Safari Live - Day 234 | National Geographic

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If King Quito... [Music] it just looks ready for a fight. This is still her territory. [Music] The boys are here to stay. How insane was that? Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of Safari Lives, where hopefully we're going to be able to show you lots and lots of big cats.

Now, I'm actually walking on an exceptionally large animal pathway. A pathway as big as this can only mean one thing: it means that this should take us to water, and on a hot day like today, I'm surprised we haven't already bumped into any elephants. However, I do know that there's a leopard by the name of Tandy and no tracks were coming in this direction. This is the closest watering source, so I think we're gonna hang around here near Gallagher's Pan, but the animals have been up to all sorts of wonderful things this past week.

Let's go take a look and see what all the animals were doing. The Inca Boomer pride and some sub-adults popped onto Juma. They navigated through the buffalo herds but were unsuccessful. They then had to move further south in search of better hunting grounds. Husana has been doing a fair bit of walking; he ventured far north, further than where he'd normally wander, but it wasn't long before he returned to his usual hangout.

Tingana demonstrated how important it is to move around as he patrolled his territory. However, he eventually caught himself a warthog, which means he spent most of his days moving between his kill and Treehouse Dam. This is where he could quench his thirst. Corky the hyena hasn't had to move much, as the leopards, including a brief sighting of Huka Mori and Tandy, have been in close proximity to her den, and all with meals which she could potentially scavenge.

The Mara teens have been battling the rain storms in the afternoon. I highly doubt Waffles and the rest of the North Clan are enjoying this. The lions of the Mara are thrilled that the migration is in full swing, and they spend most of their time hunting wildebeest, then taking long naps before they all get up and do it again.

Well, the leopards are surely busy here in the Sabi Sand, and well, the lions in the Mara are still doing all the lion things that they get up to. Hopefully, David is gonna be able to find you some of those big cats out in East Africa. Otherwise, we've got Tristan and Sydney also out. I'm going to be giving Tristan a hand this afternoon, and we're gonna be searching for Tandy.

The reason why we're going to be doing this and working in this area, I think it's probably going to be easier because Tandy likes to walk around in circles. Serpentines, we all know this, so I think that's going to be the best thing to do this afternoon. Right, well, I'm not exactly sure what Sydney has managed to find, but it sounds like there's something lurking around some trees.

I have got something hanging there. You can see as we are going up; this was an Impala. Looking at the color and the tracks, here comes the lovely spotted cat. This cat is the big duke of Juma; this is Tingana. You can see that he's having his afternoon meal. It seems like there's been quite a lot of activities taking place here next to Tingana.

Also, hi, and a very, very good afternoon and welcome to the beginning of the Safari Live show. I am Sydney, former Almakazi, and I am traveling with Sebastian, who is my camera operator this afternoon. We are lucky already. No need for me to introduce my plan; I've already executed it. Done deal with my plan; here is Tingana for your questions and comments. You can follow us on the YouTube chat stream. You can also follow us on Twitter #SafariLive.

So you can see that the hyena there is waiting in the tree for small pieces of meat to fall down. Oh, it's winning. I can hear it crushing some bones. A half of bread is better than nothing; it's still eating. This carcass has been here for the past couple of hours; it has been here since yesterday morning, and it is this Impala which is benefiting, feeding. Tandy has been feeding three different big cats: Husana was here; we saw on focus here now it's Tingana.

It's just that the competition is too high for the other cats. Now we've got the big one, so now let's go to Tristan, who is also about to kick-start his game drive. Indeed, we are Sydney. We are out and about looking around to see what we can find. As you can see, we are at Treehouse Dam, and now the reason we're at Treehouse Dam is obviously because of the way Sydney is sitting with that Impala carcass, and Tingana is not very far away.

There was a number of other leopards that were around there in the last couple of days, and so we thought we'd check here in case anyone's come for water. As Sydney mentioned, my name is Tristan, and on camera I've got Viam this afternoon, and it is a very, very beautiful day. So hopefully, we’re going to get lucky with one of our spotted cats.

Be on the lookout for Husana. I'm not sure if he is still around where Sydney is at the moment. Sydney says he'll keep me updated, so we'll try and see if we can find him. I thought he might have come down for a little bit of water and just tried to see if he can get some kind of thirst-quenching done.

But it's quite interesting with this carcass because that carcass has been there for two days now, and it's been fairly overcast and cold, and there's not really been much happening. But what you find when leopards are on a carcass is that they will be hoisted up, then they will come down and go and have water and go back and forth from the carcass quite regularly, like we saw Tingana on his warthog kill earlier in the week.

But now what we're seeing is because there's been multiple different leopards there, it seems that there's not one track for a leopard coming and drinking at Treehouse Dam, and it's probably because they're all too scared to leave their carcass because one’s going to steal it from the others. So at the moment, it's a stalemate, and it seems as though that means none of them were actually coming to drink.

I was secretly hoping, though, that we were gonna come down to this water point and maybe find him for cars. He's just lying here having a bit of a race with a nice big full tummy, but it doesn't seem like that's the case, and I haven't found any tracks for him so far from where he was last night at the carcass. I wonder which way he actually ended up being chased. Maybe he ended up running further away, or he might still be in that area just watching from a long distance.

Tingana seemed quite alert and was looking around quite a lot this morning, so I wonder if maybe—just maybe—that leopard is still somewhere close by. So we'll keep a lookout. We're gonna do a few little loops around here. You're also gonna try and see if we can hit up a bit to the north and try and find Tandy and Columba this afternoon with the help of potato and walk.

So that's the kind of plans: lots and lots of spotted plans for the afternoon. Hopefully, we'll get some sort of success at some point, but it is a glorious day compared to this morning, which was windy and miserable and cloudy. We now have beautiful sunshine; it's clear. There's a bit of a breeze blowing that's still quite cool, but otherwise, it is the most perfect conditions to be out on a safari.

