Safari Live - Day 158 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised. Well good afternoon everybody and welcome aboard once again for another sunset safari. We're coming to you live from the Torchwood concession in the Greater Kruger National Park of South Africa. My name is Ralf Kirsten and on the camera, I've got Davi today as my wingman, helping me to navigate this area which is totally new for me. So I'm very excited! I'm going to be heading on into new landscapes and I can't wait.

Now this afternoon we've also got Tyler out on foot, also very exciting, and James will be heading out with the vehicle as well. We're sitting at around about 26 degrees Celsius, sort of around at 75 degrees Fahrenheit. So it's a lovely warm afternoon, and I'm hoping that we can catch up with some lions. But we will look for everything we can, and it will be very exciting. So that is what the plan is for this afternoon. Please don't forget to send us your questions and your comments on the hashtag #SafariLive on Twitter and on the YouTube live chat, and get involved in the largest game drive in the world.

Now this is all just so new to me. I've just crossed the boundary out of Juma, so I am totally stoked and I am ready to rumble. I hope you all are too! Please send us all your requests of what you would like us to be finding today because I think we're going to get lucky! So let's start up and head on down the road, and we'll head towards First Rocks, which is where there has been some lions. They like to hang out in that area.

And while we drive on down the road, I hear that Tyler has found something that likes to fly around. Funny you know, we're just admiring the sound of a virtual starling as it flew on by, and then our eastern scarlet butterfly flew away. My name is Taylor McCurdy and on camera with me, as I said earlier, is Berg. We've been having no luck since this morning on safari, so I'm really looking forward to the bushwalk this afternoon. Hobie, of course, is down the way, just being shaded by a tree at the moment as he waits for us to move on from my butterfly, which we will do now because it just disappeared.

I have to tell you if you didn't watch the sunrise safari; my day started off like that, where everything I tried to put on camera just magically vanished—birds, animals, it was terrible! Anyway, so we're going to try and not have an afternoon like that. Because it'll watch out for the bird. Literally watch out for the bird! Hey, sometimes as hornbills dive down so low, we end up ducking. I know they do that in camp when they go from tree to tree, and then they bang the disco ball that's hanging from a bush willow tree.

Right, anyways let's go and see some wildlife! And James, he's got a, could you? We've got so much wildlife over here! Sunday wildlife! Yeah, hold, heard who drools, so many of them, there's one! We've probably got four. Yeah, I decided that I am going to see here in these holes of REE, and Taro is not going to sing house for everybody. Hello! I hope you're having a lovely afternoon wherever you happen to be in the world. My name is James Henry, on camera today we have got Craig. Vomit, that was his very speedy thumb going past the front of the lens—not fly! He talked to us using the X-bar laughs and of course the chat on YouTube. That is all the housekeeping I have to do today.

I don't need to tell you where the loose are because you are in your own homes, and therefore I don't need to tell you that sort of thing. Oh, not stand up on the back of the vehicle because you can stand up as many times as you like! Look at this kudu running across the road! It's actually a huge herd of about— I mean a huge herd of kudu which is not necessarily a huge herd per se, they're about ten of them here. Let me just go forward a little bit, some of them the other side of the river, some of them this side—River Road, I meant! There we go, they are very secretive normally, and they also tend to panic quite easily, which means that seldom will they stand still for very long.

This guy thinks we can't see him, you see? Oh, she thinks we can't see her! I've decided that my favourite feature of the kudu is that sort of white clown's lipstick that they wear! And there's another one over here, great! Oh, are they running? There we go, hello incoming little baby! I'm just very nice, it was a world-class kudu starting out! So let's continue. My plan this afternoon is to head down towards sort of Treehouse Waterhole Telepan, and those two water holes are in this southwestern central area of Juma, and then maybe we'll pop down to a little bit later.

The reason for that is there were tracks of female leopards going down here from some time yesterday evening, we didn't find them—alright, at the end of the bushwalk, so we're not really sure where they went, particularly fresh, but we're gonna head down that way and see if we don't cover somewhere that wasn't covered in the vehicle this afternoon. And maybe the leopards have decided to come and have something to drink at one of the pans— that would be very nice! We think possibly Shakalu, four year old, new friend, but we aren't sure! We don't really know this road, which is called Philemon Step, it is now kind of a boundary I guess between Shadow's and Tandi's territory.

Shadow's territory is now in the ether, we think there's the bird! Craig! It's shouting, it is a crystal bobbit! It's on the bottom right hand side, that rather dead looking mop from the tree, that's the one! You know, there are two of them shouting at each other! They keep calling throughout the winter, you know they're not migrants obviously because they're still here, but many birds will go silent in the winter months and these chaps seem to keep going. And I remember this from when I lived in Johannesburg, and there were one of the few bird species that came to the garden.

There were actually quite a few bird species, but they were one of the more colorful ones, and you'd hear their call throughout the winter! Often if you put out a piece of pawpaw or something in the morning, that's a Pepino to the rest of the world, then they'd come and fight over it! Shot at each other, that kind of startled and irritated look that remains on their faces all the time! So I'm running out of steam for his calling! Funny, I know the colors aren't great on this, but to get a picture through, no one's fault, but there are some lovely yellows and oranges and reds and blacks and whites formed by melanin and carotenoids—why do I always say keratins? Carotenoids is what I mean; those are the pigments that make the yellows, reds, and oranges really nice!

Let us turn right here along Filaments Cut Line Road down towards Treehouse Waterhole! Now the next thing Taylor's going to show you will hopefully not fly away like the first thing the tailor to achieve! This young lid would is not going anywhere. Well, not anytime soon, I suppose, if an elephant came around and maybe tried to feed on it! Although you don't actually ever see elephants eating lid wood leaves—they taste like…I don't think—oh, sorry! A lot of strong as I thought it was gonna be! Sorry, thick—not very nice tone! Hmm, it just tastes very leafy, like a standard leaf! Anyway, so it's not very nice!

But I always find it unusual when I see lid wood trees, and especially when they're so small like this because it often tricks me! When you look at the bark of this lid wood, you think to yourself, "but that doesn't look anything like the big ones that grow along the drainage lines and the rivers!" Look how smooth it is! Whereas on the big trees when they stand taller than 10 meters, they also layer of bark. It's quite hard and forms these amazing ridges. And that's a lovely wood just to look at! That's also a lovely wood to burn, but good luck trying to cut it down being so tough!

Now, Ferg and I are really feeling defeated today because, well, the butterflies and then sector of course warmed up, and like they were here this morning and have been flying around! Which is I think what's happened with our eastern scarlet that we had earlier. And I'm sad I didn't bring a butterfly book with me because there's so many of them around today, which is really nice! We'll try and put a couple on when we can and if they sit still for long enough! There's something else I just noticed down on the ground, and it's these yellow fruits that caught my attention! Now looking at that I'm thinking, where did that come from? Immediately I looked up to see if it was from above, but it isn't!

I mean that's got to be careful when I move this one because the plant that I actually ended up just moving is what produced these fruits! Now Kirstie says they look little apricots—well, that's what they look like when they're ripe! And then have a look—come look what they look like when they're not ripe! Ryan, get down there! Yeah, angle it nicely with the sun, probably be different! This looks like a little watermelon! Hey, okay, so just exclaimed a baby watermelon! So these are not edible to you, and are this is the poison apple, the hoof apple! And you'd be careful because it doesn't; little thorns along here they'd like to grab you! If instead, let me show you the ones over there! You see that tiny little thorn? So you actually don't even see it, but it's very prickly, very sharp; there you've got to be very careful of them!

