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Today on Roar...

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A rare Oryx has to be sedated

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but with metre-long horns and a drug that's fatal to humans,

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the team must make sure that nothing goes wrong.

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MUSIC: "Electric Feel" by MGMT

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-Hello and welcome to Roar, I'm Rani.

-I'm Johny.

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And this little cutie is the park's new baby rhino, Ebun.

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I have to say, I am absolutely in love with her.

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-Isn't she amazing?

-She is.

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Talking of amazing, here's what's on today's show.

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I thought you were talking about me!

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Coming up, even the ants are mad about Roar,

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but how strong are these six-legged workers?

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I'm doing a spot of housework for the otters,

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but Romeo and Rosie prefer their bedroom to be messy and stinky.

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And we've got some sticky questions and slippery answers

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when this lot grill the keeper.

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But first, we're off to the Big Game Reserve,

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where the team are preparing for a difficult and dangerous operation.

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Wildlife vet Chris Mangham has been called in to sedate

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one of the scimitar-horned Oryx.

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There's always a risk with sedation. We do all we can to minimise it.

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We're getting everything ready here, now,

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so we can knock him out, calmly, quietly, efficiently,

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get on with what we have to do and we can wake him up, ASAP.

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These antelope are very rare and very special.

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They're called scimitar-horned Oryx

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because their horns are in the shape of a scimitar sword.

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A century ago, they used to roam the desert areas of North Africa,

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but sadly, now they've been hunted to extinction in the wild.

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Today, one of the males - he's called Jeff -

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is off to another park in France to start a family of his own.

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It's vital for the species that they're bred in captivity,

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so that later they can be reintroduced into the wild.

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Before he can go, though,

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vet Chris must run some tests to make sure he's fit and healthy.

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Oryx have huge horns. They can grow to a metre long.

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And if they're frightened, they will attack.

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He must be sedated but even this is very risky.

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We use a really dangerous drug, actually.

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The big animals need a drug that'll knock them out quickly,

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but it's really dangerous to people.

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We have to be careful drawing it up, you don't want to scratch yourself.

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And we have a special revival kit here, ready to inject anybody

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in case they accidentally get pricked with a needle.

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So we are fairly serious about doing this carefully

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and not messing about with it.

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Deputy Head of the safari park Ian Turner

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is specially trained to use the dart gun.

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Because the anaesthetic they use is so dangerous to humans,

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Ian must wear gloves to protect his skin and goggles to cover his eyes.

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One drop of this drug could kill a human.

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The Roar camera crew has to stand well back for safety reasons.

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Ian has to be careful and his aim must be true.

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The dart's gone in...

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..but there's a problem.

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It hit the Oryx, got the dart in, but not all of the drug's got in.

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So he's not had the full dose.

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So we're trying to decide now whether we...

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give him some more or not.

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The plan is we'll give him a few minutes,

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see if he's had enough, see if he goes to sleep.

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As we said earlier, it's a dangerous drug.

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We don't want to charge in with the dart on the floor,

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potentially with some drug left in it.

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So we're just going to let him relax for a second.

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Hopefully, he's had enough to sleep.

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If he has, great, we'll carry on as normal,

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but at the moment, we'll just give him a bit of time.

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Now all the keepers and Chris the vet can do is to wait.

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It's too dangerous to go into the shed unless Jeff is fully asleep.

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We'll be back later to see what happens.

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Keeping the animals' enclosures ship-shape and mess-free

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isn't an easy job.

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There is one animal that makes it particularly difficult.

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-I'm here with keeper Bev. Hiya, Bev.

-Hello.

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And I want to know which is the animal?

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-The otters.

-The otters?!

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How can they make it so difficult for us?

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Yeah, they look cute and cuddly, but they're very messy.

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One of the messiest animals we have.

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We're in the otters' enclosure and it looks pretty tidy,

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so I'm guessing you've had a bit of a clean-up.

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A little bit, yeah, to save a bit of time.

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OK, so what we will be doing today?

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We'll put a bit of their bedding down, straw,

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which they like to bed in.

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We've got some bamboo here, which they love to destroy.

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-They also drag that into their nest area to make a bed out of it.

-OK.

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So what we're going to do, we'll put the bamboo over here.

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OK, here's a question for you.

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-If they shred this and make a mess with this...

-Yeah?

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..why are we putting it in here?

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It's good enrichment for them.

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-Give them things to do and it won't last long, honestly.

-Really?

-Yeah.

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Give it a few seconds and they're ripping it apart.

