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My name's Steve Backshall.

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People call me Steve!

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I'm on a mission to find the Deadly 60.

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Ow!

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60 deadly creatures from around the world.

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You're coming with me every step of the way!

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Ow!

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We're here, in Brazil, South America,

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home of the Samba and the Savanna.

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Think Brazil, think colour, rhythm and passion.

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And it's not just the people. The wildlife is out of this world!

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We've come to the top of Brazil, to the open grasslands.

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Joining me on this wildlife stage are my band of explorers.

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On camera...Mark.

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Our sound man is Rich.

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Dudu, our guide.

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Making the tea is Charlie. Just kidding, Charlie!

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So, time to check out the area

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and pick the best spots to find deadly animals for my list.

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It's an early start, but it's worth it

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cos I'm getting to use my favourite big boy's toy!

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Brazil's grassland savannas are unimaginably vast,

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about the size of a small country.

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If we were to stick to walking or using the trucks

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we wouldn't even scratch the surface!

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Luckily, though, we don't have to.

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We can get a bird's-eye view!

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I love it!

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Woo-hoo!

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The area I'm flying over is open grassland.

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It's very wet and humid

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and the animal stars here are definitely birds.

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Look at that!

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Amazing! Look at all those pink ibis

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and storks and egrets!

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Fabulous!

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'There are so many species of birds here

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'there's bound to be a few deadly ones.

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'I'll be back on the trail of some of them later.'

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Wow, that was stunning!

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'As well as the grassland, there are patches of jungle.'

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This is almost like a waterfall.

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I guess when there's more rain, that'll be really impressive.

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'It's what South America is famous for.

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'But it'll be best explored on foot when I'm back on the ground.'

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That is amazing! What a place!

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I think helicopters are the best method of transport in the world.

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In fact, would you fancy buying me one for Christmas, Mark?

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Yeah (!)

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-Yes?

-About that big!

-A little one!

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A toy one!

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OK, that's all right. Better than nothing!

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I love it!

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'I've checked out the lie of the land.

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'Now it's down to business.

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'We're on the track of the next deadly animal for my list.'

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What I'm looking out for is just one wild animal

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that we're desperate to find here,

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that I stand a chance to see from the air - it's big enough.

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I'm keeping my eyes peeled.

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'It's so big, it's known as a giant.

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'It wasn't too long before we spotted one.'

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Look at that! We need to fly as slow and low as we can, Dudu.

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'The giant in question is a giant anteater.'

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Oh, my goodness!

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'This is an animal only found in South America

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'and one I've been dying to see

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'because they're incredible and unusual predators.'

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I can't believe how close we are!

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Look at that! This is ridiculous!

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He is right next to us!

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I think we should leave him alone cos we're maybe stressing him out.

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Our best way of getting close to a giant anteater is on foot.

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OK, Dudu.

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That was incredible!

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Absolutely unbelievable!

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'So now we know the area they're living in,

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'we're gonna track them on foot

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'and on the way I'll show you their favourite food

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'and exactly what makes them so deadly.'

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These bright orange boulders

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that you can see littered around all over these fields

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are not actually made of real rock.

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In fact, they're created by insects. These are termite mounds.

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Inside here are hundreds of thousands of tiny insects.

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They make them themselves out of chewed up soil or sand

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and termite spit.

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'It doesn't sound much like a good building material,

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'but these guys construct a mound as hard as concrete.

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'And this is the problem for an anteater.'

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I'll try and show you quite how hard these can be.

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If I take this bush knife...

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..you can see it's a bit dusty and it's coming away in chunks...

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..but not easily at all.

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Also, as you see, although I've taken off a fair bit already,

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I still haven't come to any insects.

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'Don't worry. The termites can rebuild this damage in minutes.

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'But how does the anteater get at the termites deep in the mound?

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'And how do they avoid the fearsome soldiers?

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'The soldiers will sink their massive jaws into any intruders.

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'But the anteater is well prepared.

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'Firstly, they can sniff out insects

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'with a sense of smell that's 40 times more powerful than ours!

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'When they find them, they rip into a mound

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'with some of the longest claws on any living mammal.

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'They only need to break a small hole

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'because they have the most ridiculously long sticky tongue,

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'perfect for hoovering up 30,000 small insects a day!

