WildEarth - Sunset Safari - 01 Feb 2023

foreign [Music] good afternoon everyone joining us for our afternoon drive we are right at quarantine we can see a war talk right far but I will able to get close As We Roll from a soft reaction this afternoon and we have more projects behind the camera and we are wishing a great afternoon for everyone that join us for the afternoon let's see if we can find this water the war talk is one of the species of course they live in numbers more than one water called Sounders which most of time you find that male water become territorial similar behavior of all species that are territorial what does in most cases a male water might have different Sounders around in the area or more than one females moving from one part to another looking for opportunity of mating so one male water can move switch in between three to ten female in his territory is very similar behavior of leopards and lions because there are so much territorial glass a little bit higher of course very difficult to start a show with an animal that are very low to the force of gravity like a warthog is very disappear on a tall grasses you never know while we're here a life to be here in Juma because anything can happen at any time it can be a leopard here it can be lion Jeremy wonderful thanks so much I appreciate it for the comment thanks I mean joining wildf team I really appreciate myself and appreciate everyone that joins us also for a ride it makes myself more happy joining you and able to share the beautiful Wildlife with you together so we'll talk now moving away so here it can be anytime it can become a woman here it can be misaba it can be any leopard around in the area watching this war talk disappearing into a thick bush you'll never know maybe Lions might be him what we need to do let's reposition ourselves and try maybe follow up on this war talk this time of the year they love much to move around this open clearing because Amarula is the biggest high demand for these pieces to really come around oh look at this in front of us here there's another Antelope that's coming 12 o'clock from the vehicle I see ears twitching there called Steven book this is a very good name stianbook it's an Afrikaans name that means Tien a rock a book it means a buck this species most of time the name or given name just because of the way of defense mechanism seeing anything as form of danger they freeze Like a Rock that's freezing the name came to steering book I've seen quite a lot with steenburg most most of cases even wild dogs I mean walk past because the phrase you know most of our Predators around in the area they have to deal with anything that is moving remember they rely called level of visual and also sand and uh sense of a smile if they can't see anymore even they can get smell they can walk towards the area if it's not moving they'll think maybe the sun is still coming the enema is still a little bit far meanwhile steenburg is safe on that way so when they pass over Iran in the opposite direction it's one of the species also is very territorial you tend to see um really moves into an area about 300 square meters of an area become territorial on that part it will allow female to join and live on that particular area and of course mating will take place if they do have young star they will move out of that area and able to get their own territory not far yes steenburg is an antelope we know that uh how can we Define antelope in most cases are the old species that have hoops and all species that most of time they might eat grass or they might eat uh of course leaves so this is the smallest antelope we have in the area although we have different Antelope that really it's so much amazing when it comes to behavior they get the gray Decker a great Decker is one of the species that we all familiar reading our books basic information and all that will tell you is another Antelope but it's very found eating meat they eat meat carcasses that left by lions and leopard you tend to see a gray Decker feed on it and it's very common I've seen in my life many antelopes that can eat meat I've seen even a water Buck facing my life ever I've been seen again it happens quite a lot when mainly on the antelope Behavior there's raising that's the reason you see them they eat even after bath that shows that can eat meat let's see in our different location how weather does for the afternoon [Music] definitely a slight chance of rain anywhere anywhere we go today but wind definitely 27 I disagree it's a little cold today but I have started off my afternoon in the best way good afternoon everybody I've got a beautiful view in front of me here at amakala a mix of Eland and all sorts of other animals and I'm super excited to be here my name is taste I'll be taking you out on Safari from the Eastern Cape for a change and behind the camera is Morgan it's awesome so so far today I've had a spectacular day I have seen Eland water buck red heartbeats black wildebeest plain zebra and dun dun dun Mountain zebra two it is so cool I'm so excited to be here such a different habitat and Landscape compared to everywhere else that we have been or that I have been and it's funny because I'm from the Eastern Cape and yet here I am looking at these beautiful animals into mixing in this open area and it's not every day I get to show you a black world beast and Eland a red heart to be just a water bug and a mountain zebra in one area this place is blowing my mind so we've been watching the Elin there's a female in this big herd looks like a male a couple of females and a few carbs there's a female that has one horn I wonder really wonder how that happened it's that one kind of feeding there on the right the one behind her is scratching itself with its horn and I don't know how she would have lost that horn I'm guessing some form of conflict with another Eland but it's not easy to completely break a horn off especially in female Eland male elans much more common thanks to all of the fighting that they do but females I wouldn't think would be as common with Eland completely snap that almost it takes a lot of force because remember the the skull goes all the way the bone extends into the top of that horn what we're seeing is just the Keratin structure the hard after structure so I don't know how she did that but the rest of them seem to have two horns which is great it won't disadvantage her too much in life unless she needs to defend herself but she's still got one very big sharp pointy one but Eland are well renowned for using their horns in their own defense something like a lion was to come along even quite a formidable Force uh Jackson thank you so much it is great to be back in my home province it's so exciting this is my first day at amakala and honestly I've been absolutely gobsmacked Morgan has shown me all of the really cool places or some of them I think we've still got a lot more to go I'm here for a whole month till the end of February and uh I somehow feel like we won't even cover all of it in that time because there's just so much to see so I'm super excited to see what else we can find I've got a good few animals on my bucket list but for now I'm going to get closer to those Mountain zebra and I will send you over to Cedric for the afternoon to say hello yes well Tess I'm hoping that you're gonna have a fantastic time down there in the Eastern Cape and I'm hoping that you are going to have better weather and sunny and warmer weather than we are having up here at Juma private game reserve here and of course the Sabi Sands South Africa well good afternoon everybody my name is Cedric dold and behind the camera you're on Sparky this afternoon we've got ulov so thank you thank you thank you once again for joining us I am standing just pretty much to the east of where we had a young male leopard or not a young male leopard but a male leopard called missaba this morning and of course we had him the first time on screen which is fantastic so he is apparently he was coming from the West to the east so I went to exactly where we had him and he's not there's nothing that side so I thought maybe I will come and take a look around this pan area but there is so much water all over the show it's very difficult because uh yeah I thought maybe I'll come down to this pan for a drink and I looked around this pan so far there is I don't see any tracks of that male leopard but also for him he is now a nomadic male so he hasn't got a really a set a position or kind of a set direction that he's going to go so I'm not too sure if he's going to go further east if he's going to go south if he's going to go north or he's going to go back West very difficult to predict a young male leopard like that now and I'm going to just take a look around this site I do hear a painted Reed frog a painted Reed frog somewhere coming from this side but the closer you get to these frogs then all of a sudden they keep quiet because all the rain that we've had and these little pans have got water now and uh I just want to see if we can sometimes they sit on the tree sometimes they'll sit on the grasses really difficult to see hear that we'll have to gonna hear it though definitely inside yeah this is called a black monkey uh thorn and I'm just trying to see because to find a fro in doing frogging is very difficult and to really see them and if I can get to see it I'm hoping that we can actually put it on screen but now it's keeping quiet for now but frogging that uh flogging is very interesting especially now that we've got the rains coming through you can even hear the bubbling casinos so the bubbling casinos go and like not just one like do that in all all different times and we'll call that time sharing time sharing quoting so time sharing is means if one goes and the other one goes another one goes another one goes they'll kind of have different times to call for females all right and that's how they call around these areas IA bubbling casino now two or three of them almost like stereo I love it really enjoy it but yes I'm hoping our Sunset Safari is going to be amazing once again and as I said I am going to follow up on this uh this young male leopard and uh just want to see if I can get any little frogs here it's so so difficult oh I don't want to fall into here some big elephant Spurs inside here I can see elephant walked yeah yeah coming through this area and uh I definitely don't want to fall into an elephant spur [Music] nope I don't see too much aside but we used to do a lot of frogging at other lodges and all that and what we used to do we used to put of course our gum boots on and we used to go especially late afternoon coming to the evening time of course that's when your frogs and everything is coming out and then you hear this it's just it seems like there's a huge Orchestra that's happening around these pans and got your gum boots got the Frog app going in the Frog book and of course you do identifications like that foreign Earth we know it's not always possible to watch your favorite show live if catching up on safaris is critical to you then download the wild Earth app and watch the catch-ups here first catch-ups are available on our app before YouTube and in addition there are cut Downs of each show for those who only have time to watch the best bits that's incredibly cute download the brand new wild Earth app today and don't miss out foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] Jesse thank you for the comment I'm looking forward to see new leopards around in the area it's a very good day of course if I look at ground on the ground here I'm looking for tracks but look like lots of dwarf Mongoose they were playing around there quite a lot yes we want to see something new as always I'm lucky straight far to the South but I can see it's out of range I've just spotted to vultures that were flying across but as we look I don't know whether mupur can pick that it looks like they're descending on something far away from the area is far we weren't able to see it might be the Lions have met a kill around you know War Dogs this is a perfect weather for wild dogs of course if not a war dogs not it's a battalia of course you flick it the way it flies look like a patella Eagle as far we're not able to see but we'll work around in the area and manage to see if we might get something that might be moving in a form of wild dogs you never know this is a perfect weather as a safe let's carry on but I was just hoping it might come close by but look like her as reading thermals circling in that one area not moving out far it might find that the wild dogs are on the ground is really busy following them well I mean the better spray here vouchers wooded vultures but Talia here incense we have witnessed a behavior that I never witnessed before before Ducks move they all follow behind whatever watches have eyesight and also 80 they use famines they use sensor for smart then they know exactly the direction of a smile and the distance and able to Jet Direct in in that particular area and the location it's such amazing because they can detect also from the thermos how far is that uh area look at the wind direction and how the wind speed they'll know that which we cannot able to really get it correct as we human being what we can do is to really get a smell and just maybe we we can able to tell how far it is or predict that it could be less than 100 meters from us but occurrence we weren't able to tell exactly the same these guys they can really knows how far and they can able to find it very easily in most cases eyesight is more important they can see far there's no tracks crossing over here all our leopards Marines and other leopards that are really operate at Calamba this is the road coming from tree house if they cross over into a neighborhood this is the road that normally we find lots of checks there's no tracks let's go down towards the dam who am I to be lucky baby hyenas look like it rains yeah as you see the puddle of water it's very difficult to concentrate water holes because leopard if there are in the area they can get water anywhere but I love because I understand the territorial areas of all these leopard uh that moves in a territory if we look at North we have tavanguma that lacks to move furthermore North but these days look like it's moving towards also east of Gary Dam Central from that area foreign good afternoon good afternoon everybody and we have a predicament we've got a giraffe up ahead the problem is we have a roadblock and I'm not sure if I'll be able to clear it but I'm definitely going to give it a try this is that the giraffe doesn't move away my name is Chris Erasmus and we're going to come up says Owen Dell our plan this afternoon is to just go and explore pridelines after the rain this morning there's going to be hopefully some more tracks starting off with a giraffe so let's just wait for him to move off and then I will try and do my best impersonation of an elephant and try and drag that Branch away now that Branch was not the work of elephants this is very likely from the wind during the rain that we had last night and this morning as it is a dead Nocturne tree and it obviously just got broken as the wind moved the branch back and forth problem is it's on the road and it needs to move and what we usually do down here is if we can move it we move it if it needs equipment then we report it anyway the giraffe seems quite content kg kind of like a question comment there the giraffes yeah seems darker than the ones that Juma and kg I have actually mentioned this a few times and I'm not entirely sure if it's just a genotype on in the area perhaps the genetic reason why they are darker yeah I've also seen that it could very well also be something in the soil perhaps I know we are relatively close two the palaborwa were mine maybe there is some mineral in the soil that sort of sequester into the plants and causes more pigmentation I don't know I can't exactly tell you why I personally feel that it is just this particular area perhaps a specific Gene that is in circulation causing them to be darker and I've even seen it with the cows that they are notably darker than the ones further away I.E Juma and I've got two theories there it's either genetics related so this certain community of giraffes in this area that are naturally darker because of their genetic makeup or perhaps it's something in the soil I already says it's perhaps suntan but anyway we will have to wait until he moves off because if I'm going to start battling that trunk of that bronze He's Surely Gonna Move off so I'll just give him a couple of minutes until he moves out of view and I'll continue to drag my Branch out of the road he's actually looking away from us say if you move further I can do that and I've got the cover of a red bush Willow not let me rather do that they are not normally too afraid of us right this is going to be difficult ah okay breaking up I don't have much grip though okay right might need a rub for this let's see I think I can potentially pass yeah how about that let's give it another another drag maybe just maybe I can get a bit more of it out there problem is it's got Thorns it's a not thorn I say there we go that should do it the wrists are rather small and I get my workout for the day I promise these thorns are you still there he's still there no I think we're good hi there Tina wants to know how often we need to do this Tina at least once again that was a good workout guys yeah sometimes more than once in the game right we have a clear Road so while I try and catch my breath let's see if we can go on find some more animals grassy clearing and knob Thorn off the road that is that is we have to because you don't want to drive around those trees I think it's so so important ah look I've got a silver cluster leaf on the road let me try and clear the silver cluster Leaf we're doing a lot of road maintenance and a lot of Road clearance okay all right so I cleared the road now so Zoe's is nice and open so yes there we go so Chris I'm joining you with uh hearing the roads from all unwanted trees and bushes that's lying on top of on the road itself and it's very important because as soon as you start going around them what happens you're creating another track and another track and another person comes in another track and yep so rather clear them good old exercise you've got to have exercise it's exercise it's one way of exercise maybe go Bang all right I'm going down on Zoe's the ants have climbed on top of me yeah apparently that tree had plenty of ants on it I'll survive I'm going down on those I'm gonna head south I'm gonna head towards Gary main just to take a look they did have those dark or black Dam male lines in the hofbans so I think I'll head into that direction see Max Max are you happy that our clear the tree there as well I'm sure Max is happy about that I heard the excitement in his voice there in my ear Max is the most exciting guy ever after killing all these trees that's it all right no tracks on this road and it's very difficult because it's been raining today as well during the day so if anything has moved around here uh on earlier this morning or after game Drive uh definitely those tracks have been washed away thanks joining us we just arrived at treehouse Dam beautiful sound of uh Woodland Kingfisher at uh to me in my culture the sound it means Danger and of course what I can witness following while we are at the hippo he's just put it it looked like a war box but anyway I think the Warbucks will move in the era it's very difficult position where it is Chewie is the name of this hippo that are here in swahil Chewie is a leopard I don't know how these were name derived it's really amazing