Safari Live - Day 280 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised.

So, you can see the beautiful skies; there are clouds still everywhere, and it's nice and warm at the moment—not too bad. Good for the predators. The thickness of the bush here is where Husana got disappeared this morning. A very, very good afternoon and welcome to the beginning of the afternoon safari. I am Sydney Boomer Anomie Kozi, and I'm traveling with Michelle, who is my camera operator. This afternoon, we are going to try by all means to get hold of Husana deep in this thick bush. Here is where we left him earlier this morning. In case you need our attention, you can follow us on Twitter, hashtag Safari Live. You can also follow us on the YouTube chat stream.

Without any waste of time, I want to go back to where I left him this morning. So, Husana, this morning, he was demonstrating some of his hunting capabilities, so chances of finding him with a kill are also very high. He was looking very hungry, and he was trying; he was trying just that. The prey animals were so very clever this morning amidst Steinbuck right in front of us.

So now, let's cross over to the Maasai Mara; David is ready to show you something.

Hello, hello, and a very good afternoon from the Mara Triangle in Kenya. Thus, a good yawn; I'm not sure that meant saying good afternoon to all of you, wherever you are in the world. It's very exciting to start our sunset drive with two lionesses; they are what’s left of the pride. All right, and this is very close to a cup, and I'm sure nobody else because my name, and just in case my name remains the same, my name is David, and Archie is hidden camera. Archie, how are you doing today? We were excited to start with the lionesses. Right, they're in such gorgeous light.

Well, I'm sure Sidney told you one very important thing: we love questions; we would love comments because that one keeps us going. As he told you, hashtag Safari Live on Twitter. Just wonderful! After we got here, it's about 24 degrees Celsius and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, and that feels very comfortable for me, and I would guess it's the same for these lions here. They look like two youngsters or two young males. I'm looking at much better than before on my monitor—you can see a bit of mane coming out from that neck. This must be two young boys who, at a particular age, will tend to be on their own.

As I said earlier, they're from a pride that we call "Oh la la la la la." "Oh la la" is an escapement that is very close to where we live, and our cup is not very far from there. She just started coming down in this government, and this was our first stop; and, how fast! Sighting it’s going to be a good-looking day the way I feel it, and apart from myself and Sydney, it is another gentleman also would like to say Jumbo and hello to all of you.

Thanks, David. Good afternoon, everybody! Welcome to Juma in the Sabi Sands. My name is Steve; I'm joined on camera by Hat, and well, it is a beautiful afternoon—a little bit overcast, not too hot, but then I did spend a little bit of time swimming in the pool today, which was fantastic. We are going to head up towards Bufalosuk Dam; there are potentially some tracks of Tingana up there. Well, I haven't seen the old boy in some time.

I'm sure you've been told by David or Sydney how to get hold of us: hashtag Safari Live or throw your questions in on the YouTube chat stream. Remember the most important, FC @ FC; keep your questions relevant. We'd love to hear from you. If any of you would like to see Tingana this afternoon, well, jump on board. We're going to go see if we can track him down.

He's been up in Buffalo the last few days, and, as we know, Juma is his dukedom, and he will come up and down and cover quite a large area all the way into Torchwood. Linda is the power team on today; we're all very excited. We've got an ABC live TV show after this drive, so we would like to find some of our special characters to show the people of South Africa, who are quite new viewers to the show, show them live on TV this afternoon/evening, which I think will be marvelous.

What better way to start off David with a lion? Sydney, if he can find the little chief? We know how popular the little chief is; he's got an agent, and, well, whenever TV rolls around, we know him, don’t we? He can't get enough of the spotlight. Tingana, well, he is just a star in his own right. He might be a little bit old now, but still a very strong and courageous gentleman who I have not seen in some time, and I’m very excited to feast my eyes on him again.

But anyway, David is with an older lioness; let's go all the way back up to the Maasai Mara and see exactly what his lion is up to.

Well, I'm very excited to hear Steve got plans for looking for the Duke of Juma. It will be very exciting news, and if you do lunch, you'll make me a very happy gentleman. In Ghana, he is one level at a rush backed out of his age and size and, above all, will not compare to these two young boys here. I would say this one is just jokers compared to the mighty and strong and very good-looking Tingana, but it will be just a matter of time, you know, before these boys also grow into size. You can see the wind is picking up, and it's the wind we pick up that gets not really nervous, but you can see their body language changes.

In the matter of the triangle, we've got so many prides of lions—I would get over 10 prides—but the two of them belong to the Hall of pride, as I said earlier. "Oh la la la" is the largest pride of lions we've got in the Mara Triangle, and this is just two of the sixteen strong alliances of this particular pride. One big advantage they got is when they go for a hunt; they would be able to take down even the very big and dangerous prey. I'm talking about buffaloes. Two weeks ago, they brought two buffaloes down in a span of about half an hour and in a radius of only a hundred meters apart. That was really special, and, you know, it was a very cool sighting to see like six, my own son, one buffalo and maybe ten on another buffalo.

This young Sathya I'm looking at there maybe is going into two years, and for them to be alone, they are starting slowly to show signs of independence. And, of course, they said at two and a half, they'll be on their own. It's pretty windy, but all good—the light is just fantastic! Behind them, that little tree line, there’s a small natural stream, and just a sigh could have been a lion drinking there. But also where they are is quite a vantage point because this cup meant he’s just on the other side from them; the scum is behind them, and they're just looking below this government. That gives them a good angle to see any movement of prey down here.

Well, the migration is gone; I'm talking about the wildebeests and most of the zebras. One has seemed to have a little scar there; if we look on the left cheek, he’s got a scar, and I do not know where he might have picked that scar from. They carried a wound, and it could have been from a cord sheath and so many things that happen here out in the wilderness.

Well, I spent a few more minutes with these two boys and find out what they're doing, and as I do that, I'll turn you back again to South Africa to Steve.

Oh yes! Well, we found a leopard already, and I decided to get out of the vehicle and go and have a look. He is a tiny leopard tortoise. Let me just move the stick out of the way for you, and then you can see, look at that! If you're watching the show this morning, we saw some leopard tortoises getting a little bit jiggy with it, and well, on this legend gentleman, this is the buyer product, and this is still a relatively aged tortoise. They often are; when they come out babies, they’re this small; giving a bit of a head there.

So the scoots, each of these is called a scoot, and that's the protective shell, which is growing. Season me with tortoises. Apparently, if you count the ridges—the down and up ridges—those are the seasonal growths of the animal, and, basically, if you then divide that by two, you then get the age. So, for example, here, one, two, three, four, five, six—could you believe it?! This individual could possibly be years old.

The size of him, herbivores, they feed on grass, and wherever they go is their home—so he’s very cute; he's not too bothered by us at the moment. I’ve moved this stick, and he obviously— that is what tortoises do: they just walk into a thicket, plug themselves down, and camouflage! As you can see, it’s incredible. So, the difference between this and the specs tortoises; you can see how sort of how sorts of balls it is: it's more of a dome than the specs, which is quite flat.