It looks like something was eating the fruit, maybe an insect of sorts, maybe a bird pecked at it! Remember, animals' digestive systems are completely different, and how's that? Kirsten, not the seed of an apricot, but the seed of a tomato! Well, it looks like tomato seeds, very cool! And mystery food! Hey, this could confuse someone, but very cool to see! Anyways, that doesn't look like much of the seeds have been feasted upon! I don't know how much fallacious fruit really has to it. I'm gonna open another one and have a look! It doesn't look like it's got much at all, but I'm sure it'll be the birds or something that'll be dispersing that! Feeling back in my foot, pins and needles—that's always a fun one!

Alright, well I'm not gonna keep you for much longer because I'm gonna send you to Ralph now, who is bumbling about! I'm tortured! And bumbling, we are indeed! I'm still just discovering the place, and my first impression is that there's quite a few nice open areas! A little bit of grassland, like Davi can maybe just swing across here and just give you an idea—nice open grass with quite a few sort of clustered leaves, thickets! And then we've got these general drainage lines as well! And I'm just moving through, just going everywhere, having a look!

For now, obviously, it's still very similar in terms of the kind of vegetation and the kind of vegetation, but as I said it’s nice open areas! We’ve just compost first rock, and I will go back there a little bit later just to show you if you haven't seen it—nice open area almost similar to that of the black rocks in the Maasai Mara! Crowded similar kind of scene there, and of great potential for elephants and lions when they're on top of those rocks! Now Aaron, you can find some jackals in open areas like this! And like I said I think it was yesterday that actually I spotted a jackal in the dark.

I haven't seen many jackals in this area of the Kruger Park at all, so I'm gonna keep my eyes open! Stop just you, so we'll have a look for that! And yes, it is perfect kind of terrain for them, but I'm not quite sure why this is not—why there's so few of them here, as well as the civets! Because, you know, the tracks that are found in areas just nearby to this particular part of the Kruger has lot of civets and they're probably the most common track along with jackals, and yet in this particular area they’re few and far between, so it's quite interesting!

And I wonder why it might be because of the number of leopards, you know? Maybe that's a good reason as to why there's a few of civet and jackal! I'm not holding my breath to spot any ostriches, obviously! There is potential there could be the odd one, but, you know, this part of the Kruger, it's not the most ideal habitat for ostriches! Although the ostriches being a very desert-adapted animal, they do occur here but not in great numbers! So we've got the odd chance that we might spot one as well! But remember we are bordering on Juma, so we can expect to find very similar animals here as well—slightly different terrain, obviously! We were in a different part of this area, but it's still leading into Juma and it's and it's pretty much the same in terms of the animals that we should find!

But you never know, and I'm just gonna keep on looking around and see what fancy things that are hiding here in the bushes! They're very exciting! I love going into new areas, getting lost! I've got my map with me just trying to find my way around! But for now, I'm just going on whichever way I feel! I've decided, Davi, when we get to a right, we say which way, right or left? And so as I continue trying to find my way around Torchwood, let's head you back to James— I think he's trying to find his way around Juma! He's after three and a half years! I'm at least three years! I am able to find my way around Juma, thankfully!

Sort of there is a Franklin crested variety as far as I'm aware, and apparently it is my third anniversary here! Not today, as Judy H pointed out on Twitter! My anniversary is on the 23rd, and last year I owned the fact that none of you wished me a happy anniversary on the 20th! And Judy H pointed out, of course, that I was being ridiculous because my, what? I was being ridiculous? Anyway, but my anniversary is only on the 23rd of May! So that gives you all enough time to get a nice card in the post for me! Perhaps a small bottle of apple juice, something of that nature! So that I might celebrate my anniversary! And a new hat, by the way! The new hat is—there is I told you, there was one that has arrived! It is in hot sprite! It is at Steph's house and, with any luck, I'll have it before the end of the week, along with a new shirt! This one is getting a little bit old!

Kirsten says I'll have to do a fashion show. I'm afraid there's nothing about my wardrobe that could be described as fashion! Much as I like to think of it as fashion, I must be honest with myself! No, Kirsten, I can't wear my stripy shorts! They're in Kenton where they belong! They're our holiday shorts! I had bought some stripy shorts everyone, and I tried to wear them on safari one day, and I was told in no uncertain terms by both Kirsten and Rebecca that they were not going to fly! My blue shorts have also been rejected by all except some of you! Quite like the man or so were you and I are in agreement at least!

There wasn't anything in Treehouse Waterhole except two terrapins, which took fright and climbed into the water and swam away! So we've continued from there! We'll pop around to the little pans down here! This morning, of course, hookah more was coming out towards the boundary from Arethusa! So it might just be worth checking our eastern boundary to find— the western boundary, sorry, to find if his tracks haven't come across!

Well, we're not going to spend a huge amount of time trying to track him because tracking a leopard in a day is really very difficult to deliver the best of times! And as odd weather persists when there's quite heavy sort of summer-ish gray clouds in the deep blue winter sky, it's been a very pleasant day temperature-wise! So Ash, don't complain! We should be grateful! And the other thing I wanted to point out here—because if you will just pan the camera around sort of been generally—is how fast suddenly all of the Cambria leaves are changing from green to yellow to brown! I think it's happened in the last week suddenly! They switched off, blink, and they've assumed their winter colors! And obviously they're all gonna drop off now, leaving the wilderness with a gentle scent of potpourri! Very nice!

Okay, call! I don't have many thoughts on the Royal Wedding! Harry's going bald like me! That's good, why? I'm probably not good for him, but you have to get over it, his brother's bald, his father's bald! Interesting! There's a screw—it's actually quite an interesting discussion! There's nothing to do with Safari, of course! But their royal family—I once said to a chap I was staying at Darling Hotels, Fugitives Drift Lodge on the battlefields of Zulu battlefields— and I said what is the point of the monarchy? I mean, it's just a ridiculous, out-dated, crazy sort of thing! I mean how in the 21st century can there be any point to it? And he explained to me that while it might not have any major leadership role to play in the country economically, the royal family is worth messes to the United Kingdom!

You see how many thousands of people want to go and see Buckingham Palace? How many millions of people around the world would have watched that royal wedding? They are on a giant generator of income for the United Kingdom, which I found fascinating! So they don't just take a whole lot of taxes and kind of expect to live off the land! They actually seem to make a very enormous contribution to the UK's economy! Alright, that's the last thing I have to say about them! Let's head on to the schools! Now they're having a very pleasant Sunday afternoon frolic on this Jekyll berry tree! Looks like two adults! Pradeep, you are very happy to see squirrels—well good! I think they're very sweet! And if you can watch them for long enough, they're almost always doing something interesting!

