one was female!

Child of the universe, thankfully not yet! I was busy sitting at the den the other day and I was enjoying... I don't know, I was reading something, and suddenly I felt this warm nose touch my foot, and I got a bit of a fright, I must admit!

And then it kept coming back, and it was very interested in my shoe! Obviously, I've got amazing shoes, and they must have a very interesting smell to them! But thankfully not yet! Jamie says there's also a male hyena that sometimes will come up and do exactly the same sort of thing! You'll have your foot here, and you'll suddenly feel this wet nose touch you on the leg!

And if the hyena wanted a bite, it would do some quite a bit of damage! But I think they're more inquisitive than they are trying to get any food from us! They're just very interested, as dogs! Or hyenas! Aren't dogs, but like dogs, they like to smell everything!

So we've got all sorts of smells to ourselves! Our shoes have been all over the place, our legs and our clothes, our wheels, our vehicle—they've been all over the place! And, well, these youngsters don't get the luxury of exploring very far!

So they are very interested in absolutely every single smell that they can grasp with their nose, and including our legs and shoes! I wonder how close they'd come to Brent Leo Smith's shoes, though! See, there's Plonk! I think, yeah, but it's darker in color! He's got that almost that C on his bottom, doesn't he?

See, with a hole in the C with a spot in the middle! Right on his bottom! He's got that very big dark spot on his back! That should make it quite easy to identify! Thanks, Michael, for confirming that! That is Plonk, who is going to be right in June's way now! He doesn't care! They all want some attention, and now this one here has got two very nice almost vertical lines on the body of spots you can see that!

And, well, the other one doesn't have too much to work with at the moment! Here we go! This is exactly what I anticipated! This is one of Pretty's youngsters. The first one to always come and say hello!

Hello, cheeky! You want to come smell my shoe again, do you? I love how inquisitive they are! They are not scared at all! Are you? Do you just like the sound of my voice? Hmm? What do you smell on the tire there? You probably can't see him now!

Okay! Try to identify whether this is a male or female, but very brave! Very brave, aren't you? It's just so precious! Are you going under the car now?

Okay, now comes the other one! A little bit more, you know, egged on by the sibling and to come down and say hello. First, a little bit of pasting on the branch. This one's a little bit bigger! What are you doing?

So the one that's by my foot is a bit darker in color! The one that you can see in frame is a bit paler in color! You are very naughty! This is priceless! This is priceless!

There's one right over here and one right over there! Hello! So I think this first one is a female, and the one on the right is a male! You can see there's a size difference between the two of them, can't you? The one on the left!

But then, I'm not 100% sure! I think they have been sexed before! I haven't spent enough time here to accurately identify the male and female between them! But I do believe one was male, one was female!

Child of the universe, thankfully not yet! I was busy sitting at the den the other day, and I was enjoying... I don't know, I was reading something, and suddenly I felt this warm nose touch my foot! And I got a bit of a fright, I must admit!

And then it kept coming back, and it was very interested in my shoe! Obviously, I've got amazing shoes, and they must have a very interesting smell to them! But thankfully, not yet! Jamie says there's also a male hyena that sometimes will come up and do exactly the same sort of thing! You'll have your foot here, and you'll suddenly feel this wet nose touch you on the leg!

And if the hyena wanted a bite, it would do some quite a bit of damage! But I think they're more inquisitive than they are trying to get any food from us! They're just very interested, as dogs! Or hyenas! Aren't dogs, but like dogs, they like to smell everything!

So we've got all sorts of smells to ourselves! Our shoes have been all over the place, our legs and our clothes, our wheels, our vehicle—they've been all over the place! And, well, these youngsters don't get the luxury of exploring very far!

So they are very interested in absolutely every single smell that they can grasp with their nose! And including our legs and shoes! I wonder how close they'd come to Brent Leo Smith's shoes!

See, there's Plonk! I think, yeah, but it's darker in color! He's got that almost that C on his bottom, doesn't he? See, with a hole in the C with a spot in the middle! Right on his bottom!

