00:00Oh, you meant this is what you meant, isn't it?
00:06Yeah, that's it, thank you.
00:07Sorry, that's strong.
00:12This is mine.
00:13That's mine.
00:14That's mine now.
00:15Yeah.
00:18Good boy.
00:19Nice.
00:20Hi.
00:30If you look up at her, so look at the capybara for me, and just hold him up.
00:39Yeah, I will in just a second, mate.
00:52There we go.
01:00So today is the annual way in here at London Zoo.
01:19It's a big day for us.
01:21We've got more than 10,000 animals across 400 species.
01:25So the teams have been in since 6 o'clock this morning.
01:28They'll be working here until almost light fade at the end of the day.
01:32Now, the reality is we know the weights of our animals.
01:35We don't just weigh them once per year.
01:37We weigh them in some cases every single day of the year.
01:40But what today is is a formalised process where all of those weights are logged
01:44and recorded onto an international database called ZIMS,
01:48or the Zoological Information Management System,
01:50when we share that information with other zoos globally
01:54and other conservation organisations around the whole world.
01:57We're also able to use that data to feed back out into our conservation projects across the world.
02:03So, for example, in the case of a Sumatian tiger, sadly,
02:07there are so few Sumatian tigers left in the wild.
02:10Fortunately, we've got a protected population of them here in the zoo.
02:14We're able to weigh the Sumatian tigers here at the zoo and then feed that animal information back out to the wild.
02:21So, in the event of a wild veterinarian needs to treat an injured wild Sumatian tiger,
02:27they might indeed not know the typical weight of a Sumatian tiger because the numbers are so low.
02:32Probably the squirrel monkeys are the hardest. They're quite cheeky.
02:36They know, like all the animals today, that there's a bit of a treat in return for being weighed.
02:42So, there's a bit of queue barging. There's a bit of attempts to get a double weight and a double treat.
02:46But the keepers are on it. The keepers are really professional.
02:49So, even though it's going to take them quite a bit of extra time and they allow for that,
02:53they will still end the day with the wait for every single squirrel monkey.
03:19So, we'll see you next time.
03:20We'll see you next time.
03:21Bye.
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