Safari Live - Day 284 | National Geographic

This program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses. Viewer discretion is advised.

Hello, hello! Jambo, jambo, and a very good afternoon from the Masai Mara Triangle in Kenya! Welcome to our drive of what we call our Sunset Drive. As you show, my name remains the same; my name is David. Good afternoon, everyone! And on come with me is Archie. Archie, good afternoon! And Archie's just there saying stop talking to me and concentrate on the elephants now.

A very warm welcome again, and we're very excited to have you onboard today. This is how we set up our drives in the Mara; it's such a glorious view and having elephants on the horizon. It's such a nice clear blue sky on this afternoon, which I guess is a Sunday, with some very good temperatures. I would say it's not hot, but for me this is pretty one because we are talking of 80 degrees Fahrenheit and also like the electric 27 degrees Celsius.

Now remember our drive is very interactive, so we like hearing or we love hearing from you. So should you have any questions, any comments as you shore, throw them in #SafariLive on Twitter. Now I have left the camp a little bit actually because I have a plan; I won't look for the sausages.

So today's particular print of lions that I love, I was here yesterday and I was able to see three of those gals. And I was also lucky to see three of the little cubs they got. I didn't see them very well; it was getting very dark and because we have been having some rain in this area, I had to leave them and head back to camp. So I have come early today so that I can see them in wonderful light, and most likely all of you will have great views of these three small little cubs and of course a lot of other good things.

I'll be saying, well, this afternoon is not only me who is out here during the safari; the gentleman would like also to say hello. But his, oh we, in South Africa. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Juma Game Reserve in the Sabi Sands in South Africa. David is out with me and we are trying to capture a couple of butterflies from the vehicle. Oh hello, there we go! It's like I don't know what it is but it is in a buffalo thorn; there's about 50 butterflies that have been flapping around and doing their thing.

Good afternoon, my name is Steve and I'm joined by Adebisi on camera. And what can I say? Who doesn't like butterflies? Let's see if we can capture them. Again, this is a very important time of year; the flowers are coming through and well, the flowers are providing lots of nectar and pollen for all sorts of insects. And as you can see, butterflies and many of these trees would actually have been a larval food.

There is a black and white pie butterfly which is normally associated with the buffalo thorn, not necessarily for the pollination, but as a larval food; they lay their eggs on here. I'm not sure if anybody knows what these greenish butterflies, white green ones are. I can't really get a proper look at them, and I'm not an expert at looking at them from the outside.

So they are with their proboscis going down, enjoying the sweet nectar of the buffalo thorn flowers, which are very, very sticky and obviously very sweet. A beautiful treat from... even blends in with the leaves, doesn't that? David actually assumed, you know, one, I thought our that's a leaf, and while it turned out to be a butterfly.

But these trees are very important larval food for many insects, and while most trees—and I'm going to be carrying on with a little bit of my ecology talk from this morning. And I'll be catching up with a few people to make sure you understood or if you missed out. And we'll see if we can keep it going. Mrs. Lapping, who doesn't like a butterfly? And he's a very nondescript little greenish one. I'm sure someone out there, butterflies really well, would only take a glance to see that exactly what it is.

But when I talk about larval food, that means that when a butterfly or moth lays their eggs on a tree and the next season, with the rains, those hatch and the caterpillars grow through many stages until they eventually become a butterfly. And specific, generally, there are very specific trees that certain butterflies will use to lay their eggs on. We spoke about one or two this morning and I hear the buffalo thorn— a plethora of insects and beetles generally moving through.

But obviously, we are also going to be heading through to see if we can find a dead Steinbach being looked after by Hosanna. But on the way, I'm going to make sure to finish off my ecology talk from it this morning. But in the meantime, let's go over to Sydney from Alana Cozy.

Look at the beautiful skies; you can see that the rain is promising to come and fill all of the dams here by the western side of the Greater Kruger National Park, Juma Game Reserve. This is Sydney, from Alana Cozy, and most of all, welcome to the beginning of our afternoon safari. My plan this afternoon is quite very easy; I'll be looking for the general game, specifically on top. I'm having the spotted cats, Tinh Ghana, my favorite leopard.

I'll try by all means and get hold of him this afternoon. You can talk to us while looking for these animals by following us on the YouTube chat stream on South— the Safari Live. You can also follow us on the YouTube chat stream, so I am right by the western side, by the edge of the game reserve where we have last seen...who came early yesterday.

I want to see if there are no changes there as this morning; I was lucky to come across the hyenas coming from this direction holding a kill. I don't know if the kill was taken down by hawk amore, and there's also the female tracks which have been spotted. A Lea or...and suspicions are linked to a shedule in the area, as she drew and who koumori, they are always for each other.

So I will be looking for those kinds of evidence, Shed, if maybe this book was not in the area this more. Well ladies and gentlemen, apologies for Sydney having some technical hitches there; sometimes these gremlins will come once in a while. We come to all the way from Africa's wilderness and once in a while we get a few challenges to get you to a screen in your living room, so you'll forgive us for that. It happens once in a while.

And I was talking earlier of the plans that I got for you today. The plants I have for you today is to look for a particular pride of lions that is called the Sauceda tree. Now I want to tell you why we call it the source of the tree because I want to show you how a Sauceda tree looks like. And it's just getting a little bit windy, I'm not sure where this wind came from, but in a few seconds you'll be seeing a tree.

And that tree is what we call a certainty tree. Now when it fruits, you can see those fruits hanging down there or up there rather and they take the shape of a sausage, and that's why we call this tree this. Now the substitute pride we have been following for a very long time, and on many occasions we have found those girls, especially the females of our pride, climbing this particular tree.

Not this one in particular but a similar one. I'm sorry, I missed you there. Because they would love either to climb this tree or to stay under the tree because of enjoying the shade, we named that particular pride the sausage tree pride. I hope that makes sense.

Well, our price here of lions will always name them because of their behavior and very true you're very good. You say those look like cucumbers and you remind me of a teacher when I was in high school who could not say cucumber but he kept saying Chamba. He was a Spanish teacher and I think the sea and the CH were rather difficult for him to say cucumber and Chamba. Well, that is how a sausage tree looks like.

And I'm saying we'll name our trades here because of their behavior and also by how they look like. Now of that pride, there's one particular female that we call the kink film, King tail, King tell because she got a split something large on her tail. And of course, we have named her a king term. Then there's also another particular female in the same pride that when she walks, she limps, and we call her Limpy.

So depending on their behavior and how they look like, that's how we name our animals. Cosmogony asking whether you can eat the fruit? We can, but we think locally here that fruit does not have any nutrition for us. But to the birds and the animals here, that will eat that fruit—I'm talking about elephants, I'm talking about giraffes because it's very useful for them for digestion.

I highly doubt they get any nutritional values from it just like us, but locally here in the villages we come from, we will use the fruit to make wine. Today's we have big celebrations, weddings, or when we have very good harvests.

And when we have little good crop at the end of the year, we'll always have celebrations. And of course, our celebrations is a lot of barbecue meat and a lot of wine to drink. The wine we make will use that particular fruit to ferment it, but ideally we do not eat it. But again, as I said, giraffes and elephants and occasionally baboons we have seen them eating that fruit.

