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[wildebeest lowing]
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[narrator]
In this idyllic paradise,
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a place virtually brimming over
with wildlife,
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there is always
a certain tension.
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They have to be wary,
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watching out for that one sign
that will save their lives.
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And only those who are alert
will see it.
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[birds squawking]
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And even then,
it may just be imagined.
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Today this phantom is real.
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But no threat at all.
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She's exhausted in that
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drooling, all-dignity-abandoned
kind of way.
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Besides her particular style
of relaxation,
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this little leopard is unique
in another way.
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She has the most unusual
jade-colored eyes.
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And this is her story.
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Toto is an affectionate
Swahili name for "small,"
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and she is tiny.
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But she has her name
for another reason as well.
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Let's start at the beginning,
or perhaps even before that.
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On the banks of a river
in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy
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on the edge of the Maasai Mara,
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a much larger female leopard
is having difficulty sleeping.
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It is hot.
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But her discomfort is because
behind these beautiful spots,
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inside her swollen stomach,
is where Toto is waiting,
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and not too patiently,
to begin her tale.
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And her name is Fig,
who, pregnant or not,
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seems to enjoy lying face down
and tongue dangling.
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But enough of this
lounging around.
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Fig must find
a safer place today
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in an area with one
the highest concentrations
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of lions and hyenas
on the planet.
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A nearby safari camp.
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Perfect for what
she's planning.
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She maneuvers
her way-out-of-balance body
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into a very
un-leopard-like descent,
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and heads across the small
trickle of a stream.
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The camp is on the banks
of this benign little river.
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So, today,
a large leopardess called Fig
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makes a decision
that changes everything.
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She finds a quiet spot
under tent number five.
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And here she gives birth
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to Toto, a single cub,
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who within days is stumbling
around blindly under the deck
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and in and out of
the nearby undergrowth.
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She's sure of herself,
but not terribly surefooted.
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Climbing is in her DNA.
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And Fig is seldom far away.
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Her landlords, the camp,
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decide to just
close off the tent
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and mark it as "occupied."
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This five-star haven becomes
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the cub's earliest
memories of home.
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And like her mother,
she has a tongue
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that seems to have
a mind of its own.
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For two weeks, the leopards
are in residence
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in this small camp
that is called Mara Toto.
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And hence the cub's name.
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Fig was smart enough
to have found a secure refuge.
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But having a cub
on the banks of a river
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brings its own risks.
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[hyenas whooping]
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She keeps watch constantly.
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And there's little she can do
about the awkward positioning
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of a dead hippo
not far from the den,
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or the action it attracts.
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[whooping]
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[yipping]
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[whooping]
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[shrieking and growling]
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While they're distracted
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and Toto stays under the brush
and tent, she'll be safe.
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But Fig doesn't take her eyes
off the hyenas.
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Then she sees it.
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One clan member
can somehow smell
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beyond the stinking carcass.
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[thunder]
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Rain in Africa is both
a gift and a danger.
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The trick is in deciding
which it is today.
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Fig doesn't have the luxury
of using the opportunity now.
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If Toto gets confused,
or even adventurous,
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she'll wander off, and the rain
will wash her scent away.
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Fig must get back, quickly.
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[thunder]
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But instead of staying
safely under cover,
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Fig makes another decision
that may be wise or fatal.
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She hears it
and knows what's coming.
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With hours of steady rain,
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the mild-mannered river has
turned into a raging torrent.
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It breaks the riverbanks,
flooding, making new paths
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right through their home,
the camp.
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Their lair is swamped,
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their safety swept away.
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Their survival is now
totally up to Fig,
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so she's always on the move.
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Fig is aware that what lies
beyond the horizon
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is another event that
will change their lives,
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and it's on its way.
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It starts with
the painted horses.
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Over 250,000 zebras
splashing across the Mara River
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on the way to her territory.
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[wildebeest lowing]
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The hypnotic sounds
of well over a million wildebeest
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startle and amaze Toto now,
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and fill the air
with anticipation and chaos.
