Safari Live - Day 320 | National Geographic

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Everybody welcome to the Sunsets Safari here in Juma in the Sabi Sands. That was a southern black flycatcher, and my name is Steve, joined by Craig on camera. What a marvelous afternoon it is! It's not too hot; it's about 28 degrees Celsius, about 86 degrees Fahrenheit. I think I might have got that completely wrong, but anyway, it is a wonderful day.

What Craig and I are going to do this afternoon is we're gonna go and see if we can find any more tracks or signs of that lioness that was in the drainage just around the corner here. We were forced to abandon the search this morning due to the fact that there were too many elephants on site, so we just have to have a little look around. It's going to be quite difficult to do, but let's see what we can find. Don't forget we are live, we're interactive, and we'd love to hear from you on #safarilive or just throw your questions in on the YouTube chat stream.

That is the southern black flycatcher. Many people will confuse it for a fork-tailed drongo. It's got a much narrower tail and it's got a very different call. The fork-tailed drongo’s also got a little bit more of a rounded body and, if you could tell, have a very red eye. But they are easily confused by most people, but a very, very common bird. Our chap, Paulie, is able to do a very good mimic of it; I am NOT. You can also see the beak is a little bit more slender and he is on the top of his perch shouting to all the world that he owns this patch.

But the fork-tailed drongo, like the southern black flycatcher, are both, in fact, flycatchers who sit on the ends of branches like that and practice an insect-catching strategy similar to bee-eaters. They will fly off of their perch, catch insects, and land there once again. The fork-tailed drongo being one of the smartest of the flycatchers in that they actually will follow around large mammals to get them to disturb all sorts of animals, in fact to get them to disturb or provide food for them.

I've never seen a southern black flycatcher do it in the same way as a fork-tailed drongo; that's not to say that they don't do that. But anyway, I am not the only one out this afternoon. Taylor McCurdy is also out on safari; she's just around the corner from me and she would like to say good day.

“Good afternoon everybody! Hello! Hi there! How's that? Whatever way you prefer to be greeted, my name is Taylor and on camera with me today is Zidane. We are also driving around in the Sabi Sand just like Steve, but we’re not looking for lions. We are going to try and follow up on Salamba from this morning.

So we're basically hitting along the firebreak right now. Gari Main is on the right-hand side, but I thought I'd spare you all the terrible view and we're basically headed straight towards Nedwood Road and the Malati. We did stop briefly, though, at Weaver's nest for some pangolin tracks because we heard some franklins sort of choking away. Well, not sure it wasn't choking; it was an unhappy truth but sort of alarming and it was perched up in a tree.

There was an impala standing dead still for like five minutes; nobody was moving. We couldn't work out what was going on. So we just watched and we listened. Eventually, the franklin flew out of the tree. I couldn't see any raptors around; maybe it was a small cat or something, maybe like an African wildcat that was just hiding away in the bushes that most certainly wouldn't want to be seen by us.

But anyway, we eventually drove off once the franklins started moving around and started eating. We thought, well, it couldn’t have been that serious. So, that was the case. Now, whether Columba is gonna be in this spot or not, we'll find out. It didn’t actually rain at all, and it wasn't too hot, so she could have stayed perched up on that tree. It would have been a very nice spot for her.

Let's hope she's grown and, well, has actually spent most of the day sleeping. We’ll check around for some tracks and just be uncertain as to what her favorite spots are. Let's have a quick look because she wasn't far. She was just on the other side of the Malati between Edward and the Malati, so she could have turned back and come this way.

I mean, there's lots of Egyptian geese to try and catch. We'll have a quick look at them; they're just on the dam wall. They're done swimming for the day, just three of them, and they're having the most wonderful time. You can see them waddling along. They're very awkward at this stage though; they're funny-looking things, they're so weird!

And there's also a go-away bird that sounds very unhappy, ringing, ringing, that’s exactly what this sounds like. I'll never be able to understand that. You do realize that franklins is all I hear on him in Johannesburg as well, every morning. It's ridiculous!

Well luckily for Craig, I think most of the team think about something similar, and I said, "Shall we just have a quick look as these goslings go down into the water?" Wonderful!

So Craig is probably the most thought of person in camp. And oh, finally, Patrick has made it safely to the Mara, with or without his clothes, I'm not too sure. Let’s go and see how he's doing.

“Hello! Welcome everybody! It's great to be back. My name is Patrick, joining me on camera is Manu, and we're coming to you live from the Masai Mara here in Kenya. Now we have been on the trail of Kinky Tail for about the last, oh, hour or so and she has definitely eluded us for the time being.

We were following her. She was definitely separated from the pride and seemed to be either relocating them or relocating her cubs. Now for anyone who doesn't know, Kinky Tail is one of the more famous members of one of our prides here, the Sausage Tree pride, and she has just given birth to cubs not too long ago. So we’re not sure whether she was looking for them, looking for the pride, potentially both. Maybe the pride's gone out on a hunt; we're not sure. But where she's gone now, well, we’ll keep looking.

So she was definitely sniffing out a lot of scents and kind of going not in any proper direction. She was going this way, then she was going that way. Then she was going over that way and then circling back. So there was a lot, a lot of indecision from her.

And thank you for welcoming me back, everyone! What did I do on my leave? Well, I did a lot! I’ve got a lot of barrows gas, or a lot of friends called up with some family I haven’t seen for a long time, so that was really great. Just did all the things that I loved doing in Australia. The one thing I didn’t get to do, though, was dive; my gear needed a service; I couldn’t really afford that, so I didn’t get to dive, but I did do a lot of free diving and a lot of snorkeling. So there were many, many fun times to be had and I'm coming back feeling very refreshed.

