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Wo-ho! That has to be the coolest haircut in the parks,

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and the little monkey's very rare too.

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In fact, he's the only one of his kind.

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-Hello and welcome to Roar. I'm Johny.

-And I'm Rani.

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-What are you doing?

-Did you know that a giraffe's tongue

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can grow to an impressive 53cm. That's about this long,

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-so it can wash behind its ears with its tongue.

-Well, a human tongue

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can only grow to a very unimpressive 10cm,

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so there's no way that is getting behind those.

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I'll have to stick to soap and water, then.

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Why don't you check out what's coming up on today's Roar?

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We've got poo flying everywhere!

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There's poo on the camera!

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There is poo on the camera!

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What chance do little doggy chews have

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against these strong jaws?

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And some immense tigers face the acid test. Will the scent

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of citrus fruit drive them wild?

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Right, check out these crazy-looking guys.

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They may look like the Tweenies but they're grizzled leaf monkeys

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and they're in danger of dying out.

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There used to be loads of them in the rainforests of Java

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but their natural forest home has been almost completely destroyed.

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They're much safer here at Port Lympne and Howletts,

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which is just nuts, and Liam looks after all of them.

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Each one of these monkey nuts

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represents one of our grizzled leaf monkeys at park.

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There's 15 of them, so there's not many of them in captivity at all.

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Being the only grizzled leaf monkeys outside Java

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makes them a very exclusive gang.

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With less than 3,000 in the wild, it's a serious conservation value

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that we have them here.

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With their species so close to becoming extinct,

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the keepers are maxing their effort to safe them, and it's paying off.

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We've had some fantastic news.

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Mojang, our female grizzled leaf monkey, has given birth

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so we can add another peanut to our list

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and another animal to our collection.

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And since it's feeding time now, we might just get to see the baby.

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Come on, then, sweetness.

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There are six grizzled leaf monkeys in this family group

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and Mojang is the mum.

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We don't want to worry her,

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so our crew are staying outside the enclosure

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which will make it even harder to spot the tiny baby.

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They are a very nervous species.

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Planes flying over can make them have a negative response

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and display some weird behaviours, a lot of alarm-calling,

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but again, in general, they are quite a shy species.

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But it's vital that Liam sees the baby often

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to make sure it's all right, so we'll come back when he finds out

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where Mojang is hiding the little one.

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Our Roar Ranger today is nine-year-old Oscar from Kent.

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He's got a particular reason

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for wanting to have a go

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at being an animal keeper.

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I'd like to be a Roar Ranger

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because I want to work in a zoo when I'm older.

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He's got some experience of dealing with wild animals -

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his pet dog, Scooby.

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Oscar certainly doesn't lack energy,

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so let's find out what use he'll be putting it to

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as today's Roar Ranger.

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"Oscar, today you're a baboon keeper. Let's go ape!"

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HE IMITATES AN APE

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Guinea baboons are the smallest of the five kinds of baboon

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that still survive in the wild.

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They come from remote parts of western Africa,

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but their forest homes are still being destroyed,

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so the future doesn't look good.

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Keeper Matt helps to look after 162 cheeky monkeys at the park,

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so showing the ropes to one more should be a breeze for him.

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-Hello.

-Hello, are you Oscar?

-Yes.

-I'm Matt.

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-Had a good day so far?

-Yes.

-Well, I'm going to spoilt that for you.

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Oh, dear. Matt's lined up a real treat -

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cleaning up after three male Guinea baboons.

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Nice!

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There we go, Oscar. Inside the baboon house.

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-Have a good sniff.

-Eurgh!

-What do you reckon?

-It stinks!

-Yeah.

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A bit like your mum not cleaning your bedroom out

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-cos I've heard that your bedroom's a bit like that.

-Yeah.

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-Would you do that on the floor in your bedroom?

-No!

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Well, let's hope not! These baboons are even fiercer than Oscar's mum,

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so Matt wants their bedroom to be immaculate.

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First thing I want you to do, Oscar, is brush all that

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off the shelf onto the floor.

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Hold up, let's take another look at that, shall we?

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Eurgh! That's gross!

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There's poo on the camera!

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There is poo on the camera, yeah!

