Safari Live - Day 308 | National Geographic
This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and caucuses. Viewer discretion is advised.
Good afternoon everybody! Welcome to drama in the Sabi Sands, where it is 34 degrees Celsius. That's about 87 Fahrenheit. I forget, I do apologize. My name is Steve, welcome, and I'm joined by Beacon camera. It is a wonderful afternoon, albeit a little bit warm. Please send through your questions using the hashtag #safarilive or through the YouTube chat stream; we'd love to hear from you.
My plan this afternoon is to follow some elephant tracks. They head up to the northwest and south towards Sydney's dam, so we can catch up with him or at least get close to him. I’m going to do a big loop around because there were reports of an injured cheetah on the property at some point this morning. I'm just trying to get clarification on where that individual was, but wouldn't that be something to see? So, jump on board; let's go see what we can find.
When it's hot like this, the animals, as always, are going to be by the water, so let’s check all the watering points and see if we can be lucky on this road. Now, we're on East on our Western road. There's lots of tracks seemingly from Hukumuri. Those of you who missed the show this morning or anything last night know that Hukumuri was on the move last night and this morning. He was calling, so Tenggara popped in at some point last night. Let me show you on the map where I am; my map.
Because I've just found these tracks, they seem fresh, but they’re not that fresh. Okay, here we go. We are over here on our Breeze road, and there are tracks of a male leopard coming down very, very deliberately down this road. That's Hukumuri's tracks over there. Mzandi's tracks were on Galago, coming down all the way, and Hukumuri we found this morning came running towards us over here.
So, there's a good chance it's somewhere around here, and in the middle of the night while no one was listening, the two of them had some form of interaction, albeit maybe just calling and shouting at each other. But that's what leopards will often do; they’ll demarcate a line, walk along that line, then cross it. That seems to be what's happened because Hukumuri has walked straight down this line. Let me just show you again on the map: Hukumuri has walked straight down here, straight down there, straight through the middle, and then came down here and straight out.
And then Ganda did something similar except he went that way all the way across, down, and out over there. So, they seem to have sort of run parallel to each other, demarcating territory as they go. That is what's interesting. We didn't see anything, but that is often what happens with male leopards. It's all about intimidation, strength, shouting, and calling, and leaving the scent marks behind. We're trying to see if we can smell any of them because it’s such a lovely snow leopard urine, but anyway, while we continue searching for these elephants, let’s go up to the Masai Mara and say a very good day to David.
“Very good, everybody, and jambo jambo from Kenya! We are in the Mara Triangle, and my name is David. And come with me today is Archie.”
Archie hiding, sir? Oh, it looks good! I’m not sure I’ll be talking about leopards myself; I’ll be talking about lions. I mean, I got better chances of seeing lions than leopards, although, once in a while, we get surprises and bump into a leopard. Like the other day, I saw that cheetah tree lying upon; I was very excited.
Well, my plans today are to go to the sausage republic, since the republic is an area that you should see a pride of lions; we call the sausage. It's a pride, and it’s still rather hot at the moment here. We are talking of 89 degrees Fahrenheit and 32 degrees Celsius; that is very hot. The reason it’s hot is that in the next few weeks, we shall be getting our long rains. So, that's how it goes; the temperatures are rising like this, like that. When they stabilize, then what is that coming down there, rain will come.
So, the plans for today are to remember, I’m sure Steve already told you our joy is always to get questions and comments from you on the hashtag #safarilive on Twitter as usual, and that keeps us going. We are always very interactive, and when we hear your voices and are getting questions from your comments, it gives us more spirit to keep looking for animals.
At the moment, I am driving southeast, and that's the road that takes me to those sausages that I love. All those lions are there. Yesterday, I was there the whole afternoon, and for three hours I did not see anything that related to a lion for the whole three hours.
Now, one of the main reasons I want to keep going back there, or why I go most every other day to that particular pride, is called the King Tail. There’s a good run of cubs, and nobody—nobody—I’ve seen those cubs because I go there every day, and they're good friends of mine who go there every day, and I also got the game rangers who are always in that project area, and they’re always in touch. Every two days, she kicks them out, you know, joining the other females for a little walk, or for a drink, or for being involved in a kill or being in a kill eating, but no cubs have been seen about two weeks ago.
Identified her dead; we don’t say 100 percent that was the ten she went in a place that he could not see her, and a few minutes later, I could hear the small cubs, you know, talking to mama now. I got a feeling she has moved her den to a new area, and that is where I do not know. But I’m not worried; it’s by going there every other day that we’ll be able to see them. Very good, very good!
So, our children, but again, as I have always said, on my weather, I could bump into anything on the way. And apart from myself and Steve, I think Holly is out about, and you’d like to say jumbo to all of you.
“Good afternoon, everyone! Lovely to have you on board on a day. It feels that we are pretty much in the middle part of a volcano because it's so hot. So, we’ve gotten very lucky today. We were actually set out to go and look for the new hyena den for the Juma Clan, and it seems that according to you, the directions that we got given, it is somewhere in here and not too far. But it's a good thing that we have found a hyena lying down there already, so not too bad for the start of our afternoon!
Seems like this morning as Steve was looking or following Hukumuri, then he came across the Juma clan, which is pretty good news because everyone’s been desperate to find the new den. Now please remember that we are live and interactive, so if you’ve got any questions or comments, you can send them through using the hashtag #safarilive on Twitter, or you can just send us a comment using the @fc on the YouTube chat.
Oh, I have actually got the best part there! Hello! Because it is hot today, and it’s a lot better in the shade than what we are feeling right now. So, as you can see, a lot of the animals are going to be doing just exactly this; this beautiful hyena is just lying where it’s nice and cool, where they don’t really have to worry too much. And then they will all go into almost sort of a coma.
Okay, I was trying to get a closer look because there's a lot of glare going on. I’m not too sure if which hyena this is. I would say maybe one of the females, but I mean, it’s a little hard to tell because also I’m looking at her through a screen just to try and see her better. But if you guys know, or the people that have been watching for a while—if you guys know which hyena this is—please do tell us using the hashtag #safarilive. I would love to catch up and remember who’s who and what’s been going on.
It's been quite a while since I last saw the hyenas, so I’m quite excited and quite hopeful that they’ll have their den somewhere around here. Now, I see a chair my mouse in the distance, and I wonder if perhaps that's not the one. So, I think let’s just go around, and we’re going to leave her here. We know that this particular hyena, chances are that it’s not going to go anywhere, and if it does, there are a few mud wallows around here. There's one just in front here to the left, and then there's another one to the right.