I speak a little bit of swahil and no names in swahil of course hippos kiboko in trial of course and this hippo is always at this water source the behavior present them that is empty around in the area there's no hippo dominance or any Pond that is active so Chewie decided to stay here it could be because of grazing of course we know that in sense here in cyber sense Safari life area but especially this property it does have few drainage land and the more you have Rivers small rivers that feed all these dams as well as a half food of course as far as grass we know hippocrats a lot in the area they don't eat some meat they don't eat fish they do grass so half a grass is around the drainage land that's releasing High concentration of hippos Buffalo leopards and after Antelope of course the love moving into the drainage system because the grass itself when the rains in the area when the small drainage line flow they live their breeds on the bank of the river of course then they compose and that it fertilize the ground and as we amazing Impala here for buffalo Rhino accelerating elephants they also love grazing on those areas is where people most of time he also picked those areas as a healthy food we tend to see hippo movings in this drainage land quite a lot more special dry riverbed feeding at night unbelievable and again lions and leopard they go on that era because success of hunting on Antelope is very high I love this boy he was really he gave us some action all the time we get here early on yes affirmative he put only territorial inside water out of water to become home range another territorial they cannot fight even the bump one another out of the grazing land they will respect one another keep going what they do and make sure the dominant male if he's any female that's on estrus or heat he will defend that female and head that female back into the favorite spot of the dominant mouth if he is Stewie you make sure that tafema returned back into the uh all or the pond itself or Waterhole because he can able to mate very dangerous if a mates of two different or three different males in the era because that can spark a fight in really three different mouths and also the youngster is not going to save if it happens that land into the pond that doesn't belong or doesn't father him he has to be killed amazing when we get here hello all myself and mopo it's a behavior of a hippo first time open his mouth shows the cannon that you have for task to make sure that anything that gets close to the water it has to show that how much he is strong and how much healthy and how much the weapon that is carrying if you want to decide to go to the water he decided your own risk because really he'll respond they show off quite a lot there's reason you find hippo most of time before even getting to the water it will show the muscles so you have to really take to consideration that is some of the warning that you will give to anybody that walks around in the area earlier that you got Ox back on top of the head oh let us take this opportunity from Treehouse so I've sent Safari life over to Tessa foreign I am shaking in my boots I'm so excited we found the three young male cheaters this is the only one we can really see at the moment he's kind of relaxing you can see he's got his eyes closed just enjoying the breeze on his back you can see he strategically turned his back to the breeze instead of his tummy where there's a bit kind of thinner fur that would get cold quicker but he is just gorgeous as we were driving along he was walking towards us and then kind of turned around and lay down and gave us this beautiful view of him in that beautiful green grass I'm so happy right now so it's my first time meeting The Three Amigos the three cheetah Brothers and I'm really really hoping that I get to spend a lot more time with them while I'm here because I don't get to see cheaters often I'm sure you all remember and if you don't I had an exceptionally cool cheater sighting in Juma last year I think it was in May and it was Misty and it was early morning and it's the first cheetah sighting on Juma in many many years in that section of the Sabi sand nature reserve and that was the last time I saw cheetahs so for me it's been long overdue and I'm really happy hello boy hope you're woken up I'm really happy that I get to spend time with the fastest land mammal beautiful covered in spots amazing and I believe they took down quite a large kudu recently we can still smell it actually more than was the same the smell is still it's still there believe me but you can still smell it from where we stay it's just incredible to know that these boys are so successful now that they are taking down Kuru Wild I've been I'm happy that you're enjoying seeing the brothers as well well brother today but that's a rock we'll hopefully get a view of the other two just now but just absolutely incredible but I was sitting here with cheaters I can't believe it the one thing I've never been able to get over is not only are they tall and sleek and beautiful of course but the size of those back feet and the thickness of that tail it's so impressive I mean I suppose it has to be if you're going to be the fastest land mammal by far the fastest predator they've got to have something to kick off the ground with and balance with and I suppose what better than really big feet and a really strong broad tale that you can use as a bit of a Rudder when you're steering at speed oh they don't look like they're going to be doing any hunting today the smell is very very sleepy maybe a little bit later on but I think because of the wind I just kind of hunker down for now the wind is super strong it's getting cold the brothers are just going to be relaxing for as long as they can and it's also different for me because most of the Predators I talk about I.E lions leopards those are the ones that I see most often they would be waking up towards the end of the day I wonder if these Cheetos are starting to settle down a bit more because the wind is picking up and with that it's blowing in these massive clouds so you can see it's it's quite over cautious from the light there's no sunlight on him at the moment I wonder if they're settling down for the day I don't hunt at night oh Charles I really hope they stay well fed as well if history is anything to show with these three they are going to be absolutely fine if they've managed to take down a kudu they've got not a worry in the world from here they still have to be careful of course but if they can take down a Kuru I'm beyond impressed at about 20 months old not even two years old yet and they're taking down kudos they're gonna live hopefully a very happy full life literally full they seem to be very good at hunting which is massive and you'll probably find they'll stay together for life as well if you think about it we're literally seeing the very beginning stages quite crucial moments of their lives Chad I imagine what is going through his head sleeping with his head up like that is he needs to still be alert enough that he can hear smell and potentially see things coming even though his eyes are closed if he hears something he'll open his eyes and so by having his head up he's got a little bit more of an advantage of hearing anything else coming if it's flat on the ground half of you is kind of muffled into the floor so that that one ear it would be his left ear if he lay down flat would be muffled into the ground and that kind of halves the hearing senses well not quite Hobbs but almost and it gives him a little bit of a slower reaction time to then only lift his head and start looking around because remember cheetahs are the most vulnerable of the cats that we find here of any of the big cats because every other big cat is heavier and stronger than them so whether it's going to be a leopard or a lion or even a spotted hyena not very many of those here but there are brown hyenas all of those things are a Potential Threat to cheaters even a mass of vultures is a Potential Threat to cheaters and so they do have to be extra alert and that's part of the reason why they hunt during the day and are not as active at night because all the other predators are usually more active at night so they try and avoid each other in that sense it's also part of the reason why we don't see many of them at Juma because there are so many hyenas and leopards and lions around that it's a bit of a tough spot for a cheetah to live a safe life and that's Nature's Way of balancing it's a balancing act it's also part of the reason why cheetahs might choose slightly more open habitats not just for hunting I've seen cheetahs hunting in dense Palms so they don't need an open space to hunt they're more than capable of picking up speed in dense areas too but of course the open area helps for that but the more open areas gives them a chance to get away easily as well foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] yes oh we've got a beautiful battalier that's sitting here in a dead tree and uh absolutely stunning I love love these birds of prey because uh it's just the the black and the Beautiful Brown on their back and you'll see they've got a beautiful orange beak as well like the beginning of the beak is stunning where the gape is and of course orange legs and this one is just enjoying a good old afternoon printing I'm sure because that's all the rain that we've had this morning and during the day and last night and in his little afternoon so this battle is definitely Keen to get those feathers maintained and ready for maybe a bit of a flight well it needs to look for food and just like the vultures I think Ericsson was explaining a little bit earlier about the vultures and also the same thing with the battery fantastic eyesight if they have to look for anything that's dead and I said pretty much feed on the carrion so dead animals but I've seen battle ears go for as well as live animals so some things like if they have the opportunity for say a dwarf Mongoose is injured for some reason and they'll definitely go down and try and grab their 12 Mongoose or anything that's injured so yes definitely a formidable bird of prey and uh well they're not too they're heavy they're quite big but they're around about almost about two kilograms two to three kilograms and I mean that's quite big for quite heavy for a bird how are all the birds that like to perch on dead trees most birds a lot of birds of course not the birds that like your chagras that and your virtual school they all gone and pretty much more in their kind of shrubs at the thickets and all that but you know there's like even your starlings and your rollers and of course your bigger birds like a bataliers vultures um they love perching on dead trees especially if you're looking at a bird of prey a bird of prey if they have to really land in a thick bush it's going to be quite tough with the wide wings I mean I betelia's Wings is about uh 1.722 meters so they got like really long wings so you can imagine you've got such Wide Wings and long wings and you're going to go and land in a very thick tree you're going to struggle quite a bit and you're going to do a little bit of quite a bit of damage to your wings or to your feathers so they rather prefer to rather sit in these dead trees um that's why you'll see many times especially vultures I mean vultures have to climb fifteen thousand feet and if their feathers are damaged due to Landing in like a thorny tree or something like that it's going to do a lot of damage to those feathers and then all of a sudden it's go oh well that's uh it's gonna struggle to really get to those Heights and that's why maintaining the feathers is very important getting those barbials reconnected again making sure that they are really well up kept feathers but yeah this one I'm looking nice here this is a female is it yeah that's a female it's a female you can see that white underpot on its primary feathers right at the bottom so so if we're pretty much on males haven't got those white Under parts and all that so they got pretty much more kind of black dark primary feathers that's sitting at the bottom and yeah sorry Max my pieces kind of popped out of my ear for some reason I think it's maybe the dampness of all the rain uh Lorraine good afternoon um well birds have got very well good balance most birds and you can see with those talents and there's pretty much Dew pointing forward one two pointing pretty much to the rear end and they can just really hold on and of course with the Tails well the better it doesn't really have a tail but they're just good balance I don't know they're just good with balancing what's I think they could trapeze artists if I can call that well better is known as a trapeze artist in French funny enough let's go to bataloo means actually uh Thai Trope Walker so but that's due to the Flying part of it of course that's because when I fly they sway from side to side looking like they walking on a tight rope but other notes were balancing I'm sure it's it's like us we know how to stand up with our legs on the ground so and just tell me now to it's not balancing out but yeah when it comes to the juveniles as well I saw the juvenile this morning unfortunately I couldn't get on script because I'm just completely Brown all right well we're going to continue I think I'm going to hit that down towards twin dams and while I do that let's head over to Chris in pridland says he's got the tallest land mammal that he wants to show you foreign looks like it's a giraffe afternoon there's one two three females can't see them all in the shot until we haven't had a number of giraffe in a while looks like this afternoon it's giraffe afternoon and this beautiful view of the mountains in the background it's just lovely but a stretch there we go suppose if you have to carry that neck all day it's gonna be some muscles that are going to tension foreign are you gonna eat are you just ruminating Nina has a question for us if giraffe are dangerous to humans Nina under normal circumstances not normally don't consider them as dangerous however there's been isolated accounts where people have been attacked by them and that's well you know as as is the case with any wild animal if if you put them in a corner or trying to arrest them or you know if there's babies around one should always consider all animals potentially dangerous in that regard but normally out walking in the bush keeping a good distance they're not gonna go out of their way under normal circumstances out in the wild in fact quite peaceful creatures towards us and quite tolerant of people on foot and that's the problem one can easily get the idea that one can Venture close to them and you know that could potentially lead to a situation where they feel threatened because they see us as a predator that wants to harm them and therefore I'm not saying that will but a situation can develop but that same principle goes for any wild animal out here be careful and then we spoke about foreign this one's got more of a reddish color interesting oh well this wraps our giraffe for now let's go over to Cedric who's found something very Majestic on top of a termite mount wow wow wow look at this beautiful beautiful male Kuru that's standing right on top of this termite Mound and he's looking at something is definitely um listening out for something maybe another male could be here could be females I'm not too sure but he hasn't barked uh if he starts alarm calling then he notes a predator but he hasn't done anything like that but look at those ears pointing straight down he's got the vantage point of this termite man perfect place for him and you can see exactly what's around him at this at this uh in this area but look at him look at those horns on him oh my word that is that is not a specimen off Note a thick neck definitely in his prime but he's looking at he's turning around ears are pointed straight South what is he picking up on he says listening out and one thing if they do alarm call especially the kudu and they start barking they do that like almost like a dog bark and uh if they do that if he does that now then you know that it might be I'm sure like a leopard maybe lions that he's looking down at but I've got a feeling it's more something like other kudus here's Carol the r that's just beautiful the spiral the spiral horns on them is just a stunning stunning and and uh it's one of those if you think about the Kruger Park excuse me it's an emblem off the Kruger Park so the Kruger Parks emblem is a male kudu I'm not so crew of parks actually sandpark South African National Parks Board here's the emblem a lot of male could use uh the emblem of that so and the symbol this guy is definitely giving us a perfect view no I'm losing my voice again maybe if I whisper that sounds a little bit better sorry I think I've got a whisper order because I thought I talk normally my voice sounds like frog inside there those Ox Bakers on its back thanks joining us from cutie we are on the road called teen dams heading off yeah two years no tracks of any leopard around in the area but we're looking forward of course because after the ground is very wet it's so easy to read any tracks of anything that might be on the ground yet so believe me if there's any tracks of Alliance and leopard being so I mean used to track animal it will be a lot more easy for me to track and find the direction also located the enema out here I'm looking for that opportunity I'll be so excited if I can find leopard tracks I'm really looking for or lines yesterday there were two young men lion very close to the Village they live in the reserve I'm so much fortunate because in the area where liver can see wildlife there was a two young male Lines Moving Straight East into the reserve pretty much maybe later on I'll check uh Gary catch line on that area ah look at that what we have found here on the road beautiful look at that it's not amazing he's eating on something I'm not sure what might be these guys are very fun eating eating small insects they're very vulnerable from bed of prey as the Sterling are not happy here with something that also have to hide it's very small not even a war back Egypt can hunt it easily foreign foreign together and this makes me the happiest person in the world right now I can't believe that luck it's just too good I know for Morgan he spent a lot of time with three young males like this and in fact these particular three did you see the cheetah Juma you did oh no on before okay so you've had quite a bit of cheater time I haven't had nearly as much and to have these three young males especially because we've been able to follow the escapades in the last few months it's really been absolutely exceptional I'm so happy that I get to meet them even if they are just lying down hiding from the wind a bit I'm sitting three male cheetahs it's incredible thank you Yuppie and agitated cheetah you'd be able to tell from the mood kind of portraying in body language if that makes sense so the position of the tale the position of the ears any form of pacing any form of showing teeth things like that that's what you would be looking for I suppose the more time you spend with cheaters the more familiar you get with it but to me an agitated cheetah would have its ears back it would be showing its teeth and even its gums by the time you show gums you're really angry and a flicking tail pacing anything like that would show a bit of agitation but cheetahs are really well known for hissing when they want to be vocal they will hiss kind of like a house cat does a bit of a hiss and that's what really the the kind of last step would be for a cheetah so that's once you've kind of crossed all the