00:00We're off to the next capture site.
00:03Maybe I'll finally get to see some joeys.
00:06She's a big girl.
00:10She's a big devil I should say.
00:14Oh, oh wow, look.
00:16Look at those little guys.
00:20She's got four joeys, we think, in her pouch.
00:23They're all literally big enough to be popping out.
00:25What a crazy animal.
00:27Look at these little guys tucked away in the pouch.
00:30Two boys, two girls.
00:31Isn't that incredible?
00:32And these would have come out of her cloaca and crawled all the way into her pouch when
00:37they were the size of a grain of rice.
00:39No back legs, but an instinct that will make them make that journey.
00:43They will be attached to a nipple in there that is probably at this stage about that
00:47long.
00:48What an incredible adaptation.
00:50And look at her, huge, fat, feisty girl.
00:54An incredible mark of the success of this project.
00:57Aussie Ark hit a milestone just recently with our 500th joey, and it's something that I'm
01:02really proud of.
01:03It's a feather in Aussie Ark's cap.
01:13Well there goes a Tasmanian devil.
01:16Not only is she an animal that was bred here, she's carrying the next generation of an incredibly
01:23endangered species.
01:26Think about that.
01:27That's two generations that have both been born in captivity that are part of this conservation
01:34success story, creating this insurance policy against extinction.
01:39That's conservation right there.
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