WildEarth - Sunset Safari -24 June 2023

[Music] foreign [Music] to everybody once again thanks for joining us on our Sunset Safari and as you can see we've got beautiful weather here at Juma private Game Reserve in the world renowned Sabi sand South Africa good afternoon everybody my name is Cedric and behind the camera here on Rusty we've got Odie and once again we are blessed and we are very privileged to be joined by Dr Andrea hi everyone because as you know Andrea is a conservation psychologist and she's going to give us some of her beautiful explanations once again this afternoon but yes I'm looking forward to this afternoon's job I think it is going to be remarkable I've got this feeling that we are going to get some great sightings and I am sitting at treehouse Dam I thought because it's quite a warm afternoon here Juma so maybe something might come down here to the dam maybe some elephants on a Dr Andrea she loves elephants so I thought maybe we'll get him drinking in or from the dam itself but as you can see it is alive and interactive show so if you've got any comments or any suggestions or questions that you want to send through to us please do so if you're watching on the wild Earth website make sure that you do register so you can send those comments send questions through so joining us this afternoon on our Sunset Safari of course on Wendy we can have rexen and BK in Pride lands Chris and Panda and up there in the north west in madikwe Andrew and Paul so yes great team and I'm sure we're going to have some great sightings so I'm thinking well it is uh Andrea's last drive with me and I know that she really wants to see a leopardo so I think that is going to be one of our missions this afternoon and on top of that for everybody else at home or wherever you are watching I'm sure that we are longing to see another leopard because we haven't seen one I haven't seen one since [Music] last night okay anyway yes but there was a very quick visual of tortoise pan that was on the western side of Jimmer but yes I'm hoping we're going to get a nice leopard that's going to be static and lying somewhere in the tree Linda you're eager for a lions or leopards is that what you said Lynn I think that's what I heard is that correct ID yeah it is cat today Saturday cat today so for sure for sure we'll try and look out and I think we might end up going towards buffels or damn where we left those in kuhuma lions that pride of lions that moved up to the north eastern corner of Juma so we will go and try and follow up a little bit later I think it's still a little bit hot this afternoon if we do find lines ten to one I'm sure there will be snoozing in some shade somewhere that side but for now um oh yes and plus I will pop my nose in at the hyena then once again I've been doing that every single day so far uh we haven't had any luck with the June and her cub um yeah on elephant carcass road so I have tried but it seems like that the inside is still being used because yesterday I could see Fresh Tracks going back and forth in to the oh sorry I just think we got some comms coming through there but other than that yeah let's go and do it I think you got the wrong clumsy let's move let's go and see [Music] indeed all right so let's go down the road so elephant carcasses yeah that hyena down is just down the road as I said I'm just gonna pop my nose in there once again see if uh maybe we are lucky maybe there is our you know waiting for us that side June and a little one I think Andrea will be very happy to see oh you know with a little Cub yes a little try so all we can do is try another a cloud in the sky this afternoon and I could feel it already today at uh around about oh there's a deco it's gonna run it's gonna most probably around and it's gonna run and here it runs it's to the left and he's gone over here there there it is it's in the center all right a little great diker nice sorry I don't know my comms is not coming through there I just heard something about Andrea with love oh for Mike oh Mike says you would love to see my ribs so my ribs is a young male leopard and uh very very cute yeah he's about three years old now so but he's he's got fluffy ears so his nickname is Mr Fluffy yes yeah he's a beautiful young male but we haven't seen him for a while now so he's getting to that age where you know he's going to become a little bit more nomadic and start venturing away from these areas and all that because yeah he's going to look for a little territory of his own I'm hoping close by I'm sure everybody is hoping for that and it's nice to see that that would be exciting it would be I like all things fluffies well we've got to find a water back then indeed as well there's some fluffy hyenas around especially the younger ones like little teenagers so they are quite cute when I I've got about a year old it seems like the kite is still nice and fluffy they're getting those little spots you know really coming through I love it let's jump let's see what we can find it looks like that baker has disappeared it's amazing there's daiku in those dakers are so so shy vehicle you stop there they will run anyway while we're going to continue let's see what the weather is like all around today all right well you're still with us soon I guess we'll see you we'll look at the weather later okay so this is uh the Hyuna din now it's coming up onto the right hand side as I said I've been here is there anybody's here can you see anything Owen nothing there all right we're just gonna stop you and just look a little bit maybe we see something moving around here but clearly it doesn't seem like anybody is home no no all right we are gonna continue without Adventure an adventure I love it it's like I'm looking at the Andreas and like when people when we like drive off to go look for something else he's like with on the legs he's like I was excited [Laughter] Adventure exploration exactly gotta love it it's perfect it is perfect just exciting stuff you never know what you're gonna get around the next corner you know that is that's what it's apart come around here and all of a sudden got a flip it in the tree yeah uh I know there's something about Starbucks about communication infants eyes sorry that you are don't copy a thing I do apologize but yeah that's right or very muffled Starbucks asking how quick is the elephant's communication wow our complex is a elephant's communication yeah interesting yeah someone is asking I wonder how we would tell because you were explaining this morning that we only hear a small percentage of their communication so a lot of it is unheard by the human ear yeah I wonder how one would study though I think they get those those devices we I think in an elephant herd where it actually picks up just that low frequency and you can actually see one sex start communicating just like Wales I think the same kind of device where that's how they actually really worked out and maybe studied the elephants way of communicating and how often they do communicate so could be very you know one way of doing it unless somebody's got a big thing on their ear and listening out like a big horn on it yeah but yeah uh sorry I'm just saying we have to go stationery I think I think we're losing signal yeah all right let's go and take a look at the weather today [Music] good afternoon good afternoon everyone and welcome in the afternoon show we are here at tagari perfect Foundry heading to the east for this afternoon is my South fraction BK behind the camera we are looking for the great a little bit warm afternoon and we're expecting something around the area where we are we come by the chores in a knowing that there was Lions of course because the water it though a lot of current four species to come down to the water and drink this is the area where in the morning the member Cedric was with the pride but moving kind of the boundary off the more they move off on this boundary the more it allows leopards so we are trying to um find the leopards in the area you never know I'm very I'm very glad to come and work in the area this is the last area where molawati went through the area a cheetah of course will take it even ostrich who will be celebrating so we can't really North Northeast all of those crap okay everyone you know that Thunder's a bit of a No-No for Asimov oh talking attacking the monitor lizard let's just watch this play out she's trying to protect your babies shook the birds out of it he's gonna push this whole tree over no ways casual and look how he's looking at us guys that is unbelievable all right uh I left that area now with those hyenas or the hyena Den there's no hyenas um I'm slowly gonna amble up towards the biffle's dam I'm just gonna go see because we had two different Prides you know we had ankuruma Pride physically and then we had another pride of lines coming in from Torchwood towards where those Pride was last scene so I'm just gonna head into that direction and try and see what has played out during the daytime hoping that they do not go into bubble sick because it was the um that's what I can say the direction movement but let's see let's let's take a look I wasn't thinking of like a day like this you'll usually find as well a lot of bird Birds of Prey flying around using of course the thermals it's nice and warm I don't have to spend so much energy flapping and trying to get to those Heights I'm also just keeping an eye on the last Birds let me do that let's head over to Chris in pridance as he wants to say good afternoon to everybody one thing I do like about Pride lands is the fact that we depart from Camp we've got this water roll right next to camp and that's arguably one of the best pieces of real estate in terms of safari at the moment this morning we started off right here yesterday we started here this afternoon we started yeah it's like we don't have to even drive around because we have women Brutus right here my little sore buddy and we're going to stay here for a little bit and see what else this water hole and why not it's yeah and it's happening my name is Chris Erasmus and we have fantastic weather out yet Brutus Brutus or Uncle Brutus uncle he's just enjoying this sun after a very arguably we've had Santa and I said about this Buffalo Bill he just doesn't really vehicles around him more people walks around our camp doesn't even look at us and chase him because it is a bit of a risk at night when you've got this buffalo in our camp we've got students around in shelves and involved maintaining these type of Securities as well I do in that at camp but he's okay he's not one big old Buffalo never ever let anything that cloud my mind enough [Music] thank you [Music] those sounds just go straight through you thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign from the vibration of the stomach when they run in most cases they recommend males and also the testicle when they run it sounds like they call it kudu because of that if you check the name it doesn't mean nothing there's reason even today you get to see other names it do mean quite a lot but could you is the vibration of the stomach of course when they run they have a very round ears big is very good for adoption of sun especially in the ticket Kuru designed to live in a ticket all the time maybe in rivering or donga system is where they are they very well known by jumping they can they can jump up to 2.5 meter it could be wide it could be in height easily they can cross a drainage line jumping from one area to another but especially if they are threatened well this is so special this is really really special coming up and uh bumping into this beautiful male white rhino as you can see is lying in the sand nice and soft nice and comfortable for him and he also find many a time rhinos and elephants those larger mammals lying in the sand because it's just because of their weight it feels like the sand itself is almost like a sponge so it feels a little bit more comfortable but yes you can see most of our rhinos have been de-horned as you can see his horn has been cut off and main reason for that is for the protection of the specie of course from the poachers so because we have the horned there we get this opportunity now to at least view them and put them on screen but um I know it doesn't look great but it's the only way to protect the specie I'm a boy a nice big male he is loving that sand a big boy like that easy about 2.2 2.3 tons so that's 2 200 kilograms that's a lot of weight where the female is a little bit less about two tons and you can see those ears are working all the time fantastic sense of hearing fantastic sense of smell but the eyesight is not great you can see those small little eyes on the side of their head they reckon Rhino can only see about 30 40 meters an object and after 30 40 meters it becomes a blur to them so they do rely on those big ears as you can see there's like Jupiter is and of course there's big natural says sorry boy something bothering you yeah we are sitting a little bit far from you oh look at that little Ox Pickers on the side I was grabbing all the little ticks and fleas off of this beautiful male rhino now of course a black rhino much smaller so shorter head so it's built more for browsing so they can lift the head and eat the leaves where of course the White Rhino like this now long head and a very low to the ground so it makes it easy for them to graze on the grass Ella 11 years old do their horns ever get itchy yes well I've seen like this like Rhino rubbing posts so what they do sometimes I'm sure it gets a little bit of an itch or two around there but they'll enjoy these Rhino rubbing pies so what they do they'll use those rubbing posts and that actually kind of shave their horns across those rubbing posts just to kind of sharpening them and making sure that if there is any itches around they are getting a nice little scratch so very important for those who are rubbing posts and you can imagine I mean some of those rubbing posts also put a bit of a yawn foreign but yes so we'll get a little bit of an itch around there but the horn itself now it's made of tubular filaments so tubular filaments is hardened here so it's all like us out here and it's just all compressed very very very very tight and that is what it's made from tubular filaments so he is almost the same as our fingernails keratin that takes a long time for all those horns to grow back as you can see they've even got a second horn that's just behind the primary horn so that secondary one is not as a lodge and especially these males they are territorial so I've seen in my career I've seen huge battles between male rhinos because they're territorial they've got quite a huge territory and if there's another male coming into the area and he wants to try and start defecating in the territorial males midden the Rhino mittens and he picks up on that he'll try and get that Mel and then he'll tend to one have a bit of a battle but not a bit of a battle I've seen ones where the battle has continued for like three four hours and it was not pretty some of them because those horns when they had the full horns and when they battle each other you get all the scarring on the face and uh on the head area I can imagine that sharp horn but now it's pretty much even like I can say an even field now because all of the horns have been uh removed so I'm not going to give one advantage to them to the other one so yeah it's not not the way it should work but yeah it is very special seeing this PC as I say it is one of the species that's becoming endangered more so than most of the species around you for Eugene that's a difficult question which Ryan has got a bigger territory the Black or White Rhino um Eugene it depends on the areas and all that we don't get Black Rhinos here uh in this area this way I have seen Black Rhinos here in the northern Sabi Sands many years ago when I was at arithusa we had actually a black running running through arithusa into Juma and that was it uh I think it was a female and she was gone so so the when it comes to territories I can't really say well which one's going to be larger because we don't really have the black rhino in this area which we are now Black Rhinos you'll find more further into the Kruger Park Side for the South and all that but and not really they sort of zip them up they're little things called Barber cells and barbecules we got a snake well apparently if that's I mean it's got a snake and that's what he's hopping around at let me