Safari Live - Day 210 | National Geographic

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Hello everyone, whoever you are in the world, and a very warm welcome to our sunset Safari Drive all the way from Masai Mara. As always, my name is David and filming me today is Archie. Archie, how are you doing? Are you excited? Archie is just smiling and not telling me anything, but I can tell from this smile he is very excited.

A warm welcome to all of you, and remember, most importantly, you have questions or comments. Hashtag Safari Live gives us lots of joy! Please keep sending your questions and any comments you may have from what I'll be showing you.

We have just started with a strong heart of buffaloes now, and Archie is very eager to go back to the buffaloes. Remember, we are coming to you from Kenya in the Mara Game Reserve, specifically in the Mara Triangle. How exciting to have buffaloes there and some white birds hitchhiking on them! We’ll call those the cattle egrets.

It's a bit warm now, and that's why you see these big buffaloes just resting. Some of them could be chewing the cud, ruminating as you say, as usual flicking their tails to keep the flies away. What will happen as it cools off, they'll start rising up, flicking their tails, and flicking their ears. All those irritating flies keep them away.

Funny how flies choose to go to the very sensitive parts of the animals, the ears. There’s an oxpecker on top of that one there. Actually, look carefully! There's a bird on top there!

And yes, well done Archie. These are the oxpeckers. If you look at that patch where those two birds are, it looks a bit better. The flies are gone, and they’re big, Alexei’s kings! That's a great comment. Yeah, buffaloes! What I will do is me and Archie will count how many buffaloes are here. I estimate a hundred.

As I said earlier, plus what I want Archie to do is to count the females, and I will count the males. Are you with me? And then we'll see buffaloes! Any day, it’s good to see you can see them ruminating there. They must have very strong ear muscles. You can tell when they keep flicking their ears like that the whole day.

It’s strange; you don't see the flies that are irritating this particular female here. I'm saying female because you can tell by the size of her horns. They are not as large, especially at the base. The oxpecker comes in!

What I do not know is whether she’s flicking because of the flies or the oxpeckers or both. I'm still counting, and it's pretty hard here! So what we'll do is we'll try and go around on the other side and see how many buffaloes we might have in total, and if it cools off a little bit later, I'm sure they all will rise, shine, and start moving around!

So what they’re doing now is just chewing the cud, ruminating as I said before. I want to give you a different angle to see how it looks. Some are standing, some are lying down, and a few are grazing. Actually, there's one that has a very pink nose there. Can I see that one, Archie? Thank you, Archie! That's pink! That’s nice. Very pink!

I do not know what that could mean to me. I don't know whether it could be some skin infection. But yeah, I mean, that’s a very, very pink nose! I'll be finding out why this is so pink. But in the meantime, I want to take you all the way to South Africa. There's another young man who would like to say hello to all of you.

"Good afternoon, David! Thank you for calling me a young man! Hello everybody! My name is Steve. I'm joined on camera by Craig. We are down here in the Sabi Sands, Juma, South Africa where the weather is 23 degrees, 72 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a lovely afternoon, and the rain has cleared up.

There's a beautiful life out there! It’s a little bit windy, and we're gonna see if maybe we can find any tracks of maybe Tingana. This morning the drone went out. We managed to find lions, we managed to find Hosanna, and we found a hot spot! But unfortunately, both James and Tristan were busy, and then we weren’t able to follow up on the hot spot.

From the area where I had the hot spot, we could identify it, but you know, we get into that point where we’re kind of sure that's a cat! And then there was a leopard calling from that sort of general area! I sound locked in on Tingana with short bursts of male calls and impala were going nuts! But we didn't find him.

So we’re gonna see if maybe we can find where the duking might be, not far. I'm sure from where Hosanna was originally found. As we know, these two have a little bit of a father-son bromance, which is really, really interesting.

Please, ladies and gentlemen, feel free to send your questions and comments! Hashtag Safari Live, or jump on the YouTube chat stream! Let us know how you are doing this afternoon. It’s a wonderful day out. Craig and I are excited! We don’t know what it's going to herald, but after a little bit of rain, and a little bit of Sun, who knows what can materialize.

As you know, this is all coming to you live from Juma and the Maasai Mara! We have no doubt David is extremely excited to be out! He’s such a lovely gentleman! He’s so proud to be showing you his home!

I'm going to be joined out by Tristan shortly. I think he’s got some plans to follow up on a little chief from this morning. It was really quite interesting watching James and the little chief this morning from the drone trying to do some hunting. It really is special to have that bird’s eye view. But it’s still very dry out! The rain doesn’t seem to have done too much but those little burnt areas where the fire has been, I’m sure with that little bit of rain, we're gonna see it tiny flush in the next day or two.

So we're probably gonna have a little look at that and see what else is popping in the African wilderness! And in the meantime, let’s go with Tristan himself and see exactly what his plans are!

"Well, good afternoon everyone and welcome to our sunset safari. As Steve mentioned, my name is Tristan. On camera, I’ve got Fergus this afternoon. Our plan? Well, we’re going to amble about and see what we can find! A good check-up on where James saw Hosanna to see what he’s been up to.

But otherwise, we’re going to try and just see what the day brings us. There’s a bit of sunshine! Oh, hello impalas! Phil, have a look at these guys! Why not? They’re right in front of us! So let’s see what this afternoon brings us. The Sun has come out now, which is quite nice. Hopefully, we’re gonna get a little bit of action as the day heats up!

It’s still quite cool in comparison to a few days ago, but it is far, far better than what poor James and Steve dealt with yesterday afternoon in that rain and blustery wind and freezing cold! So at least there’s a bit of sunshine, and sunshine generally promotes good game viewing.

