Safari Live - Day 226 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised. This is why the inclement ride is such a firm favorite. Miss Pinkie Toe, it just looks ready for a fight. This is still her territory.

Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of Safari Live. It's fantastic to be out here in the Sabi Sand, and Soo-ji is also here with me driving around. Then of course, the fellows in the Mara, along with David, who will be scouting for all sorts of wonderful things today. It's, um, well, it's 29 degrees Celsius, 89 degrees Fahrenheit in both locations, so the temperature is fair today. It's really, really quite nice, and I'm hoping that's going to mean we'll have quite a bit of action earlier on in the afternoon.

But let's get right into it because this week has been a very, very busy week out here in both the Mara and the Sabi Sand, and I'm excited to see what else happens this afternoon. All the Kruger action happened on Juma this week. Kangana appeared at Treehouse Dam to welcome Tyler back, and then disappeared. His son was typically busy hunting, exploring, and leading us on a merry chase just about every day. He concentrated his efforts to the north but returned to Juma Pan to kill twice. Tandy and Columba made a brief appearance in the far north and disappeared again.

Up in the Mara, Kenya made a very welcome appearance near the Tanzanian border. The North Clan were their typical hunting, scavenging, fascinating selves, while the Olalla pride with wistfully to the south were the herds concentrating on the short green grass of the recent burns. Busy, busy! As I said, pretty incredible all the things that we've seen.

It's fantastic to have Kenya back after she disappeared. That was the female cheetah that we all grew quite fond of, and she also had some cubs a little while ago but sadly lost them all. We think she disappeared down into Tanzania, but she's back again, so that's good news. Maybe brains will catch up with her a little bit later.

The other thing that we're going to be doing, I'll share this afternoon, because there's so much action happening here on Juma and the Sabi Sand, is that I'm gonna be searching for wild dogs, and that's exactly what I'm doing right now. I'm just having a little scratch around with our last left, but it seems as though they've given me the slip. They could have either gone down into the drainage line or perhaps they've gone to Twin Dams, which is not too far away, to cool off after a hot day.

But we've had some fantastic sightings of them. The adults have been exceptionally good parents, and we're all very, very happy to have those bundles of joy on the property. The Investec Breakaway pack of dogs has been making their rounds on Juma along with six puppies. It's hard work being a wild dog puppy at only three and a half months old trying to keep up with the adults as they go out in search for food.

When they are not running around, they find comfort in playing with their litter mates. The adults have successfully killed numerous times and regurgitated the remains for the hungry youngsters with bellies bursting at the seams. The only thing to do next is flop down on the floor and go to sleep. I still cannot stop smiling and I really hope we get another opportunity to see them today, but as most of you know that I've been following the lives of wild dogs in general, now we can specifically focus on the Investec Breakaway pack, which is really quite exciting because it's been a very long time since we've seen a pack on a regular basis.

Now the reason we're going to be seeing this pack for quite some time is, of course, because of all the little puppies. They can't travel as far as the adults can. Now remember because this is a live and interactive safari, we encourage questions submitted to us with the hashtag #SafariLive, and all the guides this afternoon look forward to answering them for you. Perhaps it's your first time watching; if it is, let us know and we’ll explain all the dynamics between the animals.

Pat, you're quite correct in saying that this is a fun job because you can't, I don't know what to expect 100%. It's definitely one of the best jobs I've ever had in a while. I've been lucky even, you know, guiding for cooking for quite some time, but this specifically is pretty unbelievable.

But I'm trying to think now, where have these wild dogs gone? See that end of our traverse is just off to the right, so it’s quite easy that they could have popped off of Juma and onto another property, and maybe headed a little bit further south towards Drakensberg Dam. Now that wouldn't surprise me at all.

And trust where dam, there's a huge body of water. I mean, obviously, you can see we’re driving over the dam wall of Twin Dams, and I can just have a look and see how the water is drying up. There's a lot more water down to the south with lots of animals around, lots of impalas, lots of water buffalo, and all sorts of other things.

So it's a stem walk and a cat - which is what I think the wild dogs are feeding on at the moment, specifically the Investec Breakaway pack. Now there's only four adults, so they've got a tough job ahead of them while dog packs can get quite big, but this is a small group. But let's keep our fingers crossed that those puppies make it all the way to adulthood. They did start at eight puppies from what I've read and sadly we've already lost two of them, but that's alright. It's just one of those things; nature is harsh, nature is tough.

But there's still six around and those adults are doing a good job. But somebody else that's been doing a sterling job at hunting is Husana, and while he's no stranger to all of you because he's been around for the last few weeks, I can see him down there. Husana is busy trying to feed on one of the carcasses which has been hiding here for a while now.

A very, very good afternoon and welcome to the beginning of the afternoon show. I am Sydney and I am traveling with VM this afternoon, who is my camera operator and we are going to try by all means to give you the best experience ever. For your questions and comments, you can follow us on Twitter with the hashtag #SafariLive. You can also follow us on the YouTube chat stream.

My plan for this afternoon is done already. I have got Husana with me at the moment trying to get hold of something to eat. I think he must be very full at the moment because he has been feeding since yesterday. This feeding activity started a day before yesterday. He's just moving from one tree to the other where he's hiding all these three different carcasses. I can see the stomach looks very much full. Listen to that!

So the jaws are very much strong and the teeth are very much sharp. He's busy crushing all the bones from the hips of this small dacre here. And this day has not smelled nice at the moment because it was kept here for quite a while. James, no, that is true indeed. Juma has been action-packed this week. A lot of activities are happening here, specifically predation activities.

Husana was very lucky for not getting any disturbances from any other leopards in the area for the past couple of days. This morning we were very lucky with Kangana, who also got his own meal on the other side which is not very far away from here. The only one I haven't seen for a while is Tandy and Columba; maybe they also got something somewhere. Oh look at that, he nearly dropped the carcass!

So you can see that he's busy trying to take off all the hair. He’s cleaning all the hair so that he can eat nicely. He doesn’t want to feed on those hairs; he's trying to get rid of the hairs before he swallows them. But if he does that, if he does feed on those hairs by any mistake, he has got a way of getting rid of those kinds of things from the stomach. So the cats are very well designed and well gifted.

So now let's go to the Masai Mara where my other colleague David has got some zebras crossing. I don't think it’s a road sign. What is he having—a real zebra crossing?

Everybody and welcome to our Sunset Drive all the way from the Mara Triangle in Kenya. I have respected Husana for what he does in terms of hunting, but once in a while, leopards are also known to go for zebras, and we've got a huge herd of zebras here. What we might see, or who might eat them today is not Husana the leopard but maybe crocodiles.

We've been sitting just next to the Mara River over the last two hours waiting for these animals to cross. My name is David and my camera operator is Manu. Good afternoon, Manu! Are you feeling the heat? The sun was going across Morrisville, convinced the zebras would cross. And remember, this is a very interactive show. We request you to send through your questions or any comments you may have on #SafariLive, and you can keep following us on the YouTube chat stream.

Now the big decision yet to be made is who is going to cruise the river first. At the moment, you can tell they're a bit thirsty, and what they need to do is quench their thirst. Then an important decision has to be made: who will commit himself over so fast to come across this river that is infested by crocodiles?