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'By feeding at each mound for a short period of time,

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'they're long gone before the soldier termites start biting.

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'And don't be fooled by their insect diet.

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'They can stand as tall as a man

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'and have been known to kill jaguar and even people in a death hug.

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'We'll have to be very careful approaching them on foot.

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'To try and spot one in the long grass, we keep our eyes peeled.

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'And it pays off.'

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Well spotted! Good job!

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'We need to prepare carefully and quietly

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'before we lose sight of it.'

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We're all just gonna move very quietly -

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that means you, Rich, OK?

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I think we've got a good chance of getting close to it

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if we just move carefully.

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'Anteaters have poor eyesight,

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'but they will hear and smell us if we're not careful.

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'Luckily, the wind's blowing towards us as we approach it.'

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The ground round here is recently burnt

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which means that it's all quite crunchy.

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A bit like walking on Rice Krispies!

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Not the ideal ground when you're trying to creep up on an animal.

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We're right by a road as well

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so even though there's not been much coming past here,

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it's still a little bit noisy.

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'We've lost sight of the anteater.

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'So Dudu and Charlie are gonna try and head him off.'

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I think Dudu's just seen it.

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We're coming round to stop it going any further.

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Hopefully we can get Steve and the rest of the team quite close.

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He's feeding.

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-Feeding?

-Yeah, right there.

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'Guys, can you hear me, over?

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'Dudu and I are level with the anteater now.

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'We are level with the anteater. Over.'

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I can't see it at the moment, Charlie. Is it still in the trees?

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'It is in some trees, in a thicket of three or four. Over.

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'He is actually feeding at a tree at the moment. Over.'

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Ah, there they are. There they are.

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We're going round this way.

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'Keep coming around towards us.'

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Mark! Mark!

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There he is.

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No more than about 20 metres away from me.

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It's one of the most bizarrely shaped animals in the world.

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It's making a beeline right for us! Look at that!

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Incredible galumphing gait.

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Coming over to the right.

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'But our anteater had smelt us coming and was off.

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'Someone on the crew must need a shower!

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'However, we soon spotted another animal.

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'And this one had no idea we were there.'

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Just go up to here.

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Look how close he is!

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This has got to be one of the most remarkable,

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one of the most bizarre creatures in the world.

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This is absolutely perfect for us

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because the wind is coming from him towards us.

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He's got his snout right down an ant hole.

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Looks like he's feeding.

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Looks like he's feeling around the branches of a tree.

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I just can't believe how close we're getting.

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'Despite all our care, it was only a matter of time

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'before the anteater caught a whiff of us.'

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Look at that.

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He's just stopping to check me out every five metres or so.

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Nose in the air. There you go. He's got me.

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Once he starts running, it's all over.

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Amazing!

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I can't believe how close I've got

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to one of the most bizarre animals in South America, if not the world.

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Huge, hairy hoover of ants and termites

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with a sticky tongue

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and claws that rip through termite mounds

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like they were made of butter.

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'In order to carry all our gear, we've got two trucks

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'to take it and us across the huge expanse of grassland.

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'Driving in Brazil is a bit different to back home.

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'After all, you don't tend to get held up by iguanas.

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'And we had to rebuild a bridge or two!

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'To cross one particularly large river,

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'we were told all we had to do was catch the ferry.

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'It wasn't quite what we were expecting, though!'

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We're pushing both our four-wheel-drives onto that raft

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and dragging it with some speedboats.

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Yeah. It makes me a little bit nervous, that!

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But as it's becoming a sentence we're using more than any other,

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"What could possibly go wrong?"

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I tell you, I've used some iffy modes of transport in my time,

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but this is ridiculous!

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'Safely across, we were headed for the jungle.

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'There are many types of jungle in Brazil.

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'Each has a completely different set of animals to see.'

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Look down there!

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It's a tortoise!

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That's a baby tarantula!

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When he's fully grown, he'll be about that big!

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'There are thousands of reptiles and invertebrates.

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'Most are predators of some sort.

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'But with the list filling up,

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'I could afford to be a bit picky.'

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Oh, that is beautiful!

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This is a parrot snake.

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And when you see the head moving around, in an inquisitive fashion,

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you get an idea of why it's got its name.

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But it's not until it feels threatened

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that you see where the name comes from.