It was a long hiatus, six weeks. There was a bit of a visa being that had to sort out in Australia before I came back, but all is well that ends well! And I didn’t actually mind the extra time off.

Still scanning around for Kinky Tail, we are kind of at a bit of a higher level right now, so we are at the advantage and I want to make the most of it. I'm just gonna do a quick scan with my binoculars. Grass, grass, grass, grass. That's one thing I’ve definitely noticed since coming back here is that there is a lot more grass and a lot less wildebeest.

When I was here in November, it was the start of the short rains and there was a bit of a weird kind of remnant of the migration. So there were still quite a lot of wildebeest, quite a lot of zebra. And since then it’s definitely settled down. I think I’ve seen one wildebeest the whole time of being here in the Mara. Well, I’ve only been here a day, but still, I saw a lot the other time.

Nor have I seen any signs of Kinky Tail still, so I’m going to continue on my hunt, and I believe that Steve down in Juma is also trying to find a lioness for himself.

“Welcome back from leave, Patrick! I hope you’ve had a good one and diving though, but I'm sure you got up to all sorts of other shenanigans! Anyway, we are in the same sort of boat as Pat right here. We're trying to find a lioness in grass that's at all overint to my waist!

So anyway, there were tracks of a lioness who we believe to be amber eyes. I’m not sure if the thoughts are that amber eyes is with cubs, and we think they might be somewhere here in this drainage, like, now. Just over here is one of the old hyena dens on the other side—oh, there’s another hyena den!

This we’re gonna sort of have a little look around, listening, sort of feeling our way around. And I wanted, getting off the car—it's not something you want to do; walk into lion cubs with a lioness. It's for the brave, for the real brave, or should I say, for the stupid. Ready!

So here in the area is maybe a lioness with her cubs, so we’re going to see if we can find it. Obviously, we need to be very sensitive and the grass is very thick and very tall, and there were lots of elephants here this morning. That’s what caused us to stop our search in here and also due to the fact that it’s so thick, it’s not ideal.

We did track her for quite a bit on reports of her the other day bringing cubs across the boundary from the other side. So Kimberly, they are indeed elusive. I don't think they’re trying to be elusive; it's just vegetation and the mare is that a lot of rain in the grass is really, really tall. So Pat's got work cut out for him up there, we got our work cut out for us down here as well, but we're going to see what we can provide for you.

This is ideal habitat for a lioness or a leopard with cubs. Remember in the dry season tracking Tundi through here is an absolute nightmare. Absolute nightmare!

Well, we’d love to be able to show you lion cubs in Juma, we really would! I mean this morning, I was in a walk with Coley, and I was trying to get in to highlight the fact that the Mara has display heard lion cubs for ages!

You really need to come to the party because I wouldn’t administers! Yeah, we're two, three minutes from camp! You know, remember the whole of last year. She should have a beginning half of life in my first six months, yeah,

I was blessed with Princess Columba being around camp being very well, not right back in, but close, five minutes away. And we spent so much wonderful time with them.

Well, our Bars is a pretty relaxed female, so if we did find it, I think we’d probably be able to view her cubs quite nicely. But I’m really not sure how old they are. One of the dens is just over here somewhere; it’s just a little track that takes you in, but this drainage is very, very tricky, very tricky, and can be quite difficult to navigate.

We’re gonna find hello Rosalind! Well, generally, a lioness in her first litter only has one or two, not really too many. But they can have up to six. Six is the kind of recorded number, but I’ve never seen a lioness with fresh cubs more than four. But then, in saying that, a pride that I spent a lot of time with in the Kruger, they had enormous amounts of youngsters with them.

They were all about a year already by the time I got this, and I wasn’t sure who mum was, but there were 17 cubs in that pride. A few of the females had bred at the same time, but six is kind of the max that a lioness can do. That’s three to two, three maybe four or something that happens. We’ve seen up in the Mara seems to be—a way forward these days.

We don’t know how many of them are lost right in the early stages, cause they’re just so vulnerable, those early, early stages. But so this is what we’re dealing with, everybody! Thickets around us, listening, tracks on the ground. We’re gonna really circle this block a few times to see if there’s anything going on.

And well, while we do that, we get to see what’s happening and $20; Taylor and see if she’s had any luck relocating on the princess Salamba.

“We’re trying to figure out a way, Steve. Hunt alerts the lumber are, because she’s moved from where she was. It looks like she must have been up and down here on Le Wood Road because there’s a lot of vehicle tracks stopping and turning and then turning around again. So I’m not really sure why she’s been on what she’s been up to, but there are only footprints on the sand just yet.

Also, I’ve made a grave mistake this afternoon: I’ve worn long pants! I don’t know why. It was like a little bit cold throughout the day! I have absolutely no idea why I wore long pants. I’m so uncomfortable right now; I might even have to swing back to put shorts back on. Sometimes I’m not very clever!

Oh well! Who's to really do now it's Tristan?

There's not a chance Tristan's everything, and she suggested that I get those zipped pants—I never—I wear those! Depends Kirsten, that you can go from long to short, just like that.

You wear them! What? No! Sense of the fashion diva in camp also says our furs are not hot; it’s practical!

How do you say impractical? But you know, it’s just not for everyone! I would love to see Kirsten in a pair of cargo. This is a short, long pants, whatever you want to call them. I think I would die with laughter; it would be spectacular!

Actually, Kirsten, I'm gonna get you a pair in every color for your birthday. That’s what I'm gonna do! Okay, so that’s exactly what’s gonna happen.

Kirsten says she sometimes wears one fence once lake unzipped and in one point apparently that’s the fashion in Johannesburg now, I’m sure it is! I’m sure that's what everyone’s wearing at the club's! I'm sure we won't be doing that. We will be Safari chic!