Migration or crossing of the Mara River is always done by either zebras or wildebeests, but we currently have zebras. While Painter, don't you ask, "Do zebras have a breeding season?" I would say zebras do not have a breeding season, especially here in Kenya or in the Mara Triangle, unlike their friends the wildebeests, who have a very special, very particular breeding season.

So I'm sure you're enjoying that video of those zebras drinking water, but zebras do not have a breeding season and they'll have cubs all year round. Their other animals of the species will always be migratory. The wildebeests have a very marked or defined breeding season, and every month of February, the first week or the second week of the year, they'll go to a country called Tanzania and the eastern side of the Serengeti National Park or the western Gonare conservation area. They'll always drop their young ones there every February.

But the zebras do not have a breeding season. What a beautiful sight that is! I think there's a picture to take and just frame it, not sure in your kitchen or in your sitting room, just to be seen that every day. I would not be surprised if there's a lot of pressure building from the back and the drinking might stop, and they'll decide to cross, meaning lots of happiness to the herd.

I'll tell you, the migration this year came rather late. We were a bit worried about what was happening. But we know for all the years personally I've been in the bush, the migration has never failed to come to the Mara from Serengeti. So it’s a bit late, or it came in, it’s obvious, it might stay with us a little bit longer before they start heading south again to the Serengeti.

We've been sitting here for the last two hours or so, and our keyword here with Manu is patience, and without patience, we can't do much. Just have to be patient and just keep waiting, hoping that these zebras are going to cross the Mara River.

So the river you see there on your screen is called the Mara River. It's quite long, about 400 kilometers long or about 250 miles long. It originates in some place in the root of all in Kenya, an area called the Mau Escarpment, and it drains into the mouth of Lake Victoria, which is the second largest freshwater lake in the world after Lake Superior in America. But in Africa, Lake Victoria is the largest freshwater lake we got.

And apparently that's the source of the Nile River. I'm not sure if these zebras know that. If you drop a, you know, a drop of water here and give it a dye, this water will flow all the way to Lake Victoria, all the way to the Nile River, and it will drain finally at the Mediterranean Sea.

So we just need a lot of confidence; we need one leader here who will take the risk and go across the water, and then the rest will follow soon. Now from a small hobby form, let’s go over to South Africa and see a big herd of buffalo with Sydney.

You can see now that there is quite a lot of dust coming towards my direction there. Now as the biggest herd of buffaloes is busy now approaching the Via Telepan. This is quite a very big herd. This is the second time I’m seeing this herd. Not long ago I was on a guided walk and I saw them, but when I’m looking at them, I think now there are more than last time.

Look at that! Some of the big ones are also far at the back. Oh, there's even some of the little ones here together with their mothers. This is a very big breeding herd, and this kind of herd is the one that mostly attracts the big predators, such as lions, to come and visit us very often.

So this morning I picked up an audio of a lion roar coming from the middle of the reserve. I’m not too sure if maybe it was the Avoca males. You can see that now the buffaloes are drinking, and at the same time, the oxpeckers are doing their job. Quite a lot of oxpeckers right on top of these buffaloes.

Well, they're also hitching a lift. You can see that the oxpeckers got quite a lot of numerous benefits from these buffaloes. It's not only about getting the ticks but also, and tired, I'm sure for a distance, they can also get some assistance. They are catching a lift.

Look at that! So these birds can be able to reach the areas where the animals themselves cannot be able to get rid of the ticks. Polar, the buffaloes do swim! I can see one is in the middle now trying to have a swim. It’s just that it's height and you can see just a small portion of it. The buffaloes they do swim, but let me rather say they don’t swim; they just go and lie in water.

So they act to entertain the mud wallows, and when they're at the mud wallows, you will see them rolling, rolling there to try and cover themselves with mud. They like to do that. You can see that this herd is too big now covering that whole Via Telepan.

Look at that! Look at that one trying to clean some of the parasites from the eyes! Look at that! So now let’s go back to Taylor, who got some interesting hyenas.

We do indeed! Laying underneath that amber tree when all the shadows cast down on it is a hyena. I wonder what on earth this hyena is doing. Now we've been looking for wild dogs, but I forgot to tell you that there’s somebody else I was looking for, and that is the ultimate king, the reigning male leopard by the name of King Ghana.

And I haven't seen him for a little while, but I did see him a few days ago. A waterhole patrol turned into something more, and Ghana was resting up in the shade at Treehouse Dam. It wasn't long before he showed signs of waking up, and a drink was in order to quench his thirst on a hot afternoon.

With a round belly, it was evident that King Ghana had found himself a small meal, which explained why we hadn't seen him recently. But he soon announced his return to all the underlain. Pretty fantastic stuff—it was an amazing welcome back to see King Ghana.

Now I have to tell you a really funny story because, when I followed him, I mean, like I said, what a welcome back it was! He drank at Treehouse Dam, which is just behind us, actually a little bit northwest from where we are now, just a few hundred meters—not far at all.

We tried to follow him along the drainage line, so now, this is after we lost him. It was pretty incredible! For those of you who are watching, a little dik-dik actually ran out with mom, and King Ghana had no idea that they were there, and he tried to chase them. But then we lost him; it was getting dark. We thought we’d better not follow him. Guess what happened later on that evening?!

Look what's up in the top of the tree—now it’s quite gruesome. It is an impala that has been hung in that tree by King Ghana. Now he's been hiding away here for the last couple of days, and we didn't even know because he's right in the middle of the drainage line, and it was quite thick still, even with all the leaves having fallen off of the tree.

So quite interesting! He's obviously been feeding on that for quite some time, but now he's moved on. There’s nothing left of that kill, so as you can imagine, I don’t know where he’s gone.

I'm gonna suspect that he’s maybe gone for one final drink of water. I think that could be the case. What do you think, Santos? Do you think he's gone for it? And we have heard a little bird alarming too, and the fact that this hyena is here now, I think it's probably annoyed King Ghana slightly, so he just said, "Right, I’m done with this carcass. I've fed on it for a few days; I managed to give all the people the slip."

It’s time to move on, and he’s not afraid to move around during the day. She just clearly saw! Now, if you don't know who King Ghana is, perhaps it is your first time watching, and he is the resident male leopard around here. He is the most dominant one in the sector in Juma. He pops into Buffelshoek every now and then, which is a property just north of us. He extends into Tortuga, he pops under Chitwa. We were talking about that earlier where all the water is, and then he goes a little bit further south and west around here, and then he has another male leopard by the name of Hukumuri, and then also the Anderson male, which are kind of just on the outskirts of his territory.

So, any paths, he’s also gone on a bit of a walkabout. It isn’t hot compared to the last few days we had, so I think from here, let’s go back and start checking the watering holes again.

Ah there we go, Durga! Speaking of Hukumuri, I haven’t seen him for ages. However, he was sighted briefly because maybe you remember a couple of days ago there was a pride of lions by the name of Inka Houmas, and we might get a chance to see them because they apparently moved this morning. So we might go check Chitwa for them.

Truth, we don’t have any luck yet, but he was on a kill near Treehouse Dam, which is on an area just to the west of us. The Inka Houmas came around and went for a drink after they made a kill and devoured it here on Juma, and chased him off of his kill, and they took it for themselves.