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OSCAR LAUGHS

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The baboons would probably laugh too if they could.

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But it won't be a laughing matter

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if Oscar doesn't make a clean sweep of their bedroom.

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Fully-grown male Guinea baboons have huge, sharp canine teeth

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which are just as big as a lion's.

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Keep scrubbing, Oscar!

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I stinks so badly. I don't know what it smells like.

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It just smells really bad. You wouldn't like to be doing this.

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The floor has to be literally clean enough to eat off -

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in the wild, Guinea baboons get a lot of their food off the ground.

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The keepers here try to keep things natural,

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so their meals get scattered around,

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then everything has to be cleared up together.

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Come on, then, joint effort. You sweep, I'll shovel.

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Yeah, and I'm going to slip on a bit of rotten food!

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Did you get that?

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We did! Let's see that moment again.

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What rotten luck.

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I slipped on a bit of rotten food. Nothing to laugh about.

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Well, it is QUITE funny. We'll come back later

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to see what Matt gives Oscar to do next.

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Animal chew toys are meant to be pretty much indestructible

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and I'd have a hard time making a dent in that,

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but Head of Carnivores Jim Vassie knows something, or someone,

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that could definitely test this to its limits.

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-Tell me it's not in here with us.

-No, no,

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but that's who were going to test it on - the African hunting dogs.

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These are truly terrifying creatures.

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They start eating their prey while it's still alive,

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so you would not want to feel their razor-sharp teeth chomping into you.

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So, Jim, we've got three chew toys here. Is that one for each dog?

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Yeah, just so there's no fighting over one particular ball,

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they've got one each. I've put some little titbits in them

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-to encourage them to chew on them.

-Reckon that'll do?

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-Yeah, that looks pretty good, yeah.

-OK, brilliant.

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The dogs are there. We're in here.

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I don't want to be here when they're here.

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-Can we get out of here?

-Yeah, let's go for it.

-Let's leave them to it.

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Straight away, yeah.

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-See? They were going to try and run off with it.

-Yeah.

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Get this. Kilo for kilo,

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these guys bite with more force than any other meat-eater.

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Will they often fight over the food

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or will they work out that they've got one each?

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They'll all work together to try and move it

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-from where we've tied it.

-They've taken it apart already!

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-And so, out in the wild, would they hunt in a pack?

-Very much so.

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The more eyes and ears they've got on their prey,

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the quicker they can catch it and bring it down.

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Look how quickly... Why is their jaw so strong?

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They're bringing big animals down so they need to have powerful jaws

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to latch onto the skin or fur to bring the animal down.

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Are they successful hunters?

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Probably one of the best hunters in Africa.

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A lion might go out and hunt, but only get prey every five attempts,

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-whereas these might get three every five.

-How often are they fed here?

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They're fed every other day, and what we're doing is enrichment for them.

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Because they don't kill here,

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this is a way of sharpening the muscle in their necks,

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the jaw, and they're interacting as they should do.

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They seem to be yelping. Are they in distress there?

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No, one's telling the other one,

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"I've got this bit, you get your own."

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They work as a team when hunting,

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and those squeaking noises is how they communicate with each other.

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-Do they bark at all?

-It's not a bark as such.

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Obviously, if they bark in the wild,

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they give their place away when they're chasing their prey,

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so they squeak, which mimics birds and things like that.

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So the prey they're chasing doesn't know it's a dog that's chasing them.

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I've got to say, our toys were not indestructible at all,

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as proven by these African hunting dogs. That is one dog

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whose bite is definitely worse than its bark.

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-Where do frogs keep their money?

-I don't know.

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In a river bank.

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-What's the strongest fish in the sea?

-I don't know.

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A muscle!

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-What do penguins have for lunch?

-I don't know.

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An iceberg-er.

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LAUGHTER

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Earlier on, we heard that a very rare baby grizzled leaf monkey

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had been born in the parks,

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but its mum Mojang was keeping it hidden,

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and it's taken keeper Liam some time to find them.

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I see Mum's hung back a little bit

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and she's just up at the top on the platform there,

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one of her favourite roosting sites,

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and you can see, just tucked up nice and tight - she's very protective -

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is her two-week-old baby.

