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Across Africa,
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three big cats
all want the same thing...
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..a place to call their own.
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(THRILLING MUSIC)
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They must claim a space to hunt...
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(GROWLING)
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..a space to raise their families...
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..and then they must hold on to it.
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(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
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(MUSIC FADES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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On the shores
of Botswana's Gomoti River,
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the cats have found all they need...
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in one small world.
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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This is the home of Molelo,
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lone pride male...
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and hard-working father of twelve.
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(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
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His oldest cubs were born
seven months ago.
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And since then, he's done all he can
to keep them and their mothers safe.
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(CUBS GROWLING)
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(ROARING)
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(PLAYFUL GROWLING)
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(MUSIC ENDS)
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(MOLELO GROWLS SOFTLY)
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(ROARING)
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Molelo's roars
remind neighbouring males...
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that he, alone, owns this world.
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And these days...
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his voice is his strongest weapon.
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(LOW GROWLING)
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He's still super confident,
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but months of defending his land
on his own are wearing him out.
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Even walking is an effort.
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(SNORTS)
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There are still five months to go
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until his cubs no longer need
his constant protection.
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That's five long months...
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of keeping other male lions out.
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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(SOFT MUSIC)
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On this winter morning,
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a young cheetah named Tharo
and his siblings
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are coming to terms
with a great loss.
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Their mother has left them.
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(MUSIC FADES)
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Without her protection,
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only four of her five cubs
have survived.
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(MUSIC RESUMES)
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They only have each other now...
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to get through
the next few critical months.
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Young Tharo
has started to take the lead
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through a neighbourhood
that is suddenly bigger,
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wilder, scarier...
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..for these 15-month-old cats.
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They dare not venture
beyond the plains
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their mother taught them
to live and hunt in.
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(MUSIC FADES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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In the popular woodlands,
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a leopard named Sephiri is looking
for a secluded spot to give birth.
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(GENTLE MUSIC)
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Hmm, no luck here.
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While it's in her nature
to be...invisible...
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..she must also
make her presence...known.
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And this morning,
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she's marking out
the boundaries of her nursery.
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These woodlands are her domain...
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..the treetops, her lookout...
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and her pantry...
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where she stores her meals
out of reach of thieves,
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like lions and hyenas.
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Sephiri doesn't tolerate
any other female leopards here...
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..with one exception...
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..her two-year-old daughter,
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who was supposed
to leave home months ago.
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She shares her mother's appetite
for impala antelope.
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And although, by now,
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this freeloader is old enough
to hunt them for herself...
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..why bother...
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when you can just raid
your mother's pantry?
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Her strategy is this -
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whenever Sephiri leaves a kill...
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..she shows up...
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and helps herself.
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While the forest
is their sanctuary...
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(GROWLING)
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..Sephiri is always alert
to the more powerful cats
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just beyond the tree line.
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(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
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By this age, Molelo's cubs
know prey when they see it.
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But until they reach
two years of age,
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they won't be able
to catch it themselves.
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That task still falls
to Saba and her sisters.
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If you count Molelo,
there are 17 bellies to fill.
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(IMPALA SNORTS)
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They're going to need
a warehouse of impala.
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(ANIMAL CHATTERS IN DISTANCE)
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Or one large zebra.
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(ZEBRA SNORTING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
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Saba decides the hunt is on.
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One of her sisters
begins the painstaking stalk.
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Warthog.
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(GRUNTING)
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Nah. Too small.
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Forget the zebra.
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These wildebeest...
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are just the ticket.
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She makes sure everyone's in place.
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Years of hunting as a team...
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means they each know
exactly what's expected.
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She hasn't the speed of a cheetah,
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nor the forest cover of a leopard.
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So, the closer, the quieter,
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the better chance of success.
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(HUFFING, SNORTING)
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(BIRD CAWING)
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(SOFT SNORTING)
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
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(BRANCHES CRACKING)
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It's a miss for her.
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(LOW ROARING)
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But not her sister.
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(MOANING)
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(SNORTS)
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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(GRUNTING)
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The wildebeest
will feed the whole family...
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for a day.
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Close by,
the world is quietly changing.
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Rainfall, from far upstream,
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is making its way down the Gomoti...
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..stealthily creeping
over its banks...
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and across the parched plains.
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(SCREECHING)
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As the water spreads,
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so will its influence
on the cats' world.
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(SQUAWKING)
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In Sephiri's dry woodlands,
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winter winds gust through the trees,
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stripping them bare.
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(WIND HOWLS)
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(SQUIRRELS SQUEAKING)
(SEPHIRI GROWLS)
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The sight of Sephiri
has squirrels hot under the collar.