And I guess they eat it because it has a lot of fiber in it. Now this is that tough—I love playing, and I'll say 9 out of the 10 times I've been in this area, I have always found their sausage tree pride, and I'm hoping today will not be a disappointment. It shall be similar to what I've been going through, so we'll always keep our eyes open; we've got four eyes, mine and Archie's.

And I'm sure Steve in South Africa is equally working very hard. I'm not really working that hard, David. Well, to be honest, the car is driving itself in the riverbed. Well, sausage treats. You want to know about sausage treats, do you? Well, I think all of your viewers are just going up to tune in tomorrow morning for what is called medicinal Mondays.

And I will be focusing on the one and only sausage tree that we have in Juma Private Game Reserve. Yes, tomorrow morning, it's a very nice tree, lots and lots of history behind them, and lots and lots of interesting cultural stuff.

So what I'm doing is we're down in the river; I spoke this morning a depth about the Catena, and the Catena is essentially the soil profile, a soil landscape that you find in granitic sandy soils like Juma. And essentially the top of the landscape has got large leaves for pumping the water from deep underneath, and the mud slope we get the silver class leaf band.

And then it goes further down slope, then you get sort of a little bit of a mixed woodland and then some Gauri's magic quarries and the like, which then indicates another sea plant and so deck areas. And then you get basically the riparian vegetation, which is what we're driving through right now. It's made up of many, many tall trees habitat trees: jackal berries, lead words, obviously there's lots of tambuti.

So some of the trees are quite palatable and quite tasty. Some of them are fruit providing, some of them are extremely poisonous and extremely toxic, but all of them serve purpose in the landscape and the soil here. Because you can imagine this was a river and above it was deposited and the rivers—the last thing where the movement huge amount of deposit happened here.

And actually just off on my right the lying granite that has been exposed by the passage of the river—you can see it there, it's quite coarse-grained. If you look closely, you'll actually be able to see coarse quartz crystals, well, feldspar and possibly some mica. Now some people believe these granite deposits, well not deposits but intrusions, date back about two billion years on the geological time scale.

And what has happened above that is that the Earth's sediment came up from magma because granite, as magma, came up from underneath and the earth deposited and deposited. There was all of the sediment and above and the magma stopped there. And what's happened over a very, very long time, this has eroded down, and here we can see it that was once very deep in the Earth's crust and now here it is by the river.

So you can imagine the sediment that's moved around here and opposite across the landscape has come from far and wide. And so, there's all different types of things, but what we get mostly in general down here in the river is this very coarse sandy soil—so not very nutrient rich, but it's quite heavy so it doesn't move that far.

Whereas the clay stuff, much more clay-rich soil which is generally crusted on top of the sandy stuff, it's much finer coarse-grained, the stuff travels down the landscape down from the slopes as well and further down the river than the sand generally does. Sorry, I didn't get that, En. So essentially you get all different mixtures of nutrients down here, but the soil here is invariably quite deep and there is access to water—elephants know that.

P heart there could be gold? Well, not right here; it could be. You need to find specific minerals in the soil to know gold; there's specific minerals that geologists set with gold and… well...I can't tell you that, otherwise I'm giving away a trade secret. I don't honestly know off the top of my head.

But what you get here in this river system is tall trees with very, very deep roots to be able to tall as they do. They need to have as much access under the ground as they are capable to grow above ground. So it's very common place to find really tall jackal berries, really tall Edwards, and the like. Sycamore figs, what else am I missing? A nice big tambuti, some big apple leaves even, some tortured smart move down to the strange system.

And well, they are perfect habitat trees. Not only do they stand for a very long time, they obviously create nests in cavities holes for birds—obviously that a lot of them are fruiting, so there's feeding for all sorts of monkeys, apes, birds. Many of them also larval food once again for caterpillars and insects. And we look at a tree just like this jackal berry, you can almost imagine that from the root layer underneath the ground all the way to the top branches is a stratification of where different species can occur.

When we look at the top of the Catena, the trees are quite sort of homogeneous in a way. We get some big marula's, which are very important, but then a few bush willows around, but none of them really get to this sort of size. So there's so much space on a tree like that for, they're really, really small—the macro level—and obviously things bigger than the macro level feed. And it's this whole trophic level that moves up and all of that, it's caused by this very nice sediment or alluvial soil that we find on the side of the river.

And obviously these big trees are aimed at holding the roots and holding the soil together and preventing erosion, but this is all natural and part and parcel of the geological time we have. The Mara has got some interesting and sensational geology as well. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time up day Elizabeth in almost everything with you here and do my in-service outside of the acquitted Kruger National Park, but number one, as you saw earlier when we started the show, the landscape here is more open—it's more vast.

We don't have the thick vegetation like you know what Stephen and Sydney got in South Africa. And I would say I want a dominant habitat here. [Music] And that shows the amount of greens we got here. So this microphone, why should I be? That's how my makeup on each fault is hiding. And I think I have to make my heart a little bit smaller; it's pretty windy here.

Two days ago, yes, I think I'm back in business now. So I just need to plug in my Mac again and I think I'm all set. My apologies for that, and that was me without the heart and the apologies, just getting very windy here. And I'm not even sure what I was talking about. And I'm trying to think I was talking about the vastness of the Mara.

I was trying to explain what Savannah is. So the one is an open grassland like this year and a Juma, we have vegetation that's a lot thicker than here. Here in the Mara, you could look straight like almost 10 kilometers, or let me say you can look all the ways; it's to the horizon.

I give an example of what I'm talking about. And you can see straight order the horizon without what I call visual pollution. Even a thing you'll see; you might only see one or two or one tree there. Now just look at that and don't worry about the clouds; that doesn't mean we'll have any rains. But that is the difference, and you can see an elephant miles and miles away.

And believe you, me! I want to challenge Steve and sitting on this; you will not see that in Juma. So here you can't see an elephant and guess that elephant? I'm estimating it to be about, what, a kilometer, two kilometers away from where we are. We have such a powerful camera, and apart from that elephant which is, I would say, giving us a bit of visual pollution and that tree, you can see all the way to the horizon.

One made a difference between Juma and the Mara triangle. Look how beautiful! There are some very heavy clouds building up there. We have been going through some rains here over the last few weeks, very heavy rains, which were meant to be the short rains. But to me, they have been like, you know, long rains.

And see the beautiful or the beauty of the savanna—all the trees you see there—we couldn't tortured trees very iconic here in the Mara. And also in certain Götthe National Park in Tanzania. So the squad made a difference between us and Sabi Sands. Look at that. So like that elephant it picked there imagine a giraffe walking across there and for us, I'd say it's a lot easier to spot cats here than in Juma because we can use our file you because I'm talking about our binoculars to look distances and pick them.

Of course, they would blend very well in a place like that. But should they be walking, it's easy also for us to spot them should you see vultures, for example, on certain trees like those ones up here, the laws give us some little clue there could be some cuts there.

So that's the one with the difference between where we are and where Stephen didn't are. But of course, you got areas they're good for us, and some areas also that got Cleaves—here's mountain rivers, springs, and all those different habitats. Well, that's a fixed not very bad for you to have an idea of the habitat that we got tomorrow. It's different than in Juma.

