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Welcome to Animals At Work, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
the show that brings you animals at work. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:06 | |
Around the world, there are millions of animals that have jobs. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:10 | |
Ah. Ah. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:11 | |
This show brings you the most extraordinary, | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
bizarre and unusual animals at work. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
Coming up... | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
Prathida the elephant drummer gets ready for her big gig. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
Ginny the cat rescuer gives a home to an abandoned kitten. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:30 | |
And Dr Neme the fish eats his patients alive. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
They're actually picking at my skin there, nipping at it. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
Honestly, who writes this? | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
Hi, and welcome to the show. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
Some people have a natural ear for music, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
but it seems animals do too and the ears I'm talking about | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
are pretty big. At the National Elephant Institute | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
of Thailand, there's an orchestra of jumbo proportions, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
and one very unlikely musician has proven herself a hit on percussion. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:20 | |
Ready for this? Animals At Work is packing its trunk and travelling | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
to Asia to find out a little more about this big band. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
-Ready to go to Asia, buddy? -HE GROWLS | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
First we're off to Lampang Province in Thailand. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
The Thai Elephant Conservation Centre is home to 50 elephants, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
including its star attraction, 16-year-old Prathida. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
DRUMS BEAT | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
Prathida is a drummer in possibly | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
the strangest orchestra in the world. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
She's incredibly good natured, incredibly safe. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
She's popular amongst our staff, well-liked | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
amongst the other elephants, a huge favourite | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
amongst our tourist visitors. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:18 | |
For the past eight years, Prathida and the elephant orchestra | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
have been drumming up a huge fan base all over the world. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
Visitors to the centre can't believe their eyes or ears | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
when they see the band for the first time. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
She's a great musician, keeps a rock steady beat on her drums. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
She's just got an incredible sense of rhythm, | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
and can keep going for the longest time without losing attention. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:54 | |
She's really quite amazing. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
The Thai Elephant Conservation Centre was set up in 1993 | 0:02:59 | 0:03:04 | |
and is a popular tourist attraction, but it also does important work | 0:03:04 | 0:03:09 | |
protecting elephants, and giving them somewhere to live safely. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:14 | |
It's a family home for Prathida, she lives here with her mum and sister. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
Elephants used to be put to work collecting trees cut down for wood | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
until logging was banned 20 years ago. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
Now tourism is the only legal work elephants are allowed to do. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
As well as being a favourite with visitors, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
Prathida is famous for her music. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
Her name means "princess of the forest" in English. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
She is very intelligent. She's got a wonderful sense of rhythm. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
I think what sets her apart from | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
all the other elephants is that she is sponsored by the King's sister | 0:03:58 | 0:04:03 | |
and was one of the first elephants to be in the Elephant Orchestra. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:09 | |
The orchestra has just recorded its third and last CD. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
Richard organised for Thailand's best recording studio | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
to come to the elephant sanctuary - better than fitting those elephants | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
into a recording studio. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:24 | |
It went incredibly well. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:26 | |
The atmosphere when you're recording is electric. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
Elephants are very clever animals | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
and love being with friends and making noise, | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
so it's not difficult to encourage them to use | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
their natural sense of rhythm to bang an instrument. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
Even the elephants, I swear that when they know they're | 0:04:46 | 0:04:52 | |
actually being recorded, they're all on their best behaviour. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:57 | |
It's entirely instrumental music, elephants only. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
It will be our last CD, I think. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
Basically, we've just done everything we ever wanted to do. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
GONG CRASHES | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
In celebration of having finished the third CD, | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
we're gonna have a concert and that should be a lot of fun and a kind of | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
sentimental moment for everybody. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
Coming up, we meet John who looks after Prathida, and there | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
could be news of jumbo proportions. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
Next, we're off to Long Island on the east coast of America. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
This is Ginny and she's the unlikely winner of the Cat Of The Year award. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:54 | |
