Safari Live - Day 348 | National Geographic

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·Nov 11, 2024

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

Good afternoon, everybody! A very good afternoon on this Sunday, coming to you live from the Mara Triangle in Kenya. My name is Steve, joined by Big James on camera.

There is a very blustery and cool afternoon, although it is 26 degrees Celsius, 79 degrees Fahrenheit. There is a big storm a-brewing from behind us, but we've managed to find two big male lions cuddled together. I don't quite know who they are just yet. I'm hoping some of you out there will be able to give us some identification if you know who these two pretty boys are. Don't forget, you can interact with us live on hashtag SafariLive or throw in your comments or questions on the YouTube chat stream.

We came a little bit further south to an area that is a little less inundated to bother rainfall. The ground is much harder here. We did make our way past a hyena den area, and the ground is still saturated from the previous few days of rain. Thankfully, we've managed to find these two beautiful boys who were sleeping under a very nice fig tree. Now, they have moved out and have been sniffing and smelling the wind that's coming from this side.

Maybe we can still see them. They've been having a little look at these two ground hornbills over here that have walked maybe 60 to 70 yards within reach of the lions. The lions have had a look and thought about it, but they haven't moved at all. I've tried to sneak up on ground hornbills before, and although their name is ground hornbill, they do fly quite well. If you get within 30 or 40 yards of them, they will take off and fly away, and that'll be the end of it.

Many times, I've actually seen them just flying off, big black bodies with white tips on the wing—an enormous wingspan. They're the largest cooperative breeding birds that we know of. But back to the gorgeous boys that everyone's commenting on how gorgeous they are! The guy on the right has got a number of wounds on his left-hand side of his face, which he's not showing us at the moment, but aren't they gorgeous? Nice blue blonde mane on the right. See, there's not any darkness in the manes here.

Now, a lot of people always talk about dark-mane lions, and sometimes you get blonde males. It's all really a genetic thing that's inherited from Dad.

Anyway, good news down in South Africa! Tristan has been on the search and has found a cat. Oh really? Let's go see which one we have indeed!

As you can see, we've got a very lazy lion called Jukku. I know! He was having a little nap on top of a termite mound. He hasn't moved too far from where he was left last night and is now just taking it very easy, kind of gazing around at these impalas that were around us.

He has just been feeling kind of chilled. I think eventually he will go hunting this afternoon; it's just going to take a little bit of time, that's for sure. But it is a very, very good way to start our day. Well, at least I think so anyway. My name is Justin, as Steve mentioned, on camera I put sins are this afternoon—a very warm welcome to South Africa!

The skies have cleared somewhat since this morning, and it is a much prettier afternoon than it was this morning. We've ditched the raincoats, and everything is much drier, which is very nice. Obviously, Tingana is posing as well as we could ever ask for, that's for sure! He has kind of really found a nice termite mound to be able to sit and just watch what's going on.

It's very, very cool to see that he's hanging around. I was hoping that we'd find him today. I was a bit worried yesterday because when we left him, his general direction was north towards before the cut lines. I didn't think that we would find him today, but at the end of the day, we got lucky. Like I say, he came out and he's actually headed more south this afternoon than anything else, and then eventually found this beautiful termite mound to sit and look at—ever so regal on top there like that.

He's definitely aged a little bit but somehow still looks in fine form considering how old he actually is. I think he’s looking really, really good! I haven't seen too much of that lump today—he's sore a little bit but nothing too bad. He’ll be fine! I mean, last night by the time he started walking properly, he wasn't limping at all. He was wandering around like he normally does.

Very exciting way to start though, isn't it? Well, I think so anyway! Right, well, we're going to sit with Tingana for the whole of the afternoon. He certainly won't be going anywhere. So while we sit with him and see if he's going to make a move, let's send you across to Trishala, so she can tell you what she's planning for the afternoon.

Yes, well, that's really so lucky that we've got Tingana again today. It's always nice to have a leopard on Drive, but I have something single I would much like to eat, I think, and those are two little baby kudus! How cute is that? I think it's spectacular!

My name is Trishala, and I've got Craig on camera with me. We’re going to be looking for all sorts of interesting things in the bush today, starting of course with kudu. And you know, we've started with a little bit of elephants as well, so that's pretty awesome, I think.

Oh, there's a larger kudu up on the side; this is possibly mum over to my right. Just excuse my head there. There were also a few impalas that were rutting behind him, displaying a little bit. But as soon as he knew I wanted to put him on camera, he bounded off as they do!

Even this female kudu doesn't feel like showing us her face. There she goes, eating away. It's actually quite a nice temperature out here today; it's about 28 degrees Celsius, 82 degrees Fahrenheit, so it's very nice and mild at least for me. There’s lots of these browsers out, and they're all having a bit of a snack.

The leaves on the trees are still a little bit juicier than the grass at the moment, so you'll find that mixed feed is like the impalas will be eating a lot more of those leaves and then trying to get the nice juicy bits at the bottom of the grasses out—just like this little guy. Anyway, I'm going to move on, and we're going to have a look in the west as usual for any sign of another leopard.

In the meantime, let me send you up to David in the Maasai Mara.

Hello, hello, and Jumbo Jumbo everyone! And yes, Trishala, you need to keep moving, and hopefully, you are going to get maybe lambs. Well, the weather here is fantastic! Wonderful weather.

Where we are, we got some glorious landscapes left red from where we are. Welcome to this part of the Maasai Mara! Steve is on the other side; my name is David and on camera is Archie. Thank you very much!

We just want to show you the kind of landscape and the weather that you have here—it's just breathless! You know, we haven't seen any animals yet, but that is all right. Our equipment should tell you I am already in the Soviet Republic. Great temperatures!

Steve must have told you earlier that the clouds…as yet, we do not see any cloud that should worry me. And Archie, in terms of rain, so far, so good—I’m only getting a few bites from the flies, and I’m sure you know flies sometimes cause what you call sleeping sickness.

How to kill them? One of them! But if you get bitten by a fly, it is so, so painful. It's just like a syringe, being thrown in your flesh! See this close there? Do not worry. Many times, you hear me and Steve talking about the triangle and because of that couple in their loose clouds. For me, I look fine, Leslie ducking much later.

Well, I'm sure Trish and Steve already told you to keep talking to us and engage us as much as you can. Janet, you say this is good? Yes! So what I need to get for you Janet is to get you the sausages themselves, because I am already in that particular territory, and that is my very main plan this afternoon, Janet! So stay tuned, do not go anywhere.

Because chances are, we might get them today! So she don’t show me as much darker clouds don’t put any worries in me, and I want to move on. But in the meantime, let's go back to the other side of the Mara. Are we involved with these lions? Good job, and good luck Gigi—I hope you do manage to find the sausages!

