Safari Live - Day 344 | National Geographic

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Good afternoon everybody! Welcome once again to the Sunset Safari down in Juma, South Africa, where we sit with a few lions lying down here just on the side of the road. My name is Steven, I'm joined by Sebastian, who will be on camera, and we are very excited to be out on this very cool and blustery afternoon. It's about 22 degrees Celsius, about 63 degrees Fahrenheit. Well, we found them this morning, and we have managed to find them again.

So that guy there is the Evoca male known as Snarly or Mohawk; either one is fine. He's got a very distinctive sort of mohawk to him, and he's got a very beaten-up face since last I saw him. We'll hopefully get another look at him, and he is also with Amber Eyes. I'm not sure at the moment which one is Amber Eyes and which one is the purple eye, but Amber Eyes is one of those two, and purple eye is the other one. They're both pretty old lionesses. Apparently, though we didn't see it this morning, there was at least one mating session with the server, Camille, and Amber Eyes, which is quite exciting. Tristan and I were chatting about it before, and wouldn't it be wonderful if the Inkuhumu males gave birth to a number of cubs, just like the baby boom of the Mara that is taking place right now.

We are going to be in conjunction with our hyena den, the Juma clan baby boom as well. Vocalizations are well-established now; they've been here since about February-March last year, coming in and out, and since about May or so, they haven't really been challenged by anyone that we know about down here in Juma. What goes on up in the northern areas of Bufallow, Suck, up to Malaiti to the north of us, is very hard to say. But now that they are looking after these females, maybe it will be time for some cubs to follow.

Anyway, I'm not the only one out in the south. Charlotte has headed a little bit further west of me; she's going to see if she can find the other group from this morning.

Well, I'm so glad you've come over to see what I'm doing because I have just arrived at a wonderful sighting. Let's see. Surprise, more lions! How exciting is that? Sorry, guys, I didn't even get to introduce myself! I got excited here at the lion sighting. I'm sure you will. And I've got Craig on camera, and we're really excited to be here with these lions.

Now if you look closely, you'll see there's two females and one male here. The male is on the extreme right; you can see sort of the mane study. So apparently, they mated really, really soon, a couple of minutes ago, so it might be a few more minutes till they mate again. Until then, they will probably be sitting around like this, sitting around in the shade. It's a bit cooler now, and then they'll get up, do a bit of grooming, and then they will mate again. I'd love to get a really good look at them when they do.

Now these two females, I know one of them is Amber Eyes. You are asking, "Are these more than one of the Incuhumus?" I was just about to tell you guys, both of these females are in fact Inkuhumas, and the one male there is the Avoca male.

Now you know these are our resident prides, or our resident pride in Juma, and the Avoca males are the male coalition that's formed with the Inkuhumas, so they will often be mating together. They sort of own the Juma area in a way, if that makes sense. But this group of females belongs to the Avoca males.

Now I'd like to know which one it is. If he lifts his lovely head up, you'll be able to see. But from what I understand, these two lionesses on the ground share a ridge nose, and one of the sub-adult lionesses—both very tired, I suppose exhausted from the day's mating—but they found themselves a nice patch. A nice grass area to lay down in.

Well, these lions will be here for a while, which means so will I because it's only a matter of time until they get up and start to mate, which would be really awesome! I love to see that. I've always really liked when I see mating animals; it's just such a special thing.

Anyway, David up in the Maasai Mara seems to be battling a bit of a storm and he's driving around, so let's go to him to say hello.

“Jambo! Everyone and welcome to their very rainy Mara Triangle! I'm sure nothing looks familiar here, but this tells you this has a long range; the long rains have started. But we are going to survive! My name is David and on camera with me is a Manu. Yesterday we were in the middle of a very big storm.

Now the signs are silver that the rains will continue, but nothing to worry about. We are off to Palatine; mum has a very special window that was just maybe slightly to give you a snippet of what is outside there, this is the inside. We just have an idea of how things look out there and I'm sure you can hear it hitting our rain cover. The rain! Can you hear the rain, ladies and gentlemen? Can you see that? I'm sure you can see a huge wall of rain! Yes! And I'm sure I'm in the final control's director's show! I'm sure you'd like to know what transpired yesterday, and we are all very good; we survived it.

So what we did, very quickly, we had to power down, brought all the flaps down, and opened things. It got better and we waited for about 45 minutes to an hour, and the rain got bigger and bigger. We made a quick decision back in camp to have a cup of tea, have a cup of coffee, and look what they will bring.

But I'm very hopeful things will not be bad. The steepness is having many signs of Lions—traditional Lions. That's a good sign; lots of lions in Juma. Hopefully, we are going to get our STPs, with which we are going to look for and definitely. Steve and Trish have already requested you for comments and questions, as usual, #safarilive on Twitter.

Well, as much as it's raining, it's a bit warm here. It's 25 degrees Celsius and 77 degrees Fahrenheit, which means it works very well. So third, man, who yesterday were not really caught off guard. But today we are more prepared than yesterday. What you see there is nothing but rain.

Now the long rains will always touch the month of March going all the way to June, but this time they have started in the month of April. As you shortly did, gentlemen, I'm sure you always do my plan and get into the sausage republic. I do that within your back to Avoca, or with his newcomers.

I guess thanks, Gigi. Try and stay dry this evening; don't get washed off the road like you did yesterday. Here we go; that's Amber Eyes on the left, everybody! That's Purple Eye in the middle, and that is Snidely the Mohawk, two vocal males on the right. They are thoroughly enjoying lying on the soft grass; they haven't done much apart from a rollover slightly, so maybe we'll get to see a mating session between them. But one mating session for the whole day? Because we had Ollie who came out just to just to keep an eye on the lions today, just to make sure that they didn't leave.

Well, you only saw them mate once, so it's very interesting because normally when they're mating, the pair is busy. You can even almost time it; in the beginning, it's seven to eight minutes and then slows down to every 15 minutes, and then towards the end of it, it starts becoming over 25 to 30 minutes. And once in a day, well, I remember, excuse me being with Amber Eyes and one of the Birmingham boys up at Bufalo Damn probably about this time actually last year. I can't remember exactly, maybe it was earlier.

The entire time we spent with her, they only mated once. She was a very grumpy lady, almost as if she is in East Respto. Her mood is not quite there, which is always quite interesting. But right now, it seems like lions are doing exactly what they do best.

Hello, Saul! Yes, most certainly! Lions will essentially lose their pride during sort of the mating sort of story during the situation, and the female or the male will follow the female invariably. The pride moves away or they could stay in a similar sort of area depending on food, if they've gone hunting or whatever it might be.

After two, three, four days, maybe the female and the male, both of them will come to sort of a hunger sort of stalemate and they'll split apart to go and eat. Then you'll often find that female rejoining the pride and trying her level best to lose sort of the attention of the male who has been trying to follow her the entire time. So that is the ideal situation. But we saw up in the Maasai Mara their kinky tail seemed to be in sort of a mating relationship for almost three weeks, and that was very interesting to see.