Yes, this Cat Of The Year really is a dog. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
Ginny won the award for rescuing hundreds of homeless cats. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:04 | |
A schnauzer-Siberian husky mix, Ginny's ancestors were bred as | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
rat-catchers, but Ginny's more of a cat-catcher, or rather cat-rescuer. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:15 | |
She wasn't trained to do this job, it just comes naturally. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
Most of Ginny's rescued cats are lucky enough to be found new homes, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
but the ones that don't live with Ginny and her boss Philip. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:29 | |
This is Madam. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:30 | |
Madam is Ginny's...wow, Madam! You've never said anything before. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
Madam was Ginny's first rescue at the shelter. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
This is Jackie. Jackie was born blind. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
This is King Arthur. This is Atlas. Here's Rufus. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
This up here is Darlene. Sheila was found... | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
in the glove compartment of a car with her brother Shelby. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
They're all Ginny's cats. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
Every time a new cat comes, it thinks it's died and gone to heaven | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
and they all seem to gravitate towards Ginny. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
She visits them all. They're all her babies. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
Sometimes she takes a head count. Goes from cat to cat, | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
seeing who's there and she knows when there's a cat missing, right, Ginny? | 0:07:08 | 0:07:14 | |
Yes, Ginny's famous. She's gone to a lot of different cities | 0:07:14 | 0:07:18 | |
and she's had numerous awards. She's...Westchester cat show, | 0:07:18 | 0:07:23 | |
she got the Cat Of The Year award. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
Letters coming from all over. A dog won Cat Of The Year. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
Lots has been written about Ginny's work as a cat-rescuer, | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
but there are many more cats that still need her help. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
Because Ginny and Philip can't take everyone home, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
they run a meals on wheels service for felines. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
Tonight, like every other night, Philip and Ginny go out to search | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
for homeless and hungry cats who need a decent meal. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:54 | |
At night, there are fewer people around so more cats on the street. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:59 | |
Ginny's an angel. She's like Mother Teresa in a way. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
Mother Teresa helped people, she helps cats. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
Ginny has a lot of compassion for | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
animals and she has what to me I call a radar of the heart. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
But some of the cats Ginny helps Philip to find need extra attention | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
with some nibbling to groom them. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
For some reason she thinks all cats belong to her. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
She thinks they're all her babies. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
Ginny's always there, 365 days a year, and it doesn't matter | 0:08:27 | 0:08:31 | |
if it's raining, snowing, sleet... | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
Ginny rescues cats, no matter how they look. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
Missing a limb, an eye, an ear... | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
They could be blind and deaf and she loves them all just the same. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:44 | |
She's fed over 800 cats and we've placed over 700. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
Ginny's probably the only dog on the planet who likes to go to the vet. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
After a cat is rescued, its first stop is a check-up | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
with vet Lewis Gelfand. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
I see we have another. Who is this today? | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
This is a kitten Ginny rescued this morning. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
It's been remarkable working with them, | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
and these cats love this dog. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
They seem to respond to Ginny and Ginny to them. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
'I've been a vet for 17 years and never seen an animal like this. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
'I don't know if I ever will. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
'I know there are many pets in homes where there are both | 0:09:21 | 0:09:25 | |
'cats and dogs and they get along well. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
'The difference here is these are not pet cats. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
'These are feral animals and Ginny just seeks them out | 0:09:31 | 0:09:35 | |
'and they seek her.' | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
Well, Ginny, well done. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
You did it again. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
It's the end of another tough shift, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
but nothing stops Ginny from dishing out puppy love | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
to her family of felines. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:50 | |
We've been surfing the net to find out what animals | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
get up to on their days off. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
Check out the tricks of this porcupine from Minnesota. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
It's climbing a chair! | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
Look, Mum. No hands! | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
Time to head to Lampang Province, Thailand. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
Prathida the drummer is part of the Elephant Orchestra | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:41 | |
The orchestra have just recorded their latest CD. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
It's their third and last | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
as they've done everything they want to do. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
Tomorrow they'll give a special concert to mark the end | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
of their recording career. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