And good news for Massa: the storm seems to be blowing in the other direction. But we scanned with our binoculars, and you see the tree line at the back there. Wait for it—three, two, one! There are two lionesses there, and I've already seen two little ones!

So we're gonna go in close enough. Let’s go and see who they are! We are in the area where I've spent time with the salt lick pride. So I've got an assumption that it might be them, but who these two big males are, I'm really asking you guys for help out there! Can you tell me who these male lions are? That would be wonderful.

Let's see if we can have a look a little closer at some cuteness—would you like that, Kelly? Six, the kitchen boys are? I've seen them before. They've got a little bit dark in the main, and they are normally much closer to the escarpment, closer towards Kitral itself, and we are thirty kilometers, 15 odd miles maybe from there, so I'm not going to guess it's them.

I do know those boys; I have spent time with them before. I do not know these two, so I doubt them! If anything, there we go, there's a little…oh, is that a youngster? It's hard to say from this distance.

There’s a couple of youngsters—one on the left and one on the right, so these are probably dad and one of the lionesses on the left! I see at least three youngsters. Well, let's go find out exactly who these individuals are.

Then we can get a little bit closer. How does that sound? I'm happy if you're happy! Let's just get into low range, don’t worry boys, we'll be right back for you! Here if you do decide to get up and move. But definitely not the kitchen boys—that's for sure!

And not the old Anya pikes because I know those two males. So we'll just go straight over here. Who is this going to be? I'm thinking Salt Lick pride. I haven't seen them in some time, but then I haven't been around there. It's a good bumpy—oh Vic Welbeck, you're saying something that I was almost getting to the assumption of as well—BEC saying it could be the two young sausage tree pride males that were around with Kapoor Lee.

I was having that thought for a moment, but I really don’t know them well enough. I didn't spend enough time with them, but definitely, we could be in the right area because they would have displaced themselves. I've seen Kapoor Lee in this area before, just up there against that main road. He was mating with a female, but possibly one of these females!

In fact by the size of these cubs… okay, it's getting very bumpy. Yeah, there’s one, two, three, I've got three cubs already! So it’s very rocky. Yeah, four cups—three lionesses. A little bit bumpy. Oopsie—it’s basalt rocks.

We're gonna stop right there; then we just roll back off of the rocks. Here we go! These little cuties here! Yeah, I thought I had a fourth one—there’s one in the grass to the left of us trying to hide! Hello, youngsters! About four months old, these cubs—four, maybe five months by their size!

And I saw that male lion mating with one of the—I think it’s one of the Salt Lick pride females! It is difficult. I must tell you, James, the two youngsters are playing just on the left. There's a little bit of lion play happening, so it is difficult to identify lions. It really is!

It takes a lot of identification, a lot of photos, and a lot of ID kits to be able to really get your head around them. Sometimes, local knowledge is very, very important! And obviously, you viewers at home have got your ability to know—to get your screenshots and to get all the information out for us and send them through.

Unfortunately, when I am in our vehicle, it doesn’t receive any Wi-Fi! So I’m hoping some of you out there while we're looking at the cubs first of all—because they’re so cute!—and we’ll focus on the females a little bit once they put their heads up and show us a little bit more action in the cubs.

Hopefully, we’ll give an ID of them! But it makes sort of sense that they’re the Salt Lick pride, but I really am NOT going to stake my life on it right now! So far, three adults and three cubs. I thought I saw a fourth one, but that might have been a rock. I do blend in so wonderfully well with their surroundings, don't they?

Yeah, we are very blessed! Look at this office! Look at this view for the day—lions and the Mara over the backdrop! Look at that! Isn't that just a marvelous scene?!

Last time I was here, that scene was littered with thousands, hundreds of thousands of all the best! On our way in, yep, we did pass the three very grumpy looking buffalo! So maybe these lions, including the two big males behind us, will decide you can catch one of them for some food? Who knows?!

When it’s windy like this, you often get lions getting up and moving anyway. Don't worry folks! We will be staying or at yet where the action is!

In the meantime, good news in South Africa—James is on Drive and he would like to say good afternoon! But we do not have any action.

Um, eh, good afternoon, and welcome to the sunset Safari here on a Sunday, April 28th, 2019. No, not 1919! It is 2019. My name is James Henry, and on camera today is Sebastian de Jambé—the greatest French-Japanese Air Force pilot in history! And this, of course, is his little friend Marvin!

So all we called her, I think so anyway. There will be flying Marvin around the place, hopefully helping us find Columbo or Tandy! That is why we've come into this area!

So we're sitting here—not sitting, driving along Central Road—and that is because we had tracks of a female leopard here today. This morning, doing that rather pleasant rainfall for those of us who weren't actually out in it. Then I had some rain out here and he had the tracks, and I think that you’ll find that Sebastian will not in fact agree that the rain was pleasant! Is that correct?

Not really! Yeah, no fair enough! Sebastian insisted that we delay the morning meeting by 15 minutes so that he could go shower himself and put on some warm clothes. Many thanks to all of you who said you missed me so much, I missed you too!

Radhi, the first thing we're going to do is stop next to this vast vulture, which doesn’t seem to be on the ground at the kill site. This is very interesting!

Oh, it's a leopard-faced vulture! Oh, that's beautiful! Look at that! Oh, well done! That’s the lappet-faced vulture, everybody! Very large vulture and dominator of carcasses!

In the other bird that was up there was a tawny eagle! Now, this area was where there was a dead Steinbach yesterday that Tristan found, and we investigated a little bit later on!

And we didn’t actually manage to find anything other than the carcass. But the fact that these birds were not on the ground tells me that maybe—just maybe—we're going to be lucky and there is actually a predator there!

There we have got a bat! Earlier juvenile on the right and left! Two teenagers having a Sunday afternoon tryst. Remember those days Sebastian when you were a teenager having a Sunday afternoon tryst? Hopefully not over rotting carcasses!

And hopefully, you didn't behave like that one on the left there in front of your beloved good!

They're sort of gentle autumnal weather today! Bustling dry leaves, gentle breeze, pleasant smells!

Alright, we're going to go and see if there's something next to this little carcass!

Well, we do that, let’s go back to Tristan Dix and the laziest leopard in all the world!

I can agree with James, it is a very pleasant smell in the air after the rain! Although I think it’s a little bit too little too late! I don't think we're gonna see too much green grass coming of it!

I'm pretty sure most of the grass has really lost its lignin and is starting to fall over. With the cooler temperatures and short today's rain we've gotten, largely, it’s not going to do too much, and it wasn’t enough to really fill up dams.

As soon as we get a little bit of hot weather, that will dry up most of what we had! But at least it’s something—it's better than no rain, that's for sure!