So hopefully, we are going to get lots that's going to happen during the course of the afternoon. It should be an exciting one. Now, talking about hopping, Taylor is on bushwalk. Taylor is busy kind of moving about, and I think she's trying to find the last tracks that I had of Tandy. Let's see how she's going.

Well, we've come down to a beautiful drainage system at the moment, which is full of takers and standwalk and a lot of well kudu and nyala bushbuck, so I'm hoping that they might give us a hand, but I also think that's probably why Tandy has come into this area. She doesn't just have to hunt for herself; we must remember that Tandy has a youngster now. She's almost a sub-adult.

So she's actually—the last time I saw her, she was about half the size of Tandy. She's grown since then, and from the pictures that I've been seeing, she's not much shorter than her mother. So, well, Tandy's got to work a little bit harder than she had to a couple of months ago now that young Columba is growing, and I suppose something like a dik dik or a stand book, which is a very small antelope, isn't really going to be much for the two of them.

So coming down over here, like I said, lots of bushbuck, lots of nyala, and Tandy has proven herself time and time again in tackling well prey much, much larger than she is. I remember once a few years ago when she’d actually taken down a fully-grown warthog by herself, which is just unbelievable to think. But anyways, so she's come searching through here.

Something else that Tandy has to do quite often, McClellan Bur, is go looking for her daughter, leaving only tracks behind. The last few days Sydney finally managed to catch up with Tandy between the pesky flies, young Columba who refuses to listen when called, and the scorching temperatures. Tandy's patience is wearing thin, especially when a hyena shows up on the scene.

In typical hyena fashion, they manage to scavenge the remains of something. Tandy continued to call Columba while simultaneously snarling at the inquisitive hyena. Darkness fell over the Sabi Sand and Tandy continued to search for her daughter. So nothing just yet on Tandy's tracks, but where is her daughter? How crazy is that? I can't believe that as Columba has gotten older and older, her listening skills have gotten worse. Normally they should improve, but anyways, from what Tristan said to me, it seems like Tandy and Columba were reunited, so there's no need to worry about that.

And her tracks were some ways just a little to the east of us. That's it. Rain each time there's a road called to path line. She was down that side and has come this way. So that's good news because we know young Columba was left. Hopefully, and I'm sure she is safe and sound, maybe resting up in a tree somewhere in a drainage line.

I’m hoping that if we do pick up on Tandy's tracks, we'll either see them going back towards Columba, which will be great too, because then that means that she's potentially caught something throughout the day. Or maybe they just keep coming this way, then we're really gonna have our work set out for us. But that's okay; we'll just get on the move and keep on marching along until we hopefully get to the—to the last footprints.

But any leopards are plaguing the minds of the guides here in the Sabi Sand. They are, for Sydney, and well, let's go and see what is happening a little bit further south from where we are. I look at that; you can see that this cat is still feeding here, and thank you very much to all the viewers who rectified my wrong identification, as this is not Tingana; this is Husana having something to eat there.

But now, let's go and sit with Tingana, who is also not very far away from where I am. Tingana is the one I was looking for when I got here, and then I thought it was him. I was up in the tree so I can see that Tingana is right here, and he's not worried by anything. He's just very much relaxed right here.

So you can see that Tingana is just resting under some shade. The tree that he's resting under does not even have leaves. He's just lying on some of the branches, giving you some shade. We did see him when we got here; it seems like Mpho Kazi moved off, maybe back to where he was coming from. I am not too sure where exactly Mpho Kazi was from, but I saw that according to their records, he's an animal which is occurring much more towards Manila Tea and Buffels Walk, and also sometimes comes here in Juma.

You can see that it's the nose that made me have a confused... So now let's see what Tingana has been doing during the week. Something interesting has happened with Tingana. Never one to miss out on an easy meal, he sat patiently on a termite mound in a flash and leaped onto a screaming warthog. It was too late for this prey to react; his long canines are still sharp enough to penetrate the thick skin despite his old age.

After a dusty dapple, this big cat managed to quickly subdue his prey, and that was one of the best sightings to Tristan, who was very lucky to see this kind of old cat taking down an animal with such very thick skin. His teeth are still very much sharp and strong in order to open that very thick skin for the Warthog.

I think it was Steve who was so lucky, not Tristan, my apologies. Look at that! So you can see this animal when it's in the next act; you cannot even think that it's the one who was catching the Warthog. It doesn't look like it's the same animal; he is still very strong. So now let's go back to Tristan, always looking at something.

I am looking at the chin, so I'm busy trying to check all the water points in case there's something going on, and actually what we found, even though it's not one of our cat characters, is very, very interesting because it's two birds that have started to arrive for the summer.

Now, I was painting; it's a lot of our migratory birds arriving. We've really had the Warburg's eagles, but now they're in front is a green shank that has arrived. This is the first green shank that I've seen in a long, long, long, long, long time, which is very, very cool. And then off to the right and down a little bit is another bird that is a marsh sandpiper. So there's the marsh sandpiper that is busy moving around as well.

Now both of these birds are migratory, and they move from winter, and they go further away, and then in summer they come down into these areas, and they'll be hoping that there'll be a little bit more water than what there is now because it's gonna make life very tricky for them. You can also see that they are impala around, and so that would be the reason why we are coming to these water points is because it's this time of the day that a number of animals come and drink, and often the predators will make use of that.

Particularly because it's not that hot this afternoon. It's not blisteringly hot like we've had during the course of the week. It's actually fairly cool for this time of the day, and so we might see some of the predators taking advantage of that and potentially trying to stalk around.

