Original subtitles

Hello, darling.

How are you doing?

Oh, come on. We know each other.

The Xudum pride is now one of the largest lion prides in the world.

Last year they had one cub. This year they've got 15.

But to feed so many mouths...

Oh, hang on! It's a crocodile!

They're trying to steal the kill.

..the desperate mothers are being pushed to extremes.

Quick, guys. Pull him back.

This is a battle. This is crazy.

The Okavango Delta in Botswana.

One of Africa's last wildernesses...

The Okavango Delta is an oasis in the desert,

it's a miracle in itself.

..and it's a stronghold for Africa's big cats.

Lion...

..cheetah...

..and leopard.

This is nature at its absolute finest.

Now, for the very first time,

a team of local and international wildlife film-makers...

..is working together to record the cats' lives like never before.

Using the latest technology...

We're going to be able to see things in a completely different light

and tell stories in a completely different way.

..they'll follow individual big cats...

..for six months.

Through the day...

It's down, one of the zebras is down.

..and the night.

This is a military-grade thermal-imaging camera.

Lions have got amazing night vision but it's not as good as this.

Capturing their behaviour...

He's got the cub. He's got the cub.

..24 hours a day.

Welcome to the Okavango Delta.

It gets crazy.

FIERCE GROWL

MEWS LOUDLY

All the mums are here!

Ah, the cubs are there.

Look, look, look. I'm pretty sure he's saying,

"Mum, Mum, I'm hungry again!"

There are now nearly 40 lions and cubs in the Xudum pride.

The mothers, I just don't know how they do it.

Looking after this enormous family is hard work.

The mothers have joined each other on top of the tree,

perhaps to avoid feeding or suckling the cubs

because it's knackering.

The cubs constantly wanting some milk from you.

Constantly nagging you.

I couldn't be a mother lion, no way!

Hey, Tsebe!

Young mum Tsebe recently gave birth to five cubs.

It's breakfast time.

It's very rare to have five cubs.

Only 2% of litters are as big as Tsebe's.

Most lionesses have only two or three.

Having so many cubs indicates a healthy pride...

..but their survival is not guaranteed.

Lionesses only have four nipples.

How do you feed five cubs simultaneously?

The odds are stacked against her.

Tsebe, she's feeding her own cub,

and one of Naledi's cubs is just moving in.

ROARS

Oh, I'm not quite sure she likes that.

Tsebe is baring her teeth.

Ooh!

Poor Tsebe. She's having to deal with this - she's got a big cub

trying to squeeze in and suckle.

Just really, um, doesn't help.

Poor, poor lady.

At this age,

each cub needs to drink more than half a litre of milk a day.

Tsebe's going to need a lot of milk to go around.

I'm really worried about the cubs.

If Tsebe doesn't provide enough food for them,

the cubs will suffer.

To stay healthy, and keep her five cubs alive,

Tsebe needs to eat more than the other lioness mums.

Gordon is taking over the evening shift,

to see if Tsebe can get a much-needed meal.

Tsebe looks particularly hungry.

I think she's going to try and hunt tonight,

so I'm going to set up the thermal imaging.

OK, climbing down the tree.

Last little hop.

Tsebe's seen or heard something.

ROARING

It's the rest of the pride.

Ah, they're talkative tonight.

I tell you what, it does get the heart pumping

when you have lions roaring right next to you.

We've got a huge team of lions out in the flood plain this evening.

Some of the other lions have made a kill

and there's a lot of, "roooar, rooarrrr."

One of the dominant pride males

is joining for his share.

Everyone's just piling in.

All of the females, cubs.

It's a meal that Tsebe needs...

I'm going to put the drone up, see how many are here.

DRONE BUZZES

ROARING

..but there are too many lions to share it with.

GROWLING

Absolutely insane situation at the moment.

It's absolute chaos.

There's not much left now - it's just the ribcage and the spine.

DEEP GROWL

Oh-oh, oh-oh, somebody's getting clubbed.

You would think that this pride increasing in number

would make them a stronger pride.

But, actually, it weakens them in many ways

because you've got limited resources

divided many, many times.

How you gauge success isn't really just making a kill.

It's how many lions you're splitting that kill with.

There is so much competition. Most of the lions,

a lot of lionesses put in the hard yards

and they've got nothing from it.

FIERCE ROAR

I do feel for these females.

