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Yay!

They're checking out their new neighbor.

Reba and Pineapple, new best friends. Yes.

They're doing so well together, we couldn't be happier.

This is the life.

There he comes.

Gotta go see my woman. Look at them sharing.

I love watching them do stuff. They're so cute.

I brought some snacks.

You're drooling already.

Here in New Tampa, we currently have two drafts. We have a breeding pair. We

have our male, Stakhani, and our female, Lillian.

We used to have only a bachelor herd of drafts, so we only had boys.

Randall, come on.

Last year, we made the huge transition sending out our two older boys and then

getting Lillian in.

Lillian's doing great this morning.

When we first got Lillian, it was a little bit of a transition period for

She was a little bit more timid. She's pretty approachable now, but it did take

some time for us to really just build that bond.

How we doing, Brandy?

Hey, good morning.

Good morning. We've got some exciting news.

Oh, yeah? What's that?

We were working with the SSP, and we just secured recommendations for female

giraffes to come in and make friends with her.

That's super exciting.

But the exciting thing is, you know, Mike had been working on one female, and

he's coming back with two, so that's incredible news. Wow.

Do you hear that?

We're going to have some friends.

Do we know how old they are?

One's just about three years old, about her age, and then the other one is just

about a year old. So now we'll establish our herd, and she'll be all set.

Giraffe species are going through what we call kind of a silent extinction.

You don't hear a whole lot about threats they're facing out in the wild, but the

particular species, the Maasai, over the last few decades, we're looking at

potentially almost a 50 % decrease in their population.

So to be able to start focusing on Maasai giraffe is a great opportunity.

What is the Connie going to do? Oh, my gosh.

He's going to go from living with three boys to living with three girls in a

matter of a year. Poor guy.

The two Maasai giraffe coming in, their names are Kylie and her sister's Tiana.

They're actually both going to come on different days. Obviously, we've got a

few more adjustments to get them prepared. They'll have probably like a

quarantine, and we'll go from there. Being able to identify two females to

here to start building that fundamental herd is perfect. It's exactly what

Lillian needs.

She can start building her confidence, and then all three of them can kind of

grow up together.

Well, we've got some work to do, but we're going to move pretty quickly on

getting him here to Tampa.

Sweet. Sounds good, guys. Thanks, Brandi. Yep.

Good girl.

Oh, my

goodness. I can't believe that

there's six.

Yeah.

We have four clouded leopards that call Zoo Tampa home. And today we are going

to be throwing a birthday party for Aya and Shagoo.

Aya, Shagoo. It looks so good.

It's your birthday.

Clouded leopards are from Asia and they live up in the mountains and in the

grasslands as well.

They are an arboreal species.

They have an amazing adaptation to where their ankles can turn to completely

allow them to go down headfirst down a tree. Good girl.

Hi.

When Aya and Shagoo were born here at the zoo, it was definitely a big day for

everyone. We were very excited.

Aya and Shagoo are really awesome because normally clouded leopards live a

solitary life.

But these girls do so well together, and watching them play and cuddle every

night is the cutest thing.

We are going to make a birthday cake for Aya and Shagoo's sixth birthday.

That came out perfect. I know!

Now we're going to roll some meatballs for some candles.

Yes. We often give blood pops or frozen blood as an enrichment item, which is

something that can kind of stimulate their natural behavior and something

they don't get often.

So hopefully they will really, really enjoy it.

Go for it.

I see you.

She's ready.

I see you. That's Aya.

When we opened the doors, only Aya came out. But this is Shagoo's choice if she

doesn't want to come out. Aya.

Hi.

Oh, she's chuffing.

Hi, beautiful.

What is going on? It's your birthday.

Unfortunately, we noticed that Shagoo wasn't really herself.

She was showing a lot of signs of just not feeling too well.

Do you see your cake?

Do you see your cake?

Aya's really loving her cake right now, and I am a little bit sad that Shagoo's

not getting a chance to enjoy it.

She says, I love Jessica. Good girl.

We're going to keep an eye on Shagoo, especially throughout the day. We're

to have our veterinary team come check on her with Lauren and create a plan.

We're hoping that we can get some answers, and hopefully she'll feel

soon.

