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A baby meerkat who nearly died has been hand reared by the keepers

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because her own family wouldn't take her back.

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Good girl.

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But does she think she is a human baby now?

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Welcome to Roar. I'm Rani.

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I'm Johny, and this rowdy rabble here are the lion tailed macaques.

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Lion tailed macaques can grow up to 60 centimetres tall

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which is double the size of your pet cat.

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Don't be fooled by the size.

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This lot are capable of making some ear-splitting sounds

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from shrill barks to screeching screams.

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That's why I've got these on.

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Sorry about this. Johny.

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Johny!

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Listen, it's quiet. Nothing.

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Well they are loud out in the wild.

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I think we should get on with the show.

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Good tune.

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Will there be howls of joy from the howler monkeys

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when they are let loose on the bungee tubes?

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I have to break open the poo of a clouded leopard

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and we'll find out why it is all furry inside.

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And is Matt trying to bribe his way to an easy time in Ask The Keeper?

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That's very kind of you.

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A porcupine spine for you.

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Now, there's a rather special young meerkat in the park

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who is looking for a new home.

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You may remember from early in the series that a baby called Tiggs

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had to be taken away from her mum for emergency treatment.

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Her plucky fight for life became one of our favourite stories this year.

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She's quite cute...aren't you?

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When she couldn't be reunited with her family

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because she had been away too long and they might hurt her,

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we saw keeper Rich Barnes hand-rearing the pocket-sized thing.

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It made quite a change from

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the large and dangerous animals he normally looks after.

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After six weeks, she went to stay with some of the other keepers

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like Jess. She's thrived ever since and is now a much bigger handful.

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She is about four months old

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and doesn't like to stay still so much any more.

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She's eating everything in sight

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including every bit of dirt and people's fingers.

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They are always tasty.

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Ow!

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Stop it.

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Tiggs is growing up fast, probably because she eats like a horse.

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She thinks someone is going to steal her food, I think.

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She is getting more aggressive with us around her food.

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She thinks we are going to steal it so she eats it really quickly.

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Stop it. Ooh, stop it, you'll make yourself sick again.

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The danger of hand-rearing little animals

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is that they start to think they are little humans

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but fortunately, Tiggs is developing lots of classic meerkat mannerisms.

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It's brilliant that she is acting like a meerkat should.

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She definitely doesn't think she's a human. She thinks she's a meerkat.

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She thinks humans are a giant toy for her.

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Some people have guard dogs and things, but we have a guard meerkat.

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Don't we?

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But Tiggs really needs her own home now.

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You might like to know, we will be seeing Tiggs again soon

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in our very own competition - the Roar Cutest Baby Awards.

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BELLOWING

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I've popped down to the primate section because it's time to put

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another of keeper Jamie Robertson's inventions to the test.

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Jamie, what do we have here?

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It's a rope ladder with its own bungee cord.

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Who have we got here?

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This is Tolkien and husband Clyde.

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They are pinching all our food.

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You wanted me to bring some bananas and nuts down.

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What do you want to do?

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The idea is if you stuff these pipes with the banana and peanuts,

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I'll try and tie this end on. If Tolkien lets us.

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-The idea is it is puzzling.

-They probably prefer bananas don't they?

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Yes, they do prefer the bananas.

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She is not interested. She is so friendly,

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-she is quite bolshie as well.

-She is a bit of a special case.

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She's not hand reared, but she is as friendly as a hand-reared monkey.

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It is completely her choice to be this friendly towards us.

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She actually likes humans probably. OK, let's try and get this done.

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I don't think Tolkien wants us to get on with it.

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We are going to put this banana in this ladder here.

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Why are we doing this, Jamie?

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It is environment enrichment. It keeps them occupied during the day.

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It is a bit more exciting than having them sat on a bench.

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We try and get stuff to keep them busy.

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It's quite difficult because howlers are particularly lazy animals.

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They will just sit quite happily,

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so, yeah, trying to get them to do something else.

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She is hanging on by her tail, that is amazing.

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She is trying to pinch some of our food here.