Now Kimberly, you say "Wow, it looks dry." It is the driest that I have seen Twin Dams since I have been with Safari Live, and that means that you know we really are looking for rain. You can see how the mud is starting to crack; it's quite desperate. And if we don't get rain in the next probably two weeks and we continue to have hot temperatures like we have, this will probably dry out completely, and we'll just have cracked mud, which is really quite sad.

It's the main reason why we're not seeing a lot of the elephants and buffalo herds that we often do see down in this part of the reserve, is because the water is really just drying out. There is not enough water to sustain an elephant herd at all; you might find the mud wallow here, but they won't drink this, and so it's going to be a bit desperate for a number of our animals to actually find the water that they need in order to survive.

So it's going to be a tough time ahead. Hopefully, we get some rain soon. One big storm, and this will fill up quite nicely. It's a good catchment section, so it's really very, very, very dry at the moment. Now I believe I need to send you somewhere; I'm not sure exactly where, but they do have a warthog, and hopefully, this one is alive.

Well, we've come across a small family of warthogs. I can just see one at the moment, but I thought I saw some others further back. Now, visiting Ghana and also a bit by the name of Huka Mori have mastered the art of taking down warthogs, and this is a female. We're obviously quite a distance away, and she's quite suspicious that we're over here.

You can see how she's staring in our direction. I did actually stand on a small branch, which she may have heard. Definitely some things caught her attention—whether it was maybe the sight of us moving around or she heard us not sticking. Oh no, actually trying to get a bit of a position. I thought she was gonna walk off—just trying to see if she gets a different angle.

So this is what we're doing right now: behaving exactly like predators. We're not moving; we're standing very, very still. And that's exactly what a leopard would do at Ravenna. It's always safe archer; even though there's a new leopard around, we probably won't pass the whole bunch of episodes. Don't even know that they're there, so you don't have to worry about that. That doesn't change anything at all, and he'll probably run away from us.

I doubt he's been walked very much. See, this pig is still looking at us now. They don't have the greatest sensors, unfortunately. Their eyesight is what we're not—their best. I think they rely on their nose and their hearing as their sort of prominent sensors.

So, not sure though, is it? There's something here, but it doesn't know what it is, and even though I don't necessarily want to eat this warthog, it'll still run away from us. It's not as relaxed as a group of impala, probably because it's on its own. Maybe it's a young boar, actually. The mother turned away just—head didn't have put in their own a stick with my guns.

What did you think? Female? Treasures of male? Craig said a male? He concedes; I do not have the camera zoomed in, probably about 80 metres away from it. It's all very young male then, as he turned... there we go. Very, very young stuff still had very long wispy white whiskers, which typically the female have—a sort of more prominent white whiskers, and the boars obviously get the really big tusks.

So he must be maybe—he just recently left his family group. You could just see he didn't... white tusks kind of sticking out, and they'll get bigger and dangerous exceptionally shot. So even though it might have the upper hand in terms of being able to be quite stealth like that, a sharp claws and very sharp teeth, it needs to be careful, and so do the leopards because leopards can indeed get hurt.

Right, well, Sydney, of course, is having a great afternoon already, and Tingana's around as I'm pretty sure he'd probably want to eat what we were just looking at. I look at that; this tail can go long up to 65 to 90 to 200 centimeters, so it's one of the very much important tools for these animals to have a balance when they are climbing these very big trees.

So you can see that the impala this animals were feeding on, it's a good thing. I think that Impala was too big; there's no need for Tingana to defend it. Maybe can only defend a carcass way. He lost quite a lot of energy during the chase, but this was just food for free on both Husana and Tingana, so there's no need for them to fight.

So you can see that this leopard might move at any time to the nearest waterhole. I can see that is very thirsty, but the tummy is looking very, very big at the moment. So that was quite a really big Impala. So now let's go back to Tristan, who is now driving; I'm not too sure where he is in the reserve.

Well, I mean, the man watching at the moment, Sydney, and that's because we are trying to find our queen in this area. We're trying to look for Tandy. I know that she was tracks way around Gallagher Pan, but I think in all likelihood she left Columba off to Gallagher—sorry, Gary cat line.

So I'm wondering if maybe if I just do the move artsy up towards kind of Niala Road, just check that she hasn't maybe come back. It seemed like she was hunting this morning, and so just double-checking that she's maybe not moved back into this area and is actually kind of moving about in the shade of the Milwaukee, and maybe potentially even hunting down here.

She often comes this way when she is trying to hunt; she'll move into these sections, and she'll kind of stalk around in these thickets. That's what we're going to look for. There's no sign of a room for cars. He’s going to try and trudge along Twin Dams; didn't pick up anything crossing fowler's cut line, so in all likelihood he must have at some point gone over Weaver's Nest and maybe headed a little bit more to the sort of southeast.

And so that's also part of the reason why I want to drive the Milwaukee here, because I'll pick up his tracks very quickly if he came southeast. The kill he waits seven years at the moment is directly to my northwest at the moment, and so it's a straight line towards where we are now. It would be about right, so that's why we're checking around here.

This is a big pathway that you find leopards often used, but there's no tracks for a leopard today crossing. There's also no tracks that we're looking for, so just lots of antelope tracks in the mall RT, which is as far as Finney what do you expect at the end of the day? It's a great place for a lot of the antelope species to be able to spend a lot of time. Now there is a warthog over there—it's just got its backside towards us hidden around.

Now I'm pretty sure the warthogs at the moment are hating the fact that it is so dry at the moment because, well, there's really no way for them to hide, and they keep getting caught art by these leopards as they try and kind of make their way back to their mounds, and the sort of dust of them going in and out of mounds is very easy for a leopard to spot.