Oh, gosh, here we go.

Yeah, buddy!

Whoa!

Kartika!

Are you up? Let's go, booger.

That's my girl.

We have three Binturong here at Zoo Tampa.

Sully, our male, his mate Malati, and their first offspring, Kartika.

I am going to do the afternoon feed for the Binturong, and the biggest task of

each of these feedings is trying to get them to wake up, so now that's the next

part.

Everybody looks asleep.

Binturong, their face looks kind of like a cat, where they have these really

inquisitive eyes, really furry, fluffy faces.

They have these really thick, muscular tails, but then if you look at their

feet, it looks a lot like a bear.

But Binturong are actually more closely related to a mongoose than a bear or

cat.

They're just such a cool creature. They really are.

Oh, it looks like Sully's coming. He's walking around the pond.

The Austronesian language that Binturong came from no longer exists.

meaning all we have is kind of word of mouth that they were named benturong

no history behind it. And that's why benturong are more commonly known as the

bear cat.

They're a lot like a bear in the fact that they can eat meat, they do eat

but probably 80, 90 % of their diet is fruits, veggies.

They have a sweet tooth. They like pears, bananas, blueberries,

Oh, goodness. Sully, look out.

These sessions are a lot of fun for me. They allow me to spend a lot of that

quality time and really get up close, and they're probably some of the

parts of my day.

Up here we have Malati, who's curled up very nicely, looking really comfortable.

I guess she wasn't all that hungry.

Recently we've discovered that Malati is pregnant, so now we're just prepping

for her birth and everything going on with that.

Malati's looking a little bit rounder than usual.

You can definitely tell she's pregnant.

It's been over 80 days, and the beginning of her birthing window is

we're just keeping close eyes on her.

Kartika is over a year old, so it's been a while since we've had a venturong

baby here at the zoo. So to say I'm excited is an understatement.

All right, Miladi, any day now. I feel like tonight might be the night.

We'll be watching you.

if that works for you guys.

Yes, 10 -4, we are ready.

Shigu, our clouded leopard, is not feeling very good, not coming over for

and then she also has several vomit piles, which leads us to believe that

there's something more going on than just an upset tummy.

Shigu is feeling pretty terrible for her birthday, and it's gotten worse.

Hi. Hi.

All right, so we'll do hand injection in here.

Go to sleep. Take her over. And then we'll do radiograph, ultrasound, and

to try to figure out what's going on. Okay. Perfect.

Here we go.

We're seeing a few different things with Shagoo. She is acting very lethargic

and very uninterested in food.

We don't know yet what could be causing this. She may have eaten something she

shouldn't have.

She may have just an upset stomach. And she does have a history of occasionally

having GI problems that usually respond to anti -nausea meds. So this is a

little different for her.

Okay. Sticking.

You're okay.

Got it all? I know.

and Chagoo have undergone a lot of training and are very comfortable

for hand injections, which makes it really, really easy for us to work with

them. Is the vomiting in here like add to the worry? Yeah, it does.

She had an anti -nausea medication and she still vomited multiple times. And to

us, it's a huge red flag that something is wrong. It could be a physical

obstruction. and either their stomach or their intestines, that's completely

blocking things from moving through, and that would be a surgical emergency.

Hospital to Animal Duty.

Good.

We're transporting a clouded leopard from Habitat to the hospital.

There's a lot unknown about what's going on with Shagoo, so I'm really

concerned, and I'm just hoping it's something easy to fix.

All right, I'm going to start catheter first. Let's do blood next.

We're going to start right away with getting a blood sample. We can run some

tests right next to the bedside and get some information really quickly.

Okay. This is kidney values and electrolytes. So nothing crazy there.

good. That's good.

Cute little ears.

All right. Let's do Brad's next.

Radiographs are going to be the most important part for us to look and see if

there's anything obstructing her stomach or her intestine.

Okay. Good.

All right, let's move up to the chest.

Now we're going to do the ultrasound because that then goes with the

to give us a really complete look at what's going on internally.

Everything is super bright around the intestines, which sometimes can mean

inflammation around the intestines but not in.

I don't know what this is, Lauren.

