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00:00Forrest Gullianti
00:26Hi, I'm Forrest Gullianti.
00:30Wildlife expert and conservationist.
00:35And I'm here to take you on a journey.
00:39To a place you've probably never heard of.
00:43Because until now, it has been kept a secret.
00:48It is unmatched by any other place on Earth.
00:53For those lucky enough to make it here,
00:56it is a refuge, a sanctuary, a place to live their lives in safety and in peace.
01:04In a world that has forgotten the importance of nature, a new Eden has been born.
01:14A place for animals to thrive.
01:18Because this isn't a zoo.
01:27This is an ark.
01:28This is Ventara.
01:29This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:31This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:32This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:33This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:34This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:43This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:44This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
01:54This is the world's largest animal rescue center.
02:013,500 acres and still growing.
02:05It has several thousand animals,
02:09hundreds of species,
02:12and access to the best vets and handlers in the world.
02:17Their combined expertise means Ventara will be there
02:21for any animal in need.
02:25Anywhere in the world, at any time.
02:36Tonight, a very special new guest is coming in.
02:45Perhaps India's most iconic animal.
02:51But one that is disappearing in the wild.
02:58Are you well? Good to see you.
03:02Exciting day.
03:04Hi, how are you?
03:05Nice to see you.
03:06Why don't you lift it?
03:07No, you lift it.
03:08Are you sure?
03:09Alright, you do the next one then.
03:10You lift it.
03:11Okay.
03:12Okay.
03:13Vantara is all the vision of one man, Anant Ambani.
03:14First rescued animal from the slaughterhouse in the world.
03:17And he's not a victim.
03:18Are you well?
03:19Are you well?
03:20Good to see you.
03:21Exciting day.
03:22Hi, how are you?
03:23Nice to see you.
03:24Why don't you lift it?
03:25No, you lift it.
03:26Are you sure?
03:27Alright, you do the next one then.
03:28You lift it.
03:29Okay.
03:30Then Tara is all the vision of one man, Anant Ambani.
04:00That's how it all started and then slowly I thought that there are a lot of people doing a lot for domestic animals but for the wild there are very few people who do rescue, rehabilitation and conservation breeding so I thought this should become the hub and I started this about, my first elephant I rescued was in 2007.
04:20I was, I think, 12 or 13 years old when I rescued my first ever baby elephant. She was not a baby, I call her baby because she was a baby to me but she was 30 years old.
04:39Her name was Gaudi. So I was in the car and I saw her walk with a person who was making a beg to survive for himself also.
04:51Sure. On your very first rescue you rescued her and the mahout, come on.
04:54Yes, yes, yes.
04:55And you brought them both?
04:56Yes. Actually Kailash became a good friend.
04:58Oh, lovely.
04:59So I maybe met him 10 times and I met him and I told him that, you know, we'll get you a better life, you can stay there with the elephant, the elephant will have a better life, he will have a better life.
05:07His Salon is your friend.
05:08Wow.
05:09Wow.
05:10Wow!
05:11Wow, man.
05:12Now what did you wish me Mont�를 Beaten?
05:15I had that one to food.
05:16It is even i have it.
05:17And I thought so.
05:18I do not believe that Michael Pound's stuff in these little needs.
05:20Yeah, people do not have it.
05:21I understood you just did not have it.
05:22It became such an assumption that my mother is a good listener of the Hoelt所ila.
05:25In fact he would not have it all me to be in the field.
05:27When I invited my dear friends, he would parce
05:31my father for theaks in which he had been living together.
05:31With the memories he lived he had to be in the field, he did not have it, he trying to be and r butts, heейств home and I 피 proving them?
05:35I hadn't, I made it.
05:36Ventara employs some of the best veterinarians, animal behaviorists, and biologists in the world.
05:53Which means rescues can come from anywhere on the planet, like these giant otters saved from a meat market in South America.
06:01The staff here have built an incredible, lifelike waterfall to replicate the otter's freshwater habitat.