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Finally, the 16th grizzled leaf monkey outside of Java

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shows himself. Cool hairstyle. It's a bit like Liam's.

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There's new sights, new sounds for him every day.

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As we're coming into the summer time,

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there's new smells for him. Lots of insects come into his enclosure.

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The 16 animals we have here at the park are extremely important,

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so I suppose you could say they are

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the last hope for grizzled leaf monkeys outside of Java.

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We've been lucky today, but it can be tricky

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for the keepers to keep an eye on the baby.

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As a good mum, she should be protecting her offspring,

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so she doesn't spend a lot of time around the keepers.

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It can be difficult to observe the animal suckling

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and feeding, which we do need to see,

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but hopefully, in time, she'll start to get used to the keepers

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coming into her enclosure and come down for food.

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But the baby's safety is so important

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that Liam needs to know it's OK when he isn't there to watch,

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so he's going to rig up one of our cameras

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-and leave it recording overnight.

-I think they sit towards the back

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of the enclosure. Hopefully, if I'm right -

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not that we know what they do of an evening, hence the camera -

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Mojang will be sitting towards the back of the enclosure.

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This should give us some great shots,

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but Liam's also counting on it to put his mind at rest.

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I'm hoping to see some interaction from the other animals

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and see what they do, but more than anything,

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seeing the baby up close and seeing how the mum interacts with it,

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and just seeing if it's feeding. This has never been done before

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so it's a really interesting piece of footage

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that hopefully we'll get

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and go towards our archive of their behaviours.

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Liam won't chill out until he's seen the tape.

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The night can be a dangerous time for young animals.

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Now, when it comes to honky poo,

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there's one creature that beats everything else here,

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and that's the ocelot,

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also known as the painted leopard.

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Like all cats, they're quite good at cleaning themselves up,

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but they leave horrible heaps

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all the way from Texas down into northern South America,

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as Mark Hawkes knows only too well.

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Have a look. What is that, Mark?

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Well, that's the remains of last week's dinner.

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I have to say, we all know the ocelot's pee smells,

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but this actually smells even worse. It's really pungent, isn't it?

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I'm ready to help, but I'm letting you do all the gruesome stuff.

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Is there a reason why ocelots smell so much?

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A lot of the ocelot's natural habitat covers coastal wetlands,

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so one thought is that it's possibly because cats follow a scent

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to find other cats, if they're going to mate and, if it's always wet,

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it'll be hard to find the scent unless it's strong.

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We've got some wood shavings and straw,

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so once I've got this dirty stuff out the way,

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you can put in a layer of shavings in case he does wee - it soaks it up.

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-Do ocelots wee in the same place?

-Yeah, many of the cats seem to.

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They go round scent-marking

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and then the other cats know that that's their home, if you like.

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Now, he is prowling round in here. Is that fine, us being in here?

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He's really placid. Obviously, you don't want to go over

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and try and stroke him. He does change a bit around feed time.

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He gets a bit more aggressive, but that's natural. He wants his dinner.

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But while we're in here,

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he's pretty happy just chilling out out of the way.

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And also, with us cleaning out his little toilet-style box,

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does he appreciate this? Does he like to have it cleaned?

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In the wild, it's not like someone's going to come in and clean it up

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-so what would happen there?

-Well, we don't do it

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so often that it annoys him or anything.

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-So that isn't just on one day, then, that mess?

-Thankfully not,

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otherwise I'd have a much busier job than I do.

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No, that's accumulated. We generally clean the enclosures twice a week.

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It's only really when it's wet and it's really bad that we clean them.

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If not, we tend to just leave him. It's his home. We don't want to

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make him have to make it snug again too often.

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But I'm sure, some of the states that he leaves it in,

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-he's probably quite appreciative of us cleaning it.

-He's like,

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"Yes, Mark, make sure you do the corners."

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We're putting this in. It's not that soft. Is it comfy enough

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-for the ocelots?

-Oh, certainly comfy enough.

-We've done a great job,

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but you know what would make it perfect? A little air freshener.

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Having cleaned out the Guinea baboons' house earlier on,

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Oscar's reward is to hand-feed them

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under the watchful eye of experienced keeper Matt.

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I forgot his name!

