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To follow the story of Charm and her family,
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the Dynasties team travelled to the Masai Mara,
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one of these big cats' last strongholds.
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The crew's aim is to immerse themselves in the lives
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of these powerful predators, following them closely
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for over 400 days.
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But first, they need to master the tricky task of identifying
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each individual lion.
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Every lion has its own unique set of whisker spots,
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and put that together with coat colour, ear notches, nose colour,
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you can pretty much identify that lion.
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It would be really great if we could stick moustaches on them and glasses
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and hats, because that would make it a lot easier for everybody
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to understand who they were!
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After weeks of following the family for 12 hours a day,
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they're getting to know the lions.
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And the lions, it seems, are getting to know them, too.
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Well done.
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It was the closest I've ever been.
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She had her chin over the door. Yeah!
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I mean, my feet are within two feet of her.
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She's big when she's that close.
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Before long, it becomes clear that each lion
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has its own particular character.
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On a long project like this, there's a real luxury,
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and the luxury is you get to know the individuals.
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They are different to each other.
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Some sit and follow, others watch.
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Some are into everything, some are funny,
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some are really stupid, in a way.
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I mean, you can see the rest of the pride kind of rolling
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their eyes as yet another male comes in and blows another hunt.
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You begin to care for them.
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You can't help it.
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Charm, she is what a lion should be.
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She's a provider, she's a mother, she looks after cubs
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that aren't her own, she's the matriarch.
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She's the... She's the dame.
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The crew's attachment to the lions is what makes
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what happens next so hard to deal with.
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Poisoning is one of the biggest threats lions face
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across Africa today.
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It can...
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It becomes very close to home when it's animals that you know
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so well, individuals.
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We know them really well now.
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It's, um, much more...
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Erm, you feel it much more.
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Soon after the pride leave him, emergency wildlife vets arrive
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to try and save Charm's youngest son.
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But the poison has no simple antidote.
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The vets try to ease the symptoms.
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All they and the crew can do now is wait in the hope he can recover
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and return to the pride.
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Eventually, it becomes clear nothing more can be done for him.
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This animal is in a very bad condition, a critical condition,
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and we think it's not going to make it.
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Across Africa, the need for teams like these is on the rise,
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treating wildlife after encounters with man.
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It's just entirely wrong, isn't it?
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Lions are so endangered.
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There are hardly any of them, really.
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This is one of the best places in the world.
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They're disappearing so quickly, and then this happens to them.
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Because of pressure on the land, of people.
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Conflict between humans and lions is increasing
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throughout the continent.
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Dr Shivani Bhalla is a Kenyan conservationist who has been working
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with lions and local communities for over a decade.
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So many people are surprised to hear that there's only about 20,000 lions
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left in Africa.
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There's less than 2,000 lions left in Kenya.
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They are disappearing so quickly.
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Lions don't have enough food and they don't have enough space,
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but communities also don't have enough grazing
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for their livestock.
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They also don't have enough space.
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We've got to try and understand both sides of the picture.
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Coexistence between people and lions is possible.
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Our strategy has been working with warriors,
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women, children, to really bring them on board and engage them
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in lion conservation, because they're the ones herding
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livestock every day, they're the ones coming into contact
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with wildlife every day.
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Community programmes have shown that lions can actually recover
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in areas where they used to be once, but then their numbers
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declined because they were being killed.
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And Sophie and John witness that power of recovery
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first-hand, here with Charm.
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Oh, wow!
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Well, that's that, I think.
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Today's the day.
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She's gone in there now to have her cubs,
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which is quite exciting, really.
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We're kind of living it with her, really, aren't we?
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It's about sharing that experience.
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That's the whole point. That's why we're making the film.
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Over a year ago, the team set out to find a lion
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and to tell its story.
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And here we are, over a year later, and just there,
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where the camera's pointing, we've got Charm and two little cubs.
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She's had such a hard, hard year.
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I don't think any of us could've predicted a happier, better way.
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She's the most amazing lion.
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She's just incredible.
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And... It's the perfect ending, really.
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Lions are incredibly resilient.
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Given space, enough food and security, they can bounce back.
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The challenges facing lion conservationists are formidable.
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Indeed, unbelievable though it may sound,
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there is a real possibility that, before long, lions in the wild
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could disappear entirely.
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But if conservationists and the people who have to live
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alongside these great beasts of prey can work together,
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there is still a chance to save them.
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Next time - one of the last great families of painted wolves.
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An intense rivalry.
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Mother against daughter, each striving to rule.
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Who will triumph, and can they bring peace to these lands?
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Of all the animals featured in this series,
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painted wolves range over the greatest distances.
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To document the unfolding story of Tait and Blacktip,
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the team first needed to find them - and that required help.
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This film is essentially undoable without people
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who really know the dogs.
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Principally, Nick and Henry.
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Nick's been working with the dogs for years.