06:10But today, the waterfalls dried up, so the otters have been confined to their night shelters.
06:17My babies are crying.
06:19And the resident otters are not shy with their displeasure.
06:24So much complaining going on.
06:26Oh, listen, listen, listen.
06:31We're going to fix it.
06:32We're going to fix it, I promise.
06:34We are, we'll fix it.
06:38Let's go see outside where it is.
06:40Yeah.
06:48It's underwater there.
06:50Okay, well, no waterfall.
06:52That means some sad otters up here.
06:54Oh, yeah, it's bone dry up here.
06:55Yeah, exactly.
06:57So they're used to sunbusk through the waterfall.
06:59Uh-huh.
06:59You know, just like the natural river streams.
07:01Yeah, sure.
07:02They love the flowing water.
07:04And moreover, they don't like any stagnant water.
07:07If their pond is without waterfall, they know what they want, and they will try to express to us.
07:13And we are here to understand their language.
07:16We have a good maintenance team over here.
07:19By evening, they'll get their waterfall back.
07:21The maintenance team will drain the pond to repair the issue.
07:25So in the meantime, Mavesh wants to introduce me to his favorite, and perhaps most controversial, resident.
07:34Who's in here?
07:35This is our pancham, and he was a man-eater, and we rescued him.
07:41And it's been told that almost eight to ten people have been killed by this pancham.
07:46By this individual?
07:47Yes, by this individual.
07:48I don't see him.
07:50Jesus!
07:50Jesus!
07:51Jesus!
07:57Boy, that is, um, awfully scary.
08:01Two hundred years ago, an animal killed a human, became a man-eater.
08:09Yeah.
08:10The resolution was a bullet to the head.
08:12Yeah.
08:13Today, why keep a man-eater alive?
08:17Because it's alive.
08:19So is a human that kills people.
08:21But the thing is, there are reasons for the animal to be, and, you know, basically the human by-left conflict.
08:29Why it happens, we have to understand that.
08:31Because the tigers, once they are aged, they will not be able to hunt from the forest.
08:37Then they'll come into the human settlement area, first thing.
08:41And the other thing is, when we brought pancham here, he was not able to eat properly.
08:45Why?
08:45All his four canines is completely rotten.
08:49He's not able to hunt the animal, basically.
08:51That's why he was in a mood.
08:54He was always getting the human beings, nearby human beings, when the human beings enter into the forest.
09:02So it's easy.
09:04It's easy for a tiger to, you know, just smash him and put it down.
09:08He don't want to chase, you know, he don't want to run.
09:10And the thing is, what are the circumstances which made pancham to attack a human being?
09:19That's what we have to understand first.
09:22Nobody is bothered about that.
09:23Yeah, he's a man-eater.
09:24Catch him.
09:25Trap him.
09:26Kill him.
09:27No.
09:28You have to understand why, what made him to.
09:31If the human beings encroach to the wildlife area, then, obviously, there will be human-wildlife conflict.
09:38Not by birth.
09:40He's a killer.
09:42From here, all the four canines got root canaled.
09:46Devantara did all the four canines root canaled, and now he is eating almost 12 kg.
09:55Whoa.
09:58Now, I have seen many times.
10:00Wow.
10:01Even through the cage, that gave me a...
10:04Look at this.
10:04You know, still at it vibrating.
10:06So, in the two years that he's been here, has his temperament changed?
10:11As of now, no.
10:15Pancham is lucky.
10:17Despite what some might see as his crimes, he's found a home here where he can live out his days well-fed and pain-free.
10:25The staff at Ventara have a constant stream of new animals arriving from a wide variety of circumstances.
10:44For those fleeing a traumatic past, animal behaviorists, like Kunj Joshi, are on hand to greet them.
10:5420?
10:5530.
10:5530?
10:56Yeah.
10:57That's a lot of elephants.
11:00But they are going to live a better life.
11:02There are over 200 rescued elephants here at Ventara.