boundaries you'll see them do it to each other if they're fighting if they're uncomfortable that's kind of what you'll see before an actual physical altercation breaks out but agitator cheaters don't stick around so I suppose it would be a little bit different if if they were really really used to you they might show you agitation but still stay close by but cheetahs are really well known for being skittish and so if they are agitated they tend to completely leave the area but you know everything has a comfort zone so whether it's an elephant or a hippo or an Impala or a cheetah those Comfort zones are going to be different and always the first sign will be body language so for example if I was to start the vehicle and drive towards them and they weren't comfortable the first thing I would notice is they'd start turning towards me and and starting to look like they want to get up and move and that's a sign of discomfort in which case you would have to stop and so these are the things you look for when you're training to become a safari guard but any person who knows animals and respects them there's a there's a lot of body language that you can use before it gets to the point where they would feel they need to move and also before it gets to the point where especially they would feel the need to hiss or show their teeth or anything like that so first thing you would look for I suppose is any form of uncomfortable staring any form of kind of looking to the side and looking a bit nervous and then from there you would I suppose go to the ear positioning showing of the teeth showing of the gums maybe the tail flicking a little bit it's not quite like a leopard or a line where just the tip of the tail flicks and when a lion's really angry the whole tail goes and threshes onto the ground that's what I imagine a cheetah would do a bit more especially if it's lying down um but they they tend to flatten themselves quite a lot cheetahs are Oscar Tish and and very shy animals they tend to flatten themselves quite a bit when they're uncomfortable they sink backwards as opposed to stepping forwards like a line or a leopard would if it was pushed to that point but they're definitely capable of hissing they're capable of giving quite a decent slap remember they've got nails that can't retract so you don't want to get to that point Wesley thank you so much for your question uh adult cheater at shoulder height so at the top of the shoulder would be probably around 80 to 85 centimeters so less than a meter there they're quite small when I say quite small if you actually stand out and you kind of compare that to your hip height it would be almost up to your hip I think I've I've seen a cheetah that was bigger though but he was exceptionally large that I worked with at a rehabilitation center he was a ridiculously big cheater he took me well up to my hip um but he was young as well when he was that big and then he was rehabilitated um but the average cheetah about 80 to 85 centimeters I've been trying to work out how big these three are because I haven't really seen them up and walking or anything like that in a in a way that I can actually look at them and go okay this is kind of how big you are I'd love to see the three of them walking together and compare that to an adult a male cheetah because they're only they're not even two years old yet but I would imagine they're a really decent weight for young male cheaters they can get up to about 60 kilograms I would think they're easily 40 already if not more but I definitely want to see them all up and moving and I suppose the more time I spend here over the next month the more I'll get to see them moving and hopefully even chasing things around handy they are being exceptionally good content cats content and content they are just looking so brilliant right now they are happy they are calm they are content they are relaxed you can see the two on the sides have put their heads flat down so they are in a much more restful state but there's always going to be one of the three that's a little bit more alert to keep his brothers safe it's the same in any animal even Impalas do that everyone has to be safe our chair and they'll probably take it in turns I don't know how long it takes for them to rotate I suppose it'll be different room to group but they all look very happy I do think though that they could use use a meal and I might have to be saying that because I want to see them running around and chasing something and you can't blame me for that there are young male teachers they are absolutely brilliant Predators but at the same time they're all systal in that phase where anything that moves is a potential Target purely for the reason of practice I want to practice how they can do all of these different things and they've clearly got it done pretty well if they can take down a kudu I mean that could use clawless expect lovely Impala the Amigo boss will be doing well here if they can really settle in the area around the consumers of Juma this is Impala they're in a riverbed very very dangerous for Impala to move in the area like this where the leopard can able to hide very well and the first time when we get here now they're mixing with up with the adults they were only the clashes of Impala you know in part of the form their own crash where the little one can all enjoy together the company of one another playing and doing all of things that really normally do as Impala it's such amazing the number of umbrella that are here are amazing lots of them still more towards the thing I mean around the ticket left and right of this drainage line I wish if you know what it's here or Calamba or Marines we might see in action where they are it's so simple and the reason why this Impala moving in here remember saying that the drainage line it hosts a very healthy because when it flows when it River when it rains in the area all of these host water and flows it deposit debris on the size of the bank where all the animals hippo elephant Impala or antelope in general they left to move in the area to eat the healthy grass that's the reason you find high concentration of all predators be also in the same area but unfortunately here you never know but I never I'll never forget that in service and anything can happen it can be a leopard here we can see some action of a leopard making a kill you never know all the time where is Impala they follow up by lepids and lions in most cases really amazing all of them are moving together grooming making sure the tech uh I mean they're really grooming themselves take all the ticks that might be parasiting on the skin itself yeah same senses of course they are rely on that to uh know where the protest predators are it's very common sense of smell of course they got they have so-called Jacobson organ that to place in the upper layer of their mouth through the cavity of the nurseries it detects all the smell and able to tell exactly who is here so all these uh Antelope they have so-called Jacobson organ it could be Impala if you do uh water back that we have in the area a lot more to imagine even yala all of them they rely on that Jacobson organ can able to read and sense the danger and able to move out anything that it might be danger or anything that can be an ustris anything they can read a lot of things will fill the generation organ that tells the brain that this is associated with danger this is is all about another Center for other different animal that are eating grass so all of that Jacobson organ is placed there to really never tells exactly the different signs of different predators and antelopes scent of course really amazing loss of Impala we are really gonna move here to the east but uh looking forward also with the color after the rain because you know why they're here after the rain all the information it has to be fresh if the leopard has been yesterday there's no sign of that leopard if a leopard's been here today after rain they can read so they're moving in the area knowing that there's nothing around in the surrounding they cannot really get the scent of a lines or leopard that moves through this drainage line there's reason there's so much comfortable to moving arts in the area they rely on the sense of a smile to know that which era are safe or not if they got a signed here of course they will be out of the area moving in the area where it might be more easy for them to see any Predators coming close to them what I see with these I had is a mix-up of male and female who is a good news it tells you there's no competition have started when it comes to mating if you find males regrouping together that tells you to start to build up themselves in order to challenge one another when it comes to mating mating rights is very important when the Impala the next two months get into so-called writing season it has to be a strong mouth to mate foreign ique Wildlife sightings filmed by you they can be old or new from anywhere in the world and filmed on a camera or on your phone in return we will give you cash an opportunity to win a prize and a chance to see your clip on TV with your name in the credits it's easy head over to wilderth.tv forward slash content to find out more foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign South and I'm just standing at this beautiful tree and it's one of my favorite trees that we do have around here and this is called a russet Bush Willow one of the cumbritum families and it's a very hard word it's a very heavy wood and uh it's one of the woods that we connect if we do make a fire for like brine barbecues we actually use this wood because it will make the most amazing coals and it'll just last and last and last like all cumber items like the lead wood ledwards as a part of the completen family as well with this wood a lot of people a lot if you want to make like a nice walking stick it is one of the nicest ones to use because many times you'll find especially it's where the roots are and of course where it starts branching out from the roots it'll go in a very straight line so if you actually take the entire Branch out with the root and you actually turn it around it'll have the roots on top with this Long Branch at the bottom and a lot of the local people actually make especially for the older people and all that I'll make nice walking sticks so you can actually grab that the branch itself you actually take all the bark off and you kind of you know use sandpaper make it nice and smooth get some nice t-coil and then of course just varnish it or just oil the oil the branch itself and you actually make a beautiful beautiful walking stick from the russet Bush Weller and on top of that as well and always say if you'd like to have some tea and this makes them one of the nicest teas around you so what happens with what you can do if you don't have tea in the bush you just grab one of these bushwillow pods as you can see a lovely little pod like that four wings typical of the cumbritum family got the four wings and of course make sure if you're going to use a whole lot of these pods and put it into boiling water first things first you always have to open the pot itself so open it up like that and then you take that seed that's in the center make sure you scrape that seed out because the seed is quite toxic it's not going to make it's not going to kill you it's just going to give you a lot of hiccups and how we actually tested this out I think of some I told the story a few weeks ago as well and it's quite a funny one we did many many years ago of course we asked one of our colleagues here in the bush to try to test it out just to see what happens with the seed apparently they say it's not like you know it's not going to kill you but it's going to do something funny so of course we put a lot of these uh pods inside of the the pot boiled the water boil the pods inside there with the seeds of course inside of the pot itself and of course he drank the the water or the tea but of course the tea is nice it tastes like um like I can say like like the bush it's a like a very Sandy taste but it's also very nice as well and of course he drank it and wasn't long after that maybe two three hours later he started having hiccups like and that happened for like almost three days straight he could not sleep at night he had hiccups all the time he was getting so frustrated real getting so irritated and he was getting frustrated because of the hiccups and all that and we realized that these seeds because of the toxicity inside of it um it's pretty much not a good thing to have so yeah make sure that you take the seed out and of course you can boil it up and make a nice tea and I saw Bush Willow tea and I love these trees and a lot of animals will feed off them of course the speed of the pods especially the the kudu the Nyala the bushbuck that love these pods if they can get hold of it it's perfect and I definitely I mean nothing goes to waste in the bush there's so many things that's why I always say I mean if you're in the bush you can always survive you can always use something for if it's a toiletries if it's food if it's water if it's some flavors Jam there's always something around you so yeah I'm sorry about the radio I think the guys are just trying to all call I'm coming onto Juma but yes there's always something to use around this side so I think it's very important to you know kind of dig deep go down to the roots and see what you can find and what you can use I always believe survival in the bush it's easy if you know what you're using but make sure that you don't go and grab the wrong thing just now you take something like a poison apple uh one of the plants and you actually think that's a beautiful fruit eat that that's not going to be a good thing because they you could end up in hospital with that with the poison from that poison apple all right let's head over to Tessa in amakala to see what she's got to show you in the Eastern Cape I'm sure more sun and more heat good luck with the leopard search Cedric I hope that it goes well hopefully better than your weather predictions it's definitely not sunny here it is freezing cold we've whipped out the jackets it looks like it might be rain blowing in it is turning so fast but maybe you'll find the leopard before we find the sun let's hope let's hope because we might only get sun tomorrow but the three cheater brothers are not bothered which is which is they have repositioned a little bit the one is still sitting staring in the opposite direction I think he's probably sleeping he's probably got his eyes closed the other two brothers have almost taken up the same position but on different sides if that makes sense kind of up on their chests legs folded in underneath back legs out to the side probably warming their bellies because lying on their sides they'd be losing body heat to this intense intense wind so lying more on your stomach and your chest kind of keeps that heating against the soil the Earth it's definitely what I would be doing but we were just chatting about it saying I could not lie on the ground like that in amongst the grass in wind like this can you imagine the amount of dust grass seeds all of those pollens and allergens that would be blowing into their ears into their nostrils into their eyes very good reason why their eyes would be closed and luckily their ears are nicely furnitureed with all of those long ear ear hair hairs and that definitely helps filter it out but nostrils I think would be a little bit of a problem so that's also why they would turn away from the wind a little bit but I wouldn't last two minutes I'd be riddled with allergies and I'd I'd be sneezing so much I wouldn't be able to to talk so it just shows you I mean these animals are obviously incredibly well adapted it's all they're used to really so all of the animals are here I don't know how many of them would get allergies I don't think it would be all together that common Gabriel the other cat species that you'd find here in amakala are mostly Lions they are a couple of lines around leopards have been seen here and they were in fact leopard tracks not too long ago okay play but yeah um but definitely not not found and hasn't been seen in quite a while but they do occur here and then you get the smaller cat species as well so things like the serval for example and even caracal um so those kind of smaller species definitely on my bucket list both serval and caracal as well as a cave leopard as well as the lines because I haven't made them here but the more unusual species is is really the kind of top of my bucket list and at least I've managed to to tick cheetah off with The Three Amigos but artfork odd wolf Brown hyena all very high on my list at the moment and those all occur here as well hey caracal oh yeah I'd love to see a caracal I was lucky enough to see caracal in arangala and soville as well I saw multiple times caracal only once said in Gala but here in the Eastern Cape probably the biggest character I've ever seen in my life it looked like a sub adult leopard it was so big which was humongous absolutely huge and that was actually on the farm that's uh Queenstown but yes we don't actually I don't know when last a leopard was seen here at amakala but there have been tracks um here it would mostly be the cheetah and the lions that you would see although I believe Ralph had Ralph and BK had three days of incredible sightings of caracal yeah about three days worth I think uh or Morgan thinks of caracal on one of the roads we did today at the basin thank you rain is much more likely for cheetah coalitions to be brothers than anything else and that's because just the way the cheaters are their social habits are a little different to every other Predator so males tend to stick together females tend to break off and then they'll stick with their cubs for Obits and once the Cubs become adults the females split all together and the males will stick together and form a coalition I would imagine they would have to be brothers but I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule because if if you think about the fact that female cheetahs are incredibly nomadic they don't have Cubs with other cheetahs and raise them together they raise them on their own and so those Cubs are bonded from the time they are born and so that's what that is essentially the basis of the Coalition it would be very hard for cheaters to trust a cousin or a distant cousin or anything like that because they don't know them it's not as though they are social and have met other Cubs while they were with their mum they would have stayed only with their mom and possibly met some other males but it's unlikely they would have met other Cubs but I suppose you could find coalitions that maybe in in different circumstances cheaters that have been kind of put together and grow together so it's I suppose can be like lions where if you've got males in an area they might join up with other males that aren't related to them just to give strength in numbers and in fact I've heard of a female Coalition of cheetahs as well which is quite unusual so there's always the exception to the rule but majority of the time it is going to be cheetah brothers because they have been bonded since they were Cubs and so it's the easiest to trust each other and they'll stay together while the females split off to have Cubs I think these three are going to be together literally until they're dying days it tends to be how it goes in cheaters sometimes they split but most of the time they'll stay together they just look so relaxed says though nothing in the world could bother them right now one of the other play ER playing Cape where it is really really nice to see cheetahs is