And so they are sure hoping for a little bit more of rain to come. There'll also be a lot of them will be pregnant now and be having their little ones soon. You normally start to see them around October, which is, I suppose, a leopard's kind of candy store time, and it's going to be really, really interesting to see if Husana is going to try and hunt warthogs at this time of the year, these little piglets, because he's gonna have to start graduating as a male leopard and start kind of going off turtle piglets.

It's something that male leopards do quite regularly, and so he's going to have to learn that too. Last year he didn't, so I'm quite interested to see this year if he does. Now, talking about Husana and learning things, he obviously has a very clever, clever mind because this week he showed just how clever and cunning he can be as he slunk into an opportunity of a meal.

An older male leopard by the name of Mpho Kazi showed up on Juma; we spotted him from a distance in a military with an Impala kill. He seemed to be quite shy and dashed up that tree, had vanished into thin air. Next, Husana, who had been watching from a distance, seized the opportunity to steal his kill.

Hyena arrived in full force and lingered below the tree, hoping for a few scraps. Husana then repositioned the kill onto one of the higher branches with absolute ease. He was lucky; he didn't lose the kill he had stolen from the true scavengers down below. Well, wasn't that absolutely incredible?

It's amazing to see how Husana has learnt a lot from the past few months. We know that the past few months he's had a lot of issues with Tingana and Tandy stealing his kills, and I'm sure learned some valuable lessons from that. What he's probably learned is that if a carcass is unattended, well, it's anyone's game.

And so he ran in there and managed to feed, and he used the fact that the other male leopard had moved off; hyenas were about, and the hyenas would probably have kept that other male leopard at bay to a degree to be opportunistic enough to get himself a really good meal.

So very, very clever from Husana, and it just goes to show that he's slowly but surely starting to learn how to become an adult male leopard and really hard to look after himself. The only problem is that he needs to be very careful with doing those kinds of things. Other bigger male leopards, like the likes of Huka Mori or Anderson, probably wouldn't be nearly as tolerant and also probably wouldn't have been nearly as shy of the vehicles, and therefore wouldn't have opened that opportunity.

But if he's gonna rush in like that, he's gonna have to be very, very careful and make sure that he's paying attention. Interestingly enough, though, he's obviously still fairly kind of wary of other leopards because he managed to not get a single scratch or scar on him with this whole altercation with Mpho Kazi. He didn't get in any way, kind of, seems as though he didn't get physically hurt by him in any way or in remotely get close to him, and so he still knows that he needs to be a little bit careful in his kind of behavior around dad and Tandy.

He's very different than it is around Huka Mori and potentially other leopards, and so you know with Mpho Kazi he was a lot more aware of what was going on, but she saw the gap and bolted upright and got himself a really good meal. So very, very clever from Husana, and he's going to need those techniques later in life if he is to succeed and to be able to find food regularly, and it's part of a leopard's kind of modus operandi.

They do steal from many others and they will steal from females; they're still from younger males like Husana has happened to him with Tingana. And so, you know, it's important that he learns how to go about it and where and when is the right times to do it, especially now while he's still quite young.

So it's gonna be interesting to see if he tries it again with other leopards. He's still obviously very, very kind of wary of Tingana. I can see now even with Sydney this afternoon that Tingana honestly is the boss at the moment, and he wouldn't try, I don't think, to do that with Tingana being around. But you never know; the two of them have a unique relationship and that means that they kind of end up doing all kinds of things that are unusual and unique.

So watching Tingana and Husana together is a very special thing, and watching him interact with other leopards is very, very intriguing. It's such a stretch of special character that I'm so glad we have him around. James D, he backed off a bit more than he could chew.

Unfortunately, Mpho Kazi killed that Impala in really the worst possible place. He killed it kind of dead center of Juma, and that meant that the two sausages in the form of Husana and Tingana were not going to let that pass at all. And so poor Mpho Kazi, unfortunately, had to kind of give it up to both sausages, 2.0 first, and then sausage 1.0 in the form of Tingana.

So it wasn't a great place for him to have killed it, and being sort of more nomadic, smaller leopard in many respects than somebody like Tingana made it sort of a bit of a difficult time for him. Anyway, his nyala are going to kind of disappear at us now shortly, so we're going to send you across to David up in the Mara, and he's looking around all over the place, I'm sure for maybe the Wina pride, and hopefully he's had a bit of luck.

A very good afternoon, and hello, everyone, wherever you are in the world, and welcome to a sunset safari drive all the way in Kenya. We're in the Mara Triangle: two vultures to start our drive today—and I'm sure most of you have been wondering why I've been... my name has never changed. David, always! And luckily manual camera today—good morning, Manu!

Oh, very good! I thought Manu was asleep. You might have been wondering where we've been. We have been having some technical issues, and you've got a gentleman who is very handsome by the name of Edwin, and we tried for him to come on the camera to say hi; he refused. You all know Conrad in South Africa; I think both of them are very handsome.

Anyhow, remember this is a very interactive safari. Your questions are very much welcome. Any comments you may have, please send them through, as usual, hashtag #SafariLive. Don't forget to follow us also on a YouTube chat stream.

As zebras are walking through, the migration is still very solid in the Mara Triangle, and this is just a small herd of what maybe we'll be seeing much later. We could see loads and loads of wildebeest and zebra around this time around. I'm not very far from where we are. When we were fixing our problem, we saw more vultures.

Apart from the first two we showed you, we saw a lot more elsewhere and a different species of vultures. Sorry, I'm pleased you may have to bring a question again. Tell me where you are... Asking: "What would be the hottest country in Africa?" Well, it depends on the time of year as they move on.

