Safari Live - Day 182 | National Geographic

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

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another Sunday sunset safari here with us in Duma in the Sabi Sands. It is a very nice warm 27 degrees Celsius, 80 degrees Fahrenheit, and my name is indeed Steve Felton-Bride, and I'm joined on camera by Senzo Nkisi. We’re out in the wilderness searching for all sorts of wonderful things.

Please send through your questions or comments, hashtag safari live or follow us on our YouTube stream. We just came around towards Gallagher Pad because while we were doing our checks at camp, we could hear some Franklins and some go-away birds having a little bit of a shouting match. We came around to have a look, and there's not much going on, but it's not impossible for Tandi to have moved all the way from the east to this side. She has done it before. I mean, James had a kill in the area not far from here in the middle of the afternoon, so who knows what could be happening. But maybe it is a bit warm for her to be moving, not too warm for the go-away birds to be frolicking around in the tree.

They were very, very good. It's feeding on the seeds and little shoots coming off of the plant itself. It is one of their favorite diets. Yes, that go-away bird has indeed got the munchies, and they quite enjoy eating the new leaves that grow off the plants, those little sort of sprouts that come out. They also feed on whatever fruit that might provide, and that is indeed an amber tree.

Interestingly enough, the tamboti tree has dropped all of its leaves, and those are all little seeds that are forming, it seems, and he is having a good little munch. So, tamboti, which we think is so inaccessible to most yet provides a huge amount of forage for all the animals that come and go.

Okay, since, let's move on and down we go. It is a wonderful Sunday, and it is not only me out this afternoon. There is one other gentleman on drive, or should I say on walk. I wonder if you can guess who I have. I have a feeling you’re gonna be able to guess quite easily. Well, send through your questions or comments this afternoon. We'll see what we can come up with regarding our characters for the week.

The gentleman in question is on foot. I'm on foot, I'm walking towards Biffle's Hook waterhole in the northeast. We're hoping there to find Tandi and her baby, Tamba. My name is James Henry, in case you didn't know that. The focus is on camera today; there he is! Marvelous! We're strolling along, and in front of us, striding away, of course, is the great hobbit, Herbert de Caza, the birthday boy. He turned 78 years old today, if you can believe it! For a 78-year-old man, he's moving with a polishing agility.

As I say, our plan is to find Tandi. Please talk to us using hashtag safari live today, otherwise you can use the chat room on YouTube. We've got some bricks and flapwings over there that are alarming us. A very peaceful Sunday afternoon! I always like to walk on Sunday afternoons, as I said, of course, that it's meaningless out here. The days of the week are meaningless, but for us, it really is programmed into us.

I think from our days at school, these sort of seven-day rhythms, and it's very difficult to let go of that. It always feels like Sunday on Sundays, even though it's the same as every other day. So I always like to walk on a Sunday afternoon. It makes me feel greatly at peace.

"Speech, man, you say that I'm very theatrical? Well, you know, if there was one other thing I could have done with my existence it would have been to try and act and make money from the act of acting in South Africa. That's a near impossibility, of course, as I don’t hold any other citizenship. So, well, I couldn't go to Hollywood and try my luck there, you know, busking on the streets as a youngster, eventually rising to the heights of blockbuster movies and living in a mansion in Beverly Hills, nor could I go to the United Kingdom and star in Love Actually, for example, and become a star there like Hugh Grant. I think he and I are similar in many ways, barring the unfortunate incidents with prostitutes. I’ve thankfully never had any of those, but being a South African, I have had to basically content myself with this, and well, I'm enjoying it very much indeed."

All of you wishing happy birthday to Herbert, he’s well-deserving of a happy birthday! We've sung to him many, many times. We had a second song for him today just after breakfast. We put a matchstick in a muffin and sang to him. That was me and Happiness, the chef Alex. Alex, the Russian, sang as well. Just marvelous!

"Alright, back to Stevo with a bird."

"Yes, well, we do have a very beautiful bird, a greater blue-eared starling, perched there nicely on the variable bush willow branch. It looks quite dark in some places, but indeed, it is a very blue color. And then it’s from the carotenoids in the feathers. There's also a lot of melanin in there, which keeps it strong and protects it from the sun. But at different angles of light, it provides that beautiful blue sheen that you find on the bird. You can see just underneath the eyes a very sort of dark patch there. It's hard to see on the camera now, but the back’s got a little bit of a greenish-blue tinge to it. The Cape glossy starling is a uniform blue all over without that very dark covert underneath the eye.

Very nice! So we’re talking about diets of birds; the day that came up a few times and these birds now are indeed very, very beautiful. The starlings— the great blue-eared is not the most common of the starlings we find in the park, but definitely lots of starling species around, and the diets of all the starlings are quite sort of omnivorous. You know, they will even feed on rodents. Someone sent a little report through; I think Dr. Ohn Davies sent through a report the other day about some traps they were trying to catch raptors with, with certain mice sort of baiting stations to catch themselves to ring them and do research. And on many, many occasions, they actually caught starlings coming in, so probably a mainly roadkill, then actually physically hunting down mice and catching them. Roadkill or whatever else might be, a bit of a scavenger, I suppose.

But they have the very nice ability to be able to walk around on the ground and compete with the hornbills and the Franklins, scratching through the elephant dung, looking for all sorts of insects and also food, and a bit of fruit as well. So there's nice adaptations allowing birds to spend the entire year here, and they've got a marvelous call! I really, really enjoy the blue-eared’s call, and I'll play it for you. Let’s see if he responds at all. I’m wooing him...

And it’s so bizarre calling back now. It’s so bizarre because that calls like sort of squeaky part of the night, when I first came here, because I haven't spent too much time with greater blue eared beforehand. And I honestly thought it was a desert white-fronted bee-eater that I heard. Because I'm going to play you their call. There’s a bee-eater that’s got that very sort of, what would you say, halloumi cheese sort of stuck in the beak sort of noise. I’m gonna play it for you and tell me if you agree with me or not. But the first time I heard this guy, I thought it was him, and James was like, “No, that’s a starling!”

"Here we go, very similar, very similar sort of sound! But the warbles— there’s a lot of warbling sounds that come in from the starling and the bee-eaters. You know, that genus of quite perennial sort of rivers, where there's lots of banks, and they live in colonies. I don't know if you've ever seen one before on the show, but I think I have seen one once before. We can never quickly look at him over here; I've got a nice picture. I put a very, very beautiful bee-eater… oops! Sorry, that's not the best picture here. Oh, it's a little bit of glare. Let me…

There we go! Oh! Is that a white-fronted bee-eater? Because it’s got white on the forehead! Isn't that strange? Very, very pretty! I do need to give my screen a whap! I’m terribly sorry! I’ll give them my screen a whap immediately!

"James, you won't know if the feathers are going to fade?"
"I don't think so. It’s not that they’re not gonna fade, the color is actually carotenoids within this. It’s actually not a color; that's a pigment within the feather that is shining and reflecting the light. But I think as they maybe start getting older, they lose the feathers and they replace them again. So whenever you look at them in different light, they just look different. I don’t think it’s got too much to do with nutrients."

