Lion Pride Feast On A Warthog | Maasai Mara Safari | Zebra Plains

hey everybody i'm rob the ranger and you're watching me no but anyway enjoy the video here still breathing is so so look at the others in the back this one love that one still breathing so so uh where's the youngsters i'll clear you probably now so yeah well it won't be now she's killing it properly so [Music] okay um so me okay cool is um um oh so uh um okay hey everybody all two of you there's some lions eating good day good day good day we're eating a warthog um the lioness here in the suburbs that are eating just stole it from two other lionesses of the pride they chased off and now they're all busy finishing it off it was still alive when we arrived here it's not anymore hopefully everybody's doing beautifully out there it is very windy and i've got the camera inside the car for less wind and it's still not helping but it's always windy in tomorrow did it take long for the hog to die not after they started eating the two lionesses that had it before these ones started that actually started feeding on its back legs while it was still alive and then the big lioness here came in chased those two off and properly throttled the warthog and then all the cups came in sub-adults came in and started eating so it's gone from a whole war top to very little in the last couple of minutes what time is it over here anybody know okay jackson tells me it's 10 past 10 11 past 10 in the morning so this is breakfast time for them or brunch maybe so what happened to the signal there sorry hopefully you can see again now there's a couple of young males there not all females all the youngsters are what a year old yeah yeah yeah so it's one six months a year and six months 18 months so it's one one big female and then five youngsters so we were pretty hungry those of you that have been following the updates on facebook and instagram and all of that this is the group of uh the pride sorry my mouth is not working that was with lol puppet yesterday he's not with them anymore he's on the buffalo with some young boys from the victory pipe and i think the reason he's not with them is because as as it's only one adult female they're not gonna be able to catch anything big enough for him to feed i mean look how quickly they're going through this warthog he's old and slow by the time he caught up there would be nothing left for him he's better off with that big carcass with the young boys the other side of the river rain coming in yeah rained last night it'll rain later today by the looks of it there's quite a bit of it is the short rainy season here now now last year in the market the short rainy season lasted until the long rainy season so we had all sorts of floods and all sorts of mess and the roads were impossible most of the time all the rivers were uncrossable this year it shouldn't rain so much foreign happy birthday mark do you leave water in case of severe drought not in the mara we do have the perennial river running through the reserve there's always water there sorry we lost signal i was talking the the mara river always has some water in it even if it's not flowing there are pools so we don't need to leave water for the animals um in other areas like the kruger national park where i film quite a bit uh yes there are water holes for the animals in the drought sir well thank you for watching all my videos mark have a great birthday in a big pride do they ever make more than one kill at a time yes yes they do um especially during the the migration here the pride may run into a herd of wildebeest and kill two or three in one go it just depends how many of the lionesses are hunting or how many lions are in the pride in total it's it's not unusual at all to have them make more than one killing do the lines eat the intestines with the dung in it when the intestines they usually squeeze the dung out as they eat the interesting things like you're squeezing the uh stuffing out of a sausage that's how they'll feed there and hyenas around there were and they are i can see them in the distance when there are only two lionesses here at the beginning they were a little bit closer but now there's more they've moved off a little bit will the one what i'll be enough for the five of them it'll be enough to keep them going today but they may want to hunt again later is their favorite not particularly but at this time of the year once the wildebeest have moved out of the area it's one of their staple diets it is a bit dangerous the one lioness that did catch it earlier did get a tusk in her leg nothing serious but i'm sure it's a bit sore you know they would prefer larger prey so if they were still zebras around they'd like to go for zebras topes are a bit fast so if they could take down a buffalo they'd be happy as well it's all to do with what's happening when the young males get old enough to leave the every pride went there while i was talking when the young males get old enough to leave the products you usually the the big males the the pride males that push them out not the mothers so if the pride males are tolerant of the young males they will stay around the previous uh generation of cubs in this pride there were five six young males actually that stayed around until very recently in fact we saw two of them still hanging around with the pride last week the male's on patrol are in the area i'm not sure where one of the males is the other one lol parker getting old and thin he's on a buffalo hill somewhere else but where are bernotti the the fit male of the the two territorial