Safari Live - Day 218 | National Geographic

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How insane was that, everybody? And welcome to the 13th episode of Safari Lives, our weekly highlights package from the week that was here at Juma Private Game Reserve, the western Kruger National Park, and of course the Mara Triangle in the Maasai Mara. My name is James Hendry, and I'm currently being blinded by the Sun that is going down behind me. Sinso is on camera, and we'd love to hear from you during the course of the show using the hashtags for live. The chat stream on YouTube over there, we have got some elephants. The elephants have got very little to do with the show that we have this afternoon, a show in which around Juma the cats were running hither and yon. [Music] [Music]

So you can see it's been quite an interesting cat week, and not a lot of elephants on that map, but the cats have been moving around. There is an elephant who's sort of trying to eat from some fresh flush. It has just come on the second of spring. Yes, he's very upset. You can see he didn't feature in the map, and so now he is offended deeply.

So once we have had a good look at these elephants, we will probably introduce you to a new character, a very diminutive character. Then we'll go on the search for Tandy and Columba and see if we can't find the cat terminating at the end of the tracks that Herbert and Sidney were following. Not Herbert and Sidney—Herbert and Tristan were following earlier today.

Beautiful young elephant bald here in front of us. Nice! James, who says it's so nice to have Safari Lives back, I'm very pleased that you're enjoying Safari Lives. We quite enjoyed it too, and that's because it really does give us a nice round-up, and it helps us to tell the story of our cats. It helps us to really in detail and pack the goings-on in their lives, and then also to discuss with you what you think's happening. Because, of course, nothing out here is definite. We don't know anything for dead certain about what's going on in the minds of our favorite cat characters, and so it's always great to debate with you as to what's happening.

And yes, with you, this is a very touchy elephant. You can see he now wants to know exactly what's happening with our cat characters, where they are, and why he has not been included. He's a touchy young bull, probably aged around about—who, I'm gonna say—14 years or so, just when young men would start to get touchy as well. Come on then, come say hello! There you are, this is very special.

Yes, Angela, it does amaze me how they munch on dry old sticks, but you can see when they don't have to munch on dry old sticks they won't. They will munch on grass and greenery. That's a reed of some description that he's found there, and he was eating on what looks like a splendid thorn, that bright green tree that's just flushed.

Yeah, I think that's pretty much what it is. I think it's a splint thorn. A few of the trees have started to flush; they're great fresh green. Now what he's doing here is pretending to eat. This is what's known as displacement behavior. So he doesn't really want us to think that he's paying too much attention to us, but at the same time, he definitely is paying only attention to us. He's now pretending to eat stones and sniff little sticks and see they're about—that he's much more interested in us.

TV goes down here. No, this is fantastic because it really is amazing how agile these elephants are. Now this is a tremendously steep bank. The do, as a human being, would think twice about just trying to walk down. He's removing all of Rick's anti-erosion control, which is not ideal. Erickson will have a word with him a little later, and the rest of the herd is just in this dry riverbed behind the dam wall, seeking some shade.

There we have a great ale swinging in the knob thorn thicket. Alrighty, we're going to go and find the diminutive characters I promised we'd try and introduce to you. In the meantime, let us go across to the dried Sydney macaw and see what his plans are for this the thirteenth episode of Safari Lives.

A very, very good afternoon, and welcome to the beginning of the afternoon Safari. My name is Sydney, and I am traveling with Dave and Holly. We are going to give you the best experience. Where I am this afternoon is where Tandy and Kolkata's tracks have been spotted earlier this morning, and now I can pick up some of the warning calls in the area. The chances of seeing Tandy and Kolkata are very high this afternoon.

And for your questions and comments, you can follow us on Twitter with the hashtag Safari Live. You can also follow us on the YouTube chat stream. I can hear some kind of alarm calls coming from my left-hand side from this dry riverbed. I'm just gonna go in there and try and see if there is something at the moment. So those kids must be definitely left somewhere in this area.

So now let's go to the Maasai Mara. Jeremy is doing something—is it raining today in Mara? We are definitely looking for some rain in Africa. Welcome to the Maasai Mara for the softer noon Safari Live. Guess what, we're in the middle of a torrential downpour. I have absolutely no idea where that came from. It is echoing so loudly off the roof. If you paint her head there are chip— you need to close up those water streaming in. I'm soaked from trying to get the covers down in time. What I thought was a drizzle has turned into, I'm hoping, a relatively transient downpour.

And the reason that I'm hoping that it's a transient downpour is because at the moment we can't actually see anything because on this side of me, which is where the rain seems to be coming from at the moment, was Waffles. I have no idea if she's still there or not. She was there, she went down to fetch her cubs, and then the heavens opened and dumped their contents upon our heads! Can only hope that this is a temporary Masai Mara storm.

Now, the reason that we're here at Waffles' den is twofold. One, we really want to see her babies, but two, more importantly, I have lost the communal den, and I cannot work out exactly what's going on. So far being at Waffles' den seems to be the place to be, and it's where the rest of the clan spend their days, though it would be a stretch to compare Waffles to Goldilocks.

Her natal den site has become the regular hangout for members of the bear family. The unconcerned Waffles found a resting spot that was just right—a little sloth bear. No longer comparable to a pocket rocket, enjoyed some loving attention from his older sister teddy bear, who seems to be showing all the signs of maternal yearnings. The oldest bear sister, Pola, enjoyed a good back scratch, unaware of impending tragedy securing her dominance.

Waffles did not let the earth sign presence stop her from allowing us a brief view of one tatty-eared Waffle. That's basically all we get of Waffles' cubs—just a few brief glimpses before they disappear underground. And that's why I was hoping it would be different this afternoon. Apparently, I was mistaken. It doesn't look like there is a single safe place to be there.

I mean, the sun is shining on us from the west, but because it is now late in the afternoon, it's coming through, and it's basically illuminating us without really helping because it is still pouring here. At first, I thought I had just chosen the one bad place in the Mara to be, and I was sort of having a word with Waffles about a poor choice in den site.

All the painful thing is as well, I've been with Waffles, I’ve just been thinking that this weather is perfect hyena hunting weather, and she's hungry, and so is the rest of the clan, which means there's a really good chance they're out there somewhere hunting. And the problem is that Waffles, she doesn't need to go with them hunting; she just needs to show up at the end of it and take what is her right as the queen of the north clan.

I'm gonna go—I don't know if we can't move. We're stuck. We just have to sit here and hope that the weather blows over. She's on the side of me, and I really don't know if she's still here or not. So while I wring out my sleeves in consternation and hit’s cooker to James, who is at voir tel Adam, hopefully in some better weather!

We are much better weather—this is deeply irritating. We found this creature that we were hoping to show to you. You got him? You got him? Okay, since all, spotted him. It looks like it's in there. I think that's it! You've got it! Well spotted! That, everybody, is a baby Lapwing—a tiny little baby Lapwing. It is a blacksmith Lapwing. It is alive! We've just seen it move in there, and so that is our latest character.

We'll be watching its progress with great interest now. What I'll do since I let me drive around the other side. Maybe we'll get a bit of a view of it. Just keep an eye because if it moves, it will almost certainly disappear. I'm watching it now—I’m watching! I'm watching! Get a view of it now!