As you can see, Tigana, who hadn't been quite a way, has been watching and looking around quite a bit. But he’s just sort of popped his head down now to have a bit of a nap, and I think he’s gonna do much like what he did yesterday afternoon, which is probably sleep for quite a while.

Then, as soon as it starts to get dark, he’ll start to get moving and start to go looking for any semblance of food. It was interesting watching him last night; he would walk a little bit, stop, walk a bit, stop.

Eventually, he found a series of holes much like he did a few weekends ago, and just sat up there and then kind of watched towards the holes.

He obviously spent most of the day or night there last night because where he was found this afternoon was very, very close to where that was. His strategy at the moment is just to do that: find certain holes in the ground that he thinks may be of fox or warthogs and then just sits in wait in the hope that something comes out that he can surprise and grab.

It doesn’t seem to have been too successful of late because we haven’t found him on any kills—particularly things like bigger fox or warthogs—but you never know! There must be some method to his madness. And it’s probably easier than going around and trying to chase things like impalas and steinboks and the like!

So that's just kind of his tactic at the moment, and I’m interested to see what he kind of gets up to this evening and which way he’s going to go.

You know, he spent the better part of almost two days really hanging around this dam area—we're not too far from the dam—and so it's very possible that he might decide to kind of get up and start moving and heading away from this area!

But we'll see how it goes and we'll see what happens and where he heads off to! You can see he’s a bit of a celebrity today; he’s being photographed by many people! You can see he’s a bit wide-eyed when shutters go off, but I'm pretty sure we're gonna—unfortunately—have to make space for a whole bunch of people.

And rather do it now early before the TV show than later, so we’ll probably go meandering apart for a bit and then come back! And while we do that, let's enjoy Steve's view and see how he’s getting on with his lions!

Well, good luck there Justin! Hopefully that Jukku gets up and does something this evening! And we’re not going anywhere; we’re in a prime position now!

I’ve still only managed to identify three cubs, but the fourth lioness suddenly showed her head. See if you can spot her there! See if you can spot her everybody! Imagine you’re walking through the long grass! Look at that! That would be quite frightening, wouldn't it?

A majority of them are at this stage—full—covered in grass like that where it wasn’t burnt! And that is the favorite hunting ground of the lions up here in the Mara! It’s herding cats using the stealth of the long grass camouflage! For now, they’re just using it for a nice little pillow!

Franchesca from Albania hasn’t heard any information about Scarface or the Musketeers. James, do you have any info on them?

No, haven’t. I haven’t heard anything! It’s been pretty slow going of late with cats due to the fact that most areas are quite inaccessible because of the rainfall.

So we’re in an area that seems to be relatively dry today, but there’s been no report of him! Who knows, he might have gone further south! There’s a number of WhatsApp groups giving information on sightings of what’s being seen, and it’s been very, very quiet.

There we go, see the mum on the right? She’s becoming a jungle gym! See if this one’s going to join in the charades! Better look at these lionesses’ faces now! None of them have stood up yet!

I mean, the sausage tree pride could even come this far if they have been moving. If those two males are the old sausage tree pride males, then there wouldn’t be any risk rule, you’d think, to the cubs that I haven’t managed to get any identification features of yet to tell me if any one of these is indeed one of those!

So for now, we have got a pride of lions playing in the long grass—cuteness overload!

Hello Lindsey! Yes, it does! Well, where we are right up on this sort of rocky area, it's very, very rocky, and doesn't have the same soil type that you'll find down in the valleys. So the soil is very shallow here!

You probably noticed on my way image it was very bumpy, but this entire valley, this entire area left in the right of us was burnt last year! So those enormous fires went through here, and that would have eliminated a lot of the old grass that would have grown up on these hills.

And there, where you can see the lionesses walking, the sort of rocky alcove would have protected that grass from the fire that raged through here. And that’s how the trees also protect some of these little rocky areas because the fire is often kept away from very rocky areas—sort of like a retreat for certain trees!

You’ll see them often arching in very fire-prone environments, and that fire doesn’t get up to protect some of these little rocky areas, as kind of like a retreat for certain trees.

You'll see them often arching in very fire-prone environments; that fire doesn't get up! But this entire valley—and we see on our left here, James can show you the entire valley—was burnt last year, and we had so many of all the best in this area, and it was a really good area to come in and sort of experience and drive through.

Unfortunately, if we go a little bit more left from where we are now, a little bit more down on the valley, we don’t get these signals!

So we’re quite happy where we are right up on top of this sort of ridgeline! We do have signal and we have lionesses with cubs and I think the two males are still sleeping behind us! This is the best time of day! Temperatures have cooled quite substantially because of the storm that is all around!

Little pockets of rain are falling in many, many different areas and you can see by the wind how much it’s cooled everything down as well! When initially we found those two males, I couldn't see these lioness although I did scan all around!

They’re probably hidden flat in the grass or maybe they’re a little bit more covered by the bushes! As the male lions are both sleeping in the shade, and then as the wind picks up, they went and lay in the sun because obviously, the wind kept them a little bit cooler!

Since then, I put my jacket on, so definitely, it’s a much cooler afternoon—26 degrees Celsius implies okay, everybody! Well, if any of you have any info on the lions we’ve managed to show you so far, please send them through on Twitter, hashtag SafariLive! In the meantime, let's go back down to Trishala in Juma for an update!

Well, I’m also looking for some sort of cat! I’m in the west and I’m scouring through! I haven't had much luck yet, but I am looking for tracks and looking on the sides as well. The problem is, because of the heavy rain this morning, you can see how different it is!

If you watched the sunrise safari, how different the way there is right now! It’s bright and sunny and what's that? The water has wet the ground and then dried the ground!

So it’s actually quite hard! So unless an animal is walking with quite some force, or you’re lucky in a certain part, let’s have a look at these guys! Certain types of soil—not everyone here!

So that’s what I’m looking for at the moment! I’m checking out the west! It's been a while since we've seen Shidulu and Komori, so I would really, really like to find them!

I’m sure these warthogs would prefer that I didn’t find her! Kimora! Hooker Marie! Anywhere close to them! He registers warthogs! Maybe I should actually follow them for a little while, I know it!

He might come out. Who they've seen something and possibly just better food books! Think they have seen something actually; one looked off into the distance!

We move a little bit forward so we can have a better look! They didn’t look like they were looking very seriously in that direction, but you got to check these things out! Because you never know!

They were looking at a group of Impala. Kimberly, you think warthogs are so cute? I think they're so cute too! There are little piglets—so adorable!

So it looks like they were just watching these Impala that were there, so nothing too exciting, but obviously got their attention! So this is a bachelor group of males; they were probably sparring amongst themselves and having a bit of a practice rut, waiting their turn!

