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Islands in the African plains.

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The ancient Naabi hills brutal with
the most savage landscape on the planet.

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Born into this world,
a new hyena princess

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she's named after the hills

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Naabi

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In her time, she must become a powerful hunter,
able to take on beasts far larger than her

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Being a princess won't spare her from tragedy

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There will be a time when these early days
around her then will seem very precious indeed

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Naabi is born at night.

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She has a full set of teeth and already

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she knows how to use them

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Within minutes of birth,
she savages her sister

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Naabi is the more aggressive
and quickly subdues her sibling,

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so she gets what she wants,

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the best nipple and the lion's share
of her mother's precious milk

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It will make her bigger and stronger
than her sister

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so even now, Naabi has a head start

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She was born on the short grass plains
of Tanzania's Serengeti

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Her mother is a queen,
ruler of the Ndutu clan

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40 hyenas were living in the shadow
of the Naabi hill

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So by birth right,
this tiny cub is a princess

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Who could think that even now this little
Naabi could be so important to her mother

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The queen needs her rule.

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Without support, the queen's rule
is nothing in the clan,

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so she needs all her sisters
and daughters behind her

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Naabi needs a lot of attention

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she is the dominant daughter

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so she is the first in line to the throne

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She has the power to do almost anything

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even annoy the queen

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The queen does not mind though

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[Just the two of us

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we can make it if we try.
Just the two of us

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just the two of us

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Just the two of us

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building castles in the sky.
Just the two of us

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you and I]

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Nothing is more precious to her
than the little Naabi

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and besides she has been bitten
and attacked by animals far bigger

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These games are fun for Naabi

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but they are important lessons too

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she must learn to be aggressive,
learn to fight.

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Who better to practice on
than your own mother

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The plains are a dangerous place
to grow up

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If Naabi can learn how to survive
from the queen herself,

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what a better start in life?

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It is wildebeests that keep the plains
of the southern Serengeti alive

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but now, there are none

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They are in the north, not due back
for nearly a year

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without them, there is little
for the predators to eat,

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so the lions are as hungry as the hyenas

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The Acacia pride lives close
to Naabi's Ndutu clan

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These are hard times for the lions

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Too many months without enough food
has made them lean and irritable

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The lionesses have cubs to protect and they are not
interested in the advances of a foolish teenager

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He is a threat and needs dealing with

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silly boy

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Nothing is more dangerous to a hyena
than an angry lion

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Lions hate hyenas and need no excuse
to kill them

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The old hyena queen lost a leg to lions

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it strip her of her rank

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but the hyena's strong family bonds
protect them

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The clan system only works
if everyone knows their place

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If you are a male, forget it,
you are at the bottom

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Higher ranking females force the underdogs to cock
their legs so that they can sniff their genitals

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This weird extended clitoris is a quirk of
spotted hyenas and makes the girls look like boys

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Naabi makes her first visit
to the waterhole near her den

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Maybe she does have elephant dung stuck
to her whiskers and she's only 3 months old

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but she is second in command
so everyone shows her respect

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Naabi's tail is up, so the lower ranking hyena
has no choice but to cock a leg and being inspected

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Such acceptance of dominance and hierarchy means
that the hyena clan is surprisingly peaceful

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Above all, rank is a ruthless way
of deciding who feeds first

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and the two princesses have already
worked out rights to the one nipple

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The other poor cubs that share the den with Naabi
and her sister don't get the same attention

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They are left underground while their mothers
travel great distances to find food

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Following the roads of humans,
they trek north to find the wildebeest herds

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days between feeds leaves the cubs hungry

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but hyena milk is 7 times
more nutritious than cow's milk,

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so hyenas can leave their cubs
without feeds longer than any other mammal

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If you are a queen, you can stay put

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You have the right to take whatever food
can be found near the den

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If she likes, Naabi's mom can knock
a cheetah off its kill and it's all hers

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it means she gets more time
with Naabi and her sister

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to care for them and protect them,

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so their advantage just grows and grows

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Naabi is better fed than all the other
hyena cubs, so she is fitter and stronger

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but she will have to fill
her mother's shoes, so Naabi needs
to develop skills to match her strength

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Now that she is 4 months old,
she can spend more time above ground

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the journey from baby to predator can begin

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Naabi's mother feeds her and
her little sister in the evening

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It is a relaxed affair,
the time to feed and doze

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This evening, the queen is not happy

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lions

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This is too close to the den,
too close to her cubs.