With the lions in this huge pride now fighting over food...

That was intense.

..the team is following new mum Tsebe,

to see if she can feed herself and her five cubs.

OVER RADIO:

I just heard some growling, close to Xudum's den.

We came to investigate, thinking it was lions,

and we've just seen Xudum with her cub in her mouth,

which is incredible.

She's moving her cub. She's got one in her jaws.

Xudum, the resident female leopard,

had two cubs just over a week ago.

It had to happen. Greg calls it in.

Xudum's moving den.

It's a little bit chaotic for the morning!

Tristen is joining Greg on Xudum's trail.

It's all very, very strange.

It's behaviour that I haven't really seen before.

I don't know if she's making poor decisions or if she's actually just

being very calculated and moving the den just to keep them alive.

There's such a chance that she'll just bump into something.

A lot of the animals out here are so much bigger than her.

It really would be tragic for anything to happen to this cub

at such a young stage in its life.

With Tristen and Greg tracking Xudum...

..Brad is with her other cub,

trying to understand Xudum's unusual behaviour.

Greg, any chance that the growling was leopard?

Yeah, every chance.

I just assumed lion because I would have expected it from the lions.

But it could easily have been a leopard.

Yeah, it's probably likely leopard, eh?

Maybe a male she's upset with.

The team recently found male leopard tracks near Xudum's den.

I think that a male has come into the area

and he's harassing her, and she's got to be careful.

Keep him away and move the cubs out of the area.

To keep her cubs safe, she needs to find a new den.

This could be a very, very good choice on her part,

but, yeah, I guess only time will really tell.

She's just climbed into a huge thicket of blue bush,

which is perfect for a den.

There she is, she's bloody carrying it.

Tristen, she's carrying it again.

Carrying, carrying, carrying.

I thought she'd hold this den - a beautiful bush here,

but I don't think she liked exactly what she felt in that little bush,

so she's decided to move to another one.

She's currently got the leopard, the baby, in her mouth.

It's like a house cat.

The second you pinch a house cat by the scruff of their neck,

they kind of go limp.

And it's the same with all these cats out here.

She'll just very, very delicately, very slowly,

just walk it to wherever she needs to go.

These big cats are so, so delicate with their cubs.

It's actually quite remarkable.

This is quite interesting, eh?

I think she might cross this entire grassland.

Yeah. It's quite far.

She's moved at least 700m now.

This is by far the longest that I've ever seen a leopard move a cub.

Normally, I've seen leopards, it's 50 to 150m.

So she's really, really trying to take these cubs out of that area.

SQUEAKING

I'm sitting at the original den site and she's left one here.

You could definitely see a size difference between the two.

One is a male and one is a female,

and she's left the girl behind here.

I'm just hoping that she stays put.

She's come right up to the entrance, almost falling out,

which would be a disaster.

There would be a lot of crying

and every chance that somebody comes and snacks on her.

So she just needs to bed down and stay hidden.

MEWING

Just stay put.

Just stay put,

and stop calling.

Oh, OK. She's looking.

Her eyes have just gone straight up.

Yep, there she goes.

She's just gone straight up the ebony.

That's ridiculous.

There seems to be a little bit of like a hollow in the ebony,

and she seems to have gone straight into that.

And I'm presuming that is going to be our new den.

Brad? Brad for Tristen.

What's happening in updates with Xudum?

I have some interesting news.

Our girl has got a den in a tree.

OK. That's good news.

Is she on her way back yet?

No. Negative. She's just in the den.

We'll let you know when she's out.

All right. We're just going to stay put and keep an eye on this cub

while Mum's out, and wait for her to come back.

Copy, copy

RADIO BEEPS

Loud and clear, Anna.

Anna and Rea are checking in on Tsebe and her five cubs.

Just getting a glimpse of the cubs.

They are so tiny.

She is looking so thin

and so hungry.

Really concerned about her.

Tsebe's on the move.

This is really unexpected.

It is 12 o'clock.

Lions quite often are just flat under a tree at this time

but Tsebe looked really hungry.

It seems like she's picking up the scent of something.

She's lifting up her head.

She's just making her way through the bushes here.

She's definitely walking with purpose.

Just in front are some lechwe.

I see about three lechwe rams.

One looks a little bit younger, maybe not as fit.

