Safari Live - Day 238 | National Geographic

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This is why the inclement ride is such a firm favorite. It's Quito. [Music] It just looks ready for a fight. [Music] This is still her territory. How insane was that?

Well, good afternoon everybody, and welcome to our 18th installment of Safari Lives. It promises to be an epic, epic, epic afternoon! We've had lots and lots of signs of animals during the course of the day, and we even have an elephant herd back on the property, which is very, very nice.

Now, of course, we're not going to be focusing too much on these; it's all about our cat characters or all of our characters, actually, over the course of the next two hours. So hopefully you're going to sit back, grab whatever drink you like to drink, whether it be a tea, coffee or something else, and enjoy the next two hours. My name is Justin, on camera I've got Sebastian this afternoon, and hopefully you're going to, like I say, enjoy what's going to go.

And remember that you can interact with us. Hashtag Safari Live on Twitter, also at FC on the YouTube chat if you would like to ask questions. Remember to keep them relevant to what you're seeing on screen, and we'll try and answer as many as possible.

Now, it's nice to see some Ellie's around. The reason why we actually here with the Ellie's is because we're trying to find Husana at the moment. Husana was around this area this morning, and so we bumped into these guys on our way to try and kind of have a look for him.

And so nice to see, like I said, we haven't really seen too many Ellies around at all. Now, this week has been a very, very, very good week for us here at Safari Live. We've had many, many, many sightings, including all of them—pretty much all of our characters.

And it's been one of those weeks where things have happened. We've also had a bit of rain, so lots of changes around. And I wonder if that means we're going to continue to see some epic sightings when it comes to all of the animals that move around in this area. Hopefully it will be. Hopefully it's going to continue from today, and we'll carry on having a really, really kind of good time of it.

Sees a little baby Ellie there; looks like a smallish Amy walking around in the background. There’s quite a few here; it's a nice-sized herd that we’ve actually got at this stage.

Right, I think we need to actually just reposition ourselves a little bit because it's not going to get much better in terms of the view. Lots of bushes in the way, and the road is actually just on the other side. So while we try and find our way around and see if we can get a slightly better visual, I was saying that's been a good week, and lots and lots of cats have been around.

So why don't you take a look at where they've all been moving? It was a busy week on Juma as most of our cat characters made an appearance. We started the week with a bang, as a single Impala provided food for Kazi, Tingana, and Husana from the kill.

Both Dingaan and Husana headed north. Husana made a brief appearance at the dam camp before heading towards Buffelshoek Dam. From the dam, that Apple Prince marched his race up off in search of a meal and eventually found what he was looking for, as he stole an Impala from Shadulu.

Meanwhile, Dingaan was once again found at the same kill for Kazi. He'd been seen on the western pack and made a brief incursion into the west of the reserve. Inca Houmas also returned just north of the camp.

To round out the week, we finally found Tandy and Columba as they made their way through the southeast to stash Dyke Hill. Up in the Mara, Waffles and Cubs were in their usual spot at the den. Kapala was also found in the south of the triangle while his pride, the Sausage Tree pride, and Kinky Tail followed the wildebeests to the west.

Up in the far north, the playful Paradise pride spent the afternoon close to the river. Well, as you can see, it’s been a busy week both here and in the Maasai Mara. Lots and lots of movement between all of our cats and some surprises in the form of Furkazi and that unknown male leopard.

So lots have kind of been around, and it's going to be interesting to see whether or not the change in weather and as we start heading into our summer months and rain starts to fall, whether that's going to influence how things go and whether we’re going to see the same amount of movement of our cats.

It's definitely been a lot more shifting around, particularly by Husana. He's covering a lot more ground these days than he has over the last few months. He spent most of his time in the central parts of Juma, but you can see now that he’s starting to expand outwards and is moving in all kinds of directions as he goes along.

But he’s in the sleekest of seas and amalias. I know we’re trying to find our cats more than anything else, but like I said, it's just been so kind of dry with Elia of late here in Juma that it's fantastic to actually see them back in this area.

You can see that female is just dusting herself; she gets rid of all the soil before she starts to eat the roots. At this stage of the year, there really is very little for these guys to actually feed on, and so they need to be able to eat something.

And what roots and tubers are going to be the best thing for them to eat now this early is going to be approaching us fairly closely. And so while we wait, let's send you across to Taylor McCurdy so she can say good afternoon to all of you.

Good afternoon everyone from again, just welcome to Safari Live! We were hopefully going to find lots and lots of cats, and we’re basically headed now to where we left Tandi this morning on Sunrise Safari. So unfortunately, Tandi gave us the runaround. She diverted into drainage lands, which she typically likes to do.

Now, if you’ve only just perhaps started watching Safari Live and you are very uncertain as to who some of these animals are that we’re talking about, said to animals we’re talking about, not people.

So Tandi is a female leopard who lives around and in this area. She’s taken over her mother’s sort of home and fortune here. Her mom, Karula, is not around anymore, so only fitting. And as it normally happens with leopards, she’s now moved into this big space that’s available, and it’s prime property.

So she’s been exploring quite a bit. She’s also got a daughter; her name is Columba. We might meet up with her a little bit later. So she stashed young Columba in a drainage line and tree or somewhere. Not that clever really; stays in one place these days, and she’s kind of on a walkabout looking for things to eat.

She spotted some in Yala, which was great, but she didn’t make an attempt on them. She left it a little bit too long, or maybe she thought she didn’t really have a good enough chance. So that kind of all happened this morning.

So we’re going to head back into that area to try and find her, but she was in the middle of two drainage lines, which was between two different roads. So I think we’ll just check the surrounding area first, check Tandi's places to see if she’s walked in that area, and that's sort of how we’re going to start it off.

And hopefully, it will all pay off, but it is a tough game trying to relocate on animals, and lots of concentration will be needed. So we're going to go and do some tracking, something you can’t do in the Mara Triangle.

Welcome, good afternoon, Caribou! Sana to the Mara Triangle in Kenya, where the temperatures are very nice, 26 degrees Celsius, 81 degrees Fahrenheit. And we are with the North Clan, surrounded by an enormous herd of zebra and wildebeest.

They are lying up in what is a nice cool afternoon with some clouds and rain in the distance. Welcome, my name is Steve. I’m joined by Big James on camera, and we're out in the African wilderness. We thought we’d pay a little visit to these individuals, and North Clan is lying up here in the open.

We were with them a little bit earlier in the week when their cubs, the little ones, were not quite as shy as they are right now. My first visit to North Clan then heralded a wonderful society, and Waffles and her two young cubs, both showing off the early spotted coats of budding adolescence.

Elsa B. resource in attendance and under hers and Waffles' watchful eye, the enthusiastic and inquisitive youngsters have ventured out. What initially looked like play was actually practice of the important social norms and techniques that will undoubtedly become commonplace for these two in the daily life of being a clan member.

But for now, our play is play, and these two youngsters don’t have to worry too much about all that. Running around is a great way to stretch muscles and burn off any buds of energy.

How interesting is it to find the little youngsters running around and performing the arts of being an adult? But it’s not too serious at these stages. We arrived about half an hour ago, and there was no one in attendance.