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If the lions find Naabi and the other cubs,
they would kill them

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they must go

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The Acacia pride lionesses also
have little ones to protect,

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but they are only 4 of them

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and when night falls, Naabi's mom
can call upon an army of 40

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Foolish lions, you shouldn't upset a queen

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Naabi's mom makes a preemptive strike

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caught out on the plains
without a male to protect them,

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the lions are in big trouble

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To save their skins,
the lion cubs try to get off the ground

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Even the lionesses become desperate

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This night belongs to the hyenas

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long live the queen

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The next day, the lions move their cubs
to a safer part of their territory

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The bitter rivalry between lions
and hyenas however is far from over

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The Ndutu clan can never let down its guard

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At just 6 months old, Naabi is expected
to be another pair of eyes,

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another nose, another pair of ears
for the Ndutu clan

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Fortunately, she's a smart princess,
so she's quick to copy her mother

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She learns to watch the vultures

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Hyenas need vultures

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They are eyes in the sky

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For where they fall, she would find food

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This is the field craft that
will save her from starvation

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The one thing that can undo
all these good work is a male lion

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but clan can deal with females,
but the large male is a different story

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Her mother and other adult hyenas go in

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but Naabi holds back

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he will kill her if he wants to

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so she is wise to keep her distance

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She must learn by watching others

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another male lion, the teenager

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he can also see the vultures,

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smell the flesh, heed the hyenas

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Naabi has dropped her guard

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Had he been an adult male
with a bit more confidence

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Naabi would be dead

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The dry season presses on

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scorching the earth, stilling the water

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Many of the hyenas are suffering now

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but not Naabi's mom, not Naabi

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They found a dead topi

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and they and the high ranking females
are eating the best bits

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With a full belly,
the princess has time to relax and play

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whereas the less privileged vie for scraps

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She's breezed through hard times while
others have struggled to survive

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Towards December, rain showers sweep south from
Kenya and finally quench the thirst of the land

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Good news for the Ndutu clan,
good news for everyone

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In their wake, the rains live grass,
lush green grass for as far as the eye can see

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The great migration is near

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170,000 tons of fresh meat is coming

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they can smell it on the wind

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Like a massing army,
1,500,000 wildebeest arrive,

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one of the greatest movements
of animals anywhere on earth

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Naabi has never seen
anything like it before

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[Riders on the storm,

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riders on the storm

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Into this house were born

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into this world were thrown

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like a dog without a bone,
an actor out on loan

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riders on the storm]

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This time of year is crucial
for Naabi and her clan

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It's the time to fatten up

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When the wildebeest arrive, they carve

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the babies are very exposed on the plains

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but their predators are not blessed
with any cover to stalk them from

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which give the wildebeest advantage

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It is the wildebeest that keep plains alive

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they feed the predators,
feed the grass, trim it and weed it

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With a strange collective consciousness,

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they seem to know where
the best grasses to be found

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together, they move through the vastness,

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backwards and forwards,

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following the rains, forming lines that can stretch
for all the 30 miles long and herds 10 miles wide

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If the Ndutu clan are lucky,
they will stay in their area for a while

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if not, the wildebeest could
be gone in a few days

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The huge buildup of food below Naabi hill has
attracted the attentions of Acacia pride lioness

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She slinks back into the Ndutu clan's area

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She can afford to be picky

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take her time

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She singles out a wildebeest that
is perfect for her needs