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(SQUEAKING)
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(PURRING)
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She's been so secretive...
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that weeks have passed
before the world realises...
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she's no longer pregnant.
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(GRUNTING)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
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(HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAKING)
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It's another daughter.
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There should be
a second one...somewhere.
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(SQUEAKING)
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She's on her way.
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Something's not right.
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(HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAK)
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(TENSE MUSIC)
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It's Sephiri's older daughter.
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And she has the cub in her sights.
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Female leopards are known
to kill the cubs of others.
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She can't outrun an adult.
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(EERIE MUSIC)
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(LOW GROWLING)
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But she can hide.
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(MUSIC BUILDS)
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(GROWLING)
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For some reason,
the cub has broken cover.
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And now...they've caught
their mother's attention.
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(GROWLING)
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(GROWLING)
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Sephiri takes charge.
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There will be no violence here today.
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But it's time...for a change.
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(GROWLING)
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Her daughter protests,
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but she must leave.
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There's not enough space
in this small world...
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for them all.
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Sephiri watches her go...
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..to find another woodland
to call home.
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Her cubs have been born
into a dangerous, crowded world.
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(BIRDS WARBLING)
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They're going to need
her full attention
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to get through
these first vulnerable months.
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Until they learn to stay hidden,
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and master their woodland home...
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..they...are at risk.
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(BIRDS CHATTERING)
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(BIRDS CHATTERING)
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Over the weeks,
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the waters spread across the world,
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swallowing large parts of the plains.
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(EXHALES NOISILY)
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The flood brings company.
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Buffalo.
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Mega-herds pour across the Gomoti
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and into the cats' world.
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(BIRDS SQUEAKING)
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(BUFFALO GRUNTING)
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They've left winter's
dry pastures behind
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for the lush grazing
sprouting through the floodwaters.
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And following them...
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is trouble.
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Two drifters,
on the verge of adulthood,
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kicked out of their birth pride.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
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Now their territory
is wherever the buffalo roam.
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Although they have the power
to take down adults,
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there's almost always
an easier option.
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(SQUEAKY CHIRPING)
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Male lions have little patience
for prolonged stalking.
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(LION GROWLING)
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(GROWLING)
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(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
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(BUFFALO GRUNTING)
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The herd won't give up
one of its own without a fight.
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(GRUNTING)
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But the brothers know that if they
can ride out the buffalo's fury,
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the calf is theirs.
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(BUFFALO GRUNTING, MOANING)
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(GROWLING)
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(MUSIC FADES)
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The lowing of buffalo...
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is music to the ears
of Saba and her pride.
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(BUFFALO LOWING)
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These herds could keep them fed
all through winter.
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It's an irresistible...
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dangerous lure for the mothers.
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Close by, Tharo and his siblings
can't catch a break.
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Buffalo are too big
for them to hunt...
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..and they've crowded out
most of their impala prey.
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(DISTANT LOWING)
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Worse than that,
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their hunting grounds are underwater.
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Even if they've found prey,
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they can't chase anything...
through this.
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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC)
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Now, with new lions moving in,
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the small world has become
a whole lot smaller.
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If they want to eat,
they can't stay in these plains.
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They must find prey and dry land.
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(MUSIC FADES)
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With large parts
of the plains flooded,
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impala have drifted to the higher
ground of Sephiri's woodland.
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Since the rut months ago,
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the pregnant ewes
have been eating for two.
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It could be
a supersized meal for Sephiri,
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right on her doorstep...
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..as long as she remains...
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unseen.
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No, now is not a good time to play.
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(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
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Sephiri's an ambush predator,
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a silent assassin, working alone.
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Except today...
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she has an intern.
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(GENTLE MUSIC)
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(HIGH-PITCHED SQUEAKING)
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Her cub must sit out this next part.
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It's adults' work.
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To watch Sephiri hunt...
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is a masterclass in stealth.
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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Effortlessly, she closes the gap.
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00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,080
The precision placement
of each footstep...
266
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:23,000
calculated for maximum silence.
267
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:29,320
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
268
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:31,360
Surprise!
269
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,400
(GRUNTING)
270
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,440
(SQUEAKING)
271
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,640
With these two around,
hunting is impossible.
272
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,360
If she's ever going to feed herself,
and them,
273
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,680
she'll have to leave them
on their own.
274
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,640
It's not ideal.
275
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,400
In her absence,
anything could go wrong.
276
00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,080
Along the river,
277
00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:53,040
the buffalo herds
are a magnet to life.
278
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,520
Their leisurely pace suits
cattle egrets looking for a perch...
279
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,320
..and a snack.
280
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,800
Buffalo meat is
a powerful addiction for lions.
