The Impala (Aepyceros melampus) is the commonest antelope in Kruger Park, South Africa and is an ecological generalist, browsing and grazing on a wide range of grasses, shrubs, herbs and fruits. Impalas tend to live in in separate sex herds most of the year, and fertile females (ewes) are gathered together by dominant males (rams) during the rut at the end of the wet season, usually in May. After a gestation period of 6-7 months, females isolate themselves from the herd to give birth to a single large lamb that is 10-15% of its mother’s body weight. The lamb can walk and suckle within a short time after birth. The ewe and her lamb re-join the mother’s herd after a few weeks, when the lamb join a nursery group and are suckled for four to six months. We found this calm Impala ewe and her day-old lamb (we call them ‘bambinos’) together near the edge of the dry Mphongolo River in during the drought November 2016. Both of them show signs of the recent birth. This series of 9 video clips was shot in sequence, and tell the story of the Impala mother and her lamb over their first few hours together.The newborn Impala lamb did its first poo while its mother watched, alert for danger nearby.