That is of the tree squirrel, for those of you who don't know. Much smaller than the European gray squirrel! And the only squirrel species that we have in this particular area. A couple of squirrels in South Africa including the ground squirrel which uses its tail as a parasol! Johnny is rather amazing, right? Squirrels have disappeared, we are going to disappear! Taylor is about to appear! Well, maybe just a stick and some prints on sand! And we've got some female leopard tracks! What's crack? Cool! So here's the pad, and here are the toes! So they don't look particularly fresh! But the ones we had just a moment to come up on the road are definitely from this morning! And the James May I showed you towards the end of the Bush walk as he was coming up from Philemon Step! So we think it could possibly be Shadalu on our way back from Elephant Plains, where she's been for the last 24 hours, the last two days at least!

So there's a possibility we may see it, so that's quite exciting! So we're gonna try and stick on! Then I'm trying to see where they…I could actually go all the way along here! And that's where Herbie's lettuce is; it's actually down this little mitre drain! And well, I don't know where we’re going to go next! From there, yeah, I'm unfamiliar with Shadulu's roots! I mean, every time it runs, normally Heather it's been a little bit further to the west, and this is going towards Ingwe Alley! Back towards Twin Dams, which we did see her once up top here at quarantine, and she went down in a track! And I think a little bit more eastern, we need to see what happens!

And then something that she really might eat! As a scrub here, and well plan today, that sort of resembles the scrub hayes' tail with much imagination! And that's this plant over here! This is called haytails bush! Quite cool! It's quite a prickly plant as well! It's not very nice to sort of touch! Quite robust! I don't think anything really eats at it! I've ever seen an elephant pull it off the ground and munch on it! Now it's not a grass! It's actually— I think it might even be a herb! It's a bush though; and you can see it's quite steamy over here; you can see how the leaves are divided, but it doesn't look very nice!

Okay, pasta that I've ever read anything about it being poisonous! No! Just never really—no, just any animals eating it! It doesn't also grow in abundance though; you don't see much of it! You just see it popping up every now and then! Yeah, very prickly! Okay, well should we catch up with Herbie? Let’s keep going! So we’re going to jump onto this which kind of turns into an animal pathway which is quite nice! Lots of thorns there! Lots of debris! I think that was brought in by the tractor though! Although the elephants do favour this area too, and lots of creatures do! It's not a particularly great area to walk in as you can see! Look how thick it is! This grass is quite tall, so we're gonna have to be quiet as we navigate through this area!

Ralph, however, is at a much more open spot, and he seems to be up on a rock! And we on very big flat rocks! Yeah, it must be said! This here is called second rock, and this is the perfect site I would say for finding predators in winter! I'm sure they'll come out here and bask in the Sun with the rocks holding quite a bit of heat! And it's probably the perfect site for sundowners for guests as well! I would imagine that! And the guards that moon move on this property do come through here and stop off for sundowners or a nice coffee break in the morning! But it's a lovely spot to look at as well! And we do see as we start panning, there you will see off in the distance there's the Drakensberg even starting! So it's a beautiful little set, and we haven't seen too much in the way of animals just yet, but it's still early in the afternoon!

I'm sure as it starts cooling down a little bit we’ll get to see a little bit more! And then that's when I'm gonna be putting my concentration a little bit more on to finding those predators that we love to see! But for the time being, I'm just enjoying being here on Torchwood! We're in the north-central part, not—we haven't gone too far just yet—and just enjoying indica girl! Like that, you're asking about these rocks because it's probably quite fascinating in terms of the geological formations, yeah! And this is all granite just by looking at it from here, and it would obviously be very volcanic! So you've got a very coarse sort of minerals within granite, and it does make for quite sandy soils as well once it breaks down!

So all along the edges there and the fringes of this rock, you'll have pioneer grass species because that's where you've got your first succession stage starting to happen as these rocks wither and break down! And then also next to it like there you'll see plants like the red bush wallow and also sickle Bush, and here's one of those little butterflies! I don't know if that’s a—and I didn’t sit well enough or so! Lots of white on it and didn’t see any of the other colors! You do see a lot of the orange took the whites at this moment in time! And it's quite a large butterfly that, but I didn't see it long enough to identify it! But there you can see some sort of cluster leaves in the background!

Some marillas! And then is all the general trees espy going down into the ravines, you know? Start to have some Jacko berries, and they’re pretty much evergreens. One of the only trees that you'll see dark green at the moment, and they are some psycho bushes and some sweet thorns down there! And then there is the trees starting to lose all of the leaves! So very pretty! And I think, well, the discovery of this new traverse needs to continue! I’m very excited! Let's hit on out and see what else we can find! Very nice! I love the spot! And it's obviously with this, with the flat rocks like this, it's a good site for animals to come and get a drink of water as well!

Take care, I agree with you! Thanks for your comments! Such diverse vistas and a lovely area for Stephan predators! Absolutely total agreement! Take care! And lots of new space to get lost in! And find little secret nooks and crannies! I love it! Love new areas! It's like going to the Masai Mara for the first time! Now Joy from Hong Kong! I think we could be in with a good chance of us seeing a cheetah! Because of these open areas, as I've heard once before on the radio with the guys that said there's cheetah here on Torchwood! So, since I've been here, it's not necessarily that we're going to see them all over the place! But there is a good chance of us finding some!

So we'll just keep our eyes open! And these kind of open areas a perfect habitat for them! But, you know, they do quite well also in the thickets! But as I say, since I've been here, I haven't had any cheetah on Juma! I never here on Torchwood! So as my hand continues for animals, it seems James has beaten me to it! Yes, we've stressed you to it! Absolutely mangled you beyond recognition to the finding of animals! To be fair, I knew they were here!

That's not really what I came down here for! Those of you that are wondering, that is a really based—a young one born probably in December this year! Not this year; we haven't had December this year—that's impossible! December last year, putting it as nearly six months old! Yes, see, turning to agree! And really, this herd, as I've said to you again and again, this—so well with the disappearance of the lions from this area, who have been charged to Craig, they're messing to come towards us! That's very nice! Normally, they're just running away, frightened, for some reason! And the light's really quite pretty at the moment!

It's not soft as it might be, but it's nicely filtered by the clouds! But it's great! Wonderful passing parade we're having! Hello, chaps! Now, of course, David would consider this a completely ridiculous thing for us to be doing common as common as you like in Kenya! But here, to have a sighting of wildebeest—laughs! This is fantastic! Let's count the little ones! One, two, three, four, five, six! Does anybody remember how many there were to start with?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven—for the commoners, there's six! So I think that they've all survived! All in fact, more one, two, three, four, five, six! Six! Eighty-six! Yeah, they fared rather better than the Egyptian Goslings! But you may have gone from seven to zero rather quickly! So it's sad as if you don't know—been following the fates of Egyptian Goslings, and one of them died, and then the rest stayed at purfles a quarter hole for some time there comfortably, and now it all disappeared, including their parents! They might be in another water or somewhere else—absolute panic! Unique, I think that is in a brilliant description of them!

He said they look like cow horses! They do look like cow horses! The reason that panic there was not because Craig waved at them or said something nasty! It's because there's a warthog that's come down to a little pan behind this thicket that we're looking at! Just behind that thicket there, Craig—there is a water pepper, water pig! And we just carry on a little bit closer and see if the water pig isn't confiding enough to let us look at him! There he comes! It's just seen us! Don't worry!

