Safari Live - Day 384 | National Geographic

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Well, we couldn't have asked for a better way to start our Sunday than the brand-new "Oh balls of fluff" for the Inkuhuma pride. These are twelve! Two of them you can just see one at the moment. The second one is with mom and is lounging about, and we'll hopefully get a view of that little one just now. My name is Kristen, on camera, I've got myself this afternoon. Hopefully, you're going to love the fact that we are going to spend time with the Inkuhuma cubs for the very, very first time! Isn't it the sweetest visible face? Look at that big yawn! They are super chilled; they don't worry about us at all. When we drove in, in fact, the one didn't even wake up. It was so fast asleep with mom.

Now, remember that we are coming to you live from South Africa and Kenya in the Masai Mara. So, we want you to ask lots and lots of questions. I'm sure you'll have lots of comments about the fact that we've managed to find the little cubs. And so, because of that, we want you to use #SafariLive on Twitter or @IFC on the YouTube chat and talk to us about it. Now, I'm hoping this little one will go to where mommy is. Mommy is hidden behind this quarry; you can just see her head, and the other little one is tucked up around her back legs. I think it’s having a little drink of milk. It looks like a tiny little cub that's with her there. So, I think maybe, just maybe, it might even be a boy and a girl already, ’cause the one that we were seeing out in the open is much, much more or looks a lot bigger than the other one already and is far braver at this stage.

This hawthorn is super curious. It's been watching us the whole time we've been here. Look, it keeps kind of looking at us as if to say, "Can I come and play?" It is the cutest little thing ever! So, a bit of perseverance has paid off. Joel, you say, "Hey, new cubs?" Yes! It's the best thing ever to have little fat lion cubs; they are the cutest things when you get new cubs! Now, these cubs you can see still got spotty little heads, and aw, they're tiny, tiny still. So, they're not brand new—I mean, they're not a few days old—but I would put them at around six weeks; they'd be too much more than that.

And so, a very, very sensitive area, this. What that means is that we're going to obviously have to call them in, but the sighting will probably be off-limits for the rest of today after we've spent some time here. Then they'll have to kind of put in place what they are gonna do. It'll normally be a one-vehicle sighting. If moments present, Miss Anonymous, you say you feel like a godparent? Indeed! It does feel like being a little godparent. Oh, look at that little fat tummy! Hello, little cute one, where are you off to? I'm so fluffy! Little legs as well; that's gonna go to where mommy is.

I'm just gonna roll for you myself ‘cause the other one just popped its head up as well, and it's actually quite a nice view. You can see that they are fairly, fairly relaxed unless mom moves. If mom moves, then you find that it's a bit more tricky. Now they’re going there—it's just under mom. Hello! No, mom, are you going to lie to us somewhere nicely where we can see both the little ones and you? That would be very pleasant. I'm hoping she's gonna walk a little bit to the left where she was lying this morning because it's much easier.

But you can see that one day it just seems a little bit smaller than the other one. They are super cute! Look at that little wobble! Typical little cubs, that's for sure. And she's gonna lie actually to the back now. Um, I don't know how we’re going to see them. Myself, it's going to be very tricky; it's a quarry thicket that we're in. I'm gonna try and go forward a little bit for Marcel. Obviously, I gotta be a bit sensitive about how you move when you're with cubs. You don't want to move too fast or too far. How can you see them through there?

So Marcel's saying you can see them nicely through there, which is good. Here they are bundling off towards mom. While we try and figure out a slightly better view, I'm gonna send you across. I think to Jamie and could have been James with is Jamie. James is gonna make it difficult for the afternoon and see what they say for today.

Hassan! Oh my boy! I fear for the very first time you might just have been overshadowed temporarily. No, you will of course always be almost everyone's favorite. A very good afternoon to all! I'm so excited for Tristan. My name is Jamie, and behind the camera is Craig. Of course, everybody's thrilled to see the new data-linked Inkuhuma cubs. Tristan, myself, and Craig worked quite hard for them this morning, so that's very, very exciting news! Yay! I think that Craig is kind of devastated that he is not with Tristan now. He was with Tristan this morning as we did a very concerted search around that area. We have Herbie to thank for Hasana sitting at Muffled Hugged. He is currently slotted into an erosion gully in the ground that looks very uncomfortable, but like all cats, he has managed to make it look comfortable!

Good! He’s poor tucked away in there. Of course, what he's waiting for is for something to come down and have a drink, at which point he can use his ambush skills. There's still a little bit of water left in Buffalo Dam—not much; it's basically just a dried-up mud puddle—but it'll be enough to attract animals for him. He is ridiculous! He has, you know, children, puppies, and cats can make any sleeping position look comfortable somehow. He’d slotted into the dried-out mud.

I just need to chat on the game drive radio briefly in a moment, so at least just listen to it. It sounds like there are quite a few people interested in him. Look at that neat little row of spots! Those tiny, tiny spots he's got just above his left eye, his left eye and his ear. I never noticed those before! Oh, it's a really thoroughly exciting way to start our afternoon. We're going to sit here presumably for the rest of the afternoon.

And send you across to Lauren's, see what her plans are.

Good afternoon! Good afternoon! Welcome to your sunset safari! Now, of course, it has already been a very eventful little cubs and spots. Could it be any better? Probably not! Now, my name is Lauren, and on camera today I have Sam. We're actually on our way to Shitswa. The others may have mentioned, but it's actually a very hot afternoon. Very similar to yesterday; cold mornings, cold evenings, but a really hot afternoon. So, cheetah is the biggest waterhole that we can traverse, so we thought, "Let’s head on them there and see exactly who’s trying to cool down and who’s trying to have a drink."

So we're almost heading in there, and we're just gonna explore the area to see exactly who is around. Of course, there will be the usual suspects of the impala and the crocs, but Chitwa Dam can be a very, very surprising place! Now, just a quick update from my side; I drove past the area that we had the sticks this morning, which is just the western side of Twin Dams, and they were no longer there. Of course, they didn't have much shade this morning, and it was really hot, so I mean it was inevitable that they were actually gonna move to an area that was just a bit more shady.

So, they're probably still around, but we just don't know where. So, they are no longer in the place that they were this morning, which is why we are heading on in. On a day like today, many animals will come down to drink because it's a little bit unexpected heat; of course, it should be a little bit cooler than this, I believe, for winter. So many, many animals should be here to drink. Well, I hope so at least, so we shall see when we get there.

But I'm very jealous of Tristan right now! How gorgeous! We finally, finally, finally get to see the Inkuhuma cubs! So, talking of those cubbies, let's go back across and see how they're doing.

Well, we've tried to reposition slightly. We can get a bit of view of her and then, but unfortunately, it's a very tricky area, and I don't want to drive too close to her. Anyway, we'll bash down trees! So, we've taken as much of an open clearing as we can and are just trying to watch the little cubs from quite far. You can see there in the background playing with mom's tail at the moment, which is always the best game—it's playing with mom's tail. They often do it, and the black tuft is the perfect thing to bite and pull and kind of have the best time as a little cub.

