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2017
Voices From the Crowd: Ready to Go on safariLIVE ?
By Tim Anderson
Twice a day I go on an African
Safari live via streaming video from the
Djuma Game Preserve, Kruger Park,
South Africa. Although, the show has
been around for some years, the live
streaming technology and video quality
has gotten significantly better.
Every show has this statement
at the beginning: “This program features
live coverage of an African Safari and
may include animal kills and carcasses.
Viewer discretion is advised.” This is not
the main stay of the program. There is so
much to life in Africa other than animal
kills.
The guides drive Land Rovers
along dirt roads with a camera person.
The guides are extremely knowledge-
able about the animals and give insights
to their behavior and life cycles. How-
ever, they don’t know everything, as
Africa has thousands of living creatures.
Being a live show, they have provided a
means via Twitter to ask questions of the
guides. These are filtered based on what
is going on and how many people are
asking questions - so make your ques-
tion relevant to what is on the screen.
There are three types of cameras
that are used. The first is a high quality
camera that has a zoom lens to focus on
the animals. The second is a night vi-
sion camera for night viewing but only
in gray shades. The third is a thermal
camera. I watched the stomach of a lion
get hotter as it ate dinner.
The show is not al-
ways about driving around
and finding animals. There
is a guided walk through
parts of the park where they
look at plants and insects,
and sometimes find bigger
animals. There is also a tent
that has skulls and bones and
an assortment of other items.
These are talked about at
various times. Also, there are
many birds to find.
A live show literally
means that anything can happen—
or not. Animals are not interfered
with and are allowed to go on with
their natural behavior. That is, hu-
mans do not intervene with Afri-
can life. What you see is depen-
dent on the time of year and the
temperature. Right now it’s winter
in Africa. When it’s morning here
in Vernonia, Oregon it’s evening
in Africa. So morning Africa Safa-
ri begins at 9:30 pm in Vernonia
and evening Africa Safari starts
at 6:00 am. Please note that these
times can change depending on what is
going on in Africa.
If you miss a show, you only
need to go to YouTube and search for
‘safariLIVE’ to find past shows. The
current show is usually posted within 24
hours.
One of the things that many peo-
ple do is make lists of the animals that
they see on the show. One way to do this
is to make a screen shot of the animal
and save it immediately because you
may want to take another screen shot.
You may see the screen go to
black. This is because the signal from
the Land Rover has lost connection with
the base station. The show goes on by
switching to another camera in about 10
seconds. Another issue is that the inter-
net connection just gets lost. By clicking
on the reload on your browser you can
reconnect to safariLIVE.
Connect to safariLIVE:
http://www.nationalgeograph-
ic.com/video/safari-live/.
Scroll down the screen until
you find a leopard with a red
rectangle and a white arrow on
the screen. Click on the arrow.
If the program is not on it will
tell you how long to air time.
There is a blog about
what is going on with the
show and the animals: http://
blog.wildearth.tv/2017/07/a-
brand-new-safarilive-adventure-
is.html. Note that the individual
leopards are named and identified
by their spot configuration. Lions
are identified by group name and
seldom by individual name.
This page has an interactive
map, https://www.discoverafrica.
com/migration/september/, show-
ing where the wildebeest migra-
tion is located. This site also shows
places to go on safari, but know
that it’s expensive.
Since I started watching the
show about a month ago, I discovered
that text book reading just does not come
close to “being there.” I’ve learned so
much more about African animals and
the reasons to protect them. The one
thing that I have mixed feelings about
is the smell of Africa does not come
through my computer, even though the
guide explained something about leop-
ards and the smell of popcorn.
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