Taronga- Whos Who in the Zoo - Season 6 Episode 07- Emu Rescue
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00:00babies or animals but what if they're baby animals it was only born this morning on this
00:10all new season welcome back to the ever-changing world of taronga where you'll witness things
00:20you never thought possible you can actually hear her breathe and meet new faces oh hi buddy
00:28you'll never forget so good it's time to discover oh my god exactly who's who in this zoo
00:40on this episode you can even hear him purr every now and then who knew this cheetah is a real pussy
00:52cat handsome boy but a trip to the dentist can change everything hopefully it's a straightforward
01:00thing so let's get him tubed and then we can get him on the gas a rookie keeper holy moly how am i
01:07going to do that feeds a ravenous python for the first time my mom's gonna love hearing about this
01:12hmm i wouldn't be so sure kayla and you've heard of a pain in the neck it wasn't what i was expecting
01:19amazing to witness but what about a baby in the neck one of the most exciting moments of my career
01:25today
01:25taronga western plains zoo lays claim to some of the animal kingdom's most impressive record holders
01:41there's there's the tallest land mammal the heaviest land mammal and keeper caitlin has just spotted
01:49another the fastest land mammal hello innis
01:55innis is one of our more talkative cheetah innis he is always making noises currently we can hear him
02:04what we would call a chirp or a chirrup which sometimes sounds like a bird and if you listen
02:11real carefully you can even hear him purr every now and then
02:14he is a hand raised cheetah so this doesn't happen with all of our cheetah but innis is very used to
02:27humans being around him hey handsome boy
02:34cheetah are renowned for their speed 113 kilometers per hour so very impressive and they can get to that within seconds of taking off
02:42so they can cover up to several meters of distance with every stride that they take so every part of that body is crucial to them being our fastest land mammal
02:51and there is one particular thing that will get chatty cheetah innis up and running
02:57breakfast
02:59come on innis
03:01hello big boy
03:04how are you feeling
03:07innis is 11 years of age for us that is considered an older age for our cheetah
03:13innis
03:14hello handsome
03:17hey can i have a look in your mouth
03:22over the past couple of weeks we've just seen that he starts to be extending his tongue from his mouth or he's shaking his head in an odd way
03:32oh good boy
03:33and we're wondering if maybe something is lodged in his mouth or if one of his teeth aren't right or something's going on in there
03:42so at the moment i'm trying to feed him in a way that i can maybe get a little bit of a glimpse in his mouth so i can see if there's anything in there but it's quite hard
03:53keeper caitlin suspects innis might just need a date with the dentist
03:58we do need to find out if something is going on that we can't see that's causing him grief
04:05we'd really like to get to the bottom of it
04:09go ahead and see me
04:11now we're finished
04:13yeah
04:14everyone at taronga is wild with excitement over the birth of a new baby
04:23pygmy hippopotamus cambiri is a proud new mum to her five-week-old calf
04:30it's just thrilling watching the baby splash around in deeper water
04:35that's it good girl
04:37and no one is more excited about the zoo's newest bundle of joy than her devoted keeper tracy
04:45well i've known cambiri since she was born i looked after cambiri's mother
04:49she is an amazing individual she is the best mother i've ever known in pygmy hippos
04:56she adores her babies she will stand guard over them day and night she will leave food if her baby
05:05needs her and she is so protective
05:07the pygmy hippo is critically endangered in the wild so every new baby is precious
05:14they're found in western africa it's estimated only around three thousand are left in the wild
05:21and they are not to be confused with their bigger cousins the common hippopotamus
05:27a pygmy hippo is obviously the smaller of the two species hence the name pygmy hippo
05:32they're only about a fifth of the size of the common hippo they are solitary the female and
05:38the male have adjoining territories and they only come together to breed which means the new baby
05:44hasn't met her dad taronga's male pygmy hippo fergus fergus is a very interesting boy well we
05:52only put them together when cambiri is an estrus which had happened on the fifth of july last year
05:58and immediately she led him to the water and they started mating
06:04early october we decided to do an ultrasound on her and straight away the vets could spot a little
06:11backbone we were absolutely blown away by this we were very happy and then the very special day arrived
06:21it does seem to be in labor there we go there's the sack it's very close now and she's straining she's
06:33pushing while this particular baby was born in what you might call the conventional manner there we go