But I think Steve has gotten you a view of some kind of predator. Well, indeed we do. This animal has come from somewhere muddy. I'm not sure exactly when. The dam is just behind us, and this hyena is drooling a little bit. I'm not quite sure what it's looking for. It's obviously going to walk straight behind us now. But it almost thinks like maybe it's anticipating to see somebody.

Wonder, their sense of smell is very acute, and it can probably—I'm just going to move back there, Davi—get your nice shot. Sorry folks, I'm just going to have to start the vehicle to move back a little bit of an Edward tree behind me here through the gap.

Now, we often find hyenas leading us to predators, and for them to be up and mobile at this time of day, it is 33 degrees Celsius, 82 degrees Fahrenheit; it is warm. Obviously, he's enjoying himself with a little bit of mud. Hello! No, this is your second favorite animal. What is your favorite animal?

I mean, it's very interesting; I wouldn't say they're my favorite out of my funding, absolutely fascinating. But they're not my favorite; they're just really intriguing. I find their behavior and everything about them really, really interesting.

Okay, well, I think we go back around into the drainage that Darby—what do you reckon, see what that animal is up to? Because it doesn't seem to be—it seems to be in a little bit of a mission. We are making our way slowly to the little chief, Hosanna, to see if he's still there.

I'm pretty sure he will be at some point. If not there right now, maybe he came all the way here to Twin Dams for a drink. This is the place we found him in many times. I do think that he was closer to Chitra, so if I were him, I would have gone to Chitra; you know the water is a lot cleaner that side.

We just go back down into this little drainage line. And so James Richard has confirmed that those butterflies were, in fact, called African vagrants, which I'm not too sure how familiar they are, but they surely are in huge abundance at the moment; obviously, all the eggs hatching at the same time.

We did find a lot of their caterpillars out on the peanut butter cassia on one of the bush walks. Apparently, those are African vagrants, and while they have certainly become a butterfly, very, very quickly. And well, we know a lot of the birds that have come down from Europe or Africa—most of the cuckoos, all the cuckoos are specifically caterpillar feeders; that's what they eat.

And well, all those caterpillars feeding on all these ginormous larval trees, if you have a look at this tree here, you can see how all the ends of the leaves have been eaten, and that is from the larval stage probably from many, many caterpillars absolutely stripping this jackal berry to the bones.

That is what happens. Sorry, Davi, I'm just going to quickly move here and see if we catch up with this very dirty hyena. But in the meantime, an animal that enjoys the water will the matter as much as the hyena is with a zoo.

See, this is Sydney; you can see those big animals which can be able to live in both water and on land during the day. Mostly you see him in water. Soon as the sun goes down, you will see him outside going for some foraging purposes.

These kinds of animals, unfortunately, they are not carnivores, they are herbivores. They've got big body sizes which needs quite a lot of grass, nutritious grass maintenance and the nutritious grass for them to get hold of them. They've got to travel long distances which can cover 16 to 30 kilometers every night according to the availability of food.

So you can see some of the bears are also feeding on him at the moment. They are cleaning some of the old dead tissues around the wounds while at the same time they're also picking some of the cheeks. So these hippos can be able to sometimes get rid of these ticks when they're rolling in mud and scratch against the trees, but that is not enough; some of the areas are inaccessible.

The bears got to come and play a very important role. So the oxpeckers are helping a lot these kinds of animals. Yes, they do also absorb quite a lot of blood when they're cleaning this kind of animals, but animals they do get quite a lot of benefit from this kind of animals.

Why? Because the dead tissues and everything will then cause infections, and some of the things will also attract the flies; it's very rare to see these animals followed by the flies because these bears are always there. And just think about the design of the hippo tail; if the hip has got that kind of a tail which cannot even reach anywhere, these bears are playing a very important role when it comes to the cleaning of the hippopotamus.

It's just lying down on the side now; you can see that. Oh, now he's becoming active. He's just changing the side. Look at that; this is beautiful. The nose is underwater. He can just be able to hold the breath for just about approximately 5 to 6 minutes. They look very much calm, but I can promise you a hippopotamus is one of those animals which can be very much potential dangerous when he is on land.

They are very territorial and can be very much aggressive. So these hippopotamus we're seeing here have been seen quite a lot, just all by himself, is one of the solitary hippos. He is not part of any school around here at the moment as the hippopotamus are residing by the cheetah cheetah water haul or Skuba Steve is very much popular by that gnome.

So the scuba Steve is a very best friend of my colleague Steve. Let's see another Steve; it's much better than my last one. A little bit of a tongue two-step. Anyway, we've managed to track the Tsarina and it's got what looks to be a Spartan. David's water bottle just exploded; it seems to be a vertebrae and very hard for me to tell you what animal—but hyena and which is very, very muddy and very dirty. You know, are known to cache their certain carcasses and bones in water and in muddy wallows to retrieve later.

And it does seem like it is a bit dirty, doesn't it, Davi? Maybe he went in to go and find it somewhere and then it's not come off quietly to eat. Definitely desperate times lead to desperate measures. It seems to be a female hyena. No, it looks absolutely disgusting, but that is the role of hyena in the landscape to break very, very powerful bones and while to get the nourishment out of them.

And that's one of the reasons why the hyena can lactate for as long as they do, to provide the necessary milk, very nutrient-rich milk for their pups or cubs due to the fact that they get so much bone in their diet. While in the Mara and here, the animals are able to feed on bones long into seasons when food is a bit more scarce and can really maximize the animal itself.

Whereas lion and leopard, they have to leave so much behind; you know why we regard them as a scam down here. There are very big scavengers up in the Mara, though very, very versatile hunters as we have seen, but they will often also feed on bone because they can.

And so whenever you find an animal feeding on bone, you must think, ah, stolen it from someone or it's feeding on the scraps. Well, that's because the scraps are there and why go and hunt when you've got food in the fridge, in this case, in the muddy water pond to make it rank.

Very good. Yes, you can hear the sound; it is very powerful part, the most powerful jaw bite of all the predators for their body size, and they've got a very long ridge on the top of their head for attachment of those powerful muscles.

Very nice, please feel free, ladies and gentlemen. Center your questions and comments #SafariLive. Let us know how you're doing, and well, also tend to throw some comments. We'd love to hear from you. Also, you can throw them on the YouTube chat stream right now.

We are on that sort of little level area that leads down to the river. So the tree vegetation here is quite bushy. The river Rhine area, as it sort of goes from a more open area to a bit more thickets, this is the habitat of impala and the edge specialists and the nyala in the edges itself inside the thickets, de coeur as well through Archer.

And this is the area that the leopards love to frequent because obviously, all those animals are their primary food source. And while they like to hide in the thickets, that's why how they've evolved to camouflage themselves and because the habitats they've evolved in is how they have learned how to survive.

Now, you know obviously being the most versatile of the hyena day and cooing in many, many landscapes across the continent, being very, very dominant over their counterparts, the spotted horse. Sorry, the strap training which occurs north of their location, and then also are competing in the brown and I unit when they do occur in the same area odd wolf as well, part of the family, not a carnivore though, completely at the mercy of the very socially structured hyena.

