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🌍🦁 Dean Schneider is a wildlife enthusiast and social media creator who dedicates his life to protecting and celebrating animals. 🐾 His content takes you deep into the wild 🐘—showing his genuine love and respect for lions, hyenas, monkeys, and many more creatures. 🦓💛
He shares heartwarming moments 🤗, powerful messages about animal conservation 🌱, and playful interactions with his lion pride 🦁—especially his famous companions like Dex and King Dexter! 👑
Every video reminds us that animals deserve kindness, understanding, and protection. ❤️🐾
Whether he’s cuddling with lions 😍, running across the savanna 🏃♂️🌅, or teaching followers about wildlife behavior 🧠🐒, Dean’s content is a mix of passion, education, and pure love for nature. 🌿✨
He shares heartwarming moments 🤗, powerful messages about animal conservation 🌱, and playful interactions with his lion pride 🦁—especially his famous companions like Dex and King Dexter! 👑
Every video reminds us that animals deserve kindness, understanding, and protection. ❤️🐾
Whether he’s cuddling with lions 😍, running across the savanna 🏃♂️🌅, or teaching followers about wildlife behavior 🧠🐒, Dean’s content is a mix of passion, education, and pure love for nature. 🌿✨
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00:00All right guys, I've just finished a two-hour walk with King Dexter in the African nature.
00:05It was absolutely stunning and phenomenal.
00:08Check it out.
00:09They're claws.
00:12And that's the damage they do.
00:15Oh, lion hair allergy kit revealed now.
00:19I'm really not sure if that's going to work.
00:22They wanted to come at me.
00:23And I forget about it.
00:28Fuck, what's that?
00:30And that's what made me tear up.
00:53What's up, my boy?
00:57You good?
00:58How are you doing?
01:00What's happening, huh?
01:05Have you had a fight or two?
01:07What's that?
01:08Oh no, that's ticks.
01:10Have we got tick sprays here?
01:12This will create a wound.
01:14You can see here.
01:15He has really a lot of ticks on one spot.
01:18All right, anyway, ideally we'll bring tomorrow another tick spray up or like tick ointment.
01:36And now we'll just put it on those spots to avoid any infections.
01:41What's up, my boy?
01:44What's up, my boy?
01:47Where are you going?
01:51That was a quick sprint.
01:56So that scenario was super interesting.
01:59What they sometimes do with their snout, you could see the movement at the nose.
02:04And that's how they tell each other, chill bro, chill, take it easy.
02:11And that's what they often do before one slaps the other one or one wants to jump on the other one.
02:16So my intention was to just greet him.
02:19But because the grass was so high and what they do is they go lower with their eye level in order to sneak up on one another and then jump on top of one another.
02:28And he was under the impression I would do that.
02:31And because I went down instead of greeting me, he just told me with his snout, stop it.
02:37What is your plan?
02:38And then he came out of the grass and immediately ran past me in order for when I try to jump on him that I don't get hit.
02:45So that was the whole scenario right now.
02:47A lot happened.
02:48Human eye can't see that much usually, but that's why I'm telling you guys.
02:55Alright, so now our foreman at Chapita had to give us a lift to keep up with Dexter actually.
03:01It's absolutely not normal.
03:02I think it's maybe because tomorrow is usually feeding day and he's going out to see if he can find some prey or something like that.
03:09But usually the ladies are the only ones who have that pace.
03:12He's basically running.
03:14He's all the time in front of us and we can't keep up with him.
03:17We are fully sweaty.
03:18It's hot.
03:19And so the foreman at you who accompanies us with the car was like, yo guys, do you want me to give you guys a lift to get ahead of him?
03:25Or what's the plan?
03:32Wait quickly.
03:35Wait.
03:36Oh, lion hair allergies kicking in.
03:40Did you get that on camera?
03:42Okay.
03:43It's revealed now.
03:44I have a lion hair allergy and that's, that's real.
03:46It's, it's not fake.
03:47If they rub their faces and manes inside of like in my face.
03:52And then all of a sudden I start getting rushes and, and, and sneeze and so on.
03:57Anyways, what I wanted to tell you guys, check this out.
04:00If you are in on a safari or you walk around in the African nature and you pass by a tree who has this types of marks, you better.