I've never seen anything quite like that before. But then, everybody, lions don't read the books. But they don't need to return to the pride; they can be quite successful hunting on their own. But they are much more successful with their sisters and family in tow. We've seen Amber Eyes last year as well when she had cubs over in the west. She would stash the cubs; not that we ever saw them. That information was from the guides in the west, then she'd come charging all the way to the other side of Juma. I could actually track her from the west coming to find the pride to get some food, and then she'd spend a few days before going back.

Unfortunately, each time that happened, she had some failures with regards to maybe that Den site she chose. Not really sure. I heard some stories that hyenas had gotten to one of the litters. But anyway, ope, that is a very sad state of affairs, but Amber Eyes, as yet, as far as we are aware, has not successfully raised any youngsters.

Okay, well, everybody, as you know, and there's also another person up this afternoon, or maybe we didn't know that, but Tristan has found some tracks of Columba, and he really would like to find us. Let's go and see how he's getting on.

Indeed, Alice! Fleur, I don't have any tawny-colored cats! I'm the unlucky one this afternoon, but that's fine because that allows me to go looking for the spotted ones, which we all know I prefer! Anyway, as Steve mentioned, my name is Tristan on camera, but since I this afternoon, we are going to be looking for spotty cats. I'm gonna try and see if we can find if there's tracks for lions here, which I suspect must be the same ones that Steven and Trish have seen.

I don't know; I want to ask them just not just what are the tracks now, but I'm pretty sure these lions come up, and I think they must meet up with those ones that Steve and Shoshanna have. But we also found tracks for a leopard. It looks like four-clawed Lamba coming from a little block that she was last seen with Trishala, which tends to suggest that maybe she had a kill in there the last couple of days and she's now come out.

So she looks as though she's hitting kind of southwards. So I want to just check Treehouse Dam and Twin Dams in case she's gone for water. I drove past some impalas just before I spotted the tracks, and they looked seriously jumpy; they were not in any way relaxed. They were kind of staring in different directions, and sort of as the car came past, they were kind of bolt upright.

So I don't know if they maybe saw her during the course of the day. Except that the problem is that the tracks have been driven over by a vehicle this morning. There are definitely Lion tracks here, so I don't know if anyone didn't drive here or what the story is. But they come up from here; the sticks pride is also around, so it could very well be some of them.

They were seen yesterday on Torchwood, moving about from their little joints towards the west. So, you know, kind of pay attention for them too. They could also just appear out of nowhere, given how mobile they've been. So lots of things to kind of follow up on down in the south here.

All Christians move up in the north; hopefully, we'll have some sort of luck with some of these animals and we'll be able to find what we're looking for. It's not great; we're therefore kind of wards, a whole patrol. It's kind of overcast; there's a bit of a wind that's blowing fairly chilly. It's not really the best kind of weather to drive cats to go and drink.

But you never know; maybe we get lucky and we'll find something. Linda, I suspect that you might be right; there's a lot of potential this evening for a very nice TV show. We've obviously got the two sets of lions; hopefully, we're going to get roaring from them. There's the hyena den that might be active a little bit later, which if the other two are busy with, I'll head to there, and then there's always a potential, as we know, of a spotty cat in this area as well as a multitude of other animals. So, you know, there's lots going on and hopefully we'll be able to get lucky with something from the outsiders where Steven Trishala are most definitely already lucky at this stage.

Okay, so nothing at Treehouse Dam, which is not really that surprising. As I was saying, I'm just checking the water points in case Clumber came or for kills. She might have gone for water. You can just be lounging about, so it's worth just checking around.

Good, we’re gonna head off; we're gonna go and check on them, so we're gonna go scratch around and see what we can find in the meantime and send you back across to Steve, who's sitting with his lions, and hopefully, you know! They'll be busy during the course of this afternoon.

Well, my lions have moved just slightly, and I can see that one of the females has rolled over, and the other one has her head caught until that one female's foot very sweetly finds that bonding, social bonding. Touching and being in actual physical contact with each other is such an important thing for lions, and you'll find them often doing it. In fact, apparently, it's the same for all mammals, and there's something called a bliss molecule or serotonin that sort of gets released, and those pleasure centers in our brain; they get activated.

Are they happy when we're in contact with people? So I said that's the same for lots of mammals, so it applies the same sort of to us as well. In general, people feel some sort of happiness; something gets rewarded in the head when they bond with others, and it's the same here.

When you're in a pride together and you're constantly with this group that you're going to hunt together, live together, help each other survive, you can imagine how important that is. Twitch, twitch! I wonder what they're dreaming about! Buffalo's, definitely! I look at him, and he's a dark mane!

Aha! Luna, a really interesting question. You'd like to know how I can tell or we can tell when a sub-adult lioness actually becomes an adult. Well, lions are fully grown at about three to four years old. Usually, in terms of aging, to be or being able to just by sight look at her, apart from actually knowing their date of birth or something like that, you would notice that as the years go on, the nose of the lioness, which is probably very pink when they're sub-adult, so it is quite pink when they are sub-adults, gets darker.

That's one of the things that is quite obvious. You also notice even stature, size, that sort of thing, but I find it most—the most obvious thing to me is that a lot of the time, before they are fully grown adults or they sort of reach their peak, which is about seven years old, you'll find that their face still looks quite young, if that makes sense.

If these two just look at us, then I could show you what I mean. But you'll find that they do look still a bit cub-like. That usually goes away by the time they’re about two or three, I find, but then after that, you're pretty much looking at an adult once it's capable. But like I said, they're fully grown, and they reach a maximum size at around seven years old, so when these two look at us, we'll be able to do a nice comparison, especially looking at their faces.

I always find looking at their face is quite helpful! Fee tonight is always amusing to me how they sit and relax. It seems that no matter how much I speak around them or the vehicle coming in, they might just lift up their head once, look at me, and that's about it! Nothing seems to bother them!

It seems like everyone's lions are not bothered. Well, they will be bothered very soon when it becomes a little bit darker, and they become active, and we'll be right here when that does happen. So Steve's lions are also very, very lazy, so let's go to him and see if they'll decide to move for you.

Well, stand by, everybody! You might get to see an ear flick; that's all that's happening at the moment! This male did sit up for a moment, and that's the mohawk that gives him away because his face is covered in many fresh scars that I haven't seen. Last, Harper saw him; he didn't have as many. So we don't really know what goes on under the cover of darkness. I remember developing an ID kit for a pride of lions in the Kruger years ago. There were nine sub-adult males, and as Trish says, it's just the facial features change so regularly, especially males.

I had put together a 90 kit, and there are some very prevalent scars that made it quite easy to identify a few. And then, a week later, another one looked the same, and it's just the scars on the face that make it very tricky, especially when there's nine young males all looking similar. Each week, you'd have to change the photographs. The females, they do change, but not as much as the males. They're not as physical.

Hello, Fowl! Enough Amber Eyes as cubs would have amber eyes! Well, essentially, eye color and many other traits that choose the organism. Wolf sort of carrion is normally derived from the parent, but it all depends on how it really transfers. You know, it depends, I suppose, also on what dad and his eyes look like. I mean, if dad's got some light-colored eyes, maybe his genes are stronger than hers at the chromosome level.