Could be quite the tasty meal for a mum with cubs.

Hunting alone can easily half her chance of making a successful kill.

She's going.

If Tsebe can pull this off, she can keep the meal all to herself.

So, Tsebe's on the run.

She's actually pouncing.

She's going onto the flood plain right now.

This is crazy!

Oh, no, Tsebe.

Oh! They just bolted.

Didn't really think she was going to have much luck with that

but she gave it a go.

At five years old, Tsebe is the pride's youngest mother...

Oh, my God, this is weird.

..and her inexperience is showing.

The lechwe have almost ganged up

and are making sure that they all have eyes on Tsebe...

..and are just moving her along.

She doesn't stand a chance now.

That attempt from Tsebe screams desperation at this point.

I think she's just really, really keen to get that meal.

She's not thinking clearly, I don't think.

OVER RADIO:

..with a half-eaten kill.

OK, copy that.

I'm going to come over.

Six-year-old male leopard Mosweu

is in the heart of Xudum's territory.

He's got some very, very distinctive features.

This guy's ears are all tattered and shredded,

which has got a lot to do with his character.

He's a bit of a brawler.

Mosweu's a little bit smaller than most of the big dominant males here.

And he makes up for his lack of stature

in just sheer determination and aggression.

We also have Xudum's tracks, probably about 100m south of us.

She probably made the kill here,

and this big boy has come in and stolen it.

It's not often that male leopards kill a steenbok.

They don't stalk well enough.

They sort of go for slightly bigger prey.

Mainly warthogs, actually.

If she did make this kill,

hopefully she managed to get a little bit of it cos otherwise

she's really had some really, really bad luck.

Lions taking her kill. Big male leopard taking her kill.

Mosweu's presence may explain why Xudum is moving her cubs.

The last time we saw Mosweu

was when Xudum was being mated, interestingly.

Three months ago, the team found Xudum mating with a rival male.

If Mosweu tracks down cubs that are not his, he will kill them.

It's a dominance thing for them,

and they don't want somebody else's kids coming into this world

in their territory.

She's going to be in for a very, very long few months

with this guy hanging around.

It's going to be very, very stressful for her.

Biggest threat to leopards is other leopards.

More leopards die at the hand of their own kind than anything else.

And just to have him show up again, is not good.

Hey, Rea.

I've just found Tsebe up what seems to be her favourite tree.

Ooh. She's stretching.

New mum Tsebe has been away from the pride for nearly two days...

She knows she needs to eat, she needs to feed her cubs.

..on a solo hunting mission.

She needs to be in a healthy state.

Her cubs' survival depends on her eating soon.

Means that she's very likely to hunt again today.

You can see her ribs on the side.

Yeah, she's looking hungry.

I'm thinking she's looking for warthogs.

They just sit in the grass,

trying to dig up the roots, and...

GRUNTS

..they can't see the lions.

Tsebe's just entered this big bush here.

I don't have any visual at all.

I think it might be drone time.

Oof. She's super vigilant.

She's scanning about.

We have warthog straight ahead of her.

It's completely unaware.

Come on, Tsebe, you can do this.

She's starting her jog.

She's going, she's going, she's going, she's going.

WARTHOG SQUEALS

Oh, no!

She's just missed it.

No.

Ah, Tsebe.

ANNA SIGHS

She's failed yet again.

What is she going to do now?

Now she's just staring in front of her.

We're not sure really if there's potentially a warthog

or something there.

There must be something that we don't see.

She's got something.

She's got a rabbit. She's got a rabbit.

Go on, Tsebe.

Nice!

Of all things she could have got, she got a rabbit!

Oh, my gosh.

That's a fully grown lion

who has just hunted a rabbit.

A hare, sorry, I believe it is.

I am really, really glad for her.

She deserved something.

Yeah. I mean, it's better than nothing.

It just shows how desperate she is, eh?

Tsebe should be eating for six.

She's got five cubs.

Five cubs to feed.

I really don't think this small hare

is going to sustain all of those mouths.

Away from Tsebe, Rea spots the Okavango's most elusive big cat...

Yeah!

That's a cheetah!

What is the chance of that?

..right in the heart of lion territory.

We've got a male.

We've got Sepoko here.

Our four palms monument, he's literally at the bottom of it.

Our pride den here all the time.

He's got an extremely full belly.

