Tigere Talks Sebakwe, Instincts and a Close Call 🐘

It actually takes it behind picture, but this app, that one at the front, is just full of heat. So it just gives you the option to go back to see what was the object. Because now you might not know who's there. Look at the mouth. That warm air comes out. Exactly, and look at this trunk. The trunk as well, when you exhale, you can see the warm light, that warm air going out. Exactly, and the tip of the trunk is always, and it's alive, you know, it's busy. So there's the whole time blood, so it goes also about the blood. Do you want that color one? No, it's just Well everyone, So along the way, at some point, you just need to exercise his dominance over the others, which is very, very normal. Sometimes he may dislike what the others are doing towards him, so he needs to set a straight line, and that's natural for the elephants to do that. And as for us, as humans, at some point, we don't really intervene in such, you know, behaviors, because for them, it's how they live naturally. So we don't want to take away that, you know, that naturality out of them completely, because at the end of the day, they still need to make their choices as animals. They need to decide what they're going to be as animals. That makes them look natural and be elephants. So on the back way, well, you can tell, like he's determined, so at some point, he may go after young bulls or females, but for him, it's natural. But it is quite important that, as humans, we don't implement anything that will frustrate them to get to that extent. So we understand very much the concerns from our supporters, but some of these things happen naturally, and as animals, they have to practice those kinds of behaviors, because that's what they do naturally. I see the elephants of, it's time, it's home time, it's going home time. How do they know what time it is? Because they're all walking in the direction of the home state. Well, these elephants being hand-reared elephants, that also has an impact on that behavior, because on a daily basis, they go out to feed in the bush. At a certain time, they need to go back to the stables, where they get extra supplements as well. But it's quite amazing how they know the time to start to head back home. It's quite exciting for us, you know, we're still doing some kind of research on that, to see how they know the time, now it's time we must head back home, you know. Because when we got in this block, they were all facing northern side, and they were feeding, going, you know, but suddenly they made a huge turn to face home. So I understand that their homestead has all the values they need. For example, the supplements, you know, the food that we carry, the pellets, also that has also influence on their behaviors. For example, they know, okay, now it's time we're going to get that food. So they started heading back home, knowing they're going to get some food in their homestead. So it's very interesting, like I said, they're hand-bred elephants. So I mean, they're part of the union. They know where they spent the night, and they know where they're going to spend the day. So for them, it's also normal. It's an instinct that they've developed. And if you look at us, none of us has got a watch here. You know, they know the time. Once they start heading back home, we know, okay, now it's time we're going to go home. It's a very interesting thing to see how they know the time to know that we need to feed now going back home. So yeah, very interesting. You can see all of them heading back home. No one is following, no one is calling them. Naturally, they know this is the home direction, which is where we need to head on. But I think the one thing that you also said, well, they're hand-bred, and they know where's the homestead. If you take elephants that grew up with their mothers, and those matriarchs know how to walk. So she knows where the water is. She knows from ages and ages from her mother, you know, taught what direction to feed, where's the water. Without them, you know, kind of, they just know. So this is part of, I think, the elephant's being, how they're put together, is to know where's their safety, where they need to go to. Like we experienced that with Subakwe. Remember that other evening? Yes. When Subakwe, you know, went out with the wild elephants. But without anyone telling him, you need to get back home. He just came on his own. And suddenly he was standing next to my room, and this fence, he's standing there, breaking the branches. And I'm like, what's going on out there? When I looked, it was him standing there. So nobody told him where he's home. But naturally, he knows I need to be home. So he left them and came back on his own. So that's quite interesting how he can decide to make that decision, you know. But it seems he also knew where's your house. Yeah, he was telling me, hey, go open the gates, I need to get in. I was laughing, I was like, oh, Subakwe. Yeah, I know, it's amazing, really. And then the other question that people, our followers ask was, why did Subakwe follow the females? You know, that he joined them and not stayed with his own group. I think that's