Lion Pride With A Zebra Meal In The Mud | Livestreamed From Zebra Plains Mara Camp | Zebra Plains

Here we go. Good morning. It's not morning here, it's afternoon. So if everyone is watching, you can't really see what they're feeding on. You can see how muddy they are. What time is it here? I don't know. 5 o'clock? Something like that. Okay, quarter to six. The stream is very choppy here. We're right on the edge of the drainage line, so we are struggling with signal. But hopefully you're getting something. We've got three lionesses here. One's not down on the kill, it's up on the bank. And there should be a total of eight cubs. Again, you can't see them all. It's a very awkward position. What are they eating? A zebra. A very, very muddy zebra. They're probably eating more mud than a zebra right now. They're probably eating more mud than a zebra. They've probably been eating for 15-20 minutes already. Maybe a bit more. We've been here a while. We just caught it and saw the cubs running. We didn't see the kill, we saw the cubs running and then found this scene that we're seeing now. Only lions and cubs. Three lionesses and eight cubs, not obviously all in picture. We didn't see their shed. The mother's opened it up and they're letting the cubs eat. The mother's coming in and out. There's one there, the one with the muddy back. She's the one that did the majority of the take down. The second one's coming in now. You might see her pop up to the picture in a minute. You can just see her paw at the top of the screen. The third one's lying up on the bench and not doing anything. The cubs might be in those little cub spaces. For the ones that aren't muddy yet, they're really wary about getting in the mud and getting dirty. But they do want to eat. They'll come eventually. Possibly once the cubs have finished their feast, the mothers will try and pull it out onto the bank. It'll be a little bit easier. How far are we? Probably 20 metres away. We are in the GPS. Here comes the other lioness. There she is. I've noticed a zebra. A very muddy zebra, but it is a zebra. All the other comments that aren't in English, I can't read or understand, so I can't help you with whatever is there. You can't even see the stripes on the zebra anymore. When we got here you could see some of the stripes, but now it's so covered in mud you can't see anything. There she is. I think we lost her for a second there. Hopefully everybody is still here. There she is. I think we're all going to clean it off. Do they eat the meat mixed with the mud? Yes they do. No, they don't drink from the mouth, they just swallow. Do the lions ever feel threatened by our presence? No. Well, sometimes when we've got really small cubs and there's too many vehicles. There's only three of us here and we're only parked at a fairly respectable distance. If I zoom out quickly you'll see how far away we actually are. They're all the way down there and we're up here. You can hear me, but you can't see me. I don't know what's going on there. We did lose connection a minute ago, but we should be back now. There she is. There's plenty of meat there, but they're fighting about where it's already opened. The rest of it is right underneath the mud, which is why there's so much growling going on. In the adults there are three lionesses here. You can only see one right now, I think. These are trying to go around to the other end. How long does it take for a pack of lions to devour an adult zebra? It will depend on the size and number of lions. It can be anything from a few hours to well over a day. I think in this case there have been so many and other members of the pride may turn up as well. That's quite a big pride. Seven adult males, six adult males could turn up. The two big males could turn up. This could be gone easily well by the time we come back in the morning. One lioness has left, the second lioness is coming in. The third lioness still hasn't been down. The lion at the bottom of this one cub is almost sunken completely in the mud. He's got space to eat so he's happy. The front of this. The carnivores are starting up so there will be noise. Are they eating it in the ditch of mud to protect it from enemies? No, it's just how it was caught. They chased it into the ditch so it couldn't get out. It made it easier for them to catch. They haven't pulled it out because it's quite a steep side of the ditch basically. Once they eat a bit of it it's a bit lighter. Especially once the cubs have had their fill. The lioness is coming in. They've pushed the cubs out of the way to where it's already open. So they're not giving way just yet. We'll see some more growling as it goes on. Guys, if you've got questions just type them in. We're here to answer. There's three of us here to answer questions. Pride is this. You don't know what pride is this. It's your turn to answer some questions. You're just going to get talked to. It's in the name Pride. Can you spell that for us? N-A-Y-N-F-M-I It's in the description. And the title. Also sometimes called the double cross pride. If that helps, congratulations. Wow. That's how they chased it. It's walking along the riverbank. We just saw the zebra. So it didn't chase it. It was like it fell into the ditch into the mud. That's how they caught it. You can hear it growling. It's a big storm coming. It's going to be affecting everything. The fews are on the way. It's not happy. There's money. But there's a lot of water around. In general, it's been raining for the last couple of weeks. It's not stopped. There is rain coming. It should probably pack up before it hits us. But it's still a few minutes away. Coverage is not because of distance from the lodge. It's just because we're down in a ditch. Coverage is patchy across the whole reserve. From the lodge itself, the straight line, we're probably maybe 10km at the most. You can see the lodge from the top of the hill. We're in the car. Because we're in the car, we've got to cover the top. This is the Kulamai Pride. The spelling is in the title. It's also known as the Double Cross Pride. Sometimes. The Double Cross Pride. There's been many different prides over the years. That's possible. It's called Double Cross because there's two rivers that meet and then one crossing that crosses both rivers. The Double Crossing is south as well. Very close to the Double Crossing. Just