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Around half a million people a year take the boat trip | 0:00:01 | 0:00:04 | |
at the safari park, and the keepers need to be ready and prepared | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
should a passenger fall into the water. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
And it's not just drowning you need to worry about. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
Yes, in the middle of the lake lives a 30 stone gorilla on the island. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:18 | |
In the water are six very strong sea lions | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
and two of Africa's biggest killers, the hippo. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
All of which probably makes this the most dangerous lake in the country | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
but today, we'll be finding out what the keepers do | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
if somebody really does fall in. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
On Animal Park today, we'll be setting up a surprise for | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
the young tigers, but it's not as big as the surprise they've got for us. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
-There she goes! Wow! -Look at that. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
-She makes it look completely effortless. -Amazing. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
We'll be revisiting the heart-wrenching tale of Bev | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
and her little orphan babies. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
And, statistically speaking, the African hippo | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
is about 100 times more dangerous than the great white shark. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
So would you throw someone in with them? | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
But first stop is tiger territory. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
It's been a few weeks now since dear Kadu passed away. | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
She was the last one left from the old gang and when she died, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:40 | |
it was the end of an era. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
But that doesn't mean there are no tigers at Longleat, | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
because, last year, three newcomers arrived from a zoo in France. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
All three are sisters from the same litter. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
At two years old, they're still just youngsters | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
and they are certainly full of bounce. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
MUSIC: "The Love Cats" by Jamie Cullum | 0:02:00 | 0:02:07 | |
Today, there's a plan afoot to find out just what they're capable of. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
The tigers are still in their night-time quarters | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
and Kate and I have come to help get things ready. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
Bob and I are here in tiger territory, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
walking, completely unprotected with a large crate of meat, | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
which doesn't seem to be a brilliant idea. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:42 | |
I think Ben's got the right idea, being right up a ladder. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
I am rigging the cameras, Kate, so hopefully those are all set. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
So basically, Bob, the plan today is for us to try and film | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
the tigers doing something a little bit different. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
Yes, what we're going to do is hide a few pieces of meat | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
-in different places to what they used to. -OK. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
And we're going to stick some up the tree | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
-and some on the fallen tree down there. -OK. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
You know, it's something that we used to do with the old tigers. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
I remember, I remember. Well, Ben, shall I leave you some stuff here? | 0:03:12 | 0:03:18 | |
-That's to go up into the tree? -I'll give you about half. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
I'll give you the heavy ones, so you've got some work to do. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
-Is that for me or the tigers? -There you go. Will that do? | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
-Perfect. -Lovely, and we'll go on and put them up here. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
Yes, because I remember doing it with the old three, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
and they were sort of relatively | 0:03:34 | 0:03:36 | |
enthusiastic about it, but I think they preferred their meat | 0:03:36 | 0:03:39 | |
being delivered by the meat wagon, really. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
They do prefer it. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
Obviously, that is a much easier way of feeding them. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
But we like to do a bit of enrichment from time to time, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
and by hiding their meat, | 0:03:49 | 0:03:50 | |
they have to actually use their senses, | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
rather than just see the feed wagon and chase it. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
We don't have the opportunity of feeding them every day, so on days | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
that we don't feed them, we like to hide their food. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
This is a really good tree here. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
Now, it seems strange, Ben's halfway up a large tree, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
and we're putting them up here. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
Shouldn't we be hiding them on the ground, really? | 0:04:10 | 0:04:14 | |
Well, if they use their nose and follow our scent, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
they'd find it straight away. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:19 | |
So the can follow our scent and then, "Well, where's the meat?" | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
So they have to actually look for it as well. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
So by sticking chunks of meat up in high places, | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
up on the end there, it's ideal. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
-So you're really making them work for it? -Yeah. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
OK. Well, I'll put this first bit out. Where do you suggest? | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
Well, if you put a couple on the trunk as well, they'll follow it | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
up here, find this piece, | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
and then instead of just laying there eating it, jump off. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
Jump off! That would be amazing. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Well, we'll carry on spreading this out, Bob, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
and see what Ben's got up his sleeve and up his tree. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
How do you think we should do this? | 0:04:56 | 0:04:57 | |
We've got larger chunks and smaller ones. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
I reckon if we can get some big ones on the branches | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
below the cameras, because they're only young tigers, | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
so hopefully they'll have lots of climbing. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
And the smaller bits we'll put down the bottom to encourage them over. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
I'll do this first. Round the bottom of the tree? | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
-Yeah, and if you can lift some onto here. -Like that? | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
It's about getting their attention, so they know it's over here. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
That's right, yeah. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
So bearing in mind that these are the three youngsters, | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
what do you envisage they're going to do? | 0:05:27 | 0:05:29 | |
Who's going to come over? | 0:05:29 | 0:05:31 | |
More than likely, Soundari'll come over. She'll come over. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
All three are young, so they're all active. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
A lot more active than our old ones were. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:39 | |
I can see any reason why shouldn't get to where the cameras are. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:42 | |
That high? | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
One bound, grip, next down, meat, and jump off. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
So Soundari, you think, is going to be the first? | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
She's the more lively one, the one that looks about, | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
so she'll be the one to spot there's something different with this tree. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
Straight away. The ones will watch her and follow her lead. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
And you think they're going to go all the way up here? | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
I reckon you could probably even go to the branch above that. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
Let's put that one there. Hopefully it's not going to fall off. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
Do you want to pass me another piece as well? | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
Can go higher than this, Ian? | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
Right where the ladder is, at the top there, go to there. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
-About that? -Wow! | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
Are you sure they're going to get all the way up there? It's amazing. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