We will see! Hi birdie! Look! No come back! Can you still see them? Oh thank goodness! Oh, it almost flew away, but luckily they decided to just hang tight on that branch! A hello, red-billed hornbills!

These are fast becoming some of the most annoying birds! And the reason why I say that is because they bang on everyone’s windows—everyone’s windows! And they spend the whole day pecking away at their reflection!

It is not a lot of fun, and it sends—oh, so great that they're not too bad! It’s the yellow-billed hornbills and DRC for like six hours a day!

I did, but I say that! I don't normally get annoyed with animal sounds! I know James doesn't like the sounds of the boo. I remember how irritated he used to get down at Salanga camp in the Masai Mara with all the stylings. He used to hate it! It was really funny! I didn’t mind; I didn’t mind a bit.

Every time—oh, is it a cuckoo? Diz? Hang on! You're gonna try and get you a cuckoo!

I’ve been trying to put an African silv on camera since we got here! Oh, there it is! Right up on that little shrub behind her. There we go, you got it in the frame!

Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! There is an African cuckoo! Hello! I’ve been seeing them flying around all the time, and they keep taunting me! No answer's do for me to put them on camera, but now finally, we have you!

I’ll send you the photo later! Also, you have to excuse my phone because it’s got lots of cracks in it. Loads and loads!

I’m almost ready! One of the differences they look exactly the same!

Can someone maybe help me? I don’t have a bird book! Okay, you ready? Let’s see, there’s lots of cracks! You have to tell me, because I can’t see! Is it the glare? Fine, or is it bad? Fine! No good!

So that's what a Madagascan cuckoo looks like! Very special to see one in southern Africa! So nice! So yeah, if you're in the Kruger National Park, I don't know if it’s still there, but it was apparently very close to the Paul Kruger gate. Go and look for it! Go and look for it!

What are we gonna look for? Car number. Loreena, I love to hate my mobile device, but it has been through so much!

I have accidentally thrown it; it's not on purpose! It has fallen out of handbags, pockets; I’ve stood on it a few times; it gets ya! Drops a lot! Flings off tables that are I don’t know how it does that, but it's magic!

It gets dropped on the pavement a lot as well. Lots! I don't know, but it's not the actual screen; it's the screen cover, and then every time I drop for it, I tell it how much I appreciate it, that it hasn’t completely broken! Although I would like a new phone and time for an upgrade!

This one is like mm and like 60; this is also the longest I've ever had any cell phone in my entire life! The first iPhone I ever got, I had for a day, and then I smashed it! Whoops! Not on purpose! Not on purpose! Just slipped a trip but fell probably what happened.

Okay, since, well, where does Cal number even like to hang around? St. Roll? But she's a promise; she’s not gonna be on St. Drill. I think we might go down Cheetah cut line. Just check if she hasn’t gone a little bit further east.

Alright, we're all doing loops and laps today looking for the wonderful things! Let’s see if Steve is going to find a catch before we do!

Mmm loops and laps indeed! A Madagascan cuckoo.

I’d be very surprised! I’ve never seen one! There are only a few records of them in South Africa. One was of a very confused male that stuck around in wrong way, too. I called, but there was no female replying, so I don’t know how long he will last with that sort of behavior.

But if indeed that’s an incredible sighting, definitely on my list to see! But we're still continuing on around the block here, just trying to have a little look-se and a listen.

And I just come from Galago Pan, where if the mother was thinking in sambars’ position, we haven't seen our bars of the pride for some time! So maybe it’s a herd, maybe it could be one of the others, maybe the youngest lioness, youngest adult. Not a hundred percent sure.

It may be going to have a drink! So there were no tracks going to go and drink, but there are still some puddles. Kermy? I don’t know if I want to be putting the odds on for the sambars cubs or not.

If it is indeed hers, she hasn’t had a very good run last year; she really didn’t do very well. But maybe she’s changed! Maybe she, in this new year, has got more, you know, sort of goals she'd like to set.

And maybe the rearing of one cub at least is one of those goals! I don’t know! We didn’t see any of the cubs last year; we don’t know where she left them! We don’t know where she left them!

So they were on Simbambili, Arethusa side if I’m not mistaken, and while the stories were that they didn’t survive! Me and my lapel mic curse, oh, that’s a real problem!

Trying not to dance too much in the seat! Is that better, Craig? Are you getting some static there? Static! Sorry, everybody!

The microphone’s come down our back and then are attached to our body, and I’ve got to try and not move too much, which is impossible for me!

Okay, so we had a tracks here this morning. The last set of tracks we had were around here, and so she went kind of down this way. There were two tracks coming up that’s gonna take us into the drainage!

Now we’re at one of the—there's a track there, where one of the hyena dens previously— I never saw it active, but definitely is an old hyena den!

We’re going to just poke her nose down there and see if maybe we can find any more tracks, but she definitely walked along this road. The rest of the pride that mork today before their tracks here a little bit ahead of us; you could tell by the freshness!

Okay, well, it seems like Pat's arrival back in the Mara has brought with it its own problems with regards to lightning and thunder, and he’s powered down so it's not to fry himself.

I’m sure he is very excited to be out in the rain, no doubt! They’ve switched everything off; they’ve covered the sides, and they're just going to be waiting it out. Those storms do come and they do go.

Well, they generally go; sometimes they don’t! But they come out of nowhere; there are lightning storms up there! And bearing in mind we’ve got a very big aerial on the back, and if you do stay powered up and the aerial can shock, well, we could potentially have all sorts of damage and injury to ourselves in the vehicle!

