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00:09The Okavango Delta in Botswana.
00:12We are in a pristine environment right now.
00:15One of Africa's last wildernesses.
00:18The magnitude of life here is unparalleled.
00:22And it's a haven for Africa's big cats.
00:28Lion, cheetah and leopard.
00:31Big cat country.
00:34Armed with the latest filming technology,
00:37the Big Cats 24-17 is following individual big cats for six months.
00:45This is a unique opportunity to follow these cats round the clock.
00:49Through the day...
00:51I used to think I'd have a fair fight with a lion.
00:55Not so sure now.
00:57And the night.
00:59We've got the most sophisticated thermal imaging technologies.
01:03Capturing their behavior 24 hours a day.
01:08I've never seen anything like this.
01:11Epic!
01:22Oh, they're locking jaws.
01:26She's caught him in the face.
01:29Oh, the girls are driving Demo away.
01:33These females might have done it.
01:42She's contact calling.
01:46Conflict looks over for now.
01:48That was insane.
01:49That was so insane.
02:02Rea, have you got eyes on these cubs?
02:06Nah, that's a negative.
02:15Lionesses have no idea where the cubs are.
02:18Lion mums Mato, Sibi, and Naledi are searching for their nine young cubs.
02:28Oh!
02:30Scattered in the chaos of the fight with the Rogue Boys.
02:34I'm just really scared to see beyond the long grass and see a dead cub.
02:40Please tell me that's not happened.
02:48There's a cub, there's a cub right here.
02:59Some cubs are over there.
03:12All right, let's count these cubs.
03:15One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
03:18Great.
03:20We're missing one cub.
03:22This is not cool.
03:24Rea, have you got eyes on this ninth cub?
03:27That is a negative.
03:30Naledi is just non-stop contact calling.
03:34I feel for her.
03:36It's Naledi's smallest cub that's missing.
03:47Please, please, please, please, please, please.
03:49Be okay.
03:50Be okay.
03:55Ah, there's the cub.
04:03What a relief.
04:11The cub is trailing pretty far behind.
04:15Who's the ?
04:17It's not over for these mums and cubs.
04:19The three younger rogue boys have circled back.
04:26This cub is alone.
04:28He's literally within 50 meters to these three rogue boys.
04:34Intruder male lions are responsible for a quarter of cub deaths.
04:39This is very dangerous.
04:42What?
04:45One of the mums has come back.
04:52But Naledi is not leaving her cub behind.
05:06And Mato and Sebe are joining.
05:11It's like a gang war here.
05:14I've never seen anything like this.
05:18They're trying to settle this through growls.
05:25Lions typically will avoid confrontations.
05:27If you have an injury, it could be battle.
05:32Without their leader, Dimo.
05:41The battle's over.
05:43The three youngsters are finally backing down.
05:47These rogue boys seem to be heading to the direction they came from.
05:56These are some serious women bosses.
06:02Anna?
06:03I can't believe it, eh?
06:05They have successfully fought off these rogue boys.
06:11Great news.
06:12I'm so relieved.
06:18Mato, Sebe and the lady have saved their cubs.
06:23For now.
06:25Since Big Toe and Madumo have disappeared,
06:29they're leaving their lionesses to just do all the work.
06:35But with the rogue boys still in the area,
06:38the mums and their cubs remain vulnerable.
06:43It just feels like this territory is completely up for grabs.
06:48The Kudum Pride has been apart for weeks.
06:52Now scattered across its 250 square kilometer territory
06:57in the Okavango Delta.
07:00There are lots of players who are just moving in.
07:05Who knows who this territory is for now?
07:08It's total chaos.
07:10The abundance of prey brought by the annual flood
07:14is drawing more predators in.
07:19Putting all the big cats on edge.
07:23Especially these young mothers.
07:25There are so many cubs to protect.
07:28Without Big Toe and Madumo to help them.
07:32Mums working together is essential.
07:36Mato, Naledi and Sebe must rejoin the other mums in the pride
07:41for protection.
07:43We just really, really need safety numbers.
07:46But first, they need to find them.