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[lowing]
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[zebra braying]
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Despite the danger
of being trampled,
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Fig is on the lookout
for an even greater threat,
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the inevitable nomadic lions.
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They'll disrupt everything
with their adolescent attempts
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to wreak havoc
across the plains.
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Fig is a master at making use
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of the ultimate chaotic event
of the year,
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but she won't have it
all to herself.
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[hyena yipping]
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The herds are tired and wary,
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so they head into the open,
away from any ambush points.
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It may not be what Fig wants,
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but the young lions
will hunt in the open.
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The hunt is on.
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One thing is sure:
Someone will die tonight.
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The young nomadic lions
set the ambush.
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But they don't give it
everything they've got.
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[zebra braying]
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Fig watches, desperate for
her chance at a wildebeest.
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But at what risk?
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The thermal images
unveil the night
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that Fig and the lions inhabit.
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It's a view into the world
through heat.
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And she spots
an overheated wildebeest,
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courtesy of hours
of bungled lion attempts.
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[yowl]
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[bellow]
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It's a standoff.
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And sometimes
it's useful to display,
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even against
an opposing species.
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[grunting]
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She might be able to take on
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the pregnant
young female hyena.
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But hyenas can't keep
their spoils secret for long.
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The word is out.
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[yipping]
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Even more hyenas will appear
from the darkness all the time.
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One last defiance
and she has to leave.
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[lowing]
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And as suddenly
as they arrived,
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the herds turn south into Tanzania,
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and leave the Olare Conservancy
and the Mara quiet once again.
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[birds chirping]
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[braying]
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The migration stayed
in her territory
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much longer than expected this year.
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Three vital months for Fig
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to be able pass on
some tricks of the trade
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and to develop Toto's
tree-climbing skills.
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Their bond grows each day.
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But Toto isn't aware that these
lazy days are also changing,
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as the heat climbs
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and the herds go off away
from the now-stagnant river,
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following their noses to new water
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across the shimmering plains.
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[braying]
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Besides the lessons in climbing
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and being confident
up high in the trees,
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Toto has to be taught
a lot of other skills.
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The departing herds leave
short, cropped grass;
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a challenge for any
Thomson's gazelle
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that could really use the cover
now to give birth.
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One of Toto's lessons
is to look outside
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of her small bubble
with her mother.
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She hasn't noticed
what Fig is watching.
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[birds squawking]
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Fig's sudden move nearly sends
Toto flying out of the tree.
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And she's heading
for the newborn.
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Thomson's gazelles
have a tactic evolved for just this.
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They simply leave the fawn
and step away as a decoy.
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Now, at last,
she has Toto's attention.
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Fig circles.
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But the Thomson's gazelles'
tactic even fools a zebra,
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and that complicates matters.
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To the young stallion,
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something about the grass
just doesn't seem quite right.
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For the zebra,
it's quite a surprise
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when the small brown spot
in the grass
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gets up and walks away.
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Well, walking may not be
the best description
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for this particular move.
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But it's innovative enough
to keep the zebra interested.
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Each time
the Tommy fawn stumbles,
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his new zebra minder is there
with a helping nudge.
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But this relationship is not
helpful to Fig's ambitions.
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But perhaps it teaches
Toto something.
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She'll be more aware
of her surroundings now.
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Demanding and hungry cubs
often force mothers
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to go out hunting
again and again.
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But in the wake
of the migration,
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Toto isn't hungry
and is very forgiving.
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But there are
more opportunities
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in the Olare Conservancy
after the main migration leaves
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when stragglers and lost
individuals come through.
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[braying]
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It's a time of abundance.
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Many young don't make
the crossings.
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So now Fig and Toto
take advantage
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and just scavenge
these easy meals.
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The first thing she does
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is analyze the placement
of Fig's kill.
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It doesn't help that she sees
everything that moves
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as something to play with.
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[purring]
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Fig coaxes Toto to take over,
to test her strength.
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With so few trees here,
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knowing how to get a kill up high
is vitally important.
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Fig's sudden movement to chase
flies, however, is a mistake.
