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The tigers are the most dangerous big cats in the park | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
and when they're inside the house, it's vital for our survival | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
that there's a good set of strong bars between us and them! | 0:00:08 | 0:00:13 | |
But of course, when they're outside, there are no bars. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
And as the park opens for another season, no-one knows quite how | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
the tigers are going to react to the visitors here. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
One thing is for certain... TIGER SNARLS | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
the keepers have to be prepared for anything. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
Today on Animal Park: The monkeys are up to their old tricks, | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
but now we've got a surprise for them. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
A keeper has a narrow escape from the jaws of death. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
All I saw was a face full of teeth and claws. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
And I'll be there to get our first look at the park's newest arrivals. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:13 | |
But first, we're going up to Tiger Territory, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
because the youngsters are getting frisky. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
Last year, three young tigers arrived from a zoo in France. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
They were just over one year old and sisters from the same litter, | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
named Soundari, Svetli and Shouri. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
They're a very rare kind, Amur tigers, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
the biggest big cats in the world. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
Between them, keepers Brian Kent and Bob Trollope | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
have over 50 years' experience of working with tigers, | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
and right from the start, they knew they had a challenge on their hands. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
One of them is fine so far. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
The other ones are grumpier with me. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
TIGER GROWLS | 0:01:53 | 0:01:54 | |
Bit more spirit, this one. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:56 | |
The tigers had to be kept in quarantine for six months | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
but then the day came to let them out | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
into their wide-open enclosure, | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
where they could meet the public passing through in their cars. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
Straight away, Soundari just wanted to play, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
but Svetli and Shouri were more wary. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
They just following the fence-line round, which is quite normal. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
We've just got to be careful now on how we approach any situation. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
For the rest of that season, Svetli and Shouri continued to hang back, | 0:02:22 | 0:02:27 | |
wary and careful, watching and waiting. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
Then the park closes in the winter, so through those long months, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:35 | |
the tigers had the place to themselves. And all the while, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
they've been growing in confidence as well as size. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:44 | |
They're just over two years old now and they've grown incredibly. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:49 | |
They're filling out as well, and looking like real adult tigers, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:55 | |
even though they've still got growing to do. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
It's really enjoyable to have young tigers again. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:02 | |
We haven't had young tigers for donkey's years. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
We're seeing things now that we haven't seen for years. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
Like a lot more playfulness, climbing up trees. It's great. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:14 | |
It means they're happy, they're showing signs of what they would do in the wild. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
But what does that mean for how the youngsters will behave with the visitors? | 0:03:19 | 0:03:25 | |
Initially, I think, they're going to be a little bit boisterous. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
But hopefully, because when you think about it, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
for the past few months, they haven't seen any vehicles in their enclosure. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
They go out every day, and no visitors go around during winter. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
I think that's going to be a bit of...playfulness for them. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:47 | |
A bit of stimulation for them, I suppose, in a way. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
Obviously, when you let them out into the park, | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
there is an element of danger. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:55 | |
They are wild animals and they will behave like wild animals. | 0:03:55 | 0:04:00 | |
They're not tame in any way. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
As you can hear her now, she's watching me and she knows full well | 0:04:03 | 0:04:09 | |
that given the chance, she will attack me. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
Isn't that right? | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
SHE ROARS | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
-Just like that! -HE LAUGHS | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
She's not the friendliest of tigers at all. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
That's our Shouri. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Now, as the safari park opens its gate for the start of a new season, | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
it's time to let the sisters out. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
All right, all right. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
Go on. | 0:04:42 | 0:04:43 | |
Go on, then. That's it. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
But Shouri may not be in the best mood to meet her public. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
-Very nice! -Friendly! | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
Bye, then. OK. Oh, what are you doing? | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
I think she's got a few issues, with people. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
In fact, Shouri in a bad mood may not be as deadly as Soundari, | 0:05:04 | 0:05:09 | |
the friendly one, in a good mood. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
Later, see just how dangerous | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
a healthy young tiger can be, just playing around. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
Hey, hey, hey! Get off it! | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
For a band of notorious vandals, | 0:05:36 | 0:05:39 | |
the park's rhesus macaque monkeys are really quite sweet. | 0:05:39 | 0:05:44 | |
There's about 80 of them here, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
and they've got into the habit of pulling bits off the visitors' cars. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
It's not malicious. They just think it's great fun. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
Last year, in a bid to distract the monkeys from this antisocial behaviour, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
the keepers put up a couple of tree-trunks | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
as a combination climbing frame and feeding station. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
And it really worked, but only for a while. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
Recently, they've gone back to their wicked ways. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
So now they need something new to play with. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
Head warden Keith Harris has been dreaming up all sorts of big ideas | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
for Monkey Jungle, and this is the first prototype, I gather, Keith? | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
It doesn't look much yet, does it? | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
We've got to sort this out first and the monkeys will afterwards. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
-OK, so it's to amuse us more than the monkeys? -Yes. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
It's in my mind so we'll make it up as we go. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
We've got to see whether they're going to start using the bungee. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
-Right. -And of course, a way to a monkey's heart is here, look. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
-Nuts. -Monkey nuts. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
So I thought we'd try it with the feeder first. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
The idea is we're going to put this tube and suspend it between | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
-two tree-trunks here, which are the feeders anyway. -Right. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
See if they'll come down and feed and if they do, then the imagination can run wild. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:04 | |
Kevin, you're here to help us out. What will they make of this? | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
They're used to the feeders. We put them behind the logs. They know there's food inside. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:13 | |