So perhaps it will go in there, Jennifer and potentially to the other reserves that are around us. The hyena clan of the world—the Juma Clan—is known as the Juma Clan just because they tend to spend a lot of time here. So if there is, if it’s not habitual for them to actually be in another spot, then they’ll potentially, everybody will know them as the Juma Clan. But again, it depends on the reserves; a lot of times, other reserves will name them differently. But unfortunately, with hyenas, not too many people take too much of an interest in terms of the writing community around here, and then sometimes people just refer to them as a clan of hyenas.
Now I think this is roughly where Steve mentioned where it is, and I can see some old vehicle tracks, and then if you see in front of us, there's a big termite mound. So I wonder if this is actually not the spot or the termite mound that they've been using. So I just want to go around and see if there’s anything around there that might indicate. Okay, well, there’s a nice big hole in there!
I would have mentioned this is the den; now that is what I presume to be the hole, though it doesn't look that used. And you see there’s a lot of grass in the front, so I would imagine that if there's all that grass in there, then potentially the hyenas haven’t been coming in and out. Because we've got little ones. And if it's quite a busy den, then you’ll see a lot of tracks and movements in the room have grass growing in the front.
Now, I am roughly in the area, so we're going to carry on looking, see if perhaps there's another entrance onto the other side of this boundary. Perhaps that's the one that they've been using; if not, according to the directions we got, we shouldn’t be too far. Maybe there’s going to be another round around here that might indicate where the hyenas are. This spot looks more like it. Alrighty, yeah, looks definitely more like it.
Now you see this entrance over here, so this particular entrance compared to the one that we just saw, it seems like it’s been used a lot more. You see how there's very little grass around, a bunch of new tracks all around there, and then you can just tell that it’s been excavated. You see the black there at the back, and then inside of the termite mound is probably where the little ones are.
I’m not too sure how many. I think I managed to have a glimpse of one today. I believe Cokie was the hyena that was around this morning, so I have a very strong suspicion that if there are little ones around, they are in there. And I mean, as we were saying, it’s so hot this afternoon; it’s about, I think I was saying 33 degrees, and we refused to accept that answer, and we said it was about 36 degrees Celsius, so I’m pretty sure the little ones are inside.
Well, not only for protection because the termite mound is their safe place for where they hide, but also it’s a lot cooler in there, so all the little ones are being clever already, and they’ve got one point on humanity. So hyenas, one, humans, not even zero because we are still very hot, and they're all in there enjoying the cool afternoon!
Right, we're going to leave them around; we're going to try and take a little bit later, see if perhaps we can come across the hyenas. But in the meantime, we’ll send you guys across to David, who’s also looking for hyenas but all the way in Kenya.
“Well gentlemen, as I said earlier, I could be heading to look for lions, but always along the way, so many things do happen. Now, I have found this particular ostrich, and yet she has put some chicks. If you look carefully in the grass, there, you can see some smaller heads or smaller birds just meandering through the grass. And that is, I would guess their mother, or that’s the female ostrich there.
This is the Masai ostrich. And when you can tell the height of the grass, see that it's covering all her legs; you can see her legs all the way to the thighs. And what I'm trying to do is see if I can go a little closer so that you can see those chicks. I’ve been following for quite some time. Initially, I started with about 12 chicks when she first hatched, and then she lost two. And I think she’s lost six; yeah, 11. She lost two; she was left at 9. But as she lost rather, two, she was left with seven. And last month she lost two, and she is now left with five, or less than five.
But something tells me these five chances are they will make it. I’m slowly trying to sneak on her; I might be a little quiet just looking at that beauty. Yes, I’m in the final controls, that’s pretty awesome. And I mean, we got ostriches all over Africa, but sometimes they tend to disappear, or they tend not to be where we are. You know, game driving, looking for animals, on good days we are always lucky to see them.
Now, the last two times I’ve seen this female, she has been alone and not with male. And when they hatch out on the incubating their eggs, you’ll get the males incubating the eggs during the night and the females in the day for the obvious reason of blending. I mean, the males blend better at night. And if you look at the color of that female and see the brown, just imagine the color of the grass or the color of the soil; she’ll definitely blend in very well as she lays over her eggs during the day.
Well, she’s got her mouth open; as they say, it’s pretty warm here, and I’d say Nancy would like to know what ostriches eat. I would say ostriches are omnivores. I mean, like most birds, you see how they’re flapping their wings there, Nancy? It’s just because of how hot it is at the moment.
I mean, Nancy, I’ll tell you, ostriches are omnivores. Now first, look how they fare as vegetarians! If you read them carefully, they’re feeding on seeds of some kind or seeds from the grass. They also feed on any fruit that they might speak to as they walk through—they’ll pick small leaves—and they also eat actually blades of grass.
So basically, I’m saying they are vegetarians in that sense. But apart from that, they also will be seen eating small reptiles—talk of lizards, talk of small chameleons—should I even get, you know, snakes, will feed on them. And they also feed on all sorts of insects they catch: their locusts, grasshoppers, anything of that sort.
But Nancy, you know, just to let you know, I like chicken, or like that, got what you call a crop. Ostriches do not have a crop, but they got a particular very special stomach. That is also present in a chicken; that’s called a gizzard. And that gizzard has very muscular walls, and for food to be digested there, they’ll always, we have seen ostriches picking smaller pebbles in the ground that literally speaks more loose particles of sand, which will help digest other food in the gizzard.
Now the five chicks that you see, they are apparently there, could be both males and females. When we look at birds, look at the sexual dimorphism of ostriches; you can tell, you know, the female is a brown or gray in color and has a black and white in color, but now at that particular age when they are, you know, that's the five of them there, it's difficult to tell whereas from females. But anything like going to eight months or so, they start changing the feathers, and the boys start showing different feathers of black and white; the females will remain the same color.
Well, I’m delighted to see these chicks that I had not seen for about two weeks now. Let’s carry on and go back to look for my lions, and I think Steve is working very hard to look for some cubs. Thanks, David! While we’re melting in the seat right now, it is hot! It might not look that hot, but it surely is.
That's Taylor's your— I think she did an entire half in our segment on the correct use of the word “your.” I’m not going to enlighten you because it’s basically just that “Wow!” But more so South African slang: “your.” A very commonly used expression, it can mean many things, the heightening of any sort of thing, an exclamation, an exclamation, triple exclamation at the end, “your!”