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It signals Toto to play.
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It may not have been
the intended lesson of the day,
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but it'll work.
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This one is all about
mock hunting.
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[yipping]
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The usual suspects hear
the rough and tumble,
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or smell the fresh kill.
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It was Toto's responsibility
to position the kill higher.
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Oh, well. Mother saves the day.
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Another valuable lesson
about distraction.
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[yipping]
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[yipping]
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Since the early days
under the tent,
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Toto has grown up
with the ever-present threat
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of this particular clan of hyenas.
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And they have
a specific family perfume
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and very puzzling
social arrangements.
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[shrieking and growling]
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[yipping and whooping]
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Surprisingly enough,
this is all about mating,
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and winning the attention
of the lead hyena female,
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who they gang up on and attack.
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It's a curious courtship,
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but it's the way that things are done
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in this particular clan.
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[whooping]
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It's once the ritual is over
that Toto has to be careful.
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[snarling]
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[snarl]
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Toto and the hyenas are
way too close for comfort.
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[yipping]
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But she has backup.
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Having chased off the hyenas,
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well, in her view anyway,
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Toto has a new spurt of confidence.
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She's a killer in small spots.
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[growling]
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When Fig patrols
to warn the hyenas,
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it's Toto's chance
to get things squared away.
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She has good strength for her size.
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And she's busy
solving the puzzle:
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Placing a floppy item
into the forks of trees.
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00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,320
But the thorns and gravity don't help.
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They watch her,
perhaps recognizing
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00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,800
that there's a lot
that could go wrong.
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00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,600
But Fig's back.
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[growling]
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Mistakes like this often lead
a mother to reprimand her cub.
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00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,280
But Fig and Toto seem to have
a very different relationship.
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There's a bond that usually
starts to wear off
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around this age.
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[whooping]
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[grunting]
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[whooping]
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[barking]
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Now, when Fig goes off hunting
at night, Toto follows.
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Just watching her mother,
the skilled huntress,
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should be enough,
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but as a typical adolescent
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she's now determined
to make her own way.
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[snorting]
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She's learned
that blending-in lesson,
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00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,600
much of which isn't really
her doing anyway,
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but something she inherited
just by being a leopard.
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[snorting]
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She's still small, a Toto,
but she's constantly on the move.
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00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,600
A mongoose catches her attention,
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00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,000
but then, everything does.
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00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,880
Unlike Fig,
she moves though the open,
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00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,160
even though she's quite obvious
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to anyone who can
see well at night.
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[squeaking]
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[squeaks]
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And she's experimental.
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[hisses]
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A newly-emerged monitor lizard baby
is worth a tentative prod.
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00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,320
[squeaks]
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This phase of her life
is all about exploring
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00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,200
this strange nocturnal world
that she'll soon inherit.
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00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:53,720
The undergrowth yields endless
possibilities for adventure.
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00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,840
But curiosity comes with risks,
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00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,080
and tonight she'll
certainly discover that.
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00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,280
Eerie beings watch
Toto from above.
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00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,600
But there are
enticing creatures
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on the ground for her...
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some of them armed
with sharp attitudes,
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unwilling to be intimidated.
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00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,800
This porcupine seems
the right size prey for Toto.
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It's simply
a test of confidence.
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[rattles]
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[rattling]
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00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,600
When barbed quills aim in her
direction, enough is enough.
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00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,760
Sometimes when Toto
meets spiky strangers
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00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,360
in the shadows,
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00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,520
she defaults into
appearing harmless,
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or even a little mad.
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00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,120
The take-home lesson
from her night along the river
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is that being
a solitary leopard here,
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it's just not that easy.
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00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,280
[distant roaring]
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Cute or not, she's going
to need more training.
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00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,600
And Fig is back
to provide just that.
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00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,520
Toto doesn't seem to hold on
to the disappoint of failure
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for very long.
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00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,640
It's probably a leopard trait
she's inherited,
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like so many others.
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00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,480
The ability to just shake it off
and move on.