So it was born not long ago. Yeah, I think a few days ago, actually. I'm not lost. Can you see it stores in? Yeah, get to zoom in and I'll guide you. Yeah, keep going. There, go right a bit, touch—no, there, straight in. Go straight in there! Out of it a bit more focus. I'm gonna sick.

Yeah, I know it's there! Zoom straight in there! Middle of the little frame, to the right—to the right there! That's it! There, you got it! Right a bit now. Zoom punch! Zoom punch! Are you punched? You got it? You see it? We can see it! Since all you can't, it's middle of the frame! Well done! It's middle of the frame! There is a little thing—you got him now! Isn't that amazing? It's beautifully camouflaged; you can hear its parents—Catherine? Those are the parents making the noise! We're not gonna hang around here for too long, but we are, over the course of the next few weeks, going to follow the progress of this delightful little Lapwing chick in that suite out of the nest almost immediately on birth.

One of the few kinds of birds that are born precocial, in other words able to run straight away and like sort of naked example of say a hornbill or a lilac-breasted roller—very nice! But I think we're going to go and have a look now at some action associated with the great horse. Anna, I forget exactly which piece of action this is. Curse Nadja, mind reminding me? My brain is too small! Ah yes, it is the great feeling, and by a father of son.

So you can see there, there is—well, one hesitates to say this, but not a lot of honor amongst the leopards when it comes to each other, and you will see later on that it is not only Chingada that lacks a certain honor when it comes to his, hmm shall we say, visiting dinner rights. None of them are particularly appreciative of the efforts the others make in order to kill, so that's the story.

And let's have one last look at this chap and then we'll press on. I do think it's quite interesting, however, that over the last little while, both all four Tandi, Columba, or Sanne Anton, Garner have been around in the same area. And I think it's quite fascinating that Ting Ghana is not marking further to the south, and there is another male down there, down sort of operating or little Gari, which is the reserve to the south of us, and possibly even onto Chitwa.

And I think that other male is probably preventing Ting Ghana from going down there and perhaps trying to mate with Gujava, who is almost certainly in heat at the moment. So we'll discuss that a little bit later, but it is quite interesting to see the Dukes dukedom—well, I mean it's bigger than it's been four months since the arrival of Amore, but I'm not sure how much south he's going at the moment.

He’s certainly pressured from the north; I think he's probably gonna start expanding further west again because, hoping—what he seems to have absconded almost exclusively to the west, and half of Earth loser and onto Elephant Plains. So that's quite interesting and will be very fascinating to see what happens in the near future. Good!

Okay, let's leave this little left-wing poor little thing and then press on and see if we can find another cat for us. Kim, yes, it does make me nervous. I was worried about driving over one of them, but I knew that if we got close, the parents would start to make a huge noise. They've definitely only had one chick here, and I was pretty sure. Kim, apparently—oh dear, apparently they used to have three, and now they've only got one left.

But yes, Kim, I'm being very careful about where I drive. Apparently the baboons ate one of them—nasty baboons! They do do that frequently. In fact, I would suspect that one of the major predators of young miss leings like that when they are so small and vulnerable one of the major predators would be blues.

We shall leave these Impala, press on, and see if we can't give Aubry a hand finding Tandy and Columba. Now Jaime, of course, is sitting in the rain, the pelting rain, which I suppose is probably apropos of the general mood from the north clan this week.

We are indeed sitting in the rain! It is absolutely pouring! At least it's managed to change directions for a second, so we've managed to move around just a little bit in the vain hope—and I really do feel that it is a vain hope—that Waffles might emerge. I don't think she has any such intentions though because it is quite frankly a thoroughly unpleasant day, and I wish that I could send some of this rain across to Juma because I'm sure that they need it more than I do.

Well, the price that North clan pays for the territory that they have—and they really do have prime territory—oh, I think it's lightning that way. I think we might be okay. The price that they pay for the prime territory along the river crossings is everything that comes along with the river there between the escarpment and the river, and they get this massive drainage of water along in this direction. What that means is they live in a swamp!

We have no idea exactly what events have befallen North clan and one particular cub in particular. However, we do suspect that this weather might actually have had something to do with it. Now what we're about to show you is not for sensitive viewers because it has been an extraordinarily sad, sad week for the hyenas of North clan. The Meriweather has an uncanny leaning towards pathetic fallacy, and a gloomy and damp afternoon heralded tragedy at the North clan den.

Pola Bear’s cub was dead over and again. Pola Bear tried to call her lifeless cub out into the open under the watchful eye of her queen. The normally stoic Waffles seemed at a loss, gently picking up the carcass and placing it back in the den repeatedly with all of the care that a mother might show a living cub.

Waffles and Pola Bear’s mother, Sawa, formed a protective wall against Pola’s grief. Eventually, Waffles seemed to realize that the carcass had no place in the den and moved it away before bounding back to bodily block Pola from her own living cubs, driving home the message that there was nothing for her to search for—no cub that would respond to her call.

It struck me in that moment that no other hyena was allowed near the carcass apart from the mourning mother. There is no room for sentimentality in nature, and it was Pola Bear’s right to recover what little resource she could—nature’s bitter and cruel consolation prize.

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Pola Bear wandered off alone in her heartache as the queen stood protectively over her own two cubs. I guess it seems somewhat appropriate that we have this weather today. I mentioned it to the researchers, and they said it was because the Mara was crying, which I think was dramatic—even for me! I think that was a little bit too dramatic.

So a very sad week for North clan; a relief in a way that Waffles’ cubs are both alive. And I'll explain why. Firstly, because she's old—she's over 12 years old. Stop spray, weed, splashing off the window. She's 12, over 12 years old, and Waffles has had a tendency to have boys, which means that there's been no one to pass the leadership onto except for her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances years ago.

So there really is entire hope for the leadership of North clan resting on two little cubs' shoulders. I don't—and it's the unfortunate thing that we want you as humans to look for a reason. We want to look for an answer; we want to know what happened. I don't think Waffles killed that cub, even though she is a high-ranking female. She has a reputation as being very benign—I've never seen her overly aggressive, and I don't think she had a reason to.

It doesn't mean she didn't, but that's just my personal opinion. I think perhaps the combination of the weather and the fact that Pola Bear didn't move her cub away from Waffles so she was restricted to access whenever Waffles wasn't here, which might not have been good timing for that cub.

Oh, it's getting lighter! I think that might have been the reason, but the truth is we'll never know. Unfortunately poor Pola Bear hasn't come back ever since we saw her. The next day, briefly, and she's moved off, and chances are that we won't actually see her again for an extended period of time. Poor thing! Her daughter's been around—Daijobu has been around.

Well, I'm sorry that we had to—we have to show you all aspects of their lives, not just the happy moments. And that was a very tragic moment indeed. Waffles, usually with her good sense of timing, would pop her head up round about now as she feels the rain lessening.

Constance King, I don't think the dens get too flooded. I don't know, actually. That's not true. I think the den does get flooded, and I think they would be much better off if they move just a little bit further that way to their old den. The cubs are usually—I mean, these hyenas raise cubs under these conditions all the time. The sear is not much worse; at least this time of year is not much worse than it was last year.