So suspending them might throw them, but I'm sure they'll come along. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
You have two extra pairs of hands to help, so just tell us what to do. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
What we're going to do is, I figure, | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
-this end, we want to go around the lower of the two trees. -OK. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:28 | |
-So pull that through. -Yeah. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:30 | |
I'll put that down on there. Go right the way round, Kate. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
-OK. -And then come back to Kevin. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:35 | |
And then I should probably use this to tie it up? | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
What I would do is do it on this bit here, so you've got a complete loop. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
-If we do that, then put one of those bull clips onto there. -I see. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
Oh, yes. Just getting it going on that one. There we go. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:53 | |
This isn't rope but extra-strong elastic bungee line, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
to give the monkeys' new feeder a bigger bounce. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
We're filling the feeder with monkey nuts. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
By the way, we've already installed a miniature camera inside the tube. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:09 | |
-Monkey feeder mark one. -Excellent. Shall we put these nuts in | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
-or do we want to scatter them around here? -Scatter them. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
And then we'll drive away. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
They've been sat on the roof of the hut over there watching us. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
They have. I have noticed. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
They never let anything go unnoticed in here, do they? | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
They have their sentinels out to see what's going on. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
Quickly, any idea who might be the first of the monkeys to come over? | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
I reckon, because he's very cheeky, it'll be the younger male. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:46 | |
He'll probably come over and investigate it first. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
OK, well, let's see what happens. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
Keith, Kevin, thank you very much indeed. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Join us later to see what the monkeys think of their brand-new bungee feeder. | 0:08:54 | 0:09:00 | |
Will it go down a storm or will it be a complete flop? | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
-Monkey nut? -Thanks. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:05 | |
It's been 10 years since we first began filming in Longleat House. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:19 | |
To mark the decade, we've been looking back at some of the dramatic events we've covered in that time. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:24 | |
Like the tale that took us on a journey | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
to the darkest corners of the criminal underworld. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
The story began a few years earlier, | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
when security at Longleat House was a lot less thorough than it is now. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
Lord Bath was upstairs in the private apartments when someone broke in. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
GLASS SMASHES | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
ALARM BEEPS | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
The alarm was triggered at 9 o'clock but Lord Bath didn't hear a thing. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
I had the sound up loud as usual, because I'm very deaf. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
And I certainly didn't hear any noises on the outside of the building. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
But the house steward came running. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
At the time, that was Ken Windas. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
You're thinking, what could it be? | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
Your heart's thumping, you're going as fast as you possibly can. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
The heist must have been planned and executed with split-second timing, | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
because by the time Ken reached the first-floor state drawing room, | 0:10:26 | 0:10:31 | |
the thieves were gone. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:32 | |
They stole just three paintings, | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
the most valuable of which was by the Italian Renaissance painter Titian | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
and was worth well over £5 million. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
The first indication that I had that the picture was gone | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
was the pieces of frame strewn on the floor in front of me as I walked in. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
And of course, that's when the feeling of dread starts, because... | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
because you think, "God." | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
And when you look and see the space where the picture was... | 0:11:01 | 0:11:05 | |
It's a very traumatic experience when you suddenly find something like that missing. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:10 | |
Ken immediately contacted estate general manager, Tim Moore. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:15 | |
Ken said, the Titian's gone, | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
or words to that effect, and I thought, "Oh, my God." | 0:11:17 | 0:11:20 | |
You're thinking to yourself, what the hell does one do? | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
We'd done an outside check. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
Smashed window, nothing there. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:30 | |
And I think it was a feeling of helplessness, | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
bitterness and a sense of despair. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
It's not like an ordinary thing, a teaspoon or something, being stolen. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:43 | |
It was very valuable and very beautiful. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:45 | |
I felt almost as if it was a personal failure on my part because I hadn't protected it. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:51 | |
The idea of somebody coming into your house, | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
taking something where you're supposed to be the custodian... | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
And I hadn't been the custodian for very long. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
My father only died a little while before that. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
And so I felt very badly that already I've lost something. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:09 | |
The police hunt for the thieves started immediately, | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
and by the next morning, the house was besieged by the press. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
We do do our best, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:19 | |
but when we fail in this manner, | 0:12:19 | 0:12:23 | |
it hurts us all. It's also not just my loss. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:28 | |
It was a very lovely little Titian. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
The painting shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
and is called Rest On The Flight To Egypt. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:40 | |
The key thought was, the more publicity we can get | 0:12:40 | 0:12:44 | |
immediately about the theft, the better. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
Because we had no idea where the picture was. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Had it headed off down to a port? | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
Was it out of the country? | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
Whatever, we needed the maximum international coverage about the theft as soon as possible, | 0:12:55 | 0:13:01 | |
and in that way, hopefully offer some protection to the picture, | 0:13:01 | 0:13:07 | |
and to reduce the ability of anybody to offload it easily. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:13 | |
But all that press coverage had another effect. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
It raised sympathy from unexpected quarters. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
Before anyone could work out what to put in the space, | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
Longleat's curator, Kate Harris, received some helpful suggestions. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:27 | |
They were sent to Lord Bath by children | 0:13:27 | 0:13:30 | |
from a school in Huddersfield, just after the theft. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:35 | |
I think they sent them to cheer him up. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
They're meant to be copies of the Rest On The Flight Into Egypt. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
The children, apart from sending in their paintings, | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
they each wrote a little note to Lord Bath. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
Some of them are very sweet indeed. This one says, | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
"Dear Lord Bath, I hope you'll get the painting back and I hope your lions are feeling OK. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:58 | |
"Just forget about the painting and think about your birthday." | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
But the Titian was far from forgotten. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
