- 5/17/2025
Big Cat Tales - Season 1 Episode 2
∙ Danger in the Long Grass ∙
The Dynamics of the Marsh pride are changing with introduction of the older cubs to Charm's newborns. Malika's persistence to nourish her young leads her to a dramatic pursuit. Bahati reveals her cubs as Jonathan has his first sighting.
∙ Danger in the Long Grass ∙
The Dynamics of the Marsh pride are changing with introduction of the older cubs to Charm's newborns. Malika's persistence to nourish her young leads her to a dramatic pursuit. Bahati reveals her cubs as Jonathan has his first sighting.
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00:00There's something truly extraordinary about living a life alongside the big cats.
00:07We're Jonathan and Angela Scott and we've been following the lions, leopards and cheetahs of the Maasai Mara for over 40 years.
00:15They're not just big cats to us, we know them as individuals.
00:20Alongside us is our good friend Jackson Olliluseya.
00:24He's spent his life in the Mara and these characters are as special to him as they are to us.
00:31Join us as we draw back the curtain on the intimate story of their lives.
00:51In the Maasai language, Mara means spotted.
00:54A land spotted with wild animals, spotted with bush and of course dominated by its big cats.
01:01But for me as a first time visitor in 1974, it was also very much about the Maasai and their colourful regalia
01:08and particularly the warriors with their spears and short swords.
01:12It stirred my blood, it made me take a step back in time.
01:21Good morning, good morning. Thank you very much.
01:27Good morning, how are you? Thank you very much.
01:38The Maasai Mara is my home and this is where we live.
01:42We live with our families here on a daily basis.
01:45This is also what makes us special as Maasai people
01:49because this is one of the richest places in Kenya with the big cats.
01:54We're pastoralists.
01:56Because we don't kill wildlife for food, they are abandoned in every single Maasai county.
02:02If we are to hunt these wild animals for food, there will be nothing existing here.
02:08But we have learned to coexist.
02:11That is very special and it makes my tribe, my culture, a very unique culture in Kenya.
02:19Maasai chanting
02:40I think one of the most wonderful things about knowing a place, as Jonathan and I know the Mara,
02:46it goes beyond just understanding from going to A to B.
02:50It's that peeling off the layers of an onion.
02:53It becomes richer and richer the more you know it.
02:59I think that's something that I really value,
03:02is having had the gift of spending so many years in one place
03:06because you get to see all the nuances.
03:08You see the different seasons.
03:10You see generations of lions moving through this area.
03:14And looking in my rear view mirror.
03:16I was just going to say.
03:17Looking in my rear view mirror and seeing that.
03:19Because let's face it, I was a bachelor boy.
03:21I just wanted to be on my own.
03:23I never thought I would find somebody who I could spend 14 hours a day in a vehicle.
03:30I got it right. She's in the back there.
03:44Could you imagine a more idyllic scene?
03:46I mean, this is the very essence of what Angie and I love.
03:53Peace and quiet.
03:55Close to the big cats.
03:57Cats that we've watched for year after year after year.
04:04Asgore is such a wonderful male.
04:07He's actually quite different to most of the males that we've had in the marsupial.
04:13He really enjoys being with the females and the cubs.
04:16And of course the cubs absolutely adore this interaction.
04:20You can see Asgore actually enjoying it as much as they are.
04:24You can see that sort of look in his eyes when he's looking at the cubs of connection.
04:32It's a wonderful thing to see.
04:38This is an age where they're big enough to be playful.
04:40Because when they're tiny, the first six weeks they're tucked away in the bushes.
04:43You don't get to see the cubs.
04:45So this is a perfect time to be watching cubs and photographing them.
04:50Because they're playful and they're very focused on each other and focused on the mothers.
04:56But as they get older they become more separated in their agenda and do different things.
05:03Mojo, he's such a strong, mischievous, fun little cub.
05:10He's much bigger than the other two.
05:13He's always the one leading the pack.
05:15He's always the one taking them off to a bit of mischief.
05:19I can't think of another animal that is so powerful.
05:24In our mythology, they are the emblem of strength and courage and fierceness.
05:34There's no other animal that I would describe as powerful.
05:39I would describe them as the most powerful.
05:42Fierceness.
05:46There's no other animal that I would rather be with than the lion.
06:07Mandela, one of our guides, has just found Laika.
06:10South of where she was last night, she hasn't fed yet.
06:13So we've still got a chance of getting that hit.
06:23If you're looking to age the cats, you look at their teeth.