I think the cubs are able to move away from it, but what I think really happened is where the stain is with the soil type. I think the mud was constantly wet and sticky, and you saw how Waffles' cubs have been coming out of the day, and they're coated in the stuff. These tiny little creatures need constant milk and attention from mom because they're so small, and their metabolisms working really quickly to try and keep them warm.

I'm guessing—we honestly don't know, and we'll never know, but it does get very muddy. And I am hoping, I mean, if you look at the entrance, I don't know, actually, if Archie can see that one of the entrances there—no, I can't. I'm too far forward. But if you were to see the entrance, and I'll show you once this rain abates, which it seems to be doing, you would see just how mud slicked it has become already just from this rain, and the road that I drove on which was dry on my way in is now underwater.

I don't know if this was their best choice, but I guess, as I said, they've been doing this for a long, long time. P Hart, if the cub was bitten by a snake, which is a possibility, you want to know if that could poison the mother. No! It's the interesting thing about venom and poison and the difference between them. You could, most likely—I wouldn't advise that, please don't do this—but you could actually ingest an amount of venom if you didn't have any cuts or injuries in your mouth or open gaps.

Your stomach acid would actually dissolve it, so it—within—if it had been bitten by a snake and if there was venom still in its body, the mother's eating it. She'd still be okay most likely. No, a snake is not a bad suggestion; it is possible, particularly if it was seeking shelter from this horrendous weather.

It just seems uncannily bad luck that it should have been Pola's cub, but then you never know. Awful, it stopped raining now! Almost just like that, it's over and done! Hopefully, she'll come out once it passes properly!

Oh, on a somewhat sad note from the Maasai Mara and North clan, let's go cheer ourselves up with Sydney and some lions! I am very lucky; I just managed to get hold of one of the beautiful young male lions. I can see they're all by himself—not to show which coalition he belongs to. He is enjoying some sleep, but looking at the bellies, to me, it seems like there's nothing in their bellies unless maybe it's the positioning of sleeping.

I haven't seen the male lions for quite a long time here in Juma Game Reserve—the our vodka coalition. The last time I saw them was by the first week of my employment, which was early July. That has been a long, long time ago! I had a great sighting of the inCoahoma lions earlier this week, and this inhuman lions, they did something very much interesting. They were trying to corner one of the oldest leopards on the property—Ting Ghana!

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That was tremendous! Those prides have proven to us that the lions indeed are the kings of the jungle! He, of cinching up by the tree, turned to avoid them by all means. So if it was not of the tree, I can promise you something—whatever happened, that they—they wanted in Ghana!

So I hope this middle lion is gonna wake up here so that we can see him nicely. About looking at the bones at the back, you can see that he's not looking very, very full. See, he's very hungry. Maybe this lion today—difficult to tell his condition when he's lying down like that.

So these lions can be able to sleep for 18 hours. Rosalind, the lions are part of those animals which are not feeding every day, but some of the males who got kicked off from the pride who are not even part of this coalition walking by themselves, they do target small animals. And if, for instance, this kind of a big lion catched something like a scrub hare, it's obviously not going to last in the body; it will be digested very quickly.

Lions normally they eat after every 5 to 6 days, and that is determined by hunting activities. It's not like they are going to be successful on day 6; sometimes it can be difficult. So now let's see—James has got some zebra. Zebras are also part of the animals targeted by these kinds of big predators.

Yes indeed, they are! And especially this time of the year, because there are no buffalo around—at the moment necessary, this time of year. But at this time, because there are no buffalo around, you know what I mean? Subtle difference there!

So those are some zebras, and we also have some wildebeest with them! There they are! I say the word wildebeest hoping that Tristan is watching. It gets up his nose terribly when we say wildebeest because, of course, it's a Valle de beast because it's a Dutch word or Afrikaans word, and we should say it as such.

And I said to him, "But you know, some people just don't pronounce it like that!" And he said, "Well, he gave me a really good example of why it should be pronounced like that." I think it was something like, "You don't pronounce impala, I'm pilar, do you?" You know, you don't—you say impala because that's how the word was said originally, and so I'm going to just say Phil the best although I love to say wildebeest. There's something about it that I really enjoy.

There is a lovely mixed herd of grazers here now. I think they're probably hanging around with each other—not so much because they're eating different parts of the grass plants, but because they are looking out for predators. I think that's what's happening now. Nowhere near the sleeping vocal male lion; they could, however, be very near Tandy and Columba!

Ah, you say you love the stripes! Yes! Well, the stripes are really what makes zebras zebras; otherwise, I guess there'd be horses! They are very appealing. Their existence is still something of a mystery, and you can read books with ridiculous theories on why they should exist out here, including theories on the stripes, perhaps having some kind of repelling or repulsive effect on the flies, perhaps helping to regulate body temperature.

I think the only one that holds any water whatsoever is the theory that they are there simply to break the outline of the animal, especially in terrain like this, and especially at twilight and just after twilight when lions, their main predators, are on the hunt. You must remember that a lion's eye does not see in the same detail that ours can, but it does see very good contrast.

No, sure! We don't get black wildebeest! Jimmy, don't get black wildebeest in any of the three and a half million hectares making up the Greater Kruger National Park of which we are a very small pimple on the far western edge! You get black wildebeest in slightly drier areas and normally up on the high felt. Pretty much in similar areas to those that you might find our only Southern African gazelle, and that is the Springbok! So there are no black wildebeest here at all, although these ones do look blackish; they are the same color as black wildebeest!

Alrighty! Well, those zebras look towards where we are going to try and find Tandy and Columba! Let's go back up to the Maasai Mara where Jaime Patterson doesn't have just two or three scraggly wildebeest—she has hundreds of thousands!

I'm back to talking about Valle de beast and zebra in the Maasai Mara! The rain—well, the inconvenient for us—is a truly good thing over this part of the triangle because what that means is that it's going to keep the migration here for longer. Our North clan, and I'm leaving Waffles for now—we'll come back a little bit later.

North clan hasn't really had their share of the migration this year. Sure they've had some of the river crossings, but ultimately last year they had all the beasts rolling through this area. This could go very badly—there we go driving through a river! Last year, this whole place was full of all the beasts; this year they have stayed a little bit further to the south, and for very good reason.

However, we've been spending time with them, and we would love to tell you about their movements. And one zebra that stood out from the crowd—a massive portion of the migration remain in the south of the Mara Triangle on the fresh green flash of the burnt areas, as well as the lush grazing of the salt lake. The sounds that surround the massive herds are always something special that you never quite get used to; that coupled with the sheer numbers is always spectacular.

We were extremely lucky to find a rare leucistic zebra amongst the herds! It is always special to see something out of the ordinary, and this golden zebra was a real treat! To the north, a few scattered herds of zebra and wildebeest were around the main crossing points. A small herd of 15 individuals decided to brave the Mara River.

The crocodiles have had a tough time this year with very few large crossings in their horns. They wasted no time heading for the small group of zebra, their eagerness showing with a few failed attempts. But the need to cross amongst the zebra was too great. Anna'sorian reinforcements arrived—the fate of one brave zebra was sealed. A battle for the zebra continued as the behemoths drifted downstream.