And the male water pig thinks he's hidden in the shade! Doesn't know about the sharp eyes of Craig! Come on then! What are you looking for? Some—youth, you aged just nine years old! The answer to your question is, well almost some of the animals aren't here, are very good at surviving without water! The Steinbuck is one such animal! They are desert adapted in many respects! The leopard is another that can survive almost without water! Black-backed jackals do very well in some dry areas! But warthogs and wildebeest, for example, are animals that need to drink very frequently! So they will not do well in any kind of dry or desert environment!

Now I can tell it's a young male, of course, by the fact that he has four warts on his face—two big ones next to his eyes, two smaller ones behind his great big canine teeth! The ones that have just erupted from the side of his mouth! He's very nervous of being looked at, and male trying to find his way in the world! The young males trying to find their way in the world can often be slightly nervous of being looked at! Craig, you get quite nervous being looked at, don't you? He does! Go! He's very crystal clear this afternoon, as I'm sure you saw when Ralph was showing you the mountains!

We were going to try and do the same! There was a telegraph line and well, there's a power line also, a telegraph line cutting our picture in half! So it gave up on that! Telegraph line, how old am I? Not that old! We're going up a Monde or the road now through the central western regions! Kirsten, what was that foul thing you sent into my ear? They're just basically saying I am old or dangerous middle-aged! Okay, any idea, 42 is middle-aged, is Kirsten? Oh good! What, I've got a few months then! I'm still young! I'm still a youth! Ah, 45 to 65 is middle-aged, Scott! I'm a spring chicken! I've got another three years of youth to go! That's fantastic! Really exciting to be a youth again!

When I thought I was middle-aged! A new lease on life! Do you ever—I sometimes—this has got nothing to do with safari as well! But I can't find anything safari right now! Do you ever have dreams of going back to high school and being back in high school? I do from time to time, and it's almost like a new lease on life! Because you go back to high school but with the knowledge that you have as a 40 year old puts you in a rather advantageous position, I feel! But with an extra 20 years!

Alright, well let's go! I believe we're going across—not to somebody who's just finished high school! So you are so funny! I'll have you know it's almost been eight years! Oh my no! No, that's wrong! I finished in 2010 at the end of the year! So I suppose that's right! Oh anyways, yes, I was in high school not so long ago! That's nice being young, James! Very nice! You enjoy your experienced years! But we are standing in a pool of water! Perhaps James, if you dived into one of these puddles of mud, it might be the Fountain of Youth! Who knows? You won't know until you give it a try, and you could pop out looking like you're fresh from high school!

No, I was hoping to find some evidence of elephants that have been here, perhaps splashing themselves with mud and then leaving a very muddy trail that we can follow! But that's not the case at all! It doesn't really look like match has been in here! Besides the odd kudu, there's been a couple of Impala that have come down to have a drink, but soon this is not going to be a very nice place to come and wallow in! It's getting very muddy very quickly, and I can't imagine too many things are going to want to have a drink from here! Well, I don't think elephants would be drinking from here! I think they just be using it as a mud bath!

I don't think a buffalo would mind too much drinking this one! Actually, didn't Paulo, in fact, they just drink whatever is in front of them! Some animals are pickier than others when it comes to fresh water! And no spiders actually! I wonder if I wonder around in the corner if I look over here where there's a bit of grass! I might find some spiders! Pierre the Buffalo! Those are always a mystery! And at the moment they seem to be! Actually, I spoke to a friend of mine and he said that even they have not been seen! Buffalo, and he went—he works down at mala mala, which is a property notorious for, well, just animals all over of the variety of kinds!

It's a very, very beautiful property! And he said the buffalo have been sneaking in and then literally disappearing straight off of the traverse back down towards the same asabi river and whatever other rivers might be down and around a little bit further to the south and to the west! So that’s quite crazy! He says I just pop on! So I don't know, they’re obviously hanging around a bit further down there! I'm trying to see if I can see anything but no spiders! Normally there's some creek water spiders here! They're always catching things! But I wonder where they've gone now! Perhaps it's a little bit too cold for them, maybe in the shade!

Anyways, that's alright! We can carry on from this little mud wallow! But Tim, it's a pretty cool spot! I would love to bring guests here just to take them out of the vehicle! Maybe have a little stop, a little stretch of the legs! And just to show them what sort of goes on around a mud wallow! You know, seeing all vegetation around that that's completely covered in mud! There's probably— I mean the leaves aren't too covered in mud, but there's lots of made going down further! So maybe from an elephant or something standing here wallowing away or even a buffalo or a rhino coming past and just scraping along it as they go out!

'Cause you know they love to use the bushes for a little scratch too, so that's also a possibility! And then for gonna have to do a bit of walking, my friend! Because there's something very cool that I need to show everybody! So I'll meet you here! I'll see you in a minute! It was a long walk! A food to freedom Lee JB! I would say yes! Most of the Impalas have finished their right! We're not really seeing them as aggressive as they were this morning!

We watched two postures one another for a good couple of minutes and didn't really seem like they were going to fight at all! We're not hearing the gurgling sounds right through the evening like we were just a few weeks ago! So I suppose we are at the tail end now! It should be ending shortly! But have a look at this beautiful…what was once a little vacation tree! It's docked! At the moment, courtesy—ah, so look at all the mat on there! So this is the rubbing post! This is the official rubbing post for this little pan!

I'd love to know how many different animals have actually been here and scraped off of the excess mud! And then it's not just that—oh my goodness, if you look inside! Yeah, wow! What's going on? There’s a whole lot of ants! You—there’s some, well, not huge ants—whoo, bees also told me that he can hear something! Are they preparing that—look! Oh, one of those el aids! So we've obviously had a bit of rain at the moment, and normally after a bit of rain, the ground is nice and soft! And termites and ants will release el aids—look like cocktail! And sexually, you know, that there are cocking their tails! That may be one of them!

And I think that was a little wind eyelets! It could have been a prince or a princess getting ready to move on out! Well, start a new life! Start a new colony somewhere else! That is really amazing! I'm not trying to not get pricked by thorns, I can see! Hmm, doesn't seem like they're attacking it! I mean, they're just helping, guiding it! Everybody welcome, saying well done! Back on your adventure—maybe something along those lines! That's awesome to see! So, there we go! Might as well check on the termite mounds tonight! Maybe something for Ralph and James to do a little bit later! Because they're typically more releasing just as the sun has set! That sort of first hour of darkness, we might get some cool silhouette shots of them taking off!

Just gotta find the right termite mound! Hold in the ground for the ends! Very cool! Now why is it, Hubie? You had actually your Asian thorns! Sorry! What? You don't get stuck on those thorns either, yes! These are nasty pieces of work yet! Who bite gave me the signal? He said something was going! Ah! I don't know if it was baboons! Although it was a kudu barking! But Hubie's over there, so we're gonna go that way! I think he obviously wants to go and follow up and hope he pointed in that direction!

And funny enough, James has just heard some alarm calls in the distance! Well, we've been told about alarm calls in the distance! And I was just thinking to myself, "well, there no one will believe me when I say this," that if Hookah Morey did come onto Juma, the likelihood is that he's gone towards Galago pan which is just near the camp, just near the final control! And I thought to myself, "I think we'll go and check there!" Well, blow me down if I don't get the radio call saying there are monkeys alarming at Tagalog out of hand! Right now, go and have a look! So that's what we're doing at great speed!