Well, it seems like a surf is up at before the sook watering hole. Let's go see who's riding the wave. So you can see that scuba Steve has got some beneficiaries. You can see the therapy is now climbing on top of the hippopotamus in order to enjoy him or herself. You can see the very long neck which is coming out.

That is one of the features you can use in order to distinguish between the turtles and the terrapins. So the turtle is the we draw their head sideways, whereas the toe is they will draw their back straight. And the turtles can be able to hide it deep inside the shell.

So both turtles and terrapins, they've got strong shells, so you can see that only one is coming out at the moment. But sometimes you'll find scuba Steve with quite a lot of turtles on top of him, a lot of terrapins on top of him. It's pretty relaxed, so I just want to see what is going to happen.

I can hear those birds—the oxpecker, still flying in the area. If they're going to go back again and join the terrapin, you can see it's not worried; it means there is a nice dependency between these two. And these are a very much cute—oh, ever seen that? I've just said it now. Have you seen how that terrapin dove back into the water wall for safety?

So that terrapin really just dropped when that oxpecker was bending. I hear the oxpeckers making noise up in the air and then one of them dove back, was not even worried about the terrapin. And the terrapin just went back to their water hole. So they are back again trying to clean the wounds.

So these hippopotamus is looking very much small there, but I can promise you when this hippo is out, you won't believe he's so huge. It can be up to 1,700 kilograms. Now let's go to the rear Steve from Scuba Steve. Thanks!

It is not far away. Oh, should I say you're in the north of Jummah? We’re at the south twin dams here before look. We're still with this hyena, and if we have a listen, let's see if we can hear the bones crunching. Very powerful jaws, and they don't even need to use the side of their jaw, the side of the teeth, the carnassial's share that you find in all predators. The hyena's molars on the side, which are very, very sharp and very bone crushing.

Extremely powerful and regarded is the strongest teeth in nature. Crocodiles are able to replace their teeth—hyena or not, so they need to be able to crush bones for most of their life. It's about to survive. It's one of the reasons that they are able to survive in so many diverse habitats. Ah, guys, have a look at what we've just found!

I told you the little chief will just come and say hello. You'll just come and say hello. Barbara, I'm sorry, I'm going to answer your question in a minute, but Husanna has decided to come and give this hyena a spanking. And this is awesome! Barbara, hyenas by scatters white because of the bone and the diet.

When they're dropped, they are scattered, actually, it is green and it goes white as it sort of calcifies and dries. So that is a testament to the amount of David was just a kid. Come on, turn around, Steve! I was like why. And here's Husanna. I told you he's gonna come and say hello, didn't I?

He's on his way to come and drink at Twin Dams, and he heard the crunching. Okay, so there's a couple of other people that were looking for Husanna, and they've gone to the sighting. So I'm just going to quickly let them know while you enjoy watching this beautiful creature coming up closer.

I'm going to actually keep quieter for a second because this could be interesting. Davi, I'm gonna stay right about here. Husanna thinks there's something he wants, but it's a vertebrae—not what he wants! One word tweet, everybody! What do you think about this?

Let's see if he's going to give him a hiding. I'm not going to start the car; I think invite some people on board. Most certainly him. Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to Juma Private Game Reserve in South Africa, where we stumbled across a hyena that was busy feeding on probably some very old bones that have cashed.

My name is Steve; I'm joined by Java C dot camera. And we were actually planning on going out this afternoon to look for this male leopard who has just stumbled across us. We were talking about a hyena and the color of their dung, and while there is a leopard, my favorite, the little chief, Husanna, who is about to suddenly realize that the bones are, that he is about to look at, are actually really gross and only capable of being broken by a jaw from a hyena of that ilk.

Lions had absolutely no idea. Hello! Well, Silas, hello to everybody. If you have questions, comments, throw them in on the chat stream below. Up, to hear from you. Hello, pet! You think he's hungry? Well, we found this morning on a Stan Walker kill, and while people have gone in the directions to see if they can find him, we decided to follow the hyena because we thought maybe it would lead us to—or so notice something of interest.

And well, did indeed it did, indeed lead us there. How awesome is that? Well, I just love this guy. He is such a character! He knows we've got a TV show this evening, and he wants to be a superstar! Here he is; look at that beautiful face.

Now, he's probably gonna go to the dam and have a drink; that's really crazy. It's have been walking at this time of debt. Ricardo, I think most people's favorite cat is a leopard, definitely. Well, are we gonna see if we can follow him? I think that action Fort Lee high in here is over, he's gonna go down and have a drink.

We're gonna see if we kept keep up with him. There were some Nyala just over here that we saw, so maybe he's still here. Emmys right, yeah, in the thicket, and he looks like he spotted something. We did have some Nyala that we saw just before we came up yet and a very nice little pathway into the bushes.

Yet it is 33 degrees Celsius, about 83, so Fahrenheit. And well, to find a leopard moving around in this time of day, he must be very thirsty. I don't think he's talking, but he might. And there were some Nyala on her way up, as I said.

And while he is definitely spotting something over there, we're just above a dry riverbed, so this is the perfect habitat for the camouflaged Nyala, the canopy cap and push back the edges. Also, quite commonly used to buy him. Impala, and what there's the perfect habitat for stalking cat Reman.

No, he's not limping; he's just stalking. He was doing the leopard walk. Oh, he's just in that thicket's dead; I'm not getting the best view of him. Ah, breathtaking indeed!

Well, we are super blessed with the superstar of the cat. Well, that's that last view; we're gonna have to get of him now. His is a flat, though, it's definitely having a look at something that might just be down the drainage here.

It definitely will be able to get around in a moment. Remember, folks, this is coming 200% live from the Greater Kruger National Park in Drama, and well, please, we would love to hear from you. Just throw any comments or questions down below or sign up and their little chief.

Mmm! Linda, you are spot on; me is a very beautiful cat. And while he is definitely on the move now, look at the body language, the body posture changing. Hello, Ruth! Leopards, male leopards, normally between 10 and 13 is a good age for a leopard due to the competition that they experience.

Females can live up to 15, maybe even a little bit more. In the wild, in captivity, they have been known to live much longer due to the fact that there's not as much fighting in danger. But Archer, we've got a male leopard, his father, and he's in his thirteenth year. We thought he was ailing early this year, and he sprung right back again, so there's another female who's 12.

So that's you don't generally. I've never come across; you only come across leopards that are older than that in the wild, but almost always cases that it might happen. But he definitely looks like he's interested in something that's just there in the thicket.

I'm going to see if I can just get around. Yeah, there's a little bit of a clearing just around the corner, Davi. Now, see, you want to know if leopards and hyenas generally come to cut clothes? Well, essentially, oh, I think I've got a stump in front of me. I'm going to have to go back.

Mass, what we find here is that the hyena follow the leopards around, and there's a huge competition between the two for food resources. Obviously, they feed on very similar food, and the leopard being a very good hunter often—Husana has lost out to his prey via hyena. His dad, though, steals a lot more of it as well, so he's a very young leopard who is only turning 3 in February.

