Safari Live - Day 170 | National Geographic

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Well, good afternoon everybody once again and welcome aboard on the sunset Safari. My name is Ralph Kirsten and on the bushwalk camera this afternoon I've got Craig with me. How's it, Craig? Hi to all of you! Please don't forget to join us on the hashtag Safari Live on Twitter and on the YouTube live chat. Send us your questions and your comments and get involved in the largest game drive slash bush walk in the world.

Now, this afternoon I've decided to come out and just try and follow up a little bit from this morning's bush walk. Everybody seems to be finding quite a lot of leopard tracks moving around Galago Pan. It looks like these two female leopards are in the area. Another Tandy was on the dam cam around five o'clock this morning, but nobody was able to find her this morning on the drive or on the walk. So we thought that we would come out, see how they’ve moved around, and just see what has transpired.

Now, I've got the other guys out; Steve is on vehicle and so is Rafiki Dave. So we've got a lovely team on the move and I'm sure that between us we'll be able to find something exciting. So I'm going to just be looking for those tracks and looking for anything else exciting along the way. We've got our noses to the ground.

And so one of my other team members, Rafiki Dave, I'm sure he's ready to say hello.

"Hello everyone and a very good afternoon! My name is Rafiki Dave and here with me on the camera is Fogg hiding. Very good! Very excited to have you on our sunset drive and we are ready to head out. What I wanted today is to help my brother find out about these elusive leopards since this morning and since the day before yesterday again. Sorry, the tracks are being seen but they are not leading to her, so where she is nobody knows for a fact and all of us are not very sure what is Tandy. Well, if it’s Tandy, maybe you could be seeing Tandy and the princess, Columba.

So we haven't seen two sets of tracks; there's just been one. For all those who saw those tracks, they're saying it must have been a female. So what I want to do is to work very closely with the bushwalk team with Ralph and Craig and see whether we can smoke out this leopard that has been quite elusive since yesterday. The times Craig said he could even smell it, you know, he was so close to it but they could not see it.

So we're going to go straight on to our bush walk waterhole and that got left back to the west area where we think she is. This morning there's a very clear loud buck and one of the girls in the final control, Code Blue, she came and found me by the car park checking the car and she went like, 'David, did you hear that buck? Did you hear that buck?' And she shone the torch, like, 'It must be here! It must be here!' That was quite interesting.

But don’t worry; animals you will see, the cats from a long, long way. Well, even if they give the buck it couldn't be like half a kilometer away or maybe 300 odd meters, but they’ve got very good eyes.

Remember, on the drive, it's very interactive. Your questions and your comments are more than welcome! This is Ralph speaking. I would also like to say jambo to all of you! Jambo! Jambo!

I love everybody. Welcome to my section of the game drive. My name is Steve Aldrich. I'm joined on camera this afternoon by a bus and the three-finger damn geezer. And yes indeed, as David said, it is a very interactive safari! We are looking and looking. This morning we were sent on a wild goose chase, but we reckon two leopards—definitely two. We got a call from a mechanic who saw a leopard; we were charging into that area and then we found the tracks of what seemed to almost be a male in the sand, but it should be Tandy's tracks because they are bigger than Tandy's.

Tandy's got a very delicate little queen sort of track, but Tandy is just a bigger leopard. That's why initially I thought maybe it was a male, but on second look, it's not a male—it's just played in the sand and bigger than the tracks we were following. But what is going on with those two, we don't know!

But there we go! Ralph has taken up the challenge this afternoon and David has got to give him some help. So I'm going to go to the parts of Juma that I haven't seen in the last couple of days, because my leopard tracking has kept me this morning very close to Juma or to Galago Lodge, and yesterday the lion tracking kept me all the way in the west.

So we're going to go check, as we always do, water points, the watering holes, see what animals are in and around. There's a little bit of a breeze; it's not very strong but it's coming from the south, south-east side.

Let's see if I just stop and we get a look at the feel of the wind. Obviously, now that I'm in this little depression the wind is completely stopped. There's a bird in the distance flying. There might still be vultures headed towards the bovi's waterhole.

It's a gentle breeze coming from the south. I'd say pretty much from the south right now and all it's doing is drying everything out. I can tell you that for a fact because a few of us went running this afternoon a few hours ago and it dried us out completely after lap one. I had no moisture left at all in my mouth or nasal area.

But that drying out is what's very characteristic of this time of year. There's no moisture in the air and it's just blowing through and just drying out the plants. If you ever want to cure meats or cure wood, you dry it by air drying— that works very very well.

Sure, you can get them. Wait—Christelle, the tracks!

There's another one just down here on the log since on the left. There we go! And they respond very, very well to alarm calls.

If you were watching the show this morning, I'm still quite dry from my rant. And these are one of the birds that were giving that out a very hard time.

There's enormous alarm calls happening and these birds trying to supplement their diets at the moment—they can really move through the trees. There's having a little bit of a... oh, it's caught something! It's giving it a bashing against the branch. Can I inch forward to see? Oh! Swallowed it!

We just saw a kill! Ladies and gentlemen, we just saw a kill! Put a little insect—whatever it was—got smashed against the branch just to loosen it up and to soften it inside, maybe even break the carapace. I didn't quite see what it was but very efficient hunters—they move through as a swarm and eat whatever they can.

So I was talking about the drying out. So that's what's happening now—the plants are drying, drying, drying. But as we come into these little depressions, you'll notice it's a lot greener on the trees because there's still water down below. That's how we were able to live out in these areas because we have figured out how to tap water from boreholes to draw for them.

Elephants know how to do it as well and they often dig. There's a little bit of a spot over there; I don't think this was used but there's some elephant dung in the middle of the draw of a bed and it's not uncommon for elephants to dig deep into sand, especially in dry riverbeds around corners, to access the water.

This is just a very simple example, but we do have other ones that are a little bit more prevalent, and they're able to sand filter the water. Preferring sometimes water out of dry riverbeds to water in water holes, because what happens in the water holes? Well, hippos live in there, terrapins and fish—all sorts of organic material gets passed through their bodies.

Elephants have a little bit more of a taste for sweet sand-filtered water. And David is off to seemingly his favorite watering hole.

Yes, and I'm heading there, and as usual, holes will always be showing some good life. But before getting there, we found these two antelopes here, should be like a young male and a female, and I think these are nyalas. Would you want me back up a little bit?

Okay, hang on for a second. Tell me when. Alright, that's good! Sorry about that!

Honey, these nyalas are just saying good afternoon and moving their ears. They are slowly just distrustful. For the last couple of weeks, the wind has been quite still but to this, like the wind is picking up, if we look at that water and the bush willow tree there, you can see the leaves how they are moving in the wind.

That nyala got ears opened and all out moving one after the other. Wind always brings them a bit of a confusion state—not really confusion—but they tend to worry about because of the amount of wind.

And you can see how independently they can move one ear from the other so by bringing them out they can pick up any sweetest sound—and bearing in mind, it's windy, it might affect their hearing and they are slowed from eating, many browsers.

They got a lot of choice to eat but it's time not to wait and listen to what the wind is doing and then they can continue eating. Pretty young, hey?