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healthy, adult,

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not too big to cause her problems

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Before the last breaths have even left
the wildebeest, Naabi's mother appears

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She too has been watching,

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waiting

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Naabi follows her mother in

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This is risky

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but it's a crucial new experience for her

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other hyenas appear as if from nowhere

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Along with the kill, the lioness stands no
chance against Naabi's mother and her clan

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she's just another meal ticket

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Battle cries echo across the plains

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calls for reinforcements never go unheeded

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Young and old, the troops come running

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The Acacia pride can hear the commotion too

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soon, there're lions everywhere

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It is not until dark however that Naabi's mom
gets the confidence to step up the pressure

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They taunt the lions who are only just
holding their nerve

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Naabi heads back, perhaps too young
to be taking such risks

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Her mother is perhaps taking too many

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There're two young male lions,
but Naabi's mom runs rings around them

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These lions don't have the bold
to deal with the determined Ndutu clan

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and despite their size,
they know who has the upper hand

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but the devil lurks in the darkness,

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the pride males appear and
the balance of power suddenly shifts

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The queen grabbed by the neck

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she's doomed

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It is nothing more than an act of aggression
and the lion seems to relish it

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Her mother is dead

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the relationship between lions and
hyenas is a dark and brutal one

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Naabi has learned that it is
no respecter of rank

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We can only guess what Naabi feels

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but in a society where bonds are everything

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she must feel the loss

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She has not just lost her mother

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she has lost everything

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She doesn't yet have the age or experience
to take over the reigns of power

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Her destiny as queen has been denied

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Now her position in the clan
will be decided by who her allies are

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If they are high-ranking and close
she would be okay

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if they are not, she could tumble

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from top to bottom

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The clan needs a leader or
it would fall apart

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The next day, high-ranking females
begin to squabble for power

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for the first time in her life,
Naabi's future is uncertain

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Now the other clan members eat first
and there's nothing she can do about it

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Naabi is only just weaned so she
needs all the protein she can get

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but she's denied

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so she must scavenge with jackals and
vultures but she gets nothing but offals
and entrails and the ordinary bone

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but only after the jackal
has finished with it

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Her fall from grace could not
have come at a worse time

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Four weeks after they arrive, the wildebeest
leave the plains of the southern Serengeti

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Now the lion and cheetah must go back
to hunting whatever they can get

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Naabi has the most important decision to make

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to stay and struggle, feeding in scraps and
bones or to follow the herds try her luck alone

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If she makes the wrong decision,
she would starve and die

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but with an empty belly and
none of the skills to feed it

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Naabi decides to follow the herds

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she heads north,
it is a huge risk to take

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The world beyond the den, beyond her
Ndutu clan borders is a different universe

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Here there are many other hyenas,
commuters living without the back of a clan,

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killing and scavenging what they can

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Lost in the confusion of the herds,
this young calf is in serious trouble

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Naabi is no match for
even a baby wildebeest though

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She's not strong enough,
not fast enough

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It is the older hyenas who benefit

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To survive on the plains, you must
use your brains as well as your legs

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Naabi can only watch,

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but by watching, she would learn

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Within three days of being born,
the wildebeest calf can outrun a hyena

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She must resort to scavenging

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but that brings its own problems

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none of these hyenas is resident,
like her, they are just passing through

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Naabi doesn't face much aggression when she
joins the crowd, but she's not allowed to eat

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Being a princess means nothing
to these wild opponents

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size and age dictate rank here

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not silver spoons

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The arrival of the residents however reminds
the travelling hyenas who this meat belongs to

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Naabi and the others seem to disagree

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Finally, she snatches a meal,

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may be not

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These two residents can easily call
for back up and the other hyenas know it

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For the next few months,
she continues following the herds,

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driven by the need for food,
scraping an existence

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The wildebeest head far into the north
and eventually Naabi stops following

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perhaps she's held back not wanting
to wander too far from home

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food become scarce all of a sudden.