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-Who is this fellow up here?

-This is husband Clyde.

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I was going to ask if one would come over first,

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but it seems like they are all coming together.

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Have you got anyone else in here other than Clyde and Tolkien?

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-We have a little one up there, Mary, that is their son.

-Right.

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He won't come over until we are out of the way.

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-There you go.

-He's found the banana already.

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Anything new, they will come down and have a look.

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They are quite sociable animals, they live in big family groups.

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They do quite happily come down and see us as well.

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Look at how well she is balancing. Why are they so good at balancing?

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If you notice their tail, it acts as an anchor,

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like a fifth limb. It's called a prehensile tail.

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They have that extra almost fifth limb to grab on with.

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She's grabbing on to me now.

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That helps her balance as well and she can grip, like an extra hand.

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It acts like another hand while she uses her other hands to grab stuff.

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-Are they quite dextrous?

-Yeah, they seem to be.

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Hello you. She is holding on very delicately with her hands.

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Her hands, looking at them there, are just like ours, aren't they?

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They have the same amount of fingers, thumbs, opposable thumbs.

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What about their feet, are they similar to their hands as well?

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I don't know if you can see, on her feet, the big toe is to the side

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so it's just like another hand.

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-We have this little fellow up here which is their offspring.

-Yeah.

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-How is he getting on?

-He is doing not too bad.

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He learns off his parents, what to do.

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He's starting to come down and see us as well.

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Extreme close-up while we're talking!

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He's not quite as friendly as his parents,

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but he is coming along.

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Jeremy, I think your experiment has been a massive success.

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She stealing your cap right now. They are absolutely brilliant.

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I'd give them a high five, but I wouldn't know which hand

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-to high five. Maybe that one.

-Yeah, there you go.

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It is Ask The Keeper time now on Roar and we are going to be posing

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some questions to keeper Matt

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who could find himself in quite a prickly position

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if he can't answer questions from these guys. They are going to be

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asking loads of questions about those guys over there, the porcupines.

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-Matt, are you ready for your questions?

-Give it a go.

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Can you have them as a pet?

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Not in this country, but in Africa, in the wild,

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some have been found orphaned and kept as pets.

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They can be house-trained.

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You could do, but I wouldn't want them as a pet.

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They eat everything and are full of prickles.

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Matt, are we OK because we are really close to the porcupines.

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-Has anyone been this close to a porcupine before?

-No.

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-Are we safe, Matt?

-We are OK.

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They haven't eaten anybody this week so we should be all right.

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We feel so much better! Someone else ask a question so we can leave here.

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What is a male and female called?

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They could be Mr and Mrs or Fred and Hilda.

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They are just male and female porcupines.

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Do baby porcupines have spikes?

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Yes, baby porcupines are born with very soft quills.

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It makes them easier to give birth to.

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After an hour, they are really quite spiky.

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Within a week or so you can hardly touch them.

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Wow, so within an hour they are already getting spiky.

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That's amazing.

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How long to do their quills grow up to?

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The quills on a porcupine are various different lengths.

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You have very short ones and very, very long ones.

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I would say the longest ones are probably about 18 inches long,

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so they are quite long.

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-What do they eat?

-Porcupines will almost eat anything.

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We feed them a diet of mainly vegetables -

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root veg, carrots, swede,

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that sort of stuff. But they'll eat anything -

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leaves and bark off the trees.

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They will even eat bits of meat sometimes

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and they are partial to pigs' ears, like dogs eat. They like those.

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They don't eat deer, do they? I can see a pair of antlers over there.

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I'm sorry to disappoint you, but they haven't eaten a deer.

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Rodents teeth grow continually.

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In the wild they would gnaw on bones and other things, like wood,

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to keep their teeth short. If the hoofstock guys find antlers

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that have been shed out on the park, they pop then in here for us

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and they love to chew away on the antlers.

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You really do know your porcupine knowledge, don't you?

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Will you be able to answer our killer question?

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We've had a chat and we've got a few tough questions.

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Give us a moment while we choose the most difficult one.