He's got that very big dark spot on his back! That should make it quite easy to identify! Thanks, Michael, for confirming that! That is Plonk, who is going to be right in June's way now! He doesn't care! They all want some attention!

And now this one here has got two very nice almost vertical lines on the body of spots you can see that! And, well, the other one doesn't have too much to work with at the moment!

Here we go! This is exactly what I anticipated! This is one of Pretty's youngsters! The first one always to come and say hello!
Good afternoon and welcome again to Sunset Safari! We are here with this beautiful water buck. We can see the male at the far end and the youngsters all over the place.

We have the female youngsters and the male youngsters. My name is Oli and joining me behind the camera is Uncle James. We are in Chitwa; that's Chitwa Dam right here!

So for any questions or comments, you can catch us on hashtag follow on Twitter or YouTube chat stream. What's happening here?

It's so amazing because we have these little ones right here, sitting and chilling. You can see they're chewing their cud, and these ones here, the females, see they don't have horns. Oh! They're fighting! They're on top! Uncle James, look there! Look! Oh, that male is chasing that female.

I'm sure he wants to mate with her, and that one, that female there—it's still young. I'm sure he's trying to tell her something about mating or something or move away from him!

So what's happening here? It's so amazing because we have two adult male water bucks, and last time I checked, the water bucks—they have territories around waterholes. And so I think these ones are the testosterone levels are low; that's why they tolerate each other. But sometimes they can tolerate other males from different territories!

So when they are here to drink water or to graze around, and they go back to their territories, and you can see this is a full-grown male teaching his tail there—chasing away the flies and insects!

It's hot today! You can see these young chips are in the shade! There’s not a lot going on right here, so that's why I will drive to Chitwa with them.

Rosalind, how fast can the water buck run? Remember, water bucks—they're big animals, and they can reach up to the speed of 60 to 75 kilometers per hour! They're not as fast as Thompson's gazelles, but they are quick enough to outrun a predator. You can see they are looking in different directions because they have to be safe at all times, and more especially next to a dam, where everyone likes to drink!

And then they are looking out for predators, and if they spot one, they will alarm and they will take off! Oh! Heapers are shouting at me! Kimberly, you want to know how often do these guys mate?

As you can see now we have a lot of youngsters over here! These youngsters are more or less the same age! It means they love mating, or they would mate just right at the beginning of the dry seasons so that they can give birth around the wet season; that's what they normally do.

You can see these youngsters, these young chips—they have their males there; their horns just came out not long ago. And it seems like they're staying far apart from each other. And if you can check, those are the only young males, and these ones here are the only young females!

So they need to have some girls' chat and some boys' chat!

So I'm at Chitwa Dam, and I'll be going to check what's happening there.

So for now, let's go to Sydney with the animals that would love to eat the water buck!

We are still here enjoying the Umkuhumas who are still now in bed! They are not showing any sign of doing something at the moment! They've all—we have seen them battling with flies.

As some of them, we can see they've got some small wounds! Maybe it's as a result of moving in between the branches when chasing some prey animals to feed, and the flies are just everywhere!

So you can see they're not enjoying their sleep. There's a big difference between the dry season and the rainy season. The rainy season has got quite a lot of insects active, and flies are some of those!

You can see that one has got quite a lot of flies and is the one who's battling the most, even trying to vibrate the skin there.

You can see all the time, they chase those flies, but it looks like those flies are not listening! Gizmo, the lions, they do sometimes secrete a very distinctive smell. Normally after the rain like now, we are here — if it rains anytime from now, we know that when they wet, the smell is going to be different.

But their scent is not bad; it is something that we can tolerate! It's not something that is going to make me leave the sighting because of any suffocation, no!

So they do, yes, smell bad because of the water! So sometimes, yes, after feeding on carrion, remember lions, they do eat fresh meat; yes, they hunt, but sometimes they also scavenge, and they eat carrion.

They also eat rotten meat! After feeding on rotten meat, the smell is going to be different, and that is the smell which maybe I can say can be very much bad.

