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- Staring contest!
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- Three! Two! One!
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- And, go!
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- [All] We're the Irwins! And this is Australia Zoo.
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- [Robert] Our dad Steve built this zoo
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to protect our world wildlife.
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Today, we strive to carry on his mission.
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- [Bindi] So come with us. This is Wild Times.
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- I am so excited to introduce you
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to one of my best friends. Meet Jenny.
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So Jenny here is our Burmese python.
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Have a look at her!
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Burmese pythons are usually dark brown,
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and they kind of look like mottled earth.
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But Jenny here is white, as you can tell.
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- She's actually completely leucistic.
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So what's really interesting, is
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she turned this completely pale white.
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No pigment whatsoever.
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But now, the weirdest thing has happened.
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She's actually starting to get some of that pigment back.
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- As you can see, they can grow to be absolutely giant.
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These guys are completely non-venomous.
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What they do, is when they catch a small animal to eat,
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they actually constrict.
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And that means, when they grab the little food item,
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they'll give it one giant hug
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to kind of squeeze all the air out of it.
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And then they'll be able to eat it.
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But these guys are non-venomous.
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- A lot of people can be quite afraid of snakes.
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A lot of people think that
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they're kind of these slimy things
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that just sort of creep and crawl everywhere.
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But they're not. They're really beautiful animals.
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They're nice and smooth and soft.
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And the most important thing, if you see a snake,
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is just kind of leave it alone.
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Let it do its thing,
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and you'll never have a problem with it.
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- [Bindi] Look at that! She's smelling at the moment!
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- [Robert] It's true.
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So you can see that amazing tongue there.
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That forked tongue. That's kind of how they smell.
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So they actually use that to sort of scent the air.
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They are actually quite inquisitive.
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- And she actually can't hear anything.
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So we can tell her that she's very beautiful,
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but she can't hear us.
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She can kind of feel our vibrations.
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- [Robert] Yep.
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- [Bindi] But she actually can't listen.
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- [Robert] Well I think now it's time
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to let Jenny slither on back home.
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- While you watch this.
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(jazz music)
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- A choco bicky is kind of Australian slang
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for chocolate biscuit, or chocolate cookie.
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- Devo. That means really sad.
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Devastated.
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Let's say you lost your dog.
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I'm devo'ed.
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Dunny means toilet.
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So you'd say, I'm just going to go to the dunny.
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- I am here at our amazing meerkat adventure area
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with our, you guessed it, meerkats.
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These girls are hilarious!
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These are our beautiful meerkat sisters.
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As you can see, they're searching for food,
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which is pretty much what they do all day every single day.
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These guys are actually from southwest Africa,
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which means that they live in the desert.
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Did you know that?
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You live in the desert!
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These guys live in giant mobs,
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from three meerkats all the way up to fifty meerkats.
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And that's pretty special.
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Every single meerkat has a different job in the family.
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But the most amazing job in the meerkat family
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is being the lookout.
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So one specific meerkat will be the lookout,
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watching out for the rest of the family.
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Checking for any danger, any eagles in the area.
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Thank you for keeping watch over all of us.
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I feel very safe.
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I feel like I'm in good hands.
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What's happening? Can you hear something?
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And just like that, if they hear something,
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that kind of sounds like danger, they'll instantly bolt.
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Listen.
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(meerkat barking)
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That's the sentry calling,
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saying there's some kind of danger around.
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Let's hide for a minute and make sure that it's safe.
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It's safe, I promise! Everything's good.
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And then they'll come back out for some more food.
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These guys are also fantastic at burrowing.
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In the wild, they create these elaborate burrows.
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They even make their very own bedrooms.
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So at night in Africa, it can get really cold in the desert.
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So what they do is they all snuggle up together
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like one big, happy family.
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And they keep each other warm
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during those cold nights in Africa.
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If there's any danger in the area,
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or a predator approaching,
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what they'll do as a family is they'll all group together.
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So you can imagine, if there's 50 meerkats in a mob,
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all grouped together, they look like one big giant creature.
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And nothing attacks them. It's a pretty great strategy.
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And then they go back to looking for food again.
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They're so funny!
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You can hear them talking to each other.
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They're so mischievous, too.
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You never know what a new day's going to bring
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with these meerkats.
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It's like a giant soap opera.
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- I absolutely love this image. These lions are amazing.
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I felt so lucky to travel to South Africa
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and be on safari right next to these magnificent creatures.
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One time, we were actually on a midday drive,
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and we were looking, searching for this pride of lions.
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And we finally found them.
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They consisted of about 10 lionesses.
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And they were all kind of sleeping, nice and lazy,
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and I got out my camera on a really long lens.
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They were about, maybe I'd say, 50 feet away.
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And I was photographing them, watching them,
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kind of all asleep.
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And then all of a sudden, as the sun started to dip down,
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and it was about to become night, they started to get up.
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Started stretching and yawning.
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And this photo captures one of the lionesses doing that.
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A huge yawn. I was really really excited to see this.
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And this photo was taken
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just after they all went out on a night's hunt.
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It was an amazing experience.
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- Next week on Wild Times!
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He has those really cute little frog-like eyes.
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Look! I'm scratching his head and he says,
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that feels really nice.
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- [Robert] He loves it.
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- [Bindi] He likes a good head scratch.
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(closing music)