Just to clarify because I realize in hindsight that might have sounded quite awful. When I said the zebra that stood out from the crowd, I meant the leucistic one, not the one that stood out from the crowd for the crocodiles! That would have been very horrible to say! Oh! There’s the migration!

We think of it as these terribly tragic crossings—and yes, it is phenomenally sad to witness a zebra like that being caught by a crocodile through no fault of its own! It was just the wrong zebra in the wrong place in the queue coming through the river. But actually, what we should celebrate as well is the sheer numbers of animals that make this journey safely each and every year.

It is really a small majority—mainly really small minority—that do not make it through the Mara River. The topies are included in the migration as well—that antelope in front of the zebra—and a lot of them are heavily heavily pregnant! Funny you should ask that because we've got some—we have some tales of some cantankerous herbivores to tell you a little bit later in the afternoon!

But yes, sometimes herbivores do fight with other herbivores. Aha! That's what I was looking for! As topi are looking at it—there's a hyena of North Clan stalking through the muddy area waiting for the opportunity to hunt. We'll go that way in a bit, but first time has answered Bob's question. Rhino, buffalo, elephant are usually the ones that chase other herbivores around; they, for some reason, don't like to share their personal space!

And they often do, particularly buffalo bulls. But all of the larger herbivores, and hippo—hippo will actually do it! And in fact, sometimes during the migration, hippopotamus will actually step in and kill a poor unsuspecting zebra, wildebeest simply because it has come too close to them in their water! Usually that happens when there's not much space, when there's lots of competition in the water, and the hippos are stressed and their tempers pushed to breaking point!

But yes, herbivores can be aggressive towards other herbivores! You get random instances where something like a topi will chase that Thompson's gazelle for no apparent reason! Okay! I'm gonna go!

I'll catch up with us hyena that's up ahead because I want to see what they get up to! We know they like the sweater, but also, because I still haven't found the communal den! Angela, it's an interesting thing with the migration, and obviously it varies from year to year! You're looking at around about a duration of four months, but it can be longer, it can be shorter! So sometimes it's five months in really good conditions!

And it really is entirely dependent upon the rain! There we go! That's exactly what I was expecting! I can't—I turned around and stuck, and stuck. I can't turn around! Cal, get us to the hyena and then I'll turn around!

So this year is expected to be short because there was so much rain earlier on in the year, whereas the year before was a much longer, longer year! For predators—in certain places, wet conditions like this—hello! It looks like Waffles! Our son Ferg! Predators like this—conditions like this are wonderful!

But for the little predators of South Africa, usually, the dry season is their time of Plenty! Look at that! This lion is still very much iced—a lion not showing any other activities—and you can see the mane is starting to grow; it's getting very big! This kind of mane can be too hot during the hot weathers like this!

They do give them a problem when it comes to the weather, so they get very hot inside there! You can see it's like a very big blanket! So this mane helps them in order to impress the females from the prize and also during the territorial challenges fighting—they help to protect the neck! Yes! Good!

The lions—the gap between the head and the body is too small; they don't have a long neck which is out there! Because, imagine these animals they fight too much—and if they had something like a long neck it was going to be a challenge all the time! You can see that that ear is very hairy!

A sky, I am not too sure! That is something I am asking myself because when I'm looking at this issue—the bones at the back—I can see that he is not looking very healthy! Look at that! So I think this is kind—it's not a poor condition, but it's a fair condition!

So when considering the method called the bone marrow index—the method used in order to determine the health status of an animal—I can say this one is in fair condition! So maybe he's gonna wake up while I'm here, and then I would be able to see what is killing giving him a problem!

But when I got here, he was not sleeping. He was just very relaxed; the head was up, so I couldn't even notice that he's having some challenges! Look at that! These kind of animals, they've got to learn a lot because yearning helps them to cool the brain temperature! You can see now he's up—maybe he had me!

Yet, I was very worried that we want to see him with the head up—maybe he picked up something! You know, these animals can be very much inquisitive, and the—their abilities work nicely also when they're sleepy. So now, let's go to Jamie who's got the hyenas hunting!

Look! Now he's moving! I was right! This is the weather for hunting hyenas, and Ferguson's son of the matriarch is at it now! This is basically how hyenas hunt in this weather. He's going to run backwards and forwards, and backwards and forwards, and he might lose interest, or he might not, but essentially what he's hoping is that one of the antelope or the zebra is going to panic, slip, and fall!

He's looking around because some backup would be very useful in this whole process. Now he's dashing off that way. He's taking us into essentially a swamp, so I don't know how far we can follow him, but I've been dying to show you the hunting technique live because chances are he's not gonna be successful, but you just never know—and neither does he!

And already he's causing panic—he's getting zebra to run away from him! We are so gonna get stuck, but not today—not today! Oh, that was a mistake! Already he's outpace me! So you can understand what it's like trying to find and follow—no, fine!

Follow a hyena—I mean it's hunting! I don't want to look at the wards under my wheels—I'm not looking! I'm not looking! I'm not looking! Where's he gone? I've lost him! Straighten your head! Dead ahead!

Therese has got him, well done! Thank you! On to the road! This way around the very large hole that would take us swimming—which is not something we want to do! Focus! Maybe run—oh, we're going this way, and we are off running once again!

Now imagine trying to do this at night in the dark. Obviously, because it's night! And you get an idea of what we've been up to for the last four months! He is outpacing me! I'm going at 30 kilometers an hour because it's weight! He is way ahead of me, and he's stopping to look at me now and again!

There we go! Here he is! I'll stop to you in a second! I'm sorry, zebra, if you're not careful, I'm gonna spray you! I'm going to give you a shower! Milica, if you were to take me at my word from the final episode of the gauntlet, I would have told you that the hyenas' top speed is around about 50 miles an hour.

Now that was because I got my kilometers and my miles mixed up! That is not true—they cannot run! Oh, look what you found yourself! The victim of the migration—probably an old hyena meal, actually! With where it is, the actual top speed of a hyena is around about 60 kilometers an hour—possibly 70 if they’re really gunning it!

So they don't rely on speed in the same way a cheetah might do or even a lion, but essentially they just rely on an animal making a mistake! Life is tough for all creatures out here! Apparently, a Sydney lion is not looking in the best of conditions! Look at that now, this lion is showing some activities! Now we can see that he is heading towards the northern side!

Not too sure if maybe others are in front or he has been left here a couple of hours, or they have split a few days ago! So I'm just gonna now again carry on forward and see if we can have a better sighting. Maybe he's gonna lead us to something! I have noticed that he is limping! I'm not too sure if he's limping from the fight, or he is limping because he has been sleeping there from one side all day long!

Yeah, now he's working much better! Paul Cat Mama, the lions can travel very long distances, especially the territorial males. The males they walk much more long distances than the females because they've got a responsibility of patrolling their territories! So I'm not too sure in terms of the kilometers, but lions they are active a lot for about two to four hours at night! They spend much of their time sleeping!

Look at that! Now we've got a good sighting here from where I am! You can see that he picked up some noise! There was a dik-dik I just saw it occur from this drainage line going up—maybe that is what he picked up now!