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Especially Romeo.

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-As you said, you have Romeo here and who is his lady friend?

-Rosie.

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Now, is Rosie messy or, like all good girls,

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is she nice and tidy, and tidying up after Romeo?

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Sadly not. She's still as messy as Romeo.

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Yeah, Romeo tends to make more of a nest than that.

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You'll lose me behind the bamboo!

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You'll have to move or I'm won't see you!

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So I'll put a bit in there. That's the bamboo done. Lovely.

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All right. Let's get on with their bedding.

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We've got some straw here, we'll put down over here for them.

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Where would you like this straw?

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We'll put it in their nest area here.

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So we'll put a bit just there, that's brilliant.

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You know, I'll be honest, Beth, it looks messy already with the straw.

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How are they going to make even more of a mess?

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Basically, when we let them run out, they'll come running out.

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They're going to know we've been in here.

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What they'll start doing, especially Romeo, he'll start wagging his tail.

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Cos he has scent glands underneath his tail area.

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That's cos he's scenting everything

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to make them feel comfortable in here,

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cos they know we've been in here.

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It's also a way of communicating with members in the family group,

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if they lived in social groups, so they know who belonged to who.

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All right, I'll get this straw down.

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I'm still not completely convinced

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that the place is going to look a mess but, Bev, you are the boss.

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So why don't you join us later in the show to find out

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if of those 'orrible otters trash our hard work.

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It's ask the keeper time.

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We've popped down to meet keeper Graeme at Animal Adventure

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to talk about creepy crawlies and slithering snakes.

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Nice(!) Graeme, you might be brave enough to have those things on you,

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but are you brave enough for these guys' questions?

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Yeah, I think I can handle their questions.

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-Think you could handle the snake?

-I'll give it a go.

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Shall I put it over here? How am I doing? Am I doing all right?

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-You're doing perfectly fine.

-OK.

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Guys, have you got some good questions, then?

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How many babies can a snake have a year?

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Generally, snakes lay between four and six eggs every year,

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so that could be a possibility of four to six babies every year.

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How do you restrain a snake when it gets angry?

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Luckily for us, none of our snakes generally get in very bad moods.

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Sometimes you can grab hold of their heads if you need to,

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but if they're in a bad mood, we leave them alone

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and let them just calm down.

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He's in a good mood, can we just clarify?

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He's in a very good mood at the moment.

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Good, cos he's around my neck, now. I'm a bit worried!

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I'm not too bad with snakes, I have to say, but what are those things?

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These are New Guinea spiny stick insects.

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They're one of the larger stick insects that you can get.

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Any of you guys fancy holding those?

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-Me.

-Really?

-I will.

-Quite brave!

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Now, what you have to do is you have to put your hand out nice and flat

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and they'll just crawl on. They do have little hooks on their feet,

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so they do grip on nice and tight, but they won't do you any harm.

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When they have babies, do they look after them,

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or leave them to go by theirself?

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Generally, they don't look after the babies.

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They're not the best parents,

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but they do dig their eggs into the ground.

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Once they hatch, the babies eat solid food straight away,

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and they're really just miniature versions of their parents.

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What kind of food do they eat, then?

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These guys eat a wide range of different leaf material.

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We feed them here in captivity on oak and bramble and hawthorn,

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but they'll eat most things.

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-Janjan, you are incredibly brave, how does that feel?

-It feels weird.

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And is it sticking to you?

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-They're called stick insects, do they feel quite sticky?

-Yeah.

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-Can I hold the snake?

-Yeah, you can have a shot. I'll take the snake.

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Be my guest. Lovely as it was and everything...!

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OK. Are you OK with it around your neck or in your hands?

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Maybe everyone else can help support him.

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Put your hands up and around. There we go as well.

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You seem to know everything about creepy crawlies and snakes, Graeme,

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but you'll not slither out of this one, cos it's killer question time.

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Come on in, guys.

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Right, we need to ask a question.

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THEY WHISPER

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-OK, ready for the killer question?

-Yeah.

-Come on, then.

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-Grrr! Are you ready for our killer question, Graeme?

-Yeah, I think so.

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The average python can grow to 1.5 metres.

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With that in mind, how many fully-grown pythons,

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stretched end-to-end,

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would it take to fill the entire length of the London Marathon?

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Oh, it's a difficult one.

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I'm afraid I don't really know the answer to your killer question.

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Are you going to give it a guess, a guesstimate?

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I will guess...

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I'll say 1,000.

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Well, the correct answer is actually 28,130.

