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 –

Elephant mud bath

Hooded Vulture

Wild dog kiss

Nile crocodile

Elephant dust bath

Young hyenas

Leopard mid-yawn

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Mongoose family

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Thorns

Mother and child zebra

Zebra

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Leopard

Warthog family

Lion

Sunrise

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Leopard

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Yawn

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Zebra through the trees

MalaMala Game Reserve

Tourist

Kingfisher

Oxpeckers

Vultures in tree

Sunset

Lilac-breasted roller

Mother and child

Blue Wildebeast

African wild dogs

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

Leopard

Vultures – cape buffalo

Giraffe pose

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Lion enjoys zebra

Lion

Lizard

Baboon – backyard

Leopard licks lips

Atop termite mound

Giraffe tongue

Leopard full yawn

Hippopotamus

Leopard lick

Oxpeckers

Leopard

Donald Trump warthog