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Speaker 1: Ruby.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Rick Schwartz.

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Speaker 1: What is the world?

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Speaker 2: I'm MARKA what and this this is Amazing Wildlife where

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Speaker 2: we explore unique stories of wildlife from around the world

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Speaker 2: and uncover fascinating animal facts. Now, this podcast is brought

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Speaker 2: to you in partnership with iHeartRadio's Ruby Studio and San

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Speaker 2: Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, in international nonprofit conservation organization which

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Speaker 2: oversees the San Diego Zoo. And this beautiful place, or

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Speaker 2: might I say amazing place, the San Diego Zoo Safari.

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Speaker 3: Park is very amazing, sir. Why you're doing your monologu

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Speaker 3: which I always appreciate it rude us for that. You

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Speaker 3: rocked it, you killed it. Yeah, I saw a kestrel,

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Speaker 3: flussy cheek, iabase ravens, the crows.

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Speaker 1: Oh look there's an ecret going on. We got turkey

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Speaker 1: vultures for me.

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Speaker 3: That, my friend, is the official symbol of the Safari Park,

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Speaker 3: which is.

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Speaker 2: Interesting because the Safari Park is more about, you know,

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Speaker 2: wildlife from around the world, AMG. And the turkey vultures

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Speaker 2: are local. But you're right, every morning when the sun

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Speaker 2: comes up, these local birds find that updraft. They love

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Speaker 2: to go up in the Yeah, even some back here.

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Speaker 2: I think you mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 3: I was just going to say that this is the

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Speaker 3: only spot in the Safari Park for guests at are

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Speaker 3: listening and watching. By the way, because we've got some

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Speaker 3: visuals going up check it out on YouTube in the future,

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Speaker 3: that this is the only spot I see turkey vultures

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Speaker 3: actually on the ground.

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Speaker 1: There's a drinker back there.

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Speaker 3: So I love it, right, wildlife all over. I know

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Speaker 3: I'm pushing the bird thing, but we gotta.

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Speaker 2: I gotta let you do that.

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Speaker 1: Every EPISODK.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that I got it out of my assistant

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Speaker 3: because you got to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Mammal Right, the longest day, the longest.

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Speaker 2: Day is coming on. In fact, the day after this

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Speaker 2: episode comes out. It's the longest day in the Northern

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Speaker 2: Hemisphere as far as the amount of light in that day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which I was saying earlier, it's like my happiest

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Speaker 1: I got to say the year.

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Speaker 3: Well, because you know, there's there's turns of daylight and

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Speaker 3: I love the sun, you know. Well, then I think about,

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Speaker 3: you know, the next day is going to be a

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Speaker 3: little bit less, you know, I know, I know it's

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Speaker 3: very dramatic.

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Speaker 2: I'll get you a card for the twenty second.

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Speaker 1: Thanks that you know.

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Speaker 3: But by the way, so it's the world's longest day,

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Speaker 3: but it's also associated with a day of celebration.

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Speaker 2: Mammal that might be right behind yeah, one behind me

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Speaker 2: right now in the background are will you look at that?

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Speaker 3: And well, you know, I mean we should probably talk

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Speaker 2: We should probably acknowledge we have the wonderful Natalie here

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Speaker 2: who's giggling at us as Natalie.

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being.

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Speaker 4: Here, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. And I know we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about your rapid earlier. I'm going to get it out

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Speaker 3: there because I was telling you all the wildlife around here.

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Speaker 3: There's a hawk here called the zone tail hawk that

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Speaker 3: does aggressive in the cry. I know I'm talking about it.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, everyone with the draft. It does aggressive mimicry.

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Speaker 3: So it flies with turkey vultures to look like a

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Speaker 3: turkey vulture. But you have to look for a white

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Speaker 3: band on the tail. It's like the unicorn out here

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Speaker 3: the Safari Park. So friend, when you see it, you let.

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Speaker 4: Me know it sounds good.

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Speaker 1: Don't give you a call.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so those in our watching the video, she just

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Speaker 2: told me, did you guys get.

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Speaker 1: The eye roll? I think got the ie roll?

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Speaker 3: MANA, all right, that was a pretty differend though, you

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. I gotta say, can you reference where

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, So we're in our East Africa savan a habitat,

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Speaker 5: and we have over ten different species in here of

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say, there you go.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, is a type of host stock.

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Speaker 2: Of your co workers tallest ones are behind.

