WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.060 you 00:30.000 --> 00:32.060 you 01:00.000 --> 01:02.060 you 01:30.000 --> 01:32.060 you 02:00.000 --> 02:02.060 you 02:30.000 --> 02:32.060 you 03:00.000 --> 03:02.060 you 03:30.000 --> 03:32.060 you 04:00.000 --> 04:02.060 you 04:30.000 --> 04:32.060 you 05:00.000 --> 05:02.060 you 05:30.000 --> 05:32.060 you 06:00.000 --> 06:05.800 Work ever. Hey guys. Hey, what's up? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Welcome to the stream. Welcome to the stream 06:06.640 --> 06:13.400 Thank you all so much. Yes. Hello. I know I know we have a lot to talk about 06:14.960 --> 06:16.960 We have a lot to talk about 06:17.520 --> 06:22.920 Long story short though, we're not gonna talk about today. We're gonna talk about another day because 06:24.600 --> 06:28.360 There's a lot of there's a lot of story times 06:30.000 --> 06:43.500 to be had. Okay, yeah, fairs. I wasn't going to stay in Alaska and then I got 06:43.500 --> 06:48.820 freaking engaged and then we were like, we should just stay in Alaska because it's 06:48.820 --> 06:54.420 so beautiful here and so that's what we did. And so it was just gonna be Conor 06:54.420 --> 06:59.620 doing the stream here on the Alva S channel but I'm here. So now we're at 06:59.620 --> 07:03.940 Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and I thought it made a ton of sense to go live on my own channel 07:04.740 --> 07:10.660 to show you guys where some of your donations are going, or where all of your donations are going 07:10.660 --> 07:17.860 from our Not Geo streams in Alaska because they're a huge success and I want you guys to 07:17.860 --> 07:26.900 see this facility. I've never seen this facility either so we'll be doing a tour together and staff 07:26.900 --> 07:30.180 here is super stoked they obviously know about the streams they know the fundraising that you guys 07:30.180 --> 07:37.540 did we raised $46,000 for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and so yeah today we're doing 07:37.540 --> 07:45.860 we're doing the tour so you guys can see it and yeah bonus stream and yes I also got engaged and 07:45.860 --> 07:50.500 I will tell you guys all about it either tomorrow or Tuesday when I'm back home. 07:50.500 --> 07:56.500 Um, can we get a size comparison to see how big the mountain is behind you? 07:56.500 --> 07:59.500 Maybe a ring might help put it in perspective. 07:59.500 --> 08:04.500 Connor, give a little... 08:04.500 --> 08:08.500 Alright, let's go. 08:08.500 --> 08:12.500 I'll tell you guys about it later. 08:12.500 --> 08:14.500 It's back. 08:14.500 --> 08:16.500 It's so annoying. 08:16.500 --> 08:18.500 That's so weird. 08:18.500 --> 08:20.500 Okay 08:48.500 --> 08:50.500 Oh my god. 08:50.500 --> 08:52.500 Where's the wind muff? 08:52.500 --> 08:54.500 This thing sucks. 08:58.500 --> 09:00.500 Hello. Hello. We're live. 09:00.500 --> 09:02.500 Oh my gosh. 09:02.500 --> 09:04.500 You know what? 09:04.500 --> 09:06.500 No wind muff for you. Sorry. 09:06.500 --> 09:08.500 Alright guys. 09:08.500 --> 09:11.500 We're here at the Alaska Wildlight Conservation Center with Becky and Christina. 09:11.500 --> 09:13.500 Do you guys want to introduce yourselves to them? 09:13.500 --> 09:15.500 Sure. 09:15.500 --> 09:17.500 My name is Becky Champlis. 09:17.500 --> 09:21.500 Director of Development at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and I get to 09:21.500 --> 09:25.980 do the fundraising and grant writing and fun stuff that comes with running a 09:25.980 --> 09:32.820 very large sanctuary. And I'm Christina Rogers, I'm the natural supervisor here at 09:32.820 --> 09:36.140 the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center and I get to hang out with a lot of 09:36.140 --> 09:40.060 porcupines and help oversee our education department and connect people 09:40.060 --> 09:44.540 to the really wonderful residents that live here. So cool and what do we 09:44.540 --> 09:49.660 have planned today. Today, we're gonna do a whole bunch of stuff. We're gonna go on a tour of the 09:49.660 --> 09:55.500 sanctuary, see as many critters as we can. We're gonna meet one of our very wonderful North American 09:55.500 --> 10:01.740 porcupines. His name is Heath. He is a wonderful creature. We're also gonna be able to feed our 10:01.740 --> 10:06.540 resident brown bears a little bit of their morning diet, get them some breakfast out to them, 10:06.540 --> 10:14.140 and then hopefully meet a couple of our smallest, most newly addition residents to our sanctuary 10:14.140 --> 10:20.220 here. So cool. Thank you. Amazing. All right. All right. I can hold that and I'll get back to you. 10:21.980 --> 10:25.820 Cool. And Connor, I know you talked about it a little bit. Connor's care of manning, guys. 10:26.380 --> 10:30.700 You talked about it a little bit. Can you say the significance of this place to you? 10:32.540 --> 10:39.180 Hello. AWCC, I was going to be an Army veterinarian before I came to AWCC 10:39.180 --> 10:47.280 and I fell in love with the wildlife here in 2014 and decided to change, I was an 10:47.280 --> 10:51.500 intern, summer intern, I decided to change everything that I was gonna do and 10:51.500 --> 10:55.740 decided to do more wildlife than veterinary stuff. Met my wife here and 10:55.740 --> 10:59.980 this is where like it started everything for me so that's really cool to be 10:59.980 --> 11:03.260 able to come back and get back to it's it's really cool. 11:03.260 --> 11:08.540 Guys now Max is camera manning. Look at this. This is awesome. 11:10.540 --> 11:15.740 He's got a kid on his back. Oh it's awesome. We're gonna see if they'll take my kid as one of their 11:15.740 --> 11:26.300 attractions. Oh sweet. Amazing. All right and then we also have an honorary starling holder. 11:26.300 --> 11:28.140 New edition of the stream. We got K-loads everybody. 11:28.140 --> 11:33.140 Okay, all right, we'll follow your lead. 11:33.140 --> 11:34.140 You want to take this? 11:34.140 --> 11:35.140 Meet it. 11:35.140 --> 11:36.140 Meet it, okay. 11:36.140 --> 11:42.140 I figured we could sneak down this way first to see some big critters and we'll head back 11:42.140 --> 11:45.140 behind the shop for all our community's ready. 11:45.140 --> 11:46.140 Sweet. 11:46.140 --> 11:48.140 What's the acreage in this facility? 11:48.140 --> 11:51.140 In total, it's around 200 acres. 11:51.140 --> 11:52.140 Okay. 11:52.140 --> 11:56.140 We have another about 30 acres or so where we keep our full wood bison. 