And well, he's done very well this year. We've had an absolutely incredible year with him looking very intently into the bushes there. Georgia, yes, most certainly those powerful jaws of the hyena, which are designed for crushing and breaking bone, if he bit Husana on the leg, broke a leg, broke a ligament, did any damage to him physically, could lead to his starvation.

A leopard that cannot climb a tree will not be able to hunt, will not be able to escape predators, will not be able to hoist their kills. So essentially, it could lead to their demise. So essentially, leopards which are on a weight level, more powerful than hyenas from a physicality point of view, one bite from a hyena could lead to his death in the long run.

So they avoid them if they can't. Now but leopards develop sort of a reputation with hyena, and we've seen him many, many times running from them, and he's starting to really stand up for himself when it comes to one hyena. But when there's more than one, well, the new junior turns tail and runs, 'cause that's just an unfair fight.

I didn't have myself in her son, a very stealthy. Well, I try gone. Same as stealthy as this young dude; he snuck up on us. They had no idea he was coming up sneaking up on the hyena just goes to show how brazen he is. He wasn't bothered with one eye Internet; he thought he might be able to steal some food from me, but what has he spotted?

Look at the excitement; look at the excitement of his tail there! Ruth, you want to know if this is in color? This is 100% color, and we are in the summer months. We've had some rainfall. Watch out, folks; he looks like he's about to launch.

We're just gonna stay right here for a second. Urologist alarm called. Did you hear that, Bok Dimmer? He is different. Poking up this nugget, they've spotted him. City boy, you've been spotted!

That's one thing he needs to work on, his stealth. And while his patience is within the Yonala that we saw before, and well, he's not going to walk very nonchalantly past him as if he didn't care.

In the world, folks, as Husanna goes down to the watering hole to have a drink, the Nyana seemed to be safe for the moment. I hope you've enjoyed this little moment with us. Please feel free; we are still after another hour or so just Google Safari Lives. Thanks for your questions and comments and we'll see you next time. Have a good day!

Welcome back, everybody! I just need to that other gentleman that I'm working with this morning this afternoon know that we have managed to find the little chief and also try not to dive into this little knob thorne session. So we've relocated on Husana, and here's know about towards Twin Dams. They'll get people excited or going off there.

Okay, well, we had a muddy hyena with some very disgusting-looking bones and the little chief on his way to drink. And, well, Sydney has got a hyena of his own. You can see that I've got the lovely hyena who is now just having a mud bath. This hyena just got into this water now just about a minute ago. We found him lying down, and I varnished shade, but you can see that his multitask is inside there.

But the nose is still getting information from the air particles. This is what the hyenas mostly do when it's too hot at the moment. The sun is increasing a little bit, yes; now is towards the sunset but it's still very much warm here where I am at the moment.

So hyenas also el in the mornings. You will see them going to the water holes indeed; this is a brilliant moment. Look at that! You will see them – chasing each other playing inside the water holes as well—hyenas. They eat carrions, and it's not very often that you will see—you will pick them up with that kind of a distance if smell from those Koreans because they come and bath so they but all the time.

You can see this whole body is right deep there, so this must be helping them as well in order to get rid of the parasites. So high infestation of the parasite gives these animals a problem specifically when there is a shortage of water as dehydration can be a very serious threat to the animals.

The ticks do absorb quite a lot of blood from the animals, and because of that they experienced dehydration. So far, I'm just seeing just one hyena. I haven't seen the Albino hyena at the moment. The only animal white I have seen before was an impala which was completely white, and I've also seen a zebra without the stripes as well.

And obviously the white lions—white lions I saw that it is caused by what is called the live system—the disappearance of the melanistic pigment. The pigment which is responsible to give these colors, the dark colors is that trees, trees for them to get these green leaves they are relying on what is called chlorophyll pigments.

So pigments, they play a very significant role in order to create these beautiful spots and colors we are seeing on these animals. These hyenas from the Juma clan, they do compete a lot with some of the predators such as this one. We have managed to relocate on the little chief, and I think I need to get a hold of Sydney for some good news.

But Husanna heard something on the radio that he will very likely be able to go to watta. Everybody would be very excited as well just need to. I'm not going to tell you any more than that. When we've got the little chief of busy drinking, and well how amazing was that?

That he just—we were looking at, I... you know, talking about pooed as we do, and David's like, look behind you. I thought he wanted me to look at the camera, and there was the little chief stalking. Nine how magnificent. So when I was discussing earlier about thinking Chittoor was closer as a drinking point, maybe he prefers this area due to him knowing it better.

Maybe he doesn't like the guests in room 11 anymore, Chitra; haven't seen them, or Husanna on that side in some time. He doesn't know it quite well. Maybe he's getting a bit more brave, and he wants to come back again to try and compete against Hawker, woody. Yes please, if you could!

I mean, I'm a short; Sydney's on the radio there. If he just chats him about the access this afternoon, Em, that would be great. A very thirsty cat we've seen; we often see leopards drink. I don't think they've got the most well-adapted drinking technique, and there's a lot of mess that goes on there; lots of drool.

But marvelous to be seeing them moving at this time of day. I really didn't anticipate him to be up and about in the heat. I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear that David and I intend to stay with him for as long as possible and call him in on the radio, and the people who were interested in finding him couldn't find him.

It is a little spot before they've moved off to the north, so they are preoccupied with other sightings. So, absolutely love the fact that sometimes we can be with a leopard all on our own; absolutely magical. And the little chief is the most magical of them all. Really is a special folks to be able to spend time in the life of a cat and doing what they do.

Many of the reserves you might go to have leopard, but they're not habituated wild skulking animals that are very, very hard to see, 'cause they're very observant in theory. What's the word? Away, and a leopard that doesn't want to be seen will not be seen.

Right, yeah, his way I had him come and lie next to us one day. Sorry, I turned the wrong way, Davi. Sorry, I'm a bubble girl said something there; didn't quite get it. Are you gonna come sit in my shade? The shade's behind boy.

Oh, bubble girl, no, that watered certain is not clean, but the animals are well adapted to drinking water that's quite rancid. Okay, how's Husanna? Are you gonna go up there? There was some Impala on the other side of the dam wall.

Yeah, let's go and see if he's still hungry after that drink. He might just plop down in the shade, but he's probably going to. Okay, well, while we get up and see if he's going to chase some Ahi, Nanna, Sam Impala, let's go back to sitters and his hyena.

So the hyena is enjoying himself at the moment, as we even saw him falling asleep at one stage deep in this little waterhole. The waterhole was not created by the hyena; this is a natural waterhole. Why am I saying this is a national water hole? Because it is the result of the elephants—this has been done by the animals.

Let's quickly go to a sauna. Yes, well, this could go on all day, folks. Once he starts hunting, he never stops. You can see the Impala on the right of the screen. It houses Husanna, flat, a couple in Impala.

He's looking; he's trying to pick up the shape; that's why when the leopard goes up a little Ridge of termite mound, their ears go flat; they change the shape of their body. That's one of the characteristic signs when you're looking in the bush for cats when you're walking is you often see this little head pop up.

He's going to go to the right; he's going to try and find another spot; here he comes. Ella boy, are you gonna go around now? The brain is going okay; wait, am I gonna go? Let me think about this. I think there's Impala gonna be too widely for them there. They kind of have an idea; they probably heard the bush buck earlier, and they're on the alert.