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Speaker 5: Them, my tallest coworkers out here. So we have six

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Speaker 5: giraffe out here. We have one male and five females.

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Speaker 4: Yeah wow, okay, yeah, they have varying ages.

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Speaker 5: Our youngest is about to be three and our oldest

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Speaker 1: Oh wow.

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Speaker 3: And you know this area is a very popular spot,

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Speaker 3: especially the African Tram which is included in tickets.

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Speaker 1: And also there's one in a Spaniola and Spaniel African family.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to say as well, but this area is

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Speaker 3: So giraffe World's Longest day really unique. I like the

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Speaker 3: what is up with a giraffe?

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Speaker 1: What's going on with that?

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Speaker 4: You would never believe it.

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Speaker 5: I mean if someone told me that unicorns were real,

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Speaker 5: I'd be like, okay, cool, And then you say, oh,

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Speaker 5: there's an animal with a twelve to thirteen footneck, and

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Speaker 3: On the drive down here, I was listening to the

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Speaker 3: The brownish saurus. So it's one with a super long neck.

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Speaker 3: As a kid, I'm like, I wish we had animals

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Speaker 4: Sure.

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Speaker 5: It's the tallest land mammal that you could ever imagine,

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Speaker 5: and essentially their legs are about as tall as I

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Speaker 4: I'm not the tallest person.

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Speaker 5: The babies are usually born like straight out of the womb,

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Speaker 4: The males usually average about eighteen feet.

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Speaker 5: They grow for a long time and they're just covered

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Speaker 4: So they're literally a fingerprint to a giraffe.

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Speaker 3: That's a probably good way for you to identify and individually. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, So they are in a very hot area of Africa,

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Speaker 5: and there's four different types and they're kind of all

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Speaker 5: And Africa is hot, it is dry, everything is super

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a good point, and then you think of

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Speaker 5: And they're so tall, they have unique adaptations to like

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Speaker 2: And that's important, the tight skin because it keeps a

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Speaker 2: It's funny, you know. I know for myself as a kid,

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Speaker 2: You think about all the other hoped animals that we

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Speaker 2: they got stretched out. Never really thought of the fact that, yeah,

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Speaker 2: when I bend over sometimes you can get a little

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Speaker 2: too quickly, you get a little bit of a Disney spell.

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Speaker 2: You think about someone who's pushing fourteen eighteen feet in

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Speaker 2: height and they're bending down to drink the water. The physiology,

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Speaker 2: all that, it's truly fascinating.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually inspired NASA to work with that idea

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Speaker 2: That's pretty clear.

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Speaker 1: Giraffes and that.

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Speaker 1: Like the design of a raptor, like a falcon.

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Speaker 2: And so to your point there, if we can go

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Speaker 3: It's wild. Get Rick's point to I think people forget.

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Speaker 4: And they use it.

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Speaker 4: They both have both have it.

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Speaker 5: For ye petition females, it's kind of like a very graceful,

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Speaker 1: Right, it's a friend.

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Speaker 3: I just now I see that one other male. Oh,

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, It's called posturing when males kind of go up

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Speaker 2: Guys posturing, But.

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Speaker 1: Everyone postures, and that's something I talk to kids about.

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Speaker 1: You know. The animals communicate in so many different ways.

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Speaker 3: It's not just a scent marking, you know, or a sound.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna look okay, but this is the scenario.

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Speaker 3: They're the same height.

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Speaker 4: It's definitely up to those males.

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Speaker 5: So we're building these relationships with these animals and that's

446
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Speaker 5: allowed us to build up situations where they don't have

447
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Speaker 5: a fear of us.

448
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Speaker 4: But it's a respect between everyone for sure.

449
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Speaker 3: As you're saying that there's one approaching us close, but

450
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Speaker 3: it does speak to what you're talking about. You're building

451
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Speaker 3: up this relationship and not in a domestic dog kind

452
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Speaker 3: of way or a domestic kind of way. We're establishing communication.

453
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Speaker 3: It's and fancy operating conditioning techniques.

454
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Speaker 1: Right.

455
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Speaker 3: It can be positive negative punishment, which you don't really

456
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Speaker 3: do too much of it here, and more of the

457
00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,120
Speaker 3: positive reinforcement. There's also a negative reinforcement, but these are

458
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Speaker 3: all tools that we can utilize, but with positive reinforcement.

459
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Speaker 3: I'm a big behavior nerd, but I love that you

460
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Speaker 3: have an area behind this here that you focus a

461
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Speaker 3: little bit of your training.