Now I'm not going to give up! I'm going to keep following until I see his intentions! It's very rare for the lions to wake up by this time of the day and start showing some activities. Mostly the lions they sleep and wake up just by the sunset.

So now let's go back to Jim, who is driving, and hear his plans! But my plan is to first of all show you that Impala over there! There's an Impala! Over there! A male Impala! And that poor fellow, unfortunately, lost a cousin—possibly an aunt! Maybe even a sister! Earlier this week to wild dogs!

The wild dogs then had their kill—the other—so— [Music]

But Grimm, there, I mean, showed you a few grim things today so far and further a couple of grim things further to come but very interesting nonetheless! And I think that that was probably killed by one wild dog! I don't believe that Tundi would have taken on more than that, especially as it was too heavy for her to grab and quickly take up a tree! So I think you'll probably find that maybe one wild dog killed it, had a little bit to eat, and then either left at all or she lipped in and chased it off!

So fascinating there! And you can see that, well, the young Columba is learning her mother's pilfering ways. All is at peace now amongst the Impala males! You can see that they are not shouting at each other—they're not going, "Oh, oh!" That's what they do, of course, in May!

And that is because the rut is over! But what is very interesting as we go into spring is that this very little-known second mating season is about to happen! And it is the only time that I have ever seen Impala actually mating, and normally during the main May mating it happens at night!

This will sometimes happen during the day, and so over the course of the next month, make sure to make a stop at every Impala herd and see if there isn't any Impala mating going on! It's very interesting, and remember these babies will be born in February—just a very small cohort personating stuff!

As we go into the spring, Rooster tried to attack us! Let me run it down! That's what it deserves! I'm being facetious, everybody! I don't really believe this to deserve that! It's just what happened! But here's the main body of the— [Music]

Which is very nice! We're still trying to find some tracks of Tandy and Columba! We haven't managed to have any luck; we will continue researching! In the meantime, back to the hyenas of the Maasai Mara with Jaime! And quite astonish me, they have not enough to eat yet! We are still with our hyena who is finishing off of unfortunate member of the migration! I think it looks like a wildebeest!

But I honestly am NOT a hundred percent certain! I also said it was Ferb with great confidence off in the distance! Unfortunately, we're about to get hit by the second wave of the storm on its way towards us! I know where that lion is! I'll try and see if I can get there, although I don't think we will!

What have you got? I said it was Ferg, but he's also soaking wet and fluffed up! I'm not a hundred percent sure! Of course, this is where hyenas come in extraordinarily useful in an ecosystem such as this, particularly during the migration! Lions have a tendency to kill and leave, especially when they are full!

They'll often go on something like a killing spree—or something akin to a killing spree—at night and then abandon the carcasses! And hyenas are usually the cleanup crew! They'll come through, along with the vultures, of course, and they will finish off what they can!

They're still hunting during the migration, but you'll probably find that they are hunting less than they might otherwise at this particular time of year! They can let the lions do the hard work for them! Speaking of lions, let's go across to Sydney before his lion vanishes across a boundary!

So that lion is slowly now approaching me just from the very big house of the small insects that he might mound! He is slowly approaching! I saw that he's coming! They see—look at that! This is beautiful! You can see now he's not limping anymore! Maybe that was just because of the long slip!

Look at that! This is very beautiful with the reflection of the light! Some just short of it was they—Wolves have been roaring last week! I have heard them! I suspected that is them while I was watching the Rhinos at night!

Look at that! So I'm just gonna try and reverse it so that we can keep following these big big big male lions! You can see that he is now heading towards—You can see that he is now heading towards the boundary! Look at that! So this is beautiful!

You can see the tip of the tail is nice, nice, bushy and black! He's just about to cross now; there's some other stations—vehicles coming to join me! Aroo! And this lion is still part of the Vodka coalition—not part of the pride!

Males—big bears, they start—and young males—to form their own groups called coalition! So they are not every time with the pride! They only engage with the females during the estrus of the females! So now that lion is disappearing towards the private property! It's marking! Not too sure if this is his territory or this territory belongs to someone!

Him trying to claim the territory! So now let's go to the Maasai Mara, let's go to Jamie who is called the lovely hyena! Interesting hyenas of the Mara! Guess who showed up to the party! We not actually, despite the speed at which we drove that far away from Waffles' natal den—she's come to investigate what her son is up to!

And I'm pretty certain it's her son just watching the way that they've been interacting around this pile of all the bones! Waffles is hungry! She's been at the den; she really has been a phenomenally dedicated mother! She must spend 20 odd hours—possibly even more—with those tiny cubs, or at least in close proximity to them, keeping them safe, protecting them from harm in as much as she can!

But even she as a fantastic mother has to leave the den at some point because she’s got to eat, and she’s got to keep herself nourished! She’s lucky, though, in that as the highest ranked member of North clan, she can pretty much shoulder charge her way into every meal and get the best of it, even if she didn’t participate in the whole process of catching it!

Now while Waffles may be able to push around members of her own clan, there are some animals out there that not even Waffles is able to dominate! The hyenas of North clan were nervous on the first day of spring, and for good reason! Faced with the approach of the largest land mammal in the world, most scattered!

But Waffles made the conscious decision to stay with her cubs! It was clear from the outset that the bull did not take kindly to her presence, and there was little she could do except hide in the entrance to the den and keep as quiet as possible! It seems odd to think of an elephant as a threat to a hyena, but they do not appreciate the presence of smelly carnivores, and Waffles was trapped in her hole as the massive mammals moved over the den, content to feed while risking the structural integrity of the cubs’ home below the surface!

We held our breath as the elephant came within a foot of turning Waffles into a pancake! The departure of the elephants did not mean respite for Waffles, as next to pass by was a herd of male buffalo! Buffalo are known to be almost irrationally cantankerous, and once again the dignified queen was forced to hide in a somewhat undignified manner!

Perhaps it was my imagination, but when Waffles finally emerged and the threat had passed, she looked decidedly disgruntled with life, before quite literally going to ground for the rest of the day! Well, just personally I happen to find Waffles quite expressive, as hyenas go! But that might, of course, entirely be a product of my anthropomorphizing her and the rest of her clan!

They are going to hunt! They are wandering off in the direction of a zebra she just called! Well, we were showing you the encounter with the elephants and the buffalo, calling the rest of her clan to her side, and they have no choice but to answer her call! It’s built into their instinct, so they’re going to be coming! Unfortunately, although the rest of the clan is arriving, so is the storm off to the west of us!

No, that's the east off to the east of us, and I need to go! I can't stay with her because the road is already a river! Once the second lot hits, I'm gonna have to run! Say my name, boy! Interesting, say my name, boy!

Would like to know who the females such as Waffles mate with! They will mate with the immigrant males—males that have dispersed and moved in from another clan! Which is what most hyenas, especially in this area, will do at around about three or so years old, once they reach sexual maturity!

And what Waffles’ son, Fergus, will be doing very soon! When a male does that, he falls to the bottom of the clan hierarchy! However, some males don't migrate or emigrate—sorry, I've got migration on the brain now—don't emigrate! They move on to different clans! I mean, they stay in the same clan, and they will not really be allowed to mate with their mothers or sisters—but they will mate with other females that are unrelated!

