Safari Live - Day 138 | National Geographic

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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to this, the sunset safari on this glorious Sunday afternoon. I think it's the 15th of April, halfway through, if you can believe it. Fergus is on camera. Hey, why you saw my name there? It's James Henry, in case you're illiterate. And in the final control we've got Rebecca on the box, and on the keys I think we have still got the long-suffering Lucas. Anyway, on the other vehicles we have Tyler and Brent. There was some fear of rain, believe it or not. A little earlier, it was raining from what I couldn't possibly tell you.

Anyway, send us your questions or comments on this easygoing Sunday afternoon. Hashtags for a live or on the chat stream on YouTube, and we'll do our level best to answer them and entertain you for the next three hours or so. We are in the low felt of South Africa. That means the lowlands; we're about 400 meters above sea level on the eastern edge of the Drakensberg escarpment, while we're down in the bowl. The Drakensberg excitement and off to the east goes the Mozambican plains, and out to the Indian Ocean about 200 kilometers away. So that's where we find ourselves on planet earth while I drive up towards a waterhole not too far from here.

Let's go across to Taylor McCurdy, who is... I don't know what she's doing.

"I think everybody thinks I'm trying to get off work. Beginning on the show, my name is Taylor and I am NOT a slacker. We are sitting at a tree house, a dam. I don't know why, my signal's being strange. Really, the gremlins are trying to get us. You can chat to us, and I look forward to having conversations with all of you. Hopefully, we're going to find some animals to have some conversations about because at the moment there's not even any blacksmith lapwing at Treehouse Dam. It's very quiet, so I'm going to suggest that we're going to add in today. And then by hopefully some miracle, some animals are going to jump out and we're going to find them. Maybe the elephants decide to return, perhaps a journey of drive pass on through Juma. Who knows? His options are endless and what we could see today. But yes, so it's a little bit on the quiet side. It's been a weird day; there's been rain, there's been sun. As you can see this blue sky, and a cloud would come over and it would rain on us, and then it would move away and then it would be beautiful and go sun tanning, and then you'd have to put a jacket and a scarf and a beanie on because the weather would announce it's beautiful again.

It's really quite lovely but sadly this is all we have. Yes, Rebecca, please may I drive? I'm going to drive. I don't know why the gremlins are attacking us. I think I can see some warthogs, so you're going to try and get a bit closer to them. They're down over there. I saw them feeding in the grass but a bit too far away. Oh my goodness, we are not being attacked by signal gremlins, can you believe it?

Well, algebrats yeah. Range a little bit downhill, but we're going back up again always through here. You might be one of those Transkei warthogs. We-I saw you! I saw them moving but where did I see them? Boy it's too far away, I don't think we're gonna be able to see the wardrobes. It would have been so cool to see them off the back, me a little bit further, that's right, and chicken is zooming away.

Okay, sadly no warthogs fast they've ran back into the tall grass and you've seen what the grass is like in this area. It's not very nice for looking at small animals, especially when they have to see over the grass. Some of you may remember from the Mara how the warthogs used to literally walk with their noses in the air like this trying to desperately see over their tall grass, make sure they didn't walk into a lioness. Anyway, I don't think this warthog would be walking into a lioness, but James has some warthogs and maybe they will trot into some cats. I don't think they'll walk into some cats or he will walk into some cats, and it's possible though, of course, this youngish male warthog favored food of the likes of... now the reason we've come up here is that we can hear some elephants shouting.

Awful way to the eye, can I never get east and west right the first time, and off to the west, and I think they're coming up towards Sydney's waterhole. So it might be lucky to see them come down for a drink. A gorgeous, gorgeous afternoon. I was just saying to Fergus that this is the most wonderful time of year in many parts of South Africa. He, of course, lives in Cape Town lamentable amenable settlement, but for this time of year when the wind stops blowing for about two weeks where my parents live in the Eastern Cape. Also the wind tends to blow, but this time of year just glorious.

And around here, of course, the edge of the summers come off, which means that while it's a beautiful warm day probably around 29 degrees or so, I think they said which is about 84-85 degrees Fahrenheit, all those that's very pleasant to be out in. One doesn't feel like one cooking like one does in the middle of summer. Beautiful! Alright, we're gonna stay with this warthog. Taylor has a small bird that she wants to show you quickly. Let's go across there.

"We've got cuckoos! We've got two cuckoos in fact. There are, I think... can you turn and look this way please? Do you have a stripe buddy or do you have no stripes? I think I did see some stripes on the throat there, so that would make it the valence cuckoo, which is pretty cool. And there's a pair of them. Now, I suspect that they've hopped into those quarry trees looking for caterpillars. Because, well caterpillars are the favorite food of the cuckoo species of birds. I'm trying to see what the other one is... gone now. It has flown away!

I don't want to start the car and move it because I know what's going to happen, it's just going to disappear now. There are two cuckoos that look very similar to one another and that is the Jacobins and the low valence, but I have not seen the bracelet of this one just yet. Oh, it's still there! There you go! It's actually in a better spot now. Please turn around! I'm joking that bird does not make that sound. This is the song of the valence cuckoo, as I play it softly. Yeah, that's definitely the valence. So that's not that bird calling, that's me very quickly just playing the cold so that you can hear it. Very nice!

And anyways, these birds are migrants, they are intra-African migrants, so I don't think they're going to be here for too much longer, just like everybody else that typically arrived towards the end of the year, the start of a summer. And oh thank you for being very polite! And then they're normally linger around for a wee bit and should theoretically start heading north. There's another cuckoo calling in the far distance, should start heading north now, April man. Who knows?

Clark ooh, nice to see them around! We don't often get to have amazing sightings of all the cuckoos, you know! There is another cuckoo calling in the far distance, so you can see that bird is listening to it. I think it's now responding to the call behind us and going, oh, that is quite nice!

Hey, very nice little sighting! Very well, she wasn't brief; it was a long sighting! I'm sure second one...

"Wayne, sorry about that rather sudden departure from Taylor's cuckoo. I don't know what it is but I'm what I'm going to guess is that it was a striped cuckoo because a lot of the striped cuckoos stay their first year here. They don't migrate and while their parents disappear, they stay here. But, of course, they've never met their parents! They stay with their babblers.

It was a live valence cuckoo, apparently, which unsurprisingly is also the striped cuckoo. What a stroke of luck! I've strived cuckoos, the old name! And they often stay with their babbler friends. Well friends see, now you're wondering if I've ever seen a leopard attack a warthog. I think I've seen leopard try to attack warthogs. I've never seen a leopard successfully attack and kill a warthog!

"Have I miss identified the sex of this hog? I think it might be a lady hog! I think it's a lady hog! Is it? It is a lady hog! I've just looked at the face; now I do apologize everybody. And some lady hog, not a male! Anyway, what I'm going to try and do is sneak a little bit closer. The hogs here tend to be very unconfident, I have said, but this one seems to be okay, so I'll just try and ease forward, which of course is difficult in a vehicle that makes the amount of noise that these ones do. But let's try so that we can get... this bush out the way.

I'll probably hit a stump or something and give it a terrible fright!