"The birds that I'm thinking of that lose color and pigments is that Dracos, and when they lack a bit of iron in their diet from the fruits that they get, they lose that red pigment the turmeric. And I know that because a friend of mine rehabilitates it and eyes that Sirocco down in the Cape, and obviously it was was injured for some reason, and he was feeding it at home and rehabilitating and obviously lacked the nutrients, or the food was getting from the forest, namely the yellow wood trees with the fruits, and completely lost that red pigment. And as soon as he went on to collect those fruits, that came back again.

So yes, I’m sure there’s a lot of that in nature with regards to the pigment. But I’ve never seen a glossy starling losing their pigment. They just kind of lose a few feathers, and even those feathers stay very, very iridescent after they've been shed, but it’s possible there’s a slight change."

"Okay, well, my screen is now officially nice and clean. There’s a gentleman! Please let us know how you’re doing this afternoon! There we go; look how beautiful he is! Now when he turns around, send through your comments and questions, hashtag safari live, whatever stream you prefer. Having a very nice go, isn't he? That very orange eye helps you to distinguish him from the virtual starling. A virtuous starling has got a black eye; he’s quite a darker sort of blue and also has a very long tail.

"Get down on the floor into the thickets! What is he feeding on anyway? Are we going to move on? Who knows what we will find around the next corner? We’re going to be coming around the corner towards would tell a watering hole!"

"James, Richard, bird species with the most limited diet—very interesting! I mean, cuckoos seem to feed exclusively on caterpillars. And they’re migratory, so they seem to feed on the breeding caterpillars that come. It’s really a good question! I think any bird that has to stick around here for our winter months has to have a varied diet. You have to be varied if you’re going to be able to scratch out a living out here during our winter months; you’re going to have to be able to change your diet. So all the Franklins and hornbills, all these birds have got quite a mixture of diet, but cuckoos almost feed exclusively on caterpillars!

So I would assume that they probably are quite sort of non-varied, and then bee-eaters, they feed, especially the European ones, would be coming here for sort of flying, migi-like insects, so that could probably be quite limited. But then again, I’ve never really taken any sort of investigation into the tummy consistency of a lot of these birds.

There’s something to look at!

James, thank you for a very, very thought-provoking question! We’re talking about varied diets; the impala are able to… well, the impala got the varied diets, and they’re able to mix their feeding from grazing to browsing as the need arises. And Emma was just making a comment that oxpeckers have a varied diet. That’s a very good point! Oxpeckers probably do have a very varied diet, seeing as they feed primarily on ticks, but they’ll also feed on flies and, and things that are shuffled away by animals as they move. It's not 100 percent on ticks, but then there’s also a number of different expanders. Then also woodpeckers would be feeding specifically on grubs! So yeah, I think it’s, and they’re adapted to be here and to access things others can’t.

So yeah, very thought-provoking questions! Thank you! Keep them coming! Let’s get some really nice discussions! Maybe James Hendry has an answer to that question; I have no doubt he’s got a discussion to add to!

"Oh, the impala are looking very relaxed! So I don’t think we’re going to be coming across a leopard any moment soon! Someone you will be seeing in the next moment is James himself!"

"That’s quite clever to say! I don't think we're going to be coming across a leopard anytime soon," which is to just kind of throw it out there that you might want to see a leopard, but you’re not that focused on it. That’s when you’re likely to see one! Of course, we’re just wandering along. We had some lovely hornbills sitting on top of the street, but unfortunately, they've flown off, and I'm going to find something else to talk about.

So glorious! Glorious afternoon! 27 degrees Celsius! Can you believe it? This is around 80 degrees Fahrenheit!"

"James, not really! You know, local tradition doesn’t celebrate birthdays. Now, tell you how I know that. We can ask Herbie; there might be some newer ones, but a lot of people don’t actually even know when their birthdays are! If you say, 'How old are you?' they'll say, 'I'm 1976,' which means I was born in 1976, obviously. And you say, 'What date?' 'I’m not sure. Winter or summer, somewhere like that.' And only much later, when kind of European influences come into these areas, do birthdays become actually a big thing! So they aren’t, you know, if you think back 200 years, there was no calendar. People just lived according to the seasons. It wasn’t completely random, but they lived according to the seasons, and so that meant that there were no traditional birthdays because nobody knew actually when they were born.

And I think even the concept of a year— I mean, everybody knew what a year was, but it wasn’t defined like it is, for example, in European culture."

"So, there are no specific traditions—let’s just look under here. You can almost always find something underneath elephant dung. We’ll just be careful; I used to just kick the stuff over. Now we're going to lift it carefully and make sure that we put it back. There’s a latke!

Oh, we’ve got another invasion! But I will! Major invasion going on here everybody! I don’t like these scenes, and they make me feel very sad. Look on there, Fergus! We’ve got a raiding party of ants absolutely obliterating a small colony of harvester termites!

Am I supposed to say that? I just dislike these little scenes, and it's because I’ve never ever seen the termites fight back. I've never seen them win. And it makes me wonder what on earth the point of a soldier termite is when the ants are able to come in like this, totally overwhelm the termites, destroy them, carry them off, take their babies, and it’s really horrible!

I mean, if you think about how awful it is to watch something like a buffalo dying, who’s to say that this termite isn't just as distressed being swarmed upon by these ants? Surrounding them, sitting in their burrow quietly on Sunday afternoon?

You do—well, I mean, they'd probably be working as always, but every peaceful, and then suddenly these little red ants come in, and they probably just see one scout come in, stick his head into the termite nest, and then they know the rest of them are coming—there's nothing they can do about it!

Look how the weight of numbers is entirely on this side of the ants.

Yeah, Leslie, as it is a live kill, but I don’t like this live kill! That makes me feel sad! I like termites! I have a great affection for them for some reason!

From these ants to destroying that piece, that is their wrong, of course, why shouldn’t they? That’s how they live! I don’t know if the termites under the ground actually managed to sort of see a law for piece of the nest away from the ants! They may well, and that maybe it’s just the surface view that gets smacked.

I’m like, the ants are crawling on me as we speak! They don’t bite yet! They’re not biting me! I’ll pick a few up and I’ll let you know if they bite, though.

There are on my hand! These chaps! I don’t think of biters! They’ve actually got one devouring termites—the one termite being devoured so far! No biting sensation from the ants!

I wouldn’t do this to a nest of Seattle, which are those East African safari ants that wander through our camp and the Mara from time to time! The last place of attack was Jamie and Brent’s tent!

At 2:00 a.m., I think about three evenings ago, listening to Leo Smith—vocabulary! When the first ant bit him, he was fast asleep! It wouldn’t have been pretty anyway!

That’s cheered me up slightly on the back end of a rather sad scene here! Well, why don’t I put my ear down here, Trent, and see if I can hear!

Yeah, they made a bit of a noise there—the little girl ants! At least the little girl termites!

No, James! I don’t think they have the mechanism for making noise other than that sound they make! That’s the soldiers making that sound when you destroy it, threatening to disturb them!

But that’s their heads bashing against the side of their tunnels! The amount of activity there, of course, is probably directly proportional to the heat that we find ourselves in in this midwinter day!

And my safari, you can eat just about any termites, as far as I’m aware. It’s a hugely important part of the protein in the diet of people who live in this area. Certainly used to be! These termites!

