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It's a dynamic time of year in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve right now because the wet season has started. This means a wide array of animals are congregating around waterholes and grazing areas, forcing many thousands of animals to crowd together in herds. Safety in numbers perhaps, but as the Zebra, Wildebeest and Antelope are forced to drink and feed in smaller and smaller areas they’re a magnet for the big cats.
This year Big Cat Diary is, for the first time, live with night time footage as well in infra red and so has been rechristened suitably Big Cat Live. Over the last 12 years, we have been privileged to invite the Lions into our living rooms and watch incredible shots of the life and death dramas played out everyday in the Masai Mara, and the intimacies of their day to day lives.
But here at World on the Move we are interested in just how much the lives of those big cats are dependent on the huge migrations of Wildebeest and Antelope for example. Over the next 3 weeks Simon King and Jonathan Scott will both be reporting from the Masai Mara on these amazing spectacles so keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Further Reading:
Next report: Jonathan Scott on Wildebeest
Last report: Wildebeest on the Serengeti
More from Simon King at Big Cat Live
Masai Mara National Reserve