check with my binoculars oh yeah it's a little look like a little red lit Herald that's what he's hopping at thanks to you I did not see that is the snake striking at him how cool is that you I wonder what he was hopping for I didn't pick it up on the camera but I see it with my binos you place maybe the standoff that is the most assertive Gosling I think I've ever seen oh my goodness it seems to be the one Gosling in particular I've actually not seen that before where one keeps going after another species that's actually incredibly sweet to watch such a young age and a really so assertive foreign all right now I don't know where I left I don't know what happened there um sorry he doesn't know us it's also we were talking I was talking about the white tried and that apparently looks like we went uh we lost our feet or something so I don't know exactly where my story ended there but yes nice to see them and as I say if the female is in heat and she leaves her uh business next to the males to admitten and he does his territorial marking and he comes back to that midden and he sees up but there's a female in here he will then follow her Ascent nose down Follow The Descent and once he locates that female he'll try his utmost best to impress her and then of course copulate with that female so it's a nice communication device that they've got you know almost like a midden you know that's their communication that's a always it's like their Facebook you know isn't it you know but yeah interesting stuff but it was nice to see those little Ox because now again you'll see those Ox Pickers actually going inside of the Rhino's ear because there's so many little ticks in that inside there and I always used to tell my guests so I used to they used to go inside and they're like oh the bird just went inside the air it's like yeah they're busy nesting inside the ear they're busy feeding the chicks that's inside the ear it's like wow that's amazing it's like a mobile home I'm like I'm just joking uh hmm you can see he's got now as you see they've got notches out of these ears in both ears so most of the Rhinos in the entire greater Kruger Park they will have those notches out of their ears and they almost have like an ID book just to know exactly which Shriners are where and if anything happens which one has gone or whatever so it's just an ID book just to keep track of all the individuals swim up boy I think we might have to am I talking too loud am I upsetting your Saturday afternoon snooze geek Zoo geek Zoo yes lovely to see a white rhino absolutely stunning looks like he's now moving away and that is always special to see these animals so we never know how long they're still going to be around you know so yeah and take as much time as possible to just sit with them and enjoy their beauty have you seen Runners before yeah I've seen quite a few more before yeah all right so what we're going to continue up to you before to look well I think rexen has gone to buffels to get those lines then uh well let's go to him and see what's happening with us thank you thank you from Cedric of the Rhino we were checking these lines for us I mean myself and um the BK we checked the boundary and there was no tracks crossing over and we were told that the lions were moving north north east of Memphis you could find the previous checks and stay behind them and managed to find this line and not yet crossed the boundary this is a the female and the sub adult if I'm not making mistake uh look three or yeah three supporters and there might be trying to join the rest of the kuhuma pride you know the Tacoma Pride now it looked like uh the pride is great I mean it's going going bigger through the four young Mouse and The Mohawk and all these females that are involved all of them that might be 12 or 14 individuals in the front because of the practice very big and at the moment you might find that is very difficult for the whole Pride if the hand something small in order to feed at the same time in a very small numbers from the time time again and able to join again and move together unless if they kill something big as far as giraffe or Buffalo they can able to join enjoy all of them together at the stage if they're gonna hunt Impala and other species below it means that the pride it has to be encouraged to have a breakaway again that is something that it's looking a little bit risky at the moment with all these new models in winter time that are in the area but though the mother just come and go which it can stand a very good chance for these guys to survive hunting Impala or small General Antelope that we have in the area they can make it they're not that small they can participate if something I mean resists to come down as far as big enema they can able to be a part of hunt it's amazing to see kuruma in this way this is the pride that uh really in history they've been around in the area for part sometimes kahuma Pride it means to a woman name it means two thing in Shanghai which can be Brian Ivory it can be coming out coming out from where when they name it they were coming out from Kruger first time they were spotted them and sleep and a brand have a routine then they call it a woman that's reason you might really be careful how you you pronounce it there's there's so sometimes it will have a lot of similarities in the name but it means different things which I know because I speak changan on a daily basis and I know the beginning of this part in the history of this plant are from the start really it's amazing and the meditative to evoke all this Offspring here it belongs to Blondie and Mohawk I believe Blondie diet due to a disease which I'm not sure it could be TB or whatever the the oldest name or the oldest line Pride that have although it is changed like any Pride when it comes to genetic Drive always they receive new masks come and go old one dies but the only old male old product I know that exists existing in cyber sand steak Sprite stick Sprite is one of the oldest plant there was they were called Spotify long ago they were but that I wasn't confused stick Sprite is now down south uh furthermore next to Savi River now at the moment service all the way they've started in the area in 1860s when The Lodges started here um in tourism and conserving nature in 1972 it's expert was in the area since still from since from then there's still even today stick plant they're still roaming around sometimes they might come back we know that in Juma we used to have sick plant that comes in and out and the cups were a little bit mangy due to the movement that they used to move here it was in a very small territory and able to compete with other pride of course you know that once the lions are stressing in the body system they cannot make kills like normally plant that you can see from The Pride itself or cups itself the mat start to have mange if they're stressing a lot so it's more important to read the line if they're healthy or not healthy they're happy or not healthy if they're not happy yes you tend to see that and how you can see that if a plant is Happy it has to have a big enough space where they can hunt if they have a small a space around the dawn May kill and they cannot move into the area in from one area to another that cause quite a lot of stress into the pride and as a result you see it from the skin they'll have that mange it can mean a lot of things can mean success on the hunt is not there what's the reason behind that two small area where they concentrate you know that if you're in a small area where animals are roaming in an art all the time where Antelope tend to avoid quite a lot of the lines where you're gonna make a kill if they keep avoid you all the time so it has to be clever sometimes a hundred night extra mile during the day even it's too hot you have to bring down uh for the sub-order to cups to survive otherwise it will become weak and compete with the other lines although I mean even if they're not necessary to be completed they'd have to be driven Away by the plant you tend to see hyena take place also compete with that price because that not strong enough is cutting that but it looks like you are appreciating to start with the lines in an afternoon like this it's really amazing and also I really love it we're like Taking Chances if you look at where we have seen the tracks up to the boundary is less than 200 meters wide and we were like no this pride is not out somewhere here in the store grasses let's follow up the tracks and what makes me to be so much positive because I drive the cut line first and able to know if the checks is in or out or not out but I realized that the lines are here and there's the water here not far from the the area where they are changing it's too hot now need shadow sometimes lines cost of a dead they're so lazy to walk if you look at the ears it looks like uh all of them is just really flipping as there's something here of course that makes is that actually if you're walking across like this you have to be always try to focus any movement that you might see sometimes could be the earphone Alliance and you realize hey it could be danger here this time I look like a it looked like quite a lot of these supporters are females I'm not here to it but I can see one or two look like females which is a good thing for the pride to have more females than having male lines that can move when they reach certain stage they can move or age they can move out of the pride and form their own Coalition somewhere else where the female it become a part of the extended family within the pride itself as raising a proud of lions they are family orientated that's and also is the reason why there's so much protective from one another if anything comes that's raising that territorial torontal means quite a few things it means operation of the land but it means within that structure it's very much protected from one another great wonderful in Alliance Behavior sometimes it's very seldom but it do happen find one female coming from other female and join a certain Pride that that can happen especially if in the pride itself it shows it shows quite a lot of a failure when it comes to success and also in numbers if there are less in numbers and they're always overpower by other pride of lines they can accept a female a caution of enormative female teacher and as long she respect the Elder female within the structure of the prayer to be more submissive when the big female approach because you know that even having dogs hyena they have hierarchy amongst themselves alpha female alpha female has to be always respected if a new female joins in it means that it has to be shift a shift of who is dominant but if the one that joins in which doesn't uh a really contests to be dominant I don't see any point of uh being so a negative to rejoin the rest of the pride it happens recently she moved apart in one of the Ottawa fever they have joints together to the west and moving together as a pride which is something that is not even in the record the two Pride both of them there were really short members of the individual Pride that come from and they all joined together and able to stay and move and Hunt as a one part of lions very rare Mel do that they can form Coalition we have seen mohawk and the nomadic young Mao likes to join together so why not female they are the same these sometimes where they feel themselves are vulnerable they need Manpower of course they can great the all of them lined are flat I wonder what time they will get up but soon the sun settled down a little bit of a Fresh Air Breeze around in the area it's in the nature of the Lions to get up and move in order to make sure that uh they move close to anything that they need to hunt if they don't move it means that there will be really hoping that anything that they want it might come close by with uh looks like we just got to Twin dams in time look what we have we got a young male elephant that's enjoying an afternoon drink oh I'm spending most of the water out of his mouth another one you can just hear him sucking that water up so they won't go too deep they'll just touch the surface so they don't want to suck in the sediment at all now I love clean water hey my boy all by himself all alone Lonesome male elephant but most of the time you'll find the males all by themselves there's big breeding hoods they get kicked out about 16 to 17 years old I could become too aggressive with the young ones and then the females like do not tolerate the aggression with the little calves and then they will get pushed out and then I will wander off by themselves or join older males an amazing thing about that is then they kind of gain experience from the older ones and where to go how to act when they're going to must and it's all about learning well I love that with elephants [Music] indeed he is he is a beautiful male this not old as I say maybe about it between 20 and 25 year old just see the size and indentations on his foreheads and his plus is the size of his body's little pretty much the size of a full-grown female so he's still got a good maybe another two tons to put on before he is a fully grown male how beautiful is this because elephants can easy drink around about 70 liters of water per day at Big males so that's quite amazing about maybe 40 50. is a this with uh whitening his uh trunk there just keep his trunk nice and cool I love it okay he's catching the water with his trunk these it is making sure he's not wasting so they usually can drink and put about 20 or 20 about 12 liters 10 to 12 liters of water in a trunk at a time yeah I mean that's a lot of a lot of water that they can suck up hmm is waiting the other side hitting the other side of his trunk face ah Denise what's the heaviest elephant that's ever been recorded ah Denise I'm not got no idea maybe over six tons maybe between six and seven tons like a full a full-grown male is six times um you know around this side and I know apparently they say the elephant male elephants in Namibia in a Tasha have been recorded as the the largest elephants around so if I'm looking at maybe 10 wise maybe between 67 tons I don't know that's that's my guest and there's there's an elephant that is absolutely huge and goes above seven tons all right looks like he has had his fair share of water for the afternoon I think he's gonna slowly make his way towards the more white here a riverbed I'm gonna have something to eat that side well there's already feeding on some of the grass around the edge of the water maybe he's got some nice shade there that's all so works out perfect for him oh is that that's exactly worked out perfect I was hoping one of these water holes was going to have some elephants it does come down for a drink for this afternoon because it's quite hot so it looks like this one intentionally timed it just right for us because then this guy I was gonna tend to run much probably move off go towards small white team maybe even head away from the property because as you know elephants aren't territorial do I know if elephants have evolved trunks is that true well look the trunk has over millions of years I was trying to because the evolution worked where of course the nose the top lip and the nose together was extended and they became a perfect organ for the elephant to use to kind of wrap around grasses to grab leaves and as well as to suck up water especially that they are so tall and so big it's a perfect practice for them to use so and I mean in that trunk itself it's around about 40 000 muscles so I mean that's that's a lot of muscles and it's divided into about 150 000 segments and it's all it's called a fiber elastic muscle so those trunks work exactly like a elastic band oh as quick as you came as quick as he's leaving we're still going to sit here at Twin dams you're just going to look around there is some Egyptian geese sonafar and two Egyptian geese that's just sitting oh I was sitting by the water was preening themselves and because this dam is very small you'll find even if there is other Egyptian geese that's going to come past you you'll find these two will try and chase him away but we're gonna sit like a look what else comes down to this Dam while we do that let's head over to Chris in pridelands as he's got some beautiful kudus I managed to found some kudu I haven't included in a couple of days normally we do see kudu regularly last while they've been scarce it's such a treat to see some kudu and what we see there is very typical