Prathida is looked after by her mahout. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
As well as training them, mahouts have a special | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
lifelong working relationship. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
Being a mahout is an incredibly demanding job. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
You have to be incredibly fit physically but beyond that you have | 0:11:09 | 0:11:13 | |
to have a spiritual rapport with your animal. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
John, Prathida's mahout, has looked after her since | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
she was a junior jumbo. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
TRANSLATION: I've stayed long with her. We've a good relationship. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:27 | |
Really, when you think about it, | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
John spends a lot more time with Prathida | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
than he does with his own wife. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
# Why do stars fall down from the sky | 0:11:34 | 0:11:41 | |
# Every time you walk by? | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
# Just like me, they long to be | 0:11:47 | 0:11:52 | |
# Close to you. # | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
TRANSLATION: I love her like I would love my child. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
Sometimes she's naughty, and doesn't want to do what she's told, | 0:12:02 | 0:12:07 | |
but her personality is happy and cheerful. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:12 | |
SHE BEATS THE DRUMS | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
Prathida likes to drum. That's why she moves her head like she does. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:21 | |
Recently, John noticed a change in Prathida's behaviour, | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
and thinks he might know the reason. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
I believe she's pregnant because her body has swollen. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:32 | |
She's eating a lot more and just getting a lot bigger. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
We're pretty sure Prathida is pregnant now. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
It'll take longer to tell for sure, | 0:12:39 | 0:12:42 | |
but her whole mannerism has changed. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
As Prathida's behaviour has changed, | 0:12:45 | 0:12:48 | |
the vet wants to make sure she isn't sick. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
He can't take her temperature like a human cos | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
she'd eat the thermometer! | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
So that leaves just one place to stick it. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
It's, erm, hard to collect a temperature of elephant. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
98.5 Fahrenheit degree. Normal. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:17 | |
That's good news cos it means that Prathida's not sick. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
Another reason for her changed behaviour could be she's pregnant. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
We are unsure that pregnant because this is the early stage of pregnant. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:33 | |
It's very difficult to spot the early stages | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
of an elephant's pregnancy, as it lasts almost two years. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:40 | |
The vet will give Prathida regular check-ups till he's sure. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
But until then, | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
everyone will just have to wait. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:48 | |
Coming up - finally, we get to see Prathida | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
and the Elephant Orchestra in action for their very special concert. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
There are so many sharks in the wide world of animal work, | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
it's only sensible to start up any company small scale, | 0:14:04 | 0:14:08 | |
and in Ireland there's some minnow entrepreneurs | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
for whom business is going swimmingly. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
Animals At Work is travelling to the Emerald Isle for a fishy tale. Ooh! | 0:14:14 | 0:14:19 | |
There goes my pole... | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
and my lunch. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
Now, we're off to Ireland. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
Ireland is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:43 | |
It's also home to some amazing fish with a taste for human skin! | 0:14:43 | 0:14:48 | |
These are garra rufa fish. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
The biggest is Doctor Neme, their team leader. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
These fish are like little dermatologists or skin doctors, | 0:14:55 | 0:14:59 | |
and have an unusual way of treating skin problems. | 0:14:59 | 0:15:03 | |
Neme and his colleagues just nibble them away! | 0:15:05 | 0:15:09 | |
I have over a thousand of them. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
They're a pleasure to keep and I love them. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
Neme's boss, Therese, manages the clinic where he works. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:25 | |
I've heard them called happy fish cos they're so good with people. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
There's a very big guy in there and I called him Neme after Nemo. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
Therese brought Neme and his medical schoolmates from Turkey. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:39 | |
My visit to Turkey was amazing cos that's when I first met garra rufa, | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
the fantastic fish because I successfully was treated myself. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
I could see results already from two days. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
Therese believes the garra rufa fish helped | 0:15:52 | 0:15:56 | |
clear a skin condition she was suffering from called psoriasis | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
by nibbling away the dead skin. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
Therese was so impressed she offered | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
Neme and the gang a job back in Ireland. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
I said I've got to bring this to Ireland. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
Today, Dr Neme is going to work on a new patient. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
I'm quite apprehensive for her because she's quite nervous. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
I'm a nurse and for two-and-a-half years, psoriasis sufferer. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:24 | |
As I call it elephant's skin. See, it's itchy and irritating. | 0:16:24 | 0:16:29 | |
I've gone to dermatologists, tried lots of lotions and potions... | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
this is a smaller area but it's actually more painful. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