11:56.140 --> 12:00.260 so the biggest animals in our care and they're off exhibit but for folks that 12:00.260 --> 12:08.820 can roam about 200 acres for our animals here. Anywhere around 150 individuals in 12:08.820 --> 12:14.860 our care at any given time. Wow. Can I just click this on you? 12:14.860 --> 12:21.100 Absolutely. Sorry guys I was holding it. Yes the Starling 12:21.100 --> 12:36.760 is my fiancee everybody okay guys look you know what this is chat seen a few 12:36.760 --> 12:40.400 seen a few bears recently a little different though yeah we didn't see 12:40.400 --> 12:46.260 any of these this is gonna be our first stop here this is co-buck he is a 10 12:46.260 --> 12:51.660 year-old black bear in our care and he's got his sniffer going that open and 12:51.660 --> 12:58.220 closing his mouth trying to smell as much as he can. He's originally from 12:58.220 --> 13:02.980 Valdez, Alaska. He was a food conditioned bear so that means he was getting into 13:02.980 --> 13:07.380 people's foods and dumpsters. Him and his mom were food conditioned. It's 13:07.380 --> 13:11.460 really easy for bears to learn to get food from people rather than from 13:11.460 --> 13:15.220 the wild. And on top of that it's thought that his mom was actually ran 13:15.220 --> 13:20.180 off by somebody's dogs because they were spending so much time around people so he didn't really 13:20.180 --> 13:24.020 stand a very good chance of surviving on his own in the wild at that time. He was just an 13:24.020 --> 13:29.860 anybody baby in 2016 so as a preventative measure the state of Alaska actually brought him into 13:29.860 --> 13:36.580 human care and he has lived a really silly 10 years with us here. He has a big personality 13:37.700 --> 13:41.220 you can see he's got a bunch of trees in his habitat. He's a big tree climber. 13:41.220 --> 13:56.220 He's also what we call a baton twirler, so we give him old Christmas trees that folks donate to us and he'll strip the pine needles off, he'll strip the extra branches off, and he'll twirl it around like the world's most adorable cheerleader in the world. 13:56.220 --> 14:00.220 That's so cool. Connor, can you get this magpie really quick? This is just really cute. 14:11.220 --> 14:13.220 What did you say his name was the bear? 14:13.220 --> 14:14.220 Cobuck. 14:14.220 --> 14:15.220 Cobuck. 14:15.220 --> 14:17.880 Cobuck, a silly bear, we heard. 14:17.880 --> 14:22.440 And we do naming themes for our animals every year, so every year we'll pick a theme. 14:22.440 --> 14:26.760 We have folks on our socials suggest themes that they would like, and then once we pick 14:26.760 --> 14:32.140 a theme, every animal that's born comes into our care that year will have a name 14:32.140 --> 14:33.980 according to the theme. 14:33.980 --> 14:38.580 So I believe Cobuck's year was National Parks and Monuments, so Cobuck Valley 14:38.580 --> 14:40.700 National Park up in Northern Alaska. 14:40.700 --> 14:42.700 Where his name comes from? 14:42.700 --> 14:44.700 Very cool. 14:44.700 --> 14:48.700 Chat, if you have any questions, by the way, I can relay them out here. 14:48.700 --> 14:50.700 I live in Alaska. Very cool! 14:50.700 --> 14:53.700 Magpies are silly birds. Yeah, this is very cute. 14:53.700 --> 14:56.700 Max is catching up a storm. As per you, she is. 14:58.700 --> 15:01.700 Magpies hoping that he can get some scraps from the coba. 15:01.700 --> 15:05.700 It's really common to see birds follow around, even wild bears, 15:05.700 --> 15:08.700 because bears are pretty messy eaters and they can be picky, 15:08.700 --> 15:10.140 So they'll leave a lot of food behind. 15:10.140 --> 15:12.340 It's a great way for birds to come in and scavenge. 15:12.340 --> 15:14.900 So, Philbuck has a lot of wild bird friends 15:14.900 --> 15:16.620 that hang out in his habitat. 15:16.620 --> 15:17.940 They're asking about his diet 15:17.940 --> 15:19.540 and what his favorite food is. 15:19.540 --> 15:20.940 Oh, great question. 15:20.940 --> 15:22.660 So, bears are omnivores. 15:22.660 --> 15:26.660 They get a pretty 50-50 split of produce 15:26.660 --> 15:28.780 and raw protein in our care. 15:28.780 --> 15:31.220 So, he'll get a lot of celery, lettuce, 15:31.220 --> 15:33.900 sweet potatoes, apples, pears, grapes, 15:33.900 --> 15:36.420 and berries for protein. 15:36.420 --> 15:38.980 Most of his protein is going to be raw salmon, 15:38.980 --> 15:41.820 but he can even get red meat, like bison meat 15:41.820 --> 15:44.580 or moose meat that folks will donate our way. 15:44.580 --> 15:47.180 His favorite food is like an extra special treat 15:47.180 --> 15:48.020 that he gets. 15:48.020 --> 15:50.060 His favorite food is peanut butter. 15:50.060 --> 15:51.440 He doesn't get it every day, 15:51.440 --> 15:54.340 but sometimes we'll put special things in there 15:54.340 --> 15:55.580 with a little bit of peanut butter here, 15:55.580 --> 15:57.060 a little bit of peanut butter there. 15:57.060 --> 15:59.420 He also really likes hazelnuts. 15:59.420 --> 16:01.680 So he gets some extra special enrichment treats 16:01.680 --> 16:02.980 every once in a while. 16:02.980 --> 16:17.980 Yeah, so they've got the red flashing on them. We call them climb guards because he's a phenomenal climber. All black bears are really good at climbing. That's kind of what they're taught to do when they're really, really little. 16:17.980 --> 16:21.980 And most of them don't really grow out of it that much, especially for him. 16:21.980 --> 16:30.980 Some of the trees are a little too close to the fence line for our comfort, for him to climb, this one in particular, and also to protect the trees. 16:30.980 --> 16:42.980 So you'll see there's all these old logs in here. If we were to let him climb every single tree every day, probably by, you know, the next five to ten years he would have some fallen trees in his habitat. 16:42.980 --> 16:52.980 So in order to keep as many trees in there as possible we like to have the climb guards on but we gave him two trees that he very frequently will go up and snooze in. 16:52.980 --> 16:59.980 He might start twirling this stick so I'm going to give him a second to sniff it out. Yeah he's thinking about it. 16:59.980 --> 17:04.980 He's got a couple in there so he might just try and find the right one. 17:04.980 --> 17:09.260 It is kind of a beat of physics. 17:09.260 --> 17:13.060 It always looks like bears are going to fall when they're sleeping in trees. 17:13.060 --> 17:19.300 There's kind of like a U shaped saddle up in that tree that he'll plop his behind in and he'll have. 17:19.300 --> 17:23.420 I've seen him like all four of his paws hanging down and he's snoozing. 17:23.420 --> 17:26.620 He's got really great balance. 17:26.620 --> 17:27.460 He's thinking about it. 17:27.460 --> 17:29.820 He's just going to keep moving that stick around. 17:29.820 --> 17:34.340 One chatter asked if he has a preference for being crunchy or creamy peanut butter. 17:34.340 --> 17:35.740 That's a great question. 17:35.740 --> 17:38.540 I don't think he's ever gotten crunchy peanut butter. 17:38.540 --> 17:42.860 So as far as he knows, all peanut butter is creamy in his world. 17:45.940 --> 17:48.260 Sapphire, thank you for the $100 donation. 17:48.260 --> 17:49.940 We do have Twitch charity running still. 17:52.940 --> 17:54.740 What a cute guy. 17:54.740 --> 17:55.860 Do you know how much he weighs? 17:55.860 --> 17:58.460 He is, I want to say roughly 300 pounds. 17:58.460 --> 18:02.740 He's kind of right in the middle for an average male Alaskan 18:02.740 --> 18:03.620 black bear. 18:03.620 --> 18:09.060 Our other black bears, particularly our other male, has quite a bit of weight on him. 18:09.060 --> 18:14.540 The largest wild black bears I've seen in Alaska could probably push up to around 500 18:14.540 --> 18:15.540 pounds. 18:15.540 --> 18:18.260 So he's kind of right in the middle there. 18:18.260 --> 18:20.260 And he has some special markings on him. 18:20.260 --> 18:22.700 So black bears are not always black sometimes. 18:22.700 --> 18:26.700 They can be brown or there's even like a blue variation or there can be white black 18:26.700 --> 18:28.380 bears even. 18:28.380 --> 18:31.380 And he's got those two tan dots right above his eyeballs. 