It's really hard to say. One thing that I've definitely noticed with lions is how they do definitely inherit their father's mane. I've seen that before where I was talking about those eight young males. That was clearly by the identification features of at least two of the dominant males in the area with their fathers. You can actually sort of link the mane development to how they were looking.

Okay, I think that's purple; I said, Amber Eyes; if you got his purple, like there we go! Look at those teeth! It's given us a yawn, everybody! You know what this normally means, don't you? We're gonna count down from ten! Nine! Eight! Seven! Six! Five! Four!

That looks like they're going to do some grooming, but the afternoon is quite cool, and they're not in any shade whatsoever. So there's a very good chance we might see these animals up earlier than normal. If you look at the mail on the right there, his belly is empty. So whether he's interested in food or more like Amber Eyes, it's hard to say, but definitely, the purple eye darkness was hunting this morning and spent time with her early.

She definitely was excited to try to catch something. Hello, Rob! Well, I didn't see him, but apparently, there were tracks of a male line heading from the north where we are now, all the way to the east and on our eastern boundary with Torchwood, a road called Cheetah Cutline.

Apparently, the male lion was found on that cutline this morning by one of the Cheetah Plains vehicles. See her left canine is wearing down a little bit. She was born in 2012, and she injured her eye in about April 2017, probably from either a claw while feeding, maybe she got one of those bad abscesses in the eye, or maybe she got kicked by something as she was trying to eat.

I suppose you can't blame an animal that’s kicking a lion in the face, can you? It's about to get mauled to the ground and ripped apart! Okay, so what are you gonna do now? Show us your catch! Stretch! Stretch!

[Music] It's incredible! The male line is mating with two different lions! I found that incredible! I've never heard of that before—a male lion in a little menage on fur! You heard of that before? Said, will you speak French? Of course, you've heard the term before! But have you ever heard of a male lion being with two females? That is a first for me!

But then Amber Eyes mating with two brothers and tag-teaming, I found incredible! She mated for three weeks, and Bazar, no success there. It took me a bit of effort to understand who she was mating with. But Nikki Austin, our producer knows lions very, very well, and that was definitely him mating with purple eye, and he mated with Amber Eyes earlier today.

So everybody, I really don't know what to say! It's something very new for me, seeing a male lion mating with one and then, if you're gonna mate with the second one, then we're definitely gonna see it ourselves! Louie purring, I suppose you could say it is purring! I mean they are just very big cats, and essentially, that noise that you hear is one of the communication signals that lions use. There's a warning involved; there's all sorts of behavior being shown when they call like if you're walking on foot and you don't see a lion!

That battle is pretty much what you hear long before you see them if you're listening. When they mate, that's what you see when they feed; you also have that. So it's basically a close-quarters communication between lions that probably indicates all sorts of things—excitement over feeding! There's definitely excitement; there's also dominance between it because a big animal is gonna make more noise, more resonance.

For example, a cub, if he hears a male lion make that noise, will invariably go, "Okay, I've OVERSTAYED some boundary!" Leopards do a similar sort of sound, just not as loud. But indeed, it's definitely got something to do with excitement.

Well, I suppose a lion mating is rather exciting for them, quite exciting to watch as well, and I'm going to set my clock now and see what's going on. It is now 1625! That happened! So let's see if he gets up again! But you saw how she initiated it; she was the one who initiated that, not him, so he's keen on it anyway! Are we going to stay with these lions?

We're not gonna go anywhere! Let the action unfold! The Niska, see if the rain has stopped in the Maasai Mara! Very good ship, very well done, and very interesting to see one male lion mating with two lionesses! It's nothing out of the ordinary that happens every... and that one!

Then we see that happening and not much we have achieved where we are! But the good news is the rains have subsided! Or rather, the rains have stopped. I'll call that truly very good news!

And if you look carefully now, my vehicle is not like how it was before! You see mine is showing you those flaps are up on one side, and also those flaps are also up on the other side, but I've just left the windshield. You know, right there, and the flaps in front just in case that makes it easier for me now to turn left and turn right to hopefully get my subsidies.

I have already gotten into the public regardless of the rain, and for those of you who would wonder what Republic means, it's one area we see a particular pride that I call the Sausage Pride. That pride has made this place its home; it doesn't move. Even if it moves, we don't see anybody else who will come and occupy this particular area, and the females do not only fight other lions, but they also fight other predators, for example, hyenas and leopards.

They do not entertain any other predator in this area, so we keep looking like this because of hard, told me he thought he saw a lioness with two cubs around where we are! Nothing as yet, but I do not want to miss anything, so I have to keep my eyes out and hopefully I'm gonna see her.

Well, after having ranged so much, chances are they might have gone under some trees, and Rosalyn, how are you? You would like to know how much it rains in the Mara? What annually? In the Mara, we get about a thousand millimeters of rainfall—1,000 annually.

And that is every last year, Rosalyn! Chances are, I think we might have gotten more than a thousand. We do not know what amount you'll get this year, but on average, we get about a thousand millimeters of rainfall. Rosalyn, I will give you a question today; give me an idea of how much rain you get or where you come from. I'd be happy to know and I'm sure you know how to give me that answer as I keep looking for that one particular lioness.

My friend told me about unless she has moved. It was this particular area we are now, so today I have double challenges: the grass, as I'm sure you can see how jollity it is, and also see how solid the grass is. And also the rain, I'll have to stick, you know, in the middle of the road as far as it will take and not take chances with the black cotton soil, which could be quite a challenge to try and get out of the big highway with secrets of good daylight.

So I'm not worried about darkness; I'm moving the latest player; chances are I'll be able to catch up with this particular pride. Okay, David, the chemistry here, we have a lot of black cotton soil, and it's not as tough soil as the blockages, especially when it rains; it gets very, very sticky! You have to be very careful every time you do a move because you don't want to get stuck. And when you get stuck in a four-wheel drive like this one, and you try to come out, you try to spin the tires every time you try spinning, you keep adding yourself.

So the best thing we do when you get stuck is come out, assess how stuck you are, and we try to get some branches and you put on the tires, and then you get some good traction and then you come out of where you've been stuck. Otherwise, you once get stuck, you don't panic, and you keep pushing the car and, you know, putting more gas in it because you keep digging yourself!

Very good! I'm not getting stuck, but I'm sure Trish is stuck with the lions so it's marshmallows with the Lions at the moment! Thank goodness! Not actually marshmallows; I'm so happy that the rain hasn't happened to me yet! But touch wood that there's no wood around—there we go, my bottle cap touch wood—that that doesn't happen because last time I said something doesn't happen like I said, "Oh, I've never broken a foot before; I've never broken a bone!" And then what happened? I broke one!

I'm not gonna say that I'll never get stuck, but I'm glad that I haven't yet, and I really hope that David doesn't get stuck too, especially with that rain! At least it's cleared up a bit; I hope that it doesn't rain here. It's looking a bit cloudy and a little overcast, but there is no rain predicted, I think, not until the late evening, so we should be good.