I don’t think of the fungus growers, though; I think they are— I’m not actually sure exactly which species they are. But they would be edible... The fungus growers are much larger than this generally, which means that they obviously have to collect fewer to make yourself a meal. Very delicious, apparently, cooked with a little bit of oil and butter; or just butter, salt, and pepper—chillies. They taste them like salt, pepper, and chillies!

Everything, of course, has got to eat out here! And Ally, that’s what’s going on here! The ants just eat termites—they're predatory ants! They eat termites; that's what they do and so that's why they're attacking them!

It's exactly the same as a very large pride of a million lions attacking a large herd of a hundred thousand wildebeest.

Now, that—ants are definitely carnivores! You get ants that are carnivores and omnivores and vegetarians. Termites, however, are entirely vegetarian! They don't eat anything else—they only eat vegetables! They eat dry wood; they eat, sometimes, living wood. They eat the walls of homes sometimes, and they're largely wood eaters.

They do sometimes harvest green leaves, but termites are entirely vegetarian as far as I'm aware! Alright, let's put this back, and sadly, but this poor termite colony adieu! And try not to feel too resentful of the ants! Let's go back to Steve!

"Well, we have found something in the road! It looks like very fresh leopard scat! I was just asking Herbie because they just walked past here! You see this? Yes, actually, not as fresh as I thought it was! You see the pinch?

I’m not going to touch it. I’m going to touch it! See, there’s a pincher over yet! No, it’s not that fresh, actually! You see that pinch right at the top and at the bottom? Very characteristic of a leopard and also the size! You wouldn't say this is a lion; there's lots of fur inside of there! There’s even a little bit of grass! I’ve had to break it open, no doubt I probably find a lot of fun, maybe a bone or two!

I thought that was fresh, and then it is! Anyway, it doesn’t have a smell anymore! The good thing, even though I stuck my nose quite close, it doesn’t smell!

Well, when we get around this way—well, hello everybody! Happy Canada Day to everybody out there! I didn’t know it was Canada Day! Happy, happy, happy Canada Day! What is the date? It’s the first of July! Very good!

I was not aware of that, were you, since? Oh, here we go! Oh, it’s a virtual starling! We were talking about him before! Is he going to land? No, he’s not going to land, so we’re driving along what’s called Garry Cutler now. You might notice on the left and the right that the grass has been dealt with, and that’s to prevent fire! They basically mowed a chair to provide a fire break without having to put in a fire!

They’ve done a lot of work in the past to prove that actually mowing grass sometimes works! So they put in a little bit of mowing because it actually stimulates the grass! Rather than letting it burn, and burning takes a lot more people and manpower and can get out of control!

So, pretty much, you think we should be let, well indeed, I think we should as well! We do like to talk about it! There’s a lot of it around! I’m sure that you saw my book earlier, didn’t you? Phew! Man gets a log! If you didn’t, well, here it is—catalog! Thanks, very clever. My mom got it for me for my 30th birthday, and she wrote in the cover!

"I have a very something birthday present!" Neither sassette was—it was a bad word which kind of robbed with scatter log! I didn’t even think it was a birthday present! I think it was a Christmas present! Let me read it again!

Yeah, there was a Christmas present! A long time ago! It came in very handy! It’s even got a ruler! You could even measure all the things on the back in case you want to know how big the circuit is because there’s not enough just to look at it—you're going to measure it and put your book next to it!

Break it open with a stick to see what’s inside! Yeah, if you want to identify the difference between certain animals, you got to look for the differences inside! Could be insects! If there’s crabs inside, that could be a water mongoose, if there’s not, then that’s probably not a water mongoose!

And if there's freshwater mussels inside, it could be a fresh—it could be a toxic a porous otter, so these things are important! You need a stick; you need a ruler.

"Scatters are quite easy to identify with regards to lion and leopard. The leopard has, as I just showed you, got that very characteristic pinch at the end. And it’s a lot smaller than a lion; lion can be very similar to leopard, but lions are much bigger in size!

But to identify the difference between a leopard and a cheetah is very difficult, actually. Let’s have a look, shall we? Seeing as we honor your topic of the cheetah! Okay, here we go!

I don’t know if you can see here. We’ve got the leopard on the bottom; he has that characteristic pinch I was talking about. Note this sign that says containing quills because sometimes they eat porcupines, and then on this side of the cheetah, I don’t know, I wouldn’t know how to identify a cheetah if I saw it!

I mean it would be very— it would be very similar to leopard, but it doesn’t seem to have this characteristic pinch over here, but we don’t have as many cheetahs in the area than we do as we do leopards!

And here is the lion, a lot bigger in size! This is obviously not to scale; there are rulers here that are showing centimeters, so this is far bigger! This is lion scat, about this big, and there are really, really big lots of fur and often lots and lots of bone! So scat quite easy in that regard!

A wild cat, which is at the bottom here, first of all, they like to bury their dung! So what I’ve done before—you've probably seen me many times—I dig in the ground and I find things! Once I thought I found an aardvark digging; I was very excited! I could open it with my hand, and I came out with wildcat scat in my hand! It was fun; it was really fun! It was like in between the fingers—like, oh no, what did I do?! Well, you know, and we just started the walk, and you’re like so that wasn’t fun!

So I now approach digging down a little bit differently! We do have caracal in the area! Here’s the caracal down here! It’s a lot smaller! The scat here is a lot smaller! But, you know, caracal and leopard, it would be quite difficult to identify!

I think it would have mainly been a size comparison, but all cats' scat is very, very similar in that sort of appearance! But I think size is everything— you got to go for! So ideally what you’re looking for when you find scat is if it’s fresh look for some tracks! You know, like who did it? Quite often you might find some footprints nearby! If it’s a little bit old, it’s hard, it’s hard to see!

And so I hope that answers your question! It’s a never-ending process!

“Who’s scat that?” “Or who done that?”

“Who done that?!” “Who done that indeed!”

"The best way to learn, though!"

"Indeed, the best way to learn! Katherine, were you not on this morning? I think Taylor got one this morning! Taylor got an African wildcat in like the first five minutes! I was like, what?! Yeah, she got one!

But the best way to identify scats is to watch an animal and do it, and then go out there and take your photographs. You know for a fact it was that animal; that’s the best way to do tracks!

"Tracks are very helpful! And so I do quite similar to caracal, except they’re known to bury it, but not all the time! So scratches mark—bury the dung! So, for example, who done that? It's quite easy to see; you’ve done it quite dark! It’s in a midden formation; it’s large!

If I break it open, you’d be able to see there’s grass inside! It’s black in color; it's very fresh! There are scrapings as a midden guaranteed because it’s in a midden, and it’s dark like this you could say it’s a white rhinoceros!

Hippos would be similar; they don’t use a midden! So, these are things that you come getting used to! And, unlike elephant dung, which you burned for good luck and for medicinal value, that’s a very taboo to burn! White rhino dung—very, very taboo indeed!

So on that note, let’s go over to James and see exactly what he’s getting up to!

"We've got a student book that seems to be particularly clueless. I don’t think she’s seen us, which is a bit odd because we’ve been standing in plain view for some time.