11:14Most are victims of horrible abuse.
11:18They've come from logging, tourist rides, and the circus.
11:23Elephants, it seems, can be both revered and abused.
11:27Today's 30 new arrivals are all former logging elephants.
11:34Anything's better than being a logging elephant.
11:37Yeah.
11:38And getting pulled and hit on the head, that's painful.
11:43Even being a huge animal, if they are broken down mentally, then they will follow.
11:49So this is what they do.
11:51They work on their brain.
11:53They break them through their mind.
11:55They break their soul.
11:57They starve them and they shackle them.
12:00Then they hit them.
12:01They use a lot of tools to force them to do only one job.
12:06That's drag the logs.
12:08There, there.
12:09You can see the ambulance.
12:10I see them.
12:11I see them.
12:11There we go.
12:15Look at that trunk sticking out the top.
12:19Are you excited to meet the new ones?
12:20Yeah.
12:21You know, they have a lot of different personalities.
12:23Sure.
12:23So as a behaviorologist, I, I, I, I observe them.
12:27Okay.
12:27This one is playful.
12:28This one is popular.
12:29Oh.
12:36The community, actually, they, uh, contacted us.
12:40And, like, we went for them to help.
12:45They were in very poor health condition, I would say.
12:48So we started with the medical treatments and screening them, vaccinating them.
12:52It was a period of, like, I would say two, three months, which took us to get there, get
12:59to the point where we can transport these elephants in a healthy condition.
13:02Marigold represents the positive energy and the brightness in their life.
13:11Okay.
13:11And rose and jasmine that provides the fragrance because they have been smelling a lot of things
13:16around.
13:16Sure.
13:16And then when they smell this, they feel a really new place that they're going to enjoy.
13:21You can see the caretakers are constantly with them.
13:49So that elephant will feel comfortable.
13:53These elephants have grown accustomed to having a rider.
13:56So their mahout will guide them to their new home.
14:00Today is the last day they will ever be ridden.
14:03So that's like worshipping the God, welcoming the God.
14:09Please provide your positive energy with us.
14:14The roses and the marigold and the jasmine flowers, this is how we welcome anyone in India.
14:20My major role is to relieve them from the stress that they came with.
14:31They were used and they were, you know, traumatized to and forced to do all of these things.
14:37And they needed our help.
14:40That's when we rescued these elephants, providing them the better health and well-care.
14:46So the mother has a traumatic past.
14:57She was logging.
14:59Whenever she used to drag these logs, the calf will be, you know, moving around just near
15:04her and seeing what my mother is doing.
15:06Imagine seeing this thing.
15:08She was in so much pain.
15:11What is she learning from her?
15:15She is so intelligent that she is like, uh-uh, I'm not going to let you do the same with
15:20me.
15:21But she is going to get a bright future here.
15:23Little thing's stressed.
15:33So we will use positive reinforcement trainings where they will forget all their negative interaction
15:41previously, how it was done.
15:43And then they will become gentle and calm.
15:47Wow, that one's a bit bigger.
15:50The road to Bantara is long.
15:53Hello, welcome.
15:54But when they arrive here, they'll start a new life.
15:57They are free now.
15:59One where they get to choose how they live.
16:15When an animal arrives at Bantara, the staff work hard to ensure mental and physical health.
16:23From the largest elephant to the smallest canine.
16:26And that's what Dr. Patel is here for.
16:42I'd say it's 60-40.
16:4660% that he's not going to make it.
16:48But that's one of the great things about here, is they never give up.
16:51Trying to make this right as we can.
16:56Here we go.
16:59Okay, we're on the side there.
17:02Yesterday when he was presented, he was hypothermic.
17:08Blood glucose level was low.
17:10Okay.
17:11And blood pressure was low.
17:14So he was in shock.
17:16How's his temperature now?
17:17Now it is 98.8.
17:20Much higher.
17:21This is normal temperature for him.
17:23So where would this mange come from?