Ladybird, you don't know how long they live for; I think they can live up to the 70s, maybe even more than that. Obviously, different species of tortoise can get to different ages. Or, fella, don’t go and get stuck in there now; it's like a four-wheel-drive machine just moving through! I'm thinking in the region of between 70 and 80 years of age, but there may be other species of both that are able to get older than that.

But one unique characteristic feature of this very camouflage one is apparently, leopard tortoises are the only tortoise that is able to actually swim. I love that fact.

But no, cars disappeared, and that is what they do. He needs to hide there from all sorts of predators, and, well, if Husana found this guy, that shell would probably be small enough and soft enough for him to break.

He needs to get much to very large ones this morning, well, in comparison to that one, and maybe there are other parents. Anyway, great spot from cat; very good eyes, Grace! Did you say feisty little guy?

Okay, now, suppose tortoises are feisty! Feisty little guy indeed! Okay, just gonna move out of the way here; we've got a bit of a Herbie family grouping going on. We're just going to wave, okay? Well, okay, so we're gonna head up towards Buffalos Dam to see what we can find because, I mean, Tingana is in the area but, well, you never know. We might be able to get in for the TV show this evening; that would be first-class.

But for now, back to David and his lion. Yes, both were hawk tosses! You might see Scuba Steve; I'm not sure how much water we’re having at dumb, but to be happy to see the people there. I know this two boys about a month ago, trying to bring one of these two. But part of the young stars are the young males in the Olerud pride, trying to hunt a hippo. And I learned to adjust jokers because he was very big and rather dangerous. You can see the tail of one of them there; that's just rough from the back of the brother.

And I guess these two young stars are of the same litter, the kind of bonding they have—they definitely must be on the same mother and the same father. You can see the spots they are still showing on that young one there, and is it just how we load up? There's a tsetse fly on his tummy. You can see how his tummy is going to flies; they're just breathing. But I would say the temperature's pretty good to have a nap, so I'm not surprised.

Wondering where the other 14 would be, and maybe the two boys here are starting to fill his time. They excommunicated themselves from the 14 and starting their own life. Chances are they might start their own coalition—us, the two of them!

Noodle, how are you? And I gather you are a new viewer; I’m very excited to have you on board, and a very warm welcome! Just to let you know, should you not know—we'll always have two drives: one in the morning and one in the afternoon, both from Kenya and in South Africa.

Well, most of us have different origins and different trainings, but the most important noodles we all have a background in wildlife studies. We have done our wildlife from college, and we have trained in different fields. So, wildlife is a whole thing, and we do not only deal with outside animals; we also do a lot of flora. So, Steve, for example, is very good when you talk of botany; so that's a background for all of us. We love what we're doing, and we have all been trained to be in the African wilderness.

Thank you very much for joining us! Make sure you always stay with us! So if you just joined us now, these two youngsters or these two lions here belong to the Olala pride, and Olala pride is the largest pride in the Mara Triangle, Noodle. And, of course, all the other viewers remember your questions and your comments, give us lots of joy, so keep sending us questions. And, Noodle, that was a good question to know the background of all the wildlife guides.

So, buying in the bush or biology is our stuff, so most of us have lunch botanically because we need to know what our animals are made of. Ideally, all of us are naturalists because we have grown with these animals, and this is where we are; we are here on a daily basis except when we break and go home for a couple of days to see our families or have a little break just to breathe and reload.

Of us House and Reno joyous and then we come right back, and that's how we end up doing these lions! We can tell them by face; we can tell you the numbers. If we see one or two missing, we always let you know. Three of them are missing, maybe four, or five, or missing because we know all of them. We leave them every other day, so give you one more quick look, Noodle, and over there, the viewers of these two boys here because we are going to move on.

I want to look for maybe the rest of the parade and find out where the other 14 are; I still believe they are not independent enough to be away from their mothers or the aunties and cousins, so it's just a sign of teenage, you know? We can be away, then back to the fold—we can vary from them—therefore, maybe after a few other times, they'll be gone, and they'll have their own life.

See the black spots on the ears there, the black marks on the ears, which sometimes when they see us follow me sign when they walk through the grass, they had his dollars up, and you can only see the black marks on the ears, or sometimes when they keep flicking their tails up.

Well, my friend Sydney in South Africa is so determined to get a leopard for all of us; let's find out how he such is going.

I am right now in the middle of one of the drainage lines where we left Husana here this morning, and I'm just trying to carry on from previous. He might be somewhere around the same area; it was really late when we left him. Normally it doesn't travel that much when the sun is getting stronger. So, the speeds are so very quiet; a lot of animals I am relying on today, they have been very quiet at the moment.

So this is the area where he was hunting a Steinbuck this morning. He likes the big drainage; earlier, the area here is the area where I saw him playing with the elephant dung some time ago. He likes this place, yeah; that sighting took place somewhere here, so this is one of his special preferences.

So, he must be lying down somewhere in this Kali here, but I'm not going to give up! I'm going to look for him until we find him. Catherine, it is so beautiful indeed! Everything is green at the moment, and this green color is the one which can easily hide the spotted Husana, so he's disappearing in between these bushes.

So, now let's quickly go back to Steve and hear what he is having at the moment.

Thanks! It is talking about the little chief, Husana. I remember, early this year, I was driving down this exact same road over here, and I came around the corner. I think I was talking about we really want to find a leopard now, and we came around the corner, and we found him looking at his reflection in this little pan—a little green pan just to the right of the screen there.

And it was really quite funny; we followed him after that, and then we got him killing a scrub here. So, you know, we can actually spend some time on this drive as well reminiscing and all the places we found these interesting animals because always the antics they carry out while we watch them is always quite funny.

I remember finding him; he was just looking quite sad at his reflection—just like that—was before he turned his walkabout. Remember he went away? It was just before that—yeah, he is a clown, but we love him very much! We love him very much, but the reason why we're checking is little water muddy pans—it's exactly that: the cats like to come and drink.

And quite often, you can find them in and around close to where the water is, and it's one of the reasons why this time of year it's quite tricky to find cats because—oh, well! There’s an Egyptian goose who's a little bit confused; maybe he wants to go to that little water pond as well. He’s lost his mate; very quiet, so this must be the male!

I say that in jest; he's going to come over to a little muddy pond over there, so the animals obviously need to drink every day, but when there's an abundance of water all over the place, they don't have to go very far. And seeing Egyptian geese this far away from permanent water is very, very interesting—obviously going to new pastures or maybe going out on a Tinder date.

Maybe he was swapping, was told to come and meet at the pan! You might say that; okay, images made a joke! So it's known by Egyptian goose as a gimbal, not a Tinder! Very clever, Emma, very clever!

So anyway, maybe Husana is trying to lure this goose out on a promise of a grassy meal, some seeds thrown in it as well. We know Egyptian geese are grazers, and they quite enjoy a couple of the seeds off of the grasses.

And it's walking very precariously towards the thickets there—it's not a really good idea if you ask me! Very interesting note that I desire on its own; I’m not going to say that—am I? No? Okay, straight to this little water puddle! Yes, therefore, this could very likely be Husana's Christmas duck!