Got the attention of these warthogs that were eating nearby! The impalas—are you happy that now, during your season, you're getting a lot more publicity, or becoming famous?

Got one guy in the middle who's chewing away! I love watching them when they are chewing their cud! You see them swallow it and then they throw up another little boy.

Oh, how was that little kick? I'm glad to see that these guys are taking care of themselves! You can see one is cleaning. So often during the rutting season, you'll find males that are—ooh!

That looks like a face-off! Oh, I love how the ruminating one at the back doesn’t care at all! This looks like when you're trying to wrestle with your mates and you say, "Okay, okay, hold me! Hold me here—no, that hurt! Hold me!"

Yeah, being very, very careful but still trying to have a go at fighting with each other! That one in the back doesn’t care at all. He’s just trying to eat his cud!

So this little group, obviously males who have not yet found themselves territory, instead they’ve banded together!

Oh, how was that yawn? Now that was actually a really nice display of how the herbivore jaw can’t really open in the same way ours can! Ours can go up and down in the same way a carnivore’s jaw can’t move from side to side.

You'll find here when he yawned you can see it kind of had to do a big circle! Because it can’t just simply go up and down like our jaws can! With a hinge, it needs to be on a horizontal plane from side to side!

I've never actually seen them yawn like that; it’s the first time I've seen such a really nice example of that jaw movement! And back to feeding and cleaning!

Gremlins are getting me these days, and I hate it! But I will defeat them! In the meantime, let me send you over to James, who is not having the issues I am!

For the more experienced of you, you're probably looking at me saying, "Oh, surely he's not going to explain the magic worry to us yet again, and I am NOT!"

I am in fact going to use this magic worry to punish myself! Why, you might ask? Well, I misidentified that vulture! So it was of course a white back vulture!

Thank you, James Richard! And so now it falls upon me to punish myself severely! It was a white-headed vulture, correct? Yes! What did I say?

I’m glad! And I’ll show you the difference between the two! Three, in fact! I missed two mistakes! Hello, Janice, you say I’m still a guide? No, I'm not! I’m a naturalist.

Please bear my strap, Kirsten, right now! What we had, of course, was the white-headed vulture over there! It looks, at first glance, very similar to a lappet-faced! But really, an inexcusable mistake from somebody who’s been around here for as long as I have!

And those are those two! And then the white backs, of course, will—I didn’t actually think it was a white bear because I just took the white, you know? And then it was a slip of the tongue!

There it is! Ah, I’m quite exhausted after that self-flagellation! Obviously, if I’d had a spike to whip of some sort, I’d have used that!

James, should you say that was a bit unnecessary? Well, that's very kind of you to say that it was unnecessary! I don't feel it was!

I feel thoroughly embarrassed, and I think I should feel embarrassed! And I’m hoping that the severe pain I feel all over my body now is going to help me remind myself not to make that mistake again!

Good, right! So we've come down here because we thought we heard some Impala alarm calling! We checked out the carcass—it’s exactly the same place as it was yesterday!

To know why the birds aren’t feeding on it? They definitely have been feeding on it, but now they've lifted! We heard some alarm calling, but it seemed so far away!

So we’ve checked chela pan, which is north of us! We’re now going towards twin dams! We haven’t found any tracks, but we are certainly doing our best!

But affected with this because it doesn’t actually hurt that much, looks much smaller than probable!

I believe the villains are now punishing me, so we'll go back across to Steve in the Masai Mara!

Well James, if you punish yourself with a branch, I don’t—I wish I’d seen that! I’d like to go back and watch a replay!

I’m sure all of you are going to be uploading into the Twitterverse some wonderful images of James beating himself! Maybe we need to do a little gif—how do you call it? A gif! A little repetitive little image!

Please, everybody, send one of them through. I need a little chuckle before I go to bed this evening! Kirsty agrees! Yes, Kirsty agrees!

Everybody please, see who can make the best one! And send them through! Well now, what's very interesting—and it’s something we don’t see with hyenas, but we do see with lions all the time—the communal suckling!

This lioness, who’s been there in the same place the whole time, I noticed she had some suckle marks, about the two cubs! At least two of them!

One was just playing with suckling on the first lioness you saw, and now they’ve gone over to this one, and she’s allowed them to suckle as well! It’s one of the things that lionesses will do—communal suckling!

'Cause they're not generally related. Well, for the most part, lionesses are always related and generally also breed at a very similar time. You've seen the baby boom that's happened here.

It has happened in the past; lionesses will often synchronize breeding so as to maximize the number of cubs that will actually make it to adulthood! And they don't mind suckling each other's youngsters!

It's my sister's or my daughter's cubs! Essentially, there's relations there and upset—and selfish gene of asmar genetics going forward!

So it’s something we see in lions all the time; we do not see it in hyenas! And well, it’s a little bit interesting, the dynamic there, isn't it? Well, one of those is a boy, but I could tell that he was getting quite, quite feisty with us!

This lion with her back to us—Sazzy! You want to know that while lions are compassionate, other cats are not! Well, ants are the only social cat that I can think of!

The only one, I believe! When they feed on a carcass, there's a lot of aggression that takes place! A lot of fighting happens at this early stage as well!

If there's a third cub trying to suckle, it's going to be competition for that milk! So from an early age, they learn to be competitive! They learn to be quite aggressive with each other!

That's how you need to survive as a lion! But then, after all the bloodshed or all of that, the anger is gone, or dissipates! And there’s a lot of love and a lot of compassion that is distributed between them!

Grooming and all that sort of thing! Because they do need to be cohesive! Imagine if you fought everyone every day! You're not going to be a very good hunting unit, are you? If yes, you punched me this morning, you clawed the back of my head, fine, I’m gonna kind of lick you!

You see it very, very often with young males that are in a pride, that inner beating up mum quite sort of aggressively at the kit in the feeding zone! And then later on that evening he comes back to mum, and he kind of stores sort of like licks her and goes, "I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to be so dominant, early happening! Sorry I scratched you on the face!"

And they need to be sort of social! It is how they've evolved! And that’s how they've probably turned the corner from what was the leopard, and they've moved into these much larger predators who need to be a unit to take down much larger prey!

A lioness can be quite successful on her own, excuse me, but she is far more successful in the pride! And they’re far more successful at rearing cubs in a pride than they are on their own.

Here we go! She looks like the oldest in the group! A little cub sneaking up there! Let’s see what it’s gonna do! Always naughty when cubs are moving around!

Ooh! I'm gonna scratch its head! First, a bit of a lick there! There was lots of grooming going on as well! Each of the cubs that went to whatever lioness was there got a proper body lick!

All their parts were properly groomed! Seems like it's licking its lips as if it’s possibly been suckling! That might have been suckling on the lioness!