06:25So on the tips of the canines, they get worn down in time.
06:29And we think that she's probably minimum eight years old.
06:34Also look at the tips of her ears.
06:36They're a little bit worn, a little bit grey, a little bit grizzled.
06:40And see the way she uses the landscape.
06:43She's like us. She maybe gets to a high point.
06:45We look for predators with our glasses. She looks for prey.
06:58Oh, she is all focus.
07:02Look at the intensities. Watch the ears. The ears tell a story.
07:06Alertness.
07:08And this cheetah can spot something from a hundred metres as small as a beetle.
07:15OK, we've got a herd of impalas right out in the open.
07:20There's one Thompson's gazelle as well.
07:22Now generally, she likes a solitary animal.
07:26Less eyes and ears to pick her out as she moves towards them.
07:29And they're pretty busy eating.
07:32You see there's one female there just watching, just looking.
07:35OK, she's coming through the bushes.
07:39And if you didn't know there was a cheetah there, you'd never see it.
07:43If you were just scanning these thickets.
07:48And she's edging forward just slightly, little bit by little bit.
07:54Because these animals, these impalas, their eyes are adapted to pick up movement.
08:00And she can just, I tell you, from that position, she could just literally come flying out of the starting blocks.
08:08Look.
08:19Yeah, she must have pulled up.
08:23I tell you, just suddenly, boom, off she went.
08:30She's not as bent out of shape by that chase as I thought.
08:34She is an athlete.
08:36Good girl, Malaika, you are a star.
08:39But you're still hungry.
08:43This is going to be a costly meal.
08:45I mean, day three, and it could be even day four since she last hunted.
08:50You just realize how difficult it is to catch food.
08:53It isn't that easy.
08:54You can't just go out there and just grab things when you feel like it.
08:58You've got to really work.
08:59You've got to know what you're doing.
09:01And even then, you're going to miss sometimes.
09:04What are you going to say to the cubs?
09:29Claudia and Askari, the male in the marsh pride, they've had a thing together.
09:37Basically, they are courting and they're mating.
09:40The female wants to join the rest of the pride.
09:43Not today.
09:44Every time she goes, cut on this side, cut on this side.
09:49And she said, how do I get rid of this male?
09:53And she's gone one way, go up the tree.
09:56She's gone up there and he's looking, should I climb?
10:01I don't think that tree is enough for two.
10:05Therefore, he's sitting right there on the floor waiting for her to make another move.
10:11She's kind of thinking she might come down.
10:15I mean, she's not going to be living up a tree like a leopard.
10:19She's got to come down.
10:21And when she does, he will be all over again.
10:24He will be all over again.
10:28Look, she's peeing from the top.
10:30Peeing on his head.
10:36Oh boy.
10:38Look at that, he said, you're peeing on me.
10:40It's okay.
10:42I still love you.
10:47There's no way to escape this male when he's determined for mating.
10:51And she even peed on his head.
10:55This is the beginning of the mating.
10:57It's just started today and it will continue for the next three days.
11:01After every 15 minutes, it will go on it.
11:07Claudia, I heard a miscarriage right here.
11:10And we knew it's just a matter of time before she starts mating.
11:18Males, when they're ready to mate, they're aggressive.
11:22They're fighters.
11:24And they don't let the female do anything.
11:27Not even to eat.
11:29Just mating.
11:33Now let's see what happens.
11:35I guess she's going to jump over him.
11:38Look.
11:39And he's asleep.
11:40He didn't even know that the girl is coming.
11:43Oh, surprise.
11:44Over.
11:47That's excellent.
11:53Three months later.
12:11Three months after this mating, there will be new cubs.
12:15This is very good news for the expansion of the marsh pride.
12:23Three months later.
12:27A sure way to escape the madness of city life, all that noise in your head.
12:31Just stop and spend time with wild elephants in the Mara.
12:37Just the sound of their legs as they drift through the long red oak grass.
12:50And what's she looking for?
12:51She's looking for tiny acacia seedlings.
12:55And nice clumps of grass.
12:58And she'll pick it up and she'll just dust the soil off it.
13:02And a little baby like this is learning the whole time.
13:07And it won't stray more than a few metres from its mum.
13:11Mum is the epicentre of that young one's life.
13:14And you can see, still under a year old, because it can actually travel underneath the chest of the mum.
13:21And it will continue to suckle until she has a new calf.
13:25So generally, every two years, a new calf arrives.
