Comments by "johanrebel" (@johanrebel) on "Latest Sightings" channel.

  1. What the heck is the purpose of those white & orange captions cluttering the screen? To enlighten blind viewers? To convince those who can't believe their eyes?
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  2. Not a chance. The Western Stripe-bellied Sand Snake is venomous. Once bitten, the monitor lizard was doomed.
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  3. Oh . . . for crying out loud!
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  4. Those guts have now been digested by the snake.
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  5. More likely, the bateleur knew exactly what was coming. Bateleurs fly low and quarter the terrain very thoroughly, and are therefore often the first to find a carcass, especially in thick bush. Vultures and other eagles know this, and keep a beady eye on any and all bateleurs within visual range. When a bateleur suddenly plunges down, they check what's going on. Lions, hyenas, leopards and smaller carnivores are avid vulture watchers. When they see them dropping out of the sky in numbers, they will investigate, if they are close enough. The sequence show in this video is exactly what one would expect with a carcass dead of natural causes: Bateleur first, then other vultures and eagles, then mammalian predators. That's apart from the 10% (KNP estimate) of large mammal carcasses that are never found by predators or scavengers. The blow and flesh flies deal with those extremely quickly.
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  6. "The effects of Cyclone Eloise has had meaningful impacts on anyone visiting the Kruger National Park". I'm truly relieved to hear that. For a second I was afraid that it might just have had meaningless impacts on anybody visiting the Kruger National Park. Phew!
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  7. Although it cannot be ruled out that a cheetah can attain a speed of 75 mph, there's as of yet no proof. 63 mph is the top speed recorded so far.
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  8. Gotta love the commentary . . . "Hyena knoooows something is going on there!" The hyena knows? It does? Really? Honest to God and cross your heart? Wow! Who would have thought! We dumb tourists would never understand a thing without having these clever guides around to explain it all to us. Worth their weight in gold, those guys and gals! Imagine if we had to rely solely on our own senses, powers of observation and ability to reason logically. We would surely be wasting our time on safari.
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  9.  @nagysuti19  Imagine if it had been a warthog. The lioness would have needed earplugs. In an African context warthogs are probably the loudest, and they just keep in squealing and hollering. Monkeys scream loudly too. Buffaloes can be quite noisy, but often go quietly. The various species of antelope generally don't cause much of a ruckus. In my experience at least, and I can't say I've seen every single species there is getting killed. But plenty enough to get a feel for what it's like, so to speak.
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  10. Advice to emotional lady: close your eyes, put your fingers in your ears, and shut the ... up. Or just stay home.
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  11.  @thabzmad7265  If you can't tell at a glance, you belong to the category of viewers who are easily deceived, and therefore not insulted.
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  12. @RubyCarrots3232 Have you considered crowdfunding a trip to a competent optometrist?
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  13. "Watch these birds"? A proper identification at species level (not at all hard) would have been the professional thing to do.
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  14. Here's some amazing news: whispering doesn't help, we can still hear y'all. The Golden Rule of wildlife videography: shut up. Nature is perfectly capable of speaking for itself.
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  15. Brownie points for not saying Oh My God! even once. Gigs for leaving the engine running, filming the rear-view mirror and the airbag.
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  16. "Guys, you don't understand what we just found." Always a bright idea to insult the intelligence of the clients paying your salary. It would also behoove the guide to focus 100% on said clients, which is not possible to do when simultaneously filming events. But at least the pidgin Shangaan these guides use in radio comms is truly entertaining.
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  17. Bison?!? Where?!?
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  18. But this one had no tassle.
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  19.  @tom11zz884  a baby hare is called a leveret. I bet the kind of people YouTube employs as content moderators have never heard of the word, and the algorithm can't make sense of it either.
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  20.  @Crocutaalpha  Allow me to draw your attention to an error. Imao stands for "in my arrogant opinion". This should be "in my ignorant opinion". A modicum of self-knowledge is not unbecoming, you know.
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  21.  @apnrground-hornbillproject6462  Thanks for your feedback. It is my understanding that these days a lack of suitable nesting cavities is is a major factor, perhaps even the most important one, limiting the reproductive success of Ground Hornbills. Now for countless millennia, and despite a host of nasty and hungry predators, Ground Hornbills have managed to if not thrive, then at least hang in there using only natural cavities. Such cavities may not be predator-proof (good luck keeping a crafty and sneaky genet out of anything or any place, and don't even get me started on baboons) but they have obviously been good enough on average. It should be possible (and most desirable) to improve on that when designing artificial nests. I do not claim any expertise in this field, but I have noted that the natural cavities that I have seen don't have nice and big perfectly round entrance openings. If they are somewhat larger than strictly needed and desirable, they are usually in the shape of an irregular and predominantly vertical slit, located on straight and hard to access section of the bole. Some of the artificial nests I have seen struck me as impromptu designs based on and constructed with whatever materials happened to be lying around.
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  22.  @apnrground-hornbillproject6462  Thank you for the comprehensive elucidation, much appreciated. Again, my experience with Ground Hornbill nests is limited and restricted to the Timbavati and the Klaserie, plus the odd Kruger one that happened to be right next to a road (Mphongolo River is the most recent one that comes to mind). I recall one in the Timbavati (on Johnniesdale, I iam sure) that simply comprised of a section of large hollow log with a hole in the side and a roof nailed on, somewhat precariously perched in a large tree. Long ago, probably early days, and possibly even just a local landowner's initiative.