Woman, is an impala just behind the ultimate 2-shot. Sharia, you want to know why the warthog is kneeling? Well, I'm afraid Sharia, you provide me with the opportunity to give you a silly answer! And because of the day; and so I'm going to and then I'm going to, but I'm going to apologize in advance for giving you a silly answer. And it's cause, it's Sunday of course! It was praying, that's why it was on its knees!

No, that's a silly answer! They graze on their knees because they have to dig out the rhizomes which are the underground stems, and sort of storage vaults of energy that the grass has produced. And they've got a very hard cartilaginous plate in the front of their noses, and that helps them to dig. And so when there’s something particularly nice that they want underneath the soil, they'll get on to their knees and then dig it up! So that's why it was on its knees! It's not a particularly religious warthog, as far as I can tell.

If it was to see...what Koumori it would certainly be scenic!

You want to know do warthogs eat meat at all? Yes, they do sometimes! In fact, this infected female warthog, like this one could easily be found scavenging off a carcass from time to time, especially if she was pregnant or if she had youngsters and she just needed a bit of extra nutrition!

So, calcium or phosphorus, or maybe even a little bit of protein! So it would not be unusual, wouldn't be surprising to find her snuffling on some bones or some rotting flesh, and certainly her closest relative, the bush pig, are known to be omnivorous! They will eat meat readily.

She's got a wonderful set of tusks, I must say! That's why I mistook her for a boar to start with! Alright, let's go across to Brent Leo Smith. You haven't seen him yet this afternoon. He's on his way to cheat watch eat wha. Oh yes, sorry we had a few... this is, we're getting started so we got arts a little bit late!

Oh my goodness, apologies everybody! You're just going to have to well grin and bear with us today! It's going to be one of those technical gremlin infested shows. Get your fly swatters out, your bug spray, all these wonderful things! I'm just checking the clock Surendra; it is 3:43 here in African time right now. That's what time it is! And it's like, it's very nice! It's my favorite time of the day! 3:43 exactly!

And normally this is when I'm out on safari, maybe running, I don't know since or what would you be doing at 3:43 if you were owned said work? I'm going to back across to de Jane. We do seem to be making a fewer saddened arrivals with us! We've now got a very, very close to our hog friend. She's not a youngster, she's fairly old. I would say from the gray hair that she has, and she’s been - she's the best warthog I've ever met! I can't believe how confiding she's being!

She's seen it all before, you see! And you can tell that from the magnificence of her tusks! And maybe you can just see the wind flickering through the cross stalks. There's a very gentle breeze coming out of the southeast, and you might be able to hear one or two robins calling off to the west.

I can nearly say these! To get the white part scrub robins. Oh yeah! What's the matter? Something goes into her nose?

Literally, Madame hog! What troubles the search? So no Willy, you're absolutely right, in fact, the same applies to just about anything out here! So it's not very easy to reach old age! And certainly, isn't in the fact that she's got so far! I think indicates that she's wily and picked a good place to live!

I think I've seen her around here before many times, and I think she's had a number of litters around here! And I suspect her success has quite a lot to do with the openness of where she lives in the shortness of the grass! Which means that although she ain't tall, she can still see over the short grass and what is coming to eat her and her babies! Good, it has to move along! I'm warthog out for the day! Not sure how good our signals going to be down here! We did hear some elephants! And I get to hear that!

I feel like James is going more ha ha payback because of all the technical gremlins he had! Write this stuff! Let's be serious now! Let's not talk about those anymore! Paint a story, everybody! It was a man trying to win on certain things!

Now, I'm hoping that we are going to find Husana and he's just going to pop out! And thank you, Doki! Everybody rants, I've got a very important announcement to make! I'm apologizing on behalf of all of everybody! Of all of everybody! Because that's how sorry we are! That we're having these technical gremlins today! We're going to be going to tech loop so that we can try and sort the issues, and we'll be back with you shortly.

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And back we are, everybody! Sorry about these technical glitches! You know everything gets to have a bit of a holiday, and the technical stuff seems to be having a holiday today! Rest assured, our technical staff are not having a holiday at all today! They're working like slaves trying to get everything fixed up for the rest of the show!

These are impala in case you've just joined us! The most common antelope in all of South Africa. Not the national antelope! Don’t have a National antelope! We have national gazelle! Which I suppose is an antelope actually! That is the spoonball, which does not occur here, replaced ecologically by the impala! Very strange kind of weather, as Fergus was saying!

We are surrounded on all sides by massive builds up, build ups, build ups of cloud! And we seem to be in the eye of the storm under a beautiful group of green sky! Beautiful blue sky! It is blue, that's the skies! And it's green, that's the vegetation! I think yes, I'm doing a handstand!

Good point! We didn't find the elephants, I'm afraid everybody! Not that we've looked particularly hard! We've been enjoying the atmosphere of this gorgeous afternoon!

Alright, now it would appear that Brent Leo Smith has managed to go to Chitra. Chitra! He's done something called power cycling! I've no idea what that means, but I have no doubt he will tell you all about it now!

I don't know what it means either! VM did it after daytime print & vince on camera! Hopefully this time we have say hello properly! We're in one of my favorite little spots and but I would just behind the dam wall looking for any sign of Ting Ghana or Husana! Both like to frequent this area!

And you will see, we do even though the Sun is out! It was raining when we left, so we had to put on our rain roof! VIM, is that kingfisher low enough that the roof is not? No, the roof is gates! Anyway, that is what it is! Let me just try and move Surviving and can possibly get a little... looks like brown hooded kingfisher if he doesn't fly away as we move a bit closer!

Also looking, Oh, for some baby crocodiles! This is a good spot for them! And then kingfishers still there! He's gone! And let's have a look! I thought I saw a baby croc moving! Look, yeah that is not croc that looks like a bit of mad, isn’t it or stick?

Sometimes it pays to just sit and wait a little bit there and they pop their little heads up! But as they we're looking for any sign of Alesana or Ting Ghana!

Husana has been into a camp on a kill right between the guest rooms again! He seems to like that! You see that grass moving? Now, I think we should have a little Sunday afternoon challenge! And what we're going to do is see how many mammal species we can see this afternoon!

So of course, we will stop for reptiles like owls and birdies as well, but I think we're going to go and see how many different mammals we can get this afternoon! I'm hoping how many of you think we can get them? 9?

I think we can do black Craig vampy! I think we can do better than 9! Oh this appearing Craig! I have not checked out the barn owl nest recently. Brent, it's not too far from here, so maybe we will have a squiz there!

Oh, there we go! The cracks on the fallen bog now! Come on! There is this is the definitely the best spot to see black Craig's around here! Even though this one is being reached Niki and shy! It's also the best spot to normally see tink gunner! So 9, I think we're going to start off with at least 5 mammal species!

Are on cheaper Dan them! So I think 9... I think 9 is doable! I think if we got to 15, I'd be really impressed! Managed 15 different mammals in a drive that would be pretty awesome! So I think we're definitely going to get water back around here! We definitely can get them harder!

Justin you're going to get good! I mean we could do I have good! We should get in Yala! We should get... well instead of rattling off, let's see how many we can get on camera! I'm hoping that it will be one of one of the ones we get!

Either Husana or Tingana or Chava! Now one mammal we might not get Sally is giraffe! We don't actually have large giraffe populations in this part of the Sabi sands! As the favorite trees are not over there around but they're not very common!