also, you know, that instinct from a bull's perspective. Yes, definitely. You know, even if he's on contraception, he still knows how a beautiful cow looks like. Exactly, exactly. Just like any other male. He's not being faithful to talk when I say it. Yes, he is. He's like, let me just see what's on the other side. Exactly, exactly. So yeah. Just pull out my trunk today. Yes, yes. So it's a natural behavior for bulls to get curious with other euthymias in the herd. So when Subakwe saw them, he was like, hey, who's this one? Because they're not familiar with him. He's not part of that family. So he wanted to see what's going on there. So yeah, it's just instinct. A bull's instinct. Yeah, very good. So yeah, you see now we have Satombe at the front, always actually leading in a way where Subakwe will come by slowly at the back. And there's actually another one on the right, that's Klaseri. So usually, there's Klaseri and Satombe, they're leading the way back home. And there's also Mamba approaching. That's amazing. You know, so at some point, it feels like, as humans face a point where we normally underestimate the intelligence of these animals. You know, they were not taught. Nobody's telling them what to do. It's just a decision they are making on their own. So that intelligence, that capacity to have that common intelligence, it's just amazing. Tiger, tell me the story about that your homecoming experience, this last trip, flying. Yeah, it wasn't present at all. So I'm sorry, I just want to interrupt for the followers. This is really, you know, Tiger is laughing now, but it is really serious, okay? It was not a good experience. So I left home about four o'clock in the morning. That was on the 22nd of April. So I normally leave home like that. But because the state of the roads made me to leave earlier so that I can be at work in time. So as I was driving from home, it was all good. And then I drove about three, four hundred kilometers. Then I started having problems with that little cow of mine. Pisa? Yeah. We named her Pisa because she drives well. So I started choking. You know, so that was a sign that there was a problem. It's either fuel or your electricity to the distributor wasn't going well. So we had to delay for five hours to get it run. But unfortunately, we couldn't get it right. So we had to force meters. While it was choking, you know, in the middle of the road, you're driving, then it goes, you know, and then everyone was like, ah, not again. You know, so we had to stop, go around, open the bonnet, but we don't know where to touch. Just looking at this thing like, hey, what are we going to do here, guys? We need to get back to work. But we had about a thousand kilometers left to get back to the workplace. It was quite frustrating and it was really frustrating. But anyway, I don't know, all of a sudden it allowed us to drive. But it was still choking. When you put the fifth gear, it doesn't want to go. You start choking and it was a struggle. We only got here about half past one in the morning. It was quite frustrating. But anyway, I was happy, though, because I managed to get back to work. I managed to go to work that early morning, so I was happy. Though it was a quite frustrating moment, but I made it. And the three wheels? Yeah, now that's where the problem is. That one, it happened when I was going home. So like I said, the state of the roads there are also very bad. And it was 10 o'clock in the evening. So when I was driving, there was this truck coming in, but I could see there were two trucks. So the other one wanted to overtake. I was like driving towards them. Then when I saw that the road was completely blocked and they were trying to overtake each other, I had no choice because it was too close. I had to get out of the road. When I drove off the road, the first wheel to the left busted. So now this car was pulling me off the road, but I managed to control it slowly. Then as it was running, I hit the ditch and then the car went flying. You know, those who have watched that, you know, monster truck movie, you can relate to what I'm saying. You know, the car flew and I was in the air and I could see like now I'm flying, but I even steady it landed. When it landed, the two wheels at the back also busted and that was it. Then the car went running off road and I'm like, oh no, but I managed to survive. All thanks to God, because it wasn't my control. It wasn't even, there was no effort from my side. It landed well, then a few meters it stopped. When I got out, all I could do to say, thank you Lord, saved my life. But I could see all the tires were gone. All the tires, only one tire was just left there. But yeah, all three tires were gone. So I had to call my family to notify them the situation. It was about 85 kilometers away from home. Then my son came, we had to spend the night together. We just started talking, you know, catching up. The following morning, yes, I managed to get the tires done and everything was sorted. That's when I managed to get home. But God is real. You know, it could be worse, but he saved my life. I really thank God that I survived. Thanks for sharing. We're still glad you're here, okay.