There's this spot.

Yeah.

And have lymph nodes around the intestines.

So I'm not sure if that's what we're seeing.

So far, we haven't really found anything definitive with Shigu. We've done

radiographs and ultrasound.

Nothing's sticking out so far that I know of.

See these?

It's a little more solid looking.

Yeah. So it really seems to be obstructed. So that's encouraging that

isn't a surgical problem, but it's just very bright and that makes me think it's

very inflamed.

We always hate seeing when an animal doesn't feel well. They're like our

We want to make sure that they feel good and have the best possible life, and we

definitely want her to feel better.

Okay, we did fluids. We did vitamin B. We did ultrasound. We did bras. We did

blood. We got urine. We completed our exam. We got our weight.

Okay.

At the end of Shagoo's exam, the positive thing is nothing looks like an

immediate emergency surgery, which is great news for Shagoo.

Go ahead and let go.

Okay. Okay. I think that was good swallows and excavating.

After the exam, I'm still pretty worried about Shagoo. There was no definitive

diagnosis, so there's always a what if of what's going to happen next.

And so just hoping that things turn around and she starts feeling better.

Not knowing the answer is always a little scary.

Sorry, baby girl. She had a really rough day.

Yeah. It's okay.

Just turn the lights on.

Aw, look at those cuties.

We need to get Sukani out first thing. Once we can move them out, we can get

Lillian wherever she needs to go.

Today is a huge morning.

We've been trying really hard to work with the species survival plan to be

to have more breeding females here at Zoo Tampa.

And the two new girls that we are getting are two sisters. They're about

years apart.

The first draft that's going to be arriving this morning is Kylie. She is

to be the older of the two. And then her sister, Tiana, is going to be following

in just a couple days.

You're right, Lillian.

I know.

She looks a little anxious.

She might suspect that something's going on, but we're super excited to see how

she reacts to another female. I think just having companion friends is

definitely going to help kind of ease her nerves and be a little bit more

natural for her.

It's weird.

There's a trailer. I know.

That has your new best friend in there.

Naturally, female giraffes are going to live with other female giraffes.

So we've been trying really hard to bring more females to Zutampa just to

Lillian a little bit more comfortable.

It might take her a minute to come off the trailer, but we'll leave the other

giraffe back so it might encourage her to come out and say hello.

Over the next couple days with Kylie coming in, we'll have the foundation of

giraffe herd moving forward. And then a couple years down the road, hopefully

some successful breeding.

All right. I'm going to open. You guys ready?

Ready. All right.

Hi, Nugget.

She's working on it. Oh, my gosh. She's cute.

Look how fluffy her octopuses are.

Okay.

Hey, girl.

Nice and easy. Oh, my gosh.

Hi. Good girl.

All right.

She's only 12 feet tall. She's a little small giraffe, and getting her ready and

getting her here has been super exciting, and now she's off the trailer.

it's awesome.

After Tiana gets here in just a day or two, we'll make sure that Kylie and

are introduced and they're settling in all right. And once they're acclimated,

we're going to go ahead then and introduce her to Lillian. So we still

few more weeks of work to do, but it's a great first step.

Are they watering, or are you just so happy that the new giraffe is here?

I'm not crying.

I am filled with tears of joy.

There we go. The intro between these two should go well.

Seems to be getting along with the new neighbors.

He's officially part of the neighborhood.

All right. You ready, Mary?

Yep. Okay. Let's go to the airport. Go to get a girl.

Today, we're heading to the airport to pick up a new animal that's arriving

at Zoo Tampa.

We're getting a female shoebill, Storkin, from California.

Got our supplies.

She's en route.

Air cargo, here we come.

Currently we have a male and a female, and these guys are just so enthralling

watch and see.

Chevelle Storks are one of those very majestic animals that you just can't

your eyes off of. They're very prehistoric looking, but just have a

grace and beauty to them. So to see one is very much a treat because there's not

many in zoos and aquariums around the world.

We're coming in. We are ready.

There's only five that are in the United States, so now we're going to have

three of them, and hopefully one day in the future we can have more offsprings

and have these birds for generations to come.

I think that's good. I think, yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Welcome to Tampa.

