Safari Live - Day 142 | National Geographic

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

Good afternoon and welcome to the Sunset Safari 2.0! My name is Taylor McCurdy, and on camera with me today is Senzo. Of course, we're very sorry for all the technical glitches that we have had, but let's hope that this time it all stays up and running. For those of you that were watching on the dam cam, thank you for putting up with my nonsense, and I will be leaving shortly to find some animals and let you enjoy the peace and quiet.

Yeah, if you've never joined us in one of these amazing and direct safaris, you can chat to us. You can hashtag Safari Live, or you can also talk to us via the YouTube chat. We look forward to chatting to you! Shall we leave, Senzo? Oh, I think we will leave. Bye, everybody! Bye!

Thank you for participating in the dam camera. Off right, but I'm not owning out on safari today. Ralph is also out in the bush. I think he was going to head out to do a bit of aerial viewing, and James is on bush walk, and I think he's gonna try and read Tandi. Okay, done. Tandi is very exciting!

Well, speaking of James and being on bush walk, he's had quite some time to move around. Let's jump on board with him and see if he's had any luck with Sandy. We think we may have been pretty close to her trail right now. I also apologize for our late start today. We are in the area where she was found this morning, and we've got babblers alarm calling and we have got go-away birds along the way. So we're hoping desperately that she's just in here.

But it's days on camera! Hello, David! I could see her, and Ferb is obviously running security detail and tracking for us. We're just gonna go around here. The babblers are up here; you can see how very very thick it is, and this is exactly where the leopard was this morning. So Tandi, our new kind of queen, I guess, and her baby Jolanda were in these thickets today.

Please send through your questions, of course! Hashtags Safari Live. You can send us questions also in the YouTube chat, but maybe just stay with us for another five minutes, and let's see if we don't get lucky. Because if we do see her, it'll be very brief. She won't sit tight!

It's the most gorgeous Sunday afternoon; beautiful autumnal temperature, 28 degrees, also 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Andrea, I think that your comment is very valid. You say you think that Tandi has found us already and is staying out of sight. I think that that is highly likely!

All we want is just a quick glimpse of her so that we can call Tandi in. Here, you're wondering about which birds are along; oh, oh, the go-away bird! And this is the chin spot fat-tailed, which is normally very good indicators of where a predator is. I must say, it's very difficult to think of a more perfect spot to be in on a Sunday afternoon walking free in the Kruger National Park with you guys, with us, and the great Herbert Rosa in front tracking down possibly the most beautiful cat in all the world! That's not just about throwing aspersions on you, David.

I'm also happy to be with you today. Stacey, you want to know if I've ever found Tandi on foot before? I think I have! I've seen her on foot; I haven't seen her baby on foot, though. So I don't know how the baby will react, but she's so used to us now! You know, Taylor found her on foot today, and they were pretty relaxed.

Like, but it's a story. Loving calling in the trees up here—that's what we're looking for! And it's so interesting; you know, this is exactly where Karula used to hang out! The last time I saw her on foot was right in here on Craig's first walk. Yeah, not sure, at this stage, she'll be around here somewhere.

Okay, let's go across to Ralph. He had a fairly agitated count with earlier, huh? I'm not sure what he's got now.

Good afternoon once again, everybody, and welcome to the afternoon Safari. You're watching Safari Live, and my name is Ralph Kirsten. On the camera, we've got Sebastian. How's it, Sebastian? Yes, he's back from leave. And well, everybody, please don't forget that it is Earth Day today.

So we want to remind you of the 3 R's: reduce, reuse, recycle, and get rid of that plastic. Just don't throw it in the bin; try and use it in some other way. And please don't forget as well to join us on the hashtag Safari Live on Twitter and on the YouTube live chat. Send us your questions and your comments and join us on the largest game drive in the world!

Now I'm on the track of Hosanna, the spotted cat, and we're just trying to pick up where he was last seen this afternoon around midday. We're in the region, but you know how these cats are. I could be lying to us next to the road, and we've driven past him already! But we are going to try and catch up with him, so I'm not too far from where he was last seen. I'm going to try and see if we can see those signs and follow up.

While I'm doing that, let's head on over to Taylor for one of those massive land mammals now!

I've only been searching for these massive land mammals for about—how many weeks now? How many weeks have I been elephant free? This is outrageous! In fact, thankfully, we have a large herd of them. They all seem to be quite spread out at the moment. However, we've got a female here and a couple of little ones too to keep us company.

And guess what? We are so close to mud wallows! I'm hoping—we're really, really hoping—we're gonna get elephants. My bar thing today? It doesn't look like they've had one recently, and it doesn't actually look like they've drunk water at all.

So, cue the green! Again, lucky but first of course, if you're an elephant fan. They're not just gobbling up the silver cluster leaf trees. Now the poor silver cluster leaf tree that this elephant is feeding on at the moment really doesn't stand a chance! You can see how they’re completely dwarfed; it seems like they've sort of snapped it in half and now they’re desperately trying to branch out.

So, Penny, I'm now getting boos from final control. Anyway, she's not eating all of them, though. She's pulling a couple of branches off here and there and nibbling on them and then well, leaving the rest! And that's not what elephants do.

They don’t typically feed on one tree for too long. They decide to pull it down, then they’ll feed on it for a while. Now obviously, we are very lucky here in the vehicles; the animals are quite a bit used to it. Some individuals don’t like them as much as others, and this lot seems to be very relaxed. They don't mind us at all!

Nandhini, now, and I mean elephant attacks, yeah, are not particularly common. You know, we sort of get human-wildlife conflict. So for example, South Africa is not a big one, but if you go into areas like Mozambique, you go into Zambia, Kenya, all these countries where there aren’t many fences and the community lands basically infringed on wildlife zones, if you will, and then you will sort of find a lot of times elephants attacking humans.

But mainly it’s because people are trying to chase them away because they're eating their crops, and then they stand up for themselves. So the chances of an elephant actually attacking anyone, regardless as to how close you got, is quite rare. And that's why this is so important!

Oh, look! There's a tiny baby coming down the road—three little ones! You can see! Oh, there! Kim! Hey, there! Come this way, please!

And I'll tell you; we're pretty lucky we have a very good relationship with them! So yes, if you do get too close, I suppose it depends on the situation. And I think Ralph is talking about it this morning, how it's important that we respect wildlife and we give them space. But it's also very important that the animals understand, for instance, that they can't touch the cars, that they can't do certain things either. So we try and keep this up.

It’s a big female; she's a big tusker, this one photobombing everybody! People try to take screenshots of the little one; you know, you would have had your turn at some point when you were also small.

Oh, they're so cute! They're big tusks! Yeah, they are munching away! I'm so excited! I can't believe it! It's quite a nice-sized herd, too! It's not fangs herd. I haven't seen Fang, and I don't think there’s that many individuals here.

She's got quite a large rug! For those of you who have no idea who Fang is, Fang is one of our favorite elephants; she's got big tusks that curve back towards her. Oh, look at that little one! We ran into an older sibling!

Now, I don't think that those two little ones that we saw were twins, spotted Sally, and then they're just keeping one another company and as youngsters do! I mean, you see it wherever you go; the little ones normally grouped together, sort of around the same age, play with one another.

