Buffalo-tail soup makes MeatEater's Africa bonus worth unpacking

Steven Rinella's Season 13 extras travel from Lake Sagara to biltong-making and conversations with anti-poaching rangers.

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Africa Bonus: Unseen Moments

A safari produces more stories than three episodes can hold. MeatEater's answer is "Africa Bonus: Unseen Moments," a collection of material left outside Steven Rinella's Season 13 Africa episodes, and the biggest new draw of its two-upload week.

The extras have a menu of their own: roan backstrap turned into biltong with coriander and vinegar, Cape buffalo tail soup cooked over coals, and meat dried for villages. A boat ride on Lake Sagara opens the journey, with fishery protection and the reserve's anti-poaching team also getting time. This is a sponsored episode, with the emphasis extending beyond the hunt to food and the work of looking after the reserve.

At roughly 344,000 views, it has drawn more than twice the audience of the week's other release. Viewers ask for more Africa stories, single out Morgan for a return appearance and discuss the buffalo-tail soup alongside their own experiences cooking oxtail. One says the bonus answered questions left over from the Tanzania episodes.

The other new upload swaps open coals in Africa for subzero Minnesota: "Winter Grouse Hunting by Dog Sled | With Tony Peterson." Mushers Sean McCarty and Paige May take Tony and his black lab, Sadie, deep into Superior National Forest, then leave them for three days of winter camping and grouse hunting. That episode is sponsored too.

MeatEater added about 10,000 subscribers, while daily viewing sat slightly below its usual level. Among nearby outdoor channels, Nate Petroski had a particularly large viewing week and Kamoka Pearl saw stronger subscriber growth. MeatEater's freshest Africa installment carries its strongest daily momentum, followed by the Nebraska whitetail hunt with Rinella, Peterson and Pat Hoffman, now approaching a million views.

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The videos drawing views on MeatEater right now

Winter Grouse Hunting by Dog Sled | With Tony Peterson166,653 views · 2026-10-13 Steve and Tony Hunt The Whitetail Rut | MeatEater's 12 in '26901,328 views

The numbers

Here is MeatEater's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Nate Petroski

9,983,106

Kamoka Pearl

3,729,801

MeatEater

2,444,540

B2B Castaways (Strick and…

2,013,758

Field Days

1,316,153

Xander Budnick

1,076,865

Fowler's Makery and Misch…

457,088

Jon B.

324,121

Nick Fry

90,073

subscribers

1,880,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

569,133,401

views per day

353,057

typical day: 370,658

first-day views of each video posted this week

Africa Bonus: Unseen Moments

148,918

Winter Grouse Hunting by Dog Sled | Wit…

89,425

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Nick Fry

2,020,000

Field Days

2,000,000

Xander Budnick

1,990,000

B2B Castaways (Strick and…

1,980,000

MeatEater

1,880,000

Jon B.

1,860,000

Kamoka Pearl

1,830,000

Fowler's Makery and Misch…

1,820,000

Nate Petroski

1,730,000

As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.