So Hukumuri came charging onto Juma, only stays a little while here, but from what I can understand, it sounds like he's somewhere between Aerith Usher and Elephant Plains. So much for the waste of us; he hasn’t been spending much time here.

I think King Ghana has made himself very clear that he is the dominant male and he ought to be respected. Right, it seems as though David is having fantastic luck this afternoon; he’s at the river's edge while the zebras look like they want to cross.

Ladies and gentlemen, a very warm welcome back to the Masai Mara Triangle, and we are seeing what we have been waiting for for the last two and a half hours, and those zebras are just crossing the Mara River. If you look carefully on the left, there's a crocodile—very well done, Manu! We have been waiting here, crossing fingers and hoping something will happen, but there’s a crocodile very, very close to the zebras there!

Hopefully, he—or she—will manage to get hold of one of them. How epic! How exciting this is! This is what everybody in the world wants to see. There’s a croc; he’s just calculating and waiting to see who will go for the zebra struggling. And then he goes; the croc just missed! Oh my goodness, one zebra down!

How many to go? If you look carefully, there’s a croc there; it’s trying to get one down, and what they do is called a death roll. Just get one and just spin it in the water and try and suffocate them. I don’t know what might have happened there, whether she got it or not; in the meantime, they continue crossing, and you can tell how uneven the base of the river is, it’s full of rocks.

There’s another zebra there just going some of the edges of the water. Sam’s drinking. Oh! Keep going! Yes, it got it! It got it! It's got the hindquarters—unfortunately or fortunately—and doing the final control says WOW!

And I would like to warn anybody who is a bit squeamish maybe not to watch this; you might maybe switch off your screen or have a walk and come back later. But this is nature as it should be! I'm not sure who to feel sorry for—the zebra or to celebrate for the crocodile. I will leave that to your own judgment, and again, as I said, if you're a bit squeamish, please do not watch this—but this is how things go out here in the world.

So the croc just managed to catch that one zebra and just pushed it to the back, and it will most likely get it to the bank, and the rest keep crossing. And I think there could be another one there; there’s another croc that’s holding that by the neck!

So this is two zebras and two crocs, so two zebras down and many to go! How big is this! This is how it goes, and now this lioness is coming in. Very well done, Manu! Now we might be seeing something out of the ordinary here.

Oh my gosh! Oh my goodness! And Lewis in the final control says, “Oh no, this is exactly how mother nature works.” So the lioness will go very close to the zebras and chance to see if she’ll be able also to be lucky like the crocs.

So she just sits there; she has to be sure. Unlike the crocodiles that are in the water and they’re granted, that's the path the zebras are going to. Check the lioness—a risk of being spotted by these zebras.

How epic is this! Oh my goodness, there could be a third one there, not sure. This is turning out to be very dramatic.

How epic is this? This is insane! Oh my goodness! We have all types of predators here, and I think the only winning or successful predators here are the crocs and the hippos just watching on the side. And that zebra you see there, the belly, I think its case is done, and the crocs are left.

They’re just moving closer; the hyenas say, “Oh, you wanna try again? Then there she goes!” She’s giving another chance. Just give another, she gives another chance! There she goes, there she goes!

Justin that is one of the best words I’ve had today of pandemonium. That’s a good word, Justin! It is exactly pandemonium! We’ve got crocs on one side, zebras on the other side, lions on another side, and my exaggerated share with Manu. Yes, Justin, this is nothing but pandemonium!

Please remember to send your questions through, any comments you may have like, "Party like Justin," who says this is pandemonium. We are very much welcome. I'm not sure you can hear in the background there the hippos going—I'm not sure if they're celebrating or cheering for the crocs or the zebras. I do not know what that means, but maybe the hippos want the lions to know of their presence.

And unfortunately, the plan of the lioness, they’re not sure about that. Unfortunately, it was not very good and this has interrupted the crossing of the zebras, and you can tell she is not dead yet.

Lauren, do hippos eat crocodiles? Crocodiles are carnivores, Rosaline, and hippos are herbivores. So if anything—oops! Little fight between the two! Did that croc let go? If it let go, then I had a question idea of whether the zebra could bite the skull of a crocodile. But the zebras are trying to bite the croc at the same time!

So two more crocs are coming in to give a hand to the one that’s holding the hindquarters of—oh la la! My goodness! This is an epic battle here! I might be calling this the battle of the Maasai Mara.

You can see the blood in the flesh coming out there! Again, I request anybody who is squeamish please not watch this. You can have a little walk and maybe come back later. But as I said, this is Mother Nature, and this is how things go here.

So what the crocodiles will try to do is suffocate this zebra and just make sure it gets in water, and yes, Alou in the final control says this croc is massive. Some of his cousins are about 20 feet long; huge, massive reptiles!

And as soon as it strikes, it's not going to be able to breathe, and that's where it’s gonna die—the crocs may not be able to do that just like the lions. So, maybe they have to wait until she drowns, and she can’t breathe anymore.

Well, this is taking too long to have her die if she has to die. I would be happy if she died quickly; unfortunately, to say that, but we don’t want her to be such in pain for so long!

Oh my goodness! The only thing is, crocodiles have been known not to be able to cut; they don’t have the right teeth to cut, and they just pull and swallow. That’s why it’s gonna be a challenge for them to do a quick work on this zebra and getting a dying!

She is still kicking—not gone yet! Remember you can tweet your questions! #SafariLive. Any comments you may have are very welcome, and this is quite dramatic! Is something I have not seen in a very long time in all my years in the bush!

Well, as Justin says, this is such pandemonium! He’s slowly dying down, and I’m sure the zebras will be thinking if they take a chance and cross again and risk their life, because they have to do it; they may do it!

And now from predators, the crocodiles as we have been having here on the Mara River, let’s go close to South Africa and find out what Husana as a predator is up to. Wow, that sounds like a lovely sighting of the crocodiles and the zebras and the lions by the Mara!

It sounds like it has been an interesting activity taking place there, but I’m here now. You can see Husana, who is trying to finish up the Dacre now. He’s only left with a small piece, and this Dacre is not smelling nice.

Look at that! He’s also tired! I think he is eating too much for the past two or three days! He’s just been eating and eating—for every day, the stomach looks so big to me!

This is very full! So now we are going to watch the video that has been taken when Husana was trying to conduct some hunting activities during the week. The rapid movement of the ears ahead and tail showed that the young male leopard Husana, affectionately known as the little chief, was concentrating with great interest on the movement of the prey animal behind the bushes.

Confirmed that it was a small antelope, a Dacre, who was under serious scrutiny. Husana’s smooth walk and crossing front legs showed his desire to remain hidden from the Dacre, and this skillful spotted cat spoiled the chances of catching prey due to his youthful impatience.

Life in the bush is never easy; the unsuccessful hunting activities of Husana we took place during the week have just confirmed that he honestly has got to improve his hunting activities because he’s getting impatient. And these kinds of cats, remember, they’ve got to learn a lot but for them to be well experienced and to have a good knowledge when it comes to hunting activities, they can only obtain after two years.