I find there's times when it's sore and sensitive but I just hope | 0:16:37 | 0:16:42 | |
those fish like me cos if they don't, | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
I don't know what I'm going to do. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:47 | |
Everybody's first day is the hardest cos they're immersing | 0:16:47 | 0:16:52 | |
their whole body in the water. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
Now, getting into the tub | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
can be a bit of an ordeal. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
# Weird fishes | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
# Weird fishes... # | 0:17:02 | 0:17:05 | |
They're actually picking at my skin, just nibbling at it and tearing | 0:17:07 | 0:17:12 | |
that bad tissue away from the skin. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
The girls go to work on Charlotte's skin. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
For them, this is a bumper crop! | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
They balance themselves on your skin, the surface of your skin | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
using their two fin...front fins and move along the skin. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
These guys are nicknamed "nibble fish" for a good reason. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
They're only after bits of dead skin. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:37 | |
It's a source of protein, which they eat in the wild. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
Therese wants to know how Charlotte is getting on | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
in the tub, or if she's been eaten alive. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:47 | |
Hi, Charlotte. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:48 | |
-Hi, Therese. -How you getting on? -Fine. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
How does it feel? | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
I don't feel they're eating me alive. They're picking away | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
at the skin, peeling away the psoriasis. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
Are you happy you did it? | 0:17:59 | 0:18:01 | |
Yeah. I'm glad I persevered and once in for a couple minutes I'm nearly | 0:18:01 | 0:18:05 | |
ready to go to sleep in here. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
You know, it's very relaxing. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
-No pain? -No pain, no. | 0:18:09 | 0:18:12 | |
The fish healing potential was discovered by a farmer | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
more than 200 years ago. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
He went into a stream to clean a wound, | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
only to find himself surrounded by hungry garra rufa fish! | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
They get tired. An hour and a half is a long time to be in with them. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:32 | |
They start to lie in the bottom when they have enough. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
All the top area of skin has been removed. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
And that leaves healthy skin to grow back. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
Along with chomping on her patients' dead skin, | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Therese also feeds the fish extra protein and vitamins in pills. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:51 | |
I'd say they are miracle fish. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:53 | |
No other fish can treat these skin conditions. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
That's their job, they love it. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
They're kissing you! | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
Another happy patient. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:02 | |
-This one guy's got in there. -Ooh! | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
They have done enough work according to me, anyway. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:09 | |
I give them two days' break after every person's treatment. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:13 | |
They're healing people, treating people with chronic skin conditions | 0:19:13 | 0:19:18 | |
so why not treat them with some respect also? | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
At the end of a busy day, these guys like to lie at the bottom | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
of the tank and get a few hours' sleep. | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
Then this doctor fish and his team are fresh for their next shift. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:34 | |
We've been looking at your videos of what animals do in their spare time. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:45 | |
Take Rupert, the piano-playing pig from England. | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
PIANO NOTES SOUND | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
That's one talented snout. Next stop, Wembley! | 0:20:04 | 0:20:08 | |
We're headed to Kentucky in America. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
This is Harvey the West Highland terrier, and he's on a mission. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:26 | |
He's on a trial period as a companion dog at a retirement home. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:31 | |
If he does well, he'll get a full-time job. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
His full name is Sir Harvard Winston of the Highlands. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:39 | |
But the residents soon nicknamed this friendly character Harvey. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:44 | |
If he makes friends with residents, his chances of being hired are good. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
Come on! | 0:20:51 | 0:20:52 | |
Harvey's day-to-day duties include patrolling | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
the hallways to make sure everyone is OK, | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
ridding the home of pests and helping the clean-up. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
But he's definitely on top of the exercise regime, | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
though the daily volleyball game suffers losses. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
At times he uses his paws as toenails. Boom! | 0:21:16 | 0:21:23 | |
Another essential is a good bedside manner and Harvey is a natural. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:34 | |
His tried and tested method? | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
Kiss it better. And it seems to be working on the residents. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
I think I was first to meet him. He came through the hall and I looked | 0:21:42 | 0:21:47 | |
and I said, "Oh, my gosh" cos it looks like my dog. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:50 | |
I had a dog the same, it was a West Highland. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
And my family had dogs, | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
we always had them until I got the condition, | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
we couldn't take care of any more. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