You think of leopards being the cats that climb, | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
but tigers, they're so big and heavy. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:29 | |
Are they really go to get up there? | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
Yes, it shouldn't be too difficult for them. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
We don't want to make it easy, but then, we don't want to | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
make it too hard or we're wasting our time. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
So the cameras are ready then? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
The cameras are all set. Let's just hope the tigers don't have vertigo. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Are you on there? | 0:06:44 | 0:06:45 | |
Right, hopefully we're going to get some good tiger action. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:50 | |
We'll find out what the big cats make of their tiger treats later. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
But now, we're going back in time | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
to revisit one of the most touching tales we've ever seen. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
To many people, working in a safari park would be a dream job. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:21 | |
Certainly, keepers have a wonderful opportunity to get close to exotic | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
animals, cuddly youngsters and some very unusual pets. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
It's almost inevitable that the keepers will form strong bonds | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
with the creatures they care for. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
But that can be very stressful, | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
because animals do get sick and, of course, they can die. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
Illness and accidents can strike at any time | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
and that's when the keepers are truly tested. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
Mike Holloman used to work with the wallabies and a few years ago, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
we followed what happened when he saw one of them was in a bad way. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:03 | |
I saw her the other day, noticed that she was off her food. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
We tried to give her a bit of food, | 0:08:06 | 0:08:08 | |
and she sort of picked it up, looked at it, dropped it. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
We noticed a swelling under her neck | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
and realised that was sort of constricting her breathing. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
When we tried to catch her, | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
her breathing got very laboured and we thought, she's not at all well. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:27 | |
The sick wallaby was isolated in an indoor pen | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
and the safari park vet Duncan Williams was called in. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
Come on, sweetheart, come and see Uncle Duncan. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
That's very swollen underneath there. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:42 | |
Ow! All right, sweetheart. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:49 | |
She's got some sort of abscess problem right underneath her jaw. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:54 | |
It's very, very swollen | 0:08:54 | 0:08:56 | |
and I don't suppose she'd be able to eat an awful lot. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
It's also pressing | 0:09:01 | 0:09:05 | |
on her larynx, causing that awful breathing. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
I'm going to give her an injection, | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
a long-acting antibiotic injection, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
to try to settle down this infection a little bit. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
If it doesn't respond, the chances are she'll die from the problem. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
Obviously, if things aren't going particularly well and she's not | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
responding, we'll probably put her to sleep rather than let her suffer. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
To survive, she'll need | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
her strength, but with such a sore mouth, it was hard for her to eat. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:42 | |
Mike prepared the softest thing he could find, some well ripe fruit. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
Mike was finding it hard to remain detached. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
It is sort of worrying when they're sick. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
You go home and you think, when you're lying in bed, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
"What can I do to sort of improve the situation?" - things like that. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:01 | |
Come on then, it's your favourite. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
It's a nice bit of banana. You love it. A nice squishy, squashy one. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
Come on then. There you go. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:09 | |
We'll leave you to peace. There we are, my love. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
There was nothing else that Mike could do for the little wallaby | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
but leave her to rest quietly overnight. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
However, the next day, there was some very sad news. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:27 | |
We came in this morning and had a look at her and her breathing had | 0:10:27 | 0:10:32 | |
got very rapid and husky, so we thought we'd better call Duncan out. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:38 | |
And he had a good look. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
We caught her, had a good look at her, and sadly decided | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
the kindest thing would be to put her down. | 0:10:43 | 0:10:46 | |
Unfortunately, the wallaby was a lot worse. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
The swelling had increased quite a lot. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
There was actually pus sort of burst out inside her mouth. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:56 | |
She couldn't eat at all and she was a lot of pain, so we did | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
the kindest thing, which was to put her down, | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
put her out of the suffering and that's it, I'm afraid. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
They're all sort of like a little family here, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
all the little animals, even wallabies. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
When there's a lot of them, | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
each one's an individual and it's very sad when one of them dies. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
I was really upset this morning | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
and so were the rest of the staff as well. But there we are. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
But nobody could have known that this death was only the beginning | 0:11:28 | 0:11:32 | |
of the darkest time they've ever seen in Wallaby Wood. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:36 | |
We'll be returning | 0:11:36 | 0:11:37 | |
to follow the dramatic developments later in the programme. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
Each year, almost half a million visitors take a trip around | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
Half-mile Lake on board one of their tour boats. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
And although the boats may be safe as houses, with that many people in | 0:11:58 | 0:12:04 | |
close proximity to this much water, | 0:12:04 | 0:12:07 | |
there's always the risk that one day, they'll have a, "Man overboard!" | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
The thought of someone falling in would be a worry, even if this was | 0:12:12 | 0:12:16 | |
just an ordinary sort of lake, with deep water and maybe some big fish. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
But this isn't your average lake. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:23 | |
It's home to a pair of one of the most dangerous mammals in the world, | 0:12:23 | 0:12:28 | |
Spot and Sonia, the African hippos. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
Then there are the six hungry Californian sea lions. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
I'm going to go bitten! | 0:12:35 | 0:12:36 | |
The keeper in charge of the lake animals is Mark Tye, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
and he knows just how dangerous they could be to a person in the water. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
Sea lions are naturally inquisitive animals, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
so anything that falls in the water, they want to go and have a look at. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
They have got a very, very powerful bite, | 0:12:57 | 0:13:00 | |
and it's not something you really would want to have. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:03 | |
I've been bitten by a baby sea-lion with little needle teeth, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
and that hurts enough, so a big adult would do you a bit of damage. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
One person who was unfortunate enough to learn this the hard way | 0:13:10 | 0:13:14 | |
is head of boats Bill Lord. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
I think it was about ten years ago now. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
I was standing on the quay here. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
The bull was in his breeding mode. He jumped up, decided I was | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
a good target and actually bit the back of my leg. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
They wouldn't normally do that, but he was in an unusual attitude, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:30 | |
you know, anything in his way, especially a man, I suppose! | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