So, we’ll just see how it goes! But very, very exciting to have these two little balls of fluff. Hopefully, they come round to where mom’s head is because then we’re gonna see them a lot better than where they are at the moment. They're a little bit hidden at the moment, and that's because of all the kind of bush. And like I said, I don't really want to offer too much—yeah, hit trees or anything like that.

The less disturbance we make around here, the longer they are going to stick around right now because it’s always a joyous occasion to have little cubs. We're going to try and show a lot more people this. So, I'm just going to stop speaking for a little bit while we set that up.

Well, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to South Africa in a very, very special moment! We are seeing two brand-new little lion cubs for the very first time this afternoon. They are cute little balls of fluff and seem to be full of beans! Now, you can see this mom lying over there, and the two little ones are kind of playing around. Hopefully, we’ll get a slightly better view, but as is life with sort of lion dens, that is generally in the thicker, denser areas.

And so we don't want to crash around and disturb the den at all. They want to try to be as respectful as possible. So for now, it's going to be fairly sort of long-distance views of them in the kitchen. You can see that one is having the best time with mom's tail!

Now, before we kind of get into all of this, I need to just tell you who I am so that I'm not a disembodied voice in the background. My name is Christina, on camera, I've got Marcel this afternoon, and it is a very warm welcome to you! And remember that we are coming to you live, which means that you can ask any questions or post any comments that you have in the comment section below, and we'll try and answer as many as possible.

Now, the little cubs that you're seeing there, we reckon are around about six weeks old, somewhere around there. They're still very small, very spotty, but their eyes are open and they can see that and they’re moving on. Isn’t that cute? Look at that! Now she's getting groomed—that's very special. They are the cutest, cutest little things in the whole wide world! Very, very fortunate to be able to spend time with lion cubs like this.

Listen to have a lioness that's being so accommodating and letting us into life now! And just listen, a while can actually hear them squeaking. Stop squeaking now! James, you want to know how many cubs were born? Well, James we don't know how many were born, but there's only two cubs here that we can see, so we've got two little ones. I haven't even been able to see what sex they are; literally, we just found them five minutes ago! And so, you know, it hasn't been a long period to be able to kind of work out exactly what's going on.

But two is what we know of, and they have been seen by a neighboring part of the reserve a few days ago, and they also are two. So, I suspect that it's only two! But you can see what she's doing at the moment; you see how she's grooming this little one? They'll often groom quite heavily towards the back end of the little cub, and the reason why they do that is that they'll actually stimulate that little cub to go to the toilet. The grooming of the area under the tail, whether it's a boy or a girl, will actually kind of get them to start trying to actually go to the toilet and try and actually urinate.

So Jalal, I have absolutely no idea; it's very difficult to sex lion cubs at this age. They're very, very small, and seeing the difference between boys and girls is quite hard, especially if the tails are not up. What we’re gonna try and do is hopefully get a bit of a better view of them at some point, and then we would be able to tell if it's a boy or a girl! But like I said, we don't want to crash in there and drive too close to where we can drive on top of her because ultimately then she's gonna move the den very quickly. So, it's better just to stay back for now and wait.

So, Denise, you're asking if there's any idea of how old my mom is. Shruti, nice novel to remember, it's been a while since I've thought about mom and how old she is. She is one of the older females within the pride, and so if you give me two seconds, I should be able to find her age fairly quickly. She is now about eight years, but I might be wrong—she's somewhere there. I'll just double-check; I've got a cheat sheet somewhere on them. I'll get back to you now.

Now I have to try and find it and kind of get back to—you know, she is one of the older females within the pride. She comes from a pride of ten, which consists of four adult females and then the rest of sub-adults—two are several males. You know, four some adult females that are almost of breeding age—they’re all around about three years old, and so they're gonna be coming into breeding fairly soon, but they haven't as yet had cubs.

Can you hear them little squeaks? This one coming out! How cute is that? So, Kathy, they belong to a pride called the Inkuhuma pride, which is the dominant pride here in the Sabi Sand, the northern part of the Sabi Sands. And they're an incredible pride! The last time we saw little cubs from the Inkuhuma pride on Juma was over a year ago, so it's a very long time since we've seen the cubs, and so it's nice to have just all ones gracing our presence.

Again, the exciting thing about the Inkuhuma pride at the moment is I say to you that there's these sub-adults. Look at those little feet! Isn’t that cute? They're playing with mom and trying to kind of bat mom, and you can see their little paws in the air. I know it's a bit difficult through all the branches, but it's very, very sweet to see.

But it's the exciting thing about the Inkuhuma pride at the moment is that we've had a new coalition of males come in over the last few months, and I say a few months, it's almost a year now. But they are mating with pretty much all the females, and all the females almost looking like some of them are pregnant. Some of may be given birth, and so we should get an explosion of little ones feeling soon, which will make the pride grow quite nicely!

It's exciting when you've got this many kind of females that could come into estrus fairly soon, and then you'll get all the cubs kind of growing up together. The last time the Inkuhumas had a really big batch of cubs was three different females, four different females that gave birth at the same time, and they all kind of then were able to raise them in a nurturing environment. So hopefully that's gonna be the case because it's much easier to raise them if there are a lot of cubs than if there are just the two, especially in an area like this, which is a predator-rich environment and has lots of other threats to them.

A little bit forward for you because there's a little bit of a branch there that Marcel's got to give. Marcel's got to give you a slightly better view. I don't want to go too far 'cause I've got a tree in front of me—that's much better, isn't it? There we go, so that's a much nicer view of the little ones, and you can see look at that one on its back! Isn't that cute? It has got to be the cutest thing to watch the lion cubs now!

Susan, when will they be introduced to the pride? So it's obviously dependent, but generally, we start to see that around sort of ten to twelve weeks is when we start to see them kind of joining the prides more often. That's when there's a kill, and they'll be brought to the pride to eat with them and then kind of be hidden again. And when they're actually walking with the pride, that's generally around sort of four, five, six months, depending on the lines that they're integrated into the pride, and they'll walk with them and then only kind of stay off when their lionesses hunt, come back, then they carry on.

But when they're still little like this now, they are what's in Dean—what's called insights. So where we are at the moment is the perfect, perfect place! If Marcel comes out, you'll see what I'm talking about about how thick it is and how lucky we are to be able to spot her here. The ability to track lions on foot and to try and kind of work out where they've gone is how we find them!

And so, these cubs are being hidden to the right of where she is at the moment. The left side there is a little bit more open, but to the right here, you can see it becomes a wall of vegetation, and there is a termite mound that's got a few little holes in it with a tree that grows out. And that's where they're being stored! It's not a place they haven't used before! Um, lions or the Inkuhuma pride have used this den site before when we heard that they had come this way, and we checked care to try and find them.

So, Maria, lions change their dens quite quickly. They don't often sit for long periods in the same den. And what you'll find with these guys is that they will typically try and move the den every, you know, week or two weeks. Sometimes a little bit longer; sometimes a little bit less. The previous den to this, as far as we can establish, was only used for about a week, and she's now moved them across.