So they prefer a case yet dominant woodland where we are in complete... dominant well then they are around actually! Iran just Baloch it to here! It is actually a good spot!

There's a big male that we see quite often around here! So there's always a chance! But no, we don't see them that often! I would probably go as far as say them that we see leopard more often than we see giraffe!

No, I think that's quite a safe assumption to say we see more leopard than we see giraffe! Now, there's not many places in the world you can claim that you seem hot letter than giraffe! That's what makes this area so exquisite!

Okay let us climb up onto the wall and get our mammal challenge on the go! As I said, I think when I start off with at least four species! So here we go! Apparently you're stuck with us guys! There, we're having still having a bit of a take difficulties but you have us here!

We go, it bows is our first mammal of the day! So there's one! Here, phase number two! Impala! This is quite, quite confident we would get here! Burnham Impala! And of course water back, that's three!

No, I'm surprised! Can I see maybe a bit later in the evening? It might be a good spot for come back and see if we can get bush back! And in Yala just go behind! There's some water back! You see those water back? Now behind the water back there's something oranger to the right a bit! Here we go! A little bit to the left! There we go! That is an in Yala hiding there!

And just on the edge of the shed! So what did we? Are now four! That's not a bad start to our mammal challenge! Four different species! DM thinks we're gonna get 9! I'm hoping for 12! But if we get 15, well I'll be very impressed!

Always with having a quick and closer look around the edges of the dam here for bush back as well! And of course, and the gorgeous g20 tois Lodge is in a prime spot!

I mean right around with all the leopards and lions like to hang about often! Oh what's going on over there? See, see that! It's all fins on it! Oh, well it's all going on!

What? Why would you do that? You better help! I decided to chase the Egyptian peace! Why are those water back running?

I wonder if that was the male chasing them around feeling frisky! Let's go have a look in that area and see what's happening there!

Maybe in a sauna is causing havoc! Sorry, yeah! I'm Custer! Thank you! Thank you Kosta!

Is Kosta the highest concentration of leopards? It's quite a difficult one! The highest concentrations of leopards in Africa that I know of is supposed to be the Luangwa Valley in Zambia! But I think the highest concentration of leopards in the world, not just in Africa, is Sri Lanka!

One of the parks! And she like I'm trying! I can't remember which one is said to have the highest concentration of leopards in the world! Okay, so what we are now at Skippo in Pala! In Yala! Walls back! All the m4 show it another flip!

One I said that water back ran out of that top section of the dam and it still stare! There's one water back still staring there! I said it could have been the male chasing about the females! You see it? Vince wanted a crocodile!

Where are you looking, Vampy? Oh wow! I'm just looking far away! But there's a big croc basking! Now as we get further and further into the winter months, we are going to see these crocs basking more and more!

It's quite chilly! That's one of the big, is that Vlad Boris? Boris the blade of lad the Impaler! Now that crocodile is plenty big enough to chomp on a human being!

It's quite a strong wind in this sickness this afternoon, which is making my hearing a bit! We'll have to concentrate a bit more! Now we think there might be some cloud rolling in! I'm gonna go have a look in that little top corner to see if it was a sauna that was causing havoc amongst the water back!

In the meantime, Jen, this is going to show you that cloud bank that's rolling in! Yes, we are sitting with an enormous cloud bank here, and there's another enormous cloud bank off to the south and east of the one you're looking at now!

Fergus and I just trying to get beyond this bush so that we can show it to you! Magnificent cloud formations! I mean that is just spectacular isn't it? No, I'm not a great deal of liquids hanging from underneath it, but it's just magnificent nevertheless! Gorgeous!

Yes! An almost expects God to be sitting there on his throne! Fantastic! I mean that really is spectacular! Now that's a big cumulonimbus cloud, a big thunder haters, I don't think they're called in some parts of the world!

And one would expect it to produce quite a lot of lightning and thunder! None of which I can hear! Well, I can't. You never hear lightning, you can certainly see it! I can't see or hear any lightning or thunder now!

I've taken a number of illegal photographs! So braver! My lorry, you say the death cloud looks like a hippo! Laurie, I'm staring hard at that cloud and a hippo! I'm afraid I'm failing to discern!

Can you see a hippo, focus? Focus is it looks like a nuclear bomb! And apparently that's what Conrad and Jared in the final control said as well! Quite mmm! It really is very pretty! You know, there's another one off to the other side!

And I think we'll have one look at that, have a quick see if there isn't any rain falling underneath it! And then we will continue on our merry way! Beautiful! Alrighty, let's go from this mess of macroscale cloud down to a micro... micro mammal! Yes! Micro mammal! But it is definitely a mammal for our mammals!

Look, there it goes! A squirrel! Even if we got onto the left! There we go! Some more micro mammals! A little lower! Where'd he go? Oh yeah, disappear! There we go! Look at that!

Another micro mammal! The dwarf mongoose! Aren't they cute? Now it's the smallest member of the audit carnivory! So in theory, it's the smallest carnival in Africa! Even though mostly insectivores, it sounds like the fish eagle just arrived and caused absolute pandemonium behind us! Just hit all the birds explode in the Hardy dice! So that sounds like a fish eagle when the fish eagle arrives at the dam!

There tend to panic like that! Or outdoor focus has disappeared but so they have got very, very complex social structures!

Let me just try to see if we can get another view of a dwarf mongoose! Ah the squirrels disappeared and you're still hiding in there! Here we are now to the grass! And it's quite lucky to see them out in the open like this! Quite often they'll skedaddle!

We do have some very nice relaxed groups there now! They're one of the only animals that will love each other instead of fighting! So see in that little tree folder, there's a lot of them up there! Here we go, it is more heading up the road! So cute!

And as I was saying so they will actually have a level! So they've got a very similar sort of social structure to something like an African wild dog! When they have an alpha pair that does all the breeding, and then the rest of the individuals in the business which is the collective noun for a group of mongoose will look after that!

They're the mongoose pups! Cubs, ma glitz, Mon let's, and Co spider! Yes! Most species will fight snakes! And eat snakes! However, the dwarf mongoose will generally try to avoid most snakes, because they're so small!

And if there's a small old tracks, but there's male lion tracks, they're not very fresh unfortunately!

So yes, they will try to fight snakes and chase snakes! Very own little garden here! There is a little fire finch! Oh, come on fire finches!

They're one of the hardest birds to get on camera! They're very, very pretty! And just popped into the grass there! Darn it! You can hear the tiny little teat eats seeds from all the little seed eaters!

So things I care, things like wax balls and fire finches and the squirrel making a noise! I think he’s just talking to other squirrels! They're not him! He is there!

And what have you spotted that has made you upset squirrel? So that isn't alarm call but I can't see what it's alarming yet! Not a very serious one there! So when they are really serious, their tails make just so as they... You never know!

Husana has been spending quite a bit of time in the lodge itself, and the boundary of the lodge is not more than 100 meters from us!

Yeah, so that's squirrel never know if husana has heard me talking and decided to come investigate! Because he's bored!

Well, you're looking in Yala! But I don't see anything! The dwarf mongooses aren't alarm calling either! Maybe it's just a paranoid squirrel!