The insurers, who would have to pay out £1 million on the theft policy, | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
put up a reward for £100,000. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:13 | |
Mark Dalrymple was the loss adjuster handling the case. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
Criminals of any description have information. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:22 | |
If they have information about other people's crimes, | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
and they won't give it to you unless you offer them some money, | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
providing we get a result, then we'll give them some money. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:33 | |
The stakes were high, but that was a very dangerous strategy. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:37 | |
Find out what happened a little later on. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
Earlier on, Kate and I helped Keith and Kevin here rig up | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
a brand-new contraption, if that's the word, here in Monkey Jungle, | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
to try and enrich the monkeys' lives. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:58 | |
We're hiding behind the car because we don't want them to be disturbed, but I can see... | 0:14:58 | 0:15:03 | |
They're coming over. See how he's testing it? | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
-Yes. -To see exactly what that is. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
That's just the sort of behaviour that we're looking for. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
This is exactly what this is about. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
It's getting their brains and minds working. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
-Yes. -There's another one on the right hand side. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
Looks like quite a youngster. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
He's thinking, "Ooh, do I do it?" | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
Not sure. Not sure. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:25 | |
He is having a bit of a bite. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
-Is our bungee monkey-proof, in terms of their teeth? -Come back in an hour. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
-I'll let you know! -Look! | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
Brilliant. Nearly did it. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
Nearly brave enough. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:41 | |
Feeling much more confident. | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
Look at that. That's brilliant! | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
Keeping its hands on the actual trunk. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
Yes. Oh, I don't know what to do! | 0:15:48 | 0:15:50 | |
Oh, go on. See if you can do it. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
-Go on, little one! -Now this one... -Look at the one in the middle! | 0:15:52 | 0:15:56 | |
-That's cheating. -That's quite clever, though, because it's a tiny one. | 0:15:56 | 0:16:00 | |
Again, not a full-grown adult, is it? | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
-No, that's a very young one. -Here we go. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
Look. It's going to be a youngster that does it first. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:09 | |
-There you are, look. -Oh! -And hand in. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
-Look at that. -Oh, dropping it down for everyone! | 0:16:12 | 0:16:14 | |
-Brilliant. -Oh, no, he's not. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
-Now he's eating some. -Now he's eating. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
Now, would you say, Kevin... | 0:16:18 | 0:16:21 | |
-Oh... Oh, no, that's not fair! -Look at the fatty! | 0:16:21 | 0:16:24 | |
Would you say that is a future leader of the troupe, that little one? | 0:16:24 | 0:16:28 | |
I think it could well be. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
It's a very smart one indeed, and it worked it out first. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
-And is this the young male, now, that's taken over? -Yes. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
He'll have his fill and once he gets off, the rest will probably go up there. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:40 | |
Won't get more than one on there. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
You see, he's trying to balance himself to make sure nothing happens to him. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
But look at them all... Oh! | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
Look at them all watching on the end. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
"Should we be brave enough? Let's try it." | 0:16:51 | 0:16:54 | |
We've got someone else on the left-hand side. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
That's going to go ping! | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
I know it is! | 0:16:59 | 0:17:00 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
Because it's made up of so many different strands inside, | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
even if they chew through one, it'll take a long time for that to go. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:10 | |
Oh, just a bit... | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
No... Oh! THEY LAUGH | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
-She's got a baby with her. -She's got a baby with her. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
Now then, dear. Just be gentle with your little one! | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
Of course, they have to get to the top of it, where the holes are. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
Yeah, that's the whole idea. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
If we'd just thrown the food on the floor, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
apart from they'd have just all grabbed bits and run, | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
it'd be over in seconds, the birds would have pinched it... | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
-That female's gone on, with her baby. -Yes. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
So the others should be able to get up from that. Look, there they go. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
Yes. That really is cheating. Now stop it! | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
These are the bits we'll learn, because we can tighten it, or take that bottom stump away. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
Look at the little one on the left! | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
-Acrobats. -Really trying. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:56 | |
Oh, this is fantastic. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
So you'll be able to work it out, | 0:17:58 | 0:18:00 | |
maybe we'll put it from higher trees, and it can really go from here. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:04 | |
-Yes. -And with the results here, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
-is it something you'd like to extend? -I'm quite pleased. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:10 | |
-I'm very pleased with this. -They're enjoying it. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
This is brilliant. This is exactly what we wanted them to do. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
And for visitors, when they're driving past, it'll be great. | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
And hopefully they'll leave the cars alone! | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
I think you should both patent it. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
I'm sure there would be a lot of very happy monkeys from now on. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:29 | |
Thank you both very much. We're going to stay here and watch, because this is just great. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
-Thank you both. -Thanks, guys. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:36 | |
But there's another animal in the park | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
that can also be a threat to the visitors' cars, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
and they're much larger and faster, with big teeth and sharp claws. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:53 | |
The keepers in Tiger Territory have been watching the three young sisters very carefully | 0:18:58 | 0:19:02 | |
since the park reopened to the public for the season. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:06 | |
Bob Trollope is concerned that as they grow in size and confidence | 0:19:06 | 0:19:10 | |
they could become more and more dangerous. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
It's the friendly one who could be the worst. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
Soundari is playful, and absolutely deadly. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
Soundari is a bit of a character. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
She does go for the occasional vehicle. That is toys to them. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:30 | |
That is prey, as such. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
You can almost say it's meals on wheels, I suppose. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
Talking of meals on wheels, Soundari had acquired a particular taste for the feed truck. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
She has developed the technique of puncturing our tyres | 0:19:47 | 0:19:51 | |
on the feed wagon, so we've had to counteract that | 0:19:51 | 0:19:54 | |
and put a counterbalance in place, which is this thick rubber matting. | 0:19:54 | 0:20:01 | |
It's covering over the wheels, as you can see. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
And it gives her enough things to play with... | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
this, rather than the tyres. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:12 | |
And it has saved several pounds' worth of rubber. Honestly. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:17 | |
She is such a nuisance. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
And it seems to me that she just gets so excited about feeding | 0:20:19 | 0:20:23 | |
that obviously, to her, this is hunting. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