Anyway, we went around Sydney’s dam; nothing was going on there. There was a herd of Impala in the distance, just enjoying some shade, just like we’re about to! What would we do without the trees? I think we’d all just be melting!
And then I had some buffalo tracks coming in, and they went towards a small little pan just over there, but no luck finding them—only about three, maybe four buffalo bulls coming in, probably trying to avoid the Hukumuri pride.
So, the elephants have come up and down; there are some fresh tracks coming back in south again, and we're going to see if we can follow them. But talking about buffalo and their favorite, or should I say the predator that loves them so much on this property, it seems like the Ellie has caught up with Hukumuri pride. You do; they seem to love buffalo, and apparently they had a wonderful morning today.
We all know they got full bellies, which is good news because I think we were all concerned that they were looking a little bit hungry. Now, they are on a property that we unfortunately cannot go into, so we’re looking at them from quite a distance. You can see just how far away and how well this lioness is blending with the environment.
So, I think it was a very good thing that she is very hot and panting, and she’s got her head up, and that made it a little bit easier for us to see. There is a pan—more like a mud wallow— not too far from where she is. So, if she gets really, really hot, she can go down in there and have a drink.
Well, the rest of the pride is here, I’m not too sure how many of them because we can only see a few heads far behind from where she is. Hiding behind a tree, so it’s a little bit tricky trying to put the rest of them on camera. Just trying to say, I was doing well. You see that bush in the middle of your frame there behind it? Yeah, they’re behind there somewhere, all lying down because it’s very hot.
So, there by the shade of a big tree, which is very clever of them. So, as I was saying— oh yeah, I feel like I feel like the Lions are being very clever in not just lions, but hyenas clearly as well. But all the animals are a little bit more clever than us humans driving around in the heat.
But the good thing about the heat is that because it makes animals a little bit more static— if I can even use that description because a lot of them are just going to chill by the shade or close to a pan, and they’re not going to be moving too much in the heat. They can, a lot of them don’t have sweat glands, and they use their mouths to pant to cool themselves down, just as this lioness is doing.
So, we can tell that she's very hot, and they’re not going to be moving around creating even more heat for them. So, they’re making themselves even more hot, and they're just going to pretty much stick around in the same spot throughout the day until they decide that it is enough, and then they're going to go and start moving again potentially a little bit later.
And as we know, the Lions are pretty full, so there’s a very good chance that they’ll just stick around here until the night falls, and then they’re going to move out.
Oh, hi Megan! Oh look, sorry, I got distracted there! Because we’ve got a second lioness going to join her, which is good. And she does look like she’s enjoying lying down there in the shade. And perhaps this other one, or the second one that has now approached is going to go down for a drink. Are you or are you just going to lie down? Hmm, interesting.
You can see those bellies; they're looking happy and full. Look at that! That is a happy lion! That's a lion that's well-fed! Hmm, there's a third one coming around! Alright, guys. Well, if you want to move and then contradict me and then cross on towards, I’ll be very happy to be wrong!
Alright, well, this is good when they start appearing, and then we can start counting them. So, we’ve got Lion number four joining the party! Maybe we should count them by their bellies! We can, you know, count by their roundness!
Number four coming along, coming in. It looks like I summon the member. Well, you know, it’s the power of my mind! It doesn’t always work; I cannot control it; it's a mystery to me when it’s going to work and when it’s not!
But good the day! They're going in a dandy thing! There’s too much shade for you there, guys. I mean, it’ll be a lot smarter if you just carry on coming on to Twin Dams! We’ve got lovely Jackal berry trees that you can go and lie under!
Alrighty, are you looking for water, Miss? Seems like she might be looking; we wonder where she’s going to go. Maybe she’s going to go for a bit of water. There is more shade in there, so maybe she’s going to go there.
Philip, yes, these are the Inka Houma; not all of them. We've counted five of them, so we're missing about six of them. But I'm pretty sure that they’re going to be lying just like this as well in the back of the tree over there.
So, I wouldn’t be surprised if they some of them have eaten maybe a little bit more, or they’re just like now it’s too hot to move around; we've got a nice shady spot here; we are going nowhere.
So, it’s very nice of them! At least you have come into the shade just as we arrived! And then pops this way here, because otherwise they would have been not the greatest visual.
Now because they have eaten as much as they have, I don’t think they’re going to be hunting actively tonight unless they manage to find a great opportunity; in which case, we’ll probably take it. But I think, at least for one evening, they are going to be able to enjoy just almost like not a busy night in terms of hunting.
Because the last few days that we’ve seen them, they’ve been vain, moving all over the show, and they've covered quite a distance in the last hunt. I think just hearing from the stories as to where Tris and track them from, it seems like they use Juma as a gym—the Juma gym as we call it—because they went up and down and up and down, potentially just looking for different prey species and for an opportunity to bring something down and eat it.
And even though apparently they had a water buck this morning, they finished it and move off, and it gets complicated when there are so many Lions.
Five females, a water buck would have been enough! But then, of course, you’ve got another six adults that are joining the party, so they will eat a lot. And so it’s not too much—it’s a good meal for Lions.
We can see that they all have big, fat, round bellies; but perhaps not enough to keep them locked in the same spot for too long, we’re going to carry on counting our Lions as they come from the shade, and we’ll let you guys know how many we see.
But in the meantime, let's head over to James, who’s very eager to say good afternoon to everyone!
“Everybody, we are going to pounce, and the moment when you can find your Zen?”
Huh! Today, Sunday afternoon, as it is obviously in the favorite in the year 2019! Can you believe it, David? It was like just yesterday it was three BC anymore. It’s very hot here, everyone!
Not as hot as it has been, and we are driving at this incredibly slow Miss Daisy speed—not because it is Sunday afternoon, and this is the appropriate speed to drive on a Sunday, which of course it is; simply because we’re trying desperately to find sign of Tandy or Kalamba. Tandy or Kalamba, and we have as yet not married!
And so that's our plan. We're sort of the north middle of the reserve on a road called Hyena Road. And as I do like to tell you, of course, you can find those roads on Google Maps for Zuma, the more we laid out this; everyone’s going to see exactly one cat!
But the bush is thicker, and that means that it has really put under brush merely a few meters of the road, and it's going to be very difficult to spot very much like Chellama for our TV show, which is, of course, at 6:30 Central African time, 7:30 East African time. And I have absolutely no idea what time it is wherever you happen to be, as I don’t know where you are, somewhere near tomorrow if you’re in Australia, and so many yesterday, if you’re in Hawaii.