We have our new shoebill female loaded, and she's ready to go, so we're heading

back to the zoo for everyone to welcome her back.

We have arrived.

There are only five shoebills in the whole United States, and we had two of

five, and it's mind -blowing to me that we're about to have three out of the

five. Like, that was a long flight.

I know, right? Okay, so she's upright and kicking.

That's a good sign.

She's got some fire in there. All right.

This is a homecoming for her, which is really neat. She used to live here in

Tampa, so it's been a long time. She went to San Diego from Tampa, and now

gets to come back home again. All right, coming down.

All you guys.

All right, off we go.

She can be loaded up into our quarantine facility, so she can have a quarantine

time before we introduce her to the shoebill that we have here.

We're a little apprehensive about how she did with the trip, and you never

really know until they come out of the crate to see how it all went.

All right, we ready, everybody?

Oh, my gosh, she's gorgeous.

Hi, Puddle.

It's just incredible that this is one out of five in the country. It's

cargo, and it's really exciting when we see that animal come out.

Out we all go and give her a moment of peace here.

Our new Shoebill will be in quarantine for about 30 days, and we expect to be

moving her to another area of the zoo soon.

Good job with that precious cargo.

No pressure.

Always, always.

She's here.

She is an irreplaceable bird.

We don't know that much about them in the wild, and so they've been a struggle

to get to reproduce.

But Zoo Tampa is the only zoo in the whole United States that has hatched out

successfully shoebill storks. That is a pretty amazing accomplishment, and our

goal is to do it again.

It's an incredible honor to be able to take care of them here.

I would say Zoo Tampa is a place that caters to animals.

The great thing are these nice open air, lush habitats.

So I don't find it too surprising that wild residents in the state want to come

and try to make home here.

All right, let's go back.

There you go.

Oh, hi, Joe.

We do have a visitor that we see often here at the pools. It's a wild blue

heron. We call him Broken Toe Joe.

Joe, you've got to get your own food.

The majority of what we see here in the park are some birds flying in and out,

but you have your occasional squirrel and every once in a while even a little

gator.

All right, where's the baby gator?

It's in the lemur boat. We just drained all the water out of it. This morning we

came in and we were checking out the habitat and we found a little gator in

lemur boat.

Living in Florida, we have alligators all over the place.

Sometimes they end up in our moats.

It's rough to be a wild gator.

I'll put them deeper in the pasture.

It's great as a resident Floridian to be able to live in an area where it's a

lush tropical environment, but you have some pretty incredible biodiversity.

There's a lot of wildlife that calls Florida home.

There's little bits of pond out here he can hang in.

Good boy.

Back up.

Target. Good boy.

All right, Mal, are you ready? I'm ready.

For Pierce to do a scent scavenger hunt.

I am.

Pierce is our African crested porcupine, and she is one of the most friendly

animals that you'll meet here at Zoo Tampa.

I'm just going to go ahead and spray the cone. We also done scented ones for

him. Yeah, we don't want him to get the scent.

Today we're doing a new scent training behavior to introduce into our daily

show. It smells like my ninth grade dance. Yeah, it reminds me of a skate

All right, Pierce, are you ready?

All right.

Let's go.

Our ultimate goal is to have this be a guest experience interaction. We'll

actually be able to choose a child out of the crowd, and the child will be able

to tell where they want the cone placed so that Pierce can go out and find the

scent. Maybe we'll just see if we can walk by all of them.

Yeah. Pierce!

Scent is the main scent that porcupines rely upon.

They don't have very good eyesight, they don't have very good hearing, and

that's why their noses are so big, because that scent is really how they

their food, how they find mate, territories, all that sort of stuff.

So picking out one scent that is a little bit strong should be no problem

her. All right, Pierce, get this.

The goal is that she will find and knock over the cone that has the scent in it.

So hopefully she'll pick the right one.

Hint, hint. It's the one in the middle.

Good girl.

That's what I want to see.

That was amazing.

Bring her home.

Oh, man.

Perfect. We don't mind if she goes up and smells the unscented one as long as

she doesn't interact with it any way beyond that.