There's our male on his back, relaxing, and these two females are canoodling. Oh boohoo! You'd like to know why lions lift their legs when they're sleeping? Well, there's a few theories as to why it lifts its legs. Sometimes it's just about comfortability; maybe they're in an awkward position. But one of the more prevalent theories is that because they're on their back and they're exposing the sort of the thinnest skin on the underneath—and you'll see that their legs sort of flop apart so that thin skin is exposed; they'll actually be able to cool themselves down easier with their legs that way.

Now you'll see that, oh, we'll see when they start to mate that the female doesn't as well, but she'll do it in a different way. Or for different reasons when you see lions just like this, and they're just chilling on their backs, it's probably that they're trying to cool themselves with that thin skin. But when you see females after mating rolling on their backs, it's more likely that they're trying—it's sort of an instinctual thing. They roll on their back after they mate because apparently, it may help get the sperm all the way up into the lioness, so that maybe we all can get some lion cubs or that the chance of it may be higher!

But it seems to be an instinctual thing; they just kind of roll onto their backs afterward. But that is the theory; it's not actually very hot. In fact, I've just put my jacket on because I'm feeling a bit chilly. But obviously, this vocal male is still feeling a bit warm. Well, if you're going to be mating 3,000 times, that's probably worth your rest! Zebra!

And did you say maybe because it's comfortable? Yes, absolutely; I think that too! It might just be a comfortable position! It's not always—there's not always a biological reason for it that we know of yet; it might just be a comfort! Well, maybe he's just decided that it’s a bit itchy on that side, I'm gonna roll over! It definitely could just be that!

Oh, some movement! We've got a canine sticking out there from one of the females, but that is the extent of the movement at the moment! Her lip flopped down to reveal that—key lime was a massive! It was so much excitement! It is endless, Emma says! It’s endless! I agree with that! They'll spend most of the day like that!

In fact, I'm going to take a bet at what time I think they'll start to move. I think at about a quarter to six; that's my guess! It's like I said when I was speaking about the Avoca male, and talking about him feeling hot or perhaps feeling warm, and that's why he's doing that. They’re going to mate at least, or estimated, about 3,000 times before an actual cub will be sired! Or at least the males would, and that's, I think, quite incredible!

It also gives you an idea of how much effort it takes to produce one litter of cubs, and it obviously has to do with the fact that most of the mating is in order to induce ovulation in the females, and then once ovulation is actually induced, it's about a 95% chance of that egg actually being fertilized.

So most of this mating has a lot more to do with trying to get that female to ovulate, and then once that's done, we can look forward to cubs! But, like I said, that might take 3,000 mating actual acts. No wonder these guys are tired!

That's very true! We do have double the chance with these lions and the ones with Steve, so let's go to him and see if his lions have done any exciting things, like revealing canines! Mmm juice!

I'm sitting right here waiting for some more action to unfold, but you are very right! I've got a very strong suspicion that I don't know exactly when, but at some stage this afternoon—no doubt—the two groups are going to join! I have a feeling that will happen, and it might not happen; you never know! But there probably are way over the rest that when Google map riders, they probably all for summer as well!

Tristan was telling me earlier that there were some tracks down towards a SUP of another single Lion, so not sure exactly—there seems to be lions all over the place! And the wind is coming from our left-hand side, which is a good thing because, well, I don't know if it's a good thing; it's a good thing for us because it means that these lions, if they do get up, will probably start walking in that general direction.

I know some of you out there don't agree with me, but it's something I see time in and time out! Also, there's generally a nice herd of all the bears to these days that have moved back on to the quarantine open area, which is off towards our left-hand side.

And always many, many impala!

Hello, Joyce! You want to know how males find females, and east rest's? Well, they have a Twitter account, and they started joking! They don't have social media! But they do have their own form of social media! Females will urinate and send mark as well, and males are constantly patrolling their areas, and every so often they pick up on any smells of lions!

Anyway, they post; they tend to post their profile left on the corner of somewhere, then they will very quickly try and find where that lioness is! They've got very good sense of smell, and I've followed a young mare line following its pride that was probably about five or six kilometers away—about three to four miles away—and it found it by just smelling the ground!

I wish I could track like that, just sniffing out the lions! But they've got a very keen sense of smell, and that's just for the footprints! So once there's been a discharge, or urination, or whatever it might be, the male line will pick that up, and inside his brain, suddenly a driver Q goes and says, "Your, everybody, there is an e-stressed female nearby!"

And the males will push each other out of the way to get there first! Generally, in a coalition, you might see a bit of animosity towards each other, but it’s not extremely aggressive when it comes to lions! Lions can be very, very tough on each other!

But coalition members, although they will growl and snarl and fight each other, they generally are the first male to find the females' chili; the one who is left with it. Although there might be a little bit of our ji bhaji, it's generally not too serious!

If it was Uri, the lion did that, too! We'd probably be in quite a lot of pain, but these animals are designed for hitting and punching and fighting and clawing and biting each other! That's part and parcel of being a lion, and well, if they're not tough enough to do it, they definitely signed up to be the wrong species!

As it starts off from an early age, competing for mum’s milk and every time they feed on a carcass, they have to compete! By the time they are fully fledged, dominant males have had their fair share of confrontations! Right now, not much confrontation is happening, and this is the lioness with the injured eye again!

A few people on Twitter are suggesting we should rename her! I don't have the power to rename our lions or leopards, I'm afraid, everybody! It is a tricky topic, and for now, I'm just going to leave it as it is! They'll wait for James to get back, and maybe he can address that! Anyway, Tristan is just on the other side of the reserve looking for any tracks of Columba!

Let's go and see what he's come up with!

Well, it's good and bad! I mean, we haven't found what we're looking for yet, but the tracks are getting fresher and fresher for a little mystical iBall! I think we're following at the moment; we found that she went to chill a pan, and she’s now come down across the Marath and is kind of moving eastwards in general!

But her tracks are getting better and better; they're on top of everything—nice and crisp and clear! And because we've had winter day, you would expect some disturbance on them! But these tracks are shining a little bit, and so I'm hoping that we're gonna bump into her somewhere around this area!

Just taking it very, very slow because the tracks are almost impossible to see in places; the roads haven't quite softened up just yet! What have we got, your sins? So there we go! It looks like she walked here! There we go! So she's walked on this left side; I'll try to pull over so sins can show you! But there's a track that's just there that’s going up this pathway, and she's walking kind of on the road there!

You can kind of see that's the tracks that we're looking for, and they're starting to look really nice and crisp and clear, which is really good news! So hopefully, we are gonna track her down! It could be Tandy; it's possible, but I suspect that this is Columba that we're following, just given where it's come from.

I mean, we've been tracking for a long time now! We've gone a long way, so let's see if we can find it! There’s a little pan at the edge here; it's got no warts in it! So it's very possible that she kind of came here to look for water, but because there is no water, she might have moved off!

Naturally, it's incredibly difficult to track her lumber because she doesn't walk on roads as much scent marking; she kind of just goes wherever her heart feels! She just kind of bounces around and crosses roads all over the place, and she's incredibly active! She doesn’t sit still for long periods of time at all, which makes finding her! And night, you’ve got to just kind of be in the right place at the right time a lot of it because she just doesn't really stop!