Hello! I guess we spotted a nyala! Plus, you can see the panting of the ears because of the heat of the day—80 or so degrees Fahrenheit is pretty hot, and they tend to breathe a little bit fast to cool off.

Alright, excellent! We'll be moving forward now as you leave the nyalas to listen to the wind and hopefully nothing's gonna happen to them. Let's find out where Steve got a smaller type of animal with him now!

Yes, we found the smallest antelope as a young male—this is a toss mongoose, a little one—all on his own! So he decided to have a dicky. Initially, it looks a little bit too scared and bolted for a hole and then decided, “Hang on, these people aren't gonna hurt me!”

And has now been ferreting around. I've never actually spent time with one like this, they normally always run away! This one is very brave! You can see the shoulder blades; normally they're running all you see is their bottom as they disappear.

Were you lucky enough to find them in their burrow? Their groom certainly acts as only about four or five meters away from us at the moment and if we look small to you on the camera, but he's noticeably smaller than an adult, which are normally about almost three quarters bigger than that or twice as big—half as big, should I say?

It's very very cute! He's got kind of baby faces! Lou the director—yes yes! The pose! If he can show himself behind those little grasses there, he's very cute!

You're gonna come a bit closer? Yeah, he comes! I've honestly never seen one on their own. I don't know if maybe the rest of the family is off and he's being a little bit cheeky—ferreting around the bin, you know how youngsters do!

Stay home! Mom's hiding right! Exactly! The angsty teenage, the rebellious stage where no one knows better than I do!

Oh, here we go! A little scratch! Nothing like it! Here he comes! What did you catch? Very busy moving along—maybe after all sorts of insects on the floor and so termites that might be out. Any beetle, grasshopper, lizard if they can catch it, scorpions if they could dig them off the ground!

Oh sands, he's too quick! You need to be a sports photographer cameraman—you have to keep up with this guy! Proper action! I didn't think he'd stick around for this long, did you?

Looking up at the sky every now and again as he moves. But that would be where the danger comes from—definitely from a raptor, but that doesn't always come from the sky. Sometimes they can just be perched in a tree they can come along. Raptors can see extremely long distances!

But Java, it was just a little hole right here that we first saw them go for—it's only about 2-3 meters from the side of me there! And you see it sends just past that in parlor done. It's just a little hole!

Let's jump off quickly and show you! He's not disappeared into the undergrowth, but here was the hole right there!

It's possible that this is one of their many little burrows in the ground; maybe he was just ferreting gone now into that small hole.

I love to talk about it, but there's a small branch on the floor there that the grass is building up and that's been damaged by an elephant. And that's creating the habitat—not just for the Mongoose to go into, but for insects and all sorts of things that he'll be looking for inside.

So very very cool to find a little dwarf Mongoose like that! If we're gonna go and it seems that Ralph has found a tasty treat that this little guy would rather enjoy.

Well, the mongoose would love some termites, but so would these ants that have obviously started raiding this termite colony. And if you look closely, you can actually see some of these ants pulling these termites apart, and they’re attacking them from all fronts.

It looks like mostly soldier termites and obviously would be soldier ants as well, but difficult to see with the very small ants. There's the odd much bigger-headed ants as well, but there is a lot going on here!

And this is just near to some elephant dung! These are some of the only arthropods that are active during this time of the year. There are a few others, but mainly the termites and the ants will continue on through the winter months as well.

Now that's that elephant dung that we were talking about just below a tea! I think the termites have made their home here, and the ants are now raiding, looking for their pupae and all sorts. You know, we do get mata belay ants as well.

Now Conrad and FCU say this reminds you of the movie ants? Yeah, absolutely Amaya! My kids often watch that show and it definitely does! And also the ant bully, where the little boy gets shrunken to the size of ants and then he obviously learns the lesson that he needs to be careful of sort of killing little insects and that because if he's that size you might wind up in a similar situation.

But many of them and there is so much going on! There is a complete war—I would say! Tiffany, I don't think there’s enough ants to wipe out the entire termite colony! They would, however, make a big dent in the population! But the termites will breed again and so I'm sure these ants will be taking quite a bit of them for the protein.

And they might also take some of the pupae larvae or the eggs as well, so they might be going right down into the base of this colony. You know, we also get mutter billy ants, but they're more nomadic and they raid much bigger ants than these little reddish ones—reddish black!

And they move around and attack big termite colonies and they’re known for that! I haven't seen much of these little ones attacking too much, so it's quite fascinating!

But awesome to watch! Ah, you see what I mean? As we’re looking for leopards, we just stopped along the route and looked for all sorts of other things!

So we just keep kind of targeting at the end of the walk but we're stopping, going through all these little drainage lines, looking for leopard tracks, finding all sorts of things like this! So the wars between ants and termites sometimes with these termites, they can activate the soldiers and they can defend themselves quite well!

Gary, I think it's mostly the ants. They seemed to be winning this little war! They did seem to be a little bit smaller, but they’re also more mobile and it seems the little pincers or biting apparatus—it's quite a bit quicker than the termites!

They don't seem to be able to defend themselves as well, and I think their exoskeleton is a little bit harder than the soft abdomen of the termites. Termites are quite vulnerable if the ants can get them from behind!

And then you see how it sort of fences into that, that abdomen! It starts almost like wild dogs pulling them in all different directions! It's, yeah, it's like there’s a whole bunch of killing going on here! That is absolutely amazing!

So these guys do very much like dry conditions and they do very well in that! But it seems Rafiki Dave found something that looks very wet! Crutch and Tom might support a lawn to a way out in biome! They are very important because they support a lot of animal statements.

And without Tom, I don't know how the ecosystem would be doing! And we've got some animals here that would also love to eat a sombrero! Who knows who would love to eat some?

We got some terrapins! We've got moisture appeals and very initially to see a fully grown one and two or three young ones of them basking themselves at the edge of the waterhole!

Two weeks ago I saw quite a bit number—there’s a drama—just trying to fish! Drongos are very funny birds—they're carnivores! And they'll take a chance to get any shrimp and just jump in the water to thank you very much for getting that drongo!

And back with our terrapins! And the drongo’s back in the water again! It must be seeing some interesting things there and maybe the same animals or the same organisms that fed by this terrapin!

So one of them has gone back in the water! Always very skittish! I was saying I was here two weeks ago and I think we saw about 50 of them and the drongo jumps in the water again!

Sometimes it might jump in the water just to align their feathers! If not necessary, because they will not maybe eat in the water like that! They may just be in and out!

And I think what she could be doing there is just to align her feathers and maybe to cool off! Right? Drongos have been known to be doing that a lot!

Sitting Bull, how are you today? Thank you very much, Lou! Then it’s a bit warm now! It's a bit for now! We are doing about 28 degrees Celsius and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, Sitting Bull!

Those are our temperatures today and I do not know, Sitting Bull, from where you are or from my home, what temperatures do you have at the moment? If you could be happy to tell me!

And more from the knot here, we use the centigrade and not much Fahrenheit, so how easily say 20 degrees Celsius or centigrade? But because of the Imperial system, we'll also give the temperatures in Fahrenheit and it's 82! Sitting Bull, I’d be happy if you could tell me what temperatures you've got there!