281
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,640
And in the passing weeks,
282
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,920
it's enticed more homeless
young males into the area.
283
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,800
(GROWLING)
284
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,960
They scrap among themselves
over the spoils...
285
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000
(GRUNTING AND ROARING)
286
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,240
..and begin to earn
their battle scars.
287
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,840
They'd better hope Molelo
doesn't catch them.
288
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,600
Right now, his full attention
is on a buffalo of his own.
289
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,280
(INSECTS BUZZING)
290
00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,400
And he's not sharing...
291
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,680
(BIRDS SCREECH)(GROWLS)
'..any of it...'
292
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,240
..even though he's stuffed.
293
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,720
(EXHALES NOISILY)
294
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,760
(BUFFALO LOWING)
295
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,040
Across the river,
296
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,720
Saba and her pride
are after the same dangerous high.
297
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,920
(GRUNTING)
298
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,680
With adult buffalo,
the outcome is never certain.
299
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,840
(BIRD CHIRPING, LION GRUNTING)
300
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,240
And always in the thick of it,
301
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,640
these young trespassers...
302
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,920
looking for an easy meal.
303
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,240
(MENACING MUSIC)
304
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,680
(GRUNTS, GROWLS)
305
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,240
As long as
these other lions are here,
306
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,560
the river is no place for the pride.
307
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,880
The mothers must always balance
prized prey...
308
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,400
against their cubs' safety.
309
00:29:48,123 --> 00:29:50,120
(DISTANT SNARLING)
310
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,520
From the beginning of time
in this small world...
311
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,480
..impala have looked
to baboons for security.
312
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,800
From their watchtowers,
313
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,920
the primates call out threats
to the earthbound impala.
314
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,040
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
315
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,520
(BABOONS GROWLING)
316
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,080
With their own infants to protect,
317
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,920
baboons are the eyes and ears
of the woodlands...
318
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,080
..and Sephiri's mortal enemies.
319
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,920
So, whenever they're around,
320
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,240
she specialises in vanishing.
321
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,800
And she's passed on the skill.
322
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,160
(ANIMALS CHATTERING)
323
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,840
Meanwhile, the cheetahs
have followed the impala
324
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,640
to the edge of Sephiri's woodland.
325
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,960
(BIRDS CHIRPING SQUEAKILY)
326
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,560
The baboons are all on the ground...
327
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,600
and haven't seen them yet.
328
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,800
Their mother taught them that
it is not smart to hunt near baboons.
329
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,080
Tharo's forgotten that lesson.
330
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,760
(BABOONS SQUAWKING)
331
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,160
(BARKING, SQUAWKING)
332
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,760
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
333
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,960
(BARKING)
334
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,800
(MUSIC FADES)
335
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,280
Male baboons will stop at nothing
to protect their troop.
336
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,600
And Tharo's had a lucky escape.
337
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,880
As long as the all-seeing baboons
live in the woodlands...
338
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,320
..the siblings
will have no luck here.
339
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,640
(HIGH-PITCHED CHIRPS)
340
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,000
They must keep searching -
a quest...
341
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,600
that will take them beyond the
familiar scents of the small world...
342
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,840
..and away from the only home...
343
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,160
they've ever known.
344
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,200
(POIGNANT MUSIC)
345
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,480
(MUSIC FADES)
346
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,400
This morning,
347
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,720
there's trouble in Molelo's pride.
348
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,320
(RHYTHMIC GRUNTING)
349
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,400
A cub is missing.
350
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,680
One of Saba's.
351
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,680
(GROWLING)
352
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,760
He's nowhere to be seen...
353
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,680
..or heard.
354
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,760
The only thing she can do...
355
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,040
is retrace her steps
from the night before.
356
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,480
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
357
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,080
(GROWLING)
358
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,560
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
359
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,960
(GROWLS)
360
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,440
(GROWLS REPEATEDLY)
361
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,280
Somewhere in the chaos of flood,
and buffalo,
362
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,679
and gangs of intruders,
363
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,280
a small life has been lost.
364
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,840
(GROWLING)
365
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,720
Saba calls from dawn...
366
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:20,720
..to dusk.
367
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,000
But the Gomoti
is not giving up its secrets.
368
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,040
(LOW GROWLING)
369
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,800
Her hopes fade with the light...
370
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:45,120
..and she returns to her pride.
371
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,200
(MUSIC FADES)
372
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,160
(BIRDS WARBLING)
373
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,400
Waiting for your mother
to come home with breakfast...
374
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,720
is quite boring.
375
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,240
(SNORTS)
376
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,720
Without her cubs as baggage,
377
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,200
Sephiri has secured a meal.