18:31.380 --> 18:32.820 They don't always have that. 18:32.820 --> 18:35.400 and they don't always have that tan nose. 18:35.400 --> 18:37.340 And if you saw while he was walking back, 18:37.340 --> 18:39.780 or we can try and see it when he's on his way back here, 18:39.780 --> 18:44.220 he's got that white V on his chest that's called a blaze. 18:44.220 --> 18:47.100 And it's kind of like an individual marking on black bears. 18:47.100 --> 18:48.100 They don't always have them. 18:48.100 --> 18:49.620 Sometimes they're really big. 18:49.620 --> 18:52.100 I once saw a wild black bear mom 18:52.100 --> 18:54.660 that had a heart-shaped blaze on her chest 18:54.660 --> 18:57.580 and he's got like a nice long V there. 18:58.420 --> 19:01.260 What kinds of enrichment do you guys do here? 19:01.260 --> 19:04.180 He gets a really wide variety of enrichment. 19:04.180 --> 19:06.860 All of our animals get enrichment to certain levels 19:06.860 --> 19:09.100 based on their individual personalities. 19:09.100 --> 19:11.180 He's a very brave bear, he's very confident. 19:11.180 --> 19:14.180 So he gets a pretty wide variety of enrichment. 19:14.180 --> 19:15.940 We actually run a public encounter 19:15.940 --> 19:18.780 where folks can come and make enrichment for him 19:18.780 --> 19:21.180 and give it to him, which is really cool. 19:21.180 --> 19:24.420 But we'll make pinatas and stuff it with salmon, 19:24.420 --> 19:27.020 guts and grapes and peanut butter and honey 19:27.020 --> 19:28.540 and all things that bears love 19:28.540 --> 19:30.420 and we'll hang them in the tree. 19:30.420 --> 19:34.460 Yeah, or we'll even put fur in there from other animals 19:34.460 --> 19:37.420 or like keepers dogs will bring their fur in 19:37.420 --> 19:39.260 if they're brushing their dog out at home 19:39.260 --> 19:43.220 and let him sniff around and try and find it in his habitat. 19:43.220 --> 19:47.220 So anything that he can see or touch or sniff 19:47.220 --> 19:49.620 or anything that's being changed around in his habitat 19:49.620 --> 19:50.900 to engage his senses, 19:50.900 --> 19:53.700 we kind of consider in that enrichment category. 19:53.700 --> 19:55.300 Sorry. 19:55.300 --> 19:56.500 Good questions, guys. 19:56.500 --> 19:57.780 Yeah, those are phenomenal. 19:57.780 --> 19:58.620 Good questions. 19:58.620 --> 19:59.540 Keep them coming. 19:59.540 --> 20:01.540 Thanks, thank you 20:02.180 --> 20:04.180 Someone also asked if 20:12.180 --> 20:14.180 Pretty cool 20:14.780 --> 20:21.860 Well pass by and briefly again. We'll kind of do a loop-de-loop back here. We'll go see some other fan favorites 20:22.260 --> 20:27.260 Also, I think you know this but when I'm staring at my phone, I'm reading the chat. I'm not just like ignoring 20:29.540 --> 20:32.260 to stand up before we start stream because it looks like I'm just a screen 20:32.260 --> 20:37.860 age or like no totally that's okay cool good good good 20:37.860 --> 20:42.100 this is a huge enclosure yes this is our gray wolf habitat 20:42.100 --> 20:45.620 we currently have one gray wolf in our care who's taking 20:45.620 --> 20:51.380 it looks like a big-time warning map right on his shelter there 20:51.380 --> 20:57.260 All right, this is Dearest. 20:57.260 --> 21:02.420 He is a gray wolf by species, but obviously he's not totally gray. 21:02.420 --> 21:07.600 He's all white and he's actually got a really cute pink nose and his eyes are really pretty 21:07.600 --> 21:09.660 golden yellow color. 21:09.660 --> 21:12.940 And gray wolves, they live all over the state of Alaska. 21:12.940 --> 21:16.820 It's actually the only place they've never been put on the endangered species list or 21:16.820 --> 21:20.860 the only state I should say where they've never been endangered. 21:20.860 --> 21:23.900 He's currently our only resident gray wolf. 21:23.900 --> 21:26.100 His enclosure is really large, 21:26.100 --> 21:28.260 because oftentimes wolves live in packs. 21:28.260 --> 21:31.180 We have had other wolves in our care at times. 21:31.180 --> 21:33.580 He's currently a lone wolf in here, 21:33.580 --> 21:35.420 and he's a really mature gray wolf. 21:35.420 --> 21:37.860 He's around 10 years old, I wanna say. 21:37.860 --> 21:40.500 And usually their wildlife span is only about 21:41.860 --> 21:44.380 four, five to about seven years old. 21:44.380 --> 21:47.580 So in human care, they can usually greatly expand 21:47.580 --> 21:49.140 their lifespan. 21:50.860 --> 21:55.100 enclosure. Yeah, he loves them. 21:55.100 --> 21:56.860 He's really good with them too. 21:56.860 --> 21:59.300 So back there, the shifts. 21:59.300 --> 22:03.780 That's just like a fancy name for a secondary part of his enclosure. 22:03.780 --> 22:07.780 And we use them to shift the animals in there and we can use it for like training, 22:08.060 --> 22:12.820 cleaning, to feed them for veterinary care, pretty much anything you can think of. 22:13.260 --> 22:16.740 And he often gets his diet in there and he shifts really, really well. 22:16.740 --> 22:21.580 We're building a three acre Mexican gray wolf enclosure. 22:21.580 --> 22:23.300 Oh, that's so awesome. 22:23.300 --> 22:24.860 The train is kind of listening. 22:24.860 --> 22:27.420 Oh yeah, we'll hang out for a second. 22:27.420 --> 22:29.340 He does howl when the train goes by. 22:29.340 --> 22:30.300 It'll probably wake him up. 22:30.300 --> 22:31.740 The horn's really loud, 22:31.740 --> 22:33.820 and he likes to sing along with it. 22:35.060 --> 22:37.500 How many wolves do you guys have here, total or is this it? 22:37.500 --> 22:41.380 Just him right now, we have had up to five in his pack. 22:41.380 --> 22:44.100 And like I said, he's a pretty mature gray wolf, 22:44.100 --> 22:47.460 in the other four in his pack within the last year and a half 22:47.460 --> 22:50.260 from just past from old age. 22:50.260 --> 22:53.660 So he is learning how to hang out in here by himself, 22:53.660 --> 22:55.700 which is something that wild wolves have to do too. 22:55.700 --> 22:59.220 They have members of their pack that disperse or pass on 22:59.220 --> 23:01.820 and they have to learn how to adjust their social life 23:01.820 --> 23:04.180 to it because wolves are really, really social animals 23:04.180 --> 23:05.940 and they're incredibly intelligent 23:05.940 --> 23:08.780 when it comes to their social interactions. 23:08.780 --> 23:11.100 Folks often ask us if he's like an alpha wolf 23:11.100 --> 23:13.180 or if we've had an alpha wolf in the past, 23:13.180 --> 23:16.820 But it's kind of a big myth with wolves is that alpha wolf trope. 23:16.820 --> 23:21.140 So it's usually actually an alpha pair, a mom and a dad for that pack. 23:21.140 --> 23:23.540 And they're the parents, they make sure everybody stays in line. 23:23.540 --> 23:24.780 They make sure everyone gets food. 23:24.780 --> 23:28.340 They're the ones that are going to have puppies every year. 23:28.340 --> 23:33.340 And he kind of has a dominant personality when things around other wolves. 23:33.340 --> 23:35.940 But it's not always that he's right on top. 23:35.940 --> 23:39.860 He can kind of mesh in between socials, kind of a social chameleon. 