You know, they are very hairy; you can see it quite nicely because they're backlit. They're very young still—probably only two or three months old, somewhere around there! That one that’s not bulldozing the other one that has fallen to the floor seems to be slightly older.

And of course, when one elephant toppled to the ground, well, how can you resist an elephant pile?! There we go! Trying to jump on top! You’re not getting up now! I’m gonna wrestle you to the floor! Oh, this is too precious!

What a welcome back! I'm actually quite happy that I didn't see elephants for such a long time; it made me appreciate, you know, how special it is to see them! And we were so spoiled in the Mara; we saw them every single day. There wasn't a day that went by that we didn't see these Ellie's! Oh, so sweet!

Now, obviously, the biggest question on everybody's mind at the moment is where did the elephants go and why did they leave? So, child of the universe, you've asked that—specifically this afternoon—remember the elephants don't hold territories, so they go wherever they want!

They go where the grass is greener; they go where the fruit is, you know, flourishing! It just depends! So they're constantly on the move; they don't want to stay in one area for too long. They don’t want to overgraze or overbrowse a particular spot! So they keep going!

And it’s quite a nice how they rotate their paddocks. Not raining, because of course these are not paddocks, as in wild animals, and they got familiar! If you've got horses or any domestic animals—goats, sheep, cars—and you don't have a huge area, you tend to, well, like I just said, create paddocks and rotate them around so you don't overgraze an area.

Elephants do this naturally; a lot of the animals that don’t hold territories do this naturally as well. So that's what's happened! These guys have come from the south, so perhaps they went down to the sand and the Sabie River and were feeding along the banks on all the papyrus and other reeds and rushes that made row down there, and had a good time!

But now they're coming back! Coming back into this area! And since... What should I get? To move forward just a little bit so we can get those little ones again? I think we might have some obstructions with the trees. Was it okay still? Let's go see where this little one’s going. That must be Mom over there!

So now you can see they're not twins, but just one of the adults—the biggest cow—who I assume is the matriarch. Hello, elephants! And just, of course, babysitting! But this one now going, “Mom, please wait! I'm exhausted from pushing and shoving my little friend around! Can I please have a drink?”

Because unlike the other elephants that have to focus on feeding throughout the day remember they? They will feed for up to 19 hours a day. Those little ones—they just can play and they're just suckling at the moment! They will be trying to eat bits and pieces, but how much they're actually chewing and swallowing? I highly doubt that!

You know what I think we’ll do? Senzo, let me go up and around and turn around! I think they may go and maybe wanna wait! I'm just gonna turn around so that if they do head back to the mud wallows, we'll get a nice view of them!

Oh, how incredible is this?! Max, please, can you repeat what you said to me? I had my earpiece turned down a little bit lower; I might get a piece of volume on! Oh, there we go! Yes, Horner, I agree with you! I suppose this makes up for the technical gremlins, doesn't it?

I think so! And so you said, "What a way to start the day! Breakfast with elephants!" Pretty spectacular! Except the elephants are having afternoon tea at the moment, going into an early dinner!

So there they all are and I think they’re enjoying this area, just making the most of the grass! I’ve had the most amazing elephant sighting here! You may remember it when I first got back; so it was in the first week of March. I was in almost the same spot, and it seems we—you see this termite mound just over here—where this little elephant is also defecating and urinating!

I was standing up on top of that termite mound with David and Rickson, and we were surrounded by elephants and it was so spectacular! Do any of you ever remember that bush walk that I went on? It was one of the best bush walks I've ever had in terms of encountering elephants!

So we know this is a very popular spot for them to feed! There's a variety of things for them to eat—from the silver cluster trees that are still bearing their pods—which I'm sure are tasty—right through to all this lovely tall green grass! And this variety of types of grass species here too!

And bush willows—so nice things! It's the perfect place and a couple of obstacles and warm, I suppose, a tree to rub on if you really wanted to scratch an itch. You could do that too!

Perfect! Thank you for coming home, elephants! Right, seeing as the elephants are the topic to start off with, I'm gonna send you to James to see what his best elephant encounter on foot is!

Mmm, wonderful to say, really! There have been so many! I just suddenly remembered the very first elephant encounter I had on foot. I was on my own—terrified of the bush completely—and this elephant was in the thick bush, but like this over here actually!

And I was walking along alone and I heard this branch crack and I had to go along this road. I’d been given a map and I had to complete a route. I snuck along on terrified, and there he was! And I could just see his backside!

I remember him turning to look at me like this, and perhaps he realized how utterly terrified I was because he just kind of turned back and carried on eating! And I went, and then I couldn’t stop myself and I had to have a little run for about 20 meters after that! That was my very first elephant encounter on foot alone! Thankfully, I'm not quite as afraid as I was back then! I was a young buck—22 years old, never spent any time on foot in the bush!

On the subject of the last segment, we had Sandy and a cub. No luck! Tracks around, and I think that she could easily have seen us already and be around here! There are birds shouting all over the place! Now, I wonder if they're not watching these spots from their high points walking through this long grass, and perhaps that's why you're not seeing them anyway! We will—we won't, I guess!

Alright, apparently the elephants that Taylor has wished to be in the circus, I think it does! Really want you, as it's well trying to balance about all this log-asaurus that's in the water!

Well, perhaps our sister is busy with the manicure. Maybe it's using that, EEU, and it has not done any water yet. This young elephant is very much interested in the log!

Just because that’s stamping in the mud, it’s not very deep visible mud wallow; it’s drying out fairly quickly! Is something there? You can see that trunk is working overtime!

Know what?! It's smelling! Maybe is it looking for mud? Does it just feel nice? Careful, you’re gonna slide! That's not very even! It's not going to—maybe it's going to slip and fall, like me! Be careful!

I’ve done that many times; it's standing on the smallest side island. It's got all four feet on a dry patch at the moment, just dipping its toes!

And this is so curious! It's amazing to watch that trunk work in such beautiful light as well! Off to the next pole! There you go! Picked up a little bit of mint! Please don't throw it at me!

Perhaps this will turn into a game of clay light! I need to get my stick in some mud; it'll only be fair! So amazing! So busy!

Hi little one, are you going to throw it at us? I think you’re showing off for everybody this afternoon! I think that’s what’s happening here! This one likes the attention! The splashing sounds are so amazing, too!

You know, it's not really doing anything here! Careful, you don’t slip! They've got great 4x4 tread, but well, when you're standing on your own toes, there might be a problem!

It's really just smelling everything! It doesn’t pull that plant out! It's smelling the mud, picking it up, throwing it around a little bit! Very busy!

See though, this is where I wish I could speak to animals because I would love to know what's going through this elephant's mind! Perhaps you have an idea! What do you think this elephant is doing? What do you think is on its mind? Hashtag Safari Live! Let’s hear your thoughts!

It doesn’t have to be so realistic! If you want to get creative, go for it! Let’s have a little laugh this afternoon! Mr. Parker, you’re convinced that this is definitely a balancing act! It seems like that elephant wants to pick up that stone now, it's wedged in the mud! No, it's not!

Two feet on the island, one foot on the log, and one foot on a stone! Maybe it's auditioning for the circus! Although you wouldn't want to go to the circus elephant, let me tell you! You’ve got a much better life out here!

