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If this gate wasn't here these tigers could kill us in an instant. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
It would take just one bite from those incredible jaws to finish us off. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:13 | |
But just how powerful are the jaws of a big cat? | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
On today's show we are going to attempt to find out, | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
but who, or what, will these tigers be sinking their teeth into? | 0:00:21 | 0:00:26 | |
Coming up on today's Animal Park. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
Lords-a-leaping is one thing but hurling oneself | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
out of an aircraft is quite another. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Find out if Lord Bath held his nerve at 4,000 metres. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:04 | |
I hope I do it. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
Raisha the camel gets the hump. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
Wow, that's a powerful kick. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
And with all the exotic creatures down in Pets' Corner | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
we find out why a pig, that thinks is a dog... | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
Sit, Bruno, sit! | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
..is keeper Darren Beasley's all-time favourite. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
Last series on Animal Park we attempted | 0:01:29 | 0:01:33 | |
to discover just how powerful a lion is. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
We used a unique pull-o-meter device and it turned out | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
that they're ten times stronger than their keepers. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
But now, we've decided to get even closer to the big cats | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
and measure the power of their bite. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
The mouth and their teeth are the most terrifying part of any big cat, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
designed to catch, kill and rip through raw flesh. | 0:01:55 | 0:02:00 | |
Here at Longleat keeper Bob Trollope | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
sometimes finds himself staring straight into their awesome jaws | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
and he'd like to know how much power is harnessed in their bite. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
The whole idea of these powerful teeth here | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
is to actually bite on their prey and pierce the hide | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
but we don't know how powerful their bite is. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
So we're going to do a test. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
So that we can get a really close-up shot | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
what I'm going to do with Adam, the cameraman, here, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:32 | |
is to fix this stick just underneath the lens, put a chunk of meat on it, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:38 | |
and get a really close-up shot of her mouth. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
And if you do get this close to a tiger's mouth | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
you can see just how perfectly designed they are. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
They've got four canines that you can see here at the front but | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
the most powerful teeth are at the back and they cut through the flesh. | 0:02:55 | 0:03:00 | |
These canines are for piercing and holding on, | 0:03:00 | 0:03:05 | |
the actual back teeth are where all the pressure is | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
and that's the ones that will bite clean through bone. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
They are incredibly strong and powerful. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
Not surprisingly the meat stick hasn't lasted too long. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:23 | |
OK, its only a bit of wood but seeing the ease with which it | 0:03:23 | 0:03:27 | |
was snapped off has whetted Bob's appetite for gauging their bite. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
We've never had the opportunity to measure | 0:03:31 | 0:03:33 | |
the bite pressure of any of our big cats so we will | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
be very interested to find out what it will be. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
Whatever method we use, it's going to have | 0:03:40 | 0:03:43 | |
to be extremely strong, without a doubt. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
The big question is, | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
how do you harness the biting power of a big cat? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
One way is to be attacked by a lion and find out for yourself. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:56 | |
The other, more preferable option, is to join forces | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
with a team of experts in the world of pressure gauges. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
In charge of the project is engineer, Len Baker. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
Our pressure gauges are normally used in industry. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
This one is unusual | 0:04:12 | 0:04:14 | |
we haven't had experience of animals biting our gauges. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:17 | |
So this is very new to us, because these aren't controlled conditions | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
they might be biting and snatching, doing all sorts of things, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
so we could get anything from really good results to biting straight | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
through our gauge and it not working at all. It's really quite exciting. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
Len and his team have designed a brand new and unique piece of kit, | 0:04:35 | 0:04:41 | |
the big cat bite-o-meter. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
The principle we're working on is we're going to have | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
a sealed piece of tube, and then on the end of that tube | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
we're going to have a pressure gauge. Because it is | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
completely sealed when you squeeze the tube you will generate pressure. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
But what we don't know is how much pressure we're going to generate, | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
how big the tube needs to be, we have no experience of this | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
and it's really quite exciting. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
Without a lion or a tiger on hand in the workshop Len and his team | 0:05:05 | 0:05:10 | |
have been road testing their pressure gauges in a vice | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
to simulate the closing jaws of a big cat. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
So this is what we've come up with. This tube has steel on the inside | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
of it, so hopefully they won't bite through it, | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
and rubber on the outside to protect the lion. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
However the vice doesn't have the big cats' razor sharp teeth | 0:05:25 | 0:05:29 | |
that could potentially pierce the tubing. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
If this happens the cat would get a mouthful of glycerine, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
a sweet, syrupy liquid not at all dangerous to the animal, | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
just not to their taste. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
Big cats have incredible jaw power. You can hear them crunching through | 0:05:45 | 0:05:51 | |
bones on a feed, two or three inches in width, it's nothing to them. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
This bite-o-meter, it's going to have to be something pretty special, | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
it would have to be quite strong. I'd like to see | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
how they're going to do it | 0:06:02 | 0:06:03 | |
We will be back with the big cats later in the programme | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
when the day to put the experimental bite-o-meter to the test arrives. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
Keeping the parks 900 plus animals fed is no mean feat | 0:06:17 | 0:06:22 | |
and they don't get served up any old leftovers. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
It's cordon bleu, top quality nosh bursting with goodness | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
to ensure the animals thrive. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
They have organic oats and plenty of exotic fruit. | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
However, down in Pets' Corner today keeper Jo Hawthorne has whisked up | 0:06:35 | 0:06:40 | |
a dish that would make most people's stomachs churn. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Mealworm porridge, yum, my favourite, Jo, | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
what are we doing with this now? | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
Basically we've got a lovely mixture here, Kate, of organic oats, | 0:06:50 | 0:06:55 | |
mushed-up banana, and of course the mealworms. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
Yum. It all sounded great until you got to the mealworms. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
What are we doing with this here? | 0:07:01 | 0:07:04 | |
What we are going to do is we're going to make some dumplings | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
and I've got this fantastic tree I found a couple of weeks ago. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
-I thought it'd be great for marmosets? -Perfect! | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
So what are we doing, stuffing those into these different knots? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