07:56I think I've just seen a glimpse of a leopard.
08:00Tristan and Brad are on the trail of leopard mum, Ladiba.
08:13Mum looks happy.
08:16Cub looks happy.
08:23This little cub is very playful.
08:28I think she spotted an impala.
08:30I think she spotted an impala.
08:43Yeah.
08:44The little cub has just tried to run into an impala.
08:47It scared everything.
08:51Oh, that was too cute.
08:54Any opportunity, these cats are ready to go.
08:58And even from the age of four months,
09:01they seem to think that they can take down adult impala.
09:06That was absolutely adorable.
09:10Look, Mum, look what I tried to do.
09:12Did you see me?
09:14I nearly caught one.
09:18Oh, yes, mummy and cub.
09:25After losing one of her cubs.
09:29I got a little bit of suckling here.
09:32Ladiba is now focusing on keeping this one alive.
09:36I would really like to see her starting to provide a lot more meat for the cub.
09:43My sense is that she should be getting a lot more than she is at the moment.
09:49To feed them both, Ladiba needs to catch something every two to three days.
09:59Ladiba's just gone up.
10:01Her suckling has stopped.
10:03Ladiba's on the move.
10:04Which means she must leave her cub unprotected in its nursery.
10:10To search for food.
10:14She's covering a lot of ground. Pushing hard.
10:26She's just bumped into the baboon troop.
10:35I haven't seen her.
10:38And she is sneaking away as quietly as possible.
10:46Baboons will alert any prey to Ladiba's presence.
10:51Amazing.
10:52She's virtually going underneath the front of my car.
11:02Tris, she's now heading back through the forest.
11:15The divas have finally found something to hunt.
11:19The last big male, Rebuck.
11:29You don't know where the cat is because she's so well-califlagged and hidden.
11:33Less than one in five leopard hunts are successful.
11:38This Rebuck has no idea that the leopard's coming up behind him.
11:44Ladiba's best chance is to stalk within five meters of her prey.
11:53Rebuck's moving.
12:03Ah.
12:04Geez, that was close.
12:06Unlucky.
12:08She just, just missed it.
12:13What's, what is going on?
12:14You go on her.
12:16I'll go over.
12:21A little bit of a noise and alarm calling going on here.
12:24There's definitely something else going on.
12:32We've got a male lion underneath a tree.
12:35This is really, really scary.
12:37She's moving straight towards him right now.
12:40She hasn't seen him.
12:42A little pop-up run in front of him there.
12:46If the male lion can catch her,
12:48any will kill her.
12:50It's just what predators do to each other.
13:01He doesn't see him, but she's right in front of him.
13:13He's very lucky this guy didn't decide to charge her, because that could have been a horrible, horrible ending.
13:20Oh, she's being brave.
13:21Coming straight down the tree.
13:23Ladiba is making a hasty retreat.
13:28That was a bit close for comfort.
13:32This lone male lion is not one of the rogue boys, but yet another newcomer to the area.
13:49Greg is with the mums and young cubs moving south.
13:54As one of the biggest, most dominant prides in the whole Okavango, we've become quite accustomed to these lions really
14:02ruling the roost here.
14:05It looks like that's all changing.
14:10I've never seen a pride takeover.
14:15They're acting very moving.
14:20Roger that.
14:21I'm following a couple of pneumatic males.
14:24What?
14:24This is ridiculous.
14:27Heading towards the mums.
14:29The arrival of the flood, we're seeing concentration of big cats.
14:33Gordon has discovered more intruders.
14:36A bit of a melting pot.
14:37Taking the total in the area to at least seven.
14:41These lions have probably battled their way around the Okavango for the last couple of years.
14:47With that singular mission of finding somewhere they can call their own.
14:54Now what in the hell is happening?
14:57We've got two bigger sub-adult males chasing directly after Dimul.
15:02And now, just a kilometer away, Raya has spotted the rogue boy's leader, Dimul.
15:08What's going on here? I mean, he's all alone.
15:10Without backup.
15:12They're coming straight to us. They're coming straight to us.
15:14He's being pursued by even more intruding male lions.
