Safari Live - Day 206 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and caucuses. Viewer discretion is advised. Good afternoon and welcome to a stripey start to our sunset Safari on a rather windy afternoon. It is a little bit breezy, Archer, but still a beautiful day as the cards have separated from this morning and we've got a bit of sunshine. My name is Kristen, on camera I've got Craig, and we are coming to you live from South Africa, which means that we would love to hear from all of you. Remember that you can get hold of us if you would like to ask any questions or have any comments; we just want to well say hello. You can do that on hashtag Safari live on Twitter.

Now, it is World Elephant Day today, so we shall be probably doing all things elephant related at this rate. We're going to try to see if we can find an elephant herd. I know Steve had some this morning that were moving in a sort of south westerly direction from central, so we need to check Turn Dam's quickly and then we'll come up to Milwaukee and hope that they may be in there. After the wind started, often elephants do go into a drainage section, so we look for them. I will discuss all things elephant, and then after all of that, we'll probably try and do a loop around to try and see if we can pick up those Tandy and Tlalmar tracks as well as see if Tandy and Ghana ended up. I have a sneaky suspicion that maybe, just maybe, Husana is on a kill somewhere and Tandi is using his nose to try and find it, and who knows, maybe it's all of them together, which would be quite nice.

So that's the plan for this afternoon. But before we do any of that, we stumbled upon a zebra that is, well, doing what we are doing and sitting in the shade and just enjoying the peace and quiet of this beautiful Sunday afternoon. It's just sitting there, very easy. Now, it's not alone; there are some others that are around but they are a little bit further away and up the slope towards quarantine. This guy is just taking it very easy, a few stamps of the feet and flicks of the tail as flies land around the nether regions, which is quite common for many of our antelopes. Unfortunately, the flies can be a bit of a nuisance to these guys, and so you'll often see their tails wagging like that and them stomping their feet, particularly when they're just resting like this.

So this is the way that they do rest. It is very common to find zebras sitting or standing, should I say, in shady sections in the afternoon, just waiting for the heat of the day to pass a little bit before they then start to go and graze and start to try and find some food. What you'll also find is that they've probably been drawn here because they want to go and drink. Either they have already drunk or they're going to go and drink at the pan in front of camp, and so that's why they're just waiting for it to get a little bit cooler before they go out into the blazing sunshine and go and quench their thirst before heading up onto quarantine where it's going to be much safer.

Now, I would imagine that most of these zebras are well aware that lions are in the area. This morning, when I was sitting in the tent on nest cam duty, it was a cacophony of noise coming from the northern side of We Attila. I was actually inside Waffles Hook, but there were a lot of lions calling this morning. From what I gather, the Inkuma pride mated up with the evoking avails and there were lions all over the place. Everybody apparently is accounted for and fine, but there was lots and lots of noise coming from the northern side. So let's see if maybe, just maybe, they come south. The wind is blowing from the southern direction, which will drag those lions back in this direction, and so hopefully this evening they might make an appearance too.

Now talking about lions and talking about windy, I know Brent Leah Smith this morning had lions. Let's see if he still has them here in the Maasai Mara. All we can see is a poor while the Sausage Tree pride rests on a little rocky outcrop under some Croton thickets. My name is Brent Dear Smith, and I have the migrating wildebeest Veeam on camera and lions that are very much asleep under bushes. There's been quite a lot of movement of all the beasts and whatnot pasture today, but they haven't managed to get up off their lazy behinds. We are hoping at some point that mass of animals that was around them this morning does edge a little closer. Remember, this is a hundred percent live and you can send through your questions using the hashtag Safari live. For now, the lions are still snoozing, just a poor visible very tired kitties.

Eakins, we're actually quite grateful the wind has literally been howling the whole day. It is only recently stopped probably about 10 minutes ago that it's actually calm well. I think the mountain, look at that geez, and even realize that is a pile of dust. We're not going to say that's quite grace, but the amount of dust that is in view in my eyes at the moment and the justice who's our Mara Ranger who's out with us is absolutely phenomenal. I mean, yeah, we've changed color with the amount of dust that's blown over us over the day, but that's one of the things if you want to get the good shots, you got to play the patience game.

I can just hear the faint no, no, no of a wildebeest somewhere behind us. I’m trying to see where they are. So there are few zebra around, the wildebeest obviously behind us somewhere, but even their mooing can’t wake up the Sausage Tree pride just yet. Let's go to someone who could wake up the dead. James Henry says he could wake up the dead. I've seen people climb out of their graves and run away at the sound of Brent Leah Smith on the march. Anyway, hello everybody! Welcome to Sunday afternoon, Sunday Safari here, sunset safaris - what I meant at this part of Juma. We are trying to find Chulu, the four-year-old Duchess of the West, she's Lepidus who we saw here this morning.

My name is James Henry. There we go, and on camera today is David. Hello David! Yeah, we are doing our level best to see if we can find some signs of the slippered, but I have found no tracks as yet. It is a glorious afternoon albeit a little blustery, but this is expected in August. Please do talk to us, of course, using the hashtag Safari live, all the chat stream on YouTube either we'll do; it would be lovely to hear from you. But only go, my total species count for the afternoon so far in terms of animals is one fly, which I'm going to try and kill the next time it lands on my face, I think. I missed it is not been entirely successful. Now, I don't think we'll do a live action broadcast of that. Thank you Emma. Now, of course, you do his name is termite mound, and so we're looking on all the termite mounds because that apparently is where she likes to hang out.

I haven't spent long enough with her to know whether or not that is true, but it also, it's quite blustery now. I know that Brent was talking about the wind in the Mara, and it really is amazing how much it does blow in the Mara, but this month specifically here, it does blow quite a lot as well. Not quite as much as in the Mara, but what it means is that the tracks of animals are quite difficult to follow after a day of blowing. But I haven't found any of her tracks. Now what she did this morning was she came in from the west down and then she sort of cut down the North South cut line that separates her territory from Tandi. Tandi, of course, is our 12-year-old queen of Juma who lives to the eastern side of Juma, and she was quite purposefully marking, but then she also sort of settled into a bit of scrub hare hunting. So I wasn't really sure whether she was hunting or marking which was her priority, which means that when we left her, the bad hop was dead this morning, she could either have gone down to ground, she could have carried on and walked quite a long way in her continued territorial patrol.