This is where the food comes from, so she's got to kill this. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
Killing one of the tyres is quite often what she does. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:35 | |
We lost in the region of, I think, four or five tyres, | 0:20:37 | 0:20:42 | |
before we suddenly realised that we should start doing something. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:46 | |
It's quite impressive when she actually grabs hold of it. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:49 | |
I was driving the tractor the other week, | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
and she latched on to it and you could feel the power, | 0:20:52 | 0:20:57 | |
her actually slowing the feed wagon down a little bit. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
It's incredible. And that's just one tiger. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:03 | |
At least Bob has learnt what to expect from Soundari. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
The other two sisters, Shouri and Svetli, are still that most dangerous thing... | 0:21:07 | 0:21:12 | |
unpredictable. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
Soundari's always Soundari, and she's playful as ever, | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
but it's the other two that have shown a lot more interest | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
in actually coming away from the corner. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
They're out and about, they're exploring more things. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
It's really nice to actually see the change in them, | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
and hopefully they'll just get better and better as they go on. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
Of the two, it's Shouri who's the most interested in people, and cars, | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
and unlike Soundari, she doesn't just want to play with them. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:50 | |
As you can see, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
Shouri is just stalking us, | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
and she's just as low as she can get. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
She can see us, and hopefully we can't see her. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
She's just putting her head up slightly | 0:22:02 | 0:22:05 | |
every now and again, just to check where we are, just to see what we're doing. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
Shouri, she's primed to attack this vehicle, | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
which is, you know, | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
it's what you want, you know. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
They are exhibiting | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
their wild behaviour, | 0:22:20 | 0:22:22 | |
and it's nice to see Shouri and not Soundari. | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
You expect Soundari to be the one to investigate, but it just proves that | 0:22:24 | 0:22:29 | |
the others are finding their feet a bit and they aren't too worried | 0:22:29 | 0:22:34 | |
about coming over and sussing things out. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
Shouri's spending more and more time just waiting for an opportunity to attack. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
Later on, we'll see what happens when she gets that chance. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:48 | |
I think these are one of the most incredible residents of Pets' Corner. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
This is obviously a tortoise, but look at it sideways on. | 0:23:00 | 0:23:05 | |
It looks like it's been squashed by a truck, but this is its perfect design? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:10 | |
Yes, nature-designed. Pancake tortoise, and they're designed for | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
wedging themselves in all the tiny little crevices in Africa, | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
and it stops the predators hoiking them out for tea. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:20 | |
They've been living in this special enclosure here, but they are no longer alone. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:26 | |
No, we've had an addition. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:28 | |
I was very lucky, I've been to Africa twice now. | 0:23:28 | 0:23:31 | |
We saw these wonderful, wonderful little lizards and they're called agamas. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
And I've got a photograph. Can I show you down here? | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
Look at this. This is me. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:40 | |
Well, I'm taking the picture. Look at this fella. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
That is absolutely magnificent. So bright, bright orange head. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
-Yes. -Navy blue body? -Yes, and almost a paler blue on the tail. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:51 | |
-A turquoise tail. -That's a male. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
Stunning-looking. Now, I can't see anything... | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
That cupboard? Oh, there is one up on that tree. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
That's it. That's a male. That is a male. | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
-I have six in here now. -Right. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
I've got two males and four females. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:05 | |
-Yes? -They live really well with the pancake tortoises, | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
and what I'm hoping is that eventually they'll go on to breed, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
and have babies and lay eggs and things, | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
but that male has to develop these colours, so that's what we're waiting for now. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:19 | |
So is that an age thing? | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
Certainly maturity comes into it, because the females and youngsters, | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
-we've got a few in here that are actually a very dull brown, drab colour. -Right. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:31 | |
This guy here, he's in full battle mode. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
What happens is the males get a harem of wives, | 0:24:34 | 0:24:38 | |
so he can have 15, 20 wives hanging around with him, | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
and so this is his way of saying, "Clear off, I'm the dominant male." | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
So it's almost the equivalent of a gorilla becoming a silverback? | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
Totally. That is it exactly. And this is also encouraged by peak heat. The temperatures here... | 0:24:48 | 0:24:55 | |
I remember that particular day, incredibly hot. Over 100 degrees. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
So what do you do? Just stick a heater in here to mimic the heat? | 0:24:58 | 0:25:03 | |
The dangerous sunlight, the UVA and UVB that humans need to avoid, | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
a lot of lizards, like the iguanas, relish it. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
They have to have it, so you have very special bulbs that emits all that UVA and UVB light | 0:25:09 | 0:25:16 | |
that perhaps the midday sun in Africa would give out. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
So this is, effectively, like the sun trapped in a light bulb? | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
Exactly it. And it gives off heat as well. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
We used to use tubes, that only give off the light, | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
this gives off heat and it gives off the UVA and UVB. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
Brilliant. Well, I'll let you... Do you want to climb in there? | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
I'll be on escape duty, just in case anything wants to do a runner. | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
-I'll just turn the switch on now, up here. -OK. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
Oh, that's it. Woah. There, you see. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
That is bright! That really is like looking at the sun. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
This little gizmo here, I'll just show you, this is a solar meter. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
-Right. -This measures the amount of UVB and if you get it right, | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
you basically want somewhere around, well, as close to 100 as we can get. | 0:25:53 | 0:26:00 | |
And 100 is good midday sun. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
-Right. -So now the iguanas can sit here, they can bask, they can not only get the heat... | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
I'm very hot already. It's whacking out a load of heat. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
But they're getting all that UVA and UVB. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
I'll let you come down away from the basking heat, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:17 | |
and we will look forward to seeing the lizards | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
in their full-coloured glory, as you say, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:24 | |
once they've taken in this sunlight and worked out their hierarchy. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
-What an excitement. -Thank you very much. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
Brilliant, Darren. Thank you. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
Back in 1995, the Longleat estate was stunned | 0:26:40 | 0:26:44 | |
when their most valuable work of art was stolen. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
Rest On The Flight To Egypt was painted in the early 1500s | 0:26:47 | 0:26:52 | |
by the Venetian artist Titian, and was valued at £5 million. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:56 | |
The police hunt for the thieves started straight away. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