15:19I can't even recall how many groups of males have popped up.
15:26Oh, they've got Dimul. They've got him.
15:29Oh, this is so close. This is directly in front of us. They're right here.
15:38They're biting him.
15:44I've never seen this before.
15:47This is a battle of intruders versus other intruders.
16:01Dimul came into this territory and we cast him as a bad guy.
16:09Can't help but feel a little sorry for him now.
16:14Badly injured.
16:15This might be the last time we see Dimul.
16:19Dimul is leaving.
16:21It's really hard to keep track of all these lions we're seeing.
16:25With no dominant males, the Kudum Pride territory is now a battleground.
16:34Pretty worrying for the pride.
16:37Lionesses are having to protect the cubs on their own.
16:41Mato, Naledi, Sebe and their cubs are all in danger.
16:47Banding together is definitely going to help.
16:50Yeah, look at the lions moving.
16:53They want to move their cubs to safety.
16:57They must find the other mums of the pride as soon as possible.
17:13Hey, Pobbe, how you doing?
17:15How are your cubs?
17:18Anna is with Pobbe the cheetah and her two cubs.
17:22They're just growing day by day.
17:27These two are super lucky because at the moment their mum is doing all of the hard work.
17:36Oh, there they are.
17:42Kia and Bo have made it to six months old.
17:46Super cute to see.
17:47The world is just their playground at the moment.
17:53Every single tree is like a jungle gym.
17:57They're now starting to learn the skills to survive on their own.
18:05These cubs are practicing their tree climbing.
18:09This is essential learning for them because climbing trees helps them when they need to get off the ground.
18:18But it gives a really good viewpoint above all of this long grass.
18:24Cheetahs can see movement up to two kilometres away.
18:27By climbing trees they can scan for prey but they can also scan for predators.
18:35Being able to spot danger from afar and escape it
18:39Here, at the top of a tree.
18:42Is crucial with so many lions now in the area.
18:51Is looking in a little bit uncomfortable up there right now.
18:58Oh dear, she's got herself into a bit of a situation here.
19:05She's trying to go down backwards.
19:08Oop.
19:12And she made her down.
19:13That looked quite stressful.
19:15Yeah, wonderful springy legs coming into their own.
19:19I do feel like they're slowly growing into their legs.
19:30Every day they're getting more use to their bodies and you can see that that is really helping them in
19:36their speed and agility.
19:37And tree climbing.
19:39All of it.
19:42What looks like play is just essentially key training for them.
19:48Because we can't forget the cheetahs are at the bottom of the pecking order.
19:54They're always looking over their shoulders.
19:59Cheetah cubs leave their mothers at 18 months old.
20:03It's amazing how much that they have to develop in such a short amount of time.
20:08To be ready to go it alone.
20:10Kia and Bo still have a lot to learn.
20:14That is the life of a cheetah.
20:17They have to develop so much faster than the other cats in the Delta.
20:39It's begun.
20:40Ladiba is well and truly on her mission tonight.
20:44The cub's den is only a couple hundred meters away.
20:47With her cub hidden nearby, Ladiba is hunting again.
20:53Looks like she's managed to sight out some impala moving through the floodplain.
20:59This might be her change in luck.
21:02She's certainly very hungry.
21:04And it looks like she's going to give this as good of a go as possible.
21:16She's got herself into a pretty amazing position here.
21:22I can hear something barking.
21:25What the hell, Rand?
21:28She was in the perfect position.
21:39She doesn't want to even try and compete with a lion. They're just too big.
21:44There's lions literally everywhere.
21:54The diva has gone into some thicker cover now.
21:58The influx of new lions into the area.
22:01And I'm losing visual of her.
22:03Ladiba is affecting all of the resident big cats.
22:08She's bolted off into the sage ridge and I can't keep up with her through there.
22:14It's now been three days since the team last saw Ladiba eat.
22:19Hopefully, for Ladiba, she manages to get herself a meal.
22:29It's morning.
22:31But Tristan and Raya are being held in camp by a curious visitor.
22:46We've got a little bit of a blockage here on our way to the vehicles.