So I'm really not sure at this stage what she did, and three some tracks will let us know, or even better still there will be the carcass of a recently killed and very unfortunate antelope hanging from a tree somewhere nearby. That would be good! They would just look on top of that termite mound if you wouldn't mind, the far one there. Let us have a look at that. I will train my binoculars on it; I'm pretty sure we spotted a bush! We have; she isn't even a bush, it's a grass tuft. Testing! So it was not to spot a grass tuft on Sunday afternoons. Sunday grass tuft! You do get an impression of how dry it is getting. Oh, I see we're back on me! Thank you very much for that, David, and he's sitting on the radio, sorry about that.

Okay, let's get going! Oh no, I don't think so Jennifer! I think that the competition that we've sort of insinuated as that exists between Tandi and Chalu is not in fact real anymore. I believe it was to start with, I think, but they've very nicely settled up their territories. They may come to blows if one of them tries to expand into the other's territory, but I don't see why they would do that. Chalu's occupied territory to the west of Tandi, the old territory of Chalu, who was Tandi's sister, and of course, Tandi has occupied a mother's, cherishing her Ula's territory here in the central parts of Juma. And as long as they're doing their territorial patrols and marking along the way, there's no reason for them to try and expand into each other's territories and have some sort of physical confrontation.

I suppose the only conditions under which that would happen would be a severe drought or to go on extraterritorial hunting forays. The size of a cat's territory is almost exclusively defined by the amount of prey in the area. So if you go to very dry areas like the Kalahari or even drier, you will find that the leopard territories are probably up to ten times the size of the territories here. And if you go down onto the Sand River, which is not too far from here, of course, where the game is even denser than it is where we are now, you'll find that the territories are even smaller than they are here.

I suppose not almost exclusive, that it's prey density, but certainly prey density makes a huge difference in an area of homogeneous vegetation. Right now, I've got the following instruction. We're going to go to Taylor; apparently, she has got something in the praying of the Kenyan. Now, I don't know what that means, the praying in the Kenyan. Perhaps there's something to do with Sunday? Well, we did we've never switched it up because, Archie, well, he wants to film everything this afternoon. We have a crocodile, but we'll show you some of the prey species in a little while.

Hello everybody! So there's just wave awkwardly. So my name strap comes up. My name is Taylor and I'm camera with me today is Archie, and here we have a safari vehicle trying to sneak past us. Welcome! Anyway, there's paint a space to go around us. But you know, perhaps they desperately wanted to be on Safari lives! Who could blame them? Anyway, there's the prey species on the other side of the river in the reserve, just grazing I suppose, as zebras normally do throughout their day. Now you can see actually the front of the hoof is not going in the opposite direction. That's not good for us. That's not what we want! Turn around zebra, and come back here!

We've been sitting all day long! Yeah, that's an absolute lab! We've not been sitting all day long at this crossing; we've been sitting here for about 20 minutes and I'm growing impatient. I think you ought to come down to the river; it's so nice, it's cool! The water is really refreshing; you know, you could maybe dip your toes in the water, have a bit of a swim! It would be risky because there are crocodiles and things like that. That you've already shown you lots of crocodiles, but they're so full, don't worry! There was a crossing here yesterday. Perhaps they snatched right up; they're probably full, so we're not sure what's going to happen. We've finally just got to wait and see!

And there's so many crossing points along the Nile River; however, there are also many spots that we cannot get you, but Main Crossing is one of the popular spots. But whether they'll decide to, well I suppose, take a plunge into the Maura, small river practice for TV, we're going to wait to find out! Hopefully this afternoon, remember this is a live and interactive show! You all being exceptionally quiet today! Hashtag Safari live, peace with your questions, or you can also talk to us on the YouTube chat! That would be very nice, thank you very much!

You know, I don't think that there's a particular amount of time that a crocodile will spend in the sun. I think, I think it's, suppose you've been a day-to-day. However, I would say at least forty percent of their day is spent basking in the sun. But all those really cold, overcast days, you actually don't see many crocodiles at all. You know they're probably just in the water because you don't see them out on the banks at all. And but there's this group over here; there's the two massive crocs that we are looking at. They're exceptionally big, you know they're well over four meters in length! There's a couple a little bit further downstream too, which we can't see, which also maybe might even be a bit bigger than this.

And so on a nice warm day like this, they'll recharge their batteries. It's perfect. They're in a good spot because if any zebra do come down on either side of them, you know that it’s quite easy for them to just up in the water and then, of course, try and eat them. But again, like I said, we yesterday had a crossing here, and like one crocodile dived into the water and tried to swim after the zebra, but it really was a half-hearted attempt. So there must just be full, they don't have to eat very much, you know that with crocodiles! I mean they can go for many months and up to a year without even eating, but I don't think that they go that long! Sorry, I'm not trapped myself on the sorry, aren't you? I'm not stuck like this; I won't be able to meet!

But there's some hippos! Yeah! So the trucks! I don't think necessarily eat or, you know, don't go without food for about a year! They eat catfish and things in between, and lots of catfish in here now! That's part of hippos we see almost every single day! We can bast you and they only woke up from their slumber about ten minutes ago. They were all out on the banks of the river and now they've decided to, well, cool themselves off and they like it over there near the rapids. Sometimes we see those hippos actually going towards the rapids, and I think it must be like a massage all that fast-flowing water going over their backs!

And here's another small group here! Papapa thomas's! These are the Mara River dolphins which are cheer night. And I'll call them Blue Reds. No one is allowed to cross the river here; this is a no-crossing zone! So no cars will enter the river, although I’m sure over the years, someone’s probably tried to do it. So there are designated points. So, in order to cross the river to get into the Maasai Mara, you have two options: you can either go all the way around outside of all gates and then it gets to Mercy Arrogate which is in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, or you can go all the way down to the south to the border of Tanzania, where there's a bridge called the pouring gate bridge, pass in Myra Bridge, which is also known as, and you can cross down there and then go into the Maasai Mara.

So those are the ways that you can essentially cross the river bridge down that side; although I did hear little governors, I think they've got like a pontoon, don't they? Hey, Archie? Do they pull vehicles across? Which is exciting, but I don't really know how that works, so I'm not going to try and dive into too much about that because unfortunately, I just don't know. But it's not looking very promising for us just yet. I don't think these zebras are necessarily going to cross this afternoon; they could just hang around and maybe, you know, we'll meet them tomorrow morning at Cul-De-Sac crossing!

And I've told you many times that is my absolute favorite spot, and the reason why is because the water is quite deep, and there's also about three and a half million crocodiles. They're not really three and a half million, but I feel like a bulk of crocodiles! And we don't often get to see so many in a group together. So we'll keep that at the back of our minds; that might be where this herd goes, but we'd probably move on from here. I'll probably go see if we can find some lions or something along those lines.