So that's drama basically! I don't think she was eating! She was just jumping in the water to align her feathers! And you can see now what she's doing! From whatever, like how you go have a shower? That's exact now what she is doing!

Sometimes they have even gone known—who else—raiding drongos to go out in the rain! Not to feed specifically, but just to enjoy the showers! And it helped them to align their feathers!

You can see now she’s trying to maintain! And when she was jumping in and out of the water, ideally she was not fitting! My guess is she was trying to dip herself and make her sweat!

And by so doing, it's a lot easier now to streamline her feathers! It depends on what you’d like—how clever these birds are, huh? And when it comes to making alarm calls, the drongos are very good! But also, just like the monkeys, sometimes I found out they're very cheeky!

Cheeky! But jumps in the woods again! Officer Gum bucks the same spot! Yes! Thank you for being so patient!

So, it’s in the water! Oops! Very good! And back to the same place! Trying to make foie gras with his lens! But still, fog is able to catch up with her speed!

Exactly! And Lou in the final control thinks he may be having a death tonight! It’s very possible! I mean, today's a Sunday! She might have gone to church in the morning—and maybe the silly she could be going for a drink somewhere!

Because what he’s doing is not fitting! She’s just getting in the water, thank you fog! And dipping her feathers!

There she is! Oh, yes, very good! And she's going to maintain! Ha ha, feathers! And she’ll be looking good!

And you know, as Lou says, she will be having some dead-straight! Maybe she could be a female and she might be doing some, you know, mating calls later!

And one of the more beautiful good-looking females... I was saying earlier how sometimes in dramas they can be cheeky! When they do, alarm calls can be very loud too!

But we have found them sometimes or I’ve seen them during alarm calls! And when all the other bands lose their concentration and go where the drongo is!

But if they're having, for example, a party of eating something, the drongo will very quickly go to where they were and start eating their food! So she’s got two types of alarm calls—one of them is genuine and the other one is just a bit cheeky!

I have seen it a few times work! And like all the other birds, you know, will get attention—ah-oh! The drongo, finding out what could be the problem, and then she leads the less where they live, they feed in party or whatever they're feeding on!

And the drongo quickly sneaks back and enjoys their meal! And you can see the tail there—a very peculiar drongo! 62? And 16?

Thank you very much! You can see it’s much warmer here than where you are, Sitting Bull! Thank you very much for the feedback!

Quickly! Got to Steve and find out what a bit he has for us right now!

Yeah, well we found Zazu ladies and gentlemen, and he's been running around on the ground his prying self of a lizard was skink! Looks to be a skink and I can't quite make out which! He’s gone in—looks like a... oh no! Can't quite tell what species it is!

He's making short work of it! Definitely killed it already and getting ready just doing some tenderizing! That went move his only his butt—his back’s more!

She’s got its back to us! I'm going to end up swallowing that thing whole! Can you imagine? There we go! That’s a better view! Here comes the money shot! For sensitive viewers, bear in mind this animal is doing this live and this is food!

See how it lost its tail—the tip of its tail—in an attempt to protect itself! Didn't work against the hornbill! He’s going to probably try to rip it apart until it becomes more manageable pieces!

Or is he going to swallow the entire thing into the crop? Oh, maybe it's going to go back to the nest! You still see it just landed over there somewhere! Can you see him since there out in the open?

Decided to take its meat to the shade and this could take some time to break it into manageable pieces! Or is he going to try—and there we go!

Starting to rip! You see that's why hornbills do so well! They have a varied diet and a strong long beak which allows them to not migrate!

A lot of the birds that we find sticking around here have sort of adaptations meaning they don’t have to leave—they can feed on fruits when they are—and then feed on insects when there are fed on! Scrounge around and feed on things, like lizards, skinks!

I've even seen one feeding on a mouse before! Shame! Anyone can give me my ID on that little lizard, very indeed! And the eyes are bigger than the belly if it gets the whole thing down!

I think it knows it won’t get it all down in one go, so it’s going to try and dismember it in some way! Also keeping its eyes open because while it's going through the stage, it is potentially vulnerable like that!

Raptors can see extremely long distances, but while it was just a little hole right here that we first saw them go for, it's only about two to three meters from the side of me there!

And you see it sends just past that impala done! It's just a little hole!

Let’s jump off quickly and show you! He’s not disappeared into the undergrowth, but here was the hole right there!

It's possible that this is one of their many little burrows in the ground; maybe he was just ferreting gone now into that small little... I love to talk about it, but there's a small branch on the floor there that the grass is building up and that's been damaged by an elephant!

And that's creating the habitat not just for the Mongoose to go into, but for insects and all sorts of things that he'll be looking for inside!

So very very cool to find a little dwarf mongoose like that! If we're gonna go and it seems that Ralph has found a tasty treat that this little guy would rather enjoy!

Well, the mongoose would love some termites but so with these ants that have obviously started riding on this termite colony, and if you look closely you can actually see some of these ants pulling these termites of parts in the teching from all fronts!

It looks like mostly soldier termites and obviously would be soldier ants as well, but difficult to see with a very small answer. There are the odd much bigger-headed ends as well, but there is a lot going on here!

And this is just near to some elephant dung! And well these are some of the only arthropods that are active during this time of the year! There are a few others, but mainly the two months and the ants will continue on through the winter months as well!

Now that's that elephant dung that we are talking about just below a tea! I think the termites have made this the home and the ants are now riding and looking for their pupae and all sorts! You know we do get mata belay ants as well!

Now Conrad and FCU say this reminds you of the movie ants! Yeah, absolutely!
Amaya my kids often watch that show, and it definitely does! And that the—next also the ant bully where the little boy—well the boy gets shrunken to the size of ants and then he obviously learns the lessons that he needs to be careful of sort of killing little insects—and that because if he's that size he might end up in a similar situation!

But many of them and there's so much going on there! It is a complete war, I would say! Tiffany, I don't think there’s enough ants to wipe the entire termite colony!

They would, however, make a big dent in the population! But the termites will breed again, and so I'm sure these ants will be taking quite a bit of them for the protein!

And they might also take some of the pupae larvae or the eggs as well! So they might be going right down into the base of this colony!

You know we also get Mata billy ants, but they're more nomadic and they raid much bigger ants than these little reddish ones! Reddish black!

And they move around and attack big termite colonies and they’re known for that!

I haven't seen much of these little ones attacking these too much so it’s quite fascinating, but awesome to watch!

You see what I mean? As we are looking for leopards we just stopped along the route and looked for all sorts of other things!

So we just keep kind of targets at the end of the walk, but we are stopping and going through all these little drainage lines, looking for leopard, jack's finding all sorts of things like this!

So the wars between ants and termites sometimes with these termites, they can activate the soldiers, and they can defend themselves quite well!

Gary, I think it's mostly the ants they seem to be winning this little war! They did seem to be a little bit smaller, but they’re also more mobile, and it seems the little pincers or they biting apparatus it’s quite a bit quicker than the two munch they don’t seem to be able to defend themselves as well!