males is i'm not sure he may turn up randomly as we're watching the pride is the incl in columnar pride youngsters run off with the leg there see very very little left now the other male won't kill teenage males it belongs to them no they want they want to ensure that their genes are spread on so they will push them out but they won't kill them they will kill young males that don't belong to them if they join a pride take over a pride in those youngsters young males and they're not big enough to be chased off completely they will be killed same with the young females actually they don't discriminate between sexes of cubs when they take over a pride if they're not old enough to breathe they won't be left they want all the cubs to belong to them when they take over a pride do the lions heat up too much when it's really hot it's quite windy today so yeah they'll they'll not be too bothered it's not direct sunlight um but on a really hot day yes they overheat you'll see them sitting and panting in the shade and the other question was what time is the best time to go on game drive when it's cooler there's usually more activity but there's not a hard and fast rule sometimes we can be out in the middle of the day on a hot day and still see action so it's better for us to be out when it's cooler but not 100 that you're going to see more action in the morning or in the evening than you will in the middle of the day um i don't know why we keep losing signal like that we've got a strong signal where where it is um just move it across a little bit and see what's going on i think it's youtube servers rather than our signal because the other day we did a stream on facebook and we didn't have any of these connectivity problems how many in this pride i think in total it's 13 now and all the answers and lionesses in total but they're they're very seldom all together now plus two big males um and someone was asking about inbreeding not really uh it's very seldom that big males will stay territorial long enough for their daughters to be old enough to meet with uh it does happen occasionally but it's it's seldom however overall the gene flow between populations isn't that good you'll find young males will leave this pride and take over another pride and then their youngsters will come and join this bride further down but we only find a problem um with birth defects and so on when it's brother and sister mating or mother and son father and daughter so distant cousins not too bad but it does mean that the genetics are fairly stagnant do they eat the bones also they will they'll crush the bones so that's what they're actually doing on the ribs now get the marrow on the inside seems there's not much meat left usually the male lines eats first and then the pride um yeah if the male's there when the pride make the kill he will dominate the kill he doesn't care how much he leaves for the rest of the pride he cares that he's full so often if the males around they catch something small like a water male may eat the entire thing and the females have to go off and hang for something else july and see more fight at night than in the day no but they do see well at night and they are able to see in the dark but certainly not better than they can see in the day they can see much better in the day because there's more like to see just one more time do i think the lions will be satisfied it'll keep them going for today maybe tomorrow it's just a snack really but outside of the migration season in the mara they often do survive on just snacks let's see the signal dropped again which pride are these from i've actually written the pride name in the description so i don't have to keep on chewing my tongue saying in collonai but this do they hunt elephants no they these pride don't hunt elephants although they did eat an elephant that died earlier this year um how old are low carpet and all the naughty they are 15 and a half 16 next year if they make it to next year signal bouncing see what's going again up here oh their instances of sons pushing their fathers away from the pride i'm sure there are i'm sure there are but i can't think of any um what we often see is uh when the young males move out it's usually at the time males older males will lose control of the pride to newport new males anyway so i'm sure it doesn't happen very often but it probably has happened just can't think of any instances right now are there any young males here two other two of them lions are young males here one adult female three young females they eat everything jerry and all of it all that's going to be left behind is perhaps the stomach most of them have gone to sit and digest now these two seems like they've got full bellies but they don't want to give up the last scraps of meat to either of themselves do they ever get sick from drinking dirty water uh they're basically immune to it they get used to it because they drink it all the time they build up the antibodies to be able to deal with that dirty water if we as humans drank dirty water all the time it wouldn't make us sick anymore but we don't get exposed to those germs all the time so we don't have any resistance to it which is why we do get sick when we drink dirty water do they get sick from eating diseased animals yes that's so that's a different story entirely lions can catch tb from eating tb infected buffalo signal went again there yes lions can catch tb from eating tb infected buffalo and and other animals and they can catch anthrax from eating animals with anthrax and i'm sure other diseases can be