Mountain zebra on zebra National Park and Morgan and I were chatting about it earlier it's somewhere that I also haven't been since about 2016 I think yes it was 2016. and their cheetah populations are also absolutely fantastic and really really beautiful to see them so I would think cheetahs are really good to see in the Eastern Cape in general hello boy are you waking up there's quite a stretch of those big front legs very long and lanky but very powerful I mean you wouldn't you wouldn't really say it now with the way that they're lying down but just to imagine these three boys going at full Pace after a springbok or an Impala or anything like that hitting 120 kilometers an hour in a full-on Sprint we do a literal fraction of that on Safari we could not keep up with cheaters that is our National Road speed limit 120 kilometers an hour on our highways on roads there's no way we could ever keep up with them in a realistic way out here in the bush just incredible so relaxed there but so much power coiled up and ready to go thank you from the cheetah sightings we are here at uh of Russia's next we are looking for opportunity what we have seen here is track of tracks of an elephant's not yet the cat's tracks it looked like all our cats might be really entertained by the habitat here because it's a little bit not hot if the only kills the might happen that all of them are still lying down it's in the nature of orchids to do lie down unless if the really wants to hunt is how actually you might find them easy because they will be always moving but uh we are looking possibly areas where we can find tracks of a leopard and able to follow up let's see we are heading towards spaghetti Crossing we're going to take a Mamba to the east and see if there's no tracks there all right foreign let me change my root plan let me take Road these mad wallows that always have water due to array in the train last night I believe that if there's anything as far as leopard they'll utilize this mud values that hold water at least for long periods I'm in a territory of Calamba now what do you expect here is Calamba it seems like there's a herd of buffalo that has moved three up very likely the ones we saw yesterday and I'm trying to figure out where they've gone to been Milling around you it does appear that they have gone that way and for those of you who've just joined us Welcome to our Sunset Safari write you on Safari live I'm going to introduce myself again my name is Chris Erasmus and my camera up here is Owen Dell and while I'm looking at where they've gone to take a look at these tracks I just want to try and figure out where they are going and hopefully we can establish a Direction so you're currently with us at Eco training pridelands we are pleased to a town called Hood spread and joining us in some of your other locations at Juma will be Cedric and rexen is back there and madikwe will be Ben and Tessa has made her way to a macola which is quite exciting and remember this is a live and interactive experience so please send me questions or let me know if there's anything that you'd like us to find for instance these Buffalo or anything that you want us to discuss or just anything you want just to know so after all your live experience into the African bush and currently a little bit cooler compared to earlier in the afternoon we had quite a humid afternoon so far and I'm gonna just come back to these tracks because some of them seems to be going that way now let me get my trusty old tracking stick those of you can remember when you're still doing the bushwalks this was my my tool my one thing that I do not go with up when I go walking out here all right so I'm backtracking now because came from the south which is there West is there North is there pointing towards you is when I point east some of them are going here I would love to just grab that camera and track him but we are going to be driving all right but you also can do is listen at and that you actually can do is cup both your ears like this it almost creates like radar dishes and you'll be surprised how much it amplifies your hearing when you Channel it into a particular direction I can't hear them so I think we should go and drive around to the other side and see if we can find them foreign before we go over to Cedric let's just take a look at the weather in our other locations Fallout track these buffaloes [Music] yes well definitely we call the number color well Jim has a little bit oh look at that uh nice and fresh yeah it looks like the sun wants to come out but I'm hoping it'll happen very soon but yeah I met before God damn as you can see we've got a juvenile Black Wing stilt so this is called a black winged stult and uh you can just still see uh the legs are still a little bit gray and the top part is also a little bit gray but once they get to an adult uh become an adult then of course they'll have like red red legs and completely a white head and won't have that gray running behind the neck area so this is still a juvenile black winged stilt so pretty much a common resident and uh and local to this area we don't see it too often but you'll find the most uh mostly like at Marsh areas the fillets the salt pans and of course around some of the dams even the river edges as well you'll find these black wing stults very nice but there are nomads so they're nomadic they'll pretty much uh go from one other guys there goes here it goes yeah that high-pitched noise to the inflow there we do apologize for our rain roof pole of course we've still got our rain moves on in case it's going to be any rain that's going to be coming around again and then of course on the left-hand side we've got a three banded Plover nice it looks like the water holes are nice nice and active with a few birds you can see the blue right next to the black wings thought you can see there let's see the three banded Plover coming up to it now so just like if you're looking at the lap Wing I'm talking about now the black speaking of the left wing so now those black uh Wings tilt is almost as aggressive when it comes to oh look at that looking for any arthropods in that in the water try and catch something or even tadpoles as well but yeah very defensive over the nest very defensive over the Young so they've become very vocal very high it is something that's approaching the nesting site but look how quickly it's moved to the room that is amazing how they actually move so quickly along the water Joey where did the nest I think blackwing's thoughts if I'm not mistaken if I might be wrong here now blackpink installed spot to nest in like grassy areas like thick grass on the ground I might be wrong I'm not to we don't get to see Blackwing still too often um I'm sure it's in grassy areas on the ground just like your pliers but pliers of course more on the open areas and where this stalls are in the grass but I might be wrong maybe somebody's got an answer for me on that one please do send it in I would like to know myself I'm just taking a uh a thumb suck here on where that nesting I'm just thinking because it's on the ground they are pretty much always around the water areas so that's what I'm thinking maybe that nest on the in the grass but yeah foreign I'm just trying to see if it's nah these little fish I'm still looking for them but look how quickly it goes in and it just came through that water just looking for any movement of course coming close to its peak and I'll just snatch whatever is around that big snatch it up very quickly no not very very they're not big big birds I mean they're around about 200 grams that's as big as though oh it grabbed something again there like a little fish hey did you see that I think it was like a little fish I'm sure it was so something silver in its beak otherwise my eyes just playing tricks with me here d t e we Sorry Max I can't copy what you saying there is a d with a d for Delta V do they have uh different alarm calls uh V I'm not too sure if they have different alarm calls uh what you're talking about compared to other birds um if we're talking about long quotes to other birds you know definitely each bird will have a different alarm call they won't have the same it's the same as your mammals so your long call of Impala will be different to a kudu the ones at the closest will be like your Nyala and kudu both box but you can also hear the difference if you really pay attention because one will be a little bit shorter and softer compared to Kuru is a little bit longer with much looking much louder another two double O three banded plovers there now there is another vehicle that wants to come over that damn well I have to move very soon yeah yeah I have to move sorry all right well we're gonna move on and all that let's head over to Rex and as he's got the largest land mammal that he wants to show you foreign thank you coming back from Cedric we have a beautiful beautiful merge giraffe here quite often we come across with questions about the color of giraffe in most cases people they believe that if giraffe are very old they'll become dark in corner which is not necessary to be in most cases you do with the genetic drive so the old giraffe sometimes can be a very polishing color unfortunately this boy he decided to stay I mean stop behind the thick bushes if you look at the color of this smell giraffe unbelievable it's such amazing you have dark coat and he's so healthy you can tell that he is now ruminating you can see just a little bit of a head sticking out if we reposition he must start to move out of the area giraffe there are migration species they migrate in the area like other species that they do migration same as Alice same as of course will be zebra we tend to see them migrating in even Buffalo we tend to learn that the Buffalo are not species that are territorial sometimes you tend to see sea buffalo on a daily basis unless if the area is not open as we service and you want Safari life we are we are in an open system which we open to Greater National Park up to all these Reserve you can mention around South Africa it's such amazing we are in a bigger Park area which is really really big so giraffe they can move from one part to another it really wants you and we know that uh we tend to get C many giraffe around and sometimes you tend to see few of them there's no social permanent structure when it comes to the behavior of giraffe itself that can be so elusive there can be two or up to 20 to 100 I've seen more than 20 giraffes in my life or hundreds of them moving together this man looks like he is looking for opportunity of females mating is more important it just rained yesterday if a plant of lies or kahuma gets in the area or the Breakaway from Bali which are very found hunting giraffes sometimes it tells me something it's very wet little bit wet here it's not that uh uh wet like in in heavy heavy rain but it still can really Lions can do they can hunt and make a kill for a lion using the drainage line that have catch water and most slippery knowing that the giraffe will lose the balance really unbelievable they know that the reason why they grew up to the adulthood this giraffe is what they're doing now get to see something they hide in the bush like we want to see in full and able to get much details it doesn't allow us you know like when they want to run something they need to get the details of that particular species whether it's limping or any any form of uh weakness on the species itself it does the follow-up here at Wild Earth we take great pride in curating our best animal content for you would you like our very best animal stories highlights questions and the insights scoop on all things wild Earth before anyone else find it all as well as info on our exciting plans going forward first in the newsletter handmade just for you available to all wild Earth explorers foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] exactly the nesting area for this bird so apparently in vegetation or muddy areas or on the bank on the bank of the water areas so yeah on the ground so pretty much on the ground that's exactly where they'll nest I'm sure they're eggs exactly like the laprings and as well as the water thickness the spotted thickness I'm sure their eggs are very very camouflaged they won't really see it that easily it's just the one around does it quickly an update as well and I'm I feel a little bit bad on this because I got excited this morning and I also got information about that young male or the male leopard from this morning or misava and I said thanks to shreyas and that uh try and also put a little bit of her research on that male leopard because we now worked in the western sector I did get the information on all the information that I gave you this morning is the information that I've got when I was outside in the west but so that's young Mel that male leopard from this morning of course the mom is clubber kunzi and uh Club of Quincy only passed away in 2019 so 2019 she was killed I think it was the beginning of 2019 she was killed by the Birmingham lions and uh by that time I think Miss Sava was born of course he was born in early 2016. so that would have made him uh pretty much when she passed just coming close to you um three years old and so of course he was really quite independent so quite interesting that he's uh his growth uh is so slow I thought it was because of uh him being undernourished and all that because his mom got killed when he was still very very very young but unfortunately well fortunately we got the correct information now that it was already three years old so no idea why he grew so slowly no no idea on that situation but it's always nice just to kind of get the understanding and a little bit of research on the leopards that we do see now on wild Earth and just understanding on where they come from and why and who and how and and it's always nice especially your viewers at home that do take a huge interest of course in a leopard lineage in these areas and it is keeps us as well going and as an understanding um where they come from how old and and so forth so yeah but interesting that he is so small I mean for seven years old I mean born in 2016 coming on to seven years old um is the size of a female leopard and it's yeah very very strange but yeah that is now the correct information definitely a hundred percent double checked on all of that stuff touched bases on all sides and uh yes there it is all right well we are going to continue with uh before the cut line I'm going to head into that area again where we've got that male leopard from this morning I think let's go over to Tess in the Eastern Cape to see what she has found for you this afternoon foreign Ty incredible young giraffes that are down at the Waterhole they've just been drinking but now they seem to be moving off and looking for grass what's the one in the background it's kind of it's playing its legs as though it's drinking eating some of that grass they look absolutely gorgeous especially with the wind blowing their tails it's very satiny looking tails fit for the weapon to that one's tail it's only got a little beautiful Fanny River oh that's so cool oh my goodness this is not something we see very often people think giraffes don't eat grass they actually do it can make up quite a large part of the diet depending on where they are we'll stick around there and see what they decide to do and we'll send you over to rexen and Juma to see what he's up to from the giraffe we are joining the Juma Center Africana all these elephants are here he looked like they were breeding heart we caught them in action when we get here we have seen the material was really rushing all the youngster into one group it could be just a photo of uh Rusty because the engine was a little bit a roughing itself very high and the respawn from the elephant is to make sure that the youngster are always safe let's get close to see what they're up to it looks like they're heading in an area where it's very familiar we have mad wallows that laugh by elephant into the ass band here to our left if they go there there will be something interesting to see or elephant wallowing but it looked like the breathing heart of elements it's not all the time that the elephant will really behave as normal when you get to see them because you never know what happens in the course of a day of course and also it is a matter of these animals are migrating from one place to another it could be a new elephant that gets into the area they're not used to a vehicle or they used to you never know you have to I mean approach them very cautiously because it can be any time they can respond to your vehicle but the way they move they look like they're taking all these young stuff it's time for water wallowing is best for elephant cooler than the body system and also able to get Tech uh the ticks off from the body system itself amazing lovely now moving hardly very fast but look like they're going to the point and we stop that you can able to see them while they're moving these guys if they have they have to move sometimes you tend to see them uh rushing and they're very quick Taylor it's always beautiful elephant um moving and also defecating at the same time it's also part of it it's nice to see that unbelievable look at this uh female she's defecating while moving along that is very good it really give also info for our elephant that might come behind urination is part of it defecation is part of it you know that these pieces most of time they rely on the sense of a smile these other people very beautiful beautiful size of an elephant of an elephant ahead itself that really I'm sure that they are looking for water the way they're moving we'll follow them behind and it's really nice to see tablet again look like they want to respond but it's just a matter of your vehicle we may come around the corner because vehicle engine was a little bit loud and they're not really happy about it but they were certainly done as we move it's in the nature of an elephant sometimes you have to be careful look what they're doing it's not just because of vehicle now it's something that they're hearing it's not changing direction immediate effect it could be another elephant around in the area that that keep listening for the audio and it's also very intimidating in where it is it could be a cut it could be something never know we have to inspect the area this kind of a behavior ears are out heads is a little bit higher than the shoulder it shows that body language they're not happy here wow but it's in a very dry season this elephant can travel uh between up to 40 up to 60 kilometers If there really wants to but sometimes you find elephant that can go more than that especially in a very dry season they can be recorded that I can travel in and out for water at least 80 to 100 kilometers easy like that way let me try to get close to them and able to read what this elephant are up to but it seems like it's something that makes them and not happy or are not coming close to us they were amazing artists are now getting close they can see that I now guarantee is not all about a vehicle it's something that I keep hearing that we cannot even to here you know they have lots of uh elements that they can really use to get to know what might be around it instead of a smile of course sense of eyesight and the hearing is very good they can hear something that we can't hear but especially if bull elephants are approaching the area if he does give communication with the vocal box they can able able to read that and react more especially if it's the first time for a dominant male to approach the head itself it luckily for elephant to run away because you never know in most cases high