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 –

Lion

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Leopard full yawn

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Vultures – cape buffalo

Lizard

Zebra through the trees

Leopard

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Leopard

Giraffe pose

Hooded Vulture

MalaMala Game Reserve

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Oxpeckers

Young hyenas

Thorns

Mongoose family

Tourist

Blue Wildebeast

Leopard

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Warthog family

Giraffe tongue

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

Mother and child zebra

Baboon – backyard

Atop termite mound

Yawn

Wild dog kiss

Hippopotamus

Lion enjoys zebra

Leopard

African wild dogs

Zebra

Sunrise

Leopard mid-yawn

Elephant dust bath

Vultures in tree

Sunset

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Nile crocodile

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Donald Trump warthog

Kingfisher

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Mother and child

Oxpeckers

Leopard lick

Lion

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Lilac-breasted roller

Leopard licks lips

Elephant mud bath