With all the bears, the sniff feed around the den itself, and one by one, the first one to our back was Waffles. As soon as she did, she’s the one there with her bottom in the hole. More, soon as she arrived back, three little youngsters popped their heads out of little holes in the ground.

And then one by one, these are the individuals that have laid back, and we’re very fortunate enough to see the little ones come out. This youngster in the front of the screen on the bottom right actually was doing a little bit of that characteristic side-on greeting ceremony with all of the youngsters one at a time.

I’m pretty sure at the moment two of the youngsters are busy suckling—a little hole in the ground that they popped out of. And that possibly could be one of the other pups, a believable cubs. I believe get fuzzy, and I’s also got one each, and Waffles has got two, all about the same age.

I can’t tell the difference. I’ve only seen three, and the last two times we were here, we only saw two. On our arrival a little while ago, three of them were up and about and moving all over the place. But two of them clearly more interested in Waffles than the other one lying on her head and competing with each other for mother’s milk, which is always very interesting.

One individual, Hyena, that's at the back now, came all the way forward but was chased off. Not very well liked near and around the axis, which is quite interesting to watch that Hyena because they are all related and all part of the same family, but she’s not allowed nearby.

I wonder what that could be? Are we going to spend some time here and see if the little youngsters come out? Maybe you can have a look at that one there at the back, James. She’s put a hit down again; she keeps looking over.

Yet, he’s very interested, very interested in what’s going on over here, but it's not really loud. The weather today is fantastic. It was a bit hot in classic African style, Ezreal. Even Kemp James was saying, "Oh, it’s very hot," and the guys at the gate were also saying it’s very, very hot.

But that has led to some thunderstorms and rain in the distance, and the wind has picked up and the clouds have pulled in. And it is actually really nice and cool at the moment. Now, this morning was nice and warm, and this afternoon is promised for some cooling down.

All of the Velda Beasts—there are so many of them accumulating in and around the river at the moment. Every single patch of shade on our way through had a huge group of wildebeests crammed underneath, trying to sort of keep out of the midday sun.

But I don’t think many of these animals really understand what a hot day is like. They should come down to South Africa for a little bit and see exactly how our summers get. 30 odd degrees Celsius up here?

They feel a little bit warm. Even the zebra were standing in the shade when in South Africa—zebra in the heat of the day, 40 degrees Celsius is about 110 Fahrenheit—standing in the full sunshine, completely not bothered at all.

There you can see one of the little youngsters. Two of them starting to pop out of the hole. But while we see if we can get them out a little bit more, let's go all the way back down to South Africa with Taylor McCurdy.

Well, we haven’t really found anything, just did, except they’re all going to go in the bushes. Let’s see if one will come out! We've got a small family of kudu just moving through this quarry thicket; it might actually be heading down to the pan for a bit of a drink.

Well, these are great animals. It's just sort of to watch and also to know their position. And I always talk about this because now we've got two potential efforts that could be in this area. Tristan's looking for Husana around here, and I'm looking for Tandi, and if we hear any big kudu barks—although I’m sure there's quite a few kudu out at the moment—they sound like they're around for your Tilla dam would probably be this lot.

And they are exceptionally vigilant. They've got big ears, very good eyesight, so they do tend to spot the big cats that'll be trying to hunt them. Although I think Tandi would prefer to go for something a little bit smaller. But Husana, on the other hand, he wouldn't have any problems bringing down one of those younger kudu like that young male.

But they’re slowly making their way down towards the pan, so I think I'll just do it. Basically, just do a little bit of a quick loop, and if we don’t find anything, I think we head all the way down to the southern corner of the reserve and see if we can find a male lion that was lingering around there today.

Go Rockets, carry on! Let's go see if we can find Tandi. But Tristan actually spent the most time with Tandi this week, and let’s go see if they found themselves a meal or two.

After weeks of searching, we finally catch up with both Tandi and Columba. They have a kill! Tandi! If a disgrace and experience is voiced so vital, Columba is not far behind and soon joins her mother after a tree.

Even though it takes her slightly longer once up, she grabs the carcass at once trying to reposition it. She twists and turns, the carcass closely watched by her mother’s stern gaze. Eventually, after a good feed, the folks Columba join her mom back on the ground.

The two then united in a grooming session, as the others fell. The next morning, returned to find Tandi having a breakfast. She had a few mouthfuls before returning to the ground. As soon as she landed, the total Columba—like a shot—climbed the tree, just like her mother’s.

She surveyed the surrounding terrain. Well, that was epic that they did get a meal. It was really entertaining to watch Columba as she learned to move the carcass around. And unlike that, she was trying to stash the carcass in some of the holes in that apple leaf tree.

Right, but another surprise for you is just down to the waste of us. Tristan has finally managed to find Husana!

Sans, indeed, we found exactly who we were looking for. So we found little Husana, who’s not so little these days with his big full tummy and big paws! And he is having a serious nap.

He is a tired boy! Obviously been moving around quite a bit during the course of the day, and so he seems as though he’s a little kind of sleepy and tired in the shade at the moment. And look at the size of his front paw! Even in relation to his head and shoulders, you can see that there's some bulk!

Some serious size starting to come through on Husana. He’s amazing, actually! Um, he’s kind of developing. I actually looked at him this morning for the first time in a while and thought to myself, "Well, he stopped looking like a cub."

Nah, he really is looking like a solid male leopard. Got a young face, but his body is starting to really fill out quite a lot, and he's starting to look quite thick-set—much like what his dad often looks like when they fall.

I know it’s when leopards are full, they often look better. But just his chest and shoulders area is really starting to grow quite a bit, and it’s really good that we’re seeing him kind of developing the way he is.

I just hope that he’s going to be able to hang on to this area and stay here. It would be so wonderful to follow him. Can you imagine following Husana from when he was born all the way through until he becomes an old male leopard? Wouldn't that just be the most wonderful thing? I think it would be awesome!

And so I’m hoping that that’s gonna be the case. He's probably got no better situation to do that than he does at the moment. They don’t think you could have wished for a better kind of way of things to have played out with Tingana being their age that he is and the condition that he’s in at the moment.

It should allow and buy time for Husana to get big enough to be able to actually kind of dominate, and maybe even stick around in this area. QT, kind of when we first arrived, yet a little open his eyes! It’s like, "Thank goodness you guys are here! I've been waiting for you all day long!"

Had a little stretch and then promptly went back to sleep. Easy! He knows that he's just got to kind of hold out for a bit, and then he'll start...

Oh my goodness! Sorry about that, everybody! That’s no good. Now that’s me! Tristan will be out and running soon enough.

Okay, so he’s still bumbling. I haven't seen any footprints coming out this way, so I don’t know where—well, no! Not... I don’t know that—it just eliminates that Tandi has actually moved in this direction.

So, this is the antelope that Husana was trying to hunt this morning. Not this exact group, but a similar composition. In fact, there were a few cows, there was definitely one big bull tailing the family group, and there were a couple of sub-adults and there seemed to be two youngsters here as well.