is going to react but especially if it's in Mars and you find that this one female in Mars their practices and make sure that Mel has to work fast before you get to Mage you have to show your ability you have the physical health if they run away from you you keep running until you get close to them is that actually they test you it's amazing Impala if you run around most especially if a male have to mate they have to run fast if you're not keeping that pace you mean that you're not a very strong Empire to pass on your Gene same as an elephant if a map come you find most of time the female will run away as quick as they can out of that era to make sure that they're accepting a very physical health email that they have healthy Gene and also they can raise that through the sand that is very healthy Gene a very strong they can mate or not let's carry on and see if Marts are again deciding from the other side of the road they're in a block which we cannot manage to follow foreign as we go on looking for Animals you know that is something I do I like to include ecology plants big big passion of mine and every now and then I get this idea to just challenge a few things and one thing I want to talk about now is firstly large leafed trees versus small leaf trees for instance the thorn trees now we've heard this a lot the thorn trees very very fine leaves easier to digest Etc things like the red bushwallow and some other plants much bigger leaves much more difficult to digest often the thicker leaves does contain higher contents of tannins now what does the tannins do makes the leaf bitter like unpalatable and tenants can also interfere with the digestion now one thing you'll hear a lot is kudu will move into the wind when they browse and the trees will realize they're being browsed upon and the tenants it's somewhere in the leaf or in the branches will be channeled towards the leaves and the tree will release filaments and it will communicate with other trees as it moves downwind all right those studies are based on very very few studies that are not actually peer-reviewed and I've got confirmation of this from a good friend of mine who is a professor think about it there's no artery system in here that can transport those tannins so quickly perhaps over time when there's a lot of grazing pressure or browsing pressure the trees can actually elevate it and therefore that cannot happen that quickly it's it's physically impossible think about it if I'm a Kuru I'm browsing here whether it's a tree that's got low in tenants or high in tenants like this one I still need to move into the wind because if I move downwind I cannot smell a lion that oh 50 meters ahead whereas if I move into the wind I've seen winds moving this way I can smell a lion so that's arguably one of the main reasons in my opinion why they do that but tenants are also a defense mechanism and that I do not dispute now if we compare this to you red bush Willow at times of the year very nutritious we've got a flaky Thorn always nutritious like most of the senegalia and Virginia's or thorn trees just in general and that's why they've got those I mean I have a good year I I have to get in there it's going to poke me in the eye into my nose scratch my lips so you see what I mean I want to get to those nice juicy bits but these thorns are a deterrent for me to over utilize the tree because if we take all the foliage away especially this time of the year I'm taking away the tree's lungs they breathe through there through the process of transpiration I'm also taking away its stomach because that's where it creates its food so in those leaves there's a substance called chlorophyll that's the green substance you see that reacts with sunlight the process of photosynthesis it absorbs atmospherical carbon dioxide and water from the ground and there's a biochemistry action there and they create sugars and starches for themselves to store and some trees will store it in the form of tubers at times channel that into Fruit production which has got to do with reproduction so there's a lot to think about when it comes to tenants and I often hear this from other guides and people who interpret this that there's a stock standard story about the tenants but it's it's much more complex than that as I said the tree cannot in a moment or two send tenants to that leave because same as the wood and the bark there is a layer in between the bark and the wood called the cambium and that transports water and nutrients and that's divided into two uh sort of layers the xanthem and the phloem that flame is literally a layer of that one cell thick it's not I mean how is that gonna it's not an artery system like that are humans over time perhaps the trees can eventually erase the Tannon levels you know so it's I like to challenge theories I like to you know come up with a little bit of just discussions are we really saying out there what's really happening do we really know have we done enough research have we peer-reviewed all that research interesting just again so this is the flaky thorn we can see it by these beautiful flowers around little puffy flowers typically of the the chilea type of fern trees and the bark as you can see if earthy can get into that park there see those little flecks I'm actually gonna try and get one it's gonna be tricky remember it's a Thorn Tree the Thorns are there to protect it see it's got these little after Flex the block flakes off it smells like paper almost like a gentle gel-like paper all right that is our plant for this afternoon might find another one or two but I'm gonna try and find some animals anyway let's go to the big man rexen who's also got some big animals thanks Chris uh we are really expecting the area where the elephant shows like uh that are happy about the direction but what we found out here it's a young elephant bull that is in the area definitely the ears were under focus of an elephant it was right to the ticket where where I find this ball it's very healthy nothing wrong about it but I don't think uh is Hamas he's still young let me see if there's still more evidence around in the area but uh definitely now I'm certain that this young bull is the one that's uh he gave a fright for all these elephant and leave it running away from us it's such it's such amazing you see the whole head and just get intimidated with the young bull he is he's really in attitude you can tell that it's now and then try to challenge a vehicle but in this case what you do a young Bulls are always like that you don't run away King yeah it's really amazing interesting the bush Dynamics most especially with the old animals like uh big cats elephants and all that is such amazing so but let's see how it works but uh definitely for sure this boy he cannot even take chances for those fuels are slightly bigger and of course you cannot intimidate them you they were able to push him out they'll discipline him if he does want to do that I'm sure we'll see something uh this afternoon they'll I mean there will be interaction from Metro York and fight the animal if you're stronger than them I'm sure they might run away and not allow him to join there's a certain reason why they don't allow him he might have signal an attitude that they don't like it I can see it's got a lot of energy once when we get here we'll soften mopo he was coming to your vehicle throwing his trunk and I mean the ears and looked like he's gonna really come towards the vehicle and fight with us but uh really I'm bigger than him I've been in a bush for many years I know young Bulls most of time they have behave like there's nothing that can change for me to follow him it's in the nature of an elephant females but especially if they don't like the present of the mouth they just run away or if the animal that is in Mars comes towards them if they really wants to test whether it's the strongest brother they'll run away so he has to keep up with the pace let me see this boy how actually he wants to behave going backwards side pitching doing all this fine yourself of being a young elephant of course you never see elephant doing this in your life look at that we're not pushing him he's just really likes you do what he's doing unbelievable he's very healthy You Can Tell No Doubt I'll raise you maybe 15 14 to 15 years that's the reason he's having a lot of attitude he can really do anything that he likes to do even pushing trees on that edge is very common it's going backwards I don't know what's wrong with you yes Candace they only made if they're in Mass they cannot just met and not like other species of course or other animals are so much sensitive when it comes to mating they are not primates that they can mate to make oh no you hear that it's breaking all the pushes behind I don't know why it's so upset there's reason the breathing hard are not happy for him to join he's just fighting now himself with the bush is nothing happened you might I might underestimated him in most cases you see this kind of a behavior but especially when they are adolescent stage or getting into the adulthood for first time get into a mass you tend to see him he's running away pushing trees he doesn't know actually you heard him or no it's running such amazing let's see let me try to follow him and see actually I might learn something with his uh young elephant what he's up to and what's all about amateur think he is a little bit mad but maybe they just come across with the crowd of lions or wild dogs and it's chasing them what else but I've seen when we get to see him he was coming towards the vehicle trying to intimidate us is moving very fast that adapts that we can keep his pace sounds there I'm gonna go straight Direct it was running right here it happens quite a lot when the young young males for their first time enter into Mars because they don't know exactly what's the mass what you do how to react it's yeah you see the trunk is up let's go I don't know whether you've eaten something destroying the bush right here I don't want to get close to him the way he's behaving is look at him wow this behavior is really intimidating especially if you're a first guide out in the bush find him doing all of this well you fell down this is really Madness I never see an elephant behave like this let me move forward then now allow mupo to get more action you see what's all about here oh no wow I believe we're all benefiting this kind of a behavior for me it's nothing that I can do not even to run away because understand the behavior exactly what the young males up to we're not putting ourselves into Danger but here we have to witness and land why this elephant is doing this pretty much I'm thinking that uh is having a pressure or stress that if not that you need to be in Mass there's something that happens that really makes him angry elephant does have Motions like us human being if anything goes wrong with him he'll show the emotion it can be show to other animals he can show to your vehicles he can really even go for Impala you can go to I mean for other elephants which is it's really really sad to see that it's motional you can see that is one of the species I know that in nature there can be more so emotional maybe you have seen one of youngsta died or something else so he can carry that motions out for other species living for human being so you have to be careful look at what he's doing very very emotional I believe that that's reason the breeding hard they were telling us danger in the area ran away and move the direction completely and is disorientated from the direction of the rest of the head where they went in this regard he need an older bull to calm down the situation to teach him how to behave that is more important to have elephant with an older Bulls laughs would you like a stay in the African bush open to all Explorers sign up and stand a chance to win a three-night stay for two at the Fantastic machato Lodge in Botswana this bucket list prize includes daily Safari drives traditional African cuisine spacious luxury suites and the promise of sheer relaxation sign up now and stand a chance to win foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] this is I never witnessed this in my life this elephant is very emotional we get it was coming from the East and he collapsed down I don't know what happened I believe that he might have really engaged in something that he didn't like it at all as we get information much from our our books that written with different peoples they say that elephant can be so emotional and never witnessed in my life since I was a guide that an elephant can be so much emotional and really even running collapsing down and get up and fight with the bush like that he's so angry I believe if we can follow up where it might be coming from there's something that really happened which is I was thinking it might be engaged with lions I was thinking maybe he is in Mars but I can tell that none of whatever I've mentioned is not not due to that it's all about his mentality is now is very upset I can see it looks like there's the other elephant here now that you have joined them so we'll take Honeywell with not my experience the elephant are born out in the bush to eat anything that are here as I said this is my first time you might be right honey badger you never know but let us get close to the rest of the elephant that uh and now have joined and they're not showing any sign of being aggression towards anyone they just stationary feeding and I can now see it's relaxing is getting even calm now for the last minute he's not throwing himself even from the ground but how what happened he's still young it might happen that it gets separated from the rest of his family and is having anger why they have left the rest of the family have left him and they're not doing same here's the family let us enjoy them and see they are so calm and relaxed but this individual young man that throw himself down as as I guess he's more than 15 to 16 years he still was a part of the head what part acts I mean accept him I mean Obsession it could be because the rest of the head maybe they had it away while he was busy with something entertaining him and now is having Anger from the the matrical from the mother why you left me behind and I was happy he's silent you have get the members of the head is calm down he was having motion I'm just thinking on the line maybe we have eaten something that makes him not happy many people they said after eating Amarula seasoning they get entertained maybe they're drunk I don't know that much I I cannot say that because Amarula is one of these a fruit that elephant love the most but this is my first Behavior I've witnessed through my Naked Eyes for an elephant whether they get drunk or not I cannot really comment on that it could be something that it's happening I believe that it could be emotional from something that happens or he was left behind and suddenly nowhere the rest of the head and it was moving from one side to another looking for the head to join and they have taken while as raising was trumpeting and all these elephants they never respond to him maybe it was part of discipline not to respond to him and let him really the suffer because next time you mustn't do it you never know I know elephant is one of the most intelligent species if they really wants to do that they can do that think on that line that if you do something with your part we cannot respond to you but there's something that I can also look at through and why it's like that not through Google's and also with all guides and everyone myself get more evidence why he's behaving like that he's not getting pushed you can see even the female is little bit fast happening female chasing him but not that like get out of here it's just a matter of discipline As We Know if you look at the Elephant the most intelligent species from all species that including human being yes it is really beautiful it's ending with the head of the elephant which it tells a completely it joins the the story it shows that it can be emotional it's just a matter of uh we don't know why where it started but it looked like 99 it looked like he was separated and now have joined the rest of the head he's more happy so he might be upset just because of you never find the rest of the head itself they are moving a little bit thick but uh it's such amazing for me to witness this I really I love the sighting and also it taught me something that I never think that the elephant can do you see there's a road yeah we want to end these stories you see how he settles down to the rest of the elephant he's going to behave the same or he'll be so cold lucky Zoom here it looks like he's such oh my God that's nice [Applause] that is a young youngster seeking the mother to stop in order to nurse that kind of trumpeting wow we're lucky with this elephant trumpeting today it's a trumpeting day wow amazing a little hairstyle nursing is why they would that is communication the mother all the time has to really give what the youngster want if a youngster want to nurse it will do the trumpeting oh they're the mother stop and they'll do that in most cases you find the pretty heart of elephant No Control by the youngster if the youngster want to go down to the water they are gonna go do that because it's really more important for the youngster to cool down the body system because they're still young they're very easy to overheat and sometimes they will need big trees that have canopy good evening thank you um we were not reading you loudly we are in maybe end of our signal range here with the radio communication but it looked like uh do we ever witness something like this with an elephant it's my first time is Sir in my life to see that that is the young bull that he was so upset you can see now it's cooled up you calm down is joining the head and he is so happy now he's feeding he never feed himself but what uh really threatened me with this particular young elephant he threw himself on the ground with heads and roll down and keep trumpeting running he threw himself into Thicket something like as if you have eaten something or it's something that really makes him is going to die or thinking on that line from the beginning but I can tell now it was an anger so the anger has been relief is cooling down a fine mother and sisters or the family because elephant or family orientated the reason why they're so emotional when they lose the members of the head it's true that if you take one individual member of the building head of elephant they're not going to they're not going to have a joy let's take this opportunity and see if we can really see what is my other side of the world it is a very peaceful scene on the side Rex and very different to such an unusual society that you've just had that sounds absolutely unbelievable and I'm also really happy that it came full circle and you managed to figure it out but it's always fun to watch Young elephant bulls and how they interact with the herd and all the crazy things that happen I think that's that's pretty cool that sounds like a great way to spend your afternoon but speaking of we are actually looking for Unique jaw dropping beautiful wild animal sightings if you have something unusual like rickson's had or anything else that we can use across our platforms the wild Earth platforms you can earn money from it you can win prizes you can see your name in the credits on the wild Earth TV shows if you sound or if that sounds like it's something cool to you and you want to send in some unique stuff for us please do you can go to the website and click on content creator to find out a bit more information on what that might offer for you but I'm looking forward to seeing some