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I was a long way off!

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-What do you think, do we give him a thumbs up or a thumbs down?

-Middle!

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-Ooh.

-Harsh lot, this lot, Graeme.

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-I thought you did really well.

-Oh, well, that's the game, isn't it?

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After all, this is Ask The Keeper and these guys are the boss.

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I can't believe I said 1,000 now, why did I said 1,000?!

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Back at the Oryx house.

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It's been a while since the young male, Jeff,

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was darted with anaesthetic.

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He's now asleep and Chris the vet thinks it's safe to go in.

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I think we'll have to be careful monitoring him

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and making sure, you know, if he wakes up then, you know...

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we may need to top him up, but...

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the plan is to be quick about what we're doing, anyway.

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Head of section Andy Hayton isn't taking any chances.

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-Let's do it.

-Yep.

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Now the team can get to work.

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I'll just make sure he's not going to get up, Ian.

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You can get rid of the dart and then we'll go in and do our stuff.

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All right, pal.

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OK, Ian.

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With the dart and its dangerous drug safely out of the way,

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Chris can start work.

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He's taking vital blood samples to check that Jeff is fit

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and healthy for his move to France.

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He's a very important animal for the breeding programme.

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So they've covered his eyes with a fleece to reduce any stress.

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-I need to get to his jugular and neck.

-Shall we drag him round?

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OK.

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You measure him, I'll hold his horns in case he flicks his head.

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This is a rare opportunity for the keepers to get close to an Oryx

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without being attacked.

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So, as Chris take blood samples,

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the team take important measures for their records.

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630.

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Some animals don't respond well to sedation

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and can simply stop breathing.

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So, the team are keeping a close eye on Jeff.

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He's beginning to wake up, so they must work fast.

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JEFF GROANS

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Hush.

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-Right, anything else we need to do?

-I've taken a load of blood.

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Done the TB, so TB, brucellosis, blue tongue, done.

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Right, OK.

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Finally, they've got all the samples

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and measurements they need.

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Chris the vet gives Jeff a reversal drug to make him wake up fully.

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This is pretty speedy stuff as well, isn't it?

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Only have to stick the needle in once.

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-OK, mate?

-Yep.

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It's always an anxious time waiting for an animal to come round.

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Sometimes, they don't.

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But finally, Jeff stirs.

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He's going to be OK.

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Things went really well, actually.

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Despite not getting the full amount of the drug,

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he went to sleep reasonably fast

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and also safe enough for us to go in there.

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Fingers crossed, he'll be waking up now, we'll keep an eye on him

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until he gets to his feet and job done.

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The vet will send the blood samples off to a laboratory,

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to check that Jeff is healthy enough to go to France.

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He's such an important animal. Everyone is hoping he's OK.

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We'll be back at the Oryx house when the results come in.

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What's a moth's favourite subject?

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Er, lunch?

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No, moth-ematics!

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Miaow!

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What kind of dog likes to fight?

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A boxer!

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Arf! Arf! Arf! Arf!

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-What do you call a sheep on a trampoline?

-I don't know.

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A woolly jumper!

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THEY ALL LAUGH

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Earlier on in the show, Bev and I were inside the otters' enclosure.

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We were giving it a good spruce up.

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We put some bamboo there, we put some nice straw,

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but apparently, it's all going to be messed up

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in a matter of moments, isn't that right, Bev?

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Hopefully, yeah, they're going to come out and mess it all up.

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Not hopefully, that's a lot of hard work!

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When we say they're going to mess it up,

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it's not because they're untidy animals, is it?

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-No. No. There is a reason for it.

-What's that reason?

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They come out and want to make this feel like their home.

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In the wild, wild otters would do this.

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They'll come out and wag their tails with their scent glands

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to mess their bedding up or to make it smell of them.

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This is a way of communicating to other otters in their social group.

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-Here they come.

-And they...

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I see what you mean, just wagging on the straw.

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Everywhere, isn't it?

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Releasing that scent.

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-That is some quick action there, isn't it?

-Yes, they are really good.

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We are talking about dirty bedding - do they poo in there as well?

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Sometimes they do,

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sometimes they have certain areas where they will go to the toilet.

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Here he goes. They love it.

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He will pull that down, eventually.

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Oh, my goodness, he's not going to fall, is he?

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They are pretty good.

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He looks like he's enjoying that.

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I think they do enjoy it. It's good for them to be able to do this.

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-Very natural for them.

-They're loving it!

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There he goes.

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-That's amazing!