So we’ll let Pat sort of hang out there a little bit more, okay? So the track is coming up in a moment. If I haven’t already missed it, the grass has grown very, very long!

So these little accesses have sort of washed away or grown away! Yeah, Chris, I think you know the answer to that! Chris, I’m not going to try a morula coming out of an elephant's bottom today or tomorrow!

And I fear that within a week there will be no more from rulers in elephant poo, so it will be done! I won’t get the opportunity! So sad!

You know, I don’t know if any of you noticed this morning, but Craig managed to frame me up ours vomiting on the sight there! We go to check it—was ours mock charging.

“I couldn’t watch anymore and then some of you lovely people posted some photos of the before polly's face in the after of the fruits as well, and that just brought on a fresh part of me being unsatisfied with my breakfast!

So no, Chris, I'm definitely not going to be trying a morula fruit, and if Taylor is keen to try to do it again, she probably just needs to step out of her car and grab some from the fresh manure that Nola is going to be surrounding a cop from the elephants. She’s just found what? And reached up and taken one straight from an elephant?

Next year, maybe! Steve, next year when I’m big and strong!

We got some elephants! But I don’t know if they're gonna be here for much longer! I hope they stay, cause we're on Gari Main at the moment, so they could cross into Little Gari. Please don’t cross!

Half of them have already gone in! Just stay here! Ah, wonderful! Are you ready, since I’m gonna go forward and get you a much better view, because these ones are gonna have a mud bath?

I think they’re also having a mud bath! Elephants! I need to cool down! I’ve got long pants on! I made a mistake! Run, little one! Hi, mum! Don’t be trust with us, please!

I just want to watch! I just want to watch! I know it’s weird, but I just want to watch! Hi, girl! Hello! No, they’re not having any of it. I think they want to go to the other side.

Instead of going to Baboon Pan, then you can have well over time or an elephant over time. You can do that too! Hmm, very indecisive!

Oh, that was sad! Oh well, hopefully we will find lots more elephants today! Can you help me search for Columba? She only weighs maybe 30 kilos. No, not even there; probably like 20 kilos!

She’s got spots on her ears! No, she’s very long whiskers! You see, you know! Anyway, she's having a bit of a scratch of the ear, and off they go!

Dawn says always are content today! Everything's running away! It's got a log cuts on! We can watch them a little bit longer! Sorry, since you're doing lots of really nice labeling today!

Oh no, they're good, so they might pop out again at the boon pan! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that they go there, cause it’s nice and open and there’s a lot of water around, and it seems to be a favorite spot at the moment for the elephants to have a wallow, but just a mud spraying session; it’s just always fantastic to watch!

It looks like they’ve done that earlier today, though; it's slightly dried on their backsides. Nice and crusty—that’s quite cool, like that elephant in the leaves! No, no, if she goes straight through, no problem.

Oh, she’s picked up the pace quite a bit! Maybe she had a bit of a speed wobble! There’s a couple of little ones in there too, which are very sweet!

Oh, this is a bit of a drop! I also hope that I can see Daryl or Fang before I disappear! That would be really nice! What happened, little elephant? Did you trouble over?

There’s a serious drop there! Maybe an old wallow that’s dried up. I thought the grass, okay. I don’t know if Daryl will come back actually; I don’t know where Daryl is at the moment because Shannon, who used to work at Earth Lodge, he was the one that was always posting pictures of Daryl, but she doesn't work there anymore.

So now I don’t know if anybody loves Daryl like we used to love Daryl! I’ll have to phone Candy, my old tracker, and ask him to let me know when he is around. I think that might be the only way!

Or if he climbs up onto the roof, he's sure to make papers! Funny elephant! We’re gonna come back here! Oh, add a cat!

I’m really surprised we have, sorry everyone. This is gonna be my life today! The queen of the animals disappearing like this is gonna be one of those I see! Ha ha! Challenge accepted!

Animals, I will show everyone. What are you saying? Awesome sighting! It was spectacular! The best pseudo sighting I've had in my life!

The longest one too! No, tell me cause phone, I didn’t even hear what you said, but you said your uncle! See, look how beautiful this is! Columbo! Cold or cold?

And why is it called cold's law? Does it have a secret meaning?

Okay, so if you don't know what that means, apparently there’s something called Cole's law where essentially as the directors go live, live, then the animals disappear! Do you guys still say live live or do you just go alive?

No, you don’t adjust to live now! I remember what I've even been listening to and I've heard it like four times today already!

Me! Oh, are you still doing that? Long!

9, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! Fresh cuts! Picture break up if you can!

Yeah, wish you could all hear the terror in a director's voice when there’s picture breakup or something goes wrong, and you’d say it’s the end of the world!

Guy stationary and link! What else do they say that's really funny? Kirsten sells lots of lame jokes! Those are never funny!

And it looks like all the director's sons Emily EXE! They don't really, but that’s what I hear!

I just change it; sit here! And they probably mock us all the time too! Kirsten, what do you say about the presenters? What do the presenters do that you guys are certainly talking nonsense about in the control room?

Kirsten’s not gonna say anything; she’s gonna let me do the whole show by myself!

Katanas! We want to hear! I like to make fun of myself! I always say bad things about myself! Before anyone else can say them, I think that’s clever!

And I’m waiting for Kristen to tell me what they mock us about!

Well, they can’t think of anything because we’re just so perfect! The cameraman and presenters of Kirsten is the question!

We couldn’t hear you getting names wrong, oh great econ standard; when we get your name wrong, we’re really sorry about that!

I'll just apologize on behalf of all presenters! We don’t mean to say your name wrong! It’s just that nasally accent that comes through from the directors!

So if I say sins or versus or things off Kimberley, then you gotta guess, and then you gotta win it, and this is all just to keep ourselves entertained for the day!