Russ is effort, just moved slightly back down the road there! She’s going—she's gonna move up now just to the right of that bush! It’s quite special to have the steel walk on foot; normally, they just run away!

Let’s move this way, foot! Fergus! Potter devices instead! I was trying to break the stick. Now I think she’s gone to ground! It’s quickly getting here! There! She’s just moving to the left now! She’s seen us!

He’s here; you just got her a quick glimpse! She is looking at us! I’m gonna move forward; you just stay where you are! She’ll probably move a little bit less! Yes, she’s very calm! Very calm!

Come, come over here! You’ll get a good view of her! This is just between these two branches. Yep, now she’s disappeared behind the bush!

Did you get her glimpse again? We’ll try one more view! Now, most antelope, of course, are very seasonal breeders, and what are the Steinbucks? No different, actually. They are seasonal breeders!

There will be a breeding peak! There we go! There will be a breeding peak in the rainy season! I don’t suppose it’ll be impossible for her to have a baby now, but it’d be unlikely—there are concentrated feeders!

We call concentrated feeders because they’re gonna need to eat seeds and bulbs and that sort of thing—nutritious shoots—which would be far more in abundance during the summer months!

Did you get a shot there? Sort of all right? Well, she’s disappeared now! I’m not going to try and follow up there! I picked this particular stick over to show you the inside of it, and it is a groovier fluorescence!

Or they call it a sandpaper raisin, and I broke it because it’s quite an efficient way to make wood! It’s very porous, and so it’s got sort of a—I mean, I imagine that these—I imagine the cambium layer probably survives beyond one year, which most trees doesn’t!

And you can see it’s almost like a sponge! And I suspect that this plant is able to suck up water very effectively in dry times and also not expend too much energy on the sort of wood production side of things!

And so I suspect it’s a very energy-efficient plant; it has to use little energy to become a sort of scraggly bush as it does become! So that is the sandpaper raisin! Most wood, of course, is not anything like as spongy as this!

Was that not fascinating?

"Figures, is that the most fascinating Sunday fact you’ve ever heard?"

"Yep, it was!"

"What I thought—good! Excellent! Okay, don’t pick up my proper stick, which is made of red bush willow!

Oh, this is quite a nice example here of the difference between spines and thorns! Now this is, of course, Gymnarrhizia Buxifolia and all of these thorns here will eventually become branches!

Can you see there are nodes on them? There’s a little node there, and that defines them as spines and not thorns! So that eventually will become branches, and it means that the plant doesn’t waste energy growing just plain thorns for defense!

The thorns will eventually become branches, which will eventually contribute to the actual growth of the plant! So that’s the difference between spine and thorn! That’s Gymnarrhizia Buxifolia!

Jackal, the biggest dwarf antelope that we get here is the duiker! So the smallest one is the Steinbuck. We don’t get duiker, but duiker is much smaller than those! The smallest antelope I think we get in Africa is the blue duiker, which is actually found in the Eastern Cape, where my parents live!

And in fact, I’ve seen one on the golf course! And as I’ve said to you before, when you spend as much time looking through the forest for a ball as I do, well, you get to see quite a lot of good wildlife when you’re on the golf course there!

I’ve sold seen a little blue duiker! I’ve seen a blue duiker lamb of this big being hunted by a mongoose! Being hunted by a gray mongoose! And just off the 13th tee! You know the well for tabletop there!

Yes, Fergus hits the ball a lot straighter than I do, so he hasn’t seen lambs of blue duiker being hunted by gray mongoose! Quite amazing to see an antelope hunted by mongoose!

Yes, I think it is quite cool!

Thank you, Emma!

Let’s continue! We’re heading, marching gently along Central Road! The 78-year-old birthday boy waiting patiently for us! We're still hoping to find some tracks of Tandi! We have to be back in camp by quarter past five because it will be dark! Alright, we’re going to continue our march!

Are you ready? Increase our speed! As we increase our speed, let us go back over just to Steven!

"Thanks, James! But if we got scents! Oh, indeed! Hey, waterbuck! Little family of waterbuck! They were just busy relaxing in the shade! Doing a bit of a rumination! It’s about three females there with a really big male! Yes, he’s sitting down, and they are talking about diets!

They are 100 percent grazers, feeding on a very bulk amount of grass! They need enormous amounts of water! You could see the male; he’s very relaxing!

I wouldn’t say that this sort of quite thick bush area is their ideal habitat, and you find them more often than not in sort of open clearings, around two watering holes!

Mmm, Eugene, you want to know about palm and banana trees? No banana trees! But in the Kruger we do get—there's at least two types of palms that I can think of, or three—two or three!

There’s the lollipop, you get right up in the north; they might occur elsewhere! You’ll see the wild date palm all over the place, and then I think you must also get the raffia palm! It might be more—I can't think of it!

There’s a number of palm trees, and they’re all very well utilized for basket weaving and all sorts of holding capacity stuff! But the lollipop, which goes right up in the north in an area that might occur elsewhere, but I know quite well in the northern Kruger!

And Lala, in the local dialect, means to sleep! So in the lollipop, because it grows tall like this, I don’t have a book for it now, I’m sorry! Big tall palm grows up, and then the leaves come out! And if you go up and you cut those branches where they're growing out—this isn’t set—loses that you can collect that set, and you can make lollipop wine!

A lot of palm wine! It is very strong, and afterwards, you just wanna sleep! It’s not very tasty, but it was well-renowned for the Tsongas back in the day by having as many lollipop palms had in the area because they needed to make enough beer or wine per season per sort of community!

So there are lots of them up there, and unfortunately, some of them have been over-harvested, but there are still plenty around because, of course, if you cut all the leaves off, quite often the trees die!

So from a sustainability point of view, you don’t even wanna cut off like maybe two of the branches; this is going to grow back! But it seeps out this liquid, and you can catch that!

But palms are all part of the grass family but very tall, beautiful palms indeed! And they are actually home to a number of Swift species, especially the palm swift, which we find up there! Apparently never, ever touches the ground in their entire life! Palm swift constantly flying!

Apparent they even sleep on the fly! Not like is waterbuck—is waterbuck is that saw something dart across the road there! I’m gonna go over to look! Something flashed across the road there—my dog might have been that hornbill!

A hornbill just landed! I just got a flash of white! Emmett could have been a Matt is talking to me on the radio, and it could very well have been a very fast polar bear! But it's unlikely, Emma, well it’s very unlikely! I think it was more likely a more likely that horn below!

There it is just on the side, a little bit of a feeding party! There’s a red-billed hornbill, also known as the flying banana! Off you guys! He obviously did not sign the disclaimer to be shown on camera! So he didn’t want to be—said no, and off he went!

He’s a very famous bird, that one! His agent didn’t agree with us putting him on camera, so off he went!

"Actors are indeed very temperamental! So James said he was supposed to be an actor! Is he any Jason Statham stunt double?

Does Jason Statham need a stunt double? I don't think so!

I don’t think so! Hey, since you know Jason Statham is…

Senza doesn’t know Jason Statham is! Folks, that sense has asked me, “Does Jason Statham?” And I said, “He probably doesn’t, sense, but I’m sure we could maybe make the introduction.”

Okay, so talking about scatter gain, and don’t run away. Wait, we had a Nutella sparse file that was quite enjoying digging in there!