Don't know what he thought I was going to do with the girls. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
He did have a go at my leg. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
That big brown patch, that is the bite, which still irritates, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
even today, ten years later. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
They're lovely creatures, but they have teeth. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
Then there are the hippos. In the wild, | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
more people are killed by hippos each year than by lions, | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
tigers and great white sharks put together. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
If you get in their way, | 0:13:59 | 0:14:00 | |
they will flatten you, pretty comprehensively. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
They're very aggressive, particularly between themselves. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
When you see big groups of them in ponds in Africa, | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
they're generally either sleeping or bickering. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
Even our two girls, they quite often have fall-outs and will | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
go to opposite ends of the lake to stay out of each other's way. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
They've got a habit of moving around without you seeing them | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
and they just appear from nowhere. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
And it just could be one of those days, you know, | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
when someone got in the way. And it would be, I don't know, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
I wouldn't like to say what the end result would be. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
Luckily, they've never had a serious incident with a visitor in the water. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:40 | |
But it's vital that the staff know what to do in case the worst happens. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:44 | |
The boats are run by the keepers from Pets Corner, | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
and every month they practise their rescue drills. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
The head of the section is Darren Beasley. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
Someone going in the water is always in the driver's and crew's mind. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:01 | |
So they practise a procedure called man overboard. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
And basically, that means they have to retrieve a float ring, | 0:15:04 | 0:15:07 | |
it's called a perry buoy, from the water. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
The thing is, they get so good at it, we like to challenge them and push their limits a little bit. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
So today we're going to up the ante. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
We're going to make this man overboard a bit more dangerous | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
to really test this lot and see how good or, hopefully not how bad, but how good they really are. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:26 | |
We borrowed a dummy, and this dummy is a big, heavy model of a man | 0:15:26 | 0:15:31 | |
that I'm going to try and heave into the water, | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
because actually, the crew are very good at receiving these perry buoys, | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
but what happens if this person or object couldn't splash and hang on to a perry buoy? | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
What happens if this person, their body was just floating? | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
We've got all different shapes and sizes working down here. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
So we want to know that we've got some practice and procedure in place | 0:15:51 | 0:15:55 | |
to be able to get a heavy thing either onboard or back to the shore. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
So it'll be interesting to see how they react when they see this doll. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
We've got the added value - | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
the hippos have gone in the water as well. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
We go days sometimes with the hippos being in the mud or on the land. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:11 | |
Now they're in the water, so they're out there somewhere as well. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
So with a pair of two-and-a-half ton hippos | 0:16:15 | 0:16:18 | |
each sporting tusks like pickaxes, | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
six dangerously boisterous sea lions | 0:16:21 | 0:16:23 | |
and half a mile of lake, what would happen if there really was a man overboard? | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
We'll find out later on. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
Well, we're back up in the tiger enclosure. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
All the meat is up in the trees, the cameras are rolling | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
and all we need now, Bob, I think, are the tigers. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
-So shall we let them out? -Can you let them out please, Sarah? | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
So she's going to open up and they're going to come straight out, are they, Bob? | 0:16:54 | 0:16:59 | |
Hopefully. They would have seen us mooching about, and hopefully they'll smell our scent as well. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:05 | |
Who's this, bounding over there? | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
-This is Soundari. -That is Soundari. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
And who have we got coming in now? | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
We've got Svetli coming in as well. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
She's normally the more placid one. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
Right. Look at that! | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
There was I, Bob, saying, "Can they really reach up that high?" | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
but suddenly, when you see them at full stretch on their back legs, you realise what enormous cats they are. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:32 | |
It is incredible. These have still got some growing to do. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
-Really? -These are only just two years old, so they have a bit more to do. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:40 | |
What do you think she was doing there? Just testing out the tree to see what grip...? | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
She can see those big pieces up there, but she's not going any higher than her body will actually let her. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:50 | |
She's trying to find her easiest route up there. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
It's not going to be easy for her. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:55 | |
If we make it too easy, they just jump up there, get it away and gone. | 0:17:55 | 0:18:00 | |
She'll take the easy option. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:02 | |
-There she goes, there she goes! -Wow! | 0:18:02 | 0:18:04 | |
-Look at that! -She makes it look completely effortless. -Amazing. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
She's got a prize now, and that's what we want. She worked for it. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:12 | |
She's not going to go very far away from that tree because she knows there's more up there. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
It does seem strange, Bob, that given that these are tigers | 0:18:27 | 0:18:31 | |
that were born in captivity, they've never come across predators | 0:18:31 | 0:18:35 | |
and even if they had, you can't get further up the food chain than them. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:40 | |
And yet they are so wary. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
Why would that be? | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
I think they're very cautious, because it is something totally new to them. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:48 | |
If you were to do that daily, then they'd obviously come out | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
and be quite blase about it. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
But it's something new to them, so I suppose, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
rather than jump in at the deep end and find out you can't swim, | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
they are just paddling. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
-Here she goes. -So she's almost eating as she goes along, | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
but that's a slightly bigger chunk, so does she have to get off to eat that? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
She could lay there, but she'd most probably... | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
She's just proved me wrong by turning around! | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
It's a slightly wider part of the tree, isn't it? | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
She'd generally just go off to a safe area where she finds it | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
comfortable and reasonably safe to eat. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
There she goes. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
Now, this is the really high bit, so she's thinking, | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
"I've eaten a lot now. I'm not sure if I can haul my body back up that tree." | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
She's put on a few pounds since this morning. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
She's just trying to find the easier way around, look. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
No, don't go up behind there, we can't see. She's got some, though. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
That's one of the smaller pieces I think I put at the bottom of the tree. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
She's not letting anything go to waste. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
-And there she goes. -There she is, wow. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
Look at her, going all the way up. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