of Guru look at the terrain It's relatively wooded area and they are browsing they're eating leaves and that's how Kuru are designed they made to live in Woodland areas they don't really like too much time in open areas now better suited for rather slightly wooded areas and thickly wooded areas thickets this is this is just a perfect bushfelt scene look at this now easily they disappear behind even the smallest bit of foliage one of the reasons why they are still found widespread in the Northern and Eastern parts of South Africa Mason wants to know where the name Kuru comes from Mason they used to be a tribe of people that used to live in the Eastern Cape and parts of Southern South Africa probably slightly more wild spread called the koi koi and kudu was their name for this particular animal and when both English and Afrikaans we kind of like inherited that name directly spelled differently but the name Guru it was probably pronounced more with the clicking sound I'll say probably I'm not an authority on on that field but that name was derived from the old koi or Koi Koi name for this creature so even translated it doesn't really have any relevance in what it means some believe it's got to do with the way when they run that rhythmic Canter that they have sometimes do whether that is the truth I can't tell you that's just a theory unfortunately that language wasn't written at the time so there's not a lot of manuscripts about it same as the name which is the name for zebra and the actual species that used to live in the cape so also it was the koi name for zebra specifically the quagga which is the subspecies of our planes zebra previously thought to be a different type of zebra but the name also same thing then you get names like waterbuck bushbuck it's self-explanatory back we understand it's Antelope lives in the bushbuck left close to water water buck it's interesting how these names came about a lot of it we don't really fully understand exactly where but most of them have got a good idea they have gone so I think hi there my name is Robert Williams Dr Rob in the Yahoo chat I've been a long time supporter of wild Earth and I just got an email from them informing me that I had won a trip to the facadee River Lodge in madikwe and I am looking forward to accepting this prize and making a trip to Africa and seeing all the interactions with Wildlife particularly Predators like hyenas in person sign up today and you could be the one experiencing it for yourself wild Ruth explorers it's in your nature [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] especially when it is a warm afternoon or warm day you'll find these elephants those ears will be flapping quite a bit just to cool down the blood that's inside of that here because it's such thin skin and of course one said blood circulates through the rest of the body it cools the body down into the foot a little after I got four down as we're gonna try and give it a go and go a little bit forward and let's see if we can get a better view here wow you're from behind you can see he's now getting closer to them this is about 20 meters in front of see how you guys up there 11. elephants go up yellow and they come at Daniel and she's quite interesting I can see how they always kind of maneuver those legs and push their weights to the white to a certain degree in a certain angle to try and get up these steep embankments uh have to go a little bit forward let's try again but he's just doing what elephants do eat oh this uh monitor I almost thought it was a puff header I thought it was a snake coming through the grass here but you can see a beautiful um you can just see that it's beautiful water monitor yeah it's coming fast and oh my heart practically just stopped because I just saw this yellow and just the patterns look at it and I love how the walk swaying from side to side flicking their tongue out picking up on any scent that's floating around here in the air and of course oh don't don't stand on the monitor now this elephant is heading straight to all those poor water monitor is you'll see now watchful run monitor run hey my boy yes this is a funny thing that's just well I said and he's just sniffing the vehicle eat your food that's an eat your grass no he's just chased up a monitor off and he's still going towards where the monitor is uh oh there you guys you can see that he's trying to protect us but he's just see the monitor right away they know there's all the grass moving So yeah thank you my boy yeah he just made sure that he's the only one that's going to be on screen I didn't want the monitor to be on screen there and now he's disappeared uh Jesse 10 years old I think the way the elephant will know that the monitor is there just by chance you know maybe just picking up on the same thing but they've got fantastic sense of smell and I'm sure you just picked up on the scent that there was something that's just passed by there so yeah I think that might have been the case but he didn't even hardly Chase it I think he might have just by coincidence walked into that direction where the monitor was so yeah I don't think it was his intention to come and Chase the monitor all right let's move back that looks awesome you never know what's going to happen in the bush it just shows you every time there's something new and uh always a bit of a surprise but let's go as I said I saw that Mount Olympus tracks coming down this side [Music] um I'd actually just do a little bit of a loop all right well we're gonna continue let's head over to Rex and let's see lions great we were licking the activities of these lines while we're still here the two adult females and the four uh sub-adult the two female look like they were looking down back towards the breakfast with them it could be something that is going never know it could be maybe Antelope that moves in the area I think in the size of the sub adult they can able to go for a buffalo can see one young male suppose yeah I'm not sure what the other two that are facing this one is the female so it really it's looking good it will only be a trouble for this sub adult because he has to move out on the pride itself if he's independent being alone F2 will be fun and I haven't get much details two is better because they can be able to when they're around and look for coercion yes they were active early on looking around listening use their ears and so forth as well it looked like they can go back to breakfast with them I don't see them heading north unless if the wrestlers are Pride with the four young males and Mohawk and the three females are down cross into uh them opposite side of our territory then they can go around that area it depends where the rest of the plant where they are if the back into the East they can cross over we are right at the boundary 15 meters to the north they cross over we cannot follow up after the East they can take up to 400 meters 500 meters walking foreign yes she is at the moment it looked like she's been with a pride I'm not sure it's been a long time for me that's reasoning I take long and I I really have to inquire from BK because he's always here I've been seeing this part in and out of course online speaking but I know that cell is one of the oldest female if he's still existing in the pride yes um we know that uh one eye or purple eye I don't know whether she still existing or died long ago she might have died long ago she was one of the oldest female during my time while I was still here as a head guide so at the moment that chela female yes it could be one of the oldest female if the others have died within the pride so that's correct so it's really really amazing thanks because these people who knows this Pride from the the beginning and this is the let's take this opportunity and link to Andrew who does have land maybe they might be doing something better lined up boring when they're sleeping Rex and Well Done finding nakumes this afternoon we've been lucky we found some Lions as well look at this and just in time as well so very good timing tediwa you did well because they've just stood up which is so cool but yes good afternoon everybody welcome welcome to the sunset Safari art with us and of course like always we're gonna journey through madika game reserve good afternoon everybody my name is Andrew nice to see you all and Mr and Paul he's behind camera and we're pretty happy because we saw him over some lions we did have some elephants earlier on but the signal wasn't doing its thing it was the most beautiful big herd of elephants but next time we'll show it to you but let's start off here look at this is brilliant now I've got a very big update for you all are you all ready for this okay so here we go right so last night sometime a leopard made a kill on a baby baby giraffe then the blonde main mahiwa came along took that kill and it's somewhere in the bush over here we don't quite know where it is but in actual fact he took it from a from a leopard we never saw the leopard we never saw the kill we never saw the lion stealing the carcass we've just been getting updates from the guides and also from the signs that we've seen we've already seen the drag Mark over the road and it's definitely a young giraffe was killed by a quite a nice big-sized leopard last night yeah but never got to eat any of it unfortunately beautiful start to a beautiful afternoon it's nice and warm out here myself and Paul we are soaking up the Sun but not these Lions these Lions seem to want to sit in the shade they've been sitting in the sun for most of the day and it is quite warm for them considering that it is winter Rosemary a cuddle puddle oh I wouldn't want to cuddle in there I think I'd be breakfast if that was the case but it does that they look awesome it's really amazing how you know like it's being so social and when they lie down they sit next to each other and sometimes they groom each other and they play fight with each other and when one walks by another one then the other one goes into a a half stalk mode yeah it's it's lovely it's lovely to watch cats socialize because at the end of the day you know here in Africa the only social cats really are going to be Lions of course you do get coalitions of cheetahs that form which is a unique uh exception to the rule but Lions very social they hunt well together they're big animals and therefore they can be dominant they can dominate that food chain they're right in the top of the pyramid look at this beautiful it's a nice environment today in it's very bushy here so they're going to be for the most part out of sight but one thing you can't um hide away from and that's the smell there is a carcass around here that we can smell managed to find a young elephant bull there might be more I didn't probe further towards the water hole to see if there's more elephants but it is one elephant young boy teenager and he's just feeding on that yeah knob phone tree picking some leaves hello young wife get out of my wife you piece of twig I just love watching Ellis and we didn't see any of this morning do you believe it Panda we got a comment from Linda poly saying beautiful pictures Panda smiling giving a thumbs up there Linda acknowledges they're very kind words you're gonna come and say hello to us my boy keep now he's gonna come and walk past us and that's why I deliberately didn't park on the road a young guy so in order that he can continue hello just waving at us now he's not waving he's trying to smell us you're a very friendly young boy and I had a bit of Knob phone leaves and now we're gonna go for some panicum grass Guinea gross lovely stuff it's elephant popcorn fly and he is just stuffing his face with that broth look at that and it should it's good stuff I was an elephant I would just eat guinea grass it's obviously been at the Wardrobe you can see a bit of mud down the flanks obviously been to the water or having a drink or two lovely stuff definitely lovely stuff Chris definitely lovely stuff on this side over here I'm actually quite surprised because uh the Lions over here their heads are up when we came in yeah their heads were flat and it's almost like the opposite effect was given when they heard live live that instead of hiding further away they made themselves just a bit more open and more bolder that's great look at that sweet face eh yeah what a beautiful face constantly licking licking the pores the legs remember they've been eating and so yeah lots of blood is going to get get on their coats and it's very important to clean that blood off quickly otherwise Blood starts to rot then it starts to really smell bad and then you know Lions will never be able to hide away they'll constantly be smelling through the bush you might just lay down there or she might just okay they're just turning over they often do this and the perfect lie down position there a young lioness here with the young male leg you can just see little little bits of his Mane no he's found himself a nice nice shaded spot there all right there she's doing a bit of Fleming Grimace so she's obviously picked up a smell over there Alexis I wouldn't say so no I wouldn't say say so remember predators are fairly clean in consideration I'm not going to say that antelopes and that are not but yo you must see the flies around Buffalo sometimes sometimes there are lots of flies around Buffalo and giraffes sometimes too so of course lions are going to have a scent so if you know if you had to go up and smell the fur of this lion which I would never recommend doing um you will you would smell a an animal smell that's that's just how it is but it's interesting myself and I'm poor um we we found uh a dead Mongoose on the side of the road that had been killed by something we're not quite sure and it was abandoned Mongoose and we just smelt the fur and yo it's a very strong smell that was abandoned mongoose but for the most part they try and keep their their smell to a low and that's by licking the coat remember their tongue their tongue is very well adapted for grooming we know that you know just their tongue alone can rip off the fur of their antelopes and their prey so when they groom themselves they're going to comb their fur nicely and get all those particles and anything that's rotting out often often they are cleaning their claws it's a big part of their their life is cleaning their pores and they're grooming I can often say this you know with anything in life everything works better when it's actually clean and often you see them looks like they're biting their claws and they're grooming their claws because their claws they also outgrow the the claw and the claw sheds so maybe some of you will be familiar with this with domestic cats sometimes their claws also shed beautiful so he's standing up a little bit I mean do you have a vehicle with us on sighting and I know another vehicle wants to come to the area but not just yet and then when that happens we'll just make a space and move on it's just amazing their fur is almost the same color as the grass so I was saying earlier this is a great place for them to lie down I mean it's so bushy here not much is going to be able to see them in here there's a nice shade as well and of course there's a kill not too far by but I don't think they're going to stick around here for too long I think they'll probably finish the the kill if it's not killed or finished already and they're gonna start moving off tonight look at that male bite in those branches there look at this one rolling over so getting a little bit more active yeah there's a little bit cocked back a little bit of yawning so she could stand up at any moment now but she really has a beautiful face this one there she is she's just stood up and she's just walking a little bit I'm just going to find a better place to lie down it seems Chris I believe so obviously we never witnessed it nobody witnessed it but we found the drag mark I never saw the leopard tracks on the drag Mark but uh the fellow guides from this morning who went out they followed up and uh yeah it was confirmed we had a leopard caught this uh young calf giraffe and it's not actually often that leopards get away with with hunting young calf giraffes because a leopard compared to an adult female giraffe is going to be you know she's going to be huge and we know that giraffes really defend their calves against predators and uh it's it's not very often that they get away with the fact that a leopard is able to snatch a giraffe cough but while I've