Okay, I know scat well! There are no middens! Which is down, we made up of grass! But they’re looking for any grass seeds! Or you can see some fresh! He’s just disappeared in the background!

You can see a little bit of sort of fresher dung in the front, in the middle there! There he comes! He’s not so shy! Very orange legs! An orange beak!

Hello, Millie! 8 years old! You'd like to know which animal dung smells the least? Well, we’re gonna have to give that some serious thought! Definitely not elephant— not Rhino! Definitely not any of the predators, I can tell you that! And baboon, I can tell you categorically, is probably one of the worst smelling ones!

Hmm, it will probably have to be one of the herbivores! Impala or not all the best calm—people the best— we’d have to think about that! You’ve given me a very nice question! Very, very nice question!

Hmm, I don’t know! They all got a smell to them! I suppose they’re caught! None of them—maybe I don’t know, for what it took?

Cepad would do it—what would the people ask? Emma, what did they vote for?

Okay, so a question? Okay, I don’t know exactly how I took the question! Yeah, just a question!

Hello, Scuba Steve! We’re gonna come and say hello to you now! While we get ready to frame Scuba Steve! We’ll put a question out there to all of your viewers, seeing as I’m the one who’s generally smelling the dung! What do you think is the least smelly animal dung out here?

Go with your answers! 3, 2, 1, go!

Scuba, their fee—no, Scuba’s dung! Any animal that lays their dung down to be able to find a trail back is definitely not giving off an odorless pile of dung!

Are there scents? No! Well, Scuba Steve also didn’t sign his disclaimer! He signed one for last week, but not for this week!

That’s a pity!

Oh wow, well everyone so far—

"Okay, well, James has got a bird! While we wait for some more answers to come in.

Very, very special bird! A green-winged patel, used to be known as the Melba Finch! Infinitely better name than green-winged patel! But there it goes! That was the male! Beautiful red you saw on his face, probably, his chest, and on his tail—slightly greenish wings!

Stripey chest! And apparently that is two Volvos' favorite bird! Then we’ve got—oh! That a brew brew! You see the white and black one there, Ferg? Just jumping to the left of the main stem of that Susie fools running there near the top now on the top horizontal branch!

Yeah, that is the blue brew! So named for the call that it makes—the telephone bird! Something like that, anyway! It doesn’t do the Nokia ringtone! See it ran away as soon as I made the Nokia turn! I know we can't say brands!

But you know it’s a very bad call!

"Herbert just decided that it is now time to move on! The bird party is over, let us continue!"

Pointed forward like that and said "raspy Rolf single-minded is our Herbie on his birthday! He wants a birthday leopard!"

"Yes, yes indeed, Emma! Maybe Columbo will jump out of the birthday hat and perhaps a decent cake! And likely stale muffin that Ari produced for her, but this morning with a matchstick in it for his birthday!

So I thought that Fergus should have been more aware of the sun! You see how Fergus moved to be with the sun!

They’re very important in summer! Look at this little thicket here! I’m pretty sure there’ll be something of interest other than wealthy Rhea indica!

There are some lichens of course, which are quite fun! There is the lichen, the ultimate example of a symbiosis or a mutualism, if you like! Mutualism whereby a fungus has combined with an algae to provide an entirely different kingdom of creatures!

Oh, you look at that lichen! Well, no, you wanna know if I can find a listeria! I mean I see one, I’ll absolutely be able to tell you about it!

A wolf theory is very easy! Here we go! Here is wealthy Rhea indica, the plant that never stops giving, you almost always find something eating on wealthy Rhea!

Be it a spider or caterpillar! Here is something; actually, here is there! Something feeding on the wealthy Rhea plant! I think it’s a leafhopper of some sort! You see it there just in the sun!

How fascinating is that? It’s not a leafhopper; it might be! It might looks like a click beetle! It’s a very tiny click beetle!

If it is a click beetle, it is! Stephania a beetle! It’s too small for me to tell whether it’s a click beetle or not! A click beetle has a sort of interesting adaptation on the thorax; it allows—it's about two sort of protrusions that it sticks under two interlocking gaps, if you like, on the abdomen, and when he moves them apart they get thick!

Fascinating! We'd only be able to know if he was a click beetle if we caught him, and he started clicking!

Here he goes! This is on wealthy Rhea! You still see in there! How fun if you know sit down! There he is! No, no, there he’s jumped off now! So I call wealthy Rhea indica the plant that never stops giving, because you can always always find something giving!

May, have you found something else? No, you're just showing us wealthy Rhea indica, the plant that never stops giving! Well done! You won’t just be able to hear the fact that the day but for an alarm calling rattling so stickler is almost entirely entirely silent!

Masha, there is one bulb out here! I’d forgotten its name that can be used for water! But we don’t have things like this tama melons or the few other obvious ones that you can get in the Kalahari Desert, for example, that you can cut and squeeze and drink the water from!

But there are very few roots out here that you can do it from! There’s a lot of the tubers and roots here that are very toxic, and I know that Steph has demonstrated drinking from one of the roots here!

I’m gonna ask him, but what it was! He's walked off for the moment, but I will ask him!

Masha, I’ve forgotten its name!

Alrighty! So that was wealthy Rhea indica, the plant that never stops giving! We’re gonna keep looking for the bulb and the tracks after our lumber and candy!

Stevo, wait for you!

"Well, here we have one of the new Arliss! A family just crossed in front of us! She’s decided she doesn't want to go that way; she’s going back again!

Your parlor is migrating past! For some reason, we have our water buck the watering hole! We left Scuba Steve because he was really not playing the game with us! He stayed underwater for as long as he possibly could!

So a lot of you viewers are saying that the dung that probably smells the least is the scrub hair dung!

Ten folks, you’re talking about the second time it’s been eaten! I know what it smells like before!

Probably smells a little bit— got a little bit of a smell! Yeah, but yeah, you’re out scuba, but I’ve got a quiz! Who done that?!

Ah, don’t don’t! Send your questions on hashtag safari live!

Hmm, impala's got a bit of a smell! But Timothy, they do! I’d say it’s probably quite little in the smell!

Timothy, are we gonna keep going on? Maybe I’ll find—there we go, there’s some impala right there!"

"Impala scat out there, sir! So we did the test! Termites, Malak! Oh, well, that’s a very good answer too!

Much the dung is just like, I suppose, it's just like soil, isn’t it? Well, we found some scrub here dung and some impala!

Let’s see, maybe I needed to break it open. Their fingers smell! I wouldn’t say it’s pungent, though! And this scrub here, it smells, let’s see! Maybe if we break it open, let’s just do it on the outside!

Break it up, and you can see that this is a full leaf over there! There’s some grass, some sticks, and more leaves! I mean, that’s a highly! If it hasn’t even been chewed, nothing’s happened to that leaf! Nothing at all!

Imagine something going through your digestive system and coming out without any damage! Yes, it was a good baby elephant yet!

All his veggies! He has some bark or a stick, so it just goes to show how poorly digested these elephant dung is!

And there’s some very nice grass!

Okay, so indeed, indeed it was elephant! And we’re going to put it back on the ground so that the termites can break it open or turn it back into soil!