22:50Mr. Ellie is enjoying our lawn.
22:53This is supposed to be our badminton field.
22:58There's a lot of elephants around.
23:00I'm just seeing like elephants over there.
23:05We probably get elephants walking through camp four or five times a day.
23:14You can see what the elephant does when he takes the grass.
23:17He pulls it out with his trunk and then he shakes it side to side,
23:21removing that sand and the dust not to hurt his teeth.
23:26And then he eats it.
23:30Having an elephant right literally in the middle of a camp is always a reminder
23:34just how wild this place is.
23:37Definitely something special.
23:40When we've got a bit of a speed bump like this on our way out,
23:44the best thing to do is appreciate it.
23:47We shouldn't forget at the end of the day, this is their land.
23:50We're just visitors.
23:55Some people drive a car to work and they've got to watch out for an accident.
23:58When I get out of my room in the morning, I've got to make sure I don't bump into him.
24:06Mr. Ellie's gone.
24:07Time to get back to work.
24:19I do feel like today is a major school day.
24:22Bush school for cheetah cubs Kea and Bo is continuing with mum Pobbe.
24:28Probably looks uninterested in the actual impala.
24:32It kind of feels like it's actually just more about the lesson.
24:46That felt like she was teaching the cubs how to run or how to accelerate.
24:51Great.
24:56Pobbe seems to be on a mission to show them a few little hunting skills.
25:02The cubs are learning another vital lesson.
25:06We've got Pobbe's cubs here imitating their mum.
25:10They think they're on a serious hunt.
25:12These are skills which will help them in the long term.
25:15To survive on their own, Kea and Bo must learn how to run down prey.
25:21I've got a wildebeest.
25:23Just over in that direction.
25:28And the cubs are over straight ahead of me.
25:33They're moving straight towards them.
25:37Definitely got their ears down.
25:40Oh, running, running, running, running.
25:48It's pretty amazing to see the difference from just a month ago
25:52when they were shy and never take their initiative.
25:58Fully grown wildebeest are ten times heavier than Kea and Bo.
26:04I bet the wildebeest are thinking,
26:06what is going on?
26:08Why is this tiny cheetah trying to run at us?
26:15They are staring at the zebra.
26:19They've got missile locks on their eyes.
26:24But Kea is not giving up.
26:30What?
26:31She's so fast.
26:33At this age, cheetah cubs can run nearly 80 kilometres per hour.
26:39Ooh, that is nuts.
26:42No, the cables.
26:47Every failed attempt is a lesson.
26:51It'll be another year before they can hit top speed.
26:56Getting that little practice on how to approach prey
26:59gives them a good sense of from what distance will prey see you.
27:06They definitely haven't quite learned the element of surprise yet.
27:16Ooh!
27:21There's a hyena over here that has picked up the scent of something.
27:28This has got the potential to go really, really wrong.
27:35I don't know how the cubs are going to respond to this.
27:43A single-spotted hyena is a challenge.
27:47What is Kea doing?
27:55She's going straight towards the hyena.
28:08Kea is standing her ground.
28:14Super brave.
28:17Take that, hyena.
28:23What the hell?
28:29There are three hyenas.
28:32Three is a scary number for them.
28:36The three hyenas together...
28:38It's going in, it's going in, it's going in.
28:40It's going in, it's going in.
28:40Could be deadly for the cubs.
28:43They're running from behind us.
28:46Kea's running.
28:55Both the cubs and Paul Bay have been chased away.
28:59This is not great news because the cubs have been separated.
29:10One cub has found Paul Bay.
29:19The other one has taken refuge up a tree.
29:23So, their tree climbing skills, they are coming in more useful than I think they probably thought.
29:30Thank God for that!
29:32Yay!
29:36Kea and Beau are unscathed.
29:40These cubs are having lesson after lesson.
29:45And I think they've just learned a very important one, which is,
29:49don't mess with hyenas.
29:59We've got Mato, Naledi and Sebe here with their cubs.
30:06It's going to get thick up ahead.
30:09Setz and Gordon are on the night shift.
