Safari Live - Day 356 | National Geographic
This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised.
A very good afternoon to you all! Welcome to the sunset safari of today. My name is Lauren and on camera I do have Senzo the lucky jewel. So fingers crossed it's gonna be a lucky day today because it has been rather dry in terms of animals here. But you must talk to us! You must send in all your questions and lovely comments using the hashtag #safarilive on Twitter or on the YouTube chat stream.
So before I drive any further, it is of course Mother's Day in some parts of the world—not the UK—but in some parts of the world like here it's Mother's Day. So happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, godmothers, grandmothers, even aunts and sisters or the fantastic females that look after children.
Now saying so, Senzo and I have been practicing. Are you ready, Senzo? I'm gonna sing a little song using our musical carrots. Senzo's gonna start, he's got a much better voice than me, and I'm just gonna go with it. Okay, Senzo take it away!
🎶 Happy Mother's Day to you! Oh yeah! 🎶
I'm so glad we got to do that with their musical carrots. But it's between practice and really, really hard. So I hope you like that. Carrots are a wonderful thing to sing to! I was eating his, by the way, so it wasn't the microphone, and now that is a snack!
So in all seriousness, we are on the search for lots of animals. The past few drives have been quiet and that's nature, that happens of course. So I keep saying I've got my spotted hyenas this morning but it really is time to find a leopard. It is! So we are on a mission and that is exactly what I am going to do. And of course, we will stop for all the wonderful things along the way. The main topic of today will be, of course, shall we have on Mother's and animals ID here being good mothers or bad mothers? Then of course please do send them in!
So as we drive on, and I am gonna eat my carrot now, please let's go across to Jamie and say good afternoon.
Hello, good afternoon and welcome to the sunset safari. My name is James Henry and I have a mother too, as do all of us. David Easter is on camera, there he is so happy and enthusiastic. Our plan today, of course, is to head down towards the western edge of Juma and find anything. As I'm sure Loren has explained, we have our TV show coming up this evening. We've tracked one cat off the reserve so far and had no sign of any other cat at all so all rather nerve-racking at the moment.
Hopefully, we'll do a little better than we have. We have in fact been out all day here is a cat track of a lion. Now if this lion is on the reserve I shall be deeply pleased! And you see the tracks there, David? Look! Lion tracks! Imagine we found a lion. Unfortunately, you know they're on top of the vehicle tracks, so that's quite fun actually. Alright let’s see where they go; it’s like a male lion. Okay, we'll follow up. Obviously, we are on the northern boundary so most likely it’s gone away, but if not we’ll be very lucky and find it!
Let us now go across to Jamie Patterson who will all say hello and tell you of her trials.
Oh please, please let there be a lion on Juma! That would be a huge relief. A very good afternoon to you all! My name is Jamie, and this afternoon Craig is on camera with me. A happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers out there, including my own, who I think has had a rather rough day, so I'm sending her lots of love.
But yes, happy birthday, happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers out there! And of course, for those of you who've lost your mothers, we’re thinking of you too and I'm sure you're thinking of them today. Unless you're in the UK, in which case sorry Mother’s Day has been—or is it still going to happen? I don't know. I lose track when the calendars get all different like that.
So, we're going to have a drive, I think, spent reminiscing about our favorite mother-related sightings, and there are plenty of them! We've got lots to draw on. So I think over the course of the drive, we're definitely just—sorry, I'm trying to listen and speak at the same time because I've got to get off this… one of us has got to get off this property. There are two vehicles out from Juma so I'm gonna hit the boundary very shortly.
Hmm, okay. Torch—what it is, guys? That's the plan for me then.
Afternoon, Rex! You know that elephant that you found tracks for yesterday at Waffles Up Dam? It’s been seen around the fire break. Waffles look east and Lee doesn’t agree. Good copy! Copy, or Berber!
Look, now, Halogen or… sorry, yesterday we were talking about tracking Tingana on his way towards Muffals, huh? Before Zahra Dam, and Tax Rex actually called and said, look, there’s tracks of an elephant with quite a bad limp around this area. So we're just gonna go have a look. Apparently, it was there, Paulie has been very kindly helping us in the search for animals and he found it there earlier. So we’re gonna go have a look at that.
I don’t feel like a particularly sad sighting, though. Not today! Chris, you say happy Mother’s Day to me for the motherhood of the puppy! Yes, thank you very much! She’s so cute; I get lots of videos all day and feel very sad that I am missing out on these little moments. But it's okay! I feel as though she has a strong father figure in her life, although puppy that size, anything is strong. She’s very sweet, even if I did get removed from the naming process, which I feel quite insulted by.
Okay, well done Lauren! While I make my way onto the boundary, Lauren's managed to find you at least an animal or two. Let’s go and find out which ones they are!
So we did just have some Impala; you can see they're off in the distance, and there's actually quite a mixed group here. These ones are females and there's youngsters in there, and we do have some males across to the other side. Hmmm, what's happening there? Ladies, are you getting chased off by the males here? Sorry, there's a lot happening behind. I'm actually just gonna turn the car, bear with me.
The males are called. I'm not gonna turn the car—that’s stalled. The males are chasing females! Let’s just take a look at what is going on with the Impala. Is that okay, Senzo?
So, what I was gonna say later before it all went a bit crazy with the Impalas; the males are closely following these females here. As I was gonna mention, on my Mother’s Day of course, it’s interesting when you compare the antelope species… Got a beautiful male here, I think you're the one causing all the trouble, aren’t you? I feel like you are looking a bit frustrated there, shall we say?
When you compare antelope mothers and birthing periods and lactation periods with those of their predators, it does vary quite dramatically. So obviously, with your cats, they have a very, very short pregnancy period, and the young are born very, very needle completely out, Rishel. They depend heavily on their mothers. But of course, with the antelope species— which is the prey of most of these cats, give or take—it's a much longer gestation period, or 6.5 months for Impalas. So they’re obviously inside of the mother much longer and when they’re born, they're much more fully developed.
So they can kind of hit the ground running, if you like. And this is exactly because they are the main prey species for the big cats. So when they are born, they've literally just got to get on with that; they’ve got to hit the ground running—they can walk very, very soon after birth! Then not long after that, they will be running and trying to keep up with their mothers and that's obviously Nature's way of survival of the fittest.
So the cats are born very, very weak, very underdeveloped, find known as out, Rochelle. I'm just gonna catch up with the attempt at Impalas. But the Impalas are the complete opposite and I find that utterly fascinating! So they’re all huddled together here in a mixed group. We can see lots of young, some mothers, and there is some males.
Rain is wondering if the Impalas can run incredibly fast by needing. Yes, of course, they can because running is their main escape from the predators. And of course, Impala have such a wide range of predators; they do have a lot to fear out here in the bush, and they can run really, really fast!