Very busy! Safari Lives Got Talent? You quite right, Rebecca. Perhaps the presenters and the rest of the team should be notified about Safari Lives Got Talent! I know we tried to do it in the Mara, and then that just never happened!

Oh, this is beautiful! Let’s see if it’s going to pull up any of that grass! No, it's still just smashing the mat around!

Now, here’s something that has happened to me on multiple occasions! Kea, yes, I have been sprayed with—not quite water—but I've definitely had mud thrown on me before! And in the Eastern Cape, that's happened to me. And then I had it happen to me fairly recently in the Mara—2!

With us teenage car! Who was just having an absolute ball all around me! She's throwing a bit of a tantrum! And we just sat there! She didn’t really mean anything by it; she was desperately trying to get our reaction, which we weren't going to give her!

We weren't going to race away from her, terrified screaming with our hands in the air! So, we just kind of sat there, and she picked up mud, and they actually—I'll try and find the video—there's a small part where she does this, and you can see the mud coming towards me!

So she hits—I think Manu was with me on camera that day. She got my new and I, which was quite funny! And I can't tell you how many dust baths I've had from elephants deciding to just come stand right next to the car and have a bit of a dust bath!

So that happens quite regularly! In fact, it’s one of the most exhilarating experiences! And I’ve told you this story before; I think it's amazing! I'm pretty sure you would all love it if you got to be mud-bathing with an elephant or being dusted fine!

And I've had this one guest that was very upset about the whole experience; I was like, “I'm never gonna wash my clothes again!” I was like, “I’ll just keep these forever!”

It was the first time that it had happened to me! Everybody else enjoyed it! Right, off you go to Ralph, who’s got a beautiful view of some Impala feeding!

Thanks, Taylor! And look at that in the golden sunlight as these Impala feed on the silver cluster leaf, which is quite strange because that's—I don't know if any of you have seen—I think Steve was eating it at some stage when he first arrived here.

It makes your mouth extremely dry, and I think it's a bit of a purgative! So I don't know if they ate that to try and settle their stomach a little bit or if they actually are immune to the purgative nature of the silver cluster leaves.

But one of my mentors once said to me when I first started out as a guide that if you are looking for a predator or you want to see a predator hunting, you need to wait at the prey or be next to the prey.

Well, that's exactly what we've decided to do! We've come to Impala plains, and very apt—lots of Impala here—and we're trying to find Hosanna that we haven't seen any sign of him as yet! So we're just hanging around these Impala for a little while and see if we get lucky!

And while we're doing that, we can just enjoy the sheer beauty of them in this golden light! They've got some oxpeckers on them, and they're all feeding as they move through!

And if there is any sign of Hosanna, that would blow in their favor—or anything like that, and they'll pick it up, and then we can pick him up!

So, oh, it's good! You can see the colors nice and clearly! They call it counter-shading from the dark to the bottom, being a very light-goroh!

Well, a good question, and thanks for asking that! Impala are mixed feeders, so they will graze and browse! And that's one of the reasons why they are so successful is that they can feed on a very wide range of foods!

They can eat grass; they can eat most leaves, and they can eat leaves of all sorts of different plants! And that's why I’m saying that's quite special with that silver cluster leaf because I’ve eaten a few leaves of that and it literally almost instantly draws up all the saliva in your mouth!

And look at them feeding on it there, that's quite interesting indeed! I haven't seen Impala feeding on silver cluster leaf! Now there might be other people that laugh at me, say they're saying they see it all the time!

But, well, I’m sharing my experience with you! And now I haven't seen them feeding on that at all!

So that is the terminology as sericea - all the leaves sort of bunched on them in a group at the end of the little branches quite happily!

You wouldn't see many animals feeding on a silver clasp; where you find lots of silver clasp leaves as well, it's normally where there's a high salt content in the soil!

Cleaning your nose! Cleaning them around the mouth very fast as well! They see that! I’m wondering—it's almost doing something quite strange! Why she's feeding? It must be quite uncomfortable because I really would not want to feed on it!

And you know, I've seen Impala also feeding on sickle bush quite regularly, especially when they're under the weather! You can see that they’re quite—their ribs are showing!

And we say as humans that the sickle bush is like the pharmacy of the bush! And I'm sure she’s doing that because of the dryness in her mouth!

No way that the tone is—it's almost like, you know, sometimes if my dog, my basset hound, if he wants a bit of my peanut butter sandwich, I give him a little piece! And then he also does a little bit of something like that because it’s stuck to the top of his palate!

And I don’t do it on purpose to watch him suffer! He’s just dumb! He's just a very pushy basset!

But look at that; the very interesting. You see that's what I'm saying with them—sickle bush with him being a little bit under the weather and then showing the ribs and everything!

You know, the guy and I feed on sickle bush, and I'm sure. Bless you! That was a zip! They're having a sneeze up!

He's not getting a cold! And the Impala did have a look as well, and it sounded a bit like an alarm call! That!

And there, the male doing a little bit of marking this morning! I very wrongly suggested that Impala have pre-orbital glands, but that was in the heat of the moment!

They do have a lot of little glands on the forehead, and that's what he's rubbing there! Not only rubbing, but he's probably now going to attack that bush, and I'm sure he's gonna win that fight!

Scenic, thank you for your question, as always! And I think one of the most difficult plants for animals to digest would be something like the euphorbias, which is full of that white latex!

So euphorbias like the—like we get very commonly here is the candle of candelabra—candelabra? I'm not sure how you pronounce it—a candelabra euphorbia! A lot of white latex, and it’s quite poisonous!

As is the tambuti, which has also got that white milky latex—a very difficult to digest, and in Namibia, obviously, you get a lot more of those euphorbia tar plants because it's very desert conditions!

And so there's only a few animals that can actually digest that, like porcupines, oryx, and Bill Rhino. Those are very special animals that obviously have some kind of enzyme in their stomach that can neutralize that poison!

But I must say that the silver cluster leaf is definitely one of those difficult-to-digest vegetable matters! And I'm sure that they're doing this for a particular reason, as I was suggesting with them eating the sickle bush with its pharmaceutical value!

That's making them feel a little bit better! Almost like a painkiller! You know, it's got an anesthetic properties in it! It's got antihistamine properties!

Now let's watch its throat as it's going to be good! Look, it's coming up! It comes, and it starts to reach you! But it's got a little bit more difficulty in a way that it's moving its mouth! Lots of licking! Lots of licking!

And that says to me that it’s definitely a problem with this silver cluster leaf that they're feeding on!

“Well, there's not much happening here! There's no indication of any predators around! So I'm going to continue the search for Hosanna! While I do that, let’s head on over to James and see if he's been able to find any signs of Tundi!”

Well, there’s always something to find on foot! The thing that we found this time around is a perfect summer picnic spot in a grove of gorgeous tambuti trees! Nice grass underneath them says the chances of getting bitten on the bottom by a tick are very small, which is excellent, of course!

What was motivating them? Altameyer? One—it's having a delicious summer picnic! Now we have circled in, circled around like a truck circling a sprayed undefined Tundi! We haven't had any luck just yet!

And so we're continuing along the circle—just drainage system! Sure! I never walked along before; it’s really pretty indeed!

We're going to check if we need to follow her right away or if we can do a little flower segment! I think we can do a little flower segment! Here's a beautiful yellow flower! It is the flower of the flannel weed!

