Welcome to your daily catch-up, your 30-minute look back at the past 24 hours out on safari. Despite some weather challenges, nothing could hold us or the sightings back. From unexpected hyena visits to Ms. Kuchava going about her business, if you know what I mean, to magnificent elephant sightings and a very special serval sighting. So, stay with us. Uh what a way to start this morning here in the Sabi Sands. As you can see, we've got two hyenas. One is June on the left-hand side at the back end, a female hyena, and then we've got this one that's coming straight towards us now.

I'm not too sure who this hyena is. Very interesting. It's very nice to see these hyenas once again here on Chitwa. And especially so many of them. Um some of them have really gone back into our towards our tent. Yep. I'm not sure what's happened there. They must have had something really huge to feed on cuz a lot of them have got big bellies, as you can see. Huge belly full of meat. Grumpy old man, very possible. I think that this could be a huge situation with a little bit of tension between of them some of the members last night. I mean, it was just going absolutely crazy.

Um and it's saying with Ribbon leaving like a little bit of a power avoid. So, Ribbon was pretty much, you could say, the matriarch of the clan in this area. Um she was killed um about a week ago by some other hyenas, I think. We're not too sure now. I know Tristan found uh Ribbon with bite marks and all that and dead at the dam wall. So, very possible that it could have been maybe a like a situation with the power a power ball that's happening at the moment. Oh. Look here, we have an apocalyptic sunrise that bank of mist that we started our morning safari with has just rolled in towards the dam.

Like a bank, like a wall. And it's giving us quite an epic sunrise. Look at the way it's diffusing light. All of the moisture, those little particles in the air just diffusing that light. At some point, we do have to drive across. And though it's not really a roadblock, what I don't want to do is scare this crocodile or ourselves, for that matter, because there was a crocodile that was a lying across the dam wall that Cam was just telling me about. Could have been the same one. A really big crocodile, and we know that this is the big guy at this dam in Galubi Dam. And he actually wouldn't let people pass on the dam wall. So, I have a feeling that if we do quickly go past, he's going to react.

He's going to either lunge forward or lunge back. The crocodile is right in our path. He's staring us down. But we're going to have to go on the dam wall. We're going to We do a cranking. Yeah. See that? You want to steady back, right? You need to steady back. I'm fine. Don't worry. Well, we were with the white back collar, which kept playing games with me, and I moved on. And the director of the drive today, his name is Jared. I'm not sure whether this is one of his or his favorite males from uh the T-Boys. I want to find out whether this is Kyongosi or not Kyongosi. I've not been seeing these boys uh for quite some time. But my initial guess, possibly, this is none other but Kyongosi.

Please look at all your screenshots. Let me know what uh you think this particular boy to be. But it's definitely one of the T-Boys uh headed today Bilashaka Lagoon. And I think he's going to spend the rest of the day there. And in front of him uh there's some elands who cannot trust this particular male. He is big. He is muscular, and they don't want to take any chances. But look at that majestic boy walking on the plains of the Masai Mara National Reserve. Kuchava clearly felt very relaxed around Cedric's vehicle. In fact, relaxed enough to stop right next to him and be bold and carry on business as usual. Some sightings are just more memorable than others. Take a look.

All right. I'll get to a female leopard here. Her name is Kuchava. One of our very dominant females of this area. Isn't she beautiful? Hey. What are you doing? Oh, you want to toilet break in front of us. Okay, that's nice. That one is doing her thing here. He's on Brian now, where he is. And there she goes. Bang. He looks to me like [snorts] Zuri. Or could it be Jojo? Because Zuri is lacking one of his top canines.

The last I checked, unless he has grown one. Mostly looking on his right eye. Or Tipo is the one who has an issue. Ah-ha-ha. Very good. So, I changed my mind from Zuri to Jojo. Thank you, everyone, for double confirming for me who I thought this is. Hello, Jojo. You seem to have eaten something last night. So, this is T-Boy number two. T-Boy number three is coming. I am very convinced they must have eaten last night. I am very convinced now. They must Let's see now uh Maximus if they'll greet each other. As much as I'm sure they've been together the whole of last night. So, those are the greetings I've been talking about. And what a great shot, Musala. Very well done.

We have found an ootheca. We are very glad about that. This ootheca would belong to one of the mantids. Um and it's to protect the young. And there'd be hundreds and hundreds of little mantises in there. So, the mom mantis would come over here and then deposit As she deposits eggs, she would put push out a frothy substance that's full of different proteins and sometimes even tannins. So, she's exuding the eggs while she's building up this foam, and then she shapes it kind of with her abdomen as it's coming out against this tree. So, Cam, I'm going to move you around this way because it's actually broken up on the other side, and we can see the different layers. And you can actually see like these shelves in it, and that's because when

she her eggs, she lays them She doesn't just deposit them in one go. So, it's sort of like she moves her abdomen and as she's exuding the substances and the eggs. A brand new little youngster. Look how pink the ears are. Oh my word. It is undeniably the most remarkable thing you could ever want to see. It is unbelievable. But, look at this Look at these other youngsters here. It's affection watching the family. They're bonding.