06:41we have a baby we have a calf and it's moving so that's always good not all of taronga's new additions
06:49arrive in such a regular fashion it was pretty crazy the first time i saw the north folk island snails
06:56being born the babies are born out of their neck the whole baby shell and all pretty much just crawls on
07:03out uh we'll come back to that one later at taronga's two zoos there are more than 200 keepers caring for
07:17the resident animals good boy and every single one of them had to start somewhere i'm a trainee keeper
07:25here at tronga and i have been here for three years now and another one the majority of my work
07:31involves cleaning and feeding of the animals as well as some of the training aspects here that we have
07:37with some of the reptiles you hungry kayla is training on the job to become a fully qualified zoo
07:44keeper hello rattlesnake and that means learning how to feed the reptiles all the reptiles so what we
07:52have in here is a corn snake um so they're a north american species of rat snake um completely non-venomous
07:58so they are harmless and they move and act like a python but they're not considered a python
08:06with reptiles they can be quite unpredictable here at trongo we have a classification system for all
08:11of our animals for things like a small carpet python they are harmless
08:15an anaconda or a freshwater crocodile they are listed as hazardous but rachel she is listed as
08:26dangerous rachel is a reticulated python which is the biggest snake in the world an injury from rachel
08:33could potentially lead to death and i'm working towards feeding her we're on as a reptile keeper there's
08:43lots of steps that we have to take towards working with dangerous animals oh do you want to grab the
08:47shield i'm going through a sign off process i have to watch a senior keeper work with the animal 10
08:54times she's keen feeding her she might launch here servicing the exhibit around her i have to then do
09:03those things 10 times so then my final sign off is feeding her one senior keeper in particular who is
09:10leading me is chris he really is a wealth of experience for junior keepers like us and he's
09:16taught me pretty much everything that i know about reptiles up to now so we've only just pulled it out
09:22of the freezer this morning and kayla's next lesson not how but what to feed rachel the python
09:31some people might find it confronting when we feed the whole animal particularly rabbits because
09:35people might have them as pets it's no different to us eating beef or lamb hey exactly right yeah so
09:40you can see it's still covered in fur and it's got its head and all the organs snakes do need all the
09:46stuff that we as picky humans scrape off our plate so what do we do with it now we'll just let it come to
09:52temperature slowly in the fridge three days perfect so in three days kayla will watch chris feed this
10:02five meter long reptile then soon after it's her turn are you nervous a little we do of course need
10:11to have some pretty solid safety precautions working with a dangerous animal like rachel it's important
10:16to continually train up new keepers to maintain staff safety we'll bring this in here with us too kayla
10:22make sure they're comfortable with the snake make sure that they're interacting with the snake in all the
10:26right methods and then we eventually hand the tongs and the bunny over to kayla and she's then going
10:32to be doing the feeds i'm definitely feeling very nervous working towards that i've seen her get a
10:38little bit excited about food and i've definitely been like holy moly how am i going to do that uh better you
10:45than me kayla at taronga western plains zoo this rather large predator is not happy which is making
10:58his keepers worried poor cheetah in us over the past couple of weeks we've just seen that he starts to be
11:04fiddling in his mouth he's extending his tongue from his mouth or he's shaking his head around
11:09picky boy poor boy so we're just interested to see if there is anything lodged in his jaw
11:17or all of his teeth are nice and healthy anything in the throat
11:22so we're bringing in the vet team to have a better look and a closer look so today we're going to see
11:27you know what's going on so one of you will will hand inject him then we'll we'll come in we'll pop
11:31a catheter in and actually just look in his mouth cool thanks guys all right good luck the team are
11:38hopeful inis will take a hand injection otherwise they will have to resort to darting him you're
11:45going to be a good boy you're going to be a good boy we don't like to have to dart animals because
11:52it's stressful for them and it's stressful for us and if we can do a calm hand injection it's just much
11:57nicer for everybody really while the keepers might be calm in this also gets a say and no one can
12:04predict just how a cheetah with a sore mouth will react to a sharp needle okay happy happy
12:13going and he's had all of that oh well done you are such a tough boy good boy inis you are a little