462
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Speaker 1: That you do with these animals.

463
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Speaker 5: Yeah, We tend to train in specific areas, mainly because,

464
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Speaker 5: as I mentioned before, there's multiple different species in here,

465
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Speaker 5: and rhinos are like, I want to train two, so

466
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Speaker 5: we don't want all of everyone involved at the same time,

467
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Speaker 5: so we'll train them generally at more specific times during

468
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Speaker 5: the day. So like rhinos know, they get trained in

469
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Speaker 5: the morning and draft get trained in the afternoon. So

470
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Speaker 5: it's kind of being able to regulate a multi species exhibit.

471
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Speaker 3: I'm just going to say a lot that schedule because

472
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Speaker 3: some people don't think about that. You know, maybe the

473
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Speaker 3: different habitats. You have one species, maybe two habitat that

474
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Speaker 3: you're facilitating, you're managing, But here you have what you said,

475
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Speaker 3: over ten different species. They have to navigate absolutely, so

476
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Speaker 3: that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, what are someone like,

477
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Speaker 3: give me your top two or top three behaviors that

478
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Speaker 3: you focus on with this kind of animal.

479
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Speaker 1: What do you got to do?

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Speaker 5: So we want all of our animals to recognize their names.

481
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Speaker 5: All of our animals have names, and so name recognition

482
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Speaker 5: is a big one, especially if you're trying to draw

483
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Speaker 5: someone over to, for example, look at their hoofs or

484
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Speaker 5: other things like that.

485
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Speaker 3: Sorry, okay, name recognition who's the one messing with the

486
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Speaker 3: manda right.

487
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Speaker 4: Now, Kanie checking it out.

488
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Speaker 1: You know.

489
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Speaker 3: But again this speaks to the relationship that you guess,

490
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Speaker 3: this is not something that happened with a giraffe.

491
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Speaker 5: No, it's a level of trust, like we respect of

492
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Speaker 5: their wild animals. They're huge, like they're saying, like, they

493
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Speaker 5: have adaptations to protect themselves, and we know their limits,

494
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Speaker 5: they know our limits, and it's very much just like

495
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Speaker 5: a give and take relationship, right yeah, And so they

496
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Speaker 5: allow us essentially to interact with them all the time.

497
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Speaker 5: We've worked with a lot of Name recognition for these

498
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Speaker 5: guys was number one, Like if you're gonna have a

499
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Speaker 5: little baby.

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Speaker 4: Giraffe, it should know its name, right.

501
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Speaker 5: So then we also want to you know, as I

502
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Speaker 5: was talking about, they have hoofs, they have the two toes,

503
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Speaker 5: and you want to maintain those in the wild. They're

504
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Speaker 5: walking so often all the time over different types of terrain,

505
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Speaker 5: and we try to keep that as variable as possible

506
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Speaker 5: out here, but we're still going to have to maintain it.

507
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Speaker 1: It wants to.

508
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Speaker 4: Check out the camera.

509
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Speaker 3: Apparently she's a fan of Sony, But you know, as

510
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Speaker 3: you're speaking, I'm looking at the hoofs, and you're absolutely right. Now,

511
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, like, would I want to like

512
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Speaker 3: kneel down and like get down there and work on

513
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Speaker 3: a hoof?

514
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Speaker 1: What's that like?

515
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Speaker 5: Don't So we have to work with them for the

516
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Speaker 5: fact that their comfort level is what we base everything

517
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Speaker 5: off of. So we always have some sort of form

518
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Speaker 5: of protection. I'm not just jumping off the truck here

519
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Speaker 5: at all. It's our safety and their safety all along.

520
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Speaker 5: They are a mega vertebrate, So we have this area

521
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Speaker 5: back here, and we do set up other different pieces

522
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Speaker 5: of woods that we are protected at all times. Right,

523
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Speaker 5: And it's very much still reading the animal. You're never

524
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Speaker 5: doing anything alone. If someone says she looks uncomfortable, we're

525
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Speaker 5: all backing up and we're resetting.

526
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Speaker 4: Things like that.

527
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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

528
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all on the animal's idea of what they

529
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Speaker 5: want to do that day.

530
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Speaker 3: Wow, I'm even something as simple like right now Yamakanie

531
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Speaker 3: was her name, as simple as her even like she's

532
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Speaker 3: turning right now, turning, you would have to be aware

533
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Speaker 3: because it's such a big animal.

534
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Speaker 1: I don't think she'd know that she'd knock you over right.