Yes, that’s exactly what happens! So now you know the truth; it’s arts! Believe this very funny!

Anyway, so that's that really! Should we do a drive-thru? Yeah, okay!

So Columbo was not what she went through; the Malati! I still think her general direction is gonna be east, so if she’s hanging, she was excited about all sorts of things!

This would be a very good area for her along the drainage line! We just saw a dakin; well, you didn't get to see it, but I promise I saw one!

So beast, and Balkan, daycare, and lots of random things; maybe lots of squirrels too! And Franklins, a sket ch of Franklins! Catch all of the Franklins can do some birding as well!

I forgot we're allowed to do birding!

If I can remember the birds! No, and there’s no birds! So we’ll just look. We’ll drive very slowly and just check around here to make sure.

Don, Keystone's come! Nineteen guys station II, cause there’s nice signal!

Yeah, can you go across this to you? So I’m gonna send you across to Steve now, and it's here, his director's voice! Don’t panic, Kirsten; it will be okay!

Taylor’s just losing signal for a moment! Kirsten never panics though; she is the director today!

And she never panics! I’ve never seen Kirsten or heard Kirsten panic! But anyway, we’re just gonna pop down there, and there’s nothing that we can see!

Taylor wants me to mimic what the director sounds like in my ear! I’m trying to think who’s panicked lately, hmm? Craig, who’s panicked lately about signal?

Faith doesn't panic; she’s quite calm! Megan was always very calm! Kirsten is very calm!

It's possible with some of the new directors there might be a little bit of panic because they’re trying to get their head around all of these things!

So I’m looking at I’m not gonna miss some elephants over there! I’m not gonna pull any names out because you know it is a difficult job!

I don't think I could do it with these guys too! Suddenly, you’re with someone or something and there's all static, and then look, there’s going to be some panic, of course!

And it’s cool as a cucumber like you, Kirsten! Not everyone on red can be as cool as you can!

Okay, well, we’re just gonna get around the corner! Yeah, there are some elephants there in the drainage!

We were just swear by! I ended in it; it’s just so thick! I’m just not even chancing getting out!

Even for a moment to have a little look there! We’re gonna have to try a little bit harder on foot one day! See if we can find the tracks coming in or out or even just a more positive area!

But then, as I said once again, there's more Eddie's here doing their thing! And the bush, as you saw with Taylor’s elephants, just swallows them up!

So if the bush can swallow up an elephant, can you imagine what it does to a lion? A lion is in that, for that matter, with little cubs! Impossible and potentially dangerous!

You notice we use the term potentially dangerous because it’s only potentially dangerous if you decide to go in there!

Now they’re not dangerous animals; they don’t want to be dangerous, but cornering a mother with her cubs, your corner any of you ladies back home with kids, and you know what’s gonna happen! Am I right?

Indeed! But no one would call you dangerous with that! But a mother with youngsters is potentially dangerous! Indeed!

I’ve never had any kids of my own, so I don’t really know what that feeling feels like to have that all-consuming need to defend your offspring!

But a Byers is a formidable lioness! She is a very big girl, and for the most part, she’s also one of the lionesses and the one Gumar pride gives you that funny look normally anyway!

Hello Eloise! Well, we’re going to assume that the cubs are from one of the Avoca males!

I saw her mating with blondie, but then she probably mated with more than he mated with all three of the brothers! She didn’t mind!

She just did what she wanted to do! So mm Boz was mating while I was in the Mara, then I came back and I got her, I think, on one of my first or second drives back, and she was mating with, I think, it was the blonde male, and that was near Chitwa!

But other than that, I haven't seen her with any of the others! But it’s not uncommon for the lionesses to have more than one of the males! We saw that with the Sausage Tree pride with your Tanya Pike males!

They most certainly sort of moved around, and the two males one at a time, different days; it was very, very interesting for me to see how long the tree-climbing lioness was actually mating for!

Or as Kinky Tail, when I got to the Mara, she was mating for two solid weeks, which I’ve never heard of! You know, you can read anything you want in the book, and you can study whatever you like!

You see elephants have disappeared, study whatever you like! And in the lions or the animals, all of this will surprise you!

So we had some elephants in the distance, but now, as you can see, the bush has swallowed them up! Craig's gonna see if he can frame something there!

But um, it’s very thick! Very thick! We long for the grass and the trees to grow back again. And then when they do, just like the woodland kingfishers arrival!

We can’t wait for them! And then when they hear, we’re like, okay enough of your noise, you can go away now!

But now the grass is very long and the trees are very green, and the bush is looking very, very healthy, I must add!

I must add! Okay, so, I mean driving very slowly around this block trying to see if there are any signs of activity coming through crafty, which is the most protective animal in the bush.

Well, all mum's are protective, of course, but you’ve got to bear in mind that the bigger you are, I suppose, the more protective you can be.

Yeah, there’s a beautiful laughing dove sitting on top of the termite mound there, Craig. After our segment this morning with the breeding herd, we moved to this termite mound for some safety in case there are more elephants to follow!

So I would say an elephant is a pretty protective animal. Very predictable in fact, but then, of course, lions and leopards for their youngsters. Most of the other animals that we know of, they’re able to—or a lot of the other potentially dangerous ones—their youngsters hide away or hidden in burrows, which means the adults don't need to be protective.

But a lioness, because the youngsters are sort of just hidden in the little bush, they're not really protected. She will not run away.

Elephants obviously can only run as fast as the babies, and so they will definitely stand their ground. And rhino can also be quite protective, although they will often try to move their youngsters away rather than confronting the danger!

But that is not always the case! Buffalo are well-known for turning on a predator, and as we heard, they are also well-known for running away from men on foot!

