Leopard And Cub With A Gazelle Meal | Maasai Mara Safari | Zebra Plains

hey everybody i'm rob the ranger that's the river full of crocodiles there's some trees that's all irrelevant enjoy the video so hello everybody that's watching we've got two lepers in the tree mum and youngster female the mother is called laurean we've got three of us here if you guys want to ask any questions or say hello or whatever and just the gazelle that they're eating i think so hello what time of the day is it here what time of the day is it here 20 past five in the afternoon it's a little bit blurry i think we might be focusing on the branches that's why i don't think that made it any better just clean the camera lens quickly see if that helps is that any better obviously this what i'm seeing is not what you're seeing i've got a nice crystal clear um picture in front of me but whatever goes through the stream i don't know what you're getting at least you're getting something uh what are they eating it's a gazelle i hope that's what it looks like to me that's mum feeding there and then just quickly look at the cubby there's the little one but he's asleep mostly do we have any black lepers here not in the morrow there are black leopards in kenya there was one spotted on the camera trap last year but nothing in the mirror at least not that anybody knows the light is very bad where we are it is dark because it's stormy and they are in a very dark branch tree so i'm quite pleased with what we are getting there's not often that we get signal where there's leopards to be able to show you i usually have to show you a picture much later so this is quite nice to have here you're right on top of one of the hills is the female that's eating and then they're in the darkness that's the cub this is lucas lucas lucas is the name of the cub lorian is the name of the mother is oh so you guys aren't asking me questions i'll ask you a question where's everybody watching from what are you all doing i'm watching from the car and i'm filming it it is prickly it is prickly but it means that the meat will stay well gripped in there and they will carefully pick their way through the thorns they're not long thorns they're short stubby thorns so it's easier than say an acacia tree would be to get through looks like we've got a good selection of people from all over watching welcome everybody to kenya nothing wrong with watching it while you work sure it makes your work day a little more interesting but she's losing interest in eating looking out there are some hyenas around as well i know he's put his head back down again maybe he's going to come up let's just have a look at what he's going to do there we go they're quite pretty young man even if he's got a funny name leopard named lucas oh the name the mother is lorien the type is lucas who names the animals there is a japanese lady uh please keep on following this and actually the daughter of lauren was named after her grand daughter okay okay did you all hear that or do you want jackson to speak up a bit about who names leopards what point will the cup leave his mother um it's hard to say it depends each litter's different with each leopard so anything from 14 months to two years okay they didn't hear you very well jackson shout about the naming of the leopards the naming of the leopards uh there is a japanese lady who is uh doing recital the left hearts especially luluka is a the daughter of florian and the japanese lady named luluka so there we go so to summarize about the naming the the mother lorien was named by the guides that end him and the son lucas is named after the grandson of one of the ladies that comes here and follows the leopards if you can see there but the mother is peeing out of the tree onto the hyenas on the ground we recognize leopards based on their territory or any other books it's both territory and marx you can see them um in a certain territory a lot of the time but especially females will leave their territories uh if they follow a male to go and mate so it's not always accurate and territories shift um as uh females have female cubs the the territories will shift to accommodate those extra females um so the other thing you look at is the markings the markings around the face the whisker pattern uh the markings on the side each spot pattern on a leopard is unique it's easier to recognize a leopard from the spots than lions because lions only have the whisker pattern uh they have to look at the notches in the ears and get close enough to look at the whiskers as well with leopards even if you can just get a side on profile of them the spot pattern on the whole body will be unique it's just how bad the light is there when i'm refocused they're very well the youngster's very interested in the hyenas mum's not too bothered other than peeing on top of them a lot of bugs flying around being very wet a lot of insect activity after the rain is it easy to recognize the spots on lepers through the naked eye no you need you need the experience you need to know the leopards you need to know what you're looking at and it takes time to learn leopards in an area if you do stay in an area for long enough and watch the leopards for long enough eventually you no longer need to count spots you can recognize them just from their shape the general shape of their body in their face just as you don't count someone that you see is every day's freckles to know who they are uh when you see the leopards all the time you don't need to count their spots anymore how old is the cub jackson it's almost one year one year in fact one year and five months almost just joining what did they have for breakfast it was a gazelle there's not much of it left and i'm sleeping on top of it at the moment can we show the hyenas unfortunately the bush is too thick to see the hyenas we just i'll just show you underneath the tree um that's what we're looking at where the hyenas are there they're in there somewhere we can hear them moving and that's about it we can hear them crunching on some of the bones that have fallen down we are losing light fairly quickly we're also losing time so i think as they're both going to sleep we're going to leave them thank you very much to everybody for joining thank you for asking questions um i don't know if we'll get anything else tonight and tomorrow i'm leaving the reserve so um we might not be able to do any more live streams until next month am i filming from an elevated platform i'm filming from a car cool all right guys thanks very much see you next time bye bye very much for watching don't forget to like subscribe share ding the bell buy the t-shirt do all the youtube stuff see you next time thank you so here's a couple of links to more videos on my channel that you might want to check out also social networks you can follow me there for live updates pictures etc from safari