It's where Davie and I ran down the road this morning on our run! We were going this fast! It's probably faster than we were going! So fast now! Going up! Hands down there! But if HuKu Morey is coming from this end, I think he's going to pitch up at—we are tailored, and so I'm going to go down that way first and then we'll approach from that side! Audrey is around looking there as well! There's an Impala looking very relaxed! I'm gonna stop and listen just yet, just get into the area first!

Andy, there are a lot of Impala looking relaxed from the damn camera as well! Which doesn't bode too well for our search! Let's go and see! For now—that this is a bumpy—oh, and another one! Oh unique, what a terrible dream! You dreamt last night that HuKu Morey died! I'm sorry about that! I hope he didn't! Dreams normally come true! Barb, it flying overhead! Alrighty, we're arriving at the buoy-a Taylor dam now!

There's a booby trap in the road here masquerading as a drainage bump! Whoops! There it is! We've made it! A flea! Yeah, one more! Alrighty! Now we can switch off and listen! Never won! I could hear the wind in my ears! Yes, very chilled looking Impalas! And the children—yalla! Okay, I'm gonna stop here and just listen! And we've got pans in that way, but there seems to be no more sound coming from that direction! Okay, let's move quickly!

Here we go, very quickly round that way! I hope I haven't picked the wrong direction! Yet monkeys will not alarm call for anything unless it's serious! So it's leopard or lion! There’s some pretty running—what? A panicked manner, just sort of jogging—kind of manner, not alarming! So there is a lion or a leopard around here! Halla, looking relaxed! We'll stop on top here! Hello kudu, have you seen any leopards? Hmm! I described that response as nothing short of disdainful!

Let's move on! Yes, she certainly does have a lot of oxpeckers on! As there's birds with him—oh! Oh, he must be careful! We don't want to drive too fast! And drive over a whole lot of tracks! At the same time, you don't want to drive too slowly! Mr. Two-block, I'm afraid I don't know! I haven't checked up recently! You say is this! Anybody, is there any update on hisana? I haven't heard any update on him, I'm afraid!

Last one I had was that he was on elephant plains, was a long way to the west of us! But that was it! I believe he did have a meeting with the Anderson male! The meeting resulted in probably his scuttling away as fast as possible! Yeah, Anderson male is not to be trifled with—very large male in the western sector of the Sabi Sand! Karate! We’re into the area now, but I can't hear any monkeys alarm! Herbert is also coming into the area to give a hand! Let's quickly go across the tailor and find out what she's gonna do to help the cause here!

We are, we are, we are! We're going to change! We've just—we just been held up for a second with some bones! Some here, this was done very very old! Done, but unfortunately for us! No, actually fortunately for us! What am I talking about? It makes it a bit easier to see what's going on! So I need a stick because I'm not touching that with my hands! Let me break a stick off quickly! Sorry, while you have a look! Probably two seconds! Okay, little sticky there!

There we go! So this looks like vertebrae! When we're thinking, maybe an Impala or something along those lines! There's lots of bits of bones here and maybe from a hyena! Cuz, oh, well, that would be very very soon! I'd be quite surprised to find so many bones in a lion or leopard den! I mean if it's something really small like a baby dacre or steenbok, you'll find the lion's and nipples will crunch right through it! Or a baby impala! But that's not the case! Yeah! It needs some of the shards of bone up and digested! Only really hyenas over teeth that are powerful enough to crush through!

That's a bone like this! Some lions, unfortunately, don't quite have that capability! Mmm, delicious! But that's enough food poking for one afternoon! Poopy what's the plan? That way, back together, girl! Who? A, B, C's, we're gonna go be! We going in that way, so we are gonna have to! If we want to help James, we're gonna pick up the pace now! So well, we will do! We're gonna just meend over here! But once we get onto a road, I think we're going to actually try to utilize the roads and big animal pathways where possible!

Depending, which is gonna lead us on the quickest route! Sometimes the animal pathways are the quickest, but we're not gonna be wading through thickets like this! I don't think we're going to choose the path of least resistance today! Well, and I think somebody else is choosing that pathway today! Is Ralph! I wonder what other areas he's explored on Torchwood? Well, exploring is exactly what we're doing, and just, as I said, just driving up and down every single road we can come across! And yeah, we were a little bit out of signal for a little while, so just taking another ride aiding back in a westerly direction just to get us back in that wavelength where we can broadcast back to everybody!

But as I say, for the moment it's a little bit quiet! But I'm not fast! It's all exciting! Davi and myself, we're both enjoying it! Yeah, just looking at the new terrain and hoping that something pops out in front of us! But yep, we'll wait a little bit later! It seems Jones and Taylor buzz all over those alarm signals! I'm really hoping that is Shadalu! Haven't seen her for a little while! So hope that she's decided to show up in here—Galago pan! That'll be wonderful! Look at this! This is like a little bit of a psychic patch!

Yeah, maybe you can see a lot of these—well there's some young lid woods, some sickle bushes, there's these silver clasp leaves, and obviously the red bush willows! So when it's dominated like that with finger grass and some of the herringbone—so it's just one of these little sodic sites! You know, you often have a place where your water is seeping out and then it will be evaporating and leaving a lot of the mineral salts!

And then you have a lot of these particular trees growing in this kind of area—nice and open but quite devoid of animals for now! Just keep searching around as we go and enjoying the new base! What does the next corner hold for us? What are we gonna find? I'm gonna wait till it's dark and get lost around—yeah, that'll be nice! And Davi and let my battery run set, so we don't have a map, we’ll end up in the Kruger—[Laughter] That is a joke by the way! That's just a jack cross rides, Davi! We try right! Haha! See, I love this kind of navigating! Who in this—read Gracia to meet a tree? Andra, that this is the corner grass we want to see! Because this is very nutritious grass! And we'll be finding animals feeding on that more so than a lot of the other grasses! But it's not dominating!

It's just a little bit of little patches, patches of it! Not quite unlike in the Maasai Mara, especially in the tomorrow triangle! It's dominated by their dread grass, and that's why the elephants and all the animals are—they're fattening themselves up and just eating grass, which is for me fascinating! Never seen elephants eating grass like they do in the Maasai Mara and in the Mora Triangle, to be specific! Wow! Very very nice! Philip, there's not a particular time that elephants will necessarily go into must together! They do it—it's normally fortnightly or every three weeks once they become or get to sexual maturity!

So it's sort of once they get around 20 years older side, then they will come in to once, sometimes twice a month they are going to muster! And it will be different for every single individual! Just depending on his age and when he was born and all of that! So, yeah, and that ensures a nice cycling of bulls coming to muster at different times randomly! And that's one of the things in the bush as well—randomness is one of the most important ecological factors because nothing is really always in tune! You've just got random things happening! You know, like I often think when I go for a run and the lizards are running away from me! If they run away from me, they could be appeared to waiting me!

And it's just total random that I was running there! That this lizard ran away and then something marked now that, and you know things happen randomly, which is actually quite scientifically proven to be one of the best ecological factors that keeps the diversity in the bush! We even studied that in ecology, randomness was one of our real subjects that we went through! And one of the real important factors!

Archer, like for instance, way seed lands—that's totally random! It might be blown by the wind, it might be dropped with the baboon having eaten the fruit and then sitting on a termite mound! It might be carried by a bird stuck on its pole and walked off on a random branch! So there is so much around randomness that you could go on for days about that—a spider throwing his little web into the wind, and the wind randomly gets blown and hooks on a branch! You know, all these little random, randomness that can turn into patterns as well! It's quite incredible!