But I wouldn't say that doesn’t make them protective! So it’s a very sort of, very good question! But males generally, they're quite sort of, what’s the word?

Quite softly spoken, as it were, and they’ll often move away! Whereas lionesses will stand their ground for the protection of the youngsters! Very good!

Well, the laughing dove is definitely not a protective individual. And the reason it’s easy to identify laughing dove as if we go in closely there, Craig, oh, it’s the only dove you’ll see around apart from the emerald spotted which is quite characteristic because of the green spots on the wings!

It’s got a little much different sort of color, but it’s the only dove that we really notice without a ring on the neck! It’s laughing because it doesn’t have a ring; that’s quite easy to remember!

And for now, it’s just enjoying a little bit of sun! Hello see, now, no! Doves actually feed on seeds; they’re exclusively seed-eaters and they normally walk around on the road feeding on seeds!

But I think this one is just enjoying the view right now! Yeah, I don’t often see a dove just perched on the top of a termite mound just doing its thing!

I mean I'm not saying they've never eaten termites; it's possible that they might from time to time! But I’ve never heard of a dove eating too much!

Many of the seed-eating birds that we get will actually feed their chicks insects in the beginning stages to give them moisture!

But doves and pigeons are unique in their ability to feed their chicks pigeon milk which is still created in their crop, but by the production of interesting things!

But they eat seeds, and that's able through that they're able to make their own pigeon milk which they feed their chicks!

So they’re not the one of the seed eaters that need to eat any insects! Some of the other seed eaters some Oh certainly probably will grab a few termites and take them back to the nest or grasshoppers and caterpillars—things like that to supplement the diet of the youngsters!

Because it’s not many birds that bring water back to the nest, so you need to provide that through the food that they give! Very good! What a marvelous Enos!

Not often you get to just see a bird just sitting here! Here's the Injured or something? I think he’s just—he’s one of those cool zen-like birds that’s enjoying the view!

Beautiful pink! Beautiful, beautiful bird! Well, the laughing dove is not laughing right now; he's just enjoying some sunshine.

While Taylor seems to be moving towards the south, she’s gonna go try her luck around a Chitwa dam, so Kristin has put on an accent now!

But the funny thing is she still just sounds the same! So, little Lita, smooth! They get a pull and Saint me! A Miss!

Nobody—elephants! And shut to a dam! But I might get a little bit late, cause I had my phone in airplane mode! Ooh!

And then I had quite a bit of a problem, but know how long—soon, because I didn’t check it! I just drove. I did a u-turn and I drove straight, yeah!

So we shall see in like, cause we’re almost down at the dam! I’m also just doing a good old scan as we go down! Hehehe!

Even if it's Cebu, I’ve been hanging around here. Eat all that she would—she should register as either east!

I see morilla trees, but not even an elephant! Apparently, this was a little bit of signal breakup, but it's fine now! It's fun!

We should look now at water buck next, cause they're walking on the dam wall! You just checked on here! So there are elephant tracks!

But where did it go? Lots, lots of nights! Oh look, morillas! Lots! People died again!

Okay Elizabeth, I will be stopping a little bit further forward like this so you don’t scare the water buck, so give them ample opportunities to climb down and do whatever water buck do!

Very, very nervous little ones! Not too sure why! Everybody's stopping! Adults not convinced what are they done?

Kirsten, whose name have they changed! It’s obviously gonna be a big story, all the colorful! That one is not even fluffy; your coat is so smooth! Aqua bucks! Okay cool!

That's apparently the new name aqua, aqua! Aqua bucks! And then it sounds like a type of currency if you ask me!

Yes, sir! I’ll have two doughnuts and a large coffee, and then they would be like, thank you so much! It’ll be 36 aqua bucks!

I'm obvious! There's nothing else to talk about today, so it's gonna be ridiculous! Please, she's mean!

It is Sunday! I hope you're all following Instagram by the way! Check out at safari live official's Instagram page! Follow it if you aren’t! Like all the pictures you like a minimum of ten!

Then share it with your friends and family so they also follow it! But this is very precious! Look at them! That little one is so small; it's still a different color, right?

We're gonna carry on and look for that enormous herd of elephants that was supposedly here! It should wear down! Steve has got something much smaller than an elephant could ever be!

Everybody, we found some butterflies mating! Now I'm trying to identify which butterflies these are. They're sitting on a very nice air ghostess inflorescence and they are attached bottom to bottom!

They are mating! Now I think it is one of the whites, but I’m not sure. I thought it was a brand-burned white, but I haven’t found it in the book yet!

So if any of you out there are butterfly experts, please do send through your answers if you do know who these butterflies are! They clearly are the same species; one is probably male and one is probably a female.

But I’m sure they fall underneath the white category! I’m trying to find out which one exactly is going to take me a few more moments!

So it is definitely not the brown-veined white, which I had a feeling it might have been African common whites!

It could be! It could be! There’s such similarities in a lot of these butterflies in the book that you’ve gotta know exactly what you’re looking at!

So it possibly could be an African vein white or a common African common white, but I do stand in everyone else’s opinion!

If you have any ideas what butterflies these are that might—and are mating, please let us know! #safarilive.

One meadow white is a very common butterfly found across the country potentially could be, but I don’t think so!

I wonder if any of my butterfly experts are watching today! Giraffe girl, well, I’m always pleased to bring you some new sights and mating butterflies!

Although not as exciting as mating elephants! Is still part and parcel of what goes on this time of year! And talking about the thick bush and about how dense it is, well the butterflies are finding some very nice respite on the edge of that little grass stalk!

And a little bit of a love affair happening right now! But I'm not sure who it is! I’m definitely a white, but which white, everybody? Help me out there!