Or he could have already had the other one because, as you all know, ladies and gentlemen who watched the show all the time, Egyptian goose is in fact a duck, which is very strange because gooses are supposed to honk, and ducks are supposed to quack, and, well, if you've ever heard an Egyptian goose make a noise, there’s absolutely no honking in—oh no, quacking in that at all!

It's all very definitely coming to the water; maybe, I can knows the water yet might feel quite safe there—who knows? Sorry, I haven't positioned you very well there; my reverse skills this afternoon are something to be desired.

Anyway, the thing with going out in search of a cat is we are spending time out in the wilderness, so there are tracks; there are birds. We had a very brief visual of a quite large flock of red-billed quelea switch; I wanted to show you quickly because it's the first ones of the season!

That is not what I want to show you—the first ones of the season, and they are, according to certain David Attenborough, accumulate in the largest flocks of bird known to man, and there is the breeding plumage of the male! Just trying to get the angle of the light; how's that? It’s very beautiful and accumulate huge flocks—they're migratory throughout the country! They don’t really go much further north on a proper migrant—more sort of like an altitude noir migrant, if for want of a better word!

Right now, they feed on seeds, and they are waiting for the rainfall, and they will accumulate in very large colonies, generally in very stunted knob-thorn vegetation where they’ll have their nests. And hundreds of thousands of birds will nest there. Huge amounts of seed are ingested by them daily as they go into the feeding grounds, and they are the food for storks, marabou storks, lesser spotted eagles—they feed thousands and thousands of predators that come and feed just on them!

And you just walk around the base or come, and as a very interesting looking Nala, you just have to stop for five minutes out there, and the animals will—the geese and the Nala will just pop out. Here comes a boy about across the road, and this is very characteristic of the Nala fashion—a beautiful young man is on his own.

I don’t know; well, in saying that; you spent five minutes with an Nala, and suddenly you see six and seven come out of the thickets, and that is exactly the strategy they have to move in and disappear, blending in with the environment. But the quelea feeds on enormous amounts of seeds, and around the base of the trees are huge amounts of droppings—seed dispersal as well! And those trees get boosted with a huge amount of nitrogen—big nutrient recycling, big seed dispersal.

And well, they are well known on the African continent as a pest to farmers, but in essence, the quelea was here first, and so we need to live with him. But unfortunately, they are well-known as destructive to people who grow seed-bearing crops. Anyway, enough about that; we're going to move on to see if we can find you some other animals along the way.

But as we do move along, all sorts of things pop up, and well, we're not just going to find Tingana; we're going to find you whatever comes along. As I said through your tweets, we would love to hear from you. But in the meantime, David does too; I think he is still with his lion in the Mara, and I don't think it’s raining today.

Very good to see Angela, and even better to see elephants with calves! Look at that smaller family of elephants there. And what I'm feeling, I'm feeling a bit of a feeling—a bit of where Spitz is coming to me, and I'm not sure we are going to get a storm any time now. If they look to overclock from where I am, look about Tom; you just carry that, and that's very, very dark!

Well, so far, so good, and I'm getting some wonderful showers as I am—but hopefully, I've got a feeling this rain will just come and fast. But as it is now, it's just starting to fall, and what I want to do now is maybe to bring the covers down; we've got very expensive equipment in the car.

You can see the rain; if you move to the right, Archie, you can see that huge wall of rain in the background—that is about a kilometer away from where we are, and that is the Masai Mara for you; we are having the short rains, which I don’t think are short rains! Well, so what we'll do for now is I'll first in-use back to Sydney, and you're gonna monitor the situation and see how it goes. Then I'm sure at one point, you'll be back with me!

Sydney, Leicester stall—what's your update?

Enjoying quite a lot of rain by the Maasai Mara, as it is raining almost every day these days there, and here we are still hoping to get more rain. So, apologies for that! I am right on the main road, which is drivable by anybody. So this is the area where I am going to try my luck, but I can't find any office, and Astrix is coming out of the block from Juma to their Buffers.

So I'm right now on the borderline Jennifer girl; the biggest challenge when looking for Husana, specifically the area where I am now, is the drainage lines. They, or the dry riverbeds, are old dry riverbeds; some of the areas are not easily accessible even by the four by fours. So that is the biggest challenge when looking for this cat by this side of the game reserve.

So when in the drainage, you cannot see him until you drive along parallel to the drainage line—it's when you can see if it's lying down in the middle. Some of these drainage lines we can be able to drive inside them, so I am very sure now that he is still much more aside. I didn’t see any of his tracks coming out towards the Buffalos book, and it's only a few animals away.

I am maybe due to his presence in the area, so now let's quickly go back to Steve, who is good.

Yes, well, I must apologize for jinxing David with my last link, sending him all the way back up to the Mara, saying it was not raining, and now I have brought the rain! Very powerful words that I apologize, David. But anyway, down here in Jumah, it is not raining, but I wonder, all of you bird enthusiasts out there that have been watching the show for a long time, same as two answers about what bird this might be. The colors aren't that great right now because of the light, but it's very easy to understand what it is if you're not sure.

Same through hashtag Safari Live, or what a bird is this. Let's see; he couldn't be first on the button! Wait for your answers, but what is interesting is it's part of a family of birds that live in cavities in trees. And so the tree that it's on is a dead tree that's either been killed by elephants or maybe even a porcupine damaged over time; it has died, and many, many species of birds actually use cavities in nests of trees that have been created by the burrows or by excavations for beetle larvae and by woodpeckers and barbets.

So many birds then live in those cavities in the trees, where they then rear their chicks. And this bird has to compete with lots of other birds for those nesting sites. Very, very nice to see: one of the prettiest of the birds we have.

Archea, once again a pretty bird with not a very nice voice! Hopefully, it will turn for us and show us its face! Vicki and Andrew, you've got at hundred percent right! I wonder if anyone else is going to get it right, and then we'll give the answer—don't want to give the answer way too quickly!

But it is an insect-eating bird that catches most of it either on the wing. Key heart is not a woodpecker, but it is a family of birds that have just landed just below it—their family of white Kristin helmet tracks have landed on the tree; they’re doing a bit of cleaning. B-hart is not a woodpecker; it is a bird that catches insects either by flapping onto the ground on them or in aerial pursuit. But it doesn’t create the holes itself; woodpeckers are known for making the holes—they create the cavities, which are birdlike this.

Whose very hot? You can see his beak is open; he is cooling down. Chris, it is not a European roller; you are on the correct family—the European roller is very blue in color! This bird has got a very distinctive arbor-stripe. You see that very distinctive white stripe on the eye? You can see the long beak with a little tip at the end is very characteristic of the roller family!

And while you see the tail, the tail is got—it kind of just ends abruptly, so it is not the common lilac-breasted roller, which has got sort of Lolich on the breast and all sorts of other colors; it is the family favorite—one of my favorite birds, indeed!

Whose being while enjoying a little bit of time with some fellow friends? That is the purple roller, the biggest of the roller species! And well, it makes a very funny noise! Would you like to hear it? Have a listen to this chimpanzee in the sky! How crazy is that?