And when she does stop, she tends to stop in thicker areas! At the moment, exactly! She is a strong, independent leopard that doesn't need anything, really! She makes life a little bit tricky in that regard, but it's nice because she is active, which means that a lot of times when lipids are active, particularly young inexperienced lipids will bring about alarm calls on themselves!

Which means that if she is moving and she's close by here somewhere, she's going to spark an alarm call, and that's going to help us, and we're gonna be able to then find it because of that! Now there's a part that comes past this sort of dry pattern that I was talking about, and I just want to double-check if she didn't cross over somewhere here!

It kind of goes off in towards this drainage, where she spent a lot of time as a small cub! It doesn't look like she's come over here. We'll just check a little bit further because sometimes they go over a little bit further on.

You see, she's been up and down here! And has heard of Franklin; I think she's very close! I don't think we're far behind her at all at the moment! The tracks are just starting to look better and better! Looks like they came out!

Yeah, I also—part of me is wondering if maybe, just maybe, it's not Tandy because this is exactly where we first had our first visual of Columba in the den site is where we are right now! So it's very possible that she's maybe scouting!

If she is pregnant for possible den sites, but these tracks are all over the place! Yeah, they look like she's been kind of doing circles, which really is not definitive in terms of who it actually is! I just want to go down because I heard a Franco alarm call here quickly!

When a chick right now, we have our work cut out for us, especially where we are! Trish and Steve don't—so Trish is taking it very easy with her lions, who are lounging away the afternoon! I worked hard to get your Tristan; I promise! I drove all the way from camp!

It’s actually not that far and we were lucky enough that they were here in the morning as well, so it was not too much work! But I wish Tristan the best of luck with finding that little one! That would just be awesome! It’d be such a catty, catty Sunday! I'll cheer for us! Here we have another view of the Avoca male!

Now we think that this is the dark-maned male, often sometimes referred to as the Crumpe male. Puma, you'd like to know how far away I am from the other lions! Probably not that far, prepared to K's! Not even—they're fairly close having the Austell and in Juma, but this is sort of in the northwest, whereas the other lions are a bit more centrally located, but almost on the same road but just at different points in the road!

So they are quite close! It almost reminds me a bit of a double date, you know? Boys arrived together, the girls arrived together, and then they decided to go to different movies! They probably met up on Tinder, like Steven was saying! It does seem like an awesome day to have a nap! It's just the perfect temperature—just a little chilly! You know when it's not cold; it's just perfect!

Mgn, you say what about the rest of the pride? Well, I don't actually know what the rest of the pride is up to! For as many as we know, we're counting for the four females here, and I think the one other invoker male!

So we've got the mohawked one with Steve, and I think I've got the dark mane one here. Then there's the blonde male! The blonde male I think was last seen much more north in—there! So I say much more, but past the boundary north of this!

So they are around, and I'm sure that the rest of the Inkuhumas are around as well! But you'll often find that when they're mating, they'll break away into these pairs or in this case, triplet! Very cool! So we've got this guy. Then we've got the two females that you're looking at there!

We said that one is the youngest lioness of the program; she's the youngest lioness! So when I say, hence you say, it makes you want to take a nap! But definitely, it makes me want to take a nap! Just looks so, so comfortable! Now we are talking about these two, so we've got the youngest lioness, as in the youngest adult lioness, and that is Taddy, yes! Or we call it a tear, but she's also called the youngest lioness!

How apt! And she was born in about 2013; then the other one that we have is, of course, the original female that I have seen mating with the Inkuhumas before! Luckily, I was very excited to see that! In fact, a few times I think I've seen the original female mating with the Invoca male!

I think once—once—I did see it with the dark mane male as well! But she was born in 2012, so there's only about a year between them! So be nice to have a look at their faces, and you have a nice comparison if that even makes that much of a difference in terms of the way that they look!

Now their vocal males, they were all born in 2013, so Ridgenose is a bit older than him! But Taddy, our youngest female, she's more age-appropriate! But of course, none of that matters in Lion Society! In fact, a female will mate with any adult male that comes along when she's in easter!

She'll just have to make sure that the male that she brings into the territory doesn't attract attention from this one or the other coalition members because then there will be trouble among the coalition members! They will fight for mating rights within their coalition and within that pride. But they're hardly ever fights that result in any kind of serious injury!

But if a male that's from outside this territory, not part of this coalition, comes in, it can be fighting to the death! Quite brutal! And you'll actually see the difference in the way that they fight! You can see one sort of gesture, but a bit not playful, but you could see it more forewarning, or this is my lair, lioness, stay away!

Whereas when you see them fighting because they're actually from two different territories or two different coalitions, it's brutal! The sound is just incredible!

We're all looking for lions today, it seems, and for once, I think we've got the lions before David has, but I have no doubt that he will also find some lions because he's special like that!

So let's go up to the Mara!

Well, Trish, my luck has not come yet! I'm still working very hard to hopefully see the sausage pride! But yes, as you say, it's quite brutal to see a lot of fights, but that's what it's meant to be! The males will always go for each other, especially during takeovers.

The lords—and that's mine! Speak of a picture, a male that used to reign in this territory of the sausages, but O Scottie Pulley, which I think up now is one man I respect! Because in one day, I saw him keep fighting two males in one day—one in the morning and one in the afternoon!

The good news is he won both battles, as much as he incurred a very big scar, I think, on his right side on his radar! I got a huge, I figured, a claw mark! But he warned you! You don’t want to see lions fighting! But of course, if they fight for good reason, why not?

Now, initially, my flaps on the left of the Marquesas have subsided, and the ones on the right, and now the front; it's all clear! So the only job me and Manu have now is get lions! We have no excuse not to get them; we have no reason not to see the violence!

But just can if you look on the right there, you can see the kind of clouds we got! Manu’s gonna show the viewers how the clouds look like there, and you can still hear the thunderstorms going, and I hope you can hear the rains or thunderstorms going there! Anyhow, this is such a republic; not a single drop!

Now what you're only seeing is a bit of lightning needle in the sky, shoot shoot going and coming! And then, of course, we have four that; we hear thunderstorms, which is very normal! That's how the sequence goes—first listening, followed by thunderstorms! And we are here to try to smoke these lions out!

My friend who told me had seen a lioness around this area—he's a camera. And I'm really counting on him so much! Not that I doubted him, but most likely that one female he saw would have risen up and maybe walked away!

So I’m deciding to look at this area because sometimes they move very fast! So, money, send! We did something with my audio! Let me just check what could be happening! I think either my comms are not getting tomorrow very well; everything seems to be in place!

Martin, just make it a little tighter better now! He's happy! Alright! Why, you never know what happens in communications!

Okay, left, right, see if you can either smell these files! I'm sure definitely not after the race let me first send you back to his—David! I don't worry about lions. These lions are fast asleep! I'm hoping at some stage they're going to get up and do something! But the longer they hold off doing anything, well, the longer we can probably stay with them!

Because you know how quickly these lions can move and cover quite a lot of distance if they do start moving, and if they are hungry, well, they can move and move and move until they secure some food! But it's an interesting situation, Arian, now because essentially there is one male mating the two females! So are they even hungry at all?