So now let’s go to Taylor, who’s got a lovely Dacre approaching. Tanana, look at this! Look at the little Dacre! It’s a very small antelope; this looks like a very young one and small, but it doesn’t look like an adult.

Can you see how suspicious it’s acting at the moment? That’s because we finally managed to find King Ghana—the king of Juma—the male leopard that we were talking about. There he sits! But he has absolutely no idea that that Dacre is, I kid you not, hey guys!

The Dacre—I'm just trying to think exactly—he must only be about 15 feet away from King Ghana. I mean, it’s really close—not close enough that he could get up and run towards it. The Dacre is gonna have the upper hand!

And the problem is, Husana and—I don’t know if the Dacre realizes what King Ghana is because it hasn’t run away. It does actually come back the second time! Now this is unbelievable! So it is young; it is inexperienced; it is probably very curious—perhaps mama's just left that little one.

But now Fort in Ghana, there’s a bird party that’s moving on through. You can hear them all calling, and they are most certainly going to start alarming at the fact that there’s a big male leopard laying down on the ground, and maybe that’ll be the helping hand that that little Dacre needs!

It seems to be very uncertain, so hopefully, if they come through—remember all the animals! They can speak the same language, even though we don’t understand it most of the time. And that little one should know exactly what’s going on.

It’s the Dacre running away. It's actually coming out in the open now! That Dacre! I don't know if you can see it; it's basically just in between that log and the tree! There it is, just to the right!

Can you see? Look! It’s really small—probably only a few months old! I don’t think he can smell King Ghana very well! Oh, you better be very careful!

Luckily for the Dacre, I think King Ghana is old; he’s about twelve years old now. I think it's getting to him; perhaps his hearing is going because I even heard that little Dacre rustling around in the grass and all the timber-tea leaves that are on the ground.

Be very careful! You’re a very inquisitive little nose—this is going to get you into a lot of trouble, little Dacre. Oh, Richard, a great question from you about King Ghana. The reason why he’s panting so much is quite hot today, so that’s just one of the reasons.

The fact that it is quite warm, and he's also got a full belly because he stuffed himself full full of Impala. So often, when they gorge on whatever they may have eaten, it puts a lot of strain on their diaphragm and basically is folding about so much that he can’t take these long deep breaths anymore. He’s got to do the short stuff, but the panting, of course, helps cool him down.

So it's a combination of two—you know what you feel like after you've eaten yourself? You almost feel sick, and you get quite hot. You must get a hot flash. I don’t think he feels sick but I think he’s probably quite warm, so he’s just trying to keep out of the shade now.

Even though he is full, he’s always looking for his next meal. Like I said, that Impala is finished; it's really just the neck just left. I don’t think he’ll go back for something like that. I think this evening, he'll probably move on, do a bit of a territorial patrol, go have a drink of water, and start looking for dinner.

Laurie, no, a leopard does not roar when it makes a kill. The term we actually used to describe the sound that a leopard makes when it does a territorial call is a saw, and then we hear them growling. But they don’t roar like lions. A lion wouldn’t necessarily roar either after making a kill, and for example, if a leopard were to celebrate that it had successfully killed something, can you imagine all the lions and hyenas and potentially other leopards in the area that would come racing on in to go, “I’d like a piece of that pie, thank you very much!”

And so they’ll probably try and keep quite quiet about it, and also hope that when they do take on their prey and they have made a kill, that the prey hasn’t given off too many distress calls because, again, that's going to bring in the hyenas, and the hyenas are everywhere at the moment! They are all around!

But I’m glad to see King Ghana, and that he is quite full because if you have been following his story over the last couple of years, you would have known that a couple of months ago at the beginning of the year, he was quite ill. He was quite sick, and we were really concerned.

We were really worried that we were going to lose him; we thought his reign was over and we were talking about Hukumuri, who is a new male leopard in the Sabi Sand to this area in the north. We thought he was going to come on in and take over his territory, but he came back fighting though, which is fantastic to see.

And here he sits, as dominant as ever! I’m so sorry, Nicky! Please can you repeat that question again? There’s a part I’m missing in here. Ah, sorry, Beau Nick, you know, I think it’s quite difficult to say what senses go first with the older leopards.

Just speaking about King Ghana, he is quite old for a male leopard. I mean, he’s past his prime years now, so theoretically, he should only have about another year or so, and you know to be as powerful as what he’s going to be. But he is getting old, and when he gets injured, it’s going to take him longer and longer to recover, as it does with humans.

So I don’t know if it’s their eyesight that goes first or their hearing or a combination of both, but I'm pretty sure as they get older, their senses aren’t as acute as what they were when they were youngsters. But he still listens out, of course. Perhaps he’s panting so loudly it’s drowning out the sound of that little Dacre that was sneaking around.

It’s still sneaking around; it hasn’t gone anywhere. And like I said, when I stop talking, I can hear it moving about every now and again, and it’s just back there—you can see its legs underneath that fallen log! There he goes!

Wonderful news! Dacre, you really be careful! Well, where am I? Certainly not going to go anywhere. We’re going to hopefully see what happens. Let's go say hello to Brent.

I've never seen in my life; it is one of the most endangered birds in Africa! I'm not going to tell you what it is just yet. Where we have been seeing Kenya for the last while is the road I was looking for, so let's go see what Kenya got up to a few days ago.

We found Kenya scanning the open plains of the central Mara Triangle. She moved from termite mound to termite mound, searching for potential prey. She spotted a lone sub-adult Tommy amongst the rocks, but unfortunately for Kenya, the Tommy was aware and spotted her before she could get close enough.

Luckily for her, shortly after her misadventure with a sub-adult Tommy, she flushed a baby Thompson's gazelle, and after a quick chase, she caught the unfortunate youngster, proving that a baby Tommy a day keeps the hunger at bay.

Hello! Welcome back! Wasn't that incredible? That happened actually just in this area, probably about less than a kilometer from where I am now. But you can see there's a very big fire on the other side of the river that's causing all this haze around us this evening.

Now there are some big herds of wildebeest around, and while we are looking for our feathered friend Bounce Bounce, we definitely might miss the road. These rates haven't been driven often. Yes, it is the right—we definitely might, or is it not a road? It’s not right. It is already rejected; we might find Kenya as well.

You see, with this fire, these roads have become quite difficult to spot with this lovely green flash, and who grass the same height, it's more difficult to see the tracks of the ride. Now, remember, we are 100% live, so I’m bouncing my poor cameraman and ranger across this area now to try to find this very, very rare bird. I’m very, very excited! It’s the right, guys!

Here’s the road! I think this is the road—yes, this is the road! It was the road at some point in its life! There are somewhere out in this big burnt area! They've been following members of the happy zebra hyena clan. What? What was that? Sorry, go again. I’ve lost the road again. There it is!

Look! Lots of cases that it’s an Egyptian vulture. I have completely lost the road just with the red garden. There’s no road; it's just disappeared, huh? The road is good! We’re just gonna go straight.

I have permission from Justice to go straight. We did start on a red; we didn’t intentionally now drive through the bush, but we have a lot of guesses it’s an Egyptian vulture! That is a very good guess, but I’m not going to tell you what it is just yet!