I think it’s a very interesting call, purple roller, but an insect-eating bird—they flop down onto the floor to catch their insects or catch them on the wing, whereas you can see the white Chris at helmet tracks hopping through the branches—they're very agile. They do a lot of what we call gleaning of insects.

If you don’t properly different species of insects in different areas within the tree, but they're able to access sort of areas that the rollers are not able to. You often find their owners perched conspicuously out on the end of a branch.

Now, where is these beautiful, beautiful white helmet racks? White crested helmet racks, who are a family unit—they move through the tree in unison, leaning and picking insects off, almost working like a dolphin family—assisting each other in rearing the chicks and collecting the food.

Scenic! I have seen all of the South African roller species, and they are a very, very special bunch! I’ve got them all here for you on my phone; I can, once you just pan out there, have a look. They are probably one of the coolest family of birds next to the bee-eaters, with regards to coloration and also that Soraka, I suppose.

Here we have on the top, we've got the very blue European roller. Then underneath that is the very blue, but with long spatulate advisors. Underneath is the racket-tail; you find those up in the northern Kruger National Park, and they’re very common in Zimbabwe. Up here is the very common racket and lilac-breasted.

See the streamers on the end of the tail that make it different from the purple roller, which is flat at the end? Then one of the coolest ones to see is the broad-billed, which has got a very purple body, a very yellow, bright contrasting beak, and then at the bottom, the biggest of the species—the purple roller.

So those are the five that we see, and I've actually seen all five of them on one walk in the Macaulay Key area in northern Kruger National Park. So if you are an avid birder for savanna bird species, the northern Kruger National Park is where you have to go! Racket-tail runners are there; we are one of my favorite places to go to!

Oopsie! Let's get started! Had a lady burped! We do indeed get swans in Africa, but I don't think any of them are indigenous. I think they're all imported from North America or Europe! I'm not 100% sure if they came from North America, but possibly from Europe—but not indigenous. Pretty much in every sort of pond and lake we have in suburbia of South Africa, you will find geese and swans doing all sorts of things.

They've all been imported, of course, and well, the kids love to feed them bread crumbs! And wherever there's a park or a play area with some form of water, well, you'll find lots of these birds. My uncle actually used to have a few swans at his house, and they were the best security guard dogs or pets. They used to chase any intruder that came into the garden, and they can be very aggressive, and they could bite quite painfully, as I experienced once on my bottom.

I never liked going to my uncle's house after that; he beat me on the bottom, that's what happened! Okay, so this is an area right here that I've had Tandy many, many times going up this road. Now, this is Drakensberg Road, named after the joggers, who bounce that you can normally see it, but today there are some clouds, so we won't even try to show you just off yet. Not far away is our eastern boundary with Tortured, but this area here on the right is an area that, while we’ve had Tandy and Colombo sort of in the five, six-month area of when Flambeau is five, six months old, she was here often.

That was the stage when Haku Moody had moved into the area and was sort of moving in on the western side of Jumma, and Tandy kind of moved this side because it's in Ghana, who was kind of a little bit frail at the time ago. If there are some bouts of illness, he had a little sabbatical, and well, Hu Komori was around doing his thing in the west, and Tandy was here very, very often.

So hopefully, we'll be able to bump into one of these individuals this afternoon! But while we are moving along, there's so much more to see and to do. And talking about rollers, here is the much more common of the species, and you'll be able to see the very characteristic streamers on the bottom of the tail, which will make it much easier to identify than the purple roller that we saw.

Look at the streamer on the end of the tail, that Finan band—this is the lilac-breasted roller! The national bird of Kenya, and David Gita's favorite bird as well! There's a Hannah bird that looks as if you've given a child a color-in drawing and they've taken every ridiculous color imaginable and put them together.

Beautiful, beautiful! The Afrikaans name is called a "throw punt," which basically means a wedding band, and it is well known to take a lilac-breasted roller feather and wrap it in a ring, and to basically give it to your betrothed as a promise for what is to come in the future, which I think is very interesting!

Up in Zimbabwe, back in the days before it was Zimbabwe, long time ago, there was a chief up there of the mutter bel-air people called lobbying Gulen, who was of Zulu origin. They moved up many, many, many years ago in the 1800s, and well, it was his color, his feather of choice. And if anyone tried to adorn themselves with the lilac-breasted roller feather, he would have his head chopped off!

So, from a very nice match burnheal ceremony in the Afrikaans culture to beheadings, it sounds a little bit like Henry the Eighth, right? Yeah. But anyway, enough of my babbling! You're going to keep on going up this road, which is going to wind us all the way to Buffalos Dam in the Northeast. And hopefully, as it starts getting cooler, we might be able to find Tingana.

Mike, there are plenty of insects! Archer, that are poisonous, and generally, poisonous insects have got coloration that is bright and contrasting—blacks with yellows, oranges with blacks—those sort of contrasting colors that make them stand out. The monarch butterfly is a very good example. Their larval phase of Caterpillar actually takes in a toxic plant called milkweed, and that then leads to the adults being poisonous.

And there's lots of other insects out here that, if ingested, could kill us, but a lot of the birds have actually evolved to either deal with it or—because the colors are so bright and contrasting—to avoid them altogether. And when talking about the monarch butterfly, there is a species of monarch butterfly called—let me remember, hyper-luminous Mississippi's—how did I remember that? I don't know, but I can't even remember the common name.

But that scientific name is etched in there! And they mimic the monarch butterfly, and it is a term known as the Bayesian mimicry. Now mimicry is when you mimic something to benefit yourself. Now, if all of the hyper-luminous Mississippi butterflies had to mimic—sorry, I'm not trying to sound smart by saying that long word; it’s just the only name I can remember right now, but I will come back with it.

If all of them had to mimic the minute, we’ll just frame this other bird over here while I continue to talk my nonsense. They got a magpie or long-tailed shrike over here. So, if all of the hype-illuminates species had to mimic the monarch butterfly, well, there's a good chance that a bird's gonna taste one and realize it's not poisonous.

So by teasing mimicry means 25% of the population—so 25%, 50%, being female, 50% being male, and 25% in total; it would be females of that species that have the same coloration as the monarch butterfly. The males actually quite sort of white with necessarily black with white spots, very easy to identify.

And while they're not poisonous at all, but the females happen to get by by looking like a poisonous individual, that is hence why we know birds can see a lap because not only do they have feather adornments, but they also can see fruits, which are needed to—instead—you want to eat ripe fruits, and you don't want to eat a poisonous insect because if you do, well, either makes you very sick or you will die.

And as you know, most animals through survival of the fittest have learnt that dying is not the way forward if you want to well keep on living! But anyway, we've got wonderful birds this afternoon. I'm talking a lot of nonsense, but that's okay; we're going to go to David, who is sheltered from the rain and hopefully also from the storm!

Well, here we are, and if you look through there—that's the situation we are in now. And it's not raining here! I would say dogs and cats, but it's raining elephants and buffaloes if you got through! I'm not sure whether anything can go through here, but at the very end there, at one point, just one minute, I'm trying to clear this.