I’ve just had the following communication from the final control: we are going to go across to Steve, who is sending off his flies!
“Yes! Well, there go the warthogs! I’m sorry, guys! Didn’t mean to chase you out of the shade. They’re about 60 meters from us, and as soon as the camera panned on them, they disappeared! I do indeed have flies in a very nifty fly swatter in the form of a magic quarry.
And we also believe it is believed if you adorn yourself or your building or your vehicle with magic quarry branches, you’re going to bring some luck! So, as James said this morning on the SABC show, this evening we would like—oh, okay, there’s a good right! There’s a kudu there!
As soon as we put this branch on, we found a kudu, two warthogs, fallen parlor, and a kudu again. So, I think so far the luck...oh, he has a magnificent bull coming here, BK! Ooh, not that magnificent actually; he’s a nice bull. He’s got a little bit of growing still to do; whose horns are quieter close together?
Look at that! The luck is on our side all of a sudden! As he lifts his tail—not in any form of aggression—it’s just he is having a poo! That’s as simple as that! You know when you take your dog for a walk? What happens within two minutes of the dog walking?
Yes indeed, we all know he decides I’m now going to drop a little log on the floor! And that was BK’s job to assist me this morning. For those of you who missed the excitement this morning, we did not put it live on TV because we thought, well, that's pretty gross, but BK managed to bottle a little bit of Hukumuri's dropping this morning—a little bit of his scat for DNA tests to find out who exactly his father is.
And then, by finding that, we’ll also be able to find out who, in fact, he is the father of, which is very exciting stuff!
Cuckoo Maury! This is the area a little bit further from here that we found him. I don’t think these kudu have much to worry, especially the male from a big male leopard!
Could who generally are the stick... That was BBK made a very funny noise at the back with his foot; it sounded like a leopard roaring behind me. It wasn't, but look at how the kudu walks, one foot steps exactly where the other one was before—a typical of the Trager loafers and the spiral-horned families.
But the kudu looks very awkward out in the open, doesn’t it? Stood out quite well there, and as soon as it goes into the thickets, it really does blend in.
So, it is a thicket specialist, or a semi-woodland specialist, and that is where they reside. And I’m thinking that these two, plus the impalas and the warthogs we had a little while ago, have come from a red dam in the West to have a drink.
And they are slowly making their way back. This being at the time of day when it is the hottest, and, well, the chances of lions being willing or active enough to try and catch them is quite limited.
So, although there's a lot of energy expended to walk to the watering hole, there’s less opportunity for predators to be active in the heat to try and catch them. So there’s a sort of a payoff there.
But see how well the kudu has just disappeared into the shade. And that's probably where they’re going to spend the rest of the afternoon after getting a lot of water in the belly. Time to go and feed on the juicy, delicious leaves? Nor maybe with the water in his belly, he'll now decide to do a little bit of ruminating possibly on a whole lot of leaves he has already ingested.
Well, we’re going to leave this beautiful kudu hidden behind a quarry bush and a buffalo thorn, and we’re going to continue on seeing what we might be able to find. But in the meantime, while we try and get ourselves such a lovely breeze coming around now that’s wonderful, we’re going to blow you all the way back up to the Masai Mara with David in search of the sausage tree pride.
“Well, it’s very interesting just to let you know that the kudu—we do not have any kudus in the Mara. I'd say further north of Kenya or further north of the equator we got kudus, and we've got two types of kudus. Unlike in Juma or like in South Africa, we got what we call the greater kudu and a lesser kudu.
And I’ve always wondered why we don’t have the kudus of the Mara, and my only quick thinking would be we do not have the right habitat to have the kudus in the Mara. Either one, the elevation is too high; two, it could be too cold for them; and maybe the type of diet we have here could not be very good or palatable to their kudus.
So the kudus are more of dry areas, or what I’d call a semi-arid habitat, so we do not have any kudus in the Mara. I’m trying to think of what animal that could be close to the kudus here, and I don’t see any. Because when you look at the spiral horns, you know of the kudus, and I'm trying to remember which one could be similar to the kudus.
Little Shadow, you’d like to know whether we get white rhinos in the Mara; good question! But no, we do not get white rhinos in the Mara. The Mara, and I would say Kenya as a country, we have always had black rhinos, and we’ve got areas in Kenya where we’ve got white rhinos, but I’ll tell you, the white rhinos were introduced here in Kenya; they’re not native to Kenya.
So all the rhinos we got in the Mara are black rhinos, which are indigenous to this particular area. And even after the introduction of the white rhinos in Kenya, they did very well. We now got some national parks that you call centuries; one of them is Lake Nakuru, and I think they got over 50 white rhinos there. And they blended in, and they did very well. So, you've been seeing the numbers growing steadily along the years.
So, once the white rhinos are here in the Mara, we also end up seeing rhinos when you're lucky. So, I have officially got to my destination which was the area or the area where normally the sausage tree pride stays around; or stick around.
Yesterday, I was rather frustrated when I came here and I did not see any one of them. And three days earlier they had a buffalo kill, so I went back to the kill; I did not see even a single hyena there. There are no traces of where they want; they went, and unlike Juma, where you can always follow tracks, you know, on the road, on the ground, in the Mara, it's practically impossible to do that.
Even during the dry seasons like now, I mean, the grass is everywhere, and we'll always end up with some bare ground like what you see ahead of me simply because we keep passing here; this is a road for drink embrace, but it's almost impossible difficult as the Franklin flying out there. It's almost impossible to see a hyena and see some tracks here.
So let me just follow them; it's too very tough. We'll always come and just topika and get your Bibles, and just scan across the grass, or if you're very lucky, you’re driving along the road, and a cub could be very close to the road.
Bridges— you’re asking about the Euler errors and the cub? Now, the last I've heard was two days ago, and the female in the order of pride is doing very well with her two cubs. And I’ll tell you, apparently I have a passion for lions, and I don’t know how to explain this — it becomes difficult if you get bonded to a particular pride, and then you hear the oil hauler; you'd like, alright, you're doing fine.
You hear of another pride, like the Salt Lick pride; they are doing fine, and you won’t even bother. But this particular pride here, I’m talking about, I have been coming here every day; let’s come in tomorrow. So, I cannot tell you, you know, how big the cubs are or will they have any huge cubs!
But the last updates I got about that female of the oil pride is that they are doing fine! Maybe tomorrow, next week, the drives I might go in that particular area and see the progress firsthand. But in the meantime, I just wanted to stick around and follow this particular pride. I’m sure you know this one female here that gave birth, called Kink Tail; she has not shown us her cubs!