I don't want to follow a wildebeest part, so while I follow a bull to be spot, let’s send you back to the little prince of the Sabi Sands. You can see now that Husana is slowly more boiling towards that direction. So I'm not sure if maybe he's heading towards the waterhole now, or Telepan or not, but on the other side, where the water is, the Buffaloes are still around there.

So I don’t think he’ll take that chance of going there while the Buffaloes are still having that time. So I am just going to keep following and see where he is going. He’s slowly mobile in towards the area where the Hello and over as Steven managed to get hold of about three different kills. He caught a dacre, and after a dacre, he caught a small nyala, and after his nyala he caught another dacre. So he has been just eating for the past few days, so you can see the stomach is very full!

Oh! It’s changing directions now! Instead of going to the waterhole, he is now moving much more towards that study. So I'm just gonna turn so that he can have a better visual, cause where I am is not easy for me to see him again. For now, we can watch Husana up in a tree trying to have his dacre.

This is a sighting that took place a few days ago. It looked like it had been a very long day for the little chief, Husana. Scratching and stiff walking is what led us to the most after long periods of daily rest. Leopards are the only cats who climb trees regularly over here, and they make it look so easy. Their bodies are perfectly designed for tree climbing.

Their back legs are very powerful, helping to prepare them, while their balance is also excellent. Husana prefers to hide food high up in big trees to avoid competition from other species such as hyenas. So that was a very interesting, exciting to see Husana trying to have something from high up by the marula tree.

So if he doesn’t do that, he knows very well that on the ground here, there’s quite a lot of competition. We do have a lot of hyenas that are roaming around waiting for a chance. So he was very lucky to take something up to a tree. And where we have just seen him now feeding on that carcass is not far away from where he has been hiding some other carcasses.

But looking at the tummy now, you can see that he has been consuming quite a lot of food. This cat has been feeding non-stop for the past three days, and he managed to get hold of three different dacre’s in less than 24 hours! Congratulations to Husana for that as he battled a lot before getting those kinds of meals.

Maybe he's listening to me when I’m giving him such positive comments! So I don’t know how much time he's going to take before the next hunt because I can see even if something comes nearby. I don’t think, because of this weight, he will be able to chase an animal.

Safari Solly and Husana is not worried about our presence at all, because he still has a normal human fear, so when he’s here now, he knows that we are not a threat. If I try to get off the ground now, what he's going to do now is that he will leave me alone and just move away. Now is the time for him to rest.

I think it's fair enough for him to rest now because he is full, and lucky that he is not far away from the water. Look at that, the rate of breathing! You can see that he is full. You can even see how the stomach is pumping.

In relation to the catch normally, they reach maturity when they’re over two years, but to start breeding, they must have to wait until they’re four years, because four years is when the level of testosterone is high for them to turn and become aggressive so that they can be able to defend territories.

At this stage, I don’t think Husana is ready yet to challenge the other big males to impress the females for mating activities. So, cats, they’ve got to do something in order to impress the females, cause females are interested in those that have got very strong strengths.

You can see now that we have got a very big head of buffalo is also feeding not very far away from where we are. We have got two different sightings of the big five animals from the same spot, but now, let's go back to my colleague. Let's go back to Taylor, who is searching for something.

I’m not too sure now what she is up to. We found what we’ve been searching for, though! Since, oh, let me fix that for you, because he keeps turning his head! I’m just going to go forward just a little bit. Sorry, everyone! Bear with us for two seconds! There are lots of sticks we’re trying to avoid that better, trying to avoid ending Ghana!

He’s perfectly placed himself in between all the twigs and branches! Anyways, so the little Dacre has decided that King Ghana is not a friend to play with and trotted off.

Otherwise, it would have found itself inside King Ghana's belly, which I don’t think it would have appreciated. But he’s still just sitting up and around, and he’s panting heavy! Oh! He’s just doing a big yawn! That’s exciting! That’s typically a sign that he might be waking up, and the fact that he has been sitting up for quite some time.

I’m hoping that he does jive some goes for a drink! He’s got two options: Treehouse or Twin Dams—they're both of equal distance, I’d say. Now there was a bit of drama that happened during the week—not with King Ghana, however!

Husana, who you've been watching with Sydney, had a bit of an altercation with Tandi. It was evident that Husana had picked up on a scent in the distance. He followed his nose, which took him to Tandi. She was displeased to see her brother and immediately ran at him, engaging in a physical brawl.

It soon became clear that Tandi had made a kill and imparted it to be precise. Husana helped himself to the impala, but it wasn’t long before a hyena came charging in. Husana made a run for it with the stolen impala and attempted to move to a tree.

He failed as the hyena launched itself into the air and grabbed his tail. Husana immediately dropped the kill, unimpressed with the hyenas' tenacity. The young prince—the tickets are still back! What he had stolen from Tandi, but the hyenas are witted and are playing this time!

Wasn’t that absolutely fascinating?! Now, of course, that could happen at any moment because there was a hyena hanging around here, and there's also a kill. Although King Ghana was very clever this time, and like his son Husana, and took his kill up a tree before anybody could get to him!

Unfortunately, hyenas cannot climb vertical trees, although I’ve seen them attempt to when the branches are slightly more horizontal and closer down to the ground. Up and down he goes! But pretty spectacular, and Husana was really lucky there! That is the first time I’ve actually ever seen him be so brave where he’s been willing to take on Tandi like that and also kept revving that hyena, which was impressive!

Not Tandi, a leopard like King Ghana, who’s in the prime of his life, he’s got a full belly, he’s got lots of muscle, and he’s just in fantastic condition! I would say that he is between 80 and 90 kilograms or so, so it’s a big cat and filled with just absolute power.

I don’t think Husana is anywhere near there! I think he's probably around maybe 60 kilograms or so—maybe even slightly less, maybe between 50 and 60 kilograms—or perhaps I'm being a bit shy on my numbers there. Husana is also not a small cat.

I would like to see King Ghana and Husana next to one another, and that wouldn't be impossible because we've had some phenomenal sightings and unusual interaction between father and son! I’ve been lucky enough to be a witness to that!

I mean, a couple of months ago we were down at Chitwa Chitwa where King Ghana was recovering from whatever injury it may have been. We suspected, or a few people suspected, it was a snake bite, but it's very difficult to confirm!

Anyways, he was there recovering one afternoon, we heard some squirrels and birds alarming and we turned our heads away from King Ghana, who was just resting up in the shade and a drainage line, very much like what we're witnessing today.

Of course, who came strolling on in? Husana! Looking up at the trees! Once he realized what we were looking at, he went, "Oh hello, dad!" and came down to say hello. King Ghana was not impressed; he growled a little bit, and they both snarled at one another.

But then Husana sort of sat down. I think he actually, um, even urinated right in front, almost on top of his dad’s head, which I don’t think King Ghana would have taken too lightly!

So I don’t think he was impressed by it at all, but anyways, he was too weak and couldn’t be bothered wasting any of the little energy and strength he had on chasing Husana. Every Husana grew bored as dad was not giving him the reaction or the attention that he required, so he carried on with his day, which was pretty cool to see!

Things like that! It’s the first time for me that I’ve seen father and son interacting, and it’s amazing to see how King Ghana is so tolerant of having Husana around. Because he goes about his st. marks, I haven’t heard Husana’s sawing yet.

