Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova

Conversation drifted to wildlife in the Home Camp and Martina recounted her previous experiences on safari. She said ‘A friend of mine went for a trip in the bush. So this rhino is eating and we’re coming from behind and we’re maybe three yards away and this rhino is bending over and all of a sudden it’s . . . boom. [Coming towards us] just like that. It was so fast. We back up."

Joe tells the camp that the most dangerous animal in Africa is the hippo. "They just open their mouth," he explained.

"They’re more dangerous out of the water," said Martina.

She revealed that she saw lions mating. "Have they got big willies?" enquired Joe.

Martina replied: "You don’t see them. They’re sort of long and pointy and they copulate for a day, a day and a half every half an hour."

Joe said: "You know why a lion has a mane. It’s for fighting because when they get bitten on the neck there’s so much hair there they don’t get bitten on the vital organs. I don’t know why the females have them because they’re the hunters."