I have experienced it before—not once and not twice!

So these animals, when a big animal like an elephant is dead, they can even go deep in the stomach!

Safari, sorry is quite very difficult for the wound to get the markets because these kind of animals they do look after themselves.

And every time what makes the wound take so long to heal is the following. Safari Sally, when these kind of animals have got a wound, they have got to lick it all the time!

And when they are licking it is when they are cleaning it, and that also makes it difficult for the wound to recover very quickly!

Because the tongue of the lion is coarse and because of that, when they are licking, they are taking off the dead tissues, and when the wound is trying to recover, they can open it time again and again.

Now you can see the wound there! Look at those flies! There is quite a lot of flies right on top there!

So you can see that that lion is not even above that anymore because he has been having that wound for quite a long time.

So I have been seeing this wound since I arrived here in Juma! I think it is an old injury.

Becky! I'm trying to check here! You know the easiest way for me to recognize the Mangani boy is to check the tail!

I can see I think that one there, Senzo—the one which is facing the other side, that one must be the Mangani male because the Mangani male lost the tassel of the tail.

You know the lions are the only cats amongst the big cats who've got a tassel at the tip of the tail! So the Mangani males, as a result of mange, they have lost that tassel!

Let's look at that!

So I cannot see that very well, but I can see that the tassel there is not highly developed!

So I am suspecting that that lion we are seeing there with that very beautiful tail must be the Mangani!

As the Mangani males are also recovering from mange at the moment, they are getting much better.

So mange is not something good to have because it's a contagious disease that can get transmitted from one animal to the other. Especially when animals are sharing food together, when animals are sharing the same shelter and sharing the breath as well!

So it can also pose danger!

So I don't know if maybe in a very short space, we will start to see some developments on this one! Or maybe they will survive it!

So the way these lions are sleeping, you can see that they are so confident that nothing can predate them! None of them is on a watch out!

Brent, that is quite a very interesting question! What I must tell you now, with regards to that, is that to be a cub, whether it's from a lion or from a leopard, it is not easy.

It's a very difficult stage of life! These animals when they are like this now, at the ages we are seeing them, they have survived danger!

When the lions have cubs, the biggest threat first is the other male lions from the neighboring territories trying to come over, trying to take over the pride or trying to take over the territory.

They can infanticize the little ones! And apart from that, when the lions, when they're left behind hiding by the hidden places, the wild dogs and other predators such as hyenas can also kill them!

So the competition is too high! Lions have also got a problem when it comes to teething! During the development of teeth, they do experience severe pains, and some of these animals, because of the severe pains, they do lose their lives!

Something else which can be a stretch is what is called failure in infanticide! Failure in infanticide is a kind of infanticide that is conducted by the females themselves when the females have done a diagnostic assessment and see that the little one is not going to make it because of diseases or because of the bad condition, they can be able to kill their own cubs themselves.

Okay, so now let's go to Tully! Cooley has got one of the biggest predators!

I can say, he's jogging or he's swimming around to get fit or to check what's happening around here!

So what's happening here is this beautiful crocodile!

You can see right over here—you can only see the upper part—you can see the spike-like things—and these things are so strong! You see the eyes?

Sorry! And during this time, you can see the way that this dam is just drying slowly and surely—and then there will be hunting for fish!

They can find fish in this pan or in this dam, and they can store food! If they have a big meal, they will store food in their tails, so when the food gets lesser and lesser, they will start utilizing the food, the nutrients that they'll find from the tail!

You can see right over there, the water's getting shallower and shallower!

So crocodiles are known to travel long distances from a waterhole to another waterhole when it gets dry! They tolerate each other around the waterholes! But when it gets dry and dry, that's where the conflict starts!

Submerged, it's coming up now! And these are the beautiful biggest reptiles you can find here! The second largest is the water monitor!

Let's listen to the sounds of the world from the hippos! The birds we have, the spoonbills—all have never had a spoonbill making a call!