We'll try and go closer to that little rough area. It depends on what country you're talking about. For me, I would say to the north of Kenya, to the north of the equator, as you go towards say Egypt, Morocco, those countries, in general, are always very hot, and they have a lot of desert-like habitats.

But as you come south of the equator towards South Africa—and of course all the areas are green, but you're a lot cooler here. I would say Namibia sometimes gets very hot, but for me, I'd say North Africa, Egypt, Morocco, and those countries in the north are pretty hot.

If not much closer to the vultures will be—so from a distance, how is that, Manu? I just want to point out these vultures because they're very special for so many reasons. We’ve got different species of vultures in East Africa, in Kenya in particular, we got seven total vultures.

This one is the largest in size, while all the other vultures go in big groups or in big flocks of 15, 20, sometimes 50. This one only goes in twos, and my guess is always a male and a female. You'll keep watching that as I try to dig out my book, and this one is called the Nubian Vulture or the Lappet-faced Vulture.

Nubian Vulture, the Lappet-faced Vulture, it is the largest in size and also the strongest vulture that we have in Kenya. Not sure if it's very warm for it because the thing is trying to cool off by opening the wings. If you're lucky to see the head, you'll notice the head is bald—it doesn't have any feathers covering it.

We'll just wait a few seconds and see. Well, yes, look at the hair there. Notice that, unlike the other six species of vultures, this one is always bald. Hopefully, you'll be able to see the other one. But in the meantime, let's find out what Tingana is doing.

You can see now that the tip of the nose here is very, very dark, and this is how we distinguish between the two. But this afternoon, I made a mistake because the nose for Husana is full of blood, and the blood shades the color. I couldn't manage to organize Husana very well, so look at that!

You can see the colors here: by the stomach looks completely different from the head. So the head is gold, and underneath, the stomach is much more white, so he looks very tired at the moment. This cat has been feeding a lot last week. He is not scavenging here because he is hungry.

So now let's see some of the displays that were done by Tingana after having a warthog on the menu. Dealing with a warthog is not an easy exercise on the menu. After a long hot day of feeding on his warthog, Tingana went to the nearest waterhole to quench his thirst as the sun set.

When he got there, he settled in for a long drink. With his stomach full at the heat of the day still beating down, this big cat couldn't manage the long walk back to his kill and so he lay down close by before his digestive system could reduce its massive stomach and wait for the heat of the day to pass. The very strong skin they have got to go to the nearest holes and drink water. He was battling to find space in order to get water in there, as the stomach was looking very big.

And then later just decided to lie there so that he can lose weight a little bit. It seems like he's listening to me. The big cat is indeed... everybody likes the big cats indeed, so I hope he's gonna wake up now and go back to the carcass and show us some of the activities as now he's just resting.

But I'm gonna leave him now and see if we can have a better sighting of Husana so I can see it's very much sitting. So now let's go back to the bushwalk, where Taylor is also looking for something interesting.

So, we've managed—well, I haven't, but her be here of course on bushwalk with us this afternoon. I've managed to pick up on Tandy and son Columba's tracks. So that could mean one of two things: that could mean that Tandy has made a kill; she's bringing Columba here, or she was just moving a little bit further west and thought that it was a bit far away that she would drop Columba there.

So she's going to fetch her and put her in another safe spot. Now our tracks came in this direction, and they were going towards one of two termite mounds. This was one of them, and then there's another one just to the right of us.

So we’re trying to figure out which termite mound she would have used as a vantage point, and I think it's a good idea that she does it here because it's fairly open. But with all the fallen trees and things around like that, just standing up on higher ground would definitely give her a better advantage.

She does forever to see down, and on the other side of some of these fallen logs, and at the moment the calm and ache and the stand buck are using them for cover. They’re kind of hiding around. So often when you see an area like this, this is a Vash Rolo, and you'll see a Daker sort of just curled up here, just sitting in the corner—you know, camouflaged using the tree to its advantage or the standing over here.

They come this way, could all these spots just lay in amongst here with perhaps just ears and things sticking out. It's a really good spot so she wants to be careful about it. She wants to make sure that she sneaks around canopies of that.

Again, I’m so sorry I didn't get the beginning part of the question. Now say my name and no, I don't think collaring Tandy would be beneficial. It would be very beneficial to the people doing research on her; however, for us, I think a collar can be a bit of a hindrance sometimes to the animals—species, something like a leopard.

So you know, it's best to leave them off; this is a lot more fun. It's finding animals this way. Sorry, something's caught my eye, but I think it's just a bra that's dangling. It looks like an animal hanging from a tree, but I don't think it is—I think it's just the branch that maybe broken.

So if I don't think I'd actually ever work on a reserve where they are constantly tracking the predators to be able to find them, it takes a lot of the fun out of it. The art and skill that comes with tracking is exceptional, and so it's all about that experience.

So if we were to just jump on the GPS and be able to go, "Yeah, cool, that's very tiny. Just get a little bit boring," don't you think? You literally just be driving to a Garret, and actually, no, it's not a guaranteed sighting, because when I was down in the Eastern Cape, they had collars on the black rhinos.

And every time the anti-poaching team would try and check where they are, sometimes they knew exactly where they were, but the vegetation or something was too thick, or the terrain you were unable to drive on it. These things limit you seeing them.

So even though they did have collars, it wouldn't guarantee a sighting again—it takes the fun out of it—and then it's just, I think it's boring and unstimulating, to be perfectly honest. So I'm quite glad that the animals don’t have any collars on it.

And luckily for us, the tunic had you been watching our uncoloured and having a great Sunday afternoon. You can see now that Husana is just dropping everything from the tree now, so these hyenas are very much patient. They are not worried even if it's taking two days; they know that food is gonna come.