17:24They get mange due to mites, which we call as scabies.
17:30If left untreated, how long would he live in this condition?
17:34He will not live more than one day.
17:37Yeah.
17:38Shane, they're such beautiful little animals.
17:49But like this, they look terrible.
17:53Maybe from tomorrow, we will stop your therapy.
17:56Mange is a classic illness animals can get when they're stressed.
18:13As a result, keeping animals relaxed here is taken very seriously.
18:30Sometimes, however, it's the animals causing each other stress.
18:34Here in the greater Kudu enclosure, a couple of the younger males have apparently become aggressive with the rest of the herd.
18:46So head vet Dr. George Soares is on his way to introduce them to a new enclosure.
18:51You've got two bowls on the right here.
18:54And he's asking for my help.
18:55All across Ventara, Dr. Soares is called in to support and advise the veterinary team on treatment for a wide variety of species.
19:23At this stage, these animals would have been moving already from the group.
19:29So naturally, that would occur anyhow.
19:32The increased number of males can originate a lot of tension in the group, competing for food, which in the wild, they would move anywhere.
19:44Let me go to the other side.
19:48So moving these animals reduce stress, makes the group a bit more stable.
19:53And it avoids future problems.
19:59As a wildlife veterinary, you work with everything that is not domestic and is not human.
20:05They are spooked.
20:06Yeah.
20:07Everything else is under our skull.
20:09So it's a huge, huge field.
20:11What we're going to do here is a general anesthesia.
20:16You know, it seems a very simple process, like shooting a dart, but there is a lot of things there.
20:24It's the drugs that are there.
20:26It's the impact that that drug has on the animal.
20:30It's the sight that you shoot the animal.
20:32And so it's not just shooting the animal.
20:38Good job.
20:42You see, he's already coming in this direction.
20:45Let's see if now the other one's coming.
20:49He's already feeling the effects.
20:51Oh, they are a bit spooked.
20:59Unfortunately, in most veterinary schools, wildlife is not a particularly big subject.
21:07So a lot of the things that you apply when you work with wildlife is something that you
21:12you just, you know, you have the principles of medicine, but a lot of the knowledge about
21:17the species, the way that they behave, estimating weights and so on is basically experience working
21:24with these animals.
21:26Most of these things are not in textbooks.
21:30Get a shot from here.
21:37Okay, try the other side.
21:54This one's getting a bit slow.
21:59Yeah, that is the first one, I think.
22:01Mm-hmm, definitely.
22:06Okay, guys.
22:07Let's capture this guy.
22:14Grab him.
22:15There we go.
22:18Yes.
22:19Down.
22:22Careful, huh?
22:24Uh, the other one already down.
22:35So he's still a bit awake.
22:38But he will come.
22:39He will come.
22:41So it's an animal that jumps.
22:42So we need to be very conscious about the behavior.
22:46If it's a good day to capture or not.
22:48If the animals are, um, willing to have this intruder in their environment or not.
22:54So you need to read all these very quickly.
22:57Because they don't give you much warning.
22:59Wait, he's gonna go, he's gonna go, he's gonna go.
23:03You cannot speak to them and say, calm down, calm down.
23:06That is not gonna happen.
23:09Don't, don't come out.
23:11Don't, just be careful.
23:12Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
23:14Come on now.
23:21The dart thing.
23:22It's still not, not complete.
23:24No.
23:24When you enter, you need to make sure that the animals are calm.
23:30Not yet.
23:31Obviously, if you shoot one dart, the next animal that you're gonna dart are in a completely
23:38different level of excitement.
23:41Careful.
23:41Watch out.
23:43So the second animal, it's probably gonna take a bit longer to go down.
23:49Just because there is that stress environment on the play.
23:54Watch out.
23:56Hey.
23:57Hey.
24:02Uh oh.
24:04More and more, I think it's important.
24:06Because what was a normal animal to see in a wildlife setup, it's not anymore.
24:13Not yet.