30:13They've wandered so far tonight.
30:16Mato, Sebe and Naledi are still searching for the other pride mums.
30:23This is miles away.
30:25This is right down as far south as I've ever been.
30:32Naledi and Mato have gone up a tree.
30:43Very quiet.
30:44We can hear a lot better if they're off the ground.
30:48Lions use sound to find each other from up to eight kilometers away.
30:53I think they've heard something.
30:58We're locked on to something behind me.
31:08But it's not the other pride mums.
31:12Low zebra.
31:13One hundred percent.
31:16Yeah, they're interested.
31:19This is a chance to feed their cubs.
31:23Okay, it's going to be tricky.
31:26But they've started to spread out.
31:29Mato is going straight towards them.
31:33Sebe has gone white to the left.
31:37Naledi has disappeared off to the right.
31:43Okay.
31:45The hunt is on.
31:51I lost her.
32:00They got something.
32:02Oh, they're taking a zebra down.
32:05That is a big cat bundle.
32:09Oh, it's down.
32:10They've taken it down.
32:16The cubs are digging in.
32:21Quite some price.
32:26After days on the move.
32:28Just going to pop the drawn up.
32:30This is a welcome meal.
32:37They need to keep quiet.
32:38Keep it as a secret.
32:39And will not alert other cats in the area.
32:48Hey, Gordon.
32:51Did you copy that?
32:53Yeah, I did.
32:54It's kind of over my right-hand shoulder.
32:58You know, the scent of this carcass is wafting straight towards me.
33:02I am so it's probably carrying far and wide.
33:06Yeah, we might be in for a surprise.
33:11Lions have to eat fast because you never know who wants to come along and pinch that meal from you.
33:19I can hear them.
33:22I saw something moving behind them in the tree line.
33:28Oh, yeah.
33:30So, it's a female.
33:32I can't tell who that is.
33:39Mato is up.
33:42She's being extra cautious.
33:46Oh.
34:01They're chasing.
34:03It's clearly not one of the other Kudum Pride lionesses.
34:09Whoever they are, they're not welcome.
34:15Heading back.
34:16They're just passing behind the car.
34:27Oh, no.
34:29What's going on?
34:34More lions coming in.
34:45Oh, that is such a menacing sound.
34:48All of these lions just trying to intimidate and push the girls off the kill.
35:00The mums have traveled so far from their own territory.
35:04Oh.
35:07They've run into another pride.
35:10The five in total.
35:11They are calling.
35:13The other one's calling.
35:14These newcomers aren't after the cubs.
35:19Oh, there's more.
35:20They want a free meal.
35:30It was a big fire erupting.
35:32It was massive.
35:40The numbers are now walking in their favor.
35:50They're now being chased off.
35:52The kill is not worth it.
35:58The zebra carcass has been abandoned.
36:02It's just not worth defending.
36:07They've taken the cubs and then off.
36:12That was enough for them to pull out of here.
36:18The mums and cubs have lost their meal.
36:22It is quite thick here.
36:24Just a lot of visual of the lions.
36:27And disappeared into the scrub.
36:44Next morning.
36:46Aha.
36:48Here they are.
36:55We've got a whole pile of lions.
36:58Greg has found Mato, Sebe and Neledi on the edge of Kudumpray territory.
37:06A couple of the lionesses are getting up.
37:13Oh, I can see some blood.
37:18Some of them look like they really did take a beating, eh?
37:24The lady looks like she got seriously hurt last night.
37:30She got a lot of open wounds.
37:33Cuts under her leg.
37:35It's on her face.
37:41Poor thing.
37:44Oh, Mato has just gotten up and she's walking across.
37:48Oh, she's got some serious blood underneath her front leg.
37:54Ow.
37:56She's been hurt.
37:58Very uncommon for us to see Mato turned in a confrontation.
38:04It looks like last night the lionesses met their match.
38:09The her and Neledi both have wounds on the back of their rum, which means that they were bitten from
38:13behind.
38:15One hell of a scrap.
38:19Not one of them is unscathed.
38:23From what I can tell, all of the cubs are okay.