I'd love to hear a spoonbill making a call! I saw something interesting about a spoonbill yesterday; it was hunting but walking in the water, and it was submerging its head in the water!

It was my first time seeing such behavior! So it was very hungry!

Do I need to see through the water? We have our famous spirit!

Oh, and the little ones there! Ravinder, you want to know if there are any baby crocs in this river?

That one, I'm not sure whether there are any youngsters here! But sometime last month, I spotted one small croc! So I don't know whether there's still any young ones, but let's hope we'll see the youngsters! You know, it's so nice to see the youngsters all the time!

Yeah, we have this beautiful bird right there, for ratcheting and around, fixing the nest! You can see that bird is called a red-billed buffalo weaver!

They utilize this nest! If you see this huge nest on top of a tree or a dead tree or maybe in total for an anthill, these network aerials—long ones—you find most of them, they have this huge nest, and these nests belong to the red-billed buffalo weavers!

And there's a cheetah (Cheetahs) Achieve our reserve there; I'm sure they're having a very nice view!

Oh! We have ourselves a terrapin! So I've seen the biggest terrapin on my way to Chitwa, but I didn't have a nice view there. So for now, let's go to Steve.

He has some fresh cat's tracks.

Welcome back, everybody! Well, we've come around onto Triple M—the main boundary on the western side—and, well, you can clearly see in the muddy ground over here a leopard track—a beautiful, beautiful leopard track!

And she's so tempted to take a mold of this, but the sad part about this track is, is if we go back a few meters. And what's happened over here is here are the two cubs—two tracks of the cubs in the mud—and they've gone across and down and west into Arathusa, I think.

If you just scan the vegetation here, BK, you'll see how much rain fell! Apparently, the cubs with mom were just upstream over here! So no doubt with the amount of rain that fell last night, it would have encouraged her to probably move the cubs to an area that was maybe a little bit drier!

Unfortunately, they have now gone straight across here and seemingly all the tracks come here, just there in the mud—just there—and then they follow her across into Arathusa.

I'm just going to have one more little look, but it definitely seems as if they have gone directly out! Yeah, back into the drainage system just on the other side of the road, which is... Sorry about the aerial there... which is out of our area, unfortunately!

Well, that's disappointing, but at least we know that they have crossed! But there's always a good opportunity that she might come back again in the coming weeks!

But for now, unfortunately, folks, the Hukudulus have seemingly gone west! So on we go! We're gonna go do a little bit of a water point patrol!

There's a really nice sort of breeze that picked up now, which is cooling things down quite nicely, which I'm quite happy about!

Come in on our fire break road, and we're right in the southwestern corner! The big junction over here indicates all the other properties!

Becky, are you asking where is Tingana? I have no idea where Tingana is! I haven't seen him since last week's Sunday! So he, we haven't even heard any reports of him in the north!

But the Buffalo Suk landowners have been pretty short supply! There haven't been many of them around, so they haven't been covering Buffalo stock probably as much as they'd like to!

And we also haven't had the Juma guards in attendance for a couple of days, so I'm sure he's around somewhere, but he's probably in the north!

The last we had of him was tracks going north, and he's probably up there probably on a kill! Sometimes they can be on a kill for a couple of days, and then you don't see their tracks!

And if you're not covering that area well, you won't see him come out! We cover our property quite deliberately every day! We really do drive around and check for tracks!

But if a leopard just happened to cross there on a little bit, a little bit of a harder or grassy patch on the road, very hard to see! It could be right there on a kill somewhere nearby, just in the north! But we just don't know!

Anyway, we're going to continue on down this lovely road, which is going to take us to the hyena den!

And while we just gonna have a pop, pop, our nose in there and see what they're doing because there seems to be a little bit of sort of cloud developing down in the south, which is sort of obscuring the sun, which is keeping it a little bit more cool.

But hopefully, the lions will get up shortly and start moving! Because, well, they don't do too much when it's very hot!