535
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Speaker 3: Oh No, So you're really just having a navigate this

536
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Speaker 3: really unique.

537
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Speaker 1: Space with them.

538
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you mentioned their big eyes.

539
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Speaker 5: And if you see, like those big eyes, see a

540
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Speaker 5: lot in front of them and to the side of them,

541
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Speaker 5: but they can't see behind them, so they have like

542
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Speaker 5: a certain amount of visions, so they're swinging their head

543
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Speaker 5: to see what.

544
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Speaker 4: Is a over here for example.

545
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Speaker 2: You're up, so I've been right now. Anybody listening When

546
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Speaker 2: these videos finally do go on to YouTube, we have

547
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Speaker 2: to watch this episode. Yama Connie is right here in

548
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Speaker 2: front of us now.

549
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Speaker 3: And you guys a part of We're gonna hint at

550
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Speaker 3: it right your social media handle on Instagram, zoology right.

551
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Speaker 1: As well. Yeah, this is a uniqueness, right, This is

552
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Speaker 1: the joy.

553
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,399
Speaker 2: Of our podcast is we get to actually be mobile,

554
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Speaker 2: We get to come out into these spaces. Can't thank

555
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Speaker 2: you enough for just I you know, we nort really

556
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Speaker 2: think at the end of but I want to thank

557
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Speaker 2: you now because that's a unique experience for us. Yama

558
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Speaker 2: Connie be right here and we just kind of check

559
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Speaker 2: us out and move on. Unique experience for our audience

560
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Speaker 2: who gets to watch this later as well. So you

561
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Speaker 2: guys were talking about all we're talking about the eye.

562
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so they get the long old eyes.

563
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so like being the watch hower of the span,

564
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Speaker 5: and they have great ability to see far and wide,

565
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Speaker 5: not just being over everything, but they just have this

566
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Speaker 5: awareness with them. So because of that, they can't see

567
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Speaker 5: behind them. So they always kind of.

568
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Speaker 4: Rely on being in this tower situation.

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Speaker 5: So for example, when they have babies, they need to

570
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Speaker 5: go out, they need to get all of the forage

571
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Speaker 5: and things like that.

572
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Speaker 4: They still need to.

573
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Speaker 5: Maintain their abilities, so they have different moms watch over kids.

574
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Speaker 5: We call them aunties really, so they have this exactly,

575
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Speaker 5: so it's like take care essentially.

576
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Speaker 4: I love.

577
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Speaker 1: I didn't know they did that.

578
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Speaker 5: The little babies can't keep up with mom all the time,

579
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Speaker 5: so they'll have one or two moms kind of watch

580
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Speaker 5: everybody while the others go out and find all the

581
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Speaker 5: food things like that, and then they'll switch off.

582
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Speaker 4: So that's really cool. We've seen it in here.

583
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Speaker 3: Actually it's beneficial, right, I mean, you guys are out

584
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Speaker 3: there so many predators out there when you have babies.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. I remember when we did our

586
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Speaker 2: market episode the beginning of this season. Well, the use

587
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Speaker 2: social stuff, but I was thinking about the pups will

588
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Speaker 2: stay in the den while mom goes food, and the

589
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Speaker 2: aunties will hang out and take care of the kids

590
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Speaker 2: while she goes to It's kind of the same idea,

591
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Speaker 2: absolutely differently in the sense that they're not in a burrow,

592
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Speaker 2: but it's that whole concept of community and the group's

593
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Speaker 2: taking care of each other and taking care of the young,

594
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Speaker 2: even if it's not there young. Because there's that community,

595
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Speaker 2: that safety in numbers the well being for everybody.

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Speaker 1: That's right, cool. I know, I love that.

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Speaker 3: I mean I love having like the right that's really

598
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Speaker 3: that lot side question a budget, swim them up, excuse

599
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Speaker 3: me for that.

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Speaker 1: That's some of the nuances that happens in the wild everyone.

601
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Speaker 3: But earlier you a Connie came over and she was

602
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Speaker 3: licking a little bit of the truck. But I wanted

603
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Speaker 3: to ask you about the spit the mucus saliva.

604
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Speaker 1: It's a unique trait about it. Can you speak a

605
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Speaker 1: little bit about that for me?

606
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Speaker 5: So something that they eat in the wild is generally

607
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 5: thorny acasha, So it's a type of tree and they

608
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Speaker 5: use that very long tongue that manipulates different things to

609
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Speaker 5: pull off the leaves and things like that. So the

610
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Speaker 5: saliva keeps everything kind of liquid, so they're not exactly

611
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Speaker 5: poking and hurting themselves when eating thorns.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool.