I know that she—I would say she hasn’t even introduced the cubs to the main pride, and my guess is either they are still too young. And because she is the oldest female in this particular pride, she's, I would say, very experienced. She’s very careful, and she doesn’t want to commit her cubs, expose them to any danger, because anything from zero to three months, lion cubs is very vulnerable, and anything can easily go wrong.
I’m sure I will get to my pride of lions because Ali is very proud; she already got many, so they look home as guests! Well, I mean, we can't really claim all that credit for this particular sighting. It's very hard for the lions to be moving out and about right now; you can see them hiding in the long grass, belly up, panting.
It’s a good day to be a lion. I mean, in the shade, the temperature, I would imagine, is a lot better than out here in the heat of the day or elsewhere. There is no shade, so you can see they’ve all strategically placed themselves in different parts just to try and stay away from the heat.
Of course, they’re not all lying around; you know, they’ve somewhat gathered, and they’re all lying around different bushes, but we have counted eleven different ones! So we can confirm that the entire Inkhuma pride is here with us today, which is pretty good!
So just hoping that they’re going to come out to the property or at least out of the bushes so that they can be stars on tonight’s show. That will be pretty good, and if not, well, you know, it’s always lovely to see them. And it’s the reason why we do this; it’s the job that we do; we love having the lions around, love seeing what they get up to.
It seems like the last lioness is now coming and will pretty much walk the same path, and she’s going straight as to where the rest of the family was.
Rosalyn, they’ve got a few different strategies to survive the heat, the lions. So one – a very common one is exactly what they’re doing right now. It’s not to move in the heat of the day, or not to move during the day, and they’ll just lie under a tree or in the shade where it’s a few degrees much cooler than what it is outside.
And about everywhere where we’ve been, which is maybe... So let me just try to move back to see if this lioness is going to come because I can’t see her now. She’s behind the one tree, so let me just move around for one second so that is one strategy that they’ve got.
And then of course they pant often to try and cool themselves down by trying to evaporate some of the moisture that they collect in their mouth with in their nostrils and so on. So those are, I would say, the mostly two main things. And they’re, of course, by instinct very clever, and they know not to work themselves too hard, to start running or do too much when it’s really hot, because that can, of course, test their body and their limits, and then just put them in a very bad condition.
They can also get heatstroke much like a domestic dog or a cat can do. You wouldn’t really lock them in a place where it’s hot, kids, and if they’ve got no shade or water, they started running around like crazy during the heat of the day, chances are that something is not gonna go down too well for them.
Hmm, somebody had a nice meal! They're always so funny with their big fed stomachs! Once they manage to eat a lot, they go like we said. They were scattered in all the different areas! So very likely in the little in the next little while, they’re all gonna plug their heads and go on to the bottom to go and lie down a little bit.
You are them again, boy, huh?
Okay, always referring to you as a she! I’m so sorry. Unfortunately, with the glare and the distance, and I seem to have misplaced my binoculars today, I cannot see everything to the detail! But that extra fur underneath the chin now, that it laid sideways, definitely signals that it’s a young male lion and not a female!
Good! There seems like they’re all around here! I think we’re gonna leave them and then come back a little bit later in the hopes that they’re gonna be more active! In the meantime, let’s go to Steve, and I think the heat has finally gotten to him.
“Thanks, Ali! I would feel very lost if I'd lost my binoculars! Part of me! But if you can’t find shade, folks, you need to make your own! Here’s a little Senegal Lapwing just over here! He’s enjoying some shade! Oh, it’s moving now! Don’t move! Very nice little Lapwing!
The Senegal is not commonly seen, actually, in many areas! I’ve been in two locations; I've ever worked, so I found them quite easy to identify. We talk about birds and identify birds, and you can see they've got very long legs and a very upright sort of walking posture.
If you go to the lapwings in the book, they all have that same sort of look; they’re very big; I generally occur in sort of open landscapes. The blacksmith Lapwing is obviously being the black and white variation, and they occur in and around water. And the Senegal Lapwing is very, very common on sort of overgrazed and sort of disturbed areas where they seem to find their preference.
The other one, the crown, is much easier to identify! The Senegal has got that very nice sort of cap on the head, and they like to be on golf courses as well as open areas, so very easy to identify the lapwings! For me, there’s another one called the Wattle Lapwing, and let me ask you if you could understand what that would be, and yes, indeed!
Got funny little wattles on the face, and while these birds walk around, they feed on all sorts of insects on the ground. They might feed on small seeds as well, but primarily insect eaters, and they've lost their back toe...most ground-dwelling birds, not all of them, but most ground-dwelling birds have lost the back toe; like David’s ostrich, they’ve reduced the toes altogether to fuse two in the front and have a second one on the side for balance.
So, it’s all about just surface area really on the ground; thick, thick knees, and courses, and lapwings.
Most wading birds have lost a toe on their foot; they’ve reduced it to three toes just for walking, not for perching; they don’t perch at all. That’s where the passerines are—the three-toed birds that have toes on the same level—they need that back toe so that can stay in the bush free from predators at night. Whereas these guards will just sort of bed down right where they are on the ground!
“Thank you! The second one behind is Zimi see the white belly, a little bit of a white forehead as well, and very, very nice to see there! You can see the foots at the back there—just the three toes—chatter!”
Ah! You said something about lapwings, I’m not sure what you said, Marten! But check my, you said something about talking about lapwings. Oh, this is a very nice lapwing to see! It’s one of the lapwings most people don’t get to see!
“Yes, indeed. Sedna was hiding as a bush in it, they want to come and stand in my shade! Yeah, I am a talking bush, and that’s why I’m able to get so much closer to these birds than I would normally!"
Well, they're seeking out shade; that is very hot, folks! I mean, the birds have benefits over us in that their installation or their feathers repel most of the sunlight! But unfortunately, once they reach a certain limit of heat, then they get very, very hot!
They don’t have the same ability to cool down that we have! So, when you have the lapwings and the like like this standing in the shade, then you know it is a warm afternoon! Any feathers are designed to actually reflect light!
So, that’s many of the black birds that you see, the iridescent birds—they almost reflect the heat completely, and they can stand or sit in the sun quite free of overheating.
Your notes are set with the vultures, and lots of birds of prey, they don’t really have anywhere to go except for sitting in the trees and just waiting. They can’t just pop down onto the ground and go into the shade like these lapwings do.