I think the moment Husana becomes vocal, he’s gonna find himself in a bit of trouble. I think that might be waiting. Ghana draws the line and says, "Right! Enough is enough!" Because he doesn’t have that right to advertise like that!

He can see st. marks often again as an insult to King Ghana, but he sorta puts up with it. Now it sounds like there’s just action all over the show! Brent is racing to you as secrets. I think David has witnessed an incredible spectacle unfolding.

Let’s go see what else is happening! It’s our two other predators here who have kept us almost breathless and our heartbeats have gone high! The crocodiles have been having a party!

I've counted three zebras down! I’m sure for the next few months now the zebras—or rather, the crocs—will know they have a lot to eat! This croc moving between the hippos!

I don’t know how she’s so fast; not sure where she’s going. There has been pandemonium here the last 45 minutes! Crocs, lions, hippos, zebras! Our heartbeats and Manu going high in total excitement!

And again, for those who are just joining us for the first time, we are in Kenya, and this is the Mara River in the Mara Triangle! And those are big reptiles that we call crocodiles, which could be related to their alligators!

We have been very lucky to see a migration of zebras crossing the river! Roscoe—the river is not very deep, I would say! It averages about a meter to two meters deep, maybe the deepest part could be three meters. Rosco, I’m sure you saw that croc that was holding a chunk of flesh in its mouth from the three zebras that they brought down!

And you can see the zebras—or rather, crocodiles—are not able to chew! They just cut meat in big chunks and then they swallow! It’s quite a long river, about 400 kilometers or about 250 miles long, starting at some highlands of Kenya, going all the way to—or draining to—Lake Victoria!

Pretty heavy current at the moment, but the zebras were not worried by that, and the place they chose to cross was infested with lots of crocodiles! And these are what you call the Nile crocodiles—some of the largest reptiles you got in the world!

And it has been action-packed for anybody who might have missed it! You can always go to YouTube and watch what we were watching before! And I said anybody who is a bit squeamish—there’s about killing and a bit of blood going on! And sorry about all the vehicles on the other side of the river, but they are also equally enjoying this sighting just like me and Manu!

And who could? Two lionesses here, now! These are the two lionesses I was talking about— not very lucky like the crocodiles! On three attempts, they tried to make an ambush, and they did not perform very well!

There were about 500 to 800 zebras in total, and I would say only 300 crossed! The rest were not able to cross! And of all those crossing, the lionesses were not likely to get any of them!

So what would happen is, the moment they think of, they sense a crossing point's dangerous, the zebras will try to look for another crossing point which could be massive! And I think that’s where those zebras are going!

And my brother, Brad, our feathered friend with him now— you don't get more exciting than this! This is more exciting than lions, leopards, and even wild dogs! One of the rarest birds in Africa!

It is a juvenile Egyptian vulture, and this is my first-ever sighting of an Egyptian vulture! They are very, very seldom seen in the Mara—mostly they prefer slightly more arid areas! So they’ve seen it in the eastern Serengeti more than the western area!

There are very, very few breeding populations left! They do occur in western Europe and down into northwestern India—the Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, the Sahel, and the Sahara—but their population has been dwindling since the 1800s for lots of different reasons.

Mostly because of better sanitation around human habitation! They've got very, very small bills and they used to pick up lots of different little bits of food where people were messy! Major competition for them, believe it or not, which is why a lot of their food sources. The domestic pigs and the domestic dogs—now I’m gonna try to sneak a little bit closer!

I just wanted to make sure we saw it first! OK, this for me is the highlight of over a year and a half in Kenya! This bird number one sighting! OK, we’re gonna go into low range for this, sneaky, sneaky, sneaky! Please don’t fly, don’t fly, don’t fly, don’t fly, don’t fly!

And if you do, I’m ready! [Laughter] It’s teasing me! OK, I just want to see if it lands again, and I’ll try to sneak a bit closer now! I’ll trust you, Hubert, but closer shortly! It’s going to join with a white-backed vulture!

I’ll show you what an adult looks like! Maybe get an Egyptian vulture! Oh! OK, we’re gonna go sneaking again now! Another one of the things that’s in Southern Africa that they were completely persecuted for is the ability to open eggshells, particularly ostrich eggshells!

They were actually shot with shotguns! And so how they were used to open ostrich eggshells—that actually go grab a rock and then fly high above the nest and drop the rock into the nest to break open the eggs! OK, this is very, very exciting, unfortunately, not being very photographic at all!

Photogenic? Quite nervous! It's a very young bird, and normally the juveniles and sub-adults that are seen in the Mara are actually older than this one. So I got sent a picture by the Michigan State University ladies! It looked like it was gonna fly again!

We’ll just have another safety—he just jumped right up to the top of the tree. And the other thing—so they sent me a picture, I think I’m looking at a juvenile Egyptian vulture. And I was like, “Where are you? I’m coming!”

“Send me a picture now!” And when they did, I was like, “Yes, you are! Don’t move! I’m on my way!” And then it flew off! Then they’ve been following it until I got a check because I was quite a long way away!

You guys can see it quite nicely! James was asking how long does it take to get adult plumage? Normally, by about five, five years, but in certain indications, like that, the crest and stuff like that—the little sort of plume in the back of the crown—they sometimes, certain individuals take seven to eight years to get that.

They live for about twenty years in the wild, or probably fifteen to twenty years in the wild. In captivity, the oldest record is about 23 years. Now the most jealous person in the world today is going to be Tristan! So trusted and I have spoken about abandoning work when a juvenile Egyptian vulture has been seen in Kruger and just going to see this!

See the juvenile Egyptian vulture! But unfortunately, I wish Tristan was here with me today! He would have left lions to come and look at the Egyptian vulture as well, the lions were sleeping! But getting a little bit closer now!

So this is a massive bird on everyone’s list! So I’m very excited that we got to share it with you, and now it's being a little bit more forthcoming! So Paula is wondering how often do they lay eggs?

There’s so little known about their breeding that in Africa, we’re not really sure. And so they are monogamous, and they'll use the same nest for four years. And in theory, they would lay every year, and during August to November is when they'll be on the nest, and it's...

And that in Europe they've known that it takes 42 days for the babies to hatch. In Africa, they're so rare we don’t have exact information on how long it takes them to fledge and stuff, and also in areas where they’ve been persecuted and there's been a lack of food, you often have egg failure!

So they haven’t been able to eat enough calcium for the eggs to be strong enough for them to hatch. That’s one of the big problems with a lot of the predatory birds! You can see the smoke giving us quite an eerie, eerie sort of evening here in the Mara!

And that is very exciting! I mean, we’ve probably done 30 kilometers to get down here to see this incredible bird—the Egyptian vulture! A smart bird as well, as I said, known to use tools, dropping rocks into nests—bigger marrow bones that they aren’t able to break up and get to mero. They’ll actually fly up with them like the bearded vulture does that—find some big boulders or whatnot and will drop the marrow bones onto the boulders from quite a height to break it open.

Yeah, I can’t help myself! This is the closest I’ve ever been to an Egyptian vulture! Giving himself a little bit of a preen, but look at him! It’s incredible! So very, very distinct and quite difficult to get them confused with other vulture species such as a hooded vulture!