And he put something; you put some elephants there! Ha ha ha! So heavy rain, but yeah, now it’s CPU expand review checking the whole cupboard refine now we're gonna wait tight be back in action!

So let's read—we open that side where Archie can see anything from here. Yeah, okay, there I had my Pia earpiece off, and that's the situation we are in now in the Mara Triangle. It's heavy, heavy rains, and they apparently meant to be the short rains, but to me, they feel and they look and they sound even bigger than the long rains we had in June, July, and August.

But again, this is Africa! This is the kind of weather we go through; it has been very erratic in the last couple of years. Not very far from where we are, we had those two lions on fire, and I think about 100 meters from here, we've got the front of elephants—we saw before—but at the moment, we're gonna remain in this kind of situation until the rains subside, and how beautiful is this? I'm just enjoying it thundering the canvas top of a barn, so you can see it, and the intensity is getting bigger and bigger—which means big fun!

Elephants should not be affected by this rain because they still keep grazing and doing what they need to do. Well, we think we may have to get you across with me. David is enjoying some rain, and now he is on a shower break.

Maybe the time in combat, I will be having the beautiful cat already, some checking back again by the Gallagher pen because this is the only nearest dam in the area. I'm sure he's going to come and drink here. So the squirrel was just complaining now, but I saw that the squirrels were complaining about the presence of one of the raptors in the area, so they were against one of the raptors.

So when these animals are against Husana or Tingana, you will hear also the antelopes—not only just the bed, but if it’s just the bed, then it means something small—normally their own predator. Daily, I have never seen the meerkats in Juba; I'm not too sure if it's one of those animals who are all carrying here because there is different kinds of small animals that we see; some we don't see very often.

So the Juma Game Reserve defenses have been taken down; it is connected with all the other areas all the way down to the Kruger National Park. So sometimes we do see the rare animals entering this area, so the meerkats are very much rare—it’s something which is very, very difficult to find. You don't have to be very lucky to see the meerkats; I have never operated.

So the meerkats, they do have freedators, but mostly you will see them as a mob, and they do protect each other. Normally, when it comes to the animals, such as snakes, you will see they can easily mobilize and charge that snake. They do kill snakes! So no one is around the pen at the moment, Nina—they are like the dwarf mongoose, and they've got a similar kind of behavior because you'll see the normal stand-up, red staining, and binocular vision in check!

And they do make quite a lot of noise if they are not happy or when they see a predator, such as neighbors, they do make noise. So the banded mongoose I have seen them here in Juma. The other day I was on a guided walk, and they were all just migrating from a big termite mound very quickly, but it was a good sighting. I have seen the banded mongoose here before, so these are the suitable areas for these animals to hide when it’s too hot—these big drainage lines!

So here, sometimes the lions also come as well; they like this drainage. Paola the mongoose, I have never seen them combining. Normally, I see specific species working together as a troop, but to see them mingling is very much rare—a report for abilities of inbreeding if they mingle.

They are very much higher animals; they do interpret if they stay together. Whereas their different species, Mike, the Maasai Mara, is over a thousand kilometers away from where we are, so the weather on the other side there is different from where we are at the moment.

But if you check also here, the clouds are overcast; possibilities of us to have rain as well tonight are also very much high! We might compete for the rain this evening, but so far, the Maasai Mara is getting quite a lot of rain; it is raining there now very often.

So now, let's quickly go back to Steve. Welcome back! We are still on Drakensberg, just having a little listen quickly, Rickson's talking to me on the radio. If you just give me one moment—standing by Rickson, someone Drakensberg, you wants to know where I am?

Yeah, now someone else is getting very confused, thinks we're talking to them! Okay, well, that's not for me; there's a whole different conversation going. I do apologize; there's another guy on the property called Sips and Stephen. Sips, they kind of became very similar there, and now that the confusion is out of the way! David is enjoying himself in the rain—that are provided for him—thanks, David!

I do apologize; no doubt it’ll be a quick downpour, and then it’ll be gone again, we hope! Do you hope, anyway? We're continuing up on our eastern side; we will be getting towards Before Sook, watching all in a little bit. Taking it slowly, having a little listen and a look around.

There’s Glory Pan coming up on the left! Oh, there is a third roller species! This is the European roller on the right-hand side! Sorry about my brakes there; you can see the very blue coloration—and almost—am indeed on a roll! Doosh, there was a drum roll indeed! Thanks, Emma!

So the European roller, which comes to South Africa this time of year for feeding, they don't come and breed at all, so there's no competition between them and the other roller species for the tree cavities, and they also arrive here competing for insects.

Though, of course, you see how they're conspicuously perched on the end of the branch there—but they come here, and they're a silent; they are silent visitors to South Africa because there's no point in making a noise and expending energy in that regard if you are not breeding. Most birds that create noise and make all sorts of songs and do all sorts of display as well, they’ll all try to demarcate territory for the purposes of having youngsters.

Obviously, either the more defensive orders of great—oh! Hello, yawn! Well, the greater the display might be, or the most beautiful song—well, the bigger the Terauchi or the more ladies you might have! So you can see the riders will sit on the end of a branch and use very good eyesight to look for any insects that might be moving around on the ground, and then they'll flop down on it.

Adele, you say we've got beautiful birds! I think we have some of the most gorgeous birds in the world! I would like to go birding all over the world, though, to be able to compare, but once you start birding somewhere, it is a passion you can take with you anywhere! Because, well, the world society of birding has become very, very well and truly united.

And the roller is a roller siroccos at Soraka, so if you have seen a roller before, and you see a bird that you've never seen before, but kind of has the same characteristics as the roller—well, guaranteed, it is one! You just need to find the local area and bird species and have a look.

So you’ve noticed we've seen three but our oldest today. The shape, the form, everything about them really, apart from a bit of color, is very, very similar, and that is why they have been grouped into the same group. But where the name roller actually comes from is in their display! Rollers, when they are demarcating or fighting over territories, and in this form looking for tree cavity holes for nesting, they will do these up-and-down sort of diving, bombarding dives, which end in a sort of left and a right wing going up in a barrel sort of roll up and down, and it is very, very traumatic for other birds to experience, of course, because they get chased away.

But obviously, the male with a better diving roll is more dominant than another one, and what ladies are looking for—oh, all sorts of things like that, aren't there? Just look how he uses his wings; what a marvelous fellow! And then we're in the birding kingdom; most of the times, it is the ladies who choose!

Most of the time, beautiful! That is three rollers today; if I manage to get you a Broad-billed roller, well, I’ll do a backwards somersault on the spot! How’s that? I will, and we’ll try.

Ah, Giraffe girl! Now, when you talk about the top of the list, that means of birds that I still want to see! Okay, that is it! I'm on 619 South African birds now, and there is a bird, two birds, one that comes to mind immediately—a lot of people who know me know it: African Pita is a bird that I have not managed to see!

And an old student of mine is in Zimbabwe; I'm going to find it for you, and he sees it regularly and posts pictures and teases me—not very nice, is he, Luke? Wherever you are out there, I’m talking about you! Let me find this pizza for you! African pizza!