Well, it was at least one young bull just feeding. And again, just like the kudu, we've seen them scattered all along these drainage lines, which is exactly where the leopards are wanting to hunt—that’s where the food is.

So better be careful! No, I haven’t seen any vultures or anything perched up in trees. I haven’t heard any alarm calls since we last saw one another. It’s been still fairly quiet, and I’m hoping that if I just go around and just take it before cutline, that’ll maybe see some tracks of Tandi.

And then I’ve done about hoping that they did get something to eat. So he could do with a meal! She only had a day care, which kept their belly full for a little bit, but not for particularly long. And they slowly move off and away back down to the drainage line.

The wind is now starting to pick up, so tiny he could have taken a break after he saw her this morning when she eventually just disappeared behind a termite mound. And maybe he's just saving her strength for a little bit later.

It was very still; it was beautiful weather throughout the whole day, but this works better for the predators in terms of hunting. Goodness, there’s lots of little flies and things around today.

Well, I’ll just have a little check around here, and then if there’s nothing, we’re gonna head down south and try our luck that side. I know that Tristan said something about the Inca rum pride being on Charton. I’m not sure if they just...

But if it was that just that they passed through or if they're actually there, so I’ll maybe also make our way down that side and then go and do a bit of investigating. Chitra Dam is always nice and a good source of water; our chances of seeing some animals down there will be fairly good as well.

Okay, here’s a nice sandy spot just to check. Lots of elephant activity around today; it was even a few sleeping just outside of our rooms under a shady tree. Hold on, Craig—okay, this is good news.

So it's... and these tracks have just picked up now from this morning, have come from some bootydance. So that means Columba is that side; we’re going to do a little bit more investigating within this area, and hopefully, I’ll have some positive news for you later.

Thank you, Taylor! Well, we have not got any tracks. We’ve got the animals, which is very cool, and every now and again the little youngster, one of them pops its head out of that hole.

Very cute! Very interested in the big wide world, and we’re hoping they’ll come out at some stage now that the adults are in attendance. It should be time for the youngsters to come out and play.

But I think what’s going on is the youngsters are suckling. The mum is away. There we go! Just in the hole by Waffles’ head, there’s a little one. It’s great to come out! It’s just behind her.

There might still be suckling; you can actually see below Waffles as chin. Well, in front of her nose, there’s a set of ears, and then below her chin, there are two little paws there, and that is one youngster with its head down.

It's suckling. And you just see that little paws and there’s another one’s face, and it’s just coming out, getting a little bit inquisitive. Maybe wants to come and say hello. And this is Waffles, the matriarch, wearing a collar for research purposes.

People from Michigan University in the USA are researching them. Here’s James Richard! Well, I've only seen three, but apparently this should be four of the really small youngsters, about that sort of size.

And then I saw another sort of medium-sized one a moment ago, but I think there are two of them. And then four of the really small little dark ones—one with ice, one with fuzzy fuzzy bear thing—and then two with Waffles. The names are just going to take me a very long time to wrap my head around.

But here we go, he’s gonna come out. No, still wants to suckle. Look at those little feet just under Waffles’ chin! The cutest little paws! You see them there, under her shoulder?

They’re going to see the ear poking out above her leg. Right down there by the memory glands. Harshly all four of the really small ones all look very much the same age. I believe they are pretty much the same age.

I can tell the difference between them, but I’ve only seen three. But they weren’t together; two were with Waffles by the hole, and one was popping its head out of the little one hole on the side, so I didn’t see the comparison of the three.

But Brent assures me that they’re pretty much the same age. And then the other one I saw was pretty much already got the adult sort of coloring with the spots and the coloration, but was still pretty small—slight pretty small little youngster for five months or so.

It’s the foot again! You can see the feet! It’s upside down! There we go! You look between Waffles’ legs, you can actually see the little youngster busy suckling.

Such a good mother! While the one youngster was suckling, the other one was lying on top of Waffles’ head while she was lying on the floor. She was lying like that and was like on top of the head—not bothered at all.

Such a good mum—so tolerant, I suppose, until the youngsters start biting things they shouldn’t be out there. They’ll be their tolerated. And at some stage, discipline will have to start coming through.

I landscape it! But at the moment it is the zoom! We arrived at the murderous Mara River just in time to watch a large herd of zebra start to crash their way through the dangerous waters. The first to go thrashed at the waters and attracted the attention of a hungry crocodile.

The zebra came ominously close to the waiting predators. Once a Berlitz was slipped from the rest, fell victim to a very large croc. The crocodile clamped down with powerful jaws and pulled the stricken zebra downstream, with the rest of the crocodiles quickly closing in.

This moment allowed some zebra the freedom to cross the river. Others, shaken, had seen one of their own taken, decided against taking the plunge and turned back. Well, I'm terribly sorry about whatever technical issues happened there, if the link through to the zebra crossing, but how incredible was that to be able to witness those individuals crossing from the Maasai Mara side to the triangle side?

One per individual falling victim to a very large crocodile and falling victim—it turned out to be 36 very large crocodiles that just completely dismembered that zebra in a matter of about five minutes. It was drowned pretty quickly and then, with a very characteristic barrel roll that the crocodiles do, well, one out of a million or 600,000—one out of the 600,000 fell victim to the crocodiles, which is all part and parcel of what happens this time of year.

If you look over the plains, there are a few VV de beers and a few zebras from time to time. Really do not dent what we can see. Archer is just thousands of animals today. I think I’ve seen more Valda beast and zebra than I have seen over the last few days, and they all seem to be moving closer and closer to the river.

So in the next few days, James and I are most certainly going to be spending time closer to the river, checking the crossings. A small—we nearly had one. We actually had a very small crossing of about seven zebra, and the crocodiles were not bothered at all.

I think they weren't sort of excited by the threat by the thrashing of the water. Never too late; the largest crocodiles recorded are five and a half meters and weighing over a thousand kilograms, so 2,000 pounds, and that’s about what, about 18 feet? So that’s enormous! That is very, very big! That was a crocodile that was pulled out of the Lawa River in the northern Kruger park, but I have no doubt that there aren’t possibly even bigger crocodiles out there.

But that is what the history books tell us. And James, just inquisitive one, keeps popping its head in and out of that little hole there. He's too cute! Maybe he's waiting for mum as well to come and suckle because he's possibly getting quite hungry.

But anyway, the plains are bounding with animals, and we're going to move off shortly to go and see if we can maybe find some lions following these herds. Lulu, know that the adults will possibly look after the den but they won’t suckle, so from a babysitting point of view, yes, most certainly, they will look after in God at the den site, but they won't do any communal suckling.

That is completely reserved for the adults on its own, whereas in browner hyena, henan strata, Nina, there’s a lot of cross-suckling. It goes to show how well linked and related those families are. But in Krakataua, ricotta, which is the spotted hyena, there's absolutely no assistance in the milking of the youngsters, and they do go for a very long time, almost a year of providing milk.

And a lot of that has got to do with the diet of a numerous amount of bones that the hyena almost sort of unparalleled in this environment for accumulating or for accessing. Even once all the herds are gone, the hyena will be able to follow up on bones and carcasses that had been left dotted around the plains.