We are still here with the lions, and they are still lying down just like a carpet! And I am so fascinated by this one here! Look at this, this freeway lion is just lying down and having his legs on top of the other!

And the other one is not even worried! So when these animals are so lying down close to each other, it helps to insulate them when it's too cold.

But now it's very hot! And look at that one is doing! So this is a sign that animals such as lions, they've got very strong social bonds! Apart from that one, there's even another one there is also doing more or less the same!

I'm going to show you now—look at that! So you can see that these animals don't have problems with each other! And when they wake up later on, you see them even grooming each other!

That is a sign of a good social structure! These animals, by licking each other and cleaning each other or grooming each other, it helps in order to maintain their relationship!

So we have not seen any of the big males here, but yeah, obviously, that Mangani is one of the Mangani males! So this is showing you that, yes, the pride of lions normally—the females spend much of their time just by themselves!

And the males can be very much nomadic and come back here when the female is on heat! They serve others! They've got to learn how to hunt! Remember, hunting is part of their survival!

So these animals, when they are less than a year old, it is too risky and dangerous for the little ones to accompany the adults and participate in hunting activities!

But once they become 16 to 20 months, two years in full, is when they start to learn how to be independent, so they learn how to hunt when they're about 18 years!

So that is when they can be able to do hunt in full by themselves! But when they're younger than that, the chances of them taking down something is very much low!

And again, they can spoil the chances of the well-experienced lions here taking down a prey! I didn't get that question very well! If you can repeat that!

Look at that! That is the pole! That is what we see on the ground when we are checking! This is what we look for! You can see the three loops there nicely! This is confirming this is a cat!

As the dogs, they have got two loops! And the cat has got three lobes! Look at those beautiful toes there! And they have got some claw sheath right here after these toes, which helps them when they are feeding!

Macy, unfortunately, here by the lions, when they're sleeping, they're all lying down! So lions don't worry too much about the other animals coming to predate them! They've got good sense of smell and good hearing ability!

So when they're lying down like this, you must know they don't have any of them who is on a watch out or on a lookout!

But when they've got a kill, well they must have to guard against the kill! The behavior is different when they've got a kill from when they just hide when they're just lying down, relax, like we see now!

So now, let's cross over to my other friend! This guy is looking afraid! You can see his eyes are wide open!

We are so lucky to see such animals during the daytime because around this time, they like to hide, and they create these nests that are called form in a thicket!

They will stay there until it gets dark! So now, it saw an opportunity to come out and feed! I think he—he didn't eat enough last night!

You can see his nose is getting his information from the air! And you see the eyes are huge! This man says good eyesight!

And they are chewing, feeding, and remember, they can also feed on their droppings because their digestive system is not as great as other animals!

And the ears are wide open because he knows that eagles, small cats, big cats, they might hunt for him!

And I remember when I was still a boy, very hungry! I used to have a dog! And we used to go out with my friends to hunt these things!

What happened was they have this survival strategy or strategy that they do when it comes to predation!

Because they are most—they must live in pairs! You can find them in pairs; you can find them singly! But when they're in pairs and they're being chased by a dog, one will stay there and hide, and one will take off!

Then the dog will go for that one that took off! And when it gets tired, it will go to the very same spot where the one is hiding!

Then the one that was hiding will take off! And this other one will rest there until the one gets tired! And those are the things you—we—I had to learn while I was still a point hunting these things!

You can see where he is right now! It's well camouflaged! You can say that! But a bird of prey can spot it easily! Yes!

So let me leave this guy because he's not comfortable here! Let's go to Steve with the hyena!

Welcome back everyone! Well, we've come down to the hyena den! And there was no one in attendance!

But we came around the corner! And we found one individual! I think it's June in the mud wallows on the other side of the road!

But she's got a bit of a limp to her and she's gonna go to the den site, which is exciting! There's a little bit of cloud cover, as I suggested before she was in the shade of that tree in another mud wallow where we often find buffalo!

And um, she's been very, very saturated! But she's now going straight back to the den! So I think maybe we will follow her!