They can also move! So believe it or not, when you see an Impala leap, it’s quite something to see. And they're even said to go very, very high, very, very long, many, many body lengths! An Impala can leap! The males are really causing quite a stir here, and I don't believe the females are too happy with it—they're a little bit uncomfortable that there's a male chasing!
Come around here, get an amazing sunset all around us right now! So the males are behind us; we can't actually show you! We're gonna stick with the Impalas for a little bit longer. So yes, they can run very, very fast, and that is how they escape!
But it's really fascinating when you watch an Impala face a predator, let’s say for example a leopard, and they really stand their ground! They sort of operate on as long as I can see you and not scared of you; it will actually face a standoff for the predator. And for example, them back to the leopards, they can actually back down as soon as they know they've been seen, it’s game over!
So they won’t actually run away from a predator if they can see it; they will stand their ground. They will face it; they will look at the predator and of course they will alarm call! So for being sort of scared nervous creatures out here, we have a lot to fear—they are incredibly good at standing their ground when there's actually something to face.
And this is a large hare! Look at the mall just walking on by! I just think they're absolutely stunning, stunning animals with the huge eyes and ears, which shows they really rely on these senses, especially when sensing what is going on around them. They will listen and they will look, J.D., constantly on the search for predators!
So while we enjoy this moment with the Impalas and the north sea males, we are going to send you back across to James.
We’re still tracking some lions! No, the lions I’m afraid have gone north of the reserve. What we're looking at here is from white crest helmet right to a very, very upset... and I think it's because there's a territorial dispute here.
There seemed to be two flocks sticking to each other; that is in their as well. That’s in fact, that's a predominant noise you can hear. Even on Mother’s Day like this, it’s very slightly, and that was just peer into the thick foliage underneath there and see if we can see any spots there.
You upset those birds, perhaps? It was conflict between the betances and the white crest helmet? You see leopard in there, David? Nope, here okay, probably isn’t one. Sometimes these birds, most of the time they are not, I must confess. I agree with Emma who says everything is starting to look like leopards now. Yes, it is!
Nope. Let us continue. Good on, we go! So we went to check at the dam that's just north of the boundary. Sydney's dam, and they apparently the tracks went up that way. And the whole pride was seen crossing into the Munya Yeti, which is the government reserve to the north of us around about seven o'clock this morning, I think. So they probably won't be back.
So we'll continue and see what else we can find. I'll tell you that during the day, what—what was that? Let me catch that. Sorry. And Emma, Chris says what about watch helmet strikes?
Ah, what is the size of a territory of the helmet strike? I must confess to you I couldn’t give you any idea! But I says probably roughly the same size as that of the Greenwood Hoopoe. Which we can see over there!
I’ll see if anyone's worked it out! A few choruses; there is a Christian Bobbitt. There was a Greenwood Hoopoe there too! I think it did fly off! David, can you see if anybody has ever researched the size of the white crested helmet region?
It dated somehow, but it's possible. Trustingly, quite often, the prey of battle ear African Harrier Hawk in Gabbar goshawk resident! But not sad entry groups leave territories post-breeding in response to diminishing resources.
Okay, so they are only territorial during the breeding season. That's interesting! Which should be well finished by now. You know, I can’t see any thighs here! Oh, here we go! Breeding density linked to habitat patchiness... circle one group per 20 hectares in mi ombre woodland where get me on by woodland here. That's found in northern Zimbabwe up into Zambia.
But this is not observed elsewhere. Groups formed by cohort or female siblings that leave natal group and join a cohort of male siblings dispersed from another group! Basically, they're wild dogs! Yes!
Here we go! Territory on breeding seasons, Beautif ending 1 to 12 hectares, five hectares on average as their sample size of 63. So they go five hectares, Chris! Five hectares being roughly times 2.4, 12 acres.
Also, did you see my brain working, David? Thanks for that Chris! I had no idea; I'd never thought to look it up! I'm amazed, of course, that somebody has done that sort of research. I suppose I shouldn't be amazed; people research all sorts of weird things. And that's actually quite interesting!
Alright, so our next little trip is going to be up towards the gates just to make sure that we've covered the northwestern corner. And on that note, funnily enough, we're going to go across to Jamie who is also searching!
I know, wouldn’t you know it? Great minds think alike! We’re both searching for four things!
Well, I found Scuba Steve! But I’m not going to stay for very long. I just want to stay long enough that we can look at Scuba Steve and I can listen to that Franklin that’s making funny sounds on the opposite bank just to check that there is not a leopard hiding there!
That's seen an Impala that I suspected actually gone running through being chased away by another male, and I think that’s probably what’s caused that Franklin’s discomfort!
Hello, Steve! Scuba Steve! Not to be confused with Steve Faulconbridge! I have Mr. Steve already today where the lipids are. He is thoroughly, thoroughly unhelpful! You know somebody points it out and I cannot unsee it now; that’s Scuba Steve!
Only ever blows water properly out of his right nostril and not his left. And I am absolutely fascinated by this. I wonder whether or not he sustained an injury of some kind to his left nostril, or perhaps he’s just one of those people with a perpetually blocked nostril or hippos.
I don't know who get heroes who are perpetually find themselves with the blocked nostril! I'm gonna give him another few seconds and then you’ll see it!
Emma says she feels that struggle! Me too! Especially because mine comes from the squirrel excrement that has run down my walls! And therefore, depends on which side I'm lying, which nostril I happen to find more blocked than the other!
You’re a bird of prey calling, otherwise absolute silence! Very comfortable looking impala! I know when you get sick and you are, you suddenly realize how little you appreciated the ability to breathe clearly through both nostrils and you vowed never to take that ability for granted ever again!
This I feel is a common unifying human right! Wait for it! Wait for it... he's gonna... no, come on Steve! You must need to take the breath by now, I’ve been a-turing for long enough!
Oh, did he? Was I just not watching? I'm so busy looking for a lip, but did he blow out of his right nostril? Yeah okay? Well that's good! I think Craig has pointed out that he—well I'm so busy looking for a lip but I'm not actually watching what the camera’s watching!
Apparently, he did actually sorry Steve! My apologies! I thought I was just being so riveting that you were holding your breath there, but that doesn’t appear to be the case!
I don’t know why I keep finding myself drawn to bottles of Dom over the last few days! Well, I know why—I was here two nights ago! It’s wet in Ghana, was Lauren, Kirstie, and myself went out on tracking team.
And due largely to the efforts of Rickson and her bee assisting us, we discovered that Tingana had crossed out into Little Gowri! One more time for me because I missed the first one; nothing can look quite as dismissive as a hippopotamus to me!