12:23legend doady to yeleana he's had that full injection he'll be there in a few minutes
12:28hopefully inis has a gum nut stuck on his tooth yeah straightforward thing and not a big dental
12:37extraction yes sometimes we'll find the cheetah might have chewed on a gum nut or have a little
12:43piece of bone or something wedged in his mouth but we're also keeping in mind that it could be something
12:47a bit more sinister good boy inis you're okay buddy keeper caitlin is keeping watch waiting for the
12:55sedation to take its effect donnie yeleana he's down if you guys want to start coming
13:04the injection went really well he was a um such a champion um didn't react at all so i'm really happy
13:10with with that he's breathing nicely all right so i might just roll him over
13:18on to the side we'll go back to that way
13:29you guys are good to come in we might just um get that iv line in and get a towel on his eyes
13:34if you want to do catheter i'll just cover his eyes up you're doing the anesthetic yep
13:43a bit more yep i'll just lay this down under his legs and then we'll just slide it under him and
13:49we can bring him out from the fence ready one two three okay and now we can check in his mouth and see
13:58if we can see anything just want to go for me and it's vet yelena who gets the honors up the pointy end
14:06so we're just having a look to see if there's any obvious reason for this funny chewing that we've been
14:12seeing well there's no gum nut no gum nut also means there's no simple solution
14:20if we don't see an obvious cause we'll probably pack him up and take him up to the hospital
14:37every once in a while something so mysterious so miraculous happens it has to be seen to be
14:46believed oh that's awesome and this is that once in a while look at home taronga is home to some of
14:55the most critically endangered animals on the planet good boy but the rarest of them all
15:03the norfolk island snail the norfolk island land snail it's definitely not one of the most well-known
15:10animals we have here at taronga however it is incredibly special it's only a couple of years
15:15ago that it was actually thought to be completely extinct sure it's rare really rare they're um
15:22they're quite elusive but that's not the miraculous part this is this adult snail on the brink of
15:31extinction has just given birth but not how you'd expect and in a world first taronga's keepers have
15:42caught it all on camera it wasn't what i was expecting it was pretty amazing to witness
15:49but before we look at that little gem how on earth did this once thought extinct animal
15:55end up at taronga go on here we go to answer that we need to go back to an island around three million
16:05years in the making norfolk island is found off the east coast of australia about a thousand
16:11kilometers away it's basically what's left of a volcano that was active about two to three million
16:16years ago the fertile soil and rainforest are perfect habitat to this little snail however
16:22unfortunately it was declared extinct by the year 2000 but then a team of scientists stumbled across
16:29some live snails and so the hunt was on taronga teamed up with the australian museum on a rescue
16:37mission to locate this tiny elusive land snail
16:44go on here we go
16:49hey but when this snail male arrived back in sydney the breeding didn't go as well as hoped of course when
16:58we started we really didn't know anything about them we spoke to lots of different snail programs
17:03around the world we got a lot of good advice but unfortunately comparing one species of snail with
17:09another species of snail it's pretty much like comparing the care for a fish versus a bird they're
17:15all so very different and these particular snails proved to be very very different that was quite a
17:22stressful period while the original adult snails were breeding none of their babies were going on
17:28to breed themselves but every day we checked those tanks and there were no babies it was it was always
17:33a bit of a punch in the guts keeper taran is very invested in keeping these slimy little snails alive
17:42they are really remarkable animals their eyes are actually at the end of those two long tentacles that
17:48come out the top of their head they also have two other tentacles that sit lower than the eye stalks
17:55they're actually used for olfactory orientation so more or less it's a sense of smell which is really
18:01important it's how they find their way to food sources we believe it's also how for the most part they
18:08find their mates as well but for whatever reason there wasn't much mate finding going on
18:14every single day we would go into those tanks hoping hoping to see a baby born i remember very
18:21very clearly that first day of peeling back the glad wrap and seeing that very first bub born from
18:26adults that had been born in the program here it was a really significant moment and probably one of