There we go, there's three of them now! All of a sudden, constantly being vigilant; they are even though it’s so hot. Very vigilant! But if they just sit down, it’s amazing how quickly they can blend into the short grass and just disappear.
Okay, well, are we going to move on? Head on down to our boundary road, make a turn past where the hyena den we found this morning is located. I don’t think there’s going to be too much activity for now, but we’re going to go and have a look anyway!
Let’s go back up to the Mara in the meantime with David. We’ll keep moving on; it’s because by moving that things will happen, not staying in one same place, and that’s exactly what I was doing. I have been moving, and I'm also moving. I’m not stopping until I get myself some reward of some kind, just like Ali, who got the lions!
Me and Steve have to move on to get cubs of our own! Well, I’m saying that is because I’ve come back to the very first place I saw Kink Tail, and where I think she gave birth to—but ideally, that doesn’t mean she’s still there. Because what would happen is she’ll need to keep changing her location every now and then.
So let me see this little bee-eater vanish; hope you can get it! It’s a small little thing there, and I’m sure it’s going to be tough! Well, sure, I know you’re magical when it comes to cover this little bee-eater there!
Right behind that bee is something—yes! If you go there! Nice, Jimmy! Well done! Keep going; just see there to get right.
I just flew! Oh yeah, that's it! A little bee-eater there that I can see now—yeah, excellent, very good! Oops, back! This imposition, flying! Coming back! So behind that little bee— that is the very fast den where Kink Tail dropped cubs!
And it’s so good, at least for me! At least you see a bird in an area I’ve been to three times and not seen anything! But right behind those thickets is where Kink Tail is! Kink Tail is one of the females in the pride!
And that bee-eater! Every good customer you! You’re worried! Are you asking about the missing cubs for me? T now nothing to worry about because the very first time I saw one missing, and that’s how it’s three cubs.
And three days ago, I saw two instead of even three! And the numbers are coming down, but when I saw two, Kink Tail was not there.
And my own gods toward me—chances are Kink Tail stayed back with her other two cubs. So for now, there’s nothing to worry, and I’m sure you know lionesses will always suck off each other’s cubs without any discrimination.
So Kink Tail having her own cubs and having cubs, you know, of Meaty should not have been a problem—that’s what I’m crossing my fingers for! But I can tell you between today or tomorrow, the day after, we should be knowing exactly how things look!
You remember at one point Meaty had lost one cub—you know, lost in quotes—because after a few days, you know, the cub surfaced and was able to rejoin the pride! So even this particular time, nothing big to worry about!
And in that particular den, the cub had fallen in the ditch, and I think Meaty will not bring it out. So the bee-eater, they’re not all of them. You know, they'll eat bees, as the name suggests! They eat insects that are flying.
Bee-eaters, let’s see what bad Steve is talking about.
“Well, welcome back! We have found ourselves a cuckoo that is trying to cool down too hard in the shade as well on the edge of a branch of that marula tree. It’s been sitting with its mouth; it’s still got its mouth wide open, trying to cool down.
You can see there’s a little bit of a breeze there from the wind, and that's a beautiful spot—a little bit of elevation for the cuckoo and the wind blowing over the lips, or should I say the wet tongue, is what helps birds to cool down.
That is their cooling system—two terms: called gala fluttering. Now, I can’t tell you for certain which cuckoo it is; it’s either the common cuckoo or the African cuckoo. They’ve both got a yellow eye, and they've both got a yellow beak—just the degree of yellowness on the beak is the key really; there's more yellow at the base on the African than on the common cuckoo.
But the call is often what you go by; the African pop and who doesn't! For you, it is definitely—a very, very typical sort of cuckoo call!
Are you ready for it? (Music)
Nikinike! Can you hear that? He’s saying cuckoo! Very simple, like the cuckoo clock, really! You want to know if this bird occurs in Japan? Well, I'm not aware of it occurring in Japan.
They basically are migrants in Africa, so I don't know what cuckoos you get over the pad. I'm really not sure, but this bird goes up into central Africa and then comes all the way back down here again.
It doesn’t go into Europe, where the common cuckoo does indeed go all the way to Europe. This one comes down Spain. Brechin routes of birds are not people of continents.
So, a bird goes from Africa over to America, and from Asia way down; but they follow the continent. I'm not sure what Japan is like; whether the ocean is a bit too far for birds to get across, but that is out of my depth, I’m afraid! For now, it's possible to get cuckoos in Japan!
Really is! But I absolutely have no deep specialist! Those birds come all the way down here to feed on the blooms of caterpillars that hatch on many of the trees out here!
And they are obviously the larvae, which then form the butterflies, and so not only are they an important food source, they defoliate leaves of treats, and so they turn into butterflies, which then are very important pollinators for thousands of the plants that we found around here!
Just be around if it is indeed the African cuckoo! I'm just going to assume it is because they're a little bit more commonly seen! And then, although the name might but I spam the but you aren’t too sure what I mean by parasitize!
Will basically lay their eggs in a host species nest and then leave, requiring no parental care! They lay lots of eggs that cause a bit of havoc with the host species itself, and the host itself then raises those chicks to adulthood!
And there are many strategies that the cuckoos employ; some of them will remove an egg and then lay an egg down because somehow birds are able to count! The female comes back and notices whether there’s three eggs versus four, so if they just lay a fourth egg, there’s a very good chance they will just kick it out!
So, some cuckoos will move the egg, other cuckoos when they're hatched—the chick will kill all of the chicks in the nest, and some of them will actually be reared with the chicks themselves, getting much bigger than their doom and aren't competing them all together!
So, it’s very funny when you see a fork-self younger feeding a bird that's almost twice its size!
Anyway, from our cuckoo in the shade, we're gonna try on some more shade. Let's go up to James, who’s up in the northeast of the property around before Sudan!
“Yes, indeed! We have got a gray heron sitting at Bofl’s Hook Dam! Heron is not wiped its beak after it’s Sunday lunch! You can see there it is Gouda fluttering up a storm! In other words, it’s trying to cool down but also has got its lunch stuck on in its beak; unfortunate!
Now, I think that’s the least attractive bird that we have here—not that it's an unattractive bird, necessarily; but we have a flamingo over to the right-hand side! Do you see the flamingos, David, with a red beak—a yellow beak?
Sorry! That flamingos—now, obviously that’s not a flamingo; it’s a stork! But if it turns its back, you can see it's a very active punk!