Anyways, off you go back to James, who is on a bit of a bumble. Yes, I'm on a bumble! I'm looking for leopards; that's what I do. There's a folktale drongo, David, you see it? It's that black bird; it's flying away quickly. It's flying away; hurry up! Ah, you got it; well done! Folktale drongo, one of two drongo species we get here! The other, the square-tailed drongo, which I've never seen here, but apparently it does occur. I'm not convinced myself; it looks exactly like that one. Except, David, it has a square tail! Yes, a square tail. Well done, absolute genius!

And now Emma's just telling us that we are looking at a folktale drongo, which is very exciting! And that we haven't seen! Yes, you remember that thing you used to do when you clicked? You remember that, David? What are you supposed to do? Everybody, when he brings a camera back towards me, go! And then I'm not like this looking at my monitor when you come back to me, and then I am! See, watch, watch! This is how it's supposed to look, everybody! Watch this!

Okay, go, Dave! See, that’s what it’s supposed to look like! Unfortunately, isn't it? Get to pick twice today! Sunday is no click day apparently! Right, well this is very exciting in the middle of the day, that’s for sure! Something that’s also—listen, a matriarchal society, but isn’t an elephant! Can you guess what it is? Yes, indeed, James! Very odd actually to find a hyena sitting in the middle of the day, exactly where we are, in the Milwaukee! This is probably one of the first times I've actually found hyenas here when it’s been no killer on, so I'm absolutely just scanning all the trees around me just in case there is a sneaky leopard carcass—not a leopard caucus—but a carcass that may be a leopard has caught and put in a tree that is around here somewhere!

But you can see the sauna is looking rather dopey and happy with life, sleeping in the middle of the sand. And I suppose it’s a great place to have a bit of a rest! Yes, I'm sorry, am I talking too loud? I'll keep it down; I do apologize. But it is a good place to rest because, well, the sand molds through their body well, so it's got a nice little bank with some shade that's going to be the perfect place just to rest for the day. Stay nice and cool; a little bit of a breeze that’s funneling through the drainage line, it’s quite fairly quiet as well, so it’s a good place to be if you are an animal!

That's why we often find lion and leopard sleeping in the wall art systems during the course of the day, and many animals actually will sleep on the sand. You'll find even things like buffalo and any years will often come and rest in these kind of areas. Now, I'm keeping my voice down because this hyena gave me a glaring look; I mean, I was speaking too loudly, so now I feel bad and don't want to wake it up too much! But did you see how it got comfortable and stuck its legs out the back? So I love when hyenas lie like that! They all push their back legs way out, and they almost lie flat like we would with the legs tucked under.

They chased just to have a little bit of a rest! And Lana, yes, it is very normal for in—hyenas to be on their own like this. It might be that there are others tucked up in the bush somewhere close by, but it is very, very normal! Now, Aubrey is calling me on the radio. Let me just quickly get a hold of him. Go ahead, Aubrey! So normally you'll find hyenas on their own like this when they’re looking around for food.

So I'm just listening to all these updates quickly; I'll get back into the hyenas now. So you're still talking, and there's a good update that we're getting; I can't copy that. Observe, so let me make my way to that side! So it's just an update on Tingana, which is always very nice! But talking about hyenas on their own, so what you'll find with hyenas is that I mean they do spend a lot of time by themselves, particularly if it's males that are around, they'll kind of move off and do their thing and they'll go looking for food.

Then because males don't spend much time in a den site, they'll wander around, and if they don't reconnect with some of the other members, then they just find a spot to rest during the course of the day and you'll find them on their own like this! So it's nothing untoward to see a hyena on its own, and normally, you know, we obviously find them in groupings, and that's because when we do find them, a lot of the time it’s when there's some sort of kill around or some sort of ruckus that's taken place that's attracting more than one individual, but it's very common to find one walking around by itself or lying down like this.

Now, I'm pretty sure this is one of the clan males. Difficult to see nicely; I mean it's obviously got its head tucked down and even the tell-tale Ilmar ear marks are not really easy to see, particularly because the left is kind of folded away. So in terms of ID, this one will be quite tough. I know that many of you are very good at ID'ing our hyenas and often let us know exactly who they are, so Michael and Chris Rogue and all of you if you're watching, Crystal as well, if you're watching then you can maybe let us know who exactly this is!

I am trying to learn them, so Michael has been very good at it and has sent me a few ID kits for the hyenas, so I'm trying to get better at the Juma clan particularly because they've made a reappearance after a few months of really not much going on. We kind of had no hyenas over the last few months, and then all of a sudden we've just got this pushback in Koki and Pretty and have arrived back in this area and they've really started to kind of settle down.

I know Steve had one of them, was it this morning or maybe yesterday that looks like she’s very full and lactating, and I'm pretty sure it must be Koki or Pretty, one of the two of them. So it'll be interesting to know where they're hanging around. What's noticeable is that the Millawati system seems to be the kind of core of where we’re seeing them. He's seeing them east and west of the system, but a lot up and down and when you come in the mornings, lots and lots of tracks, lions going all over the place!

So I wonder if they're just trying to find a den! I'm not sure if they've actually given birth—I kind of doubt myself at the moment—because we've checked all the irregular spots. We can't really pinpoint a den, and given that we are doing a lot of drone work in the early mornings at the moment, so we often, arts, every single morning flying the drone at night, and we're not picking up anywhere where hyenas are sleeping every single morning!

So to me that indicates either they haven't had yet or they've had it just off of our boundary and they're using this as an area to hunt and find food while they go back to day off of Juma or they've waiting to your birth! And they’re just still trying to find an appropriate den site, but given how much they've been on Juma, I'd be very, very surprised because if their den was off of Juma, you would find that they would go south or west or east a little bit to go and forage for food as opposed to just come all the time to the north or to whoever they, you know, they are due to Juma itself.

So I have a funny feeling that there might be somewhere just looking around for something! So John Michael, definitely a size of an ear is often indicative of how good their hearing is. You can imagine when you've got a tiny, tiny small ear, the amount of sound waves they can grow in there is probably far reduced relative to the size of the eardrum. To give you an idea of how much it can affect your hearing when you're sitting at home, now John Michael, take your hand and make it into a sort of C shape! So almost do it like this, so just make that kind of shape with your hand!