At that time, Dick Ellis was the detective sergeant in charge of | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
the Metropolitan Police Art And Antiques Squad. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
The trail to recover objects like the Titian, | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
when they're stolen by professional criminals, it's a difficult trail. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:15 | |
You are involving people who... | 0:27:15 | 0:27:18 | |
Part of their work is not being caught. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
So it is a very difficult area in which to operate. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:28 | |
One of the first things done by the insurers | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
was to offer a reward of £100,000. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
Mark Dalrymple was the loss adjuster handling the case. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:39 | |
People sometimes will not give information | 0:27:39 | 0:27:43 | |
unless they are rewarded. It is a sad fact of life but they won't. | 0:27:43 | 0:27:48 | |
And the greater risk they might have personally | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
in giving the information or pointing fingers, or whatever, | 0:27:52 | 0:27:56 | |
means that all too often they do nothing. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
And the reward, if you like, loosens tongues. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
The reward was featured on the front cover of Trace magazine, | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
a publication listing some of the £500 million-worth of art | 0:28:07 | 0:28:12 | |
that is stolen every year in Britain alone. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
Dick Ellis is one of Trace's directors. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
The magazine goes to dealers, goes to the heritage sector, | 0:28:19 | 0:28:25 | |
goes to collectors, law enforcement all over the world through Interpol. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:29 | |
That type of circulation is essential, because it closes down the market. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:34 | |
If you're looking for objects to steal, | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
the higher up the league you go, to the Titians and the Rembrandts and the Vermeer, | 0:28:37 | 0:28:42 | |
it is virtually impossible to dispose of these objects. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
They are just too well-known and documented worldwide. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:49 | |
So, the Titian was too hot to sell, but where was it? | 0:28:49 | 0:28:54 | |
Over the next eight years, | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
there were all sorts of rumours, hints and allegations. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:01 | |
Longleat general manager Tim Moore had to deal with them all. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
I followed up everything, so if someone writes to you from Australia | 0:29:04 | 0:29:08 | |
who was a spiritualist, or someone writing to you from prison somewhere... | 0:29:08 | 0:29:13 | |
The first few of those, | 0:29:13 | 0:29:15 | |
one got not excited but, here is something interesting happening. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:19 | |
You're very keen to get the picture back, so you take everything extremely seriously. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:24 | |
There have been threats made | 0:29:24 | 0:29:29 | |
to us, | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
that if we don't pay them £1 million, they'll destroy it. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
But who THEY are, they're not going to tell us. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
And after a period, the number of those, you really did begin to think | 0:29:38 | 0:29:43 | |
particularly with some of the people who were contacting us were pretty strange, that, oh, my God, | 0:29:43 | 0:29:50 | |
are we ever going to get a lead that really is material? | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
But, in the end, they did get a good lead, | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
and that's when the plot really began to thicken. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:59 | |
Find out about that later on. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:01 | |
It's been pretty busy around the otter enclosure | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
since Rosie and Romeo got together and started building a family. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
While six youngsters are romping around outside, | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
there's news of a brand-new litter indoors. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
These five unbelievably cute otters | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
are the latest arrival in the safari park. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:37 | |
I'm catching up with Rob, who's cleaning out. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:40 | |
-How are you doing? -I can't get over how... | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
I'm lost for words. | 0:30:44 | 0:30:46 | |
-How old are they? -They're eight weeks, now. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:48 | |
Coming on really, really well. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
We had a few concerns in the earlier days | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
because there were two out of the five that were very, very small | 0:30:54 | 0:30:58 | |
in comparison to the others. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
There was certainly one very big one. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
-He's still in the middle here. He's getting all the milk. -Yes. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:06 | |
But two of them were very small. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:08 | |
There were, effectively, two runts of the litter? | 0:31:08 | 0:31:11 | |
Two runts of the litter. And we've had a runt in the past | 0:31:11 | 0:31:14 | |
and they don't normally make it, I'm afraid. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:16 | |
Week six, that was it, really. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:18 | |
It's just one of those things and nature takes its course. | 0:31:18 | 0:31:22 | |
Obviously, the otters felt that it was too much for them to cope with. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:26 | |
This time around, all five have just... The two, | 0:31:26 | 0:31:29 | |
there's still a bit of size difference here but to be honest, they've all caught up. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:34 | |
They've all got their eyes open. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
It's almost time now for them to be going outside. It won't be long. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:39 | |
They've already been outside, | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
but it's a case of Mum dragging them out, almost under protest. | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
Being thrown around and then dragged back in again. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:49 | |
And obviously, all that noise I can hear from behind here, | 0:31:49 | 0:31:53 | |
that's Romeo and Rosie, mum and dad? | 0:31:53 | 0:31:55 | |
And last year's children, Robbie and Ray, trying to get back in. | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
Obviously, all I'm doing here is a little bit of cleaning up. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:02 | |
-Are they quite messy? -Very, very messy. | 0:32:02 | 0:32:04 | |
To be honest, I've already done a bit of the outside of the enclosure | 0:32:04 | 0:32:07 | |
this morning and most of the mess was out there. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
So it isn't looking too bad in here. | 0:32:10 | 0:32:12 | |
It just needs a bit of a tidy. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:14 | |
Really all we do is just pop in here quickly. | 0:32:14 | 0:32:16 | |
Normally, the adults are out for breakfast anyway. | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
So it's an opportunity quickly to shut them out, have a quick tidy | 0:32:19 | 0:32:23 | |
and let them back in again to check their little ones. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
But we try to disturb them as little as possible, | 0:32:27 | 0:32:30 | |
bar the health check and something we'll do soon, which is microchipping them. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:34 | |
And I'm assuming they sleep a lot, as they're doing now? | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
Yes, as normal babies do. Pretty much the same as human babies. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:42 | |
Cry a lot, sleep a lot, go to the toilet quite a lot. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:46 | |
And using each other for extra body heat? | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
Yes, they're huddling up together. | 0:32:49 | 0:32:51 | |
Obviously for warmth. It's fairly warm in here anyway, so it is just protection. | 0:32:51 | 0:32:55 | |
They're looking after each other. | 0:32:55 | 0:32:57 | |
Have you thought about or contemplated names yet? Or can you identify them apart? | 0:32:57 | 0:33:02 | |
I think we'll wait until we've fully sexed them. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:05 | |
-Right. -I've had a little look myself. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:07 | |
I think I've got three boys and two girls. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
It is still quite difficult to tell, is it? | 0:33:10 | 0:33:13 | |
It can be difficult early on, but it'll become more and more obvious. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
And then we'll start thinking of some names when they're outside, showing their characters. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:21 | |
We like to see their characters. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:23 | |
And obviously, they do look so much alike. It's very hard. | 0:33:23 | 0:33:27 | |
Even last year's children, Robbie and Ray, only slight differences between them. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:31 | |
I don't know how you get any work done in here, | 0:33:31 | 0:33:34 | |
because I assume you just want to stare at them all day long. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:37 | |