18:30the most exciting moments of my career today and just how those babies arrived well that's the miraculous bit
18:38but we'll get to that later we're just having a look to see if there's any obvious reason for this
18:46funny chewing that we've been seeing at taronga wildlife hospital in dubbo it's a nervous wait for the
18:54carnivore keepers if we don't see an obvious cause we'll probably pack him up and take him up to the hospital
19:01cheetah innis has a sore mouth so taronga's vet team have sedated him to try and work out why
19:09could be that he might have something stuck in the back of his mouth or he might have a dental problem
19:14yeah i think he's probably going to need to go back nothing obvious in the mouth so we're going to take
19:21him up to the hospital and see what we need to do um take some x-rays etc all right well let's get him
19:27untubed and then we can get him on the gas at the moment we're just going to put a tube down his
19:32throat so we intubate so we can put him onto anesthetic gas while we're transporting him
19:36and then we'll be able to transition straight onto the gas in the hospital once we get up there good job
19:43inis has just turned 11. that is considered an older age for our cheetah three but his mother lived
19:52until she was 17 so we do hope for a lot longer one thing two three given inis's advanced age the vet
20:01team will want to keep the cheetah sedated for the shortest time possible yep okay if you guys are
20:09out to slide him yep one two three all right just watch that pulse offset so i'm just going to pop him on
20:18some fluids we've just connected up a drip okay he's on thank you he's on yep we want to just make
20:23sure particularly being an older cat that we're protecting his kidneys we're also just going to
20:27run some electrolytes and just make sure that the potassium is staying normal it can be a complication
20:34for these guys if they're under anesthetic for a long time cool they can have um some effects on
20:42their heart with their heart rhythm so we just want to make sure that if those levels are getting high
20:47we we we know that and we can there are things that we can put in place to prevent any problems
20:52vet yelena is back at the pointy end he's got a little pocket um do you want to come and have a look
21:01so see that oh yeah yeah but this time she'll hopefully be able to get to the root of the problem
21:09that's pretty confronting hey back at taronga in sydney it's game day i'm so nervous you're gonna be okay
21:20trainee keeper kayla is joining reptile keeper chris for a python feeding lesson
21:26but next time she'll be in charge you are nervous look how sweaty your palms are i'm sweaty because
21:33i'm in a john park and whole rabbit is the one and only dish of the day we've brought it up to room
21:41temperature yeah cool you okay with that yeah yeah i'm a bit nervous but i'm good let's go
21:47so i think it's been about a month or so since she's been fed yeah cool so we should expect a
21:55decent response today it's actually been six weeks three days and a couple of hours since this python
22:03had a meal so a decent response is pretty likely rachel she's classified here as a dangerous animal
22:12that means that we have to be very careful with how we interact with her so we'll bring this acrylic
22:16shield in with us too kayla it's a bit of a sturdy little barrier for us to protect ourselves from the
22:22snake in case the the snake comes towards us do you want to take that sure bring that in with us come on in
22:32this is kayla's first time up so close to the five meter snake oh it looks like she's sitting right
22:38at the end there so we can come and approach her and the hungry python knows they're coming she looks
22:50like she's in a pretty good little ambush position there reticulated pythons as a species can be very
22:55very snappy so she can sit in the same patch of forest for months on end waiting for prey to come to
23:01her and when it does she'll bite lightning fast we could put some food in front and probably draw her a
23:07little closer towards us i expect she'll grab it quite quickly yeah she'll still try to apprehend
23:14it as if it's live prey being a python she's totally non-venomous um but her ability to constrict prey
23:22is probably our biggest danger at the moment the species has certainly been known to kill people
23:27before she's just over five meters in length probably up around 60 kilos she has a lot of muscular power
23:36she wouldn't bite and let go and that's the danger to us yeah uh so we'll just grab the bunny
23:42we'll offer it to the snake hole in one piece head first
23:49do you want me to get ahead of you with this shield yeah um
23:54the snake will ideally grab the head wrap it up and won't take long to do the rest yeah push up a little
24:01kayla and just protect yourself with that hey yes yeah and she'll be smelling it now she's gonna
24:10strike out quite quickly i think she's just gonna shoot from that position she's tongue flicking a little
24:17there she goes back up
24:29every habitat at taronga is lovingly cared for just as much as the animals themselves