04:13Well, I wanted to say climb a tree, but you can't even do that cause lions can climb, but you better watch out.
04:18Cause like this, you definitely know there's lines in the area.
04:22That's how they sharpen their claws.
04:24And that's the damage they do on a tree bark.
04:26It's pretty impressive.
04:27Literally they won't have climbed up, but look at how high that is.
04:38So either Dexter or Snow.
04:41I'm not sure if the ladies would be big enough for that because it's really high up.
04:46They go up and then they use their front claws and they just start to, to, to dig into that, into that bark.
04:55And that's what kind of damage it does to a tree.
04:58We wouldn't even be able to do that with a knife, to be honest.
05:01Look at how deep these scratches are pretty crazy and how high up.
05:07I'm underestimating the energy exchange and what a positive impact it has on me.
05:14When I spent time with the specifically lions, also the animals in general, but specifically the lions.
05:21And I tend to forget it having all those responsibilities, having all those meetings and things going on, even privately in my family.
05:30Sometimes it's like, there's not a lot of time left where, and then I have to jump into the car, drive to the live wild in order to take a walk, be fully focused.
05:40And then sometimes I just don't do it because it's a big effort, big time consuming.
05:46And, but when I'm here, the amount of love, dedication, inspiration, it just, everything becomes so clear.
05:57The mission becomes clear again, being with them in the same space, exchanging with them, being physical with them, communicating with the lions.
06:06And it means so much to me.
06:09Yeah.
06:15And I forget about it.
06:17Fuck.
06:18What's that?
06:19Nah.
06:20Okay.
06:21Yeah.
06:22And I tend to forget about it, how much it means to me.
06:25And, um, yeah, why I'm here.
06:29You know, that's the reason seven years ago, I moved to South Africa and then, and established a sanctuary for the animals and gave them the best possibilities.
06:38Most beautiful and wildlife.
06:41And if I, if I don't spend time with them physically in the nature, I forget.
06:48And that's not good.
06:50And that's what I just told to Noé.
06:52I need to really, we need to, it's even for Noé, I think for you, it's pretty the same.
06:57We need to really reserve the time as I do it for my daughter and my family, equally important for the lions, even though they need me less than my daughter, but ultimately that's what we are here for.
07:12And that's why they have a life as wild as possible.
07:15And yeah, for a normal human, it's maybe not really understandable.
07:21How can an animal mean so much to someone or just the walk?
07:26I mean, I'm not even touching Dexter now.
07:28He's in front of there doing his thing, but we share the same space.
07:32And sometimes he stops and he waits for me.
07:35And then I walk up to him and then he'll give me a little kiss or a love bite or just a look.
07:41And then we continue the walk.
07:43And if there's something to sneak up on, we'll go down and we'll sneak up on that thing.
07:47And I learn every time when I'm with them, I do learn.
07:50And yeah, I've done that in the beginning every single day when they were small, when Dexter was small every single day to the point that I would sleep in the camp with him.
07:59You know, to the point where I would teach them how to eat a whole animal and open up a carcass.
08:05To the point, like, I literally went through every single stage you can go through in a lion's life together with the lion.
08:14And not only one lion together with the actual pride of life.
08:17And today, I just literally don't get to the point anymore to invest so much time into it.
08:23And that's what made me tear up a little bit.
08:25Because that main thing which inspired me so much, which made me become the man I am today, that faded away over the years.
08:34And I have to work hard now to create solid income sources and achieve even more.
08:40Not only for myself and the Hakuna Mipaka, but for the animals and all animals on our planet, hopefully.
08:45To the land, hopefully.
09:22All right, so we got a very quite famous scenario, picture and video scenery of snow walking
09:39up to that stone there in the front and it looks a little bit like Lion King because
09:43they're that elevated, there's this guy in the background and since they're not trained
09:48lions we try our luck with throwing stones to divert Dexter's attention into the bush,
09:54then we walk a little bit downwards so that he will walk back to us and end up at that
10:00edge here.
10:01I'm really not sure if that's going to work but we'll try our luck, he does really not
10:07care.
10:09You see, sorry, like I can't push him up there but you know it's okay, I think it's good
10:17that this happens because it just proves that these lions are not trained nor are they tame,
10:23they literally do whatever they want to do and we never worked with them with meat and
10:29we don't want to because if I would have meat it would be a problem and it has happened already
10:35in the past that I would walk in with meat because when they were smaller and when they
10:39were youngsters we could lure them into a direction with meat.