been a guard it's happened a handful of times I remember in Timber Valley with Morris we we found a situation like that as well big male leopard in the timovarti quarter it looked like maybe a week old giraffe came and took it beautiful and you know most of the time lions are going to eat where they kill so the scene of the crime is never too far remember leopards leopards drag their carcasses and often you get these drag marks over the road accompanied by sometimes but not all the time leopard footprints on top sometimes the leopard will drag a carcass over a road and the carcass will scratch out all the tracks and you have to look hard but this morning we heard a leopard calling just south of Jackie's Lodge and I know that Lauren has seen leprechaun a few times out here so they definitely do a Karachi and it's just a matter of time before myself and I'm poor in all of you is C1 thank you so this line can hear something way behind us I think there could be another vehicle on approach but yeah it is yeah that's it this line might just stand there we go it's like it as other vehicle approaches he gets up and starts to disappear you may just lay down there on that little path there he goes lays down flatus can be now now you try and spot a lion like that difficult it's very very difficult and one thing you know tracking In the Heat of the day um does come with a few risks because if you're tracking and it's warm you know most of the animals like a cat specifically are going to be laying flat because it's hot and it limits your chances of seeing them so your chances of walking and stumbling across them while sleeping while following spoa is greater that's why early morning trekking and late evening tracking or afternoon tracking is the best not just for Shadows but also hopefully the animal is either sitting up or standing up and you can see it opposed to it laying flat beautiful beautiful it's a really fortunate afternoon that we came out this way foreign Through The Years wild Earth has brought me comfort and joy hold your breath moments and adrenaline rushes I've learned so much from the naturalists and I enjoy so much watching these beautiful animals so I had to give back and I became an Explorer and now I've been given this beautiful prize thank you wild Earth and Camp fig tree for my three night stay to explore Ado National Park sign up today and you could be the one experiencing it for yourself [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] dams just to see full of male leopard tracks but I'm sure it must be for Wati coming all the way south um into into the drainage line but it's it's very very thick and you know that male leopard to really track him it's another story so what my plan of action for this afternoon I don't think I'm gonna go past once again I'm just gonna go past three hours Dam and then from there I'm gonna head to the South uh Western Corner uh where rexen had should do lose tracks this morning coming south on one of the roads and it did not cross so I just spoke to another guide from The Lodges from the western side and to see if they didn't see that female leopard that side and he says there's no tracks Crossing into a enthusa so what I'm thinking of is just to go to where those last tracks um that Rickson had this morning to go up and follow up on those ones just to see if we are going to be lucky with anything any of those strikes or any newer tracks maybe she made a kill there maybe she's lying in that thickets it's exactly where we had about three weeks about three weeks ago two and a half weeks ago we had uh uh that's young male line killing that to Young Buffalo was it that was it my last and oh forget about days days are like I don't think now uh I don't know it was by lost and sorry it was about two months ago anyway so yes we're gonna go there because I remember when Paul was my cameraman at that at that time so it's indeed it was my last stand so yeah I'm gonna go into that tire area and just gonna try and follow up with this yeah it's strange being in the bush sometimes you forget about time that's in a way it's nice absolutely yeah that's the whole point uh Talia go with it sorry um today we'll go with talia's question again I just heard something about in the bush that's all female uh Talia no you don't have to you don't have to avoid eye contact with animals in the bush a certain species it depends on the specie um I'll find with the lions and leopards especially the cats if you if you do look into the eyes they're like almost challenging them and it's uh uh sorry so stand by Peter they're getting yourself God uh he went straight to East into that block and we didn't relocate on him we're actually heading into that direction now to the southwestern corner just to see if we can find maybe to uh towards this band or should deliver in that area okay sorry about that I'm just uh telling another guide about uh tortoise pen a male leper that we had last night and he ran off into the push and we can relocate on him so yes I'm just letting him know that I'm going to go back into that area again um but yeah coming back to about looking into animals eyes uh elephants rhinos Buffalo you know I think other animal zebras Impalas it's not a problem but I feel always with lions and leopards you know you challenge them you know when you start it's the same stocks you know your dog's at home and apparently you know you sometimes look deep into the eyes and they feel threatened they feel like there's a challenge and then they will react and I've had that I've had that before many years ago I was with my older brother in the Kruger Park and what happened is we had a whole pride of lions next to us it was just the two of us in the car watching them and the one male line was looking deep into my eyes and I was looking straight back at him like you know just like staring funny like staring at this male eye and all of a sudden you could see he was like feeling very uncomfortable and then he got a fright and then when he got a flight thing Pattaya Pride got a fright and then they'll jump I was like what's happening what's happening what's happening you know what I mean so it does it is a bit of that the challenge when you look into the house what do you think yeah it sounds to me like an incredible engaging experience but obviously with some risks involved because engaging with nature is absolutely that's when we have our Peak experiences with Nature's really engaging so it might have been not the right thing to do but it is still a peak experience for you so not all big experiences are positive as you know with your other big experiences and Rusty yeah but a lot of fake expenses comes from that engagement with deep engagement with nature nature yeah and it is I think that's like a big thing that's like you you really almost like engaging a one and one and one one-on-one kind of situation that you know like all of a sudden there's a connection and that line feels oh listen I'm not used to this kind of connection I'm not feel used to the species challenging me and looking at me like that and then all of a sudden they you know change like all the behavior changes and also but I felt a little bit of it this morning with one of the females looking at me and me looking back but I did also feel oh maybe maybe I shouldn't be staring so much but you get so involved in their beauty and their eyes it's difficult not to stare yeah Andrea Cindy D's asking and I think we I think we went over this one before but we can also asking again Cindy D wants to know what is your favorite animal I need to remember which answers I give because it seems to be changing every day so I I love elephants and I was mentioning this morning I really love owls as well because my mother used to rescue and rehabilitate ours when she was much younger she was about 18 or 19 years old and I don't know how that ended for her because she never really spoke about it but yeah so I think elephants owls but in an hour I might have a different answer for you again I just actually love all animals uh I think we had a nice uh a comment earlier it's like so Andrea marips or Mr Fluffy is a male leopard and she'll fall in love with him I'd fall in love with Mr Fluffy as he is a great character yeah and we're just hoping that we will get to see him once again very soon I don't know when last we have seen him I think the last time we saw him was with uh uh when you're still lying on that uh fallen over to a tree that's about three and a half weeks ago with whole cat and close to the the canned area I think that was the last time we really saw him but you know they're always all make an appearance also all of a sudden surprise I'm back you know and uh I've seen that before with leopards so you think they've gone forever he was like ah they'll never see that leopard again and two three months well who's your facial fit individual animal I asked that was that a dangerous question uh my favorite animal right now currently yeah individual animal like uh uh that's it if I always want to see somebody I'll say Tavon Gumi it's a young guy well he's recovering from unfortunately he had he walked into a snare so but the vets that a brilliant job on him and all that and he's recovering further north of Juma so I'm hoping to see him again very soon he's got a beautiful cut I mean it's a leopard that's his rosettes it's a little dots little spots inside of his car it's almost like a Jaguar if you think of a jagger Jagger's got that they've got the rosettes or that little spot in the middle of the rosette so yes unique okay we're gonna link to rexin and to see what's happening with the Lions greater we are still Google approach here the youngster that bunched together very close in most cases you know that the line do that kind of a bunching moment if it gets together it's all about safety they are concerned about uh the area with the art they don't trust anything but if they're like 30 numbers but specially males is how actually to defend one another easily if they get up they can fight anything that approach them at this at the time at the same time all of them so this youngster the third level buys together the females the other females are just on the grass the other side which later on I believe these are young they will do the same it's all about uh again ambushing wait for anything that will have confidence to travel along with a fire break to be free not to get to see something and be surprised with the line in a very short range is our success and it takes place in the area it's just you think uh what's Impala or water that likes to work here go into the water they'll use this road of course so if it's a line on the road it's not an easy easy access that they have to remove out completely Slowly by shoe and allow the space to take place to hunt and be successful is something that uh line also cases you tend to see them doing that but especially if they're all in Adult World more experience you tend to see them they give a space on the road and let the road to be clean BT not a father no and I never have that since I've been in the in the greater service in the great recognition Park here south and private Conservancy we we haven't have that yes old Lions all way back in history I have no I don't deny that in Kruger National Park it has been happening because you know in a world lions that haven't seen human in it many years suddenly they come across with a human being you you fall in the full chain of the land with these lines they see human being in a daily basis and not the voice of BK and how it looks in a daily basis who doesn't interfere in their life the only thing that makes the Lions we compete with them and different areas is when you start to compete with Alliance the competition is dangerous how can computers line all the time come across with them did something happen to the Lions or land become very wild they don't get to see people in a daily basis yes that can happen because they don't know but human beings so that's the reason you find that that incident and the incident can take place where maybe a line interested if a human being but here in service and let me uh close this they are so very relaxed even if you're on foot they'll let you know they're present you can get in between the proud of lions nothing that can happen because they know that a human being is not part of their food chain unless if a wild lions very injured lions that haven't seen humans ages they're still part of Kruger National Park where lies the density human being in daily basis those have become very dangerous but these are so much well habituated to vehicle and Human Bean and foot so the time to understand human being good looking young male what's interesting with the line you look at the Paw of the lines and that tells you genetically of course in future how that particular youngster if we grow up to a big line like this one I believe it will be big male lion but we know that he's not gonna stay here he's gonna go somewhere else and travel somewhere else I was wishing when we get here if we can able to really put a marker on all these lines that are born within our jurisdiction of Juma when they go out somewhere you can able to know exactly which one is this that would be nice or have a notch on the ear it could be left or right but managed to know if you come across with him maybe in timbawati or in in Kruger National Park each and every Conservancy has its own marking that it will be nice because many many of our lines it's very confusing I'll take an example of S8 S8 Mal we we know I've been a guy jet Juma for for a number of years S8 mail come from Torchwood Pride tortured products called Bali Bali pride and he is now become a dominant this site and I'd call it S8 S8 is a road that is very close to a big Dam yeah north of buffers hook which is he used to roam around on that area until he get into independent and we have seen him being alone for many years hunting in and out of that air until you get to challenge a dark Main and they call it essay just over to the other side of the road because it's always in my head the S8 Dam on that area up to the West and now it's toradorama that we know from the history but name of change but if you have Maca you have no you can't debate you can tell this come from churchwood look at him remember the scent of a lion urine defecation it tells the status of that individual oh wow we found an interesting Nest over here in the sickle Bush while we've been driving on the road and uh kind of 100 confirmed and I'd like to get all of you involved as well if you have any idea what this is I'm leaning towards blue wax bull I'm gonna just wait for a few confirmations on that you're as you know Ness can be very difficult because there's so many birds that make sometimes very similar nests with just a small thing that is different but what a place for a nest isn't it so often when we walking through the bush or driving through the bush you often find that these thorn trees um ready to accommodate Birds you want to nest now they're going to understand that birds that are going to make a nest birds are already vulnerable even when they're flying around but you can imagine when there's chicks in a nest they're going to be extremely vulnerable to all sorts of things mainly snakes and so on so birds have adopted some of the birds have adopted the thought of building a nest in a tree where there is lots and lots of thorns or spines or hooks that way they have a little bit of a barbed wire fencing if you will beautiful cup shaped nest looks like a very much a seasonal nest which means that they'll probably use it just for the season and then build a new Nest the following year very interesting if the owner came by here it was interesting in the Kalahari we saw this cape pendulum tit nest and wow what beautiful Archie Architects they are because they actually have a trapdoor in the nest and then false entrance for things like snakes and so on which is very interesting lots of birds actually do this where they'll build false entrances but not this one this is just a cup shape nest just enough space for a few eggs and the adult before now if we look at the the bush that it's in it's also quite a nice Bush This is most definitely the most prolific plant Foundation it's a sickle bush the de crustaceous scenario now as South Africans we know sickle Bush very well because a lot of the firewood that's on the side of the roads that we buy to support local communities