So they were seen for the first time about a week ago and then she’s moved them across to this den site here where they're kind of moving around. Onto our area where we can traverse. And so that's why we're seeing them for the first time this afternoon. But normally, about a week, two weeks, depends obviously on how many cubs, if there are any threats that are around. So if hyenas find this den, if leopard walks past, if lions walk past, that's going to dictate how long she sticks at.

Is that a little boy or a little girl? Lift your tail again! Difficult to see; it looks like it might be a little girl. I don't see any testes, but at this age, the testes are so small on the cubs that it's very, very difficult to know whether or not they are boy or girl. And I have to get a really clear view, but you can see mom's tail is the best game! Look at that! So special!

And now she's being bugged by a branch! Not only by cubs, but by a branch too! Right! Well, I hope that all of you enjoyed that very special, intimate look into a lioness's life! You've got to be very lucky to be allowed to be this close to lions with the initial cubs, and she's been very accommodating to us. So, we're not gonna overstay our welcome too much, but I hope that you enjoyed it!

And remember, if you do want to carry on seeing how these little cubs grow, you can just Google “Safari Live” and join us as we continue the journey with them over the coming weeks, months, and years. To fight for myself and Marcel, it’s been an absolute pleasure, and we look forward to seeing you all soon!

Well, how special is the sighting now? What’s basically happened is I’ve called in on the radio that we found him. It's not fair to hide this from everybody! And so I spoke to Rick’s mesenteric. You know, I really think this morning I had an idea that they were here. So this morning, when I went back, I spoke to Rick, and I kindly said to him, "Listen, can we go this afternoon to check in?" He said sure, and he’s basically entrusted us to see how we do this.

And so what we're gonna basically do with the sighting is that the sighting will be a one-vehicle sighting going forward. I just confirmed it with Rick's now, and basically, we're gonna have a situation where we're gonna have a sort of 10 to 15-minute time limit per vehicle, with only one vehicle around at the time. We're gonna try and make it that it's only if the female is here, but that’s what’s gonna happen, so we're not gonna be here for that much longer, and we’ll probably spend a little bit longer, just because luckily we managed to find them and Rick said we can take our time, but I don’t want to deny others the chance to see tiny little cubs! It’s a very special thing to be able to see this right!

Well, we’ll have such a little bit longer in the meantime though, let’s send you across to Lauren, who’s made her way to Chitwa Dam. Well, we reached Chitwa. Bizarrely enough, of course, while you were all enjoying the little Inkuhuma cubbies, a lot of hippos were all out the water! They were all standing in the Sun, and I could not see exactly what they were doing. I didn't want to get too close because hippos can be quite unnerving. And of course, if I got too close, they would just go away!

But indeed, in the end, they all just went back into the water. But it was really bizarre just to see a collection of maybe 10 to 15 hippos just standing in the sun in this sort of late afternoon heat of today! It was very strange! But of course, they have gone back into the water. And I have to say, I’m rather jealous! Positions here in Chitwa! All I do, I would love to be in water! Maybe not necessarily Chitwa Dam, but I would love to be immersed in water right now just like these hippos are.

They were doing the water due to their skin. They do need moisture; they do need to sort of witness on their skin, not just to cool them down, but also for the actual skin themselves, it's extremely sensitive. And even though they've sort of got a thick layer of fat, if you like, and it would take a chainsaw to probably get through. They do require water for their skin because it's such a fine epidermis, which makes it really extremely sensitive to dehydration, and I believe it's up to seven times more sensitive than other mammals.

And many of you are wondering if it's because the water is too cold. I really do not believe that! We came down the other morning on the sunrise safari, and even before the sun was really properly up, the hippos were in the water! And of course, that's when the water will be the coldest. So, on a day like today, the water would be ideal for them and very soothing! And all that noise never fails to entertain me!

But no, I really don't believe that would have been the reason that they were over the water. It’s not as if they were feeding or can't see it though! And slowly but surely behind, not the best angle for said, we do have a male waterbuck making his way to the water. I think it's gonna take some time for him though because, of course, excuse our aerial! I really—it’s a terrible angle!

Hey, Makoto! Of course, I might see, managed to see the waterbuck, do get nervous because they know what lies in store for them on the banks of Chitwa Dam! We did actually witness a male waterbuck right here the other day! Vito walked past a very large croc with about a meter and a half to spare. Of course, nothing happened, sir! The croc wasn't fast enough, and it was just a bit too far away! But it's not an easy task getting down to the dam knowing what potential threats lie in store for them!

Now, hence the name! You will always find waterbucks near water; they’re heavily dependent on the waterbuck at the water! And a male like this one here, say it's up its territory around a water point, so this is probably this male's territory! Linda, wow! Those horns! I know, aren’t they just glorious? He will come down if we have Ruby here patiently, but it's definitely gonna take some time! The horns are absolutely fantastic, very different from other antelope species!

Now, I do feel it's worth waiting here a little while to see if anything else does come in to drink! A herd of impala was here earlier; it is the perfect day for animals to come down. I was hoping maybe to see an elephant or two. It’s been a while since I've seen an elephant in Chitwa Dam! And of course, we have our regulars! Look at the way it's positioned! Is that my eyes, or has it got its legs bent? I think it's got its little leg bent!

Yeah, of course! We do know there’s a couple—a male and female saddle-billed stork! This is most likely one of them! So as our waterbuck makes its way to the edge of the water very slowly and cautiously, we're gonna send you guys back over to Tristan and the cubbies!

As you can see, some are going for water, others are going for milk! The two little cubs are still suckling, and mom is getting a chance to have a bit of a rest! Or she’s probably going to have to go out and try and see if she can find food. So, the two little ones just kind of tucked up there, and I’m sure they’re suckling now because it’s that time of the day with the sun slowly starting to come down, and they know they’re gonna get hidden soon, and they're gonna be pushed into the den.

She’s gonna then go marching off, which is going to be good! Now, like I said to you earlier, I was explaining a little bit about den sites and how they work. At this age, they're very, very sensitive, and so the movements of cars and the constant driving around and things like that can very much disturb a lioness at a den site. And so, you need to be very respectful. There need to be certain rules that are applied, and so how it will work and it will affect, obviously, how we view these cubs over the course of the next few weeks, is that essentially these den sites—this particular one is in a very difficult-to-reach area.

In some respects, it's very thick; it's very dense; there's a lot of sensitive trees and such, and so we need to be quite careful about how we move it! So I was just speaking to Rex now quickly. I mean, he was saying to me that what he had liked rather, because Rex obviously he looks after the Juma property in terms of off-roading and those kinds of things, and you're saying he’d like it to be just a one-vehicle sighting and that checks the den every day, and there's no rotation of vehicles after that just for the next few days until such time as we kind of establish what's going on exactly how things are working.

But we're going to rotate out with one person today just to allow them to see, and basically, what happens is the den is only allowed to be used or visited during daylight hours, so never at night! Just because hyenas often will move into this area, and that's obviously incredibly dangerous for little lion cubs! So the point is to try and be here in the times that are least impactful on the lioness. She’s obviously very relaxed; she's not growling, you know she’s not hissing at us, which is perfect! And the cubs are very relaxed too!