38:27So the mums must have put up one hell of a fight.
38:30But we've got a lot of cubs that haven't eaten.
38:34It's not a good place to be.
38:38Mato, Sebe and Neledi cannot afford another attack from intruders.
38:47It's a pivotal point for the leading lionesses to make a decision on what to do here.
38:54Safety with the other mums of the pride has never been more urgent.
39:01They've got intruders all over their territory.
39:03Big time Aduma, nowhere to be found.
39:06So they've been squeezed.
39:09It's going to be very interesting to see how they navigate their way out of it.
39:19.
39:20...
39:30Brad has found Ledibe.
39:32Cats have unbelievable expressions.
39:35But she's not alone.
39:38Looking at this lion, it's with utter disgust.
39:43The lone intruder male has interrupted Ledeba's plans to eat again.
39:48It's just sad that she's gone through all this effort to make a kill and get stolen by a lion.
39:56She really needed a meal.
40:02It must be torturous for her to just sit there and watch a male lion eat her carcass and not
40:09be able to do anything about it.
40:14I think he's done eating for now. He's derying the entrails, trying to conceal the scent.
40:25He's moving.
40:31And he's down.
40:36Ledeba's started to move around a little bit.
40:40She's watching that cart.
40:43I think she's thinking about taking a piece back.
40:48I think there's a cub there.
40:51Yeah, there's her cubs. The base of the tree.
40:54It looks like Ledeba brought her hungry cub to eat.
40:58This is crazy.
41:00Before the lion pushed them off.
41:04This is a particularly dangerous situation.
41:10That cub just has to stay concealed.
41:14In his resting, Ledeba has spotted an opportunity.
41:22She's being very careful.
41:29Okay, she's on the ground.
41:33Admire her determination to try and get some of this back.
41:41I think she's getting desperate.
41:42This is a valuable meal.
41:46I think she's going to risk it all.
42:10Greg is joining Brad on the night shift.
42:24She's been here eight, nine hours, very patiently waiting to steal something back.
42:33At this age, the cub should be eating almost three pounds of meat every day, on top of her mum's
42:41milk.
42:42It's quite easy to notice with the thermal imaging, just how skinny Ledeba and her cub are.
42:49So it makes sense that her and the cub waited.
42:54But hunger is putting them both at risk.
43:03The big boy is moving.
43:06He is moved to our future.
43:14Ledeba is sneaking in.
43:25She's got it.
43:30Brad, I think you can hear me back, eh?
43:35Oh, she's seen it.
43:37Cubs on the move.
43:41Oh.
43:44Matt, it's just remarkable.
43:47The cub is heading into the trees for safety.
43:51It's a hell of a clown for a cub.
43:54She's seen him.
43:55But Ledeba is determined to get something to eat.
44:08I've got to go.
44:09Come on.
44:13Well done, Ledeba.
44:15That has to sneak a little bit of food there.
44:34Ledeba is nice and high up.
44:37She'll get some decent value out of what she managed to scavenge.
44:41She needs it.
44:47Ledeba's persistence has paid off.
44:51She can now feed herself and her cub.
44:56Never a moment's rest for her.
44:59Another little bit.
45:16Hobbit is in hunt mode.
45:18She's definitely walking about with purpose.
45:21After the cheetah's hunt training was interrupted by hyenas.
45:25So cool.
45:26Her body language just completely changes.
45:29Here's a combat.
45:32Lessons are back on.
45:37Oh, I think she's gonna die.
45:50There's a cutie cough.
45:52There's a cutie cough.
46:01She's got it.
46:04Oh, Kia's in already.
46:06She is first on the scene.
46:13That came completely out of nowhere.
46:18She's a machine.
46:19As soon as she gets up into hunt mode, you're like,
46:21well, she's about to kill something.
46:22You just know it.
46:29Kia's watching Pope.
46:31And Pope is clamping her jaws around this cuda's neck.
46:36And this is a perfect moment for Kia to learn just what it takes to suffocate her prey.
46:47Because that's what cheetahs do.
46:48They just clamp down on the windpipe of their prey.