13:31What you tend to find is, when food is limiting for elephants, they break down into smaller groups.
13:36But right now, there's plenty of food, so the elephants can actually join together.
13:41And you can tell, just looking at these elephants, I can tell this is a healthy population.
13:45Because you've got all different generations.
13:48You've got tiny calves, less than a year old.
13:51And then you've got medium-sized calves, four, six years of age.
13:55And each family herd has a matriarch, the oldest female, her sisters and their offspring.
14:08Middle of the day, time for a little bit of a mud wallow or a cool down.
14:18Look at them all coming in.
14:38What an amazing sight.
14:48Somebody's saying, butt out.
14:55There's one little one, right in the thick of it, right in the mud wallow.
15:04And this is incredibly important. It's not just playful and a thing of joy.
15:09It's also essential for the well-being of the elephant's skin.
15:13Look at this tiny one.
15:15And the little ones are really prone to overheating, so it's terribly important that they maintain their body temperature.
15:22Look at this little guy.
15:25Rubbing his bottom.
15:28How good does that feel?
15:45When you're in the presence of an elephant, there is such wisdom.
15:49You just feel the sense of sentient beings.
15:54A connection between animal and man, which really goes beyond understanding, but you feel it right in your bones.
16:04And you just think to yourself, what an extraordinary experience to do just this.
16:10To just be in the presence of such amazing animals.
16:14Now, who couldn't say that this is very special?
16:34I feel so incredibly privileged.
16:37I mean, I have the whole pride just resting up in the shade of my car.
16:42Honestly, these are the moments I really live for.
16:46We're not driving to the lions, so I don't feel in any way we're disturbing them.
16:53They've actually come to us.
16:56And I can't really describe the peace and the tranquility I feel when I'm given these moments.
17:12So now we have a sky and a pony within four feet of my car.
17:32Male lions have such a lovely relationship together, even though they might not be brothers.
17:38They do seem, they have that empathy of brothers, I suppose because they spend so much time together.
17:46And they're so important to each other.
17:51When the lions are this close, you're observing them in your space.
17:57And so they become far more, if you like, real to you, because they're not now removed.
18:08They're not out there. They're actually in here.
18:13And you're right in their energy as they are in yours.
18:18And you can really see the little detail that you can't at a distance.
18:23You can witness the size of a paw.
18:27I really do feel so blessed when I have a day like this.
18:32I mean, you couldn't, you just couldn't ask for more as a lion lover than just what I have.
18:54OK, Malika is looking like she wants to hunt.
18:59What are her options?
19:01There's a gazelle scattered along these plains.
19:06She looks thin. The cubs are hungry.
19:09She's got a big belly.
19:11She's got a big belly.
19:13She's got a big belly.
19:15She's got a big belly.
19:17She's got a big belly.
19:19She's got a big belly.
19:20She looks thin.
19:22The cubs are hungry.
19:24And she wants to hunt.
19:28Look at the shape of her body. It's so beautiful.
19:32Those chest muscles, that's where the power is.
19:36Long legs, small head.
19:39Looks like a sphinx.
19:41In some ways it's the least cat-like of the cats.
19:46They look a little bit like a greyhound in terms of their build.
19:48And those long, thin legs that propel them across the ground at such speed.
19:56If you're close to a cheetah when she's got cubs,
20:00the sound of her purring, of the mother and the cubs purring,
20:05this deep, deep rumble.
20:08And leopards don't purr. Lions don't purr.
20:11But our domestic cats do.
20:13No question, the cheetah's a cat.
20:14The cheetah's a cat.
20:16But it's a different cat to our other big cats.
20:20Tigers, jaguars, lions, leopards,
20:24they belong to the group that we call panthera.
20:27They're the roaring cats.
20:30They really are the big cats.
20:32And the cheetah actually split off in a different group.
20:40You can see by everything that Malaika is doing,
20:44she's hungry.
20:46But also, there's strategy going on here.
20:49Because she has parked her cubs in this area,
20:52like it's a semicircle of croton thickets.
20:55And she's literally moving around it,
20:58where she isn't visible to anything out on the open plains.
21:01And she's just checking.
21:03She sits, sometimes for five, ten minutes,
21:05just watching with those incredible eyes of hers.
21:10And it's very, very smart to do that.
21:12Because if she just goes walking around out in the open,
21:15gazelles, impalas, wildebeest, topis see her,
21:19they alarm call.
21:21And she might just as well turn, as she often does,
21:23and walk away.
21:25Because she's blown it for this massive area.