Waffles is vanishing off and disappearing! We have to run from the rain—we really do! So while we do that, go and entertain yourself with a very brightly colored bird! Here’s a very black bird that I haven't put on camera for a very long time! I'm not sure why, other than to say I've done it so many times before!

But so we go into the summer months, of course, we are going to be concentrating a lot on birds! This is not a migratory bird, of course; it is a residential bird, and it is of course the lilac-breasted roller. We did find tracks of Tandy, though—the same tracks I think that they found earlier today! And so the mystery as to where she is right now continues!

• Well confound us, frankly! We'll keep on trying as we look at this gorgeous bird! See if there aren't perhaps a long hole somewhere along the way! Let’s see! This bird is scandalized by something—perhaps it will see Tandy coming out of the drainage line in front of us! The last tracks went into that dry riverbed to the side there!

We're just gonna ease down here onto a game path! Let’s see what we can see! And everyone is just saying the beautiful bird! It is a beautiful bird! Let’s just have a quick look up in that tree there, Sinso!

Do you mind? Do you see the big tree there? It’s the big one! That’s it! It’s called a large-fruited false thorn! It’s called large-fruited because it has—everyone together! Large fruit! Well done!

And it’s called a false thorn because it looks like it might have thorns! That’s well done! And you will find that it doesn’t, in fact, have thorns! It is an Albezia tree! I think some of the most beautiful trees we have here are Albezia. They take on the wonderful shape of the acacia x without having the nastiness of their thorns! So that is Albezia forbsie! The large-fruited false thorn!

Is it not a magical tree? It is not a character in Safari Lives. I suppose it could be a character or part of a character story if there was a leopard lying in its boughs! But in the absence of an actual character to show you, I am showing you Albezia forbsie, where perhaps Tandy might like to stash a kill!

I'm sure you're all thoroughly and utterly astounded by what I've just told you! Ah! Now just to the east of where I now sit lies a riverbed—the riverbed of the great Imamat. In which there are many tambuti groves—the perfect conditions for afternoon hunting!

So that was quite an amusing thing! And what we didn't show you there because obviously there's been quite a lot of gore already—and there still is more to come—is that Husana was astonishingly skillful at dissecting that squirrel!

So basically what he did was he used his incisors to open up the front of the squirrel and take out the guts! He didn't use his paws at all! He just managed to use gravity and his sharp teeth!

Let’s just peer down into the riverbed there! That’s where the tracks have gone! And he managed to extract the elementary canal, drop it on the floor, and then that was it! Now, apparently, we're not going to talk about viscera any further! We're going to go across to some cute baby elephants!

I'm very lucky with elephants! A very small head with the little ones! These little ones were playing here! Now they are quiet! So play is part of the ways animals learn some of the adaptive behaviors! All day long elephants, they feed!

They are not very far away from the buffers! Hooked 'em! I'm sure maybe they are from there now! You can see they are voiding the sun! As I indicated this morning, now when the sun is on the western side—during the sunset, they must look east!

During the sunrise, they must look west! So these animals, they help the vegetation a lot! Because when the elephants are defecating every time is when they are creating the manure for the vegetation to grow!

Rozlyn, the elephant's skin is very much thick! Not too sure in terms of the centimeters, but this is rarely! I don't think the mosquito can even manage to bite the elephants! They might not feel anything! And it does—here we have quite a lot of—

You can’t see this—he’s very nice and close! You can see that this body does have a little bit of dust! Can see they’re all looking very dirty, which is normal! Elephants did a fire themselves, and they also go for swimming! They like to play in water, especially during the dry season when it's too hot!

During summer season, even during lightning, elephants, you will see them playing in water! When it's raining, they get very excited with the rain! So the elephants can leave 65 years! And what caused them to die mostly is as soon as they start losing the teeth!

It's when it's going to be very difficult for them to chew, and once they cannot chew this kind of a very big Paula size—5,000 kilograms—it needs quite a lot of energy! Now that they are feeding on very dry grass and they pick up the roots and get all the nutrients, they must have to go very often to the water holes in order to drink! Because the food is dry at the moment!

So that trunk is one of the very powerful weapons they use—the trunk—in order to get the food! And they use the trunk again in order to smell! Sometimes you will see them just raising the trunk trying to get the information from the particles arena!

If you can look there, you can see that there’s some little bit of white! I think that is because of the deity from the eyes or else may be might find that is something! I can't see very, very well what it is there! But they've got to clean the eyes every time!

You can see there's even some who have their covering their eyes! Protecting the eyes from the dust! It's just like us! And we sleep in the morning! We do get those kind of white stuff coming from the eyes! They also sleep!

Elephants—during the daytime—sometimes—but not very often! It's very rare to find them sleeping! But if sometimes they sleep under these big trees and also on top, lifting their head against the termite mound!

I've seen that! You can see the little one now is going very fast looking for the other one! He's two or three small ones here! So I'm just gonna now try to reallocate the better spot for the sighting and see if we can see them nicely! These elephants are also not very far away from the border!

They might disappear now sound of the universe—the elephants, they are not selective! They adjust Volka grazers! When they are just bulk feeders, they feed on both grass as well as the trees! And when it comes to trees, they are not selective!

They do eat quite a lot of different fruit trees! Fruit trees that are eaten by the bears, elephants—they also eat them! It's just that the marula fruit is famous and mostly associated with the elephants! But they also do it to other fruits as well! Sometimes they even get attracted by some of the fruits we carry from the cars! Fruits such as watermelons and other fruits such as oranges attract them a lot!

So now let's go to James, who is searching for the leopard! Maybe he will be lucky with the lepers! Well, maybe he will—or maybe he'll just show you a die car or two!

Stop running! Stop running! Stop! Now, gone! Ah, what a fantastic sighting! That amazing! Just gorgeous stuff! No luck, everybody! You may be able to tell that from the slightly downhearted way in which I'm speaking.

Sinso, let’s do that dove! Hello, little dove! Humbled as you are, it's nice to see you! Though can you see the dove? It's the one falling on the ground there! There we are—middle of Fetcher! Yeah, here we go!

Well done, okay! Turtle dove! Oh! And the sound of the bearded woodpecker! I was rather hoping that around this waterhole would be Hothana Morton Garmin lace intellect! The humbled of eating its seeds!

Possibly the odd end, yes! The sun is eventually starting to sink on the second of spring 2018! Oh, and descends over spotted a bird that looks like—and I think it’s just the wind! I thought flavors had been mangled by something, but no it hasn’t. It’s just the wind mangling it slightly!

I used to look like that for my head hair, this is a pumped pan, in case you're wondering! And it's just a central point during the dry season! This isn't a Towel Spur file we’re looking at! That's pink legs! Pinkish beak!

And it's too, is quite careful about how it drinks! Looking out for predators! If you've spotted another one, Sinso, you're on fire this afternoon! Another natal spur file to natal spur files and one dove!

Whoo-wee! And I'm just sitting here wondering if perhaps if doesn't get a pitch up because I'm pretty sure that at some stage of one might! It's been a hot day! Superb two-shot of two birds! Well done, Sinso! You're on fire as I said!