-Yeah! -Listen, thank you so much. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:39 | |
I would offer to help you clean them out | 0:33:39 | 0:33:41 | |
but I just wanted an excuse to come and have a look at them! | 0:33:41 | 0:33:45 | |
Don't go away, because here's what's still coming up on today's programme. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:49 | |
I'll be helping with a strange new installation, | 0:33:49 | 0:33:52 | |
because a giraffe with an itchy neck really needs to scratch. | 0:33:52 | 0:33:57 | |
With blackmail, ransom and intrigue, the story of the stolen painting | 0:33:57 | 0:34:02 | |
takes a twist into the criminal underworld. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:05 | |
And when we first met Harriet, you wouldn't know what she was. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:09 | |
We'll see how she's doing now, ten years on. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:13 | |
But first, we're bound for Tiger Territory. | 0:34:13 | 0:34:17 | |
Earlier, we saw Soundari, the playful tiger, | 0:34:22 | 0:34:25 | |
attacking the tyres of the feed truck. | 0:34:25 | 0:34:28 | |
But it's her sister Shouri who's got the keepers worried, | 0:34:28 | 0:34:32 | |
because when she attacks, it's in deadly earnest. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:35 | |
Recently, head of section Brian Kent | 0:34:35 | 0:34:37 | |
was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:41 | |
He witnessed the full force of these powerful creatures, close up. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:46 | |
I was trying to get the tigers in, | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
and Shouri didn't want to go in, for whatever reason. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
She was just deciding to play up, as in hide behind trees, | 0:34:51 | 0:34:56 | |
starting to get a bit nasty, growling and hissing. | 0:34:56 | 0:35:00 | |
And then next minute I knew, | 0:35:00 | 0:35:02 | |
she was running flat-out towards the vehicle. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
She just headed straight for the window, here. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:10 | |
All I saw was a face full of teeth, and claws. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:13 | |
She was obviously trying to get me, and she meant everything of it. | 0:35:13 | 0:35:18 | |
It was so quick. She was there before I could even | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
think about it. I moved away quickly. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:25 | |
I thought it might be appropriate at the time to get out of the way! | 0:35:25 | 0:35:29 | |
Brian escaped out of the Tiger Enclosure | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
but his vehicle still bears the scars of the attack. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:46 | |
You can see some of the damage she done here, | 0:35:46 | 0:35:51 | |
which I imagine was her claws. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
That's as she's jumping up, | 0:35:55 | 0:35:57 | |
claws hit there, and she's got her face here. | 0:35:57 | 0:36:01 | |
And then as I move off, she slides down | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
and you can just see | 0:36:04 | 0:36:06 | |
the remaining marks of her claws, going down the side of the truck. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:11 | |
So quite lucky, really. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
It is plastic at the end of the day, but we're still talking about | 0:36:13 | 0:36:18 | |
a claw going through that, and I'm glad it's that and not me, | 0:36:18 | 0:36:22 | |
because that would go straight through your leg. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
The same thing with the window. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:29 | |
The windows are not overly strong, but... | 0:36:29 | 0:36:31 | |
it stayed there! | 0:36:31 | 0:36:34 | |
So, quite happy I've got away with it. | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
Either I went a little bit too close and she didn't like it, | 0:36:41 | 0:36:45 | |
and that's why she went for me, I don't know. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:48 | |
But she hasn't done it since. | 0:36:48 | 0:36:50 | |
And maybe it was just a one-off. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
I don't know. It was a bit of a wake-up call for me as well, | 0:36:53 | 0:36:57 | |
to be dealing with young tigers again. | 0:36:57 | 0:36:59 | |
So it does keep you alert. | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
But, to make sure that all the keepers stay alert, | 0:37:02 | 0:37:05 | |
Brian and Bob are planning an emergency, | 0:37:05 | 0:37:08 | |
a test to see if they've got what it takes when the worst happens. | 0:37:08 | 0:37:11 | |
We'll be back in Tiger Territory for that later on. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:15 | |
We're up at the giraffe house. I'm here with head of section Andy, | 0:37:23 | 0:37:27 | |
and all the giraffes, that I have to say, Andy, | 0:37:27 | 0:37:30 | |
are looking particularly lovely at the moment. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:34 | |
Do giraffes moult, like other animals in the spring? | 0:37:34 | 0:37:37 | |
-Are they losing a winter coat? -They do. | 0:37:37 | 0:37:39 | |
-Not as much as the zebra. -Right. | 0:37:39 | 0:37:41 | |
But the giraffes have got quite a greasy and waxy coat, | 0:37:41 | 0:37:44 | |
it comes on slightly more in wintertime. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:46 | |
But they will actually constantly lose hair, | 0:37:46 | 0:37:50 | |
We noticed they had a lot of dead hair and they used to get quite itchy in here. | 0:37:50 | 0:37:54 | |
And we started thinking about how we can improve their coats, | 0:37:54 | 0:37:57 | |
and came up with this, which completely freaked them out | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
when we first put it in here! | 0:38:01 | 0:38:02 | |
But they've started using it. Very rarely do we see them itching on it. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:06 | |
But they are using it, because it's looking really worn-down. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
Somebody's been giving their bum a really good scratch on that. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:13 | |
What a fantastic idea. | 0:38:13 | 0:38:15 | |
So what needs doing today, then? | 0:38:15 | 0:38:17 | |
Because they've squashed these ones, | 0:38:17 | 0:38:19 | |
we'll let the giraffe out and replace a couple of these. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:22 | |
-OK. -But I can show you how well it's working, because it's full of giraffe hair. -Really? | 0:38:22 | 0:38:27 | |
-Yes. -So they are obviously going up and using it exactly | 0:38:27 | 0:38:30 | |
as they would use one of those thorny acacia-type things in Africa. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:35 | |
What a clever idea. You lucky, lucky girls. | 0:38:35 | 0:38:37 | |
So we want to get them out first, presumably. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
Not a good idea to go in there with all those legs. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:42 | |
Probably not. | 0:38:42 | 0:38:44 | |
OK. Well, shall we do the usual thing and stand back? | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
Move you guys out the way and we'll get them out. | 0:38:47 | 0:38:50 | |
They're so lovely. | 0:38:50 | 0:38:51 | |
Put them down here. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:19 | |
So it's like I was saying, the hair. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:23 | |
-You can see all the hair. -Oh, yeah, look at it. | 0:39:23 | 0:39:27 | |
These are just absolutely full of giraffe hair. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:30 | |
And you said the hair was quite greasy, | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
-and now the bristles of the brushes, you can really feel it! -Yeah. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:37 | |
That's amazing. What a clever idea. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
It's so rare that we actually see them in it. | 0:39:39 | 0:39:42 | |
Normally, when they're in here, they're eating. | 0:39:42 | 0:39:45 | |
-I reckon they are in here in the middle of the night. -Just having a good old scratch. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:49 | |
But yeah, they've really hammered them in here. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:52 | |
They have. These ones nearer the top and this one looks all right. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:56 | |
We'll just replace these middle three, | 0:39:56 | 0:40:00 | |
so they're a bit spikier for them to rub on. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:03 | |
If I just cut these big cable-ties here. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:06 | |
It's not the easiest of things to do. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:08 | |
There we go. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
But we can see, it's just made such a world of difference to their coats. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:18 | |
It really has, hasn't it? | 0:40:18 | 0:40:19 | |
They just look like they're beautifully-groomed, | 0:40:19 | 0:40:24 | |
-spring coming out of winter coat animals now. -Yeah. | 0:40:24 | 0:40:27 | |
In the wild, giraffes don't have helpful people | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
to put up things to scratch on. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
They get a grooming just by walking through the woodlands | 0:40:35 | 0:40:38 | |
and brushing past the trees. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
I know you make a lot of effort here to make everything as natural as possible. | 0:40:42 | 0:40:48 | |
-Yes. -And just something simple like that... | 0:40:48 | 0:40:50 | |
A lot of our enrichment, the public don't actually see. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:53 | |
-It's done in here. -Yeah. -When they're out in the park, | 0:40:53 | 0:40:57 | |
you don't need to enrich that area because they can move around so nicely. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
But this is twofold. It gives them something to do and it keeps their coats in amazing condition as well. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:06 | |
I wouldn't mind a little scratch on that myself! | 0:41:06 | 0:41:09 | |
Go away! I'm going to give it a go. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:11 | |