About their eyes never too late said that he did blow a little bit out of the left nostril? There again, I mean he’s clearly moving both nostrils, so it’s probably just—maybe actually to be fair what might be is that the right nostril doesn't seal as well as the left nostril meaning he attracts more water in or he ends up with more water in it with his nose under.
Shame here we go! Right nostril again with dominant nostrils now! You see all that spray from the right nostril? Very observant from whoever actually observed it! And I apologize I don’t know where it came from; it was sort of fed to me by the very, very observant!
Oh, shame! A boy! I don’t know maybe he’s right-handed! I think what I can tell you is that right now his back was getting too hot! Now he’s doing his best impression of a rock lying on his side!
Come on lipid! This is the perfect opportunity for you to come down and drink and surprise us all! And then at six o’clock you can cross into Brothel's Hook just out of spite!
That's what the lions kept doing to me every time I had lines before a TV show, they got up and walked across the boundary as we were about to start. I have yet to be able to tell the story of the Inca homers in the way I would like to.
Alright, I suppose I’d better crack on and see what else I can find. Lauren is doing much the same—we’re all very original this afternoon! Let’s go see how she’s doing!
I am searching and even some snacks, which Senzo has brought along! And I’m not actually a snacker, so breaking my own good. And yes, we're searching high and low! I really feel today is gonna be a day where the animals are going to deliver.
But I have been thinking a lot about parental care just because it is Mother's Day of course. And parental care just differs so much across the likes of mammals and dry up to the tiles, even fish. There’s such a big friends and friends!
Okay, okay there are some tracks here! Hold that thought, Lauren! Yes, that’s me talking to myself! Mmm-hmmm, potentially hyenas!
So of course the p… Sorry about that! I think there was some breakup; that was maybe my for some road. So it's likely removing them. And of course every species will do what is necessary for their offspring.
And if it’s necessary to send their offspring out into the world to fend for themselves, and of course that’s what you'll do! That’s what they’ll do!
So you have the likes of a crocodile, a reptile, who actually does show us a very small element of maternal care! The mothers will—once they’ll either in a sort of burrow!
How did I not see you? I’m too busy talking. Shall we see if we can do? And there’s warthogs all over the place at the minute! There is a huge boom in the warthog population! And every time we’ve cited one today, they have been right next to Impalas!
And right here we have a male Impala and a very large warthog! Now one of the most disturbing sightings, actually two of the most disturbing sightings I had an Amara involving warthogs and it was very not easy to witness at all!
They are under a lot of pressure, just like all the other antelope species from the big predators! Here he goes! So yes as I was saying the likes of crocodiles, they will the mothers will actually ferociously protect their eggs and sit on top of the nest until of course the eggs are underground.
She hears the noise of the babies once they have started hatching from the egg and that is when she will go and get in my herself, carry them in her mouth and take them through the water!
And there is give or take on the species there; there is actually maternal care for about up to two weeks, which is quite surprising for a reptile.
Alex of fish—so let’s go with the classic Nemo fish—that is so incorrect which I’m really not a big fan of calling them the Nemo fish! They are either clownfish or an anemone fish, but they are the most famous one from the movie Finding Nemo!
And there’s a lot of parental care involved in looking after the eggs there! So obviously when the eggs are laid on a rock or a sort of substrate under water, both parents will actually look over the eggs and airy them by blowing water, which sends oxygen through to the eggs until they hatch!
So it just differs on so many different levels! And any of the likes of hyenas who of course suckle their young for up to two years! Two years! That’s a really long time to look after your cubs and suckle them!
So the diversity of parental care right across the animal kingdom is just utterly fascinating and completely diverse in every aspect!
So I am gonna continue searching before I go on more about parental care—that’s my theme of the day! And see if we can actually find any of the—I've left buffers. Hope because I did say to Rex that I would go and check this elephant out quickly, so I do want to just go and see if I can find it but please said quarry bush!
But unfortunately there’s quite a few quarry bushes on before Swabby East! But I think it’s closer to the fire break! So I'm just gonna go have a quick look around there.
I'm sort of dreading that though. My heart feels bruised today! It doesn’t feel like it can take a sad sighting with its normal resilience.
But best to go and find out how it’s looking because Rex wants to call people in if necessary.
Alright, so talking about mothers, obviously this is our opportunity to reminisce on some of our sightings that have provided us with the best examples of mothering.
For me, the obvious one that stands out is Tandy and the baboons, which was a sighting that I had during a public rehearsal with VMP on Geary Main when Tumba and his sibling was still tiny-tiny!
Tandy had caught herself three… It was this time of year! Ich had caught herself three male Impala and she was lying there with the cubs. We knew that they'd been seen, but we hadn’t seen them—the cubs!
Was I talking about—oh, there he is, Mr. Han necessary! Can you see it there, Craig? It’s quite deep in! Uh-oh, I’m not actually hurt; I’ll direct you in!
Mmmm, want me to go forward of it? I’m not actually hurt; I’m just whining! Is this elephant another one? It’s a very little one, five years old-ish!
Anyway, Tundi saved! Craig, I’m gonna go round to the fire break; maybe I can get a bit of view from there. It’s moving actually towards the fire break!
Tun, Tundi was looked completely asleep! The next thing she got up and she shot off in the direction of where she had her cubs!
And we ate first didn’t know why! And then this troop of baboons came running through! And baboons are a serious threat to leopard cubs! If they could have caught them, and they did try, they will kill them!
And when we slowed down the footage afterwards, you just see this tiny little cub running! And this baboon reaching through the branches to try and catch it!
Anyway, Tiny ran straight in, grabbed one of the younger baboons to distract the males, and then let it go and then ran really slowly in front of the baboons to lead them away. It was astounding!
It was such a good example of mother's courage! This hasn't worked out the way I intended it! Oh dear…
Mmm, just go down a little bit; I’ll turn around again! Are there? It’s but frightened! I know, baby, it’s okay!
It’s lonesome there hasn't been an elephant herd around here for a long time! It’s obviously become separated from the rest of its herd! Future danger, it might be a bit older than I think!
Or but I thought it was! Now that I see it, it’s limping! So just going further into the bush; let me just move, Craig!
I’m just gonna move a bit in case it wants to come this way! Concedes limping; it doesn't look as serious as I expected!
But I think that might just be because I can't see properly! For it to be on its own like this, it’s moving off again, and I want to frighten it! I’ll stress it out!
I just want to give an get a quick view so I can report back on it! The obvious thing is that... I’m saying obvious a lot tonight, in first afternoon! Not so obvious thing is that I can’t drive…
No, it’s fine! No problem! Is I’m going to try for one last view, is that there's a possibility that an injury to an elephant's leg could be caused by something human-related!
So it's important that we just check up on it to see whether or not that is the case! We—there's a very solid policy here in the sands that nature is allowed to take its course!