The purple-eyed lioness was definitely hungry this morning due to the fact that she was hunting, but maybe it was also because she didn't have a consort with him at the time! And well, now she's yawning again—maybe we're gonna see her getting up again! Everybody, this is what heralded the last mating session!

And it has been exactly 50 minutes, so definitely not an intense sort of situation going on here! Oh, gotta scratch yourself! That looks very nice! You scratch my back, and I'll just scratch my own back!

You see a couple of the wounds on the back; there are some old wounds. A lot of those I received from fighting around kills! Sorry, ma!

How it's Joe asked a question about the sub-adults? I didn't quite get all of that question there, but one thing I can tell you for sure is the young males of the Inkuhumas would not want to be anywhere near! Yes, of course!

So Joe, that's about us—no, not necessarily! But the males, the young males definitely would be at very, very high risk! And the Inkuhumas just sort of accepted that mundane email now, and so I don't think they would be anyone to just throw him to the wolves, as it were!

So probably there would have been some form of calling, some form of connection with the Avoca males and the rest of the pride, who probably just disappeared elsewhere! It's possible they’ve gone south! Tristan says he's got tracks all the way around the Treehouse Dam area, so we didn't actually spend any time tracking this morning myself and said we came out too—while we did a little bit of tracking, but who would directly eat west from where we are?

Got the drone up in the air! No tracks where we had been! Then we found these lions using the thermal drone! So if there is a pride that had come in before, we hadn't seen any sign of that! So I don't know where they are! They could be south of us; they could stop in the north! It's very hard to say!

But one thing's for certain—the young males wouldn't want any part of these Avoca boys! That is for sure! Because unfortunately, the reality is—and we don't even know it happened—maybe the Avoca males got into it with those two young male lions!

And maybe they've been chased; maybe there's been a fight! We don't know! It's crazy to see it because you never actually know what goes on while you're not watching! If indeed there's been some interaction between the females and the young males, you probably wouldn't see too much in the way of injury when the two Avoca males!

And from what I saw this morning, I didn't see any fresh sort of signs or a number of sort of nourished scars, but nothing from the last day or so! So if indeed those two youngsters—young males of the Inkuhumas, that includes the monk any male—if they even saw these Avoca males, they would just take off!

There's no point standing their ground! They'll just get a hiding! But then, up in the Mara last year, we saw a pulley move into the sausage tree pride and accept those two young sausage tree pride males!

So things do happen! You never know what could happen! But what I've experienced in the past is when a big male lion comes across a young males, they're generally heading for the hills! And quite often you can even see the pride's behavior! We saw them goomers last year when the Birmingham's had moved south! Their voters were establishing a sort of the rain in the north!

You’d hear them calling, and the Inkuhumas would all stand up and walk in the opposite direction! I've seen that many times before with prides that have got sub-adults, especially young males! They just moved in another way they want to lose their genetics, but then eventually the desire to mate kicks in with a driver—the East recycle—and essentially, the females then will seek out the dominant males!

They don't want to mate with the subordinate males, with males that haven't established themselves, haven't proven their worth! That's one of the reasons why conception is—lions have a very, very low James!

I haven't heard anything about the Birmingham boys! As far as I'm aware, they are still doing very well down in the south! I haven't paid too much attention to their Facebook profiles! Those of you who didn't know, most of our animals have got some form of Facebook profile!

And this one is trying to do a very interesting licking but back now! How many of you can do that yoga teachers out there? Can you lick your back? Very long tongue! So I'm sure the Birmingham's are down south!

I'll have a little look-see now and see if there's anything going on! But they haven't come north, that's for sure! I haven't heard of any movements of them up towards us, sort of the areas of Chitra and the areas just south of us! They seem to be quite happy in their pride lands now, in the sort of south essential parts of the Sabi Sand, where they have very, very good game numbers, permanent water, and in the form of the Sabi!

And the Sand here that I think they're quite happy down there! Well, very good! So no one has yet admitted to being as flexible as this lion and being able to lick their own back! She's being irritated by some flyers now; it must be a constant source of irritation as a lion having flies constantly just buzzing around your face!

Albeit with the rains having seemingly passed, most of the flies have kind of headed for the hills! Where I was looking a little bit closer at the male lion's bottom earlier, and that looked quite inflamed with a number of flies on it! So I don't know exactly what's happened there!

But let's jump over to Trish, who's about a kilometer to the Mara Triangle side and see if her lions are giving us any more action than these three!

Well, the flies haven't managed to get here yet, and they haven't done anything to make my lions move, but I'm slightly thankful because at least it's like the flyers are not gonna bother me because they can be quite irritating when you're sitting in the lion sighting!

Especially when you have a whole lot of biting flies trying to eat at you! So good luck, Steve, to deal with that because that's coming! Once they start irritating the lions, you see the occasional flick of the ear!

Oh, there we have one little fly landed! There we go! Lions host so many pests! It seems like they're constantly riddled with something or the other! If it's not flies, sometimes there's mange! In fact, speaking of mange, as Steve was telling you about how sub-adults would like to be far away, I'm sure that one guinea or that one monkey and male would want to be very far away from this big male!

This Avoca male who might decide to chase him away! And I think for an animal like that, that is so, oh, not as vulnerable, but definitely still recovering, he is looking great compared to what he was looking like! I was actually surprised when I saw him and how much better he's looking!

But even for him, I suppose he's not totally 100% healed, but his hair and tail tuft and mane are starting to grow back just a little! So I think he might be feeling a bit vulnerable! And the last thing he needs is a big mane dominant lion coming after him! So they will be far, far away!

You wouldn't say these floppy, lazy cats are actually quite efficient killing machines! I couldn't quite get the name then, I must apologize because I am sounding a bit muffled today, or rather FC is sounding a bit muffled to me today! But I did get the question!

The question was if there was a higher mortality in cubs because of mange! I suppose I mean that could be, but mostly the problem with cubs in the fact that they have such a high mortality rate in lots of big cats is the fact that no male that comes into a situation wants to be taking care of cubs that are not his own!

So the biggest threat to them is other males that are gonna come in and very likely kill them to bring their mothers into Easter so that she can actually have his own cubs! In terms of mange, mange being a problem. Now, mange is a mite that buries itself into the skin, and I suppose cubs could get mange!

But mange is not really going to kill you! What's gonna kill you is the deterioration of the body once mange has infected you! So it's a mange; it does get a cub or two! I don't think it will really shift the stats to say that maybe mange is causing a high mortality; it's mostly because of other males that may come in or infanticide, as you might have heard before! And of course, availability of food!

Because a lot of the time, you'll find that especially with lions, cubs eat last, and they often don't eat at all because there might not be anything left! Oh, there was a bit of a yawn there from one male! Starting to move, a bit of a stretch, oh, could it be time? Yes, but Potala tea is really, really high in lots of these cats!

And after about a year, all that starts to drop quite drastically, and cats actually tend to be weaned quite earlier and earlier than, say, a hyena! Hyenas feed their young milk up into about a year and a half! In some cases, whereas lion cubs, you're more looking at about seven to nine months old! That they're going to be weaned!

By vehicle, that's the sound that you're hearing of a vehicle starting up! Oh, a big yawn! There! So already, between about seven to nine months, when they are weaned! Oh, it seems that Steve's lionesses are up! So let's go to him, and we'll carry on our cubs and weaning discussion in a moment!