24:16But almost, almost.
24:17Those populations have been reduced tremendously.
24:21The ecosystems are at risk.
24:22So our function is more and more fundamental, because we are not just applying this knowledge
24:29in captive environments, but we are also applying this in nature.
24:34You want a second hand?
24:38Yeah, just put...
24:41Okay, okay, okay.
24:45Still light.
24:46How many minutes?
24:5012?
24:50Put myself on this side, I grab it with the right, and then just put around the ice, okay?
25:03There we go.
25:06There we go.
25:08There we go.
25:10There we go.
25:11He's down.
25:14It's not just the big, exciting creatures that get preferential treatment here.
25:19It's all animals.
25:20The philosophy here?
25:24Never say no.
25:26If an animal is in trouble and needs help, then that animal will get help.
25:34Okay.
25:44I told you that one's going to be ready fast.
25:48Okay.
25:48Get that towel off.
25:50Careful, huh?
25:51There we go.
25:52So they will become adult like they do in the wild.
25:56But what we create is a bachelor group where they actually socialize, which occurs in nature as well.
26:04This one waking up a bit.
26:05Watch yourself.
26:06Just grab his horns if he comes at you.
26:07So we mimetize all that happens in the wild for management reasons, for the safety of the group, for reducing stress as much as we possibly can.
26:30Witnessing the work done by the staff here at Ventara, it's obvious they're some of the best of the best, which is key because some of the rescues, like elephants, forced into a lifetime of brutal servitude, bear physical and mental scars.
26:58So imagine spending 30, 40 years of your life in a device like this being broken because you can't train an animal like this.
27:08You have to break them in order to get them to do what you want.
27:11And until they came here, that's what these two big beautiful girls would have been facing.
27:17These cruel, cruel, unbelievable torture devices wrapped around their necks, wrapped around their ankles.
27:24I'm just going to take these things here, put them down in front of them like that.
27:30These awful, awful devices.
27:36Look at the dexterity in which she's picking it up, feeling it, smelling it.
27:40It's okay, it's okay.
27:50It's okay.
27:51Oh, look at that.
27:52She's lifting her foot up to have her chain foot on.
27:55That's crazy.
27:56Huh.
27:57Huh.
27:58Huh.
28:10There you go.
28:11See that?
28:12So that's a Fleming response that they're using.
28:14She's smelling the air, she's smelling the things that are coming off of that.
28:17And it's triggering these memories.
28:24She remembers her life in those chains.
28:34As they say, an elephant never forgets.
28:37The emotional intelligence of elephants is something that a human being could never comprehend.
28:42They feel so deeply.
28:44They feel happiness so much happier than we ever do.
28:47Or sadness so much greater than we ever will.
28:51And to think that they would spend a life in those chains and yet form a bond with the people that put them in those chains.
28:59This relationship built on abuse where elephants get abused by their mahouts and yet they're so bonded to them that pulling them away from that mahout can literally kill them of a broken heart.
29:12One of the most remarkable things about Ventara is that it not only provides a new life for elephants forced into labor, but the mahouts that used to own them as well.
29:24Take the example of Rakesh and his elephant, Lakimuni.
29:29Rakesh, you have three children?
29:31Three.
29:33And one.
29:34And one boy.
29:35Ah, okay, nice.
29:36Try and take a minute to put yourself in his shoes.
29:39Being a father myself, I would do anything I could to feed my family and take care of my family.
29:44Imagine the only way to feed your family is to go into the forest, catch an elephant, and use it to beg with for many, many years.
29:53Until Lakimuni's story was heard, until they were brought here together, you never had a jacket in your life?
30:02Right?
30:03You never had shoes before?
30:04Company.
30:05The company?
30:06Yes.
30:07You grew to love Ventara as much as Lakimuni here loves Ventara.
30:10Yes?
30:11Yes.
30:12And after a life of Lakimuni serving Rakesh, Rakesh now serves Lakimuni, where they can all live happily, rehabbing not just animals, but people.