If you don’t mind! No, guess is it! Okay, so maybe a mid or what! Although it doesn’t have the same orange to it and pinky Urich!

An African common white—it was one of the births! What were the ones I? I think I said initially African common white! It’s just the male doesn’t seem to—

Or the male does actually seem to! Just have a little bit of a read here and find out! It offers in the same are grating swarms as the brand-veined whites!

Male resembles the brown-veined white! So that is very possible—a female and a male mating!

I’m very, very good! So the female is white and the male has got the yellow! But everyone together you’ll find a female that’s also got the yellow!

So it is one of those things! Everybody! Take your screenshots! We make sure that we tag the experts in there!

Cause I must admit butterflies or something I’m still working on! James Richard has commented and said the African common white!

Well, sir, I do know you know your butterflies quite well, and I’m super excited that I was able to actually get that in a list of three!

So it is a work in progress! But I suppose once you’ve learned how to guide the guidebook and you can find them quite quickly! But also once you’ve seen enough butterflies, you can kind of go to the area in the book that you want to look at and whites!

We went straight for the whites!

Well, if you're agreeing that as an African common white, well then I bow to no experience and very, very nice!

I wonder, James Richard, if it is a new species for you! Probably not! But have you all seen their mating before?

Because if not, well, they would go! Brought to you, Roger live on safari live!

I wonder, Kirsten, should we do a little broadcast yet to the world? I’m only joking!

I'm only joking! The only action here is between the two butterflies!

Okay, well, all I can say is that they are much more interesting than lions mating! Because lions mating are very short!

And there’s not too much sort of injured seemingly enjoyment in it! Where these two, while having a little bit of a love affair now!

Maybe—maybe they’ve died and they’ve just attached themselves there! They haven’t moved! They haven’t fluttered once!

But you can see the spot pattern on the wing is those little dots along the edge! Seemingly quite characteristic!

Or we haven’t managed to relocate on the elephants we saw! You see a bush behind, it is very, very dense! But we’re going to leave this couple to their business!

And let’s go back over to Taylor, who seems to have found another elephant!

Nobody found an elephant that’s got its bottom facing us! Oh lovely! So I did not find the enormous breeding herd that was supposedly here, but what I did find is a single bull going straight towards Chitwa, being summoned on the radio!

Standing by, please say that again! I can’t hear you; it’s breaking up! Sorry, everyone, I’m just trying to try on a gang driver!

I’m on the northern end of the airstrip! Yes, please copy! Thank you very much! Sorry, everybody; pardon, pardon, pardon!

Radius is on! So we were different! Sounds like robots! They see the robots are taking over the world! Child of the universe told us this morning those robots!

What if the robots were gonna take our jobs away?

Anyways, this lovely elephant does not robot! It's a real living thing, and he’s a young bull! He’s lovely! It’s not unusual to see him on his own, of course!

And he's just munching away! Not being obliging to us! So can some of the animals please just be kind!

Hey, Sains! Oh, it’s nice for you to fall easy! Cause now they just—he's just hanging behind the bushes!

And I conquer the other side, cause he’s gonna be right up against the fence! So we’re gonna have to leave him!

An elephant! That’s very nice of you to do that to us! Very mean!

Oh, it looks like Chitwa is gonna be having a bush dinner! Should we go and look and see what stuff they put out?

This is my favorite thing! If you want them to come on a safari, certo, certo! It’s a lovely place to stay! And I'll show you why! They do a strip dinner!

Not Kirsten; you don't get favorites anymore! You live in Johannesburg?!

No! Let’s look! This is my favorite part! They do amazing things! I've got a pizza truck! They have cool sundowners! Their snacks are really nice! This is first-hand experience!

Child of the universe has now said that the robots are coming for me! Look at this! I mean, it’s not much right now, but it's going to be spectacular!

I just have to show you! So we’ve got tables and chairs! They will be decorated nicely with white tablecloths! I think why not! Just making it up!

But took there, very fancy here! And then they’ve got their len nasal, the tables, and chairs! And I’m so, that’ll be nice!

So that'll go in the middle! It doesn’t look glamorous now because they're preparing! Then on the left of the cage, you’ve gotta have lanterns!

'Cause lanterns are very dangerous, so they've got to stay locked up like that! And then of course a beautiful candle holder!

Look how lovely those are! And then that’s the barbecue grid over there! So that’s quite nice!

I feel like I'm in Beauty and the Beast now! What was that character’s name? Who was the candle holder? Mmm!

And I think he sang songs was Beauty and the Beast! Not going crazy!

Kristen is not bored of me talking about nonsense! Please come aside Chitra! Chatter away! Off you go to the Mara with Patrick, where it's apparently a whole lot more entertaining!

Well, sometimes mother nature likes to pull your pants down, bend you over her knee, and give you a big old smack on the bottom! Then leave the room without telling you why that has happened to me right now!

So the reason we lost Kinky Tail is that she bought us through a very treacherous patch of terrain! And what we were trying to navigate—that’s when she gave us the slip.

So what we did was we circled back around, came through more and more terrain, more and more mud, more mud, hands.

Well, still no sign of her, but I didn’t get in the marshmallow club, which very, very nearly could have happened! And I’m sure Lauren would have loved that if I did take the focus off her last little incident!

So we just came back and looking along the tree line now because it had been heavily raining, so perhaps they had sought out some shelter earlier on, but it doesn’t seem to be any sign of the rest of the pride.

And as for Kinky Tail, well, she is also nowhere to be seen. But we do have what looks to be like a raptor in this tree!

Giraffe girl, giraffe cow! Yes, I will definitely find you a giraffe!