Let’s just put you over there! Nice and piled up we go! I think I’m gonna clear my sights to this cow dung in the nose! Marvelous!

You should all try it! Yes, Bronick, I think that would be awesome! If we were able to broadcast the smells as well to all of you to make your current! Just lean a bit closer!

Smell! Smell that! We could just put things over here! You could choose to do it or not!

It wouldn’t be like air! Your room is going to send you— fill up with the smell of lion poo! You know? Or rotting wildebeest carcass or something! You could— you can choose to be like! Put the smell on/off! I suppose just like a volume control! Increase the amounts of odor; decrease it!

Hey, we got something here! I think we got something! Don't you think, sense?

Sense says I think so! Maybe quite interesting! And how many of you would be like I’d be like!

All the smells terrible! And no, don't! Then you all have to—you sensible heat!

Put your noses forward!

You would! That’s what we do!

It’s what we do as humans! We have to taste it! We can’t help ourselves!

We can’t help ourselves by smelling bad smells!

“Child of the universe, you would like to know which dung is the most edible!"

Well, hey, what’s that? And where this is the tracks of Tundi this morning? Is it sandy and Columba? The tracks that is?

I wonder where exactly they look? Quite fresh to me! I don’t know if you can get these hair sins that’ll be close! Ice on top of vehicle tracks from this morning!

Let Herbie know I don't know if anyone followed these because these are on top of the vehicle tracks!

You can see the vehicle here; there’s the track! The vehicle is here! There’s the track; it’s on top! Here’s two lumber’s little track over here! Very cute thing in this direction!

Quite fresh! It was running this track! I don’t know if you can see this one here, since, can you see it? We remember, ladies and gentlemen, I was talking—okay, you remember, I was talking to you yesterday about running tracks?

While I’m getting back to it, very Herbie needs me to quickly chat to him on the radio! Maybe they found something! But I think he needs to come and check these art!

Okay, while I get hold of Herbie, let’s go back over to James!

"Herbie! Herbert! Steve! Rajeev!”

"That’s exciting! Steve’s got the tracks! He’s just over there! You might just be able to hear him talking to Herbie on the radio now!

So with any luck we’ll haomd in on the kitty cats fairly soon! Come over here, Fergus!

Fergus is coming, coming?

Yeah, what we have here is a hole! Obviously! It’s not a particularly original thing! To say there’s a hole! And it’s a very old hole!

I say that! It’s very deep! What created it is most likely a speaks hinge-backed tortoise!

And you can see that from the shape of the hole! That’s the kind of hole that will dig, and they'll go in there and eat solid for the winter time in there! And eventually back out during the summer!

Now if it collapses, I think they’re probably able to dig themselves out! But that’s the first time I’ve actually ever put something into one!

See how deep it is! Let’s put something slightly less offensive than a big stick! See how far in it goes!

Okay! That one hasn’t reached the back! Let’s get something a little bit longer! Here we go! This way! Or worse, if there’s actually a tortoise in the older, we’ll feel a little spike in the bottom!

Of course, they’re very angry! Merson beacon! Spitting cobra could come out! It’s still going; it’s quite a lot of heat coming out of it!

Yes! Okay, let’s see if we can find one longer thing! Here we go! Here’s a slightly smaller stick, but firmer as well!

So nervous! It’s bending! Well, if we’ve actually reached the end, I’ll put in very gently! I don’t notice pike!

Ianto toys, they’re having their winter snooze. Look how deep it is!

We’re still not at the end! Now, many of you, of course, will be thinking: to yourself on earth estimating! What does that mean? What is the difference between that and hibernating?

Joy, you’re one such person! The difference is that one is done for cold and one is done for dry conditions! Estimating is done for dryness, and hibernation is done for coldness!

So in very cold conditions, animals will hibernate! Tends to be a longer period! Whereas estimating can be entirely temporary!

So we had rain! There’s no real reason why this tortoise, if contained, wouldn’t come out because it’s certainly not cold enough for a reptile not to be active!

I’m just waiting for the Cobra to come out! I don’t think we’re quite at the end there!

I’ve been talking about the dangers of perhaps finding a rabid number in here, or an angry Cobra, or a little tortoise! I think that’s the end there! So it’s about that deep! That’s really quite deep!

That’s about a foot and a half, and obviously we don’t want any snakes to come after us! We don’t want to disturb the neutral toys! But like the most dangerous insect is unquestionably the Anopheles mosquito, which of course carries malaria!

Now you probably didn’t mean that because you probably knew, of course, that malaria is by far the most deadly thing out here! Far more so than any of the mammals!

But after I’m just trying to think— after the mosquito, what would be the most dangerous insect there? Very few dangerous insects! We have hornets and bees now! We have blister beetles which can cause your skin to blister, but I really don’t think there’s anything that could kill you unless you showed a severe allergic reaction, for example! So if you're allergic to bees, well, yes, that could kill you!

If you’re allergic to OPS’s, that could kill you too! But otherwise, really there’s nothing out here that I would feel afraid to have on my hand! Other than the blister beetle!

But love bees and wasps can you think of anything?

Well, I mean, scorpions and spiders obviously, but they are strictly speaking not insects!

Are there? Yes, they are arachnids! Yes! In terms of arachnids, of course, there is a dangerous scorpion via nearly quarters!

And Anopheles scope in the pear abuse! Yes, that gives you malaria, and a big stink it will give you a very nice device!

And then, of course, are ticks! And ticks can give you tick bite fever! Very, very seldom fatal, but it is very unpleasant!

So that’s a kind of summary of the diseases that invertebrates in this area could give you! We have caught up with not Fergus! We've caught up with Herbert, and I’m going to give an update from him there! But what do you have to tell us out from here?

Alright, shall we go in? Let’s go! I’ll follow you! Tracks are going in here!

I think you’ve heard that probably! So we’ve got Steve over there! In fact, I can hear his car starting over there!

Then we’ve got Reckson coming sort of from that direction here! And we’ve got us going into this rock now! So a good team to find Tandi than on a Sunday afternoon!

Of course, if she really doesn’t want to be found, she will not be found!

She was—let me simply disappear! Yes, I heard them around there! Okay, so they’ll be just saying they were Franklin’s long calling here! But here you can find a track of Tandi!

There she is! So she came along! Here! Can you see that, Ferg? There’s a front toes! There’s a back pad! She walked through this area!

We have got some alarm calling to spot better sirs just over there! So as possible, she’s quite close by!

It’s all carefully and slowly! I’ll talk about Misty’s question, which was, are honey badgers not active in winter or summer?

I think there probably is, no air activities most times there’s a school pit! Not a squawk in porcupine! Has gone in amongst this lot!

Often you will find about honey—oh, honey guides! Honey badgers! Honey guides probably almost certainly more active during the summertime!

Of course, they know it off more bees active, but they still have to find food during the winter time!

So you will find them live in this world! Some very, very angry chin spot lettuces! But we just walked along that way, so I don’t think that's nether lip! It is Habitat!

Now, just checking the ground! She’s come along! Yeah, this is one of those tracks that’s impossible for me to see, let alone show you on the camera!

It is really obvious! You can see that really clear track in the dirt! They’re fantastically easy to see! Yeah!

