Big Cat Diaries update: Big Cat Tales
The presenters of Big Cat Diaries are to feature on Animal Planet with the follow up series Big Cat Tales. Jonathan and Angie Scott have teamed up with Jackson Looseyia once more to follow up their Big Cat Diaries series with Big Cat Tales looking at the present day lives of lions, leopards and cheetahs in Kenya’s Masai Mara.
Since those original Big Cat Diaries series the protected area of the Masai Mara has grown hugely with the introduction of conservancies surrounding the Masai Mara National Reserve. These conservancieshave given additional protection to the predators of this region as the Masai land-owners have a financial stakeholding in the areas and benefit from safari visitors. The conservancies also benefit visitors on safari, with a strict limit on vehicles, ensuring predator sightings are never crowded.
While Big Cat Tales will once again be based firmly in the Mara Reserve, as was Big Cat Diaries, visitors looking to see lions, leopards and cheetahs in their natural surroundings would be well served by any of the good camps in this area which include Little Governor’s Camp near to the Big Cat Tales filming areas or Kicheche Mara in its own private area alongside the reserve.
Little Governor’s Camp bedroom
Little Governor’s Camp lounge
Little Governor’s Camp cheetahs
Little Governor’s Camp elephant game drive
Kicheche Mara lounge
Kicheche Mara leopard
Jackson Looseyia has his own safari camp too in the reserve called Tangulia Mara Camp.
Tangulia Mara Camp tent bedroom
Tangulia Mara Camp wildebeest river crossing
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I love Big Cat Tales.
The pace of the show is so relaxed and peaceful. I can feel the love the hosts have, not only for the animals but, for the land as well. Also, the hosts feel sincere, like they are being themselves.
Finally, I truly appreciate the way the show does not feel it necessary to overplay the “action” scenes. The producers seem confident in all aspects of these beautiful animals’ lives, which is refreshing.
I occasionally find myself longIng for a little more depth in the substance of the script, but please please please not at the expense of any of the features listed above, the collective balance of which makes the show what it is.
While I am certain a lot of hard work goes into bringing about the finished product, like an athlete or musician at the top of their game, you make it look easy.
May the Lord continue to bless!
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I have gone through this recently. Here in India, Animal Planet made quite an irregular broadcast. Got the entire series on Discovery Plus. What should I say? In terms of textures of the tales, in terms of coherence of the events, and in terms of a wonderful parallelism of one core story, supplimented by a frame story for each of the three cats- the second series would certainly win the hearts of millions of wildlife enthusiasts