That is just incredibly high. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
She's struggling to grip and move up, because the pieces are a little bit higher. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:06 | |
-There goes, she's got it. -She's got it. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
I know nothing will replace the other three, but it is lovely. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:14 | |
Bob, thank you very much indeed | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
for letting us join in this tiger experiment, | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
and I think we shall leave them in peace | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
to keep finding their meat throughout the day. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
-That's a lot. -Thanks, Bob. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
A few years ago, we followed a series of dramatic events as they unfolded in Wallaby Wood. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:37 | |
It began when a young female died from an infection in the mouth. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
Then, not long after, keepers Paul Pettenden and Mel Newby made another terrible discovery. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:48 | |
Just went to feed the wallabies, check on them, and actually found a dead one just in the corner. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:55 | |
It is quite upsetting, yeah, but you've got to get on with it | 0:20:55 | 0:21:02 | |
and make sure the others get through. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
But could this case be linked to the first death? | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
Duncan the vet was called in to do a post-mortem. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
He discovered that the second wallaby was suffering from a completely different problem. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:17 | |
There's a horrible bloody fluid in the small intestine | 0:21:17 | 0:21:22 | |
and I think, basically, she has died from enteritis. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
Enteritis is basically inflammation of the intestine, | 0:21:25 | 0:21:29 | |
so it's just sort of a severe gut upset. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:34 | |
I mean, if it's an infectious disease, | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
there's always a possibility it could spread through the whole colony. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
And that would be a catastrophe. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
So tissue samples from the dead female were sent for urgent analysis. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:49 | |
With the spectre of a mysterious disease hanging over Wallaby Wood, it looked like grim times lay ahead. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:57 | |
But sometimes, at the darkest hour, there is a ray of light. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:01 | |
When Paul and Mel took a closer look at the dead female, | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
they discovered something that was little short of a miracle. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
We heard some breathing and then we noticed that the stomach was moving. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:15 | |
So we went and got some gloves on, and checked the pouch | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
and found a baby wallaby inside the pouch, still alive. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
Against all the odds, a joey was still alive inside the pouch. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:30 | |
They had lost the mother, but the race was now on to save her baby. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
The baby was rushed straight to Pets' Corner, where keepers have experience caring for little orphans. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:42 | |
The joey was a female and only about five months old. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
Darren Beasley knew how vital it was to get her feeding. | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
It's always a big worry when you have to hand-rear an animal. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
You never know whether you're going to do the right thing, | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
because obviously, some animals, if you hand-rear them, they can't be reintroduced. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
Is it going to live, is it going to eat? | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
From what I understand, it's been without its mum for a couple of hours, | 0:23:06 | 0:23:11 | |
a few hours, so it might be touch-and-go for the first 24 hours. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:15 | |
The baby would need milk every two hours because that's how often she would have fed from her mother. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:20 | |
Cow's milk is too rich, so keeper Bev Allen had goat's milk in the bottle. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:27 | |
You have to try and get her to feed off the bottle. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
And of course, this is not natural for a wallaby, | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
so it's sort of a gradual thing that you've got to do by putting the milk in | 0:23:32 | 0:23:37 | |
and getting the baby used to it. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
And then eventually, it should latch on to the bottle | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
and just start drinking naturally, basically, so hopefully it will get the hang of it. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:49 | |
Hopefully she will survive and grow up, but we've just got to wait and see, really. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:56 | |
Tonight is the first night, basically, so it's going to be | 0:23:56 | 0:24:00 | |
whether she will survive or not. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
For Bev, This would be the most demanding duty she'd ever taken on | 0:24:03 | 0:24:07 | |
and we'll be back in Pets' Corner later to find out if the youngster survived. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:13 | |
For the last four and a half centuries, | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
almost every Lord of Longleat got themselves painted | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
at least once so that they could join all the ancestors on the walls of the great house. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:32 | |
But Alexander Thynn, the seventh Marquess of Bath, | 0:24:36 | 0:24:41 | |
is not only the most colourful family member, but he's also the most painted. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:46 | |
There are dozens of portraits of him dotted around the house. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
And now there's a brand-new one, painted by a local artist Robert Tilleard, | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
so I've met up with Lord Bath and his faithful companion Boudicca for a private viewing. | 0:24:55 | 0:25:02 | |
So this is the latest portrait. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:03 | |
Oh, it's brilliant! I really like that. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:07 | |
I think Boudicca is the selling-point of the picture. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
Now, you see, you're doing yourself a disservice there. | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
I think the two of you... What's so lovely about it is that so often these sort of ancestral portraits, | 0:25:15 | 0:25:22 | |
if you like, are sort of stiff and formal, but that is absolutely you and your dog. It's lovely. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:28 | |
And also, I expect I'm the first one in the family to sit on the stairs for the portrait. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:34 | |
With bare feet. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
-Yes. -Which is very important. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
It is very much her expression. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
But I love the fact that he has allowed you very much to be you. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:45 | |
-Yes. -Is that important? | 0:25:45 | 0:25:47 | |
If you're asking an artist to paint you, do you have a say in how you are portrayed? | 0:25:47 | 0:25:53 | |
That sounds silly, but artists do have very fixed ideas sometimes. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:58 | |
I certainly liked to go along with this completely. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:03 | |
I think sometimes, one wonders, couldn't it have been another expression? | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
Don't I have any other expressions? | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
But in this case, I'm really quite happy with my expression. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
But I think the selling-point is Boudicca's expression. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
She does, she looks the picture of a very content dog. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
How on earth did you get her to sit? | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
-Did you both have to sit for hours on end? -Many photographs were taken. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
And I think, as far as she was concerned, it was practically all done from the photograph. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:35 | |
Cos she's not very good at standing still. She's sort of sniffing around here. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
She's a very curious dog, isn't she? | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
So there's a great tradition, isn't there, | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
for ancestral portraits in the house? The house seems to be full of them. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
Well, I think that once Sir John had set the pattern that there was a portrait of him... | 0:26:55 | 0:27:01 | |
We're missing his wife. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
-That was destroyed in a fire. -Right. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
But there has been practically every one since. | 0:27:05 | 0:27:09 | |
They're there, but they don't have their doggies. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
It's quite recent we have the doggies. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
You've definitely started a new trend. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
Thank you very much for showing me this latest portrait, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