We normally see a lot of animals moving about in the afternoon if the Sun is out, and that’s normally because they’re going down for a drink! We’ll hang about the pans! We’ll get a check-up! I know Steve’s gonna be around as well! Between the two of us, we’ll just kind of scratch around!

Unfortunately, the Inkahuma pride from this morning have all vanished. They all went into Arethusa and continued south from the journey, and I think they got a bit rattled by those over cattle this morning and therefore decided to move off a little bit. But you’ll see these impalas are fairly wary! I’m pretty sure this is the same herd of impalas that has probably spent much of the day in this area, and the one that Hosanna was terrorizing this morning.

They must have felt like they were between a rock and a hard place this morning because there was Hosanna! There were lions roaring all over the place! It couldn’t have been pleasant to be an impala in those early hours of the morning because there were just threats coming from every direction!

But they seem as though they came out of it unscathed! Well, everybody looks quite fine about life at this stage. King Sy says, “4122, give or take one or two.” No, I’m joking! I honestly have absolutely no idea how many impalas are living on Juma at any one time! You know because they move so much!

We see them crossing Gauri Main, we see them crossing into Tortured Muffalos, look Arethusa! It’s really difficult to know! I mean, I think conditions fluctuate that number so will temperature, so will winds. So, I mean, it varies day to day! It will be different! But I would say at any one time, minimum we would probably at least two to three hundred of these guys spread across Juma quite easily!

In fact, probably even more! It’s difficult to say, but you’ve got one or two really big herds that are a number over 50-60 individuals together, and then lots of smaller groupings! So there’s a lot of them! And then they are, as you know, very common! And we see them pretty regularly! So that’s always nice! I quite like impalas! I know that they’ve got this bad reputation amongst a lot of South African bushgoers that they’re boring and that people stopping for them is boring!

But for me, an impala is a beautiful animal! And it is often a great animal to stop with because the amount of times I’ve stopped with impalas and set chatting like this and either heard other impalas alarm call or those very impalas will bless you!

Well, now what a frog in your throat! All making an alarm call which is maybe what they were trying to do. Countless times that you then find a predator! So I find they’re a good animal to just stop and have a little look around, and just see what’s going on before I’m just dismissing them as a common tetrapod!

Good! Well, we are going to carry on, and while we do that and try and see what else we can find, David is still sitting with another herd! I would accept they’re far more grumpy and far bigger than these impalas! Buffalos here! And remember we saw one that had the red, you know, pinkish, rather not red, and my guess was that this could have been like, you know, a skin condition of a kind!

I'm afraid this one that’s been... Yes well done, Archie! Look at that! And we've been trying to... I’ve been trying to think there’s a condition in human beings called vitiligo or some kind of lack of melanin in that particular part of the nose, and I wouldn't want to believe it! I don't know, some you know, skin band from the time!

But I would say it could be a skin condition or it could mean a genetic happening on it, and most likely it could be a good idea to see the offspring of this particular one or maybe its mother and find out whether it was something running in it genetically! But yes, that’s quite unusual.

I don’t remember seeing another one with a pink nose like that! And he keeps walking! Kimberly, that’s a great comment! Could be a sunburn! It’s very possible! But I don’t think it’s more of a skin condition, which is kind of weird because most buffaloes like now, it’s rather warm and they’re out in the sun!

If they would have any issues with something, it would be more on the eyes than on the skin! I highly doubt! We have a strong sun here, but the buffaloes are okay! No! No, it’s too strong! Either they get some good cover or they stay under some trees or they stay under the grass, like you can see here now!

The noses tend to be bending downwards and not looking up in the sky! So my guess is it could be more of a genetic condition than, you know, a skin issue! But those are very good thoughts! You never know! We had lots of them! Lots of oxpeckers on some of the buffaloes!

Yeah! Like that one’s having one riding on it! This is the yellow-billed oxpecker! We normally have two types of oxpeckers: either the yellow-billed or the red-billed oxpecker! I’m trying to get a picture to see nicely how the oxpeckers look like!

Margareta, that’s a very good question! You see buffaloes are ruminants and they’ve got four-chambered stomachs, and what they will do is they keep feeding! They keep feeding, be it grass! And mainly buffalos are grazers! Once they have taken enough, they’ll tend to rest!

That’s one big advantage of animals that do ruminate! And when they rest, they regard it, or they have eaten and they ruminate again to be more fine particles! We’re going to be looking back to these buffaloes again with Archie!

And you see, some that are chewing cud and some that are not! And Margareta, that’s what will happen! They tend to get the best... How in my village long time ago, I can't remember! Maybe during my mother's time or grandmother! Who? My grandmother especially, who is still alive!

She used to tell me, she even tells me today! Long time, the women in the village would get bananas and just roast them in the fire! And once they’re roasted in the fire, they’ll chew the bananas and then remove what they have chewed from the mouth and feed to their children!

So I’m trying to compare that explanation for my grandmother to what maybe the buffaloes or animals that ruminate do! So keep eating, cut into smaller pieces, swallow it, cut in smaller pieces, swallow, and then once you rest like the one I just showed you there, you regard it!

That means you bring it out, Margareta! And do more fine particles, and that way you get more nutrients from what you’ve chewed! But it seems to have an issue there on its genitalia! Some swollen parts!

I’m sure that’s very... Now I’m seeing some very interesting sight with the buffaloes! We had the pink nose, and then this one on the genitalia has like some swellings! But this also happens to cows once in a while!

It could be a kind of a tumor; who knows? You can see it's not very comfortable as it keeps flicking the tail there! And the angle the tail is resting is not where it should be because of that swelling there on the left side!