So we're excited to see that she's starting to differentiate between the

and the unscented. I'm so proud of her. I'm really proud of her, too. That was

very exciting.

She's going to be ready.

Real soon.

The training that we've been doing has been working, and she's starting to

understand exactly what we're asking of her. And now it's just a few little more

baby steps until we can present it to the public.

Good job, girlfriend.

Good job, too, Jenny.

Thanks. You too, man.

Yeah?

There's another buck here. Look.

You ready to see if Malati had her baby? I'm so ready.

We've been on alert for our benturong mom, Malati, to give birth any day now.

She is in her birthing window, but working with wild animals, you've

expect the unexpected.

She looks like she's guarding something.

She's definitely grooming a baby.

Hi.

It's okay. I know, I'm very close right now.

Oh, what a good little mama.

It was awesome.

Miladi moved, and we saw a little paw stick out of the fur, a little bit of a

nose, and eyes are still closed, so it was ultra adorable at that point.

But Miladi has another surprise for us.

She had twins.

She had two. She has two.

We have twins.

We have two. We had twins.

Oh, I've never been more excited.

Good job, Mama.

You're good at making cute babies.

Here's one.

Oh, my gosh.

It's really common for Binturong to have one to six kits at a time, but from

what we saw on the ultrasound, we were only expecting one. It makes me super

happy. I've wanted an army of Binturong babies ever since we got these guys.

Oh,

there's so little.

We're really excited. excited to have twin babies. It means we get one extra

bintrung for our species survival plan.

And a baby bintrung is pretty much one of the cutest things that you can

imagine. Hello, my buddy.

Hello.

What are you doing?

Hearing the little cries of the babies is great. It means that they're awake,

they're alert, they're vocalizing. We can hear mom interacting with them. It's

great sign that these babies are healthy and alert and screaming for more food.

That second one did a good job of hiding. Uh -huh. Oh, yeah. On

could only confirm one for sure, but secretly, she had two.

She's got to go check on her older kid now. Oh, so they have access?

It's going to be really important for Kartika. So when she goes on and has a

family of her own, she's at least seen mom do it with two crazy kids.

That's awesome. I really like that.

I'm so happy about these little babies.

They are very precious. Miladi's a great mom, and it's a huge win for our Asia

team to have these little Binturong twins.

They're so cute.

We are winning with twins.

You ready?

I've been a part of our ambassador team here at the zoo for almost eight years

now.

I've been working in areas that are up close and personal with guests, and

that's one of the things that I am most passionate about.

Yeah, you guys ready to go fly? We're going to go down this way.

Oh, my goodness.

We work really hard to train our animals to be able to come out and meet our

guests. Are you guys ready?

Good job.

I spend 40 hours a week here, and so you can't even imagine how close you get to

these animals and how much they mean to you in your life.

Hi!

Isn't he awesome?

My grandma was an animal lover, and so when I got my job here at the zoo and I

got to call her and tell her all of these stories about the animals I worked

with, it was always amazing because she would be so thrilled, and so it was

really exciting being able to share that with someone that inspired me to love

animals. Good job!

So just imagining a 10 -year -old coming to the zoo for the first time and

seeing how much that could change one person's life is why I come to the zoo

every day and do my job.

Good morning.

Good morning, Lauren.

How is Shagoo looking this morning?

When I first got here, she was pretty lethargic still, but she seemed to perk

after I went in with her.

Okay, let's take a look.

Shagoo is feeling pretty terrible. We did an emergency workup to try to

what was going on with her and didn't really find any definitive answers.

But she is on several different medicines right now to hopefully help

better.

She's definitely more reactive today, which is... Look at you, local.

You're very chatty. Good morning.

We're really encouraged because she looks better. She's much more bright.

wants to come over to us. She's doing her normal check behaviors and talking.

Well, this is, like, way different. Although she has diarrhea, I feel like

least she looks, like, brighter. Yeah.

That's encouraging.

Are you coming over to say hi?

I'm glad she's chuffing again.

When she chuffs, it means she's feeling very positive, very comfortable, very

happy. She's talking back and forth to you. It's really normal for her and her

sister Aya to just constantly chuff and talk and meow and make these noises. And

when she's quiet, then you know something's not right.