RADIO BEEPS

Anna? Anna. Anna, do you copy?

Go ahead, Rea.

Got some pretty good news here, Anna.

We're just close to four palms here

and just found Sepoko.

No way!

That is incredible news.

I honestly did not think we were going to see a cheetah again.

I didn't expect it at all.

What a blessing.

There's just so many lions about at the moment.

If I was a cheetah, I probably wouldn't be hanging around here.

Sepoko is a brave man.

Oh, Rea. What is the chance?

I just can't believe that he's managed to get himself

in the middle of all these lions, to be honest!

He is really living up to his name Sepoko, which means ghost.

Hunting here,

right under the noses of so many lions,

takes stealth.

A lot of the times, their kills are stolen from them,

but looks like our friend Sepoko here managed to have a full meal.

His strides are so long.

He seems to be floating through the grass.

Living up to his ghostly status

and just blending in.

He's weaving between these lions and they have no idea.

Ah, he's so cool.

He's got a lot of character.

I think he's got a kind of "bad boy" vibe.

He walks with a lot of purpose but it's got a swag to it, too.

Yeah, Sepoko, he is, he is!

Pretty badass. He earns the title.

Yeah, he really does.

OVER RADIO:

Xudum, the leopard, has moved one of her cubs to a new den.

Tristen is with her.

She's taken the male cub.

2km away,

Brad is with Xudum's female cub at the original den.

She's left the girl behind here,

and we're sitting, waiting for her imminent return.

It makes me anxious when they're separated.

The longer this cub is alone, the more dangerous it gets.

SOFT MEWING

Xudum's just got down.

If she's able to really figure out a nice path back, she stands a pretty

good chance of getting the cub here safely without getting spotted.

This little girl on her own is starting to wake up.

The temperature has dropped and temperature change generally

stimulates them to move around a bit.

And I just hope that this little one keeps her head down

and stays concealed and doesn't shout out too much.

Tristen, Tristen - Brad. Have you got an update?

She's heading back to the den.

I think Xudum has deliberately taken a long path to get here.

She's had to avoid leaving a scent trail.

She doesn't want to make a thread between the old den and the new den.

Yeah, copy that. That might be a good point, eh?

Trist, she's here.

Xudum's finally made it back to her old den.

It's really nice to see these two back together.

Ah, she's going to suckle.

The cub is very hungry.

To keep the cub quiet she needs to feed it quickly

before they begin that journey to the new den.

It's quite a haul.

Tris, Xudum has just arrived.

OK, cool.

Copy that. We'll make our way over the other side.

BIRDS CHIRP AND CALL

Xudum's up.

She's heard something.

What is that?

You see that?

Guys, there's something going on.

There's another leopard here, Tris!

This is not cool.

This is really not cool.

It's going into the den.

BLEEP. This is a male.

Tris, we've got a male here at the den.

He's going into the den, I'm sure this is Mosweu!

TRISTEN SIGHS BLEEP.

OK, she's coming back in.

She's come back in.

OK. She's got the cub.

Go, go, go. Take it, take it.

Get out of there.

He's coming out of the den.

She's confronting him.

GROWLING AND HISSING

He's got the cub. He's got the cub.

LOUD THUD

Go round the back of the tree.

ENGINE STARTS

They've just had a big fight in front of the den here.

And the male's taken the cub.

I think it's... I think it's done.

Mosweu's just taken the cub.

He's just picked it up in a fight and taken it.

TRISTEN SIGHS

The worst nightmare.

The thing that I was so damn concerned about has played out

and it just fills me with horror.

One of the more harrowing things that I've ever seen.

She fought hard, she confronted that guy head on.

Males are almost double the size of a female.

Ohh...

It's that danger of male leopards, you know,

male leopards are ruthless. You know, they...

They're responsible for a lot of these deaths.

I mean, the majority of the cub deaths.

Mosweu's a real bastard. He's a scary cat.

I'm not sure that this is over.

He's killed one of the cubs already,

and he's now following her scent.

I just hope that he isn't able to trace her back towards her new den

and take out the other cub.

SNIFFS

He's desperately trying to pick up a trail.

He is smelling every grass blade.

LOW GROWL

He's wandering across towards you.

I think he's following her scent.

She seems to be leaving a trail, trying to lead him away.

It looks like Xudum is trying to scent mark a little bit,

as she's going. She seems to be scent marking and moving

and scent marking and moving.