378
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,440
As she drags the carcass
to where she left them,
379
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,480
she's leaving a trail.
380
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,400
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
381
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,240
Now to find her cubs.
382
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,280
They should be close by.
383
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,280
But they're not.
384
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,520
(HIGH-PITCHED CHIRP)
385
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,560
(GRUNTS)
386
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,320
(UPLIFTING MUSIC)
387
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,160
They've both managed
to stay out of trouble.
388
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,440
An inquisitive hyena...
389
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,760
is following the carcass's trail.
390
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,680
Even young hyenas like this...
391
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,680
are a threat to the cubs.
392
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,720
(MENACING MUSIC)
393
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
(SEPHIRI GROWLING, HYENA WHIMPERING)
394
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,040
Not on Sephiri's watch.
395
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,080
(GROWLS)
396
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,120
(GENTLE MUSIC)
397
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,760
Her cubs might be growing
more independent...
398
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,680
..but Sephiri still needs
to take care of dangerous intruders.
399
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,880
They must get back to the carcass...
400
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,600
before other thieves arrive.
401
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,480
(BUFFALO LOWING)
402
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,840
As winter passes by,
403
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,280
the flood moves on downstream,
404
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,080
taking the buffalo
and young lions with it.
405
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,560
But not all of them.
406
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,320
It's the calf killers.
407
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,360
(TENSE MUSIC)
408
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,760
They've reached the age
where they want what Molelo has...
409
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,120
..land, and a pride
to call their own.
410
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,880
They've had a good time in his world.
411
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,800
Now they're marking it out as theirs.
412
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,120
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
413
00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:00,160
Molelo's on patrol.
414
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,040
Bulked up by buffalo season,
415
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,640
he's got a new lease on life.
416
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,720
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
417
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,960
The stink of outsiders.
418
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,040
That's a threat to his family.
419
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,840
He must hunt them down
and evict them.
420
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,320
They've heard the roar
of a lone male here.
421
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,720
There are two of them.
422
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,760
They're ready to take him on.
423
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,920
(MUSIC BUILDS)
424
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:05,880
Molelo doesn't know
what he's up against.
425
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,120
But that's never stopped him.
426
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000
He's hot on their trail now.
427
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,120
(MUSIC FADES)
428
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,160
(SOFT MUSIC)
429
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,400
Their moment has arrived.
430
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,440
(TENSE MUSIC)
431
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:46,480
So this is the beast
behind the lone voice.
432
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:51,640
And he's frightening.
433
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,120
(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC)
434
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,720
(ROARING)
435
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,000
They're not in Molelo's league...yet.
436
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,560
He makes sure they don't forget it.
437
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,480
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
438
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,720
(MUSIC FADES)
439
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:46,280
Far beyond the reach
of Molelo's roars,
440
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,600
a young cheetah cleans up
after a meal.
441
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,840
(SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
442
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,000
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
443
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,600
After a long journey
up the Gomoti shoreline,
444
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,760
Tharo and his siblings
have reached a new land.
445
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:20,720
(DISTANT ROARING)
446
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,720
There are lions here too.
447
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,160
But that will be the case
wherever they go.
448
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:51,160
Together, they've learnt
to navigate a landscape
449
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,440
filled with more powerful cats.
450
00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,520
A few months from now,
451
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,920
they'll each
go their separate ways...
452
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,280
..to settle new small worlds...
453
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:10,240
..of their own.
454
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,400
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
455
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,440
By the time the summer rains return,
456
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,400
Sephiri has seen her cubs
through their most vulnerable months.
457
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,120
The wet season means new life...
458
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:51,280
..and easy pickings to satisfy
her cubs' growing appetites.
459
00:45:54,720 --> 00:45:56,720
(RAIN PATTERING)
460
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,600
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
461
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,720
But Sephiri's journey...
462
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,560
..is far from over.
463
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,400
She'll still have to guard
and guide them
464
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,560
through another winter...
465
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,800
before she sends them off
into the world beyond.
466
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,880
Fifteen months have passed
since Molelo became a father.
467
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:39,840
And he's delivered.
468
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,040
(STIRRING MUSIC)
469
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,440
His exhausting patrols
have kept his cubs safe,
470
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,960
and now they're old enough
to avoid danger on their own.
471
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,560
His days as the top cat
in this world...
472
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,600
are numbered.
473
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,360
But he has sons who will
carry his blood into new worlds.
474
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,960
And daughters who will remain
and strengthen the pride.
475
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,080
Alongside Saba and her sisters,
476
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,040
they'll continue to roam
this small world...
477
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,240
..and one day,
raise cubs of their own.
478
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,280
(POIGNANT MUSIC)
479
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,800
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