Well, just like human beings, animals also get some kind of issues, some tumors, or I don’t know! It’s kind of some kind of cancer! If I’m not a specialist, I wouldn’t be able to know! If you look at the health condition of that particular one, it doesn’t look very good!

A lot of flies missing on the body, and I'm not sure it's the effect of that. Yes! That tells you she is definitely a girl! And yes! So much issue on the genitalia parts below the vagina there, just near the anus! You can tell there's swelling in that area. Time to scratch!

Excellent! Sorry! I may have missed your question about the oxpeckers! Okay, oxpeckers! Yes! Yes! And then we saw the interesting thing! My oxpeckers are still here, and we were seeing earlier the yellow-billed oxpecker! If you come to me here, Archie!

Excellent! That’s a yellow-billed oxpecker on top there! And these are the ones that we see on top of those buffaloes here! We’ve got two types of oxpeckers! We got the yellow-billed oxpecker and we also got their red-billed oxpecker!

I remember when I was in South Africa, a couple of weeks ago, I kept seeing more red-billed oxpeckers than the yellow-billed ones! Let’s now go to the red-billed oxpeckers and see the difference between the two!

And there’s one on top there! Well done, Archie! That’s the red-billed oxpecker! And the main difference would be only as the name suggests! The red-billed is all red all the way on the beak!

But the yellow-billed oxpeckers have both yellow and red! But when you see the immature ones like the one you see there, they do not have any amount of red in it! Until it matures, from immature, it becomes a juvenile one, and then it becomes an adult!

Alrighty! We’ll have to move on now; I’ve done a bit of research on those buffaloes! But I think Tristan has got an interesting cat in South Africa!

Well, we do have probably the most interesting cat! Hello, Hosanna! Welcome to this afternoon's show! He is busy, as normal, doing his thing and well, slinking about! We’re going to keep following him!

He looks as though he might be a bit hungry actually! He was quite funny because he walked along this edge of Klasime, we saw his tracks, and Steve said, "Had we got any luck?" and I said, "No, this tracks..."

Yeah, but I don’t see any sign of him! And then Fergus said, "No, but there he is right next to us! So he was just walking along, right next to kind of parallel with us!

And now he’s just crossed over the dam wall, a tree, sitting and watching what's going on! As he was walking along, there was a bird that made a bit of a noise, and he just crawled it! See? You said, "No, don’t shout at me! I'm just merely walking!"

And so he seems as though he’s probably somehow spotted something over the dam! In the way she’s very interested! You can see he’s kind of with this face, staring in that direction! His tail’s twitching a little bit as well!

So I’m hoping that for his case, there’s maybe a little steenbok or a dichor that’s around that he’s deciding whether or not he’s going to hunt! Now it’s a bit of déjà vu to have Husana back at Treehouse Dam! We’ve spoken about it a lot, that this was his favorite haunt!

Last week, he spent a lot of time here hunting and doing his thing! So it’s nice to actually have him here in this area again! I just hope that he’s not spreading his wings too much! He needs to go back towards the pan so that we don’t see him disappearing south and west!

I know it's selfish, but we want him all for ourselves here on Juma! We don't want him to go further afield where we can't see him anymore! Because I quite like having him around these days!

Hello, love! When he does that, he doesn’t often walk by! He just walks and doesn't break stride! He just starts grooming himself as he goes! Now, I’ll keep up with him because he will disappear fairly quickly!

And we know he’s an active boy! So Kimberly, you say, "Oh hello, Husana! It's so lovely to see you again!" Yes! It is lovely to see him, isn't it? I mean, he's a fairly regular feature these days!

In fact, I would like to know how many drives we've had with Husana on drive since he arrived back! It would be very interesting for me to know how many times he's appeared since he arrived back!

I know there’s been one or two we haven’t seen him at all! But for the most part, we've almost seen him every single drive, which has been quite phenomenal! It’s not every day that you’re going to get a leopard like this!

I mean, even a female leopard with Cubs, we know with Tandi, we used to go quite a few days without finding her sometimes! And yet Husana, we somehow managed to see him every day! He seems to grace us with his presence!

And I say he graces us with his presence because a lot of the time he kind of appears rather than us actually finding! No, Catherine, I don’t think so! I mean, I don’t think he comes out to me!

I mean, James has had some a lot of sightings of him! So Steve and many of the sightings I’ve had have been thanks to everyone at Watching the Dam Cam that has shown him to us and told us about that he’s there!

So it’s not really for me that I mean, I guess we have! It’s quite easy in that I can just go to certain places and know that he’s going to be roughly in those areas and then try to track him down from there!

But I don’t think he necessarily gravitates towards me any more than he gravitates towards any of the other cars or guides or anything like that! Most people would be able to find him quite regularly, I think!

I don’t know; maybe! Who knows with these things? Animals are quite something sometimes, particularly this one! Paulina, just the excitement! It’s much like salivation! It’s much like us!

When we get a bit sweaty, when we get it, you know! And when the adrenaline starts to go through their bodies, we start to have sweaty hands or something like that! So I think for them, it's more a case that they’ve seen something and their bodies react!

You’ll probably find that a lot of the females have that twitching tail in order to tell the Cubs, "You stop there! You mustn’t move! Because I'm now hunting!" So it’s almost a signal to the Cubs that, "Hang on! There’s something up here in front that I need to investigate!"

The Cubs can then stop, and maybe that’s in learned behavior that then carries through even into the males as they go through life! They see their mom’s tail twitching so much that they learn from it!