-That's great, isn't it? I might have one of those in my house. -Every house should have one. -Absolutely! | 0:41:11 | 0:41:17 | |
The giraffes do their scratching at night when no-one's around, | 0:41:17 | 0:41:21 | |
so to see exactly how they use the broom-head installation, | 0:41:21 | 0:41:25 | |
we're setting up an infrared night-vision camera. | 0:41:25 | 0:41:28 | |
We'll leave it running overnight and come back later to find out | 0:41:28 | 0:41:32 | |
what the giraffes get up to in the dark. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:35 | |
For eight years, there wasn't one clue as to what had happened to the stolen painting by Titian. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:49 | |
It's as if it had disappeared from the face of the Earth. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:54 | |
In desperation, | 0:41:54 | 0:41:56 | |
Longleat's Tim Moore and insurance loss adjuster Mark Dalrymple | 0:41:56 | 0:42:00 | |
got in touch with an independent art consultant | 0:42:00 | 0:42:03 | |
who had contacts in London's criminal underworld. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:06 | |
Then, in May 2002, Tim got a phone call. | 0:42:08 | 0:42:12 | |
He was to get £100,000 in cash | 0:42:12 | 0:42:15 | |
and drive to Richmond in south-west London. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
The consultant had found someone who wanted to make a deal. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:22 | |
The fine art consultant had had a particular lead | 0:42:22 | 0:42:26 | |
that this appeared to him to be worth following up, | 0:42:26 | 0:42:31 | |
and that a meeting had been arranged with this particular person. | 0:42:31 | 0:42:35 | |
I was absolutely split down the middle. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
I was extremely excited on the one hand, | 0:42:44 | 0:42:46 | |
particularly as I was carrying quite a significant sum of money | 0:42:46 | 0:42:52 | |
on my person to deal with the reward for information. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:58 | |
And on the other hand thinking, when one gets like that, | 0:42:58 | 0:43:01 | |
there'll be disappointment, this chap will be roaring with laughter | 0:43:01 | 0:43:05 | |
and we'll have wasted a lot of time. | 0:43:05 | 0:43:07 | |
Tim had instructions to wait in an office. | 0:43:10 | 0:43:14 | |
Meanwhile, an anonymous informer was about to make a drop. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
A laundry bag was left at a bus stop outside Richmond Station. | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
Our consultant was told, | 0:43:26 | 0:43:28 | |
there's the picture if you'd like to get out and collect it. | 0:43:28 | 0:43:31 | |
Tim was gambling £100,000 on the picture being the real thing. | 0:43:33 | 0:43:38 | |
We put the bag on the office table, opened it up, | 0:43:41 | 0:43:44 | |
undid the cardboard and there's this picture. | 0:43:44 | 0:43:47 | |
And for me there's a huge difference, | 0:43:47 | 0:43:50 | |
because I'm used to seeing pictures with frames on. | 0:43:50 | 0:43:53 | |
If you get a small, unframed picture | 0:43:53 | 0:43:57 | |
then frankly, to the likes of me, it looks... | 0:43:57 | 0:44:01 | |
Honestly, I thought, my God, it could have come out of Woolworths. | 0:44:01 | 0:44:05 | |
It could have been painted on MDF. | 0:44:05 | 0:44:07 | |
It was then up to their independent art consultant | 0:44:07 | 0:44:10 | |
to determine whether the painting was a fake. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:14 | |
At that point, you're totally reliant on the expert | 0:44:14 | 0:44:17 | |
and delighted to say, ours was extremely competent and sensible, | 0:44:17 | 0:44:22 | |
and had spent a lot of time studying Titian's works. | 0:44:22 | 0:44:26 | |
And he said, if you look at it, | 0:44:26 | 0:44:28 | |
the brushstrokes are absolutely right for the early work. | 0:44:28 | 0:44:31 | |
Yes, it definitely is Titian's Flight Into Egypt. | 0:44:31 | 0:44:35 | |
I was thrilled to bits. | 0:44:35 | 0:44:37 | |
And when the painting was safely back in the estate vaults, | 0:44:41 | 0:44:45 | |
Mark Dalrymple was invited to come take a look. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:48 | |
After all his work, he'd never actually seen the thing itself. | 0:44:48 | 0:44:52 | |
It's smashing, because, um... | 0:44:55 | 0:44:59 | |
I don't know. I really can't explain it. | 0:44:59 | 0:45:02 | |
You always imagine, every time something was going to happen, | 0:45:02 | 0:45:06 | |
where there was the prospect of getting it back, | 0:45:06 | 0:45:09 | |
I visualised exactly what it was going to look like. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:13 | |
But until you actually ever see it, | 0:45:13 | 0:45:16 | |
um...you can't... | 0:45:16 | 0:45:18 | |
One is speechless. | 0:45:20 | 0:45:23 | |
And after security was beefed up to ensure the painting could never be stolen again, | 0:45:23 | 0:45:28 | |
it was restored to its rightful place on the wall of the great house. | 0:45:28 | 0:45:34 | |
Earlier, I came up to the giraffe house with head of section Andy | 0:45:38 | 0:45:42 | |
and we put up these fantastic, bristly broom heads up on the wall. | 0:45:42 | 0:45:47 | |
Because the giraffes, you thought, | 0:45:47 | 0:45:49 | |
were going to love scratching on them. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:51 | |
-Yes, and they have, because their coats have improved tenfold. -Right. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:56 | |
You rub the brushes and you can see hair in there, | 0:45:56 | 0:45:59 | |
but we're not seen the giraffe scratching on them. | 0:45:59 | 0:46:02 | |
OK, so you wanted absolutely hard evidence | 0:46:02 | 0:46:05 | |
that they were doing this, so of course, | 0:46:05 | 0:46:07 | |
we set up an infrared camera to catch the giraffes | 0:46:07 | 0:46:10 | |
if they really were using these yard brushes to have a good old scratch at night. | 0:46:10 | 0:46:15 | |
You've got the footage, Andy. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:17 | |
-Yep. -Shall we have a look and see what happened? | 0:46:17 | 0:46:21 | |
-There's the brushes down there. -OK. | 0:46:23 | 0:46:26 | |
-Someone's nose. -Someone's nose. Oi! | 0:46:28 | 0:46:31 | |
Get off the camera! Cleaning the camera for us. | 0:46:31 | 0:46:36 | |
Thank you very much indeed. That's a lovely shot of a giraffe's tongue. | 0:46:36 | 0:46:40 | |
You can see they're still chewing in the background there, | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
so they've obviously still got food to keep them busy. | 0:46:43 | 0:46:47 | |
-They will regurgitate their food as well. -Oh, do they? | 0:46:47 | 0:46:50 | |
Giraffes have multiple stomachs, the first stomach, they'll bring the food back up. | 0:46:50 | 0:46:55 | |
If you watch a giraffe carefully, you can actually see a bolus of food come up the neck. | 0:46:55 | 0:46:59 | |
They'll chew it. Chewing the cud, like a cow. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:02 | |
But if you look carefully, you can actually see, occasionally, | 0:47:02 | 0:47:05 | |
-a big lump of food coming back up. -Eugh! | 0:47:05 | 0:47:08 | |
-Yes, disgusting. -You've spent too much time with them! | 0:47:08 | 0:47:11 | |
Yes, I've been watching them just too much! | 0:47:11 | 0:47:14 | |
Oh, that's an interesting manoeuvre! | 0:47:16 | 0:47:18 | |
I'm not sure whether that was a scratch or falling over! | 0:47:18 | 0:47:21 | |
No, she is actually scratching, isn't she? | 0:47:21 | 0:47:24 | |
That's a definite scratch. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
And that blade bone clearly seems to be a favourite place, doesn't it? | 0:47:26 | 0:47:31 | |
That height's perfect. But you've got brushes all the way along there. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:35 | |
They can get their legs down and their necks and heads right up on the top one. | 0:47:35 | 0:47:39 | |
That's brilliant. Really leaning in to it there! | 0:47:39 | 0:47:42 | |
Seeing them use that, that well... It's going right up her neck. | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
It is. It's almost like she's massaging herself. | 0:47:47 | 0:47:50 | |
It must feel really, really nice. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:53 | |
Yes, it must do. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:54 | |
So this is obviously a late-night activity. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:57 | |
Something to do when the food's run out. Just go and scratch. | 0:47:57 | 0:48:01 | |
She's having a really good scratch! | 0:48:01 | 0:48:03 | |
-Yes. -But look at that. | 0:48:03 | 0:48:05 | |
That is an ecstatic-looking giraffe, isn't it? | 0:48:05 | 0:48:08 | |
Absolute pleasure, there. | 0:48:08 | 0:48:10 | |
She's hitting those spots. So it's something that we can build on. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:13 | |
All of their coat, we're not see any dead skin. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
The top of their backs, they seem to be well covered, | 0:48:16 | 0:48:19 | |
and their whole outlook, the look of them has improved so much. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:25 | |
We can adapt it and improve it, and hopefully make it slightly better as we go along. | 0:48:25 | 0:48:31 | |
-That was a huge success. -Really good, yes. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:33 | |
-Thank you very much indeed. -No problem. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
Back in Tiger Territory, the three young sisters are bigger, bolder | 0:48:38 | 0:48:42 | |
and far more dangerous than ever before. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
So it's vital that the patrol staff all know what to do in any kind of emergency. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:51 | |
For example, what would happen if a visitor's car broke down | 0:48:51 | 0:48:55 | |
right amongst the tigers? | 0:48:55 | 0:48:57 | |
Today, Bob Trollope is running through the recovery drill with some new members of staff. | 0:48:57 | 0:49:03 | |
The car will be roughly here, | 0:49:03 | 0:49:07 | |
so I shall be pulling up along here. | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
I shall be obviously getting out to go to the boot, | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
and then I want you to be as close as possible to me, | 0:49:14 | 0:49:18 | |
but obviously between the tigers and myself. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:22 | |
Bearing in mind, the tigers might be moving around. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:26 | |
So they could be anywhere. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:27 | |
So we might have to juggle things around, so I'm in a safe area. | 0:49:27 | 0:49:31 | |