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It gapes its mouth open, almost like a beak

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and looks just like a parrot.

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Except obviously, like a snake at the same time!

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It's a bit weird. Look at this now.

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It cocked its head towards me.

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There's that gaping display

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that makes him look like a parrot!

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That is fabulous.

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As I move my hand in closer...

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..he spreads his mouth even wider.

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If I tried to catch this snake, I'd get bitten.

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Look at that!

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That is absolutely magnificent.

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It's a big attitude for a small snake!

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All snakes have remarkably flexible jaws.

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They can swallow prey many times the size of their own head.

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He's using that to really full effect, showing off.

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He's about to withdraw.

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Fabulous!

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What a fantastic snake!

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One of my favourite snakes.

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Night-time, though, means whole loads of different animals

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to see by torchlight and hopefully a few out hunting.

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Ooh, a bat.

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'Some animals that are active in the day

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'are easier to get close to at night,

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'like this snoozing dragon fly.'

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Gorgeous!

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A giant moth caterpillar.

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That is fabulous!

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LOUD BUZZING

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This is the loudest insect in the world.

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It's a cicada.

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'Hard to believe that this deafening racket can help him find a mate!'

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Look at that.

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Look at those spikes. They're ridiculous!

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Ow!

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HE LAUGHS

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I wouldn't touch the tree, Steve!

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-Yeah, watch the tree, Steve. It's spiky!

-Thanks, guys!

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Look at this.

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Steve, I've found something here.

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Wow!

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Any second now...

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..you're gonna see one of the most ferocious...

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..and venomous spiders in the world.

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I'm try to convince people they shouldn't be scared of spiders,

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handling them and...

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..showing them they're nothing to be frightened of.

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But this spider here

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is one exception.

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This is officially the deadliest spider in the world

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in terms of its venom.

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It's called a wandering spider

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because it doesn't build a web, it just continually wanders

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in search of food.

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It's got the strongest venom of any spider in the world

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and it's one of the few out of 50,000 species of spider

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around the world that can do damage to or even kill a person.

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Luckily, it can't bite me through my trousers

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so I'm happy with it sat on my leg.

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But I certainly wouldn't have it in my hand.

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They are, really, spiders to be genuinely careful of

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and actually one of the only spiders that's hurt people in the UK

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because they've come in on shipments of bananas from Brazil

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and turned up in supermarkets in the UK

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and people have got bitten by them. Not often, but it's happened.

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That little spider there...

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Whoa! Hold on a second! Check out that jump!

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That little spider there...

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..which, as you can see, can jump quite well...

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..is the reason that arachnophobics are scared of spiders.

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This particular species of wandering spider

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isn't very big.

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They get to be really huge, tarantula kind of size,

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and mostly feed on insects, though some of the big ones

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will even feed on small mammals.

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Certainly their venom's strong enough.

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'With so many potential candidates for my list,

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I'm gonna choose very carefully.

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Let's see what else I can find.

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Here comes the rain!

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Tropical storm.

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'With all their expensive electronic gear,

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'my crew aren't so keen on the rain!

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-'Rich, though, takes it like a man...

-Carry on.

-..for once!'

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These are great!

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This is one of the weirdest and most wonderful beetles out there.

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It's a click beetle.

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Look at that. Like a little brooch.

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Oh, he's landed on the sound man's sound pole.

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Isn't he wonderful?

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Oh, my goodness! That is awesome!

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I'm doing all this quite gingerly.

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This is quite a nasty scorpion, as scorpions go.

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Capable of inflicting a very nasty sting.

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That is a Black Forest scorpion.

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It's not huge, as scorpions go,

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but he is very venomous.

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Clasping onto that leaf for dear life!

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This is a scorpion that could do a person -

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even a big, strong, fully-grown man -

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some serious mischief.

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On the end of the tail here,

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clasped between my fingers very, very carefully, I have to say,

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is a spike which leads to a venom gland.

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The venom inside that gland is really, really strong.

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It's actually capable of making your kidneys and liver totally shut down

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once the poison gets into your system.

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So I'm treating him with a lot of respect.

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I don't want to give the impression that scorpions are all bad.

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In fact, they are some of the most incredible creatures.

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Probably the most fantastic mothers of all invertebrates.

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If we didn't have these guys around,

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there'd be way too many things like cockroaches that we want rid of.