And I think the exoskeleton is a little bit harder than the soft abdomen of the termites! Termites quite vulnerable if the ants can get it from behind!

And then you see how it sort of fences into that that abdomen! And then it starts almost like wild dogs pulling them in also all different directions! It’s, yeah, it’s like there’s a whole bunch of killing going on here! That is absolutely amazing!

So these guys do very much like dry conditions and they do very well in that! But it seems Rafiki dive he liked or he found something that looks very wet—crutch!

And Tom might support a low to a way out in the biome. They are very important because they support a lot of animal statements! And without Tom, I don't know how the ecosystem would be doing!

And we've got some animals here that would also love to eat some sombrero—they know who would love to eat some!

We got some terrapins! We've got moisture appeals and very initial to see a fully grown on two or three young ones of they're basking themselves at the edge of the waterhole!

Two weeks ago I saw quite a bit number, and there’s a drama—just trying to fish! Drongos are very funny buds! They are carnivores and they'll take a chance to get any shrimp and just jump in the water tube—thank you very much forgetting that jungle!

And back with our therapies! And the drunk was back in the water again! It must be seeing some interesting things there!

And maybe the same animals or the same organisms that fed by this Terrapins! So one of them has gone back in the water! Always very skittish, I was saying I was here two weeks ago and I think we saw about 50 of them!

And the drongo jumps in the water again! Sometimes it might jump in the water just to align their feathers—if not necessary! Because they will not maybe eat in the water like that!

They may just yeah in and out! And I think what she could be doing there is just to align her feathers and maybe to cool off!

Right? Drongos have been known to do that a lot!

Sitting Bull, how are you today? Thank you very much Lou. Then it’s a bit warm now! It is a bit for now! We are doing about 28 degrees Celsius and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, Sitting Bull!

Those are our temperatures today! And I do not know, Sitting Bull, from where you are or from my home, what temperatures do you have at the moment?

If you could be happy to tell me! And more from the knot here, we use the centigrade and not much Fahrenheit, so how easily say 20 degrees Celsius or centigrade?

But because of the Imperial system, we will also give the temperatures in Fahrenheit and it’s 82!

Sitting Bull, I’d be happy if you could tell me what temperatures you’ve got there! So that’s drama basically! I don’t think it was eating!

She was just jumping in the water to align her feathers! And you can see now what she’s doing! From whatever, like how you go have a shower! That’s exact!

Now what she’s doing—sometimes they have even been known to have a drongo out in the rain—not to feed specifically, but just to enjoy the showers!

And it helped them to align their feathers! You can see now she’s trying to maintain! And when she was jumping in and out of the water, ideally she was not fitting! My guess is she was trying to dip herself and make her sweat!

And by so doing it's a lot easier now to streamline her feathers! Depends on what you’d like—how clever these birds are, huh?

When it comes to making alarm calls, the drongos are very good, but also just like the monkeys, sometimes I found out they’re very cheeky!

Cheeky! But jumps in the woods again! Officer Gum bucks the same spot! Yes! Thank you for being so patient!

So it’s in the water! Oops! Very good! And back to the same place! Trying to make foie gras with his lens!

But still fog is able to catch up with her speed! Exactly! And Lou in the final control thinks he may be having a death tonight!

It’s very possible! I mean, today’s a Sunday! She might have gone to church in the morning—and maybe the silly she could be going for a drink that somewhere!

Because what he’s doing is not feeding! She’s just getting in the water, thank you fog! And dipping her feathers!

There she is! Oh, yes, very good! And she's going to maintain! Haha, feathers!

And she’ll be looking good! And you know, as Lou says, she will be having some dead-straight! Maybe she could be a female and she might be doing some, you know, mating calls later!

And one of the more beautiful good-looking females! I was saying earlier how sometimes in dramas they can be cheeky!

When they do, alarm calls can be very loud too! But we have found them sometimes or I’ve seen them during alarm calls!

When all the other bands lose their concentration and go where the drongo is! But if they're having, for example, a party of eating something, the drongo will very quickly go to where they were and start eating their food! So she’s got two types of alarm calls—one of them is genuine and the other one is just a bit cheeky!

I have seen it a few times work! And like all the other birds, you know, will get attention!

Ah-oh! The drongo, finding out what could be the problem, and then she leads the less where they live—they feed in party or whatever they're feeding on!

And the drongo quickly sneaks back and enjoys their meal! And you can see the tail there—a very peculiar drongo! 62? And 16?

Thank you very much! You can see it’s much warmer here than where you are, Sitting Bull!

Thank you very much for the feedback! Quickly! Got to Steve and find out what a bit he has for us right now!

Yeah, well we found Zazu ladies and gentlemen, and he's been running around on the ground his prying self of a lizard was skink! Looks to be a skink and I can't quite make out which! He’s gone in—looks like a... oh no! Can't quite tell what species it is!

He's making short work of it! Definitely killed it already and getting ready just doing some tenderizing! That went move his only his butt—his back’s more!

She’s got its back to us! I'm going to end up swallowing that thing whole! Can you imagine? There we go! That’s a better view!

Here comes the money shot! For sensitive viewers, bear in mind this animal is doing this live and this is food! See how it lost its tail—the tip of its tail—in an attempt to protect itself!

Didn't work against the hornbill! He’s going to probably try to rip it apart until it becomes more manageable pieces! Or is he going to swallow the entire thing into the crop?

Oh, maybe it's going to go back to the nest! You still see it just landed over there somewhere! Can you see him since there out in the open?

Decided to take its meat to the shade and this could take some time to break it into manageable pieces! Or is he going to try—and there we go!

Starting to rip! You see that's why hornbills do so well! They have a varied diet and a strong long beak which allows them to not migrate!

A lot of the birds that we find sticking around here have sort of adaptations meaning they don’t have to leave—they can feed on fruits when they are fed on insects when they are at their highest!

Scrounge around and feed on things, like lizards, skinks! I've even seen one feeding on a mouse before! Shame!

Anyone can give me my ID on that little lizard, very indeed! And the eyes are bigger than the belly if it gets the whole thing down!

I think it knows it won’t get it all down in one go, so it’s going to try to dismember it in some way!

Also keeping its eyes open because while it's going through the stage, it is potentially vulnerable like that!

Raptors can see extremely long distances, but while it was just a little hole right here that we first saw them go for, it's only about two to three meters from the side of me there!

And you see it sends just past that impala done! It's just a little hole!

Let’s jump off quickly and show you! He’s not disappeared into the undergrowth, but here was the hole right there!

It's possible that this is one of their many little burrows in the ground; maybe he was just ferreting gone now into that small little... I love to talk about it, but there's a small branch on the floor there that the grass is building up and that's been damaged by an elephant!

And that's creating the habitat—not just for the Mongoose to go into, but for insects and all sorts of things that he'll be looking for inside!

So very very cool to find a little dwarf mongoose like that! If we're gonna go and it seems that Ralph has found a tasty treat that this little guy would rather enjoy!

Well, the mongoose would love some termites but so with these ants that have obviously started raiding this termite colony.