It’s a very big open natural system, but there is a possibility—oh no wonder I stalled out! My handbrake's up!
There it is! Here’s a possibility that it could have found itself with a snare injury on a bump here or another human-related injury!
It might have stood on a nail, for example—that does sometimes happen! Construction vehicles leave behind but some tools—they’re obviously strictly instructed not to.
Oh well done, James! I'm gonna sit here for a little bit and I'm gonna see if this little elephant will come out!
While we do that, let's send you across to James, who's managed to find a herd of healthy elephants!
Yes I have! And these ones are not injured! They are actual heartbeat genuine animals that we have found! What's more, the one you’re looking at is unquestionably a mother!
A cow flying in amongst these bushes here. Sure! It’s very nice to sit and look at an animal for a while. I know they're in the bushes, but still defeating away having transferred to trying to get the greenest stuff that's in the shade and often growing in the vicinity of the tree roots.
Because it often makes some slightly more nutritious—probably a bit more bacteria in the soil there! And that helps the grasses absorb a bit more in the way of nutrition from these very ancient and nutrient-poor soils that we have over here.
I'm meant to slip forward until the Darvid—because I believe that we will get a bit of view! And apparently what a nice sound of the grass being torn from its roots! So the grass doesn’t appreciate that the elephants do that!
Alright David, yes! God; there’s also a little cover—your Franklins here? Yeah? Care to have a look at them once we’re done with the elephant, see them? That’s very cool!
[Laughter] Or a very peaceful Sunday afternoon scene! Well, oh I’m afraid I don’t have any updates on short trunk and her herd! I haven’t seen or heard of them for a long time!
You know it’s basically only us who keeps tabs on those sorts of animals! I mean while the other reserves around the place do see them from time to time, I think they pay far more attention to their cats!
Because they’re territorial and of course they don’t have the same guests every day, which basically we do have— the same guests every day! They don’t have quite the same attachment to characters outside of the cat's.
So, you know, I don’t know where they are or what’s happened to them, but I’m sure they’re okay and they're around!
Big one emerging and what back then Becki Anelli mother will never leave her calf! It’s kind of the other way around! And if it’s her daughter, remember that the calf will live in the herd all its days!
So she and her mother will probably live together until the mother dies or you know if that very unnatural thing occurs where the daughter dies before the mother.
Otherwise, they will be together for life! And if, in the case of a son, eventually the mother and her adult helpers I suppose, in the herd—so all the adult females in the herd will chase him a son away when he’s probably in the ages of 15 and 18!
15, froley but young! But between 15 and 18 he'll slowly be chased away from the herd because he’ll start to become an irritation! Very, very similar to a 15- to 18-year-old boy!
And so she doesn’t leave him! So much so—look buddy it’s time that you packed your bags and went to find your own way in the world!
This very angular about the gut just almost like she's—I don't know, there's much white fur to come forward of it! I think she might be a young bull, very difficult to tell at this age!
I would have put that out at about six or seven years old, maybe even younger! You know, you can just see very kind of sticky arty ribs just below the spine! I’m not sure why that should be the case! Maybe we’re just the way that she happens to be built or he happens to be built!
I don’t know whether that's male or female; I can't tell! Now eating little forbs so ignoring the grass and picking little hopes!
Cal, six! Franklins are not very closely related to quails! I mean they have a similar kind of way of life, I suppose, but they're not very closely related!
I don’t think they’re in the same family! I think they’re in a distinct family! And so, I mean they’re about as closely related to quails as we are to lions!
Which doesn’t probably help you a great deal but tells you that they’re not very closely related! I’ll just see quickly—I may be talking rubbish!
I don’t think I am, but let me just confirm that I’m not talking garbage to you! Just nice to talk garbage for a Sunday afternoon!
Here's the little tasks! They are very cute! Gabriel, I agree with you! 162 in my book!
So the Franklins—no, if they're often in the same family! I told you a lie; I’m very sorry! I'll give myself a smack!
So they're from the same family and that family is the MMSE any day fast the NRA! Which I’m presuming includes pheasants! Sen a day, those are all of the quails and they all belong to the genus quartering!
Cortonticks, for tunic! Carchunics, cartoons, photonics unlimited!
Oh no, you don’t need to show all this! And then there are the Franklins and then the spur fall! So they are in the same family!
Very nice, thank you very much! So they're about as closely related to each other as we are to monkeys, really! The Boone shrimpanzees probably, yeah!
Okay, US and chimpanzees serve in a sort of relationship! Shaking off the dirt!
Alright, let's go back to the budding veterinarian, Jamie Patterson, and see if she has managed to diagnose a problem with her elephant!
I wish! I wish I really, really! It hasn’t made our lives any easier; I can’t stay with him the whole drive, unfortunately!
I don’t know, you know! The only alternative is to actually drive off-road and try and get a little bit closer to it! But what I don’t want to do is frighten an injured animal and cause even more injury and pain and stress!
It already showed a little bit of a few signs of discomfort at the sound of our vehicle! It’s settled now; it’s feeding at least—it’s eating!
And Craig and I were just discussing you know whether what it takes for an elephant herd to leave one of its own. The fact that it’s most likely a young male!
Chances are if, you know, if it has been injured in a natural way, it could have been from another male elephant! It’s moving; it’s barely moving as in walking!
So I haven’t had a chance; now it’s stressed! I can see it's secreting from its temporal gland!
There, Joy, you want to know will—that how if the authorities will help, but sorry that was terribly phrased!
But you phrased your question much better than I did; it depends! If it's a natural injury, yes; if it's not, no! Sorry, if it's a natural injury, no! If it is a humanly injury, then yes, they will.
A very difficult thing to determine! It’s almost impossible to be able to sneak up on this elephant in the area that it’s in on foot to try and see it and to see what the injury is!
It’s still small, but it is a danger to people on foot! What will probably end up doing is keeping an eye on it over the course of a few days.
But Rex did ask me to come and have a look; he said he wants to report it, and from there here we are!
I’m a boy— from there it will be in the hands of those who run the reserve! Please don’t send them messages to tell them about it! I promise you we will handle it from our end; their decisions are hard enough to make as it is!
Come on, Lily, who is eight years old, wants to know whether or not it could join another herd!
Shaman's listening to the Impala now! I mean I can see it doesn’t want to walk! Sorry, Lily, hold on one second! I'm just trying to see, Lily, if it’s a young male and if it recovers—remember animals are very, very resilient!
Then chances are, because of the age that it’s at, it actually probably will spend the rest of its life either with a group of— or they’ll meet up with some young males or an older male!
Spend a bit of time with them and do the normal male thing, which is to be separate from the main herd but to occasionally come and join up with a herd every now and again!
