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After a short break away from the sanctuary, Kevin Richardson returns to the lions and records their very real reaction to his homecoming. The greeting is immediate and full of familiar energy, with the big cats, including Georgie, Yummy, Gabs and Bobcat, coming in close before the attention quickly shifts to brushing, bonding and the everyday rhythm of life with lions.

The reunion stays calm rather than chaotic, which Kevin notes is typical when a long relationship is built over time. He checks the animals while offering their favorite pilchards in tomato sauce, using the snack to keep them settled so he can look over their bodies for cuts, scratches, ticks or other issues. The visit also includes time with the hyena clan, where the sanctuary routine continues with close-up interaction and a few playful moments in the sun and water.

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00:11Hello.
00:24Hey guys, so I have been away for a couple of weeks now
00:28and today is the first day i am back at the sanctuary so i wanted to just record how the
00:36animals react to my homecoming rearing to go and i feel yeah i feel positive and uh and happy to
00:44be
00:45back really excited to see the animals so i hope you enjoy uh this little reunion video there's
00:51old georgie woohoo georgie yummy oh hello guys oh oh oh oh hello boys oh catch hello boy oh
01:18hello yes what's up yes hello okay you just gotta give me a chance to come in give me a
01:26chance to
01:27come in here guys hello my boy hello my boy hello how's it guys yes come away from there don't
01:39get
01:39distracted by the hyenas come come guys oh whoa whoa they are really still intrigued by the hyenas
01:54that's better yes come say hello my boy come say hello my boy yes yes yes yes hello gabbs
02:03hello gabby bobcat yes oh whoa whoa yeah i think sometimes uh when the lions know you
02:17as well as they do then uh even a period away of just under two weeks is not enough
02:28but bobcat yes bobcat's been a good boy bobcat's been a good boy okay forget about the hyenas my boy
02:38check here check here your favorite brush your favorite brush yeah bobcats favorite brush okay
02:49you haven't had a brush in a while okay
03:02here we go
03:05oh
03:06oh
03:06oh
03:08oh
03:27did you miss
03:29did you miss your ears getting tickled
03:39did you miss your ears getting tickled
03:39yes yes he's been running up and down obviously uh the hyenas have been upsetting my boy hey
03:48let's see that yes anyway daddy's back
03:55okay
04:02and like that bobcats back to sleep
04:08and that is so typical of uh of lions and when you do have a a strong relationship that spans
04:19a long
04:20period of time there is this initial excitement to see you obviously because you've just come back but
04:26and it quickly um peters out because um yeah it's as i say it's been uh for so long um
04:35and that's
04:36in many respects a good thing that you're not um you know you're not a novelty within this group or
04:43any
04:44other group that shows this kind of um behavior they they obviously um will
04:52come to greet because that's what lions do and and if i leave and come back five minutes later there
04:58will be another greeting and that they it's ingrained to greet and and bond
05:13well that's a lovely greeting that's a nice greeting my boy
05:18oh that's good to see you my boy
05:26this lion he's just he's just the best
05:30simply the best
05:32simply the best better
05:33better than all the rest my boy
05:40hello boy
05:44hello boy come let's go
05:50georgian yummy
06:00hello big boy
06:02he doesn't want to come close because he's worried about
06:08he's worried about georgie
06:13georgie georgie
06:14a bit of a brush
06:16a bit of a brush
06:22a pesky hyena starting
06:25oh a pesky hyena starting
06:29a pesky hyena starting
06:45you know you guys are not grooming each other properly you know that
06:50yeah
06:55what i can do now
06:57yum yum
06:59one of his favorite
07:00a few
07:19was i mean so it's really interesting
07:30Seeing how old Yum-Yum can only come and say hello once, George, I'm really battling with this filming.
08:08Yum-Yum. So it's a very calm, it's not as excitable as I thought it would be, but calm is
08:17good.
08:18I'm liking the new calm Yum-Yum and George, actually because when I left
08:28there was a little bit of tension between the boys and now there isn't any tension and I could see
08:36when
08:37Yum-Yum was trying to approach me he was doing it very very cautiously because
08:45Mr. George can be quite the dominant force and then he kind of fights with Yum-Yum. So it's really
08:53really good to see the boys being so good with each other. Look at that.
09:08Okay.
09:23It's really good to see Yame in all his glory. He's been such a wonderful boy. Yes!
09:36What a good big boy. Good big boy. His favorite.
09:55I'm here with Koda Nikita. I know that they will just go go go go go go for some pilchards.
10:05So I'm just about to
10:07open up a can
10:10of their favorite snack. Pilchards and tomato sauce.
10:14Let's look at that guy.
10:20Hey Kans. Chill.
10:22Hey guys. Chill.
10:29Hey!
10:50Ok, so what giving them the pilchards does do is that it allows me to look over their
10:57bodies without them moving about so I can really if Nikita wouldn't be so bitchy but it basically
11:04allows me to have a good look at the body and and see if they've got any cuts or scratches
11:10or
11:12ticks or fleas or if there's a fly problem or anything that I need to give attention to so
11:20the pilchards does that and basically just focuses their attention on the food
11:52fishy breath
12:20Okay, we're here by Gina
12:23Gina's clan, the hyena clan, Gina clan to see how she's doing with Woody and Nancy and Boringa
12:39Hello pudding
12:41Hello my pudding
12:44Oh shiver there's a spider
12:45Pudding on my pudding
12:48Pudding
12:48Pudding
12:50Pudding
12:54Pudding
12:58Pudding
13:00P Clock
13:00Pudding
13:02Pudding
13:14I don't know.
13:18I don't know.
13:52I'm having fun in the sun or fun in the water.
14:00I don't know.
14:07I don't know.
14:32I don't know.
14:40I don't know.
14:47I don't know.
15:00I don't know.
15:01You are wet.
15:01I don't know.
15:01I don't know.
15:01I don't know.
15:02I don't know.

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