613
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Speaker 3: And the tongue too. It's block for a specific reason too, right.

614
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Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you what that reason is actually.

615
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Speaker 1: Know I was. I was trying to lead you everything.

616
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Speaker 3: But I heard from the last episode with Charlie Hide

617
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Speaker 3: its black for like some block it was really two

618
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Speaker 3: years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Man, I had bad time reference, you know, it was

621
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Speaker 1: just yesterday.

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Speaker 3: But again, like they're eating during daytime hours, right, which

623
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Speaker 3: leads me to the question they're generally not forging a

624
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Speaker 3: lot of nighttime hours or they are.

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Speaker 5: You thinking Knight's just a bit dangerous out ya? Absolutely,

626
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Speaker 5: and they do. People are like, do they lay down?

627
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Speaker 4: And they do. It takes a lot of effort for

628
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Speaker 4: them to get down there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but they are able to kind of fold their

630
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Speaker 5: legs underneath them and just lay there. And they look

631
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Speaker 5: really tall with just their neck kind of coming out

632
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Speaker 5: of the ground. But they are able to lay down.

633
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Speaker 5: But it's more of a situation where someone's always up

634
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Speaker 5: and watching.

635
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're kidding, and I was reading it.

636
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Speaker 3: They don't do like I'm more of a ten hour

637
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Speaker 3: sleep or sometimes they wouldn't be doing.

638
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Speaker 1: That, right, you can't do that out there.

639
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Speaker 3: It's almost like I call it like the President's sleep.

640
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Speaker 3: You know, I read somewhere like he'll sleep at twenty minutes,

641
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Speaker 3: a little mass naps. But do they do like quick

642
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Speaker 3: little nappies.

643
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Speaker 5: Or they do yeah, short amounts, especially the older they get.

644
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Speaker 5: For example, babies need a ton of sleep. They're exhausted

645
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Speaker 5: for running around being crazy all the time. They're growing

646
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Speaker 5: exactly minor details they have to get big. So usually

647
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Speaker 5: it's twenty minutes to the time, one to two hours,

648
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Speaker 5: never a long amount of time.

649
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Speaker 4: On the ground.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Actually thinking about babies, I don't know if you

651
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Speaker 3: can speak to this, but like i'd read where giving birth,

652
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Speaker 3: you know, it is a six foot tall baby, but

653
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Speaker 3: it's a big drop.

654
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Speaker 4: Mask baby right into the world, right.

655
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Speaker 3: But it kind of makes you know those movies like

656
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Speaker 3: you know, when they're giving birth, and I don't know

657
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 3: if they do this were in reality, but you know,

658
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Speaker 3: the doctor slaps the babies, the human baby, but the

659
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Speaker 3: baby there's I had read somewhere like is it kind

660
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Speaker 3: of a giraffe version of that? You know that the

661
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Speaker 3: drop actually helps stimulate the baby. Woke it up because

662
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Speaker 3: they got to get up really really fast.

663
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Speaker 5: Yeah, in the wild with predators, they need to get

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Speaker 5: up as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I've read somewhere it's like within thirty to forty minutes. Yeah, yes,

667
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Speaker 2: and starting to follow mom.

668
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that like drag your dad? Can you

669
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: imagine your kid that's over run?

670
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 4: Wow? So wild they're wobbly on their legs.

671
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking.

672
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Speaker 3: We've had baby giraffes here at the Safari parking in

673
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 3: the San Diego Zoo too, right, part of that managed

674
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 3: care for these species, I mean, unfortunately, you know, they're

675
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 3: not doing so good out there in the wild for

676
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 3: the habitat fragmentation, A big one is actually wildlife trafficking,

677
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 3: you know, drive down here. Was trying to think, how

678
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 3: do we tell kids. I don't know what you think

679
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 3: or you think, Rick, but what do we tell kids?

680
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 3: How can they help a giraffe out? Basically, like my

681
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 3: main one is just go support your local zoo and

682
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 3: aquarium that's accredited and they're doing good work out there

683
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 3: helping out manage populations, genetic diversity, right.