46:52By bringing in prey that is alive and then showing them how it's done, this is the next stage in
46:59their hunting practice.
47:04Oh, look at this.
47:05Whoa, look at this.
47:07Kia's having a go.
47:09She's popping Pope.
47:12You can really see that Pope is trying to teach her a lesson here.
47:17She keeps, like, clumping and then she lets it go.
47:20And then Kia has it go.
47:26Your parents always tell you, don't play with your food.
47:29But that's exactly what you should do if you're a cheetah cub.
47:34Kia is learning fast.
47:38Where is Bo?
47:41But her brother is skipping class.
47:46Oh, wow.
47:49Kia's calling Bo.
47:51It's such a sweet sound.
47:55Oh, Pope is also calling.
48:03They can make these incredible chirping sounds.
48:10It's coming.
48:13I feel for him because he just seems like he's always a little bit slower off the mark than Kia.
48:18Kia runs into every situation head fast, whereas Bo's a little bit more shy and anxious of everything.
48:30I feel like he's always a little bit better.
48:31Bobby is succeeding as a cheetah mum.
48:37All of this teaching will be completely worth it when these cubs reach about a year old.
48:44Because at that point, they can start participating in the hunts.
48:49Every day, her cubs move another step closer to looking after themselves.
48:54Bobby is going to start handing the ropes over to them and saying, you know, you go ahead.
49:00Amazing.
49:05Every single day, these cubs are learning more and more.
49:13Eventually, they're going to be absolutely unstoppable.
49:33This is uncharted territory for me.
49:37I think that they've pulled away from all those intruders.
49:40Gordon and Greg are searching for lion mums, Mato, Naledi, Sebe and their cubs.
49:48Makes sense that they kind of just shifted.
49:51But they've become increasingly hard to find.
49:55This is way off. Good for them.
49:58We have crossed to the west, a place where we've never found them before.
50:09Bingo! Look!
50:13Gee girls, what the heck are you doing down here?
50:17Hallelujah, that is great.
50:20Hey, hey fam.
50:22Been missing you guys.
50:24Last time we saw them, they had just come out of a big boxing match.
50:27But thankfully, it looks like everybody's doing okay.
50:31Where have you been?
50:36You can see in many of our lions, their healing ability is amazing.
50:41Their lives are often shown so vividly on their faces.
50:46These lions are incredibly resilient.
50:50They're just super tough.
50:53Lion team, lion team, your headsets.
50:57Harry Gordon, I just found some lionesses.
51:02Can't believe this.
51:04I have Makosi, Nosi and Magogo.
51:08Ooh, that is good news.
51:13We've been looking for so long.
51:16I can't begin to tell you how I'm feeling.
51:20Sets has finally located the other mums of the pride.
51:26Moving in search of safety from intruders.
51:29They're contact calling.
51:31Both groups of lionesses are now within earshot.
51:39Can you hear that?
51:42Oh my word.
51:45The girls are up.
51:47Three of them, Naledi, Sebi and Mato.
51:52They've all got up and started to move.
51:55It could get very exciting.
51:59Oh wow.
52:07This is quite incredible to see.
52:11They're running.
52:12They're running across the water.
52:18After two weeks apart.
52:21Oh, happy days.
52:24Mato, Naledi, Sebi and their cubs are reuniting with the other pride mums.
52:32Tell me that there's a better sighting in life than this.
52:37I don't think I've ever seen them in such a huge number.
52:42The bonds are clearly very strong.
52:44It's as if they haven't seen each other in a lifetime.
52:53Seeing so many lions moving together, you can't help but just feel a sense of strength.
53:01I'm feeling it right now.
53:11This is the security and safety and numbers that this pride needs.
53:18I think we could all breathe a sigh of relief.
53:23They've survived against the odds.
53:31They've fallen into the line.
53:32This is one group I don't want to mess with.
53:58This is one group I don't like.
53:59We're staying there on Facebook.
53:59This is one group I don't want to miss.
53:59Mm-hmm.
54:07Arbomb Connor
54:07whether or not you can't?
54:07At stake in your hands-in page so you can't be