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00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,880
But all cubs need to supplement
what comes naturally
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with the real skills they get
by watching their mothers.
331
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,840
Now, the next lesson.
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00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:04,560
A flush of young warthogs may allow
just that opportunity.
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[oinking]
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She watches as her mother
turns into silent liquid.
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00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:33,280
[oinking]
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00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,240
[oinking]
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Fig's kill and her strategy
that led to it
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00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,480
are well-absorbed.
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00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,720
And now it's Toto's turn
to recreate what she learned.
340
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,680
And it's through these moments
of mock killing and play
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that she learns how the muscles
of a warthog respond.
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The weight, the smell.
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00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,400
She's starting
to see food as prey.
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00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,480
Toto's kill ends
in exactly the same way,
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00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,160
a meal nicely delivered
back to her mother.
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00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,560
Toto's attention span is still
shorter than it should be,
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00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,080
and the Thomson gazelle lesson
taught her to be aware
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00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,640
of everything around her.
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00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:30,520
Today the industrious hamerkop,
or lightning birds,
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00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,720
quickly catch her eye.
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00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,520
Now she has
a management problem.
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00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,800
She must keep her kill
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00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,200
and investigate the huge
architecture in the sky.
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00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:58,080
So, she simply takes her
pig kill along with her.
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00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,800
[squawking]
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00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,160
But when she commandeers
the nest,
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00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:17,600
all the birds' intricate work
on the roof structure
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00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,200
is destroyed.
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00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,640
Toto barely notices.
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00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,960
For her, it's a high-rise play platform.
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00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,360
It's hard to tell if Fig
is indeed impressed
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00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,680
or just positioned
nearby in case.
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00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,480
It's all quite exhausting.
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00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,520
The very stable structure
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00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,640
makes a perfectly good hammock
even better,
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00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:05,720
because it's just
a little bit higher
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00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,160
than Fig's perch for the day.
368
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,080
Persistent, but it's folly.
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00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,560
The renovations will
cost more in energy
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00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:25,040
than just starting
from scratch downstream.
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00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,040
[squawking]
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00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,000
What Fig has to decide soon
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00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,120
is when to let Toto go,
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00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,360
to let her begin life on her own.
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00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,080
She's still small.
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00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:45,480
Will she be ready to outsmart
the constantly agitated hyenas?
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00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,520
When will her play
turn real enough
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00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,720
for her to kill on her own?
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00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,960
Maybe tonight.
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00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,840
This could be Toto's big night.
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00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,520
She's spotted a sleeping antelope.
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00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:35,360
[heartbeat]
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00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,280
But she fails to watch behind her.
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00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,120
Energy burn on a missed kill is high.
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00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,400
[snorting]
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00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,400
A scrub hare.
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00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,280
More her size?
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00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,080
The patience lesson pays off.
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00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,200
But the timing
isn't quite right.
390
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,360
Time to find something bigger
and slower, perhaps.
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00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:39,880
It's a swift kill.
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00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,000
[squeaking]
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00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,360
And it's her first.
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00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,720
A momentous moment.
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00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,680
Pumped with success,
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00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,680
she gets the kill up as high
as she can manage,
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00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,000
and this time without fault,
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00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,760
despite the immediate arrival
of the competition,
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00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,120
and with no backup from Fig.
400
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,320
And it's right here, right now,
401
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,000
that Toto becomes entirely
what she was born to be,
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00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,440
the perfect leopard.
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00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,520
A blend of both
her inherited qualities
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00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,560
and what she learned
from her diligent mother.
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00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,800
As Toto,
this jade-eyed leopard,
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00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:09,600
surveys her domain and enjoys
the peace of a full stomach,
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00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:15,240
we must ask
what her future might be.
408
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:20,400
Can we learn to understand
her value as an individual,
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00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,960
as real character struggling to
survive in this fragile mosaic?
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00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:31,800
And if we can learn to respect,
protect and celebrate
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00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,400
all such leopards,
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00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:38,360
then she may well have a future.
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00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,600
[distant grunting]