We stuff some of this in. We've got some fruit there as well. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:21 | |
-Fruit to go on top of it? -You can put some separate, | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
you can put some in with it, whatever you want to do. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
-If I just take a bit of that. -It's very sticky. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
-It is. Just shove it in there like that? -Yeah, put it in the holes. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
OK, now why bother to do this for three little marmosets, | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
because, A, there looks like a lot of food here and, B, its quite | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
a complicated enclosure here, will they ever find it? | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
OK, basically it's going to stop them from getting bored | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
and make them work for their food which in the natural world | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
we wouldn't have to worry about but in here it's nice to give them | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
-the choice to actually look and work for their food. -Oh, hello. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
And look, Michelle's coming down as well. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Yep, This is Michelle, she's coming down. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
There you go, I knew they'd be interested. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
It's the mixture of the fruit, the banana and the mealworms. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
You've obviously thought quite carefully about this mixture, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
it's not you being beastly | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
and slipping mealworms into their porridge? | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
Why this particular mixture? They wouldn't find porridge in the wild. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
No, exactly. Basically what we have got in this mixture...the oats, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:29 | |
in captivity primates can get into trouble with the intestines, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:36 | |
they can get blocked. They haven't got anything to naturally | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
stimulate the intestine walls. So the fibre and the roughage | 0:08:39 | 0:08:46 | |
they get from the oats is going to help stimulate the intestinal walls. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
That helps them go to the toilet, | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
-and do all the things that we have to do. -Right. Keeps things moving! | 0:08:52 | 0:08:57 | |
Exactly! The banana gives them potassium which is great | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
for blood circulation, as it is for you and me. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
-The mealworms are protein. -Right | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
So they've got an all-over good mixture. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
It's like a nice muesli, if you like. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
Yeah. Now they're trying to eat off my fingers which, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:21 | |
that's not really stimulating you, you're supposed to work hard for it, | 0:09:21 | 0:09:26 | |
you're not supposed to just take it off me now. Come on! | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
Jo, thank you very much indeed. Enjoy your porridge! | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Come on, now, work a little bit harder for it, guys. Come on! | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
With a family tree that goes back to Alfred the Great himself, | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
it's fair to say that the blood of Kings flows through the veins | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
of Alexander Thynne, the 7th Marquis of Bath. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
Nevertheless, over the years we've been there to discover Lord Bath | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
isn't everyone's idea of a blue blood card-carrying aristocrat. | 0:10:05 | 0:10:10 | |
He's certainly a colourful character who's always defied convention | 0:10:14 | 0:10:18 | |
and stereotyping. For example, a few years ago we followed what | 0:10:18 | 0:10:23 | |
happened after he accidentally bought himself | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
the adventure of a lifetime. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
I went to a charity lunch and they were auctioning off promises | 0:10:30 | 0:10:36 | |
for the charity, and I thought I've just go to do something | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
that would be possible when I put up my hand. The other things were | 0:10:41 | 0:10:45 | |
holidays in Ibiza, I don't want to go to Ibiza, | 0:10:45 | 0:10:47 | |
all this sort of thing, or a lovely slap-up dinner at a restaurant. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:54 | |
None of it, did I think, was something I wanted to do | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
in anyway at all so when this one came up, I thought | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
if I fling up my hand for the first bid then others will take it over | 0:11:04 | 0:11:09 | |
and then I've still done something. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
But I flung up my hand and nobody bid after that. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
So I suddenly ended up, what, I've got to jump out of plane? | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
That's how it happened. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:21 | |
So Lord Bath had bought himself a parachute jump. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
But not just any old parachute jump, | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
this was the ultimate skydiving experience. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
With extended freefall at terminal velocity from three miles high, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:37 | |
in the company of the Parachute Regiment's | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
world-beating display team, the Red Devils. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
Do parachutes always open? The answer is, apparently, no! | 0:11:43 | 0:11:48 | |
It think it's a, "good-to-have-done," | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
but we're not there in the situation of having done it. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:57 | |
Lord Bath had never done a parachute jump before but then the Red Devils | 0:12:00 | 0:12:04 | |
had never had a 71 year old Peer of the Realm jumping with them either. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:10 | |
So captain Ed Paxton, and Ian McAuliffe, came along to discuss | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
the practicalities of the jump with Lord Bath and land agent, Tim Moore. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:18 | |
Have you got any questions for us? | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
Roughly what happens, you fly up to what height to jump me? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:27 | |
13,000 feet, round about three miles. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
Once we're more than 50 feet off the ground its all the same. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
-I've flown a micro light. -We've heard about that. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
-We'll give you 15 minutes of ground training. -On that day? | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
-Yes. It's very simple stuff. -And as we come down, | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
am I doing a forward roll or a backward roll? | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
You won't be doing any rolling, hopefully. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
-I'll just be holding on! -If you've got visions | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
of the old round parachutes, the way they used to do | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
the old military rolls, it's nothing like that. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
-Its more of a tiptoe landing. -Like stepping off a kerb. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
-I'm strapped to whoever, I'm in front of them. -Yes. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
And I suddenly have second thoughts? I don't have second thoughts! | 0:13:07 | 0:13:13 | |
-Who pulls the ripcord? -Your instructor will. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
He will allow me to pull the ripcord if I'm pleading to? | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
-Actually no. -It's actually out of your reach from on the front there. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:25 | |
Oh, I can't pull the ripcord, then. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 | |
-No. -A double tap on the shoulder means the ripcords coming. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
How many have been lost on this exercise? | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
Tell me afterwards and not before! | 0:13:35 | 0:13:39 | |
Lord Bath had hoped to do the jump over his home, | 0:13:39 | 0:13:41 | |
but that wasn't allowed, so it was set to take place | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
at nearby Netherhaven, the Red Devils' base. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
Hope I don't disgrace the regiment. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
No, you won't. Nice to meet you. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
We will find out how Lord Bath got on later in the programme. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:57 | |
At this time of year the camels are not looking | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
their best they're moulting, so huge clumps of their coat | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
are just hanging off them. Normally this isn't a problem | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
but there's been a rather unpleasant outbreak of diarrhoea | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
and they need treatment fast, so keeper, Kevin Nibbs, has called in | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
Paul, the vet, and Ben is lucky enough to be lending a hand. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:23 | |