10:44After a while, once they got adults, especially the males, they feel like, you know, dominated
10:51by me when I decide who's receiving meat and food and who not and you know they wanted to
10:57come at me.
10:59So I said okay, I'll stick to your rules, I'm not going to go in with meat, you distribute whatever
11:12you've got to distribute and that's fine for me and I adapt.
11:16And yeah, so since ever then and that was a couple of years ago, we just spend natural
11:22time with them.
11:23When I say we, it's myself and Noe, Noe is the only one who can interact with them because
11:28he has done the whole journey together with me, he brought them up with me and he's part
11:33of the pride as well.
11:35Apart from that, no one is possible to physically interact with them, not whether my wife nor my
11:41parents nor my other best friends or the caretakers or anyone else, 100% hands off because, and
11:47I'm repeating myself again, they're whether trained nor tame.
11:51You just saw it right now and you can actually see it all the time that we have to clearly
11:55adapt to their rules and their lifestyle and we have absolutely nothing to say.
12:00We can try with love and dedication and passion to call them and when they want some emotional
12:07exchange and physical exchange, they'll come, but often they also just don't come, you know.
12:16So that's the pace he's walking at, pretty impressive because usually you guys know that those ones who
12:24follow me for a while, they know how the males behave once they go out into the live wild.
12:29First couple of minutes, super excited, depending on the weather as well, obviously.
12:33If it's colder, they are more energetic, if it's warmer, they are more lazy, but we're
12:39out here since half an hour, almost an hour.
12:43And he keeps on walking, walking, scanning the environment, scanning the nature.
12:48And as soon as he sees something that moves, he goes like, okay, what's happening here?
12:52It's maybe because he's hungry.
12:54He hasn't been eating in, what was it, like five, six days or something like that.
12:58So that's a natural starving face, which they have in the wild always and which is actually
13:04very important for their health.
13:06We don't just feed them on a daily basis.
13:09That is very unhealthy.
13:11And yeah, maybe that causes his energetic boost, if possible.
13:18He's marking with all the trees, you're marking, you're making sure everyone knows the king
13:24is around and yeah, and that's what we do with those walks.
13:29Sometimes a lot is happening.
13:31Sometimes nothing is happening.
13:32Sometimes we're just sitting around and sleeping.
13:36And sometimes we just walk for hours through the thick bush and hopefully we see something
13:41or not.
13:42And that's how we also learn from the lions, just to be around them.
13:50And so now here, we actually reached one corner of the live wild area.
13:54Takes quite a while to get to here, but that's what they love doing.
13:58They walk on the perimeter fence or from corner to corner to actually scan the entire area and
14:05get a feel for where they are and what's going on.
14:09This is also the reason why we don't keep them all the time in the live wild area.
14:13We rotate them and we have management camps in the live wild area.
14:18So they get let out for a couple of days and then they go back in.
14:21The security measure when there's fire or when there's coaching going on and so on, they've
14:26got in an environment, the management camp where they feel comfortable and where they
14:30usually get fed when we feed them.
14:33But then still they got all the stimulation and everything they want when we let them out
14:37into the live wild again.
14:38They never get used to the live wild.
14:39They always go and explore and enjoy the wilderness.
14:43And that's what he's doing right now as well.
14:46And now we're just walking most probably as long as it goes along the perimeter fence
14:52towards the other corner.
14:54Sometimes it just goes into the bush, but it's actually easier for him and gives him
14:59a better overview walking on the actual roads because that's what wild lions do as well in
15:04national parks.
15:05They walk on the actual roads because it's easier.
15:08It's less rocky.
15:09They have a wider view than in the thick bush, especially in the summertime when the grass
15:15is so high.
15:15So sometimes when he wants some adventure, he will turn right into the thick bush.
15:21But often he likes to walk on the roads and use the pyramidal fence as a reference.
15:26Wow, that was a long speech now and I'm a little bit out of breath.
15:34I hope you guys enjoyed this walk and see you guys next time.
15:37I hope you guys enjoyed this video and if you want to see what's next, then make sure to
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15:51Thank you so much for watching and see you guys later.
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