Alex Braczkowski

Yeah, it's really something for the audience to consider.

If you ever get a chance to go to Africa and just listen to it at night, it's truly special because of the, I'd say if there's one animal that really makes it special is the whooping calls of the hyena.

That's truly something amazing.

And then obviously the lion.

If you're fortunate to be living in a place where there are still lions, hearing that roar at night is probably one of the most enigmatic things you'll ever hear in your life.

He stood up just because I think initially, you know, we were trying to get interesting behavior on video that people hadn't seen of these lions.

And when I say interesting behavior that people hadn't seen using new technology and at that point, drones had just come onto the market.

So we used a small little Mavic 2.

We got special permission from the Uganda Wildlife Authority to be able to use this drone, and he was really the first individual to tolerate this drone.

It didn't bother him, and within a week he got so used to it that, you know, we could get to within a metre of him with this drone.

So we got this incredible footage, you know, with a 24mm lens of him just chilling in this tree, getting up, you know, and this is, you know, 25 feet up in the air...

stretching, just looking at the tree, making a wee out of the tree, you know, like completely relaxed, like the drone wasn't even there.

So that was really the, it was this unique behavior we got to him.

You know, we got very intimate with him with this drone.

And that's really how he became a central character in our documentary.

And then later in a second documentary that we made, yeah.

Jacob was named by Mustafa Nsebugo, who is, I think, in my view, probably the Ugandan authority on tree climbing lions.

He's worked for every major conservation NGO, you know, the WCS, the Uganda Conservation Foundation.

He's now working for the Virunga National Park in the Congo.

And he knows those lions better than anyone because he studied them and been around them for more than two decades.