I mean, it’s just pretty much just a body response to something that makes them excited! There’s probably a rush of adrenaline and that’s just part of the twitch that they get when they start to think and express some sort of emotion!

Now, I wonder where he’s going at the moment! It amazes me how every time we kind of find him, he’s generally not doing too much! And then we start to walk with him, and he almost starts to find him!

And then he starts to walk and say, "Alright guys, we’ve been waiting for you all day! It’s time to go through a bit of a walk! Time to go and see what I can explore!" And what I can find, which is quite fine by me! I quite enjoy having an active Husana!

It’s always nice to be up and about with him as we go! It’s part of the reason why many of us enjoy following him because he is not the most, you know, sleepy cat! His dad is far sleepier than what he is!

The thing is with him though is he will get there eventually! He will, as he becomes more dominant and older, so his youthfulness will run out and he will start to probably sleep more and mess around and walk around less! I hope that it doesn’t change!

It would be nice if he didn't ever change! But, you know, most male lipids tend to go that way! Right, Husana, where you going to go? You're going to go to the big mound in front of you?

I don’t know; I think you might go into the drainage line here and maybe just find a nice spot to sit for a while before he contemplates his next move! Still a bit early in the day for him to be hunting, so I would imagine that he’s, you know, kind of just looking around!

And just trying to see somewhere where he can take a bit of a rest for now! Or maybe hunt a little bit later in the evening! But he’s just stopped again! So let’s carry on there, Fergus! Let’s try to get him to the top right now while we head off in this direction! Let's try to get into a better position to see little Hosana! That sends you back across to Steve to see if he’s had any luck!

Well, indeed, Dingaan is dead well! Thank you, Tristan! If anyone was going to find a silo, it would be you! But if anyone was going to find Husana, it would have to be you! And I bet you he waited for you to find him, and then he started moving!

That is what Husana likes to do! Yeah, the first animal that we have seen this afternoon! So we’re going to show you him through a little bit of a thicket. Well, the interesting for finding Husana, I’m sure you’re not upset that if we see him every single day! It doesn’t get boring! He’s an absolutely marvelous individual!

And the reason why impalas hang out in herds like this is because there are leopards around! And they’re safe to be in numbers! Even though the dry season is upon us, the vegetation is lacking a lot of its sort of nutrients! It still pays to be in a herd! Because it’s a bit selfless, really! You kind of stand in the middle and hopefully one of the guys on the outside gets taken!

And when we watch the leopards hunting, it’s quite interesting to see that the larger the herd that they have, the larger the herd is, the less chance there is of a leopard actually catching one of them! Nikita, you wouldn’t know if impalas are born without scent!

Well, I’m not 100% sure about impalas; I think it’s possible that the baby impalas are scentless. For lots of small antelope, when they’re born, they’re completely scentless, which is quite interesting! And they often get hidden in the long grass away from the prying eyes of predators!

But impalas, I think they don’t have a scent when they’re born! I’m not homosexual, but impalas, no water buck and a couple others don’t have any smell! But what impalas do quite early on is a little nursery group! You’ll find one or two females hanging around with a herd of 30 or 40 little youngsters!

It’s the cutest thing ever! And that! You see that time of year! You see baby impalas getting munched on like candy by all the predators! And you think that that makes a huge dent in the population! But almost 25-30% of the population breeds! So it’s enormous increases in babies at one time!

And yes, a lot of them do die and get fed upon! But so many survive! And that’s why, well, that strategy is why impalas are so successful! They’re all a little bit alert! You can see the lone bull impala, the lone ram in the middle of it!

He still thinks there are some breeding females around! As he herds them together, the rut, the second rut seemingly fully underway! We heard quite a few noises this morning! It’s nowhere near as vigorous as it has been! You can see how wide the leaves displayed at his horns are! He’s a magnificent specimen!

Yeah! They’re sort of start pointing out at the top! Hello, Roslyn! Do you know how big the horns are? Hmm, I’m not sure! I’ve never measured the horns! It’s not something I’m too familiar with! The whole length! But that, would you say, Craig? You good with measurements? 18 inches? 16 inches?

I really don't know, Roslyn! I’m sorry! I need to go and have a look up and find out horn lengths! But maybe, and I’m pretty sure one of the viewers out there will be able to hashtag Safari Live and let us know how long a Palo impala's horns are!

And interestingly enough, as well, the impalas up in the Mara have even bigger horns! See, he’s having a little bit of a sniff! He’s trying to find some females! She looks a little bit pregnant, though, doesn’t she? A little bit round on the belly!

You can see that the browsing animals are starting to lose a little bit of condition on their hips! The hips are starting to stand out! But you can still see that the belly's quite round! If they were not pregnant, the belly would be quite skinny! You see it on the young males and the young females!

Here’s a young female. There she doesn't look to have the same sort of belly, does she? Look at her! Oops! See, she’s definitely not pregnant! She might even be too old! She doesn’t look too old! But you can see how the condition is starting to wane on them!

The dry season! The rain we had last night is only the beginning! But sometimes it’s just a bit of a tease for the animals! It’s just a cold day or two! A little bit of a light spattering of rain! But not really providing them with what they need!

But I have no doubts with the amount of moisture we had, it's going to be a little bit of a flash that’s going to really benefit these animals! Because they are extremely selective feeders and will choose the best nourishment in and around in the savanna!

Okay, well then, we’re going to go over to Tristan and his little chief who is moving! Let’s see what his plans are!

Well, see now he is busy moving away from us quite quickly! He was kind of lurking about a termite mound here! It seems as I was watching something on the other side of the mound! And then kind of got to the top of it, looked, and then decided, "Nah, I’m not interested!" And carried on going!