and we've got lots more coming up on today's programme. | 0:27:27 | 0:27:31 | |
We'll find out what happened to Bev's little baby. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
I'll be making a strange discovery up in the woods. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
Look, look at that! | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
And I'll be meeting a bird named Lucky Chestnut | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
to see why a turkey is for life, not just for Christmas. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
But first, we're going back to the lake, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
because there is about to be an emergency. | 0:27:57 | 0:27:59 | |
Driving the boat is Alexa Fairbairn, and Bill Lord is here to assess | 0:27:59 | 0:28:04 | |
her performance, while crewing is John Reynolds. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:07 | |
He is being watched by Darren. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
And there's just one passenger on board, though he's not going to be a passenger for long. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:17 | |
His name is Kyle. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:18 | |
He's on loan from the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 | |
-He weighs 30 kilos and he's about to need rescuing. -Good luck, mate. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:27 | |
Man overboard on the starboard side! | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, if I can ask everyone to retake their seats. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:35 | |
If everyone can remain calm and keep the gangways clear just in the meantime, | 0:28:35 | 0:28:41 | |
-while we sort this situation out. -That's good, that's good, he got control of passengers straightaway. | 0:28:41 | 0:28:46 | |
That's crucial. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
While John throws perry buoys out to Kyle, | 0:28:48 | 0:28:51 | |
Alexa is struggling to spot exactly where the dummy is, | 0:28:51 | 0:28:55 | |
so that she can keep the boat's lethal drive motors away. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:59 | |
Here it is, right behind you. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:01 | |
We're doing a very quick turn. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:08 | |
Get the boat to him in a very fast manner, but then stop it before we get to him. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:13 | |
And the reason we've turned is to keep him out of the way of the outdrive | 0:29:13 | 0:29:17 | |
cos otherwise it would cut him up. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:20 | |
In reality now, our big worry is he's got to try and stop people jumping in the water, | 0:29:25 | 0:29:31 | |
cos obviously people are going to try and help. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
One person in the water is bad enough. More than one... | 0:29:33 | 0:29:37 | |
I noticed he glanced over and he got a sighting of the hippos. I am hoping he's looking. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
With the territorial hippos and over-boisterous sea lions so close, it's vital that John and Alexa | 0:29:41 | 0:29:46 | |
work together to get the dummy out of the water as soon as possible. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:50 | |
Reverse, and... | 0:29:52 | 0:29:54 | |
Meanwhile on the bank, staff from the quay are moving into position to help | 0:29:58 | 0:30:03 | |
in case John can't get the dummy on board | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
and the only way to rescue it is to drag it over to the side. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
The dummy weighs 30 kilos. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
That's the equivalent of a ten-year-old boy. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:19 | |
But with waterlogged clothing, he'll feel much heavier. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:23 | |
The weight of it takes John by surprise | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
and almost pulls him into the lake. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
The pressure's on. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:33 | |
John has only a few seconds to get Kyle back on board. | 0:30:33 | 0:30:37 | |
If he was a real person, | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
he might be close to drowning by now, or to being attacked. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
That went very, very well. That's a heavy old dummy. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
I think the water added 30 kilos. | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
130 kilos I think, the way that was. | 0:30:57 | 0:30:59 | |
That was pretty quick. Alexa manoeuvred the boat very well. | 0:30:59 | 0:31:03 | |
Come in. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:07 | |
'We've managed to get him on board, | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
'so we'll meet you back at the quay.' | 0:31:09 | 0:31:11 | |
Yep, OK. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:13 | |
First aider may be required. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:15 | |
That's it, well done. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
That's good. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:18 | |
That's A, B and C done. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
Now we've go to, D, make sure these guys get the boat landed. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:24 | |
I can see we've got Kim waiting. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:26 | |
She's a first aider. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:27 | |
We would have got an ambulance on the way anyway. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:30 | |
We've not done it today, even though, obviously, | 0:31:30 | 0:31:33 | |
we would in real time. | 0:31:33 | 0:31:34 | |
Slow it a bit now. | 0:31:37 | 0:31:39 | |
It's gonna be a six-minute retrieval. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
When you think we were right at the far end of the lake, that's really jolly good. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:45 | |
Stop. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:46 | |
Brilliant, brilliant. That's rope on. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:49 | |
Well done, Johnny. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:50 | |
How are you feeling? | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
-He's a bit wet, mate. -A bit soggy. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:56 | |
Once back at the quay, the practice rescue is over. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
Time to assess how it went. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
It wasn't easy, actually. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:04 | |
Once I'd got both the arms hooked, it wasn't so bad, | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
but until I got both the arms hooked, | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
it was quite difficult to keep hold of the person. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:14 | |
Doing it with a doll is a lot more realistic, it's a lot heavier, | 0:32:14 | 0:32:18 | |
so it means a lot more work for John. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
A lot more work for me to be able to spot him as well, | 0:32:20 | 0:32:22 | |
because he's not wearing a fluorescent jacket. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:25 | |
It could be so much more dangerous if you don't get things right. | 0:32:25 | 0:32:29 | |
One mistake by the driver or by the crew member, he goes in the plop, | 0:32:29 | 0:32:33 | |
Alexa actually hits the casualty in the water with the boat... | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
There's so much to worry about. I take my hat off to these guys. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:41 | |
They're doing a sterling job | 0:32:41 | 0:32:42 | |
and I'll be coming on his boat for a ride in the future, I can tell you. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
Today, we're looking back | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
at one of the most heart-wrenching tales we've followed | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
since we first started filming ten years ago. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:13 | |
It began when a wallaby died of an infection in the mouth. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:16 | |
A couple of weeks later, | 0:33:16 | 0:33:18 | |
another was found dead from a mysterious illness in the gut. | 0:33:18 | 0:33:23 | |
But it was the strangest thing. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:25 | |
In the dead mother's pouch, her baby was still alive. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:30 | |
It was rushed to Pets Corner, where keeper Bev Allen | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
started trying to feed her by hand | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
with goat's milk in a bottle, every two hours round the clock. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:41 | |
The next day, I was there when tragedy struck again. | 0:33:41 | 0:33:44 | |
I've come up to find safari park vet Duncan Williams, | 0:33:44 | 0:33:47 | |
because there's been more bad news about the wallabies. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:50 | |
Duncan, what's happened? | 0:33:50 | 0:33:51 | |
Well, we lost another female overnight. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:55 | |
So that's two in two days? | 0:33:55 | 0:33:56 | |
That's right. I've just post-mortemed the second one. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
Unfortunately, we haven't found the same signs as we did on the first one. | 0:33:59 | 0:34:03 | |
There wasn't the extensive gut infection | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
going on in the second one as there was in the first. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
Presumably, you're gonna have to wait for results | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
to find out exactly the cause of death. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:14 | |
But are you worried that this could be some sort of contagious bug? | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
I should get results towards the end of this week. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:21 | |
It will be good to know exactly what's doing it, | 0:34:21 | 0:34:23 | |
because the implications for the others are quite major. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
If it is an infectious thing, we have to get in there | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
and try and prevent it from spreading. | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
Have you ever come across anything like this before? | 0:34:31 | 0:34:35 | |