24:36like the western plains savannah roughly half in each just poured in here yep or the great southern
24:47oceans but not every habitat is quite so obvious i'm obviously surrounded by different palms here
24:56and taronga we're very lucky to have this kind of habitat here and yet here i am on the ground with an
25:01old decaying palm frontier but that's exactly what we're looking for these palm froms are soon to be
25:08homes for taronga's clutch of critically endangered norfolk island snails so these come from mature palm
25:16as they get old this palm base will really kind of fold in on itself and that's where we will find the
25:21adults out in the wild but there are actually very few adults left on norfolk island to find
25:28and that's why taronga is trying to breed them so even though this is just one big old palm frond
25:36this is actually a number of habitats in one so this is perfect once the fronds are collected keeper
25:43taron carefully positions them into the snails tanks oh good okay think of the fronds like the snail's
25:50home and the tanks kind of like their local neighborhood we have some challenges here in
25:56sydney because we are in a quarantine situation so we sterilize everything that goes into the tanks
26:02we have to make up our own food for them it's a lot of work for an animal most of us would call a pest
26:11i suppose a lot of people question why we should care about the snails
26:17snails are a really important part of the ecosystem so they're our decomposers so they hang out on the
26:21forest floor breaking down that ecosystem so that gets nutrients back into the cycle and that's
26:27really where the whole ecosystem starts that's why it's really important that this breeding program
26:31is successful but to begin with it wasn't successful a couple of years into the breeding program and
26:39well not much breeding of course when we started we only had eight to keep track of and that population
26:46grew to just 14. a sluggish start when you're trying to save an entire species so we made some adjustments
26:54to our husbandry we went from counting every day to counting once a week and really leaving those adults
27:00to their own devices to do what they do making any changes into a species like this that is
27:07so fragile you know it's a scary thing to make any change to their husbandry because you don't know
27:12one small change could have a drastic effect on the whole population in this situation it did
27:19luckily it was a positive drastic effect at our most recent count we now have over 400 snails
27:2575 of which are adults giving birth to a new baby snail every four days our numbers are increasing
27:34exponentially we've almost got more snails than we know what to do with now and that wasn't the only
27:39surprise yes yes we are finally getting to the miraculous bit i mentioned earlier you know the birth bit
27:48it was pretty crazy the first time i saw the norfolk island snails being born um which now i think about
27:55it was probably quite a lucky moment babies are born out of their neck it wasn't what i was expecting either
28:02there is a genital pore on the side of their neck and the whole baby shell and all pretty much just
28:09crawls on out which looks pretty crazy it was pretty amazing to witness the genital
28:16pore is basically the snail's reproductive organ which just happens to sit on its neck now to have so
28:24many that we're actually looking at reintroducing them back home where they belong i mean these opportunities
28:29to work in a conservation program like this don't always well they don't come up readily so it's a
28:34pretty special opportunity to be able to work with the species like this no i guess it's not that often
28:41that you come across a previously extinct live baby neck birthing snail from a tiny island in the pacific now
28:47is it oh here we go do you want to come and have a look so see that oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's pretty confronting hey
29:02at taronga wildlife hospital in dubbo vet yelena has identified a problem in cheetah innis's mouth
29:11yeah so he's actually got a little hole there so i wonder if he's got a little tooth root infection
29:15i found a pocket behind his carnassial tooth just on the top right
29:23yucky basically a little hole there that was packed with uh grass and other foreign materials
29:30so we've just given that a clean out there's something in there that's kind of mobile
29:37i think he might have a dental infection or a tooth root abscess so we're going to do some dental
29:42x-rays to to investigate that all right ready and x-ray because the anesthetics are quite risky for
29:51older cats the vet team are moving quickly to keep today's procedure as brief as possible oh that root
29:59yeah it's that one yeah what we've just found on this dental x-ray is a big shearing tooth in the top
30:05jaw on that right side has got a tooth root infection so basically the root of the tooth we