And also, when they do catch an animal, they are able to access far more of it than the others do, but they will—wait! I think maybe it’s because the herds surrounded the den, they probably just moved off a few meters into the shade, and then as it cooled down, they came all the way back again.

So anyway, back down to South Africa, and hopefully, Taylor McCurdy can do something with those tracks. So we’re just about to arrive at Buckles Hook Dam, which is slowly drying up. But it's one of the few dams that has a decent amount of water in it, so let's have a quick little look and see if anything has come down to have a drink.

Although at first glance, it kind of looks empty. A couple of birds—oh, hippos! You know, and why they're coming this way looks like they like making an escape out of the water. They're gonna come straight towards us.

Look at this! I'm actually very careful with my car because I don’t want these about to charge me now. I think they're a little bit on the nervous side, so this is not ideal because the water's not particularly deep, so I don't think they feel very safe in it.

And this big male hippo in front is a hippo we see on a regular basis, and he has a cute little pet name, which is Scuba Steve. And he’s quite a shy hippopotamus, so he does... sorry, hippos, I didn’t mean to give you a fright. Was he?

We're quite far away from them, and then that car is just following in suit. And this is where these creatures can become extremely dangerous, so you've also got to be careful of hippos charging your vehicle.

So I’m gonna leave them because I didn’t want them to leave the water. The fact that they got out of the water again, look, if you’ve never seen Buckles Dam, it’s all the way down over there, but it’s very, very shallow at the moment. So I'm gonna keep going and just let those hippos come back to the water where they do feel a lot safer.

If it was not Scuba Steve, if it was that Carl by herself and maybe another hippo ball, I don’t think they would have got us. I just know that it’s in that male’s nature. He’s very, very nervous. He hasn’t got any confidence at all.

Yes, Roslyn, hippos are only deadly—there are more people than the big VY put together. So you gotta watch out for them, and obviously, they're just wild animals. And as you've just seen, even though they're so massive, there can be, you know, scaredy cats.

And I think the majority of the time when people end up getting injured is because they're just so frightened of us as humans. And they're protective over their areas, their whole territories. So if I were to go anywhere near that water and foot on a car, and he was happy, you could quite happily turn around and attack me.

And there’s nothing wrong with him doing that. He's just protecting what's his. And like I said, because there's not much water in there, he's just not feeling particularly comfortable. I think he feels quite vulnerable.

That maybe I could run in there and easily attack him—not that I'd want to do something like that, but maybe that's what he thinks in his mind. Right, so he didn’t pick up on any fresh signs of Sandy, just some old tracks from where she came in to avoid Taylor this morning.

But Tristan has managed to sort out his gremlins, and he’s still with us on earth. [Music] Indeed! Now, sorry about a little bit earlier; we had a slight technical difficulty like you were so close to camp that we could shoot in like a Formula One pit stop crew and get everything sorted out and back out again to be able to spend some time with our favorite ways.

And I’ve just moved a little bit from where he last was. His legs were in the sun, so he got hot feet, and he needed to kind of reposition himself. So he’s put himself in the shade now, and that didn’t go down well with the local squirrel population in the neighborhood, as they were all shouting at him.

And then also, he’s kind of now just looking around. There were a few impalas around as well, so he’s just kind of scanning about. And he was a little bit of a breeze that’s kind of blowing into his face, so he looks quite content, doesn’t he?

He’s about as happy as you could ever imagine for a leopard! He’s but a full tummy; there’s a bit of a breeze blowing. He's got some shade, and he’s got some company, which we know Husana likes to have.

So it's typical of him to be kind of around where he is now. Gallagher Pan is one of his favorite little horns to be able to not only race but get water and to be able to hunt potential food items that have come this way.

I was a bit worried a little earlier because I thought potentially the Inca's might have pushed him off and moved him from this area because they seemed to have come from here. And when elephants are around, they sometimes can make leopards move, and that’s maybe why he’s lying here and not in the drainage line or Caligo pan because of the fact that the ellies move through there.

They might have just made him move a little bit and so he’s found the next best place with some shade conveniently one meter over the road. So finding him really was not tricky this afternoon at all.

Now, it’s been a very, very, very busy week for Husana. He’s been all over the place. And well, he had a tough time of it trying to defend his meal that he had in the middle of the week.

We find Husana on a hot afternoon with a fresh Nyala kill. He barely had time to catch his breath when a hyena approached the kill. Little Chief grabbed the Nyala carcass, and with all his might tried to hold a huge kill up a tree.

Alas, he just wasn’t strong enough to get the carcass to safety before Kazi, a male hyena, ran in and latched on to the carcass. Husana, realizing he was no match for Lino, left to go and discuss Kazi, who proceeded to drag the carcass a short distance away before tucking into his stolen meal.

Husana was helpless but patient as he lay panting, looking for any gap to retrieve his meal. Unfortunately for the Prince, the noise of crushing bone attracted another member of the Juma clan, and Timur bounded in to join in the festivities.

With the two hyenas preoccupied, Husana spotted a piece and, like a flash, ran in. Unfortunately, it wasn’t fast enough and was promptly chased off the scene by the lioness.

Well, wasn’t that a tough time for Usana? I felt so bad for him; he had done so well to find himself a meal, and then unfortunately they stole it from him, and he was left not to get any of it.

Although it seems as though the next morning, Taylor went back, and she managed to find him sort of noshing on a leg or something like that, and so maybe he got a little piece out of it and was able to then kind of eat that.

But I really did feel sorry for him. It’s tough to learn that hyenas and other leopards will steal from you, and so Husana has had to learn that the hard way this year.

He really has had a difficult time of it in terms of thievery. The thing is, though, is that he did everything right. It was just unfortunate circumstance, and also a problem that he killed something that was a little too large for his size at this stage.

If he had killed something smaller, he would have done everything right—he would have been up into the tree with his carcass and everything would have been okay. But because he killed a large animal, it makes it a lot trickier for him to have gotten it up.

But he, you know, he killed it! He dragged it to the base of a tree before any hyenas arrived. He sat there—he was just catching his breath—he was starting to kind of eat it, opening it up, trying to lighten it. And unfortunately, he just got caught too early on.

And that happens from time to time even to the most experienced of leopards. I’ve seen them lose kills like that. The only thing is, I think he could have been more aggressive potentially towards a male hyena that he saw.

You know, he’s—of course, he’s still on the younger side, but a big male leopard might not have stood down to a small, you know, male hyena of course his size. And he might have even tried to take it back.

But, you know, he ran to the tree, picked it up before that, you know, came. He tried to get it up, but it was just literally too heavy. He tried with all his strength to get it up there.

And this is just the way it goes; I’ve seen many, many, many leopards lose kills like that, including big males like Tingana, who just don't have the time frame to get it up and struggle with that carcass all the way up the tree.

And so, like I say, he did everything right, and his experience to try and put it up into the tree was there, but unfortunately—this is the way it goes sometimes, and they lose out.