-We're up at the camel house today. -That's right. -So what's going on? | 0:14:23 | 0:14:27 | |
We've had some problems with these camels for quite a long time really | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
and they just have sort of mild, squitty diarrhoea. It's not terrible, | 0:14:32 | 0:14:38 | |
they're not losing any weight over it, but, you'll see in a minute, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:42 | |
they have got quite a bit of a mess around their back end. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
Kevin, you're their keeper, so you've obviously noticed | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
-this out in the field? -That's right. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:50 | |
Normally at this time of year they'd be living outside but because | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
these have got bad tummies, through eating too much lush grass, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
we've brought them in overnight to try and dry them out. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
So the idea is to get the camels into this area, is that right? | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
-That's right. -Is this easy, or is it a difficult task, Kevin? | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
-It depends... -Who's this coming in now? -This is Jasmine. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:14 | |
Oh, look, that's clever, basically you've just got a small area | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
-where you can control the camel. -That's right. Unfortunately | 0:15:17 | 0:15:21 | |
she's not not quite long enough so it's going to make it | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
a little bit tricky for us. I'm going to swap places with you | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
and go in through the back. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:29 | |
We are going to find a nice bit of rumpy muscle. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
Just while he's doing that, Kevin, the coat's looking a bit straggly. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
That's right. At the moment they are moulting, they do this every year. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
Actually what we could do is probably pull some of this out. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
-It just pulls out in your hand. -So eventually they'll almost be bald. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
They will. They've got a nice sort of downy hair underneath. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
Once this has all gone they'll have very fine wispy hair underneath | 0:15:52 | 0:15:56 | |
-and they'll grow a new coat for next year. -Right. You're going to...? | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
I am going to try and go in there, but she's managing to get a bit | 0:16:00 | 0:16:04 | |
far away from me. We might have to shove this closed a bit, Kevin, | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
if that's all right. she might knock that against us. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
I can try to get in on some muscle on her front, we'll try that. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:16 | |
We are risking her face...spitting. You've just popped the needle in. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
-Popped the needle in. -And remind me what this is? | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
This is steroid injection, she is not liking that. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:26 | |
You have to stay still, darling. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
It's a steroid injection. It's designed just to take | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
any inflammation away and works particularly well against any | 0:16:32 | 0:16:37 | |
times when the body is attacking itself, in a way. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:40 | |
-particularly in these cases... -Well, done, you've done it. | 0:16:41 | 0:16:46 | |
-Thank you. -I'm very impressed. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:48 | |
..where we're not sure exactly what's going on. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
The steroid does have an action, and it's likely because the body's | 0:16:52 | 0:16:56 | |
set up an immune reaction to the gut. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
-So that's why its not working properly. -So who is mum then? | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
Mum is called Raisha. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
Come on, Raisha. How old is she? | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
She's middle-aged for a camel, | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
camels live up to about 50 years so she's kind of middle aged. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
She's not sure about going in sees all of us hanging around | 0:17:11 | 0:17:15 | |
which probably doesn't bode well. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
-No. -She's looking at us, she's counting us, | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
saying, there's far too many of you. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:21 | |
-Gosh, she is a big girl, isn't she? -She is. | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
and her coat, if I may say so, is looking particularly bad, wow. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:30 | |
That's comes out really easy. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
That just comes away, doesn't it, that's incredible. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
Same problem here, same injection? | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
She's a bit bigger, so I think we might find it a little bit easier | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
to get her in the rump which is safer for us | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
from the spitting point of view. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
-Wow, that was her kicking? -That's her kicking. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
Wow, that's a powerful kick that she's got there. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
That's why she's in a restraint. So that she can't do that. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
She knows what's coming because she's had a few of these. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
She really doesn't like that but it's for her own good, isn't it? | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
She's got thick skin, there. So we'll just give her another. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:05 | |
Well, done. So, that's just in... | 0:18:05 | 0:18:07 | |
That's just in and put that on, there we go. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
Good Raisha. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
I can't get over the power of that kick. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:16 | |
Is that what they do in the wild if there's a predator? | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
They do, what normally happens is when the males are feeling | 0:18:19 | 0:18:23 | |
a little bit frisky they'll.. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:24 | |
-BANG -There we go again! | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
.. bite the back legs to make the females lie down, | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
and then mate them. They've got a massive powerful kick and when | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
the boys are round their ankles, if she's not wanting anything, | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
she'll kick out and push them away with that. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
OK, Raisha, we can let her out now. You've been very good, | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
don't spit at us please, you can see all the foam around the mouth. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:44 | |
OK, certainly very different to cattle and sheep. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
Thanks very much, thanks, Kevin. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
As head of Pets' Corner, Darren Beasley is responsible | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
for hundreds of animals and most of them are exotic. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:05 | |
However, Darren's biggest love is a couple of slightly | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
more down to earth animals. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
Bruno and Blossom joined us at Longleat back in 1996. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:15 | |
They were litter-mates. They were actually | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
brother and sister from the same parents. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:21 | |
They were lovely from the off. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:24 | |
Really, really intelligent, wonderful creatures, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
great personalities. They were like the deadly duo, they were brilliant. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
And every day I'd come into work in Pets' Corner there they were, | 0:19:32 | 0:19:36 | |
sort of grunting away, happy to see you, tails wagging, | 0:19:36 | 0:19:40 | |
just like having a couple of Labradors. Just really lovely. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
They just were there for each other. They'd fight over a piece of apple | 0:19:43 | 0:19:48 | |
or the best bit in the sunshine if they were doing some sunbathing | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
but they were there together and wherever one went the shadow went. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
Of all the animals that I've ever worked with really, | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
I took a great shine to these and really bonded with both of them. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:03 | |
And Darren was so keen to develop the bond with Bruno and Blossom | 0:20:03 | 0:20:07 | |
that six years ago he started working with the young Bruno | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
to train him in obedience skills. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
Bruno, you heel. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:16 | |
Good boy. Sit, sit. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
I read a book once that stated pigs were as clever as dogs. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:25 | |
They are that much more practical, playful and clumsy | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