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Before you do that, I've got a little present for them.

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Not that it should influence the question that you ask me.

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-There is a porcupine spine for you.

-That's very kind of you.

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See how easy I gave those out.

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Maybe you could make your question just as easy?

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It might be quite difficult because you are one porcupine quill short.

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-Sorry, Rani.

-Right then, typical.

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Be careful, they are spiky, so no-one stab me.

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Keep them down low. Here we go, let's discuss our killer question.

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OK, Matt, we've got one for you. We've made it quite easy for you.

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In a lifetime, on average, how many quills does a porcupine have?

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In a lifetime?

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Difficult one.

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I would say about 30,000.

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30,000?

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30,000.

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It is actually correct. On average they do have around 30,000 quills.

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What you think, guys? Thumbs up or thumbs down for Matt?

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All thumbs up. Matt, you didn't give me a quill

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so I'm only going to give you one thumb up. Well done anyway.

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All right then, have the other one, stop twisting my arm.

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Why did the centipede get dropped from the insect football team?

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I don't know.

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Because he took too long to put his boots on.

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What do you get if you cross a duck with a firework?

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I don't know, what do you get if you cross a duck with a firework?

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A fire quacker.

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Quack, quack, quack!

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Miaow, miaow!

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Miaow!

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What's striped and bouncy?

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A tiger on a pogo stick.

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Head of hoofstock Joel has asked me to bring some peanut butter

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and by the looks of things, he's got himself into a sticky situation.

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Joel, what is this all about?

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Hi Johny, this is a bit of dietary and behaviour enrichment

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for the red river hogs.

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-OK, why are we doing this?

-Just to give them something to do.

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It's in the wallow, they love to play in mud.

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Also, we are going to see if they really love peanut butter.

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We're going to put them on the end of sticks

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and see if they eat them, lick them or do whatever with them.

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-Have you tried this before?

-No, so it will be interesting

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-to see what happens.

-Let's get started.

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All right, Joel, here they come, it looks like they are coming straight

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to this wallowing paddock here.

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Are they quite brave animals in general?

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Yes, generally they are very inquisitive. They like to

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see what things are and smell and touch and sometimes destroy them.

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Hopefully they will go straight in there.

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-Why is it so important to do this for the pigs?

-Because they are

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intelligent creatures and they need some stimulation.

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Any different ways you can find to keep them amused,

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or to feed them is always good.

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They've got those big noses, are they good at smelling stuff?

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Yes, they've got a very good sense of smell.

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They're very powerful snouts that can dig things up

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they can smell in the ground. They're really good tools.

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Look at this, one is quite interested.

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-Who have we got in here?

-These three are the piglets from last year.

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He just took a stick off. I thought they would get in

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and wallow about and have the sticks there.

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Hopefully they will do eventually. The ones more in the middle.

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It looks like they are eating the sticks. They are going mad for it.

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-We have three little ones. What are their names?

-No names at the moment.

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There's two boys and a girl. We haven't named them yet.

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The one nearest the piglets, that is the male, Gosho.

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We have the female pig there, Tofika.

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-Will they fight over food?

-Yes. They do like their food.

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Generally they get on OK, apart from when there's food around

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because they will eat anything.

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-Are they intelligent animals?

-Yes, they are very intelligent animals.

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-Reputedly more intelligent than dogs.

-Really?

-Yeah, supposedly.

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It's good for a wild animal to check things out

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and make sure it's not going to do them any harm.

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He's just showing natural wariness.

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They are more interested in the mud on this stick now.

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Do they actually eat the mud then?

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There's lots of minerals and things in mud.

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A lot of animals do seek out wallows to get the nutrients.

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I thought they'd be going more mad for the peanut butter

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because it is something new in there.

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It is sweet and gooey.

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He is thinking about it, thinking about going in.

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Maybe he feels it's not warm enough to wallow today

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so he's being careful so he doesn't fall in..

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I reckon they love our nutty treats. I reckon we should stick around

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-to see if they finish the rest off. What d'you reckon.

-I think so.

