anthony: our guide is karmushu kiama. he grew up in a village near here and has a deep knowledge of the wildlife of lewa. kamau: this is significantly better than the zoo, i guess that goes without saying. anthony: yeah. kamau: for some reason i had a negative connotation of safari. anthony: they used to shoot animals in safari. there s our kind of safari and then there s the, you know, trump jr. safari. kamau: yeah, i think i was afraid every time i said the word that people were just like, what are you doing? like anthony: no, this is this is a good kind of safari. kamau: okay. anthony: good for the world. kamau: okay, good. karmusha: 100% good for the world. kamau: good for the world. kamau: i think we need another word or something. karmusha: see an elephant? anthony: where? karmusha: right there. kamau: even if you see them in a zoo closer, they re behind bars that it just doesn t feel connected. but i feel like we re right here. anthony:
kamau: i think we need another word or something. karmusha: see an elephant? anthony: where? karmusha: right there. kamau: even if you see them in a zoo closer, they re behind bars that it just doesn t feel connected. but i feel like we re right here. anthony: yeah, he s actually going someplace. kamau: yeah, he s not just walking in a circle. he s actually got stuff to do. anthony: the fact of the matter is, these magnificent animals would most likely be gone without the intervention of man. people pay a lot of money to come see these animals. without that money, the overwhelming likelihood is that they would have been wiped out long ago. particularly this one whoa, what s that? karmusha: that s a rhino. our first rhino. kamau: wow. anthony: the conservancy was set up specifically to protect these guys. [ gunshots ] poaching is, of course, an ever-present danger to both the animals at lewa and the people who look after them. particularly the rhinoceros, who
anthony: the fact of the matter is, these magnificent animals would most likely be gone without the intervention of man. people pay a lot of money to come see these animals. without that money, the overwhelming likelihood is that they would have been wiped out long ago. particularly this one whoa, what s that? karmusha: that s a rhino. our first rhino. kamau: wow. anthony: the conservancy was set up specifically to protect these guys. [ gunshots ]
anthony: oh, there s a bunch of them. karmusha: yeah, yeah. if we re lucky, they might come down the hill. kamau: that s lucky? we define lucky in different ways. karmusha: they seem to be having their eyes on something. he s going to go left so we have a good position. kamau: hey, how you doing lion? so the lion is about 30 feet from us or so?
karmusha: that is a white rhino. kamau: so how do karmusha: it s nothing to do with the coloration. white was an african name whit which means wide-mouth. and whoever came to write about them put an e there. then it became white. kamau: okay, because you said white rhino, and i was like karmusha: yeah, it s not white. kamau: i think his dad might be black. anthony: does it look like you wanted it to look? or expected it to look? kamau: i mean, uh, no. i mean, i guess i don t know. i mean, i grew up as a kid, you know, my first images of africa were tarzan, you know? so i don t think i knew what kenya africa was. you know? anthony: what a shithole, right? [ laughter ] kamau: what a shithole.