684
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 2: Certainly well and then to your point. As the Santegazoo

685
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: Wildlife Alliance. As an alliance, we have allies all over

686
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 2: the world and we have several groups we work with

687
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 2: in Kenya that also then do work around Africa for

688
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 2: the giraffe population. So that's the beauty of supporting your

689
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 2: local zoo is like when you support the Wildlife Alliance,

690
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 2: you're supporting that bigger picture of the conservation work that

691
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 2: we do. And that's what I always enjoy about hearing

692
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 2: people falling in love with giraffe here at the Sane Fipark.

693
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 2: Is that then that it's like, what can I do

694
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: to help can and well, you know, just be in

695
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 2: here helps, but you can do more. There's a lot

696
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 2: of things you can go online and help out with.

697
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: We used to and I'm not sure if it still exists,

698
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 2: but we used to have a twigger group we were

699
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: part of where there's the camera trap footage where you

700
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 2: can go through and actually identify the different giraffe and

701
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 2: the shots and all that sort of thing. You go

702
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 2: online and do it as a volunteer. So there's a

703
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 2: lot of ways progress exactly. There's a lot of way

704
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,959
Speaker 2: people can get involved, and I think it's a wonderful thing.

705
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: You know.

706
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Speaker 3: Another one for me, you guys, is actually traveling honestly,

707
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 3: you know, because I know that's an issue for girafts,

708
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 3: you know, parts of their body for different reasons.

709
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: Maybe they think it's a religious ceremonial purpose.

710
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 3: But what I tell people, like when you travel, so

711
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 3: you're going down to Africa, like maybe don't buy that

712
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 3: weird thing that looks like or.

713
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: Possibly even a seed or a feather of a bird.

714
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 3: You don't know what's happening to that wildlife when they're

715
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 3: trying to procure those items. So I just tell people

716
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 3: when they travel, just you know, put your money to

717
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 3: good purposes and taking good.

718
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 1: Seriously.

719
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as you're talking, look it behind us right

720
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 3: now visually they can't.

721
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Speaker 1: Are you getting in it?

722
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Speaker 3: Like I got a wildlife Safari vehicle if you're not familiar.

723
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Speaker 3: For those listening, this is my favorite tour or experience

724
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Speaker 3: we have at the Safari Park.

725
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: It's almost like doing your job and not really doing

726
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: your job. Get used dirty. Just give me the look again.

727
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to get the side.

728
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: But literally they can go on the back of a

729
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 3: Safari truck and they can go into these large habitats.

730
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 3: This is the one makes a Safari Park. No, no

731
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 3: shade to the zoo. I love you the zoo, but

732
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 3: the Safari Park is saying a situation that you can

733
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 3: actually go into the habitat of these animals, multi species

734
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Speaker 3: over ten that you said, and our guests can experiences.

735
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Speaker 1: Hi. Guess, Hi, good to see it.

736
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 3: We're just doing a recording of a podcast, you know.

737
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 3: That's a yeah, we're literally recording right now. Good to

738
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: see But rates in fact that you guess I've known

739
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 3: here since I was a teenager here, and that's the

740
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 3: other thing.

741
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: I know.

742
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 3: We're talking heavy on the giraffes and conservation, but tell me, like,

743
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 3: for you, being a human here working here, what is

744
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 3: it about this place that makes it so special for you?

745
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: I know I can speak forever.

746
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 4: I mean, for me, it was a lifelong goal to

747
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 4: end up at the zoo or the Safari Park.

748
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: How was it to come here? Yes? How did that happen?

749
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: Like you're a kid, Like I was a little.

750
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 5: Kid and I was at the zoo and I was like,

751
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 5: this is where I want to be and I ended

752
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 5: up at the Safari Park and it's like stepping into Africa.

753
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 4: Every single day. Really, it's amazing.

754
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 3: Everyone has a different origin story because kids are always

755
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 3: asking me how to become a wildlife here specialist. Can

756
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: you share a little about your story, Like was it college?

757
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 3: Was it just firsthand experience?

758
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: What was it?

759
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: Yeah?

760
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 5: I was kind of both, So I do have multiple

761
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 5: degrees and environmental science and wildlife conservation biology, but it's

762
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 5: also having the experience.

763
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 4: As Dan mcconnie's alteration.

764
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Speaker 3: Camera, Bet, who's going to get that? You're right though?

765
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 3: That is like, is the word viscus? It's thick, I mean.

766
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Speaker 4: Robbery.

767
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 3: My parents had a bloodhound before. That is definitely thicker

768
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 3: and then blood. I gotta say, but you're right though.

769
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, can you say your degrees one more time?

770
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: Because kids are always wondering.