No, not to this extent. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
To lose animals as quick as this, we haven't really seen this. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:41 | |
-So it's a real mystery? -Yeah. -They both had joeys, I gather? | 0:34:41 | 0:34:45 | |
That's right, yeah. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:47 | |
It was another female joey just now. | 0:34:47 | 0:34:50 | |
I think it's going down to Pets Corner | 0:34:50 | 0:34:52 | |
and Bev's going to try and hand rear that one as well. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:55 | |
She's going to look after two? | 0:34:55 | 0:34:57 | |
She's gonna have her work cut out. Unfortunately, they are very young. | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
They haven't got much hair, so it's going to be a harder job for her | 0:35:00 | 0:35:04 | |
to recreate pouch conditions sufficient for them to survive. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:08 | |
With two joeys to be hand-reared | 0:35:12 | 0:35:14 | |
and the illness still unexplained, | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
the park was mobilised, ready to deal with a major crisis. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:20 | |
Deputy Head Warden Ian Turner went to conduct a grim search | 0:35:20 | 0:35:24 | |
for more bodies. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:26 | |
Just got to check around everywhere, just to make sure that there's nothing tucked away. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:33 | |
That's fine. They've been in here last night. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
You can see where they shuffled the straw up a bit. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:41 | |
Ian is about as experienced a keeper as you can get, | 0:35:41 | 0:35:46 | |
but was still affected by the situation. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
When stuff gets old or it's poorly, | 0:35:49 | 0:35:52 | |
when you're prepared for it because it's been ill, it's a lot easier. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:55 | |
When you turn up every morning | 0:35:55 | 0:35:57 | |
and you have to look round like this... | 0:35:57 | 0:36:00 | |
We do a check every morning anyhow, | 0:36:00 | 0:36:02 | |
so it's a normal check, but now it's a bit more tense, | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
because you're expecting to find something. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
Back in Pets Corner, Bev was working hard to save the two baby wallabies, | 0:36:11 | 0:36:15 | |
but despite her best efforts, | 0:36:15 | 0:36:18 | |
the chance of them both surviving was never good. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:21 | |
I'm afraid the first wallaby did pass away. | 0:36:24 | 0:36:27 | |
It was pretty upsetting, | 0:36:27 | 0:36:30 | |
but it was sort of touch-and-go, early days. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
It's sort of all that hard work I put into it. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:38 | |
It gets to you a little bit. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
It is very sad. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:41 | |
I've got to say, on a personal note, Bev is doing brilliant. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:45 | |
I mean, it's quite heart-wrenching to put your heart into something | 0:36:45 | 0:36:48 | |
and then lose it, but she's done it. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
She's pulled through | 0:36:51 | 0:36:53 | |
and, hopefully, she's gonna concentrate on the second one now. | 0:36:53 | 0:36:56 | |
Poor Bev was back to square one. | 0:36:56 | 0:37:00 | |
She had to start the two-hourly feeds all over again | 0:37:00 | 0:37:04 | |
with the new little orphan. | 0:37:04 | 0:37:06 | |
It's just sort of got used to taking the bottle now, | 0:37:08 | 0:37:12 | |
so, as you can see, she's drinking quite well. | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
It's just like a human baby, | 0:37:17 | 0:37:20 | |
because you've got to get up, you've got to feed it. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:22 | |
If she gets too dirty, we've got to give her a quick wash | 0:37:22 | 0:37:26 | |
to make sure she's clean. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:28 | |
It does take a lot of time, but it's worth it. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:31 | |
Bev made an artificial pouch with a hot-water bottle, sheets and towels | 0:37:31 | 0:37:36 | |
to keep the orphan safe and warm. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
Meanwhile, back up in Wallaby Wood, | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
Ian finished his search and, at last, there was some good news. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
Today, there's nothing. Nothing yesterday. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:48 | |
If there's nothing tomorrow and nothing at the weekend, | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
we can start thinking we're in the clear, | 0:37:51 | 0:37:54 | |
and it was something and nothing. | 0:37:54 | 0:37:56 | |
But this tale is far from over. | 0:37:56 | 0:37:59 | |
Find out later on what happened in Wallaby Wood | 0:37:59 | 0:38:02 | |
and if Bev's remaining little orphan ever survived. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:06 | |
There's a new boy in the park | 0:38:15 | 0:38:17 | |
and it looks like he may be a bit of a psycho! | 0:38:17 | 0:38:20 | |
At first, they were holding him in Pets Corner, | 0:38:24 | 0:38:27 | |
but he kept escaping and attacking pushchairs with babies in them. | 0:38:27 | 0:38:31 | |
So now, they've moved him somewhere safe. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
But is he really bad or is he just misunderstood? | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
It is, of course, the turkey and just over here is Lucky Chestnut. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:45 | |
Now, John, you're Lucky Chestnut's keeper. What kind of turkey is he? | 0:38:45 | 0:38:49 | |
-He is an English Buff. -Right, the markings on the head are incredible. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:54 | |
They are. they do change colour. | 0:38:54 | 0:38:56 | |
What's he doing now? | 0:38:56 | 0:38:57 | |
-He's just displaying right now. -OK. | 0:38:57 | 0:39:01 | |
-He's about a year old. -Right. | 0:39:01 | 0:39:03 | |
What are we doing down here with these apples on strings? | 0:39:03 | 0:39:06 | |
-Well... -We're not gonna stuff the turkey, are we? | 0:39:06 | 0:39:09 | |
Not today, I'm afraid, no. | 0:39:09 | 0:39:10 | |
-We're gonna give him a little bit of enrichment. -Right. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
We just like to make sure he's always got something to do to, | 0:39:14 | 0:39:18 | |
keep him occupied and entertained throughout the day. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
OK, so what are we doing with the apples then? | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
We've got some pieces of bamboo. One over there and one over there. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:27 | |
We'll just stick them on there, hang them, | 0:39:27 | 0:39:29 | |
so he's got something to peck away at. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:31 | |
So, obviously, they like apples. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:33 | |
-What sort of height do you think we want to go at? -Just... | 0:39:33 | 0:39:37 | |
-About there? -That's about right. -So they like apples, what else? | 0:39:37 | 0:39:41 | |
What else does he like? Cabbage, carrots, grasses. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:45 | |
We don't give him too much grass though. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
And how long has he been here now? | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
He's only been here a couple of weeks. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:52 | |
He was in Pets Corner originally, but he kept escaping. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:55 | |
-Did he? Are they good escape artists? -He is a very good escape artist. | 0:39:55 | 0:39:59 | |
He escaped at least three times down there. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:01 | |
Having a look at his face again, there are these incredible, | 0:40:01 | 0:40:04 | |
sort of red bits that hang down from the neck, what is that? | 0:40:04 | 0:40:08 | |
They are the caruncles. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
-And those are the things that change colour according to its mood? -Yes. | 0:40:10 | 0:40:15 | |
He goes very, very bright red, or he goes blue. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:18 | |
On occasion, he goes white as well. | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
They are an extraordinary colour. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:22 | |
And there's one little feather that looks like it's falling out at the front, it's black. What's that? | 0:40:22 | 0:40:28 | |
-I believe it's just called the beard. -And it does look beard-like. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:32 | |
It does. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:33 | |
It looks like a paint brush, sort of... Bristles, I think. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:37 | |
It might sound like a daft question, can they be slightly aggressive? | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
The whole crew are running away now. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:43 | |
They look terrified as this turkey chases them around the enclosure. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:48 | |
Could they do any damage? | 0:40:48 | 0:40:50 | |
I wouldn't have thought he'd do much damage, | 0:40:50 | 0:40:53 | |
but if you stand your ground, generally he'll leave you alone. | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
But if you keep on running away from him, like the crew are... | 0:40:56 | 0:40:59 | |
Stay still, everybody! | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
-Then he thinks he's boss. -Right. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:04 | |
While Lucky Chestnut is chasing Ben and the crew around, | 0:41:04 | 0:41:08 | |
I thought I'd let you know a couple of interesting facts about turkeys. | 0:41:08 | 0:41:12 | |
They came originally from America | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
and may have got their name because people believed | 0:41:14 | 0:41:18 | |
they were related to a kind of guinea fowl | 0:41:18 | 0:41:20 | |
that was introduced to Western Europe from Turkey. | 0:41:20 | 0:41:24 | |
By the way, a female turkey is called a hen, but a male is called a stag. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:30 | |
There is a possibility you'll get him a mate here? That is on the cards? | 0:41:30 | 0:41:34 | |
Hopefully we'll get him a mate. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:36 | |
My only suggestion is if you do, | 0:41:36 | 0:41:38 | |