It's not a fight. They're hugging. Look at that. And that really helped them a lot in developing their muscles. Look how they intertwine their trunks. Then in it's total craziness in the wild. We started very slow this morning, but look. Everything is happening right in front of us. We are incredibly lucky and full of gratitude that we can be able to see all this and show you. We are so lucky. And you have come to us at the perfect time. These rhino were out on the plains and then when we parked here, they actually came towards us. And they're quite close. So, you get an excellent view of all the detail on their faces.

Hello. Now, I know that you're curious. But, you're not going to I'm not going to let you touch the car. Sorry, that's my hat. Please excuse the aerial here. We are not going to move, obviously, because they're very close. I wonder what drew them to us so intently. And not aggressively or anything like that, just intently. I'm just going to have to pop my head over the side. Sorry if I get in your way there, Cam. Just want to make sure that they're not trying to touch the vehicle. They can do that sometimes.

Haven't experienced that here, though. I saw this particular martial eagle. Initially, she was on the ground feeding. And we spent some time with her and then she flew and Marcel did a very good job flying with her into this tree. Initially, I thought she had hunted or murdered a bird and I thought it was a bird species, but now as she flew away looking on the flesh on her talons, especially, I saw her, you know, it was on the her left uh feet or her left foot, rather. I found out it wasn't a bird, but a small mammal, which I'm guessing possibly could be a scrub hare. Lutho, martial eagles are very good hunters and Lutho took over a female martial eagle. Not once, Lutho, I have seen a female martial eagles with

especially Thomson's gazelles on top of trees, acacia trees feeding on them. [snorts] And Lutho is easy for them. I mean, we have found out the females are much stronger than the males or they are better hunters, maybe not in the limit so much stronger. I think they're better hunters than the males or they prefer big prey. But, in general, the females Lutho will get bigger prey than the males. A Thomson's gazelle for them, nothing. Sometimes the bush has its own way of making you slow down. In this case, Cam and I were given an involuntary break by the vehicle who decided to call it a day. By the dam, at least. Not a bad place to be stuck. So, our vehicle has stopped and

you can see Jess is trying to get it started. She's looking very enthusiastic. Yeah. Unfortunately, I'm not a mechanic-minded. But, things are happening here. In here. Or you can't hear, I don't know. And then there's the hippos. They're just watching us. And they're laughing cuz we don't know what we're doing. I'm glad this didn't happen by the crocodiles, to be honest. Mhm. Okay, so helpers are out. PK's here to save the day. Sorry. Are you doing a BTS? Oh. Sorry, I was just doing some investigating.

I appreciate she's very excited about bugs. I found this grasshopper a couple years back and I think that we had the nymphs of this one last night. Maybe that's what I was doing while the mechanic was busy, yeah. There's a lot going on. As the cool of the morning faded into the warmth of the afternoon, the action carried on. This is an incredible scene to watch. The saddle-billed stork, it's one of the most strikingly beautiful bird you could ever see.

Look at the colors. Black, white, red, and yellow. They're They would actually They would sit on them. And sitting on them would actually regulate their body I mean, their temperature of the eggs when they're incubating. Oftenly, they would interchange. One bird would come and sit on the eggs while the rest would actually go and forage. But, they are quite clever and intelligent. They've lived this land since time immemorial. So, where they put their nests, even before they start laying their eggs and nesting, they would meticulously choose the position knowing that this is a very hot area. So, if they need to move Sorry, if they need to keep their eggs cool, they have to try to make sure that

the position of the nest and the kind of materials that they uses would also play a significant role. Have a look how beautiful. It's like a dwarf mongoose, an adult on the left and we've got a little baby on the right. I don't want to make too much noise cuz I think that little one is going to be very skittish. Well, this adult is trying to look for some insects. That's going to be pretty much buried between the dung there. You can see she's busy feeding on that. And the little one doesn't even know what to do. He's just like, "Okay, I'm just going to scratch myself while I'm watching the adult busy and looking for the food." And you can see how the dwarf mongoose is pushing the sand away just in case there's a beetle

or a grub and that might be buried under the dung. I wonder if it's going to feed the little one. I wonder if it gets something substantial. I think that youngster is just very patiently. This lady I'm guessing possibly she could be the matriarch of this particular herd. She's got a very young calf. Initially the calf was uh suckling. She has uh since stopped. And I would just say maybe she could be a few maybe 2 months max 3 months old. If we try and guess her age.