and they tend to think with their bellies rather than anything else. | 0:20:28 | 0:20:34 | |
Well, they are not called pot-bellied pigs for nothing. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
But nevertheless, Darren was keen to keep Bruno fit | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
so he also taught him how to play football but with mixed results. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
Bruno, come on. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:46 | |
Get your ball, | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
where's the ball. And again, | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
and again, once more for luck. | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
Darren and Bruno loved every minute together | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
and they soon became inseparable. | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
I treat him like one of the gang, really. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
Some say there's a bit of similarity as well. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
So perhaps we were separated at birth...pig and Darren. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
But the dynamic duo were to bring their skills to a wider audience | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
as Darren decided to perform with Bruno at a country show. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:30 | |
Now, this is the bit that proves how unfit I am. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:34 | |
You get him to come to you at a bit of a pace. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
I've got to run now. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
Oh, just as I thought, he's cleared off. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
Right, next thing you start making him think he's a dog. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:46 | |
For instance, heel Bruno, heel. And there we go. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
'Lot of distractions, there's a lot of people here. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:52 | |
'I've changed the football, I thought it might look better | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
'with a yellow football. I think he did us proud.' | 0:21:55 | 0:21:57 | |
He's a very happy pig, aren't you? | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
'Didn't score a goal though which is a bit disappointing.' | 0:21:59 | 0:22:03 | |
But it's not all been a bed of roses. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:05 | |
Bruno and Blossom have been through a lot in their lives, | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
including surviving the foot-and-mouth crisis back in 2001. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:13 | |
But sadly, last year, Blossom was showing signs of getting old. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:17 | |
Quite sadly as time ticked by | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
Bruno and Blossom began to feel their age. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:24 | |
And Blossom three or four times. was unable to get up. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:29 | |
Her legs had just gone from beneath her, really. It was a combination | 0:22:29 | 0:22:34 | |
of arthritis, or rheumatism and sealed-up joints and stiffness. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:39 | |
Generally all the horrible things that come with age. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:43 | |
Blossom was 11 years of age, that doesn't sound that old | 0:22:43 | 0:22:47 | |
in human terms but with the average lifespan of a pot-bellied pig | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
being 13 years, she was doing well. But as her health was deteriorating | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
so quickly Darren knew that the end was not too far away. | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
We came in one morning and poor old Blossom was down on her legs again. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:04 | |
It was a Friday morning, I remember. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
We tried to get her up and she couldn't get up. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
I called the vet, and Keith, the head warden, down to have a look | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
and we decided that the fairest thing we could do at that time | 0:23:14 | 0:23:18 | |
was to help her pass away nice and peacefully. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
For Darren making this decision was incredibly tough | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
but seeing Blossom in so much pain he had little choice. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
Having worked with animals all my adult life, | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
the one time you dread is when animals pass away. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
You dread not being able to wave that magic get-better wand. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
Blossom had been with us 11 years, 11 years, that's a long time. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:51 | |
And that's six days a week, 52 weeks a year. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:55 | |
And you are very, very close. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
You are closer to some of these animals that you are your family. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
Blossom's death was not just a tragedy for Darren | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
it also left Bruno on his own without his sister. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:09 | |
How would he cope without his soul mate, Blossom? | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
We will be back at Pets' Corner later to find out. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:16 | |
It's the day of our big cat bite-o-meter test and engineers | 0:24:29 | 0:24:35 | |
Colin Long and Len Baker arrive at the park to meet Bob and Brian. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
They've brought with them the pressure gauges they've built | 0:24:39 | 0:24:43 | |
exclusively for this experiment. | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
This is the kit we've got and how it's going to work | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
is this is a hollow tube, reinforced, full of liquid. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
When they bite on it, it will generate a hydraulic pressure | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
to come through this tube and displayed on this gauge here. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:02 | |
The black one will give us the pressure | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
and the red one will stay at the maximum reading. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
-So, we don't have to watch the gauge every second. -All right. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
Now we don't how strong their bite's going to be so we've made two. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:15 | |
This is the nylon reinforced one, this is the steel one. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
They could bite straight through the nylon but the steel's | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
very, very strong and they might not getting a reading on it. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
-You can actually see that one move. -Which way do you think we should go? | 0:25:25 | 0:25:30 | |
What if we go with that one with the lions and if they do break it | 0:25:30 | 0:25:36 | |
we can have a changeover in a safe area and then use that one, | 0:25:36 | 0:25:42 | |
and then if we don't get a reading | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
we'll have to go back to the drawing board. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
For the experiment the bite-o-meter will be attached to the back | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
of a feed wagon because the cats associate it with meal times | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
and always follow it. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
Bob and Brian are hoping they'll get close enough to grab hold of it, | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
out of curiosity if nothing else. | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
-This is what we thought we would put it on. -Mouth like that, | 0:26:02 | 0:26:06 | |
do you think they'll go for that? | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
-I think they will. -Time for the gauge team to go to work. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
So that's it. What do you think? It's on really rigidly. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:32 | |
We'll just have to give it a go, see if it's lion or tiger proof. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:36 | |
I think that's going to stay there, definitely. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
Whether the tube survives or not we don't know. | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
With the bite-o-meter firmly fixed in place | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
it's time to head into the park. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
First up are the young lions. | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
They are interested in the feed wagon, | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
they can obviously smell all the meat. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
After we stop, I am sure they will take an interest in it | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
because we've got a lot of youngsters as you can see in here | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
and they are going to be quite inquisitive. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
Come on, then. They don't seem too keen at the moment. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:17 | |
Hey, we want the rubber round here, please. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:23 | |
In anticipation of being fed the cats love to sharpen | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
their teeth on the feed wagon, | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
but frustratingly, so far, there are no takers for the bite-o-meter. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:34 | |
Come on. What's this? | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
It seems this morning the youngsters are only interested in breakfast. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:44 | |
So time to move on to the next section. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