And a juvenile hooded vulture will have a brown cap all the way over, and the other one, adults will have a white cap all the way over! There isn’t anything else really like the Egyptian vulture, and their beak is so fine in comparison to the other vulture species, and they lack that cap.

So as they were saying, the hooded vulture is the only one you might maybe get confused with, but um, only if you don’t know your birds! Because this is a big one! There are many, many birds who would be very, very excited to see this!

OK, well I’m gonna spend a little bit of quality time with this Egyptian vulture before I go look for some big cats. In the meantime, let’s send you to Taylor and King Ghana.

Well, hats! We’re navigating around! As you can see, we’re having a bit of a chuckle because Husana has had his guard dog watching the kill! Well, just the chittering!

We’ll reposition again, but it’s quite a nice scene that we’ve got because we’ve got King Ghana; we’ve got the hyena, and then of course, that impala which is dangling in the trees. So there we go! There’s the old man we’ve been sitting with!

He’s got his guard dog—it’s not really his guard dog! Everybody, I’m just being silly! It is the hyena that we saw earlier, that was laying flat! And then, of course, there’s the impala just jangling away now!

I don’t know what he—there we go—hang on! It looks like he’s about to climb up the tree! Watch out, Johnny! He’s too!

We’ve been watching Husana taking time and I don’t think he's particularly good. He hasn’t quite worked it out just yet! He really does struggle the way he tries to—it's like the way that a fireman would shimmy down a pole or a letter! Husana seems to try that technique going up, which in my opinion—all the observations that I had, again, I’m no expert because I'm not a leopard—doesn’t seem to work very well!

But let’s see! Here we go! King Ghana does it with absolute ease! So I know it’s not a great view at the moment! I will reposition around a little bit! But I thought it’d be quite nice to watch as he climbed up that timber tea tree which is where that impala is hanging!

Lots of timber tea trees around here! And now, this could get very exciting because I’d expect the carcass has been here for a couple of days; it’s been decaying. There’s not much left of it—some scraps could quite easily fall to the ground, and that’s what that hyena is waiting for!

And if you do know which hyena this is, tell us! Let us know with the hashtag #SafariLive because we are lucky and see the same hyenas over and over again! For example, we saw ribbon and Timur in the video with the tiny verses!

Husana—sighting! Ribbon was the one that leaped up and tried to bite us on his bottom—or did in fact bite Husana’s bottom! Or here comes another hyena! Look, look, look! This is exciting!

Say we go to hyenas! These might be the hyenas I had on foot the other day. Oh, no! Maybe it is a triplet! Tina? I don’t know! Maybe I’m not very good at telling the difference!

Anyways, they’re waiting there for the scraps, and I think King Ghana might drop a bit now! A while, Jim? Yes, I think that King Ghana has the possibility of mating again, most certainly!

So I think once Tandi comes into heat, he’ll be the first to mate with her. Any other female leopards within the area or any stress will probably seek out someone lighting on her; they’re not gonna be interested in Husana!

He’s too young! There are obviously bigger, stronger males! And we talk about this often—the female animals will generally want the best genetics, so they’re not typically unless they have to—they’re not going to mate with a young inexperienced leopard!

They’ll probably mate with one of the bigger boys! And if King Ghana disappears, though, then it's fair game if he goes away and moves too far! Tandi might not want to venture too far away, then maybe Husana’s going to be the next option!

Even though they are related! But something we must remember, Archer, is that sort of breeding with your brothers and sisters is quite normal! And they don’t allow for it to happen over two generations! So typically, the males will move out!

He grabbed something he didn’t quite like; he thought it was gonna drop to the floor, and then it’ll be like somebody dropping some meat or something—fruit! Or anything into water where there are lots of catfish or lots of piranhas!

And as hyenas are gonna race on in, but it does look like he’s struggling there to pull chunks of flesh out! There’s not much left! Wonderful! Well, this has been a superb sighting! I’m thoroughly enjoying it! We’re gonna continue sitting here watching the King eat!

David, however, has found one of the smaller scavengers in the Mara—a huge leopard that he respects in Juma to a smaller predator like Jakal! Here we go to the black-backed jackal!

Just laying on the road! Normally, jackals go in pairs! I’m surprised he is alone, and maybe he’s watching the beautiful sunset all the way in the Mara Triangle! Look at those beautiful eyes of the sunset! How magnificent that is—the misty, smoky background, or the backdrop of the older US government, and the wildebeest in the foreground and all the torchwood trees!

What a beautiful wilderness! Me and my man, Maurice, and Manu, enjoying working here! And Manu says when the fool in Nicky the Fenachrone control says just beautiful! Normally in the area we are called, for those who've never joined us before, we are in Kenya, in the Mara Triangle.

We see the game halfway in the Camara triangle because our three humps one arm is the boundary between Kenya and Tanzania—the country south of Kenya—and there's the Mara River—for those who are watching where we are!

Watching some epic moments! And then the other arm of the triangle is that escarpment! You see there, and that particular area, the lions like hanging around that area! And there’s one particular pride of lions that we call the Olalla’s!

I found the owner of pride in Luxor right below the escarpment after which they are named! When an elephant appeared, any of the lionesses, they looked up in interest but relaxed again quickly! The elephant continued to eat in peace while the pride enjoyed the cool of the marsh grass and shade from the nearby quadrant thickets!

Lions around here in the Mara Triangle, excuse me! The Olalla pivot lions—it is the largest when all together! They form a strong 14 in number, and that’s a very huge pride by any standard!

And that’s why you’d see even if an elephant or a hyena is just walking through them; they’ll just look at the elephant and like, “What are you up to?” And they get curious just in case, because they know elephants are large!

And once know how elephants will harass them! And then as you just saw there, they just ignore them and just carry on enjoying their lives! So Olalla’s is one of the largest pride of lions we got around here!

And it’s time to move! If you’re lucky, we might be seeing them again today! But my current plan now is to go look for some hyenas! Just cool off! We started with some very warm temperatures of about 28 degrees or 82 degrees Fahrenheit! I think now we have gone down and we could be in the low 20s now, or the 70s Fahrenheit at the moment!

And when it cools off, most of the animals get to be more active, and hyenas are no exception! And the totally hyenas? Veritas that you’ll always get busy in the cold soft! But also other predators like leopards get into action!

We are still here with Husana now! Husana is now on the ground as I think he was not comfortable high up by the tree due to the stomach which is full, and I can see there are some impala that has been here down to the waterhole!

There are just showing some interest! But you can see that it’s not gonna be just a waste of time! He’s not gonna win any better now because he is so very heavy at the moment! So you can see he’s concentrating on something!

I think this is another vehicle coming to join me here. So you can see if you use these cats as a monitor, they will show you what is happening every time! I just have to look at the eyes in the ears, and that is what’s gonna tell me what’s happening in the surrounding.

Interesting! The beautiful necklace is now showing clearly! You can see that with the reflection of the sun! This is beautiful! So the young male leopards, they have got to grow older than 22 months, is when they're starting to show some interest!