She seems to be trying to lead him in the opposite direction.

He's stopped pursuit.

It seems to be working.

Xudum is completely leaving the scene now.

Yeah, I think she's just trying to get the hell out of here.

But she's been through quite an ordeal.

Maybe let's just let her go, call it a night.

I think she's going to need some time to gather herself.

Yeah, copy that.

That's a horrific thing for a mother to go through,

especially after giving birth, like, a week ago.

TRISTEN SIGHS And yeah...

At least we've got one cub, eh?

At least we've got one cub.

Thank God she moved him.

I think Xudum knew the dangers that were here

and she was really smart to move that cub early in the morning.

I just hope that Xudum has done enough to disguise her trail

back to the new den.

Anna and Rea are still with Sepoko, the cheetah.

LOUD YAWN

It is six in the morning

and just spent all night

staring at a sleeping Sepoko.

Making sure that we don't lose him

because losing a cheetah here

would be devastating.

ENGINE STARTS

Well, Sepoko's up.

He's so beautiful.

Oh, he's so cool.

He's a cool dude.

This time that we've got with Sepoko,

we're going to make sure we stay in touch with him as long as we can.

It looks like he's headed for the flood plain.

This morning, he's woken up with purpose.

We've got Sepoko here just having a little drink of water.

Cheetahs don't actually need to drink water.

They get the majority of their liquid intake

from the prey that they kill.

Like vampires, they drink the blood

and they also drink any urine left inside their prey.

It's pretty brutal!

It does make you look at cheetahs in a slightly different way.

Sepoko is crossing the floodwaters.

This is really unusual to see.

Yeah, it's pretty special, hey? Our cheetahs, how in the delta

they're forced to adapt. They do water crossings.

Even with the flood here,

it's not blocked them off from going anywhere.

Our cats, they just go where they want to.

I believe he wants get out of the area, move to a new place.

Don't forget, this is lion central here.

Stay like a ghost.

Sepoko can cross the water...

Doesn't look too promising.

..but it's a different story for Rea and Anna.

I don't think we're going to cross here.

I thought I would walk it, but this looks very creepy!

I'm in two minds about it.

I don't think I'm going to take a walk through here.

Oh! Ha!

I knew it didn't feel very safe to go in the water here.

Yeah, that's a croc.

And I was going to go in with my...! HE LAUGHS

Trust your instinct. If your instinct tells you no, don't do it.

I'll get the drone up and then we can try and stay with him.

It's quite funny that this cheetah -

who supposedly doesn't like water -

but yet, he's straight through there

and we're stuck on the other side!

Ah!

He's so beautiful!

Oh!

What an amazing animal.

Whew!

Just got a bit emotional. I don't know why.

Maybe the fact that

they are nearly endangered now.

Cheetah are classified as a vulnerable species.

They're on the red list.

And we're looking at one of only 7,000

that are left in the wild. It's really not a lot.

Oh, yeah, Rea,

I think we have officially lost Sepoko. He is gone.

At least we know he's fed

and he looks very, very chilled, so...

Yeah. For sure. He's a happy cat.

Bye, Sepoko!

Hopefully see you soon!

RADIO BEEPS

Tsebe the lioness has been struggling for food.

The team hasn't seen her cubs for over 24 hours.

HE CHUCKLES

I cannot tell you what we've got here!

Magic!

What we've got here!

Look at those little...! Oh, my goodness!

CHUCKLES

Ah! They're so tiny.

This is looking a bit confusing.

I can only see two cubs here.

It could be possibly Tsebe has lost three of her cubs.

We have to be realistic about this.

Without enough food,

it's hard for Tsebe to make enough milk to keep all five cubs alive.

Hang on - a third one.

A third one!

That's the fourth one.

The fourth one is coming.

This is getting exciting.

Oh, man! I think she's got all the cubs.

What a mum!

Five!

This is beautiful.

My heart sings right now.

She's made it to here with her five cubs!

Oh, man.

Well done, Tsebe.

She's always going to be hungry,

because the amount of milk - that rich milk she's producing

for those five cubs, is immense.

So she's on constant lookout for a meal.

And right on cue, she's off again.

BIRDS CALL

Oh, alarm calling.

Lions on the move!

That's Tsebe and one of the girls.