30:11can see that the bone has sort of dissolved away which is an indication of infection so that's
30:16telling us where the problem is it's the biggest tooth in the cat's mouth this tooth has actually
30:21got three roots it's one two three you sure are so the fix for that is to extract the whole tooth
30:27and allow that gum to heal and that should hopefully resolve his problem and that's his little
30:32papilla right so there was a little bit of fluid that came out of it cool okay it'll take two
30:37seconds all right okay this is a bit of a job to get it out just to keep the anesthetic time down
30:44at the moment that's going to be causing him a fair bit of pain
30:52and just protect yourself with that hey down at taronga's reptile house she's just going to
30:58shoot from that position trainee keeper kayla is learning how to feed a python a five meter long
31:07hungry deadly python so do you want to back up kayla yeah
31:15okay rather than the rabbit the snake has lunged at kayla's shield instead i feel like every single
31:23time we do a first feed with me they always come at my feet i'm like am i a bad omen let's hope not
31:30senior keeper chris still has to give it another go
31:37she's coming at it she's sniffing it she's keen
31:40dinner is served nice
31:50so kayla i just generally try to give it a bit of a wiggle yeah this will tell the snake that the
31:55prey is still alive it just elicits a far better feeding response you can see that she's
32:00wrapped a little bit more intent
32:02you know a good bite from one of these and a well-placed constriction can certainly
32:11kill prey far quicker than some venom
32:16once it's satisfied the prey's dead she'll let go reposition her head
32:20over the prey's face and start to consume it whole and head first
32:26she can certainly eat something four times this size yeah wow that's impressive
32:32that rabbit's probably enough for her to eat for the next six or eight weeks
32:36the python's passed with flying colors but what about the trainee keeper
32:42kayla went really well she hung around me with the shield she didn't go in overly confident too
32:49which is always a bit of a red flag so we'll we'll get her in for the next feed i think and she
32:54can maybe conduct that herself you comfortable repeating that process next time yeah i feel pretty
33:01good i'll be nervous but yeah i think it's always a bit of a thrill when we do it definitely a first
33:05time for me we just don't want to see a bite on anything other than a rabbit
33:15over at the wildlife hospital in dubbo and x-ray
33:19the vet team have spotted a deep infection in cheetah innis's tooth so the tooth and its root
33:30have to come out so what you've got is a big root at the back that's like probably like that and then
33:36at the front there's kind of two small ones here and here the difficulty is this particular tooth has
33:43three roots and they all have to be removed so it's it's a big job to take out and he'll end up with
33:53a gap going on so you're going to do a maxillary block so we're just doing a nerve block now
34:02a nerve block is a local anesthetic that will help keep innis pain-free during and after the tooth
34:09extraction problem is given innis's advanced age it's not a quick procedure just having a look at
34:16the next lot of blood so we're running a blood test every hour just to check the electrolytes one we
34:21particularly worried about with cats is potassium um we don't want to see it rising to the point where
34:27it could affect his heart rhythm but at the moment it's perfect this is one of the biggest teeth in
34:33the mouth um so it's going to take quite a bit of maneuvering to get it out because this is a oral
34:42surgery um the best way to take this tooth out is actually to section it i'm just making a gum flap
34:51the gum flap will be used to cover up the hole left by the missing tooth it's going to get very bloody
34:58just so you know i call zoo vetting it's like the ultimate gp because not only do you have every
35:09type of illness injury disease you have every type of animal there's everyone so that's the back back
35:17half of the tooth so with one root out of the way there are two more to go so she's made a cut
35:24through here to remove that root and now we've got to split those two in half because we don't want
35:29the tooth to break all right wait one more to go we've got one more to go so he's going to have
35:39stitches in his mouth after this neat little stitches there won't be like a hole where the tooth was
35:45so for the next two weeks we'll take all his bones out of his diet and we'll just have
35:50just meat on its own the final root has been removed but rather than plugging that hole straight
35:57away vet yelena still has some concerns i've taken the tooth out now i need to take a dental x-ray
36:05i'm not convinced that there's not a problem with the tooth in the front
36:07at taronga's reptile house in sydney there's a real sense of anticipation in the air
36:22christa kayla can i meet you down at food prep for this retic feed