771
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 5: Absolutely wildlife conservation biology and environmental science, and I know

772
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 5: multiple people here have psychology, zoology, really anything that kind

773
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 5: of gives you an idea of how animals work.

774
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 4: And for me, it was a lot of experience as well.

775
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 5: I did a lot of wildlife rehab work, large carnivore sanctuaries,

776
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 5: all the big Like.

777
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 3: For me, it's three things, you guys, it's academic, right,

778
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 3: it's experience, but it's also networking.

779
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: People can get the networking thing.

780
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 3: And I'm not dissuading going to college suit, but I

781
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 3: also want to point out for other kids and maybe

782
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: college isn't the right path for them.

783
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: Like I grew up here, I learned everything.

784
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: Like Charlie hyde per degree was graphic design.

785
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: She works with giraffes. So the kids, the adults listening.

786
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 3: Every path is different, you know, but it does help

787
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 3: you out if you can stack the deck because this

788
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 3: is a it's a pretty popular place to work, right

789
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 3: you know it is.

790
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's really about the people. I think that

791
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: makes this place so unique. How's your team? Is it you?

792
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: And one of the person is it you? And like

793
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: ten twenty what's your day staff? What's that like?

794
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 5: Usually we have about eight to ten people here for

795
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 5: this run. Specifically, we cover a few different areas.

796
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: I mean like this describes the area.

797
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 5: Yes, so we have a few different areas that this

798
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 5: team itself covers, okay, and then there's multiple teams throughout

799
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 5: the park.

800
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 4: It's a big space bots of animals.

801
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 3: Like for instance, right now we're in East Africa, but

802
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 3: in South Africa area we have massige giraffe, right so

803
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: is it like giraffe specialists or do you separate, like

804
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 3: what's your area?

805
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: Do you do both areas?

806
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 4: It generally is separate just by the area.

807
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 5: So we have a different team that covers the Masside

808
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 5: giraffe right now, and sometimes we can have some crossover

809
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 5: and things like that, but right now I'm and my

810
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 5: team are all in this East Africa habitat and the

811
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 5: two other habitats we cover as well.

812
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, every morning is a little different. Give me

813
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 3: your first hour in the day. What are you doing?

814
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 4: So we all meet in the morning to touch base

815
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Speaker 4: on all of the animals.

816
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: Early, right, like you're waking What is it six o'clock starting.

817
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 4: We clock in at six?

818
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, six o'clock. Everyone just pointed out.

819
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 4: Which right now it's light out at six, but in

820
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 4: the winter it is not.

821
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, that speaks to that.

822
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: And it's not an office, right, So if it's like

823
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 3: maybe thirty eight degrees, because you can't get cold out

824
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Speaker 3: here in the sample squad valley where we're at, you know, yeah,

825
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 3: you're bumbling up. I'm go I know this guy you

826
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Speaker 3: know from the up.

827
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Speaker 2: Northernland door down here for twenty plus years.

828
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: I'm chilly right now. You guys, it's like seventy five below.

829
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 3: I'm cold, but to that your rain, shine, frost, It

830
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 3: don't matter. You're out here six o'clock. You get together

831
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 3: with your team, you said.

832
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 4: We get together with a team. We touch base.

833
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 5: We all kind of go on different areas during the day,

834
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Speaker 5: and some days you'll be in this area with our

835
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Speaker 5: draft and the other ten species in here. We take

836
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Speaker 5: care of another area that focuses on asiatic species. Oh yeah,

837
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 5: that's adjacent to this area, right, Yeah, so there's people

838
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Speaker 5: doing that run as well.

839
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 4: We eventually have to clean up all the poop these

840
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 4: animals make.

841
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: Oh that is I'm looking right now and maybe maybe

842
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 3: I see a little bit here and there, but being

843
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 3: so cast instead coming across. What's that like? I mean,

844
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: is that an everyday thing or.

845
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 5: Generally as much as we can, Yeah, I mean they

846
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 5: all kind of go a couple of times a day,

847
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 5: so it's hard to maintaine, you know, it's really do Yeah.

848
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: Actually, you're right, it is, hey, right, But I like

849
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 3: the dynamics of poop too. You learn a lot from it.

850
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 3: You know why they're doing it, why they're doing at

851
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 3: the consistency, and I know just from experience. But the

852
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: giraffe droppings are different than like the larger ones here

853
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 3: that you're seeing, right, can you describe what a giraft dropping.