For the exercise, Bob will have to get a towrope | 0:49:31 | 0:49:35 | |
from the boot of the broken-down car before calling in park mechanic Rob Feltham to tow it away. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:42 | |
If at all, at any time, they look like they're going to come over, | 0:49:42 | 0:49:47 | |
shout to me. It's no good getting on the radio and telling me. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:51 | |
Shout to me, because I will get back in and leave it as it is. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:54 | |
So Kate, you're going to be | 0:49:54 | 0:49:58 | |
the patrol person in here today. OK? | 0:49:58 | 0:50:00 | |
This may be a drill, but Bob will actually be getting out | 0:50:00 | 0:50:04 | |
surrounded by three very real tigers. | 0:50:04 | 0:50:08 | |
So junior keeper Kate will definitely be on the spot. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:13 | |
This is the first time I've ever had a breakdown. A bit nervous. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:17 | |
A tiger could get Bob, and obviously if they get hold of him, | 0:50:17 | 0:50:21 | |
then they can potentially kill him. | 0:50:21 | 0:50:23 | |
So it's going to be slightly nerve-racking and a bit anxious. | 0:50:23 | 0:50:27 | |
RADIO: '39-30 Rob?' | 0:50:27 | 0:50:30 | |
My safety is in the hands of the new keeper. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:37 | |
For this practice emergency, two members of the Animal Park production team | 0:50:42 | 0:50:46 | |
have volunteered to be the unfortunate visitors in a broken-down vehicle. | 0:50:46 | 0:50:51 | |
Hello. | 0:50:51 | 0:50:52 | |
-Is there something wrong? -Yes, we've broken down. | 0:50:52 | 0:50:56 | |
The car just won't move. | 0:50:56 | 0:50:57 | |
OK. I'll radio up and get some help. | 0:50:57 | 0:50:59 | |
-Cool. -Thank you. | 0:50:59 | 0:51:01 | |
First section to Live 3? | 0:51:01 | 0:51:03 | |
-Hello? -I've got a car broken down in the top of the section. | 0:51:03 | 0:51:08 | |
-Can you come and give us a hand, please? -Yes, I'm on my way. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:12 | |
Can you just remain in the vehicle? | 0:51:12 | 0:51:14 | |
-Thank you. Sorry. -It's OK. | 0:51:14 | 0:51:16 | |
Bob heads straight over, to find that things are more complex than expected. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:24 | |
We have a situation here where we've got tigers on either side. | 0:51:28 | 0:51:33 | |
Because Soundari, on the stand, is the closest one to us, | 0:51:33 | 0:51:37 | |
I'll just ask Kate to come around here, | 0:51:37 | 0:51:40 | |
and we'll form a sort of a triangle. | 0:51:40 | 0:51:44 | |
So really and truly, Kate has to keep an eye on both these tigers. | 0:51:44 | 0:51:49 | |
It's quite a dangerous situation because you are only going to be | 0:51:49 | 0:51:53 | |
looking in only one place at any one time. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:55 | |
OK? Can you turn your engine off so I can hear you shout, | 0:51:57 | 0:52:00 | |
and open your window, please? | 0:52:00 | 0:52:02 | |
Here goes. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:05 | |
-If they come at any side, just shout. I'll get back in. -Will do. | 0:52:09 | 0:52:13 | |
Now Bob is completely exposed, | 0:52:13 | 0:52:16 | |
and he's got his back to one of the tigers. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:19 | |
When you turn your back on a wild animal, it sees its chance. | 0:52:19 | 0:52:23 | |
The worst scenario is that a tiger will go for me. | 0:52:23 | 0:52:27 | |
At all times, hopefully, there'll be a barrier between me and the animals. | 0:52:27 | 0:52:32 | |
I'm just protecting Bob from all the tigers. Just to make sure. | 0:52:32 | 0:52:37 | |
Just keeping an eye on what he's doing | 0:52:37 | 0:52:39 | |
and also on what the other cars are doing. | 0:52:39 | 0:52:42 | |
It is very dangerous, but unfortunately cars do break down, | 0:52:42 | 0:52:47 | |
and you can't just leave them there and wait until the end of the day, | 0:52:47 | 0:52:52 | |
until the animals are put in. | 0:52:52 | 0:52:55 | |
Tow rope out, Bob calls in the mechanic. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:58 | |
Rob, we've got a breakdown in the tiger section. The clutch has gone. | 0:53:00 | 0:53:04 | |
Is there any chance you can tow it out? | 0:53:04 | 0:53:06 | |
And here comes Rob. | 0:53:09 | 0:53:11 | |
Bob needs to get out again, to attach the rope. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:15 | |
And now the tigers are taking a lot more interest. | 0:53:15 | 0:53:18 | |
OK, see everything? Can you turn your engine off again, please? | 0:53:18 | 0:53:22 | |
Bob, she's getting up. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:27 | |
Bob, she's just standing up. | 0:53:28 | 0:53:31 | |
OK? | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
OK, Rob, it's all yours. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
Job done. The car is soon towed to safety outside Tiger Territory. | 0:53:39 | 0:53:44 | |
The car is safely out of the section now. | 0:53:44 | 0:53:46 | |
The staff performed well but working with wild animals means there's always a risk. | 0:53:46 | 0:53:51 | |
Nine times out of ten, it's only a couple of minutes' operation, | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
but if they see a chance to have a go at you then they will. | 0:53:55 | 0:53:59 | |
We're the ones | 0:53:59 | 0:54:01 | |
getting out into their territory. | 0:54:01 | 0:54:03 | |
We're intruding on their territory, so that's what you've got to expect. | 0:54:03 | 0:54:08 | |
The three sisters are still young. | 0:54:08 | 0:54:11 | |
Soon they'll be even bigger, and even bolder. | 0:54:11 | 0:54:13 | |
So we can expect a lot more action up in Tiger Territory. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:18 | |
Look out for that later in the series. | 0:54:18 | 0:54:20 | |
We first started filming at Longleat ten years ago, | 0:54:29 | 0:54:33 | |
when this ball of fluff was just four weeks old, | 0:54:33 | 0:54:37 | |
and Darren was an awful lot younger. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:40 | |
She's a barn owl named Harriet and we followed her progress as Darren | 0:54:40 | 0:54:45 | |
trained her to fly to the gauntlet and to be relaxed around people. | 0:54:45 | 0:54:49 | |
Today, we've come to catch up. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:52 | |
She's looking great! | 0:54:52 | 0:54:54 | |
Isn't she wonderful? She's... | 0:54:54 | 0:54:56 | |
She deserves a medal for long service, I think. She's superb. | 0:54:56 | 0:54:59 | |
She must be one of the longest residents of Pets' Corner, is she? | 0:54:59 | 0:55:03 | |
Yes, she's just about... | 0:55:03 | 0:55:05 | |
She and her partner, Ollie, the other barn owl, they've been here longer than most of the staff! | 0:55:05 | 0:55:10 | |
And some of the animals. And she is wonderful. | 0:55:10 | 0:55:13 | |
We bring her out to see the visitors and everybody is always so amazed | 0:55:13 | 0:55:17 | |
when they see a barn owl so close up. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:19 | |
What is the life expectancy of an owl? | 0:55:19 | 0:55:22 | |
It's really sad. In the wild, it's almost non-existent. | 0:55:22 | 0:55:25 | |
One, two years maybe, because there's so many dangers. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:28 | |
Lack of food, and weather and cars and things. | 0:55:28 | 0:55:30 | |
I've heard of barn owls living 20-plus, even 30, in captivity. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:34 | |
So you give them somewhere safe and secure and a bit of TLC, | 0:55:34 | 0:55:38 | |
and they'll do you proud. | 0:55:38 | 0:55:40 | |
So basically, she might even outlast YOU here? | 0:55:40 | 0:55:43 | |
Yes, she might well be! | 0:55:43 | 0:55:44 | |
She'll be pushing me around. | 0:55:44 | 0:55:46 | |
I'm not sure. But she is a wonderful creature. | 0:55:46 | 0:55:49 | |
Well, she's showing off beautifully for us here. Can I... | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
-I've got my glove at the ready. -Certainly. I'll pass her over. | 0:55:52 | 0:55:56 | |
So you just have a little tether that doesn't hurt the foot, | 0:55:56 | 0:55:59 | |
-just to keep her in place? -These are called jesses. | 0:55:59 | 0:56:02 | |
Little strips of leather that attach around anklets. | 0:56:02 | 0:56:05 | |
You see the dye's coming off the leather a bit. | 0:56:05 | 0:56:08 | |
What we really do is you try and gain her confidence, | 0:56:08 | 0:56:11 | |
and all that business early on, where I was hand-rearing her, | 0:56:11 | 0:56:15 | |
makes her think I'm Dad, I'm kind, and everything will be all right. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:19 | |
And once you've got that trust with any animal, really... | 0:56:19 | 0:56:22 | |
You can see now how calm she is. She is an amazing creature. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
And what is the secret of her youth? That's what I want to know. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:28 | |
Three mice a day, I think, Ben! I'm going to leave it. | 0:56:28 | 0:56:32 | |
I might try it. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:34 | |
I'd like to see you try and catch one as well as she does. | 0:56:34 | 0:56:37 | |
Oh, Harriet, don't quite go off yet. | 0:56:37 | 0:56:39 | |
It is almost time for the end of the programme but just give us | 0:56:39 | 0:56:42 | |
a moment to say thank you very much indeed, Darren. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:45 | |
Well done for turning what was, well, a little fluffy ball | 0:56:45 | 0:56:49 | |
into such a magnificent bird. | 0:56:49 | 0:56:51 | |
And sadly, that's all we've got time for on today's programme. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:55 | |
But from Ben and from me, and from Harriet, | 0:56:55 | 0:56:58 | |
goodbye and here's what's coming up on the next Animal Park. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:01 | |
Off she goes. | 0:57:01 | 0:57:03 | |
Jo in Pets' Corner has to blow the whistle when one of her marmosets makes a bid for freedom. | 0:57:06 | 0:57:12 | |
Ben tries to play goatherd but the kids are running him ragged. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:23 | |
Flapper really doesn't want to be caught, does he? | 0:57:23 | 0:57:25 | |
And find out what happened when Africa's most dangerous animal | 0:57:25 | 0:57:30 | |
escaped into the Wiltshire countryside. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:32 | |
So don't miss the next Animal Park. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:36 | |
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