and things um most of it is Sickle Bushwood so there's lots of projects in some game reserves where they remove sickle Bush because of its encroaching nature and yeah it can be used as a very great firewood very nice coals and makes it a bonus because you know you're removing a plant that tends to take over but then you're still finding a very good use for it instead of just destroying it beautiful sickle Bush also known as a Chinese lantern and I look forward to the flowering season we can show you those beautiful lanterns I think you'll enjoy them very much so we're just going to have a vehicle by process over here and there we go they are off I'm sure to try and follow up on those lines apparently um this plant has been known to cure headaches and according to the books of babylas now in South Africa the word babalas means a very bad terrible hangover and they say if you eat the leaves then it can cure that sickle Bush the crustaceous scenario they're all lions as they were saying yellow on it's in the nature of Alliance if they get to the road more especially thinking about uh other species that might come into the air as far as War talk they made to clear this uh the space and into the thick bush and give allowance of all species that can really go on to utilize the root and make it free while the lions are unbushing on the side and how easy they may kill mines in part often in many cases that we have experienced myself these lines look like they're lying down and they look like they're gonna settle here and until the sun goes down and start to move they're slowly going back to the tumor Conservancy as you can see they're not even encouraging themselves to head more to the north and look like they're getting active you can see they try to as female grooming yourself they are stretching and all that is a very good sign that the membrane that is placed into the body system of a line called Sun special membrane which is one of the membrane that really tells the uh when the line gets active it need to be activated by yawning stretching that tells you the lungs will get up and move at any time so it happens that uh Reliance now but the look of the female activities that she's doing it's in the nature of the line that uh within a couple um minutes or hour less than an hour they can really move if not they will be active and take action at any time in anything that much comes into the area in order when the line slips most of time they cannot suppress themselves running into the hunting element has to be always ready when the animal comes as the female as I'm speaking speaking the language of the film which is getting up and move she might be continuously moving now at the moment you never know what would be the the thinking of the pride or she might get in close to the water Hall and able to Ambush their weight to see if she can have an opportunity of hunting anything so it's Alliance landlines have biggest pool of course we we don't have uh tiger spring or tigers in the alien Reserve they don't exist but uh the biggest predator that have big with the biggest balls here is the lines of course Lions have huge pores we're just joined by the game drive vehicle and this line looks like she's keeping it's moving slowly by sure it could be something that is dead there maybe flies and I'm not sure but she's now in between these tickets or waving moving slowly back to the South ah let's really enjoying peace with us have animal that preferred by the Lions let's enjoy him all right I was hoping that I could break the surprise that we have found the buffalo no worries we have a herd of buffalo in the water yeah at one of the water holes leopard Dam in fact in the northwest of the Conservancy Brighton's Conservancy this is a wonderful sighting beautiful light it's got the water we've got the sounds we keep quiet for a bit listen to how they move through the water foreign Egyptian goose also trying to get out of the way of the Buffaloes there's more Buffalo rhyming this is beautiful Rick's Rick is just saying that how they wreck uh just love seeing so many Buffalo no Rick this is a relatively good sized herd about a hundred and between 150 I can't really say exactly I've not really counted them but well over a hundred not a size herd I've seen bigger but it's a nice size hood for our area I just love the sounds that's what I like about it when you find them in the bush you know it's okay you can see like 10 or 12 of them at a time you don't really get to see them all together like this and you have them in an open area or when they're drinking when you really appreciate seeing so many of them around question from Alan would a crocodile take on a buffalo Ellen yes they will but it will have to be a very large crocodile the biggest of the biggest because Buffalo is no small creature big Buffalo Bill's way is 800 kilogram so they you need you need a really big crocodile to take crocodiles are funny things they will attended I've seen it multiple times but that's why you often find some of the bigger ones moving into the water first you often won't find the younger ones in front going into the water and it's not because of the crocodiles they want to get ahead and get good quality clean water that's not muddy which is further deeper into the water pool but then behind them the youngsters will drink behind so they create kind of like a barrier because like I mentioned it's possible and it's been recorded but it will have to be a relatively big crocodile the big crocodile in fact foreign things we just don't really need to speak just watch just enjoy and absorb I'm going to keep quiet again what's happening again got some up some comms that were leaking there my apologies I think my earpiece accidentally came undone there do you sometimes imagine what wild Earth would be like without adverts a chance to properly immerse yourself in nature without any interruptions to be an Explorer for a small monthly fee and you can truly Escape Into the Wilderness at reviewing is now available on our app as well as on our website wild Earth it's a new nature please [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] love the sun of them walking through the water and other than drinking water there's also some purpose going into the water oh much like elephants you know they they also need to clean themselves there's also a parasite that they need to get rid of you know so there's also a different purpose to going into the water as well sometimes they have winds uh and that also can wash away some some dirt in the winds uh they might have a fever because of those wounds and getting into the water can cool them down you know so there's this there's all this purpose to what these animals do sometimes it appear that something they do might be rather random it's always purpose I don't reason like us they don't reason they do what we call instinct you might hear the noise of a vehicle or two remember that we also have other operations in the area as well much like we do at Juma and madikweb so she's got one of the guides from elsewhere who also traverses Pride lands is just now leaving this sighting and that's the engine that you heard there I'm still baffled by those lines this morning nobody's found them tracks around here and there but nobody's found the lines but we will probably work that area tonight again would be a bad idea it's getting dark we'll go and uh maneuver around there see if we can't get some luck with cats on his cat today has to be a cat today today cannot not have cats and Katie is just very appreciative there in me sharing a bit of the behind the scenes stuff and Katie yeah well it was kind of like not planned my yep he's got unstuck and my radio app sort of like sort of creating its own mind there but yes I think it's also important that every now and then you know it is mentioned you know as much as we we we are the face that you see and hear as well as the characters the animals but there's so much that are happening behind the scenes in order to make this work in order to connect you to Nature in the way that we do and I just thought at the time it was the right thing to do to mention a few of the role players in the background that are not only vital to what we do but Paramount you know I'll keep an eye on these but see where they're gonna head I think they are slowly moving some of them still lingers around and I think let's go and find out from wrexham what's happening on his Drive lovely thank you so much we left the plant of lions uh lying down boring Flats they're not doing much and I believe that there is a really part of Buffalo that comes from Cheetah cut line we're just crossed finger Maybe they might be coming with the rest of the hummus who the mouse uh three females I hope so yeah maybe that might promote you and I can see a little bit of Dusty yeah the Rocks pack are going or they just come off from the Kudos there's Kudos here but let's join with the breeding heart of Buffalo uh shortly and see what might be behind them we believe that all the time the kahumas will be always behind this uh Buffalo oh yes yes oh lovely you can see something dark just crossing on the road and let me stop here wow beautiful female so all the time with the lines the love following Buffalo of course there might be something special with this particular head that they are wide they're always behind them it's not all true hunt and be successful but there's a huge benefit from the lines and I believe that slowly by sure there might be going straight towards the dam or the mud come across with the two females and four supper that I doubt that they can really try on a bigger head like this that might cost themselves a big trouble if they try to hunt in a head like this may it could be death because you know that uh a buffalo can fight well more especially in a daylight like this unless if they wait until it get dark and then they can able to sneak behind the buff and try to separate but what you need to do two females is not the main it's not uh actually the female that can have manpower to bring down a fully grown Buffalo unless if the youngster but especially in a head like this where the head can really protect one another easily so for two females might be driven off by the force of the old males that are here there's a lot of soldiers here that fight back from lions and remember that very much experience also defending that's the reason they're still within the head and they still have energy it's better if they're very old carry with I mean have those experience and be isolated and it's easy for Alliance how long the Buffalo can stay in one area by the look of the thing and look at the grass level in the area this Buffalo will match too we we have them until end of July because some of the era aren't Untouchable at the moment there's no I mean they haven't went on that area due to um they are already trying one area or they know that there's lions in that particular area and they don't want to go there until the lines move from one area to another then they take over on that particular areas how I say that if you look at most of the area to the west of uh before Damon that it I've been seeing this Buffalo moving in there is where most of the alliance were coming on today and every day there's lines in and out from the physics sign all the way down to the breakfast hook so Lions tend to be like that area and the Buffalo they don't like that either to move quite a lot if you look at the areas here they might stay here for at least three to four weeks easy Buffalo won't stay like one four weeks in one area they'll move out and come back move out and come back and until this grass is all flattened it's where every uh okay let's take them from the cheetah Cash Line because it's very often we can see the best of this uh a pretty head of Buffalo look at the mouse here oh these are Big Boys very healthy strong and that one have a Stumpy towel it might be from the lines it's very experienced when it comes to lines and I don't think you stay with the head it's a bachelor boy that sometimes it happens that he joins the head if the head come across a theme in the areas like this foreign sorry you're asking questions the Buffalo checks look like a another antelope but it's confusing with another Antelope a little bit a little bit there but the Buffalo shape tracks are very much easy very unique to others it will be if you're confused with the Buffalo how can your eyes uh to cut uh is very small Buffalo it's very fat and round where you look at a domestic shape of uh domestic cow shape of the tracks is how actually it's not it's not really it won't confuse you at all but especially in in in this area where you know that all the time is Buffalo there's no currently involved in the surrounding that don't look the same at all if you look at the giraffe shape tracks is very longish if you look at the buffalo very short and very well placed on the ground you can tell us that this Buffalo I don't think this is a buffalo they're going towards Buffalo there looks like they are moving out of here here they move to this up if they carry on along cheetah cut line it means they'll ended cross over into the Abe Facebook in the street uh sort of Direction unless if they tend to left towards water the mud come from the water at uh or torture them so now it's then area where they need to settle down for the night because it's in the nature of the Buffalo to do so they will prefer an area where there's no bushes and there's no line that they can able to disturb them use the environment you need to see also who is coming from the distance and able to be in in position to fight all the time is very good to look at the back where the Buffalo coming from if you find that it is followed by the lines the lines will be started no move to say let's turn back and everybody will be saved but you can tell nobody has gone across yet nobody has gone across guys they are still there I'm sure a few have been strong you know trampled already you couldn't have come at a bit of time we've got a mother cheater she's running into this herd of topi wildebeest and zebra and who knows maybe she spotted a youngster that she thinks she can single out it seems like she may have look at these shots fascinating well done Manu who are you going after what have you found it's a young topi she's got it can you believe it here come the adults coming back from the right they've stopped let's stay on her because maybe even these zebra will have a go at her can you believe it seems like we are just lost transmission there in a moment or two but be back now that's the main thing buffaloes are still around or some of them the front end of the herd is now slowly moving in a what appears to be an eastern Southeastern Direction slowly grazing away from the water hole a couple of old Bulls a couple of old cars still enjoying the water and like elephants I find that watching Buffalo at a water hole it's a very calming thing for me specifically I I really take a lot of Bliss out of it Linda Paul is loving this Buffalo kind of show as Linda's mentioned there yeah well if that's on offer then we take it you know if sometimes there's lots of elephants sometimes the lions are up and about sometimes it's Buffalo and they are very impressive creatures one of the big five of Africa look at that couple of old big old Bulls just in the water there especially this one waiting through the water big old fellow look at them well it sounds like Cedric has found some Lions so we're gonna go there in a moment and I'm gonna try and do the same I'm gonna also try and see if we cannot get some Lions let's get over to Cedric all right we got a young male with two young males here and uh actually five okay we're not five young males but we've got four young males uh two on the termite Mound that's we can see now for now and then we've got Mohawk that's a little bit further up on the road but we will try and get around to go and see if we can view him I do apologize there is other vehicles that is in the sighting at the moment but you can see Mohawk the big dominant male in front with four of his sons so they're all moving up a cheetah cut line so they're moving on the west eastern boundary of Juma they're heading north and I won't be surprised if they are going to try and see if they can get to those and Guma females because remember these young males are from them Kuma pride and of course Mohawk is the dominant male is the dominant lions