This
morning we start the drive and day with the beautiful bright blue eyes of Jamie
Paterson with Wium Dornbrack on camera. She finds the Nkuhuma lion pride before
she even finishes with her morning introduction. What a great way to start the
morning. The lions are sleeping.
(2016/03/17 05:42) Good morning from Brent and Dave
who are with the cheeky huge elephant bull with the hole in his ear, however
now he is fully in musth. This is the same elephant bull that harassed Scott's vehicle on March 2,2016 and Tara Pirie's on Feb 8, 2016.
Brent watched his behavior very closely and there was a bit of a confrontation,
Brent had to slap the side of the vehicle making a loud noise; a few times too
ward him off. The video below is the incident which I feel Brent handled
wonderfully teaching the elephant that behavior is bad. After we move on Brent
talks a bit about the elephant and his behavior it is a great explanation.
Jamie,
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Brent,
- (2016/03/17 06:10) Brent red backed shriek
- (2016/03/17 06:18) Brent shows us the drain pipe that was Karula's den for her two new cubs a week or two back before the rain.
- (2016/03/17 06:23) A line of ants crossing the road. Brent asked us to send him screenshots of them so he can identify what type of ants these are.
- (2016/03/17 06:25) Impala herd. One large male chases off a younger one because they are rutting or about to be, and he wants the females to his self.
Jamie,
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Brent,
- (2016/03/17 06:45)
Jamie,
- (2016/03/17 06.50) The lioness are yawning and moving a bit, one is eating grass. They are skinny and looking hungry hopefully they're preparing to hunt
- (2016/03/17 06:58) Jamie moves the vehicle for a better view
- (2016/03/17 07:08) The lionesses are slowly meandering down the road with resting breaks for cat naps.
Brent,
- (2016/03/17 07:11) Dark chanting goshawk tries to catch a snake. Be sure to go to Safari Live's Facebook page to see their slow motion video of this.
Jamie,
- (2016/03/17 07:22) Two of the lioness has caught a Speke's hinge-back tortoise but they give up leaving the tortoise on its back.
Brent,
- (2016/03/17 07:26) Two elephant bull bachelors, kind of young only about 20 years old.They both stay mostly in the bush where we don't get great views for screenshots.
- Dung beetle lands in vehicle
- Dung ball he found on the side of the road earlier in the day.
Jamie,
- (2016/03/17 07:34) With the lionesses.
- (2016/03/17 07:38) Fork-tailed drongos fighting in the air
Brent,
- (2016/03/17 07:41) African fire finch
- (2016/03/17 07:47) Lion's eye hibiscus flower
- (2016/03/17 07:48) Something startled the impala a herd runs near Brent and there is monkey alarm calling too. After a radio call to Jamie he thinks it is one of the lioness gone off from the others.
Jamie,
- (2016/03/17 07:52)The Nkuhuma lioness are all back near Jamie.
Brent,
- (2016/03/17 08:02) Brent is now with Jamie and the lions so we now have two vehicles in the sighting for different views.
For
the remainder of the drive we go back and forth between the two vehicles seeing
different views of the Nkuhuma pride.
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| One lioness finds another smaller Speke's hinge-back tortoise and messes with it. |
There is a few moments of allogrooming.
Jamie says her goodbyes
We
spend our last few minutes with Brent and two of the Nkuhuma lioness grooming
each other.
End
of Drive
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