23:39.860 --> 23:40.660 Got it. 23:40.660 --> 23:42.340 Cool. 23:42.340 --> 23:48.120 I'm him and Kobuk are actually pretty good buddies. They'll exhibit play 23:48.120 --> 23:52.340 behaviors along the fence line. Really? Really get going. Kobuk has some 23:52.340 --> 23:55.780 really special enrichment that Dearest wants to get in on. He'll try and play 23:55.780 --> 23:59.740 along the fence line with him. I think it's kind of an adorable little animal 23:59.740 --> 24:07.060 friendship. Yeah, that's sick. Can he FaceTime the wolf dog? So he has friends. 24:07.060 --> 24:10.260 We have two wolf dogs that I'll visit. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I don't know, guys. 24:10.260 --> 24:12.260 I don't know. Maybe we'll work on setting that up. 24:12.260 --> 24:13.260 That would be really cute. 24:13.260 --> 24:18.260 We're working on one of our folks has a huge Alaskan Malamute 24:18.260 --> 24:20.260 and they've met through the fence a couple times. 24:20.260 --> 24:23.260 We're working on building a dog run, hopefully, 24:23.260 --> 24:26.260 where they can meet and hang out with each other during the day. 24:34.260 --> 24:36.260 So there's a pair on the lens. I don't see anything. 24:40.260 --> 24:55.580 Yeah, we can scoot on over to our reindeer and we'll make our way back this way anyway 24:55.580 --> 25:03.580 so if the train comes by we'll just hop right over here and listen to Dearest in his songs. 25:03.580 --> 25:05.580 Flashbang, don't panic. 25:11.580 --> 25:13.580 Oh, you got it. 25:18.580 --> 25:20.580 Okay, you got... 25:22.580 --> 25:24.580 He's a genius. 25:30.580 --> 25:32.580 He got it. 25:32.580 --> 25:37.100 new wisdom this morning I think. I'm pretty sure I didn't see that when I 25:37.100 --> 25:43.980 rolled in this morning. Yeah. If you guys didn't know this, it's gonna really freak you out. 25:43.980 --> 25:51.420 This is awesome. Yeah. So these are our resident reindeer here. We've got a four 25:51.420 --> 25:55.740 in this habitat currently and we've got a lot to talk about with these guys. 25:55.740 --> 26:00.140 Yeah. So we've got all stages of antlers going on right in front of us 26:00.140 --> 26:06.600 here. This one closest to us, she is, or actually I'll start with this guy, make it 26:06.600 --> 26:12.020 easier. This is one of our new residents here. You can see he's got really 26:12.020 --> 26:17.800 gorgeous antlers going on. A lot of folks get to learn about antlers when they 26:17.800 --> 26:21.060 come here. There's a lot of mystery that comes with them. So antlers, they're made 26:21.060 --> 26:24.760 of bone. They actually grow these every single year. They shed them off and 26:24.760 --> 26:28.160 grow a brand new pair every single year. So every year they're gonna grow 26:28.160 --> 26:32.000 ones that look slightly different. Usually as they get older, they get a little bit larger. 26:32.720 --> 26:37.760 And this is usually how people see them when they just look like, you know, very majestic. 26:37.760 --> 26:42.640 The bone is sticking out of their head. But they actually start off looking like this. 26:42.640 --> 26:48.240 We see our other reindeer over here. They are covered in this fuzzy, like really short fur. We 26:48.240 --> 26:53.280 call it velvet. And that's when they just start to grow. They're covered in velvet. 26:53.280 --> 26:56.000 And then in the fall time, they're going to shed that velvet off, 26:56.000 --> 27:02.880 which is what was happening with that other reindeer. You saw all of that fur and that skin hanging off and there was some blood on her antlers. 27:02.880 --> 27:07.820 It doesn't hurt them. It's more like an uncomfortable, really itchy sensation. Imagine like 27:08.280 --> 27:11.720 we get a sunburn and you're peeling. It's just a little bit uncomfortable. 27:11.720 --> 27:15.320 You'll see them scratching on trees and on their shelter to get that velvet off. 27:16.560 --> 27:22.840 And then in the fall time and through the winter their antlers are gonna grow like this and eventually at the end of the winter 27:22.840 --> 27:24.480 winter nearing into spring, 27:24.480 --> 27:27.320 they're going to shed the entire antlers off their head. 27:27.320 --> 27:29.560 You'll see them shaking their head around a lot 27:29.560 --> 27:31.400 and they'll just pop right off their head. 27:31.400 --> 27:32.760 Sometimes one at a time, 27:32.760 --> 27:34.560 you can get an Alaskan unicorn 27:34.560 --> 27:37.920 where they walk around with one antler for a week or two. 27:37.920 --> 27:39.320 And then they're going to drop those 27:39.320 --> 27:42.320 and start the whole thing over again as summer starts 27:42.320 --> 27:44.720 and they'll grow a whole new set of antlers 27:44.720 --> 27:45.640 every single year. 27:47.080 --> 27:48.880 So you have males and females in here 27:48.880 --> 27:51.040 are the males neutered or you have- 27:51.040 --> 27:57.600 Some of them are and some of them aren't. This guy who's a new addition, he's not, but some of our older ones are. 28:03.360 --> 28:09.360 Yeah, the clicking noise, that's the clicking on the rooftop from that Christmas song. That's where it comes from. 28:09.360 --> 28:15.360 I don't know exactly what causes it, but they've got really special adaptive hooves that help them 28:15.360 --> 28:19.520 walk around in the Arctic on ice and that's what makes that clicking noise. 28:19.520 --> 28:23.680 Um, they all have it so it's not like they've got bad joints or anything. 28:23.680 --> 28:26.800 That's naturally reindeer and curbou have that click-clack. 28:26.800 --> 28:30.000 Yeah, we're on the other side. They all walk through the feed and they all walk through the feed. 28:30.000 --> 28:31.040 Yeah. 28:36.000 --> 28:39.440 And these guys, both the males and the females get to grow antlers. 28:39.440 --> 28:42.960 Um, if you've ever seen male deer or male moose or male elk, 28:42.960 --> 28:46.140 only those guys get to grow antlers and the females won't. 28:46.140 --> 28:48.160 But reindeer and caribou, both of them, 28:48.160 --> 28:49.640 everybody gets to grow antlers, 28:49.640 --> 28:51.600 which I think is super special. 28:51.600 --> 28:53.640 And these guys have a couple other superpowers. 28:53.640 --> 28:57.200 They're super well adapted to the living in the Arctic. 28:57.200 --> 28:59.840 They actually change their eye color throughout the year 28:59.840 --> 29:04.160 in order to adapt to the changing weather up here in Alaska. 29:04.160 --> 29:05.960 So in the Arctic winter, 29:05.960 --> 29:08.280 they're basically getting no hours of sunlight 29:08.280 --> 29:09.640 in their natural ranges. 29:09.640 --> 29:11.240 So they have to become really sensitive 29:11.240 --> 29:13.220 to whatever light is bouncing off the moon, 29:13.220 --> 29:15.580 and off the snow or off of bodies of water 29:15.580 --> 29:17.220 or ice they might be around. 29:17.220 --> 29:19.060 So that outer layer of their eyeball 29:19.060 --> 29:21.300 that's really dark right now actually turns 29:21.300 --> 29:23.700 to like an icy white blue color. 29:23.700 --> 29:25.780 And they've got, I guess, night vision 29:25.780 --> 29:28.000 for about six months out of the year. 29:28.000 --> 29:29.380 And then in the Arctic summer, 29:29.380 --> 29:31.500 when they're getting no rest from the sun, 29:31.500 --> 29:34.060 it's like almost 24 hours. 29:34.060 --> 29:35.340 They put their sunglasses on 29:35.340 --> 29:37.700 and their eyes turned back to that dark brown 29:37.700 --> 29:40.260 or like a golden color, which I think is super awesome. 