you'll have to call it Lucky Brussels Sprout. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:40 | |
Yes! | 0:41:40 | 0:41:41 | |
-Thank you very much. -You're very welcome. | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
You're all so scared! | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
The East Africa reserve is home to the safari park's biggest animals. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:54 | |
But it's also the natural habitat to thousands of other creatures, | 0:41:54 | 0:41:58 | |
very small ones. | 0:41:58 | 0:41:59 | |
All those British species we sometimes take for granted. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:04 | |
Recently, the East Africa team, | 0:42:06 | 0:42:09 | |
led by Andy Hayton, | 0:42:09 | 0:42:10 | |
has been working on some schemes to encourage our own native wildlife. | 0:42:10 | 0:42:16 | |
So as well as the stuff that you're doing down there, | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
the bird boxes and the feeders, | 0:42:19 | 0:42:21 | |
it looks like you've been going to town up here | 0:42:21 | 0:42:24 | |
with the much more natural habitat. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:26 | |
Yeah, some people may say it looks like a mess, | 0:42:26 | 0:42:29 | |
but these are all natural deadwood habitats. | 0:42:29 | 0:42:32 | |
So in your normal woodland, you would get all this breaking down, | 0:42:32 | 0:42:37 | |
which then encourages invertebrates, | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
which then encourages voles and hedgehogs and this kind of thing. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:42 | |
-You can see the fungus growing. -Yeah. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:45 | |
This sort of thing is brilliant for things like beetles, | 0:42:45 | 0:42:50 | |
and if you get stag beetles, | 0:42:50 | 0:42:51 | |
which are having a really hard time at the moment, | 0:42:51 | 0:42:54 | |
because they don't have habitat. | 0:42:54 | 0:42:56 | |
-The problem is that people think they have to be tidy. -Absolutely. | 0:42:56 | 0:43:00 | |
And this certainly isn't tidy, | 0:43:00 | 0:43:02 | |
but when you start explaining to people what it is... | 0:43:02 | 0:43:05 | |
You can do so much in here. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
Look, just pecking away at these leaves here, | 0:43:08 | 0:43:13 | |
you've got, basically, dinner for all sorts of things. | 0:43:13 | 0:43:18 | |
Of course, I've lost it... But woodlice in there. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:20 | |
And there's a little worm in there. | 0:43:20 | 0:43:24 | |
So, as you say, this is going to encourage in | 0:43:24 | 0:43:26 | |
all sorts of birds, little mammals. | 0:43:26 | 0:43:30 | |
It's absolutely brilliant. Why did you get so enthused by this? | 0:43:30 | 0:43:35 | |
I've really, really got into it now. It's great. | 0:43:35 | 0:43:40 | |
There's a log over there, | 0:43:40 | 0:43:42 | |
we've put some chainsaw cuts in. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:43 | |
-Again, brilliant for insects. -They can hide. | 0:43:43 | 0:43:47 | |
Nice that you've kept nettles. | 0:43:47 | 0:43:48 | |
People always want to obliterate nettles, and they do take over, but they're great for butterflies. | 0:43:48 | 0:43:54 | |
Absolutely, yeah. | 0:43:54 | 0:43:55 | |
Even if people have got a tiny little garden... | 0:43:55 | 0:43:58 | |
It doesn't have to be anything as big as this. | 0:43:58 | 0:44:00 | |
Half a dozen logs stacked up fairly neatly with leaves in there, | 0:44:00 | 0:44:04 | |
they'll start rotting down, and you'd be amazed at what moves in. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:07 | |
For kids, as well. You'll see... | 0:44:07 | 0:44:09 | |
-Shall we see if there's anything under these? -Yeah. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:12 | |
For children to go rooting through this is kind of treasure. | 0:44:12 | 0:44:16 | |
Look, we've got a great little beetle there. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:18 | |
Worms, lots of woodlice here. | 0:44:18 | 0:44:20 | |
Loads of different larvae, slugs... | 0:44:20 | 0:44:23 | |
All this kind of stuff will attract other animals in. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:26 | |
We've had lots of toads down under these things. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:31 | |
Newts. In this pile, I was messing around and I found a couple of newts. | 0:44:31 | 0:44:36 | |
Oh, fantastic! | 0:44:36 | 0:44:38 | |
-Ooh, look! -A little toad. -Look at that. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:40 | |
You mentioned you'd found newts. I think that's exactly what that is. | 0:44:40 | 0:44:44 | |
-Quite a tiddler. -Fantastic, isn't it? | 0:44:44 | 0:44:47 | |
Look at that lovely orange belly. Flick over... | 0:44:47 | 0:44:49 | |
I think that would mean... | 0:44:49 | 0:44:52 | |
There we go. You're not going to show it off, are you? | 0:44:52 | 0:44:55 | |
That is a common newt, I would have a guess at. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:58 | |
What a great little thing. | 0:44:58 | 0:45:00 | |
It's fantastic to find little ones. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:02 | |
That is great, cos they're obviously breeding right here. | 0:45:02 | 0:45:06 | |
You don't really need to say a huge amount more than that, | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
seeing that little guy. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:11 | |
Let's pop him back | 0:45:11 | 0:45:13 | |
and cover them up again. | 0:45:13 | 0:45:15 | |
-That's really good. -That's great news. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:19 | |
It's nice to find something like that. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:21 | |
It kind of shows what you're doing is right. | 0:45:21 | 0:45:24 | |
-And basically in one season. -Yeah, yeah. -So quick. | 0:45:24 | 0:45:28 | |
And it's only going to get better and better and better, hopefully. | 0:45:28 | 0:45:32 | |
One week after the last unexplained death in Wallaby Wood, | 0:45:45 | 0:45:49 | |
it began to look as if they were finally past the worst. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:54 | |
The lab results confirmed that all three adults died from unconnected infections. | 0:45:54 | 0:45:58 | |
It was all just pure bad luck. | 0:45:58 | 0:46:01 | |
Down in Pets Corner, there was more good news. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:06 | |
Bev Allen's little orphan joey was doing very well, | 0:46:06 | 0:46:09 | |
apart from a minor problem with dry skin. | 0:46:09 | 0:46:12 | |
Bev named her Kimberley, or just Kim for short. | 0:46:12 | 0:46:17 | |
I'm going to put some aloe vera cream onto her skin, | 0:46:17 | 0:46:20 | |
because she's quite flaky. | 0:46:20 | 0:46:21 | |
She's got very dry skin, so it just helps her skin out. | 0:46:21 | 0:46:26 | |
She's still very wobbly on her feet. | 0:46:26 | 0:46:29 | |
But she's getting better. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:31 | |
She don't like coming out, | 0:46:32 | 0:46:34 | |
so she tries to find somewhere to hide when she's out. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:37 | |
Here she comes. | 0:46:37 | 0:46:38 | |
Hello. | 0:46:40 | 0:46:42 | |
That's it, it's OK. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:44 | |
I usually do it two to three times a day, | 0:46:48 | 0:46:53 | |
just to help out. | 0:46:53 | 0:46:54 | |
It has got a lot better, cos we've been doing it for about a week | 0:46:54 | 0:46:57 | |
and it's a lot better than it was, which is really good. | 0:46:57 | 0:47:01 | |
Under Bev's care, Kim went from strength to strength. | 0:47:03 | 0:47:07 | |
And a few months later, | 0:47:10 | 0:47:12 | |
Kate was there when it was time for some exercise. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
OK, we'll just pop her down here. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:17 | |
Have you been doing this reasonably regularly? | 0:47:21 | 0:47:24 | |
Is this an important part of her development? | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
Yeah, I basically do it every day. | 0:47:26 | 0:47:28 | |
She's at that stage where she would come out of the mum's pouch, | 0:47:28 | 0:47:32 | |
run around and then go back in when she wants to. | 0:47:32 | 0:47:35 | |
-Right. -So it's just getting her used to it, basically. | 0:47:35 | 0:47:37 | |
And presumably getting strength into her limbs and all of that? | 0:47:37 | 0:47:42 | |
She's a lot faster than she used to be. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:44 | |
She's had practice running around, so she's getting a lot better now. | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
Look at her! She's so... | 0:47:47 | 0:47:49 | |
Her coat's really grown. Wow, Kimberley, look at you! | 0:47:49 | 0:47:55 | |
-She's enormous, Bev! -She's getting a lot bigger now. | 0:47:55 | 0:47:58 | |
-Isn't she?! -She's getting there. | 0:47:58 | 0:48:00 | |
She just looks fantastic. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:03 | |
Look at you! Aren't you a beautiful girl? | 0:48:03 | 0:48:06 | |
But Bev couldn't keep Kim forever. | 0:48:07 | 0:48:10 | |
That wouldn't be a full life for a wallaby. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:13 | |
So after all they'd been through, | 0:48:13 | 0:48:15 | |
the day finally came to cut the bonds and take Kim back to Wallaby Wood. | 0:48:15 | 0:48:21 | |
Yeah, big day for Kim and me. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:38 | |
Her age is good, because she's about a year and two months now, | 0:48:38 | 0:48:42 | |
so that's a good age to put her back. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:44 | |
It is a bit scary for me to leave her overnight. It's a big worry. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:49 | |
I think once tonight's over and done with | 0:48:49 | 0:48:52 | |
and I can see her in the morning, | 0:48:52 | 0:48:54 | |
it's gonna be a relief on myself, really. | 0:48:54 | 0:48:57 | |
I think she's always going to be a bit friendly and tame, | 0:49:08 | 0:49:13 | |
because she has been hand-reared. | 0:49:13 | 0:49:16 | |
Which isn't a bad thing, because you can get close to her, | 0:49:16 | 0:49:20 | |
you can monitor her and if you need to give her medication, you can. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:24 | |
She is mixing with the other wallabies, | 0:49:24 | 0:49:26 | |
No problem with her being hand-reared. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:29 | |
They don't mind. | 0:49:29 | 0:49:30 | |
So really pleased, really good. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:32 | |
When she came to me, she was very weak. | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
So I did think, was she going to make it? | 0:49:38 | 0:49:42 | |
But she did. | 0:49:42 | 0:49:44 | |
The first couple of days, I was trying to keep her warm. | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