Now if your fire could extend a spotted cat, that would be fantastic! Right, as I said at the very first time I saw you, and we showed you the clip of Husana learning from his father how to steal! So he did follow up! No, let me start that again!

So he did apply those lessons, and this week we returned to Tandi and Columba at the pulpit rock! It's later that day as we arrived in from Tandi's dragon kill to indeed by Marilla! Sheer power and grace!

The 12-year-old female showed all our experiences wasted be killed! She then positioned her with the arts of the reaches of marauding scavengers that was sure to come! As darkness fell was not over—softer side gave way as they intensified!

No tail pitched in the tree with the composition! Now when we watch that clip in the final control before we came out on Drive, there was a ripple of laughter that fluttered through the room at the sight of Husana's smug-looking face as he sat in the tree there!

And I don't know why it is, but he really does have a bit of kind of showman clownship about him, if you like! It was just very funny to watch him sitting there! Not quite gormless-ly, but one cannot feel any resentment for him stealing the killer from his sister!

It just seems to be what he does! And then he looked there, clownishly into the blue! That was very amusing to watch! Here are some more Impala! Let’s have a look at them!

See if they are getting all imprints of each other! No, they're just going to run away! Now Husana, of course, is stealing, so is Tandi, and so is Kungano! And that is entirely normal! That is what all of the predators out here will do if they can!

The notable exception, of course, is the wild dog, which will almost universally not scavenge! If they can avoid it, they will kill their own fresh meat! Unless something is very fresh and dead in front of them, then they might try and eat that! Cheetahs likewise unlikely to scavenge just simply because they are not built for it!

They try and avoid other predators, and so if there happens to be a predator on the piece of meat, you can be sure that a cheetah will just avoid it rather than trying to steal that piece of meat! But the rest of them scavenge away at will!

Well, Giraffe, I believe that would seem to be a correct statement—! If you like that a family that thieves together stays together, yes! Oh! So they do!

That fence is via Terror Camp, by the way, just in case you're wondering! And Husana, Aunt, and Gana and Columba's been to put a timer on their Armed Layton! So that's why we're just sort of driving the perimeter towards the pan again!

Much very happily, Sydney has managed to find some large game! The same one that we found earlier today! The first time in Bitter Light, it is very much interesting to see that the little one doesn’t know how to use the trunk!

Is trying to grab some of the small plants and their strengths are not there! And instead, is going down just break it from the inner parts of the mouth! He's battling to break these small plants from the trees!

So these little ones, they are born while these mothers are standing! So the little one has to heat the ground as a wake-up call in order to external life! That must be painful for them! In the giraffe, they are very popular when it comes to that!

So little ones, they got to eat droppings of their mothers when they are still very new! The twins have been recorded in some of the areas! I have seen that! But I haven't experienced it! I have never seen it by myself happening!

But I have seen that of sources indicating that yes, rarely they do have twins! So these babies, when they are still young, they have got to eat droppings of the old ones in order to get the digestive bacteria. They are born free of all bacteria! To get the bacteria, they must do a coprophagic behavior! They must come and eat droppings of the old ones in order to get some digestive bacteria!

Otherwise, they are going to battle in the stomach! Forget that—trying again to use a trunk! Gosh! The elephants and rhinos, they do fight! I used to work in one of the private reserves in Waterberg before I went to the South African national parks, and there, the elephants managed to kill a rhino!

What was the problem? Is that elephants were introduced without the big males to channel the teenagers in order to behave! So elephants, instead of treating the rhino, they killed the rhinos! They were trying to mate with the rhinos by fire—by force! And that is how they killed the rhinos!

Until the big male was introduced, which then helped in order to calm these young stars! So these elephants in Juma—not that very destructive! Elephants can be very destructive, especially now during the dry season when food availability is very much scarce! But here is very difficult to notice that they are elephants!

Lots of elephants in the property! Sometimes elephants, when having the little ones, they just uproot trees! They push trees down just to give their little ones accessibility to their food! And they want food! They won't eat and finish that tree! They will eat and leave it and move on to the next tree!

That is why in the bush here some of the trees you can see that they adjust to regenerate the branches from the effects done by these elephants as they are trying to regrow again while the branches are lying on the ground! They are not standing straight!

You can see the old ones know very well how to use the trunk, and see that now he's using the trunk in order to pull that! And if it's difficult, I have to break it and get the inner bark! The little one also managed to pick up something from the trunk! I'm sure the little one is only now starting to learn how to use this trunk!

Constance King, looking at the size of that baby, I am sure is the baby which is now approximately two to three years! It's not that very old!

I can see that this baby is still very small! His babies, when they are born, they are born weighing 120 kilograms; that is a lot! So animals such as the elephants, giraffes, and these zebras when they're born must check!

If the giraffes and the zebras already they’ve got wolves and elephants as well, their food structure is strong already for the little one to run in less than an hour! The little one is gonna be able to run! Because these animals are very much vulnerable!

So but the elephants, it's not easy for the predators to attack their babies because they can be very much protective! Sometimes when threatened the big ones will surround all the little ones and have them in the middle! Accessibility will never be easy!

Terrific! And checking in the droppings of the elephants, you will see that the vegetation material is not finally digested! What they are eating now—some of these things are still gonna come out as they are! I developed the elephants!

They do drink a lot of water every day! These animals mostly they go to the waterholes twice a day sometimes even more than that! Depending on the seasons and the type of food they are feeding on, they can drink 150 to 200 liters of water a day!

So that is a lot! But little ones—they've got to drink the milk from their mothers! But also when they go to the waterholes when they're still young—not able to use the trunks—you will see the big ones collecting the water from the trunk and trying to give them!

So now let's go back to James who is on a search for the leopard! Maybe he’s got some fresh tracks! They're not too sure how successful he is.

A very unsuccessful! We're going down now towards some water towards twin dams, and we'll work our way back up from there. There’s no reason to do that other than it's been hot and there's water there! There were two other leopards found down to the south yesterday evening, so maybe we’ll be lucky!

It's a glorious afternoon! Oh dear! Here we have a small traffic jam happening! Watch this everybody! I'm now going to do something very amusing! Good afternoon!

Now, while that is relatively amusing, and the point of it is that I then don't have to say hello, you see! We can just keep going on our search! Other than having an awkward conversation where we say hello! Hello, do not talk now! Can we carry on, please? Oh, sorry about that! You know too much!

Oh dear! I can't believe it! Herbert! Herbert has just found a leopard! Where we were! Sorry, Herbie! I missed that! I've just been past Gallagher pen! What have you got there? I don't believe it!

Copy! I'd like to make my way if I can! Herbert has managed to find Husana, where we were looking! This does not surprise me greatly because Herbert is a genius! Apparently, he can't see him very well!

So we will slowly wind our way up there and we'll see if we get lucky! I think he went for a little walk around the pan around about where we were looking at those around those birds!

Anyway, we’ll see what we can do! Remarkable man that—absolutely remarkable! Otherwise, and things have not been massively successful! I see that Andrew did not come from condemn! So that’s where we will continue to go!

Jenna! Yes! Murphy's Law and Herbie's skill is basically what happened there! I'm not sure that it was too much of Murphy, probably much more of Herbie and not enough skill brought to bear by myself!