854
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, giraft poop is generally appellated, so it's about I

855
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 5: don't like comparing it to candy, but most people do

856
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 5: a little.

857
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: Bit a whopper. Kids do not put giraffe in your mouth.

858
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: Similar shape, but I would imagine and correct me if

859
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, But I would imagine because it's such a

860
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 3: dry area and ecosystem, they are trying to get as

861
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 3: much moisture as it can out of.

862
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: Their food, right, So that's why it's so small and other.

863
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 5: Small impelletted and we can tell a lot from their

864
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 5: health based on what they do, excrete for any of

865
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 5: our species out here. So we tend to keep a

866
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 5: very close eye on it, whether it's as they're going

867
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 5: or cleaning up things like that, Like it's an important

868
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 5: part of what of animal Careah.

869
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: I would get to use the lot as I would

870
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 3: break up poop and look at it because I'm also

871
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 3: curious what's going on.

872
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can learn a lot from that, you know, true? Yeah? Wow?

873
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 2: All right, So bringing it back to draft, we wrap up.

874
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: We do need to going soon, Okay, I want to

875
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 2: bring back to drafts. Last question for you, what is

876
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 2: your favorite adaptation or fact about the giraffe or the

877
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: one thing that you're like, oh, that's just so cool,

878
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,959
Speaker 2: oh god, And if you have multiple, they just pick one,

879
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 2: pick one.

880
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 4: That's so challenging.

881
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 5: I mean for me, it's interesting because their spots help

882
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 5: with keeping them cool in the hot sun. So for example,

883
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 5: they have thicker blood vessels that go around their spots,

884
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 5: which we talked about earlier.

885
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 4: Their spots are.

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Speaker 5: All unique to them because we have Thompson Gizalz running

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Speaker 5: around behind us, and they have the thicker blood vessels

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Speaker 5: around the outside of the spot, and then the inside

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Speaker 5: of the spot has kind of like veiny thinner ones,

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Speaker 5: and they're able to control how much blood goes around

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Speaker 5: to the spots to be able to cool off.

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Speaker 3: It's a darker color, right, yeah, it absorbs a sun

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Speaker 3: warm up or vice versa. It's really hot, you want

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Speaker 3: more blood flow in the lighter parts of the press.

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Speaker 1: I actually did not know that exactly.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, Yeah, I can see you there.

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Speaker 2: Well, then, on that note, thank you so very much

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Speaker 2: for your time for allowing us to come sit in

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Speaker 2: your office and hang out with your co workers. Really

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: Think thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I learned a lot, right, that was really cool?

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Speaker 2: Well I will say not only learned a lot, but

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Speaker 2: learn something new. Oh ye, perfect way to end that.

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Speaker 3: That's what I love this job of ours, right, and

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Speaker 3: then we're always students for life. It was a tell people,

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Speaker 3: I never trust someone that says you know everything, something

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Speaker 3: like never worlds along a stage draft and now guess

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Speaker 3: can know? Come visit us with the Safari party, right

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Speaker 3: or the zoo help out and draft conservation. Even just

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Speaker 3: getting excited and learning about your.

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Speaker 1: Rafts I think will help out.

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Speaker 2: Right. And if you're listening to this episode after June

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Speaker 2: twenty first, yeah, well mark your calendar for next year,

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Speaker 2: you'll know to celebrate World Draft Day.

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Speaker 1: Ohtally, Yeah, that's awesome. And what are we going to

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Speaker 1: do next time?

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Speaker 2: Well, about three episodes in a row here at the

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Speaker 2: parkast time, go to the zoo market.

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Speaker 3: I don't want no angry letters everyone.

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Speaker 1: I like the zoo. I love the zoo. But why

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Speaker 1: are we going to the zoo?

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Speaker 2: Then? Well, the next episode after this comes out in

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Speaker 2: early July, which we were getting very close to the

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Speaker 2: anniversary when the pandas came back to the zoo, so

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Speaker 2: I thought, maybe it's time to go check in and

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Speaker 2: see how they're doing it for the first year.

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Speaker 3: All right, get some bunch of nuts and with some pandas,

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Speaker 3: there you go. Excellent, excellent, Well with that, Marco Witt.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Rick Schwartz. Thanks for watching and listening. We're

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Speaker 2: listening and watching whichever as you do.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: For more information about the San Diego Zoo and San

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Speaker 2: Diego Zoo Safari Park, go to s d z w

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Speaker 2: a dot org. Amazing Wildlife is a production of iHeartRadio.

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