The fully grown mature lions of Charlie's pride. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
But before heading in, for a little added incentive | 0:27:51 | 0:27:55 | |
Bob smears the bite-o-meter in meat juices. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
Hopefully that will have Charlie and his ladies bite that. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:06 | |
Keep our fingers crossed. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
Weighing in at over 200 kilos | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
Charlie is by far and away the biggest big cat at the park. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
It was he who helped himself to one our tyres last year | 0:28:20 | 0:28:24 | |
and recorded the biggest reading on our pull-o-meter experiment. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:29 | |
-Two and a half, three kilometres... -Can feel the whole truck moving! | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
So Bob is confident he will be the star once again. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:39 | |
And straight away the bite-o-meter is generating a lot of interest. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:44 | |
Oh, yes, we've got someone sniffing it. Are you going to bite it? | 0:28:44 | 0:28:50 | |
Yeah, not much of a bite. Go on, bite it. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:56 | |
Go on grab hold of it, not the tyres. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:00 | |
Charlie is here now he's going to come over, have a look | 0:29:02 | 0:29:06 | |
It was Charlie, the lion king, who put the bite-o-meter to the test. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:11 | |
-What's that, 100? -100 pounds. -Bite it, go on, mate. | 0:29:11 | 0:29:15 | |
-He's punctured it. -Has he, already? | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
-Didn't like the taste of it. -Too sweet for you, mate. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:25 | |
Charlie now has his mouth full of thick sugary glycerine, | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
totally harmless, but seemingly not to his liking. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:33 | |
Just over 100. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
That's pounds per square inch. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
He's got such a big jaw. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
Every single inch he's biting 100 pounds he's pushing down. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
100 pounds per square inch is more like a human bite. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:46 | |
Scientists estimate that a lion's bite should be around 700 pounds. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:51 | |
So those may be the figures we should be trying to get | 0:29:51 | 0:29:54 | |
but our problem is actually getting a reading. Is there a material that | 0:29:54 | 0:29:58 | |
can withstand, not only the force of the bite | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
but the sharpness of the teeth. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
Cut it straight through | 0:30:03 | 0:30:05 | |
-and that's really thick. -Yeah, that's amazing isn't it? | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
Do you think because Charlie punctured it, the reading... | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
Could have been on its way up, that's as far as it got, | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
as soon as it punctured it, it stopped going up. It could be double that, | 0:30:14 | 0:30:18 | |
-we just don't know. -Get the strong one on. | 0:30:18 | 0:30:20 | |
Yeah get the big boy in there. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:22 | |
We are going to change this quickly put a new one on and see what the | 0:30:22 | 0:30:25 | |
tigers can do, get a reading and see if Soundari can beat Charlie. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:31 | |
We'll be back with a new tougher bite-o-meter later in the programme | 0:30:31 | 0:30:35 | |
as the experiment continues in the tiger enclosure. | 0:30:35 | 0:30:39 | |
I have to confess this probably is my favourite corner of Pets' Corner, | 0:30:51 | 0:30:55 | |
this is where the ferrets live and I'm here with Alexa. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
They're a bit sleepy at the moment, aren't they? | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
A little bit, yeah. Hopefully they're going to wake up in a minute. | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
You've got this intriguing parcel on the bench between us, | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
-what's going on in here. -This is called our bumble ball. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:11 | |
Basically what it is, it's a child's toy, we've wrapped it Hessian. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
Hessian's good, it keeps a lot of different smells in. | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
-And we're going to turn it on, put it on the floor... -So, it moves does it? | 0:31:17 | 0:31:22 | |
It wobbles, it vibrates. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
Now why on earth would you do something like this for ferrets? | 0:31:25 | 0:31:29 | |
Anything to enrich their lives, really, lots of different things. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:33 | |
We've seen how children react with these things and they love it | 0:31:33 | 0:31:36 | |
and hopefully they will too. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:38 | |
So you've never tried this before, this is a first? | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
Not with this one, no. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:42 | |
Right, shall we see if it wakes them all up because ,as I say, | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
you are all looking a little bit sleepy, aren't you? | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
Going to pop you down. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
Oh, gosh, it makes a noise and it really does move around. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:55 | |
What do you think of that? That's hilarious. | 0:31:57 | 0:32:01 | |
-They can't quite make that out at all. -No! | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
That is brilliant, that's really good. | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
They are completely intrigued by it, aren't they? | 0:32:10 | 0:32:13 | |
Its got lots of different smells on it, | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
lots of the keepers have been handling it as well. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
I think this is an absolute success although I have to say if you spin | 0:32:19 | 0:32:24 | |
round there's another little bit of enrichment in the form of Stewart, | 0:32:24 | 0:32:29 | |
our sound man, and I think he might be after the cables. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:32 | |
-Yeah, they do love Stewart, don't they? -Yeah, they do. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:34 | |
-Will they chew through the cables? -They shouldn't do, no. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
They are usually really good with things like that. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:40 | |
They tend to try and grab things and run off with them. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:43 | |
So if it is attached might get a bit of jolt. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:45 | |
I think they would have a bit of a struggle grabbing Stewart | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
and running off with him. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
Well, I think this is a fantastic success, they obviously love it. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:53 | |
We are going to leave them to play. Alexa, thank you very very much. | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
We've still got lots more on today's programme. | 0:32:57 | 0:32:59 | |
Lord Bath gets probably the most important lesson of his life, but he doesn't appear to get the message. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:07 | |
-Arms up? -No. -Arms like that. -That's it. Keep in. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:10 | |
And back in Pets' Corner Darren has to make a decision | 0:33:10 | 0:33:14 | |
that any keeper of animals hopes they never have to make. | 0:33:14 | 0:33:18 | |
What about that? | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
We're looking back at when Lord Bath prepared to throw himself out of an aeroplane with the Red Devils. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:37 | |
He arrived at their headquarters, the Joint Services Parachute Centre at Netherhaven | 0:33:37 | 0:33:42 | |
and was going to jump in tandem with Sergeant Steven Blee. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
That's the exit there, you can see that the legs are right up there. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:49 | |
-That's where yours need to be, right up underneath. -Yeah. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:55 | |
That's going to be us for the next 45 seconds, | 0:33:55 | 0:34:00 | |
falling at 125 mph, maybe a bit quicker. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:04 | |
At about 6,000 feet we will then pull the parachute. | 0:34:04 | 0:34:08 | |
The next step was for Lord Bath to be kitted out for the practical part of the training. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
And as it wasn't everyday that a septuagenarian aristocrat | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
jumped with the Red Devils, there was a lot of press interest. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:24 | |
-OK. I didn't do anything. -That's fine. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:28 | |
Right. For the exit phase you're going to have your arms across your chest. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:33 | |
-Like that? -Yes, and hold on to these two grips, | 0:34:33 | 0:34:37 | |
that one there, and there. Take your weight off your feet. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:42 | |
That's it. That's how we're going to go out of the aircraft. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:46 | |
Yeah. What I'm gonna say then, sir, is, "Head back, feet back, arch". | 0:34:46 | 0:34:52 | |
-Arms out? -No. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:54 | |
-Like that. -That's it. Keep in, and then we are going to go out the aircraft | 0:34:54 | 0:34:59 | |
and it will be, ready, set and out we go. | 0:34:59 | 0:35:01 | |
Once out of the plane there was another new position for Lord Bath to learn. | 0:35:01 | 0:35:06 | |