We got her on antibiotics last night. The combination of the fluids and that

be why she's looking a little bit more right.

The biggest thing would be if she's not feeling well consistently would be to

repeat the radiograph.

Yeah. But she looked to me a lot more comfortable than yesterday.

We're going to take it day by day, but the next few days, as long as she keeps

improving, it's really going to be a positive sign that we are headed in the

right direction.

If she starts going in the opposite direction, then we'll repeat the exam

figure out what we need to do next.

Oh my goodness.

So chatty.

Okay, big day.

Are you girls ready?

This is super exciting.

Tiana, you're going to have a new best friend.

Tiana arrived over the weekend, just two days after her sister.

Over the last week or so, they all had the opportunity to investigate and spend

a little bit of time with Lillian.

It's all just been over the top of the walls in the giraffe barn. They haven't

actually shared the same space yet.

Lillian's like, what's going on?

This morning we're actually going to be introducing all of the female drafts

together. So it's going to be Lillian's first time hanging out with the new

girls. You're going to do good today, okay?

You're going to make some new best friends.

Brandi and Lindsay, just be prepared to open the divider.

These introductions are going to happen on their terms.

Some of the things that we're going to be looking for today are going to be

of like chest bumping or pushing, things that we don't necessarily want right

away. We have people in place in order to hold the giraffe at station if

but ultimately this will be up to the decision of the giraffe whether or not

they want to share space together today.

Open the divider.

Yes, this is the moment. So I think we're all just kind of on edge a little

I think Tiana's a little worked up.

Hopefully it all goes well.

All right, Kylie.

She's coming out.

Hi, Kylie.

There you go. Good girl.

All right.

What's he thinking?

Tiana's certainly interested in what's going on, but is a little reluctant to

shift over right away.

It's draft.

It's never easy.

Come on, Tiana. I know. It's a lot to take in.

We don't necessarily get nervous, but we just kind of sit back and wait and give

her an opportunity to shift over by herself.

Good job. What a pretty girl.

Hey. There she goes.

Oh, my gosh. They're so cute.

All three girls are just kind of hanging out. This is also the first time that

the two new girls have been in this space, not only with Lillian, but just

here in general. So I think they're very overstimulated at the moment, but

everyone's doing really, really great, though, all positive things so far.

I love them so much.

Let's just kind of pay attention to what Lillian's doing here. If we need to or

if there's an opportunity, we can always separate them out.

Lily is kind of confused.

Yeah. She's, like, just taking it all in.

I think Lillian is excited, but I'm sure is also nervous. She's never had two

new friends living with her, so it's just going to be kind of a waiting game

see how it all plays out.

Everybody's checking everybody out. Nobody's running.

I think they're going to be besties for the resties.

It's so weird to see this when you draft together again.

It's been a minute. It has.

Seeing the three giraffes together is so exciting. You know, a year ago we went

from having a bachelor group of giraffes to now having a herd of females here

and just one male. So we have a few steps to take until we meet our next

milestone, but this is a great start.

Just think, in a few years we could have like our own little giraffe babies.

They're so cute. I can't wait.

The amount of change that's taken place over the last year and the amount of

work that's gone into it is like so rewarding to see it all coming to life

in front of us. And I'm excited for what the future holds.

All right. Great job, guys. Go team.

Look at these guys in here. They look great.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Mallory. and I'd love to welcome you to our demo.

Today is the big day. Pierce is going to be our grand finale where she is going

to go and show off her scent behavior for the very first time to the public.

Who is ready for some of our student animals to come out here so we can show

how it's done?

Yeah!

We are bringing out our first student, Charlotte.

And this is a voluntary ultrasound husbandry behavior. It is very busy out

our audience today. So I think that they're going to be very excited to see

Good job, Leo.

Working up to the moment that Pierce is coming out, my nerves were bubbling. My

anticipation is through the roof.

This is Pierce.

She is an African crested porcupine. You guys are going to be seeing a behavior

that has never been done in front of an audience.

So we'll see how it goes.

We are having the guests participate in this brand new behavior. So we're going

to be choosing a volunteer from the audience and having them decide where

scented cone is placed.