This one particular boy was trying to scratch. I guess he's trunk using uh trunk you know with the tree. And Faith I would say it could be very difficult. Yeah, that's the one. Thank you, Masao. It could be very difficult for you to tell if an elephant is dehydrated. And maybe I would just only think Faith through the skin condition. If of course we normally see like see Faith the wrinkles we normally see. If we get the wrinkles unlike the usual one that we see on the elephant to me I would want to believe possibly uh that particular Ellie could be dehydrated. Little kite spider. How cool is that?

Hi. We're just looking at the back of the kite spider at the moment. And I haven't seen one of these in a long time. Very cool. So when we see protrusions on the abdomens of a spider like we did see this morning with the garden orb weaving spider it generally is again coming back to the question of why doesn't an animal have this or why does an animal have that? A lot of the things a lot of the explanations are essentially hypotheses. So the protrusions on the backs of or the abdomens of spiders like this the hypothesis is that it helps the animal to break up the their outline. The other thing is that it might make birds think that it's just bird poop from the coloration and the splat-like outline I suppose. And so birds would avoid it.

It's not every day you see a serval and definitely not one catching a snake. Whatever's in David's mama's drink is giving him some serious superpowers out there. We have found a cat here. And not sure if she is patrolling her territory or she is hunting. For me that is a hunting mode. Cuz you can see she keeps walking sniffing the ground. Shrews we have been very lucky in the Mara. And I'm sure not only myself Isaac and Centura oh she must be eating something. And the one moment she disappeared either she very quickly hunted and now

she is definitely devouring whatever she caught. It could be a mouse. It could be a rat. It could be an insect. It could be anything. Oh a snake. Oh my god it's a snake. It's a snake she hunted. Goodness me. We came across this black thing on this plant. So I stopped to have a look and I was like what is that? Are those ticks? No, they're tiny grasshoppers. And hundreds of them. It almost makes me a little afraid to get too close cuz they might just all start jumping. But they are tiny.

Hundreds all concentrated around this plant. Now grasshoppers go from egg nymph to adult. So the adults uh the nymphs resemble basically miniature adults. And they'll go through several cycles as they grow because remember that exoskeleton that they have doesn't expand unlike our skin. It's very rigid. So as it grows it's got to expel that exoskeleton and build a new one. So that's what we say when they go through several stages. We call those instars. So these ones or grasshoppers in general they'll go through about six or eight of those instars those stages. [snorts] And if you look carefully you can see that they're black and yellow.

I wonder if it could be the tiny versions of those grasshoppers we saw last night. Yeah. How nice is this? Beautiful setting here on the open clearing with some nice nyala. A male with some females. Just moving through the sunset there. Absolutely stunning. I would love it when they when you got this nice clearing especially with the nyalas. Don't don't get them too often on these clearings like this. They like the real thick stuff. Now and again you'll get them coming through but how beautiful is this? And see the nice male with the much darker compared to the females.

It's got a real dark chocolate color. Females got a very lightish brown rusty color. You know the male's got the nice big horns on him. Nice white hair all along the spine area. But the females that we see here now all the females that we've just had on screen now they're all pretty much related. So compared to your like any like the difference with the impalas it's pretty much a mixture of genes. We'll find the nyala has the same genes. All the females here is they're all related to one another.

The rhinos at Mabula are always a highlight. And as you saw in the morning safari they're incredibly inquisitive and friendly. Or so we like to think. Either way Cam and I have been absolutely spoiled with sightings. We have found some lovely rhino. Uh it's a mom and a calf in the open area here but a bull just came back uh came through and is now behind our vehicle very still. So I'm just keeping an eye on him. Cuz once uh he came through then these two moved very quickly and were not as relaxed.

Oh here comes another. Hello. Looks like we ended up in Oh nice the bull has moved off. Maybe it was waiting for its friend. Oh. My goodness. What is going on here? They're just emerging from everywhere. Hello you. Yes go join your mates. Thanks [snorts] Shish. We've got a nice uh male elephant here on the southern side of Chipway airstrip. Uh he's just feeding away.

Not that big. He's not the oldest of boys. Well you can just see that he's just uh he's taking it easy. What is he seeing there? Oh what's it? What's to the left? Oh there's hyenas. Oh there's more hyenas coming past us. They found us. Thank you, elephant. Cuz we're in pitch darkness yes uh I was coming out here now towards this time of the evening perfect time. I'm looking for something. I don't definitely Alaska house. I fully agree. I something really Cuz I just heard now the hyenas busy calling me on Chipway airstrip now.

Pretty much where we are now but a little bit further towards my tent. Huh. Yeah. [snorts] Hopefully it's not going to be one of those evenings. That's your catch-up for today. All the action in a fraction of the time. We'll see you out there next drive, and until then, take care.