Dinner For A Cheetah Family | Maasai Mara Safari | Zebra Plains

hello everybody you're not rock the ranger because i am there's some animals let's go have a look at some more wildlife yes is every tree uh um this wow oh uh go for them [Laughter] unfortunately it was all a bit too fast to get the catch on camera the thompson's gazelle and male thompson's gazelle is what they're feeding on uh what oh come on hello [Music] hmm hmm um um [Music] oh number one is [Music] now okay uh hmm uh hmm uh thank you uh that took so long to get sorted new setup on the car here hello everybody there's some cheetah eating so what we've got is the name a female cheetah in the three cubs eating a gazelle they caught a couple of minutes ago unfortunately it's all a bit too fast to get the catch on camera thompson's gazelle male thompson's gazelle is what they're feeding them and we can't zoom in any further than that otherwise the video quality will be terrible it's about as far as i can get okay sorry guys yes there there we go controls on this camera very sensitive sorry we'll leave it like that for now i won't fiddle with it anymore okay hmm yeah she's done a very good job today cups are now um for nearly a year and a half old almost almost to the age where they're going to start becoming independent in the next couple of months um huh we saw them this morning this family they were looking extremely lean it would be very good for them there you can see the horns the antelope thompson's gazelle it's a good meal excuse me [Music] question oh hello rocky and hello everybody else that may have joined since i last spoke i'm not speaking too much today because the camera is in an awkward position you need to see what you're asking and try and keep up with what's going on in the meantime just enjoy the animals feeding in the sky um it's a bit it's a bit hot behind us really how they might come out when it's a bit cooler along with the cubs stay together once uh they'll leave their mother in the next couple of months they usually stay together for a couple of months after they leave the mother if it's males i think there's two males here and i'm not 100 sure um but they will stay together usually their whole lives females go off on their own females are very solid tree unless they've got cups oh oh um oh yes how quickly the vultures and or scavengers start showing up it will depend on many many situations i saw one vulture flying over a minute ago but it's not come down at the moment we've just had rain since last few days for about a week before that it was very very dry there were a lot of cattle and goats and sheep dying on the edges around the edge of the reserve so most of the scavengers have been really really full so they're not particularly interested at the moment maybe a bit later and when the hyenas cannot might come over here but uh we had a buffalo die in the camp last week obviously we moved it out the council didn't smell but where it's been lying we haven't seen a single vulture irons are coming at night feeding a little bit we haven't seen a single vulture but we are seeing a lot of vultures around they're just not coming to things in the reserve at the moment yes it is good there's no highness around that's that's why they they prefer to hunt um sort of early morning later in the afternoon when other predators aren't as active hyenas lions leopards generally don't like to be out when it's uh hotter in the day they may be active but they're not going to be as active as it will be at night to be active the opposite kinds to the other prejudices so that they can eat freely when they do get it good with the temperature there's some here um and temperature the last few days has been very cloudy and rainy it's been quite cool but now sun's out so it's probably in the mid to high 20s and gets sun for another couple of days we'll get into the low to mid 30s okay mum standing up at the moment having a look around there's a big head of debra they're coming and making a fuss that's why she's being alert um they stayed if they were all females if they stayed together after leaving the mother no and they wouldn't females have split up they'll stay together for a month or two but they would split up they are very solid the females good afternoon from here can you come in here still good afternoon um okay hello there in thailand and hello in south africa as well everybody's doing fine or at least better than the gazelle is doing this is so fast a couple of days ago a different female tutoring cups uh casara family eating a female gazelle it took them well over an hour an hour and a half to eat as much as being eaten here in 15 minutes 20 minutes too many questions genetically similar uh there's nothing that can be done about that particular genetic bottleneck you take cheetah here and their dna will be almost exactly the same as cheetah in south africa and it's a big enough area here big enough population for them not to worry about having to bring in new males or anything like that you're looking at forty thousand square kilometers serengeti mora ecosystem so there's enough cheetah and enough individuals that direct inbreeding won't happen the questions have do they leave the belly usually yes that you can see in front of the head at the moment they won't beat that unless they're really starving to feed off a big game carcass like a buffalo not usually not usually at all no they don't scavenge because of the chance of there being other bigger stronger scavengers that might come in [Music] percent of their own body weight so it depends on the size of the cheeto would that be enough for all four of them it'll be enough to fill them up in this particular instance but uh not enough that they won't be hungry again soon not like lions that will eat their fill and then not have to eat for a week and with fortuitou like this if they don't eat tomorrow they'll eat the next day you can see how quickly they've polished it off if anybody's asked a question that i've missed just ask it again because i can't scroll up at the moment because i can't see what i'm doing okay you have family groups mother and cubs or coalitions of males would be many related members of different ages and really pride only applies to lions there's different collective nouns for different animals just check quickly the official collective now for cheaters um the partners next to them that they're not eating is their stomach so they won't be fit cheetah are vulnerable to uh climate change um like if it gets you they they get used to hunting in a certain condition so if you get too much rain in an area that's usually dry they can't adapt their hunting skills fast enough to be able to chase down in the muck and the opposite if it's usually wetter and they're used to chasing in mud and then it becomes too dry again they can't adapt fast enough for that sort of thing that's why it's often quite hard to move cheetah populations to different areas if it's not similar to what they're used to but almost completely finished they've eaten it so fast they were really hungry this morning thanks to everyone saying thank you thank you for watching you pointless me doing it if you guys didn't come and watch so thank you for coming [Music] oh thank you any hyenas that come in oh it's basically the the bare bones the head and the stomach nearly 25 minutes and let's say 10 minutes before that it was still a running walking eating gazelle so incredible how fast they've gone through it why don't they eat the stomach it's full of grass they don't want to eat that sometimes some predators will eat a bit of a stomach content to help with digestion but the stomach lining itself isn't particularly nutritious and the grass inside isn't great and also if they open the stomach straight away then it would smell stronger and attract more predators more quickly how young the cubs are they were born the beginning of november so they are 15 months the head is nutritious and filled with flesh four creatures with stronger jaws or tutors with their small jaws they would struggle to get into that they might pull the eyes out maybe and eat the nose but the rest of it's a a bit of a a struggle for them well the mother's chew to go into heat straight after the coast leaves usually within a couple of weeks that doesn't mean that she will have cubs uh immediately the first time she goes into heat she'll probably go through a couple of easter cycles before she successfully conceives again so usually when another rose that comes to independence for about six months before yes if you want to argue against climate change on a channel about wildlife and nature you're probably in the wrong place climate change is real end of story [Laughter] [Music] depend on a lot of things but usually [Music] usually um they're around 18 months like they're already full because it's already finished they were certainly not full when it started because they're already full vehicles i'm starting to leave they are used to the vehicles thanks for joining me okay that's how you recognize babies i'm also decides as it is pretty much finished also finish up notifications on and we'll find you that way bye yes hours watched 44 hours 158 people at one time 2416 in total there we go okay what as well [Music] like that thanks how are you awesome are you good what should we gonna see next [Music] thank you very much for watching please if you enjoyed don't forget to like subscribe and share click on the notification bell and have a look in the description for all the other links you can click on and enjoy thank you very much so here's a couple of links to more videos on my channel that you might want to check out also the social networks you can follow me there for live updates pictures etc from safari