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 –

Leopard

Elephant dust bath

Lizard

Oxpeckers

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

MalaMala Game Reserve

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Lion

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Leopard lick

Thorns

Vultures – cape buffalo

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Leopard licks lips

Blue Wildebeast

Mongoose family

Lilac-breasted roller

Baboon – backyard

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

Vultures in tree

Wild dog kiss

Lion enjoys zebra

Lion

Leopard

Sunset

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Leopard full yawn

Nile crocodile

Mother and child zebra

Yawn

Atop termite mound

Hooded Vulture

Giraffe tongue

Leopard mid-yawn

African wild dogs

Kingfisher

Donald Trump warthog

Sunrise

Young hyenas

Leopard

Giraffe pose

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Oxpeckers

Elephant mud bath

Warthog family

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Zebra

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Mother and child

Tourist

Leopard

Hippopotamus

Zebra through the trees