So now you can see that they are having their time. Now, so high up there we have got a Husana who is trying to get something. Nick, as time goes on, Husana is going to get quite a lot of justice. A lot of that happens when they catch—oh, there’s something going on here.

It’s quite an interesting competition at the moment. So these kinds of cats—when they are older than four years—is when they start to challenge each other for the territory. So there are possibilities of this little male leopard to fight against Tingana to take over.

As time goes on, look at that! Now you can see these animals are chasing each other, and one of them is just coming from the waterhole. I can see he has been resting, maybe he's coming from down there by Twin Dams.

So this is what is called an intraspecific competition when you find the species of the same species fighting for the same food source. So that one is looking high up there, still hoping something is gonna come. So this one was lucky because he's dealing with a skull now, so the whole skull just got landed, and he managed to grab it so quickly.

So you can hear them breaking these kinds of bones. So these animals, they've got a very rushed, nearly high sound when they are communicating. It’s interesting, and they've got different calls. It's amazing listening to them; I love hyenas!

Look at that; that one is thinking. He’s just saying, unfortunately, I don’t have right equipment to climb this tree, but if I had, I was gonna come up there. He is the one who did not manage to get a piece when these small pieces were falling from this tree.

I see now this little chip is just feeding on some of the legs—could be the front or the hind legs—but now it's just dealing with the legs. I don't think there is much left there. You see, he thinks he’s got all four legs at the same time. They might end up living, but I don't think Tingana's gonna challenge Husana for what is left now unless maybe Tingana wants to go and verify if indeed there is nothing left at the carcass.

So you can see now he is just licking the bones. So now let's go back to Tristan; oh, he is now driving somewhere around the Milwaukee area. I am indeed! We are still trying to see if we can find any signs of Tandi and Columba.

With obviously, he has got the tracks where he is, so we're a little bit behind, and we need to try and get around him and try and cut off suits and blocks to try and help them a little bit. So we're heading in that direction at the moment, and hopefully, we will have a little bit of luck.

You know, we were kind of checking around Gary cut line because we weren't sure if maybe this is where Columba was left. But now that Hermes for trucks for both, it's gonna help us a lot because we can kind of get around that area, and hopefully, we'll be able to find these two somewhere.

It's a very tricky section that Herbie's in at the moment; it's big undulating drainage lines, which is perfect for a leopard but not ideal for us and our vehicles. Our vehicles do not get in there very well at all, and so we're gonna hope that they've kind of maybe just skirted and either lying up on the banks or they at least in an open section that we can actually access and get to.

So, and we haven't had a tricky find. I think that the best baits are probably Herbie and Taylor, and finding Mpho Kazi, we kind of just skirt the edges and hope that they don't cross over the road. So that's what we're gonna do; we're gonna close our blocks hoping that we can help them in that way.

What's nice about today is that they've dragged the roads. You can see the roads in front—so smooth, smooth, smooth! So they've taken tires just to level everything up. This is what we—the wall rickson actually does most of this, and so he kind of cleans up the surface of the roads because they get a little bit bumpy with all the vehicles.

And let’s just put sand in all the little holes and keeps the roads in good condition. It just so happens that it's really useful for when we're tracking. It kind of cleans the roads so nicely that it makes tracks really easy to see, and so we know if they've walked over areas that have been dragged—well, there's a fresh track from during the course of this afternoon, which will be very helpful indeed.

So, I'm hoping to find these two males. Now, when you saw with Sydney, that's Husana is busy dropping bits of meat and feeding the local hyena population. Well, he's had a few disagreements with him this week, and it's all part and parcel of his learning curve.

A familiar figure of a cat in a tree greeted us as dawn broke. It was Husana, who safely stashed his kill. Happy with its position, he descended to risk. The thud of his landing attracted the waiting hyenas. Husana, clearly irritated by the arrival, slunk towards the tree. He growled and gave a small charge in an attempt to see off his pesky enemy.

The hyena promptly retreated, leaving a growling Husana at the base of the tree. Well, Husana is a tough win. These lots of hyenas around, but he certainly does front up. He's quite brave for a young leopard. I mean, you must remember he's only two, two years and eight months old.

He's not exactly a very big male leopard—intimidating and imposing just yet—but he's got that confidence and kind of bravery in him, and that's why he'll often try and take on a hyena one-on-one. The thing is, as soon as it gets more than that, he's learnt that he's got to get out of there and try and kind of move off.

I was quite impressed with him. It's amazing to kind of watch him hissing and snarling and actually even charging a little bit at those hyenas in a way of telling them, “Back off, this is my tree with my kill! I don't want you here.”

So he really is kind of being good about it, and he's learned a lot, but he used to cower away from them, whereas now he’s going to eventually kind of get to that big male leopard attitude where it's like, "I will challenge you if it's for food." But he’s just still clever enough to know that more than one is a very dangerous thing.

What was interesting this morning with him is that he actually had a bit of a hissing match with a one-eye hyena in Timnath, and then as soon as another one arrived, he was not having any of it and moved towards the base of another tree that he could then escape.

So he knows that he's gotta get towards escape routes and trees, and that's always very, very interesting. And I think what happened there with that particular sighting is that Husana probably—the reason why he was a little more aggressive than he normally is—is that that hyena got to the point that it was escape his escape route.

So there weren't too many other trees around there, and so he kind of pushed that hyena away so that if a hyena charged at him, he could then get up into that Marula and get to safety. So it was a very clever maneuver by Husana, and like I say, he is a cunning cat, and he's learned lots of valuable things over the course of this winter in his short little life.

He's kind of progressing much faster than some others given him last time that he had to spend on his own. So it's amazing to kind of watch him go about his business, and his instinct is really very, very good. Right, we're going to try and, like I say, help out Taylor and Herbie.