I'd also be paranoid about a squirrel and everything trying to eat me all the time! Okay, so what we're going to do now is we're gonna do a sort of big loop around the lodge see if any leopard tracks come out of a lodge area! What! Mostly husana! And also see if we can find any tracks of the old man Tingana!

Well, I'm not sure what happened there! Rebecca, are we still alive? I just said crash cab? Crash cut live? Oh, I've got sure! I got a fright! They're confused!

We're gonna cross James with odd to crash cuts now! I get it! Let's get Seaford Master Henry's plans up! Hooray! No crash cut! Yippee! We have failed to find anything remotely resembling a mammal!

So we'll look at an arachnid instead! And an arachnid that I've shown you on bushwalk the other day! But I needed to get out of the car stretch my legs now! So I thought I would go across and show you the beautiful golden orb spider!

So a few of them have there been this season! All our season, you can see it! Can you focus? I spiked myself! Now this lady is the same size as the one that I saw before! She's not very big there yet, about twice that size!

And if I put my hand up behind her, you can kind of see that she's this almost the same size! She stretched her leg ease up! But they can be about twice that size!

Ah! Now this is what I was looking for! That one there just below my fingers is the male! There is, and he's missing a leg! It's not unusual; often the males are missing legs! They get into tussles with their wives which often results in there being eaten!

This one has just lost himself a limb! So those of you who think you have marital troubles bear in mind that hopefully it's not as bad as it is served with the golden orb spider! And then of course the ubiquitous mercury drop or do drop spider that likes to steal food from this rather intimidating looking but utterly harmless and gorgeous spider lady!

She's caught herself lots of BT's, lots of flies and in one case, I think, oh! She's actually caught herself a jewel beetle that she's attached to this kind of bird warning device here!

There's a jewel beetle there! I'll just bring that across to you madam! I'm taking a piece of your warning device! And alright, the rest I shall leave intact! There you are! Thank you! As you were!

Did I come? We want the sunshine on it? Pretty much! I think it was a jewel beetle here. You see it there! How's that, Ferg? Cool!

Just iridescent colors! So I think a jewel beetle! Initially, I thought the cuckoo wasp but this one's got Elijah! And this is there for a BT!

Okay good, let's move on! We're going towards Gallagher pan now! We found nothing up in the northeast, west, northwest!

So we'll go into the center, I believe Taylor has made it all the way to be dam! Let's find out what the hippo are doing!

They're going underwater just as we go live, typical! As you can see, there we go! There's another one! Very cool!

Now, there's a group of hippos! Yeah, which we call a pod as most of you know! But just in case there are some new viewers please open your mouth! Thank you very much! Your PO on command!

As you can see, one of these new voice-activated hippos that we've recently just got installed! Burble's! Look damn! It's quite nice!

I was really excited to come and see them today! And as they've only been here for a couple of days now! And it's quite nice! It's now pretend you're being a rock!

Look at that! It's just amazing! I'm hoping it's going to roll over next!

Please roll over and show us your funny feet! No! No! There must be something wrong yet! I think you've got to start all slowly!

It's something about these new things! It takes time to get used to your voice! And then eventually you can ask them to do anything you want!

But there are a few more hippos in the bubbles! Hook Dam that I've seen before! They seem to be about five now! But you can't see them!

You'll just have to trust me! There's two, there's three, four! I'm pretty sure there was one more! I'm sure there were five here!

Anyways, maybe the other one is shine, is holding its break as we know! Hippos can do that very, very, very well! But it's a relaxing afternoon! Or at least taking their time! Just chilling out on a Sunday!

Getting ready to go out to the deck party! I don't know do the thing! Sunday deck parties! I think we should make it a thing for the hippos! Sunday grazing parties!

Where they go out and they eat themselves silly filled with grass! Well, they're gonna have to walk a little bit of a distance away!

A little bit walking is going to have to be done! The grazing in this particular area is not nice! Both, some, I don't know what it's like a buffalo con!

Fortunately bees! You can look around us, it's quite sparse! Hmm not that nice! The umpires in that right-hand corner haven't come down to graze, that's for sure!

They are doing a bit of nibbling at the moment! I suspect they've come to the water's edge to drink! Though bachelorhood and lots and lots of bachelorhood is what we're seeing at the moment!

One big round staring into the thicket! Listening around! The wind has also just started to pick up quite a bit! That's pretty scary!

I think it's going to blow whatever is building up in the distance! And I've seen clouds in the South! I think James are showing you them! Whose big balls of candy floss!

And then just above the impala, there's another huge embankment of cars! And they are climbing vertically! Oops!

That might mean rain! I wonder what will happen if the clouds meet from the south and from the east! If there's one keeps up that might blow whatever's brewing in the sky away!

Now for those of you that have never joined on one of these live and interactive safaris, you can actually ask me questions! Can you believe that?

All James Albright! All you have to do is hashtag a safari live or you can also talk to us via the YouTube chat! That's also acceptable!

Now I'm, I suppose, ready to give you a very quick update! Sins will be ready in case the hippos do something exciting then I'll just duck!

Should we do a practice run? A practice don't say! If the hippos opened their mouths! What I'm about to tell you, a story, this is what’s going to happen! One, two, three, Wow!

Saying so! That is so quick! But that's what we're going to do! Though only winning a photo opens! It’s not there, but for now, I'll quickly tell your story!

So we're driving a cheetah cutline! We can kind of see where the tortured pride of Kevin! What's the source of male leopard tracks? Very exciting!

They didn't look massive either, so I'm wondering if they aren't husana's! Maybe he popped in to torture! I didn't quite see where they went off! Because we had all the Torchwood tracks sort of mingle in with the leopard tracks!

And then I just gave up because we know how many sub-adult lines are in the pride! And to try and distinguish between but what's 19 different lions and one leopard, ah, I was going to lose every single time!

But there's also some Egyptian geese! But I know Rebecca wants to ask me a question as well! Hmm, okay, also I was wrong there was only four hippos, and so let's just quickly go back to hippo!

So, seems just to coincide with coast sizes question about census of hippos! Now they're most acute!

Since I suppose, and they're in the water! What do you think is going to be? I'm going to go with hearing! 'Cause well, their ears, the nose, all on the same plane when it's above the water!

But we typically see their ears working quite hard when they go under the water! I don't know what they'll be using! They don't really need much underneath the water, I suppose!

They can maybe open their eyes! I don't know how much they'll see in the murky water. However, but some, they're definitely not chasing after fish!

So I don't think a hippo has any sensory organs or sensory nerves around its mouth to try to pick up vibrations of fish because it doesn't need to do that!

Oh, you sleeping in you've got a bit of a factor! The Terran bite you wear everywhere. It is not supposed to! I bet that happens every now and then!

And so I think when I get out of the water, I'm still gonna go with you a little! Even though they've got little ears! I think the hearing is not too bad!

And they saints the smell of us would go quite a large snot! It seems to be the largest feature on their bodies! While they face in fact!

And so I'm going to go sense the smell as well! No one's having a good old snooze! A great sea! A stem!

Why don't you keep getting a fright Jeb hiccups? I don't know if it's maybe you got hiccups! The way that it was jerking and spongy like that!

And Mina moon, now you've noticed the beautiful sort of glistening shine that's on this hippo! You're wondering about why that is!

