First, the team attended to an adult elephant with an arrowhead stuck on his left backside. Earlier in the day, the Maasai Mara National Reserve patrol team had observed him frantically trying to scratch his arrowed back against trees in an attempt to remove the painful nuisance. Help came from the resident vet team through darting, cleaning the wound, and giving him antibiotics and anti-inflammatories to aid his healing. He got up after treatment and strode into the nearby bushes, where a family of elephants were peacefully browsing and playing.

Immediately after, the vet team was notified that one of the dispersed Black Rock males in a coalition of five, named Olubi, had sustained serious wounds in a buffalo-hunting escapade gone wrong. The lion was darted, and the gaping wounds were cleaned, debrided, disinfected, and sutured, leaving only a small section for drainage. The lion got up and rejoined one of his nearby brothers to walk off into the bushes to shelter from the scorching midday heat.

Both patients were given an excellent prognosis for full and speedy recovery.