Thank you, Trish! Just in time, everybody; forty-two minutes since the last one! That was the purple-eyed lioness again! She was having a little bit of an interesting time with her tail before she stood up and walked away! But this young lady is a little bit more interested than he is!

Well, then, she is! I'm sorry, Snidely is getting very busy here this afternoon! We are just next to our main road—very till access! And so it's a few vehicles coming to have a look! Of course, so we managed to get a third mating session! Very good!

Maybe she's building up to it, everybody, but Amber Eyes has disappeared behind us! And maybe she's decided she wants to go and get herself a summit nap just like Trish's lionesses! It almost seems like they're on the same sort of alarm clock! Temperatures really nice and cooled right now!

Hello, Safari lover! Well, lions can walk and five they want to while they mate! They can also stay in the same area! It really depends on the needs! You know, there are people drinking during their mating!

So if there's water nearby, there's no need for them to walk! But essentially, what we normally see here is when you do have a mating pair that often sort of hang out in the same sort of area! They don't walk too far! And if they're due, it's probably got to do with the fact that maybe there's a little bit of hunger developing!

Or they’re following someone, or it's towards the beginning or the end of the actual intense mating session! When I was with the kinky tail up in the Mara, she didn't leave sort of them the one area for that entire table! She was there, but there was plenty of water nearby, so that's one thing that would probably make them move while they're in that sort of mating cycle!

Eventually, it's the desire to eat that leads them to completely leave the mating circle altogether! Amber Eyes is having none of it! Can you still see ridore sip on him? We thought he would just stay with these two!

He's behind the bush, of course! We will reposition shortly! We've just got ourselves into a little bit of a roadblock for now! And that is the weight! And it works sometimes!

Okay, well, while we're trying to get you a better view, I'm gonna send you over to David in the Maasai Mara with the sunset!

Very good, Trisha! I can tell you here we're just swimming in the mud in the black cotton soil because it has gotten stickier where we are! And especially when you're going uphill, they become stuck! I think I'm better off dealing with mattress that you're dealing with a layin poo because mud is what sometimes I call clean!

You know, in general, most of poof of Matt Cuts or what she calls cuts, you know, I the cheetah who live for the Lions have a very strong smell, very strong, you know, stench! And for me, I'm better off dealing with, you know, elephant dung or radar or zebra dung!

But anything dropped by cuts is always very powerful in terms of smell just because of what they eat! The important thing is they generally do not think they digest it very well! And I'm thinking because of the amino acids in the meat that they eat!

I'm silly! The Republic not going anywhere, and I have a lot of time to do what I want! It's getting sometimes a bit muddy! I have to put my four-wheel drive especially in this particular area I'm coming too! So what I have to do sometimes, just to prepare well, I just put it up momentum before I get to the very sticky part!

In a momentum to keep going, they said earlier, the top of the long grass, the rains of course, the mud have compounded my situation! But what you do and gets freeze up is just to stop somewhere and just listen for any calls from the lions!

Because once it's rains, most of the scent marking, including even full outputs, it's always washed away by the rain! And most cats will always have to resent again, just to make sure that the males of a verse know this area is occupied! Of course, if the lions—and the same case would happen to leopards!

Let's find out if this violence in Juma is on the move! Yes, everybody! So I was keeping quiet there just to ensure you came just in time for the action once again! And that is the purple-eyed lioness! Amber Eyes has just moved off!

So that was 15 minutes very interesting! That's normal sort of time! About 15 minutes or so! And Amber Eyes stood up and walked away! But this young lady is a little bit more interested than he is!

Well, then she is! I'm sorry! Snidely is getting very busy here this afternoon! We are just next to our main road—very till access! And so it's a few vehicles coming to have a look! Of course, so we managed to get a third mating session! Very good! Maybe she's building up to it! Everybody, but Amber Eyes has disappeared behind us!

And maybe she's decided she wants to go and get herself a summit nap just like Trish's lionesses! It almost seems like they're on the same sort of alarm clock! Temperatures really nice and cooled right now!

Hello, Safari lover! Well, lions can walk and five they want to while they mate! They can also stay in the same area! It really depends on the needs! You know, people drink during their mating! So if there's water nearby, there's no need for them to walk!

But essentially, what we normally see here is when you do have a mating pair that often sort of hang out in the same sort of area! They don't walk too far! And if they're due, it's probably got to do with the fact that maybe there's a little bit of hunger developing!

Or they’re following someone, or it's towards the beginning or the end of the actual intense mating session! When I was with the kinky tail up in the Mara, she didn't leave sort of them the one area for that entire table! She was there, but there was plenty of water nearby, so that's one thing that would probably make them move while they're in that sort of mating cycle!

Eventually, it's the desire to eat that leads them to completely leave the mating circle altogether! Amber Eyes is having none of it! Can you still see ridore sip on him? We thought he would just stay with these two!

He's behind the bush, of course! We will reposition shortly! We've just got ourselves into a little bit of a roadblock for now! And that is the weight! And it works sometimes!

Okay, well, while we're trying to get you a better view, I'm gonna send you over to David in the Maasai Mara with the sunset!

Very good, Trisha! I can tell you here we're just swimming in the mud in the black cotton soil because it has gotten stickier where we are! And especially when you're going uphill, they become stuck! I think I'm better off dealing with mattress that you're dealing with a layin poo because mud is what sometimes I call clean!

You know, in general, most of poof of Matt Cuts or what she calls cuts, you know, I the cheetah who live for the Lions have a very strong smell, very strong, you know, stench! And for me, I'm better off dealing with, you know, elephant dung or radar or zebra dung!

But anything dropped by cuts is always very powerful in terms of smell just because of what they eat! The important thing is they generally do not think they digest it very well! And I'm thinking because of the amino acids in the meat that they eat!

I'm silly! The Republic not going anywhere, and I have a lot of time to do what I want! It's getting sometimes a bit muddy! I have to put my four-wheel drive especially in this particular area I'm coming too! So what I have to do sometimes, just to prepare well, I just put it up momentum before I get to the very sticky part!

In a momentum to keep going, they said earlier, the top of the long grass, the rains of course, the mud have compounded my situation! But what you do and gets freeze up is just to stop somewhere and just listen for any calls from the lions!

Because once it's rains, most of the scent marking, including even full outputs, it's always washed away by the rain! And most cats will always have to resent again, just to make sure that the males of a verse know this area is occupied! Of course, if the lions—and the same case would happen to leopards!

Let's find out if this violence in Juma is on the move! Yes, everybody! So I was keeping quiet there just to ensure you came just in time for the action once again! And that is the purple-eyed lioness! Amber Eyes has just moved off!

So that was 15 minutes very interesting! That's the normal sort of time! About 15 minutes or so! And Amber Eyes stood up and walked away! But this young lady is a little bit more interested than he is!

Well, then she is! I'm sorry! Snidely is getting very busy here this afternoon! We are just next to our main road—very till access! And so it's a few vehicles coming to have a look! Of course, so we managed to get a third mating session! Very good!

