Alaina Urquhart

But these are maneless.

So they, to me, look a little more villainous to be quite honest.

Okay.

Without a mane, it's like you're just a scary ass cat.

Well, that's like the ladies.

And the ladies actually are more fierce.

I learned a lot about lions last time I went to Disney.

I love that for you.

Thank you.

So establishing a path through the dense jungle to get to this area where they were going to do construction was not an easy task.

Because you're not supposed to go there probably.

We're really not.

The jungle in Savo was densely forested.

It was overgrown.

It was filled with like snarled plant life, which included a species of like a, this like species of plant that has like a variety of different species that

that are covered in large hooked thorns, and they're called wait-a-bit thorns.

Wait a bit.

Wait a bit before you come up on this area.

Yeah, or it's like you're going to get stuck in these thorns, and then you're going to wait a bit to get out.

So in that first week, much of Patterson's time was spent getting to know the area, just kind of familiarizing himself with the work, the crew, what was going to be happening.