29:40.260 --> 29:48.660 cool these guys it's hard for me to identify him out here right now thank you um that one way back 29:48.660 --> 29:54.740 there who's shedding her name is fern and then these guys right up here we've got shakespear 29:55.300 --> 29:58.420 caesar and then currently boris he's gonna be getting a new name 30:01.780 --> 30:06.580 and we have two other reindeer in our carry that are in a separate yard we've got a 30:06.580 --> 30:08.820 Neville and Holly. 30:08.820 --> 30:10.620 Thank you. 30:10.620 --> 30:14.060 And where, you don't have to say where all of them came from, 30:14.060 --> 30:17.020 but are these injuries, were they bred and captivity, 30:17.020 --> 30:18.060 or have they got here? 30:18.060 --> 30:20.500 Yeah, so these guys are a little bit of an exception 30:20.500 --> 30:21.940 to the rule. 30:21.940 --> 30:25.500 Boris, he actually came from another part of Alaska. 30:25.500 --> 30:27.740 There's a reindeer farm up in Palmer, 30:27.740 --> 30:29.620 where they have tons of reindeer. 30:29.620 --> 30:33.180 A reindeer are often used for farming up here in Alaska. 30:33.180 --> 30:36.540 and we brought him into our care recently. 30:36.540 --> 30:37.940 The couple of these other guys, 30:37.940 --> 30:40.660 I don't totally remember their origin stories. 30:40.660 --> 30:45.100 They're all somewhere between six years old 30:45.100 --> 30:48.620 and they're kind of like early to mid teens, 30:48.620 --> 30:50.660 which is pretty old for reindeer. 30:50.660 --> 30:52.300 But these guys kind of come from a whole bunch 30:52.300 --> 30:55.460 of different places versus some of our other animals 30:55.460 --> 30:58.060 have really individualized stories, if that makes sense. 30:58.060 --> 30:59.940 Are they farmed for meat? 30:59.940 --> 31:02.340 In Alaska, yeah, it's pretty common 31:02.340 --> 31:09.220 to see like reindeer me around. Of course the ones in our care we don't do that but in Alaska yeah. 31:11.060 --> 31:17.460 Thank you for the hundred dollars thank you so much. Man they're beautiful. Yeah this guy's got 31:17.460 --> 31:24.580 some really gorgeous antlers growing on him and typically you'll see a little bit of a difference 31:24.580 --> 31:28.340 between the girls and the boys they're antlers. You can see his have a bunch of different 31:28.340 --> 31:32.740 They're a little bit bigger in hers or a lot slimmer. 31:32.740 --> 31:34.820 They've only got one or two times. 31:34.820 --> 31:36.700 It's not always a rule of thumb. 31:36.700 --> 31:38.260 Holly, one of our other females, 31:38.260 --> 31:40.060 she grows antlers just like the boys. 31:40.060 --> 31:42.820 Really big and have a whole bunch of tines, but- 31:42.820 --> 31:43.980 Tines is where it splits off. 31:43.980 --> 31:47.420 Yeah, so like she's got maybe like one or two. 31:47.420 --> 31:50.660 And the time that sticks out over their face, 31:50.660 --> 31:52.020 it's called the shovel. 31:52.020 --> 31:55.180 They usually only have it on one side of their antlers 31:55.180 --> 31:57.060 and they literally use it like a shovel. 31:57.060 --> 32:01.380 They use it to dig out snow and in order to get to all of the lichen that's underneath 32:01.380 --> 32:06.740 in the Arctic, that's called cratering is when they move that snow and they leave craters 32:06.740 --> 32:13.540 behind and sometimes reindeer or caribou they'll have two shovels and they're double shovels. 32:13.540 --> 32:20.500 Well, do moose do that as well? They can they will lose their antlers earlier than these guys 32:20.500 --> 32:25.940 typically caribou will keep them through the winter at least female caribou will 32:25.940 --> 32:32.460 moose typically lose them a little bit earlier and their main winter food source is going to be stripping bark off of 32:32.680 --> 32:41.580 existing trees because they live a little bit further down in Alaska, so they are you know closer to those boreal forests and down here in South Central Alaska. 32:45.500 --> 32:50.860 Yeah, and so they get they always make that little clicking noise, you know, the 32:50.860 --> 33:03.860 Christmas Carol that's like click on the on the rooftop. It is true they make the clicking sound it sounds like they've got some bad joints like if a human was walking around and you've heard the clicking you'd be a little concerned but it's natural for them. 33:03.860 --> 33:17.860 I remember exactly what causes it but they have really specialized clothes for living in Alaska and living in the Arctic. Their hooves are really really wide for helping their legs are and they've got these four clothes in their hooves that allow them to 33:17.860 --> 33:23.260 just play out like snow shoes so they can walk really easily across ice when their habitat 33:23.260 --> 33:26.380 is all winterized and they've got ice sheets everywhere. 33:26.380 --> 33:27.860 It doesn't bother them at all. 33:27.860 --> 33:31.700 They're running along just like if it was summertime up here. 33:31.700 --> 33:32.700 We just showed them the sign. 33:32.700 --> 33:34.700 Can you tell them a little bit about rut? 33:34.700 --> 33:35.700 Yeah. 33:35.700 --> 33:41.980 So rut is a fancy word for a breeding season for animals and typically for hoof stock 33:41.980 --> 33:43.900 like these guys. 33:43.900 --> 33:50.540 happens sometime generally in the fall and rut is mostly referring to male 33:50.540 --> 33:54.980 animals they have a lot of behavioral changes that going on they can sometimes 33:54.980 --> 34:00.980 get more aggressive so we have signs around because in the fall time when 34:00.980 --> 34:04.260 they're getting ready to breed or they're getting ready to mate oftentimes 34:04.260 --> 34:13.860 those males like I said they're gonna get more aggressive they might be more likely to get ready to hang out with the ladies for a little bit 34:13.860 --> 34:18.180 So they go through some behavioral changes and then once that sees it 34:18.180 --> 34:22.680 naturally evolutionary is up they go back to having their regular 34:22.680 --> 34:27.060 personalities that we see. So we often tell folks they've been in the fall giving 34:27.060 --> 34:35.300 just a couple extra inches of room. Cool. Cool. Alright sweet. 34:35.300 --> 34:40.940 Alright we can swing back this way. We'll make another pass by Mr. Dearest and Mr. Cobuck. 34:40.940 --> 34:58.380 Yeah, that was the one that was shutting was up here at the V&A. 34:58.380 --> 35:02.740 Yeah, that literally probably happened in the last three hours or so. 35:02.740 --> 35:07.140 I rolled into work at about eight and I saw her on my way in and she did not have any 35:07.140 --> 35:08.140 shed going on. 35:08.140 --> 35:11.100 So, she must have been doing some good work. 35:11.100 --> 35:12.260 There you go. 35:12.260 --> 35:14.740 That's pretty special, let's stream her a little bit. 35:14.740 --> 35:16.140 So where are we headed now? 35:16.140 --> 35:18.540 We're gonna head behind our gift shop here. 35:18.540 --> 35:20.340 Meet some of our smaller critters. 35:20.340 --> 35:22.820 We're gonna get close to some of our 35:22.820 --> 35:25.100 North American porcupines and then we're gonna go feed 35:25.100 --> 35:27.860 Mr. Heath some of his afternoon diet. 35:27.860 --> 35:29.860 Sweet. 35:29.860 --> 35:31.940 Chad, have you ever seen a North American porcupine? 35:31.940 --> 35:33.580 I feel like, well actually I don't know 35:33.580 --> 35:35.180 what you guys think of when you think of a porcupine, 35:35.180 --> 35:37.620 but I always think of the African crested ones first. 