Impala are well known to be, what I said before, edge specialists, so they like to be on sort of the edge of the thicket. Sorry about my head. They’re on the edge of the thicket with some open clearing on the outside, so they'll spend the night in the sort of cooler periods in the open.

And well, when it's hot, they go into the shaded areas and feed on the brows and ruminate there. And it also means that they're able to be a bit more detective of a leopard if it does happen to come past. He's gonna go all the way around the dam wall, get on to the thickets that side and maybe see if he can try his luck.

So there was a question before about the cleanliness of the water. These watering holes are accumulated over a period of time; all sorts of algae and organic material is in there, and it's not ideal. If we drank it, we'd probably get quite sick, but animals, Archer, have got a very, very well-adapted stomach.

We should, I say, filter our water and our way to sanitary so our gut enzymes that would normally be good at digesting and dealing with whatever's in that water—well, we've long and truly lost that in the process of what we call civilization. Leopards and animals Archer have been drinking very, very rancid water for a very long time, and the ones that are weak, well, they don't survive.

The ones that are strong lived to drink another day. Okay, well, while he moves up to that site, let's see if we can reverse back and go get in before we lose sight of him. Wonderful is this a well, he's going; it's a little cave. Are you gonna hide in the cave?

I'm just reversing back. Yeah, this is exactly where I had him once, too—a little scruffy and then he sat down and we were parked with him just now. He was drinking right there, looking at me as only Husanna can. I start to look very, very special animal that we have yet. [Applause]

See these Impala? How alert they are? Yes, he is on a mission today! I wonder what's going on. I mean, I think he's still quite unsettled after yesterday. I'm no doubt to see those Impala males a little bit out the way there and then the open— I don't think there's any chance of Husanna catching them.

Lots of boys together, and yeah, he's going to do exactly what I anticipated, to hang out in the shade. So I think he's still a little bit shaken; he's just down over here. We're going to get another view of him in a second once we link away.

But that's just to reestablish him there again, but I think something could be happening here as they do that. Let's take you back to achieve with Husanna. Thanks, David!

I hope the sausage tree prod gets up to some action this afternoon; they were very flat last night, and well, hopefully they managed to catch something just before the end of the show. We do know they are very efficient hunters, and I do know that that area's starting to dry up with game still—Buffalo around and probably some topi— but most of the bull the beasts have moved off again.

And Husanna is not too bothered about any of that right now. He is, what we call, a flatter cat. This, he's got a little bit of a belly on him. There goes his right front and left trunk, which is twitching at all—but he's probably replaying his Steinbach hunt!

What a beautiful cat! He's dreaming. He likes dreaming; he takes off to his dad. His dad is a serious Napa, trying to get comfortable. You know that feeling, folks, when you're just so extremely hot; you just can't quite find the right position to move into with a bit of respite?

Though the sun has gone behind us and plants. Hello, Keith! Know when a leopard is panting heavily like that? That's basically to do with the fact that he's warm and also to do with the fact that he's digesting a lot of protein inside his belly.

And when his belly's full, leopards and lions have the ability to gorge themselves. And when the belly gets full, what it does is it pushes the diaphragm up and the diaphragm then limits the amounts of space that the lungs have to work. So he can't really take deep breaths; it's all shallow breaths because of the limited movement inside.

So this is characteristic of a leopard or a cat that has eaten, and also on a warm day like this. This is very, very normal. A leopard that's stressed will be showing signs of stress in the fact that their body language will generally be one of quite flat to the ground, by contact, to be looking at whatever it is that's a threat and looking a little bit jumpy.

Male leopards that interact with each other drool a lot of sort of the saliva; their salivate. Okumura, last night, drooling incessantly; and he sign of stress and also testosterone build-up within the cat due to possibly some conflict.

What exactly the purpose of the saliva overindulgence is really, I'm unsure of. Maybe someone out there can inform me if they know why do male leopards, when they encounter each other, drool so much? I really don't know.

It's kind of like an anticipation of something; maybe it's got to do with anticipation of a fight, anticipation of maybe needing more moisture in the mouth because becoming aggressive with another male might require a little bit more moisture more swallowing power.

May have, either saliva helps them to growl so sort of lubricate their mouth and to allow the internal bits of the mouth to vibrate a little bit more—for example, you get a little bit of parched mouth. If you want to sing nicely, you need to drink some water, so as to lubricate. Just kind of assuming things here; maybe there is a more plausible responsible answer there.

You can see his left-hand side of the face now; you see the three spots there. As well, sorry! Mi Reina wants to know about something about leopard habitat. I didn't get the first part there—oh drats!

So Marina, you want to know about your arts; if anything, drafts improve leopard hunting due to the fact that leopards feed on meat. Our drought affects the vegetation and affects the foliage to the grass layer. And what that does is it leads to animals losing condition, and an animal that's lost condition is generally a little bit easier to catch than an animal that is in full strength.

So what we saw, I didn't see it, but early this year...no, it was last year. Last year, there was a serious drought in the Buffalo. Some of the bulls that I found around with carcasses on the property with enormous horns, those animals were so emaciated that it made it very easy work for the lions to catch.

So the drought actually improves predators, and the predators pick off the weak and the not so fit, and that is part and parcel of sort of survival of the fittest. And the ones that survive the drought then go on to breed the next year.

But if anything, droughts and times of dryness and times of scarcity for prey of food is definitely time that predators such as lion, hyena, and leopard capitalize. Most certainly, well, as it resets yet. And the sun's slowly hiding behind some clouds, a little bit of cool respite for us.

And David in the Mara, who's an hour ahead, has already put on his second layer of sugar. Well, yes, Steve, it’s much colder here than it is in Juma because when we started it was about 27— maybe 80 degrees Fahrenheit, but I'm sure now we could be doing maybe low twenties, because they're really cool.

Oh no, our cups are still being very playful here, and there's some way on the right there. And we cannot see the pines because the parents have gone further away. So what we want to do is just tell you the cards for a couple of minutes and not to follow the adults or the mothers very closely, not to interfere in whatever they could be doing.

But you can see in this club's here, which we all know now they're boys. And you can tell when you look below the table in particular, and they're all three boys. So the two that are older, about four months, and the young was born three months.

On joy, you would like to know where lions hunt—I mean hide their cubs. They could hide their cubs in Hawaii; it could be in a barrel, it could be next to a termite mound, or it could be in a hole, or, you know, a hollow tree or sometimes in between rocks or grasses like this.

If these cubs go flat here, I can tell you you will not see them. And of course, they got their kind of communication, and the parents or the mothers can easily tell them stay here and do not move. So they should have so many choices or so many places where they can hide their cubs.

Those are the address there, and I think I made now two attempts to hunt. The first one was a warthog, and this particular one was so... so two at hogs. And either the wind was growing or the wind was in the favor of the warthogs. I don't think the warthogs saw these lionesses, but they just smelled them; they just took off.

So they have to try one more time; just gonna sit together and make a new plan now when we have the migration. I'm talking about 20 hub the wildebeest and the zebras around here; it's always a piece of cake for these silly Onassis to hunt. But once they are gone, it becomes a bit tricky and tight for them to be able to look for prey.