To get her to drink as well was critical, basically. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:50 | |
She had to drink the milk. | 0:49:50 | 0:49:52 | |
After the first couple of weeks, because she was very strong. | 0:49:52 | 0:49:56 | |
Look at her now. She's eating. | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
A bit sad in a way that she has to come back with the other wallabies, | 0:50:02 | 0:50:06 | |
but I can come up and visit her, and just watch her grow and get bigger, | 0:50:06 | 0:50:10 | |
and hopefully have little joeys of her own! | 0:50:10 | 0:50:13 | |
In the year since that fateful day, | 0:50:20 | 0:50:22 | |
Kim has settled well, and led a full life with all the other wallabies. | 0:50:22 | 0:50:26 | |
But with all the time that's passed, how are Bev and Kim getting on now? | 0:50:26 | 0:50:31 | |
I've come to join a rendezvous in Wallaby Wood. | 0:50:31 | 0:50:34 | |
Now, it's not often that keepers from different sections | 0:50:40 | 0:50:43 | |
here in the safari park get to meet, | 0:50:43 | 0:50:45 | |
but today it's a meeting of Bevs. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
Over here, we have got Bev Allen from Pets Corner, | 0:50:48 | 0:50:51 | |
-with Bev Evans from Wallaby Wood, effectively. -Yes. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:56 | |
Now, Bev, you're here meeting an old friend, this is Kim the wallaby, | 0:50:56 | 0:50:59 | |
who you hand-reared. | 0:50:59 | 0:51:01 | |
Yeah, I hand-reared her quite a few years ago now, when she was only | 0:51:01 | 0:51:05 | |
about five months old, so, as you can see, she's a lot bigger now. | 0:51:05 | 0:51:10 | |
What I loved is that you suggested this Bev comes in first to give her | 0:51:10 | 0:51:15 | |
a piece of banana, because she remembers her so well. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:18 | |
Yes, she does, definitely. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:20 | |
Kim is incredibly friendly to us guys up here, but | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
there's definitely still a bond between Bev and Kim. | 0:51:23 | 0:51:26 | |
Tell me, whenever you come up and see her, do you get a warm feeling, | 0:51:26 | 0:51:31 | |
that, "Wow, I hand-reared her!" | 0:51:31 | 0:51:33 | |
Yeah, I'm really pleased that she has done so well, and I'm just... | 0:51:33 | 0:51:39 | |
I'm pleased that she's been accepted back in with the group, | 0:51:39 | 0:51:43 | |
which is amazing. | 0:51:43 | 0:51:44 | |
Because it was really hard to say goodbye to her all those years ago, | 0:51:44 | 0:51:48 | |
to get her mixed back in. | 0:51:48 | 0:51:50 | |
I was worried something might go wrong or they might not accept her. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:53 | |
But seeing her now, how she is now, is amazing. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:57 | |
You've got a beaming smile! | 0:51:57 | 0:51:58 | |
Just remind me, you literally had her in a rucksack. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:03 | |
Oh, look, she's dashing off now. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:05 | |
You had her in a rucksack for a long period of time. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
I was hand-rearing her up to about 10 months, | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
so it was a very long time that she was with me. | 0:52:11 | 0:52:14 | |
Getting up every two hours to feed her to begin with, | 0:52:14 | 0:52:17 | |
and then bringing her up here to meet the other wallabies as well, | 0:52:17 | 0:52:20 | |
and getting her introduced to the group. Yeah, it's hard work. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
And how has she settled in here, pretty well? | 0:52:24 | 0:52:27 | |
Yeah. She's had a joey or two. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:29 | |
Haven't seen anything pop up the pouch just as yet this year, | 0:52:29 | 0:52:33 | |
but she gets on with her adult male here and the rest of the girls. | 0:52:33 | 0:52:37 | |
Would you ever consider doing the work that Bev did with the wallaby? | 0:52:37 | 0:52:41 | |
Because Bev's so good at it, | 0:52:41 | 0:52:43 | |
all we can do is give her all the random joeys from now on! | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
-You'll get on to the phone down to Pets Corner. -Emergency. | 0:52:46 | 0:52:50 | |
-Emergency mum! -Exactly. -Listen, I hope it doesn't happen again, | 0:52:50 | 0:52:54 | |
let's hope they do look after them themselves, | 0:52:54 | 0:52:57 | |
-and fantastic to see Kim doing so well. -Thank you. | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
Last year, they had some trouble with Trevor the ostrich. | 0:53:05 | 0:53:09 | |
It started when the keepers called in construction boss John Miles | 0:53:09 | 0:53:13 | |
to make a new water hole in the East Africa Reserve. | 0:53:13 | 0:53:17 | |
But the work coincided with the ostriches' breeding season, | 0:53:17 | 0:53:22 | |
and for some reason Trevor got it into his head | 0:53:22 | 0:53:25 | |
that John and his truck were some kind of threat. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:28 | |
Don't you kick my truck! | 0:53:28 | 0:53:30 | |
Trev, we can talk about this! | 0:53:30 | 0:53:33 | |
This year, there's been some more trouble. | 0:53:35 | 0:53:39 | |
Ben and I went to find out what's going on. | 0:53:39 | 0:53:42 | |
Well, here is everybody's favourite ostrich. It is of course Trevor. | 0:53:42 | 0:53:46 | |
I say everybody's favourite, Andy, | 0:53:46 | 0:53:49 | |
but not much of a favourite with you at the moment. | 0:53:49 | 0:53:52 | |
The amount of love and hate I've got for that animal | 0:53:52 | 0:53:55 | |
-is unbelievable at the moment. -What's he been up to? | 0:53:55 | 0:53:58 | |
As you can see on his beak, he is really, really pink at the moment. | 0:53:58 | 0:54:04 | |
And the lower legs, actually. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:06 | |
He is in full-on breeding mode at the moment. | 0:54:06 | 0:54:09 | |
So he gets this pink colour when he's in breeding mode? | 0:54:09 | 0:54:13 | |
And just a complete surge of nuttiness. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:17 | |
And I'm his main rival, I think, in Trev's mind, at the moment. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:22 | |
We've even had to sneak you in undercover in our vehicle, | 0:54:22 | 0:54:25 | |
because you can't go near him. | 0:54:25 | 0:54:27 | |
My truck, he had a lash at me this morning, and he's dented the wing, | 0:54:27 | 0:54:31 | |
and if I ever drive in here to look around the animals, | 0:54:31 | 0:54:35 | |
you can see the patrolmen, "For God's sake..." | 0:54:35 | 0:54:38 | |
It's got really outrageously out of hand, it really has. | 0:54:38 | 0:54:42 | |
I really like Trev, but he's got a major problem with my vehicle. | 0:54:42 | 0:54:47 | |
I think it's...myself and Ian Turner darted him earlier in the year - | 0:54:47 | 0:54:51 | |
we did it from my truck this year, | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
and I don't know whether, being darted from my vehicle, | 0:54:53 | 0:54:57 | |
Trev had a bit of trust for my truck | 0:54:57 | 0:54:59 | |
and all of a sudden it's bit him, and now he's... | 0:54:59 | 0:55:02 | |
-And that was a vaccine? -He had to have a vaccination, | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
and we thought "We'll do it from my truck, | 0:55:05 | 0:55:07 | |
"Trev's pretty thick and he won't remember." | 0:55:07 | 0:55:10 | |
I was going to say, it's everybody's favourite fact about ostriches | 0:55:10 | 0:55:14 | |
that their eye is bigger than their brain, | 0:55:14 | 0:55:17 | |
but maybe he's proving everybody wrong, | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
that ostriches don't forget that easily. | 0:55:19 | 0:55:22 | |
I think I'm in a pretty exclusive club now, with Johnny Miles, | 0:55:22 | 0:55:26 | |
me and him are brothers in arms with Trev. | 0:55:26 | 0:55:29 | |
-And John Miles is of course... -The contractor. | 0:55:29 | 0:55:32 | |
He'll spot John's green truck from a mile away, and just cause mayhem. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:37 | |
He despises John for some reason, and his vehicle. | 0:55:37 | 0:55:41 | |
Now I've joined that very exclusive club! | 0:55:41 | 0:55:44 | |
Presumably, if he's got this bright pink bill, | 0:55:44 | 0:55:47 | |
he's mating again, this is good news for the ostriches of Longleat. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:51 | |
It's great news, he's doing exactly what a male ostrich | 0:55:51 | 0:55:54 | |
should do, he's just unfortunately taken me as his main rival! | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
Have you been looking at Honey in a way that you shouldn't? | 0:56:00 | 0:56:03 | |
She's a good-looking bird! | 0:56:03 | 0:56:05 | |
He comes out of it, but at the moment, it's annoying, | 0:56:07 | 0:56:10 | |
because it goes to show, animals are no respecter of position. | 0:56:10 | 0:56:13 | |
I'm supposed to be in charge and I'm the lowest of low with Trevor, | 0:56:13 | 0:56:17 | |
I can't do anything with him with my vehicle. | 0:56:17 | 0:56:20 | |
That's the way it goes with animals, so I've just got to back off. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:23 | |
But it's just...rage. | 0:56:23 | 0:56:26 | |
There's no other way to describe it, | 0:56:26 | 0:56:28 | |
when he starts getting hold of me, it's absolute blind rage. | 0:56:28 | 0:56:31 | |
And I'm driving as fast as I dare, which is about 30 miles per hour, | 0:56:31 | 0:56:35 | |
and he's still running alongside me, kicking the truck. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:38 | |
Can we he heal this rift? | 0:56:38 | 0:56:40 | |
You're going to have to make up! | 0:56:40 | 0:56:43 | |
I think I'll have to get him a really nice Christmas present. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:46 | |
See what happens. | 0:56:46 | 0:56:48 | |
We'll try and come up with ideas. | 0:56:48 | 0:56:50 | |
I know you've got the engine running! | 0:56:50 | 0:56:53 | |
It's got to be my truck, cos he's right there. | 0:56:53 | 0:56:57 | |
If we were sat here in my vehicle, he'd be all over it. | 0:56:57 | 0:57:00 | |
I can forgive him. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:02 | |
Good luck with everything. Sadly we've run out of time, | 0:57:02 | 0:57:05 | |
but here's what's coming up on the next Animal Park. | 0:57:05 | 0:57:09 | |
It's all change in lion country, | 0:57:09 | 0:57:12 | |
because Kabir, the king of the pride, | 0:57:12 | 0:57:15 | |
is in danger of being attacked and killed by his own children. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:19 | |
There's a life and death struggle to save a red deer and her newborn baby. | 0:57:22 | 0:57:28 | |
'And down in the bat cave there's a tricky operation under way | 0:57:28 | 0:57:32 | |
'to give the residents their MoTs.' | 0:57:32 | 0:57:35 | |
-Well done! -You got it! | 0:57:37 | 0:57:39 | |
'We'll have all that and more on the next Animal Park.' | 0:57:39 | 0:57:42 | |
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