And so what happens with hippos is that there's a Cretan oil called hippo shadrach acid! Which is a substance also known as blood sweat!

So I reckon that that's got something to do with it! It's quite an oily substance! So I can imagine when a little bit of water gets onto it! And that they do sort of boast that glossy sheen!

Please roll for us! Somebody roll over!

There's one coming close! Another one! I'm sort of convinced that there's only one big bull! And that's down though!

And there he is! That's him now! They're all so sleepy! Well, he's on the move now! Eat when we first got you! He was very upset with us! He opened his mouth as he does normally!

He's never very chuffed when anybody comes to his view him and his ladies at the before! Look damn! He's going under!

He heard me say that! And so gizmo, I've seen a hippo dissected once! They've got a lot of fats on them! That they do go to quite a thick layer!

But they do have muscle of course as well! So I'll try and dig out some pictures! I might if I scroll through further and down on my phone back in time!

I might be able to find some images of what the hippo sort of fatty substance looks like! It's quite insane how thick it actually is!

It must have been about six or seven centimeters thick! Maybe between five and seven centimeters thick! Of course it depends on where you're looking on the body!

Obviously around the back and around the rump there was plenty of it! But they have a very thin epidermis though!

Oh wonderful! Well James has been singing a couple of songs lately! At this time he's not doing all of the acting and singing!

The grass is doing it for him! Well, I think that on a Sunday afternoon when there's not a great deal to find!

What one should do is lie in a field of grass, observing the calms waving above one's head! As the great blue vault of the African sky stretches infinitely!

Up my part, fairly students are better stand up! I'm lying in the field of what is known as hypothermia dissolute ER! Or the yellow thatching grass!

Hello! As you can see, some of it is even taller than I! And while I'm not very large, I am 5 feet and 8 inches!

And this grass is roughly equivalent at 5 feet and 8 inches! And you can see how effective it must be as a thatching grass!

So that is hypothermia dissolute er! The yellow thatching grass! Now pick your piece if you'd like! Would you like me to?

Do you? Would okay, good! Here we go! Towards reminds me of the sort of late winter time and August in the natal part of the Drakensberg mountains!

Where you get this red fetching grass growing! And oh, it's just the most wonderful color! So there it is! Quite an impressive organism, really!

Nothing more I can tell you but very bad grazing grass! Hopeless, in fact! And if you were ever wanting to make straw that’s what you would make it off!

So if you were the second little pig, you'd quite like hypthelia the saluto as well because you would make no, the first little pig sorry! The first little pig made his house of straw!

Furgus, not the second one! He made his a prefab! The second one's me! Yes! Rush! I'm more worried about ticks lying in that grass!

Well, yes, there may be a few! I'll check my leg ease when I get home and stop any that are crawling up towards the sensitive parts because that's what they do!

Of course, very unpleasant! Now let's find a man shall we? A real actual mammal! That would be wonderful!

All dirt! I'll take a bit! An unusual bird like a yellow-bellied arrow mama! I must say! I want to ask you all!

Why don't you send through while we wait for something massively action orientated to heaven! Why don't you send through a bird that you would like to see!

An unusual bird that you would like to see that you know occurs here! There are some arrow-marked babblers in this grove of silver cluster leaf trees! You see them there, Ferg?

And I'll still around! So send us through on hashtags for a live on the chat on YouTube! Tell us what unusual bird you might like to see this afternoon! Gone!

They do like to pop! There's one on that tree there! Yeah we get it's just gone to the lift! This is the fascinating bear blue sighting!

Ah, here's its bottom! Wonderful! It's a flock of about ten of them! Trish, you like seen ostrich! That's a good call!

A Brent may be able to find one of Chitwa Chitwa! And challenge him with ostrich! I think I've seen one there! I think I've seen one on the airstrip, actually!

A Leah, Corey busted another good one! Many in the Mara of course and some here, but not very common! What else?

I would like to see a yellow-bellied arrow mama! They are gaol! Just have yellow bellies! That's why they're called yellow bellied!

Fergus, yes the yellow bellied thermometer! Come on, there must be something else around again!

Oh Cathy! You wanna see an African hoopoe? Of all the requests we've had Cathy, yours is most likely the one to be fulfilled!

You like that rendezvous? Focus is easier to kick film! And just very nice! Yes! The African poopoo!

Here we have some people on their game drive! Some African people! Yes! Good afternoon! How you doing?

Good! Absolutely nothing! There was a flock of Aramark babblers there! Ten of them! Good luck! They've seen our mark burber is already!

They don't want to see anymore! Yes, doing my best to impress the people! I suppose I should have asked what they saw around here!

Alright well good news is Brent Lea Smith has managed to find himself some footprints! Let's see if he can find what's on the end of them!

Well there we go! A big male leopard track! I think it is quarantine coming in to Chitra Chitra! So sometime during the day today, quarantine has marched in!

So I think it's quarantine tracks look a bit bigger than Singhana's tracks! So hopefully it is! I'll be very happy! Just before Husana and Shawn Gilly!

So he is his brother, is Kanuma! But in his offer days, on Mala Mala now they call him the Senegal Bush male!

And he set up territory to the south here sir, and quarantine kicked out his older half-brother who's by the name of Siobhan Milan!

And pushed him out of this area to the east of us, cheetah plains and the southern sections of Torchwood! Hello, is that that female track as well? No, she's not!

Is it? He's kacha ever around as well? No, it's not! It's not! But these tracks are quite nice!

And see I'm just carrying on here! I'm gonna keep checking where they're going! Fingers crossed we get to find quarantine now!

The main reason I actually came out into this area was to try to get our mammal list up with Steinbach and Dhaka! But I'll take Lee at the tracks!

I will, Justin, this button here! Justin, he's called quarantine because of the area he frequented when he first became independent from his mother!

So there's that clearing outside of our camp called quarantine and it's called quarantine as that's because where they used to quarantine cattle when people were still trying to cattle for this area!

So they would quarantine! So he spent a lot of time on the quarantine clearings! And when he became independent from Kuru, left!

It's going very slowly! Tracks are still here! Now with him around you must check every big termite mound!

Okay, so Kerala was a very successful female leopard for many years and she produced quite a lot of offspring! Child of the University!

The offspring of hers that are still alive I've lost the tracks and we just got a quick precise quiz!

Yeah, interesting, no tracks! Yes, I think we're going to have to check Shabalala road! So it is quarantines alive consumers alive!

We don't know about Siobhan the line anymore! Tandy, most obviously! Tandy from her first litter! I'm just trying to think!

I think that's it at the moment that we can be 100% certain of now! Of course, a lot of the males, young males over the years might have dispersed further!

And could still be very much alive! Just we don't know, they could be in remote parts of Kruger where people don't go!

I'd say yes, that's a three minute Andy quarantine and Kanuma and decider of course study me for up until recently! Of course, shadow was also part of that group!

But she's obviously hasn't been seen in so many months or over about two months now! So it's probably safe to assume that she has moved onto the next plane!

We just got, I mean attracts you know leopard tracks now we look for various different things! Evelyn, when we were trying to locate a leopard, footprints are a good idea to give you a good general direction where to go!

But most of the time you find them from the alarm calls of other animals! So squirrels and impala could you all make a lot of noise when they spot a predator like a leopard!