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I'm going to let go of his tail and see if he'll sit there...

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..on my knee.

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There you go.

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It's quite chilled out, really.

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'So chilled out, in fact, that he goes for a wander down my leg!'

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He's off!

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He's on the heel of your boot, Steve.

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-Is he on the heel?

-Yes, he is.

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He's ended up in quite an odd place,

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if I'm honest with you.

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He's taken shelter on the bottom of my foot.

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For a lot of people, the first thing they'd do is squash him.

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But personally, I think scorpions are absolutely marvellous

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so I'm not gonna do that.

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I'm just gonna let him carry on hunting.

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Don't move your foot, Steve.

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He's going.

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There he goes.

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Back into the leaf litter.

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'This has been the perfect jungle hunt.

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'The world's most venomous spider and a Black Forest scorpion!

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'They should go straight onto the list.

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'But I can't help thinking they're too obvious.

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'Maybe we should look for something a little bit more unexpected.

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'Maybe something with feathers.

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'These weird-looking hoatzin eat fruit and vegetation.

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'They're the flying equivalent of a cow!

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'But they look like a cross between a chicken and a dinosaur!'

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They really are a throw-back to prehistoric times.

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Brilliant!

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'There are some great deadly birds here as well.'

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Look at that!

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'This potoo looks like a tree trunk during the day,

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'but at night it becomes a fantastic acrobatic insect killer.

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'But the birds with the most varied diet round here

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'are the ever-present Caracara

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'that seem to stand guard on just about every fence post.

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'So many brilliant birds.

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'One of them must be a candidate for the Deadly 60.

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'Well, how about this?'

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I spotted a little shape perched on top of a termite mound.

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He's dropped down into the grass now

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but we're gonna sit and wait because if he turns up, he's worth a look.

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Just there, look. See it, Mark?

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It's a pair, a breeding pair.

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One there and one there. Tiny, aren't they?

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Absolutely tiny.

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They're burrowing owls.

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I don't really know where to start

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with talking about these incredibly curious creatures.

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One of the first things is that they're active now, during the day

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and that's really unusual for owls.

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Then the size. They're absolutely tiny,

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and then the name, burrowing owls.

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They're called that cos they live in burrows.

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Just down underneath this termite mound is their hole.

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The top of the termite mound

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is spattered white with their droppings.

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They use that as a sentry post. Two of them are here together.

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There could well be eggs or even possibly chicks

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down in the burrow.

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Look at that.

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Beautiful.

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The amount of movement you can see in the head there

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is cos owls' eyes are fixed in their sockets much more than ours are.

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They can't move their eyes around, so they move the whole head.

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They can turn and look right round behind them

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purely through that motion of the neck.

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Very brave birds as well.

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We're really very close

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and he's looking right at us but he's not flying away.

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-He's well camouflaged in there.

-He is well camouflaged.

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'Yes. But are they deadly?

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'Well, watch this.

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'I know they may be short, and a bit fluffy,

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'but apparently no-one told the owl!

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'These guys have ideas well above their station!

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'They can dig their own burrows

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'but why bother when you can steal someone else's?

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'In this case, a prairie dog.

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'In the burrow, safe underground, up to 12 eggs will hatch into chicks.

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'Even at this age, they won't be pushed around.

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'They hiss like rattlesnakes to scare off predators.

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'To feed these chicks, the adults need to be expert bug catchers.

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'They've recently been seen using a technique

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'I affectionately call "poo fishing"!

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'There are loads of bugs that love poo. Well, why wouldn't you?

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'So the owls gather up poo,

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'scatter it around the burrow

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'and rip it apart to intensify the aroma.

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'The smelly trap has been set.

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'Owls intercept the bugs and beetles as they fly in.

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'You got out expecting poo for tea

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'and get eaten by an owl!

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'It's tough being a bug!

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'Poo fishing. Slightly gross, but smart!

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'And definitely deadly.'

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Oh, he's back on top of the termite mound.

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What a wonderful animal.

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So full of attitude and lethal surprises

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that I have to put them on my list.

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Burrowing owls are cunning, clever,

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brave, lethal hunters.

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If you're watching this and you're a dung beetle,

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keep well away!

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Join us next time for more amazing animal encounters on Deadly 60.

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That is grim!

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Aghh!

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