And the best way for us to do that is to go past Galago Pan and then shoot up Gallagher's shortcut and in this little road that links up to the fire break, and that's probably where Tandy, if she does go anyway, is going to head. And so that's where we're going to try and help out and see what we can find.

In the meantime, though, I will send you back across to David in the Maasai Mara. I'm glad that his tech issues have been sorted, and it's always good to have him with us. Well, it's time for celebration too! Most of the cats, as we have seen Husana, but also the Lions here in the Mara Triangle celebrating...

Loss will be students in the background, and I think one of them early today, as you can see, was brought down. Not sure what time these two females did that, but most likely it grabbed in the mid-morning. They brought down one of the wildebeest of the many thousands we got.

Well, this happens a lot this time around for the migration, and if there could be a male here, he could easily come and intimidate these two girls, and he'll tend to eat until he is full—twelve to allow them to eat.

Now, what I'm talking about is, in the bush here, males will always display dominance even amongst themselves. Kapali arrived to survey his territory only to find two unwanted guests—one brazen enough to mate with butternut, a female from the Wina pride. Kapoor Lee zeroed in on one of the nomadic males and made quick work of the short-tailed fellow just seeking far and away out of his sight.

Late in the afternoon, Kippuli returned to deal with the second intruder. The nomad charged at Kippuli to protect his prize, but she chose to leave the gentlemen to square out their differences. The duel was heated but brief. The young inexperienced nomad was no match for the seasoned veteran Kapali.

Kapali returned to his stuff but not returned as well immediately, offering herself to the victim. The amorous pair spent the rest of the day together doing their best to create the next generation of these iconic cats of the Mara.

Well, that was a very epic, epic, epic... In the sense that it showed dominance on that one particular male, you saw there was a bigger male that we call Kippuli. Kippuli translates to... if you look carefully on his loss, his nose, the right side has a small slit; that's why we call him Kapali.

And Kapali is a local Swahili word. Now these two boys here seemed to be just drugged in these crackers and eating it. And I think as I said earlier, they brought it down most likely mid-morning, and my guess is they belong to a particular pride of lions that we call the O'Lala' pride.

And chances are they might have been shown the door, and boys, at a particular age—two and a half—they'll be told, "You know, go live your life. Get your own wives; get you on a territory." And I think they're doing well because this is the second time I’m seeing them with a kill on their own.

They have always been depending on the whole pride to get food for themselves. Please remember this is a very interactive safari drive we do here, so should you have any questions or any comments, send them over! So to the left there, you can see there's another boy and a youngster—he must have eaten earlier and have been resting in the shade because of the heat of the day.

And I'll show you, the grass cover is helping him, and that bush—Chris, from the look of this—doesn’t look bad, and I can tell you that until tomorrow, this will color the moon until tomorrow—maybe the day after. You know lions, Chris, are very good at energy saving, so I think they'll stick on this.

Well, it looks like to me, it wasn't an adult fully grown one. If you look at the size of the ribs there, they don't look very large for like a fully grown wildebeest. I'm talking about a mass of 250 kilograms, or about 600 pounds of prey, so to me those ribs look at this that is smaller, and it might cut them another two to three days.

Now let's find out what the other predator is doing in South Africa. You can see now that the hyenas—they're enjoying everything on the ground. Suddenly, Sanna managed to drop the whole kill. He doesn't have anything at the moment; it's only the hyenas having something.

So the hyenas are well-equipped with the truth, which are strong enough in order to deal with these legs, both front and hind legs. They are just crashing the bones here, and quite a lot of competition is going on. Yet, fighting a lot for these remains, so you can see that now it seems like Hussana is trapped as the hyenas are feeding right under the tree.

It's time for Hussana now to clean himself. You can see that he’s starting to lick his front leg so that he can clean his face and also clean everywhere where his blood has been splattered. You can see that the blood is just everywhere around the toes and the claws. If this cat doesn't clean this kind of blood, it is going to sting, and the prey are going to sniff him from a distance.

It's time for grooming now! So now let's go to Taylor. Oh God, as ever, we have indeed got feathers! And I didn't kill this bird so I wonder who devoured this feathered creature. Now, with the footprints that we've been seeing of Tandy and Columba it tells a story.

And my immediate thought is that Columba is practicing her hunting skills. And well, of course, an unsuspecting death, which it kind of looks like—that's what it was—very gray feathers.

And then we look at a wing that I have in my hand to mean that kind of screams a Turtledove. Maybe it could also be a Red-eyed Dove; it could be either one of the two, but one of them caught it. And like I said, something so small I don't know—it would really catch the attention of Tandy.

I think Tandy her days where she plays around like a kitty cat, but Columba, on the other hand, she would have had an absolute field day. Now the tracks are going up and down in the drainage line and back out the other side, so we're just kind of sussing out what's going on and where we should go from here on our nightly show.

In the last time Columba was seen on camera, I haven’t seen Tandy or Columba once since I’ve been back. So I think it’s been a couple of weeks now. But we know she’s around because we’re seeing three sets of tracks.

So, even though we’re not necessarily getting to capture her all the time, at least we know that she’s still alive, and she’s doing well. I suppose that is the most important thing. Now you were all very worried the other day when those hyenas were eating the scraps of something, and you know it was just a coincidence—Tandy was calling Columba and she wouldn’t come out of it.

Maybe Columba was a bit nervous of the hyenas; she didn’t want to be around them. Well, children, blame poor Craig, who is now trying to duck and dive. We trapped. Let’s go this way—gotta try and avoid some of the trees. Okay, well, we’re going to keep on searching around. Yeah, as you can manage, and hopefully, we’ll also be able to find a leopard this afternoon.

You can see that now Husana is still here by the tree. And on the ground, the security is very tight. He doesn’t want to come down. So this cat has been experiencing quite a lot of challenges.

