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 –

Wild dog kiss

Mother and child

Leopard

Vultures – cape buffalo

Giraffe pose

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Oxpeckers

Leopard mid-yawn

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Lion

Donald Trump warthog

Baboon – backyard

Elephant mud bath

Zebra through the trees

MalaMala Game Reserve

Hooded Vulture

Lion enjoys zebra

Lion

Warthog family

Sunset

Blue Wildebeast

Sunrise

Leopard lick

Thorns

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

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

Lilac-breasted roller

Leopard full yawn

Vultures in tree

Yawn

Nile crocodile

Zebra

Mother and child zebra

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Leopard

Giraffe tongue

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Lizard

Leopard

Leopard licks lips

Elephant dust bath

Tourist

Kingfisher

Leopard

Hippopotamus

Atop termite mound

Young hyenas

African wild dogs

Oxpeckers

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Mongoose family