We don't want to chase them or make them move around because ultimately, all that’s going to do is just disturb this entire area and she's just gonna move the cubs again, and she might move them off our property. And we're right in the corner of our property, so if we play our cards right, hopefully, she’ll stick around here for a few days and few weeks, and then maybe move them deeper into Juma! So, we’ll just have to kind of see how it goes, but like I say that your respect is the sort of name of the game, and it’s why we’re not gonna be staying for much longer! That's all, you know!

Moving parts after we’re done with this segment because, like I said, we did one other person see, and then it’s gonna be closed off for the evening for her to have her peace and quiet with her little ones! And it's very, very special there that we have little Inkuhumas! I always love the fact that once they get a little bit older, once they start reaching sort of three months, then you can start rotating vehicles through!

It’s not a huge train smash as to how many vehicles come through, and that they’re a lot more mobile at that point, but initially, when they're smaller, you know, particularly because she moved in this morning to this den, you don’t want to overpressure the place that she just moved them to, because she’s just gonna move them somewhere else!

Look at who’s in that suite! Marsha knows I’ve done my girl! Very, very good! A lot of you are asking where the den is in terms of in relation to her or in terms of where on Juma or in terms of, meaning obviously different things. But, well, basically, we're in the northwest corner of Juma, not far from the Gary Gates area. So, kind of northwest of the camp, not far from Sidney's Dam, Gary Gates, some mini, that kind of corner there that we’re in.

So, it's an area that is tricky to negotiate, and finding her this morning was no mean feat! I had a hunch that she might be coming to this exact spot, and it’s why we checked here, but Craig spotted her from a mile away! And as you can see, less than ideal terrain—so not very, very lucky to have been able to see!

Yeah, that is cute though! They are very sweet little things! That's for sure! Very cute! Now, I'm not sure if anyone got a screenshot of that one with its little tail up to see if it's a boy or a girl, but I didn't get to see nicely! Really, normally at about three months is when the cubs are starting to eat meat, and so, you know, probably in about six weeks' time, I would imagine. I say six weeks; it's a rough guess just based on size, spots, and their mobility and those kinds of things!

They might be a little bit older; it could be six to eight weeks. That would be my guess! I should have, you know, we’ve had a look between all of us at pictures that were posted by some OB this morning, and we all agreed around that age! Seeing them in person, I suspect that that's about how old they are! And they grow quite quickly!

And so, for me, the rough sort of age that I would put them at is their cutest at this phase! But for me, I always think that fluffy little cubs like this are the cutest things in the whole world! And what's really nice to see is that they are completely relaxed! When I drove in here for me first, Mom was asleep!

And we actually drove fairly close because I didn’t expect that little cubs to be lying so far from mom, and they just looked at me as though there was nothing in the world that was wrong at all! And so that’s a really good sign that they are not too stressed about things, and that’s good going forward! So it’s all going to be good, then! I think we're gonna have lots of memorable sightings of these just cubs while I hope so! I mean, I think I'm a private, who continues to grow good!

We're gonna leave these two in the meantime though; we're gonna send you to another of the film favorites here on Juma, and that is Jamie with the little chief!

He was also very, very cute when he was a little cub! But I do agree with Tristan; those tiny baby lion cubs at that age, especially that little sound that they make—that low sound—just tugs at one's heartstrings! It brings back memories of a time when the Inkuhumas were dating! Remember, just to the eastern side of Buffalo Dam, which is where we are now! And the three females gave birth almost at exactly the same time! Ridge knows the purple-eyed lioness, and then the oldest lioness who died recently—well, their birth! One-year birth on Torchwood! One gave birth here, and one gave birth—the oldest lioness gave birth around Galago Pan, just to the north of that!

The only one that we really had—the only den site we really had access to was the one that was here just to the north of the strain in line! Remember many times creeping in there slowly just to have a look—watching the little movement of the little ones! I'm excited because I think that it's not just going to be the Ridge Noise female we're going to see lots more little babies shortly!

Hasana has shifted out! If he's incredibly uncomfortable looking position now, his father—or at least his likely father—as you know, I recently collected a nice fresh pile of scat to test that theory! But in Ghana, he is just to the north of us in Bottles Hook, very very close! I'm just gonna turn this down slightly. Tristan's just giving instructions as to where to drive if there are any vehicles that do want to see the cubs, and he's very, very close to where Hasana is now!

And I suspect before the night is over, Dingaan is going to come back down towards Buffalo! I think already he has moved from where he was this morning! I know Rex is busy searching for him, so we might just have a little bit of father-son interaction!

Ah, apparently many of you asking if Hasana has had any further interaction with Pretty the hyena? I don't think so! I mean, unless she has bought some sort of court case against him, I think that he is probably in the clear there! So, no, I don't think that they've had any further interaction! Who knows? We don't know what goes on in the middle of the night out here!

So perhaps he has! And I’d have absolutely no doubt that that is not the last interaction that he's going to have with a hyena! For those of you that missed it, although I sincerely doubt there are too many people in the dark anymore, he tackled Pretty as she very smugly came trotting through the open area outside of our camp carrying a very large piece of skin with a little bit of meat still attached to it!

And this hyena came trotting along, and he basically used the pure element of surprise to shoot out, grab the kill from her, and climb a tree before she'd even had a chance to gather her wits! No, I don't think he's had any further interaction, at least not that we know of! But I'm sure that she's fine; he's fine! And he's just very lucky that animals actually can't bring court cases otherwise she could sue him for assault and theft! Mind you, I'm pretty sure he would have a very solid counterclaim!

I think I've got your name right, but I might be completely off—Creepy or E would like to know whether or not leopards will ever hunt smaller big cats. Yes, they absolutely do! Hi guys, they do hunt smaller big cats! 3 P, not Creepy! I'm sorry, I agree. I'll get there eventually!

The what does I do about—oh yes, they do hunt smaller cats! They've been known to catch wild cats, or Sanza himself has caught a wild cat before! Oh, it's my little friend, the little boy who said hello to all the lions last night! That was so cute! Hello, man! Oh, so sweet! I think he just said "Hello, kitty" again!

Oh, hello, Tony! What? Hello, Tony, again! Hey! He's the only boy in the world that gets away with calling me Tony! What was I talking about? Oh, I've also seen pictures of leopards in trees with dead cheetahs! So yes, they do! They will kill lion cubs if they happen to find lion cubs unattended! You'll find that with all the predators, there's an element of competition. And as a result, what they'll do is if they can, they will remove any of the young if possible.

Kenya's young cheetah cubs actually survived a leopard attack not too long ago—while we were filming the Gauntlet series!

All right, well since Hasana has been thoroughly thrilling at the moment, we're going to let him snooze away and interrupt it, and we'll send you across to Lauren in the meantime! Wow, we have found a very large croc sunbathing, shall we say! And that is literally what it is doing—basking on the banks in the sun, trying to heat up! Of course, because he or she is a reptile!

And talking of gender, male and female crocodiles actually have internal sex organs! So it makes it very, very difficult to actually, from where we are looking, tell them apart from the sort of while external morphological features alone! Now, unless you're conducting a really close inspection, it’s almost impossible to tell! Because crocodiles actually have a vent! This is also known as a cloacal slit, and this is where these sex organs are sort of tucked inside, which you would not get to see unless you get very, very close to them!