If it’s a female, there’s a good chance it could still find its herd! Remember elephants can communicate over large distances! They are capable of creating sounds that are very, very low frequency that travel very far!
So it is entirely possible that it could! But we obviously don't know for now whether it’s a male or a female! Looks to me to meet—looks to me to be around about the age of sexual maturity.
So, but I think it’s the back! I think the front is fine! I think it’s something to do with the back limbs! It could have fallen! I mean it could be something as simple as that!
Could have while running found itself in a hole! Elephants are actually very good at not doing that! Alright guys, I’m gonna give it a little bit longer and then I’m going to move on!
I do have to start really looking for animals! So…oh! Okay! I’m gonna try and keep up with it!
While we try and do that, let’s send you across to Lauren for an update on her side!
I do wonder what happened to that elephant we heard about earlier! And my only wonder, I haven't got that injury! What a shame!
So we're still driving! We found some tracks! We’re doing into this block here! So we’re gonna do a look! They were leopard tracks!
And we are gonna see if we can just see anything! I don't know why luck is not on my side these days! Identifies me! I just maxed out from all the luck in the Mara!
But I was thinking I would love to hear from you all as to which animal—not individuals, not characters—but which species that you think are… are the best mothers!
I’ve been thinking about it and thinking about it! I'm not even sure what I would see! My answer is… I’m gonna keep thinking about it! I have a selection of different animals that I personally feel make absolutely fantastic mothers out here!
So I want to hear from you all using the hashtag #safarilive! Which species do you think, between here and Amara, are the best mothers?
So I'll tell you some of my theories, of course! Possibly right at the top, elephant! Now if you think about the investment that a female elephant puts into motherhood with a very, very long gestation period of almost about 22 months—almost a year!
Very long time! It’s a very large investment as well for an animal! And then, of course, staying with the baby for almost life!
The females stay with the herd and when a female elephant is young obviously there’s a lot of training, a lot of learning, a lot of learning about the environment and learning how to be a good mother! And this obviously comes from the older females and the herd, including the matriarch.
Whereas males—and they obviously get, well like human males, they get a huge influx of hormones, especially testosterone, and they spend a lot of time head-butting, bashing one another, trying to show who is bigger, who is braver, who is more dominant!
That is a very key driving force for a male elephant. Whereas a female concentrates all her efforts into learning how to be a mother! It’s quite a big difference!
And that generally is why the sort of teenage, if you like, male elephants around 12 to 15 years do get kicked out normally by the matriarch herself because they are just too boisterous for the herd!
Oh, Emma has just informed me! Seventy-seven percent of the viewers of all of you agree with the elephants! Yeah, I think that’s the one my heart is set on!
An elephant makes an absolutely fantastic mother!
Eyes for the worst mothers— where James Wayne, I’m not even sure I could answer that! That is a very tricky one!
The worst mother! Is there such a thing? Possibly, yes! But I’m glad everyone agrees! I think I'm gonna confirm my final answer as elephants making absolutely fantastic mothers out here in the animal kingdom!
And where are they? Where are the elephants?
Oh, just when interest by the web! Do you control? Is asking about the elephant diet, which is very interesting because… okay, it completely differs between the two seasons that we have out here!
And elephants obviously travel vast distances! They don’t—they’re not stationary or staying within a very small territory or anything like that!
They obviously travel very far for water and for food! So generally during the summertime they tend to eat a lot more of the grass! It’s obviously much richer; there’s a lot more water around due to the rains!
And they will feed predominantly about 80% on the grass and 20% more on sort of the trees and shrubs and the more drier elements of the vegetation!
However, when winter does come, it does a complete flood! So obviously their dry grass is no good for them so they will mainly focus on trees and shrubbery—about 80%!
The other 20% will be any sort of nutritious grasses that they do find! Oh, we got a beautiful sunset!
I'm gonna do a U-turn as I talk! So Anamara, it’s also completely different! The elephants actually—the diet doesn’t do a flip! Like oh, okay! Saints always got a bit of an idea!
So we’re gonna go with it! It’s very excited with these ideas! So in the Mara, it is actually completely different!
Because the seasons are not the same as Juma! Is that okay, Senzo? He’s gonna give you a perfect view of the gorgeous sunset that we see!
So yes, the elephants in the Mara predominantly feed on grasses all year round! Completely different diet due to environment now!
Look at that beautiful setting that we have here! Senzo’s being very fussy he’s making me where there's just a little bit, so that we can get the Sun through the trees for you!
There we go! Took a bit of practice but we did it! Isn’t that beautiful? Sometimes obviously we don’t have any animals!
It’s worth just stopping and taking a look at the sunset! It’s not perfectly in the middle, Senzo, is it?
Are you okay with that? Yeah, he's okay! That's good!
So boom back to the elephants! Because it was a really, really interesting question! The diet will differ depending on seasonal changes within the localized areas!
And just environmental factors! And of course, that then correlates to the fact that how long an elephant lives!
Because they are said to live a lot longer in the Mara! Elephants main cause of death, other than parasites or disease, is actually the wearing down of the molars!
They have six sets of molars that come at different stages throughout their life! And the last set, the six set, comes in at normally on average around forty-seven years old!
And they wear down from the different food that they eat! And of course grassy is compared to trees and shrubs is obviously very, very different!
Grass is much softer, and it won’t wear the teeth down as much! Whereas branches, trees and shrubbery will of course wear the teeth down much faster!
So that is why the elephants in Namibia are said to live a little bit longer than the elephants here in Juma and the Kruger because they do eat trees! They need to eat shrubbery!
They wear their teeth down faster! And once that last set of molars is completely worn down, the elephants are not able to feed any longer!
And that is normally the main cause of death with older elephants! And that’s why they are said to live approximately around sixty years of age!
So fascinating question! But quite an in-depth explanation as we stare at this absolutely gorgeous sunset!
Senzo’s doing a great job there! The golden glow was cast all over Juma! And this is actually the hour that the—well, the leopards for sure do tend to get up!
It's such a tranquil time of day! And obviously it’s been very hot today! The temperatures start to cool! Things start to “awaken!”
So you never know! We’re banking on the fact that we’re gonna walk in, or drive into a walking leopard! Please do send all your leopard vibes to us!
It’s been sold, I’ve seen any of them, this unjust! You're starting to lose that full circle! No, it started in schools!
I'm very, very fast! Soon we will be in darkness! It’s just incredible! Definitely worth the U-turn!
For amazing—and this is the time of day when things really start to change! And I can personally feel it—even when I’m underwater!
This sort of sunset hour is really when your daytime animals are seen! Right, okay, this is it! Nighttime is coming, darkness is coming, predators are coming out!