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The animals that stay, topi, hartebeest and zebra
are too large and fast for Naabi to deal with

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She remembers her mother,
as she always watched the cheetahs

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The hyena is no fool

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why hunt when others can do it for you

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Though cheetahs gamble their precious remaining
energy on the largest antelope of all

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the eland

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If the cheetahs see her,
they'll stop hunting immediately

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so she waits, watches and listens

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Perhaps the cheetah has made
many sacrifices for its speed

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It has a very small head

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it is not the smartest cat

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Eventually Naabi's patience pays off

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the cheetahs have made a kill

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Naabi isn't sure, they do seem big

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A wise cheetah would not waste its energy,
but the young male can not help himself

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One bite from Naabi's powerful jaws
could finish him

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hunger drives her

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She needs a meal and she would
risk a bit of beating to get one

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You see the cheetah is a weak animal

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Naabi has just discovered this for herself

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She has done well

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To take on four cheetahs
before she is even two

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She has a meal

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all to herself

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but there're spies in the grass

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other hyenas appear as if from nowhere

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Within minutes, Naabi has lost it all

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Her hard earned meal is stolen

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These are bitter lessons to learn

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Naabi spends her days sleeping

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It is too hot to do anything else

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One day weak and empty-bellied, the vultures
talk to her and she smells fresh meat

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She knows to head to where they land

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If it is bravado then Naabi is stupid

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maybe it is just desperation which
forces her to take an impossible risk

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Without her clan behind her,
she's just an upstart to a lioness

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She's finding it hard to scavenge
and she has no success hunting

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For her to continue alone
would be very dangerous

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she realizes this now

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Naabi belongs nowhere and
has no right to food

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Alone, it is as though
she's only half alive

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she has almost become
how the African people describe the hyena

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*, spirit of the dead

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She must make a decision

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to stay alone in the empty plains
of the north

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or return to her clan
in the empty plains of the south

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Even though she faces a journey
of nearly 100 miles

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she decides to head back

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She has learned the lessons
her mother might have taught her

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but she has had to learn them
from her own bitter experience

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perhaps she wears a tougher skin now

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perhaps she's a little wiser

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When she reaches the Naabi hills

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she knows she's home

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but she has no idea
how she would fit back in

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The others recognize her instantly
even though she's been away for months

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and they waste no time
in putting her in her place

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She's rank and file now and
must grovel to the new queen

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but she's not rock bottom

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The new queen is a cousin
of her mother's

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so Naabi gets a little extra status

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not a lot, but enough to raise her
above the rib bones

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What's important is that her chances
of survival are now much greater

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Naabi is an adult now

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to stay part of this team and
benefit it brings, she must pull her weight

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One day when wildebeest arrive, our little
princess gets the chance to prove her worth

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It has been a long journey from
the carefree games of her cub route

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but the hours of fighting, playing and
running about after sisters and cousins
have made her ready for this moment

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for now, she runs like the wind

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Once upon a time, Naabi had merely
inherited the right to eat,

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the right to protection and
support within the Ndutu clan

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Now, she has earned it

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song: Well, it's all right

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riding around in the breeze

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Well, it's alright

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if you live the life you please)

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Thanks to the great migration, the Ndutu clan
have full bellies for the next few weeks

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There wasn't an uneasy truth
with the Acacia pride

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a short lived one of course

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[sit around and wonder what tomorrow'll bring]

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The new queen seems to like the old queen

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[everyday is just one day

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maybe somewhere down the road when...]

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and eventually Naabi had a girl of her own

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who knows maybe Naabi will even work a way
back up to the top of the pack one day

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and life on the plains beneath Naabi hill
continues the same as it has done
for thousands of years

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In two weeks time, Natural World is on a
trail of a spectacle bear high in the Andes

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once thought to be a classic vegetarian,
the secretive creature is now the heart
of a scientific controversy

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