So they'll all shout to the top of the trees trying to tell everyone to be careful that there's a predator around!

Okay there's no sign of them going that way! So we're going to do is we're going to loop back through onto Shabalala road!

Shabalala means kudu in zulu for those who are wondering! And Shangaan! It is normal! I said quarantines been pushing slowly slowly!

Further and further into Chitra now! This is probably a better territory than the one he's got! That's why he wants to take it from Tingana!

But it's going to be very interesting to see how the leopard dynamics play out in the next little while!

Now it seems like you set gemstone bird challenge! So let's see how he's going with that! No ostriches! No African who booze! No kori bustards!

It's quite in quite windy which I think is making finding ostriches very difficult! They like to, you know, go into their burrows when it's windy like this!

I agree with brains of the leopard dynamics going on here at the moment are fascinating! I mean that played out here for millennia! But it's not often that you get to actually watch a takeover and a change like the one we've been able to!

Now there's a tiny little flock of birds on the top of that tree there for a gust! Ah well that's one bird calling yeah, top! You got him there! Here we are, don't fly please!

Oh, two of them! They were yellow fronted canaries! Beautiful little yellow canaries! Really and apparently Rebecca wanted to see the yellow front of canaries!

Well we aim to please! So good climbing tree! That one! Blip a tree! Yes! Also I would like to know what has happened to shadow!

Has been apparently no word from or of her for some time now! And one doesn't want to fear the worst, but it would seem that things might have well not been particularly pleasant for her!

Skeeter, you were wondering what happened to shadow! I don't know and there haven't been any reports of her from all for a while!

Should do live! And they're living now! And she used to hang around here! So who knows what's happened to her!

Not Barbara! Not Barbara was her cub! Or is her cub depending on where they are on this earth! Or in another realm!

Bob! A nice one from you about the life expectancy of a leopard! Well, it really does depend on a lot of luck potentially!

Leopards like Tingana could live up to sort of 14 years old! That would be very old from male! I think the oldest male on record in the Sabi sand was the Camp Pan male!

He made it to 15 and that's very old! So I mean you know, 12, 13, 14! That would be around about the age for a male leopard if he's manages to stay out of trouble!

But of course, that will reduce as soon as pressure is brought to bear! And no one can predict what sort of pressure will be brought to bear on these animals!

And certainly Chingada who I just don't think he's quite hit his twelfth birthday yet! He, I'm surprised that he has lost as much condition as quickly as he has!

And I really think that he is ill! I don't think he's well! I remember that one day we found him lying underneath a bush and he just didn't move!

And this was before we had seen hooker Marie and he just didn't move for two days! He lay under that Bush and then he sauntered into Chitra camp and lay there for another few days!

He's put on white since that time, but he seems to be doing a lot of sleeping! And I wonder if he's just not well!

And if that hasn't allowed Hoku Murray to come into this area unchallenged and outfit in Ghana to take it back again! Very difficult!

Female leopards live a little bit longer than the males and potentially up to 17 or 18 years! And in captivity probably a bit longer! But I would say an average of 14 or 15!

And our beloved Corolla, obviously only made it to just over 13! Debbie didn't you say Corolla's male cubs haven't dispersed very far? Is that unusual?

Well, it's only unusual if there's you know if they're occupying territories that were full! Obviously Warrenton moved on to children to cheetah plain and into an area where his father used to be sort of dominant!

And his father then disappeared! So that kind of gave him his spot! And he wedged himself between his brother Siobhan, B'Elanna, and in Anton Ghana!

And I think Siobhan B'Elanna has just gone further and further east into the Kruger! And so quarantine found himself a small there's a green pigeon!

But it's now flying at a great speed away from us! It was eating these fruits! Quarantine just found himself a sort of very large territory!

But a territory there between cheetah plains and Chitra Chitra moving on to children! So I don't think it necessary that her other male offspring mingle! Pneumo went all the way down to Mala Mala!

That's quite far! As Siobhan, B'Elanna has gone into the Kruger! I don't know where! I don't even remember if Misha and Induna were both males!

I'm not sure! But they certainly aren't seen around here anymore! So no, I don't think they are dispersing unusually close to their natal territories!

There's the vulture whose home is in this tree! Let's have a look at him! Oh no! We've got behind the tree! Which means he'll probably fly as soon as we get any closer!

He's done fire! You stay where you are! There was nothing else to see except you know! Wonderful! Now what you will see of course, is the vulture there in the tree!

And below his nest a mistletoe! And in vulture society of course the romance of mistletoe happens beneath you'll nest, not above your door!

Did you know that folks? Yes! Exactly! You don't want to go to a vulture party unaware of that! You might find yourself having to kiss a lappet-faced vulture!

To be very unpleasant! Russell knew honored to see a vulture! Well, that is a white-faced vulture! And that is its home! That's the mistletoe I've been talking about!

That green spot there! And in that platform of sticks just above is the nest! And they obviously nest in trees!

And I think if I'm not mistaken, I'm just gonna check us up! I think their egg-laying time is now! Let me just look that up for you!

One of the few birds that will breed during the winter months! Perful Fulcher were for white-backed!

There it is skirt! Iggy's breeding! Breeding monogamous! Presumed to prepare for life!

Sing, be bla bla! Yes! Nest one adult, presumably male brings most sticks! Oh, that's interesting!

Mate places and arranges them! So the male goes out and fetches the sticks, and he brings them back! And the female then puts them together into the nest!

That seems like a very amicable way to do things! Rather than arguing over the general Feng Shui! She's in charge of that and he goes and he fetches what she needs!

Lined with dry grass and sometimes green leaves! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Rob LA! So they lay their egg ease between April and July! That's in a Zimbabwe! In South Africa!

April to June! That's very interesting! So I believe the tailor has seen both of this pair arranging the stick! So they obviously have a slightly more equitable relationship!

A more modern vulture family! He's got an itchy head, poor fella! Anyway, in the incubation period just 56 days!

And they, I just want to find out when they fledge! Then they fledge and about nine days can't be nestling period!

Yeah! And 108, 140 days depending on the conditions! I guess that's quite a big range!

So 120 days is how many months, Ferguson? Four months! Four to five months in the nest!

And then they fly away and must go and find disgusting pieces of rotting flesh to eat all on their own!

I imagine being a vulture chick fairly unpleasant from a meal point of view because, well, not only do your parents eat fowl and rotting material, they then bring it up for you to eat when they return home!

I guess that's very unpleasant! Yes, start with a barlow! I guess if you're going to go and eat a rancid carcass! Best to taste better than what you used to get at home!

So we shall watch this nest with eagerness! And I'm assuming Taylor said that she was saw them actually interacting at the nest, means that we may well have some little vultures in this area for some time!

Fairly soon! That was a nice animal sighting, wasn't it Ferguson? Yes! Really good!

Oh! We have a question! Let's stay here! Child of the universe, you say why are none of the leopard carcasses found?

I'm not sure what you mean there! They are! It's not like leopard carcasses never found!

We will, we find them! Vultures and hyenas absolutely find them! And so if they are out in the open, then…

Oh! Oh! I see! Right! So you mean the carcasses of dead leopards as opposed to the carcasses leopards have killed?

Alright! Um, I suspect quite often because they go off to die in very thick bush! And it is very common, in fact, that you don't find leopard carcasses no matter how well you know the leopard!