But Husana will learn from that, and hopefully be able to get it right next time. Anyway, talking about hyenas, Steve sounds like he’s having a wonderful afternoon in the company of the North Clan.

And well, they are not as thieving as lions down here. They do a lot of work of their own. Three hyenas joined the scene, and now all the youngsters have come out—who’ve seen for now three three running around now.

These two, but very excited venge! This probably mum that arrived back. It’s very hard; I’m getting very confused because all the youngsters are playing with all the mothers and running around and almost suckling of everyone.

They are doing a little bit of pasting again. Very important life lessons to learn! These two are much smaller than what Waffles' ones! You can see they don’t even have any spots yet on the chest.

You see that completely dark in color? He’s doing the pasting! Here we go! Not a very successful one at the back there, but that’s why we practice! And he was doing a little bit of digging as well before; the hole's not big enough.

It says to mum, "What's going on in their head with that nose?" But can you smell, little one? Feeling a lot more confident that there are more adults around? Maybe it's a good question.

That's all got to do with the researchers and what sort of money they have funding! It’s always important, and coloring of an individual costs money because you’ve got to dart them, which means you need a vet, and then you need to collect probably a new one.

So yeah, I definitely—it’s one of those questions I’ll have to ask the researchers when I see them. But it depends on how long they want their study to go for. One matriarch might be enough for them; they might have got enough data by then.

You can see four of them now; it’s just all over the show for really small youngsters and then one that’s up at the top has got a little bit more spots on it. Their heads do a little bit more darker. You can see the spots a little bit more on the chest than the one in front.

It's pasting! One of the savvies pasted on that branch before! And there we go! A little bit of love—a little bit of affection in the hyena world! Now this one is allowing one to suckle, so I don’t know what’s going on.

And through cards to the youngsters—they’re all over the place with the adults falling in the hole, running around, pasting, greeting everybody! Very exciting time for them! They’ve been in the ground for quite some time.

You see these two, they’ve got a lot more spots on the chest. Slowly, slowly, coming through. Megan Hyena Camps! As well as wild dog cubs are born black purely because they can get very, very, sorry! There was a zebra behind us!

They're having a little bit of a fight to keep them warmer! And black fur actually is much warmer than white fur, and so when they're in the hole, they stay a little bit warmer than they do if they're working a lighter color.

I think that’s the main reason! And slowly, over time, they will generate those spots! Lion cubs, on the other hand, are much lighter in color but more camouflaged. They don’t have a hole to hide in, so maybe the blackness is also to keep the youngsters in the hole from predators.

They can go quite deep in there, and they sort of blend in with the shadows. And also the black is to keep them warm. This is my thoughts, anyway.

Whereas lion and leopard cubs generally just secret themselves under a bush somewhere, and well, they need the spots to keep them there quite nice and well hidden. They don’t have the benefit of hiding in the hole in the ground.

And just look at how this is all playing out in front of us! The zebra and wildebeest are not bothered at all! And an entire family of hyena doing their thing!

Monique, I myself personally have no idea! They've all got pseudo penises, and they all have what looks like genitals, which is one of those things you get in hyena society.

And it’s only after maybe a little while when they get a little bit bigger you’ll start to be able to tell who is the male and who is the female. For example, that one is busy playing with its anal gland, if you can see that really interesting movement there.

Well, charming indeed! It warrants a sniff, doesn't it? Yes! Everything in the hyena society is about the nose!

Okay, well, we’re starting to get a little whiffed of behind you, then itself! As the wind changes its course! But oh, hyena! I’ve been active, and I think Tristan is still with a little chief.

Let’s see if he’s going to wake up anytime soon. Husana is very sleepy, and I don’t expect anything less! He’s been a sleepy kitty for much of the afternoon, given it’s quite warm, and he was fairly active when we actually found him this morning.

He kind of woke up and walked around, and we stayed for a bit off to drive just to see where he'd end up. And he was still going and stalking and scent-marking—he was heavily scent-marking!

He must have scent-marked at least six or seven times in about a 200-meter stretch of road. So he was marking every tree side of the road, scraping his back legs like we saw him do kind of in the middle of the week.

And so, you know, he’s been an active boy this morning, and I’m not surprised in that he needs a little bit of a nap. I would imagine what we’re gonna see from him is he’s gonna sleep like this as that sun starts getting a little bit lower.

He’s going to make his way down to the pan for a little drink, and then from there, who knows where he’s going to hit? I have a sneaky suspicion he’ll just romp a kind of drainage line and head off towards the Forum Tila Pan, the one in front of the camp by the dam camp.

And he's going to have a little look around there and maybe try and do some hunting. From there, it's anyone's guess as to where he goes. Hopefully, he spends the night in that area and tries to hunt, and he'll be around tomorrow morning. That's what I'm kind of hoping will happen.

But we’ll just have to see how it goes. No, not really! Not from anything in particular though; he’s waking up now because a little vehicle is joining us on the sighting, and so that’s why he's just kind of having a bit of a stretch.

But no, he’s not really vulnerable. I mean, theoretically, the only things that he’s got to worry about are big male leopards or lions, and both of those will probably see sleeping just like he is at the moment. He’s also got a tree right next to him.

If potentially a clan of hyenas were to come past, he’d be able just to run straight up that tree there and kind of go in for safety. So he’s definitely got options, but no, he’s not vulnerable. It’s just, you know, we often think of leopards as shy, secretive animals.

And while for the most part they are, when they're left to their own devices and are very relaxed, and a bit shaded like these leopards are, we get to see that they actually don’t mind sleeping right out in the open where they can kind of see what’s going on around them just as much as any other animal.

So, you know, they know what they’re doing. Husana, you know, even though he's young in his life, he’s still experienced with lots to survive to the point that he has given that he was orphaned at such a young age.

It's pretty incredible where he is, and he’ll know where it’s safe and where it isn’t. And in this particular area that we’re in, it's probably the central point of Tingana’s territory, and so that’s why he’ll be feeling quite safe.

Cats, how do we identify these leopards? Well, there's a number of ways to do it. Cats spots are pretty much the best way and the only way scientifically to really kind of do it. And what you’ll use is you either use those spots.

You see, he’s got three little spots over the top of his whiskers. You see there are black lines where the whiskers come out, and just above that are three little black spots. One very close to his nose and then two close together, but further away.

Now, all those will be three on his right side; then on his left side, yes, he has three spots. So that would mean that he is what we would call a three-three male. Now the arrangement of those spots is different on every single leopard.

It’s much like a fingerprint—you’ll have different kind of spots completely, as well as his facial markings and his body. The spots will be different to any other leopard that is at the end.

So if you get different kinds of spots and you can match them against others, you can recognize it. But how we recognize them, because we are fortunate enough to see a lot of these leopards as often as we do, we often can recognize them just clearly or by sight, so what they look like.

Much like you maybe have a domestic animal at home if you have a dog or a cat, and you would be able to know which one is your dog or cat because you’ve seen it so many times, and you get to recognize certain traits within them.

It’s the same thing with these guys. Once you see them a lot, you recognize eye color, you recognize body shape, and certain little things that will give it away that will tell you who the slip it is.

