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 –

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Leopard

Lizard

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Sunset

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

Leopard lick

African wild dogs

Oxpeckers

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Leopard full yawn

Blue Wildebeast

Zebra

Baboon – backyard

Leopard

Hooded Vulture

Leopard licks lips

Vultures – cape buffalo

Thorns

Tourist

Vultures in tree

Mother and child

MalaMala Game Reserve

Leopard mid-yawn

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Wild dog kiss

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Young hyenas

Lion

Lilac-breasted roller

Kingfisher

Nile crocodile

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Giraffe tongue

Giraffe pose

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Elephant mud bath

Warthog family

Donald Trump warthog

Sunrise

Mongoose family

Zebra through the trees

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Leopard

Leopard

Oxpeckers

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Mother and child zebra

Hippopotamus

Lion enjoys zebra

Elephant dust bath

Atop termite mound

Lion

Yawn