-There we go, he's using his teeth to drag it in.

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Now they've only got tiny teeth - are they strong?

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Yeah, those teeth, they look very small and everything,

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but those teeth are sharp, so they are good at ripping things apart.

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Oh, just look at him!

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Now, in the wild, you're not there to clean their bedding every day.

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So does that mean, when it really starts to pong,

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after they have wagged their scent glands on it, they find a new home.

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They will have several holts, which is what it's called, the nest areas.

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They are pretty clean animals,

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they tend to put their spraint, their poo to one side

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and they will get fresh bedding and put it in, so they are pretty good.

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Romeo's had a good go at that bamboo but I'm slightly stronger,

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and I have pushed that in, nice and firm.

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So I think that'll last another day.

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I'll admit, when you said to me they'd mess up my work, I thought,

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"That's the last straw!" I'm pleased it looks good for another day.

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Thanks, Bev.

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OK, all you gamers, it's cheat code time.

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Today's secret code is wind995.

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Type that in and see what you get.

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If you aren't playing the Roar game on the CBBC website,

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then give it a go.

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It's easy to get started and it's great fun. Happy gaming!

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After my introduction to an insect that looks like a stick,

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I'm now off to meet another bug,

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that for its size, is one of the strongest in the world.

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Rarr! Yes!

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Now, if you think that's strong, that ain't nothing.

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I'm meeting one of the park's strongest animals,

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-isn't that right, Kim?

-It is, yes.

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-It's the ants!

-One of the smallest.

-One of the smallest, too!

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We set them a challenge to carry this Roar leaf, which looks small,

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but it's five times bigger than they are

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and they've done it, they carried it, that shows how strong they are.

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Give us an idea of how powerful these guys are.

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Well, these guys can carry about 12 times their own body weight.

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-Which is like you carrying a Mini to your house.

-The car?

-Yep.

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It's like carrying a car. That is incredible.

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-We've got a colony here, I guess.

-Yeah, this is our other colony.

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So talk me through, I'm looking in here.

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And there's all these tiny ants,

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but I hear they all work for the big one, the queen ant.

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They do. The queen ant sits in the middle of the nest

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and just lays eggs.

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Now, Kim, I've heard these queen ants are massive.

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They are, they're pretty big and if you promise not to tell anyone,

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I'll show you what a queen ant looks like.

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-I won't tell a soul. This is exciting!

-If I use my little stick,

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cos they give a nasty nip with those pincers.

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If you look.. Can you see her there, look?

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That massive ant in the middle.

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-Doesn't even look like an ant!

-No. She's not even full size.

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That looked big and chunky to me, just how big can a queen ant grow?

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About the size of a small mouse. So pretty huge.

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That's bizarre, an ant the size of a mouse. Weird.

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And why is she so important? I know she's a lot bigger.

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-Does she bully the ants into working for her?

-No. They depend on her.

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She's the one that lays the eggs, so without her, there are no ants.

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They've got to look after her, have they?

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Now, does she ever move at all?

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Or does she spend all the time, like, covered?

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If she moves, she relies on these guys to move her.

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-So she's too big to move herself.

-She's like a proper queen?

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-She is, yeah.

-Is it true there are other types of ants?

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You have the queen, you have these...runner ants?

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I've got some tiny ones crawling around on my hands.

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These are like the worker ants, what they'll do,

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they are either coming out to pick up food or they might be tidying up.

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So you have cleaners as well.

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They might be digging new chambers,

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-they need more bedrooms for more ants, that sort of thing.

-Right.

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You've got the ones that do the gardening inside the nest.

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When they take the leaves in, they don't eat them.

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-Are you having me on? Gardening ants?

-No, no, no.

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It's a very important job. They'll take these leaves...

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The workers take the leaves to the ants in the nest.

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They'll then hand them over to the gardeners.

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The gardeners do their thing and they turn it into the fungus.

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-And if you look down here...

-Yeah.

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..at the bottom of this nest, you can see it.

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This is what they eat.

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-Wow, OK. So they don't eat the leaves...

-No.

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..they wait for the leaves to decompose

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and they eat the fungus that comes from that?

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That is why the gardeners' job is as important as everyone else's,

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cos they make the food.

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I've noticed in here, I don't know where he has gone, now,

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but I noticed a pretty chunky ant. Not queen size, but quite big.

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You'll have scouts. There's one just here, look.

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-See him?

-Yeah, I can see him.

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There's scouts and there's the soldier ants.