What side do you want Jenny to put the cone on? The right or the left? The

right. Okay.

So we're going to put the cone on her right.

So we're all set up. We're ready for Pierce to find her sending cone. So now

the moment of truth.

We're going to do a victory lap.

I was extremely happy that she picked the correct cone.

Either way, I would have been happy, but it makes it a little sweeter that she

got it right.

I am so proud of Pierce. I'm so proud of Mallory and I for having trained this.

It's definitely been a complicated behavior to train, and she did amazing.

has blown us out of the water every step of the way that we've been training

this, so we're very, very excited about it. You did so good.

I'm so proud of you.

Good job, girlfriend.

Hey. You guys ready?

I think so. I guess. Ready as I'll ever be.

To catch a bird that's taller than you. I know, yeah.

It's been about a month since we received our third shoebill, and this

we're going to be moving her from the quarantine habitat to our pottest

It's a brand -new species for me. It's not a species I ever expected to work

with, so I'm really, really excited for this opportunity.

Really, this is an opportunity for you guys to learn how to catch up a shoebill

if you need to, what we're looking for.

You're our sensei today. Yeah.

Our aviary team cares for our Shoebill here currently.

Because this animal is going to be living with the Pottis, our primate team

actually be caring for her.

So it's really important that they really work together to make sure that

transition is as smooth as possible.

All right, let's go.

You got this, Danny.

It's intimidating walking in to catch a bird that's basically as tall as you

are.

All right, she's so controlled. We just don't want any, like, flailing.

As soon as I get head.

I need someone to come in and grab body.

We want to go slow. We want to be calm so that way we don't spook her too much

and get her out of control.

See her do the duck dance. She's thinking about flying.

And if we all just pause, she may just rethink her plan.

We want to kind of creep in a little bit, inch by inch, and get her in the

perfect position so that way she doesn't injure herself or we don't get injured

as well.

Jane, go ahead and take a step forward.

Danny, go ahead and take a step. To the left? Yeah.

If she turns, go for it.

Okay.

I'm going to attempt.

That's what we're looking for.

All right, I'm going to go on the count of three.

As a rule of thumb, whenever I catch birds, I want to eliminate the weapon.

we want to try to get the beak as quick as possible and then have somebody else

come in and get the wings and the feet.

One, two, and three.

Oh, nice.

Grab those wings.

It was not very stressful for us, and it seems like we got a good control of

her, and I think it went really well.

Fantastic. Feel good, Jane? Yeah. Okay.

I'm going to let go, okay? Okay.

Because shoebills don't do well in large groups together,

this shoebill will be going to a different habitat.

The best space for her is actually in our African primate habitat.

She'll be living with the pottis.

where she can really have a lot of room and a pool and all the things that are

important for her.

I have head still, and you can back up. Yep, very good.

Keep the hands off me.

The potters are probably in there going, what the heck is that?

Something else.

She's already exploring. Yep. She looks good out here.

It is amazing to see this gorgeous shoebill walk around Habitat in this

green environment. She looks right at home.

We're going to keep Pottas off of habitat for maybe the first week, give

time to settle in and get used to us and everything.

And also, we have decided that we're going to go with the name of Odette.

Odette? That's really cool.

It's a Swan Lake reference. Yeah.

Very cool.

Good job, guys. Good job. Good catch up.

She's so cute.

She's a good -looking lady. Yep.

It'll be fun to get to know her. Yep.

Our two baby Binturong have been eating a little bit of baby food, which is

great. They're growing up really fast.

I just feel like every day I come in and see them, they're already like twice

the size they were the day before. I love them to death.

Hello. Hi. Good morning. Morning. How are you guys doing? Good. Are we ready

the babies?

Yeah. I'm so excited.

I want to know what gender they are. I know.

This morning, KP and Tori are going to catch up the Binturong twins so that Dr.

Melissa can check them out.

This will be the first time that we've handled them since they've been born.

They're now four weeks old, so it'll be important that we just look over them,

make sure everything is okay health -wise.

Ready? Ready. Let's do this. Do you want to get some food?

Yeah, I got it all ready.

Babies have seen us plenty of times. We've just never touched them before, so

that new variable can change a lot of things for us.