Okay, let me show it to you; it's a beautiful bird—really is a beautiful bird! There it is! There, how’s that? Beautiful coloration, and it's a forest specialist! There are lots of records of them in South Africa, but there is no sort of set area where you will find them!

But Zimbabwe is much more common to see; they got this very characteristic way of sort of standing with their back to you and then doing this interesting sort of jump-up and flap! When I was doing some training in Malawi years ago, my last day, the students that I was training—I was surprised! They wanted to do a surprise lunch, and they didn't know how to get me there!

And so they set up the surprise lunch around the corner, and then they came running and said, "Quick! Quick! We've got an African pizza!" I came running, and I ran headlong into all of the students there to say farewell and have a last lunch! It was very sweet, but I was very disappointed I didn't see the pattern!

I was before I start there; let's have a listen to this call because it is quite unique—it doesn't stop for some reason! It jumps up into the air! Have you seen my hat? How does it see one? Okay! Oh, it's not the coolest call in the world! Obviously, I want to see when it ends here one, but common in Zimbabwe, and there are records of them all over the eastern side of South Africa, but not for me yet!

We all get one; you get one; the bird list continues! Del, we do—we do get lots of finches! Fire finches! There are at least two species that we should get in this area: the Jamison and the red world fire finch in the forest areas!

You’ll get the African fire finch, possibly! Possibly get it here sometimes in sort of more thicker areas than sort of up in the more dry areas of the Kalahari. You get the scaly feathered finch; there’s a very cool bird called a cutthroat trench. You don’t—I’ve never found one here; I found them up in the north of Kruger!

It's a little whitish bird with the red line across the neck, and the name is quite easy to understand—cutthroats it looks like it's been severed! Very cool!

Here we are at Gory Pan! So there are a lot of finches—a lot of finches! I can't tell you all of them off the top of my head now! Lots of waxbills and finches! Here is the next paddling pan, where many times Tandy and Columbo have been seen. So we're just going to be checking all these areas for tracks—maybe if we spend enough time here, we will get a couple of finches coming down.

Let me see if I can quickly find a page of finches! Cut! Yeah, I’ll show you the cutthroat finch really quickly before you run off to David! Let's quickly have a look at the cutthroat finch, and then you're going to leave with that! Red line that crosses through it—he is bleeding out for—don't worry, he's going to survive!

Let's hope David survives the rain! Billy, yes, this is where I am—this is where Archie is, and this is where we are! The good news is we are surviving, and we are enjoying every minute! As I said earlier, it’s fooling elephants and buffaloes, and Archie's telling us we need to change that and get something more serious than that!

But either way, we got elephants just passed us here a few minutes ago, which were not worried about the rain, so we are going to remain here until things get better. Still raining; hopefully, we’ll wait until things get better, and what will happen is, you know, it just drops! At one point when we left the camp, Aaliyah, it looked so clear, so good!

As talking to Em in the final control, and just me—how does it look; however, it looked clear? Skies so blue—so clear—but all of a sudden now, pooh; I couldn't believe it!

So the good news is at one point it might stop, so I will not leave here! I'll stay here just ensuring I don't get stuck because this is one time you make a mistake, and the geology of the mara—if you look at the soil we have—watch, put the black cotton soil, which could be very tricky!

So a heavy car like this, the cat's office, will take you back to the rain—the catch office is heavy and it's heavy. And you might have to get a grader to get you up to the game rangers—will be very happy asking you, "What do you think you are doing there?"

Hopefully, you'll find out what you'd like to have at the moment, Sean. The temperature could be too cold for lions; I'm looking at anything below 10. But somehow, they have always managed to adopt themselves! Sean, and it gets very cold; you see lions curling themselves and just tucking themselves in and holding just to keep their body temperatures going.

Not once we have seen prides of lions come together next to each other! Well, it's very cold, but somehow in Africa, we have never seen— I mean, lions shown suffering because of cold temperatures—but it gets anything below 10!

I'll be a bit of a worry, even for us as human beings! As much as we shall always know what's due to air one or two layers—anything below 10 to 10 degrees Celsius could be a bit of a concern for ions.

Well, you can see the amount of water that's raining there, so what you've done—we brought the flaps down, roto SH windshield up, and just staying here resting and talking stories of rain. Nii Gachi and I'm telling him how I used to like the rain one over your small boy, and he's saying he doesn't care about the rain; with the choice, he doesn't want to even see it!

For me, it looks pretty good! So let me see, Mike, a little turn around here. But they have to be very careful; they'll do one small mistake; who may be stuck here for the next couple of hours! And the challenge would be to get someone to come and tell you out because they'll wonder how do we get there? You know? So people will be like, "We'll see you later," or they'll want to come with a game ranger with a gun, for example, and make us walk to their car or where they know they're safe and they take us back to the camp and they'll tell us we shall come back here tomorrow to get the car!

I don't think we want to do that! What you want risk to, of course, fingers! As much as we want the rain and hopefully, it's going to subside maybe after that 10-15 minutes; who knows? But sometimes, we have to take it as it comes!

Four eyes feel a little bit chilly, but that’s fine! [Applause] We just want to change the angle, director, because we've got water coming in the car! We don't—what giraffe girl, I'm not sure whether your question was what's the best weather I've been in?

Was that a question from giraffe da da da da Qi the commercial? Okay, there's a custom from giraffe girl there! Just bring it again! Yes, and that’s good this way, and you won't sew the weather; I have been in—ah! Keep going on like Egon!

Okay, giraffe girl, through this an angle I wanted—she's always very particular on the angles he likes in terms of shooting. Well, there are so many weathers I've been in, and I think the wash would have been in was in the middle of this year! We had massive rains, and it was raining so very heavily, and it was not good because we only had to stay on the big doors, you see, like the can—you see passing there!

Definitely, there's some guests in, and you can see they are running back to the camp because they know being out here will not help them! They cannot see any animals, and you cannot leave the big road to try and venture away from the road.

You see, everybody's just now going back home, and nobody wants to take any chances! But again, as I say giraffe girl, me and Archie are not going anywhere! So, may June, July—I know you can hear any thunderstorms there! So those thunderstorms, giraffe girl, are the ones that sometimes give us a bit of concern or worry because we may have to power down with such expensive equipment to that we surely have in the car.

We fear lightning could be sometimes a big concern; rain doesn't worry us so much, but the lightning and the thunderstorms are always a bit of a concern!

Well, a drop got many thanks for your question, and I'm always very happy to hear you, but a giraffe car; and there, the viewers, why don't you entertain you more with a car twin?

Steve, oval! We're gonna do the Tingitana dance! We're gonna do the Tingitana dance! Look at what we found: Tingana! The Duke of Juma!

Well, we set out looking for him; he had been in Before Sook in the north, Herbie had tracks of him coming in south. We picked Drakensberg road, and, well, we have been fortunate! Rickson, the other gentleman who works at Viala, was in the area and then he happened to come across him, so we were in the right area at the right time!