Because if she does go to the den, sorry, she's going behind the car! How rude she is! June, we parked so lovely here so that she would drive in front of us, walk in front of us, and then we could show everybody!

So June is the hardest of the ladies to sort of identify because she doesn't have too much of a spot pattern on the right hand side, and on the left-hand side she doesn't have much of a spot pattern!

But the right hand side is... Jamie suggests you're looking for the word juice that comes out! And well, that is now... now that Jamie's explained it to us all so well, it's impossible not to see!

But the other side of her, there's nothing! She's going—oh! Oh! We just drove through something! That was June! June left something there for us! Whoo! She's going straight to the den site, which is very positive!

Because um, she'll make a noise, and her little youngsters will probably come say, "Mama! We want to eat! We want to suckle!" which is very exciting!

We're just pulling in now, everybody! Hold on to your horses, June! Please don't drop one of those again; that was really, really bad!

Beacon are both sort of caught ourselves there! Okay! So she's just popping up onto the densite over here. She's going to go to the shaded east wing, which is the favorite side when it's nice and warm!

And let's see if there's going to be any babies that are going to come out! I'm certain it's June due to the fact that she's got the non-descript spots and um, she's got two very intact ears.

Okay! But she looks like she's got a bit of a limp! Everybody got a bit of a limp! Enlarged mammary glands! Yes! A little bit of a cut on the top of her right ear now! So I don't know what's going on, but maybe... Where are your babies? Are they going to come out and suckle?

Everyone's hoping they will! They're looking inside! She's not making any noises! They often make a noise when they want their youngsters to come and suckle!

And I wonder why she didn't take her kids to the swimming pool with her! Maybe she—oh! There they are! I think she needed some me time!

Somehow, some June time! Everybody, here they come! And there's Plonk! I think that's Plonk! Here they come! They can't help themselves! They're all smelling here as well again! June, what did you do? There's something very smelly about you this morning, this afternoon!

Okay, so it's not Plonk! It's Pretty's two youngsters that have now popped out! And they are always a lot of fun! They like to smell my shoe and Trisha's shoe!

I suppose they like to smell everybody's shoe! Why are you guys going to that side of the mound? That is the north wing! That is where it's normally quite warm!

Maybe June wants a little bit of privacy! Oh, and here comes a third! So the Plonk is definitely among them! I'm just going to try to figure out which one is he.

He's a little bit darker than the other two! I've found his spot pattern! He's also quite inquisitive! Don't forget, folks! We are interactive! Would love to hear from you! Hashtag throw them in on the YouTube chat stream!

Hello! You're coming out very tentatively there, little one! One of the adults is back! Kids can come out and play! Precious, very precious!

Okay! Well here comes one of the inquisitive ones! All sorts of smells coming from our vehicle! But for the moment, June is the one with all the smells that they are interested in! Everyone's excited to see the clan!

We are indeed as well! It's early in the afternoon for them to be coming out! But there's a really big system building sort of in the south over there, BK, if you want to just show them that system building, which has obliterated the sun! Look at all of that!

It's hidden the sun from view and has dropped the temperature dramatically! And well, we're going to be watching that very closely! Jennifer! Sizes in hyenas comes from male and female! Generally, a male or a female is generally a little bit bigger than a male!

But especially, a matriarchal female is bigger as well due to sort of testosterone imparted on the youngster while in the womb! I think that one is Plonk on the left—he's got a few more dark spots! So there is just a sexual dimorphism between hyenas in general!

And so generally, the females are bigger than males! But a dominant female is generally even bigger, so than others! Males are generally much smaller! But these three look very similar in size at the moment!

And it's very difficult really to tell them apart! I haven't quite figured out their spot pattern yet, so I do apologize! But I think Plonk is the darker of the three when it comes to spots!

That one's quite pale! The one in the front is also quite pale! BK! And the one sitting in the back looking at us longingly has got a few darker spots!

And I thought that was Plonk because I've seen him suckling Corky a few times! Debbie, I'm not sure if