I'm going to do it on my left ear because I didn’t have earpiece in my right as it does really work, and then you just cup it around your ear like this, and just have a listen as to how much better you actually hear! So anything where you've got a little bit bigger that can trap more sound and funnel it into the eardrum will help you to hear things a little bit better! So it's often why people do this when they're trying to listen to something and trying to hear something.

So it does help them, and you'll find a lot of the nocturnal creatures tend to have quite big ears in relation to the size of their heads! So things like hyenas and you'll find lions and leopards, their ears are quite big! Even, you know, there’s all kinds of nocturnal animals like janets! Of its, so it's not so much funnily enough, but janets definitely the ears are quite big and perky! You’ll find things like the nocturnal mice gerbils, their ears in relation to the size of their body are quite large and are able to kind of pick up a lot of sound!

I'm sorry, are we keeping you awake? Nope, just really getting comfortable now! It's getting into that perfect tight, you know pose where legs are stretched in all directions while its head goes down! Right, so well, ah, it is still very much sleepy! We're going to head off now and try and see if we can go catch up with Tingana. While we do that, let’s send you back across to Brent Leer Smith, who's up in the Mara! I wonder if he's got his goggles on as he gazes upon the lions that are still dozing off!

Absolutely zero updates from the sausage tree pride. They are still lying in the exact same position as they were earlier, and I don't foresee them doing too much just yet. It's still quite warm, and the smorgasbord of prey that was around them this morning is a little bit far off. We've got some zebras, some topi, some gazelles locked away in the distance. I’m just trying to see, you know, I think it's a bit too far for you to hear, but right in the distance, you can hear the wildebeest mooing! Mooing!

Yeah, you can see some bull beasts in the distance there! Hello! Scott Mr. Koch is wondering do lions kill leopards if they get the opportunity? Yes, there will all apex predators, given the opportunity, will try to remove another predator from the ecosystem! Leopards will often kill little lion cubs if they get the chance; so will hyenas and vice-versa! Now, of course, lions are much, much bigger than a leopard. A very big male leopard will weigh around 90 kilograms, or 200 or so pounds. There is a very small male lion weighing around 180 to 190 kilograms, almost double the weight, and a lioness is 120 to 130 kilograms for a big one.

115 to 220; there are a lot bigger and a lot stronger than a leopard. And leopards obviously have a little bit faster turn of speed for escape, but also they can climb trees well if they get caught out here; I'm far away from a tree; it might not be too good to be a leopard being chased by lions. I have heard of leopards even going down warthog holes to try to escape lions in this part of the world, so the instinct to survive is quite strong. So we'll see what happens!

Colleen is wondering do lions eat water bucks? Colleen, yes indeed they do! It is a complete old wives' tale that they don't eat water bucks because they don't like the taste of water bucks because of the gland on the base of the neck that secretes that oily substance. If a lion is hungry, it will eat water bucks! The fact that it will not know what the story that it won't eat water bucks is a complete and utter twaddle. What you got through the gap in the trees there?

They've got small zebras! I think now we're looking all the way down to Tanzania in the distance! Here we go, so that actually is my finger in here, it is it? No, I'm not going to get my finger in there, sorry! If I'm just going back there so that far ridge over there that is very much Tanzania, even the foreground, but there you can see there's a little valley in there, and that's the Mara River where it flows into Tanzania!

And you see there's still some fires burning on the southeastern side of the Mara River inside the Serengeti National Park, and you can see we are sitting on the big burn that happened in the Mara Triangle a few weeks ago and that lush green grass is what's bringing all the beasts, zebra, topi, Tommy's here, and that's what's bringing the Lions as well. Now that little infoberg there is right on the border and favorite hangout of the border boys, two male cheetahs you know quite often seen in that area! Hi well, and Willis is we haven't seen the Thompson's gazelle in the wild, are they at the back of the migration? Yes, the migrating Tommy's that is, but we do have quite a large resident, well, there's a dust devil resident population of Tommy's that actually never leave the Mara!

And there are quite a few, but they are very far off, I'm afraid! Dr. De Monks, the rule of Eastern zebra, I can see some Tommy! Jerry, I can't struggle there, I can see those are the closest Darien! So if we go up to that lone tall Bala nice that's got all the vultures in it, that one there, yes! And we go off to the left, slightly along the ground somewhere...There we go! Is that an Impala? What does Impala?

No! Keep going left from the Impala, and there was a little herd of Tommy's there somewhere! Oh, what? I think it might be behind the bush for them! Oh yeah, sorry then! The Tommy's under the bush! Maybe we can find it! The Tommy's not, and you see the wind has started gusting again here in the Mara! Lynch! Send you back into James with a birdie! Sorry, cut line! He's north of the boundary, buddy! They say he's like farm ears up the road!

Well, he went further north and is now coming! Now unfortunately we had no comms there at all, so we are live now! We're just chatting to Craig exactly waiting to Ghana; where we going to go? He's north of a boundary at the moment, but we'll try and see if we can pick him up and see if we can get a view of him! But it's been I'm just sorry; I just heard about a herd of elephants too! Where is that? No, Unbuckles Hook! Not going to help us at all for World Elephant Day! So we're gonna try and see if we can get hit off towards Dingo!

And I'm going to go up on vultures nests just to check if there's any sign for Tani, Colombo or Sana! In the meantime, I'm pretty sure asana is gonna kill somewhere if he hasn't shown up at any of the water points! And we've checked pretty much all of them and he's either on a kill or he's crossed out of our area for the first time in a long time! But given that we haven't seen any tracks, I highly doubt that that is the case! So I think he might be still lurking about somewhere!

It's a very breezy afternoon! We checked around that hyena, as well! No sign of any tracks for leopard, no lipid kills in any of the trees! It's just the tracks flying, coming down the road, and then down the drainage line and lying down there, so obviously just having a little sleep! Taking it very easy, it was very relaxed when we drove past, and then decided to have a little bit of a rest and sleep once million! So still then, if we don't have lack of Tigana, we can always go back now! I'm going to carry on northwards towards Gauri cut line! While I do that, send you back across to James Henry, who I believe is well looking at something that's in Ghana might want to eat maybe!

Very lucky to catch one of these things! It's a very large water buck bull! Ren, of course, was talking about the fact that it is an old person's tale that water buck are not eaten by lions! That is of course true, what Brent says, not what the old people say! That's very unusual for that to be the case anyway! The other thing that is, I think, something of a misconception regarding water buck is that they always run into water. And when I was reading up on them the other day, none of these textbooks are infallible, of course, it said nothing about that, but it did say that they're very water dependent, and that's why you'll find them in the vicinity of water more often than not.