That's it. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:08 | |
OK. That's the position... that's better. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
-That's the position that you need to be in when we're in freefall. -Yes. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:17 | |
What I'm going to do once we're in freefall - give you a tap on the shoulders. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:21 | |
-That's your signal that you can bring your arms out. -Yeah. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:25 | |
-Bring your arms out to that position there. -Uh-huh. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:29 | |
-Happy with that? -Yeah. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:31 | |
I think it's now to go out there and do it. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:37 | |
I hope I do it. | 0:35:37 | 0:35:39 | |
The die was cast, the hour was here and the plane awaited. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:44 | |
But Lord Bath was still entitled to chicken out even up to the last moment. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:51 | |
We'll be back later to see if he did. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
The feed wagon with the reinforced bite-o-meter attached is heading towards the tigers. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:05 | |
Earlier in lion country, the big adult male, Charlie, | 0:36:05 | 0:36:09 | |
destroyed the first bite-o-meter with one powerful crunch. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:14 | |
So, now its time to put the second, stronger bite-o-meter to the test. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:19 | |
The question is, is it tiger proof? | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
There she is. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
This is Soundari. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:25 | |
She's normally the most mischievous tiger. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:28 | |
Soundari has a habit of attacking the rubber bits on the feed wagon, namely the tyres and the matting | 0:36:28 | 0:36:35 | |
which protects them, so Bob is hoping the rubber ring of the bite-o-meter | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
will also prove to be irresistible. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:42 | |
No, don't eat that. | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
-At the back. -They do prefer that. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:49 | |
Get off it. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:51 | |
Do you think it's the lion scent they pick up on? | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
She's sniffing it, but she prefers... Oh, you dozy mare. | 0:36:57 | 0:37:02 | |
Come on. Bite that. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:04 | |
Despite Bob's encouragement, Soundari only has eyes, or should that be teeth, | 0:37:06 | 0:37:11 | |
for the wheels of the wagon. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:13 | |
You donut. | 0:37:13 | 0:37:14 | |
Hey, hey! She's just had a tyre. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:20 | |
-That was like a little nip at it and she went straight through the car tyre. -Incredible. | 0:37:20 | 0:37:24 | |
I'll just chuck some meat out. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:29 | |
She may have demonstrated her strength on the tyre, but sadly the bite-o-meter didn't get a look in. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:38 | |
So, it's back to the drawing board then, Len. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:40 | |
Outside of the enclosure Len and Bob inspect the damage. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:49 | |
-You can see she's been biting this, right through there. -And then right through the tyre. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:54 | |
Oi! Hey, hey! | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
Slicing the tyre with her teeth was effortless for Soundari | 0:38:00 | 0:38:04 | |
and only goes to hint at what her true biting strength might be | 0:38:04 | 0:38:08 | |
if she had also bitten the bite-o-meter. | 0:38:08 | 0:38:11 | |
Once again Charlie has proved himself to be the undisputed | 0:38:11 | 0:38:15 | |
king of the Longleat cats, but having pierced the tube so quickly | 0:38:15 | 0:38:19 | |
his true strength still remains a mystery. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:23 | |
But Bob and Len are not giving up that easily. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
-The second bite-o-meter is still intact and therefore lives to be bitten another day. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:32 | |
Join us later in the programme when we make the brave decision | 0:38:32 | 0:38:35 | |
to take the bite-o-meter off the feed truck | 0:38:35 | 0:38:38 | |
and place it in the heart of tiger territory. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:41 | |
It's not every day that the park welcomes a new species of animal | 0:38:50 | 0:38:53 | |
through its doors, but ten years ago a South American tapir arrived. | 0:38:53 | 0:38:59 | |
Jethro was just five months old when he trotted in and for most of the keepers | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
this was the first time they'd ever seen this species of animal. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:08 | |
They are closely related to horses, but while they are plentiful in numbers, | 0:39:08 | 0:39:13 | |
the tapir is an endangered species | 0:39:13 | 0:39:15 | |
so it was great news when Jethro was joined by a female companion, Jessie. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:18 | |
Over the years they've had several babies, the most recent being Gomez and Hugo | 0:39:18 | 0:39:24 | |
and the whole family are firm favourites with the visitors. | 0:39:24 | 0:39:30 | |
So, how do you keep a tapir that's been here for ten years, busy and interested in life? | 0:39:30 | 0:39:36 | |
Well, Bev has the answer - lots of enrichment ideas, and lots of fruit that Jess here is after as well. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:42 | |
-Yes, she certainly is. -Ten years - a fantastic kind of time frame here isn't it? | 0:39:42 | 0:39:46 | |
Yes. Jeth and Jess have been with each other the whole time as well. | 0:39:46 | 0:39:50 | |
-They both came around at a similar time. -I'm wondering who this other one is. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
This is Gomez. He's about two-and-a-half and in the distance | 0:39:53 | 0:39:56 | |
we also have Hugo, and he's our little baby, a year old. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:58 | |
What are we going to do with this fruit? | 0:39:58 | 0:40:01 | |
-We've got bananas, apples, carrots and they obviously can't wait for them. -Jess is very, very keen. | 0:40:01 | 0:40:06 | |
Basically just scatter it about, so grab it, fling it, hide it. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:11 | |
-Do they have a particular favourite out of this lot? -Bananas. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:14 | |
Bananas, OK, let's leave some there. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:17 | |
This is all part of how you keep them busy and occupied. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:20 | |
You don't just put the food down in a trough and they all go and eat it from there. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:24 | |
Exactly - you put the food down in a bowl, | 0:40:24 | 0:40:26 | |
they are just going to eat it and then be bored for the rest of the day, | 0:40:26 | 0:40:29 | |
so what we try and do is hide it, fling it down... | 0:40:29 | 0:40:32 | |
Sometimes we throw apples into the water, things like that, just to get them looking around. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:37 | |
Apple will float. Shall I do it? | 0:40:37 | 0:40:39 | |
-Go for it. -There we go. | 0:40:39 | 0:40:41 | |
Oh, they'll enjoy that when the sun comes out. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:43 | |
-I don't know I'd like to go in today, necessarily. -It's a bit cold. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:46 | |
Presumably we want to pop some of this around the trees? | 0:40:46 | 0:40:49 | |
They can reach quite high, and stand up onto their back legs using their front legs, climbing up. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:53 | |
Do you want to take some pieces? | 0:40:53 | 0:40:55 | |
You are obviously close to all of them, | 0:40:55 | 0:40:58 | |
but what about Jethro in particular? Is he your kind of...? | 0:40:58 | 0:41:03 | |
He was the original really, wasn't he? | 0:41:03 | 0:41:05 | |
Yes, and he's the most loveable. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:06 | |
Jessie is very food orientated but Jethro will ignore a banana for a bit of a cuddle and a tickle | 0:41:06 | 0:41:11 | |
and to be honest when we're out and about he's the one that everybody knows. | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
So, he's quite famous really. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:17 | |
-Has he become famous in his own right? -He has. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:19 | |
Do you find people lining up asking where he is? | 0:41:19 | 0:41:21 | |
Yes. They always ask how he is and how he's doing. It's lovely. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:26 | |
How high can we go? We can't go up into those... | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
Probably not too high, but we could go on round and see if we can find any... | 0:41:28 | 0:41:32 | |
-I don't know how you can tell them apart. They are so similar. This must be Jess. -This is Jessie. | 0:41:32 | 0:41:38 | |
So she's bigger than Jethro. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:40 | |
Yes, females always are. And also she's darker and got a bit of a bigger mane. | 0:41:40 | 0:41:44 | |
Jeth's actually quite grey in the face. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
-Do you want one of these? Can I actually give it to her? -Yes. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:49 | |
Do you want one of those? | 0:41:49 | 0:41:51 | |
Amazing. Not many animals that can eat a whole apple in one, eating part of it. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
No, they've got incredibly strong teeth and jaw as well | 0:41:54 | 0:41:57 | |
so they can cope with big melons, pineapples as well. | 0:41:57 | 0:42:00 | |
-Now, presumably that's Hugo eating on the banana there? -Yes, that's our little baby. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:05 | |
Little baby! Look at him grow. He's lost his spots since I last saw him. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:09 | |