passed on that way as well they do acquire parasites yes yes lions have a lot of parasites but again it's something that their bodies get used to so it doesn't affect them too much when is the last time i've never seen a honey badger in the morrow but i'm sure jackson has jack jackson you've never seen a honey badger that's insane so jackson's here every day his whole life and he has never seen a honey badger in the mara you can see the young male's picked up there all that's left is the head and the spine a little bit of the ribs there's not a lot of meat left how do they take care of serious ruins from hunting lions are extremely resilient when they get punctures and scratches and you know as long as they eat well they'll heal well and it's one of the benefits of being in a pride is that if they're a little bit slow the others can hunt and as long as they get there to eat then they can recover quickly someone was talking about how the intestines get eaten that young lioness on the side there she's eating the intestines now and you'll see she's facing away from her unfortunately but she basically eats on one side of her mouth and squeezes the dung out to the side as she eats the actual intestine itself do lions eat other lions occasionally yes meters meet it's not something that they go out looking for obviously now let's go completely sorry we completely lost the stream there where were we do the lions ever recognized i i don't think so maybe um obviously not these lines i don't spend enough time with them but maybe if a person was to spend all their time with the particular group of lions and talk all the time they would probably get used to their voice and recognize them certainly recognize the smell of an individual person if they were there all the time our lines immune to covet i don't know i don't know i know of some instances i think in in a zoo in in the u.s where some of the big cats tested positive for covet there here to get into the park you have to show a negative certificate so nobody should be passing coveted onto the lions we're socially distanced enough from them they are far away from us so we're not going to be sneezing and coughing on top of them anyway so they shouldn't have much chance of catching it under crocodiles eat bones and they've got an extremely strong digestive system very strong stomach acid so anything that gets swallowed gets broken down by the acid simple as that someone was also saying about that a lioness that got a jaw broken interesting scroll back through the comments but there was something about linus with a broken door if a line breaks its jaw it can't eat it will die there's nothing can be done there are the hyenas keeping the social distance they're lying in the grass probably 500 meters away now i can't see them anymore average life span of lions 10 to 12 for a male 16 to 18 for a female obviously that's just an average can vary in different areas between different prides there's a lot of poaching happening in the area in the mirror itself there's not a lot of poaching around the conservancies there's been recent incidences of uh um snares being set for bushmeat traditionally the local people don't eat bushmeat uh that the amount of snares be maybe as a result of the pandemic shutting down tourism to the area shutting down the the meat markets where people sell their food so they've had to go and get food in the bush but overall the mara is a fairly safe place for the animals has the pandemic had a big impact on travel to the area yes yes there was no international travel until when did it open 15th of august in kenya and in south africa there's still many countries not allowed to travel for tourism and so you know from march there's been we lost you there from march there's been very little uh tourism is starting to pick up here in kenya i don't think south africa will pick up until next year do hippos actually eat meat uh yes they do i think there's a video on my channel somewhere about eating an impala it's not something they eat on a regular basis they are modernly herbivores but if there's meat there they'll sometimes take it um how is ilis doing i don't think anybody's seen him for how many months many months i think since last year maybe the cheetah practice infanticide i don't think so i don't think there's enough cheetah for them to have to worry about that this is they don't come into contact with one another enough for new males to have to kill cubs of previous males females pretty much stick to themselves unless they want to make they don't associate with the males well thanks for watching johnny thanks for your nice comment do i think there'll be another coalition working for us in our lifetime no two coalitions are alike so no signal dropped again again we're actually going to wrap up now just eating the scraps we need to move on to other things thank you very much everybody for joining well one more question overall wildlife numbers in south africa growing declining they're pretty much stable and rochester gets here here in the mara 40 degrees but anyway um we are leaving thank you everybody and goodbye to all of you find the button to turn it off go didn't give his updates because many people watched all over the world because i don't they don't book directly with me i think a high percentage of the people who direct me now i don't know yep how many people wanted thank you very much for watching hope you enjoyed it please feel free to like subscribe share all of those things see you next time 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