It's known as a crotch shot! Everybody wants to try and avoid that as much as possible! Beautiful flannel weed there! And it's called a flannel weed because it feels, David, like—well done! Just like it's a kind of plant that grows very commonly here but on sites that are disturbed by grazing or by footfalls of hooves, and in this case probably around Lattimer’s feet coming down through here!

What a magnificent afternoon we find ourselves on! Sorry, that was my brain gathering the question. You say, “Is the latex in plants the same as the latex used by human beings for gloves and other such things?”

And it’s not precisely the same! I think it's processed slightly, and certainly originally it used to be made from plant latex, in the same way that rubber is made from plant rubber!

I think that the commercially available latex now has probably got a lot of synthetic components in it! There might be some plant-based component in it, but I doubt it comes from something like a tambuti tree, for example!

It would probably come from a much more voluminous producer of latex, such as love euphorbia! But I’m guessing now! I'm just kind of—I’m making relatively educated guesses!

I think let's continue down through here! I noticed I watched yesterday's show! Oh, no! I didn't hit David when I bent down there, Roy! I hit my own head! The microphones in the hat! Sorry about that, everybody!

What you would have seen if I had hit David was a fairly substantial fist followed by a fairly substantial forearm coming around the front and connecting with my bottom jaw!

Alrighty, let's hear back to Taylor!

Very nice to have elephants back on the reserve! It most certainly is! I cannot tell you how excited I am, although hopefully, you can hear it in the sound of my voice! But our elephants have now decided they're going to feed in the middle of this semi-open area!

But the grass is so tall, let me tell you! I really can't see them! There's actually the bulk of the herd just behind that big clump, but you wouldn't know it!

They’re all hiding away! How tall is the grass?! Feet is asking, "Ramadan?" I think it depends! Some of the grass is about three feet or so, and then there are other areas—like where the fetching grasses—that's well over six foot!

So I would say the majority of it is just under three feet, and then there are some sections where it's exceptionally tall! I suppose it just depends on what type of grass species it is! Not all the grasses get too tall!

For instance, the Feathertop cloris doesn't is it massive! It doesn't get as tall as the yellow sachin grass! The panicum can get quite big! Quite big! Quite tall as well!

And the common finger grass can grow quite tall as well! It's hard to try and point to answer! I'm not gonna get out the car and show you now because there are elephants here!

The herringbone grass doesn't get particularly tall! The catch grass is fairly short as well! So there’s a variety of different types! A lot of it is for the top loris around here!

Now I think if we're patient maybe in the next ten minutes or so, the elephants will pop out on Twin Dams Road! So please keep an eye on the dam camera because there might be some that are already in that area!

They're moving north, and we're not particularly far from where Tandi was. I reckon if I did a gorgeous jungle call, you would all hear me on the dam cam! But I'm not going to because I’m going to terrify the elephants!

So I’m quite keen to spend the entire afternoon following this herd! I know it would have been nice to have seen leopards, but hopefully, Ralph and James will be able to pull those cats out of the bag!

I'm going to make the most of the sighting because they are my favorite animal in the whole wide world, and I have not seen them for weeks! Which has made me very sad! But now I'm a very happy girl!

Come on, Ellies! Just pick up the pace a little! They can eat quicker and just keep going north! So they might take a while to pop out on the next road! But either way, we'll be there to catch them!

I’ll be there for you! Mmm, isn’t that the Friends theme song? I will be there waiting for the elephants! Shall we do a loop? Let’s see! I can hear some flapping of ears just a little way from here!

Maybe one or two younger bulls tantalizing the herd! It could be a possibility!

Oh, you know one of those? I think there’s like a random lone Impala here too! Yeah, I’ll show you it!

Oh no, it’s not one! There’s a few! Let me go around the corner!

Maybe there's just two, in fact. Well, that would be a few, there wouldn’t it? These ones are not eating silver, trust me. There’s three Impala! Hello! Where's the rest of your herd?

That's quite unusual, don’t you think? Very unusual to just have the three of them! I wonder why they've separated from the bulk of a herd! But dangerous just only being the three of them!

Sorry! Apologies! I took my foot off the brake there! That was not Senzo; it was me! I think that listening to the elephants feeding through the thicket, they do look a little bit wary!

That you right in front is on high alert at the moment! You can see the perverse ears before she moves out into the next open gap, just listening! Just checking around, looking left and right!

Perhaps looking up and down to making sure that there isn’t a leopard concealed in the grass! Brent did a very nice demonstration on Safari Live yesterday afternoon and how tall the grasses are!

And how thick the vegetation is! And if there was a leopard just laying lovely in about, oh, you would never see it! Off they go! Good luck, Impala!

There’s one elephant! I’m gonna quickly reverse this so we can get a view of it! My, yes, come and come! A mud bath! Is it our friend from India? No, this one has got a dry trunk! It’s another one!

And Nandini, yes, Impala are very good at alerting other animals to predators! Yes, giving us the death stare, this little one! Any cheeky!

That's the area of the back of the car! And they’ve got fairly good sights, and they will snort when startled or when they spot something, they’ll pick up the scent of a predator!

And they’re most certainly will tell everyone else! If by cheeky! Okay, let’s check down this road quickly to see if there are any more!

Because he's going to follow the others and disappear fairly quickly now! Maybe—again, maybe we'll get another young bull slowly following up the back of the herd!

Just keep checking and then listening out for any breaking branches—anything along those lines that will sort of point us in the direction of more elephants! Otherwise, maybe the time for go round! We’ll catch them!

Zack, no interesting question. I’m gonna repeat it! You've asked basically if it's true that elephants are the only animals that can't jump!

I don't think a hippopotamus could jump. I think—I don’t know! I can't say that I've ever seen! You know what? I haven’t seen an elephant lift all four feet off the ground!

But I’ve definitely seen a couple of elephants; they’re very good at rearing! Pretending to be horses when they're, so technically they're jumping up onto their back legs!

So I would say no, I think elephants can jump!

Because, yeah, what would you say? That’s jumping if they have to lift themselves off their front feet! Senza, Rebecca, I don’t know! To me, they’re jumping if all feet are off the ground!

No, I’ve never seen an elephant with all feet! Or, through the hippos definitely they porpoise a lot in water! Then their feet come off the floor, but of course, I've got the buoyancy to help them!

And let's see! So, yeah! I suppose the hippo as well! That’s what they always say! If you are being charged by something like a hippo, get yourself behind a big...

Oh, breaking news County! There’s a leopard at the dam! Can you see it!? Was there for the show? And more elephants will come back and meet us there!

Okay, we're going! Let me just find Ralph on the rim! Revere any stations near Brits at the dam at the moment?

Make sure there's not an established sighting, yarn confirmed that you’ve seen and leopard around the dam! Can we just go to reports? I had my radio turned down! Are you unlocked with anything at the dam?

Can you update you in five minutes? Hang on! Were patsies okay? Coffee, patsy, I'm just coming down towards the dam!

Dude, the viewers were saying they saw it on the dam cam! Can I come in to join you please? Well, how's that? I got to doing my favorite things: Ferrari Safari! Elephants are now maybe even a leopard!

Patti, I'm just the thing! I'm so sorry! Oh right! We're going to navigate our way through the zebra crossing and the wildebeest crossing to try and find the leopard, which I think is just up ahead!