That's right. He still has a few faint spots on his tummy when he rolls over, | 0:42:09 | 0:42:13 | |
but apart from that he's a little bit all grown up now. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:15 | |
-Shall I put some more in here do you think? -Yes. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:18 | |
-How often do you bring the food out like this? -We do this every morning. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:21 | |
-Every morning? -Yes. -Shall I give you a few more pieces? -Thank you. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:25 | |
Carrots as well and I'll just pop these in here. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
Presumably they would forage around for fallen fruit on the floor of wherever it is. | 0:42:28 | 0:42:33 | |
Yes, out in Brazil they would be foraging most of the day and if we didn't do this, | 0:42:33 | 0:42:38 | |
our tapirs would sleep most of the day rather than forage like the wild tapirs. | 0:42:38 | 0:42:42 | |
We are just trying to get them interested and active and acting more like your wild tapir really. | 0:42:42 | 0:42:47 | |
And keeping them active that's very important | 0:42:47 | 0:42:49 | |
because there are no predators here for them to run away from, | 0:42:49 | 0:42:52 | |
so they don't need to do a huge amount of exercise. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
No, they don't necessarily, although it is quite hard to keep a tapir trim. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
They do put on weight quite easily. | 0:42:59 | 0:43:01 | |
Are these...? It's hard to tell whether they are looking on the porky side or whether... | 0:43:01 | 0:43:07 | |
She's a little bit tubby on the tummy, but I'd rather have her this way | 0:43:07 | 0:43:11 | |
than a little bit thin. They are all looking really well at the moment. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:15 | |
-We are really pleased with them. -And Jethro happy going on strong? | 0:43:15 | 0:43:18 | |
Yes, he's doing well. We've had no medical problems with them at all. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
They are just really healthy. So, we are really happy with them. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
-What is the life expectancy of a tapir? -Could be as much as 30 years. | 0:43:25 | 0:43:29 | |
-Jessie, she's 12 and Jethro's 11. -So, many more years to come? -Hopefully. | 0:43:29 | 0:43:34 | |
-Well, listen, good luck for the next ten. -Thank you. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:37 | |
Back down at the pig enclosure, Bruno, the pot bellied pig, | 0:43:41 | 0:43:45 | |
has been pining after his sister and soul mate, Blossom, who passed away last year. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:50 | |
Pigs are highly intelligent animals | 0:43:50 | 0:43:53 | |
so Darren has been very concerned about how he is coping without her. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:56 | |
For a short period after Blossom had passed away, | 0:43:56 | 0:44:00 | |
he was a very, very different pig. | 0:44:00 | 0:44:02 | |
You know he wasn't active he wasn't out playing, he wasn't out sunbathing, | 0:44:02 | 0:44:07 | |
he was a bit sad, forlorn, a bit mopy. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:10 | |
He notices that thing he snuggles up to every night has gone. | 0:44:10 | 0:44:14 | |
He notices the one he barges out of the way to get the apple cubes in the morning has gone. | 0:44:14 | 0:44:18 | |
Bruno is now 12 which is a very good age for a pot bellied pig. | 0:44:21 | 0:44:26 | |
But sadly, like Blossom, he too has arthritis. | 0:44:26 | 0:44:30 | |
Darren is desperate not to let him suffer and is becoming increasingly concerned | 0:44:30 | 0:44:34 | |
about how much pain the condition is causing his old friend. | 0:44:34 | 0:44:39 | |
He's beginning to feel his age as well now. | 0:44:39 | 0:44:42 | |
He's got the wobbly front legs. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:44 | |
He's on medication for his joints | 0:44:44 | 0:44:47 | |
just to help him up in the mornings and help him through the day and stuff. | 0:44:47 | 0:44:51 | |
But, I think he's in his twilight years. | 0:44:51 | 0:44:53 | |
So now my mission in life is to just try and do what's best for Bruno. | 0:44:53 | 0:44:57 | |
So, this morning Darren's called in Paul the vet to have a look at poor old Bruno. | 0:44:57 | 0:45:05 | |
He just seems to be spending more time... If I get him to walk over here... | 0:45:05 | 0:45:08 | |
Bruno, come over here sunshine. | 0:45:08 | 0:45:10 | |
-..in that sort of crouched forward position. -Yes. | 0:45:10 | 0:45:13 | |
He doesn't want to put the weight on that. | 0:45:13 | 0:45:16 | |
He's struggling very much to bend those joints at the front there isn't he? | 0:45:16 | 0:45:19 | |
He's just not looking very comfortable at all. | 0:45:19 | 0:45:23 | |
The problem is, it's going to be arthritis and that's the problem and that's just not reversible. | 0:45:23 | 0:45:30 | |
And so I think he's probably in quite a lot of discomfort now | 0:45:30 | 0:45:33 | |
and it's not something we're going to be able to do anything about long term. | 0:45:33 | 0:45:37 | |
Eventually at some point, and it looks like in the very near future, | 0:45:37 | 0:45:42 | |
you're going to come in and find that he just can't get up at all | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
and that's the last thing you want to find | 0:45:45 | 0:45:47 | |
because it would be a distressing situation for both of you. | 0:45:47 | 0:45:52 | |
We can't continue with him in pain can we? | 0:45:52 | 0:45:54 | |
No, that's the last thing I want. I wouldn't want that on any animal | 0:45:54 | 0:45:59 | |
and particularly our mate Bruno here. | 0:45:59 | 0:46:01 | |
I'll take that on board, thank you, and we'll have to decide. | 0:46:01 | 0:46:09 | |
Yeah. Poor little chap. | 0:46:09 | 0:46:11 | |
Of all the animals in Pets' Corner, Bruno has always had a special place | 0:46:11 | 0:46:16 | |
in Darren's heart, so seeing him in this condition is devastating. | 0:46:16 | 0:46:22 | |
He is one of my all-time favourite animals. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:25 | |
He's my little mate really. | 0:46:25 | 0:46:29 | |
I would defy anybody, anybody, to say they don't get attached to certain animals. | 0:46:29 | 0:46:35 | |
And the cowardly thing to do is hope that one day I'd come in to work | 0:46:35 | 0:46:41 | |
and he's already passed away in his straw bed. | 0:46:41 | 0:46:45 | |
But that is a cowardly thing. | 0:46:45 | 0:46:46 | |
He's been with me longer than nearly all the staff I work with down in Pets' Corner. | 0:46:46 | 0:46:51 | |
He's a big part of this section. | 0:46:51 | 0:46:53 | |
It's always a tough time when you get animals in this condition. | 0:46:56 | 0:47:00 | |
My job is to give Darren all the information about what their condition is doing to the animal | 0:47:00 | 0:47:04 | |
at the time and how it's going to progress | 0:47:04 | 0:47:07 | |
and whether that animal is going to get better or not. | 0:47:07 | 0:47:09 | |
And particularly whether that animal is distressed or in any pain. | 0:47:09 | 0:47:12 | |
So, that can make the decision for them, if I let them know I do believe they are suffering. | 0:47:12 | 0:47:18 | |
What Paul's saying is 100 per cent right. | 0:47:18 | 0:47:21 | |
It's what you don't want to hear, on the other way it's nice that someone else | 0:47:21 | 0:47:28 | |
is speaking aloud what you've been thinking all along. | 0:47:28 | 0:47:32 | |
This poor chap is in pain now. I think its time to do what's right | 0:47:32 | 0:47:36 | |
and what's right for Bruno is that I do the kindest thing. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:40 | |
And I think it's time to say goodbye. | 0:47:40 | 0:47:42 | |
And what better way for these old friends to say goodbye than with one final gentle kick about. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:49 | |
It's now the moment of truth as we take a trip down memory lane | 0:48:22 | 0:48:26 | |
to discover what happened when the Marquis of Bath attempted a parachute jump. | 0:48:26 | 0:48:30 | |
The plane climbed to 4, 000 metres | 0:48:30 | 0:48:33 | |
before Lord Bath and Sergeant Blee would jump out, strapped together in tandem. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:39 | |
If all went well they were due to perform a 50 second freefall | 0:48:39 | 0:48:42 | |
reaching terminal velocity at about 125 mph. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:47 | |
# I'm travelling at the speed of light, | 0:48:47 | 0:48:48 | |
# I wanna make a supersonic man out of you | 0:48:48 | 0:48:52 | |
# Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time | 0:48:52 | 0:48:56 | |
# I'm having a ball Don't stop me now | 0:48:56 | 0:49:00 | |
# If you wanna have a good time, | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
# Just give me a call | 0:49:02 | 0:49:04 | |
# Don't stop me now, Cos I'm having a good time | 0:49:04 | 0:49:07 | |
# Don't stop me now Yes, I'm having a good time | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
# I don't wanna stop at all | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
# I am a sex machine ready to reload | 0:49:14 | 0:49:17 | |
# Like an atom bomb About to oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, explode, | 0:49:17 | 0:49:24 | |
# I'm burning through the sky, yeah! | 0:49:24 | 0:49:27 | |
# 200 degrees | 0:49:27 | 0:49:28 | |
# That's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit... # | 0:49:28 | 0:49:31 | |
-Congratulations, sir. -Thank you. | 0:49:31 | 0:49:34 | |
None the worse for taking a bit of a tumble at the end, | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
the press wanted to know what was the most frightening part of the experience. | 0:49:37 | 0:49:41 | |
Well, the door opened and then one knows that within a few seconds you are suddenly going to discover | 0:49:43 | 0:49:49 | |
if you are OK for going forward, | 0:49:49 | 0:49:51 | |
or whether you will be suddenly clambering backwards and calling for mummy. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:56 | |
Those moments of, "Am I going to behave? Am I going to behave?" | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
were perhaps the most alarming in potential. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:03 | |
But I didn't. I behaved quite all right. | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
He did very well. He was a good student. | 0:50:05 | 0:50:07 | |
Tandem passenger. He was very with it. He was actually very supple for his age | 0:50:07 | 0:50:14 | |
and he could get into the positions that I told him to get into | 0:50:14 | 0:50:17 | |
when we were in the door and when we were in freefall, | 0:50:17 | 0:50:19 | |
and as you saw, when we came into land he got his legs right up for me which was good as well. | 0:50:19 | 0:50:23 | |