And I think what they do is you know if they're injured or something like that! They’ll go and find such thick bush where they'll choose to sort of either convalesce or die quietly!

That's, yeah! You wouldn’t find the carcasses is unusual to find them! And then of course, you know in not very long hyenas!

I mean, hyenas will definitely discover the carcasses once they start to rot! And they'll tell him to pieces very quickly!

And so you know you may find some of the bones! That we found our line and lipid carcasses! But it's largely because they go to quiet places to bubble pop their clogs, as it were!

Alright, Fergus, should we press on from our vulture? We'll go off towards Treehouse Dam and see what we can find there!

I know Taylor started there! You never know what's come down by now by!

Volge, have a lovely day afternoon! He's just watching the sun go down quietly! Nor she is!

Maybe they've had a fight! He's been banished! All right, Taylor McCurdy has now given up trying to find signal on she's on her feet and on quarantine clearings!

And she'd like to fight! Tell you about what that experience feels like on a Sunday bushwalk 2.0! For the day!

Thank goodness I didn't do a work hard cause now we're gonna do this bushwalk like this! Backwards! I think we might actually have come on sands!

Oh, come on! At the pace I'm doing, come on! I'm doing the rim! Do you guys have to do all the time!

You've to read and find me! What's so hard today on afternoon bushwalk for a little bit!

Maybe we will do workouts! You will find things in the bush that we can workout with whether it's picking up rocks, pushing down trees!

Now Jake, we're not gonna be doing any of that! I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to show you on this bushwalk!

I've literally just stepped out of final control and so we will try and find something! I don't think we're going to have a huge amount of insects, I'm afraid!

As it hasn't been the nicest day! And if I were an insect, I probably just would have called it quits and stayed home! Undercover! Under a leaf!

So maybe we'll have to be turning over many leaves today! Let's check this wealth area! Wealth area, wealth area, please give us something!

Even a trip, not even one! Okay, next tree! Oh, let's go to Brent quickly with monkeys!

Well, there we go! Number seven on the species list! Vervet monkeys looking a little bit out of sorts in the long grass!

Oh, there's a light camera! Let me just go back a little bit for them! Well, guys, doesn't want to be left behind! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!

Now, of course they're really important for us! Monkeys, apart from being wonderful to watch, they are also really, really great spotters of leopards!

Oh that one fell out at the branch! He's got a little bit... for VM! So we can try get a better view of them! A whole bunch of them!

They're there! Yeah! So the monkeys have incredibly good eyesight! And playing and like a lot of primates, they can be very, very playful!

Particular at this time of the day, they've almost done with their foraging and feeding! And they're going to be looking for a good spot to roost!

So they can be lovely and playful at this time of the day! And it looks like one of the big males there keeping a watchful eye on everything!

The ACC's right up to the top making sure there's no potential danger for his troop! I'm happy for you, Sasuke!

This is Saskia's first monkey sighting! Well, that's wonderful! It's quite a nice one! Oh, and down! So I think they're heading down towards the river!

And with a little... the more I Nene! So they can hide and get right up in the trees! And that's where they're gonna roost for the evening!

Now we're going to just quickly shoot down the airstrip! Lots of Impala and stuff around!

Yeah, maybe we'll get another species! And it's waving quickly! You know, hopefully try to get another species!

So we're on seven, which is not bad! VM said we'd only get nine species today! I still think we can get to at least eleven different species!

On our drive today! And I think Chitra is the place to do it! On Chitwa Chitwa! I think we might get a surprise!

All three of the different species! So let's hope we get some bush back as well! And of course the gorgeous g20 tois Lodge is in a prime spot!

I mean right around with all the leopards and lions like to hang about often! Oh, what's going on over there?

See, see that! It's all fins on it! Oh well, it's all going on! What? Why would you do that?

You better help! I decided to chase the Egyptian peace! Why are those water back running? Start!

I wonder if that was the male chasing them around feeling of frisky!

Let's go have a look in that area and see what's happening there! Maybe in a sauna is causing havoc!

Sorry, yeah! I'm Custer! Thank you! Thank you, Kosta!

Is Kosta the highest concentration of leopards? It's quite a difficult one! The highest concentrations of leopards in Africa that I know of is supposed to be the Luangwa Valley in Zambia!

But I think the highest concentration of leopards in the world, not just in Africa, is Sri Lanka!

One of the parks! And she like I'm trying! I can't remember which one is said to have the highest concentration of leopards in the world!

Okay, so what we are now at Skippo in Pala! In Yala! Walls back!

All the m4 show it another flip! One! I said that water back ran out of that top section of the dam and it still stare!

There's one water back still staring there! I said it could have been the male chasing about the females! You see it? Vince wanted a crocodile!

Where are you looking, Vampy? Oh wow! I'm just looking far away! But there's a big croc basking!

Now as we get further and further into the winter months, we are going to see these crocs basking more and more!

It's quite chilly! That's one of the big is that Vlad Boris! Boris the blade of lad the Impaler! Now that crocodile is plenty big enough to chomp on a human being!

It's quite a strong wind in this sickness! This afternoon which is making my hearing a bit! We'll have to concentrate a bit more!

Now we think there might be some cloud rolling in! I'm gonna go have a look in that little top corner to see if it was a sauna that was causing havoc among the water back!

In the meantime, Jen, this is going to show you that cloud bank that's rolling in! Yes, we are sitting with an enormous cloud bank here!

And there's another enormous cloud bank off to the south and east of the one you're looking at now! Fergus and I just trying to get beyond this bush so that we can show it to you!

Magnificent cloud formations! I mean that is just spectacular isn't it? No, I'm not a great deal of liquids hanging from underneath it, but it's just magnificent nevertheless!

Gorgeous! Yes! An almost expects God to be sitting there on his throne!

Fantastic! I mean that really is spectacular! Now that's a big cumulonimbus cloud, a big thunder haters!

I don't think they're called in some parts of the world! And one would expect it to produce quite a lot of lightning and thunder!

None of which I can hear! Well, I can't! You never hear lightning, you can certainly see it! I can't see or hear any lightning or thunder now!

I've taken a number of illegal photographs! So braver! My lorry, you say the death cloud looks like a hippo! Laurie, I'm staring hard at that cloud and a hippo!

I'm afraid I'm failing to discern! Can you see a hippo, focus? Focus! Is it looks like a nuclear bomb?

And apparently that's what Conrad and Jared in the final control said as well! Quite mmm! It really is very pretty! You know, there's another one off to the other side!

And I think we'll have one look at that, have a quick see if there isn't any rain falling underneath it! And then we will continue on our merry way!

Beautiful! Alrighty, let's go from this mess of macroscale cloud down to a micro... micro mammal!

Yes! Micro mammal! But it is definitely a mammal for our mammals! Look, there it goes! A squirrel!

Even if we got onto the left! There we go! Some more micro mammals! A little lower! Where'd he go?

Oh yeah, disappear! There we go! Look at that! Another micro mammal! The dwarf mongoose!

Aren't they cute? Now it's the smallest member of the audit carnivory! So in theory, it's the smallest carnivore in Africa!

Even though mostly insectivores, it sounds like the fish eagle just arrived and caused absolute pandemonium behind us! Just hit all the birds explode in the Hardy dice!

