Africa's Mightiest Meat Eaters | Meet the Lions of Animal Kingdom | Magic of Disney's Animal Kingdom
At Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, day dawns for Africa's mightiest meat eaters.
Alright, are you ready to shift 1.2 line on show? Have a great day. Three majestic lions rule this savanna. You normally see them walk their whole perimeter and set mark a lot of different things. This is how lions communicate not only with each other, but with other lion prides in the wild after they survey their surroundings. Typically, you hail them vocalize to the group. Is that beautiful? Right. Oh. And that's pretty typical lion behavior. That's how they announce themselves.
Kenzi is kind of got like a rasp to her vocalization. Oh. He likes to do a quick huff, and then Dakari is just big, loud, and powerful. Vocalizing is one of my favorite things in the world. I've worked with him for two years and hearing that sound every day just gives me goosebumps. You'll see a lot of play behavior. One of their favorite things to do is spar and play with each other. Our two sisters, Kinsey and Kamari, really love to see who can sneak up on the other first.
Oh, it's always been one of my biggest goals to work with these beautiful African carnivores. And I have fallen in love with this pride. Morning, Kamari. How are you doing today? You're having a good morning. From this vantage point, they can see the entire east savanna. Our Barnaba, our water buck are coming out here. We have our officer, Jaz. They definitely get really hyped when the ostrich comes soaring by.
But at the happiest place on earth, a network of moats and barriers keeps predators and prey apart. Right now, we are introducing some of our baby rhinos to the savannah. Are you excited to see the baby rhinos come out? Oh, yeah. We have Milo Ranger and their sister Logan coming out every day. These guys definitely keep a good, watchful eye over the savannah when all these babies are coming out and exploring their new surroundings.
A healthy lion needs more than just eye candy. We get bored looking at the same stuff every single day, so why wouldn't they? They're all entering their teens, which is the geriatric stage in a big cat's life. So we really need to see how their range of motion is functioning, just like when we get older. Arthritis is a big problem. They need a hook term on a giraffe.
Yesterday, we put some of those shavings on that rock to replicate natural scents that lions would smell in the wild, like a giraffe just walked through their exhibit. This is really cool to see her pawing and clawing at that, just like she would be using those muscles to hunt and forage in the wild. Oh.