We've lost a visual of lying in the long grass there! So it's possibly at least three of these lionesses are suckling currently! So the cubs all look very much the same size!

If they are from the same litter or not, they were probably conceived at a very similar age! Hey Jessica, that’s a great question!

I've never physically known a lioness to say, or for them to go and look at each other and kind of pull straws and go, "Who’s got more milk?" That's all about the lioness's need to eat!

If she’s got food, she’s hungry—I mean she's gonna go hunt! And if those cubs haven’t suckled yet, well they’ll have to wait until she gets back!

But the whole cycle of it works is that each lioness has the potential to stay behind at any given stage! You don’t always see them all going off, and sometimes they do go off, but then often you’ll see them coming back like this to a communal sort of area!

Maybe these cubs have been stashed in that little rocky area for the evening! The lionesses aren’t maybe hunting! And don’t think they were successful, if they were! I wasn't very big meal at their head!

But it means that any one of the lionesses can stay back if she has cubs at the time or at least is nearing having cubs! Because they start producing milk before obviously they can before they give birth!

So each of the lionesses is able to look after the cubs! There we go, you can clearly see the spots on them now! That one looks slightly smaller than the other two, but they are all very, very similar in age!

The one in the middle being the young boy! So far that I’ve identified! I’ll see if we can identify the other two.

Everybody, David is about seven or so kilometers south-east of us! He’s on the search of the sausage tree pride!

Okay, all right! Okay, let's take you to Trishala as if I not want to be a parent!

Well, yeah! You look at some of these leaves! Ah! Gremlins are all about her! See, I'm really hoping they stop with me, and that I've had enough of me!

But what I would really like to show you, of course, I’m still looking for the leopards! I was actually hoping maybe a lion or two or ten! But unfortunately, they still seem to be in the north in before Sook and not down here in Juma!

Nevertheless, I will still be there, right at the top! I'm almost completely in the north at the border! So hopefully I'll check in there! If I see any tracks coming in, then I’ll know that they probably might be on Juma, which would be excellent for us!

But while I drive through, I'd like to show you some leaves that are changing color! This one is a nice example!

Scenic, you'd like to know what I think is the cutest antelope in the bush? My favorite antelope in the bush, kudu! I love kudu! I think they're beautiful!

And the colors are spectacular, just like the colors of these trees! Now the tops of all of these trees are starting to kind of wilt, and you’ll see that they’re all changing color now!

It doesn't really happen in the same way as it does in the northern hemisphere! When you get those whole deciduous forests that change color when autumn comes around! But here you can see that they're kind of dried up and have got that yellowy orange color to them!

Almost all the trees around at the moment have these colors! You’ll notice that the one that you’re looking at now, which is a complete him, gets nice and yellowy before it gets brown and falls off!

Whereas the round-leaf teak, which is just at the bottom of that Cambria tomb—there we go! You can see that there are still some green leaves!

And then it goes yellow and then red towards the bottom of your screen! There you can see a few of the redder leaves! And then it gets black, of course, as it falls!

So you can see that the seasons are most definitely changing! And you'll see it a lot with the completeness as the color changes! It’s a really pretty warm color!

And as I see also some marula trees that have been changing a pretty color as well! If I find one of them, I'll show you!

Now it’s really interesting how that color works! So you know that chlorophyll—chloroplasts create this green that we see in plants! What happens is when this resource gets kissed, it gets colder, dryer, less nutrients around! It stops nutrients going to certain leaves, because now it’s saving all its energy!

And by doing that, chlorophyll no longer gets maintained in those leaves! So what happens is the other pigments that are in the leaves get a chance now to be seen!

That’s what happens when we see the reds and yellows of trees that are changing with the seasons! It's actually the green pigments being stripped away! And now we can see the other pigments in the leaves, which I think is quite interesting!

We only think of it as, "Oh, it's dry, so it must have just dried!" Which I suppose is not incorrect! But it's not as if that is just a result from of dryness! It's a result first of those pigments being taken away!

I am being into the sunset at the moment. Hello! Please get me there! We go! Something like a bit of a—uh—type sticky thing! All I know is it stung me or it but me, or whatever it did! But it’s itchy now!

I’m going to eat you! Nothing’s gonna be coming now! You’ll hopefully— But in the meantime, we’ve unfortunately had to leave Tingana because it's just chaos, and my blood pressure was starting to rise, and so I thought better of staying there!

Before I got irritated and upset with somebody! And so we're now waiting for all of them to cycle through, so that we can get back to Tingana! As I said, now, I mean, as we kind of left, we bumped into a terrapin that must be very lost at this stage!

Because we are now kind of in the middle of the Malati and nowhere near any water! To furnish! This poor guy is kind of walking around now! Or is calling me again! Kydabs!

Okay, copy that! Awesome! Whereabouts easy? Now! Okay, coffee! Thank you! That’s over!

He's just telling me what's happening with Cheng, and he’s keeping me updated because he’s worried that they might lose him! Then we won’t be able to find him!

Now why I've stopped you and I'm looking with my own binoculars is to our right-hand side at the moment!

I'll stop quickly just to—sorry, since I know it's a terrible angle that I've stopped yet! But in underneath that tree there, so over that area, is a den site that unused for Columbo quite a lot!

So I just stopped just in the off chance that maybe she's milling about there! And just quickly, had a little look at the moment! It’s one of those kind of games where it's worth just stopping at every kind of potential den site that we know Tandy likes to use and just check!

I mean, you never know! Maybe we're gonna get lucky and she’s sitting inside, but no! One home today, so definitely not giving birth there! This is the game that's going to have to be played—just kicking and hoping!

Eventually, they’ll maybe find her! But I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s gone on to torture it! And I wouldn’t be surprised if she executes a birth on torture, to be honest with you! But we’ll see how it goes!

Let’s just keep sort of hoping that she stays our side—the other den sites she uses on my left-hand side, actually! There’s that fallen-over tree there!

So some of you will probably recognize that from Columbo—that's where she used to keep telling! But quite a bit!

So one was the side, and the other one was that side, and they used to play on that log quite a bit! So she’s not anywhere to be seen in this area!

No, he’s talking to me! Yeah, a fair amount! Basically, remember, Tandy’s all kaya! So just trying to find out where Tingana is heading!

I’m just listening now! All right, so Aubrey's telling me that he’s heading straight towards us at the moment!

Alright, copy that, Orbs! Just on the southern side of that little dip! Well, that little drainage line! I’ll try and head roughly toward central and see if I can pick up your audio!

All right, so we’re gonna try and see if we can find! Aubrey’s very kind! He’s gonna make space for us so that we can carry on following Singhania!

In the meantime, it seems you back across to Steve! Good luck, Tristan!

Time, no doubt too! The Juma guards will allow you inept so you can keep up with the troupe of Juma! Who always materializes just in time for TV!