30:24Ventara has reversed the roles from elephants serving the mahouts to the mahouts serving the elephants.
30:43It might not make up for the suffering they've faced in their past lives, but their futures are certainly a little more relaxed.
30:55Oh my goodness, this is the life of luxury, huh? This is actual nail filing, right?
31:09Yeah, yeah.
31:10What's the purpose of this? That doesn't just happen in the wild?
31:12So when an elephant has properly shaped toenails, they can stand properly.
31:17Yeah.
31:18When the toenail is elongated, then the entire weight distribution is changed.
31:22And when that happens, the delicate joints of the digits, they are all affected.
31:28So that will cause multiple arthritis happening here, here, and then eventually the lifespan is affected.
31:36And it can, if not pay proper attention, foot ailments can even cause deaths.
31:43We call them the ballerinas of the animal world, and this is because they actually stand on the tips of their toes.
31:51So they are called digiti-grade animals.
31:54So they have like 3.5 tons, 4 tons of weight that are distributed on the tips of their toes.
32:00So we can imagine like how important the health of those toes or those feet are to the overall health of the animal.
32:08So every elephant has a scheduled pedicure on their daily routine.
32:14Okay.
32:15So after they come back, they get a foot wash, and then they get brushed.
32:21Can I help give her a pedicure? I've never done an elephant pedicure before.
32:25Of course.
32:26When you go trimming, so you go from the surface, like this.
32:30So let's give it a whirl here.
32:31Uh-huh.
32:36So this hump of the nail you'd want to smooth flat, is that right?
32:39Yes.
32:40Okay.
32:41You have to be stronger than that.
32:46Yeah, you're working with an elephant.
32:49Fair enough.
32:50Oh yeah, you have to really get in there.
32:52Yeah.
32:53Wow.
32:54That's much harder than I thought.
32:55Look at that.
32:56And you know when to stop when this area comes like really, really pink.
33:01Yeah, so this is pinkening, right?
33:03Yeah, but it's peachy, so it's fine.
33:05Okay.
33:06So that's so it can keep going.
33:07Uh-huh.
33:12She's such a sweetie.
33:13What's Cecily's name?
33:14Pawan Kali.
33:15Pawan Kali.
33:16Yeah.
33:17Pawan means wind, and Kali means flower.
33:19Oh, that's beautiful.
33:20So let's say flower of the winds.
33:25And then the scrub brush, is that just like an exfoliation?
33:27What's that?
33:28It's both actually.
33:29It's also, apart from an exfoliation, it's also to increase the circulation.
33:40I love how every few minutes she lets out a sigh of, ah, like it just feels so good.
33:46You know, whatever we do, we try to associate it with a positive note.
33:50Sure.
33:51We provide her treats, we provide her massages, we provide her with vocal, you know, commands
33:56that, that, that indicate that, okay, we are very happy.
33:59So we say shabash means, means very good.
34:02Sweet.
34:03We pat and then we say shabash.
34:04That means you're doing well.
34:06Shabash.
34:07Shabash.
34:08Shabash.
34:09Not here, but it's, it's nice if you pat here, so.
34:12Okay.
34:13Like that.
34:14She has to feel it.
34:15It's an elephant.
34:16Go ahead.
34:17Okay.
34:19Shabash.
34:20Yeah.
34:21Better?
34:22Yeah.
34:23For each elephant, we assign a minimum of two keepers or mahouts.
34:29And then we have a lead keeper who keeps a watch over all the keepers.
34:34And then we have a team of biologists that constantly monitor these elephants.
34:39Then we have a team of veterinarians comprising of the veterinary doctors.
34:43And of course we also have the veterinary assistants.
34:47So no elephant goes, you know, unmonitored.
34:50Here.
34:51I'll give her this apple.
34:52Here.
34:53Look at that.
34:54Right in that big old slimy tongue.
34:55Oh yeah.
34:56Good girl.