So don't know what it was! I think there’s some franklin that are shot in here! Maybe he's watching them walking along! You can actually see his tail's gone up now as he moves off! But it’s interesting to kind of think where he’s going and what he’s up to!

To answer the question about the impala horns, I know that generally, the impala horns are around... Steve wasn't far off; they reckon they’re normally between 18 and 20 inches! That’s a good size for a set of impala horns!

The good news is that the son, the way he's walking, is just going straight back to the pan! If he carries on the route that he's going, it’s the opposite of what I followed him the other day! When he meets up with Dingaan, we kind of go in the opposite way!

And it’s almost back towards where his pan is and his little Hassana haunt! That's where he’s hitting now! Seeing Hassana today is, I suppose, in many respects, quite bittersweet!

I’ll tell you that why shortly! Because a year ago today was a day very similar to this! The sun was shining, it was a bit cold! Actually, I remember it being quite chilly! And we hadn't seen Hassana for quite some time, actually!

We hadn’t seen him at all with Shaun Gillett! And we went to Galago Pan, and the two of them were lying right at the pan together for the first time for quite a while! I think we had seen him a little bit, but we hadn’t seen much of them together at all!

And it was the first time that we’d seen the two lying together for quite a long period! And it was a joyous occasion because, well, you know, any time you get to see those two together was always quite fun!

And it was so nice and sweet just to watch the two of them go about their thing! Now I’m going to try and catch up with him quickly! You know, he spent that whole afternoon with him! And then as the Sun started to set, so arrived Tandi!

And it was the first time that Tandi had really kind of asserted herself as the new ruler of this area and the new dominant female! And she went after Shangilla! And there was a massive fight that ensued, as we all know!

And we had this whole process that played out! And Tandi was seen in the area! And Tingana was heard that night coming into that section and calling! And so there were all these leopards around! And the fight carried on until... I mean, the last time I heard them fighting was at about 10:30 that night, which is quite late into the night!

And that was the last time we saw Shangilla, I’m afraid! Which was quite sad! And a year ago today was the last time that we saw her! She was such a beautiful little leopard! And I say "was" in terms of us seeing her!

You know, she could still be alive somewhere in Kruger! And I hope that she is! I mean, it’s obviously something that we’ve discussed at length many, many times as to her whereabouts, whether she’s dead, whether she’s alive!

And you know, everyone’s got their own theories and opinions, and they’re all entitled to that! And everyone's got their own kind of thought processes! But for me, realistically, I don’t think she’s still with us!

Just because she was so relaxed and could have been somewhere! I mean, she would have been seen somewhere going towards Kruger! But part of me hopes that I’m very, very wrong!

And that she does appear somewhere in the sort of random parts of Kruger where somebody sees her, and she misses as beautiful leopards with her own cubs in her own family! That’s what I really want!

And this is one case where I really do want to be proved wrong! But I just don’t, you know, knowing how she was and how relaxed she was, and that she never was seen again in this area would tell me that it’s a one-fight!

Like that wouldn’t have stressed her and exiled her to the point where nobody ever saw her again! Or anyone around us! And she was too relaxed for her to go to another place and no one to find her!

So it’s a difficult thing! That’s, you know, horrible to kind of think about! That if she did maybe sustain injuries there, that could have led to her demise! I don’t think Tandi killed her! I didn’t do you want to make that point very clear! I don’t think Tandi killed her or a toe or anything silly like that!

But I definitely think it’s very possible that she got injured badly enough that she couldn't find food for herself, or defend herself against maybe other predators, and that maybe what led to her demise!

It is also, you never know! I mean, there are too many variables with five lipids in the same sighting, as to what could have happened! I mean, Tandi could have thought Tamboo was at risk!

Tandi could have come in, in the confusion, attacked the wrong female! You know, you never know what could have happened in that particular evening and what led to her kind of disappearing!

But I do hope that she's alive somewhere! My kind of brain says that probably not! Scirocco, you say that you hope that she's happy somewhere in Kruger! Your heart has hopes that she’s happy in Kruger!

I think everyone does! I think all of us hope that she’s somewhere! If she is somewhere, and she does get seen one day, there's going to be a very special cat that somebody is going to have the pleasure of actually viewing!

And now it would have been so nice had she stayed in this area! It would have been amazing to watch the progression alongside of us! And to see how well he’s done! If she had been the same, it would have been a very spectacular kind of way to have since!

Well, to kind of keep Skrulls’ memory alive in many respects! Because you know, Angula was the last daughter! And we know that Tandi, while she’s amazing and very cool, she’s an older female!

And so her lineage, and her line, is not the only kind of carrying forward components of the Corolla LED line! So it would have been nice just to have had another female around!

And to just see that canuda’s females all had bad luck! It was, you know, she really battled a lot too! Other than Tandi and Shadow, and obviously Shadow’s not around! But the rest seemed to disappear into obscurity, unfortunately, in the form of Shiva and Shongie!

And obviously, you live, you know! Let’s think of good things! Actually, it might be a good time to ask what are your favorite memories of Shangilla! Hashtag Safari Live, what's your favorite memory of her?

Anyway, in the meantime, we’ll keep following him! We’ll send you back across to David in the Mara, who I’m sure would have loved to have spent time with little Shangilla!

Well, thank you, Tristan! And I hope you will be, or you let us know at one point the fate of Shangilla! And you got a big L here! A big boy! Huge bull by any standard!

I’m not sure if it was Steve over who was talking earlier about the impalas in the Mara! He thought the impalas in the Mara got bigger rock of hands than the ones in South Africa! For elephants also, I want to see the boys here!