Earlier this week, let’s see how he has been experiencing things. It was Husana’s unattended kill—the scent of Husana still lingering—meant he was not interested in the kill but awaited for Husana’s return. The two have been seen once before, where Husana had made a hasty retreat.

This encounter was not different, as Huka Mori spotted an unsuspecting Husana. Husana unluckily had enough of a head start, and using all his speed, managed to make an early escape from the charging Huka Mori. Witnessing a sighting like this is very much a rarity.

This kind of big cats—they do challenge each other for territorial purposes. What we saw, I’m sure, was a territorial fight. It’s just that Husana is not yet ready to retaliate when it comes to territorial activities. Ivy, on the ground—that is true; the security is very, very tight indeed. I have got three hyenas at the moment, and all these hyenas, they are just everywhere.

I can see he’s trying to check if a vehicle is gonna pass, but it's going to be difficult, and him and Husana have had quite a lot of encounters before. So you can see there is the one who managed to go away with a big piece and is trying by all means to defend the other ones when they come there.

He’s just fighting; look at that. So now let’s go to the Maasai Mara with David, who is still busy with the lions at the moment. Well, what a timing, because they are the boy! He just rose up, and I'm sure he wants to edge the kid.

Let's find out; he's very... looks pretty fool—are you having a limp or just because you’ve been laying down? You don’t seem okay to it. Boom! Typical of lions—sleep, snooze! But this, we've got the brother here who doesn't seem to be full and hungry and still trying to shear the meat out of the bones considered rib cage now and most likely, oh, the stomach contents are gone.

I can see it. Any really—will lions eat the stomach contents? Rosalind, it depends. On number one, I would say how clear maybe the wind is—the edge and also say the size of the lion because we have some males, for example, the one you saw earlier that had a fight with Kippuli.

And on clear days, good wind, open area without much obstruction, they can comfortably... or you can get them, like, even from five miles away, five miles away! It's very possible to get a roar of a big lion, and especially after the rains. What happens after the rain?

Any scent marking they’ve done—it goes or when they just scent in the air—a little bit concern of competition of other males wanting them to come in; they want to pass the message out there at a clear. And then at that particular time, they are very loud to make sure the roar goes as far as possible.

Okay, five miles—eight, eight, nine kilometers—you can hear for a clear day, lion roar! Now this one, see our youngsters, and I highly doubt maybe they can do anything that can go over one mile. But be very hungry, boy!

Yeah, Roshalin, I'll tell you Kippuli is the king because Ali—and I'm sure you watched Kippuli send off the youngster there. We were there in the morning, and there were two males and there were nomadic males because the two males we have never seen before.

And Alimone—we just met when Kippuli was doing some quick work on the first male, and we have always thought Merah was a huge lazy cat who couldn't run, but Kippuli gave that other nomadic lion quite a chase. We estimate it was about two miles non-stop run, run, run to Merah.

And of course, the nomadic youngster there was not much to Kippuli. He came back, and he rested under a tree, like 50 meters away from the other youngsters, all the other nomadic males that were mating with Butternut.

That female comes from the inner pride, and as soon as she went away, you know, she was very welcomed. As much as the daughter did not seem very excited, I would imagine she was a bit upset. The mother had been away for quite some time in the Oren pride.

There's one young stout at the same age—oh, sorry, the one you see on the screen there, and one of the other bigger females in that pride over we know is the mother of that youngster. And I think Butternut is in the Pathfinder, oh, the matriarch, in that particular pride. And as soon as she went away, the youngster went away to Dunn.

I'll tell you, male lions to me are little bit more than the females, but the females are getting the same. I would say needs that males have—for food, drink, or they'll get anything—or all what they want!

They would tend to sleep as long as the males, but in general, males tend to sleep more out in the bush. I’ve found that females, when they have a kill, they have eaten enough; they have had somewhat a drink to drink—don't sleep as much as the males. Not much of a difference!

So saying earlier, there's a young star in the winner's pride, the same size as the one we have here, that is just devouring this particular wildebeest. And excuse me about my hair; there, I do not know where this boy is taking this kill. And that male in the winner's pride, as soon as Butternut will think could have been his aunt left.

He also decided to go out to wind around on his own, and he was trying, I guess, to join another coalition of males. And he was buttoned, and he had no choice but to come and rejoin the pride. So we are trying to follow him, or be looking for him in the last few days to see the improvement or the healing of the wound—not very deep!

To me, they looked very superficial, so he should be able to heal very quickly. But how interesting that cats, after they finish mating—and I'm talking about including leopards and cheetahs—once the mating's over, and we assume the female has conceived, then the oldest pathways and the family will rejoin her pride.

And maybe the male will join the coalition; very good! Now let’s find out what the vultures are here at the moment. Well, I still have the lions, but before we look at those lions again, I want us to look at that beautiful sunset.

And as I said earlier, luckily I had Manu on camera today because there's one thing he never misses to show me is when the sun is leaving us in this part of Africa. Oh, not once—watch that! All the beautiful and romantic and the most peaceful colors you’d think of in your mind on another evening like now.

And also the final contrast is pretty stunning! And we’ve got a lioness. I mean, the male lion was eating before; I’m not sure, but you can really see that content. Now you can see, the sun is hidden behind.

معنى But I think he's preparing to jump. Let's see! And there we go! It is something that has passed by. Well, he seems to be okay with everything but just trying to observe the surrounding.

So, yeah, after the rain, they have been very, very strong.

Well, I think we will wrap up but we’ll be continuing just one more minute or so. Okay, thank you very much. I hope, you have a very lovely day, and see you again tomorrow morning.

And don’t forget we still have the ongoing coverage all the way to the next!

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