And if you look closely you can actually see some of these ants pulling these termites apart, and they’re attacking them from all fronts.

It looks like mostly soldier termites and obviously would be soldier ants as well, but difficult to see with a very small answer. There are the odd much bigger-headed ends as well, but there is a lot going on here!

And this is just near to some elephant dung! And well these are some of the only arthropods that are active during this time of the year.

There are a few others, but mainly the two months and the ants will continue on through the winter months as well.

Now that's that elephant dung that we are talking about just below a tea!

I think the termites have made their home here and the ants are now raiding and looking for their pupae and all sorts! You know we do get mata belay ants as well!

Now Conrad and FCU say this reminds you of the movie ants! Yeah, absolutely! Amaya my kids often watch that show and it definitely does!

And also the ant bully where the little boy gets shrunken to the size of ants and then he obviously learns the lesson that he needs to be careful of sort of killing little insects and that because if he's that size, he might end up in a similar situation.

But many of them and there's so much going on! There is a complete war—I would say!

Tiffany, I don't think there’s enough ants to wipe out the entire termite colony! They would, however, make a big dent in the population!

But the termites will breed again and so I'm sure these ants will be taking quite a bit of them for the protein!

And they might also take some of the pupae larvae or the eggs as well! So they might be going right down into the base of this colony!

You know, we also get mutter billy ants, but they're more nomadic and they raid much bigger ants than these little reddish ones! Reddish black!

And they move around and attack big termite colonies and they’re known for that!

I haven't seen much of these little ones attacking too much so it’s quite fascinating, but awesome to watch!

You see what I mean? As we’re looking for leopards, we just stopped along the route and looked for all sorts of other things!

So we just keep kind of targeting at the end of the walk but we're stopping going through all these little drainage lines looking for leopard, Jack's finding all sorts of things like this!

So the wars between ants and termites sometimes with these termites they can activate the soldiers and they can defend themselves quite well!

Gary, I think it's mostly the ants they seem to be winning this little war! They did seem to be a little bit smaller, but they’re also more mobile and it seems the little pincers or they biting apparatus are quite a bit quicker than the termites don’t seem to be able to defend themselves as well.

And I think the exoskeleton is a little bit harder than the soft abdomen of the termites! Termites are quite vulnerable if the ants can get it from behind!

And then you see how it sort of fences into that abdomen! It starts almost like wild dogs pulling them in also in different directions!

It's yeah, it's like there’s a whole bunch of killing going on here! That is absolutely amazing!

So these guys do very much like dry conditions and they do very well in that! But it seems Rafiki Dave he liked or he found something that locks very wet! Crutch and Tom might support a low to a way out in the biome!

They are very important because they support a lot of animal statements! And without Tom, I don't know how the ecosystem would be doing!

And we've got some animals here that would also love to eat some sombrero who knows who would love to eat some!

We got some terrapins! We've got moisture appeals and very initial to see a fully grown one and two or three young ones that they're basking themselves at the edge of the waterhole!

Two weeks ago I saw quite a bit number—there’s a drama they’re just trying to fish!

Drongos are very funny birds—they're carnivores! And they'll take a chance to get any shrimp and just jump in the water tube—thank you very much getting that jungle!

And back with our therapies! And the drongo's back in the water again! It must be seeing some interesting things there!

And maybe the same animals or the same organisms that fed by this terrapin! So one of them has gone back in the water! Always very skittish! I was saying I was here two weeks ago and I think we saw about 50 of them and the drongo jumps in the water again!

Sometimes it might jump in the water just to align their feathers! If not necessary! Because they will not maybe eat in the water like that! They may just be in and out!

And I think what she could be doing there is just to align her feathers and maybe to cool off!

Right, drongos have been known to do that a lot!

Sitting Bull, how are you today? Thank you very much, Lou!

Then it’s a bit warm now! It's a bit for now! We are doing about 28 degrees Celsius and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, Sitting Bull!

Those are our temperatures today and I do not know, Sitting Bull, from where you are or from my home, what temperatures do you have at the moment?

If you could be happy to tell me! And more from the knot here, we use the centigrade and not much Fahrenheit, so how easily say 20 degrees Celsius or centigrade?

But because of the Imperial system, we will also give the temperatures in Fahrenheit and it's 82!

Sitting Bull, I’d be happy if you could tell me what temperatures you've got there! So that's drama basically! I don't think she was eating!

She was just jumping in the water to align her feathers! And you can see now what she’s doing! From whatever, like how you go have a shower!

That's exact! Now what she is doing! Sometimes they have even gone known—who else—raiding drongos to go out in the rain!

Not to feed specifically, but just to enjoy the showers! And it helped them to align their feathers! You can see now she’s trying to maintain!

And when she was jumping in and out of the water, ideally she was not fitting! My guess is she was trying to dip herself and make her sweat!

And by so doing it’s a lot easier now to streamline her feathers! Depends on what you’d like—how clever these birds are, huh?

And when it comes to making alarm calls, the drongos are very good!

But also, just like the monkeys, sometimes I found out they're very cheeky! Cheeky!

But jumps in the woods again! Officer Gum bucks the same spot!

Yes! Thank you for being so patient! So it’s in the water! Oops! Very good!

And back to the same place! Trying to make foie gras with his lens! But still fog is able to catch up with her speed!

Exactly! And Lou in the final control thinks he may be having a death tonight! It's very possible!

I mean, today’s a Sunday! She might have gone to church in the morning—and maybe the silly she could be going for a drink that somewhere!

Because what he’s doing is not feeding! She’s just getting in the water, thank you fog!

And dipping her feathers! There she is! Oh yes, very good!

And then she is going to maintain! Haha, feathers!

And she’ll be looking good! And you know as Lou says she will be having some dead-straight!

Maybe she could be a female and she might be doing some, you know, mating calls later!

And one of the more beautiful good-looking females! I was saying earlier how sometimes in dramas they can be cheeky!

When they do alarm calls can be very loud, too! But we have found them sometimes or I’ve seen them during alarm calls!

When all the other bands lose their concentration and go where the drongo is! But if they’re having, for example, a party of eating something, the drongo will very quickly go to where they were and start eating their food!

So she’s got two types of alarm calls—one of them is genuine and the other one is just a bit cheeky!

I have seen it a few times work! And like all the other birds you know will get attention! Ah-oh!

The drongo, finding out what could be the problem, and then she leads the less where they live—they feed in a party or whatever they're feeding on!

And the drongo quickly sneaks back and enjoys their meal! And you can see the tail there!

That was a very peculiar drongo! 62? And 16? Thank you very much! You can see it’s much warmer here than where you are, Sitting Bull!

Thank you very much for the feedback! Quickly! Got to Steve and find out what a bit he has for us right now!

Yeah, well we found Zazu ladies and gentlemen, and he's been running around on the ground his prying self of a lizard was skink! Looks to be a skink and I can't quite make out which!

He’s gone in—looks like a... oh no! Can't quite tell what species it is! He's making short work of it! Definitely killed it already and getting ready just doing some tenderizing!

That went move his only his butt—his back’s more!

She’s got its back to us! I'm going to end up swallowing that thing whole! Can you imagine?