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  23. @Sheri McDANIEL: They should be more careful when hiring crocs for the star parts next time, ensuring they select individuals prepared to fight to the death right in front of the camera, instead of moving off screen to finish their business.
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  24. As usual, people just can't keep their traps shut.
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  25.  @Polosatiy_Varan  Congratulations, you've managed to contradict yourself in an eight word sentence. Carrion: the decaying flesh of dead animals.
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  26. Another portrait format genius.
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  27. @Matt, I'm afraid you are completely clueless about what the KNP is, and how things work there. The whole concept is based on self-drive game viewing. A great idea, it's a lot of fun, but has some unfortunate side effects, as is obvious from this video.
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  28. @Tianze Xie. If this shocks you, then you are obviously not a regular visitor to the KNP.
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  29.  @Snailryder  No, lions and other predators are perfectly capable of identifying human beings in vehicles as such. Or other animals, for that matter. I've known lions to spot and identify dogs in a car at a distance of several hundred meters. The vehicle was downwind (I made sure to check), so the identification was by sight, despite the dogs being small Corgis with only their heads sticking out.
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  30. Oh boy,as if the stupid commentary is not bad enough, we now get treated to horrible muzak as well.
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  31.  @notchkali9892  Does that make shooting in portrait format any more excusable?
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  32. Here we go again: another imbecile click-bait thumbnail, so badly made that it's an insult to potential viewers.
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  33. Not quite a Kruger sighting, is it now? Perhaps time to change this channel's name? And, once again, the first rule of videography: shut up!
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  34. Categorizing participants in fights between animals as protagonists and antagonists doesn't make much sense. Nature in action does not readily lend itself to literary characterisation.
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  35. "A hyena was chasing the pack of dogs". No it wasn't. That hyena was simply tagging along a pack of hunting wild dogs in the hope of scavenging something from any kill they might make. That kind of behavior is not that uncommon. I once saw six dogs stealthily approaching a herd of impalas, heads down, ears flat, single file and nose to tail. Bringing up the rear was a hyena, head down, ears flat, and its nose almost up the butt of the rearmost dog. It looked really funny. The hunt was unsuccessful, by the way, because a herd of zebras saw what was coming, took exception, and started chasing the dogs and the hyena. The latter wisely decided the better option was to run off in a different direction than the dogs were taking.
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  36. Mr. Scattolin gets full marks for not saying a word for 3 minutes and 26 seconds. Well done!
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  37. "Let's watch guys, let's watch. See what happens." Such amazing sagacity! Without this helpful advice his guests would undoubtedly have closed their eyes and fallen asleep. Or jumped off the vehicle and walked back to the lodge. So many options available to them.
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  38. "If you're planning to witness the migration, make sure you pack enough food, snacks, and water." Thanks for that timely, apt and wonderful advice, I would never have thought of it myself. All my life I've assumed that one witnesses the migration on an empty stomach and with a parched throat.
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  39. If only people would switch off their engines at sightings.
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  40. This channel should consider changing its name to something more appropriate than "Kruger" Sightings. Hwange is not in Kruger, nor is Kruger in Zimbabwe.
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  41. Mrs. Crocodile Whisperer gets a special award for her perceptive, lapidary and insightful commentary. Well done!
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  42. Who says the leopard was blind?
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  43. I suspect it is quite dead by now. Probably nothing much left but horns, skin & bones.
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  44. Here we go again: is really that hard to keep your trap shut while filming?
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  45. @Hilt. No, they don't. Every once in a while they dutifully say they do, but they never put their money where their mouth is and spend what it takes to provide proper enforcement. Heck, they can't even stop the rampant rhino poaching, so what do you expect?
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  46.  @mikejones9961  Lions are not designed for stamina. They don't chase their prey for long distances like wolves, wild dogs and hyenas. Their modus operandi is a stalk followed by a short rush. Digging out a warthog is exhausting work for a lion. I've seen a single lioness do it. She had two little cubs to feed so was pretty desperate. She dug a hole as deep as she stood tall, which took a long time (over an hour as far as I can remember), and had to pause frequently to rest. When she finally had dug deep enough, she pulled out a male warthog by his head. On the first attempt she only ripped an ear off, but the next time she got a good grip. This warthog was as large as they come, and fought hard all the way. The lioness not only had to pull him out of the burrow, but then also back out of the hole she had dug. That was easily the greatest feat of strength I've ever seen a lion perform. Once she had the warthog out, she rolled him over and got a good suffocating grip on his throat. Nevertheless, this warthog managed to get on his feet again five times. Each time she swept his feet from under him with a front paw. He then finally kicked the bucket. When mom first got hold of the warthog it of course started screaming. The cubs got an enormous fright and ran like bats out of hell. I believe they are still running.
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  47. Cool stuff, but Mr. Bester should perhaps put some effort into honing his videography skills. Didn't get much right this time round.
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  48. That's not a turtle. A channel that calls itself Kruger Sighting should at least make sure it gets the basics straight, such as what the animals in the videos are called. Furthermore, the terrapin was not aggressively chasing the lions away. Anyone who has spent time watching terrapins in action will know that they approach drinking animals, especially those that wade into the water, looking for ticks on their bodies to feed on. They also go for open wounds.
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  49.  @alanfoster6589  That lion will then immediately prove he is a good Christian, Spanish inquisition style.
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  50. But it didn't bite anything off, that was the problem.
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