35:37.620 --> 35:43.740 Those are those like, they're big, they're like, this big, um, and they've got the banded 35:43.740 --> 35:44.900 quills. 35:44.900 --> 35:49.780 North American porcupines are like, if you took a, like a teddy bear and made it really 35:49.780 --> 35:50.780 point out. 35:50.780 --> 35:55.020 Yeah, that's usually what I say and sometimes you can't see their quills because they 35:55.020 --> 35:58.980 have so much fur so they look extra fluffy and cute. 35:58.980 --> 36:00.820 So we move your mic onto your lane here. 36:00.820 --> 36:01.320 Yeah. 36:01.320 --> 36:04.820 And I'll move with the lanes. 36:04.820 --> 36:06.420 Do you think I can go in for this? 36:06.420 --> 36:08.420 Yeah. 36:08.420 --> 36:08.920 That's nice. 36:11.700 --> 36:12.780 They kind of look softer. 36:12.780 --> 36:14.060 They look softer. 36:14.060 --> 36:14.660 Yeah. 36:14.660 --> 36:16.420 They can be pretty misleading. 36:16.420 --> 36:18.220 They've got a lot of myths about them. 36:18.220 --> 36:21.020 Yeah. 36:21.020 --> 36:23.940 And they make really cute noises. 36:23.940 --> 36:25.820 And while we're walking back there, 36:25.820 --> 36:28.420 I can talk a little bit more just about AWCC 36:28.420 --> 36:35.140 generally. So our central mission, we are a sanctuary dedicated to preserving Alaska's wildlife 36:35.140 --> 36:40.500 through conservation, education, research, and quality animal care. So those are kind of our 36:40.500 --> 36:45.940 four pillars of what we do here. Quality animal care almost always is the thing that comes first. 36:46.740 --> 36:50.820 And then education, we see thousands of people come through here that get to learn 36:50.820 --> 36:55.940 from these animals that are getting a second chance of life. And almost all of our animals, 36:55.940 --> 37:00.580 they were once wild. There's one reason or another that can't survive on their own. 37:00.580 --> 37:05.780 The majority of them are orphaned and animals can get orphaned for a bunch of different reasons. 37:05.780 --> 37:09.940 A lot of times it can be natural, something that happens pretty often with wildlife, 37:09.940 --> 37:17.380 but of course some animals get orphaned by, you know, human needs. People accidentally can 37:17.380 --> 37:22.580 orphan animals. Sometimes people are doing things that separate animals from the rest of 37:22.580 --> 37:25.540 of their herd and we have a couple animals in our care 37:25.540 --> 37:29.420 that were injured, that were eligible to stay in human care 37:29.420 --> 37:32.140 and all of them were designated here 37:32.140 --> 37:34.940 to be their permanent home by the state of Alaska. 37:34.940 --> 37:36.660 So it's not our staff that's going out there 37:36.660 --> 37:39.580 and picking up a bear off the side of the road. 37:39.580 --> 37:41.040 There's a whole bunch of processes 37:41.040 --> 37:42.580 that they get to go through 37:42.580 --> 37:45.380 in order to have a permanent home here 37:45.380 --> 37:47.980 and that's where the quality animal care comes in. 37:47.980 --> 37:50.420 A lot of these animals are really long-lived 37:50.420 --> 37:53.900 can stay with us for the entirety of their life. 37:53.900 --> 37:56.900 And so we get to see them grow up and change. 37:56.900 --> 37:59.700 Our next stop here is gonna be Hurtu Canada Lynx. 37:59.700 --> 38:01.340 And I'll say our best bet to see them 38:01.340 --> 38:04.140 is to hop up on this ramp over here. 38:04.140 --> 38:06.340 Gets a little bit of the glare away. 38:10.660 --> 38:12.860 And sometimes we have to do a little bit of eye spy 38:12.860 --> 38:14.340 to see our Lynx in here. 38:14.340 --> 38:18.900 We've got one male and one female in here. 38:18.900 --> 38:25.860 female. Her name is Chena. She was illegally trapped near North Pole, 38:25.860 --> 38:31.740 Alaska, which is a real place, and she was actually kept in a chicken coop for 38:31.740 --> 38:36.420 many years, which as you can imagine her large cat is not a really great home. So 38:36.420 --> 38:39.740 she's a little bit on the older side. She has some missing toes from some 38:39.740 --> 38:44.980 frostbite injuries. She's missing those ear tufts on her ears, but she's got a 38:44.980 --> 38:47.460 a lot of space to roam here. 38:47.460 --> 38:49.180 She's gotten to stretch out 38:49.180 --> 38:51.340 and get to figure out her personality. 38:51.340 --> 38:52.940 She's very sassy 38:52.940 --> 38:56.060 and she's a really wonderful individual in our care. 38:56.060 --> 38:59.100 Calvin, he is our male that lives in here. 38:59.100 --> 39:02.700 He was orphaned as a kitten near Bethel, Alaska, 39:02.700 --> 39:05.660 which is all the way on the left side of the state here. 39:05.660 --> 39:08.300 And he's lived with us pretty much his entire life. 39:08.300 --> 39:11.860 He came in as a really, I would say big kitten, 39:11.860 --> 39:14.980 but the baby pictures of him are pretty awesome. 39:16.080 --> 39:18.560 And they like to just like regular house cats 39:18.560 --> 39:22.300 sneak into little corners and tuck into little places 39:22.300 --> 39:24.860 where we sometimes have a hard time finding them. 39:26.760 --> 39:30.340 Oh yeah, we can swing around for sure. 39:34.660 --> 39:35.920 Calvin and Gina. 39:39.900 --> 39:40.740 Yeah. 39:41.860 --> 39:44.900 And Calvin, that was not always his name. 39:44.900 --> 39:47.980 He was formerly known as Calliope, 39:47.980 --> 39:50.500 because we thought that he was a female. 39:50.500 --> 39:52.980 And you might be thinking, how did you not know 39:52.980 --> 39:53.820 that he was a boy? 39:53.820 --> 39:55.740 But a lot of times it's actually more difficult 39:55.740 --> 39:58.140 than you think when it comes to wildlife. 39:58.140 --> 40:00.780 Things are not quite as obvious as they may come across. 40:00.780 --> 40:03.540 And once you do some veterinary care, 40:03.540 --> 40:06.260 you realize, oh, maybe we were wrong. 40:06.260 --> 40:08.940 But yeah, that is Calvin up there taking a snooze. 40:08.940 --> 40:12.120 You can see his ear tufts on top of his ears there. 40:12.120 --> 40:14.520 Those kind of help direct the wind and direct sound 40:14.520 --> 40:15.360 into their ears. 40:15.360 --> 40:17.720 They've got very, very sensitive hearing. 40:17.720 --> 40:21.440 And that white patch on his fur, those are his paws. 40:21.440 --> 40:24.160 He, like the reindeer, have really huge paws 40:24.160 --> 40:26.440 that also work like snow shoes. 40:26.440 --> 40:27.640 And there's his face. 40:30.080 --> 40:31.920 Yeah, that is super cool. 40:31.920 --> 40:34.880 They're like definitely one of the more elusive animals. 40:34.880 --> 40:36.960 Oftentimes people just seem like dashing 40:36.960 --> 40:38.320 off in the distance. 40:38.320 --> 40:39.900 I've never gotten to see a wild one, 40:39.900 --> 40:41.960 but you can hear them sometimes. 40:41.960 --> 40:43.740 They make a really awesome noise 40:43.740 --> 40:47.040 that kind of sounds like a mix between a meow 40:47.040 --> 40:49.240 and a car alarm is what I usually say, 40:49.240 --> 40:51.600 where we're like, is somebody's alarm going off? 40:51.600 --> 40:53.560 Or is it Calvin talking to a raven 40:53.560 --> 40:55.080 that's outside his habitat? 40:57.000 --> 40:58.920 And these guys in the wild, 40:58.920 --> 41:01.200 they pretty much only eat snowshoe hairs. 