And they have to look for smaller prey like, you know what, hogs, model antelopes like harvest, all copies. And occasionally, they look for the big and dangerous prey, I'm doing buffaloes. Albert, you say this is beautiful and it's stunning.

And Albert, just to see a lioness there with a green plus the sky there, it makes it so so colorful and I'm happy, Albert, not a great comment. And just see that lioness there; let's find out where the other ones are and especially the cubs.

But something tells me, if not right Albert, look at that—if not tonight, then tomorrow morning they must get some dinner! Okay, that's kinda Albert. And I'm sure you are, but none— the other wonderful viewers are taking some wonderful screenshots!

This is the beauty of the Mara Triangle and the trees you see there. We call them the tall trees, very iconic trees of the Mara. One lioness is coming back after the failed attempt, the second failed attempt to hunt.

Watch OGG, so we're gonna sit together but I'm sure before long they might surprise us with another move. Now Sydney tell us what you are up to! So what should happen? Another plan would make oops, what's running there? Well, I thought something is running but it was just my own imagination.

I thought whoever they catch it something! Now in the background that you can see the thick clouds are building. And we have been having some short rains in Kenya, but they have been hammering us every other day.

But out saying this, this is the sixth day straight without a single drop of rain which is just wonderful. Well, rain is good when it comes; it makes the whole area here green which is good for all the herbivores, which translates to wonderful time for the cats.

Look at all the torture trees in the Mara and how beautiful is that! You imagine I see this every other day. This is very exciting! I'll skip staying with my sausages here or with my lionesses and their cubs to see what other move they might be doing.

And do not go away, but meantime we'll take you back to Steve with Husanna. Thanks! Well, we are still in the same place. Now I must apologize; Dave has just reminded me that I said a word quite incorrectly moments ago.

I meant to say emaciated, not Amann ceated. I apologize. Some really big words coming out of my mouth today; I think I'm also a little bit hot like Rosanna and a little bit, um, well, we're not hungover, but that feeling you get when the sun cooks your brain.

I do apologize; nothing has changed since you were last here apart from it getting slightly cooler. A very gentle breeze started to pick up. Hello child of the universe's Masala has got a preference. I couldn't, I couldn't narrow it down to one species specifically.

We've seen him with a mini day cap. I've seen him with a number of Nala and Impala young Nyala, though I haven't yet seen him with a big in Halle. I think while I was in the Mara, he managed to get hold of, whether he caught them or not, or if they were just pregnant females that didn't do very well with the drought, he had them anyway.

But I haven't seen him yet with warthog. No one that—none of the viewers, I believe, have seen him yet with the warthog. That's the— the experienced level you move up to. A warthog, just like a male leopard or a young female leopard, becomes an adult—truly an adult when they are able to take a fully grown male Impala, because well they are much bigger and stronger than the females.

A little bit more difficult to catch. The Derby's just catching some comb ducks as they flew off. If they go male—also known as the knob to build duck, with a really big sort of a knob on the end of the nose, which is still very strange to me why they have such an interesting appendage.

Linda, from California, he is always dreaming. I'd love to know what's going on in this head, and we all come up with all sorts of theories and ideas, but if only we knew! He's probably thinking about all of the different impalas and the honors, and he's had a few Steinbach as well.

I haven't seen him with many; we found him with a Steinbach this morning. I think that for me is the first Steinbach I've seen him with. But then also, how many scrub has has he caught? We have no idea.

And last year before I got— I mean, used. Maybe it was the year before. He was quite young, and he managed to catch himself a monitor lizard that he thoroughly enjoyed. I think there was a period as well when he went through a stage of enjoying Terrapins.

Maybe he just thought that they were quite nice in the beginning and slow-moving. For him with the Terrapin at voyeur Telepan earlier this year, that he basically just played with for a while and then let go. And obviously realized well, oh, a little bit of a twitching.

He's definitely having some form of dream as Emesis is probably counting in parlors in parlor. Lambs fast asleep. But that's the thing, folks, is that he might seem fast asleep, but like any cat, he's very alert.

Ooh, the ears are twitching; the nose is always... that was very from all times. The nose is able to smell, and he's very alert to whatever might be approaching. But anyway, Sydney, I think is back down at Chitra watering hole, and let's go and see what exactly he's found.

You can see that I have got a roller now for a David guitar McGee too from Kenya. I have executed the instruction; the beautiful roll is right there. Look at that! This is quite a lovely bed. And this bed, as I indicated, is associated with the marriages traditionally.

This is a bed which can be able to solidify a couple. So during the wedding, you just have to hold each other's hand with a feather of this bed in the middle; that is a symbol of an everlasting love-lasting relationship. Some of the tribes are even making some of the rings from these birds.

They've got a very interesting acrobatic flight when they are chiming each other for breeding purposes. And another interesting part is they're monogamous. They are partners for life; maybe that is why they are used in order to solidify couples.

So we are very lucky to find this bed very much stationary. A cynic; it is not uncommon that is very much usual. I have seen a leopard catching a dove before. Leopards, they are so opportunity conscious, and they can just go for anything which presents itself.

Where the bed insects, they also catch. We have got a competition with them when it comes to the swamps. They a—let's the reproductive of the termites when they see them; they also catch them. So they don't only consider eight on the big animals; they also catch Mongoose.

I think Husanna has been seen as well chasing Mongoose before, so it's normal. Leopard is like that. Don't only go for a big animal if it's tough, they can go for something small. So I'm just going to carry on now.

I am still around the cheetah cheetah. I'm just driving around yet to see if we cannot be lucky with any of the predators coming to drink at the water hole, but I am NOT winning. I'm gonna have to head back to the waterhole and see from there if we can find something.

[Laughter] Chasing the small prey is interesting—not only the Mongoose CNET, including the scrub hairs. If you see the leopard chasing this scrubbing, it's too interesting—those small animals trying to use all the different anti-predator strategies to confuse the big predators.

So amazing! So I must have to try by all means and find something here in preparation of the SAB show later on. I am going to try. Thank you very much for all the comments; I feel very inspired. So I'm outside here; maybe I'll be lucky.

But it's good that my friend Steve has got something and host David—I'm sure they might be having some lions for later on. Oh, here we've got another animal; this is so cute. He's got a very beautiful and lovely horns; look at that!

Can you see him there? This is a beautiful water bug! Look at that! Look at those ones and so far, I'm only just seeing in there. I'm not seeing the other group members; look at that!

Look at those horns! How big are they? When it's looking forward, you can see the water bug is just now having some of the fresh grasses. These animals, they don't mark territories same like other animals; they don't use urine and droppings.

They rely on their own body odor in order to communicate for territorial purposes. They have got what is called a subcutaneous gland—this gland they use it for waterproof and also to warn the intruders about their level of dominance in the area.

You can see there by the neck is got a white beep, the beep, and the hairs on the next—they use this kind of animal to stare others. Children of the universe, you can see this universe is having those beautiful animals. So look at that!

So you can see as well the white line at the back. Yeah, it's very rare to come across a water bug coming much closer late now; only now that it's trying to be inquisitive. But I can promise you he's gonna come past here; he's trying to listen; maybe he's not concentrating on me.