And so, I mean, spots are the scientific way, but Archer, very seldom do I look at a leopard's spots before we know who it is. Just the general sort of appearance of that animal, the way it looks, its facial kind of features, its eye color, its ears—all that will kind of tell you who exactly it is.

But spots are the one that you should really kind of use if you are to do things properly. And each, like I say, each leopard will have a completely different spot pattern to another one.

That’s a very, very, very sleepy cat! But well, we’re sitting here with Husana. Are we going to hope that he’s going to wake up and get going for the afternoon? But while we do that, could send you back across to Taylor, who I’m sure is just driving around trying to find Tandi and Columba, and hopefully she'll get some luck soon.

So we gave up on searching for Tandi and Columba. I don’t know where they are, so what we did is we came all the way down and along the eastern boundary and then down to the south, and we’re trying to find one of the Avoca male lions who was seen here this morning with Tristan.

But I don’t see him anymore, so I’m wondering if he hasn’t maybe moved off. So he was sleeping around here somewhere; he’s got a bad limp, so I don’t think he’d be going too far.

I’m just gonna quickly keep checking the shady thickets in case I missed him. If you did watch a sunrise safari this morning and you saw the interaction between the Avoca male and Tingana, you really realize how flat a lion can make itself.

Okay, let me just check here to make sure that there is nothing. I won’t have to end up going back up again. Yes, I think we will do—quickly just check one more time along here.

Anyways, something else that we could see around and in this area that have been popping up over the last week or so is the wild dogs. And we did have a spectacular sighting of them just a few days ago—the Ambala invest tech breakaway pack, and their puppies showed up on our western boundary.

And it’s hard to get a total count of the dogs as they were lying up in some long grass. Eventually, one of the pack members initiated a game with one of the other dogs, but an intruder arrived on scene. Immediately, adults went into defense mode, and the puppies raced off to safety.

The hyena eventually moved off and left the pack in peace. Sadly, it seems as though two of the puppies have not made it; only four remain. I have no doubt that they’ll all do their very best to keep the remaining pups alive.

All right, because that we’ve been so fortunate to have the awesome dogs on the property, and I hope that they come back. That could be something else! If all hope fails today, we might have to head down towards the waste. We’re checking all quadrants of the reserve at the moment. I haven’t seen the dog tracks, though I haven’t heard anything.

I’m just looking for that lion; he’s here somewhere. Giraffe girl, you have exclaimed and you’re excited about all the wild dogs. Yes, I also do enjoy them! They’re all really lovely when they're around.

I just can’t believe how big those puppies are getting too! They’re enormous! It feels like they’ve doubled in size! But nothing stays little for very long!

Yeah, it’s important that they all grow nice and big and strong! Sorry, I’m still just checking here for the lion. I'm going all the way down to the boundary now. I’m sure he’s here somewhere, just in the shade.

Okay, wonderful! Okay, we're gonna do some proper searching and just check the shadows very carefully to find this Avoca male that’s lying somewhere around.

Yeah, or if you go back to Steve who’s waiting patiently at the hyena den. Well, we are still here; we were thinking of leaving, but you can’t leave when all the little ones come out! Who have been very active as always! Most active I’ve seen them pasting—hmm!

Some growls going on there; see if you can hear it. That’s about all. It’s getting a bit too close. The female in the hole is not liking the attention. The youngsters are trying to figure out what’s a growling all about. Getting them quite excited, my safari!

Very good question! My knowledge of animals and their teeth needs a little bit of work, so I’m going to pose a question to the viewers: how many teeth do hyenas have? I’m going to reckon it’s in the thirties, some way around there, but the exact number I am not sure at the moment.

Every day, it’s good to add some knowledge to our minds! And what I do know is that their bite force is incredible! And look at that! Look at those teeth there! They are enormous!

Centre your questions or comments to hashtags of foil, average, and popular on YouTube stream! Who can tell us how many teeth does the average hyena have? Peggy hyenas have got that reputation of being a scavenger, and yes, they do scavenge, but they are very adept at killing their own prey, catching their own food, and in their clans, they pick out the weak and then will actually physically chase it down and bite it.

Very similar to the way wild dogs do bite it, invited, and eventually subdued. The animal eventually dies of blood loss and shock as it gets eaten alive! So, very fast-moving animals—they can keep up a good pace, and they’re pretty much just running the animal into the ground.

But generally selecting the weakest individual. Brent had in what a few months ago, I think in February, had the Happy Zebra clan catching a topi. That was quite something to behold! It’s something I’m quite looking forward to on a trip down in South Africa.

We seem to only find the hyena scavenging and following the likes of Husana and Tingana around but not necessarily doing the killing themselves. But we don’t get to see it. We don’t get to spend the time—excuse me! Up here, we’re not really supposed to be following hyenas, so we’ve got them by the den site to see what they’re doing and where they’re going and how they hunt.

It’s very difficult, but I know Brent, Jamie, and Scott have all had some really epic sightings of the hyena doing all sorts of things and also are competing lions, which is something that’s quite tricky to do.

Laurie, you know what I want to know? Tasting as well! If you have a look at the youngsters there—let’s go back to the youngsters—it’s on the right of this medium-sized one here, James! There’s that little branch there—just down!

Yeah, I see a little branch to the right of this one individual! See if I can put my finger on it. You know, there we go—there’s that branch right there! There we go—that one!

Well in and around a den site, youngsters practice pasting. So I mean they’ve got an anal gland, and when adults move around in their territories and in long distances away from the den, they’ve got specific signage and areas where they’ll paste.

So they’ll basically rub their bottom, their anal gland on top of the branch or the stalk or whatever it might be, and that gives off all sorts of communication signals to their clan, to other clans, that sort of advertiser's occupancy.

It’s similar to what leopards do in their urine spray, except the paste lasts a lot longer. People postulate that the smell or the paste itself can indicate the sexual maturity, a little bit of our Jabbar Ji, sexual maturity, strength, size, and reproductive ability of the clan.

We can only guess, but the pasting needs to be redone every couple of weeks, and in and around a den site, the youngsters will practice.

Now, do it religiously almost; it becomes very instinctive for them because when they’re out in the field, they need to be able to do it at some stage at those signposts, where they also defecate.

Yes, indeed! That zebra’s got a lot to say this afternoon! So, the pasting is something that the youngsters practice. And we’ve probably seen a few clips or in that one clip we saw earlier, we saw the answers sort of—if you’ve got a dog at home and they walk around—they’re up their bum on the carpet because they’ve got worms? Well, this is kind of how pasting looks like in these individuals.

They lift up their tail and they’re up there—anal gland onto a small stalk— that’s a little bit elevated off the ground, and then that gives off a communication signal that lasts for two weeks, which gives off a really, really pungent smell if you ever do happen to come across one!

Well, it seems like Limpy Luton has been found! Let’s go to Taylor, who would like to show you the battered old gentleman! Here is Limpy Lou, one of the Avoca boys! I cannot believe the size he is!

These guys have, like, I’m not even joking, doubled in size—not only in body mass but also in their manes! It’s just absolutely extraordinary how quickly these animals have grown!