They're moving quite fast.

These lionesses, they're tuned into cues that we're not aware of.

This time, she has the help

from another hungry female from the pride.

Oh, hang on, I can see there's a lechwe struggling in the water!

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You see that?

There's a crocodile.

GUTTURAL GROWL

This is crazy!

They are trying to snatch the lechwe from the crocodile.

Crocodile is pulling back.

They're pulling as well! This is a battle.

This could be dangerous for them.

That is a Nile crocodile.

That could pull a lion in that water and kill it.

What a scene.

Oh, jeez!

They've got it.

I mean, this is one of the most craziest things I've ever witnessed.

Seeing Tsebe bolting into that water,

snatching a meal from a crocodile!

This is certainly a very substantial amount of meat.

A lioness would need around about 35kg per week.

And when suckling cubs, it's even more.

And now she's able to produce super-high-energy milk

to keep her cubs going.

Tsebe has been so, so desperate for food.

The last time she had something

was a tiny, little hare.

Anna and Rea were hoping that she gets a big meal.

Times like this, you realise why the Xudum pride numbers are growing.

It is because how dedicated these mothers are.

They have adapted to this... scavengers mode

and that's a survival skill.

This - happy days!

Brad and Tristen don't know if Xudum's male cub is safe.

I'm hoping she starts to make her way back to the den

and we kind of get that clarity that there's still one surviving.

It's been really hard to swallow

what we witnessed with Mosweu and the cub.

The aggressive leopard behaviour the team saw last night

is very rarely filmed.

These animals are like family to us.

I've spent more time with this cat

than I have with my own family over the past few years.

I understand why Mosweu did this.

It's ingrained, and he's just trying to protect his chances of mating.

But it's still a horrific, horrific experience for Xudum.

When Mosweu grabbed that one cub,

he was so intent on following her,

and it was amazing to see how she didn't just bolt back to the den.

She actually deliberately led him astray.

It's quite exceptional.

Today, Mosweu is nowhere to be seen.

Xudum is finally heading towards her new den.

Xudum's inbound.

They come very quietly. Probably just passed us here.

This is too exciting for words.

She's coming up to the tree now.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Oh, I can see the cub!

Oh, hello, little guy!

Oh, I'm so glad.

Hello!

Oh, you sweet little thing.

This is the moment we've been waiting for.

Xudum is now in the den.

The cub is still alive.

She's showing us where it is and that it's OK.

Oh, you cute thing! That is beautiful.

CUB MEWS

She's just moved it down further in the den.

She's positioning herself now. The cub can suckle.

What a clever girl.

Oh! It looks like everything is fine -

she's looking great, the cub looks healthy.

It's really, really amazing, actually, just to have them

both in the tree together and having the family back together.

It's a big, big relief, I have to admit.

I think the fact that Xudum has any cubs alive still,

is testament to the mother that she's becoming.

I think it was her quick thinking

and her decisions she made that has kept one alive.

Back to a happy space.

Mum, tiny cub, leopard cub,

and elephants breezing past.

Just everyone carrying on with their lives.

Just the best.

RADIO BEEPS

With a full stomach, Tsebe is heading back

to the rest of the pride.

Here she is.

She's rubbing heads with one of the females.

It's very affectionate.

I think they're telling Tsebe, "Just chill."

"Tsebe, you sit down. You've been working hard. Just relax.

"Let's gain our energy."

Yes, there's a sense of community and togetherness.

Just remarkable.

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Big Toe and Madumo, they are slowly moving your way.

VIANET CHUCKLES

They are all here!

The entire pride.

The males looking majestic with their manes.

The Big Cats team is now near the end of its time here.

We have, every day, got to know all of these cats better and better.

In the last six months, this lion pride has grown

to be one of the largest in the world.

The success of the Xudum pride is brought about by

the unity the pride has.

In the case of these lions -

lions that stand a chance of losing a beautiful

piece of the Okavango and a huge pride.

They really have each other's backs.

But the pride's fate is uncertain.

All good things come to an end.

As their numbers have grown, they're getting less to eat.

I think something has to give.

Into the next season, when times get tough -

when the water disappears, when the prey disappears -

what cracks will begin to show?

It could be that these cubs,

they're the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think, in the near future, we're going to see a split in this pride.

The carving off of some of these lions.

Trying to make their own way.

Change is coming.