Yeah, it's like we're the too much swim! The alights when I got out of the nest and they just land randomly at a place and they randomly meet up with another random female! Hold o' mile! You know, and then they dig in a random spot! And hopefully it's not on the right because they get squashed by moving through! But you know all these termite mounds, they would have started off by randomly getting to a little spot that stopped them from moving any further! And that's where they started! And now we've got all sorts of different randomness that birds will land on it, the baboons will go and feed on it!

Now, cheeky pinky bass! I think I've got that—rats are high-power! Cheeki breeki bass! Well, the randomness does keep nature in check! Absolutely, I agree with you! And that's why it's such an interesting topic! So yeah, please feel free to send in any of your random sort of systems that you see in nature! How things happen randomly! That that cause then the diversity or the uniqueness of nature! Very very interesting topic that I mean like the leopards! Sometimes they can also just be randomly walking up a road, and then, you know, you've got to Impala that are fighting and like Shadalu!

She's absolutely random in her movements, but with there being so random, she comes across quite a lot of potential food sources because she's zigzagging, she's going up to him right now, she's coming down, she's jumping up the tree, she's playing with her prey! You know, so that randomness I think makes her actually more successful than if she was just walking around on a sit root on every single die doing exactly the same thing! That randomness really mixes it up and actually puts her in a better position!

So it's good to be random, I think is the moral of the story! Kathy, I haven't seen any random animals just yet! I did see two random gray-headed bush sharks that seem to be chasing each other quite randomly! And there's a squirrel running up the road! Let's see how random! He's gonna be watching! They just did up there, and I bet you it's gonna be two seconds and he’s good! I love the way they're there and the check that they leave! It's always it's always one two one two! One two! It's very random!

Check it! It was from a very end of animal that’s rear-ended! When you say, Davi, I think which way left? Okay, random chosen! Let's see! Here we go and now straight! Okay, so while we got up this random road and hope for anything random to jump out of the bush, let's see! John, over to James and see how random he is! I don't think that I'm very random at all! Randomness in nature is actually a fascinating concept, as it is in economics, for example!

And it is the cause of Black Swan events in nature and in economics! We're looking at a red-billed ondol in case you were wondering! And we've had no sign of any track, hot server! And when used in the way that Kirsten has just used it, for example, that's so random! It is in fact nonsensical! There's nothing random about that horrible! What she means is how obscure, which is different from being random, I think, Kirsten! Would you like to come back? Would you think that I'm right, Blanche? I don't think they were two words! It can be used interchangeably!

I might be wrong? That he's having a good Sunday bath! Everyone should bath at least once on Sundays! So that you're fresh for the week! Craig! You know I like to bath on Sundays! Have my weekly bath on Sunday! I nearly even had a shave today, you can believe it! But then there was no hot water, and I decided no, that would be…it! So I can here the only thing I can hear alarm calling at the moment are some chin spot bath! And they're gay! But I'm not sure that that's what they're calling!

Eleven, Teresa! I can do my best! You want to see a yellow build horn bill? I don't see why we shouldn't be able to find one for you! They're common! So we'll maybe try and find one for you! I'm gonna go up this way because Aubree went down that way towards the rear! Taylor Waterhole where we saw lots of general game very relaxed! So we'll just listen up for the radio! And then just see if we don't pick something up going up this road!

Here to tell me, but they're not alarm called for something else, like a number or something! Yeah! They might also alarm for an aerial predator like a crowned eagle, I suppose! They might, from Marshall Eagles, Craig suggested! They wouldn't alarm for many of the smaller things that squirrels and Franklin's and Mongoose would alarm call for! Alright! We’ve got Audrey going down Central Road! Cecilia! The best time to see were words, to see birds in this part of the world! Sorry, Kirsten, I can't hear you!

The game drive radios going, her going out with the name lavinda! There's a time to see birds! It's between November and April! Basically, all of the birds are backed by, well, mid-November! And they will stay here! The migratory species until around about April! And then they'll all go back up to the north, either intra-African or Palearctic! Very angry Franklin's there next to this, or behind this herd of Impala! And Impala looking so relaxed!

And the other side, their horrific road full of stumps! The old hyena den road has last popped past here! No one is at home! Hasn't been for some time! No! A wild alarm call! Chase Taylor and Herbert are coming up here! And so that's the best for a way to find predators! Basically, on the foot! We are, James, we're not far actually! We're about to pop out onto Central, maybe only 200 meters from via Taylor dam!

So we're almost there! We've been marching! We can watch out for it! Let's take a step to the left! Lift a guard enough to guide you! Anyway, so we're on a big animal pathway as you can see! It's just quite nice! This is a very well-worn line! I've actually shown it to you a couple of different times of scenes and gone and walking down it! I've actually seen Tandi walking down it, Karuna many times with Tranquila and Husana and Tail and who else! Lots of big animals too—elephants like to walk it as you can imagine!

It's quite a nicer! And nice perfect, because it's open, and then you can have grass or leaves, so you can feed on the tooth! You know, if you're on the road, you're a bit restricted! You kind of just got grass! That's growing there! And then the vegetation starts a little way off! But, yeah, just listening as well! We can't hear any of those alarm calls just yet! That James has got up ahead! No, Bron, it's fairly easy to find your way in reserve! But that's also because I've been based here for almost two years now!

And you kind of just get used to it and you use the sun to orientate yourself, you use, of course, where you can! You use stars—not that we're walking around at night! But if you get a bit lost in the evening! And then, of course, as you're going about, you start to notice, well certain things—certain landmarks! Big termite mounds! Mess of a rule of trees! Big knob thorns! Or lid words that have been pushed on over! So you use those as well! And you just get familiar over time!

If I always say the first game reserve you work on is the hardest to learn, and then it becomes substantially easier! A long way! We didn't find it too hard to navigate in the morrow! It was actually quite easy, in fact! It was near the escarpment! On one side, you had the river, and on the other side, stay in between, and when you wanted to go home, keep the river on your right, keep the escarpment on your left-hand side, and head north! You'll eventually find a road that looks familiar! So that's really the plan, well, let's plan!

When you're starting up, it was very easy! No, we're still just trying to make up some distance before the sun goes down! Because it's gonna go down quickly, but we'll hopefully find there is something scaring the birds! James, how irresponsible! Offense, did she say live live? Yes, the game drive radio exploded to life in my ear! Anyway, here we are with an elephant bull! Uncle! He just sort of examining us!

He just was wandering kind of aimlessly down towards us here and then stopped when he heard us as we did when we saw him! He seems to be recently tossed out of his herd, I guess! See how close he comes! I'm just going to be very quiet! He poses no danger to us! We obviously pose no danger to him! Okay, here we go! So sometimes these young bulls will just pretend, and they become relatively entertained by the presence of a human being! I think you know they're such social creatures, elephants, and I think being pushed out on their own needs and bones is difficult!

So they'll seek out companies hiring! That's not gonna make any friends whatsoever! It really is manners from the bowels of the bowels! I'm just not starting the engine! Because I don't want him to feel like we're a threat! I'd rather like him to just come and say hello to us! So it's a little awkward with the aerial in the way, I'm sorry about that! He's now hiding behind the bush! Thinks we can't see him! They are cheeky! Jemma! You said yeah, you love young bulls because they're so cheeky!