But he is on a very particular route; I know this route quite well! I followed him along this before Ventura verse back, keep up with him exactly where I spoke about Tandy five minutes ago or so, when I started rambling.

This is where Tingana is now, exactly on that spot! So he's walking straight down as Chokin's burger road; this is a road of a hill called Leadwood, which I followed him on a number of times.

What he did those last couple of times I followed him, as he crossed into Chitwa because this pathway will take it straight to Chitra, but he crossed just since the other side. It looked down towards the dam, sat down by the pan, and just started calling to the world!

And then he stood up and walked parallel to the road and then went into Torchwood, so it was very special! Let's have spent time with him! And then Rene was just coming back; he was still limping; he wasn't looking in good form, but he was giving it everything in with regards to the territorial calling.

And well, now he is on another walk—this is what they will do regularly after rainfall to remark and scent mark the areas that they have claimed to be theirs and investigates. The presence of new females, investigate the occurrence of what have you spotted there, boy? You see the body language change?

I can't see what he's seen, but he's running off to something! Let's go and have a look! Eagle scout! He does look hungry! Sorry, I just dropped—okay, he's just run into the thickets there; not sure exactly what he's seen!

What’s he got there? Eggs? Okay, so that Niala we saw earlier that wasn't looking very healthy! He seems to have spotted him! So, we're just going to give him a moment!

Rickson can see him! We don’t want to influence—they want the Duke to win necessarily! Or the Niala will necessarily! Can you see him, Rex? Okay, so then Niala is very close; I’m just gonna move up a couple meters so that we can maybe get him in!

Maybe get him in frame. Every guy, he's just—yeah, okay, that's just moving out of the way! We've got another vehicle on the way!

Yeah, Rosemarie is definitely making well at the moment; he's keeping to a very normal sort of territory line, but now he is looking to maybe catch some food.

But most certainly, Emma, if you'd like to invite some more viewers on board, we don’t know where this could go! He could most certainly catch this Niala!

I haven't seen Niala; he saw something very camouflaged! Rickson spotted it; told me there’s an e—I love it!

Oh! And this good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Juma Private Game Reserve in the Sabi Sands, South Africa! We've just framed up a hyena for you! It is not what we’re in the sighting for; we have got a big male leopard just here in front of us by the name of King Ghana!

He is the Duke of Juma, and he has spotted a what we believe to be a frail-looking Niala, somewhere way hidden there in the thickets; anything could happen right now! Please feel free to send any comments and questions you might have; food to #SafariLive! Drop them in on a YouTube chat stream below; we’d love to hear from you!

His intention—this is the reigning Duke—the reigning dominant leopard of this area! He’s been up in the north after summer rainfall; he is now filing the need to move through his territory; indie marketing—the rainfall has washed away the scent that he’s laid down.

But along these long-winded drinks, he gets quite hungry!

I'm not going to move; we are in the sighting with other vehicles, but I don't want to disturb him! Or the Niala, each individual needs to have their fair chance! And, well, leopards, as we think, are very successful!

But the camouflage stuff and alertness of the antelope animals is very, very good, and, well, they often avoid being caught when they're on their own—sometimes it's quite tricky!

Ramat, you want to know how far away it is; I can’t quite see it at the moment! There's a vehicle behind us that ahead, in fact, has seen it!

We're just having a look through the thickets now! I'm gonna look with my binoculars because I'm in a slightly different position to Hat on the back!

He’s going to go for it soon, Yamato, so quickly introduce ourselves! Hello! My name is Steve; I'm joined by Hat on camera, and, well, the man of the hour is right here ahead of us, Joan!

Is he a loner? Leopards, leopards are loners, actually! You don't find leopards with other leopards! Generally, males stick to themselves, females to themselves unless they have Cubs!

But the hierarchy that happens, Archie, in Douma Private Game Reserve—we are seeing some incredible scenes of late with, well, the smell lipid stealing from his son—the smelly but stealing from his previous girlfriend and while having interactions with a year-old cub as well! So, the dynamics here are incredible!

Well, we documented—okay, so we're just watching his body language! Thomas, you wanna know if leopards are more successful at hunting than other cats?

Well, lions and leopards have invariably got roughly about a twenty percent success rate when it comes to hunting—cheetahs probably a little bit more than that! But it's all about terrain, experience, and well, anything can happen!

You can watch a leopard hand three times, and it can be successful; that could just be luck! It could be terrain; it could be the day! But then you can also watch a leopard align hand numerous times and be unlucky!

So they're not known to catch as many prey or every single animal that they see! And so that is how the balance in nature works! If they caught everything, their sort would just be a bloodbath! The antelope are as well adapted to surviving an invading predator, predation!

He is—he's making a move! He's probably gonna come out a little bit on to the road where it might be a little bit quieter for him to move, or he's gonna go through the thickets there!

Don’t want to do too much movement! Okay, he's lost sight of the Niala, so he’s trying to move in just swath of something running across that open area that I was looking in before!

I'm going to move slightly here just so it other people behind us of you, me! Now anything can happen! Anything can happen! An injured leopard could catch anything really! It is all about the time of day; it's all about the experience of that animal and also about the vigilance of the individuals that are hunting or that are being hunted!

If a leopard comes across an injured animal, it can catch it quite easily! But if it’s a very, very able to catch things and, well, even when injured are still very, very adapted what they do!

Just trying to move around yet! Redock one to influence anything! As soon as they get a view of him! I’m going to stop—you know? I’ll try to answer their question a little bit better for you! You might see another vehicle in the sighting—they've kept to the road on the other side!

Their last sight—I actually haven't even seen that Niala get a little bit forward! What a me! His crouched down in the long grass masters—camouflage!

Injured leopards—the reality is that an injured leopard or leopard doesn't require much in the way of speed sometimes to catch prey! If they can lie down, camouflaged, like this individual is doing, and an unsuspecting animal walks directly towards them, they still have the ability to pounce and catch them.

So that can happen in any stage, not necessarily every time! And obviously, the lack of the draw meaning that the animal has to walk straight towards the leopard!

Say my name, Tingana has been injured! We don't know what happened to him; it seems like he's given up on the hunt! You can see his body language has changed! Something happened!

All of the hyenas coming in on the front there—that's what's going to happen! A hyena has probably scared away at the Niala! Yes, hyenas are well known to follow the leopards around! The leopards catch the food, and the hyenas try and steal it from them!

It's just in here! He's gonna come and say hello to us! He's gonna give that—how's that, Hat? Oh! He's gonna come and give it the hyena a bit of a snore! There’s a vehicle to the left there!

They’re in the road having a look! There’s always fantastic interactions to see—the hyena and leopard! Naina seems to have lost—seems to have lost sight of Waiting Ghana, but could definitely, definitely smell that he's here!

So he's watching the movements of the hyena! You know, quite often, just growl and lay flat! If a hyena comes close, and a big man lipid like Tingana has got a reputation! And hyenas quite often just staked!

Yeah, sure! It is all about camouflage, right here! And this is the leopard's paradise! This is exactly where they belong! You'll see he's going to walk just around in front of us yet and, well, are we going to be hard-pressed trying to keep up with him if he keeps walking on this route?