Doesn’t here's a super star? Oh, lightning in the horizon! The mountains in the background there, that is the wall allure mountain range!

You can see the lightning striking under the escarpment! So I wanted to show you in my book! Yeah, just so you get a bit of a reference of where we are!

It’s gonna put on the dashboard yet and get an idea—we're over here! This obviously is the map of the Mara Triangle! Here is where we are!

And the Tanzania border is this line along the bottom! Quite easy! And so David and the sausage tree pride is kind of in this area! That’s where they’ve kind of been hanging out! But it's not that far!

It’s about seven kilometers! But to catch your airstrip, I’ve got to go up all the way up here, and then if I turn the page—just keep going, keep going!

Then it starts here again and keep going! And here is where Kichler airstrip is—all the way over here! So the kitchen males—this is where I've seen them spending time!

If they’ve come further south than that, I’m not sure! But we’re in a very, very different area from that altogether! So I’m just going back to the first page!

You get an idea of where we are! So my first initial guess of about 15 kilometers—we’re about 20 kilometers from Kichler! Which is not an enormous amount of distance for lions to travel!

I doubt those males would have come this further south! The females seem to be a bit more fluid in their movements! But the lion dynamics out here are also quite crazy!

Last summer, so the lions were nowhere near any of the territories anyone was saying there were! And I’m back again!

Well, this is the first lions I’ve managed to find, apart from a pair of lionesses that were walking up I rode towards our camp last night!

Right in front or next to FC, Alanis! It was night while it was brushing his teeth just outside his tent—about seven, eight meters from his tent! A lioness killed a warthog!

Sammy Jane, you want to know how lionesses don’t injure their teeth when they are fighting, when they are killing? Well, how does anyone not injure their teeth? I mean, you try to bite things that are too hot!

Lions will use their teeth for ripping flesh and with the side of their teeth for breaking the bones that they possibly can break! But invariably, the lionesses' teeth will break after a period of time!

That's something you often notice in leopards and lions with age! And you’ll start seeing the canines are worn down! They might even break teeth and lose them altogether!

They don’t have the benefits of a dentist! And like we do back home, once the teeth are gone, pretty much that’s it!

So that's something that's quite often seen in an old lioness or more, should I say in a leopard! A leopard that gets very old, with teeth worn down, it gets very, very weak!

It struggles to catch food—it may become quite dangerous! And that is the reports down in South Africa! If anyone has been caught or attacked by a leopard, it’s generally a sick, injured individual that has probably broken or lost some teeth and has struggled to hunt!

So when they're in the pride like this, they’re still pretty good at hunting! And they aren't able to break those really big bones that the hyenas are not capable of!

With probably the strongest teeth in the animal kingdom, crocodiles are able to replace their teeth! The teeth that snap in two all the time!

Once one of those teeth breaks, they fall out! They’ve got another cone of a tooth busy growing right underneath of the first one, which is quite incredible! So obviously, due to the fact that the teeth are quite brutally used during their life!

But lions, the canines are very important for killing or delivering the final blow! And the side carnassials for carving and tearing flesh!

Anyway, True Charla! Donna South Africa! Her search continues! But she's managed to find herself a beautiful elephant!

I finally found what I've been looking for! It's not exactly the leopard, but I've been looking for these elephants too! And I'm so glad to see them!

And we have a little one amongst them! Hello, little one! I think this might be a mum off to the left—slightly bigger female! And is also a youngish male bringing up the rear! Cute little family!

Oh, I've missed them so much! Oh, this one's got a kinky tail! This is quite odd! Look at all of their tails, actually! No, to that tail and now note this female’s tail!

And even the youngest tail seems to have a bit of a kink! I wonder if it's something I've just never noticed or it's some sort of gene? Now, that tiny one that you are looking at, you can see there's little tusks slightly poking too!

So that tells me it's about three to four years old! Maybe, actually a little younger! Those little tusks are quite small! I would say about three!

And it’s quite a small group now! You’ll see this often in herds—they’ll separate from each other to feed and other things! They’ll often do this even though their home ranges are massive! They’ll move across them not always as a big group, but sometimes in these smaller family groups!

Sweet! Let’s see! They've been moving onto trees much like all of the animals at the moment! The herbivores that are around seem to be moving about and eating from the trees!

A little more often as days go by! Yellow one, they didn’t even come to say hello! These ones! I love when elephants come close to the vehicle!

And don’t you say hello to you, relaxed Lisi? It’s one K times the one that you’re looking at—the little one! And oh! There we go!

Oh no! Mommy moved right across your little one! I wanted to show them how it was using its trunk! No, she’s going to show us instead! Highly dexterous! Pulling off all those tasty bits from that!

That looks like a russet bush real—that they’re eating at the moment! It’s quite remarkable! That change—you’ll see as the seasons change in the way that the animal’s diet will change! The habits will change!

I mean, it was just a few weeks ago, and we were still seeing elephants mostly eating grass! And looking forward to seeing how their dung changes!

I love looking through it and seeing the differences! I suspect there may be others around, but not very, very close! I haven’t seen too many elephant tracks around either!

So I was actually surprised when I stumbled upon these three! They're lovely! I hope I'll be able to catch up with the rest of the herd if there are more around!

I really hope they are! Anyway, let me keep on going! I've done my Border Patrol here a little bit! In the meantime, let me send you over to Tristan while I keep looking!

Right! So we saw with Dingaan while we rejoined Tingana! But he's heading to where we were looking! Just now, and apparently, some of you say that there was a leopard on a frame that we had just now of that fallen-over log!

And so he's kind of staring in that direction! I had—I honestly did not see a leopard! Neither did Sensei, which she’s got the sharpest eyes of all of us!

But maybe it was just hidden from me! And I just missed it completely, which is going to be surprising! But the waiting on is behaving—it’s possible that there could be another leopard here, given the way he’s been sniffing!

He’s just stopped and stayed! And he’s hitting exactly—the way we were framed up on that log just now when I was showing you that Tandy has another den before!

And so let’s see how we go! See whether or not we get lucky here! Maybe there is another leopard! If it is another leopard, no. 11 wanders, doesn’t it?!

Now James, I think my ear is about to bleed with the amount of talking I’ve had to deal with today! Go hey, James!

Not James's fault! James’s the first time I’ve heard him on the radio! So we don’t blame James with this game, but everybody else has been shouting and carrying on, and there’s been no decorum today!

And there needs to be some lessons taught, I think so! I’m going to miss James Henry on everybody at some point to teach them all about having some manners on the radio!

All right! So the log that I framed just now! That’s you guys are saying there was another leopard! He’s right here in front of us! It’s just on this other side here!

And so let’s see if King Ghana hits me! And another leopard jumps out! Well then we’ll know for sure—or won’t we?