36:27this morning we're going to get another feed into our reticulated python
36:30what makes today a little bit different is kayla i'm sweaty it's been six weeks since the reticulated
36:39python affectionately known as rachel has been fed and today kayla gets the honors today will be her
36:47first day feeding this snake um which is a good little milestone in her career it's all part of
36:54kayla's traineeship if she passes this she's one step closer to becoming a fully qualified zookeeper
37:03this is my first time feeding the reticulated python it is a little bit of a nerve-wracking
37:08experience obviously because she's such a large snake yeah she is our biggest snake so she's up
37:12over 60 kilograms five and a half meters or so the reach is further the the bite's harder it's just
37:19putting yourself in the right position and making sure it's behind the food
37:22you could technically fail this if you aren't confident or if you come out of it more scared
37:28or more nervous than when you started yeah nah as far as exams go i would much prefer
37:34any other exam on any other day they're pretty dangerous the risk is being bitten and constricted
37:43when chris fed her all those weeks ago the python lunged at kayla so i have to be really cautious with a
37:49snake of her size and i will be luring her over with the rabbit on the end of the tongs
37:57we're on okay
38:01so when i go in she's obviously going to be quite interested in the rabbit
38:05so i just have to watch her behavior how she's approaching me and making sure that i keep a safe
38:09enough distance
38:16it's definitely become very serious that i'm doing it now you never know how the animal's going to react
38:21i might have to just rather a little in that leaf litter
38:35has she seen it yeah just coming a little little higher just so she can see it
38:41there you go there you go so just stay behind the shield yeah let her keep coming to you
38:56that's it that's it
38:57come on girl you want this you see it i know you do
39:15nice
39:17bullseye
39:18it's good that she got it straight on the head so now it should go down nice and easy
39:26my mom's gonna love hearing about this
39:29my mom definitely thinks that i'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie or a thrill seeker
39:33look at her muscles working it's so impressive hey yeah
39:38i think that if my mom was to ever see what i was doing in real life she would probably
39:42faint yeah oh down the hatch yeah snake had a great response she followed the cues
39:50straight away that kayla was putting out definitely very exciting in a milestone in my career and
39:56giving me a lot more confidence to work with this species did i pass you passed so yeah kayla nailed it
40:03perfect feed maybe the apprentice becomes the master maybe call me a grasshopper
40:09back at taronga's wildlife hospital in dubbo i've taken the tooth out vet yelena has found and
40:22extracted an infected tooth and its three roots from cheetah innis's mouth i'm not convinced that
40:29there's not a problem with the tooth in the front now there's concern the 11 year old cheetah may need
40:36a second tooth extraction because the tooth roots are quite close together yeah we just want to
40:43make sure that the next tooth along hasn't been affected so we don't want to leave anything behind
40:47that might cause a problem x-ray
40:59well i think i've taken it out right yeah all right i'll close it close it all up yep with the
41:06neighboring tooth all clear it's finally time to sew cheetah innis up so we've made a flap of gum and
41:13bone that means that we can actually close that completely mouths do heal really quickly usually
41:18a couple of weeks the stitches will dissolve we don't have to take those out and next time we
41:23look in his mouth we'll probably find that that's all completely healed and he'll just have a nice
41:27healed gum there which is welcome news for innis and his keepers ready one two three
41:38you've got your ketamine yep got him yep one two three
41:46he's going to be feeling way better by the time he wakes up so very grateful
41:49all right that reversal is in he's starting to
41:57i mean his little tongue he's starting to blink
42:03um and we're going to leave him in peace to just recover quietly
42:11the next day and keepers geordie and caitlin are keen to check on his recovery
42:17hi innis um hello now innis um unfortunately for him he will just be on a no bone diet for the next
42:25two weeks hey hello which is just going to ensure that that stitch site and that pocket that's being
42:32created from the tooth being removed um stays nice and healthy don't seem too worried about your
42:38missing tooth he looks great you wouldn't have guessed that he had surgery yesterday he's eating
42:43really great which is wonderful it would be quite painful so we're making making sure he's got pain
42:48meds on board and really monitoring him um but really happy with how he's looking and all the proof
42:54the proof you need is in innis's purrrr of approval
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