The males tend to be slightly bigger in size than the ones here in South Africa! I could be wrong, but I might have picked up the Murcielago being rather huge in size! Maybe not by much, but slightly a bit bigger than the males in the Kruger National Park!

So this big male who was turning towards us earlier is now just giving us his back, moving in a different direction! But I've always wondered, look at the elephants! You always see they could have very wrinkled skins!

And I've been trying to think all my life! I have only had one argument that the wrinkled skin increases the surface area! By having a larger surface area, that gives them better chances of cooling off!

Because they've always seen flipping their ears to cool off! But I think the wrinkled skin they got makes the surface area much bigger! And in the process they're able to lose much heat!

And I don’t know what happens when it’s cold! They tend to have their skin not as wrinkled! And not having as many spaces between the skins just not, you know, to look very big!

So I got another car just passing next to us! And they just enjoying the drive, like us! As we move away, our Eddy has gone, and you're gonna be looking for something else in a few seconds!

Alright, I want to turn around! I have seen some giraffe from a distance from where I am, and that’s where I want to go now! So just hold your horses in for a minute!

What do you think? Our elephant is too far from here? What do you think of that? She’s now kind of come on like a Leah! Thank you very much! He kept moving and moving!

Sorry Megan, what did Bob say? "Has tourism increased or decreased in Amara?" Very good question, Barbara! And I would tell you tourism in Amara has increased!

And my own research has told me tourism might have increased by a whole 10%! This is what we call our peak season, and our peak season is always the months of June, July, and sometimes early September!

And since we have been doing what we're doing now, and I'm talking about Safari Live, what we do, showing Barbara, and many other viewers the wonderful wildlife that you have here, my own research has told me the number of tourists or the number of tourists in this country has gone high!

I personally think what we have drawn, what you’re doing now, have opened many people’s eyes! Barbara, I’ve said for a fact, the number of tourists have improved! Or has gone higher! The other day, we were very lucky, Barbara!

We were visited in our final control by the Permanent Secretary or the Cabinet Secretary in Tourism! And we had a great time with him! And it was so good, and he was very happy to see what we do!

And as he left, he concurred with us that we have brought a lot of changes in this country in terms of tourism! Alright, we’re gonna keep moving! I can see some primates from a distance!

What I call baboons! And the particular one we have in this part of East Africa! We could say there are only baboons! We got two species of baboons in East Africa! We got the olive baboons, and we got the yellow baboons!

What I can see here, I'm trying to balance our chat! But we are making sure he doesn't slip! But you can see ahead of me what we call the yellow baboons!

I mean the olive baboons is quite a big troop! It has big males, I can tell from the size! Females, young ones! And you will find out what they’re feeding on here because baboons, just like human beings, are omnivores!

They'll go for grasshoppers, crickets, and insects they can get! They would also be going for rabbits, scrub hares, anything they can get! I've seen some of them even going for bones or, you know, lumps of antelopes!

Tell me, Archie, is it a good angle here? Alright, just hop in there and take us all the way to those yellow baboons! And a mixed group! There's a big boy there! Look at him!

On a cold day, they would still be there! Swing down, and would you wanna dip there? Sometimes they'll dig for tubers or some roots from the grass!

Oh, sometimes the deer guams! And Megan in the final control, that's so cool! Because I found out in South Africa, we’ve got totally different species of baboons! That’s called chacma!

Which I only saw there! I had never seen them before! So we took over the chacma! And here we'll be talking of the olive baboons and the yellow baboons!

Teeny-tiny young one there! And I think with the mother! And they'll always land very quickly! So I'll pick some seeds from the grass!

Are you big enough to feed yourself? Or are you just playing with logs and sticks? You should be feeding! And what they do sometimes when they move logs like that is they turn the logs, and they find some warmth of some insects under them!

Or some termites! Anything that would be under there! They’re very clever primates, I would say! And I've always seen some very cheeky ones! If they turn the log, or a bowl, or a stone, and they find, they've got some warmth!

Or some insect lying there! And the big baboons will come close by! They just put the rock or the stone down! Then they sit on it, and they start scratching themselves until all the baboons have gone!

And then they turn it over again, and they start eating! How beautiful! Sorry, Megan! What did you ask?

Oh, say, do baboons use sticks as tools? As we go back to these buffoons here, I have not seen the baboons exactly doing that! Would have seen their cousins that call the gorillas!

Sorry about that jerky! I’ve seen gorillas and chimpanzees using sticks as tools! And they’ve been known to dig on the ground for food!

But the baboons I’ve not seen doing that! What I found, or would have seen the baboons do is getting, say, a piece of grass, a long stalk of grass, and going to a termite mound!

And pushing it right through the hole of a termite mound! And when the soldiers, for example, think they’re being attacked by someone, they come and start biting that piece of grass!

And then the baboons just pull up the piece of grass and start feeding on the termites that I've seen baboons doing! And more so, these ones we are seeing here! The olive baboons! But I have not seen them using sticks to dig!

And either way, they're very clever primates! And you can tell she is either doing something from the grass there!

And as I said, either going for roots or for tubers, but in the meantime, we got antelopes in South Africa that love staying very close to water!

Yes! Well, sorry! We had some water back that were drinking and have now moved back off into the thickets! We were at Philamon Circle Watering Hole! We’ve got two very nice-looking fork-tailed drongos that have been dive-bombing into the water!

And now they're giving themselves a proper little wash! Here we go! Isn’t that fantastic? Very, very wet! They've flown into the water, gotten very, very wet, and then flown back to a very inaccessible bush!

