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Speaker 1: Jump mission with joon Z and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is one of my favorite people. She's

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Speaker 2: the country's most loved conservationist. She's owner of Australia Zoo

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Speaker 2: and she's raised two of the country's most loved wildlife warriors,

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Speaker 2: Bindi and Robert. Fresh from her croc trip, we're thrilled

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Speaker 2: to catch up with Terry O and Terry Hello, gooday.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to tell you about Kroc Trip twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty because, first of all, it was a bit of

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Speaker 1: a COVID miracle that had even happened with everything opening

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Speaker 1: up just before we had to head up to Kroctrips.

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Speaker 1: So all things considered, we're pretty lucky to do our

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Speaker 1: research again this year.

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Speaker 2: So with Kroctrip, I see you've tagged thirty nine crocs.

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Speaker 2: What's the purpose of tagging the crocs?

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Speaker 1: Well, what we do every year since two thousand and

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Speaker 1: eight is we go up to the Wenlock River and

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Speaker 1: we track crocodiles in a couple different ways. We use

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Speaker 1: acoustic tags so we can see where they're going in

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Speaker 1: particular river systems. The tags read like a bar code

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Speaker 1: at a grocery store off receiver and then we can

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Speaker 1: see where they were and when they were there. Then

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Speaker 1: we've also got satellite trackers, which are way cool. This

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Speaker 1: year it's the first time we've utilized solar satellite trackers,

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Speaker 1: and we can tell where they go anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 1: And because the trackers are solar, they're not reliant on

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Speaker 1: a battery and they could last the lifetime of the crocodile.

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Speaker 1: So we can tell where they go anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 1: We can tell how deep they dive, how long they dive,

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Speaker 1: We get an idea of their movements between each other.

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Speaker 1: And now because we have two hundred thirteen crocodiles that

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Speaker 1: we've tagged, we're starting to get some really valuable information

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Speaker 1: about the social structure of crocodiles.

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Speaker 2: What's this social structure? What do crocodiles do for fun?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, we've been doing a lot of DNA research

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Speaker 1: and we've discovered that a lot of them are related

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Speaker 1: because there's one dominant male who's pretty much everybody's baby daddy.

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Speaker 1: So we named a crocodile in two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 1: One of the first ones we caught was named in

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Speaker 1: honor of the first nation people whose land we're studying.

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Speaker 1: On and so his name is Tepatigi, and it was

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Speaker 1: really kind of eerie and special that he ended up

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Speaker 1: to be the most plarific breeder. So therefore most of

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Speaker 1: the crocodiles in the river system are related.

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Speaker 2: To him, so he can have it off with he's

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Speaker 2: on kind.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's what it's looking like. It's looking like the

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Speaker 1: female crocodile engages the male crocodile. So the males aren't

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Speaker 1: sparring over females or doing these wild you know things

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Speaker 1: that you see on Discovery Channel. What they're doing is

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Speaker 1: they're just hanging out and being guys, and then the

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Speaker 1: female comes down and says, I pick you, and then

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Speaker 1: they they start courting, and if she decides she doesn't

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Speaker 1: like him after all, then he has to go away.

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Speaker 1: So's they're very gentle with each other. But apparently Tepatigue

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Speaker 1: is the most popular guy, so while there's no inbreeding,

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Speaker 1: all the girls in the river like him best.

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Speaker 2: I really thought of you guys during lockdown and during

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Speaker 2: the fires. Australia Zoo stayed open through all of that.

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Speaker 2: How did you manage it? You were I read that

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Speaker 2: you rescued something like ninety thousand animals, But how do

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Speaker 2: you do that without the income that you normally have.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was interesting. The fires were first and then

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Speaker 1: the lockdown, so we treated thousands of animals, but the

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Speaker 1: really big number is the total number we've treated at

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Speaker 1: our hospital. But we went into immediate rescue situation and

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Speaker 1: we were actually at Kangaroo Island assisting there where they

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Speaker 1: lost about fifty percent of their habitat and about four

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Speaker 1: fifths of their koala population. So we actually brought some

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Speaker 1: of the orphans back because the environment was so depleted.

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Speaker 1: There just wasn't a place to put all the koalas

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Speaker 1: that had been rehabilitated. So we've got four Southern koalas

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Speaker 1: with us at Australia Zoo that will live here and

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Speaker 1: we're very proud to do that rescue. But it was

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Speaker 1: just getting them in just before things shut down for COVID.

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Speaker 1: And then, you know, COVID really produced some strategies that

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Speaker 1: were kind of outside the box. So we had people

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Speaker 1: online purchasing things from all over the world, and we

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Speaker 1: had businesses in our local community that were saying, if

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Speaker 1: it weren't for your online business, we'd be out of business.

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Speaker 1: So the knock on effect helped a lot of local

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Speaker 1: businesses continue manufacturing and we were able to ship things

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Speaker 1: all over the world and keep feeding our animals. So thankfully,

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Speaker 1: between everyone stepping up and some government assistance, we were

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Speaker 1: able to be closed for seventy eight days and reopen.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and can I say congratulations? And you little wildlife

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Speaker 2: wire on the way, I want to be a part

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Speaker 2: of this. Congratulations as well, Terry.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we are so excited. Can you believe it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wonderful. And I bet there's not a chance

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Speaker 2: in hell that that baby won't be addicted to animals.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it doesn't have a hope. So it's

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Speaker 1: already been on croc trip. It's been feeding crocodiles here

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Speaker 1: at Australia Zoo. It's just a busy little baby.

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Speaker 2: It's so exciting. But what if the baby, what if

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Speaker 2: it becomes an accountant or something like that, runs off

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Speaker 2: to join the accountancy.

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Speaker 1: It's cool, we have an accounts department here at Australia Zoo.

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Speaker 1: I'm very open minded.

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Speaker 2: It'll be a cocky either way, definitely, Terry. It's always

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Speaker 2: a treat to find out how you can help head

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Speaker 2: to Australia zoo dot com dot au Terry Owen so

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Speaker 2: high of the family.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks guys, it's always good to catch up

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Speaker 1: with you. And conservation work can TuS, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Good on Y with Joins and Amanda