And they have quite an interesting territorial setup because of it! Obviously, there's a finite amount of water, and so what you'll find is that water buck bulls will set up territories close to water! Big fellows like this, but they will tolerate youngsters within their territories and subordinate bulls within their territories if they don't cause trouble! And interestingly, also, apparently, we're going to discuss this later! Let's go across Tristan, who’s got a world something of the day on the move! Well, any search has been rewarded, basically, so we found one little young bull Ellie that is by itself, that is walking around and so happy!

Well, elephant day to everybody! Hopefully, it will be a sign of many Ellies this afternoon! And it’s such an important thing that we have these kind of days, and I have shared a few pictures on my own social media in it! I have kind of two feelings about these days that we have! One is that it is very important that we raise awareness and that there are days dedicated to such iconic species like the elephants! And two days ago was also lions and that we have these because it raises awareness and tries to get more and more people to know what is going on!

But a very large part of me gets very sad that we do have days like this one because the reason we have these days is these animals are being persecuted at a rate of knots! And we have really got a lot of issues surrounding not only, you know, elephants and lions but many of the iconic African animals! And it really is sad to think that many of these populations have been absolutely decimated by the hands of humans and the greed that we show sometimes when it comes to these animals!

Now, he's just wandering off! I'm not going to follow him through here, and I'll tell you why! One is that it is incredibly windy, and this animal already shied its ears and was looking a little kind of stressed about us being here! And when it's windy, often Ellies will be a little bit funny! Two years where it's walking now is that is so thick in there that all I'm going to do is hit trees and spook this elephant even more!

What I did notice is there are tracks for the rest of the herd going in, and I'm pretty sure they're heading up towards the dam! So they're going to go towards where the dam cam is; I think that's the route that they're heading into the mawashi and then hopefully northwards! So I'm gonna go round, and then hopefully catch them towards the dam a little bit late this afternoon! That's the plan at least! But I was saying that it's important that we kind of talk about Elias and me, one of the iconic animals, and try and raise more awareness and try and get as many people to understand how dire a lot of the situations are when it comes to these animals!

You know, we kind of often see things, and even as people who work in these areas and see animals on a day-to-day basis, we have become a little complacent in that, you know, we see them in populations of elephants here where we are healthy and not being persecuted nearly as much as maybe populations elsewhere in the world! And it's an important reminder that, you know, we need to be more focused and more kind of aware of what's going on and try and sort these things out because if we don't, it's not going to be a very long period, and there will be nothing left for anybody to view!

And can you imagine what a sad day it would be to drive around a place like this and see absolutely no elephants, no lions, no anything? It would really be a very, very, very depressing thing to do! So I'm hoping that in life we'll come up with a plan and people will forget about how greedy they are and start to actually focus on looking after animals and coexisting!

And hopefully then we’ll be able to start seeing these guys thrive once again! It's pretty dire when you think that both elephants and lions have been reduced to pretty much about 20% of their original range! I mean it depends on what reserve you're in, but here in the Sabi Sands any's are protected mostly by very, very, very efficient anti-poaching units! So the guys that are trying to stop rhino poaching are the same ones that are protecting these areas from elephant poachers and making sure that they’re not getting into the reserves and actually trying to hunt these elephants!

It's, it's not an easy job! And we do lose elephants, and the Kruger went through a very good period where we had almost zero elephant poaching, and it's just starting to increase again! Right on the fringes of the South African border with Zimbabwe and Mozambique! And so we're going to have to be a bit careful in the interview; just keep an eye out! And trying to keep people art! The problem with a lot of the elephant poaching that's happening at the moment is because ivory is not consumed by people! It's, you know, it's used for decorative purposes and those kinds of things; it doesn't need to be consumed!

So how they kill them is often by poison at the moment! And what they do is they go to a waterhole, and they'll poison a water hole, and then the elephants then drink from it! And as well as many other animals! So lions and vultures and antelopes, they usually use a substance called timming, which is very, very bad! It's pesticide-based, to begin with; it kills everything! And that's how they get these areas!

And then they just come gonna get in there! Are obviously times when they do get speared and shot and all kinds of other things in other parts of Africa! But in Kruger, mostly what they've been seeing is it's either a rifle or a poisoning that happens! Not always calling me again; go ahead! Orbs! Gary Kaplan in the central junction tells me that thanks, Forbes! I'll be there in two minutes, sir!

What were he's just checking where I am because he wants to leave to Ghana! But he doesn't want to leave before we get there in case we drive past him, which is very, very nice! It will be! But so our ranges of anti-poaching units here are vitally important; they really do a lot to try to kind of protect our knees as much as possible! Now, sorry, am I hardly heard you? All I heard is Maura; so I think I'm gonna be sending you off to the Mara!

The wind is really playing havoc with being able to hear anything, so afternoon! But hopefully it is the Mara! And hopefully it is too! Something exciting! Well, those lines have not moved a muscle, and there has been one change that we have spotted - a Thomson's gazelle! Much closer! You see him there is a couple wandering around just over there, mm-hmm! Yeah, they are for those who are wanting to see Tommy's who've missed them!

Now, let's hope she, it is a female there, and she moves out! I find Tommy's absolutely fascinating! They are an antelope species where the females are in the process of evolving to not have any horns! So Impala female, Kudu female, Bush but FEMA and Nala have already gone through this process! And you often find really scrappy bits of horn on female Thompson's gazelles! The male still have really prominent, very visible horns but the females often bent askew all sorts of funny shapes and angles on them because the evolution process is still taking place! Other than that, we did have a little look like a black fly catcher that popped in to visit but it's disappeared, flitting around in this little croton thicket around here!

We go! I can't see it at the moment! Monique is wondering what is the difference between a Thompson's gazelle and a spring buck? Well, firstly, one that lives in the arid desert areas of southern Africa, over probably 2,000 kilometers or a little bit less than that, well over 2,000 kilometers away from the closest Thomson's gazelle, which are endemic to East Africa! That Tommy's there! And they're probably the closest relative to a gazelle in southern Africa is a springbok!

And you can see they have very similar colorations and whatnot! Tommy's are quite a bit taller; their horns are a lot more prominent as well! And if a springbok had to live in an area as wet as the Mara, once that smolting going on down there, it’s just something you'll see! The zebras having rolled in the dust they have now! If a springbok had to live in an area as wet as the Mara, they would actually get foot rot!