Not close to the water, quite close to the water's edge where they can preen and clean, get the dust out, get the parasites out, and basically just make themselves look very, very good for the upcoming week that is approaching!

It’s possible that the little bit of rainfall we had yesterday just got all the feathers out of joint! And they weren't really able to dry themselves! So now they’re able to go and shake all of the dirt out and all the water out!

And probably then they'll preen themselves, there zipping all of the feathers back into place with a little bit of a shake! You know, wish I could do that with my body!

Here we go! Oh! One just dive-bombed again, did you see? Very good diving bombing fork-tailed drongos! That’s awesome! Obviously, they don’t want to submerge themselves because they might find it difficult to get out!

So they’re basically just hitting their chests on the water, trying not to get their wings too wet! And then they’re moving that moisture through their body to distribute it through all of the feathers and shake themselves around!

Okay, well, these fork-tailed drongos are gonna keep doing their bathing duties this afternoon! Let’s go over to Tristan, who thinks he's got a fantastic view of the little chief!

Well, we do have a fantastic view! I don't know if you can see him! But right above my head, right there is little Husana sitting! So he’s just taking it very easy, right next to us at the moment!

We parked, and he was far away, and he just wandered along! And now he’s just sitting here, and I'm waiting for a scroll that's about to start calling!

And because there’s a scroll not too far from where he currently is at the moment that is going to make a bit of a noise as soon as he steps onto the road! But he’s just kind of weighing up his options!

The problem is he’s turned quite far south now! So he’s going pretty much southwards towards twin dams area instead of going northwards to his pan, which is naughty Husana! You’re not allowed to go south!

You know that! The little Gary's out of bounds these days! You have to be a Juma cat from now on! Now let’s see, he’s going straight to the east now, which is supposed to be better than where he was going a little bit earlier!

But hopefully, he doesn't go into the strange, because it’ll be very difficult to follow him! So Koren, I’m not sure! Let’s suppose it’s possible that he knows his name, given that, you know, it's heard so much around him!

I doubt it, though! I mean, yeah! I say Husana does not really look at me! Most of the time, if I say if I say Husana, and sometimes I find myself! I know I shouldn't but I find myself talking to him quite often when we are all fate!

Just driving around, it’s not something you should do with a wild animal because they’re not going to listen to you, nor are they your pets! But it’s just one of those things that happens, I’m afraid!

But he doesn’t respond! He doesn’t really look at us! I mean, every now and then he’ll kind of glance over his shoulder if you’re talking! And he’s kind of walks past! But he doesn’t seem to be too concerned about the whole thing!

And definitely, he doesn’t seem to be too worried about his name! So I don’t think so! I mean, I think he can recognize voices, but I don’t think he has had any reason to recognize a name! You know, a lot of the theories of why dogs and things recognize their names is because of this kind of reward at the end of it!

They get called, and there’s a food reward and those kind of things, which there isn’t with Husana! So I don’t think that he actually – I mean I might be wrong! Maybe he does, maybe I’m not giving him enough credit!

I'm sorry! I'm sorry if that is the case! I do apologize! Now, I believe lots of you have been commenting about Shangilla and your favorite kind of memories of him!

Most, a lot of you are saying the bush walks! Well, the bush walks I think were the favorite memories of probably 90% of the safari live guides I know! That Brent, Jamie, and James! They had some incredible experiences with Shangilla!

Husana, that far more than you know what I did, or even Taylor! Or, you know, obviously Scott didn’t mention it! Given and Steven Ralph neither!

But, you know, James and and Jamie and and Brent really did spend a lot of time with him! And I know when I talk to any of them about Shangilla, they always think about her fondly as this bushwalk cat that was just the most kind of amazing creature to spend time with on foot!

And you know, she was! She was incredible! I luckily got on bush walks twice, not for very long periods of time! But I didn’t get to see her twice on bush walk!

Now he is going to pull up alongside Husana because he’s now posing right next to us at the same height as us, which is always very, very pleasant with him! But you know, she was an incredible, incredible animal!

And her tolerance on walks was insane! So for those of you who don't know who Shangilla is, she was Husana’s sister from the leopard that we're looking at at the moment.

And she disappeared, like I said, a year ago! And she had an incredibly relaxed nature with us on foot! And so he did a lot of bush walks where we used to track her in Husana when they were still cubs!

When they were under you know, Corollas care and protection! And she just had this tolerance for people on foot server and far more than what Husana does!

I mean like, Husana was pretty relaxed! But she was just on another level! And she would allow us to sit very close to her! And she would just go about her business and wouldn’t care!

So I’ve had, I’m sure it would have changed as she became a mother and became more territorial! But for that period, it was just unbelievable to watch her as she went about her business!

It was a very special thing to be part of! So that was amazing! And I’m not surprised that a lot of you remember her as the bushwalk cat!

She was very, very cool! What are you doing, Husana? Sniffing quite a bit in the air! Now the air, the wind is blowing kind of from his left to right at the moment!

And so I wonder if there’s maybe just something that he’s caught on the breeze! Anyway, while we sit with him and think about Shangilla a little bit more, let’s send you back across to David in the Mara and see what he’s got for us!

Now, you never know! Husana was a very smart leopard! And as I left South Africa, he did become my favorite! Followed by the Duke Tingana! But the only one thing I can’t remember is where I ever saw a leopard going for a fully grown ostrich!

And we got the Masai ostrich there on your frame! And please remember, keep asking us as many questions as you’d like! Your questions give us a lot of joy! Any comment you want to make, such a beautiful bird like this ostrich here!

Which I want to believe it could be the largest bird in the world! I could be wrong! But I would wish just to compare it to the emus in Australia! But I think in Africa this is our largest bird!