We actually came across quite a few before, so I can actually head back down that way! I don’t think I’m gonna find the Sausage Tree pride in this area, so I do need to move off anyway!

So we see. Looks like a juvenile or not! It’s actually sure which species this one is! Those ruffled feathers! Very cold!

They’re only 17 degrees Celsius! So anyway without further ado, let’s press on! Look for this giraffe and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully pick back up on something to show us where the lions are!

So giraffe girl, those giraffes that we saw before—there are about seven of them and they were all within a pretty close facility of one another, so I'm pretty confident they'll be able to seek them out again!

We do apologize earlier on; we did have to power down for a little bit! That was just because, as I said, it was raining very heavily, and we had a lot of lightning!

So someone has chimed in and said that that was a Brianna snake eagle and I think that you are correct! Did say that there was no real feathers from the legs down!

So I didn’t catch the name of Food Court! Got that one, but good on you! Thanks for your help!

I did actually do a bit of birding back in Australia in a quaint little coastal town called Port Nose Rope! So I just got my house been stuck then!

And there’s a nice little bird! Keep there! And you just stand there and watch birds for hours! And I didn’t have no identification guide! But I did really enjoy it!

It's the first time I'd ever done anything of that sort in Australia! So I have safari live to thank for that!

And it appears I also have Lauren to thank for identifying that bird! So thank you! But yeah, it was also amazing to see how much doing this for safari live has actually changed my perception on Australia!

Going back there, I’m really taking note of a lot of things that happen on land! Obviously, I’m quite familiar with what happens—sorry!

I’m just gonna go back and make another turn! Quite familiar with what happens in the water in Australia but not so much on land!

So to really see these little interactions between all these species that I never would have even thought of picking up on in the past! It really gives a whole new dimension to my trip back home! Focusing on land as well as water is really great!

Jules, it is most definitely a lot cooler here in the Mara than it is in Australia! So in Australia, we were getting up to one day we had 48 degrees Celsius!

It was an absolute stinker of a day! And so most of the time it’s been up around, you know, 35-40 degrees! So to be here in the 17 degrees of the Mara is—well, it’s chilly!

So I’ve got this honey well, still no sign of lines, and still no signs of anything else! So the race on its roof lioness! Giraffes!

Send you back down to South Africa with Steve and a poodle.

Well, thank you very much, Pat! Pat was telling me certain things before he left about what his mindset will be when he gets back to Australia after being here for three months or so!

So interesting to see how it has indeed changed him! The bush will always change you, everybody! Once African bugger but did you open for life, and while Craig is very excited because we managed to find ourselves a heartbeat in the African wilderness this afternoon!

And well, what a beautiful animal it is indeed! It could—whoo! And while she’s also quite tentative of moving through the thickets, yeah!

Because, well, it is so dense! She’s also having a little bit of a view! Or from the termite mound, she’s being plagued by all sorts of flies there which are all just gunning for any moisture!

Her nose, her eyes! She’s trying to suck us in, who knows there, Craig?! Look at that! It almost feels like she’s going to hyperventilate!

But that’s what these animals do! Stand very still! Move just slightly! And try and pick up on any smell that might be wafting around!

Maybe she can smell! Maybe she can smell! And by smell test! Look like she’s got a white moustache!

She looks like she’s been drinking a milkshake! She’s had a lips in the milk! And I've never noticed it! So, so fuzzy!

There we go! Such a fuzzy face! There’s a little bit jagged! A life of walking through thick bush!

But look at the amount of flies on her face! Now how many of you are out there? We need to ask Pat this as well, because he comes from a land of quarks around hats!

Do not flinch when flies land on your body, while the kudu doesn’t seem to flinch! Stephan Ventura Ball here doesn’t lack flies at all!

How about you, Craig? Craig’s not a huge fan! So how many of you can stand deadly still as flies crawl over not only your body but your face?

If you’re a kudu, you need to! Any sudden movements give away your very camouflaged position!

I can't stop looking at that lips thumb! Thanks for pointing that out! She’s definitely the Patil!

I don’t know if any of you have been on a farm and milked cows! My grandfather used to have a cattle farm many years ago!

And we used to drink the milk straight out of the bucket after milking! It was warm and foamy and while it used to leave a mark like that on our lips!

She finally decided that Craig did does eat meat, and she’s decided to disappear! And gone she is!

Flight or fright! Or flight and stand very still strategy that kudu and bushbuck employ! Stand very still quietly!

Then the rudder short distance, then stand very still again! It works very, very well! We were Tenggara two weeks ago and Tundi boxing!

That’s just stood still again! And he didn’t know what to do! He’s like, where did that go? Like that sudden movement!

And then just stillness! And well is one of the strategies that work at Chef for the thicket-loving animals! And seems to work!

This is interesting! So we're gonna continue on down here! We’ve given up on our search therefore for that lioness for their cubs!

It's just way too thick! So we’re going to do concentric circles! So we’re doing some concentric circles!

As we move away from that area Xenia! She did! She took offense to me talking about her mustachio!

I wasn’t really talking about it, mister! She’s talking about how she looked like she drank some fresh foamy milk!

Maybe seen it on a cow, a little calf after it suckled! It’s got all this foam around its mouth! Very funny to see!

Very funny to see! Well, we’re gonna go around these trees! The three of us here!

And see if we can find anybody out! And if I walk in and turn back, we just resurfaced! And Brian's getting pasta! So let's see!

Now that's exciting! You all see that, so I would draw! Good sometimes!

Look at this! But anyways, it was killed but fortunately, this is a circle of life!

So nice to see you still, everybody! Have a nice day! And I’ll see you tomorrow!

And you guys! All right, bye! Good night! And I’ll see you soon! Good so much love for that and love!