People have tried to move springbok into wetter areas in southern Africa—be nice to have a springbok on my farm-type thing! And they have died out quite quickly due to foot rot! So there are desert-adapted creatures; they're not going to like the west of the Mara! First, the end you probably find that the Thomson's gazelles wouldn't like the dry of the Kalahari!

Now Grant's gazelles are a little bit more adaptable; they do occur in much drier areas in the Masai step which is that way! So beyond, yeah, was adversity and stuff, you go down and it gets drier and dryer as you get towards the coastal plain! You get Bysaw Oryx, their golden wolf, who knew there were two species of wolves in Africa! So up until very recently, the golden jackal, which is now an Asiatic species only, was considered to live in the more drier areas along the eastern dry land Sava, down into the Masai step into Tanzania and Serengeti, just on the edge!

But now with genetics and stuff, it’s turned out that they’re not; they're actually a real expression of gray wolf that have reduced! Water! Ah, a topi that have been isolated in Africa! They're much, much smaller! I will see if I can actually find you a picture of them! So I've been keeping a careful look out on all the black-backed jackal in the Mara because you never know; there could be a small population of African golden wolves!

It's amazing how much stuff you can actually see from a PM! KB is wondering what is the advantage of female antelope having horns? It would be for defensive predators! And when you’re as small as a Thompson’s gazelle, there's pretty much nothing you can do! Now with the males, obviously, they have the horns for sexual competition for fighting over mating rights, whereas the females have slowly not slowly progressed and evolved not to have those prominent horns anymore!

If you think about, there's actually very few female species of antelope that have horns! The most notable one that we actually see—and I did I see some a little bit earlier in the distance—that we see in the Mara is Eland, and this is probably one of the first days where I haven't been able to see Eland in this area! They might have gone for a drink! I'm checking it on that little waterhole there!

No way! They must be an eland, and I'm just being blind! No, I cannot see a single Eland amongst everything else! Well, I'm going to keep looking for a picture of that African golden wolf for you! In the meantime, let's send you across to Tristan; he's got a lovely Sunday afternoon surprise!

We do indeed; we've got a rather sleepy Duke that has decided to take a nap right next to the side of the main road! So he's having a really good kind of serious sleep, and I'm Khan blaming him! He walked quite far this morning from where Steve found him to where he is now! He's a good, good distance! And you can see he’s got quite a full belly! So I'm not surprised that the Duke has passed out and decided this is where he is going to nap and where he's going to take it very easy!

He's just on the northern side of our boundary on Purfuels oxide, but close enough that we can get a perfect view of him should he even wake up! He's, I think, going to nap there pretty successfully! Much like our hyena was it for the majority of this afternoon! Wait! For that sun to get down a little bit and then it'll be interesting to see which way he goes because he's kind of been pushing into buffer-look a lot more of late! There’s been a lot of vocalizing, and then he heads quite far north! The guys were telling me the other day that he went at least a kilometer north in before sook, which is a long, long way!

It's much further than he's been in a long time! So I wonder if there's maybe not a female that’s in Easter us up here or something that's going on, or he's just stamping his mark because he’s tired of having all these other young males roaming around in all these sections and kind of pushing into his area given that he is the dominant individual! You would expect him to come back after being a bit sick and to sort of try and stamp his authority! And he’s been successful in putting Haka Murray further west and keeping him at bay for now!

And so now he's got to deal with the likes of Okulzi and quite Tilly! Not quite in a female that we know, but quite Tilly the male that came out of that Steve once—so I think it was Steve, yes, Steve saw Dom near Treehouse dam! So that just random young male that hunted a warthog! I don't know if any of you remember that, but Katella has been seen a lot actually around the gates and has been seen on some abuse islet one IPAN!

So I’m pretty sure he's been on Zoomer quite frequently! We just have missed him probably because we actually hadn't been spending a lot of time in the northwest of the property! So he's been around, and then there's also a couple of other random males! So, I'm pretty short, Dingaan is kind of growing up and just trying to really sort things out and just make sure that everybody understands that he's back!

And he's really the ruler of this area now! It's been amazing to watch his resurgence from this sort of meek figure that looked down and out and looked downtrodden to this, you know, supremely confident male once again! He was vocalizing and scent marking and looking bulky and good again! It's been actually wonderful to watch, and it just goes to show you how resilient these big cats can be! You know, if you're kind of given—was said this is what would have unfolded, many people would have said it was not going to happen!

So, sorry, if you can just repeat that again for me! Yes! I mean, it’s to be able to say, yeah, you know they're both cats that kind of don't have a lot of endurance when it comes to running for long periods of time! So, you know, lipids and lions are actually pretty similar in a lot of respects! They both built very similar and powerful big cats that are not designed to run marathons! I would probably say in terms of endurance, to run for a longer period at top speed! I would say Lions, given that Lions hunt in a certain way, they like to kind of go and hunt in more open sections!

And we said in the Mara that they probably end up chasing for a lot further than a leopard does! And if it is an ambush predator in these kind of areas, we'll generally only use a short burst of speed and then stop! So I would imagine Lions have a high endurance in terms of top-end speed and running for longer in terms of walking and just going around all day long! Difficult to say both of them are pretty good at doing it! We see, you know, male lions and male leopards covering huge distances in some areas! So, in terms of walking, they probably very, very similar!

In fact, I don't think there'd be too much difference between them, but top-end speed and running, I would imagine that Lions do run for longer stints when they have that top-end speed than what lipids do! Lipids tend to be much shorter distance animals! And so because of the way that they hunt, it's a very different way of hunting compared to what Lions do! They aren’t going to be using these long-winded chases through open grassland to bring down their prey!

It's a little bit shorter running times! Although it's saying that I once had the most epic hunt from a mullah laughing at the airstrip! So it just makes the haste replace that big open clearing and watched Lula run like a cheetah across the end Killaloe in a parlor! It was pretty impressive stuff! He must have run easily over I would say probably about 200 meters, actually! And the impalas, for some reason, just bomb shelled in all directions, and one ran straight at him, and he was able to just kind of slam it to the ground!

So they do have these kind of things where they are able to run off to impalas and those kinds and sometimes make a hunt like that, but very seldom! And so the endurance at top speed is quite slow, quite short, should I say! Now indeed it was an epic sighting! It was an amazing thing to watch! I was quite surprised by it all, actually! It was complete pandemonium! And you'll see you just saw, you know, we had a flat tire! And in this villa, as we got the flat tire, we were out to try and change it!

