00:07He's such a bully. Having so much fun.
00:14Nez is always doing something silly. Right good morning everyone. Today I'm going to be taking
00:20Thor's group out for a walk. They are certainly full of beans and need to burn off a little bit
00:27of energy. Crazy cat.
00:57You're going to break my camera you nutter.
01:19Yeah so Thor always starts the walks off being a bit cranky. He lets off that steam and
01:28it gets better and better. I love to see the play. So cool.
01:40I actually love jolly. I love my girl. He nutter. Nez the nutter.
01:48Yeah everyone out and about. I love my girl. So you can see guys on the outside here we've
01:56been burning fire breaks. 20 meter fire break around the entire reserve and around their sanctuary.
02:06Naturally we don't want you know fires that get out of control like we had a few years back.
02:16And then not only do we have that fire break the actual burnt area but we also have this area
02:22which is also a fire break. Yeah the guys have been working together with working on fire
02:30and they are ahead of the game thankfully. Yeah lots of sniffing today. Sniff sniff sniff.
02:43Giving Mr Big a wide berth. Hello my boy. Hello my boy. Yeah he's on a mission old Thorey.
02:52Doesn't want Charlie near us. Smells in the air. Hormones. Is it you? Is it you? Which one is it?
03:07Somebody's giving off smells that are irresistible to Thor and Thor feels the need to keep Charlie at arm's length.
03:19So yeah but that should hopefully settle down as we get into the walk.
03:24Okay there's a bird. This is Jabari. That's the cops. And yeah I've said it so many times before.
03:35Jabari does not miss a thing. That lioness is always always always checking out what's going on.
03:46There we go. All of them on the fence line making their way down to the river.
03:54There we go. Thaw breaking trees.
04:15Ooh that caught his attention. You better go and check out what's happening with that Charles.
04:30You can hear the Impala alarm calling. And they're heading towards the hills.
04:41Old Lola is sitting there wishing.
04:45Oh yeah.
04:46Ahhh.
04:52I see him on the mountain backs of a tree.
05:02Oh God.
05:04So that's a tree.
05:15Let's find yourself some poo-poo, hey.
05:28Fresh warthog poop.
05:47Ah, the bully, I thought he was ahead.
05:52He was lagging behind.
06:01Pushing through.
06:12He's going to follow these guys, see what the water level's doing.
06:23I was taking her drink and push her in now.
06:34Still so much water, ooh, he almost fell in.
06:43I'm having so much fun.
06:49Nez is always doing something silly.
07:02Oh my goodness, now I've got to get across there with all my gear.
07:24Hello you crazy fools.
07:38All right, so guys, somebody was actually asking me the other day, what does a lion smell like
07:45when they are wet?
07:48And yeah, I can tell you now, caught a whiff of Nez as she walked past because she's been
07:54in the water.
07:54And immediately, wet dog came to mind.
08:00So that's what they smell like, wet dog.
08:12Got a thorn in her paw.
08:16Just a few times now, I had to stop and try and get it out.
08:23So yeah, guys, so the team has done a really awesome job in cutting these roads.
08:31So we've got multiple road networks here now in this camp.
08:39She's after something.
08:42Told you this lion does not miss anything.
08:49Jabari.
08:55Honestly, guys, I have no doubt, in my mind, that if Jabari was put out in the wild, she
09:07would...
09:08Ooh, there she goes.
09:14I don't know what that was, I think it was a warthog.
09:16I've seen some fresh warthog scat.
09:21So, could be.
09:26I don't hear any noises, so maybe it was unsuccessful.
09:40I just find it incredible how they can sense and smell even see something through this grass.
09:50I'm standing way taller than them.
09:53Okay, my hearing is not the best, but certainly my eyes are not that bad.
10:00I'm always just so amazed by their capabilities.
10:07Just out of nowhere, they can pick something up and then hone in on it.
10:13Sometimes you think, when you're walking through the bush, it's just random.
10:19You go like, ah, they're just walking.
10:20But it's not random at all.
10:24They have scented something.
10:28And then they're heading in a direction.
10:30Sometimes to go around the scent, then to get downwind.
10:37So that their scent blows away.
10:41And then they can kind of sneak up on the prey as the wind blows.
10:46The prey scent toward them.
10:49So, yeah, typically they would do that.
10:57All right.
10:57Hello, boy.
10:58Oh.
11:01Hello, my boy.
11:15He can be so loving when he wants to be.
11:23Loving, loving, loving.
11:37Another incredible thing about these lions is,
11:41I've seen it so many times in the wild where they split up on a hunt.
11:46And they go off in different directions.
11:49And just like magically, they suddenly all meet up.
11:53And you go like, how on earth did you guys do that?
11:57I mean, I'm trying to figure out and predict where they are going.