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The soldier ants are bigger, they protect the nest,

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as the queen can't come out and protect herself.

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So the bigger scout ants

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and the soldier ants do that for her.

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So they work as a team and they're so strong.

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All this talk of working out

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has got me in the mood for pumping iron. Let's bring it on.

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Back up at the Oryx house, the keepers have been waiting

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for the vital test results to come back for Jeff the Oryx.

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He's so important for the breeding programme

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of this endangered species,

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that everyone has had their fingers crossed.

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The good news is that he's been given the all-clear

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and today, his new French keepers have come to collect him.

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He'll be transported in a box that's big enough for him to lie down in,

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but not too large for him to bang around and hurt himself.

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But the next challenge is to persuade Jeff into his travel crate.

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It won't be easy, so Andy will give him a sedative to calm him down.

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You have fight and flight, the two main responses of animals.

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The number one defence is to run away. That's flight.

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They take off and run away. When you've got trailers and doors, etc,

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you don't want animals spooking and running blindly,

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because they'll hit something.

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The other response is fight.

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Which isn't good for us.

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This it to just need to chill that fight and flight response.

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MUSIC: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem

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This time, Andy will use a blow pipe to deliver the drug,

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since it will be less stressful for Jeff.

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HE BLOWS

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I'll have to keep you guys out of the way a bit.

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And everybody, absolute silence.

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The only people talking are me and Cos...

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just trying to guide him into the box.

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It's all safe. He'll run down a corridor,

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so we're not going to be anywhere near him.

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But we don't want any outside influences or sudden noises

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or anything to bring him out of his sedative.

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He could come out of it quite easily and it will be a danger to him.

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So if we can do it as quietly and nicely as possible for him.

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OK, so I'll shout.

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Can you see him?

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You go on in, mate.

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Easy, easy, easy.

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Although he's been sedated, Jeff is still nervous.

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But gentle coaxing does the trick.

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OK, Marika. OK.

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Lovely, fantastic.

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That went brilliantly.

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Obviously, it's a big, scary, dark box and he didn't want to go in

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but the sedative that we gave him worked really nicely.

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If we hadn't had that...

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I think he'd have been bouncing off the walls.

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So, yeah, brilliant.

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Let's just take it into this area here and we can then spin it around.

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Oh, great, he's stood at the back!

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Now, all they have to do is lift the box on to the lorry

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and Jeff's ready to say, "Au revoir!"

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One, two, three, hup!

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That was nice, well done.

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So now he's off to France.

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A lot of young ladies over there, waiting for him.

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He's going to go off and have a little baby Oryx over there.

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It makes it all worthwhile.

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We breed animals here, they're endangered

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and they go off to pastures new and carry on what we've been doing.

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You're an ambassador for your species, Jeff, so, bon voyage.

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Now, last time on Roar, there was a new arrival at the park.

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A young female sea lion,

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that I helped to move down to a holding pen

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here on Half Mile Lake.

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Before we leave you today,

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we thought we'd pop down and catch up with keeper Sarah,

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and find out how Sally the sea lion is settling in.

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Hey, Sarah.

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A little while ago,

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Sally was introduced to the rest of the splash

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and we're joined by Sarah,

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-who'll give us an update.

-Hi, Johny.

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How's it all going?

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Yeah, she's getting along really well, as you can see.

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-She's met a few of them through the fence.

-Right.

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They seem to be getting along all right.

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She's settling down in here.

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So hopefully before long, we will be able to let her out

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and she can really meet the rest of the splash in person.

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So we'll have the slip slap of flippers then.

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Now, what kind of timescale are we looking at for that,

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before it's safe?

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It's going to be a few weeks yet. We need to get her comfortable.

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Obviously it's a big change from where she was to now,

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into from what she can see is this big, huge lake with hippos in it,

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loads of other sea lions she's never met before.

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She's very quiet, so she might not fit in, you know?

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-She's so shy, I mean...

-Yeah, normally, not a peep from her.

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She's the quietest sea lion I've heard in my life. Aren't you?

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It looks like Sally wants attention, so we'll give it to her.

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While we do, why don't you lot check out what's coming up next time?

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Keep it down!

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Next time on Roar...

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Kaiser the baby giraffe has been thriving,

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but unless he gets a vital inoculation,

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his health could be at risk.

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I'm going off to flying school with Harriet the barn owl.

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Hello!

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'But while Rani and Harriet are bonding,

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'me and Matilda just can't seem to hit it off.'

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Whoa, whoa, whoa!

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'Don't miss it!'

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