that rexen has got at the moment so we shall see how far these guys go but they're all walking straight Upland look it's gonna yawn and that means he's gonna move your own and I'm sure he's gonna he's gonna get up now and he's thinking okay I'm falling behind I need to catch up so these are you can see four young boys I think that there he is of course these males are coming from 2019 litter try and get in front this summer and try and get a beautiful wallpaper but I've got so much dust in my eyes now I'm trying to even trying to focus here it's a little bit tough girl you say it is a lion Saturday yes or something about South Africa yeah it is well it is a very much a treat just watching these Alliance here in South Africa absolutely stunning and you can see it looks like the youngest of uh the four might be chiller's son that might be lagging behind here because chiller's son is the youngest of the four males the young males from 2019. all right we have to try and see how we're going to maneuver this how are we going to get around it because there's a lot of there's all three other vehicles ahead of us so I've just got so much dust in my eyes with all the vehicles coming past you um but we're gonna see if we can wangle this I'm thinking you know what you should do we should go around and get them that's anywhere now listen I'm gonna go around [Music] but then of course today I was moving this time of the day perfect time of the day the sun is just setting slowly but chillier to the west of us and of course now the lines or leopards everything is getting now quite active unfortunately I cannot go on to this side of the road because this is Torchwood [Music] so yeah we'll just have to stay behind the lines would have been nice to go right I wanted to do that just actually have a nice walk walk by that that's not gonna work just trying to figure out how we're going to do this as you can see with the vehicles is on the side so as I said we cannot go to the right due to another property original traversing on but let's just follow them and uh what's coming up now is Central so if Essentials not too far from here so let's go and see what we can do get to Central side um let's see if we can get around them very nice to see these all these boys and of course mohawk but just sneezed it as you can see a little just walking nicely how beautiful is that lions in a row last time of the evening that's just to follow them at this time at least we can still see them in daylight perfect and you'll see they'll cover this distance very quickly they'll get to those females in the next say 15-20 minutes thank you joining us from the Mohawk and his own blood then moving to the north I'm not sure whether they can keep up with the pace of the Buffalo it looked like they have moved far but uh ahead one as this uh the two uh female and the supper that look like the Buffalo they're surrounded by the line from the north and southern side of the Buffalo itself and see what's going to happen maybe it's the time where the sub other to hook up with the father and able to join together and make a bigger picture of a pride where the female also need to participate on Hunting it needs Manpower of course maybe we might see them hunting something big as from tomorrow maybe around the area where they're going who knows never know if all the Buffalo joins together look at the baby buffalo they're all happy playing they're celebrating for a night we never know what the night will be because the Lion's still staying behind them but you know that you have huge benefit being as a young ones because they always stays in the middle of the head and off course yes the Buffalo males will protect them but it's differ if your Buffalo decide to run when the line pressurized if they decide to run the youngster are vulnerable and it's a choice of lines especially in a bigger picture for Pride to go for the youngster because you don't use a lot of strength of course to keep the young one you have to able to kill it very quick and able to benefit it's in their blood as lies to select something up all this female you can see those are lagging behind that will be always in trouble because that it shows that might be you need to give back or maybe it's something that really not going well in the body system are those who lion was going to benefit on them lovely and I know that Cedric have joined the Mohawk and his family and we'll see Hardware because if we follow this Buffalo and see the reaction of the uh the sub adults and the two females how it's going to be of course but we'll take this opportunity from this time and that towards the land because the main character now is not a buffalo it's a lion reaction that tells you that it can hunt the Buffalo or not so we're gonna head straight to the line and build the line and see as Buffalo can get coming close what will be at the reaction which is great cute to get the extra uh it's really enjoying playful enjoying the time of the benefit of in in a head like this because it's so much easy for them probably don't see the danger yeah there might be like oh let's enjoy mom and dad foreign how beautiful is this Mohawk the second one of course in the line that is the father of these four other young males and oh this is so precious having all the boys together father and his sons the four sub-adult males and look at this all coming straight down the road oh that's almost when I start crying looking at this this is amazing and you can see he's a very proud male and I'm happy for him I'm happy that his sons are just sticking with him like this so it just shows you but maybe they'll will assist him if any other males do come into the area you'll find at least he's got the backing off his young boys to try and defend this territory and defend their pride from other nomadic mouths coming in so of course yes it is such a pleasure watching these uh lines grow up and I think it's amazing and it's and they're growing up to become real boys they're like almost like not boys but like men and it's amazing others male is just showing Mulk is just showing them exactly how to go about the movements and how to find the rest of the pride oh this is special wow oh they're going to come right past me I'm just going to keep nice and slowly as long as mile doesn't eat my leg I'm very happy I'm just gonna lean to the side I can actually touch him from where I am now I can touch him hmm amazing wow there goes another two younger ones I think this one might be chill as a young male so all these young males were born in around about 2019. so that makes him coming on to four years old hey boy he's coming right past me as well they're getting so big so what they might do I think they might have heard the females contact calling this morning and my old heard that and of course he said okay well let's move and let's try and follow up on uh the rest of the pride and see if we can get them in the early evenings and yes of course the smells known as a lip score so he's got a little score on his top left-hand side of his lip MJ from New York yes so I think one of them is purple eyes sudden this one is I think this is Ridge nose's son if I'm not my uh mistaken sorry this is the one with the scar on the lip I think this is Ridge nose's son it's Originals he's one of the females she's still pretty much uh she's broken away from the rest of the pride she's continued further south into London logis I think she's got Cubs of her own so yes all right we are going to try and reposition here um but look at that Sunset let's just enjoy that sunset for a few for a minute or we can try and reposition all right let's go let's go and yeah how was that that was freaking amazing sorry I actually started crying a little bit sorry this is [Music] all right let's head over to Rickson on a safari World I'll try and re-position here we go lovely look like it's lying everywhere we decided to leave the buffalo and trans female I realized that lies that uh it might become more exciting earlier or I mean later on the weight the Lines Moving they look like they're moving straight to the north behind the the buffalo so let's see the reaction of the female here how it's gonna be but if it becomes one lock sighting move to the West and I believe in a direction where the they can able to get the commission of the Buffalo as the moving and calling the youngster adult playing competition fighting one another the town travels especially when the Sun set down I believe can help maybe they're still in the same location oh as I was saying look like they're out oh witnessing the sunset even the lions like the sunset sometimes you know it's very interesting yeah beautiful the lines looking direct where the Sun is setting and look at the beautiful sun thanks thanks uh BK BK just put in the line so it's concentrating on the like oh my god there might be these line moving because the Buffalo are tending to be getting close and making lots of activities that the line can hear the man able to move wow I might be confused here look like a these are the little bit uh the sub adult here is a little bit older the one in the middle between the two females she can participate on a hunt nothing can stop them doing so I've seen three female Bringing Down the buffalo so it could have it can happen how big the line can be named man can get oh they start in this age if you look at between these lines that might be 12 years old they're starting to develop men I believe that um yeah big case that you show you that they made the part of that's her mouth it is showing off that's it developed man hi statute development from 12 years old he started to show the main in the age of uh three and a half four years he said to be lecturing as a ml around five you can tell that he's really um adults in in three and a half it shows much but you can still call him safaris where they start to like move out from the pride of female and start to form their own coercion of Mars to challenge I look at this female she's looking direct there I believe Mohawk and the boys as they're coming these guys they're able to hook with them and there might be a kill this female looks like a very very clean and uh it's a high demand today for them to make a kill so if you join the forces of the well with the female because female are very very active and very light they can happen that uh easily they make a kill tonight so we don't know where it's going to happen it's gonna happen in our area it'll happen in perfect but we'll celebrate as long as this female have a kill will be really appreciating because yes with the sub added they have to feed themselves otherwise they cannot be able to be defending themselves against anything that really challenged them so due to uh the the size of the Buffalo sometimes you might just find this female thinking about something smaller as they're looking North Direction and listing around they're not sleeping yet they're listening where it might be a little bit of activities of uh Antelope than they can head on that direction the Lions can hear fall sense of hearing is very well developed if those buffalos start to stop beat the only think that the femur can really do is to run in a direction knowing that it could be lions that staying behind them Shield has been some a couple of years two to one to two years really linked to Cedric and Mohawk and see what they're up to fish all right well we've got a slow Mohawk and he's four Sons still coming straight North Upper cheetah cut line and uh as you can see on the left hand side the father a very proud father having these boys with him he is walking like a king that's our field not for him it just seems like it he's like so so chuffed that he's got his sons like this with him no females five males and look at the one male on the far right hand side that's that Amber I mail that's a one that you saw the other day around chilipat and that and uh you can see he is located he came back to the rest of the to the pride or to the Coalition we can almost call them a coalition because you must remember one day these four males um even with milk but I think with more the four youngsters they are gonna move away they're gonna go and create the Coalition of their own so they're going to be walking together like this many many a Time for the rest of their lives and creating an informia Coalition very important but you can see look at Mohawk he's got his nose down just sniffing maybe trying to sniff out where those females are so I'm sure they're gonna end up with him not too long maybe in the next 20-30 minutes yeah but I really parked right next to them have a nice walk by with Andrea taking some amazing videos here yeah beautiful Linda Paley it is so precious I I can't cite any more that how amazing this sighting is it's you know how warming it is especially we all know my work of course one of the Avoca males he used to be three brothers and unfortunately two of them have have passed away last year and just to see him still walking around like that looking proud uh proud of himself having those beautiful boys behind him um that is just exactly a fairy tale story almost for him and these are the two excuse me these two are always the two that hey on their own time you guys can catch up yep wow what a cat today we are having I can't ask for a better cat today and having this kind of sighting yeah I would have it every single day if I have to while Karen uh why are Karen no not really look it is my heart does start starts beating a little bit you know a bit quicker but other than that it's not you know as long as you remain calm and remain seated that's the main thing and don't move quickly slow movements always believe in slow movements and they're not bothered but yes it's always like that adrenaline of uh it's right next to Andrea look at Andrea she's loving her she's just watching this male coming past almost it's almost almost flicking her there's a face there and he's loving it I am I'm absolutely loving this wow that is like it's just a it just shows I mean even before so youngsters like this they're big you know when they're next to you can actually always people think of those you know oh they're not so big but when you see the line right next to the vehicle if you're on foot yes I didn't really see the size [Music] giving that one likes Odie quite a bit that one with the score on the left keeps on giving an ID a little bit lines but yeah you know what that's the last of them so we'll see what we can do and try and reposition I know that there is other vehicles in the area because we are not cut line so we will most probably have to make space very very soon there's a third one the vehicle uh station anybody maybe my radius broke thanks to our wonderful world with explorers wild Earth kids is back your monthly subscriptions have allowed us to relaunch Wildwood schools on a weekly basis every Wednesday for the first hour of the sunset Safari you guys bring a smile to my face every single day sign your class up for a special virtual field trip to Africa because touching the lives of the future Protectors of our Earth thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign yeah the Buffalo looks like the boys they cross into Torchwood I'm not sure yet but I can understand the guys talking there I would take time to come to the buffalo and it seems like myself and BK we decided to smart to come towards this uh pride of lines and see that reaction will follow them we there's no way that we can leave them if the Buffalo close by we follow we were deciding to go and check the about joint the Buffalo and come back for them but you know that the minute you leave them if they decided to walk in a ticket you won't find them again they will be lost until maybe you have to wait until they get close to the buffalo and for them to decide getting close to the Buffalo it might take a couple hours half an hour 45 minutes before even showing off because they need to really foreign approach they will place individually in different areas and try to come in in a different direction of the species itself until they get close all of them they can move at the same time approach which it confuses the Buffalo because you come from the left right East North South there's line everywhere then the Buffalo milk decided to run as soon they run not all Jeremy line territory still remain the same until the line of the Buffalo gets into line surgery is how actually it works they'll have the totally when the Buffalo