Okay, miss Ana! You say I need glasses? Yes, quite possibly! I actually don't have short sight, but maybe some glasses would help!

Don't be quite useful if I could have some leopard spotting glasses! That was slightly embarrassing, then! That happens, of course! I didn't have to confess it to you which I probably shouldn't have!

But we're at the waterhole now! What is there? Any of our characters for Safari Lives?

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Now, just add Aiko, which is now almost certainly going to run away! Yes, there it goes running away! Oh no! Caught in no man's land now! What do you do? Aren't you gonna do? Eat a jackal berry fruit!

Thank you, Sinso, for your leveling skills! The sun has now set; that sort of dusk breeze has begun to blow! And as the duiker makes its way out of frame, I think we’re going to make our way back towards where Herberto has found Husana!

Fine-looking dark Aram! Yes, you thought you heard me say that, didn't you? Mm-hmm! Often see them this confidingly! I think he thinks we can’t see him! There are a lot of these things around, and you don't realize how many until you drive around here in the dead of night flashing your spotlight from side to side!

Because then you realize that there are hundreds and hundreds of darker around this area! Yes, they do! Our Lorimar! I know exactly what you mean about them having funny faces! They've got sort of around Roman-ish type nose, I guess!

And, well, they don't smile very much! Just makes them look a little odd! There is nothing drinking here! Let us head straight for the pan where Husana was! In the meantime, Sydney is also still driving and searching!

MIT's go across to him! I am now heading towards the twin's area just to see if maybe we can find a leopard or something in that area! But now—Here I am! I've got a very beautiful spot! I am right on a very beautiful spot for the sunset in Africa!

Look at that! This is lovely! Every time I come here by this time of the day, I always enjoy this kind of sight in the sunset! Sunset is something people don't take into consideration! But here in Africa, I can promise you, sunset will never get old!

Every time is looking new! So when the sun is going down like this: the other insects such as the termites after the first rains can be able to pick up the temperature fluctuations when the temperature is going down! It's now cooling!

It's when they know that this is the best time to release the reproductives to go for breeding purposes! But also, the animals, if you can check animals as well! Now is when they are going to wake up! But those kinds of insects such as the termites in there—their activities are not determined by day and darkness!

Light and darkness doesn’t work; there’s always dark! They feel what is happening outside in order to release them! They don't depend on the light from the sun! Bigger animals for them to do their activities! Now that the sun is going down like this, is when they can see that now it's getting dark!

And they start to come out and perform their nocturnal life! Look at that! The sun going behind the drunkard! Drunk as big mountains! That is what I'm seeing from the naked eyes without any sunscreen! Lovely tears from a dream!

Here is certainly the same! Like me, son said to me, it is always very very interesting! So now I am going to go down to us, the Wisdom area! And see if I can find something interesting! Maybe I will see a leopard, a missing tiny and telomere!

Not too sure if James is winning on that side! So now let's go to James! He's winning one—he’s going towards a leopard! We're on our way at high speed up towards the Gallagher pan! With any luck, we will still have a view of Husana who I think he's having a drink at the moment!

Like I say, The Sun has set! Certain lovely evening! Always this time of the year after the hot days! Now Husana in one of the most gory moments of the week managed to catch himself a little baby dyke!

Was his method of eating but really he made us a little little little green—young guy! Was the practical cheats victim! He was already full! So he allows some acrobatics to whet the appetite!

The task of shoving! Now that tip didn't quite show the full extent of what he was doing there! It took him I would say a good three minutes or so to suck push if you like—all of the bolus through the stomach lining!

And then it kind of made a disgusting squelching noise and fell onto the floor, which we didn't think would be appropriate to show you! We all felt very ill afterwards! But you can see that he does certainly have some interesting tastes! But no cat is prepared to eat the muck that comes out of their prey's stomach! Fair enough!

I wouldn't either! But they certainly are fans of haggis, which is basically what they ate there! Gonna quickly talk to Herbert! Maybe I'm on quarantine—no, nothing! Let's just keep going along here! We're not far now!

Now since then Husana seems to have come down into this area! Well, obviously, he has! He's just near the Gallagher pan, and he hasn't moved from—yeah, I saw him twice on foot in the drainage line just to this sort of—well, I guess you could say north of our camp!

Next to the Gallagher pan and for about three nights now, he's just kind of spent his time around there! Not showing any signs of territoriality at all! Staying low! Not killing Teresa! I'm afraid I didn't hear that! Wish—and all I got was why don't we get Christmas fangs here?

I don't think that's what you asked! Why don't they eat? Oh, they do eat the intestines! That's what he was eating! He was eating the intestines! But he was pushing out the half-digested bolus! So the bolus is the kind of masticated grass and crushed-up grass that eventually passes into the intestines!

And what he was doing there is sucking me intestine! The intestine is going down his throat, and then the bolus was coming out! They didn't want to eat that! No, absolutely eat intestine! Not always, but they do! They like it! I mean, like is probably a strong word!

I'm just gonna get all of her bit again! Maybe—what's my best approach from our camp? He's still at the pan! Got me? Thank you! You're not too far from there! As the crow flies! But it always strikes me that this next road takes an inordinate amount of time to get along as it winds!

I do feel that we should show you at least one character from our safari lives show during the course of the next few minutes! We haven't managed to find one from Juma Tambo! I'm sure he’s physically capable of sawing! He certainly hasn't sawed yet, as far as we know!

But he would only saw if he was trying to be territorial! When she isn't! Yet, he's not really old enough for that! Interestingly, Michael Fleet or do—you might know this! An avid viewer and follower of our animals!

Will over the place! Nev found some record of what he is fairly sure is Hook Amore as a cub! Looked to me around about ten or eleven months old! In when was it? It was 2014—2013! Which would put Hook Amore this young male leopard not at six years old but it may be just five!

Now how that relates to this story, of course, is that Husana is approaching—where he's not nearly three yet! But he's turned off! And you know, I still think he's got at least eighteen months—at least eighteen months before he would start behaving in a territorial fashion!

I must having be quite nice if he stayed around here! Ting Ghana had another 18 months of glory, and then kind of retired! Institute! And that would be very nice of Husana! I just took over from him!

There is the magical prince himself sitting on top of the termite mound! Marvelous, marvelous stuff! Courtesy of the great H! Causa! All of you know the great H! Causa, of course, because he is the man who walks with us when he's guiding this afternoon!

I mean, just pull a little turn around this way—a couple of sticks in the way! Income! So everybody, I'm making a hash of this! Alright, making an utter hash! You laugh at me again, Sinso! I'm going to be forced to remove you from the cart by means of a buffalo thorn!

There you are! He is—I always didn't get the impression that's young Mehsana is pretending to be regal! And he feels every so often after behaving like a clown that he should pretend to be regal! That's what he's doing now!

Prodcut! My, well, I do to a certain extent—and I think that all these cats get a little bored from time to time, especially as youngsters! Because they're so young, and because he doesn't have siblings anymore—well, you wouldn't really be with a sibling of this edge anyway!

But yes, I do think that he does to a certain extent get bored! Now the reason that you're not seeing Jamie at the moment is not because she finds any of you offensive! It is because she has been savaged by Lightning!

Welton! She hasn't actually