They're cheeky but they're also inquisitive! And I think he's being cheeky just yet! He's just being inquisitive! No, don't go away! Come on, stay with us! Let's just watch! Carefully if he is actually eating this! He just sort of pretending a little bit! Is cheap tummy turn up! Now you see, you watch him now! It's gonna turn quickly! So you can look! Look at his reaction to us! As soon as we started the engine, he started to feel threatened immediately!

The tail came out and he took a few steps to get away from us! His eyes turned to face us and flapped his little trunk over his tusks! So he was immediately threatened by the starting of the vehicle! And that’s normal! He's on his own young bull! I wouldn't say he's more than 18, 17, 18 years old! And the confidence that he felt in the herd that resulted in his bullying the young youngsters and eventually getting thrown out by the matriarch that confidence has evaporated as he's gone off on his own!

Sorry Shawn, I've got a little bit about what gets tossed out of herd! I missed the wrist, sorry about that! Oh, do elephant cows? I forget! Tossed out? Not at puberty but there must be some splitting of herds because obviously hers don't just get bigger and bigger and bigger! They split! And in this area, 10 to 15 is about the average size of a herd in total! Which means that at some stage they must split up now! Whether that's— I don't know what! Should we say? Not physical altercation, but a permanent disagreement, if you like, that occurs between two cars in a herd! And one takes perfection off, I'm not sure whether it's just a slightly more distantly related car moving off on her own!

To set up her own herd, I think that's much more likely! Because it gets unwieldy moving around in a big herd out here! Ten to fifteen seems to be the optimum number! So you know, the short answer is no they don't get tossed too! That puberty! Like these chaps do! But they do split from time to time! Marty, Ralph Kirsten is still knocking about on tour children! I hope! And he's found some water! Yeah, this is called lead wood dam! Well, it's live wood water hole! They do dam! Lead wood pan! Whatever you want to call it!

And it's obviously a number of lead woods around! There is one solitary hippo! And there's also a pair of Egyptian geese! Sorry for all your Gosling fans! I had done CNE Gosling's with them! So we haven't solved the mystery just yet unless they miraculously appear out of the grass! There's also a couple of water sicne just running around there! There's one of them! I think there's another one somewhere part of a pair!

There's a bearded woodpecker hitting on a branch nearby! And so nice little spot for birding! And the Torchwood lodge is just behind us! So this is a view that they've got from the camp at night! With the NASA spotlight down over this little pen here! And then signs of elephants! And I'm sure you'd have all sorts coming through here at night! Lipid to lion, to jackals and caracals, maybe even porcupines— all sorts! It's a lovely spot! It's very nice, very calm at the moment!

Take care! Yeah, I'm pretty sure that they would have called Torchwood after the balloon artists! Probably a lot! I've seen a few! I haven't seen hundreds of them that would suggest that the place is called debt! But, yeah, we've just pretty much run a sort of cross through the traverse for now! And I haven't seen too many! But yeah, sometimes, you know, there might be one particular area that they call this place after! Maybe as we go down this drainage run in front of us!

It's also part of the Mall Meeny which also includes and links back up onto Juma! Now I'm gonna continue down and let's see what else we can find! But it seems James has got my favorite mammals to show you once again! Well, here we have some elephants! But they're obviously the herd from which that youngster is being excluded! Slowly they're not very relaxed! They've seen something that's made them feeling upset! Made them feel upset, not feeling upset!

Now the big cow to the right-hand side of your screen there with flapping her ears, that's her! She just went like this—she went! As she did that, the herd started to move forward! The younger cow that is out is showing not extreme discomfort but certainly a level of discomfort that would make me want to back off! If it wasn't for the fact I see she's not a cow at all—this is a car! Just not very confident! A young cow of the herd may be really interesting! She's got very small mammary glands, which indicates either that she hasn't had a baby!

I think she's pregnant actually! If you look at the belly, she—they are, she's quite heavily pregnant! But I suppose perhaps as with human beings, elephants have mammary glands of different sizes! Make absolutely no difference to their efficacy as deliverers of milk! It was quite interesting! Never thought of it like that! Regarding elephants that have never seen humans before, yes, it is possible! It's very, very unlikely in the Kruger National Park!

It could certainly be possible in a place like—what should I say? In an area like Gorongosa in Mozambique?! As possible! More remote areas! Possibly some of the more remote areas of Zambia! You know, you looked quite large swaths of land that don't have any people in them! That's possible! But it's unlikely that in a continent of 1 billion people, elephants haven't somehow somewhere come across a human being!

Well, they're aged for you learn to get yourself into trouble by asking this question! Because your mother's going to ask why are you asking it? You say, do the elephants ever pretend they're feeding when they're not actually eating? No, they don't! They don't need to, Willow! Because their mothers don't tell them they have to eat! They just get hungry and eat!

So although their mothers will show them what to eat, they don't check how much they eat! So they don’t feel like eating, they don't eat! Unlike us! When we're little, Willow! Like you, for example, I'm sure! There's lots of things that your mum and dad tell you to eat, and you don't like to eat them! And so you sort of pretend to eat them! And maybe you feed them quietly to the dog under the table!

Or slip them into your pocket! Don't forget to take them out of the pocket if you do do that! Well, I don't know about you, but when I was your age, my mother used to make me want to make me eat pears! And I couldn't stand eating pears! I still don't like pears because of it! I remember that very distinctly! And scrambled eggs! I used to pretend to eat my scrambled eggs! But we had a very hungry dog at home! She quite liked scrambled eggs! Didn't even montes very fat Labrador—doesn't look anything like these elephants!

This is a young girl elephant, just off to the right-hand side! Now, the bit of lighter than there’s other ones! Hello! Yes, that's right! You on camera! No, you're very smart! It's quite interesting! Let's just get back here! So now, that way, Craig! The way she's moving! That same cow was just giving us the open eared look and stayed with this youngster! So obviously the matriarch of this herd books no trifling with!

And so everyone's a little bit on edge! And she's tossed up that main male that we saw earlier! She might accept him back if he behaves! She promises not to bully anyone! ESCA, I think that what happens is that they slowly start to move away from the herd! And then rejoin it again and increasing distances away from the herd! And then rejoin! So they rejoin all the time! I don't think they probably even join some herds that are unrelated to them just for little periods, for short periods until they're really ready or feel sufficiently confident to go off on their own for extended periods!

Pretty sure these elephants will eventually fetch up at either the Gallagher waterhole or the pan at where Taylor dam is! And just be able to hear the tearing of the grass! But I have heard no further alarm call of any sort! Whatsoever! Now, Tandy was seen late after drive at the sub dam, so that's where we're gonna head now! It's in the far northeast corner! First, we will wait for this rather large cow to come towards us! See what she does!

Hello, my dear! You are not small! You also not to be trifled with! Laughs! Yeah, she is also pregnant! I think she's got much bigger memory in her glands! Cheeky geeky bets! In a theory, yes! That is exactly what would happen, you say! What would happen if a car ran out of milk and the others helped? Yes, they would! Elephants do pick up orphans! So it's quite possible that a nursing cow would allow a cow whose mother was producing insufficient milk to nurse from her! Always happened! But yes, they are friendly like that!