gets in there they will able there sometimes where the lines of course they follow the breeding head of Buffalo from moving one area to another but especially in a very dry season that is migration when the animals migrate they migrate with them and follow them but they cannot stay in certain areas where they're migrating him because the territorial boundaries is very well respected and very restricted by other male lions or pride of females so if they come across in areas where they're not allowed to go is pacified so but it happens that they follow this breathing and of course for water and food at the same time that is more important for Lions it's not all the time but sometimes it do happen like that for instance if you look at the uh this Pride here they came in in the area because it's their area first time when the um Mohawk and the boys they were shouting the whole night but it looked like the way after the S8 well so it is the time where or it's a moment where Mohawk is reclaiming back his area there's raising the females are all here in order to utilize the area because Mohawk was around in the area and tried to establish well and push its eight mil away from the era that he used to utilize before he had stretched to the South so it's coming but you might find that uh down south you might have competition with the boys and decided oh I'm back into the era that it's normal to me to be around because I've been there before it's my territory you know telemati and kohumas they used to share the same uh territorial melts in the area so must were like moving from between the two Pride uh from The Breakfast cook and also in Gary to the South so that's raising Mohawk is back into the area and sometimes used to come I didn't able to jump across God remain he was like and head back south he never pushed that much back into the area and now he's back the reason behind that we might find that also winter plays a very important role to all species that in the area but especially with the movement of uh Buffalo either on as you're saying that's reason is back in the area knowing that the Buffalo the utilize the era for the rest of the winter and before they head out in summertime so you know that area is very rich and does have a lot of water after water and healthy grass where it will attract many species as migration to come unsettling area so he's not coming back with his boys and able to challenge the nice looking lines my ts is amazing when I see we're gonna see the activities of these lines and it's cool I mean it would be nice unless if they had no across the boundary that will be something that uh I didn't wish for the afternoon I was wishing them to go instead is enjoying the Buffalo and Hunt around the buffalo whom are very experienced on Hunting Buffalo this is in the history and I have no doubt I believe that if Buffalo get close they will try something okay this is a very such amazing if you look at the femur that we on you can hear vehicle moving toe people talking you see the black spot behind the ears it tells that he's focusing on the sound that's coming from the road he listened quite a lot with the as raising these animals are very clever sometimes we we don't think as the animal can communicate as we do these pieces they do they can recognize even voice trouble voice people who are causing trouble and people who are able to really participate lot and respect nature all right so we leave the left those five uh male lines Mark these four sons are still moving up unfortunately it's a very busy sighting that so because it's on a cut line what I'm doing now I'm just gonna go further west central I'm just gonna go and scratch around a little bit maybe towards back towards Treehouse Dam side I'm just gonna look around that area just to see if we're gonna be lucky with any other cats for the evening it is getting quite dark so at the moment we are still in color we haven't gone into infrared because it's still beautiful lights around because the sun has set but it's still like this ambient light it's stunning man staying come on and as you can see in the distance they're beautiful then yes it's been a little it's been a fantastic afternoon with all the lions I really agree Ben experiment there will be a cat today I'm sure those males might end up going to us in Groom or females I don't know if Braxton is still on the sighting there but I guess we'll see you tomorrow morning thank you all right into one of the dubs I'm just going to take a look at some beautiful colors in front of us he's gonna enjoy this moment of silence and enjoy the sounds of nature we were just a little bit light to catch the actual Sun but in time for that beautiful glow that it's leaving behind now that it's gone down you can almost see the layers of dust and a bit of fleece clouds and so forth and that's all just adding to the color look at that isn't that pretty a beautiful glow beautiful it's this time of day where we just literally relax kind of like just take our thoughts back and just re-run the day in our minds appreciate what we've experienced and also appreciate the fact that the day is done night night time's coming into creatures of the night are going to start to move very soon we're in that sort of transition period where neither the day or nighttime animals are really active but nah it gives us that opportunity to just look at this beautiful beautiful colors out in the sky and just soak it up and it's almost intensifying in front of our eyes beautiful beautiful sky right so we specifically made our way to this particular spot where we are and that's because this is the area where you heard the Lions this morning Megan Edwards yes indeed Beauty in the bush and that's exactly what we're going to try and do is after this we're going to work around a bit with our nighttime equipment and see if we cannot Scratch Out the Lions they were roaring somewhere around in this region this morning over and above the one that is roaring at Camp there was another group roaring where we roughly where we are now and that's another thing why I'm parked here maybe we start hearing them but we are going to work around this area tonight hopefully to find a lion yeah at pridelines it will be prize number one you've got just over an hour to achieve that and that's why I'm pausing every now and then just literally to listen out if we don't hear them it's normally the time when they could be starting the nighttime vocalizations there is nothing at the moment that I can hear that and you are a hundred percent right there Lola indeed indeed no matter what type of sunset we have always always great to watch you can almost see like a purple color on top now according to emerge now we couldn't even time our sun set today see exactly what time it went down we were not in time to see the actual sun going down we were still trying to make our way up to this point and it's okay we've got another date and another day and another date and another day and another day you can see it how it's just getting richer and richer those colors my favorite time of the day love it absolutely love it no no Lions calling yet we will once we start driving after this we'll rig all our gadgets for nighttime operation but we'll drive around every so 10 minutes or so we'll just stop quickly listen for about two minutes or so Drive and just keep working the area that's our plan I'm I'm actively targeting those lions this evening limited time but I've got a good feeling I've got a very very good feeling with regards to this evening and its lions all right let us fix all our gadgets for night time and then let's head over to rexen in the meantime who's aren't driving around looking for animals great we have made now have this uh lions I'm moving at the moment heading towards the direction of the head of the Buffalo what we're going to do we're going to stand with them and see I listen you see that's kudu you see how they move the walk listening all the time and look at where the scientific come from I wonder how could you get to support this because we're a little bit low down maybe it might be one of the female that's just a little bit more ahead with us without noticing from our area so let's see how it works Slowly by sure going for Buffalo another Cedric is coming with the other Pride coming behind the Buffalo here's another part coming in the front of Buffalo let's see it's like a competition that we're having uh celebrating the water Hall and see which boat will be faster than the other one today let's see which the first pride of line that are going to get to the Buffalo fast and make activities they stay with them I'll let you go ahead of this uh and see how far is the Buffalo are not far from here they've already seen the lines they can move furthermore to the east I'm not sure yet that the Lions have smelled the Buffalo or not but let us see our fight is Buffalo and reposition ourselves for reaction of course I doubt that they would go out there they'll start to smell the buffalo might come a way but what I don't really guarantee if it get dark I mean the Lions they tend to be so much active in the Buffalo are unpredictable by that time so you have to be always play the safety of ourselves I can't see the Buffalo now here just check uh yeah someone told me that uh there is a Lonely Bull very close to the area where we are but look at the rest of the Buffalo the Mata had it uh towards the that's when I won these guys this line are coming straight direct here I wonder why M4 questions Sheila so lions are walking right here very close where they have drink stop lines at night it's such a very dangerous animal especially working here are you ready for our next donation goal for our generous donors who contribute 100 US dollars or more we're offering a once in a lifetime private Safari experience you will be able to choose Lauren Steve or Cedric as your personal guide and enjoy an authentic private wild Earth Safari let's hit that donation goal and embark on an unforgettable Journey Through the Wilderness together [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] Goose they're pretty cool to see much larger than an Egyptian goose and I can only just imagine how much fish oh there goes the Fish Eagle look at that reflection oh and the Egyptian goose again I'm not very happy May goes off the Fish Eagle nice camera work compo beautiful so I'm just gonna try and watch this Fish Eagle and see where it goes it'd be interesting to find the nest I would love to find a fish eagle nest but one of the nests that I really want to find in my life and and see is the crowned eagle nest now apparently the amount of um of Bones and skulls that you find at the base of a crowned eagle Mist because you know the adults they catch things and they take it back to the nest and the bones and skull fall out sometimes and get thrown out and it's actually amazing the amount of mammals that they get through it's the crowned eagle great are we back with this uh line look like they establish a hunting at the moment one famous just gone across to the north and the rest are still waiting looking around where the female she's going to we had this beauty before we get here in the area so a few months is going a big loop around maybe coming towards a behind the kitty try to force them to go away the rest of the pride might be and they start to move now it could be something that that really wants to move forward and they're not even knows that there's a pretty head of Buffalo that comes from North not far from where they are and also the pride the rest of the pride or Mars they are with the Buffalo behind if action take place these guys they might be able to know what's going on but it will take time before they're able to recognize that is the part of the uh pride of course because it's so much dangerous to respond in any line price that might be in the area let me try to reposit on soft according to the movement of these lines it might happen that the mud crossed into breakfast at any time if diesel it means that we cannot able to follow them anything to our rights and above to the ahead of my Straight Ahead we cannot able to follow up as as I speak the Crossing into breakfast book which is none of our area let me reposit myself quickly then I able to show you where they're going wow that's goodbye we cannot follow up they're going our way Slowly by Shore with the rest of the pride which are maybe they'll communicate if the pride the rest of the pride gets into the area was specially Mohawk and the boys they might want to join with the sisters and able to be having manpower to follow up this Buffalo but look at going to the direction of the rest of the kudu that were here we have seen four or five goody earlier on myself and BK well still a little bit tougher light they were here we had made a segments so it could be them and neither going towards the a single pen which is a little bit more to override which is gone all of them they go behind um the thick bushes we cannot able to follow up so we'll try to bumble around and look maybe we might find something better for us for the evening who knows let's try our best Maybe the guys who managed to follow them and they're able to update us in the morning but I know that uh secret is with the Mohawk and a boys let's see whether after I know that uh they're all gone to the Thicket and look like they were stalking a buffalo I don't want to go far as that area or due to the vehicle impact in the surroundings that wants to go to the same area so try to take a fire break head straight to the west and look for opportunity of anything that might in a western area from yeah that'll be good they will matter the transporter leopard who knows and from heading west along the fabric checking here if you might find lucky with the leopard let's link to Cedric and see what he's up to foreign corner of the property just to see if we're also going to have a little bit of luck with some rosettes so I can say Andrea can have a leopard for the for the evening so I'm going to try my utmost best and see maybe should do all tortoise pen will come out for us maybe some lipid luck well we've had some great line luck today oh any other nocturnal animals maybe maybe a dog that's it an artwork that'll be good but we saw my favorite my fiery neck tonight job oh yes we also got to see uh Andrea's favorite bird not too long ago a fiery neck and night job beautiful bird love them especially they're cool I think they're calls uh that's like the pretty part about them yeah just reminds you that you're in the bush when you hear that call I don't know just there's something about it's almost like a real South African bird call it feels like you know oh what's this oh my goodness I'm gonna Whitetail Mongoose a white-tailed mongoose look at that hey you of course A nocturnal Mongoose a specie so our bunny is a happy birthday to Audrey P oh a happy birthday to you Audrey P from all of us and from Jive bunny and from the white-tailed Mongoose as well bouncing and hopping away of course Very Much solitary not like your banded mongoose and your dwarf Mongoose have more in those families of course this is Whitetail Mongoose solitary but you can see why they call it a white-tailed Mongoose they've got a big fluffy white tail I was hunting little scorpions and spiders let's go around on the floor and even rodents I like little mice and gerbils maybe so nice to see I think if you see them that often but you'll usually find them on the open clearings but you has very uncommon anyway well we are going to watch this Whitetail Mongoose a little bit longer let's head over to Andrew as he's got a beautiful sunset yeah we've got an awesome awesome Sunset over here and it's just really nice to have you know the dam the hills and in the sunset it is really beautiful while we've been sitting here just watching we've noticed a few few things one of the things that we've noticed is that there are insects because he's spawning out the water so you might just hear like a whole lot of looks like ripples in the water those small tiny little ripples these are insects spawning out the water and shortly followed um or a little bit of Rises especially eating those spawned insects we do apologize for the picture breakup there I hope it's all good now this reminds me you might as I used to go fly fishing with my father he used to really be patient the art of fly fishing and I remember just seeing the ripples in the water it was beautiful oh we've