41:01.200 --> 41:02.760 So they've got those big paws 41:02.760 --> 41:04.400 in the really incredible hearing 41:04.400 --> 41:06.160 so that they can hear those rabbits 41:06.160 --> 41:11.120 those hairs moving around in the snow and when they walk around they're almost completely silent. 41:11.120 --> 41:15.600 So unless they're making vocal sounds we almost can never hear them they're really 41:15.600 --> 41:17.800 going to be super, super sneaky. 41:17.800 --> 41:21.760 Joshina, Connor's on my tip. Connor was saying that we saw one. That's what she was saying. 41:21.760 --> 41:25.680 That's pretty, pretty rare to see. We're pretty lucky. 41:25.680 --> 41:27.680 My favorite song in the world. 41:27.680 --> 41:29.680 Yeah. 41:30.720 --> 41:32.720 We'll keep on cruising. 41:32.720 --> 41:39.720 Connor has gotten really good at shooting through wire. 41:39.720 --> 41:43.720 That's true. 41:43.720 --> 41:55.720 I'm definitely putting this place on my list to visit when I go to Alaska next year. 41:55.720 --> 41:56.720 Yay! 41:56.720 --> 41:58.720 Yeah, this one's open to the public. 41:58.720 --> 41:59.720 You guys can check it out. 41:59.720 --> 42:04.280 we do a whole bunch of tours you can just come in and self-guided or we do 42:04.280 --> 42:07.400 encounters where you can meet our animals and sometimes feed them or like 42:07.400 --> 42:12.200 build enrichment for co-buck is one that we do a lot. This is our currently our 42:12.200 --> 42:17.840 oldest resident at AWCC. This is Snappy. He's a great horned owl and he's got 42:17.840 --> 42:21.520 his eyes open right now which you don't always get to see. He's a 42:21.520 --> 42:24.960 nocturnal animal so when his eyes are open during the day it's kind of a 42:24.960 --> 42:31.720 special treat. He came to us in 1999 and he already had adult plumage at that time, so 42:31.720 --> 42:36.640 we're estimating he was probably born around 96, 97, but we really don't know 42:36.640 --> 42:41.800 exactly for sure. Great horned owls are really long-lived critters, so they can 42:41.800 --> 42:46.600 live up into their 30s, 40s, I'm sure even longer in human care. 42:46.600 --> 42:53.040 Chattie's pushing 30. Why snappy? So as you can imagine, he was an adult wild animal 42:53.040 --> 42:57.200 when he came into our care and he originally came to us because he was the victim of an 42:57.200 --> 43:02.800 unethical use of firearms. So it's not legal to hunt or shoot great horned owls in Alaska, 43:02.800 --> 43:09.200 but he is a partial wing amputee. So he's got about one and a half wings. You can't really tell 43:09.200 --> 43:14.320 unless he spreads them. So when he came into human care, you can imagine he was probably 43:14.320 --> 43:19.440 pretty confused. He was probably pretty scared and he probably snapped a couple times. And 43:19.440 --> 43:21.240 The guy really sharp beaks. 43:21.240 --> 43:23.360 He probably tried to bite the folks 43:23.360 --> 43:25.100 that were actively rehabilitating him 43:25.100 --> 43:26.360 or getting him into human care. 43:26.360 --> 43:28.560 So that's where he got his name. 43:28.560 --> 43:31.640 But he typically is a pretty mellow, chill guy, 43:31.640 --> 43:32.720 as you can see. 43:35.160 --> 43:37.760 And he's starting to close those eyes there. 43:37.760 --> 43:39.080 You can see on the sign here, 43:39.080 --> 43:41.840 that's what they look like when they're fully open. 43:41.840 --> 43:43.280 He's got enormous eyeballs. 43:43.280 --> 43:45.600 They take up a really significant portion 43:45.600 --> 43:47.040 of his skull space. 43:47.040 --> 43:49.800 they're actually so large that he can't turn his eyes 43:49.800 --> 43:50.800 from side to side. 43:50.800 --> 43:52.480 So if he wants to look at you, 43:52.480 --> 43:54.840 he has to turn his head and look directly at you. 43:54.840 --> 43:57.480 He can't give you side eye or anything. 43:57.480 --> 43:59.240 He has to look directly at you. 43:59.240 --> 44:01.920 And that's why owls can turn their head so far around 44:01.920 --> 44:04.440 about three quarters of the way around, 44:04.440 --> 44:06.320 not all the way around. 44:06.320 --> 44:08.680 And if we were gonna have the same eyeball 44:08.680 --> 44:11.080 to skull ratio is snappy for the size 44:11.080 --> 44:12.680 of a human skull, our eyeballs would have 44:12.680 --> 44:14.240 to be grapefruit size. 44:14.240 --> 44:19.240 So just to give you an idea of how much of his noggin is eyeball, 44:19.240 --> 44:20.640 it's pretty much all of it. 44:20.640 --> 44:23.640 That's so crazy. 44:23.640 --> 44:26.240 Is it all the predator or the coyote? 44:26.240 --> 44:27.440 Yeah, coyote kits. 44:27.440 --> 44:29.840 So really, really little ones when they're just little babies. 44:29.840 --> 44:31.040 Yeah, not full grown ones. 44:31.040 --> 44:35.840 I don't know about it like that. 44:35.840 --> 44:37.040 You're walking. 44:37.040 --> 44:37.540 Hi. 44:37.540 --> 44:38.040 Hi. 44:38.040 --> 44:49.560 I'm not sure exactly what our plan is currently. This is a temporary housing spot for one of 44:49.560 --> 44:55.160 our other North American porcupines. His name is Baby Ruth because his habitat is currently 44:55.160 --> 44:59.520 in this construction zone and obviously that's not ideal for a little porcupine. So he's 44:59.520 --> 45:05.560 actually very happy temporarily living in there. I'm not sure if we're planning on 45:05.560 --> 45:10.040 remodeling that space back for another bird or not. 45:11.320 --> 45:16.680 This is fun. This is our third North American porcupine. His name is Twix. 45:16.680 --> 45:20.120 They all have candy bar names if you haven't caught on by now. 45:20.120 --> 45:23.320 It looks like he might be snoozing. We'll get some porcupine time in a 45:23.320 --> 45:25.800 minute. 45:25.800 --> 45:39.000 Oh, another one that's not always out here. 45:39.000 --> 45:47.080 Yeah, I'll keep my voice down here. 45:47.080 --> 45:48.080 This is Marvin. 45:48.080 --> 45:52.600 He is an American Martin. 45:52.600 --> 45:55.920 He's in the mustelid family or weasel family, 45:55.920 --> 45:58.580 so he's related to like domestic ferrets 45:58.580 --> 46:01.520 and wolverines and otters. 46:01.520 --> 46:03.320 And he's a really curious guy. 46:03.320 --> 46:05.360 He's got those really big ears. 46:05.360 --> 46:07.920 He's around four pounds, 46:07.920 --> 46:10.000 so he's kind of like a ginormous ferret 46:10.000 --> 46:11.920 if anyone's ever seen those guys. 46:12.920 --> 46:15.000 And kind of like how I talked about earlier, 46:15.000 --> 46:18.040 Cobuck having that white blaze on his chest. 46:18.040 --> 46:20.840 He also has one, it's called a bib, 46:20.840 --> 46:26.520 these guys that bright orange spot on his chest and it's also individual so his markings are not 46:26.520 --> 46:32.040 going to look like the next American Martin. And you can see he's got a lot of trees in here too. 46:32.920 --> 46:38.920 They oftentimes live in like boreal forests and the forest of parts of Alaska are really common 46:38.920 --> 46:44.280 and they look really tiny and cute but they are predators. They're carnivores. They 46:44.280 --> 46:50.680 almost exclusively are eating mice and rats and redback bowls and meadow bowls 46:50.680 --> 46:55.560 here in Alaska. They can even eat small birds and their scavengers so they can 46:55.560 --> 47:00.240 eat larger things as well. You can see he's got some old enrichment here that 47:00.240 --> 47:03.780 he just walked over. We put some carrots and it looks like maybe some 47:03.780 --> 47:10.400 celery sticks inside of something for him to dig up and get them out of there. 