I’m hesitant to head to coast! And I’ll tell you why—I don’t want—if it is Tandy, I don’t want to be that post! No, Tingana’s right here next to me!

I'm just gonna quickly jump down on top! Mmm! Smells like popcorn! The best smell in your bush is the smell!

I’m just gonna jump down! Hold on, since! Because the log is just on our left-hand side! Yeah! Oh, how is that for a picture!

Hello boy! You’re right above us! Isn’t that cool? That’s awesome! He’s standing, I would say maybe five meters from where I am at the moment!

And he is—no, he’s heading straight to that log! Since, let’s just go forward a little bit! She is hitting across!

I don’t see a leopard, but maybe I’m wrong! He’s walked right past it, and he hasn’t interacted with anyone!

I don’t see another leopard coming! Art, so Lou says she can’t see anything in the shots! But that’s the log!

Apparently, there was another leopard at that log! I honestly did not see anything, but—but it’s possible, I suppose! I just want to lose Tingana!

I’m gonna just go up and around, back to where we were when we had that first shot! And try to see if we can get some sort of view of what’s going on here!

Is there any screenshots, Coast, of the said leopard? And it’s all winning sort of—let’s all right!

I believe Kirsten is saying she’s looking on the replay! She can’t see anything! So I don’t know! Maybe!

So but Tandy’s just been found, but not yet! So she’s been found not far from where we are! James, I think, is heading in that direction!

He’s Tanana’s way off! If there was another leopard, sure, there’s no way he would’ve gone as far!

I mean, like I say, if there was another leopard, there’s no way that other leopard wouldn’t have noticed him or him notice the other leopard! The ability to smell and pick up scent is very, very, very good in these animals!

So there’s no way, I’m afraid! If there was one that Tingana would have missed! But anyway, we’ve caught up with Dingaan and he’s mobile straight down Milliwatts!

He’s not good for us, because he's going to probably cross off this property rather quickly if he keeps up the pace that he’s walking at the moment!

There’s another school—they’re driving down the mall! Whitey with a leopard! It’s like that iconic thing when you come to do more for you ever in the sort of Sabi sands!

You’re always—your thought is a leopard walking down a drainage line or a riverbed! So it’s always so nice when you get into a place like this, and you’re able to kind of follow a leopard through!

Now, it'll be a bit careful of our ant in it through here! Ah! Look at that! We managed to avoid the antenna completely!

Good, we’re gonna keep up with Singhania! We’re gonna keep going! Hopefully, James will get to Tandy!

In the meantime, while I try to find Tingana at all, as you know, let’s send you across to Steve in the Maasai Mara!

Well, James, if you punish yourself with a branch! I don’t—I wish I’d seen that! I’d like to go back and watch a replay!

I’m sure all of you are going to be uploading into the Twitterverse some wonderful images of James beating himself!

Maybe we need to do a little Jeff! However you call it, a gif—a little repetitive little images! Please, everybody, send one of them through! I need a little chuckle before I go to bed this evening!

Kirsty agrees! Yes, Kirsty agrees! Everybody please! See who can make the best one, and send them through!

Well now, what's very interesting—and it’s something we don’t see with hyenas, but we do see with lions all the time—the communal suckling!

This lioness, who’s been there in the same place the whole time, I noticed she had some suckle marks, about the two cubs! At least two of them!

One was just playing with suckling on the first lioness you saw, and now they’ve gone over to this one, and she’s allowed them to suckle as well!

It’s one of the things that lionesses will do—communal suckling! 'Cause they're not generally related. Well, for the most part, lionesses are always related and generally also breed at a very similar time!

You've seen the baby boom that's happened here! It has happened in the past; lionesses will often synchronize breeding so as to maximize the number of cubs that will actually make it to adulthood!

And they don't mind suckling each other's youngsters! It's my sister's or my daughter's cubs! Essentially, there's relations there and upset—and the selfish gene of the asmar genetics going forward!

So it’s something we see in lions all the time! But we do not see it in hyenas! And well, it’s a little bit interesting, the dynamic there, isn't it?

Well, one of those is a boy, but I could tell that he was getting quite, quite feisty with us! This lion with her back to us!

Sazzy! You want to know that while lions are compassionate, other cats are not! Well, ants are the only social cat that I can think of!

The only one, I believe! When they feed on a carcass, there's a lot of aggression that takes place! A lot of fighting happens at this early stage as well!

If there’s a third cub trying to suckle, it's going to be competition for that milk! So from an early age, they learn to be competitive! They learn to be quite aggressive with each other!

Grooming and all that sort of thing! Because they do need to be cohesive! Imagine if you fought everyone every day! You're not going to be a very good hunting unit, are you?

If yes, you punched me this morning, you clawed the back of my head, fine, I’m gonna kind of lick you!

You see it very, very often with young males that are in a pride, that inner beating up mum quite sort of aggressively at the kit in the feeding zone!

And then later on that evening he comes back to mum, and he kind of stores, sort of like licks her and goes, "I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to be so dominant!"

Sorry, I scratched you on the face! And they need to be sort of social! It is how they've evolved!

And that’s how they've probably turned the corner from what was the leopard, and they've moved into these much larger predators who need to be a unit to take down much larger prey!

A lioness can be quite successful on her own, excuse me, but she is far more successful in the pride! And they’re far more successful at rearing cubs in a pride than they are on their own.

Here we go! She looks like the oldest in the group! A little cub sneaking up there! Let’s see what it’s gonna do! Always naughty when cubs are moving around!

Ooh! I'm gonna scratch its head! First a bit of a lick there! There was lots of grooming going on as well! Each of the cubs that went to whatever lioness was there got a proper body lick!

All their parts were properly groomed! Seems like it's licking its lips as if it’s possibly been suckling! That might have been suckling on the lioness!

We've lost a visual of lying in the long grass there! So it's possibly at least three of these lionesses are suckling currently! So the cubs all look very much the same size!

If they're from the same litter or not, they were probably conceived at a very similar age! Hey Jessica, that’s a great question!

I've never physically known a lioness to say, or for them to go and look at each other and kind of pull straws and go, "Who’s got more milk?" That's all about the lioness's need to eat!

If she’s got food, she’s hungry—I mean she's gonna go hunt! And if those cubs haven’t suckled yet, well they’ll have to wait until she gets back!

But the whole cycle of it works is that each lioness has the potential to stay behind at any given stage!

You don’t always see them all going off, and sometimes they do go off, but then often you’ll see them coming back like this to a communal sort of area! Maybe these cubs have been stashed in that little rocky area for the evening!

The lionesses aren't maybe hunting! And don’t think they were successful if they were! I wasn't a very big meal at their head!