It really is time for them to sort of get together and huddle together or find their hiding spot or go into their burrow, depending on which animal you’re talking about!
And of course in the coral reefs, it’s the exact same! It’s no different! You will have your daytime fish that are thinking—for example, your parrotfish!
Parrotfish are key species within your coral reef ecosystem! And they’re diurnal so once it does get to that sunset hour, you can see their behavior completely change!
And it is time for them to go into hiding! And of course, the nighttime animals come on! That is what I am banking on right now!
So as Senzo and I just watch the last glimpse of the Sun going down, we’re gonna send you across to James and see what he’s up to!
I'm looking for any animals really! But we've had some exciting news! We've just been told by one of the guides from our Atossa that they found tracks of a male and a female leopard coming into Juma, round where the old hyena den is on the Shoo Bomber Road!
Which is sort of middle center or central south! And we’ve just come there! We have confirmed their tracks are coming on to Juma! They're going in towards Treehouse Dam!
So that’s where we need it! So that’s very exciting! If we get very lucky, we might have a possibly Hoekamore and a Sibuyi mating!
If we don’t get lucky, we’ll have nothing! So I’m going to drive with relative speed to see if we can’t get lucky!
Sibuyi is a female leopard that occurs to the south of us in this general vicinity! She’s sort of, well I guess she’s sort of west!
I know she’s off! She do lose territory, and yeah I guess waste of good Chavez! I thought she was a little further south!
Let’s just stop here and show you quite magnificent picture! And see if we can’t hear some alarming noises or the tell-tale sound of mating lipids!
Isn't that wonderful? Beautiful kudos on a termite mound! They do this just for vantage! And if they could see the lipids, they would be going, “Ah!”
Two youngsters! I'm sure the rest of the herd is around here somewhere! They’re just enjoying a little Sunday evening peep out from the top of the termite mound!
Something moving in the grass next—or some pretty sure it’s a Franklin and not a leopard! Yes, that’s a factor I can see it!
Alrighty, we're going to carry on! Didn’t hear any leopard mating! His hands do make a tremendous noise when they’re mating!
And so it’s quite a nice way of finding them! Deborah, you say that was beautiful!? It is just wonderful!
They are such elegant and T Lupe’s! There’s a big bull antelope! And there’s two mummies!
We’re gonna carry on—not because we don’t appreciate them—but because the light is fading fast and TV is coming! I think what we’ll probably do, thank you very much, that all of you are sending me luck!
We will need it! I’m entirely sure this was the wisest route to take! Like maybe we should have just gone straight to the dam and stopped and listened there!
Anyway, we will be there soon enough! You difficult to track them become darkness!
Alright! Here we’ll turn north over here!
Oh, Rajee, well I hurry up them and drive about and do my best to find these cats!
Go back to Lauren, who’s given up on her sun!
We have moved on from the sunset and we did have a beautiful crested bar but just posing fantastically so in front of the car! But obviously, hair dye must always say live, live, live, live—more like that!
And of course—flew off! Which is a shame because it was an absolute beautiful view of a beautiful bird!
Oh well—very typical in the world of birds! I swear they know! They just know exactly when we’re gonna go live and they fly off!
And that is the life of a bird! So continuing on, my bum is gone rather numb here, so it’s gonna shuffle around and do hope that the animals come to me!
Sansa said he would bring all his luck with them. He’s even got lucky socks on today! He’s always got socks on! Since I was a sock man!
Oh, Irene's asking a good question—it stopped me in my tracks! Iya! Stop me from going on a roundabout!
Sanso or socks, what do I think are better mothers—aquatic animals or land animals?
Very interesting question! Could probably have a great discussion about that!
But I think generally it’s very general, very broad! Without going into specific examples, I do think it has to be land animals! Mammals, of course, is a broad category!
And they generally, generally, generally tend to show the highest level of maternal care! And there’s even a few examples of paternal care in there as well!
So I do think land animals definitely show the higher level of maternal and paternal care!
However, aquatic animals is a huge diversity, huge, huge spectrum that we could actually talk about!
And each individual animal will do what it can for its young! The main sort of driving factor in the animal kingdom is reproduction!
It is to, you know, keep going with your bloodline and spread your genetics far and wide! That is sort of the main goal within many—in all animals, really!
So within the aquatic realm, that’s exactly what the animals do! And they will do absolutely everything and explain how much energy they can actually afford to expend looking after their young to ensure they get the best start to life—even if it is just dispersal!
So some people forget that coral is actually an animal! It doesn’t look like an animal, doesn’t behave—it’s what we classify as an animal!
But it is! It’s in the sort of grouping, Nigeria, the same as jellyfish! There’s a very basic level of animal!
But it’s still an animal! And how they reproduce is by spawning! So at a certain time of the year, within a particular moon phase, these animals will just spawn!
They’ll just release all the gametes into the ocean and just hope for the best! And that is an animal that’s doing that!
And obviously, there’s very, very, very little maternal or paternal care that goes into that—but there’s a lot of energy expended!
And that is what they strive to do—release surgeries, which will of course meet in the ocean together and then they will settle!
They need a hard substrate to settle on! And then that is how the start of coral grows! It’s the very beginning of coral life!
And it’s fascinating! And maybe it doesn’t sound very relevant out here, but it’s still an animal!
So Irena, I think it was a fantastic question! And you, Vito, I could go on and on and on about that!
Saying that’s giving me very funny looks from the back here! But yes, there’s such a broad spectrum of parental care! And land animals I think definitely wouldn’t add that!
But you're a great question! What a topic! Even though I haven’t found much today, we definitely have had some fantastic discussions, that’s for sure!
And I'm still hoping that something is just going to walk into my path! Because I’m clearly not doing very well at fun dance, however! I’m not giving up hope just yet!
Obviously we have our TV show tonight, as you all know! And the animals do love to be on TV!
That’s one thing I will say! Left or right, left or right? What do you think, Senzo? 50-50—we’re just looking! We haven’t found any tracks to follow as of yet!
So I'm Julia! Whole life! Senzo always says left. I don’t know why! When I see left, or I said left, black like, black, no matter where it takes you.
Okay, so we’re heading north! We really have covered the southern boundary quite extensively this morning!
So this morning, this afternoon! I apologize! So we’re hoping for our best by traveling slightly north! Like I said, please do send all your good vibes!
And it’s Sunday! The animals do know that it’s cheap! Each tour—and it’s time to pop out and make an appearance!
They all love their moments on television! Otherwise, we will continue to drive! No, but it’s starting to get a little bit chilly!
This one is saying to him within the next few minutes I may have to pull over and put my jersey on! I actually call it a jumper!
But a lot of people out here make fun of me when I say jumper! So I don’t know if it’s a British word or just the strange Lauren Ward!