So that sounds like a fish eagle when the fish eagle arrives at the dam!

There tend to panic like that! Or outdoor focus has disappeared! But so they have got very, very complex social structures!

Let me just try to see if we can get another view of a dwarf mongoose! Ah the squirrels disappeared and you're still hiding in there! Here we are now to the grass!

And it's quite lucky to see them out in the open like this! Quite often they'll skedaddle!

We do have some very nice relaxed groups there now! They're one of the only animals that will love each other instead of fighting!

So see in that little tree folder, there's a lot of them up there! Here we go, it is more heading up the road!

So cute! And as I was saying so they will actually have a level! So they've got a very similar sort of social structure to something like an African wild dog!

When they have an alpha pair that does all the breeding, and then the rest of the individuals in the business which is the collective noun for a group of mongoose will look after that!

They're the mongoose pups! Cubs, magliz, Mon let's, and Co spider! Yes! Most species will fight snakes!

And eat snakes! However, the dwarf mongoose will generally try to avoid most snakes, because they're so small!

And if there's a small old tracks, but there's male lion tracks, they're not very fresh unfortunately!

So yes, they will try to fight snakes and chase snakes! Very own little garden here! There is a little fire finch!

Oh, come on fire finches! They're one of the hardest birds to get on camera! They're very, very pretty!

And just popped into the grass there! Darn it! You can hear the tiny little teat eats seeds from all the little seed eaters!

So things I care, things like wax balls and fire finches and the squirrel making a noise! I think he’s just talking to other squirrels!

They're not him! He is there! And what have you spotted that has made you upset squirrel?

So that isn't alarm call but I can't see what it's alarming yet! Not a very serious one there! So when they are really serious, their tails make just so!

As they... You never know! Husana has been spending quite a bit of time in the lodge itself!

And the boundary of the lodge is not more than 100 meters from us! Yeah, so that's squirrel never know if Husana has heard me talking!

And decided to come investigate because he's bored!

Well, you're looking in Yala! But I don't see anything! The dwarf mongooses aren't alarm calling either!

Maybe it's just a paranoid squirrel! I’d also be paranoid about a squirrel and everything trying to eat me all the time!

Okay, so what we're going to do now is we're gonna do a sort of big loop around the lodge!

See if any leopard tracks come out of the lodge area! What mostly Husana! And also see if we can find any tracks of the old man Tingana!

Well, I'm not sure what happened there! Rebecca, are we still alive! I just said crash cab!

Crash cut live! Oh, I've got sure! I got a fright! They're confused!

We're gonna cross James with odd to crash cuts now! I get it! Let's get Seaford Master Henry's plans up! Hooray!

No crash cut! Yippee! We have failed to find anything remotely resembling a mammal!

So we'll look at an arachnid instead! And an arachnid that I've shown you on bushwalk the other day!

But I needed to get out of the car stretch my legs now! So I thought I would go across and show you the beautiful golden orb spider!

So a few of them have there been this season! All our season, you can see it! Can you focus? I spiked myself!

Now this lady is the same size as the one that I saw before! She's not very big there yet, about twice that size!

And if I put my hand up behind her, you can kind of see that she's this almost the same size! She stretched her leg ease up!

But they can be about twice that size! Ah! Now this is what I was looking for! That one there just below my fingers is the male!

There is, and he's missing a leg! It's not unusual, often the males are missing legs! They get into tussles with their wives which often results in there being eaten!

This one has just lost himself a limb! So those of you who think you have marital troubles bear in mind that hopefully it's not as bad as it is served with the golden orb spider!

And then of course the ubiquitous mercury drop or do drop spider that likes to steal food from this rather intimidating looking but utterly harmless and gorgeous spider lady!

She's caught herself lots of BT's, lots of flies and in one case, I think, oh! She's actually caught herself a jewel beetle that she's attached to this kind of bird warning device here!

There's a jewel beetle there! I'll just bring that across to you madam! I'm taking a piece of your warning device!

And alright, the rest I shall leave intact! There you are! Thank you! As you were! Did I come?

We want the sunshine on it? Pretty much! I think it was a jewel beetle here! You see it there! How's that, Ferg? Cool!

Just iridescent colors! So I think a jewel beetle! Initially, I thought the cuckoo wasp but this one's got Elijah!

And this is there for a BT! Okay good, let's move on! We're going towards Gallagher pan now!

We found nothing up in the northeast, west, northwest! So we'll go into the center, I believe Taylor has made it all the way to be dam!

Let's find out what the hippo are doing! They're going underwater just as we go live, typical!

As you can see, there we go! There's another one! Very cool! Now there's a group of hippos!

Yeah, which we call a pod as most of you know! But just in case there are some new viewers please open your mouth!

Thank you very much! Your PO on command! As you can see, one of these new voice-activated hippos that we've recently just got installed!

Burble's! Look damn! It's quite nice! I was really excited to come and see them today!

And as they've only been here for a couple of days now! And it's quite nice! It's now pretend you're being a rock!

Look at that! It's just amazing! I'm hoping it's going to roll over next!

Please roll over and show us your funny feet! No! No! There must be something wrong yet!

I think you've got to start all slowly! It's something about these new things! It takes time to get used to your voice!

And then eventually you can ask them to do anything you want! But there are a few more hippos in the bubbles!

Hook Dam that I've seen before! They seem to be about five now! But you can't see them!

You'll just have to trust me! There's two, there's three, four! I'm pretty sure there was one more!

I'm sure there were five here!

Anyways, maybe the other one is shine, is holding its break as we know! Hippos can do that very, very, very well!

But it's a relaxing afternoon! Or at least taking their time!

Just chilling out on a Sunday! Getting ready to go out to the deck party!

I don't know do the thing! Sunday deck parties!

I think we should make it a thing for the hippos! Sunday grazing parties!

Where they go out and they eat themselves silly filled with grass! Well, they're gonna have to walk a little bit of a distance away!

A little bit walking is going to have to be done! The grazing in this particular area is not nice!

Both, some, I don't know what it's like a buffalo cun! Fortunately bees! You can look around us, it's quite sparse!

Hmm! Not that nice! The umpires in that right-hand corner haven't come down to graze!

That's for sure! They are doing a bit of nibbling at the moment! I suspect they've come to the water's edge to drink!

Though bachelorhood and lots and lots of bachelorhood is what we're seeing at the moment! One big round staring into the thicket!

Listening around! The wind has also just started to pick up quite a bit!

That's pretty scary! I think it's going to blow whatever is building up in the distance!

And I've seen clouds in the South! I think James are showing you them!

Whose big balls of candy floss! And then just above the Impala, there's another huge embankment of cars!

And they are climbing vertically! Oops!

That might mean rain! I wonder what will happen if the clouds meet from the south and from the east!

If there's one keeps up that might blow whatever's brewing in the sky away!

Now for those of you that have never joined on one of these live and interactive safaris, you can actually ask me questions!

Can you believe that? All James Albright! All you have to do is hashtag a safari live!

Or you can also talk to us via the YouTube chat that's also acceptable!

Now I'm, I suppose, ready to give you a very quick update!

Sins will be ready in case the hippos do something exciting!

Then I'll just duck! Should we do