Cousin Bulla was walking and hunting, and we were kind of changing it to me just saw him start to go and jump back in the car with the flat tire, lifts the spare tire lying on the ground, drove on the flat tire to try to keep up with him, and then saw him take it down! It was just absolute pandemonium and chaos! So, you know, it was quite an epic sighting, but it was one that didn't last very long after that because unfortunately, hyenas arrived and stole the kill from a ruler!

But amazing to watch! Now David, do you think the rainy season is going to bring Hookah money back? Possibly, and it depends! It depends on what goes on! Her camera is going very, very, very far waste at the moment; he's been seen going into Ottawa, which is the western side of elephant plains, so towards Singita, which is a long way, I can tell you that, from where we are!

And so it's very possible that hukumari, unless he finds a female in heat, so Tandi, could be the kind of key to all of this! If it missed and he drags him back! Yeah, I don't know if we're gonna see too much of him! He's now mating with the likes of Tianyi and should do Lu! And if he has Cubs that side, I wouldn't be surprised if he spends more time there trying to protect those Cubs and trying to protect that area because he's been mating!

Then it is to come all the way east like this! So maybe the rainy season does bring him back into this area! I think it's, there's a lot of variables that might be at play! And it's not only the rainy season, but it's Tingana's health and fitness over the next few months!

And yes, rainy season will be much harder on Tingana; it's gonna be much harder to hunt! You know it's the cats, the big cats really struggle a little bit in the rainy season compared to the winter! The winter makes it much easier for them; they coats blend in better as well! As, you know, animals being distributed in areas where they can regularly find them in with summer! Everybody's spread out and becomes a little harder for these guys to find food regularly!

So that's two factors! The third is what happens with Husana! What happens on the western side of Herkimer? Does a male leopard come in there and chase him back east? Or does he find more females to the west and become more dominant westwards? It’s an interesting thing! In the last few years what we've seen is most of the males dispersed eastwards as they get older!

So if you look at Smurf opinion, he was dominant around the central parts of our souza, and then he started to slowly push more and more east until eventually we've seen a lot around chitra! Then you had him, Fulop; he was mostly in the East; in Ghana was the same; he came from elephant plains from any area and pushed his way west now dominant on this eastern side!

And so we'll see what happens; you know, before those though, there was a lineage with Tyson and that lot that won winds southwest! And so I wonder if Herkimer is going to be one of those that pushes to the southwest rather than back this way! Who knows? It's gonna be interesting! But it'll definitely, the rainy season will shake things up again; it's a whole different set of problems that these animals will face!

And, you know, if Tingana can't find food regularly, then who knows, his condition could plummet again quite quickly! And you'll find that he could then be asked it, Laura, Angular's disappearance!

And we’ve discussed this many, many times, and there's no real new update on it! Unfortunately, it's one of those things that happens; young leopards do disappear from time to time; it's not ideal, but it does happen! Chunky Lay, I mean, she was only a year old really, was just over a year old when she met Tandi, which makes life very difficult for her! She's, you know, was never going to be physically matched to Tandi!

Tandi was bigger, stronger, wiser, you know, there's a lot more to a more point to prove in what Chunky laid did! So, you know, she was always gonna struggle! Whether or not that means that she got fatally injured that day, we don’t know! We have absolutely zero idea what happened after the Tandi fight which was on the 16th of August, if I'm not mistaken!

So four days from now, a year ago is when that all happened! And where she ended up, what actually happened, we have really no idea! The next morning Taylor went there; she saw a lot of tracks going in a lot of different directions! So, with it right there, I think we would have found a carcass at that actual kill site or some sort of evidence that she had died there.

If she did die from that interaction, it was because she probably got very badly injured and wandered off and eventually then died somewhere else, or she pushed into another area and unfortunately ran into some other leopards or lions or something that maybe killed her! Or she's—well, she's still alive when she's walking around in some random block in the middle of Kruger that no one sees her and no one even knows where she is!

It happens; I mean we know that's Siobhan, B'Elanna, Mishoo, and Oona even! Sacani, who's really done very well! So for those of you who don't know who any of those leopards are, a lot of those are equivalents or other offspring that were boys that went into Kruger!

And we get very rare updates on them! In fact, sometimes it goes months before we see any sighting of them! And Sacani was a female that came from KOTILE which is a similar line to tequila-soaked ULA's mother, who was Safari! Safari had in-team, and team hours or so—was the mother of Katella! So it's the same kind of lineage roughly, and but not this exact same mother!

And she ended up going all the way down into the Kruger Park area! And she's now dominant south of Skukuza! Long, long, long way away from where we are! And she’s had a first litter of cubs, which is very exciting! And they are being seen quite a bit! And, you know, you would never have thought, well, I never would have thought it! And all my experience, I've never seen a female travel that far!

And so you cannot rule out the possibility that Chunky has ended up going deep into the grooviest somewhere into an area where no cars are going, and we just don't have updates on her! It’s very possible!

Let's remember that some blocks inside Kruger are three times the size without a road! There's not one single road going through them! Or three times the size of the entire Sabi Sands! So when you think about that, think about how many leopards are dominant in the Sabi Sands; females, I’m pretty sure it's close to about 50!

And then you think of an area three times the size of that, and that's where she could have gone into! So it could be in an area where there's a hundred and fifty or a hundred different leopards that are dominant in that section! And she could just be right in the middle of all of that!

So it's possible that she's still alive; possibly she'll still be hiding out in one of those blocks, and the only thing for me is that to get to that point, I would have thought somebody would have seen her! She was a relaxed leopard! She was a leopard that was easily visible!

She didn't, wasn't shy from vehicles! And I would have thought we would have got one kind of update some way of her getting out of the section heading into the Kruger, but we didn't!

And you know, it's possible, she did! So I don’t know! I mean, for me, I strongly believe that she—unfortunately, something happened to her! I don't think we would have seen her just vacation not come back once more! I mean, we've seen with Husana how he's stuck around! Even though he's interacted with many different leopards, sure he hasn't had the same violent interaction, but he was there that day; he was part of that whole process, and it didn't faze him in the least!

He was still around! So I wonder if something else didn't happen! And she just tried to move off and bumped into something else! Or you never know, I mean, they could have been all kinds of things that could have played out that day! Many other leopards were around, and she managed to charm Willow that I at the times that she bumped into him!

But could have been very different if she'd bumped into another male leopard that was in Puffles Hook or something like that! So it’s a sad thing to think about! She really was an unbelievable leopard! She is by far the most relaxed leopard that I think I've ever seen on foot!