But I call them jumpers! But everybody laughs; so I’m just gonna switch to jersey! Just don’t be made fun of!
There’s a lot of things that I get made fun for! I made fun of in camp! But jumper is definitely one of them!
Emma said she likes jumpers! So yes, thanks! I'm always giving me support! And not yet! I like jumpers, dudes!
It’s the word that I've been brought up with! I'm not sure exactly what is funny about it! But obviously, it’s entertaining to some other people!
So talking of that, you’re gonna have to bear with me while I actually put it on, wherever it is! It was probably not even a jumper! It’s probably a fleece!
But there we go! Thank you for your patience, everyone! Senzo’s all wrapped up in the back; he always is!
I hate to think how you would survive in Scotland! Senzo, aim was enticing! She imagines animals like Impala peed in their jerseys on!
Yes, I mean, of course, animals that adapt to environmental conditions, including temperature and seasonal changes! I mean, it’s what they are!
They’re, you know, it’s what they’re used to! They write just a dad! But I do often wonder it can't be easy being an animal out here!
In certain conditions! And of course, they are prepared for it! But, oh! When the way there gets really cold here, I can't imagine it is much fun being out here when the wind is blowing!
And the open, clear, and erring areas! It definitely wouldn’t be me! I’d much rather be tucked into bed!
Okay, back to game on point! Animals, where are you? I wonder why they're all hiding from us!
I had a good feeling about today! Has been a very very quiet few days since I have been back!
Oh hey mousey! There’s now a discussion about jumper or jersey or jacket! This actually isn’t technically what I would call a jumbo! Jumpers what you pull pool on, like yeah that!
That’s that! Senzo! So sweater! I think that’s the American term! I wonder what jumper does come from!
If anyone does know, please do let us know! Alrighty! It looks like I've heard some good news in my ear. So we are gonna send you across to Miss Patterson to find something very exciting!
Surprise! I managed to actually do something! I found an animal! I found an animal from scratch, almost!
Okay, I actually found an animal by smelling! And then I saw a hyena eating a bit of something!
Then Craig spotted a dead Impala underneath the weeping waffle! And then the hyenas chased the leopard away! And here we are!
And then she’s not who I was expecting at all! But here we have it! I thought there was a female leopard hanging around somewhere on this eastern western—sorry side of Torchwood!
I apologize; there's no way I’ll be able to be live and moving with where we are! Some signal!
That’s why you didn’t see any of the action between the lip and the hyenas! Let me see if I can call Rickson! You should see me! No, I can’t use my radio; it’s not working!
They’ve just driven past me, and there’s nothing I can do! My radio won’t work! My signal won’t work!
Oh they found me! If not, this is really quite infuriating! Why I won’t find you! And just to confirm they found us!
Here we go! This certainly doesn’t look like Columba, and it certainly doesn’t look like Tundi!
It does almost look like Kochava, what Craig's first guess was! Unless Columba has somehow grown up immensely in the time since I last saw her!
I'm pretty certain that that's—well I think that’s who we've got! Barely seen her properly! The only time I saw her face was when she was looking longingly!
Oh, here come the hyenas! Hey troubles! No, don't you chase my leopard away, or at least don't you chase my leopard further on to Torchwood!
If you don’t mind! Oh geez! It's fascinating to watch the dynamics between a leopard and a hyena! Two very different animals! And the hyena, of course, will always be…
I'm just gonna light it up briefly 4X—and so you can see where she is! A hyena will always chase away a leopard from a kill, a female leopard at least!
But at the same time, just watch! She’s the Kochava! It’s most definitely Kochava! Oh don’t go that way! She’s gonna go further down towards Torchwood! Down for a drink!
Which is going to make our lives very difficult! I may not be seeing you much while I try and follow her because I'm just gonna try and stick with her in the vain hope that she moves further towards a signal area!
Okay, while we figure this out, I’m gonna send you across to James to see what he has planned in his hour of need!
I am indeed! We have had no further sound or sight or tracks or anything of the supposed mating pair of leopards!
Let’s just stop and have a quick listen here! Very nice that Jamie's had some success on Torchwood!
Let’s just hope that the signal holds! So we went to Treehouse Dam; we sat there for a while, didn’t hear anything! So we’re gonna sit here and see if I can hear anything!
The tracks didn’t seem to go up the road, which means I think they came into the block over here somewhere! Some babbles shouting, that’s about all!
Let’s go and just quickly check this old hyena den! We’ve got nothing to lose by doing that! It’s just over here!
And it’s all of you saying nighttime sounds! It’s lovely in winter! There are nice— I don’t think they’re as nice as they are in summer, but they’re certainly nice!
Very quiet! Just the old sound, and obviously any sound like a hyena sound or a leopard sound will travel that much further without all the leaves on the trees!
And with the air being that much less filled with moisture!
Not sure how that works physically! Does the old hyena den? Nobody home—oh I’m on a second! Some lions on Gauri main road!
Hang on a second—I'm going to get hold of Lauren! Lauren, do you copy? Lauren! Lauren, do you want to try and get into that sighting on Gauri main road?
Okay, so Lauren’s right there! I think—see if you can get in!
Try’s probably being run on the Eastern Channel! I am now seeing the old lipid track going up the road here!
Anyway, let's keep trying here! And maybe we’ll go and try the hyena den! But those lions sound like they're in a good position for us just to offer Chitwa!
Good! Okay, hopefully things are coming together! It’s a big Torchwood pride! I'm listening on the radio!
Not hearing Lauren try and call herself in! She may just arrive and better eyelids it! Then that would suffice! Yeah, well learn sometime!
So it is Mother’s Day! Now I’m not making conversation, you can see because I've nothing biological to tell you!
And there was something I wanted to tell you about Mother’s Day! Oh yes! I remember telling you this before, and I remember many of you being utterly scandalized by!
And that is of course that my family doesn’t do Mother’s Day! For some reason, we don’t do Mother's or Father's Day!
And my mother today, despite the fact that she birthed me some 42 years in the distant past, has now taken it upon herself to be hurt that we are not doing Mother’s Day!
42 years it’s taken her! I suppose it’s quite a long time! And so I guess from now on, I’m going to have to pay attention to Mother’s Day!
Oh, I believe we're having it grim line issues! I'm sorry about that! Let's go to a clip!
Try the hyenas!
Hello everybody! Sorry about that, we have sorted out our problems—whatever they were—they are beyond my ken or understanding!
I haven't come up with any mating lipids just yet, I’m afraid! So what we’re going to do is go to the hyena den, see if Lauren can get into that lion sighting!
And we’re trying to get in there, but once she does get in, it'll be well worthwhile!
Anyway that’s going to be our plan! I hope I didn’t shock anyone by telling you all that we didn’t do Mother’s Day!