Anyway, while I continue to be mystified by her, you can go along to Steve, who will be less mystifying!

"Herbie, mystifies me all the time, birthday boy! Well, we were just moving around seeing if we can give them a hand with any of their tracking!

I heard some of those Franklin's shouting as well, and then we didn’t hear them anymore! So we got to keep to stopping, listening! Stopping, you’re listening! Bring out your inner kudu!

Lots of birds shouting, but none of the birds that really give away the presence of a leopard! So I think she was hunting! Or it might have been her running away from Columbo because there were tracks of the liquid!

Or I think the larger of the two tracks are getting so similar in size! Now, the tracks—but you could see my demonstration yesterday about running! You could see that she was running! The tracks were very, very disturbed, and the distance between them as well were quite far!

We’ve got some—where have we got some people over there? Now the bush walkers themselves just through here! Maybe we can get a view of them? Surround this termite mound!

Can they get that view of them coming past the bushes? If we look very carefully and closely, there they go, led by Herbie, followed by James and then Fergus with the very long white antennae!

So he’s not spotting them, are they? There was a rare sighting! I’m going to call it in on the radio stations!

We’ve got lab Jackie! I'm not gonna call it in; I don’t think anyone would be too interested to go and see anyone working here anyway!

I’m sure lots of people would be interested to go and see, but I think anyone working here would like to rush off!

So they were coming up here! I can see by the tracks on the ground they’ve come to a junction in the road! Then the tracks have now gone back in!

Now, Herbie’s on those! We heard reports of them this morning while we were on walk, and we came all the way from the south of traffic on them, but we never got to any point where we found any tracks!

It’s very hard to track a leopard when you don’t have tracks! It’s not called tracking, then, I suppose! When we will be in the area to assist where need be, Toby is like a bloodhound!

Once he gets his nose on the scent, he wants to find it! I mean, he was getting a bit disappointed towards the end of our walk because he couldn't find us!

He said, 'Herbie, we haven’t seen tracks! How are you supposed to find it?' He likes to; he said he wants to find Tandi for his birthday!

He told me that he could have secretly! So we’d like to find Tandi for Herbie on his birthday, wouldn’t we?

Herbie’s birthday in Canada Day! Oh, interesting! How interesting!"

"Okay, well, we’ll go round around the block and see how they get on with their tracks! Maybe she’s been moving, maybe she hasn't been! I think that came up the road—we might turn down enough, so we might actually do the loop and just jump onto the next one!

So I think it’s a very quiet day out there on a Sunday! Don’t forget to just head to your questions and comments; just tell us how you’re doing, what’s going on, what’s going on in your lives, folks! What’s happening?

Is it snowing? Whenever anyone is— is anyone experiencing snow? Southern hemisphere! Wonderful long days in the summer!"

"Delicate, if you like! Today, my spirit animal! Wow, I haven’t thought about that! I’m a Scorpio, and I was born in the year of the monkey! And if you go to a website called Prime Ministerology, you can find out that those two put together actually make the combination of the Raven!

So, I think I’m a raven! Very smart! I didn’t say that I read it! That’s what it said in the primal astrology! It’s actually quite a nice website! It puts together the year of the Chinese year and their zodiac together!

And if you’ve ever read your star side and felt that it’s a little bit off—it’s just not quite working—then go and check out your train! Is your combined?

And read what it is and what it says! And you’ll be quite surprised!

Okay, so what I’m going to do now since I can—can you see that little pile there? Can you see it in the tree? Just on the ground and in the tree?

Okay, so jump off again! It is—it is a day for it, isn’t it? It’s going to jump off, and what’s happened here? Has Scuba Steve, perhaps, or another hippo has walked along and he’s put his bottom over here, and he’s done all of his dung into the tree?

And you can completely see that! Bye-bye! That green grass!

Then it’s got quite a smell! That’s called take-me-home smell because that’s what the hippos did for basically is like this is the roots that they’ve moved through!

Certificate child of the universe! My spirit animal is the dove metal! Very good! That could be true! That could be very true!

Now, what exactly does a hippo do this for?

The Bushmen story goes! If you've never heard of the Bushmen, they are basically the san people, the original inhabitants of southern Africa before African and white colonists moved in from Europe! They were the original people! Yeah, lived in sustainably! Stone Age people!

And their belief in the hippo is the hippo was the last animal created by the Creator!

So He put together this nose and this bum and these funny legs and these beady eyes and these funny little ears! And the hippo woke up one morning and went, 'No, I can’t look like this! Look at me! I’m hideous! I’m round! I’m fat! My legs are short! I got a big mouth, huge nostrils, beady eyes, and funny little ears!

Please create—please! You gotta allow me to hide in the water so no one can look at me and laugh at my crazy!’

Said there’s no way! Your mouth is big; you’ll just eat all the fish in the pond!

The crocodile said, 'There’s no way! There’s no way!'

The birds—no, you can’t! The hippo said, 'Creator, please! I will every night come out onto the land, and I’ll defecate, and I’ll spread my dung around! And you can go through it with a fine comb and look for any fish bones to prove that I'm not eating fish from the water!'

So that is the story of the hippopotamus! Quite a fun story! I liked the San Bushmen tales! They were all very sort of their ring true for our sense of humor and our sort of what would you say? Majan a ssin?

Don’t you agree, sense?

I'm not gonna get that off for some time. Home is this way, sense!

Since Arata left drag lavender!

"Okay, well, we're gonna continue, and we're going to go around keeping attached on the radio! See what tracks were found by Herbie! In the meantime, let’s go over to James and see how they’re getting on!

“We’ve got a herd of wildebeest in my life! I didn’t know that Steve owned herds of wildebeest, but I’m very pleased to know that this is his herd of wildebeest!

I wonder when he bought them! Oh, he bought them from! And it’s quite impressive! I've never owned a herd of wildebeest!

I didn’t know they were purchasable! In fact, I've just had an impression from Herbert about what's going on with the impala. And he says that what they’re doing is talking to each other as follows—he says their body language is saying, 'Is it safe to go down?'

'Though I don’t know! Let’s check carefully, let’s just look around carefully! Maybe we can’t! No! No! Yes! No! No!'

That’s good! No! Wait! Yes! Okay!

Okay! Let’s have a drink! Just a few of us at a time! The rest of you look around!

That of course is the caution of the impala is very important! Otherwise, they'd be devoured! Apparently, Steve's herd does have labels on it! Now, I’m assuming in the ear orange tags with an S on him!

I’ll have to get closer to see it! Can see the colors have completely faded from the scene and that’s because the sun's just gone down!

Logan, these questions are really hate being asked because I’m not sure of the answer! Can wildebeest get tuberculosis? I’m gonna say yes, they probably can!

I’m going to say also that I don’t think it affects them as far as I understand it! Most cloven-hoofed ruminants there aren’t any uncloven ruminants, but most there are some cloven-hoofed non-ruminants; there are no single-hoofed ruminants that we’ve cleared that up!

As far as I’m aware, most cloven-hoofed ruminants can get tuberculosis of the bovine variety! And no, could who can I know it does affect them!

Obviously, buffalo can! I think the wildebeests can, but I’m gonna say that it doesn’t affect them hugely like it does the buffalo!