So while I am heading back to the waterhole, let's quickly go back to Steve with Husana. Thanks! It is not far away. Oh, should I say you're in the north of Jummah?

We're at the South Twin Dams here before, look; we're still with this hyena, and if we have a listen, let's see if we can hear the bones crunching. Very powerful jaws, and they don't even need to use the side of their jaw, the side of the teeth, the carnassial share that you find in all predators. The hyena's molars on the side, which are very, very sharp and very bone-crushing.

Extremely powerful and regarded as the strongest teeth in nature. Crocodiles are able to replace their teeth—hyena or not, so they need to be able to crush bones for most of their life. It's about to survive, and it's one of the reasons that they are able to survive in so many diverse habitats.

Ah, guys, have a look at what we've just found! I told you the little chief will just come and say hello! You'll just come and say hello. Barbara, I'm sorry; I'm going to answer your question in a minute, but Husanna has decided to come and give this hyena a spanking.

And this is awesome! Barbara, hyenas by scatters white because of the bone and the diet—when they're dropped, they are scattered. Actually, it's green, and it goes white as it sort of calcifies and dries.

So that is a testament to the amount of David was just a kid. Come on, turn around, Steve! I was like, why? And here's Husanna; I told you he's gonna come and say hello, didn't I?

He's on his way to come and drink at Twin Dams, and he heard the crunching. Okay, so there's a couple of other people that were looking for Husanna, and they've gone to the sighting. So I'm just going to quickly let them know while you enjoy watching this beautiful creature coming up closer.

I'm going to actually keep quieter for a second because this could be interesting. Davi, I'm gonna stay right about here. Husanna thinks there's something he wants, but it's a vertebra—not what he wants!

One word tweet, everybody! What do you think about this? Let's see if he's going to give him a hiding! I'm not going to start the car; I think invite some people on board. Most certainly him!

Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to Juma Private Game Reserve in South Africa, where we stumbled across a hyena that was busy feeding on probably some very old bones that have cashed.

My name is Steve; I'm joined by Java C dot camera. And we were actually planning on going out this afternoon to look for this male leopard who has just stumbled across us. We were talking about a hyena and the color of their dung, and while there is a leopard, my favorite, the little chief, Husanna, who is about to suddenly realize that the bones are, that he is about to look at, are actually really gross and only capable of being broken by a jaw from a hyena of that ilk.

Lions had absolutely no idea. Hello! Well, Silas, hello to everybody. If you have questions, comments, throw them in on the chat stream below. Up, to hear from you. Hello, pet! You think he's hungry? Well, we found this morning on a Stan Walker kill, and while people have gone in the directions to see if they can find him, we decided to follow the hyena because we thought maybe it would lead us to—or so notice something of interest.

And well, did indeed it did, indeed lead us there. How awesome is that? Well, I just love this guy. He is such a character! He knows we've got a TV show this evening, and he wants to be a superstar! Here he is; look at that beautiful face.

Now, he's probably gonna go to the dam and have a drink; that's really crazy. It's have been walking at this time of debt. Ricardo, I think most people's favorite cat is a leopard, definitely. Well, are we gonna see if we can follow him?

I think that action Fort Lee high in here is over, he's gonna go down and have a drink. We're gonna see if we kept keeping up with him. There were some Nyala just over here that we saw, so maybe he's still here. Emmys right, yeah, in the thicket, and he looks like he spotted something.

We did have some Nyala that we saw just before we came up yet and a very nice little pathway into the bushes. Yet it is 33 degrees Celsius, about 83, so Fahrenheit. And well, to find a leopard moving around in this time of day, he must be very thirsty.

I don't think he's talking, but he might. And there were some Nyala on her way up, as I said. And while he is definitely spotting something over there, we're just above a dry riverbed, so this is the perfect habitat for the camouflaged Nyala, the canopy cap and push back the edges.

Also, quite commonly used to buy him. Impala, and what there's the perfect habitat for stalking cat Reman. No, he's not limping; he's just stalking.

He was doing the leopard walk. Oh, he's just in that thicket's dead; I'm not getting the best view of him. Ah, breathtaking indeed!

Well, we are super blessed with the superstar of the cat. Well, that's that last view; we're gonna have to get of him now. His is a flat, though, it's definitely having a look at something that might just be down the drainage here.

It definitely will be able to get around in a moment. Remember, folks, this is coming 200% live from the Greater Kruger National Park in drama, and well, please, we would love to hear from you. Just throw any comments or questions down below or sign up and their little chief.

Mmm! Linda, you are spot on; me is a very beautiful cat. And while he is definitely on the move now, look at the body language, the body posture changing. Hello, Ruth! Leopards, mail leopards, normally between 10 and 13 is a good good age for a leopard due to the competition that they experience.

Females can live up to 15, maybe even a little bit more. In the wild, in captivity, they have been known to live much longer due to the fact that there's not as much fighting in danger. But Archer, we've got a male leopard, his father, and he's in his thirteenth year.

We thought he was ailing early this year, and he sprung right back again, so there's another female who's 12. So that's you don't generally. I've never come across; you only come across leopards that are older than that in the wild, but almost always cases that it might happen. But he definitely looks like he's interested in something that's just there in the thicket.

I'm going to see if I can just get around. Yeah, there's a little bit of a clearing just around the corner, Davi.

Now, see, you want to know if leopards and hyenas generally come to cut clothes? Well, essentially, oh, I think I've got a stump in front of me. I'm going to have to go back.

Mass, what we find here is that the hyena follow the leopards around, and there's a huge competition between the two for food resources. Obviously, they feed on very similar food, and the leopard being a very good hunter often—Husana has lost out to his prey via hyena.

His dad, though, steals a lot more of it as well, so he's a very young leopard who is only turning 3 in February. And well, he's done very well this year. We've had an absolutely incredible year with him looking very intently into the bushes there.

Georgia, yes, most certainly those powerful jaws of the hyena, which are designed for crushing and breaking bone, if he bit Husana on the leg, broke a leg, broke a ligament, did any damage to him physically, could lead to his starvation.

A leopard that cannot climb a tree will not be able to hunt, will not be able to escape predators, will not be able to hoist their kills. So essentially, it could lead to their demise.

So essentially, leopards which are on a weight level more powerful than a hyena from a physicality point of view, one bite from a hyena could lead to his death in the long run. So they avoid them if they can't.

But leopards develop sort of a reputation with hyena, and we've seen him many, many times running from them, and he's starting to really stand up for himself when it comes to one hyena. But when there's more than one, well, the new junior turns tail and runs.

'Cause that's just an unfair fight! I didn't have myself in her son, a very stealthy. Well, I try gone. Same as stealthy as this young dude—he snuck up on us! They had no idea he was coming up sneaking up on the hyena just goes to show how brazen he is.

He wasn't bothered with one hyena; he thought he might be able to steal some food from me, but what has he spotted? Look at the excitement; look at the excitement in his tail there! Ruth, you want to know if this is in color? This is 100% color, and we are in the summer months.

We've had some rainfall. Watch out, folks; he looks like he's about to launch. We're just gonna stay right here for a second; urologist alarm called. Did you hear that, Bok