Now, Ollie and I were here yesterday, and we were talking about these things with you and amongst each other, and you have a very nice explanation which I actually didn’t know about for why it is, or what the differences are in the feeding behavior of the yellow-billed stork, aka flamingo, and the spoon-billed which has just talked to the left there.
And I suppose I probably could have read about this, but I certainly hadn’t! Ollie managed to find a dead spoonbills one day; he didn’t collect it, as they say in scientific terms, in other words, he didn’t shoot it out of the sky and then examine it! He found one when he was at the Tracker Academy at LAN Losey, and they opened its beak up, obviously, and it is apparently like sandpaper!
And what that sandpaper spoon-shaped beak allows them to do is catch slippery fish and frogs—tadpoles, I suppose, as well—but largely fish in most areas of what they eat!
And it allows them to catch those fish with that sound, very beak! Now you'll find that—whoa, here comes the Heron! You’ll find what they do is that they feed in a much more aggressive fashion than the stork will! The stork walks very slowly through the water like a heron does with its beak down, and if it senses the slightest movement on its feet or near its beak, it will quickly snap down, and that’s its strategy!
Whereas the Spoonbill sort of disturbs the mud and tries to get things to flush out of the way, and then it will snap shut on them, and because it’s got that sound papery beak, it will manage to hold them!
So, that is the story there!
Now we have found some tracks of Tandi and Kalamba, which is excellent news! Well, actually just Kalamba because she was coming towards this waterhole; we haven’t managed to see her here, and so we're going to continue our search for her pretty soon!
Then, of course, the great Steve and his lady scout! Let’s hope you hold on to your lady until the 14th of this month, of course, Jemma!
“No, birds don't sweat! Birds gallant flutter, or pant, which is what that m-haren was doing! Sorry, the game drive radio is going to result in the explosion of my brain—okay, I’ve turned it off!”
Not, and what they’ve got: this pouch in their throats that they flap up and down, and it’s moist! And so, through evaporative cooling, they’re managed to cool the blood that is going over that pouch!
It sounds a little bit like panting in a dog, and that’s how they cool themselves! But they can’t switch those feathers that are tremendously good insulators, though as well! So, it’ll take a lot longer for them to get hot than it would for you and I to get hot!
But once they do get hot, then they’ll be very hot! They, of course, swim a lot to birds; they like to get in the water and swim.
In the case of the Spoonbills, they seem to be having a Sunday afternoon nap! You see that, David?
They’ve all gone to sleep! They put their spoons behind their wings, and they're having a nap! My mother would thoroughly approve, except it’s now 5 o'clock, which means probably time for tea!
Yes, and scones! Wouldn't it be nice if we had some tea and cream scones? Hey, I think it'd be delicious—tea, tea, and cream scones at the Hook Dam! That would be wonderful!
Just thick cream and a little dollop of strawberry jam! Nice things! Scone with hot Earl Grey or normal tea; either will do! No, not going to happen, is it, David? No matter how much—how will it to heaven!
Alright, let’s carry on, begin to try and continue to find a time before the TV show! And for you, of course! We have an hour left with you!
Well, most agree, of course, I'll be with us for the TV show anyway! I’m going to do a little turnaround here and there! We’ll go back to the way we came, and see what we can come up with!
Apparently, a number of you saying you’re going to go and buy some scones now...you mustn’t do that because they’ll almost certainly be disgusting—you must make them!
They’re very easy to make—my mother always said first thing she learned to make—and her mother wouldn’t know! She was a domestic science teacher, believe it or not—my mother’s mother! My grandmother and scones, you can make them very easily: butter, butter, flour! Don’t use margarine, please, whatever you do! Butter, flour, a little bit of baking powder, tiny bit of sugar, a pinch of salt! In the oven, you’ll have a lovely fluffy scone!
Whatever you do, don’t buy one, because some cretinous company will have put all sorts of preservatives and things in them so that they don’t actually have to put food in the food that you buy!
I mean, why would you have food in the food that you buy? So, rather make them and whip the cream yourself! Don’t get it out of a can, because again, you know there’s all sorts of nonsense in that!
Alright, let’s go back to the valley. Now, I don’t know where he is, but he is with a hyena! It sounds very exciting indeed!
“Middle! Welcome back, everybody! We just had a kingfisher, Woodland Kingferry, here! It's coming down to probably wet itself with this little pen just over here! And it just—she’s trying to think whether it's a good idea! Because, well, in the pad on this side of the pan that we spotted was a spotted hyena.
I'm not sure who...and there we go, bottom of the screen, and it's just off to our ten side, about 20 meters or so is the den site that we located this morning, or should we say Woody helped us to locate this morning! And I am super jealous of this hyena sitting in this little bath of water because it looks very, very cool!
Doesn't it, BK? Hmm, a little bit envious of this hyena I’m not sure who it is; if it turns left yet, I might see, but I don’t know. It’s very hard to identify them when they're lying flat like this! And the kingfisher is still sitting there trying to think whether the hyena is dangerous enough to flop down in the water and have a little bit of a bath. That’s another way birds cool down—they bathe!
But they will flap down into the water, wet themselves. A very quick sort of dip, enough—so as not to get waterlogged in their feathers so that they drown—enough just to get them wet, and then they go sit on a branch like that, cleaning themselves, moving their water through the feathers.
And then, if need be, they’ll preen once again, getting all the oil refreshed on the feathers and zipping all of their flight feathers to where they were in sort of heat times of the day, when activity is very low because of the heat. Birds will often spend a lot of time in the shade doing just that, sort of fixing and redoing all of their feathers!
Riven, do you hope it’s cool? Okay, well, it’s heads up now. It’s Deaf ear, not Corki! Cork is the only one I’m very confident at identifying straight away, but to the left ear, there does not have the notch.
But if you are not watching this morning, folks, we followed Hukumuri who led us straight to the den site, and he actually spotted some of the cubs, which then disappeared into the ground! I didn’t see them, but Rickson was here with us, and he was like hiding at a hyena den!
And Hukumuri was looking very intently at the hole, and out of nowhere, the matriarch, Corki, came storming in, and she chased the hook away! Isn’t she such a good mum?
And then we went through a raging debate about who would win in a battle—Corki or Hukumuri. Maybe we should do an afternoon debate on that as well! What do you all think? Hashtag #safarilive. Who would win in a one-on-one fight—Corki or the matriarch Corki?
Get in your answers; let's see what you think! And I’ve got my opinions, of course! Ah, her head looks just way too comfortable! Way too comfortable!