They had taken my dog away from me so he takes his place. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:08 | |
He wants to make a good impression on the 140 residents. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
They'll be the ones who decide if they want Harvey as companion dog. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:17 | |
Katherine, a therapist at the home, is watching him carefully | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
to see how he responds to each of his clients. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
There's a lady who cries all the time but when | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
she sees Harvey her face just lights up and she smiles | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
and she recognises him... | 0:22:31 | 0:22:33 | |
There's some that maybe want to look at him from a distance. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
One lady that loves to watch him but doesn't want to touch him. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
Harvey's not usually a clock-watcher but time is up on his | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
four-month trial. Today he finds out if he gets the job. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
Has he convinced the residents he's a friend - | 0:22:50 | 0:22:54 | |
not only to cheer them up but also to take care of them? | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
I had a little misfortune. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:00 | |
I fell and Harvey summoned some help, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:05 | |
and from that time on Harvey was my dog. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
You couldn't...couldn't beat that! | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
I...he came to the rescue. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
Harvey's very important to me. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:23 | |
He's the kissiest dog I've ever met in my whole life. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
Harvey is a friend. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
Residents that don't even know me, and I've been here over a year, | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
they know Harvey, they recognise him and key on him | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
cos they love him. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:39 | |
Looks like Harvey definitely gets the full-time job. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
He's important for everybody. He just brings you out of yourself, | 0:23:43 | 0:23:48 | |
something to centre on. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:50 | |
If anything happened to Harvey, I think we'd go bonkers. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:54 | |
Now it's up to Harvey to keep everyone happy but luckily | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
he's keen to keep on working like a dog. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
Now we're off to Thailand again. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
16-year-old drummer girl Prathida is part | 0:24:11 | 0:24:15 | |
of the Thai Elephant Orchestra. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:17 | |
It's a big day as they're giving a special concert to mark | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
the recording of their third and final CD. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
Organising a concert is quite an effort. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
Some of the instruments are so heavy it takes an elephant | 0:24:29 | 0:24:33 | |
to drag it onto the ground. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
Even Prathida has to be her own roadie. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
With minutes to go, the audience of kids arrive | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
to hear the massive musicians play. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
This is a rather special event. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
This is the Thai Elephant Orchestra and our third CD is coming out | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
and it will be our last CD basically because | 0:24:56 | 0:25:00 | |
we've done everything we ever wanted to do. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
Let's meet the orchestra's key players. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
There's Prathida on drums. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
-Neua Un on xylophone. -XYLOPHONE RINGS | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
-Chapati on bass. -RHYTHMIC THUD | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
And finally, Luuk Khang - also on xylophone. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
So let's get things started. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:27 | |
MUSIC: "We Will Rock You" by Queen | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
The instruments are traditional Thai design, and most have | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
been specially made for this orchestra of jumbo proportions. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
Richard signals each elephant and mahout with his stick | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
-when he wants it to start and stop, -GONG RINGS | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
but once in full swing it's Prathida that keeps them on track. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
SHE BEATS THE DRUMS | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
TRANSLATION: I enjoy this and I like it when Prathida plays the drum. | 0:26:12 | 0:26:17 | |
TRANSLATION: We like Prathida cos we like that she plays the drum. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
She feels very happy when she is doing that. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
GONG CRASHES | 0:26:29 | 0:26:31 | |
BELLS RING | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
The elephants actually enjoy making music. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
They're very social animals so they enjoy being with their friends. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:42 | |
It's instant gratification. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
You hit it and you get a beautiful sound. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
CRASHING | 0:26:48 | 0:26:49 | |
RINGING AND THUDDING | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
They have a natural sense of rhythm. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
And as an encore, how about a piece on the harmonica from Jo-Jo? | 0:26:56 | 0:27:01 | |
HE PLAYS HARMONICA | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
That pretty much wraps up Prathida's star turn with Thailand's | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
incredible Elephant Orchestra. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:15 | |
Hey, I got a couple of good jokes for you. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
Why did the elephant cross the road? | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
-Cos you chickens had the day off. -HE LAUGHS | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
Hey, another one. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:30 | |
Why did the chicken cross the ocean? | 0:27:30 | 0:27:34 | |
To get to the other tide. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Get it? The other side? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
Yeah? | 0:27:38 | 0:27:40 | |
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