I’m waist deep in footage from the South African photo safari we went on last week at MalaMala Game Reserve next to Kruger National Park. Here are a few videos and some of my favorite photos so far –

Elephant and rhinoceros mud bath (safe for all stomachs) –

Lions vs. vultures (warning: a little bit of raw meat) –

Overstuffed lions try to protect the leftovers of a Cape buffalo meal from hungry and persistent vultures.

Zebra feast (warning: medium graphic but super interesting. Noisy eaters!) –

Another Land Rover pulled up behind us and a woman said, “Wait, what are they doing?! Are they eating a zebra?! I do NOT want to see that. I thought they were just hanging out!”

Photos –

Mongoose family

Kingfisher

Nile crocodile

Leopard lick

Sunrise

Yawn

Lion enjoys zebra

Hippopotamus

MalaMala Game Reserve

Leopard

Mother and child zebra

Leopard

Elephant mud bath

Devil’s horns – got many of these stuck in my shoe

Leopard full yawn

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Lizard

Wild dog kiss

Mother and child

Lion

Leopard

Sunset

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Hooded Vulture

Giraffe pose

Baboon – backyard

Thorns

Young hyenas

Leopard

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Donald Trump warthog

Zebra

Warthog family

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Vultures in tree

Lilac-breasted roller

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Tourist

Atop termite mound

Vultures – cape buffalo

Elephant dust bath

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Leopard licks lips

African wild dogs

Zebra through the trees

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Oxpeckers

Leopard mid-yawn

Giraffe tongue

Lion

Blue Wildebeast

Oxpeckers