That’s not fair! That’s not fair, is it, BK? This is the afternoon you wish you were sipping cool Kool-Aid by the swimming pool! You know, I was in Mozambique last week, and the weather there was similar to this, but there was a swimming pool at the place I stayed at, and we were on the beach, so it was very easy to keep cool!
You just said maybe a minute or two of being hot, and then you were cool again, and then it was just a constant process of bathing oneself!
Is one of the things we need to come up with a solution for keeping ourselves cool? I have forgotten my spray bottle today! I normally had a spray bottle with cool water, but I normally spray myself!
“Do you reckon hands down, or should we say paws down, Corky for the win?”
Okay, very interesting! Corky for the win, definitely when it comes to being around the den site. I mean Hukumuri will tolerate nothing!
Since her lion encounter at the old den site, any leopard coming nearby will not catch her breath! I don’t know if any of you watched the show when I was up in the Mara, we actually did a special broadcast as well when we found—we were with the sausage tree pride.
We were with five lions that were walking, and suddenly this sort of injured hyena came into shot, and well, the lioness decided this is fun, and all five of them gave it a proper hammering! And the hyena managed to get away with a whole lot of squeals and shots, and managed to bite when the lioness’s on the nose!
Which obviously probably led that lioness think twice! It was quite a small hyena; you would have thought five lions would easily have killed it! But incredible!
The hyena was walking on its two front sort of feet, as if the paws were broken, and somehow, as soon as the lions thought it’s a chase that it managed to muster up the strength to run at full speed! But obviously a hyena over short distance is no match for a lioness!
And they caught it as we went live in that broadcast, and well, it ended quite well, I suppose for the hyena! We didn’t see it afterward, but it seemed to get away! And we know these animals are extremely resilient, and they get mauled all the time! They fight each other all the time, and somehow, they just come out the other side with just a few scratches and scrapes!
Well, talking about the wide-open expanses of the Mara and the sausage tree pride, no one knows them better than David Guiteau! “Very good to be there! I took of hyenas and lions and all their dynamics, but I’ve seen! Like here we are in the Mara!”
If there’s any confrontation between hyenas and lions in general, the hyenas will always win. As much as of course, it depends on the numbers. Of course, the numbers make a very big difference!
Of course, even like many lions again, it’s one or two hyenas—definitely the lions will win! But in general, we get very big prides in the Mara of hyenas. There’s one especially called the North one, which has like 70-80 hyenas; you can imagine that’s a very huge number by any standard!
And they have been known to deal with any pride of lions wherever they find them! Especially if they know they got a kill! And I'm sure you know how sensitive hyenas are! They got very sharp hearing, and as soon as they can pick crunchy bones somewhere by lions, it doesn’t take long before they get there!
And what they’ll do, they’ll start whooping and send the lead, you know, the leader hyenas especially the females, to go and survey whether they see it in or out! Guess a lot of a measley up from the king!
And then they're going to call the others, and then they go hoping that you see them coming in twos, then falls. So, they can see a number of like ten while the lions continue eating. You’ll notice they start intimidating them by making themselves look big!
They curl up their tails; the numbers swell, and they hope they even get louder. And the lions get irritated, and ideally, they just leave the kill and move on anyhow, because of the lions of their— the lions and the hyenas of the Mara are trying to find out where these lions would be!
And because of the heat of the day, I’m imagining, because they got the cubs, they are all under some shades hiding! And I think Steve is getting lucky with hyenas! Hyenas, hyenas!
We are indeed, David! You should try and employ the magic quarry branch! It has proved to be very, very fortunate for us this afternoon! And well, now we have turned around!
We left that one hyena just there by the pool, we turned the corner only 30 meters away, and we found, who I believe… I could be completely wrong, but it’s pretty! With her bottom inside the termite mound!
This is where Rickson saw the young pups, or cubs should I say, pop down at the approach of Hukumuri this morning! And it’s definite Corky because Corky's got a notch in her left ear!
So please, those of you out there, if you can tell me if this is pretty, I’d love to know! I’m trying to be open—my, what do you call it? Yes, it’s working very good! My phone is working! I was in a very bad signal area, so I might be able to get these images out, to be able to make sure I know who I’m looking at!
But without looking at the body patterning and the spots on the side, it’s very difficult to identify these hyenas! But we know that both pretty and Corky have had cubs! So, it’s possible that because her bottom is in there that she’s one of the mothers!
Okay, and she could have very nice—nope, that's definitely not pretty! Who sits in there? I’m going to have to go through all of them to find out exactly who we are looking at!
But I know what one’s tracking, Corky is also got a bit of a notch in her ear which makes it a little bit tricky!
Yes, Joy, thanks! I’ve just noticed that on my app that she’s got another—that she hasn't got any notch to sports on my face!
So this could be—there’s no scars at all! She’s got all sorts of interesting markings on her side though! She’s got a music-like note on the one—yeah! Look at the one on her brother!
Gets a name from the science that is a sideways question mark of spots beneath! So I’ve got a nice little image here that if she decides to step, I’ll be able to have a look! But right now, it’s very hard to fire!
Anyway, we’ll spend time here! Hopefully, the youngsters will come out, but for now, I think the hyenas have been watching or listening to me! Over the state, most certainly a hyena! Thank you so much for your observations!
It is definitely a hyena, and there's a termite mound, and I think the hyena has been listening to my stories since I got back from Mozambique because they’ve got their own pool just here!
Mere meters away from their home! Because in the heat, there’s nothing nicer than a swimming pool close by! And while these hyenas have taken advantage of that, they don't have to walk very far to drink and to cool down!
And then the other den sites have always accustomed to walk a little bit further, but obviously walking distance for Hyena is really nothing! Not too much effort, but right now, it’s very, very easy! And you can see this one’s even lying in the shade!
Okay, so Hart doesn’t have any nicks, does it? She also doesn’t have any notes to sports my face, so I’m just going to keep moving!
So, we’re going to go back to the den! We were staying near south, moving away to where we have more open ground around here! We’ll get in the area, and that”.
That’s all from my side! So David!
We’ve got to go over to him to see what he’s managed to find with those lions!
“Well, thank you, Steve! Yes, everybody! I haven’t managed to get anything! So, I’m just holding on to my magics and my branches, and also anything else that I can hold to that will help us out there!
Let’s be in the rest of the days from me; I think it's windy still! So, hopefully, well, next time we see you, good luck everybody! Bye!
Happy birthday, Daniel, once again!
Goodbye, goodbye!"