There we go! That’s a better view! Here comes the money shot!

For sensitive viewers, bear in mind this animal is doing this live and this is food! See how it lost its tail—the tip of its tail—in an attempt to protect itself!

Didn't work against the hornbill! He’s going to probably try to rip it apart until it becomes more manageable pieces!

Or is he going to swallow the entire thing into the crop? Oh, maybe it's going to go back to the nest!

You still see it just landed over there somewhere! Can you see him since there out in the open?

Decided to take its meat to the shade and this could take some time to break it into manageable pieces!

Or is he going to try—and there we go! Starting to rip!

You see that's why hornbills do so well! They have a varied diet and a strong long beak which allows them to not migrate!

A lot of the birds that we find sticking around here have sort of adaptations meaning they don’t have to leave—they can feed on fruits when they are fed on insects when they are at their highest!

Scrounge around and feed on things, like lizards, skinks! I've even seen one feeding on a mouse before! Shame!

Anyone can give me my ID on that little lizard, very indeed! And the eyes are bigger than the belly if it gets the whole thing down!

I think it knows it won’t get it all down in one go, so it’s going to try and dismember it in some way!

Also keeping its eyes open because while it's going through the stage it is potentially vulnerable like that!

Raptors can see extremely long distances!

But while it was just a little hole right here that we first saw them go for! It's only about 2-3 meters from the side of me there!

And you see it sends just past that impala don! It's just a little hole!

Let’s jump off quickly and show you! He’s not disappeared into the undergrowth but here was the hole right there!

It's possible that this is one of their many little burrows in the ground; maybe he was just ferreting gone now into that small little...

I love to talk about it, but there's a small branch on the floor there that the grass is building up and that's been damaged by an elephant!

And that's creating the habitat—not just for the Mongoose to go into, but for insects and all sorts of things that he'll be looking for inside!

So very very cool to find a little dwarf Mongoose like that! If we're gonna go and it seems that Ralph has found a tasty treat that this little guy would rather enjoy!

Well, the mongoose would love some termites but so with these ants that have obviously started raiding this termite colony!

And if you look closely you can actually see some of these ants pulling these termites of parts in the teching from all fronts!

It looks like mostly soldier termites and obviously would be soldier ants as well!

But difficult to see with a very small answer there are the odd much bigger-headed ends as well, but there’s a lot going on here!

And this is just near to some elephant dung!

Well, these are some of the only arthropods that are active during this time of the year!

There are a few others, but mainly the two months and the ants will continue on through the winter months as well!

Now that's that elephant dung that we were talking about just below a tea!

I think the termites have made this the home and the ants are now raiding—looking for their pupae and all sorts!

You know we do get mutter billy ants as well!

Now Conrad and FCU say this reminds you of the movie ants! Yeah, absolutely Amaya! My kids often watch that show and it definitely does!

And that the ants also the ant bully where the little boy gets shrunken to the size of ants and then he obviously learns the lesson that he needs to be careful of sort of killing little insects and that because if he's that size, he might end up in a similar situation!

But many of them and there's so much going on there!

It is a complete war! I would say! Tiffany, I don't think there’s enough ants to wipe the entire termite colony!

They would, however, make a big dent in the population! But the termites will breed again and so I'm sure these ants will be taking quite a bit of them for the protein!

And they might also take some of the pupae larvae or the eggs as well!

So they might be going right down into the base of this colony!

You know we also get mutter billy ants, but they're more nomadic and they raid much bigger ants than these little reddish ones!

Reddish black!

And they move around and attack big termite colonies! And they’re known for that!

I haven't seen much of these little ones attacking these too much so it’s quite fascinating! But awesome to watch!

You see what I mean? As we are looking for leopards we just stopped along the route and looked for all sorts of other things!

So we just keep kind of targeting at the end of the walk, but we are stopping and going through all these little drainage lines looking for leopard, Jack's finding all sorts of things like this!

So the wars between ants and termites sometimes with these termites, they can activate the soldiers and they can defend themselves quite well!

Gary, I think it's mostly the ants! They seemed to be winning this little war!

They did seem to be a little bit smaller but they’re also more mobile! And it seems the little pincers or they biting apparatus it’s quite a bit quicker than the two munch!

They don’t seem to be able to defend themselves as well and I think the exoskeleton is a little bit harder than the soft abdomen of the termites!

Termites quite vulnerable if the ants can get it from behind!

And then you see how it sort of fences into that abdomen!

And then it starts almost like wild dogs pulling them in! Also all different directions!

It's yeah, it's like there's a whole bunch of killing going on here! That is absolutely amazing!

So these guys do very much like dry conditions and they do very well in that!

But it seems Rafiki dive he liked or he found something that looks very wet! Crutch!

And Tom might support a low to a way out in the biome!

They are very important because they support a lot of animal statements! And without Tom, I don’t know how the ecosystem would be doing!

And we've got some animals here that would also love to eat some sombrero! Who knows who would love to eat some!

We got some terrapins!

We've got moisture appeals and very initial to see a fully grown one and two or three young ones of them basking themselves at the edge of the waterhole!

Two weeks ago I saw quite a bit number—there's a drama—they're just trying to fish!

Drongos are very funny buds! They're carnivores! And they'll take a chance to get any shrimp and just jump in the water tube—thank you very much for getting that drongo!

And back with our therapies!

And the drongo's back in the water again! It must be seeing some interesting things there!

And maybe the same animals or the same organisms that fed by this terrapin!

So one of them has gone back in the water! Always very skittish!

I was saying I was here two weeks ago and I think we saw about 50 of them!

And the drongo jumps in the water again!

Sometimes it might jump in the water just to align their feathers!

If not necessary! Because they will not maybe eat in the water like that!

They may just be in and out!

And I think what she could be doing there is just to align her feathers and maybe to cool off!

Right? Drongos have been known to do that a lot!

Sitting Bull, how are you today? Thank you very much, Lou!

Then it’s a bit warm now!

It is a bit for now! We are doing about 28 degrees Celsius and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, Sitting Bull!

Those are our temperatures today!

I do not know, Sitting Bull, from where you are or from my home!

What temperatures do you have at the moment? If you could be happy to tell me!

And more from the knot here, we use the centigrade and not much Fahrenheit!

So how easily say 20 degrees Celsius or centigrade?

Because of the Imperial system, we'll also give the temperatures in Fahrenheit and it's 82!

Sitting Bull! I’d be happy if you could tell me what temperatures you've got there!

So that's drama basically! I don't think she was eating!

She was just jumping in the water to align her feathers!

And you can see now what she’s doing! From whatever, like how you go have a shower!

That's exact! Now what she’s doing—sometimes they have even gone known to have drongo out in the rain!

Not to feed specifically, but just to enjoy the showers!

And it helped them to align their feathers!

You can see now she’s trying to maintain!

And when she was jumping in and out of the water!

Ideally she was not fitting!

My guess is she was trying to dip herself and make her sweat!

And by so doing it’s a lot easier now to streamline her feathers!

Depends on what you’d like—how clever these birds are, huh?

And when it comes to making alarm calls, the drongos are very good!