But not interacting with the females at that stage! But when they’re about four years or above four years, that’s when you will see them fully participating and trying to display the strength to establish their own families!

So you can see now that he's trying to rest! What is in the stomach? The array list Kurt I’ve seen is the caracal, and the last time I've seen the caracal it was long time ago! So those are one of the beautiful cadillac the aes! You see there is pointing like this, and they can be really aggressive as well!

So the rarest cat I have seen is the caracal, and I’m also hoping to see the caracal here in Juma! You can see that this cat is now laying down facing down the hill, after eating quite a lot of meals! Facing down! I think that might be difficult on the stomach!

Maybe he’s got an adaptation to be able to block what is in the stomach from coming down the mouth! But now let's go to the Masai Mara, where David is also looking for something interesting at the moment! The volu!

A good but this time quite far away! But we've got a beautiful sunset! We will show you there! That tree right in the distance! That one there!

Oh my goodness! What an exciting drive we made, and we’re going to start looking for some big cats! James, I have—you got the beautiful sunset! So we're going to head back towards where's the closest road from here? That way? Oh yeah, that way!

That way is gonna be the closest road! This is an old road! Yeah, someone got stuck! Hold on! I’m great! This way! Back to the Varda Barra! Oh yeah! We’re gonna go this way! Oh! The big bumps!

Ah! So well then, Susie! Indeed, I completely forgot! I was yammering on about all sorts of modern stuff about them from—but indeed, they are the birds that are most commonly seen in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics! Well done, Susie, I completely forgot about that now thinking about it.

Because historically, before we became a lot more tidy and stuff, Egyptian vultures were scavengers around human habitation and abattoirs and stuff like that! So you would probably find that the Egyptian vultures would have spent a lot of time around human habitation in ancient Egypt! Hence the fact that they are quite common in hieroglyphics!

Didn’t manage to get the best photos of it! But I’ve still seen an Egyptian vulture! That is a big one for me! I’ve been close once or twice before—once in the Serengeti, he, wow! Twelve years ago!

Oh Nicola wants to see a picture! As I said, there weren't the best pictures! I haven’t even looked at all of them yet! Because it’s just the worst time of the day! That one’s not too shabby!

And that was just after it took off! Right, I know! Wrong, wrong wheel! I'm so excited! Obviously, no one's not too shabby! It’s difficult in this low-light! Let me just see as we find another one quickly!

Jam, I didn’t like to sit too much!

Oh, Nicky, your comms are breaking up! Sorry! What’s awesome? Yeah, I’m gonna have to look at them properly! I think this one is going to be my favorite!

I saw it briefly but I haven't had a chance to look at it! Where is it now? Flying into the sunset! Lots of decent silhouettes! There!

I see if we got one of it flying into the sunset! There we go! Getting there! Don’t suppose for me! It’s going to be a very special picture! Not the greatest photograph that I’ve seen, but sort of coming to the sunset of my time in Kenya!

And there we have the Egyptian vulture flying into the sunset! In focus! OK, I’m gonna keep moving back to the main road; maybe try to find a cat or two before the end of drive! In the meantime, let’s send you back to the Duke of Juma with Madame Acadie!

And there he is! If he’s not careful, he’s going to lose that kill! But luckily, he’s got one paw holding on tight as he tries to strip the last of that impala! He’s done well!

He’s pretty much eaten the entire carcass, which is awesome to see! Suppose he has to hold onto them, but he’s got a very, very full belly! And you know what? If he doesn’t catch anything else for a nice day or two, I don’t think it’ll be a trade smash!

I think he will be fine! So give him a chance to just reinstate his territory a game because while he’s been on this kill, he’s been very quiet and hidden away—not vocalizing as much!

So I think it’s important that he does go on their territorial patrol again to remind everybody that he is still here! But again, I can’t seem to find it very very lucky to be out here this afternoon with all these wonderful animals because, well as you know, it’s not just King Ghana! We’ve also got hyenas!

And they’ve had a couple of mouthfuls because a few scraps—a few bones and things here have dropped down onto the floor, and they’ve raced on in to try and grab them! But let’s see! Look how they look!

Keep looking at that! That’s one of my favorite things—the way that they glance up! It’s almost like they’re looking at Ghana with admiration, but of course, this is not the case! They just want a scrap of food!

Nancy Boo Boo! I've never feasted upon an impala carcass that’s been up in the tree for a couple of days! So, I wouldn’t be the best person to ask if the carcass will be easier to eat after a few days! Hmmm...

I imagine that it’s the meat that’s becoming quite sort of tender as it rots away in the sun! So perhaps yes, perhaps it is easier to tear off of the bone as it’s matured quite nicely now for the last few days! But again, I don’t think I’ll ever know the answer to that!

Because the day that I start eating meat off of a carcass, I probably need to reconsider my life choices! So let’s hope it doesn’t get to that! But this actually, he’s making good way!

I mean, that impala neck has definitely got quite a bit of flesh on it! And an impala you forwards in Ghana is a great meal! I mean now you’ve seen he’s eaten that for the past couple of days!

And I was wrong! I mean I said I didn’t, oh there goes a scrap of food! Let’s see if they’re gonna squabble over it! No! No fighting! Very civilized!

Well done, hyena! Well done! Normally, they always fight over it! Still just looking at though, they’re going, “Is that all?” Peace sir, can I have some more? Maybe what some of them are saying? Who knows? I actually don’t.

Well, fell from the tree; it didn’t look like any of them ate anything! Mmm! I suppose hyenas do Hoover down their food! If you weren’t watching, it’d be easy to miss! I’m waiting for that bone to fall! That’s dangling, and then I said the hyenas are looking at you! I mean it’s literally hanging on by a thread!

And I can’t believe it hasn’t dropped yet! And the impala doesn’t look too happy, though! Sorry, that was terrible! That was a very nice—sorry, impala! Thank you so much for contributing to the circle of life! And of course, it is important there are so many impalas—there’s a ton of castilla—one antelope species out there!

And that’s exactly it! At times like this, it becomes easier for leopards to take down prey because they’ve got much to hide behind! I wish she would get to the neck, though, because he’d find lots of chunks of flesh, and he wouldn’t have to very delicately try and eat around the bones, which, of course, is going to be, I think is going to be his downfall!

Is that he’s going to pull on the carcass, and it’s going to completely fall in half, and he’s going to be left with the bony bits with a couple of scraps of meat, and the hyenas are gonna end up with a head and the neck of the impala, which, like I said, is filled with flesh!

Though, despite the flies, I’m sure there’d be maggots and things stuck inside! And, Andy! Yes! Hyena poo is indeed really white! Except when they defecate, it doesn’t come out that color!

So it’s normally like a greeny—well, quite lime-green! That’s the wrong color! But there’s definitely a green sort of tinge to it! Perhaps if you've ever seen your dog defecate after they’ve eaten a bone, then as it dries out, it's evident that there’s a substantial amount of calcium carbonate!

So that’s what makes the feces white! It’s all that excess calcium carbonate from all the bones that they’ve been feeding on! But it takes a couple of days to dry that color! It would be quite bizarre if they defecated out white-white feces, and I’d be concerned!

But King Ghana also relieved himself just before climbing up the tree, lightening the load! I can’t wait for this carcass to