Though they do see that sort of males have a thicker tail, a stronger bill, and they do grow larger! But unless you're actually looking at a comparison of the two, it's very difficult to tell just from what we're looking at right now! So it's only really when males are ready to mate that their actual penis expands out of the vent and is inserted into the female's vent!

So it's only really when they're mating that you sort of can get a better indication of who's male and who's female! And their testes actually do remain inside the body at one time! So unless you've got a male and female croc of the same age lying on the bank like this, it's really difficult to tell!

So Firelover is asking about the water sources! So PSAP's giving you a beautiful view of Chitwa Dam, and you can see right here where we're looking right now used to be filled with water! And that sort of tree that's at a very odd angle now, right in the middle? Yep, same! And that one, it used to be islands if you like, and they were just a tiny little mound of land sticking out of the water! And as you can see, it's all dry land now!

So Chitwa definitely has the most water out of all the dams that we traverse! It's the largest! It's still got a lot of water in there—it's relatively deep—and it’s still definitely got enough water to last us a while! However, the other dams are not looking so great! We did drive past Twin Dams on the way here, and it's always sad to see that it's completely dry!

Treehouse is okay, but Noo, poor Soguma! Who I’m sure I think that's where Hosana is! So maybe Jamie could possibly give you a view if that's where he is! So yes, the water is getting more and more scarce as we sort of progress into winter!

And forget the fish eagle flying! He’s coming right towards us! Oh, he's gonna land right there! Nice one, see, look at that! Just landed right ahead of the car! Doesn't look necessarily very comfortable! All I have to say, it doesn’t have to come free there to see! I love these birds! And of course, a very iconic! If you come down to Chitwa and you don't hear the fish eagle called, then something's wrong!

I was kind of hoping it would maybe call while we could hear it! Now, I personally find identifying birds of prey and rats quite difficult! You really have to focus on the features in order to work out exactly which bird it is, or you could potentially make a wrong ID!

Yes, Janet, I agree! Gorgeous creature! Totally agree with you! So you have to be really, really careful and just make sure you go through the key identification features before you sort of make a statement! It came from the Egyptian geese, but I can't see them! So yes, when it comes to the fish eagle, I mean you can’t miss it! You really can’t miss this bird!

It's very iconic; it's very distinctive! Of course, with the clashing of the white head and the brown body, if you like! And like any of the birds of prey, the females are bigger than the males, so when you see a monogamous pair together, you shouldn't technically be able to work out whose meal and whose female.

Just by looking at the size, that you would only be able to do that when they're actually together looking at it! Like this is very, very difficult! Oh my goodness, you can see my hands show everyone how well you see how far away it is from Marcel! It's actually... the hippos are very, very far away, so this is gonna be a bit tricky!

And I think I would stir meat and hide! No, this is not wingspan in height! I would see the fish eagle is about this—what do you think, Seb? A little bit more, but in terms of wingspan, it's got a very, very large wings! And I can actually check on my bird app! They do have the bird app, and it gives you the exact wingspan to the exact measurement!

So let's see if I can find this somewhere in here! Essentially we—up to 2.5 kilograms, and that's how heavy they are—3.5 kilograms would be just over 5 pounds! I can't see! Oh, and the females can actually go up to 3 kilograms! There you go, which is well over 6.4 pounds! I think that could be completely wrong; oh, I think the height, sorry, can go up to 75 centimeters, according to this app, which is just under a meter!

So about between 2 to 2.5 feet! I love snacks the same! Wow, that is big! It is, it is a big eagle! Of course, very difficult to judge from here, but it is! He’s a very, very powerful and big eagle! That huge beak there is extremely powerful as well as the talons! They use both when they're sorts of hunting! So they are big, very, very large!

And of course, they do predominantly fish, but I didn't need to tell you that! And apparently they're actually capable of lifting prey about 2 kilograms out of the water! So they've got the strength! I think the question from Crystal is: How does it see fish yet from where it is?

Basically, um, they have very, very keen eyesight for sure! So like many of the birds that eat fish, including your seabirds and different climaxes, they're actually able to see the fish underneath the water from being high up and having quite a sort of vantage point up there! They’re able to see the reflection and the glimmer of the fish underneath the water!

And it takes a lot of dedication, swift movement, and agility to actually go down in there and use their talons to be able to quickly grab the fish and get it out of the water as soon as possible! And the fact that they're able to grab fish that are really, really heavy—almost pushing on their body weight—shows you the sort of size of the eagle and the strength that has in those wings!

And of course, it wants to get the fish out of the water as soon as possible because, well! As you know, fish don’t survive out of the water, so they have much more of an advantage to get it! And sometimes fish eagles are even known to drop the fish on land until it dies!

We have a question: Is this the only species of fish eagle in South Africa? And I believe so. It's called the film name is actually the African Fish Eagle! So we have many different raptors out here, but I believe this is the only species of fish eagle that we have in this area! And it is found throughout the continent as well, not just sort of localized to where we are right now!

And it's just a glorious, glorious bird! Now I can start to feel the temperature is getting marginally cooler—not just marginally! It's getting a little bit sort of easier! So as that sun goes down, I think it's gonna be a really good idea to actually keep an eye on the time to see who comes!

Time for a drink! I love prioritizing Hasana there! So as we just hang around for a time, we're gonna send you across to Hasana sitting next to the dry, deaf area of Buffalo Hook Dam!

This is the drainage line that feeds one of the drainage lines that feeds into Buffalo Dam itself! And I'm actually amazed I've come down into the drainage line, and I've found that I actually have signal here, which I did not expect at all! So at least we’ve managed to get a view that's not the back of his head, and our little prince is starting to stir. You can see his heads up listening, oh, big neck stretch!

Starting to look quite distinguished, actually! Nice big yawn! I think there's a good chance he’s gonna get up! But no! Oh! I was gonna say, he might not necessarily go for a drink! Big cat stretch! Listen here, buddy! Don't you be going to Buffalo itself now! No, that's where your dad is! But you can just stay here and make yourself comfortable!

And please, please, let’s not do that head trip again between Buffalo East and Hippo Pools Road! It's where his father took me before the last TV show! I know Lindsey, I was just saying this to Craig! Lindsey says, "The world is his!" He's coming back up to where you were! I was just saying to Craig, it's nice to be a leopard of Hasana’s age!

He’s pretty secure in himself now! He isn’t too threatened by much, and he’s fast! And he doesn’t have to worry about territorial patrols; he doesn’t have to worry about the attentions of females guarding the territory against interloping males! He really has a pretty nice life! I mean, he’s still got to find his food and everything, but yes, the whole world is Hasana’s chair! And boy does he take advantage of it!

Okay, we're gonna get going! Let’s go see if we can catch up with him! No, no, no, let’s be a good boy and not go north! Let’s not really go west either! Tricky spot! Wanna throw us off a cliff face here? Okay! Ah, marvelous news! The Mara has been battling off some gremlins but is up and running! And James would love to be presented with the opportunity to say good afternoon!