34:57That's slimy.
34:58Oh yes.
34:59Look at you.
35:00And she doesn't even, barely even moves her lips.
35:02She's just like so happy right now.
35:04Oh, she's, she's very pampered.
35:06Come on.
35:07Come on.
35:08Come on.
35:09Come on.
35:10Come on.
35:11Come on.
35:12Come on.
35:13Okay.
35:14Back to real life.
35:17Back at the giant otter habitat, the maintenance team is hard at work repairing the waterfall.
35:28And they've pinpointed the source of the problem.
35:30There is a otter playing with the soil and going to the water pond.
35:36Again, go to the soil.
35:38Again, take the bath.
35:39This is too much.
35:41Yeah.
35:42Otter is totally naughty guy.
35:45We have to ditch off that line and make this recirculation system to be finished.
36:15Here they come.
36:22Just, they're just so darn cute though.
36:41I mean you look at them and you want to kiss them right on the face.
36:44And if you do, they will rip your lips clean off your face.
36:51Look at this greedy guy.
36:52He's got one in his mouth and he's trying to take the other one with him.
36:56These funny little things are the only animal that I've ever seen chase a jaguar.
37:03A jaguar will come walking along and if a group of otters comes by, it will go running
37:09out of there because these guys, as a group, they're just a ferocious little animal.
37:15I say little, but they get up to six feet long.
37:19If you look at these chest markings, every single otter's chest markings is like our fingerprint.
37:24It's completely unique to them.
37:26And there's even belief that they identify each other based on their chest markings.
37:31They're so cute.
37:33Some happy otters right there.
37:39With the otter crisis solved, I'm heading over to check on an old feline friend.
37:57Our tiger, who came in earlier named Sweetheart, has settled into his new quarantine enclosure
38:07where his doctors can keep a close eye on him.
38:10And now they're sitting inside, under that table.
38:13Yeah, he's staying nice and hidden.
38:15Now, he's got three months ahead of him, 90 days.
38:1890 days of quarantine, and in this quarantine, it will undergo the screening for other diseases.
38:24After that, we undergo vaccination and deworming.
38:27And after that, if the health is, everything is okay, then we send the animal to someone
38:32on the other side.
38:34He is beautiful.
38:42I've decided to check on the fennec fox suffering from mange.
38:46Initially, his prognosis was not good.
38:49But he's beaten the odds.
38:51His coat is looking much better.
38:54He's thriving again.
38:55And crucially, he's happy due to being in a perfectly tailored environment.
39:01He has social structure, good food, climate control, daily enrichment, and close observation.
39:09This will help keep his immune system strong and more able to fight off low-grade infections like mange.
39:15It's been a few weeks since treatment on our beautiful little fennec fox here.
39:20And look at how much better he's looking.
39:21His mange has cleared up.
39:22His fur is growing back.
39:24And he's out in this beautiful enclosure, well on his road to recovery.
39:28It's all so overstimulating and overwhelming to try and understand and comprehend the size, the scale, and really and truly the servitude to animals.
39:53But imagine how much suffering they've actually been through and how much mental anguish they're fighting with.
40:05What you see is happy, free animals, animals getting a massage, getting an oil bath.
40:10It's a testament to the amazing team of doctors, behaviorists, keepers, and others that you just can't find anywhere else on the planet.
40:20Any animal that is in need under human care, if they require any type of help, Vantara is going to stand there to protect those animals, to be guardians of them.
40:35Who else can speak for them?
40:40So on behalf of them, people like me and my team will speak for them.
40:47Just because they may not be able to fly on a plane, drive a car, or do a math problem, doesn't disqualify them from the right to existence.
40:56And that's what I believe in.
40:59People that dedicate their lives to the protection of these species are really important voices.
41:07And that voice is becoming louder, clearer, and more sharp.
41:13But we need to have those actions in place because we don't have much time.
41:18If we want to continue surviving as a species that we are, we need to do much more for this planet than what we are doing.
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