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Not only does he know how to track them incredibly well,
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but he also knows their habits and their behaviours.
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So, for 20 years I've been watching these dogs,
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and when you're sitting on the ground and you've got them
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running around you and they're totally unfazed by you,
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it's a great experience.
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Nick Murray can identify all of the 91 painted wolves
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that the team saw on the flood plains.
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But there's one individual that he knows better than any.
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We've been interacting with Tait for literally 10.5 years of her life.
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With each successive letter that she has,
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we've got to know all of those dogs when they come out of the den
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and spend time with them.
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Nick's knowledge of who is related to whom meant the team knew
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that it was Tait's own daughter who was challenging her.
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What was unfolding in front of camera was a family drama.
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The crew not only have a team of trackers -
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luckily, the filming coincided with a research project.
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The reason for collaring the dogs is to aid our monitoring
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of the pack, because we're actually able to physically follow the dogs.
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So we can record their movements, their territory size,
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where they're going.
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And that builds up a picture of their land use.
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In open landscapes, these collars can transmit for miles.
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But in the mixed habitat of Mana, the signal often struggles
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beyond 500 metres.
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This is where Nick and Henry's tracking skills really
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come into play.
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Henry has been incredible on this, his tracking is unbelievable.
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Tracks are the key to the whole game, they tell their story.
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And it's Henry's highly-tuned tracker senses that allow the team
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to capture the pivotal moment in the film.
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The team are tracking Tait's pack, when they drive through a pile
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of droppings from the painted wolves.
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I recognised the smell - which is Blacktip, not Tait.
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Blacktip's diet of baboons is enough for Henry to be able to tell
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the packs apart simply by smell alone.
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The team quickly switch from following Tait's radio
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channel to Blacktip's.
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Right away, we had the very strong ping, ping,
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so we carried on down to the river.
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Sure enough, they were right there, which is an area
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they'd never been before.
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It was incredible.
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And then Henry noticed some lions approaching through the grass.
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Knowing that there are puppies in their pack,
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I just turned my head away from the scene,
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you know, I just didn't want to see, you know, the pups getting harmed.
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I just stayed with the lion, and suddenly this huge buffalo
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came into shot.
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I think what was amazing for me was to see the lions interact
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with the dogs.
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But to then catch a buffalo under the very same tree,
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that's just ridiculous.
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I tell you, I just, like, stood there dumbfounded,
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mesmerised, seeing the whole scene that was going on,
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it was like a dream, really.
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To try to capture every aspect of the unfolding story,
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it was sometimes necessary to have five camera teams
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working simultaneously.
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We've got 52 cases of kit, Cineflex, a night thermal camera,
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and umpteen other things.
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It's very ambitious, what we're trying to achieve.
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Not wanting to miss a thing, our teams follow both packs,
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on the ground...
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..and in the air.
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One ground team with Tait, the other with Blacktip.
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Employing the latest in unmanned aerial camera technology allows
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the crew to capture unique views as the pack go
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about their business undisturbed.
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To cover more ground, the crew bring in a helicopter.
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And as the days draw to an end, the latest ultra-high-definition
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lowlight cameras capture the action.
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Even when it's almost too dark to see.
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And, once complete darkness falls, the night team take over.
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A thermal camera can penetrate the darkness with no need
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for any artificial light.
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You know, to get those shots, it takes a lot of skill.
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And that is not our skill, that is our guides' skill.
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Oh, they're there.
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The yield of shots has got better and better on every shoot.
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On the last shoot, we were with them every day.
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And that's what's brilliant about being able to put true time in.
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And it's tough, actually, because you spend day in,
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day out with these animals for months and months and months,
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and their lives become very important to you and the story
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can be incredible, but it's actually quite an emotional
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roller-coaster to see what happens to them.
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This story of family rivalry only began because Blacktip was unable
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to expand her territory away from Tait, and was forced instead
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to invade her mother's lands.
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You know, the biggest problem facing painted wolves today
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is habitat loss.
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Basically, they're running out of space.
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We have isolated national parks surrounded by human settlements.
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In the modern world, that means they're running across roads,
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they're hitting snares, getting poisoned.
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It's a tough world out there for them.
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70% of painted wolves actually live outside of the national park system.
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Their future is very bleak, it's not looking good.
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So, the wild dogs of the Zambezi valley are lucky, because these dogs
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can travel from park to park, through corridors.
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But that's not the case in most areas in Africa.
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If you came back in ten years' time, I think Tammy's descendants
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will still be around, battling it out against
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the lions and hyenas.
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It's a tough life, never mind the human conflict.
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Painted wolves individually may lack the nobility of a lion.
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But the subtlety of their communications
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and the complicity of their social organisation gives them
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a fascination all of their own.
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Surely, they deserve to hold their place alongside
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the great hunters of the African plain.
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Next time...
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A tigress struggles to rear her new family.
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Rivals are trespassing on her territory.
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Can she raise her cubs to adulthood?
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