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00:35 - Yep, so I definitely saw the video.
00:38 It is definitely a sun bear.
00:40 I can tell you that now.
00:41 The characteristics definitely do resemble a sun bear.
00:44 These guys do spend a lot of time standing up.
00:47 So they do, you know, stand on their back feet
00:50 and look like people.
00:51 And that's one of the comments we actually do get a lot
00:53 from the public is that they look like people in suits,
00:55 but they're definitely not.
00:56 They're definitely sun bears.
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01:00 So it's, I mean, you could call it waving
01:05 or you could call it, bring me my food, please.
01:08 So it's generally our Otaki standing up saying,
01:12 I'm ready for food and he'll put his arm up.
01:14 So it's generally him asking for something
01:17 rather than waving.
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01:20 Yeah, so it's actually an adaptation
01:32 that these species have formed to be able
01:35 to defend themselves.
01:36 So if something comes up to attack them from behind,
01:40 it means that they can actually spin around
01:41 in their skin 180 degrees and they can fight back.
01:44 So it's actually a really cool adaptation
01:45 that they've formed.
01:46 They've got it around their necks
01:47 and they've got it around their whole body.
01:48 It's just that excess skin.
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01:52 Definitely, so we have got a lot of hype about it,
01:57 which is actually amazing because sun bears are actually,
02:01 they're very, they're vulnerable out in the wild.
02:03 So it's an amazing opportunity for us to be able
02:06 to talk about these guys and to shed some light
02:09 on them a little bit because bringing people here
02:12 to the zoo is really important to us
02:14 because we're focused a lot on conservation.
02:16 So we really wanna be able to help sun bears
02:18 out in the wild and we support an organisation
02:21 called Free the Bears.
02:23 So Free the Bears goes and rescues bears
02:25 from bear trades and illegal poaching
02:28 and everything overseas.
02:29 And that's why, essentially why we have these guys here
02:33 to raise that really important awareness
02:35 and also funds as well that we're able to send back
02:37 to those amazing conservation organisations.
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02:42 - Unreal.
02:54 - Well, it was unreal. - Not real.
02:55 - It was unreal because I've never seen a bear
02:57 stand up like that ever.
02:58 And then all those wrinkles, but then I did Google
03:02 and we were coming to Canberra for the weekend
03:05 and I thought I'm definitely making a zero for the zoo
03:09 to see the ones down here, to see if it's true or not.
03:12 And I'm dying to see them stand up.
03:14 So that's why we're here.
03:16 We're waiting to see them stand up.
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03:23 - Oh, they're absolutely beautiful.
03:45 Everybody should come.
03:47 Everybody's got to come and see them.
03:48 They're very active because the zoo itself
03:51 is very, very view friendly.
03:55 I'll say it like that, view friendly.
03:57 Everybody can see everything.
03:58 Well, I haven't seen these stand up yet,
04:00 but the girls, the zoo ladies have actually told us
04:03 it is true.
04:04 They have the wrinkles and they can actually turn
04:07 within their skin to defend themselves.
04:09 That's what the wrinkles are about.
04:11 So yeah, I do believe you now.
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04:14 I'd like to see him stand up,
04:16 but I don't think I'm going to get that today.
04:18 - It doesn't matter.
04:19 I'll see it on the way back.
04:20 - Yeah.
04:21 - But no, it's been definitely worth the trip down
04:23 to see them.
04:24 - Yeah.
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