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

Leopard lick

Giraffe tongue

Elephant dust bath

Hippopotamus

Mother and child zebra

Leopard

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

MalaMala Game Reserve

Oxpeckers

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Leopard mid-yawn

Lion

Mother and child

Lion enjoys zebra

Giraffe pose

Tourist

Leopard

Leopard

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Lilac-breasted roller

Donald Trump warthog

Young hyenas

Leopard licks lips

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Oxpeckers

Warthog family

Yawn

Lizard

Thorns

Vultures in tree

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Hooded Vulture

Nile crocodile

Vultures – cape buffalo

Lion

Elephant mud bath

Sunrise

Baboon – backyard

Zebra

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

Zebra through the trees

Kingfisher

Leopard

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Mongoose family

Leopard full yawn

African wild dogs

Sunset

Blue Wildebeast

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Atop termite mound

Rhino covered in oxpeckers