We were literally just talking about how nothing stays little forever, and of course, that applies to these males. Now, the Avoca boys have been an interesting coalition of males that have come from the north, and we haven’t been seeing them too often.

They popped their noses in every now and then, but they haven’t quite established themselves up here in the north since the Birmingham boys moved on further south.

And there’s no sign of the Birmingham male coalition that were up here returning anytime soon, so I think so, but Rudy once the Avocas realized that the space is really now open and up for grabs!

They’ll start moving on in. They’ve got a hard job of trying to convince the females and the prides within the area that they're worthy! It'll take a little bit of time, but eventually, they’ll worm their way in, which is not normally happens—it’s not a typical quick thing.

The female lions are, you know, slow to gain the trust of others; fair enough! But luckily for the Inca Houmas is that they don’t have any young cubs, and the only real issue that they could incur within the pride is that these boys chase out young Inca Houma males, and then also, well, his fellowship now, because he got three others that have decided they quite liked him too and would also want to join his coalition.

So they might not tolerate them anymore, but while they’re not permanently here in the northern sabi sand, it seems they’re spending more time on the Monny Laity and in Puffelshoek, which is just north of us.

I reckon in the next few months they’ll probably settle on down. It also sounds like there’ve been a couple of lionesses; I don’t know which lionesses are mating with him from the Inca Houma pride.

Oh dear! Shame! I’m not sure what’s happened to this male lion, but he’s been limping for a couple of days now. And Tristan was saying to me it looks like one of his joints is quite swollen, so I suppose we can really only speculate whether it’s a snake bar or whether he’s run after something.

And he’s, you know, twisted a joint; that happens—you know what it’s like when you twist your ankle and how swollen your leg becomes; these kinds of injuries are fairly common.

But the animals, especially if they're running at full speed, are not particularly looking at where your feet are going but the amount of holes and things like that. Yeah, you know, I suppose anything could happen. And that does look a little bit swollen there, just on that joint.

So it could be a cut that’s maybe got infected or something like that could cause some serious swelling too, but it’s a very minor injury for this boy! We’ve seen animals, for example, just talking about the Inca Houma pride again.

Look at that lioness that had that monstrous gash on her hind leg and how she’s completely recovered. And she looked really, really terrible at one point; she was thin, she had no muscle, even though she was eating on a regular basis, and she’s quite a severe number two.

But she’s fine now! So these animals are a lot more resilient than we think, and we need to give them credit where credit’s due, and healing is definitely one of them. And if they're not strong enough to survive our chair to survive everything that’s thrown at them, their nature deems, “I’m not worthy of living.”

And I know that sounds sad to you and I, but that’s just how it works, our chair in the wild west. But he’s probably going to do what a lion does.

He’s going to just rest up, and he’s kind of in the fork of a road—what a T-junction if you will—an animal pathway and then a fire break! We’ll see and watch this fellow, and hopefully, he’ll do a rollover and open those beautiful golden eyes for us to see!

Another boy that's got beautiful golden eyes but is keeping them tightly shut is Husana. Indeed! Our golden eyes! It’s our golden cat really in many respects! And he’s also having a very big nap!

I think all of the cats were so busy this morning that they decided it’s time to kind of rest. I’m pretty sure that they will get going. It's starting to cool down quite nicely.

And knowing Husana—this is just before the time he starts to get going. He normally starts to get going at about sort of Hopeless 5:00; that’s his normal kind of time. He likes to wander just before that sun sets, and then he kind of wanders around at sunset itself.

So I expect him to wake up fairly soon! I'm hoping he will at least and provide us with some epic, epic entertainment as he generally does. At the moment though, it’s a little bit of a sleepy cat; he’s kind of taking it very easy and just digesting that stolen kill of his that he got from Shadaloo.

He ate that for a few days, and so his tummy is really nice and bulgy. But knowing Husana, he’s not going to just sit down tonight and not hunt! He just has a bottomless pit for a stomach, and so I’m pretty sure he’s going to try and find some semblance of food during the night.

You can see he’s dreaming! He’s a little touching of his toes! What are you chasing, boy? Obviously dreaming! He’s chasing something! His front foot is also twitching now as well!

So he’s such a silly cat! It really is! It’s been amazing kind of following him over the past few months! I don’t think we could have asked for anything better!

We’ve been so spoiled with how many things he’s provided in terms of unique behavior, in terms of just general kind of goofiness that you wouldn’t really expect from a leopard!

And to get to know a leopard the way we have with him has been very, very, very special! We’ve had the most amazing time with him! But so many minutes depends—obviously! It depends on weather conditions a lot of the time.

Also depends on what’s around him and what opportunities come their way! So, you know, if there are hunting opportunities, but generally you’ll find a leopard will sleep for anywhere between sort of 14 and 18 hours a day!

Maybe even sometimes more than that! It depends on how full they are, whether they’ve got food—all of these kinds of things. Some cats are more active cats, like Husana; he tends to move a lot! You know, you see him moving around quite a bit when he’s not hunting or feeding.

When he’s hunting at these pans, then he sits there all night. But I mean, or when he’s feeding, he stays there; but otherwise, you can see he kind of walks a lot!

I mean, the other day, we found he was seen at 4-4 Sukdam in the afternoon. We then found him very close to camp. He then walked all the way back to before Sukdam in the following morning.

He had walked from Buffels dam to the southwestern corner, which is on the opposite end from where before Sukdam is! So he’d covered a huge amount of distance during that time, and that would have meant that he didn’t actually sleep as much!

So you know, that just depends on the day. But on average, I would say between sort of maybe 12 and 18 hours would be my kind of range for a leopard! Far more active than the lions!

Taylor’s lion and she’s got—is probably more around 20 hours! Now, I was saying earlier in the week that he had a busy time as he walked about all over the place.

And we've also discussed how he always is involved in shenanigans! And well, we had a pretty entertaining sighting of him as he tried to take on a ferocious lizard after losing out to Valino.

The little chief was on the prowl for another meal! Hidden in the grass was a large monitor lizard! Husana approached to investigate, little did he know he had come up against a worthy adversary.

Monitor lashed out with teeth and a whipping tail! Realizing, discretion was the better part of valor! Husana strutted off, leaving the brave lizard to fight another day!

The little scent marking done, the prince decided to flop down, who was either bored or decided a bit of practice was in order as soon as he swatted and played with a stick!

Perhaps next time the monitor won’t be so lucky if his ninja technique finally chews! Well yes, the ninja chop that he’s practiced now on the stick! That monitor lizard better watch out next time!

Because now he’s honed his skills! It was very funny watching him playing around with that stick! I didn’t laugh a lot! And actually, it was a last drive with Vermaak, one of our camera operators.

And VM wanted him to play with the stick when we started the drive. And we somehow managed to actually get it on camera! It’s very, very cute! He is such a goofball, this cat!

Often just doing these kind of things where he misses about and does all kinds of random stuff with sticks and branches and grass, and really kind of just goes crazy at times!

I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy watching him when he’s like that! He really kind of makes me laugh! You can see that youthfulness is still in him when he does those kind of things. It’s not like, you know, Tingana.