I might be wrong there! I’m very happy to accept a correction from a clever viewer! Lovely evening, senior! And impalas frolicking about!

Having a nice drink! I haven’t seen any leopards that might want to eat them! No lions! And as I've said before, that Vil the best herd really has had a very good time at light!

Because one would have expected that the one would have expected the lions to have come to eat a few of the Fulda beasts! I would have thought!

And apparently summer you’re asking, is the equipment on the tree the damn camera? I don’t know which tree we’re talking about!

Basically what happens with the dam cam, where it is now, is it’s the winter position! There is a bit of equipment underneath it that is used for the dam cam! There’s a light underneath it!

There’s a microphone and there’s a box with some power cables in it, and that’s the winter position! Then, when the actual dam fills up, there’s another tree, which is to the southeast of the tree with the camera in it now!

Then there’s a light there and another box! So that’s what’s going on there! Oh, and then you're probably talking about the nest cam in the water itself!

There is a log that stretches out over the surface of the water, and that log has a nest cam on it, and I'm not sure if it's live at the moment! It certainly will be fairly soon!

So that gives you an idea of what's going on!

There’s nearly home! As you can see, we started off walking through this area like this!

“Since,” to finish off walking like this, I suppose! This is my Sunday evening power walk, I suppose!

It would have been much funny if I’d fallen over and tripped and fallen over ground my nose into the dirt! Yes, absolutely!

Jason, when times get tough at this very waterhole, we have seen elephants and hippopotamus having a standoff! We’ve seen elephants and buffalo and hippopotami having a standoff over the water!

So yes, they’re all herbivores! I’ve seen aggressive interactions between them! Often what happens if there is a sort of meeting of wildebeest and Impala, they will just stay out of the impala!

Gnarly' anything smaller will chase them away! You know? Won't allow them to drink at the same time, and it’s very simple to figure out who's going to win those interactions!

The bigger you are, the more access you’re going to have to the resource that is well in short supply! But in general, you don't see any interactions between them! Any aggressive interactions are just no point, really!

Unless it’s over water, which of course should be pristine for us as human beings! As it also becomes increasingly in short supply, it’s entirely possible in one day we’ll fight big wars over access to water, and that will be very unpleasant!

That’s how it doesn’t happen!

Alrighty! Three minutes from home! We’ll jump on Wendy, extract the thermal camera! Let’s see what we can find for the lawsuit!

Here is Steve at the moment! Any idea where Steve is?

No, he's bumbling around! Not sure where! With this impressive rock while we wait for this information forged in the bowels of the earth many millions of years ago!

Beautiful! This is a volcanic rock! See if I can hear the history—oh, the things that see!

Let us head to the north now! Mister Volvo is driving while we’re parked at the moment having a look at a herd of Kudu!

And James is questioning why my herd of all the best! Well, when our challenge draft to territorial display, I took over that herd of all the best!

But taking over that male of all the best midden! So, there we go! Here is a beautiful herd of Kudu! And she is busy feeding on her aid—the bush willow!

Nice green leaves! I must have a very good root system because we are on this sort of slope here! We’re on the top, so it's thought to have green leaves that must be really, really well anchored in the ground there!

I wonder if she knows what a nice tea red bush willow makes?

Nice and antimicrobial! Can also be applied as an enema!

I don't think she knows about that, though! David certainly does! He refused to take one!

But very good for steaming! Lots of medicinal value in the red bush water leaves, and by soaking the leaves, you get all that beautiful stuff out!

She’s selecting the very green ones to get the moisture! Not just the benefits of the plant themselves, but the protein as well!

The browsing animals can get a little bit more moisture out of the vegetation than your grazing animals!

And Kudu are making most of the leaves that are around because in the next month or two, there’s gonna be almost nothing left with regards to browse!

It was a young male! Mr. woohoo! Altitude! Mister!

"Is the Kudu interesting?"

"Indeed very interesting!"

You say back like they are enormous! And so you can see that the Kudu uses their ears for listening!

They’ve got an enormous ability to perceive sounds just like your fruit-eating bats or like your insect-eating bats with their ultrasound!

And then the Kudu strategy is to stand very still if a lion or leopard sees them!

And to hear the slightest footfall as it moves through the long grass!

"Larry, yeah, that’s a very good thought about Kudu spots or straps influencing humans and their paint!"

Well, you know, the paint aspect of the Kudu or the colors is about sort of camouflage, breaking out their three-dimensional characteristics!

And I think in humans, the paint came about as a form of sort of—

Okay, well, we get back to that because the theme says, James has got his in Yala!

They’re dancing a ridiculous captivating and very beautiful dance! Being performed here by an Yala bull! There’s another one to his left-hand side doing exactly the same thing!

This one was making much more of an effort to cut! Can you see the second one? The other one’s ignoring him completely and having a meal! This chap's trying to say, "Look, I’m very big and strong!"

And the other one saying, "Don't waste my time!" Because mental distill up as he looks at us!

And see if I can inspire him to do the same thing—does he look like he’s impressed?

I mean, he’s doing what the other gnarly' did to him! This is the human dance!

What about the sprinkler? I’ve got his attention!

Running man, don’t like the running man, do you?

You know what? The string dance, the worm, your hips before you! That’s there!

Anyone I can do with them! My hips! My knees together, then the string dance now! Oh, young kids do the string art!

I’m not a young kid anymore, folks!

I’m very sorry for the infrastructure there—that's just the back of the lodge! We weren’t planning on seeing that in Yala, and he just happens to be near the camp!

And it’s one of the reasons they are so confiding! Is that they’re used to being around people! So that was very pleasant to see them!

Yala doing his dance! And the dance for him! They do it so often for us!

Times if please show him some dancing! Hi!

I’m not going to Wolf's home in the meantime! Let's go across to Steve!

"Well, thank you, James! I would love to know how that Yala waltzing dance went!"

Very good! I'm sure it went splendidly!

I was very interested to see a yellow bulldog speaker on the Kudu! We had a yellow-billed speck on the Kudu, which was very cool to see!

Because we don’t see too many of them in the wild!

They were almost completely extinct in southern Africa! Because of dips and cattle dips!

And that we can—the eggs—and the breeding obviously didn’t kill the adults!

But over time, that made the eggs very weak! And obviously the individuals were inbreeding!

And if you’re not breeding, you end up dying out!

Oh, sorry about that!

"But EWT, Endangered Wildlife Trust, the introduction or reintroduction of yellow-billed oxpeckers back from Botswana has been a real success!"

And if you’ve ever looked at a herd of buffalo, you should look very closely! You’ll probably find a number of yellow-billed oxpeckers on there!

Not just the red belt, which is very, very cool!

They do more of a sort of plucking, mining, and their beak is half red, half yellow, which makes it quite easy to identify!

Miss Miller about oxpeckers have less this year! I don’t think so! I think there’s the normal sort of amount!

We just don’t have the herds of Buffalo coming through! The oxpeckers seem to follow herds of Buffalo like kids at a candy store!

There’s just a huge amount of ticks on Buffalo! And when there’s a herd of them, plenty! Plenty!

So, I haven’t actually seen, I think I’ve seen yellow-billed here on Juma in the last six months, maybe that the