unusual sightings from all over with wild animals just like all of these pretty little stories that we get to see come full circle with Rex in there very cool stuff on this side clouds rolling in really beautiful Basin that we're looking out over and just a very peaceful scene of greenery that I don't get to see of you like this very often so I'm a very happy person so I'm really hoping in this section with all of these Rolling Hills and Valleys that we might get lucky maybe it's a bit of a toll ask but we might get lucky and see some Mountain read back it's not a very easy Antelope to find I've seen them many many times in my life on the farm outside of Queenstown and I heard one just now that's actually what made me think of it again they've got the strangest call it's a high-pitched little whistle when they alarm at something a very hyper stressal it's almost as though a bird got a fright and starts calling and stops and all of a sudden just flits away very high pitched whistle can you do it Morgan if you want to try that's such a cheeky answer how dare you okay I don't know if I can actually do it it's a very high-pitched whistle but it doesn't have that little troll at the end it's like that there we go it's a very high-pitched short whistle it's the strangest thing oh that that sounds like a weird little bird Morgan I don't know what that was either I don't know if you could hear that but it's probably better that you didn't Morgan didn't do a very good job enlightening Our Lives as usual um yeah so I'm hoping that since we heard about the readback we might actually get to see one they are so tough to spot they camouflage incredibly well a lot kind of grayish color and when they're hiding they kind of just sit really still in the grass on these ridges in amongst these bushes next to termite Mounds next to rocks and they blend in so well you literally cannot see them until you're almost on top of them and then they jump up whistle and run that very high pitched whistle gives you quite a fright when you're at close range and I heard one behind us so we must have missed one and it got up and ran off I'm guessing because we haven't seen it but I'm definitely going to be scouring the Hills for these Mountain read back it would be another first for me adding to the list of Firsts for me with wild Earth today well I can see finally the sun is starting to appear but it's going to be disappearing very soon again I'm sure as it's uh the Sun starts sitting here at Juma private camisa but it has been a fantastic afternoon so far and if you've just joined us uh welcome good afternoon and thanks for joining us on our Sunset Safari United wild Earth well it's been great um test she has she had the Three Amigos the cheetah and then of course rexen had quite interesting interaction with some elephants as well this afternoon and well myself I've been following up on Miss Sava that male leopard that I had this morning around at the Juma private game reserve and uh well I'm hoping it's going to be a fantastic afternoon further on good afternoon everybody my name is Cedric dold and behind the camera here on Sparky we've got Olof so yes once again thanks for joining us I'm gonna head down towards uh Treehouse Dam I'm going to just see what's happening around that side and I think uh let's get uh let's get going and let's get going oh wait we've got a little Cokey Franklin can you get that in there can you hear it calling as well there's a cracky finger little male Cokey Franklin look at that look at oh my word it's a male Cokey Franklin look at that beautiful stripes on its body it's busy calling myself trying to communicate with uh other Franklins around this area but this is one of the small Franklins that we do have here at the jummah but yes as you can see this is a live and interactive show so if you've got any comments and questions please send them through to us we are definitely waiting to answer as many questions as possible this is amazing we don't get to see them that often hear them calling but we don't get to see them a little scratch of course and the females those are very pretty but she hasn't got she lacks that orange head Candace good afternoon thanks for joining us yes well we're gonna sometimes if the animals aren't around we do some birding birds are just birds birds birds the word and it's always nice to do birding oh it's especially now that the sun is disappearing the insects are around of course and birds are a little bit more active very nice to see and you've got the well this one I'm looking for the female and then you see the male uh koki Franklin yeah in the grass maybe maybe we'll come out and onto the road yeah here it comes isn't that beautiful little seeds on the grass and they're not as large as your crested Franklin's and that's all the spur files you got the natal and the swice and spur file but you find the Khaki Franklin is pretty much one of the smallest ones in that family group a little black tip at the end of its beak there he is oh there he runs oh he's going to join the southern oh look at this little bit of interaction with the southern yellow built hornball skipping a jump there he is gone I was like nope he doesn't want to talk to that bird I think they definitely speak different languages so I think he's just like oh look at the one but it's got something in its peak but if you've got the of course it's digging up something there looks up maybe could be a dung beetle nope it disagrees with me what are you digging up there nope not bad I'm not using this big beaks of course or the horn balls sometimes just breaking open like little holes where dung beetles have very much gone in and uh laid their eggs into little dung bowls sometimes you'll find these one balls will actually try and open it up we saw one of these horn balls this morning on top of the on top of the uh termite Mound and I was busy feeding on all the little termites especially that we had the rain this morning so if all these Mounds are open so these one balls are absolutely loving life or little eyelids and the soldiers and the workers say yeah it's very high in protein there's a little Cokey Franklin coming back from another conversation with the hornbull if you know they'll uh what the audible is now if you remember with uh hmm it was a little Zazu on Lion King so of course that is the southern yellow and always see all Zazu flying on The Lion King uh Ruth there beaks is very hard very very hard it's a very thick keratin that like your thing a fingernail but very thick it's almost like a few layers of your fingernail especially this especially the horn ball I can imagine must be very robust beaks to dig up and holds and even like kind of um oh what is it looks kind of Chase head one away it doesn't wanna I have that put Pokey Franklin in his shot because even putting like the holes and digging little holes in the trees to nest in US dead and hollowed our trees so I can imagine those pigs must be very hard okay all right Olaf Let's uh head and see what's happening at Tree House a damn that's nice nice to see Cokie Franklin and a suddenly a little old definitely fantastic especially that's actually Franklin all right I'm gonna head down that side I must have just thinking where is the lumbar we haven't seen a we haven't seen La lamba for about almost two weeks now two weeks of we had I had female leopard tracks on that was a cut line about a week ago that's about it but uh I haven't seen female leopard tracks around this side Maybe maybe moving around um maybe mating I'm not too sure where is the lumbar miss that female to see a very soon again so I am keeping my eyes open for her I am keeping my eyes open for any female uh leper tracks if I do find that I am gonna be on it and definitely try and follow up on on a football we're gonna go down towards Treehouse Dam let's head over to amakalo a test you see what's happening down in the Eastern Cape foreign [Laughter] we've done it before we've done it as we came around the corner there's a whole family of mountain read back enjoying the afternoon sun and having a feed that predominantly grazes so you'll see they're eating the grass and Morgan and I were chatting about this we don't think Mountain Reed Buck have ever made an appearance on wild Earth I don't know if they have but this could be the first time you're seeing Mountain read back and if that is the case I am so happy this is such a victory for me today regardless because this is a first for me on wild Earth but they are notoriously hard to to have sit still and actually watch them and for an extended period of time like this with a whole head together this is the most I have ever seen together there's easily 12 here spread out all the way into the thickets and this must be the whistling that we heard there was whistling behind us there might have been more there as we came around the corner there's this whole family it looks like females the males have horns females don't but one of the most unusual things about the mountain read back is the coloration it looks like a mix of an Impala and yala and a diker the color from the shoulder backwards is that beautiful gray that you find on a bush dieker or a common diker the head oh do you find one yes look at those horns sticking out nice Morgan thank you Morgan's a bit higher up than me I'll use that as an excuse that one is actually a thing behind the bush for me though I thought it was tweaking sure there is a male okay so this is now a complete family unit with bigger females kind of sub-adults and one male and then kind of the head I was talking about the coloration the head is more that beautiful reddish color you find on an Impala or a Nyala and that fluffy white underbelly and of course an incredibly fluffy Tail as well when they run their tail comes up and it's pure white underneath now they are known for living in mountainous sub-Saharan landscapes so you only really find them where there's Rocky ridges big Hills and Valleys they like to be up on the slopes because it's a notoriously difficult habitat for predators to navigate and so this for them is part of their defense not only their color but the way that they choose to live is that they choose to live in places that are much harder for predators to conquer but it is a perfect size for a cheetah to take down let me tell you they only weigh about 30 kilograms so they're quite small antelopes about 75 centimeters at the shoulder so a bit smaller than those cheetahs and definitely something that any cheetah or lion even would be happy to take down but I think they're pretty happy because I don't know that there are any Predators close by at the moment but this is a it's just such a cool moment and I know if my dad is at home watching he is freaking out right now because Mountain read back one of our favorite things to look for on the farm always because you you stumble onto them and they're so close they pop up and run and they almost give you a heart attack they're just incredible oh Danny I'm so happy that it's a first for you as well these antelopes are so beautiful and so tough to find in fact they're endangered they are endangered of all three subspecies that you find across the African continent this is the southern Mountain read back with all three species combined the total population in the wild of all three subspecies is about 36 000 individuals so that's a really small amount across three different subspecies but they've got really limited distributions you can kind of understand why the population is small because the southern Mountain read back is only found kind of on the Eastern side of South Africa kind of stretching a little bit into Botswana in those areas and then the other two subspecies are found much further north so there's the Western Mountain read back the southern Mountain read back and then Chandler's Mountain read back and they're found literally completely split up so it's a really interesting distribution I wish that I could show you the map but the distribution is right at the south of African continent which is here on the kind of Eastern side Tanzania Ethiopia area and then Far West towards Cameroon and those are the three subspecies there is nothing in between these total gaps in distribution so it's a fascinating species to think how did they get here and there but nothing in between when was the last time you caught your breath [Music] when were you last truly amazed when last did you Marvel at The Wonder of nature wild Earth epic animal encounters [Music] only available on the wild Earth app [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] thanks for joining us it's such a beautiful beautiful sighting that we have unfortunately the elephant is tucked its head into the thick bush it's really really unbelievable this tree that you see where the elephant is it's Amarula Tree from where we stop and do the segment from the elephant the all of them running coming West I didn't understand what's all about elephant is really they have a very good memory they are so good the moving area as if they move for GPS coordination of amaruda tree where is the best Amarula they run from One Tree to another they know exactly giving the roots to go we were like maybe this elephant are running towards the water and we were like excited we're gonna see them all along the twin dams Road and when we get here we nearly leave them when they get here they're coming all of them in numbers and gets in collect Amarula you can see how they use their trunk they look like they're eating something important that pick on the ground as far as small chocolate they really like amarana tree and the reason behind that is because it's one of the tree that give vitamin C and able to this time of a year elephant comes once I mean the amount comes once in a year which is rad January up to February each and every year and two because of the nutrition that they give in the body support they like to collect it because they need to add weight and be in a healthy status some of them after Amarillo tree the Amarula season they're going to um mate some of them maybe they'll have youngster and they were able to be physical fit in order to do all of that because it require muscles if you're not fit enough I mean when you give birth when it goes to labor you might really pass on because you need your body energy being able to push maybe out or look at that I thought maybe he wants to really lean against the tree and wrap itself where it's itchy it's really excited with Amarula fruits that are on the ground this time of a year of course all right let's take this opportunity from the marula and the Elephant over to Cedric with chill boy something that is good having there never know let's join him thank you rexen I'm glad that you're still singing with those big gray animals do you love them two birds I haven't seen an elephant for two days three days maybe I don't know when loss I've seen an elephant I've even forgotten how an elephant looks like I think I need to try and find an elephant again oh dear are you gonna yawn for us he's gonna Yawn is he is he yes yes hello there it is wow no ain't that a big mouth from Dewey I was just going to say in due course so Dewey will be yawning for us and showing us his teeth and true as Bob he has done it thank you Dewey and how big is that mouth and those teeth that's why you do not want to mess with a hippopotamus because that will do a lot of damage to you and uh they are definitely not the most friendliest animal when it comes to their water areas so very territorial of the dams and River areas wherever they have set up a little territory or territory of the they own and uh if you have to go to the water edge here with Dewey you'll find you'll get a reaction very quickly out of a hippo many many many many years ago we used to when we were staying in a place called marloth park on the southern side of Kruger National Park um my older brother he was also a guide for many years you know it's sobisobi and um of course he doesn't know it's pretty much you know animal behavior and all that stuff and of course my brother and myself uh we went towards the crocodile River of course to do a little bit of fishing and we did not take we didn't take notice of this female hippo that was in the water close by and as we went fishing we threw the the line in and enjoyed the river and hoping to get a little bit of a bite from a fish and all of a sudden we just see this wake kind of like this little wave and next moment this hippo emerges from the water comes storming out at us of course my brother and myself dropped our fishing rods right there and we ran luckily there was like a little Gully behind us and we ran into the Gully and the hippo continued charging coming for us and we got into the Gully and we went quite far into the Galleon by the time the hippo got to the entrance of that Gully and realized it's not going to fit in there and it turned around and she went storming back to the water and uh yeah that's when I realized you do not mess with the hippo you do not come close to the edge of all of the water if there's a hippo around because you are definitely gonna get uh reaction out from that animal so yeah that's why I do respect these big animals and especially the hippos I mean they've killed most humans out of all animals because of the territorial the territorial behavior and all that so that's why they always will come charging out at you and unfortunately a lot of people go swimming in dams on the outskirts and the you know at the farmlands not knowing that there was a hippo that just came out from the park you know like maybe through the river areas and went to go and settle at the dam and the next day you'll get the locals going to swim or bathe or whatever in the dams and yeah that's when the fatalities do happen so yeah moved as I say and one bite of Hippo is almost fatal I mean with those big canines so don't eat meat they just eat grass but they will do a lot of damage to a person so yeah respect to two-ton animal all the time uh Francois not all the time but do prefer to come to certain places like Dewey like there's male hippo so if you guys out grazing it depends on also the the availability of that grass piece here around the area sometimes you'll think okay well he's pretty much not depleted most of that specie of grass but then maybe you'll just feel like okay well I'll go rather to another watching hole that's close by like Gary Dam so this mail here tends to jump between Gary Dam and Treehouse Dam so you know it you know and I don't always come back to the same watching hole but they do prefer certain ones but if it's a territorial male that's kind of got the females and the females come back to the same watching all like chitwa Dam and of course we'll come back all the time to that one because that one's the water there is always quite High it doesn't really kind of get to a point where I hit Empires to decide okay well this there's not enough water anymore I have to go to another Watering Hole so as it depends on the size of the dam or the rivers sometimes you get that in catchment areas on the rivers whether we'll have like a Causeway and of course it creates a bit of a Dem like a Dam Area on those rivers and then you'll find hippos enjoy always kind of using that as a base as a territory area like a territorial base hey Dewey and you'd love to ask them because this is my favorite Waterhole in Juma I love Treehouse Dam I'm gonna be yawn for us again perfect for the hippo this uh this afternoon for the day not hot at all oh he's gonna be on again yep yeah infinitely showing off this afternoon I'm just wondering if he's going to grab his stick so this smelly hippo has got a tendency of grabbing