But if we go to James in the meantime, well, things seem to be heating up quite a lot at the moment. We found more tracks, so we've now headed into a slightly different area down towards the central area where there are a couple of patterns or two holes!

Taylor's heading towards a leopard; perhaps Ralph's heading towards a leopard!

Perhaps it’s going to be a leopard walk-off, or perhaps we will just look at gymnast porcupine-bucks if we see any now!

If ever there was a plant that tested more bitter and nasty than the silver cluster leaf that Impala was eating earlier, this is it: gymnast pouria boxer folia!

And if you were making a bitter salad for your worst enemy, you would put this in the salad! And then you would take this turpentine grass and you would crush it up over the top of your gymnast snowboard salad—and you would defeat your worst enemy!

And they would be so disgusted by what you had given them: tannins mixed with turpentine aromatic oils, disgusting!

Deborah, you’re wondering if the silver cluster leaves go dormant in the wintertime! Hmm! I feel like I've lost my mind!

I saw the trusty little evergreen! I think the silver cluster leaf is not an evergreen! So it does go dormant! Remember, very few things go completely dormant!

Even—in fact, some trees, same as they do in South America—will in fact become dormant at other times of the year when they can reduce competition!

A very good example is some brown ivory trees! Sometimes Jabba bears do, and they lose their leaves during springtime when everything else is trying to compete for nutrients and soil resources!

They lose their leaves, go dormant briefly, and then get them again when the competition is less!

Always, yes! Yes, that's correct! So the custard trees are like most of the other trees around here! The most common family of trees are the combretum—a family obviously all the competing trees live in the combretum family!

And so I think all of them lose their leaves in the wintertime, which I guess indicates dormancy! Probably not complete dormancy! But it is known dormant here is a central road! Now Juna—once a very fine example of humanity striding towards us!

There he is! Backlit by the setting sun! Herbert, what do you have to tell us? No track? Okay, we'll follow you wherever you go!

So dormancy is really—not a day—because it doesn't get that cold here! It's not something that all things have to do at all, and I'm thinking of a tree—or it’s not something that they have to do in winter to take time!

I'm thinking of a tree that we have in the garden in the Eastern Cape called the fiddlewood tree! And it's a South American tree, and it loses its leaves in December!

It’s a disaster at Christmas time! It loses all its leaves! And then round about now, it blossoms and makes its fruits! So it's verdant green going into the wintertime, and then it's sort of miserable at Christmas time, and that's because where it comes from, it doesn't need to be dormant in the winter because winter is just slightly cooler than summer!

It's not like any of the pine trees or boreal trees! The trees— we found the boreal forests that must go completely dormant! Eli, yes they do!

And many other poisonous plants! You said are animals eating tambuti leaves. They do eat tambuti leaves! We've got elephants that can do that! Sometimes kudu can definitely!

Black rhino specialize in tambuti leaves! And porcupines eat the base of tambuti—in fact, they've favored the base of tambuti trees in their favor, the roots!

So, yeah! Then for just about every single poisonous plant out here, there’s something that has evolved the ability to eat it! We as human beings are noticeably absent on the list of poison-tolerant creatures! We can’t eat tambuti!

If we eat any of that euphorbia stuff that the draft was talking about, it's really bad for us!

Ah, varoom! You're asking about teak and sandalwood trees in the Sabi Sands! Now sandalwood, no definitely. We don't get sandalwood as far as I'm aware!

But you do get a teak tree! Not so much here, but down on the bigger rivers like the Manulito River or on the Sand River or on the Sabie River, you will find trees called the natal mahogany!

Which is very similar to a teak tree that we file, or means the closest thing we have to a teak tree out here in South Africa! And then, of course, in the rainforests of Central Africa, you'll find various kinds of teak trees!

But I don't think—and they’ll be related to tea trees as you find in other parts of the world! Of course, we get a tea tree here! We get the Transvaal teak tree!

Actually, we get two types of teak trees! We have the transport teak, and we get to the round-leaf teak! Now, there are leaf tea trees should be all over the place, but it never grows bigger than this!

And it doesn't go bigger than that because the elephants tear it to pieces! If you let it grow in the absence of elephants, it could grow into a tree that you could make furniture, or a table!

And there's one transport teak tree on Juma—the big one! Brent and I have both tried to climb it to get at the pods! We had a big competition in it!

I mean, the very first few months that we worked here together to try and get at the pods! So there is definitely a transport teak tree here!

Huh! Forgotten that! Thank you very much! Alright, Taylor is speeding towards the dam! I imagine she must be there!

I don't know if she has a leopard! I don't have the leopard, James! Not yet! I'm not sure who it was! Maybe some of you can help us! If you did see it on the dam cam!

Patsy wasn't sure who it was! However, we did have Tandi around this area last night with Brent! And then Nan saw him this morning!

I don't think maybe he was drinking around here! Apparently, Hosanna was seen off of Triple M! And some of the Juma guides spent a bit of time with him earlier! We didn't go there because we were waiting for the elephants to come out!

And then we're also entertaining you on the dam way! That is not a hole we want to be going into! My goodness, we almost got sucked down!

I don't even in the behind us! Oh my goodness! Caught me trapped! Where are we gonna go? How are we going to get through this?

Yeah, I'm trying to—sorry, I’m sure we’re just trying to get out of here! We are in thick vegetation! Super thick vegetation now!

We’re obviously bundu bashing off-road! Yeah, I’m really hoping it is gonna beat me on! Of the nice deema! Anyway, let's jump aboard Ralph’s car and see how close he is to his leopard!

Thanks, Taylor! And while everybody, I'm really doing just a little bit of zigzag search because the last visual of this particular cat—not sure quite yet, I'm going to keep it for you a surprise for everybody!

He was heading in into this block, so I’m just trying now to catch up with him! And, well, for all intents and purposes, we might not find him at all!

But we just need to be persistent! If he was moving in one direction and be lining it, we may have lost him! But well, we’ve just got to keep looking for it!

And hopefully, something’s gonna pick him up! Give a bit of an alarm call, and that will help point us in the right direction!

So it's all about now just trying to follow up! I’m going to just stop over here in this open area and just listen!

It's very quiet! I'm not seeing anything for now; I'm not hearing anything either! That's all very exciting! But it could all be very disappointing as well because it might be that we've now lost him!

So I think we should just start up again! There’s nothing happening! We don't have a visual, and we don't have a sound— we've got nothing at the moment!

But we know he was here—that's the clue we have! And for the rest of it, we just need to be persistent and move around from spot to spot!

If he's gone flat, well, then he’s an invisible cat and he’s gone! Unless he gets up and moves, or he flicks his tail and we spot that little bit of white! Well then, he’s pretty much gone!

A little bit further in here, I’m wondering if he didn’t go flat near to the road! I might double back and go back to the road and start all over again!

But I just want to hit a little bit deeper in first and cover that side of things! Sorry, I'm not looking at you, everybody!

I am now all eyes and ears for this leopard to be careful! We don’t fall into an art; all Jesup’s isn’t something all over there! It could be stalking! He could be doing anything!

It could be a she! I’m not giving anything away!

Alright, well, there's lots of excitement this afternoon, and let's hope that we can catch up with him!