Hello everybody! Welcome to the Masai Mara! As you can see, it's a little intimidated! I nearly drove off the road! Sorry about that! We've had a bit of trouble this afternoon! That is why we're very late! So my apologies for that!

And what we're doing is driving a little bit around the north of the Mara Triangle, and then we're going to go back to the your level of pride because they’re still with their buffalo kill! But at the moment, I can’t—fifteen vehicles at the sighting, and I thought, well, getting into a lineup of fifteen, it was possibly not something I’d like to do, so I haven’t!

But luckily the Juma crew has kept you all entertained with a lot of action, including two brand new little cubs, which is very exciting! And I can see an elephant! I’ll get you into a position where John can show you an elephant! You might try and drive off-road here, don’t you want to try? You do, alright!

Well, be it on your head when we get stuck! We shouldn’t get stuck yet! Andre said he wanted to be much closer and round the other side, so I said that’s what I do for him! Ultimately, these kiddies are going to get to sleep now!

These are the kids who are males in consult with the Hola Lola Lola Lola pride! They might start mating! I think we might have a mating pair here, everybody!

This is the chap who’s lost the end of his tail! I forget what his name is, I think it's Haft! He'll something equally imaginative! There’s a proper lioness! I feel like this lion would eat one of the Avoca males for breakfast! He’s obviously much older! He goes jogging after her!

He’s decided the smell of her urine indicates that she is perhaps receptive to mating! He has not picked up on the fact that she’s leaving because she is not receptive to mating! And elephants in the background! A lot of you saying that I am going to get stuck! Well, a pox on all of you! To those who don’t think I’m going to get stuck! Well, thank you! That’s a very pretty picture!

Now luckily, they are in an off-roading zone, but I won’t be able to follow them from here! We’ll have to go around! I’m gonna suggest while they're standing up that we do just that! That we don’t wait here because, unfortunately, we are losing lights, and we need to get around there if we're going to have any chance of finding them off-road!

While we do this, we’ll send you back to Jamie and the little chief!

Speaking of catching up, that's exactly what I've been doing—to try and keep up with Hasana! As you can see from the front of our car, the rest of us, then Craig and myself, have been through some interesting terrain to attempt to follow him! Alright, a tree will spring right back up behind us, but I'm very careful about which species of tree we do!

Oh! Where's Arjun? Just go easy there! Oh yes, there he is! He’s a bit further ahead than I thought! So, he just took us through something that I would not consider to be fun! He took us through two drainage lines, one of which we very nearly lost him in! He stopped to look at a scrub here and disappeared into some dense vegetation!

But that's okay! We’ve managed! It's also not an area where we have much signal, so it’s great that he’s continued up onto this! Craig, hey boy, it's hungry! He’s really, really hungry! I don't think he’s gonna stop moving for the rest of the night until he catches something! I think this is going to be the story of our evening!

If he takes us into Gary cut line, well, it'll be like a repeat of James's evening with Hasana and Tinkana! She's aiming for that termite mound! I hope he’s aiming for that termite mound! What I’m trying to do is get parallel to him! He’s going to go investigate that furrow!

Alright! I’m gonna figure out exactly where Hasana is going to go and what he’s going to get up to! And while he sits there, I imagine the sticks I think are starting to stir as well! You will not believe what is happening right now!

The exact same story that happened but the Inkuhumas—the sticks pride have decided to—or use the communal toilet! Oh my goodness, I have a scarf over my mouth and Sam's looking rather green in the face! No, this has happened to us twice! We got surrounded by the Inkuhumas one time, and we had no choice but to sit there!

We’ve just been hit by a fresh wave! I do apologize! It is, it’s rather pungent! Now if I was to describe this—I can’t stop looking at a safe space; I’m not gonna look at you, Sam! I would say this color is a very orange-brown color! It’s very horrible on every level!

And I have heard some people comment that I think it’s possibly Tristan, but I could be wrong—said that leopards and lions scat smell the same! I can assure you—in my opinion, it does not! Lion scat is just nothing like it!

I—it's very difficult to breathe, but I really, really haven't smelled anything like this before, and I personally feel, again in my opinion, that it's worse than leopards, and it is worse than hyenas! Oh, sticks pride! Of course, this is not uncommon behavior! They regularly all do things together!

It just takes one of them to do it, and the rest of the pride will follow suit! Contagious behavior! And this refers to yawning, which is similar in humans, I guess! All grooming! Anything! Defecating! Once one gets up, slowly, slowly, slowly, the rest follow suit!

So they’re starting to get mobile, they’re all grooming! You're starting to itch—a lot of them still look very, very itchy, which is rather sad! And yeah, I imagine very shortly, these lions are gonna be highly mobile, which will be very interesting! I hope they don’t cross over and say I'm sorry that we can traverse!

I hope we can follow them because this will be the first time that I think they have been seen on a SABC! So we've got a bunch of females here, but it looks like Mr. Hendrie has a male! Let’s go up to the Mara!

Yes, the Oh lalala! So lovely, multicolored! Gorgeous scene there of the spinal column, the cervical spinal column! And now we moved to the black rotting flesh on the ribcage, the intercostal muscles still there! Uneven! So lots to feed on at the Oh lalala pride kill!

At the moment, sunset—the rain is coming down! That’s an interesting one, Stevie! Yes, I suppose it probably is! The rain may well be keeping the scavengers away! In so much as it’s probably stopping the smells getting up too far from here! But remember that these lions are an intimidating bunch!

Any scavenger that came past here and saw all these lions here would almost certainly just turn on and go away, especially as there's a big male! And so, with that, they may have been visited by a few scavengers during the day! A couple of jackals, maybe, maybe I know came investigating and then turned on and disappeared!

Also, lions tend to eat rather quickly, and so you know, this kill was not like a migration kill where they'll sort of snack on half of it and then leave! They’ll finish this buffalo, and they have almost finished the buffalo! And I don't think it's been dead long enough necessarily to attract scavengers!

That said, when we drove in, it did smell pretty bad! So it has started to rot! You know, there could be any number of reasons why there aren’t scavengers here! The rain could be one of them! One of the contributing factors! These sounds are the frogs!

You can hear the bubbling in Cocina re! The lions will eat the guts, but what they'll need to do first is clean out the bolus! So they’ll take out their actually run the guts through their teeth and squeeze out the sort of undigested plant material or half-digested plant material!

And then they will eat the stomach and the intestines! I don't think they have necessarily a preference; they probably do, but I don't know what it is! One of the major limiting nutrients out here is macronutrients is fat! So they need to try; from an animal like this, they need to try and get as much fat out of it as possible!

And the best way to do that is to eat things like the viscera—all the guts—and then also the organs! So the liver, the kidneys, and the heart! Not so much the lungs—I suppose it tends to be a bit of fat around those organs! And after a fairly bounteous time here in the Mara, you can see the grass is long! There’s no jardin progress here!

You’ll probably find that the buffalo is in pretty good nick, and it was killed, and so there probably is a little bit of fat there for them to eat! They’ll enjoy the brain, too, if they can get to it! But on the buffalo, they will get to it! On something like an impala, they crack the skull open quite easily!