a stick and playing with a stick so putting that stick in its mouth and bobbing up and down with that stick I don't know what it's actually it's the first time I've seen a hippo do that so very very interesting well Dewey's got a interesting Behavior foreign thanks joining us we are slowly show uh checking cheetah cut line if any tracks coming over from one part to another cheetah Catan this is our our boundary to the east is Torchwood to our left this Juma Safari life property this road here is always active there's a lot of information if you start to drive with three main actual route mainly four cheetah cattle and got remain Catalan Triple M these are the four root actually at the corner of our Conservancy the cheetah Catalan is on the Eastern side Gary Main South Garden North Triple M to the West if anything that cross over into a Conservancy if it cross this road you'll know it where exactly to go and have a look I'm coming here I need to trace if there's any leopard around in our Conservancy then I can spend my time focusing on that actually a block or the next road that might be tracks information to follow stay with me while I'm patrolling my boundaries you see if we might be lucky foreign foreign thanks joining on the boundary patrols we are still heading south we just have no evidence of any tracks around in the area but we're reaching Gary main at the corner of uh cheetah cheetah she's just playing I think Let's cross over to cheat and see what might be around at the dam that will be there nice I don't want to check say it looked like a spotted it's me nothing major I'll cross over to cheetah cheetah of course let me go and check if it's anything I want you to cheat at them you know that uh which happened to me it might be in the area who knows lovely we just uh guys coming in the same area maybe or deciding to stop here for Sundowns let's see here I love the area is where you might find their creature most quite in the area a lot to the east we all not let's take this opportunity from chitty Chitto Dam Safari life over to Tesla Reebok foreign the most relaxed sighting I have ever had in my life especially the male he hasn't even gotten up he's still lying down he is just letting the family move around some of them were lying down just now that now they've gotten up again and started feeding because the sun has gone behind the mountain and so now they're completely in the shadow maybe that's what they were waiting for slightly cooler it got very hot with the Sun out and there's not much wind down here so with that Sun out it heats up really fast and that's a great chance for them to kind of just lie around and save some energy now that it's cooler they're all up and moving but especially now that they're standing one of the things that I wanted to point out is that they've got these really distinct darker markings if you look in the crease of the hip and the shoulder against that brownie Gray coat you can see a bit of a almost looks like a shadow stripe a darker streak down into those creases and it actually continues down the leg and that is one of the distinguishing factors between a mountain Reed buck and a common read back because the common read back contrary to its name is not actually that common anymore and so the mountain read back has a much more distinct gray to White change it's a very sharp contrast between that white underbelly and that gray kind of bit on the side and then it's got those very dark distinct stripes in the creases that kind of go down the leg where the common read back doesn't have those so it's much more faded in color and that contrast between the White and the side of the body is much much less because it's a slightly lighter color it's not that ashy Gray but how cool is the sighting it's so peaceful in this Valley these Mountain Reed bugs do not care at all that we're here they've barely looked at us so they're definitely quite habituated foreign believe it or not we are seeing in this one one image this one family we are seeing literally about a fifth if not more of the entire Kruger population of mountain read back oh Catherine thank you I really appreciate that I think so too every other sighting I've had today doesn't compare to this one just because it's so special and I mean looking back at those stats as well if we're looking at because there's more than 10 Mountain read back here there's probably closer to 15 of them the entire Kruger National Parks population of mountain Reed Buck is estimated to be less than 50 5-0 individuals and they're located literally in the far south at bergendal camp and in fact they were locally extinct there not too long ago and were reintroduced to the area and there's only about at a maximum 50 of them apparently according to the Kruger National Park statistics this is not a random statistic I'm pulling out of nowhere that's actually published by them and um that's just mind-blowing to me because you come down here to the Eastern Cape and you see Mountain read back everywhere granted we don't see them in these big herds a lot of the time you might find them alone in pairs in very small family groups this is an unusual family group in size this is a large family but I just find it fascinating that that difference is so big between the Northern parts of their distribution and the southern parts of the distribution because we are literally far south of their distribution we're right on the edge and Kruger Park is Right On The Edge on the northeastern side for their distribution so we're on the extreme opposites and it's a massive difference he would never have thought so but now that I think about it I don't remember seeing Mountain Reed back in the Kruger park ever we probably have seen them but maybe when I was younger but I don't recall seeing them in the Kruger Park I have seen common read back there they are about 400 or so in the Kruger Parks there's a few more of them but either way both of those sightings are in extreme Rarity but particularly Mountain feedback absolutely fantastic now interesting as well they'll eat some of the grass species that other angulars won't touch and I don't know why that is I suppose their stomachs maybe are a little bit more Adept at digesting those more unpalatable grasses Maybe it's because they choose the rocky mountainous Hill slopes we're not many other Antelope species actively choose to come if you look at things like black wool the Beast Impala Blue world beast even plain zebra Mountain zebra giraffes okay giraffes you might find here a bit more you won't really find them here they prefer those open planes the only exceptions I would think would be the occasional Impala and definitely things like Nyala bushbuck and kudu because they lack the thickets in The Valleys but everything else I would imagine wouldn't really come here unless they're just passing through to get to another big open clearing or another Basin or something like that Morgan was just sharing with me that him and Ralph saw the cheaters trying to trying to hunt and they're trying to hunt a mountain read back but they didn't actually see the read book until afterwards and of course the cheaters were unsuccessful but regardless it happened so fast that they couldn't show anyone and I think that's really fascinating because we had just got paid um the mountain read back to the cheetah and how this would be a really good size for those Three Amigos to try and take down they could take one down individually let's learn the three of them together they could cause some severe Havoc to a family like this and we were chatting about the weights of them as well because it seems really light for an antelope that's 75 centimeters tall at the shoulder but apparently the the bang on average is about 32 kilograms but a u can be as light as about 15. so that's tiny tiny that's very lightweight but it makes sense if you're living in a mountainous area you need to get away quickly you need to be able to jump through jump through hoops almost you've got to avoid Boulders and big termite mountains that they blend in so well with all these bushes dip into The Valleys very fast everyone's got a bit of a horse-like gate to them when they run it's very distinctive it makes sense that they would be very light on their feet but they look bigger than 30 kilograms so it's deceiving they look quite a bit bigger but they're really not they're quite small antelopes beautiful sighting this is absolutely made my day well I love it I wish we could hear them whistle but maybe one day that can be on my bucket list the next thing to show you tomorrow okay tomorrow apparently maybe Morgan will practice before in um all right so we're going to send you over to Cedric in the meantime I think we're gonna leave these mountains and read back he's got something that's not quite as light on its feet foreign elephant approaching us here on Gary Main um he's not a must you can see that his back legs he's not wet between his back legs hello just greeting us there hello my boy and I was just saying I haven't seen the elephant for like two three days now I get to see a nice male elephant maybe about a 35 year old not the biggest and biggest biggest male but it is quite pretty and eating a silver cluster Leaf I mean that is not the most palatable leaf on Earth I don't know that those leaves are very high in tenants uh well clearly he's enjoying it I'm not too fussy about his food especially that elephants have to eat quite a bit yes you need to Silver clusterity I'm hoping you're gonna enjoy that very tendon leaf kind of food luckily it's just yeah as I said he's not in us the way he was kind of coming when he came out of the Bush I was like oh yep there's a mailing Master he looks a little bit aggressive and grumpy but uh he's relaxed that's now our roadblock for our afternoon yeah they necessarily not too too fussy and they have to eat so many different kinds of vegetation types and that's why I don't think it can be too fuzzy from leaves branches Roots grass all kinds of vegetation and have to put at least five percent of their body weight in so that's a lot of food you know kind of Genius are very Majestic are absolutely stunning I love elephants oh absolutely enjoy them and just watching them that's why I've been missing them for a few days now and it's nice to see at least a male I mean it's a little nice boy yes what do you want to do you want to come towards us um grabbing some more it's all the cluster leaves there you can see the little black folktale jungle that little black bird that's darting around there of course catching all the insects and because the elephants and all the insects do fly out from there then that little folktale jungler snatches them up and my boys are you going into Juma that's a nice smell nice tusks on him as well and cause a Marilla tree then it's I never I don't think it's a female Marilla cheek and you can see he's not really hanging back too long that side if it's a female Marilla tree it'll drop all those little marulas on the ground and find he'll hang around there much longer I think he's just grabbed some grass you know I'm sure you'll move on oh at least Rex and Rickson had a Rex and had some elephants I was really jealous about his elephants this afternoon now I'll feel a little bit better foreign never fear you won't have to miss another beat on wild Earth again without ketchup's Channel where you can re-watch miss safaris and shows whenever you please only available on the wild Earth app thank you for joining us and have a fantastic foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] North I mean this is how I'm gonna try and follow up on that young leopard so if you're lucky with him let's go and take a look on real tiller access fortunately this is a very corrugated Road Old Chapel M so we are going to have a lot of bouncy bouncy all over the show that's yep let's see hyena Jacks yeah oh come on jacket on can you believe it this time of the year February beginning of February got my jacket on and it is quite fresh this evening really really fresh even Olaf has got his uh like a hoodie hoodie on yep it's a fresh evening off to the rain that's why and I think that greetings everybody from what was a very very wet Medici to now just a slightly wet the dick way and some somewhat bedraggled and drenched in parlors someone like myself and Igor but we are delighted to say that excuse me that we can Grace you with our presence after a fairly traumatic afternoon um and we have some beautiful male Impalas and I have to say the horns of these Impalas up here are in my opinion much bigger and more impressive than the ones that I'm used to seeing down in Juma some beautiful boys here the actually the one with the biggest horns has just disappeared from view now but he had really really thick horns and the one at the back and a nicely wide spread as well which is not unusual in these areas it's a little bit more open to find more widespread horns simply because they don't get caught on vegetation look at that stunning hello boy yes we are admiring you and your beautiful coat even if you are a little bit wet and your spectacular horns but I suppose we should introduce ourselves in a sort of a better late than never moment sorry they were always behind us they're symbolas now but my name is Ben and on camera with me I have Igor and we are out and about to say exploring the Delights of Medico I was out this morning or we were both out this morning with escape to Nature and we were lucky enough to see a lioness this morning but she was not being able to found to be found this afternoon but with all the rain that we've had I'm sure she's probably moved off um and out on a little bit of a hunting foray but we are sort of loitering in that area in the hope that we see her but it is a real treat certainly for both of us it's our first sort of proper wild Earth stint up here in medikue we were out with Steve um yesterday we were lucky enough to see some dogs at scottco pan Which is somewhere that we've become familiar with now um and yeah and to get a lion this morning so it's been a lovely start to what is a new adventure for the two of us I have spent some time in madikwe before but um not officially doing this sort of thing I've done some astronomy work up here on a couple of occasions but I haven't actually been out behind the the wheel and I'm very much looking forward to exploring what is a spectacular area that often delivers some pretty incredible sightings as well but a small little Bachelor group of Impala thank you Valerie it is awesome to be here and it's a pleasure to be back of course I think my last day was the first of January so I have been AWOL for a little bit of time I've since been back to the UK so I should be used to the Rain by now although I have to say the weather despite being a little bit cold and even one morning of snow which is very unusual for the south of England which is where I was um we didn't actually have much rain it was cold but clear and crisp it was actually very very pleasant uh but yeah excited to be up here for the next two and a half weeks as I said Igor and I will be exploring some of the Delights that madikwe has to offer uh very well known for its lines and for its dogs and well wouldn't you know we've seen both already since our arrival yesterday afternoon and a few elephants along the way as well because there are plenty of elephants here but there are also plenty of Impalas I'm saying this morning on escape to Nature one of my great memories of being up in madiko before is that there's so much General game here we see zebra as we see in parlors we see wildebeests everywhere um and I don't think I've ever seen as many warthogs in a day as I have done here there are warthogs foreign we did just lose taste and unfortunately that is just the issue for now however you are with me Alex in okay and a rather Splendid sunset going on here right now I'm going to just zoom in and we've had a plethora of Springbok throughout the day and now a lovely herd of the blackfest Impala and what we are looking for is to see if the blackface Impala Lambs or with any of these individuals that have joined us does seem to be a bachelor herd though and the light is going a couple of spring back off in the back there quite tough to make them out to Red Bull spur fire calling as well just trying to make art who is here and if indeed there are any using Lambs however to me it does seem like this is just The Bachelors enjoying a quiet evening it seems a bit lovely and very pleasant seeing here right now lots of green completely different to what it was a couple of months ago such a contrast of course lovely Springbok as well dotted throughout the landscape a couple there just in this first tree line of tickets and a couple more just up into kind of that more open space before the tree line begins but very special lovely to see great to see all the Impala out this evening as well so of course the blackface Impala being endemic to this area they are the second subspecies oven pilot different to those common ones that we would get obviously from the Eastern side of southern Africa up into East Africa more arid adapted for anyone that did want to know really special scenes here some Cape turtle doves as well giving us an evening chorus and quite a juvial jovial one there maybe some stutting and pronking perhaps a little bit of rgbaji there we go it's the nicest to see that as well the youngsters just playing with each other and as I said it's a full-on bachelor herd yeah at the moment so we're yet to see the Lambs and the Lambs should have come out by now no doubt in that Krish system so we'll just have to wait for that so it won't be too long until we do start to see them but really quite special anyway and a nice silhouette as well here in the evening with those pilot walking off just towards us really and these guys probably last year's Lambs a really special scene lovely to see them so relaxed so from a really relaxed scene right now we're off to bend with something really exciting across the midi quick foreign is famous for sorry you lost this momentarily but what a treat this is uh Eagles first ever Brown hyena and the first one that I've seen for a very very long time well since the last time I was up in medik way a brown hyena wandering through the bushes the Fantastic if you watch the Impala in the foreground and there's a wildebeest watching very very carefully but they haven't uttered any alarm calls they know there's not a particular threat to them it's watching him very carefully him or her as he's going through the bush that might be might be all we're going to get but what an absolute treat ego I think that deserves a fist bump in camera an in-camera fist bump oh we missed he's too busy watching the screen ah well that was a real treat uh so yeah this is the difference between parlors we've actually just drove a little bit further up the road and we saw this black thing in the road oh he's still here can you get him through there is the pole in the way he's having a drink yes look at that oh I could should we try and move the car forward let's let's try let's try just don't move body don't move yeah it's still there try and get your side onto him is that good more forward back got him yep wow oh no you've got to love nature but there was a brown hiding drinking as well I'm so chuffed hopefully we might get another glimpse of them through those trees uh last time I was up here I was actually lucky enough to see a brown hyena den oh there we go there's there's some movement there you go is sort of nine o'clock uh three o'clock to the car there he goes here he comes gonna come out behind us and we actually saw some I saw some little ones uh which