But also, just like the monkeys, sometimes I found out they’re very cheeky!

Cheeky!

But jumps in the woods again!

Officer gum bucks the same spot!

Yes! Thank you for being so patient!

So it’s in the water! Oops! Very good!

And back to the same place!

Trying to make foie gras with his lens!

But still fog is able to catch up with her speed!

Exactly! And Lou in the final control thinks he may be having a death tonight!

It’s very possible!

I mean, today's a Sunday! She might have gone to church in the morning!

And maybe the silly she could be going for a drink that somewhere!

Because what he’s doing is not feeding!

She’s just getting in the water!

Thank you fog! And dipping her feathers!

There she is!

Oh yes, very good!

And then she is going to maintain!

Ha ha, feathers!

And she’ll be looking good!

And you know, as Lou says!

She will be having some dead-straight!

Maybe she could be a female and she might be doing some, you know, mating calls later!

And one of the more beautiful good-looking females!

I was saying earlier how sometimes in dramas they can be cheeky!

When they do, alarm calls can be very loud, too!

But we have found them sometimes, or I’ve seen them during alarm calls!

When all the other bands lose their concentration and go where the drongo is!

But if they're having, for example, a party of eating something, the drongo will very quickly go to where they were and start eating their food!

So she’s got two types of alarm calls—one of them is genuine!

And the other one is just a bit cheeky!

I have seen it a few times work!

And like all the other birds, you know will get attention!

Ah-oh!

The drongo, finding out what could be the problem!

And then she leads the less where they live—they feed in party or whatever they're feeding on!

And the drongo quickly sneaks back and enjoys their meal!

And you can see the tail there—a very peculiar drongo!

62?

And 16?

Thank you very much!

You can see it’s much warmer here than where you are, Sitting Bull!

Thank you very much for the feedback!

Quickly! Got to Steve and find out what a bit he has for us right now!

Yeah, well we found Zazu ladies and gentlemen, and he's been running around on the ground—his prying self of a lizard was skink!

Looks to be a skink and I can't quite make out which!

He’s gone in—looks like a...

Oh no!

Can't quite tell what species it is!

He's making short work of it!

Definitely killed it already and getting ready just doing some tenderizing!

That went move his—only his butt—his back’s more!

She’s got its back to us!

I'm going to end up swallowing that thing whole!

Can you imagine?

There we go!

That’s a better view!

Here comes the money shot!

For sensitive viewers, bear in mind this animal is doing this live and this is food!

See how it lost its tail—the tip of its tail—in an attempt to protect itself!

Didn't work against the hornbill!

He’s going to probably try to rip it apart until it becomes more manageable pieces!

Or is he going to swallow the entire thing into the crop?

Oh, maybe it's going to go back to the nest!

You still see it just landed over there somewhere!

Can you see him since there out in the open?

Decided to take its meat to the shade!

And this could take some time to break it into manageable pieces!

Or is he going to try—and there we go!

Starting to rip!

You see that's why hornbills do so well!

They have a varied diet and a strong long beak which allows them to not migrate!

A lot of the birds that we find sticking around here have sort of adaptations meaning they don’t have to leave—they can feed on fruits when they are fed on insects when they are at their highest!

Scrounge around and feed on things, like lizards, skinks!

I've even seen one feeding on a mouse before!

Shame!

Anyone can give me my ID on that little lizard, very indeed!

And the eyes are bigger than the belly if it gets the whole thing down!

I think it knows it won’t get it all down in one go!

So it’s going to try and dismember it in some way!

Also, keeping its eyes open!

Because while it's going through the stage it is, potentially vulnerable like that!

Raptors can see extremely long distances!

But while it was just a little hole right here that we first saw them go for!

It's only about 2-3 meters from the side of me there!

And you see it sends just past that impala done!

It's just a little hole!

Let’s jump off quickly and show you!

He’s not disappeared into the undergrowth!

But here was the hole right there!

It's possible that this is one of their many little burrows in the ground!

Maybe he was just ferreting gone now into that small little...

I love to talk about it!

But there's a small branch on the floor there that the grass is building up and that's been damaged by an elephant!

And that's creating the habitat—not just for the Mongooses to go into!

But for insects and all sorts of things that he'll be looking for inside!

So very very cool to find a little dwarf mongoose like that!

If we're gonna go and it seems that Ralph has found a tasty treat that this little guy would rather enjoy!

Well, the mongoose would love some termites!

But so would these ants that have obviously started raiding this termite colony!

And if you look closely you can actually see some of these ants pulling these termites of parts in the teching from all fronts!

It looks like mostly soldier termites and obviously would be soldier ants as well!

But difficult to see with the very small answer! There are the odd much bigger-headed ends as well! But there’s a lot going on here!

And this is just near to some elephant dung!

Well, these are some of the only arthropods that are active during this time of the year!

There are a few others but mainly the two months and the ants will continue on through the winter months as well!

Now that's that elephant dung that we were talking about just below a tea!

I think the termites have made this their home!

And the ants are now raiding, looking for their pupae and all sorts!

You know we do get mutter billy ants as well!

Now Conrad and FCU say this reminds you of the movie ants!

Yeah, absolutely Amaya! My kids often watch that show and it definitely does!

And that the ant bully where the little boy gets shrunken to the size of ants!

And then he obviously learns the lesson that he needs to be careful of sort of killing little insects!

And that because if he's that size, he might end up in a similar situation! But many of them!

And there's so much going on!

There is a complete war!

I would say!

Tiffany, I don't think there’s enough ants to wipe out the entire termite colony!

They would, however, make a big dent in the population!

But the termites will breed again and so I'm sure these ants will be taking quite a bit of them for the protein!

And they might also take some of the pupae larvae or the eggs as well!

So they might be going right down into the base of this colony!

You know we also get mutter billy ants!

But they're more nomadic!

And they raid much bigger ants than these little reddish ones!

Reddish-black!

And they move around and attack big termite colonies!

And they’re known for that!

I haven't seen much of these little ones attacking too much!

So it's quite fascinating!

But awesome to watch!

You see what I mean?

As we’re looking for leopards, we just stopped along the route!

And looked for all sorts of other things!

So we just keep kind of targeting at the end of the walk!

But we're stopping and going through all these little drainage lines looking for leopard!

Jack's finding all sorts of things like this!

So the wars between ants and termites sometimes!

With these termites, they can activate the soldiers!

And they can defend themselves quite well!

Gary, I think it's mostly the ants!

They seemed to be winning this little war!

They did seem to be a little bit smaller!

But they’re also more mobile!

And it seems the little pincers or they biting apparatus are quite a bit quicker than the termites don’t seem to be able to defend themselves as well!

And I think the exoskeleton is a little bit harder than the soft abdomen of the termites!

Termites quite vulnerable if the ants can get it from behind!

And then you see how it sort of fences into that abdomen!

And then it starts almost like wild dogs pulling them in also in different directions!

It's, yeah, it's like there’s a whole bunch of killing going on here!

That is absolutely amazing!

So these guys do very much like dry conditions!

And they do very well in that!

But it seems Rafiki dive he liked!

Or he found something that looks very wet! Crutch!