Let’s head on over to Taylor and see if her search is going well! We haven't found anything yet! We’ve cut through the block! I'm gonna turn around now and go back down!

However, I think I may have to change a tire at some point as we've done some serious off-roading!

I apologize! So, I'm just gonna keep looking for the leopard! I was—we never were going to find him! And so, yeah! So earlier today, as I was saying, Hosanna was sitting just off Triple M or opposite the power lines in the West!

So I think you're on Arethusa or Simba Billy! And the Pawnee who is just relaxing there! But I turned my game driver ad off so I didn’t quite know what was actually going on!

So he apparently was walking! Johan, who’s also trying to help us find the snippets who he was sat with him, and said that Hosanna had walked all the way down Bella nighties Road and part of Plains, and then going west towards Triple M!

So I think that's who was that side! I'm trying to figure out who would be here! Patsy said it did look like a male! Look quite big!

And we know that Ingana was in this area, and I don't know if anybody managed to find him in the end! There were reports of two leopards at one point, and well, the proof will be in the pudding soon, won’t it, when we can find one of these cats!

But no, I don't know where he's gone! So I'm just checking! The grass is very tall, and he has vanished! Yan, Yan, have you found anything, your highness? Just checking, because I know these cats can be super sneaky and just end up walking behind you!

Not that either of them would be running away from us! I did speak to Patsy; he didn't seem too nervous! He walked right past the car! I don’t know what type of—what you guys got on the gun of the cam cam!

The tam cam, we'll keep searching! I haven’t seen any tracks crossing guard cut line yet! I’m just gonna go back, and maybe see if this leopard didn’t perhaps sort of hide closer towards central!

Maybe he didn’t go too far east! It’s difficult when you don’t know where they turn; where exactly they went off!

I’m trying to get there as quick as I can! I’m just gonna have a little look! I feel like I’m a meerkat! Not just doing, I apologize that I’m not looking in any of you!

But I do want to find this leopard! And if I keep staring at the camera, I’m gonna miss him! Done that a few times, that's for sure! Driven straight past animals!

Okey-dokey! Off you go back to James! And hopefully next time you come back to me, there will actually be a leopard!

I give, most impressively, both Ralph and Taylor think they have Intengana! Not only is he still in the area, but he's doubled himself!

That is gonna freak Ockham completely! There's no way that their young pretenders are going to come and take over this area if there are two king Ghanas!

Fantastic stuff! Had no idea leopards could do it, but here we are! Just—you learn something new every day, as they say! Brilliant!

We have found nothing useful on the Tundi front, and that is not for lack of effort, so I'm just enjoying my Sunday stroll. Here are some yellow flowers! Come hither, David! This is—look at them! Bundy! Bundy or bunny Bundy!

Not bunny or Bundy! Bonnie! Who say—is it could possibly be Tandi that hopped over to the dam? It is possible! It's Sandy! I think it's more likely to be Hosanna, in fact!

I think Ralph is probably on the trail of Hosanna, and I think that Taylor is probably on the trail of Tundia! That's my guess! I have absolutely no reason for really saying that other than where they were last seen!

This is a lovely flower—a common one that we often show you called just Ischia flower. But what is very interesting about it is that it has been grazed! You see this?

Now I suspect that the culprit for this sort of trauma to the plant was a Nyala! And often we see them with their heads in the grass! And people must think to themselves, “Gosh, these presenters talk nonsense! Look at that Nyala; it’s grazing! It’s not browsing!”

But when they preach their pute—that sort of word—when they put their heads down into the grass, this is what they're going for! They're going for these little herbaceous plants!

And that's, well, they don't have any wood on them, and in this case, probably means around Lattimer as well! What a magnificent afternoon we've found ourselves on!

Sorry, that was my brain gathering the question! You say—is the latex in plants the same as the latex used by human beings for gloves and other such things?

And it's not precisely the same! I think it's processed slightly, and certainly, originally, it used to be made from plant latex in the same way that rubber is made from plant rubber!

I think that the commercially available latex now has probably got a lot of synthetic components in it! There might be some plant-based component in it, but I doubt it comes from something like a tambuti tree, for example!

It would probably come from a much more voluminous producer of latex, such as love euphorbia! But I’m guessing now! I'm just kind of052 dripping with sweat just that I should leave it up to go up the road!

Alright, let’s hear back to Taylor! Very nice to have elephants back on the reserve! It most certainly is! I cannot tell you how excited I am, although hopefully, you can hear it in the sound of my voice!

But our elephants have now decided they're going to feed in the middle of this semi-open area! But the grass is so tall, let me tell you! I really can't see them!

There's actually the bulk of the herd just behind that big clump, but you wouldn't know it! They’re all hiding away!

How tall is the grass?! Feet is asking, "Ramadan?" I think it depends! Some of the grass is about three feet or so, and then there are other areas—like where the fetching grasses—that’s well over six-foot!

So I would say the majority of it is just under three feet, and then there are some sections where it’s exceptionally tall! I suppose it just depends on what type of grass species it is!

Not all the grasses get too tall! For instance, the Feather grass quarry, doesn’t it massive! It doesn’t get as tall as the yellow saxon grass! The panicum can get quite big! Quite big! Quite tall as well!

And the common finger grass can grow quite tall as well! It's hard to try and point to answer! I'm not gonna get out the car and show you now because there are elephants here!

The herringbone grass doesn’t get particularly tall! The catch grass is fairly short as well! So there’s a variety of different types! A lot of it is for the top loris around here!

Now I think if we're patient maybe in the next ten minutes or so, the elephants will pop out on Twin Dams Road! So please keep an eye on the dam camera because there might be some that are already in that area!

They're moving north, and we're not particularly far from where Tandi is. I reckon if I did a gorge of a jungle call, you would all hear me on the dam cam! But I'm not going to because I’m going to terrify the elephants!

So I’m quite keen to spend the entire after in following this herd! I know it would have been nice to have seen leopards, but hopefully, Ralph and James will be able to pull those cats out of the bag!

I'm going to make the most of the sighting because they are my favorite animal in the whole wide world, and I have not seen them for weeks! Which has made me very sad! But now I’m a very happy girl!

Come on, Ellies! Just pick up the pace a little! They can eat quicker and just keep going north! So they might take a while to pop out on the next road! But either way, we'll be there to catch them!

I’ll be there for you! Mmm! Isn’t that the Friends theme song? I will be there waiting for the elephants! Shall we do a loop? Let’s see! I can hear some flapping of ears just a little way from here!

Maybe one or two younger bulls tantalizing the herd! It could be a possibility!

Oh, you know one of those? I think it’s like a random lone Impala here too! Yeah, I’ll show you it!

Oh no, it’s not one! There’s a few! Let me go around the corner!

Maybe there's just two, in fact. Well, that would be a few, there wouldn’t it? These ones are not eating silver, trust me! There’s three Impala! Hello! Where's the rest of your herd?

That's quite unusual, don’t you think? Very unusual to just have the three of them! I wonder why they’ve separated from the bulk of a herd! But dangerous just only being the three of them!

Sorry! Apologies! I took my foot off the brake there! That was not Senzo; it was me! I think that listening to the elephants feeding through the thickets—they do look a little bit wary!

That you right in front is on high alert at the moment! You can see the perverse ears before she moves out into the next open gap, just listening! Just checking around, looking left and right!