We do now, of course, in my family do Mother’s Day! We’ll be doing it from this day onward!
I suspect it was because my nephews have you know been told to draw Mother’s Day cards at school! And so they’ve given their mother my sister-in-law Mother’s Day cards!
And my mother suddenly thought, “Well hang on a second, what about me?” Fair enough, mum!
We are getting a new spotlight brought to us because this one does not function any longer!
And I’m going to run it to other woman car! I would write cuckoos as extremely clever mothers if not particularly loving!
Remember, the cuckoo mother never ever actually meets its offspring! Which I think is quite astonishing!
So the only kind of—the only kind of parental care that a cuckoo gives is to produce an eggy! And that’s it! Never sees its baby!
So it’s very clever, but it’s not particularly loving! You know, I don’t think that they are the kinds of mothers that receive Mother's Day carts on Mother’s Day!
My mother's not like a cuckoo! She’s a very sweet woman! She has been very good to me all my years!
Now we are going to try and get into the hyena den! I believe that the hyena den that is active is the one that Jerry and I found the other day!
And Andre, genre called Jerry’s den because Jerry happened to be on the car and he nutrit irritate me as it's—what was that?
Oh, that’s a pity! We have another technical problem! That’s my fault! We lost a piece of the, yes! We lost a screwdriver!
Spanner! A tray! A battery! Pearlstein! Maybe this is karma! Maybe as we sit here, the lipids will cool!
No, no! The universe is giving us nothing at the moment! Alrighty, we have looked! No other fees! It’s only me, I’m afraid!
This is awesome! 35 minutes to kickoff! It’s going to be the S AVC show of 1!
And what’s going to happen is of course is that the hyenas are going to be absent from their den! It's just up here!
Ken! I'm sorry I missed that one! We’ll get it again, Ken!
Oh, it was an update! Thank you, Ken, for your update! Whatever it was! A child of the universe!
You want to know, Jerry, as Jerry is a producer for Wild Earth and food areas? She was here last week!
And so she came on drive with Jean Dre and I one day! That happens from time to time—we allow the ladies out of the office!
Not sure how wise that is, but we do allow that to happen! Where is the best to route to get into this place?
Probably a little bit further along! Let’s keep going! Maybe we'll bump into the lipids then!
Yes, I’ve been thinking positive all day! Now I can tell you for free!
Let me tell you a bit about positive thinking and visualizing! I remember being told visialized—I was a young age that you need to visualize your goals!
And some fellow came to the school to teach us about visualizing your goals and how winners visualize and see themselves with great success and that’s how you do it!
That was the secret of success! So I took this to heart! Aged 12 or 13! And I visualized myself in the blue jersey of the Sanjana’s College First 15 playing with the number 9 on my back!
That is the scrum-half! And I visualized myself—more than I visualized myself doing anything else! Scoring tries! Making tackles! Kicking goals!
And basically being the best rugby player in the world! And I promise you, I visualized that more than any other rugby player has ever visualized themselves!
And I played—when I finally got to the end of my school career, my visualization techniques got saw me playing not for the First 15 in fact, but for the Fourth 15!
So that didn't work so well! Then also I used to visualize very frequently being in Parlor!
I used to visualize very frequently being caught in or having a tryst in a darkened corner somewhere with a teenage fancy of the time!
You know maybe in the tech room at the stables or in a bush of the school’s social! That sort of thing!
I used to visualize that also almost as much as I visualized the rugby! And I can safely say to you that not one of the girls I ever visualized having a brief tryst with ever looked sideways at me!
But to sort of spit in my general direction! So I do not have big believer in positive thinking and visualizing, but I know it works for lots of other people!
Oh this is wonderful! Lauren’s visualization or my work on the radio!
Has managed to knit her a lion! Well I want to thank you all for your fantastic vibes that you did send my way because we have!
What we call very correctly and very scientifically a last-minute lion right in the middle of the road on the southern boundary!
We have a lion! There’s actually another lioness there as well but we obviously don’t have a great view of her!
So all I can see, of course, night has fallen and we are using IR—the infrared light! We see two lioness!
So just to let you know, the sort of artificial light that you can be shown on the lioness at the moment is more common from us!
There are other vehicles around! We are obviously using our IR! Nicest lioness is obviously having the perfect cat nap in the middle of the road!
Even if you wanted to drive across this road to get from A to B, you literally couldn’t! It’s a huge roadblock!
And of course the road must be lovely and warm and cozy for this lioness! Now I have no idea who she is!
We’ve just arrived and I have the exact same view that you all have! So I don’t know exactly who these lioness are!
But of course we’re gonna stay with them and it is in perfect timing for our show tonight! So my luck came in after two hours of driving around!
And talking about jumpers and Jerry’s and Switzer! Cos we find an animal! So I am very happy about this!
I’m just very intrigued! I thought it was gonna be a leopard that I found today!
But huh, it’s lions! See, my again! I apologize about that! Like I’m really not! Oh girl, there you go!
The perfect lion pose! There should actually be opposing yoga’s something after lions! The way they lie sprawled out like this!
So I am in the biggest fan of using artificial lights on animals at nighttime! Although they are nocturnal animals, it’s really, really not best advice that you use lights like this!
Even underwater, it’s not! Just on once! Artificial lights—it’s really not good to shine on the animal!
So what I think we’re gonna do here because we’re not in the best position and one vehicle has actually left is we’re just gonna turn around!
Go to the other side and try and get a better view of the lion species! And figure out who they are! So bear with me!
Oh, she’s just giving us a beautiful view of her face! Can we just have a look at that, Senzo?
Hey girl! Aren’t you stunning and sleepy? Clearly, you know that way when you’re so tired that your eyes start to roll in your head?
And you just can’t control that— I think that’s what this lovely lioness is feeling right now!
Okay, so bear with us! You just want to be possession! Go the other vehicles moving!
So I just see where the other vehicles go! My name—we are gonna pull up a little bit closer!
There we go! Perfect! I love it when the other vehicles me by the way!
Alrighty! Just bear with—okay! I stole a car! That's fantastic! Lauren! Always stole sayings!
How is that for you—things get stolen in a perfect position!
There we go! So now we can get a clearer, much clearer view of the two lionesses! Where is the rest of your pride, girls?
Aren't you sleepy? Sleepy grows! Now, of course, lions are primarily nocturnal or they can be active during the day!
So depending on exactly how actively have been journaling depends on how much cat napping they will need to do for the night!
And what I can guess here right now is these lions have been very active through the day which is why they are catching there are few snoooze ease on the road here right now!
So what y'grit find for the last-minute lions! Thank you everybody for joining us today!
We do apologize about the lack of luck, but it all came in in the end! So please do join us tomorrow for your sunrise safari!
See you then!
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