I’d be interested—I mean we've only got—we’ve only seen two lionesses here, and then the two males! And I’d be interested if those—the four that took this buffalo down! I'd be very surprised if the four of them took this buffalo down! Maybe the male helped them! Maybe he was here too! Then it would have been enough!

But it looks like a pretty big set—a pretty big bull that they killed! It has a very bad weekend! Last time I struck quite often, I suppose, especially as I get older by how we talk about death like this, just as a kind of matter-of-fact thing! When it was of course the ultimate trauma for that buffalo to die at the teeth and claws of these lions! Nothing I don’t imagine could have been more terrifying for it!

We talked about it fairly glibly, I feel sometimes—I do, anyway! On that note, rather sad philosophical ones, it’s clear, dance! I wonder if he is cold standing in this drizzle! I certainly would be! I’d complain busily if I was him to my mother, asking her to take me somewhere sheltered and warm!

Yes, Daniel, they do like all mammals! Now, but it’s not always successful! They will certainly have premature births and stillborns! But remember, it’s probably much less dangerous than it is for human beings! In fact, we know it is!

So, I’m just gonna reverse slightly, John! Re-position a car coming! Remember, human beings of course are not very well designed for giving birth because of the angle of our hips! And so human beings have to give birth through the—or the birth canal goes between the hips! Whereas most quadrupedal mammals—that doesn’t happen!

They give birth sort of above the hips, and so it's not nearly as dangerous for a baby or mother in most other mammals! So it’s not the incidence of things like stillbirths and parturition difficulties and breech births and that sort of thing will be much less, I imagine!

Oh yes! We’re gonna turn around now and try and head back towards where the other lot of other priorities see if we can find them! You’re gonna go back to Lauren?

Well, I think is on Chitra! So, we left Chitwa! We did a little loop around there just in case anything else was happening! In fact, there’s not what I expect! The impala were going crazy! Now that somebody like alarm calls! But I think it could just be the male who's been a bit boisterous!

The rutting season is over, but they may still have sort of excess testosterone pumping around their bodies as males do! I don't think it was anything, but it was very, very noisy! A lot of rapid, constant alarms! Hmm, that's what we’re not missing anything! But we are gonna head back onto Juma, oh, just nice and slowly and see if anything is happening on that side of the world, okay!

I really do think it was the males just being boisterous! No, but for a minute there, I thought it was alarm calls! Now I’ve had no updates on the sticks, but I’ve been on the eastern channels! We’re not being on Juma radio channel, so I do wonder if there’s anything, and we have missed!

But there's a high potential that they crossed out and crossed onto an area that we can traverse in Jersey! The sun is setting now! MGM is asking, "Were with the croc school when the water dries up in the dam?"

Well, same as the hippos! They both essentially rely on the water! They do need to be close to a water source! So if Chitwa Dam was to dry up completely, I imagine they would just relocate to another water source! They're both mobile! They can survive without water! They're not like a fish, you know!

They can’t walk about! It's very funny when you see crocodile tracks on the road! Some don't know why it's funny, but it is to me! And I'm just thinking maybe for a bit of yes! Let's try it! So yes, they won’t just get out of the water and go find another water point! They will know where that is!

And of course, there are areas around here that do have water all year round, so they do require the water! But they can survive, of course, without sand! Because it is winter, a bit of Hubbs sort of has more of an effect on the crocodiles, MGM, than it works on the hippos! Because the hippo skin wouldn't be so badly affected by the sun's rays because they're not quite as intense as they are in summer!

So we've just taken a little corner here into the Milwaukee, because this is generally where things like to hang out when it's hot! And of course, the sun is going down, but I think it’s definitely worth a little look to see what we can see inside here! This would have been an actual ideal hidey hole for the sticks as well, because they were just over there at Twin Dams!

Kind of just there, so they could have easily just came in here and got sheets in the Malati! So as we bumble onwards through this dry riverbed, we're gonna send you guys across to Tristan for an update! Hopefully, Lauren will have some luck with the sticks as well as maybe with something else down that side!

Whitey’s always a good place to check! We checked Gallagher for a little bit, side I’m sure there’s going to be a little bits at some point between categories in a pan! Maybe it'll be Hasana by the end of the evening as he makes his way that way! I'm not sure!

But now, I have a feeling that there's going to be Tundee or Columba! That’s also gonna show up at some point tonight as well! But anyway, what we're doing is we're just driving before the cut line because Tinkana hasn’t been found where he was left this morning!

And we know Tink likes the physic time area and so just kind of have a little scratch! And failing that, we're gonna hit straight down to the cut line and then onto the fire break and check if we can maybe relocate on Sabri, who probably has been moving for a while! Or any bits—we never know, maybe she’s get seen and we get lucky!

So that's the kind of plan for now, and just take it as it comes! Anything that comes our way will be good! We’ve had a fine afternoon already! It’s been very pleasant to spend time with little lion cubs! And while it's not really, I feel, in terms of our TV show story, it is pretty, pretty cool nonetheless!

I’m quite happy with life, and we’ll scratch something out for the TV show! We generally do! So we’ll see how that goes! And otherwise, Jamie and James will just have to hold the fort! I'm afraid that's kind of how it goes!

Shazaam, you must be a fairly new viewer! Yes, they are primates in this area, and they are baboons! So these baboons and vervet monkeys and bush babies that are around! We’re quite thankful at the moment that we’re not seeing many baboons, because the ribbons have got to be the hardest animals, Archer, to live with!

The monkeys have had a tough time bad at the moment! They have lost all fear of anything and are constantly berating the kitchen staff and causing havoc by trying to jump in and grab food! And in fact, they are even grabbing foods right off tables in front of people!

I think yesterday afternoon Lauren was sitting on her phone, and there was a carrot that was not more than 20 centimeters from her face, and the vervet monkey stole the carrot and ran off! And I can sympathize because it's not very much food for them at this time of the year! They’re obviously desperate to try and find a meal!

And so that's what they're looking for—any sort of sign food! But yes, baboons own vervet monkeys, and then acid push babies, so two different species of them! They say they are great! Seer! Pick-tailed! Oh, but it says the other names! So they also occur here too!

Am I forgetting any other monkeys? No, I don't think so! No! Sometimes you want to just double-check yourself because especially when there are obscure things that could be around! But that's it! So for primates, Prattville pangolins, seen in the world—not often, I'm afraid! It depends with you, I suppose, actually!

It depends on which part of the world you are! Some areas, pangolins have seen a lot more than others! In this particular area, not at all! I mean, we've only had one pangolin in almost 12 years of Wild Earth's existence! So that gives you an idea of how rare they are here!

In the Mara, a little bit more common! We’ve only had one on camera, but Manu has seen two! There’s various other sightings of them! Quite a few in that area! If you go to where Jamie has just been in Swallow, they see pangolins almost every second or third day!

And in fact, even they’ve got a research project going away because pangolins—they are much easier to find! And they've tagged a whole bunch of the pangolin so they can actually follow their movements, trying to learn more about the mating, their popping, the dietary habits! So, there is a really good place to go look for pangolins!

So just depends! There are various areas and it's—but it's always—it’s always a rare find! That's never an animal that can ever be guaranteed! And unfortunately, in the Sabi Sands, it's once in a very, very, very big blue moon that you will find such things!