Perhaps looking up and down to make sure that there isn't a leopard concealed in the grass! Brent did a very nice demonstration on Safari Lives yesterday afternoon and how tall the grasses are!

And how thick the vegetation is! And if there was a leopard just laying lovely, you wouldn't see it! Off they go! Good luck, Impala!

There’s one elephant! I’m gonna quickly reverse this so we can get a view of it! My, yes, come and come! A mud bath! Is it our friend from India? No, this one has got a dry trunk! It’s another one!

Nandhini, yes, Impala are very good at alerting other animals for predators! Yes, giving us the death stare, this little one!

Any cheeky! That's the area of the back of the car! And they’ve got fairly good sights, and they will snort when startled or when they spot something, they pick up the scent of a predator!

And they’re most certainly will tell everyone else! If by cheeky! Okay, let’s check down this road quickly to see if there are any more!

Because he's going to follow the others and disappear fairly quickly now! Maybe—again, maybe we'll get another young bull slowly following up the back of the herd!

Just keep checking and then listening out for any breaking branches—anything along those lines that will sort of point us in the direction of more elephants! Otherwise, maybe the time for go round! We’ll catch them!

Zack, no interesting question. I’m gonna repeat it! You've asked basically if it's true that elephants are the only animals that can't jump!

I don't think a hippopotamus could jump. I think—I don’t know!

I can't say that I've ever seen! You know what? I haven’t seen an elephant lift all four feet off the ground!

But I’ve definitely seen a couple of elephants—they're very good at rearing! Pretending to be horses when they're, so technically they're jumping up onto their back legs!

So I would say no, I think elephants can jump!

Because, yeah, what would you say? That’s jumping if they have to lift themselves off their front feet!

Senza, Rebecca, I don’t know! To me, they’re jumping if all feet are off the ground!

No, I’ve never seen an elephant with all feet! Or, through the hippos! Definitely! They porpoise a lot in water!

Then their feet come off the floor, but of course, I've got the buoyancy to help them! And let's see!

So, yeah! I suppose the hippo as well! That’s what they always say! If you are being charged by something like a hippo, get yourself behind a big...

Oh, breaking news County! There’s a leopard at the dam!

Can you see it!? Was there for the show? And more elephants will come back to meet us there!

Okay, we're going! Let me just find Ralph on the rim! Revere any stations near Brits at the dam at the moment?

Make sure there's not an established sighting, yarn confirmed that you’ve seen a leopard around the dam!

Can we just go to reports? I had my radio turned down! Are you unlocked with anything at the dam?

Can you update you in five minutes? Hang on! Were Patsy okay? Coffee, patsy! I'm just coming down towards the dam!

Dude, the viewers were saying they saw it on the dam cam! Can I come in to join you please?

Well, how's that!? I got to doing my favorite things! Ferrari Safari! Elephants are now maybe even a leopard!

Patti, I'm just the thing! I'm so sorry! Right! We're going to navigate our way through the zebra crossing and the wildebeest crossing to try and find the leopard, which I think is just up ahead!

But if we go to James in the meantime, well, things seem to be heating up quite a lot at the moment! We found more tracks, so we've now headed into a slightly different area down towards the central area where there are a couple of patterns or two holes!

Taylor's heading towards a leopard; perhaps Ralph's heading towards a leopard! Perhaps it’s going to be a leopard walk-off, or perhaps we will just look at gymnast porcupine bucks if we see any now!

If ever there was a plant that tested more bitter and nasty thermos silver cluster leaf that Impala was eating earlier, this is it! gymnast pouria boxer folia!

And if you were making a bitter salad for your worst enemy, you would put this in the salad! And then you would take this turpentine grass and you would crush it up over the top of your gymnast portia salad, and you would defeat two worst enemies!

And they would be so disgusted by what you had given them! Tannin mixed with turpentine aromatic oils! Disgusting!

Deborah, you're wondering if silver cluster leaves go dormant in the wintertime! Hmm! I feel like I have lost my mind!

I saw the trusty little evergreen! I think the silver cluster leaf is not an evergreen! So it does go dormant! Remember, very few things go completely dormant!

Even—in fact, some trees, same as they do in South America—will in fact become dormant at other times of the year when they can reduce competition!

A very good example is some brown ivory trees! Sometimes Jabba bears do, and they lose their leaves during springtime when everything else is trying to compete for nutrients and soil resources!

They lose their leaves, go dormant briefly, and then they get them again when the competition is less!

Always! Yes, yes, that’s correct! So the custody trees are like most of the other trees around here! The most common family of trees is the combatant family, and they’re part of that family!

Obviously, all the competing trees live in the combatant family! And so I think all of them lose their leaves in the wintertime, which I guess indicates dormancy!

Probably not complete dormancy! But it is known that dormancy is a central road now!

Juna, once a very fine example of humanity striding towards us! There he is, backlit by the setting sun!

Herbert, what do you have to tell us? No track? Okay, we’ll go up towards Central. I’m afraid, Herbert, despite the fact that he has got a beca’s porcupine quill in his ear, has decided that this direction is not going to work for Tandi!

Let us go along this beautiful game path.

Oh, Paulie! You say, do I have a favorite plant in the bush? I have many, because they have different meanings to me! The first, and I suppose my favorite plant, is the loaf of milk berry metal caramel cheetah!

I love it because it’s one of the first trees I learned about here! And it’s like a fairy tale tree; it looks like it comes out of a Tolkien novel! That’s one of my favorites!

Then, in terms of flowers, I love the smell of the gardenia, the smell of the num-num, the smell of the jasmine, big mahogany trees—natal mahogany trees—gorgeous to climb!

And so those, I suppose, would be some of my top ten! You want me to go in here, some Yannis? Herbert is fond! Some yellows!

Everybody, unfortunately, because his eyes are not unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, most of us can’t see them!

But he can see them and enjoy them! We just have to take his word for it most of the time! I’m sure he will get us into a position!

I'm sure the Sun is quickly—ah! That is very beautiful! There it is! The Sun is beginning Sunday setting, and soon the night will come!

Okay, continue along here! I do hope that one of those leopards appears! You know, deeply exhumed the way so often when there are prospects like that!

Two leopards have been seen, and yet we sometimes just don't manage to get along their way!

Favor! Do you know what plant this is? I don't know that I've seen this plant here before. Have I?

I think that this, David, believe it or not, is the map any pomegranate! Yes, I just—I think anything I say, Hailey's warrants!

There, I meant to say! I kid you not, and I nearly said something else! But it makes beautiful yellow flowers!

I would like some confirmation on this! I haven't seen one of these trees for a long time! I'm a pawnee pomegranate, please!

Judy H, if you're watching on the Sunday afternoon, can you confirm the pawnee pomegranate? I think that's what it is! Well, what's its Latin name?

Something Moz Ambi? Ciuic? Mozambiq... Um... I think that's what it is! It's not particularly attractive now, but when it gets its flowers, it's just stunning!

I'm just got interesting—really escalating like I might see a very tree before, not many parts of this reserve! After three years, I haven't at some stage rather driven past or walked over!

Riga Zambezi! Akin, thank you very much! Alright, Taylor is speeding towards the dam! I imagine she must be there!

I don't know if she has a leopard! I don't have the leopard, James—not yet! I'm not sure who it was!