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Remember, if you're visiting the park,

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do not feed the animals. They get a balanced diet from the keepers.

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But what DO they eat? The boys like nuts.

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There's three boys in here. We've got Linkos who's sat over there,

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we've got Lusaka who's in front of you there,

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and we've got Jonas up there.

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Male baboons can be aggressive

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and don't like being kept waiting for their food. Watch out, Oscar.

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-It's literally just like...

-Ohh!

-There you go.

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That's why you shouldn't go near them

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without a keeper. They're grumpy.

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He looks at me like this - really suspiciously

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like, are you going to do it again?

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Amongst troops of baboons, the law of the jungle is all that counts

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and, if the top-ranking guy doesn't get his grub first,

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everyone better watch out.

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Whoa, that wasn't me! It was him!

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Don't blame me for something that I didn't do.

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They're getting their own back

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cos you didn't clean their bedroom properly.

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So, at the end of our Roar Ranger's day, what does Oscar think?

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I have a healthy respect for baboons.

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I don't want to get in there and fight with them. Do you?

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I possibly think there's a future in zoo-keeping for Oscar at the park,

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-but maybe not with baboons.

-Whoa, that wasn't me! It was him!

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How's your own wildlife park doing?

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The Roar online game is full of new attractions

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-like the Ice World enclosure.

-Punch in today's code,

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blizzard7, and see what cool freebies we're giving away.

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Sit back and enjoy.

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Now, everyone knows that pet cats love the smell of catnip,

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so do giant wild ones get excited by new scents too?

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Tug and Ingrid, and cubs Sinda and Bira, who were born here last year,

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are Siberian tigers, which are the biggest of the lot.

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Keeper Chris Hales thinks the zest, or grated rind,

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of lemons, oranges and limes will make them purr with pleasure,

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so we've come down to their enclosure to give it a try.

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Chris, I'm not convinced tigers are going to like citrus fruit

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but do you want me to take that in there and get started?

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I've really done the hard work for you.

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I've already put some orange zest down on this log,

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and next to it we've got some lemon on the log there,

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and over on the back there, on the rocks, we've got some lime.

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It's a little bit of a competition. Once we let the cats out,

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we'll see which ones they like best.

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They saw me putting it in there. Yeah, here they come right now.

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-So this is Ingrid first.

-OK, is she the boss?

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Well, she's the mum. I wouldn't exactly call her the boss.

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Ah, there we go. So Ingrid's on the lime there at the back.

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And the two cubs, they'll kind of go wherever Mum goes.

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So we've got Tugar on the left. That's the dad. Then Mum next to him,

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and then we've got Sinda and Bira, the two youngsters.

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Do tigers in the wild usually stick together?

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Actually, no. This is an unusual situation.

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Normally, you wouldn't find dads with the family,

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but because Tugar was hand-reared and he's such a big softie,

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we knew it wouldn't be an issue keeping him with them,

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-and he's proved us right.

-So they're sniffing...

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That's the lime over there, isn't it? The lime's taken their fancy.

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Yeah, you can see Tug's having a good old sniff.

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One of the youngsters has come up.

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-What do you make of that, then?

-That's amazing.

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You're supposed to be at the log.

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So, out in the wild, obviously, they love meat and things like that,

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-but do you think they'd eat fruit?

-No, they wouldn't eat fruit,

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but when we've done things similar to this in the past...

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Occasionally we'll put in half an orange and rub it on the logs,

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and leave the orange in there,

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and they do have a bit of a chew on it. Anybody who's got cats at home,

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occasionally you'll see them eating things like grass as well,

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so they do try different things out, but meat is their main thing.

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-This is purely for smell.

-Look at this!

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I didn't realise how tall they were.

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-How tall do they grow? That's taller than me.

-Just to give you an idea,

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-she's a year old at the moment.

-Oh, my gosh!

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A year old and taller than me. I'm six foot tall.

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Yeah, she's a big girl, isn't she, already?

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They get huge. Tug here, he weighs round about 33 stone at the moment,

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and he's not a particularly big Siberian tiger.

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Tug, are you going to show us how tall you are?

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Tug, what's this? Come on, boy, show us. Go on, what's this?

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-Oh, my gosh!