to show you, they're all there. We'll zoom back in in a minute. They are eating a zebra. It's very cheap. There might be more of the cubs just behind where we can't see but there's other space to eat as well. I think there'll be less of them eating on this side now. Especially the adults can't all get in at the same time. For those of you that have been waiting for live streams, we are stocking with garbage in this part of the reserve. We can't go everywhere that we want to go because a lot of the river crossings are flooded. I am posting on Instagram pictures and so on for the sightings that we can't broadcast live. Obviously everything that we see is going to go in the Safari Highlights packages when I get home, which will be after Christmas. These cubs are very fast. Where are we going tomorrow, do you think? I don't know. Still have a look. I'm always on these. I can work when I want to work. For Christmas I'll be home with my family. What are they eating? Is it a zebra? It looks like a big black muddy thing. It's a zebra that's sunk in the mud. I don't think there's any stripes left to see. They've moved it around in the mud so much that it's almost completely black except for the bits where it's eating. Peter, no, I'm not going to be here when you're here. I know you're coming to Zebra Plains. I'm not going to be here, I'm going to be off or away from Zebra Plains in August or February. I'm going to miss you, but anybody else here will look after you nicely. There'll be videos, just not from Zebra Plains. I'm going to go to Cludo in January. My car works. There's always videos. See you later. Peter, you're going to Adobe too. I haven't been there for a long time. You'll definitely enjoy that, especially if you like leopards. Not so many lions there. You've still got time there. I love you. I also hope we don't see any more sightings where they're killing each other. We see what we see. That's just how it works. It wasn't nice to see that. Bye. Thanks, Rocky. I try. Thank you, Peter. You have a lovely, lovely safari when you come. It's the only car here. Everybody else has left because they're scared of the rain. One little child on the other car needs to go for a lift. But that's irrelevant. I would like to try and move the position, but I'm pretty sure we'll lose the connection if we do that. I'll try. I'll run to the phone. Stay with us while we move. If we don't get connection when we're there, then goodbye and thanks for watching. If we do get connection when we're there, well, that'll be awesome. We should be up. We should be better. A bit more. A bit more. Yeah, there, there. That looks awesome. Back up on top of the roof, just in case. OK, and then we move the camera and... How does that look, everyone? Whoa. We're still not seeing anything. Awesome. You still can't tell it's a Zebra, can you? It's still just mud. We're still just mud, baby. Yeah, they've been working on the kill, definitely. They've been stalking for a couple of days. I think we saw them after the impala two days ago. Yeah, two days ago they were heavily stalking the impala and not willing to fetch one of these lions. They missed it by a couple of millimetres. We'll post that video eventually. So this is a welcome meal for all of them. We've got two lionesses down at the bottom now, and one just at the top. Let me zoom out for you. There it is. And the other lioness is at the top there. And then one facing towards us at the back, one facing away from us at the front. And it looks like that. The third lioness is now eventually coming down. They're certainly enjoying the mountain goats. I'm pretty sure once the cubs have finished their go, the lionesses will try and bring it up onto the bank. It's way a little less, and it'll be easier to pull out the mud once it's been used up. There it is. No, we didn't get to see the kill, unfortunately. We were the other side of the river, and had to come quite a long way around to get around. We just saw the cubs running, and once we found them again, this was the scene. A little bit more zebra and a bit less mud at that point. Killer zebra. Not that you can tell. Update on Notch 2. He's been female after those. Yeah, he's still around. Hopefully sometime during this safari we'll get to see him. Yeah, he's still with Spear Boy. One zebra will be enough food for a few days on these lions. Will they groom each other? Yes, they will groom each other. They'll groom themselves. There'll be lots of preening and grooming to get them once they're done. Rocky, that's what I'm here for. Linda M, this is the Inconyonaia pride, or double-crossed pride, as it's sometimes called. He's a good boy. He's a good boy, too. I'm surprised none of the other pride members have turned up. Obviously these three lionesses and eight cubs have been hanging around together quite a bit, but not even 500 metres away were two of the young males, the start-up males from the pride. If there were two of them there, there would probably be more as well. And there's a lot of noise going on here, so I'm surprised they haven't turned up. They probably will before morning. We won't know about that. Pretty sure we'll come here tomorrow morning and there'll be nothing left. What is it? It is muddy, is what it is. A zebra. It no longer has any stripes. It's just mud-coloured. A zebra. When you're all finished watching this, don't forget I posted another lion video. Not a live one, but a lion video today. It's quite worth watching on the channel. You see things like that where the lioness just clawed the other cub in the face. Of the sub-adult males of this pride, there's two that have missing eyes, and that's what happens. That's how they lose their eyes. They're going to claw in the eye on a kill like this. See the big lioness wants to try and move it out of the mud now. Thank you Linda, we appreciate you watching. No. The light's getting really bad now. The rain is getting closer and closer. I think it's time we should pack up and try and get back to camp before we either can't cross the rivers anymore or just get soaked anyway. Thank you very much for joining everybody. Hopefully we'll go live tomorrow. Otherwise just look out on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all those other social media things for the photos that I'll post if we can't go live. Cheers, bye bye, and have a great day. Bye.