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The park is home to an amazing 74 western lowland gorillas.

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The largest collection in human care in the world.

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Their natural home in the forests of West Africa looks like a paradise.

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But, unfortunately, a lot of the trees they need to live amongst

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have been cut down due to logging.

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So the keepers here work hard to understand what makes the gorillas

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happy and healthy.

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Laura says they are trying to create the best possible environment

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for them to live in.

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A major thing for us as keepers is to make sure the gorillas have

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a lot of enrichment and things to do because this is their home 24/7

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so the more new and exciting and different things we can put in there

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the better for them.

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As you can see, they have their pool which we fill up with water.

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They have their hammocks, the ropes, they have the fire hose,

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slides, tyres, they have a lot going on

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so there is a lot of things for them to play with.

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Like human babies, they need lots of toys and lots of stimulation.

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They also need the company of other gorillas

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which is why they share this big enclosure.

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We are able to keep our gorillas in big family groups.

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They are lucky to have the interaction with each other.

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After chimpanzees, gorillas are our closest relatives in the animal world

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and their kids, like ours,

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like nothing more than going absolutely bonkers.

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Especially young gorillas, they will play every single day.

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Like human kids, the children play more than the adults.

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It is their favourite thing to do as well as eat and sleep.

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As with humans, play is a vital part of their natural development

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and they make up very similar games.

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The best thing to watch the gorillas do is the roly-polys.

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That is a really good one. Especially when they carry it on

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and on and get into what we call a bit of a silly.

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They just run around with their eyes shut banging into things

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and banging into each other just on a mad one.

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It's really funny and quite cool to watch.

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The play can get a bit out of hand but the keepers never intervene.

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There are plenty of responsible adults around to step in

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when it is needed.

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When the kids are little, the play is quite gentle and everything.

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If play does get a bit too rough, the youngest will go

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screaming back to Mum

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and Mum will tell the other gorilla off for playing too rough.

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Mother gorillas weigh about 80 kilos, as much as a fully grown man.

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They are very protective of their babies.

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The teenagers, though, are left to get on with it.

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As they get older, play does get a lot rougher.

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If you are not used to the gorillas and not used to the way they are,

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then some people do misunderstand that as that they are fighting.

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But you can definitely tell the difference

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when they are fighting and when they are playing.

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They actually bite when they play but it is not a rough bite.

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Because their skin is so thick it tickles them.

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You can definitely tell when they are playing.

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They wouldn't do that if they weren't happy and contented.

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It's a clear sign to the keepers that all their hard work is worthwhile.

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This job is absolutely brilliant.

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I could watch these guys play all day,

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but unfortunately somebody has to clean the enclosures.

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You do get a lot of perks with the job as well.

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It's really great to come into work

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and be able to create bonds with the gorillas

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and it is also good to watch them play and interact with each other.

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Are you having fun running your own animal park?

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Anyone can open one in the Roar game on the CBBC website.

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We give out a new cheat code in every show

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and today it is frost678.

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You type that in and it unlocks

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special treats, new animals or extra features.

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So, if you haven't tried yet, you should. It is great fun.

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Whoah!

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Now, giving some of the most elusive cats in the park a health check

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is a tricky business, but keeper Ben has a way of doing it

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and I believe it is rather whiffy. Is that right?

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Yes, you are going to be playing with poo.

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I don't want to play with poo.

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Don't be crazy. Why would I be touching a clouded leopard's poo?

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Cleaning them out is a good way to give them a health check.

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I was happy because you brought me here in style

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but hand me some gloves, please.

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I am not touching poo without them.

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-There you go.

-Thank you very much.

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Let's get cleaning.

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This is a clouded leopard enclosure. We've come through the back entrance.

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Where is the cloudy that lives in here, and who lives in here?

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Right, we have Utan and Mimbu who are a pair of clouded leopards.

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-Oh my goodness!

-Utan is up there, he's the male.

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OK, take a look at that.

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He might be a beautiful cat, but he still does a big poo.

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You talked about this being a health check.

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Normally when you say health check,

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-I expect Jane the vet to be here.

