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 –

Yawn

Mongoose family

Oxpeckers

Lion

Vultures – cape buffalo

Leopard lick

Hippopotamus

Hooded Vulture

Tourist

Giraffe tongue

Elephant mud bath

Baboon – backyard

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Sunset

Oxpeckers

Zebra

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Wild dog kiss

African wild dogs

Sunrise

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

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Donald Trump warthog

Leopard mid-yawn

Young hyenas

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Nile crocodile

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Mother and child

Giraffe pose

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Thorns

Lion

Leopard

Elephant dust bath

Lizard

Kingfisher

MalaMala Game Reserve

Leopard licks lips

Blue Wildebeast

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Zebra through the trees

Lilac-breasted roller

Mother and child zebra

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Warthog family

Leopard

Leopard full yawn

Vultures in tree

Leopard

Leopard

Lion enjoys zebra

Atop termite mound

Lion getting shade from Land Rover