She is telling the others to get on with it! Go on, move on! Also pretending to eat there! Oh, she said after maybe an actual bite! Maybe she just wanted that tree for herself! I think they've been to water actually already! I don't think that they are going down towards it! You can see they’ve got bits of mud on them! They've obviously had their drink, throwing their mud all over themselves! And now they're having this Sunday dinner! Mmm, of silver trust a leaf! How delicious! Another leaf!

Taylor might be quite close by on the termite mound! So if she is on the old hyena den, tell her that the elephants are coming her way! Would you? Oh no, they're coming our way! As in where I'm standing right now! Well then, we best! Best be! We be quick then! So we get out of the path where the elephants! It looks like there were a few here! We passed some dung! Now I can hear James just started up his vehicle!

Seat isn't too far away from us! So basically, we're at this termite mound that once was a hyena den! It's not a hyena den anymore! And we're not gonna get too close! First, here I'll show you why! Is because if you look over here, there's a track! That track over there is of a warthog! And there are lots of water tracks going in and out of this, this burrow! It's quite a deep one!

It goes in quite far back! I don't think there's anyone inside at the moment! But let's not take a chance! Maybe there's a porcupine or something! But you can see, it was clearly a hyena in at some point! There's a piece of hide! I'm not going to pick it up! I'm not sure what it's from! It's also covered in mud at the moment! So it could be from anything! And then there's obviously part of a skull! Part of a jaw, which I would imagine is that from maybe something like an Impala or even a bushback!

What are you from, I wonder? It's been eaten! Punch away! Bit the little hyena cubs that were here may have had fun with this! Trying to have a look! So what that could actually be! It's not actually a very big skull too big to be I think something like a steer book or a dacre! It might just be a young hole! It's got fully developed teeth though, I wonder what it was! And so I don't! I think maybe like a bush back or something!

Well, quiet! Like a female! Female bush back maybe! I think the skull would extend a little bit more! But yeah, very interesting! Very cool! It's nice to know that somebody else is using this home load while I nazar away! I've not touched something that doesn't smell very nice! I don't know what I just touched! There's another buyer actually just over here too! This one doesn't seem to be used! I’m not sure that that one seems to be active! There's some water hog tracks coming on around here!

Walking her down and around doesn't look like there's any hoof prints going all the way down inside! This one is not as dug out as the other side! Very cool though! Very nice to see! It's actually a really big termite mound! You realize how big it is until you step out of the car! You come and stand next to it! It's massive! It's much bigger than any other termite mounds I've seen the hyenas living in! Very cool!

No, I don't actually just think that there's warthogs living here! I think that there's some porcupine! Looks like a porcupine was digging in! I was eating some of the roots! And you know what? Thank you, food! That city when you thought that there was water— I mean a porcupine living here as well! Now, who was? Might even—vm could yell! We all say it was fake! I think Maybin vm saying he saw some evidence of porcupines around here! This makes sense too!

So maybe there's a couple more tunnels too! Now poor guy! The natural habitat of a wartog is, well typically a burrow created by an aardvark! Or any animal that can do! More dogs can dig fairly well too! And they'll use it out because it's nice and hard as a bit of a shovel! Tooth they need to shovel out some dirt! So living in a burrow of sorts! It doesn't have to just be a termite mound! It can be straight down into the ground too! And then while they eat grass, so anywhere where there's grassy areas, that's what they typically...if you don't know, every now and then double fruit as well!

Wherever, wherever you find those kinds of things, that's where a warthog will hang around! So this is actually perfect for them! Nice spot! Get the afternoon sun! Look at that! So maybe come home a little bit earlier! Lay down in the dust! Enjoy the sun! Listen to the calls of leopards in the night! And hope that Hookah Morey doesn't come and find you! He's a specialist wartime hunter that feller! And waits for them must be terrifying being a water rat!

We're gonna keep going! I think we got to move away and art from these elephants now! We'll see what Herbie has to say! Let's go to Ralph and see if he's moved on from lead wood dam! Yep, we have moved on a little bit! Just we've got lots to explore and discover! So there wasn't too much happening lately with Dan! So we thought we'd just continue on the exploration of the new traverse! Very pretty area this, again!

We've been driving along the Moon Wani drainage line, which is a mouthful! But at least, yeah, we've got a good opportunity of finding leopards in these little drainage lines! Possibly still lying up in the shade! And also maybe there's some lions around! Doing what they do best! But that sun has started to head towards the horizon! And it's cooling down quite quickly as it does at this time of year! As soon as that sun starts to hit that lower angle, you start to feel the chills! And especially now when you're driving away from the sun immediately! In the shade, it drops a couple of degrees immediately!

So yeah, that's that time of the day now! Now we need to keep on the move and see if we can find any predators that are doing the same! But that was a lovely waterhole that led with dam! I'm gonna be back there to go and check that area out as well! As those rocky areas especially in winter, I think are gonna hold some animals on a nice cold winter's morning with the sun coming up! I can just see those lions lying on those rocks! Be perfect, perfect!

And we also saw a lot of euphorbia, euphorbia candelabra! Candelabra, however you pronounce that! And like those big chandeliers that you get with the top of and with those type of candles on the end! Apparently, Kerstin telling me that James showed it the other day! Those euphorbia's! A little bit behind me! I'm just keeping on the move because I just want to see if we can find any animals moving around! I can hear some Koki Franklin's calling! Funny Franklin's! Those are very small ones! Actually, when you first see them, you might mistake them for like a grass!

Now my little map, which way we going! We'll take this main road left! Yeah, I want to get onto a road that's called lion track! I've got a feeling there might be some lions on lion track! But oh, got ya! Just in front of us! Is it a female spotted wood dove? Now we D in Washington! I hope that I can show you some lions because you're saying that you'd love to see some! Well, I’m gonna head for lion track! I think that's probably the best spot to spot lions!

And look at this little emerald spotted wood dove doing what they do best! Foraging along the road! Generally doing it into the sun, you see! So my little tracking theory is a brilliant way to work out and the time of day! That this animal was walking because they normally walk into the sun! And so if you've got an emerald spotted wood dove that walked over a check! You need to look if he was going east or west! If he was going east, then it's normally that he walked over it in the morning! If he was going west, then he would have been walking over it in the afternoon!

So you've got a little bit of a timeline there! If you look at him or spotted wood dove tracks, and if they're going over on top or if they're underneath leopard track or lion track! And then you know using that as a nice way to judge in the check that you're looking at! To try and work out when that animal moved through there! With regards to the little emerald spotted wood dove! And I've got a lovely call, a very food hoot! And the zulus and sangans, they said that it's a very sad bird that call!

Especially because he's saying that his sister's sick, his brother's in jail, his father's a drunk, his mother died! Lost the karma! I'm so sad! Said said said he said story coming from the emerald spotted wood does shine! But yeah, I like to just think of him as a very good tracking assistant! So it seems everybody is looking for birds and finding them! Let's head off to James and see what beautiful bird he has! I've got a beautiful virtual starling that it is sitting on a tree!

Sure, I did that right! Mm-hmm, yes! And it's just sitting there not doing anything except warming in the sun, possibly eating the odd—you see it was fruit! You can find one! There's some