Africa's Big Cats Hunt in Okavango Dry Season | Full Episode | Big Cats 24/7 | PBS - September 10, 2025 -

After six months away, the "Big Cats 24/7" photography team returns to the Okavango Delta to film Africa's lions, leopards and cheetahs. In the dry season, with older cubs to feed, the lionesses must hunt around the clock. Leopardess Xudum moves away, so the team focuses on new leopard mum Lediba. Pobe the cheetah returns with two cubs of her own.
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Big Cats 24/7
Season Two sees the return of a familiar cast of human and big cat characters. The expert team of cinematographers — Gordon Buchanan, Anna Dimitriadis, Brad Bestelink, Sets Nthomiwa, Rea Schulte to Brinke, Greg Hartman and Tristen Woodward — live and work together from the Natural History Film Unit, Botswana’s remote film camp in the heart of big cat territory. Together, they follow the twists and turns in the lives of key, named big cats, introduced in Season One. Across five vital months, cats — and humans — battle punishing seasonal change, from flood to extreme drought. Over brutal terrain, in searing temperatures and through day and night, the team keeps its cameras rolling 24/7 to capture unparalleled, unseen animal behavior. State-of-the-art thermal cameras, and the latest in drone technology, mean the team can film the cats from the ground, the air and, uniquely, through the night, revealing yet more brand-new insights into their lives.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:36 Big Cats Filming Team Reunites in Okavango Delta
02:55 The Largest Pride of Lions in the World
07:37 Pobe the Cheetah and her cubs
10:59 At Night, Lions Fight Over a Meal
17:28 Lion Confronts a Leopard in a Tree
21:16 Zebra and Lions are a threat to Cheetahs
26:24 Xudum the Leopard Finds a Meal
29:51 Cheetahs are most vulnerable to predators at night
33:07 Cheetah family encounters a rogue male
35:50 A new leopard named Lediba has two cubs
38:13 Night camera traps reveal lions in the film camp!
41:19 Lions hunt Zebra at night
45:30 Young Cheetahs growing up
48:18 Lion family shares a meal
51:00 Intruder male Lions
53:10 Credits