got the Little Whitetail Mongoose just ran off so we've got a whole bit of traffic here stop here a little bit of traffic in front of us because civilian infrared so we're not going to put any lights on except the infrared light you can see all the Impalas and it's crossing over females and a little male a few of them around you of course many times you're finding Pilots moving over to these open clearings at night time feeling a little bit safer at least I don't they don't get surprised by any Predators if they're in the thickets help it coming here are you know in a distance whooping away let's see the male left behind um we just are finding it very difficult to start the vehicle and drive away when there is something just so beautiful we just seemed absolutely dead quiet or we can hear and see here is natural sounds and natural things I don't see any foreign lights I don't see any you know buildings or poles everything that my eyes can see and Paul's eyes can see here is all natural it's beautiful to hear the three band of plovers calling on them aside and moments ago we had some Egyptian geese that were sitting in one of the tops of the dead dead trees and it might just come back now but the one went straight on little Weaver's nest so I'm not sure if they're using the top of it and nesting on it but it'll be interesting just to watch that in the next upcoming days white bright scrub Robins calling they're often called at this time as the sun is just about to disappear the white broad scrub Robins become very active in their calling you can even hear the arrow Mark bablas far away okay we are gonna start bumbling back uh towards yeah the East and then stop talking about Bumble great are we are on Central heading west the um mohawk on the boys they had it in a block between Robert and far break towards them either safe it's very thick we decided to leave them but we were not really after that the females across into the north we just had on a radio that one male come very close to a buffalo and they were scared to take off for Buffalo and the Buffalo ran and stop and face the Lions and they're like all in one area it always turned off until in the morning I believe that nothing that's gonna happen especially if a buffalo numbers like that they tend to be like not an easy hand let's see um early in the morning the first thing is to go and check around there where perfectly Dam to the East and see if the line have better progress or not I said a few miles they might contact with these boys at night I believe that they might come back they won't spend time in and off because nothing area is not that territory yet that men have taken them and be sure that is it well is not going to trouble them this has to be back in this area we might find them in the morning let's see if we can find the lamba here the lavas is now very rich you see here she's moving in the Airways it's more isolated with us maybe they think it stays here drainage lines there's quite a lot of water now for leopard too early show off at Gary Dam all the time all these donations still have sipping water so that's the reason you fight at the leopard sometimes I'd rather see and the checks of TP cross the city north the gas I find TP now around S3 Central maybe on that era not far from where we have seen tracks of uh shidulu into that uh Corner she is cutting more towards uh West as I said that he can't go far from that area if the cops are there definitely it looks like the cups are not far from that area in the morning it's also the best you go and check the Western a cut line up to that uh triangle shape corner if he's not back to check on the youngster because Tavern again as a dominant man has to check his offspring he's not going to be trouble some of the mail you tend to see that they will stay more in a den than the other melts other Mouse tend to see a move a lot try to make sure they Patrol the boundaries and make sure there's no other male getting in that's a hippopool it's a hippodang I thought maybe it's a leopard sketch I was pretty excited to see that in order to see where the direction of the leopard if it was going up I should have to follow up hey Scrappy you see in a road car you're talking are you asking if Mohawk meet up with the other mouths it's the question of course it can happen but at the stage it's impossible because Mohawk has got his own soldiers you know the behavior of the male all the time is to defend the air and defend the females so Mohawk at the moment he cannot allow mouse that may more especially in that age that they will be there to take over from him and made with the female or kill all the offspring that will send brings the female into issues he cannot allow that to happen he'll defend you'll fight that's reason we will hear him calling maybe Turman again more especially in the area where is now hunting with those boys the reason that always being five together is trying to get rid of other Mercator I might be moving in the area of course well special those are average sexual maturity because their main aim is to mate the young male that uh we have seen him with him still young even Rich the yet the section of maturity and he's in a nomadic male and is trying to form Coalition you might still accepts as a part of the equation but that is depend and also very dangerous for the young man one day will witness something maybe you'll never know with this line line Dynamics and also how lies behave in general some of the issues we we predict a lot you might find that that young man somehow is related with the Avoca a males all of the avocas from the Blondie the dark Main and also a mohawk himself is that on blood that uh maybe tomorrow have mattered to females down in the north talamatis and now it's becoming independent and gets in the area there's no way that the male lion can accept that young male in that regard if they're not related in blood so I've seen quite a lot where young males if they get in like that they get killed immediately after so for him to leave him and join him with him in a kill somehow there's a link they might be related that can happen but I know for the fact because lines are like that if Mohawk come across with blondie um Offspring you will send bloody Offspring as his own offspring if you come across with the dark main Offspring You're not going to harm them at all so that could be possibilities of that young male is part of the gene pool of the avocas see how it goes oh look at this in front of us is something which uh it doesn't like light coming close stop here look at the road on the road yes bring out of elephant they enjoying the life here it's something that is really right we see now they spend a lot of time maybe away from us or in the tickets you'll never know and also the most of the head of course here they've migrated out of the area doing some areas where they're really happy about it that's raising you tend to see a few elephant it happens that it could be elephant that we know it could be an elephant that they just come recently or these are the permanent resident elephant that always in and out of the era which they can cover fast such a huge distances to move in the area you know that elephant day they can cover up to 100 kilometers if they want to if it's a demand if not they can be so relaxed because the era itself it trains them in their head that the amazing move because water is always in the area and of course most of the animal water is a problem and they can migrate from one area to another due to water source a leopard condom yes a rod block Alice is something that you really want to see in the course of a daylight but unfortunately look like a they are not uh be seen around in the area they need to hide away from us we're not going to spend time with them of course we are heading slowly back to the camp we are having a a faster chat today we are do the preparation we still have a few minutes to go so by the way we need to carry on it was a leopards yes of course we'll spend the time with the leopard oh no I don't cross the road foreign we have set a new Target join us as we strive to reach our next donation goal of 11 000 US Dollars by the end of June if we succeed get ready for an unforgettable survival special in one of our Sunset safaris witnessing credible skills of Stephen Lauren as they tackle challenging tasks like building shelter making fire and finding water and food donate now and be a part of wild Earth's first survival challenge [Music] thank you thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right [Music] foreign [Music] I just got into the top area because it's nice and warm on the elevated areas because yeah in these little dubs it's quite cold because of the catabatic air pressure system because all the cold air just sinks to the low lying areas and in a hot air rises to the higher points foreign quarantine or on this open area maybe there's a predator around the P have I ever tried to see the big seven in one day well this p um I have seen the big seven in one day but that is very uncommon I haven't I've seen that maybe two or three times and when they say the big seven of course it's your big five plus the wild dogs and cheetah as well I don't know when last I have at the big seven a long time ago maybe a year or two ago Andrea have you had the big seven no [Laughter] no yes I wish well we got uh uh three of the five tonight with the elephant got the Rhino and we got the Lions would be nice as to finish ended up for some uh rosettes yeah I agree I mean yeah I think that red line sighting that we had with those male lines walking down the road counts for all seven uh fully I agree it was magical it was a beautiful exciting it one of my Master's male Heights my own sightings I've had for a long time especially that to do us and my work and these times uh Dr Andrews Caroline's asking what has been your highlight of today that is the easiest question to answer it was definitely Mohawk walking with his sons it was I I felt so emotional actually I'm in a complete awe it was incredible incredible experience it was um you saying it's almost uh we're in tears I felt that I had like this like not in my throat yeah and I was like I don't usually get easier not to my throat and I don't know for some other reason that male lines and that walk by was just uh yeah it just put that not there all right it looks like there's oh we're gonna try another road and see if we can find something sometimes you can get your little white-tailed Mongoose right around you oh no yeah Vicky B if you like a leopard popping out oh there's a scrubby that's popping out maybe it would be nice to have a leopard popping out but looks like we're getting the the scrub is that's uh doing doing the job I think it's just running it's it's that scrubby is racing down the road and then I don't even know if Rusty can even keep up with that one but yes we keep it it'll be nice it would be fantastic if we get there the last minute Leopard coming over all right well we're gonna continue let's head over to Rex and I think he's found something spotted great we are really come across with these two hyena look like a lying down flat it's not just because they're feeling cold the reason behind I hear is time for this hyena they don't want to spend an effort but moving around here without knowing where they're going they are listening wears the lines and where's the leopard is any interaction around in the area that they can respond remember hyena they have a very good sense of a hearing and sometimes they use sense of a smile to locate the kill and it looks like they are starting to move these are the sub-old amazing maybe they are waiting for something to to move ahead on them then they can stay behind without knowing that it is hyena coming behind them it's very common at quarantine there's a lot of activities of hyena that comes here at night hoping for the leopard to come through here and able to follow up and make easy decision when they make kills then they can steal the kill away or really interact and you never know who's gonna fight who's gonna win if a leopard wins he wins if a hyena wins wins but most of the cases with the hyenas two hyena are a lot more powerful than a lonely leopard as male or female doesn't matter [Music] these are the names of the hyena that's working here please try to see what they're up to you never know maybe they're staying behind a leopardy let the leopard go because once the leopard realized that these are hyena uh close by there will be no progress on the leopard itself Willie Paulie thank you celebrating the hyena look like he's been wild looking for the sighting we try I'm sure earlier on set went South looking on the den if the hyena active but most of time they come from the the North quarantined and head south you'll never know whether the old old hyena Dan around the opposite if it's active or not that can help but the look of the information where they're coming from the possibilities that might be back on the orchard or shortcut galago then where we really saw the short tail snake Eagle Landing there after interacting with the molawati so it can happen that the utilizing the Old Dan and now it's time for them to go up all the time as these in tracks are heading south coming from the north I'm sure tomorrow I have to check the two dead if they're not active around that area hyena is such a powerful animal if you look at the body structure of the hyena they have a lower back and four quarters a little bit high that helps them to carry loads of course and also when they run they have that star called galloping the balance were in the run that keeps the animals not to easily get tired so they can run for kilometers and kilometers same shape of an elephant same of shape of a giraffe some shape of the hyenas they I mean what I mean will they Beast they are species that travel miles in a daily basis you know that from one area to another more especially when you want to migrate in in certain areas to another they use their own balance of their body to move quite a lot nice to see them of course we'll see how they're heading south look like they're going to it was Texans Road Old High nadan or that area let's see they will have moment of lying down Tavern again but like continuously moving to carry on wonderful mother yes of course with hyena identification I'm not good but I know that this clan of course each and every female mature uh you can see unfortunately uh running into the ticket we've got to follow them where they're going it's very thick Let's see we might uh try stem tomorrow they headed into the thicket let's try something here again at uh quarantine and see if it's anything Cedric was in the area I don't think there was a left but there's just two patrolling it's in the nature of hyena to patrol at night move from one area to another stop listening let the benefit caught a lot on the benefit a lot on the sound that are made by other species like what we had when the lines were moving the lines they spooked the kudu they'll start to bark like wow this is what uhina trying to to benefit out this as they're lying down listening all the time that is anything around the area is any in part alignment because they cannot land just for sweet they've seen um leper to Lion sometimes when the Impala get nervous or panicking you can tell that something happened on that area so it's actually designed to respond in most cases knowing that if we immediately get there it looked like something's get as I mean rabbit have still something so they can come and benefit out of the leopard skill without even putting their own effort to hunt because cyanide needs a of course stunning to hunt a lot of power it is really great afternoon we have seen all the lines we've seen all the vocals I mean the kahumas which is lovely and would like to thank all the questions that were coming through and comments it was really interesting interesting afternoon from a South reaction and the rest of the world have a team and also PK behind the camera we said have a lovely evening we'll join us on the far side chat very shortly which it will probably take place around seven o'clock have a lovely lovely evening get to see you in the morning follow up on the lives ciao ciao goodbye thank you this program features live coverage of an African safari and may include animal kills and carcasses viewer discretion is advised [Music] foreign [Music]

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