Hi.

Good morning, Princess.

Good morning, Miladi.

All right. I just want to come on in.

I will catch the babies. We don't really know what to expect with that. We don't

know how mobile they are, how sharp their teeth are. So we have some pretty

hefty bite gloves just in case. So we're ready for any contingency.

Oh, my God, they're sleeping.

Hi, little one. Oh, good morning, precious.

I literally had the little baby in my hands, and I was like, I don't want to

you down. You're so cute.

Hi, angel.

I'm going to look at your face first.

You have little baby teeth.

How it looks good.

It's super important to do this as quickly as possible because we want to

minimize the time that we keep the babies and mom apart.

It's really important that mom feels totally comfortable, and the longer we

them separated, then the more uncomfortable she could get.

I know, baby.

Oh, that tail is some strength already, huh?

All right, let's see. Are you a boy or a girl?

I don't see a penis.

I think it's a girl.

First one's a girl.

The first baby is a girl.

So exactly what I was hoping for, although I would have been happy either

The first baby went really well, so we're hoping baby number two will be

calm and cooperative.

Does your palate look good?

Oh, there's some pee.

Oh, thank you.

Wow.

Let's see what you are.

And baby number two is also a girl, so we have an all -girl family.

Sorry, Sully.

That's what I thought.

Baby number two is also looking really good. She's really strong, and

was super smooth, so we couldn't be happier with the way these babies look.

Well, we are done. I'm just putting the second baby away.

I know.

We're really happy that Milani's doing such a good job. You know, this is only

her second time as a mom, and she's doing everything right. She's raising

kids. They're doing amazing.

And even Kartika gets to see her mom exhibit all these appropriate behaviors,

which is really important for her when she becomes a mom.

Two little girls.

It's a girls' club.

I think it went incredibly well, all things considered. They're healthy, and

they're responding how we want them to. So I'm very excited to welcome two

little girls to our family.

Hello, Babylon.

I think you're hogging all the attention. Oh, my gosh. I didn't even do

purpose.

There you go.

You want to tell me that?

Jealousy. I know you all want the attention, and I am only one person.

Let's see if I can do this.

Ooh.

Shagoo has been progressing nicely.

It's been a concerning couple of weeks for her and for the team as well. So

she's been doing super great. And we're going to give her some birthday time

with Aya.

Are you ready?

Shagoo's been having a lot of ups and downs over the past week or two.

Lately, she's been doing a lot better. So we're hoping she'll come out and

celebrate her birthday party today.

Shagu is feeling much better. We're going to go in and let her have her

surprise with Aya this time.

I'm really excited that she's doing better.

Right now, our diagnosis is still a little bit open for Shagu. We're

her for a number of stomach issues, but we're not sure yet if that's the primary

problem. But we're really happy with how Shagu is doing, and she's responding to

all the treatment she's received so far.

You're good to open.

Are you so excited?

Look at your birthday party.

She's like, oh, I'm going to go get my cake.

Shagoo came right out. She was super interested, and she went over with

and started enjoying her cake immediately.

Oh, that's yummy.

Shagoo looks really good.

It's always fun to watch her explore and get excited about all of her food.

It's cold.

Is Aya not wanting to come out? Maybe she's letting Shagoo have her moment.

She's like, she didn't get her birthday party. I did.

Oh, there's her little face. Want to come out here with your sister?

Hi.

Aya and Shagoo's relationship is super bonded. They are sisters, and they were

raised together.

And it's been a different change for them to be separated some of the time,

especially when Shagoo isn't feeling good.

Oh, hi, Aya Kitchen.

You going to get your birthday cake with your sister?

Oh. It's good to see Shagoo showing some funk today. She definitely didn't want

to share her birthday cake with Aya, so that's a good sign, even though she

wasn't being the nicest.

Happy birthday, Aya and Shagoo.

Sometimes when we have a medical case, we want every single answer, but we

get it, and that's just the way it is.

All that matters is that they respond to the treatment that we give, and we get

them back to being healthy.

We're still not out of the woods. We still are trying to track down exactly

the underlying problems are so that we can address those and hopefully cure her

of what's going on.

Excellent job, guys.