12:02But like, look at that.
12:05It's like magic.
12:06They just appear from nowhere.
12:08It just comes from nowhere.
12:14Like, honestly, guys, as a human, you'd be wandering around in completely the wrong direction.
12:22So, yeah, there's a lot more happening, a lot more going on than meets the eye.
12:27There we go.
12:32OK, so much.
12:58What are you doing there, Charlie boy?
13:37What are you doing there, Charlie boy?
13:58Alright guys, so just to give you a little bit of context of what happened there, Charlie
14:04had possession over this mud pit, Thor was actually just being nice, he wanted to come
14:10and rub on Charlie and roll around with him and Charlie was like uh-uh.
14:17So they had a little bit of a scrap, nothing serious and you could see Nege in the corner
14:26there just trying to stay out of harm's way, she's just like okay just guys I don't want
14:32to be part of your scrap and now you can see Charlie is like I'm not moving, I'm not moving
14:39this is my mud and I'm not going anywhere so he's just sitting there or lying there ignoring
14:45Thor, actually I love this time of the walk because everyone's kind of spent their energy
14:56a bit, most of it, they've run after things, they've scratched on things, they've sniffed
15:01ooh now they really had a little bit of a ward off and that was because Lola was coming
15:08in, well let me just rephrase that, I generally like these times or these moments because everyone's
15:21typically a lot calmer and then they all kind of gather together and lie down in the shade
15:30and groom and you know do what prides are meant to do but yeah sometimes with these two boys they
15:38can cause havoc with the girls and then the girls don't want to come near them and I know guys
15:44we have
15:45had a lot of you write in and say you know should should we not look at splitting this pride
15:51and I
15:52think you know I have answered this question before but I'll answer it again and I think the harm you
15:59cause by splitting the pride is far greater than the good they are generally a very coherent pride
16:08it's just every now and again they have their little tuffs and that is not atypical of what happens
16:14in a normal functioning line pride it's just you must realize that you as an outsider only get a snippet
16:22of what's going on in a pride you on your game drive you come across a pride typically they are
16:29sleeping or on a kill or on the move so you know when these lines are focused and on the
16:35move there's
16:36no time for scrapping if they're eating no time well there's scrapping when they eat but that's normal
16:42lines will scrap while they eat and if it's very hot the sun's high in the sky and they're tired
16:48they're going to sleep what does
16:57he's such a bully
17:03it does tend to happen
17:07is because there's no cubs in the pride
17:24the males would come and the females would come and the females would be in estrus and the males would
17:31then say hey hey let's have a little scrap as to who's going to be the guy who's going to
17:37get to mate
17:38first and they're typically a lot of people don't know this but they typically do take turns in mating
17:43so one once the the the dominant male has had his you know go and has had his turn then
17:52the less
17:53dominant the subordinate male will also have a turn at mating so actually when you look at the pride you
18:01don't know who uh cubs which males cubs they are um it's very hard to say so that's how it
18:11typically
18:11would go down so i'm just trying to get my camera here so typically that's how it would go down
18:18guys and
18:19then um the females would fall pregnant and there would be this like homeostasis within the pride it'd be
18:28this like happy state for 110 days because that's the gestation period of the lionesses and typically
18:34the lionesses would all come into what's known as a synchronous estrus so they'd all come into estrus at
18:41the same time and mate at the same time and conceive at the same time and have cubs at the
18:46same time
18:46and then they would nurse at the same time and these are the happy times for for lion prides because
18:52the males are happy the females are happy everyone's happy um but in captivity obviously
19:00we cannot let lions like tubari um breed uh reason is for those who don't know for those who
19:09who have been following me you will know uh there's no uh reason to be breeding lions in a captive
19:17environment
19:18because you're just perpetuating in my opinion a problem the problem is is just more lions in
19:24captivity and we have enough what we really need to be doing is opening up more land or habitat so
19:32that
19:32lions can have more space to to roam in and uh in so doing you can then house more wild
19:42lions in a
19:43particular habitat that is the name of the game not breeding lines in a captivity where they're going
19:48to stay um so yeah many many many moons ago we adopted that strategy uh and said no more um
19:59and so yeah
20:00unfortunately lions like jubari and nej and loli and indy are not gonna i'm not gonna feel what it
20:09feels like to be become a mother or um because we just don't want to perpetuate that problem yeah
20:27six lions safely home and that's where we're going to leave it guys bye george
20:33bye everyone hi yeah george did did they i told you how the people wished you happy birthday on the
20:40video did i tell you no i'm going to show you the comments oh you well you're well loved by
20:47the
20:47audience thank you so the audience they're actually asking for more of you and i said you shine you don't
20:54want to come on camera hey is it true or not no you like being on camera
20:59you
21:25you