No, Sonic result! It's Jamie Stewart or Sane Faith because there's a leopard track! Yeah, not very fresh, I'm afraid! I thought for a second there might have been a Sona strike! But I mean, this is Rainey! Ghana was seen straight north of us here!

This is the right that’s gonna go to the left, and he was seemingly lying down now! There's a pan not too far from me! So I'm hoping rather than drinking there, he’s going to move southwards and come to you, territorial patrols! Maybe trinket puffles, exam, and then carry on!

Since why I’m here at the moment, he's in case he moves at this time of the day! That seems you back across to James and the Mara and see how he's getting on and if he's had any luck!

We are driving back towards the lions now! And will hopefully have sight of them sometime fairly soon! I’m not sure that this weather's gonna close in any more than it has already, so that's quite nice! I'd like to demonstrate one of the supreme technological advances that this particular vehicle exhibits!

It is called—and I’m sure most of you will be so amazed by this!—it's called a windscreen wiper! They’re not amazing, and it is what it says: It wipes the windscreen! It's incredible! Watch this, isn’t that amazing? Automatically! And we just affixed it to this car! We found it in the dashboard with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers! We hammered it on, and it’s astoundingly actually removes the water from the windscreen!

Now I know that this for many of you will be starting astounding, and I feel almost bad about revealing it because I could have made quite a lot of money off this remarkable thing that I have found in this vehicle! I don't know who invented it, why it took so long to put on the Land Rover, or why it is that it moves with such ponderous speed! But anyway, there it is—very exciting indeed!

And see the find of my afternoon! Second fine disease: elephants on the left! Which we will stop and look at, as I'm sure most of you are greatly amazed by the invention of the windscreen wiper! I also think the name is quite clever because it tells you exactly what it is!

It was almost certainly not named by an ornithologist writer! Andre, I will now park you in a position to look at these elephants! They rot! There’s a very small one over there! That's the one I think we should look at! It wasn't the small one—there’s a smaller one even still with its mummy just to the left of that one!

Well that one wasn’t bad, there we are! Very nice! Um, painted wolf guess I suppose they do! I mean, most elephant staff to death when they lose their—when they lose their molars! Some will die of disease, of course! And some will die of being killed by other elephants or that sort of thing!

But otherwise, yes, most—Is that a lion? Go back, lift back, lift! Yes, there's a lion! Had no idea what was going on there! Let me move forward a bit! She’s running now trying to get away from the elephants! I’m sure she's going to look towards the kills! That was most amusing!

Just saw a flash of this thing lying under the tree! Arthur Prasad, this is the vehicles cleared off! Genre, it is closing time in the path! But I also suspect it’s supposed the lions have absconded! Hello, my dear! It’s lovely to see you!

If you could lie close to a row, that’d be wonderful! Thank you! Yeah, one of the ole ole ole ole ole pride lions—I’m assuming! Yes, she’s calling! I think we should go around and see if we're there!

There's a male coming towards—a big black mane male! And a female! You see them there, laundry? Well done, it’s very nice! That’s a magical picture!

Now luckily, they are in an off-roading Zone! But I won’t be able to follow them from here! We'll have to go around! I'm gonna suggest while they’re standing up that we do just that— that we don’t wait here because, unfortunately, we are losing lights!

And we need to get around there if we're going to have any chance of finding them off-road! While we do this, we'll send you back to Jamie and the little chief!

Speaking of catching up, that's exactly what I’ve been doing to try and keep up with Hasana! As you can see from the front of our car and the rest of us, then Craig and myself have been through some interesting terrain to attempt to follow him!

Alright, a tree will spring right back up behind us! But I’m very careful about which species of tree we do that—to where you just go easy there! Oh yes, there is! Oh, he’s a bit further ahead than I thought! So he just took us through something that I would not consider to be fun!

He took us through two drainage lines, one of which we very nearly lost him in! He stopped to look at a scrub here and disappeared into some dense vegetation! But that's okay! We've managed! It's also not an area where we have much signal, so it's great that he’s continued up onto this!

Craig, hey boy, it’s hungry! He’s really, really hungry! I don't think he’s gonna stop moving for the rest of the night until he catches something! I think this is going to be the story of our evening!

If he takes us into Gary cut line, well, it'll be like a repeat of James’s evening with Hasana and Tingana! She’s aiming for that termite mound! I hope he’s aiming for that termite mound!

What I’m trying to do is get parallel to him! He’s gonna go investigate that furrow! Alright! I'm gonna figure out exactly where Hasana is going to go and what he’s going to get up to!

And while he sits there, I imagine the sticks are starting to stir as well! You will not believe what is happening right now! The exact same story that happened but the Inkuhumas—the sticks pride have decided to use the communal toilet!

Oh my goodness! I have a scarf over my mouth, and Sam's looking rather green in the face! No, this has happened to us twice! We got surrounded by the Inkuhumas one time, and we had no choice but to sit there! We’ve just been hit by a fresh wave!

I do apologize! It is; it’s rather pungent! Now if I was to describe this—I can’t stop looking at a safe space! I’m not gonna look at you, Sam! I would say this color is a very orange-brown color! It’s very horrible on every level!

And I have heard some people comment that I think it’s possibly Tristan, but I could be wrong—said that leopards and lions scat smell the same! I can assure you—in my opinion, it does not! Lion scat is just nothing like it!

I—it's very difficult to breathe, but I really, really haven't smelled anything like this before, and I personally feel, again in my opinion, that it's worse than leopards! And it is worse than hyenas!

Oh, sticks pride! Of course, this is not uncommon behavior! They regularly all do things together! It just takes one of them to do it, and the rest of the pride will follow suit!

Contagious behavior! And this refers to yawning, which is similar in humans, I guess! All grooming! Anything! Defecating! Once one gets up, slowly, slowly, slowly, the rest follow suit! So they’re starting to get mobile! They’re all grooming!

You're starting to itch—a lot of them still look very, very itchy, which is rather sad! And yeah, I imagine very shortly, these lions are gonna be highly mobile, which will be very interesting! I hope they don’t cross over and say I'm sorry that we can traverse!

I hope we can follow them because this will be the first time that I think they have been seen on a SABC!

So we've got a bunch of females here, but it looks like Mr. Hendrie has a male! Let’s go up to the Mara! Yes, the Oh lalala! So lovely! Multicolored! Gorgeous scene there of the spinal column, the cervical spinal column!

And now we moved to the black rotting flesh on the ribcage, the intercostal muscles still there! Uneven! So lots to feed on at the Oh lalala pride kill! At the moment, sunset—the rain is coming down!

That’s an interesting one, Stevie! Yes, I suppose it probably is! The rain may well be keeping the scavengers away! In so much as it’s probably stopping the smells getting up too far from here! But remember that these lions are an intimidating bunch! Any scavenger that came past here and saw all these lions here would almost certainly just turn on and go away!

Especially as there's a big male! And so, with that, they may have been visited by a few scavengers during the day! A couple of jackals, maybe, maybe I know came investigating and then turned on and disappeared!

Also, lions tend to eat rather quickly, and so you know,