It's him! Hyenas cackling! They're not sure what happened, but in Ghana had a little look! Well, he's gonna keep on wandering! We’re going to follow him!

But what a marvelous afternoon! Not sure, Bonnie, when the last time he ate! Hopefully, we'll get him eating! Now, I haven't seen him in months; his belly is looking very empty, and I’m sure he is hungry!

He's not moving very fast on the territorial sort of movements that they do have! And I haven't heard him call! He’s marketing quietly, so as to also snatch a meal along the way!

Well, folks, we are going to still be live for the next— I think hour or so—or maybe 45 minutes! Google has to see you there! But please feel free to enjoy your afternoon further, and we will catch you soon!

Thanks for your comments or questions, and goodbye!

Welcome back, everybody! Sorry about any noise complaints from my lapel mic there! I think we are back on track now! You don't have to see if we can keep up with the Duke moving through the thickets yet!

I, Naya, is coming towards me on the right! Yes, he's trying to follow it in Ghana because on this two hyenas, they are very keen to snatch whatever he might catch because, well, leopards, Archie are far more efficient in the way of hunting than we would consider the hyena!

Roar! It's another one right here! Head is coming right up to me! Listen! I don't smell like a leopard, do I? No, I don’t—you smell foul! I just got a whiff of her; she's got the scent of him now! She's going to try to find him!

We followed two hyenas this morning, and we realized that we followed them for a long way, and they actually went away from Husana! Sydney found Husana pretty much where we started following in the hyena! So that obviously found him really! Didn’t any food? Realize he didn’t have any food?

Sorry about my head there! I'm having some difficulties with my microphone! Andrew doesn't have any food, and then, well, decided to just go off in the other direction! These two that are trying to ascertain whether the Duke, who they’ve picked up on his smell, whether he has got some food for them to snatch!

Everyone's saying that they look very curious! Well, there's nothing more curious than a spotted hyena! And it’s really interesting being back there!

We go get a two-shot, chair rocked in Ghana! And that leopard just straight through their hat. I wonder if you can get him some Ghana just through the back just disappearing behind there!

And while the hyenas are going to follow him and probably really give him a heart, they won't really do too much towards him! But if he's got some meat, they might try and snatch it off him!

But as I saying, ting Ghana develops a very nice sort of repertoire with these hyena—a reputation that they very well know! And they'll probably leave him alone!

Even if he's got a kill on the ground! But if there’s two of them, three of them, it might be a different story! One will definitely leave him alone; they can't afford to combat the battle-scarred veteran!

Well, he can't really afford to battle with them! But just through sort of aggressive response or growling, quite often can get away! Yeah, well, this is not going to be ideal, the way that I came in!

Hold on, folks! Get out of here! Rickson has still got sites often! Guys, we're not going to lose him in you! Tom, see, just the problem being if he keeps up with a southerly trajectory of movement!

Well, he might cross south! Hopefully, he will stay it! Because as I said at the start of the show, him and his son are both movie stars, and they received the email about us being on S ABC 3 again on Sunday at 6:30 p.m.!

And, well, he's in time! He's just—he feels like he needs to eat a little bit before because you know it's a good bit of stage fright! And a belly of meat, belly of Niala always seems to do the Duke very, very well as we've seen in the past!

Even if he snatched it from his son, he'll take it! But anyway, I wonder how citizens are getting on! I know he's in search of the aforementioned Husana!

Let's go and see exactly where he's at!

I am still looking for Osama, Steve, and congratulations for finding Tingana on the other side! I'm sure Husana is also gonna come out somewhere in one of these areas. So I can feel that now! The temperatures are going down, and this maybe might start encouraging the cats, such as Husana, to come out now and start looking for dinner!

We saw this morning he didn't get the breakfast, so now he's gonna have to look for a very big meal! So this is the area where we have left him, and back again in that area just to check if there are any other developments!

But it looks like it is quite still! Maybe he went to one of the water holes in the area here! So he was very close to the border between us and the Buffalos walk. Maybe he crossed over to the other side!

Yeah, they are very far apart at the moment! As the debt is much more to us on the eastern side, and he is much more toward the western side, so they dread! It is very quiet at the moment!

DJ Or, Husana is so sneaky indeed! But I will find him somewhere here this afternoon! I am NOT relying on any of the course! None of these animals are giving anyone a call! It's just very quiet!

So unless the spirits in this area feed from the ground, cause those ones by the other side normally they see him from high up and start calling the others, yeah, that is why I am trying by all means to find him!

So that at least I can have him for tonight! So he is very shy for the TV show! Maybe now, unfortunately, the animals don't really have a Sunday afternoon! If you check the labors, the vast majority of their time is dedicated to sleeping during the day!

So it's normal for them to just relax and spend all day just lying down! So coincidentally, he’s doing it every day! Maybe he's somewhere this side! But yeah, I am smelling quite a lot of elephant scent! So it looks like the elephants were here!

Meet those elephant; it's the one that put him from this area because there’s quite a lot of evidence as well as strong scent showing that they have been here not very long ago!

So now let's go back to the Duke of Juma!

Well, hopefully, David, we will find him again! He moved into the drainage line; they're very thick! We try to get our tricks and try to stay with him! All Rickson can see at the moment is one of those ie nur, so Rickson’s on the other side of the strange line!

I've come to the side of it! If he moves through here, we’ll hopefully catch him! I've had him walking through this exact path here! And I found him again just over here on the road, which was very fortunate!

I think ours with scents! Oh! Then he disappeared into this very difficult block to access, and, well, then out of nowhere, Husana was over here! So that was very nice!

But hopefully, he's going to do the same thing, or if not—okay, so Xing has heard me, and Tom come in north! Yeah, copy! Thanks, Rex!

Okay, so Rex is calling me in directly here! Use this on the other side—very likely we might see that you just pop out somewhere here! It's probably gonna either lie down because he's gonna be annoyed with I Enoch because they will follow him until he catches something!

Or he will run away from them! I doubt he will run! I don't think it's in the Duke's sort of nature! He's just gonna walk with that sort of regal Tingana sort of stride! Some might, you know?

Yeah, I can see a vehicle! See where we can spot him if he's here! We might be able to get a view! Rickson is just over there with hyenas; some Nyala are just in the thicket!

This is when your eyes need to really sort of open to be able to view, so in the spots of the cats, make them invisible! Well, some of the viewers want to know when it's more difficult to spot a leopard!

When it's green or when it's dry? The interesting thing is that when it's green, there's far more cover, which makes it tricky to see! You can't see very deep! But the amazing part is that leopards camouflage is so camouflage that when there's hardly any cover, any cover, they blend in!

So it's kind of designed for both purposes, really of blending in when there’s thick stuff and also blending in when there’s almost nothing! I'll just have a little listen to meters forward, and then you can at least frame up your family of Nyala here that are seemingly completely unaware that there is a male leopard somewhere in this area!

The hyena will probably keep Rickson moving towards Tingana! Luckily, we've got him in the scene so we can at least assist each other in the movement