Maybe she's building up to it! Everybody, but Amber Eyes has disappeared behind us! And maybe she's decided she wants to go and get herself a summit nap just like Trish's lionesses! It almost seems like they're on the same sort of alarm clock! Temperatures really nice and cooled right now!

Hello, Safari lover! Well, lions can walk and five they want to while they mate! They can also stay in the same area! It really depends on the needs! You know, there are people drinking during their mating!

So if there's water nearby, there's no need for them to walk! But essentially, what we normally see here is when you do have a mating pair that often sort of hang out in the same sort of area! They don't walk too far! And if they're due, it's probably got to do with the fact that maybe there's a little bit of hunger developing!

Or they’re following someone, or it's towards the beginning or the end of the actual intense mating session! When I was with the kinky tail up in the Mara, she didn't leave sort of them the one area for that entire table! She was there, but there was plenty of water nearby, so that's one thing that would probably make them move while they're in that sort of mating cycle!

Eventually, it's the desire to eat that leads them to completely leave the mating circle altogether! Amber Eyes is having none of it! Can you still see ridore sip on him? We thought he would just stay with these two!

He's behind the bush, of course! We will reposition shortly! We've just got ourselves into a little bit of a roadblock for now! And that is the weight! And it works sometimes!

Okay, well, while we're trying to get you a better view, I'm gonna send you over to David in the Maasai Mara with the sunset!

Very good, Trisha! I can tell you here we're just swimming in the mud in the black cotton soil because it has gotten stickier where we are! And especially when you're going uphill, they become stuck! I think I'm better off dealing with mattress that you're dealing with a layin poo because mud is what sometimes I call clean!

You know, in general, most of poof of Matt Cuts or what she calls cuts, you know, I the cheetah who live for the Lions have a very strong smell, very strong, you know, stench! And for me, I'm better off dealing with, you know, elephant dung or radar or zebra dung!

But anything dropped by cuts is always very powerful in terms of smell just because of what they eat! The important thing is they generally do not think they digest it very well! And I'm thinking because of the amino acids in the meat that they eat!

I'm silly! The Republic not going anywhere, and I have a lot of time to do what I want! It's getting sometimes a bit muddy! I have to put my four-wheel drive especially in this particular area I'm coming too! So what I have to do sometimes, just to prepare well, I just put it up momentum before I get to the very sticky part!

In a momentum to keep going; they said earlier, the top of the long grass, the rains of course, the mud have compounded my situation!

But what you do and gets freeze up is just to stop somewhere and just listen for any calls from the lions! Because once it's rains, most of the scent marking, including even full outputs, it's always washed away by the rain! And most cats will always have to resent again, just to make sure that the males of a verse know this area is occupied!

Of course, if the lions—and the same case would happen to leopards! Let's find out if this violence in Juma is on the move! Yes, everybody! So I was keeping quiet there just to ensure you came just in time for the action once again! And that is the purple-eyed lioness! Amber Eyes has just moved off!

So that was 15 minutes very interesting! That's the normal sort of time! About 15 minutes or so! And Amber Eyes stood up and walked away! But this young lady is a little bit more interested than he is!

Well, then she is! I'm sorry! Snidely is getting very busy here this afternoon! We are just next to our main road—very till access! And so it's a few vehicles coming to have a look! Of course, so we managed to get a third mating session! Very good!

Maybe she's building up to it! Everybody, but Amber Eyes has disappeared behind us! And maybe she's decided she wants to go and get herself a summit nap just like Trish's lionesses! It almost seems like they're on the same sort of alarm clock! Temperatures really nice and cooled right now!

Hello, Safari lover! Well, lions can walk and five they want to while they mate! They can also stay in the same area! It really depends on the needs! You know, people drink during their mating!

So if there's water nearby, there's no need for them to walk! But essentially, what we normally see here is when you do have a mating pair that often sort of hang out in the same sort of area! They don't walk too far! And if they're due, it's probably got to do with the fact that maybe there's a little bit of hunger developing!

Or they’re following someone, or it's towards the beginning or the end of the actual intense mating session! When I was with the kinky tail up in the Mara, she didn't leave sort of them the one area for that entire table! She was there, but there was plenty of water nearby, so that's one thing that would probably make them move while they're in that sort of mating cycle!

Eventually, it's the desire to eat that leads them to completely leave the mating circle altogether! Amber Eyes is having none of it! Can you still see ridore sip on him? We thought he would just stay with these two!

He's behind the bush, of course! We will reposition shortly! We've just got ourselves into a little bit of a roadblock for now! And that is the weight! And it works sometimes!

Okay, well, while we're trying to get you a better view, I'm gonna send you over to David in the Maasai Mara with the sunset!

Very good, Trisha! I can tell you here we're just swimming in the mud in the black cotton soil because it has gotten stickier where we are! And especially when you're going uphill, they become stuck! I think I'm better off dealing with mattress that you're dealing with a layin poo because mud is what sometimes I call clean!

You know in general, most of the poof of Matt Cuts or what she calls cuts, you know, I the cheetah who live for the Lions have a very strong smell, very strong, you know, stench! And for me, I'm better off dealing with you know elephant dung or radar or zebra dung!

But anything dropped by cuts is always very powerful in terms of smell just because of what they eat! The important thing is they generally do not think they digest it very well! And I'm thinking because of the amino acids in the meat that they eat!

I'm silly! The Republic not going anywhere and I have a lot of time to do what I want! It's getting sometimes a bit muddy! I have to put my four-wheel drive especially in this particular area I'm coming too! So what I have to do sometimes, just to prepare well, I just put it up momentum before I get to the very sticky part!

In a momentum to keep going; they said earlier, the top of the long grass, the rains of course, the mud, it has compounded my situation!

But what you do and gets freeze up is just to stop somewhere and just listen for any calls from the lions! Because once it's rains, most of the scent marking, including even full outputs, it's always washed away by the rain! And most cats will always have to resent again, just to make sure that the males of a verse know this area is occupied!

Of course if the lions—and the same case would happen to leopards! Let's find out if this violence in Juma is on the move! Yes, everybody! So I was keeping quiet there just to ensure you came just in time for the action once again! And that is the purple-eyed lioness! Amber Eyes has just moved off!

So that was 15 minutes very interesting! That's normal sort of time! About 15 minutes or so! And Amber Eyes stood up and walked away! But this young lady is a little bit more interested than he is!

Well, then she is! I'm sorry! Snidely is getting very busy here this afternoon! We are just next to our main road—very till access! And so it's a few vehicles coming to have a look! Of course, so we managed to get a third mating session! Very good!

Maybe she's building up to it! Everybody, but Amber Eyes has disappeared behind us! And maybe she's decided she wants to go and get herself a summit nap just like Trish's lionesses! It almost seems like they're on the same sort of alarm clock! Temperatures really nice and cooled right now!

Hello, Safari lover! Well, lions can walk and five they want to while they mate! They can also stay in the same area! It really depends on the needs! You know, people drink during their mating!

So if there's water nearby, there's no need for them to walk! But essentially, what we normally see here is when you do have a mating pair that often sort of hang out in the same sort of area! They don't walk too far! And if they're due, it's