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 –

Lilac-breasted roller

Nile crocodile

Oxpeckers

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Leopard

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Giraffe pose

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Mongoose family

Leopard

Leopard full yawn

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Warthog family

Elephant mud bath

Leopard mid-yawn

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Giraffe tongue

Lizard

Blue Wildebeast

Lion enjoys zebra

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Tourist

Zebra through the trees

Atop termite mound

Wild dog kiss

Mother and child zebra

Mother and child

Baboon – backyard

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Hooded Vulture

Vultures – cape buffalo

Leopard lick

Lion

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

Elephant dust bath

Young hyenas

Donald Trump warthog

Kingfisher

Leopard licks lips

MalaMala Game Reserve

Oxpeckers

Zebra

Sunset

Lion

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Sunrise

Hippopotamus

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

African wild dogs

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Thorns

Yawn

Leopard

Vultures in tree

Leopard