And Tom might support a low to a way out in the biome!

They are very important because they support a lot of animal statements!

And without Tom, I don't know how the ecosystem would be doing!

And we've got some animals here that would also love to eat some sombrero!

Who knows who would love to eat some!

We got some terrapins!

We've got moisture appeals and very initial to see a fully grown one and two or three young ones of them basking themselves at the edge of the waterhole!

Two weeks ago I saw quite a bit number—there’s a drama—they’re just trying to fish!

Drongos are very funny birds! They're carnivores!

And they'll take a chance to get any shrimp and just jump in the water tube—thank you very much for getting that drongo!

And back with our therapies!

And the drongo's back in the water again!

It must be seeing some interesting things there!

And maybe the same animals or the same organisms that fed by this terrapin!

So one of them has gone back in the water!

Always very skittish!

I was saying I was here two weeks ago and I think we saw about 50 of them!

And the drongo jumps in the water again!

Sometimes it might jump in the water just to align their feathers!

If not necessary!

Because they will not maybe eat in the water like that!

They may just be in and out!

And I think what she could be doing there is just to align her feathers and maybe to cool off!

Right?

Drongos have been known to do that a lot!

Sitting Bull, how are you today?

Thank you very much, Lou!

Then it’s a bit warm now!

It is a bit for now!

We are doing about 28 degrees Celsius and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, Sitting Bull!

Those are our temperatures today!

I do not know, Sitting Bull, from where you are or from my home, what temperatures do you have at the moment?

If you could be happy to tell me!

And more from the knot here, we use the centigrade and not much Fahrenheit!

So how easily say 20 degrees Celsius or centigrade?

But because of the Imperial system, we'll also give the temperatures in Fahrenheit and it's 82!

Sitting Bull! I’d be happy if you could tell me what temperatures you've got there!

So that's drama basically!

I don't think she was eating!

She was just jumping in the water to align her feathers!

And you can see now what she’s doing!

From whatever, like how you go have a shower!

That's exact!

Now what she is doing—sometimes they have been known to jump out in the rain!

Not to feed specifically, but just to enjoy the showers!

And it helped them to align their feathers!

You can see now she’s trying to maintain!

And when she was jumping in and out of the water!

Ideally she was not fitting!

My guess is she was trying to dip herself and make her sweat!

And by so doing it’s a lot easier now to streamline her feathers!

Depends on what you’d like—how clever these birds are, huh?

And when it comes to making alarm calls, the drongos are very good!

But also, just like the monkeys, sometimes I found out they’re very cheeky!

Cheeky!

But jumps in the woods again!

Officer gum bucks the same spot!

Yes! Thank you for being so patient!

So it’s in the water!

Oops! Very good!

And back to the same place!

Trying to make foie gras with his lens!

But still fog is able to catch up with her speed!

Exactly!

And Lou in the final control thinks he may be having a death tonight!

It’s very possible!

I mean, today’s a Sunday!

She might have gone to church in the morning!

And maybe the silly she could be going for a drink somewhere!

Because what he’s doing is not feeding!

She’s just getting in the water!

Thank you fog!

And dipping her feathers!

There she is!

Oh yes, very good!

And then she is going to maintain!

Ha ha, feathers!

And she’ll be looking good!

And you know as Lou says!

She will be having some dead-straight!

Maybe she could be a female and she might be doing some, you know, mating calls later!

And one of the more beautiful good-looking females!

I was saying earlier how sometimes in dramas they can be cheeky!

When they do, alarm calls can be very loud, too!

But we have found them sometimes or I’ve seen them during alarm calls!

When all the other bands lose their concentration and go where the drongo is!

But if they're having, for example, a party of eating something, the drongo will very quickly go to where they were and start eating their food!

So she’s got two types of alarm calls—one of them is genuine!

And the other one is just a bit cheeky!

I have seen it a few times work!

And like all the other birds you know will get attention!

Ah-oh!

The drongo, finding out what could be the problem!

And then she leads the less where they live—they feed in a party or whatever they're feeding on!

And the drongo quickly sneaks back and enjoys their meal!

And you can see the tail there!

That was a very peculiar drongo!

62?

And 16?

Thank you very much!

You can see it’s much warmer here than where you are, Sitting Bull!

Thank you very much for the feedback!

Quickly! Got to Steve!

And find out what a bit he has for us right now!

Yeah, well we found Zazu ladies and gentlemen!

And he's been running around on the ground—his prying self of a lizard was skink!

Looks to be a skink!

And I can't quite make out which!

He’s gone in! Looks like a... oh no! Can't quite tell what species it is!

He's making short work of it!

Definitely killed it already and getting ready just doing some tenderizing!

That went move his—only his butt—his back’s more!

She’s got its back to us!

I'm going to end up swallowing that thing whole!

Can you imagine?

There we go!

That’s a better view!

Here comes the money shot!

For sensitive viewers, bear in mind this animal is doing this live and this is food!

See how it lost its tail!

The tip of its tail—in an attempt to protect itself!

Didn't work against the hornbill!

He’s going to probably try to rip it apart until it becomes more manageable pieces!

Or is he going to swallow the entire thing into the crop?

Oh, maybe it's going to go back to the nest!

You still see it just landed over there somewhere!

Can you see him since there out in the open?

Decided to take its meat to the shade!

And this could take some time to break it into manageable pieces!

Or is he going to try—and there we go!

Starting to rip!

You see that's why hornbills do so well!

They have a varied diet and a strong long beak which allows them to not migrate!

A lot of the birds that we find sticking around here have sort of adaptations meaning they don’t have to leave—they can feed on fruits when they are fed on insects when they are at their highest!

Scrounge around and feed on things like lizards, skinks!

I've even seen one feeding on a mouse before!

Shame!

Anyone can give me my ID on that little lizard, very indeed!

And the eyes are bigger than the belly if it gets the whole thing down!

I think it knows it won’t get it all down in one go!

So it’s going to try and dismember it in some way!

Also keeping its eyes open!

Because while it's going through the stage it is, potentially vulnerable like that!

Raptors can see extremely long distances!

But while it was just a little hole right here that we first saw them go for!

It's only about 2-3 meters from the side of me there!

And you see it sends just past that impala done!

It's just a little hole!

Let’s jump off quickly and show you!

He’s not disappeared into the undergrowth!

But here was the hole right there!

It's possible that this is one of their many little burrows in the ground!

Maybe he was just ferreting gone now into that small little...

I love to talk about it!

But there's a small branch on the floor there that the grass is building up and that's been damaged by an elephant!

And that's creating the habitat—not just for the Mongooses to go into!

But for insects and all sorts of things that he'll be looking for inside!

So very, very cool to find a little dwarf mongoose like that!

If we're gonna go and it seems that Ralph has found a tasty treat that this little guy would rather enjoy!

Well, the mongoose would love some termites!

But so would these ants that have obviously started raiding this termite colony!

And if you look closely you can actually see some of these ants pulling these termites apart!

And they’re attacking them from all fronts!

It looks like mostly soldier termites!

And obviously would be soldier ants as well!

But difficult to see with the very small answer!

There