00:00So we do know that one leafcutter ant weighs about five milligrams the reality
00:04is there's just too many of them or we simply don't have the time to weigh them
00:08so the cheat is we weigh the colony but indeed larger groups like the penguins
00:13like the squirrel monkeys where there are larger groups who will spend the time
00:16and we will weigh every single animal individually all the way up so the big
00:20hitters like the camels that I'm expecting today to be weighing around
00:24the 650 kilo mark probably the record as always will go to Molly our giraffe at
00:29about 700 kilos and then lower down the scales the silverback gorilla kiburi no
00:35doubt will be coming in at about 190 kilos so some some really big animals and all
00:39the way down to the little ants
00:44there are more than a staggering 10,000 animals at the London Zoo spanning across
00:524,000 species many of the zoo's animals are trained to perch on a scale while zoo
00:59keepers note down at their measurements well for some scales may be placed in
01:06doorways or disguised in their habitats meaning the animal can be weighed without
01:13realizing each measurement taken is added to the zoological information
01:20management system a database shared with animal carers and conservationists all over the world that
01:29helps to compare importance information on thousands of endangered species the zoo cares for a range of
01:38species from towering giraffes to tiny darwin's frogs which are one of the zoo's smallest creatures measuring two centimeters in length and under
01:50two grams in weight
01:54tortoises can be tricky simply because they're so big but they do they go amazing work by the keepers so much training so much time goes into that but they do go on to their their giant specially made way boards and probably the squirrel monkeys rank up there is
02:08the hardest as you can imagine quite quite cheeky and they're ahead of the game they know that there's a treat waiting so there'll be a lot of cue barging a lot of attempts to get a double weighing to get the double treat
02:18uh but again the keepers are on it it it takes a bit of extra time and we allow for that but the keepers will without fail get a wait for every single squirrel monkey even though they're the most cheeky
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