21:42I don't know how Malaika does this.
21:44I mean, I'm sitting in a car all day.
21:48I'm having to drink litre after litre of water.
21:52And she's sitting out in the open,
21:55with the sun beating down on her.
21:58And she's somehow managing to keep cool.
22:01She's somehow managing to keep her sanity.
22:03And she will hunt in this kind of temperature.
22:07But the fact is, she's a specialist.
22:09She can't be a lion or a leopard
22:12to survive in this kind of environment.
22:15She needs to be a different kind of cat.
22:17And the cheetah is exactly that.
22:19It's a daytime cat.
22:21And it's a cat looking to avoid competition
22:24with the big guns.
22:40Malaika is dead on target.
22:44We've got wildebeest with two young calves.
22:47They would have been born within the last month.
22:50Now, she's capable of taking a wildebeest calf,
22:53no question about that.
22:55But what about the mother wildebeest?
22:57She's got the ability to take a wildebeest calf.
23:00She's got the ability to take a wildebeest calf.
23:03She's got the ability to take a wildebeest calf.
23:06She's got the ability to take a wildebeest calf.
23:09And she will defend that calf with all of her energy
23:12and with those horns.
23:14This could be a bit of a battle.
23:18But she's determined. She is hungry.
23:27Now she's got the full attention.
23:29Look, here they come. Here they come.
23:31Here she's coming, flying like the wind.
23:40Here she comes, look, closing in.
23:42Closing in. She's got the calf down.
23:44She's got it. She's got it.
23:46The herd have gone.
23:48Look.
23:50Struggling to pull it down.
23:52Mum's got the throat bite.
23:55Job done.
23:57Great work for Malaika.
23:59Great work.
24:01Malaika.
24:03Malaika.
24:05Malaika.
24:07Malaika.
24:10On this occasion, no happy ending for the wildebeest.
24:15But food for our cheetahs.
24:21Very smart move on the part of mum.
24:23She's pulling that kill into the cover of the bushes.
24:26She doesn't want the vultures to give the game away,
24:29to attract lions or hyenas.
24:31Get the kill to safety.
24:33We can see how hungry the cubs are.
24:36As mum's trying to pull it to safety,
24:38they just want to get stuck in.
24:40We've been following Malaika for three days.
24:42Finally, payday.
24:46And these wildebeest,
24:48they're not part of the Serengeti migration.
24:50That comes later.
24:52These are part of a local migration,
24:54which move into the Mara at this time of the year.
25:02Great job from mum.
25:04Wow, Malaika really, really did it today.
25:07And best of all, she's got it to cover.
25:10Nobody saw a thing.
25:12No lions, no hyenas, no vultures.
25:14Nobody to steal the kill.
25:17This is really good,
25:19that the cub is actually holding that throat bite.
25:21This is what it'll have to do when it hunts for itself.
25:24And I say hunts for itself.
25:26Of course, it's going to have its brother as backup.
25:29They will hunt together.
25:31These cubs will remain with each other for life.
25:39The mother wildebeest is coming back.
25:41I thought she would.
25:43She knows she's lost something, something precious,
25:45something that has been with her side by side
25:48for the last month or so.
25:50And suddenly it's gone.
25:53We're constantly wanting our big cats
25:56to be successful in their hunting.
25:57But it's at the expense of another life.
26:00And when you watch a female like this,
26:03looking distressed, searching for her young,
26:06your heart goes out to her.
26:09But this is the endless cycle of life and death
26:13on the African plain,
26:15the struggle between predator and prey.
26:28The African
26:47The buffaloes are coming in.
26:49And this is not a very good situation
26:51because Cham is right there with the cubs.
26:53The little cubs are exposed right in the oven.
26:58Oh, there he goes.
27:00He's charging. Look.
27:02And the females are getting now ready.
27:04Look, they're all getting up with the cubs
27:06and the cubs are moving fast.
27:08They are getting up.
27:10They realize there is danger here.
27:12Look at that standoff.
27:14There's another buffalo coming.
27:16They're all coming. Look at that.
27:28Oh!
27:35Askari is becoming aggressive.
27:37As much as the buffaloes are giving them hassle
27:39and pushing them away,
27:41he is fighting with his brother.
27:43He still has to defend the female.
27:45Claudia is on hit and she's mating.
27:48That little bit of push
27:50shows that Askari is
27:53at the top of the marsh pride right now.
27:55This is how important it is
27:58to sire new cubs.