Tingana’s all very seldom missed around with a stick or something like that, whereas Husana, he tends to just play all the time! And sometimes even gets the crazies where he just runs around like a hooligan, round in circles, and up and down, grabs things!

And it’s pretty funny because you see that a lot in domestic cats, particularly younger domestic cats. And so he’s in many respects that way as well. He kind of does these kinds of things, and he really is a crazy, crazy individual.

I thoroughly kind of enjoy following him around and seeing what he gets up to! He’s difficult not to like, Husana!

So even if you’re not a leopard fan, spending time with him and watching his antics really kind of has to endear you to him as an individual. Like I say, if you’re not really a leopard fan, he’s a cool individual and personality in terms of a cat personality that you can’t help but be attracted to!

He brings a smile to most people’s faces! And it’s really interesting because obviously, you know, we spend a lot of time with him, probably far more than anybody else, Archer.

But we often get to speak to guests that’ve been around and that have seen him, and you know, to the various landowners of these areas. And I’ve yet to meet somebody—are you not talking Husana in your sleep?

I have yet to meet somebody that hasn’t absolutely loved spending time with this cat and hasn’t kind of walked away with saying what a special cat he is! That you really is quite incredible!

Even when he’s sleeping, he can provide entertainment by talking to us in his dreams! I wonder what he would say if he was actually sitting here and taking it easy!

I know he’s going to do a big stretch! His stretches are good news! We want to see stretches like that because it means he’s starting to kind of stir little bits!

They’ll be infrequent to start with, but as he starts to wake up, so a lot more will happen! Right now, hopefully, it is a good sign that he is going to start waking up!

But from one sleeping cat to another, let’s send you back across to Taylor McCurdy! I think he’s gonna be sleepy for quite some time!

He hasn’t even blinked his eyes once since we’ve been here! They've been close, tight! I think he’s enjoying the cool afternoon breeze!

As long as well as with the—oh, Craig, look at that! Unsuspecting waterback! It’s just over there! Now there’s a waterback that’s walking up! It’s still quite far away!

I don’t think that this lion is going to get up and hunt—although she seems to be quite suspicious of something!

The wind is swirling this afternoon! She’s unsure; she’s looking the wrong way! But something definitely caught her attention!

Cerissa, he looks like he ate in the last few days, so I don’t think he needs to worry about it too much! But the idea behind the digestive system of predators is that they can actually go a couple of days without eating!

So they gorge themselves, so that they look like they’ve eaten a beach ball, and that will take a couple of days to digest! So three or four days is fine! I’ve ever seen lions that haven’t eaten for a week—week and a half—and then they start to look fairly, fairly thin!

But then they normally catch something in due time! Now she just stood on a branch; I heard it crack, and he didn’t even lift his head up and acknowledge her!

And if I can hear that waterback, you know, cracking as she steps on branches, then surely that male lion will be able to hear it easily! But he’s not interested; he’s fast asleep!

She’s still looking around! Very uncertain! But she knows that something is up! She’s acting like she’s being quite suspicious!

Even though that male lion has got an injury in his limping, adrenaline is an incredible thing! I’ve seen animals with broken legs get up and run like there’s nothing wrong with him!

So if he was absolutely desperate and ravenous and needed something to eat, well then, he probably wouldn't act like he had a sore leg anymore!

Which is difficult, because he is unlucky, and he doesn’t have the lionesses to help him, so he’s still got to work on that! But maybe he’ll catch up with his brothers a little bit later!

But it seems as though the weather is changing in the Mara, and it seems as though a storm has started to brew! The weather in the distance is definitely raining; we saw it on our way, and that’s why we decided not to go too far south!

That is kind of the area over there; that’s the Salt Lick area, and that general direction a little bit more to the right is where the Sausage Tree pride and and hanging out. It was very, very wet down that side!

But beautiful, beautiful scenes! This is the view from the hyena den! And swathe with animals over the horizon! They've picked a really good real estate here! Very nice vegetation brings in the herds!

But just like Limpy Lou, neither the prey animal nor the predator here looks very interested in each other! All the Beers stop are moaning constantly! But there’s no sort of animosity between these two!

Maybe when the light goes down! I always find it amazing because I mean, you know, are known to actually kill and catch their food up here! And what they do is steal every now and again!

Their steal the food, and every now and again it is them who wins against the lions! And sometimes male lions have interactions with themselves!

We came across Kapoor Lee in the late afternoon far south near the Salt Lake area! It came as no surprise then to find him with the Salt Lick pride, sleeping off a meal delivered by the Sears migration!

The old veteran looked rather beaten up, with blood oozing from a hole below a very swollen right eye! As the temperatures cooled, each lioness took a turn to greet and investigate the battle-scarred male in characteristic lion fashion!

As Kapoor Lee looked on, the pride mounted off, one by one, into the darkening night! Can you imagine having a hole in your face? Everybody take your finger and just feel that area.

Imagine a hole like this big right on your face! Even James is feeling it! I can’t be very nice! And Kapoor Lee was wearing that like a battle-scarred gentleman with the Salt Lick pride!

They’re all very, very keen to go over to him and give him a proper little— I can think of nothing worse! You’ve got this injury; everybody wants to rub that! But it’s like having an older brother when you got a bruise.

All he does is he wants to push that bruise deliberately! Oh, what’s that? Anyway, the herds in the open plains! Whereabouts are the Salt Lick pride? They’re out there somewhere!

Kapoor Lee is out there probably with the herds spread out throughout the entire area! And it’s very difficult to track them down! But tomorrow, myself and almost a big James are going to go and spend some time down in the south and see if we can track down any lions!

The general game from what we’ve noticed in the last few days all seems to have moved towards the river! Port more north—North! Is north and east, but there are still lots of general game down that side!

There are huge areas that were burned! So I think today we’re just gonna have to have to play with it and see where we go! Now, definitely many, many lions are there, but the prey are just in abundance! It is mind-boggling, folks!

I actually wanted to do a video myself as you came out this afternoon, because they were just so many animals! Well, it seems like the little chief has woken up, and let’s go see what he’s up to!

Look at him! He’s transformed into another spotted creature! This is Athena, no I’m joking! Poor Husana has just been chased by this!

I don’t know where he is! I don’t know if he’s actually under the car because the last time I saw him was walking to the bonnet, and I didn’t see him come out!

So I’m not sure if he’s actually underneath the car or not, so please excuse me while I just look and make sure!

I saw—no, you under there? No, no! It doesn’t sound like it! Let’s just have a little look. I thought he shoots out too! So I’m just gonna go back in case.

Because he’s so relaxed, sometimes you might actually be able to—nope, that’s good! I think he must have gone round the mound.

But it does—Hyena just came out at the worst possible time because it’s now stopped him from having a drink!

He was about to go and have a lovely drink, and now instead he’s parked himself off and is watching with disdain and staggers in his eyes as this hyena drinks the water that he wanted to go and have.

And now you know that—he looked like it was Corky then! She’s very, very, very full, and I think it was her! It’s either Corky or Pretty, but it looked