-This is very basic,

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something we can do without the vet.

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If you want to pick it up and break it open?

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Is that a question? Do you want to break it open?

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I'm telling you, I was just being polite.

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It is actually really light.

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Surprisingly really light.

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It feels almost like it's fake.

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-Believe me, that is real poo.

-Have a look at this.

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It's all hairy as well.

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What do you feed them?

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Basically he gets a varied diet of rabbit, chicken, pigeon, fish,

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-chicks.

-He doesn't digest the fur.

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He gets rid of it.

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You need to feed fur to the animals.

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It acts as a fibre and binds it all up.

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That is unbelievable.

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This is a healthy poo.

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That is all rabbit fur.

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If it was a bad poo, what would we be looking for?

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Basically, you're looking for worms.

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Not normal earthworms you get in the ground,

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but very small thin worms they can have in their stomachs.

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Can you see any in there? Do you want to have a good look, Ben?

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I can't see any worms.

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-Do you have to check the smell?

-No, no sniffing.

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One thing, we have a lot of poo in this area here.

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Are clouded leopards quite clean?

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-Do they poo in the same place?

-They seem to.

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-They seem to dig channels down the side of these beds.

-Like this?

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-Yes.

-I know they scent-mark.

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Their poo isn't that smelly, actually.

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It could be a good part of it.

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Basically, if Utan did a poo in a certain area,

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and another male came along and saw it and smelled it,

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he would be able to tell that there is another male in the area.

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Could he also tell if he was healthy or not?

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Would he have a look and say, yes, he has a good diet.

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They seem to know what sort of size they are as well for some reason.

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-I don't know how.

-That is quite amazing.

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-The bigger the cloudy, the bigger the poo?

-Maybe.

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Are you joking?

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Straight up, most cats do it.

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I'm very impressed by that.

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The poo is cleaned up for now, but there is loads of fur

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and other bits we need to clean up.

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Utan's up there going, "Oi, Rani, hurry up, will you!"

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You may remember all the excitement earlier in the series

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when some tiny puppies were born.

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They're fairly rare bush dog puppies from Central and South America.

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They're not easy to breed in captivity,

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but their dad, a bush dog called Morley,

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was hand reared by the head of small carnivores, Neville,

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who knows just what bush dogs like

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and has created the perfect conditions for them.

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The puppies' first day out of the enclosure was wonderful to watch.

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Now they're nearly six months old, Neville has invited us

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to see the family again.

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-How are you doing, mate?

-Not too bad.

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Obviously they hunt in the water, we hope so today,

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but there is no food in there.

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I've got a bucket of food here, some of their favourite stuff,

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and we'll chuck it in the water

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-and they will be straight in there for it.

-Have you got a good aim?

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Will you get that into the water from here?

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Come on, Moles.

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-You say Moles...

-Good shot.

-Moly's one of the adults here.

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Here goes Moly. Face right in!

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We can actually see him swim.

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He looked like an otter in the water.

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One of the things about bush dogs,

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they kind of resemble otters and things like that.

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Are they adapted to swim then?

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They have partially webbed feet to help propel them through the water.

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They were fighting with the food, do they fight often?

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There is no serious aggression or fighting going on.

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It's all about the pups keen to get some food.

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When they were younger, Moly would give the food to them straightaway.

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Now they are a little bit older, he tends to make them work for it

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but he always tends to give in to them in the end.

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He knows he'll come back for more food

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and while they are busy eating that,

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he can sneak off and quietly have his tea.

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That is fantastic, he is trying to teach them

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what they would naturally learn in the wild.

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How to swim, have to get their food.

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Honestly, I think they are a bit lazy.

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We're out of time on today's show, but while they dive in,

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we'll dive out and leave you to check out

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what's on the next episode of Roar.

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We'll find out why a giraffe's front legs are longer than the back ones.

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What reason could there possibly be to smear a perfectly clean rhino

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with gooey, sticky mud?

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And our Roar rangers are very excited when they find out

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which animal they will be working with.

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Yeah!

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