-There you go, he's not even stretching.

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And you say he's not even a particularly big tiger?

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No, not really. He's kind of average size for a Siberian tiger,

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so, yeah, massive cats.

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Obviously, they are the largest out of all the cats.

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Chris, I'm not sure they like that scent.

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They're going in to wash it off.

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Is there a particular scent they do like?

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Believe it or not, one of their favourites is perfume.

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Tigers like perfume? You learn something every day.

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Thank you so much for bringing us down here, Chris.

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Earlier on, we saw Liam rigging up a camera so that he could check

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that the new baby grizzled leaf monkey is safe overnight.

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These awesome guys with their buff haircuts

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are dying out fast in the wild

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and the colony of 16 here

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are the only grizzled leaf monkeys in captivity anywhere in the world,

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apart from their homeland, Java.

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So this is one very important baby.

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He proves that they can be bred in captivity,

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and that may be the only way

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the grizzlies can survive in the long run.

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Two other keepers, Adam and Joe, are also keen to watch the recording.

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Really, we're hoping to see the youngster moving around.

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Really, we want to see that it's strong,

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active, bright and alert,

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and seeing if they interact with each other

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throughout the night time. It's obviously looking bright and alert.

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Looks pretty healthy, doesn't it?

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The good news is that the baby looks very well indeed

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and he's just as cheeky as his dad.

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Yeah, there's our little budding camera-man.

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That's the adult male.

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Ah, thanks! I think we're going to see

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a lot of wall and no monkeys tonight.

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Or are we?

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He's moved the camera back in, into shot.

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This is interesting. This is the sort of thing that we wanted to see -

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aunting behaviour where the other females look after him.

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It's quite obvious there that Mojang, it's mum,

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has left it to its own devices with the other female,

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and it's having a whale of a time with her.

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Aunting is where the mum lets other monkeys look after her baby.

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It gives younger females the chance to find out what it's like

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while lucky old mum gets a rest.

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-The video's proving very useful.

-That's quite interesting.

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The mum looks like she's just left it to its own devices for a while.

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It seems quite happy round the rest of the group.

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It's the first I've seen her off mum.

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But as soon as the lights go off, the baby comes straight back to mum.

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I can't believe how active it is, just constantly going.

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She must be really giving Mum a hard time. I certainly wouldn't like

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keeping her in check.

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So the camera's done its job.

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The keepers now know the baby's well looked after overnight,

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and they're learning a lot of other stuff too.

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Any information we can get, for this species in particular,

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is really interesting, and more so when they've got an infant,

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especially something as rare as this. Just to see that it's strong

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and that Mum's looking after it properly, really,

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and it's a bonus just seeing the rest of the group interacting with it.

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So excellent, big success.

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Now, if you think that baby monkey was cute, check this one out.

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Keymon's a Diana monkey that Simon Jeffrey hand-reared last year

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and he was a riot.

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That's nearly a year ago now, so we want to see how he's getting on.

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Can we see Keymon today? They all look the same if he's got big!

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-Keymon's over here.

-Oh, he's still little, isn't he?

-Ohh!

-Keymon!

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So he's back in there with everyone, seems really happy,

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-so it is a happy ending?

-A very happy ending, exactly what we want.

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He's back in, he's part of the group and he's a proper little monkey.

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High five that! We like that. We do like that. It's good news.

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Simon, what does the future hold for him? Is he going to start

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-his own family or stick in with this family?

-He's just over a year old,

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so he's got a long way yet until he's mature enough to start breeding,

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-but we want to see him having his own family.

-That sounds fantastic.

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Now, talking about new families, I heard a rumour,

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not that I ever listen to rumours,

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-but Angie, Keymon's mum, is preggers again. Is that right?

-She could be.

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It may be very early on in the pregnancy.

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-If there is a new baby, tell me first.

-No, tell me first.

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-No, tell me!

-Unfortunately, we're out of time on today's show,

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but stick around to see what's happening on the next Roar.

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Five a day for the ellies

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means a jumbo-sized mountain of fruit and veg,

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but they have to find it.

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While the colobus monkeys prefer a more personal style of service.

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And giant giraffes look even bigger

0:27:280:27:30

when they're staring you in the face.

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