I've never seen a leopard behave that she did on foot! It was really quite phenomenal to watch her and watch some of the interactions at James and Brent and Jamie and pretty much everybody had with her in, you know, in the beginning of last year! It was just incredible! Incredible scenes watching her go about her business and see how she ended up doing things!

So it is a big loss, and hopefully one day she'll make an appearance somewhere! That would be quite nice! Good! Well, while we sit with Singhania, whose belly is up and sleeping away the day, let’s send you back all the way across to Brent Leah Smith, who I think is probably in a similar boat to us in his watching his Alliance sleep!

And I wonder what he thinks about Jean Keeler's disappearance. Now, our constant companion for the day, the bustling Masai Mara wind is back! Of course, as soon as we tried to frame up on the bedraggled Croton bush, it stopped! A little bit.

I have to go take a photograph of the golden jackal at some point because our golden wolf, sorry; the golden jackal is in Asia! So that is the African golden wolf! Now of all the canid species that are alive today, the large canid species, I wonder if you can tell me!

I'm going to give you a list of a couple, and you've got to tell me which is the most ancient! Okay! Which of these is the most ancient means it's been split from the main line? It’s got the most ancient genetic line! Hashtag Safari live if you think you know the answer! And no cheating with Google! Someone will be watching! Not me, of course, because I'm watching a bush! But under the bushes, a line that has not moved in how many hours of survival!

Eleven this morning! Oh good few hours! So what's that? I don't even know what time it is now! Seven hours! Well, since that, those lions have moved! They walked quite a long distance after feasting on a few wildebeests this morning, but they didn't finish those!

We'll be hoping they're still angry! And we're hoping that some idiotic canoe is going to come stumbling into them! Or zebra can just bless! And listen to the wind there for a bit! Remember this is live; we can't force these animals to get up!

And on the move on their schedule! So we will be waiting for the lions on the lion's share job! That’s what doing live wildlife is all about! Let’s go see how my good friend James Henry is doing!

Well, we found something that's standing up at least it's not a cat! It's not what we were looking for, but there we have some Kudu! Okay, you do! You Kudu! FM fem! Male Kudu! I'm not sure where that came from! I'm sorry for that everybody; I was obviously taken by the spirit of some long dead thespian!

There we have a female kudu, and she's got three friends—four friends! That is not unusual, not because Kudu's are necessarily more friendly than anyone else, but because they choose to live in small groups, which helps them to see predators that might want to eat them! In this particular area, I think they're pretty safe!

I've seen very few Kudu being eaten! I know the Minka Puma pride did kill a male Kudu, I think, recently! But the females tend to be able to stay away from them for some reason! They're a great meal for a lion; they're not exactly bristling with weaponry to fend off lion attack!

They are fast; they can kick, and they can jump, and I suspect maybe lions just think that there are easier things to get at! But I would have thought that quite easy to kill because they live in thick bush! Like normally to find them in the open like this is quite unusual! So who knows? Maybe they don't taste so good!

Omkara, the first fastest herbivore that we have is Steve Falconbridge; he is a herbivore! He's the only herbivore we have that runs, so he is the fastest that we have! I am, of course, being facetious! He's not faster than a Thompson's gazelle—the fastest antelope in the world, contrary to what we told you for months last year!

He's not the topi! It is the Thompson's gazelle! The Thompson's gazelle is almost as fast as a cheetah, but not quite! It can run at about 90 km/h! They think it's very difficult to measure, of course, because if you ask a Thompson's gazelle to run in a straight line, they normally stare at you as though you stepped out of a piece of cheese!

There's not surprising there! English and Swahili is not quite what it should be! So it's very difficult to work out exactly how fast they are! They can work it out with cheetah because cheetah have been domesticated in some places! And there's that amazing film of them shooting a cheetah at full stretch, basically!

They make it run like a mad greyhound runs; they put a rabbit on a winch! Not a real rabbit, everybody! It's a fake bunny on a winch! And the cheetah chases it in a straight line! So they can measure exactly how fast it's going and they shoot it with a very specialized camera that shoots at over a thousand frames per second!

And you don't really need to know what that means, but it's just super slow-mo, and it is astounding to watch the cheetah move at that speed! Anyway, that's not got a huge amount of relevance to what you're looking at there other than to say, Omkar, we do know that the Thompson's gazelle is extremely fast! Much faster than the kudu!

But the kudu holds another Olympic record, and that is for high jump! They are able to jump very high! I think that would be the fastest herbivore in the world! Very gorgeous! And there's one actually chewing its cud lying down there! You see that David underneath the dead tree that we've used on bushwalk 587 times?

Yeah, it is chewing her cud! Yes, it is! A lovely Sunday view! A lot of you saying you’re enjoying the Sunday view! I like to walk normally on Sunday afternoons; I find that the most appropriate thing to do! Unfortunately, the bushwalk camera is, well, shall we say, in a state of disrepair at the moment!

And so to walk is not possible! So I've had to bring the car out on Sunday afternoon! But that's okay! We're having a peaceful kudu sighting! It is, of course, World Elephant Day, which I must mention, even though I can't find any elephants just yet!

I will keep trying to find some elephants! Is there a World Kudu Day? There probably isn't! Sorry, chaps! No World Kudu Day! You just make every day a World Kudu Day! I guarantee if there was a World Kudu Day, we wouldn't find one on this property!

So, one, two, three, four, I think there are actually six of them! It's excusable! The one on the left is being particularly an inspirational, I feel at this stage! It's not really doing a great deal! It's not dancing; it's not jumping, running! No kudu's call horns in this particular case! Their total growth length will be not centimeters, because of course, they're all females!

But look, the males have horns, you know! And I don't know what the longest would be! I'm going to guess probably about... I reckon about four feet, you know! I reckon the longest horns would be around about four feet long, which is 13 meters! No, that's wrong; it's the other way around, isn't it? It's just every meet; it's about one and a half meters tall! So that's quite a lot! Doesn't sound right, does it? One and a half meters?

No, one point three meters! Also, 13 meters is definitely wrong! A 13-meter kudu horn would be something to see! I suspect the kudu wouldn't be able to lift its head!

Ah, well, we've now got a whole search team going in the final control! Apparently, six feet, the longest could whoo-hoo! Neveress, really d desired, and actually, the best guess on a female kudu’s total length would be around about! I reckon about ten centimeters!

Yes, you do! James, thank you! So, it looks like that up remains the peace!

So, while we drift back into daytime, let’s go back to our little itchy friend as we take a break with tea and scones!

That's it! That’s not me, no!