28:04That's close.
28:06Look at that.
28:13Right here we've got a buffalo which died
28:16and the lions had a fist.
28:18Buffaloes are coming to revenge
28:21and thinking their own was killed by lions
28:23and in an actual fact, they didn't.
28:26The buffalo just came right and died
28:30at the heart of the marsh pride.
28:34They are smelling what happened here.
28:39And look, there's one more buffalo
28:42which is heading to Tom's bush.
28:47It's going right in.
28:48It's going right in.
28:52I bet he can smell Tom right there and the cubs.
28:57I'm really determined to try and flush these lions out of there.
29:02This is quite a high level of stress.
29:05If those bulls come around,
29:07those babies will be history.
29:11And Tom is just praying that they go away.
29:19You can see that buffalo that's getting aggressive.
29:22He knows the lions are his worst enemies.
29:28There you go. It's chasing.
29:38This is a constant battle between lions and buffalo.
29:42All the time these are enemies that are living together forever.
29:47Big day today.
29:50I've just heard that one of our crew have found Bahati.
29:54Now Bahati is one of our leopards.
29:56We filmed her last year when she had two small cubs,
30:00beginning of the year.
30:02Those cubs became independent
30:04and I'm told she's got a new litter.
30:09And Bahati means good luck.
30:12And Bahati means good luck.
30:15And when you're with her, you better believe it's good luck.
30:27So where is, oh there she is, which is beautiful.
30:33It's just like meeting up with an old friend
30:36because I last saw Bahati about a year ago.
30:39And we've known Bahati since she was a tiny cub.
30:42Her mother was Olive.
30:44Her mother was Bella.
30:46So there's a whole legacy of cat history that we tap into.
30:52And to me that's the fascination.
30:54The more you spend time with a cat,
30:56the more you get to know it.
30:58So she's not just a cat.
31:00She's not just a leopard.
31:02She's Bahati.
31:04And I'm just checking her tummy.
31:06She's breathing quite heavily.
31:08She's in the shade.
31:10But I can see the brown tell-tale marks
31:12where the skin is flattened,
31:14where the fur is flattened around her teats.
31:17So she's still suckling her cubs.
31:20Now even though I haven't seen the cubs,
31:22I can deduce a couple of things.
31:24One, they're still suckling.
31:26Two, if she's prepared to move around with them
31:29rather than keep them at a den,
31:31they have to be between two and three months minimum,
31:34maybe even a bit older.
31:37So when you see a leopard just plucking the fur,
31:41making it easier to get to the meat,
31:43Bahati wasn't having a big meal there.
31:45Maybe she was preparing the way for when the cubs come,
31:49when she calls them, brings them to the kill.
31:51She wants them to be able to eat as much as they can,
31:54as quickly as they can.
31:56The big thing is, when will she go and get them?
32:02I always feel when I'm with a leopard it's such a privilege
32:04because really, the world of a leopard is a secret world.
32:09It's sunlight and shadows.
32:11It's just a dappled coat moving sinuously through the bushes.
32:22Bahati's just moved to the edge,
32:24close to where the kill is, and she's calling.
32:29I have heard this sound.
32:31It's a very subtle sound.
32:32And that is a call that's only meant to be heard by the cubs.
32:42Yep, cubs coming.
32:44Beautiful.
32:54Oh, I love these moments.
32:58I love these moments.
33:00You know, that greeting.
33:03Especially at this age, because mum licks them,
33:06the cubs want to play with her.
33:08Just the best moments.
33:21And of course, at this age, they're so focused on mum.
33:24So you get lots of socialising.
33:26And with a solitary cat like a leopard,
33:29this is something that I just treasure.
33:51Bahati's six and a half years old now.
33:53We've followed this lineage of leopards for 25 years.
33:59It's that investment in knowing these animals,
34:03in caring about these animals,
34:05that makes us keep coming out every single morning that we can.
34:23They say that lions don't climb trees,
34:26but we have these mothers just loving climbing this tree.
34:30As a photographer, it is agony,
34:33because I would have to shoot through my windscreen.
34:36But it's just one of those times that you're just enjoying being so close.
34:41Unable to move backwards,
34:43but you're just enjoying being so close.
34:46And I think that's what it's all about.
34:48It's one of those times that you're just enjoying being so close.
34:52Unable to move backwards, but enjoying seeing them playing.
34:57And it's a wonderful thing,
34:59because actually these mothers are very young mothers.
35:02So you get these moments where they're just full of the joys of spring.