I don't think I did a ten out of ten landing, | 0:50:23 | 0:50:27 | |
but I've still got two out of two feet! | 0:50:27 | 0:50:29 | |
So, Lord Bath was all right, but Sergeant Blee didn't know the danger he'd been in. | 0:50:29 | 0:50:36 | |
I was feeling a bit queasy. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:38 | |
If I had been sick it must be horrible for the person strapped to you. | 0:50:38 | 0:50:43 | |
Yeah, but I've had that before so don't worry about it. | 0:50:43 | 0:50:47 | |
-We're gonna take one more photograph, if that's all right. -Yeah. | 0:50:47 | 0:50:50 | |
Lord Bath certainly looked a lot happier with his feet back on terra firma, but would he do it again? | 0:50:50 | 0:50:56 | |
Oh, I don't know about that. We'll think about that in due course. | 0:50:56 | 0:51:00 | |
# Having a good time I don't want to stop at all. # | 0:51:00 | 0:51:07 | |
We had a great idea, to test the bite power of the big cats. | 0:51:11 | 0:51:15 | |
However, we didn't get off to a very good start. | 0:51:15 | 0:51:18 | |
King of the lions, Charlie, | 0:51:18 | 0:51:20 | |
broke the first unique bite-o-meter machine as if snacking on a fillet steak. | 0:51:20 | 0:51:24 | |
And Soundari, the tiger, was only interested in having a chew on the feed truck. | 0:51:24 | 0:51:30 | |
Hey, hey, hey! | 0:51:30 | 0:51:31 | |
But we're giving it one more go. | 0:51:31 | 0:51:33 | |
It could all go horribly wrong. | 0:51:33 | 0:51:35 | |
Soundari could again completely ignore the bite-o-meter, | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
but on the other hand | 0:51:39 | 0:51:40 | |
we could capture on camera the true biting power of a tiger. | 0:51:40 | 0:51:45 | |
No-one knows what will happen. So, let's head back to tiger territory. | 0:51:47 | 0:51:51 | |
Well, the moment of truth has come. | 0:51:51 | 0:51:54 | |
Ben and I are up in tiger territory with Bob and Ian | 0:51:54 | 0:51:57 | |
and this fantastic piece of kit. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
I'll tell you what. Do you want to go and sweet talk Soundari | 0:51:59 | 0:52:02 | |
and see if she's in good fighting spirit? | 0:52:02 | 0:52:05 | |
And we'll just finish off this and make sure she's going to be ready for it. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:09 | |
Shall we go in? | 0:52:09 | 0:52:10 | |
Do you think because it's a curious thing, | 0:52:10 | 0:52:13 | |
that isn't normally in here, that curiosity will be enough to encourage the cat? | 0:52:13 | 0:52:18 | |
Or... We've got a bit of meat here... | 0:52:18 | 0:52:20 | |
What we're going to do is we're going to smear this all around here | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
just to give it a bit of a taste. | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
-She might come up to it. -Just kind of... | 0:52:26 | 0:52:28 | |
Just smear it all around there just so she can get a smell. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:31 | |
-We won't leave the meat here because... -She'd just eat the meat. | 0:52:31 | 0:52:34 | |
And not bother with this. | 0:52:34 | 0:52:35 | |
-So, it's just putting a bit of flavour so she's not just eating rubber tyre. -Yes. | 0:52:35 | 0:52:40 | |
You spoil your tigers, Bob, I have to say! | 0:52:40 | 0:52:45 | |
-That looks, pretty much nicely marinaded. -Yeah. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:48 | |
Good, we'll check that Ben and Ian have briefed Soundari properly | 0:52:48 | 0:52:55 | |
and come back and see what the results are. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:59 | |
-Thanks, Bob. -That's OK. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:00 | |
I've joined Ian, deputy head warden, to catch up with the tigers inside. | 0:53:03 | 0:53:07 | |
Now just remind me who we have here from left to right. | 0:53:07 | 0:53:10 | |
Soundari, Svetli and Shouri. | 0:53:10 | 0:53:12 | |
Right. And they are quite calm right now, given that they can be quite temperamental these guys. | 0:53:12 | 0:53:19 | |
-And Bob's outside. -Right. -And they don't like Bob! -Exactly. | 0:53:19 | 0:53:25 | |
Obviously out in the wild these are incredibly dangerous animals. | 0:53:25 | 0:53:30 | |
They prey on almost everything don't they? | 0:53:30 | 0:53:33 | |
Powerful jaws, absolutely amazing, | 0:53:33 | 0:53:35 | |
and they take their prey down | 0:53:35 | 0:53:36 | |
literally by snapping its neck. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:38 | |
They will grab hold of a prey | 0:53:38 | 0:53:40 | |
by the neck, | 0:53:40 | 0:53:41 | |
and into the jaws - they'll just clamp around the neck and that's goodbye. | 0:53:41 | 0:53:45 | |
If it was going to attack a human being it would be on the neck | 0:53:45 | 0:53:47 | |
and straight through and the claws are used to rip open | 0:53:47 | 0:53:51 | |
and then they can start eating. | 0:53:51 | 0:53:52 | |
And just like a domestic cat or dog | 0:53:52 | 0:53:55 | |
they just have one set of teeth | 0:53:55 | 0:53:56 | |
once the baby ones fall out. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
-Yeah. -So, if they lose those, that's it. -That's it. | 0:53:58 | 0:54:01 | |
With Soundari raring to go | 0:54:03 | 0:54:05 | |
all that's left to do | 0:54:05 | 0:54:06 | |
is let her out. | 0:54:06 | 0:54:07 | |
But will our steel reinforced bite-o-meter withstand her bite? | 0:54:07 | 0:54:12 | |
Before we begin is there anything we need to be aware of? | 0:54:12 | 0:54:15 | |
Obviously we're going to be quite close to the fence | 0:54:15 | 0:54:18 | |
and if Soundari does decide to totally ignore that and come for us, | 0:54:18 | 0:54:23 | |
what I want you to do is just go for those Land Rovers. | 0:54:23 | 0:54:26 | |
The doors are open. Jump in wherever you can, crew and all, | 0:54:26 | 0:54:29 | |
straight in, and shut the doors and we will be all right. | 0:54:29 | 0:54:32 | |
Yes, she's a good climber, isn't she? | 0:54:32 | 0:54:34 | |
-She's quick as well. -And a small fence. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:37 | |
And a small fence. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:38 | |
So, I suppose we need to let her out and see if she goes for it. | 0:54:38 | 0:54:43 | |
Let her out, please. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:44 | |
So, who's coming out? | 0:54:46 | 0:54:48 | |
We're just going to let Soundari out. Hopefully she's going to rush out and go straight to it and bite it. | 0:54:48 | 0:54:54 | |
This is the end of the day, Bob, | 0:54:54 | 0:54:57 | |
and she's probably thinking, "It would be quite nice to settle down and have a bit of a sleep now". | 0:54:57 | 0:55:02 | |
Do you think she might be a little quieter than if we were doing this at the beginning of the day? | 0:55:02 | 0:55:07 | |
Well, I think curiosity might take over. | 0:55:07 | 0:55:09 | |
We just hope that she bites the right piece and not the scaffolding bar or the strap. | 0:55:09 | 0:55:14 | |
Here she comes. She's coming straight over, no hesitation. | 0:55:14 | 0:55:18 | |
She is quite normally nosy. | 0:55:18 | 0:55:20 | |
-Right. -Is she going to be more nosy about us or that? | 0:55:20 | 0:55:24 | |
She's spotted that, so hopefully she's going to go straight to it, | 0:55:24 | 0:55:27 | |
sniff the strap... | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
No, don't bite that. We don't get a reading from that bit. | 0:55:29 | 0:55:32 | |
-Do you think our meat trick will have worked, Bob? -Hopefully. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:38 | |
She's sniffing around it, but whether she's going to bite it or not... | 0:55:38 | 0:55:42 | |
It's quite alarming don't you think to have a small piece of wire | 0:55:42 | 0:55:48 | |
between us and something that... Oh, that's good. | 0:55:48 | 0:55:51 | |
Are we getting a reading? | 0:55:51 | 0:55:52 | |
No reading yet. She's hasn't got quite a hold of it. | 0:55:52 | 0:55:56 | |
Here we go. It's beginning to go up. | 0:55:58 | 0:56:01 | |
-We're starting to go up. -But not by much. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
Not at the moment. Maybe it's a little too tough. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:08 | |
She's gonna try pulling it and biting it. | 0:56:10 | 0:56:13 | |
She's actually using her leg for a bit of leverage there as well. | 0:56:13 | 0:56:17 | |
Don't bite that, that's too hard! | 0:56:17 | 0:56:18 | |
Hopefully she'll go back to... Yeah, she's just trying to... | 0:56:19 | 0:56:22 | |
-She's... -Here we go. And that's using the... | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
She's breaking right through it. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:27 | |
-She's broken right through it. -Already. -Right through it. | 0:56:27 | 0:56:31 | |
I think in fact, she's done more damage than Charlie in a quicker time. | 0:56:31 | 0:56:35 | |
Well, we've got ten psi so far... | 0:56:35 | 0:56:38 | |
-We haven't got any pressure yet. -..which isn't a huge amount. | 0:56:38 | 0:56:41 | |
An average car tyre is about 30, I think. | 0:56:41 | 0:56:44 | |
-Just one small canine tooth went... just like it was butter. -Yeah. | 0:56:45 | 0:56:50 | |
Now because she's split that... | 0:56:50 | 0:56:54 | |
We probably won't get another reading | 0:56:54 | 0:56:56 | |
because the pressure will have gone. | 0:56:56 | 0:56:58 | |
That's incredible isn't it? | 0:56:58 | 0:57:00 | |
Well, she's giving it a really good go, but sadly there's absolutely no reading. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:05 | |
So she's obviously broken through and all the kind of works | 0:57:05 | 0:57:08 | |
that we needed to happen have just gone. | 0:57:08 | 0:57:11 | |
I think we've established what we knew - she's very strong. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:13 | |
And probably would be stronger than Charlie, if only the technology hadn't let us down. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:18 | |
Bob, Ian, thank you. | 0:57:18 | 0:57:20 | |
It was an experiment worth doing. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:21 | |
Sadly that's all we've got time for on today's programme, | 0:57:21 | 0:57:24 | |
but here's what's coming up on the next Animal Park. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:27 | |
A keeper used to looking giraffe and zebra | 0:57:29 | 0:57:32 | |
has to blow dart a whole pride of lions. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:35 | |
Not easy when you smell of their prey. | 0:57:35 | 0:57:38 | |
We look back at the time 300 kilos of sea lion took a ride on the tour boats. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:45 | |
And the baby otters are just about the cutest things at the park, | 0:57:45 | 0:57:50 | |
but Ben becomes just about the most unpopular | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
when he gives them their first jabs. | 0:57:53 | 0:57:55 | |
Hold it like that...? | 0:57:55 | 0:57:57 | |
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