A couple of months back, I got a question from a video! “Ask me, which is the largest bird in the wild?” David, oh, sorry, in Africa! And I say the pelican!

I don’t know where my head was! But I was just thinking of maybe the highest flying, you know, the heaviest flying birds! A lot of pelicans! But also we got bustards, which are equally heavy!

But I started thinking of albatross, which we don’t have in Africa! And then I forgot the ostrich! Well, very clear dimorphism! Very clear sexual dimorphism in the ostriches!

And this is definitely a male! I’m sure we all know! Black and white! Linda, how are you? And you’re saying this is the first ostrich you’ve seen on Safari Live?

I do not know whether you've been always there, but I'm equally excited! Because his sun’s being live in Amara! I don't think I’ve seen Linda! This is the first one!

And I just... Oh! You know what? I’m so excited! It’s an ostrich! The way Tristan gets excited seeing Husana!

Oh, you know, someone else seeing the lions! I saw the ostrich! And I was like, wow, an ostrich! So again, I’m saying this is a male ostrich!

As you can see, it’s black and white all the feathers, and red legs neck! If you see the females, I’m sure we know females are always grey in color!

And like any other bird, you’ll see it from the grass! Which definitely picks an insect there! Reserves pick it up!

Pauline, how are you? And that is an interesting question! I can tell you, ostriches do not fly! You are so saying, “How do they have wings?” And through evolution, I don't think they have ever been able to fly!

But the fact that they don't fly, Pauline, they'll get exactly what they need! Because if they can feed themselves well without flying, one, two, they can defend themselves without flying!

Because I would say, Pauline, the flying in many birds will always aid them to get away from their would-be predators! For example, you get doves being attacked by falcons, and what they would do is just fly and take off!

An ostrich will not fly! But ostriches, Pauline, I’ve seen them! I’m sure you know, they’re very, very fast! Just like cheetahs! And they will just fly low!

And if Conan, Pauline, and ostriches should kick and kick very hard! But also using the beak! If you look at that big beak they have, they’ve been known to poke eyes out of either hyenas or, you know, would-be predators like lions!

So I would say I've never known them flying! And they’ll have wings! Maybe once in a while, you see them flapping their wings and especially during the mating dance!

When you see ostriches doing some courtship dance, you will see them dropping their wings and just, you know, moving them up and down! And that’s the only way they would use the wings!

I don’t see any other reason why, Pauline, or how they use the wings for any other reason! Because they don’t fly! But the village where I come from, we have always said ostriches are very clever birds!

And if those see fire somewhere, they drum there! And especially if they have eggs, hatchlings, or smaller chicks with them, they drum there!

And using the wings, they would beat and kill the fire! Hopefully, we see that at one point! Pauline, it’ll be interesting! But that could be the only thing I’d say, the reason! Say ostriches got wings!

As you go back to it for another one quick look! I mean, it’s wonderful just to see an ostrich in the savanna! Rather see how it turns out! Beautiful to see!

Almost everything of an ostrich goes to good use! Nothing’s wasted! I mean, we got ostrich farms all over the world! And the feathers, or rather the bones of ostriches, have been claimed to be solid!

And you got locals like in Africa make even jelly! Of course, they pull all the droppings of ostriches! Very good fertilizer! And it has also been claimed that some feathers of ostrich—I don't know what part of the feather on which feathers—have got some electromagnetic effect on them!

Back in the village, I would remember if someone would come complaining! I got something in my eye that cannot come out! You wash your eye! You splash your eye with water! You still feel the smaller pecker!

And you tend to think it could be a piece of metal! I would heap you saying, "Can you get an ostrich feather?" And that used to work magic! And that explains most likely ostriches maybe have electromagnetic on their feathers!

Achieve, you come to me here! I want us to look in show Pauline and all the other viewers the differences between the males and females!

Would have been watching right down there! And right there! Thank you, Archie! That is the male! You can see the black and white there!

And apparently, the one that we have on the screen there, if you could, the legs they have are more pink than this! And this, that’s what we call the breeding plumage!

And maybe he was a little colorful like that! And the guards might come around her! And now we’re going to go to the ostrich!

Look at the ostrich female there! They’re very different, brownish in color! Grey, not very bright! The legs and necks don’t get pink! But an interesting point here, Pauline, and all the other nice viewers!

When you look at the chicks, they’re down there! When they are all young, both males and females! They have the same color! But at a particular age, four, five, six months, as they get older, that’s when you see the males coming to almost looking different from the females!

Alright, we’re going to now! And thank you, ostrich! Hopefully, we’re going to see the guys around here! I haven't seen the females! But you see the male!

Okay! Moving on! Yes! Don't forget to keep sending questions through! Hashtag Safari Live as usual! Anything you’d want to know! Any comments you’d want to make, like Pauline! That was fun, Tasi!

Well, Tristan lets us know what Hasana is up to now! Well, he’s found himself a big male!

Well, the way he is, too big and bold! I see the huge bull! Let's just make sure the situation isn't compromised! Please!

We can’t afford to burn this situation too hard!

Alright! Hasana, have you had better? He looks a bit interested!

He looks a bit interested! We’re trying to see the vocalizations here a little bit! Graph the sounds!

And if you don't see that, you'll never stop watching! Yeah, no more!

Yes! We’ll have to search still furiously until dusk!

Come back! Enjoy your drive! We’re going to Zambia as much as possible!

Oh, it should have been clear that egrets are affecting the buffalo population here!

Yes, we’ll see how it goes in the morning!

We’ll have a fantastic night!

Good luck back in South Africa, where the cats are!

We'll see you soon!

So take care!