35:08So they just love to gamble and play with the cubs,
35:12which is wonderful for the cubs.
35:14And obviously the mothers are just loving it.
35:18They're using this tree, I think, as a scratching post.
35:23Lions love to find a tree where they leave marks on the tree bark.
35:29They clean their nails a little bit and stretch their muscles.
35:33But also, from the vantage point she has up there,
35:38she's actually looking right down into Charm's den.
35:48So this could be interesting.
36:01We've got both the mothers and the three cubs
36:04just walking straight into where Charm's got her little two cubs.
36:08This is the very last thing that really she needs.
36:12At the age that Mojo and Bili and Solo are,
36:15they're playing quite rough now.
36:16I mean, at four months, they're really biting into each other's necks.
36:21And the rough and tumble is real full-on rough, rough play.
36:27And it's too much for Charm's tiny little ones.
36:32And you can hear the odd absolute squawk.
36:39So contrary to what I was hoping,
36:42she is actually moving one of the cubs.
36:44As tolerant as the lioness's Charm is,
36:47I mean, that was quite a morning for her.
36:50And obviously she just felt too much, too soon.
36:57But this will be the beginning of many interactions.
37:00So it's not the end of the game by a long shot.
37:03But Charm, in her wisdom and her old age,
37:06she knows they're too young to be fully integrated into the pride.
37:15It is extraordinary, really.
37:17Lions know everything that's going on in their territory.
37:21I hadn't even seen where Npole was,
37:24but as soon as he saw Charm moving her cubs,
37:27he just popped up just to investigate, see everything was okay.
37:32And she, the old mama that she is, wasn't concerned.
37:37I mean, normally females would be extremely concerned,
37:40seeing males come close to where they have the cubs.
37:44But, you know, she recognized him.
37:46She was okay about it.
37:53And Charm has tucked herself in this old, broken down tree,
38:00which we call Dave's tree.
38:02It actually happens to be one of the favorite places of the mothers and the cubs.
38:07So I don't think she's going to have that much peace and quiet here.
38:10But for now, the cubs are safely tucked away in one of the little nooks,
38:16and she can have a couple of hours peace and quiet.
38:41Behati has to make a decision now.
38:44Is she going to walk away from that carcass,
38:47or is she going to try and actually move it to somewhere safer?
38:51You see the way she looks up like that?
38:53She's thinking, next stop, get that kill up into a tree.
38:58And the cubs are picking up a little bit on that nervousness.
39:05Because unlike the cheetah, who has to feed and move off,
39:07she can get it up into a tree and feed again tomorrow, the next day.
39:17And that's a big animal.
39:20She's eaten a lot, but there's still plenty of meat there.
39:31Other predators, hyenas, they are going to be here very soon.
39:35See? Checking, looking up, thinking, what are the options?
39:40She hasn't got long to act now.
39:43Those cubs are vulnerable.
39:50Up she goes.
39:53No.
39:55Okay, now she's got a problem.
39:57Because she's got the cubs in a thicket there, tucked away there,
40:00but with the kill, with the smell of that carcass.
40:05It's not just about food.
40:08It's also the safety of those cubs.
40:30Okay, she's making her move.
40:33She's headed for the trees.
40:35She's got to do this quickly, because she is so exposed.
40:47Okay, the clock's ticking.
40:50She's got about 35 minutes until it starts to get really dark.
40:55And she can't afford to leave the little cubs where they are now,
40:58because that's where the intestine, the abdominal contents,
41:02all that smelly stuff that would be absolute heaven for a hyena,
41:06is where the cubs are.
41:10So she's got to choose here fairly quickly.
41:13Try and get that kill up into a tree if she can.
41:16She's had three or four attempts now.
41:18Each time it's been too much for her.
41:20Just too many branches.
41:22Sometimes there just isn't the right tree.
41:28They've just heard the leopard.
41:30They've just had the leopard. These are the guineafowl.
41:34Leopards sometimes kill guineafowl, and this is payback time.
41:38They're literally giving Bahati the bird.
41:40They're saying, we see you, move on.
41:43Because if other animals, hyenas, lions, hear that,
41:46they know something's going on.
41:48They could come and investigate.
41:50Boy, oh boy, this is not a nice way for her to end her evening.
41:59Next time on Big Cat Tales.
42:02They're threatening that little cub.
42:04Right there, right there. She's coming straight towards us.
42:07I've never seen anything like that.
42:10What are they doing?
42:12Wow, look at that.
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