Maybe some of you can help us! If you did see it on the dam cam! Patsy, wasn’t sure who it was!

However, we did have Tandi around this area last night with Brent, and then Nan saw him this morning! I don’t think maybe he was slinking around here!

Apparently, Hosanna was seen off of Triple M, and some of the Juma guides spent a bit of time with him earlier! We didn’t go there because we were waiting for the elephants to come out!

And then we’re also entertaining you on the dam way! That is not a hole we want to be going into!

My goodness, we almost got sucked down! I don't even in the behind us! Oh my goodness! Caught me trapped! Where are we gonna go?

How are we gonna get through this? Yeah, I'm trying to—sorry, I’m sure we're just trying to get out of here! We are in thick vegetation!

Super thick vegetation now! We obviously bundu bashing off-road! I’m really hoping it is gonna be it of the nice to see!

Anyways, let's jump aboard Ralph’s car and see how close he is to his leopard!

Thanks, Taylor! And while everybody, I’m really doing just a little bit of zigzag search! Because last visual of this particular cat—not sure quite yet, I’m going to keep it for you as a surprise for everybody!

He was heading in into this block, so I’m just trying to catch up with him! And for all intents and purposes, we might not find him at all!

But we just need to be persistent! If he was moving in one direction and be lining it, we may have lost him!

But we’ve just got to keep looking for it! And hopefully, something's gonna pick him up!

Give us a bit of an alarm call, and that will help point us in the right direction!

So it’s all about now just trying to follow up! I’m going to just stop over here in this open area and just listen, it's very quiet!

I'm not seeing anything for now; I'm not hearing anything either! That’s all very exciting! But it could all be very disappointing as well!

Because it might be that we've now lost him!

So I think we just start up again! There's nothing happening, and we don’t have a visual! We don’t have a sound!

We’ve got nothing for the moment! But we know he was here—this is the clue we have!

And for the rest of it, we just need to be persistent! Keep moving around from spot to—we'll spot him!

If he’s gone flat, well, then he's an invisible cat, and he’s gone! Unless he gets up and moves, or flicks his tail and we spot that little bit of white, well then he's pretty much gone!

A little bit further in here! I’m wondering if he didn’t go flat near to the road!

I might double back and go back to the road and start all over again! But I just want to hit a little bit deeper in first and cover that side of things!

Sorry, I’m not looking at you, everybody! I am now all eyes and ears for this leopard!

Be careful! We don’t fall into an art! All Jesup isn’t something all over there! It could be stalking!

He could be doing anything! It could be a she! I’m not giving anything away!

Alright, well, there's lots of excitement this afternoon! And let’s hope that we can catch up with him!

Let's head on over to Taylor! And see if her search is going well! We haven't found anything yet!

We’ve cut through the block! I'm gonna turn around now and go back down!

However, I think I may have to change a tire at some point as we've done some serious off-roading!

I apologize! So, I'm just gonna keep looking for the zebra! We never were going to find him!

And so, yeah! So earlier today, as I was saying, Hosanna was sitting just off Triple M or opposite the power lines in the West!

So I think you're on Arethusa or Simba Billy! And the Pony who is just relaxing there!

But I turned my game driver ad off, so I didn’t quite know what was actually going on!

So he apparently was walking! Johan, who’s also trying to help us find the snippets, who he was sat with him, and said that Hosanna had walked all the way down Bella nighties Road and part of Plains and then going west towards Triple M!

So I think that's who was that side! I'm trying to figure out who would be here!

Patsy said it did look like a male! Look quite big! And we know that Ingana was in this area!

And I don't know if anybody managed to find him in the end! There were reports of two leopards at one point!

And well, the proof will be in the pudding soon, won’t it? When we can find one of these cats! But no, I don't know where he's gone!

So I'm just checking! The grass is very tall, and he has vanished! Yan, Yan, have you found anything, your highness?

Just checking, because I know these cats can be super sneaky and just end up walking behind you! Not that either of them would be running away from us!

I did speak to Patsy; he didn't seem too nervous! He walked right past the car!

I don’t know what type of—what you guys got on the gun of the cam cam! The tam cam, we’ll keep searching!

I haven’t seen any tracks crossing the guard cut line yet! I’m just gonna go back and maybe see if this leopard didn’t perhaps sort of hide closer towards central!

Maybe he didn’t go too far east! It’s difficult when you don’t know where they turn! Where exactly they went off!

I’m trying to get there as quick as I can! I’m just gonna have a little look!

I feel like I’m a meerkat not just doing, I apologize that I’m not looking in any of you!

But I do want to find this leopard! And if I keep staring at the camera, I’m gonna miss him!

Done that a few times, that's for sure! Driven straight past animals!

Okey-dokey! Off you go back to James! And hopefully next time you come back to me, there will actually be a leopard!

I give most impressively! Both Ralph and Taylor think they have Tandi! Not only is he still in the area, but he's doubled himself!

That is gonna freak Okumura art completely! There's no way that they're the young pretenders going to come and take over this area if there are two King Ghans!

Fantastic stuff! Had no idea leopards could do it! But here we are! It's just—you learn something new every day, as they say! Brilliant!

We have found nothing useful on the Tundi front and that is not for lack of effort, so I'm just enjoying my Sunday stroll! Here are some yellow flowers! Come hither, David! This is—look at them! Bundy!

Bundy or bunny Bundy! Not bunny or Bundy! Bonnie! Who say? Is it could possibly be Tandi that hopped over to the dam? It is possible! It's Sandy!

I think it's more likely to be Hosanna! In fact, I think Ralph is probably on the trail of Hosanna!

And I think that Taylor is probably on the trail of Tandi! That's my guess! I have absolutely no reason for really saying that other than where they were last seen!

This is a lovely flower—a common one that we often show you called just Ischia flower! But what is very interesting about it is that it has been grazed!

You see this now? I suspect that the culprit for this sort of trauma to the plant was a nyala!

And often we see them with their heads in the grass, and people must think to themselves: “Gosh, these presenters talk nonsense!

Look at that nyala; it’s grazing! It’s not browsing!” But when they preach their pute—that sort of word—when they put their heads down into the grass, this is what they're going for!

They're going for these little herbaceous plants! And that's, well, they don't have any wood on them! And in this case, probably means around Lattimer as well!

What a magnificent afternoon we find ourselves on! Sorry, that was my brain gathering the question! You say—is the latex in plants the same as the latex used by human beings for gloves and other such things?

And it's not precisely the same! I think it's processed slightly, and certainly originally it used to be made from plant latex in the same way!

Rubber is made from plant rubber! I think that the commercially available latex now probably has a lot of synthetic components in it!

There might be some plant-based components in it, but I doubt it comes from something like a tambuti tree, for example!

It would probably come from a much more voluminous producer of latex! As it was like a euphorbia! But I’m guessing now! I'm just counting them, I'm making relatively educated guesses!

I think let's continue down through here!

I noticed I watched yesterday's show! Oh no! I didn't hit David when I bent down there, Roy! I hit my own head! The microphones in the hat! Sorry about that, everybody!

What you would have seen if I had hit David was a fairly substantial fist followed by a fairly substantial forearm coming around the front and connecting with my bottom jaw!

Alrighty, let’s hear back to Taylor