But it means that any one of the lionesses can stay back if she has cubs at the time or at least is nearing having cubs! Because they start producing milk before—obviously before they give birth!

So each of the lionesses is able to look after the cubs! There we go! You can clearly see the spots on them now!

That one looks slightly smaller than the other two, but they are all very, very similar in age! The one in the middle being the young boy!

So far that I’ve identified! I’ll see if we can identify the other two. Everybody, David is about seven or so kilometers southeast of us!

He’s on the search of the sausage tree pride! Okay, all right! Okay, let's take you to Trishala!

As if I do not want to be a parent! Well, yeah! You look at some of these leaves! Ah! Gremlins are all about her!

See, I'm really hoping they stop with me, and that I've had enough of me! But what I would really like to show you, of course, I’m still looking for the leopards!

I was actually hoping maybe a lion or two or ten! But unfortunately, they still seem to be in the north in before Sook and not down here in Juma!

Nevertheless, I will still be there, right at the top! I'm almost completely in the north at the border!

So hopefully, I'll check in there! If I see any tracks coming in, then I’ll know that they probably might be on Juma, which would be excellent for us!

But while I drive through, I'd like to show you some leaves that are changing color! This one is a nice example!

Scenic, you'd like to know what I think is the cutest antelope in the bush? My favorite antelope in the bush, kudu! I love kudu! I think they're beautiful!

And the colors are spectacular, just like the colors of these trees! Now the tops of all of these trees are starting to kind of wilt, and you’ll see that they’re all changing color now!

It doesn't really happen in the same way as it does in the northern hemisphere! When you get those whole deciduous forests that change color when autumn comes around!

But here you can see that they're kind of dried up and have got that yellowy-orange color to them! Almost all the trees around at the moment have these colors!

You’ll notice that the one that you’re looking at now, which is a complete him, gets nice and yellowy before it gets brown and falls off!

Whereas the round-leaf teak, which is just at the bottom of that Cambria tomb—there we go! You can see that there are still some green leaves!

And then it goes yellow and then red towards the bottom of your screen! There you can see a few of the redder leaves! And then it gets black, of course, as it falls!

So you can see that the seasons are most definitely changing! And you'll see it a lot with the completeness as the color changes! It’s a really pretty warm color!

And as I'll see also some marula trees that have been changing a pretty color as well! If I find one of them, I'll show it to you!

Now it's really interesting how that color works! So you know that chlorophyll—chloroplasts create this green that we see in plants!

What happens is when this resource gets kissed, it gets colder, dryer, less nutrients around! It stops nutrients going to certain leaves, because now it’s saving all its energy!

And by doing that, chlorophyll no longer gets maintained in those leaves! So what happens is the other pigments that are in the leaves get a chance now to be seen!

That’s what happens when we see the reds and yellows of trees that are changing with the seasons! It's actually the green pigments being stripped away!

And now we can see the other pigments in the leaves, which I think is quite interesting! We only think of it as, "Oh, it's dry, so it must have just dried!"

Which I suppose is not incorrect! But it's not as if that is just a result from dryness! It's a result first of those pigments being taken away!

I am being into the sunset at the moment. Hello! Please get me there! We go! Something like a bit of a—uh—type sticky thing! All I know is it stung me or it but me, or whatever it did!

But it’s itchy now! I’m going to eat you! Nothing’s gonna be coming now! You’ll hopefully— But in the meantime, we've unfortunately had to leave Tingana because it's just chaos!

My blood pressure was starting to rise, and so I thought better of staying there! Before I got irritated and upset with somebody! And so we're now waiting for all of them to cycle through!

So that we can get back to Tingana! As I said, now, I mean, as we kind of left, we bumped into a terrapin that must be very lost at this stage!

Because we are now kind of in the middle of the Malati! Nowhere near any water! To furnish! This poor guy is kind of walking around now! Or is calling me again! Kydabs!

Okay, copy that! Awesome! Whereabouts easy? Now! Okay, coffee! Thank you! That’s over! He's just telling me what's happening with Cheng, and he’s keeping me updated because he’s worried that they might lose him!

Then we won’t be able to find him! Now why I've stopped you and I'm looking with my own binoculars is to our right-hand side at the moment!

I'll stop quickly just to—sorry, since I know it's a terrible angle that I've stopped yet! But in underneath that tree there, so over that area, is a den site that unused for Columbo quite a lot!

So I just stopped just in the off chance that maybe she's milling about there!

And just quickly had a little look at the moment! It’s one of those kind of games where it's worth just stopping at every kind of potential den site that we know Tandy likes to use!

And just check! I mean, you never know! Maybe we're gonna get lucky and she’s sitting inside, but no! One home today, so definitely not giving birth there!

This is the game that's going to have to be played—just kicking and hoping! Eventually, they’ll maybe find her! But I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s gone on to torture it!

And I wouldn’t be surprised if she executes a berth on torture, to be honest with you! But we’ll see how it goes!

Let’s just keep sort of hoping that she stays our side! The other dens site she uses on my left-hand side, actually!

There’s that fallen-over tree there! So some of you will probably recognize that from Columbo—that's where she used to keep telling!

But quite a bit! So one was the side, and the other one was that side! And they used to play on that log quite a bit!

So she’s not anywhere to be seen in this area! No, he’s talking to me! Yeah, a fair amount!

Basically remember, Tandy’s all kaya! So just trying to find out where Tingana is heading!

I’m just listening now! All right, so Aubrey's telling me that he’s heading straight towards us at the moment!

All right, copy that, Orbs! Just on the southern side of that little dip! Well, that little drainage line! I’ll try and head roughly toward central and see if I can pick up your audio!

All right, so we’re gonna try and see if we can find! Aubrey’s very kind! He’s gonna make space for us so that we can carry on following Singhania!

In the meantime, it seems you back across to Steve! Good luck, Tristan!

Time, no doubt too! The Juma guards will allow you inept so you can keep up with the troupe of Juma! Who always materializes just in time for TV!

Doesn’t here's a super star? Oh, lightning in the horizon! The mountains in the background there, that is the wall allure mountain range!

You can see the lightning striking under the escarpment! So I wanted to show you in my book! Yeah, just so you get a bit of a reference of where we are!

It’s gonna put on the dashboard yet and get an idea—we're over here! This obviously is the map of the Mara Triangle!

Here is where we are! And the Tanzania border is this line along the bottom! Quite easy! And so David and the sausage tree pride is kind of in this area!

That’s where they’ve kind of been hanging out! But it's not that far! It’s about seven kilometers!

But to catch your airstrip, I’ve got to go up all the way up here, and then if I turn the page—just keep going, keep going! Then it starts here again and keep going!

And here is where Kichler airstrip is—all the way over here! So the kitchen males—this is where I've seen them spending time!