was absolutely beautiful they're oh you've just gone too far he's just gonna walk into the left of screen in a second there is there is there is so you can see that shaggy coat in comparison to the spotties that we know and love so well in Juma looks like a youngster sorry Max just uh repeat there I didn't catch that ah thank you Max looky thank you it does indeed Rock it's not every day you get to see one of these and say the first time in about six months since I was last up here that I did I have seen one this I don't know Brown hinders very well because I've seen Sophie in my life but this looks like a youngster to me it's not quite as big and as Shaggy as I remember in fact when I first saw it I actually wondered could it be an odd wolf but then we got a bit closer and saw and realized definitely not uh just from that shaggy coat and the general appearance but what an absolute treat shame Igor's doing some gymnastics and yoga in the back because we're now pointing directly behind us um I wonder if it's worth should we try and turn around right no no Rihanna today Rihanna did join us this morning uh to just give us a little bit more of an orientation but he is also enjoying a well-earned rest now and left us solo apparently we don't know okay let's see if we can turn around here I just need to be a bit careful because the sides of the roads are very very wet there's a couple of great big channels that have formed on some of the roads that we've been down we had some a torrential downpour this morning as well but he seems to be quite happy he she seems to be quite happy wandering up the road to see if we can catch up again and have another look but they do form Clans just like the spotteds do but they are far less social I'm sure we're all very used to seeing the junior clan in little groups around the um the den sites uh but here generally speaking you only find them on their own but we're going to see if we can get you a better view let's uh send you back over to Tessa see what she's got what a beautiful sunset in the Eastern Cape an absolutely brilliant way to spend the evening but if you are just joining good evening Welcome to our Sunset Safari oh hi hello my name is Tess nice to meet you behind the camera is Morgan if you don't know who we are we're the fun ones don't worry about anyone else it's okay I'm just joking but beautiful sunset absolutely gorgeous sceneryachian amakala and it is my first day here so I'm really really excited to be back in my home Province but what a safari it has been so far with everything from the gentle Giants the lovely big elephants with Chris right the way through to Dewey the hippo with Cedric ah it's just been fantastic and Rixon as well has had a lot of fun too with a lot of very interesting elephant interactions I have ticked off quite a few things on my bucket list as well I've seen Mountain read back and managed to show them to you which is even better and the Three Amigos are three young male cheaters here at amakala what an amazing Sunset Safari it has been so far and Ben found a brown hyena how cool is that up in madikwe so if you have just joined us and you'd like to let us know anything at all questions for us anything you'd like to send us anything you want us to talk about please please do we cannot wait to hear from you it is after all your Sunset Safari and we'd love to know what you would like to see or anything you'd like us to chat about that's always the most fun but this is just a really cool way for us to kind of soak in everything we have seen all of the amazing stuff my first sunset at amakala on the job how cool so the wind is picking up still it's quite cold definitely a change to the intense heat that was yesterday so it's been quite an interesting change and I'm sure we're going to see some interesting changes thanks to this weather coming in in the animal behavior in the next few days but speaking of I think it's time for you to have a look at what the weather is doing across all of our locations not just the wind here in amakala foreign if you said live I didn't hear you so I'm going to assume we're like ah there we go we are we are you are back with us fantastic well as you can see look at that an open road stretching as far as the eye can see with a lone Brown hyena wandering down the center of it what an absolute treat our very own Brown hyena on a little bit of emission we were just looking at that white patch on his rump I don't want to get too close to to this individual I'm not quite sure how relaxed is with the car normally when I get to about sort of 50 meters it breaks into a just a foot of a fast walk um so just like to have a look with the binoculars whether that is just a sort of a patch of whitish fur on his rump or whether that is sort of a little patch of mange or something but difficult to tell at the moment because he's also sort of waterlogged and we were just debating now whether he looks a little bit smaller than I remember them being because perhaps he's wet and all the fur is clinging to him or her I keep saying him uh to it but it sounds terrible though to him or her so maybe just looks a little bit smaller than I remember the last time I've seen one uh but very special nonetheless and I'm also just for my own interest having a look at the tracks because one of the one of the main differences or there's two main differences between spotted and the brown hyena tracks one is that in brown hyenas there's a much more marked difference between the size of the front foot and the size of the back foot the back foot is much much smaller and also because of that sort of shaggy hair appearance on nice soil not this because it's all wet but on sort of sandy soil or nice basaltic soils you'd actually see those hairs in amongst the track very very beautiful right we're almost caught up to him him her and let's turn off and have a better view I think it is just a lighter patch of fur but it's difficult to say for sure see if I can have a quick check that they buy those as well oh hey buddy no it is I don't know actually still not sure it could be a little mangy patch I don't know if perhaps on your guy's bigger screen you can see better than I can but there's a nice profile so it still has that um very much sleeping back appearance very strong neck for picking up and carrying prey items or scavenged items over long distances very very powerful I think they've got a look of an aardvark to me somehow as well that they it's difficult to explain it but they remind me of an aardvark in the face I think possibly sort of a longer nose uh TT they were quite relaxed but we see that in the low Felts all the time generally speaking the prey animals don't react too much because alone hyena is not too much of a threat if it had been a line or an leopard or a cheetah then we would have heard that characteristic alarm cause but brown hyenas are less powerful than spotted hyenas so they're not really known for hunting they are much more known for Scavenging and therefore the animals know this they've seen them before they know that they are not a huge Danger so they watch them carefully but they don't feel the need to let off alarm calls and warn everybody to be careful they're just sort of instinct tells them to watch um but they don't panic you can see that orange thing in the distance in case you're wondering is actually the uh the windsock on the airstrip because we're quite close to the airstrip at the moment oh Kathy Lee um what am I most excited I'm going to open this up to Igor as well you got what are we most excited to try and get on screen whilst we're in madikwe I mean this was quite high up on the list I mean it's Kathy Leo Igor said Brown hyena um I'm really Keen to see that beautiful big blonde male lion that is seen somewhere sometimes around the airstrip he's quite high up on my list I saw the dogs yesterday but of course we get dogs and I've seen dogs a few times but very fortunately to see dogs a few times in Juma so this is one of the special animals that you come to mediqua for we do have some cheetah here I think there's only sort of six or eight in the whole Reserve sort of nearly 70 000 hectare so that's sort of needle in a haystack stuff but I wouldn't say it's no to that um hmm what else what else caracal is seen here not often but it's it's possible to see caracal although more in the Northwest from chatting to some of the other guides um that would be very special I've only ever seen about four caracals in my life um says put one on screen would be pretty amazing okay we've caught up this hyena again that's just give him a bit of space um Catholic so yeah this was pretty high on the list uh they were just down to the sort of the standard aardvarks and pangolins and uh and cool things that we would like to see um I saw a couple of beautiful African wild cats last time I was up here in a on a night Drive um and of course there are some very beautiful birds up here the Crimson breasted strike is one of my favorites because of that incredibly Rich red breast as the name would suggest whilst it's very common up here um I don't see them in the low felt or we don't see them in the low furls at all so that'd be nice we saw a curry busted a little bit earlier whilst we were Sheltering from the rain that was very cool so all sorts of interesting stuff and sure I'm sure I'm going to see a bunch of stuff up here that I wasn't expecting to see which I should be equally excited about but you can see we are losing a little bit of light now and there would normally be sufficient light but it's very overcast and a little bit gloomy and there is still a very light drizzle falling but bringing out some lovely sort of purpley colors in these red roads with the rain oh yeah hyena has a flight to catch maybe after all this he's decided that the low fat is a nice place to be that being said I have seen brown high in the low Felts makalali game reserve which is not well it's probably as the crow flies maybe about 150 kilometers north of Juma um there's a small population of brown hyena there and I saw one or two during my time there working for bushwise and actually freelance guiding there last year all right I think we have to catching up again is a good sort of 80 to 100 meters in front sorry but very very special thank you for joining us you missile foreign you won't have to miss another beat on wild Earth again without ketchup's Channel where you can re-watch missed safaris and shows whenever you please only available on the wild Earth app thank you for joining us and have a fantastic morning [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] lovely it's great uh thank you joining us yeah we are really moving West we have changed the angle unfortunately we arrive at Chito late about three minutes marriage for an update guys but let's cross over to the south in the area where we're not a large drive when we get there he was walking straight deeply into the South and langa also had it in the very thick area we have tried to drive around that area sorry good news Land guide marriage is still around there's a lot of flies using my torch it's really unbelievable to see to hear that those two yeah I mean two leopards the way in the same area marriage they might come back the best thing to do is to work around Tito Tito water hole in the morning and furthermore towards the shop the two young leopards look like they are still accommodating themselves in the same area and they will be successful but there are lots of Impala de chitra opens unless if really lose the Kill from hyenas we know that there's a lot more hyena but especially around water holes where they know that's quite more like it's a lion that might hunt in that area success rate of lions and leopard around the Waterhole is very high that's raising hyenas all the time the occupies it the water or to make sure that the benefits on these uh animals Ohio they have a very good life here that's raising they are so well well healthy and also when it comes to population it's easy for them to raise the young stuff because they can still kill away from the leopard success rates of hyena or populations is very good very good it's very rare to find lines in the area killing hyena most especially if the collection of wells a white first leopard I met in service and I cannot tell exactly uh know which one but let me mention few episodes that I know here in service and when I joined the family of Zuma I know that there were three sport bear leopard there was a leopard called in team that time there was a leopard yes Safari female she was here and shivati was here your village Jordan was here um and there was quite few I mean big and female of course from the north north of Jima she was very active around in the era I can mention lots of leopard that the first time when I get here they were really roaming around in the conservacy of Juma itself Safari live so those are the leopards are still a little bit remember when I get to join the family I also find them here but seeing leopard in my entire life on my career I I cannot remember I started being a Tracker in 1992 up to today it's called the memories I would be good if I still remember the first letter but hardly is difficult to remember the first leopard but yes those are the leopard when I get here in Juma I know down south uh three four females mashability females and lots more down to the South maybe related to um area of southwest corner because I used to work there but the best leopard I still remember my memories it was Corolla that was my my best favorite is the leopard has a follow-up on foot and able to see all the leopards the entire of his life her life in the area where she was very good and a lot more success and we as a guide track US those days it was very easy to find um Corolla a very difficult leopards during Offspring it was Tandy Tandy she was so much aggressive nobody wants to be for following time if she does have young stuff especially around kills she used to charge vehicles living charging trackers I remember one day myself James we were on foot I was doing a that was nice to see all those leopards here at Wild Earth we take great pride in curating our best animal content for you would you like our very best animal stories highlights questions and the insights group on all things wild Earth before anyone else find it all as well as info on our exciting plans going forward first in the newsletter handmade just for you available to all wild Earth explorers thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] all right Kelly goes shortcut so I'm just going down I'm gonna go shortcuts I'm just hoping maybe that uh my leopard came this side but not even a single track of a leopard this afternoon unbelievable oh well I'm sure tomorrow morning you know it goes in the mornings or is everything that moves tonight you'll find tomorrow morning or all the tracks I'm hoping the animals as well but wow Ben's got his uh Brown sorry there's spider web on my cap there then got a Brown arena there in madikwe fantastic I'm sure Ben is over the moon like planets so I'm sure it's over the moon about it but an eagle as well I'm glad for him to see his first Brown hyena wow wow good stuff I've got to see mine as well the Medicare two years ago and uh yeah definitely Medicare with pranaainers brilliant perfect place for that oh okay I'll see we've got a chameleon yet but a big one I don't think we're gonna get it are we gonna get it it's a flat neck chameleon is it Fred he's afraid okay well we gotta this is gonna be very difficult because we've got the roof on um you see there you go um well if you can't get it no not the roof is going to block her though oh no fuel uh let's see if I can just go in here and that that that's too hard sorry unfortunately this roof is gonna be a problem but there is a flat neck chameleon right on top of the tree must be afraid must be all Chris's Fred because this is this is where it grows found Fred and I won't be able to even in there now sorry about that okay there was a flat neck chameleon right on top there maybe you'll find one a little bit lower I'm hoping so it'll be fantastic all right well we're gonna continue this a little bit further towards if we Attila access let's head over to tests in the Eastern Cape you'll have to find another Fred said I'm sorry you couldn't get freed on camera but that's okay I'm sure there's more chameleons that we can try and find I would love to see some chameleons here some tortoises all of the little things land snails as well because they're such a different color here thanks to the different variety of food sources so cool but once again we couldn't tear ourselves away from an absolutely magnificent Skyline the Orange is just starting to fade that sun has disappeared the cold is really setting in it's like everything is still in the bushes just that little that little perfect wrap to an absolutely brilliant Sunset Safari but I know as cool as that is and as calm and relaxing as that is and as wonderful as it is to take a minute to just reflect on the awesomeness that we have had this afternoon you might not want the wild amazing action to end so the new episode of wild watch is out just after the sunset Safari 7 30 PM Central African time if you want to keep it absolutely wild and with some really cool unusual cute sightings some really interesting animal facts stay tuned for that because it is a lot of fun to watch that's probably my favorite to watch actually and I think it's pretty brilliant it's an hour long and it's a great way to keep everything running on a level that you didn't know you could run on it's about as intense as the wind here at in the best possible ways ah there's little pockets when it stops with those big gusts of winds for a little bit which just absolutely beautiful and so quiet this wind's going to be blowing away a lot of the sounds ah Max please will you repeat that comment for me sorry didn't seem to come through there I'd love to know what was it oh thank you Max I appreciate it Kayla thank you very much for sending that in it really has been an absolutely brilliant Sunset Safari we've had so much action so much unusual stuff everything from the big to the small even plants with Chris and pridelands it's just been so much fun and what a brilliant first day for me at amakala thank you Morgan for showing me around a bit we've still got so much to explore so that's going to be my objective for the next few days is just exploring and whatever animals I see are an absolute bonus but as you can see from the sunset from the scenery this place just has a way of drawing you in and and you just you can't get enough no matter what you do so lots more excitement to come in the next 27 days I'm sad day one is over but I have to be grateful for an absolutely brilliant first day and awesome to have been back at Medicare uh Ali I'm so happy that the mountain read back was your favorite it was my favorite as well it probably sounds a bit strange but by far that was my favorite sighting of the day and in fact probably my favorite sighting in a pretty long time purely because it's been so rare and uh I think especially because Morgan and I have been chatting about it for almost a solid 24 hours made it even better but thank you to everybody for joining us on our Sunset Safari it has been brilliant having you with us on the back of the vehicles wow I can't wait to see what tomorrow's going to bring it really just has been so good today for half as lucky it'll be awesome but enjoy wild watch later from me and the rest of the sunset crew we'll see you tomorrow morning 5 30 a.m Central African time good night everyone foreign [Music]

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