47:10.400 --> 47:18.000 Are Martins farmed for fur throughout the U.S.? 47:18.000 --> 47:20.520 I don't know if they're farmed for fur. 47:20.520 --> 47:26.320 Up in Alaska they are a species that is trapped for fur quite often and the trapping laws 47:26.320 --> 47:29.680 vary based on who you are and where you're living. 47:29.680 --> 47:33.200 Oh my goodness, he's kind of showing off. 47:33.200 --> 47:37.720 I lowered my voice because he tends to be a little bit on the shire side and is 47:37.720 --> 47:39.320 not always visible. 47:39.320 --> 47:41.840 you'll see he really likes to hang out in boxes. 47:41.840 --> 47:44.280 So he's got a couple of boxes up in that corner 47:44.280 --> 47:46.360 that's usually where I see him. 47:46.360 --> 47:47.320 But he's showing off. 47:47.320 --> 47:49.720 Somebody's got something that smells really yummy for him, 47:49.720 --> 47:50.560 I'm sure. 47:50.560 --> 47:55.400 He's an American Martin. 48:00.640 --> 48:01.760 They are related to measles, 48:01.760 --> 48:06.040 he had chat, muscle in, measles, potters. 48:08.040 --> 48:09.240 Man, that is a cute man. 48:09.240 --> 48:14.440 I know, sometimes we have to remember that he is a carnivore, he's a predator, but he's 48:14.440 --> 48:15.440 really adorable. 48:15.440 --> 48:22.640 He comes in a really adorable, cute little package. 48:22.640 --> 48:26.640 And he, again, I like a lot of our animals, they've got really big paws for the size of 48:26.640 --> 48:27.640 their body. 48:27.640 --> 48:32.200 That's so he can climb really well, he can climb upwards and downwards, and so he can 48:32.200 --> 48:37.040 walk across the snow and dig, these are all things that kind of help them survive 48:37.040 --> 48:38.400 in the Alaskan landscape. 48:38.400 --> 48:42.140 Is this one that's exploded in the pet trade at all? 48:42.140 --> 48:43.340 I would imagine. 48:43.340 --> 48:44.980 I don't actually know too much about it, 48:44.980 --> 48:47.860 but if I were to make an educated guess, 48:47.860 --> 48:49.400 I would say yes. 48:49.400 --> 48:51.900 He would be a pretty bad pet. 48:51.900 --> 48:53.540 He's very vocal. 48:53.540 --> 48:56.020 As sweet and charming as he's being right now, 48:56.020 --> 48:57.300 he's got a lot to say, 48:57.300 --> 49:00.900 and he's definitely got a set of lungs on him. 49:00.900 --> 49:04.740 And a lot of animals in the mustalid family, 49:04.740 --> 49:06.860 domestic varites are like this as well. 49:06.860 --> 49:09.580 They have to be fed pretty constantly. 49:09.580 --> 49:13.120 They've got to have access to food almost all of the time 49:13.120 --> 49:16.060 because they have a really, really, really high metabolism. 49:16.060 --> 49:19.740 So oftentimes for pets, they are not advantageous. 49:20.740 --> 49:21.580 But- 49:21.580 --> 49:22.420 He's so fast and agile. 49:22.420 --> 49:23.260 Yeah. 49:23.260 --> 49:24.740 So I just would get everything. 49:24.740 --> 49:26.580 He's kind of like a flash of light 49:26.580 --> 49:27.620 when he's moving through there. 49:27.620 --> 49:29.860 If he gets the zoomies, 49:29.860 --> 49:32.300 there's definitely a difference between him 49:32.300 --> 49:34.880 and his domesticated counterparts for sure. 49:34.880 --> 49:39.880 I'm glad he was out. Sometimes I don't even stop by him because we don't always see him. 49:39.880 --> 49:41.880 Very sweet. 49:44.880 --> 49:47.880 Cool. You said Marvin? 49:47.880 --> 49:48.880 Yeah, Marvin the Martin. 49:48.880 --> 49:50.880 Marvin the Martin, love it. 49:50.880 --> 49:52.880 Cute. 49:52.880 --> 49:56.880 Alright, and it looks like our coyotes are being shy over here. 49:56.880 --> 49:58.880 Fair. 49:58.880 --> 50:01.480 We'll make our next stop. 50:01.480 --> 50:05.600 We're going to go in with Heath and give him a little bit of snackies. 50:05.600 --> 50:09.080 Maybe on our way out, our coyotes will want to come hang. 50:09.080 --> 50:12.960 So that was a cute, I've never seen a Martin in person. 50:12.960 --> 50:16.640 Yeah, they're pretty elusive just because they're small and they're quick and they 50:16.640 --> 50:18.600 know how to hide really well. 50:18.600 --> 50:21.240 But they're pretty abundant throughout Alaska. 50:21.240 --> 50:25.400 All right, we'll make sure we get everybody over here. 50:25.400 --> 50:27.200 I mean, it's like. 50:27.200 --> 50:31.000 Yeah, we're going to open the secret door. 50:31.000 --> 50:34.400 So we're going to enter the habitat with Heath. 50:34.400 --> 50:37.320 Like I said, he's a North American porcupine. 50:37.320 --> 50:39.400 He only has three legs. 50:39.400 --> 50:43.360 He was found frozen to a trail or frozen to the ground. 50:43.360 --> 50:45.920 He already had three legs at that time, I believe. 50:45.920 --> 50:48.040 We don't know exactly what happened to him. 50:48.040 --> 50:53.480 Probably a predator tried to get him or they can be susceptible to frostbite because 50:53.480 --> 50:56.100 They don't got fur on the bottom of their feet, 50:56.100 --> 50:58.120 so they could have frozen to the ground. 50:58.120 --> 51:01.160 Luckily, he was in a place where people found him, 51:01.160 --> 51:03.800 called the Department of Fish and Gain here in Alaska. 51:03.800 --> 51:05.000 They scooped him up. 51:05.000 --> 51:07.360 We healed that arm injury. 51:07.360 --> 51:08.680 It's his front right leg, 51:08.680 --> 51:10.360 and he's lived with us ever since, 51:10.360 --> 51:12.200 but not to fear. 51:12.200 --> 51:14.640 He has pretty much all of his mobility, 51:14.640 --> 51:17.200 so he's a phenomenal climber. 51:17.200 --> 51:18.920 He still moves pretty quickly, 51:18.920 --> 51:20.000 which for a porcupine, 51:20.000 --> 51:22.560 their max speed is two miles an hour. 51:22.560 --> 51:26.000 So he still hits that two miles an hour really well. 51:26.000 --> 51:28.520 And he loves snacks and he loves people. 51:28.520 --> 51:31.200 So when we go in there, I'll head in there first, 51:31.200 --> 51:33.040 I'll get him to his station 51:33.040 --> 51:34.840 or see what he wants to do today. 51:34.840 --> 51:38.360 And then I'll let you guys know when he's ready for ya. 51:38.360 --> 51:40.360 I've got some tongs for us. 51:40.360 --> 51:41.520 We've got some snacks. 51:41.520 --> 51:43.560 We've got some of his favorites today. 51:43.560 --> 51:45.280 Thank you so much, Becky. 51:45.280 --> 51:47.820 We've got some sweet potato and some apple, 51:47.820 --> 51:50.360 which are typically his favorite foods. 51:50.360 --> 51:52.320 They're pretty strict herbivores. 51:52.320 --> 51:57.520 he's got a really nice healthy diet and then when we go in there we can just feed him and hang out 51:57.520 --> 52:03.200 with him and I'll tell you a little bit more about pork clients. Only rules while we're in there, 52:03.200 --> 52:07.840 of course he's got quills. He can't actually shoot them out of his body. It's a big misconception 52:07.840 --> 52:12.560 with these guys. So as long as we don't touch him we're gonna be just fine. We'll hang out with 52:12.560 --> 52:17.360 him and we'll just keep like calm bodies and calm voices in there. We don't have to whisper 52:17.360 --> 52:22.000 by any means but if we start running around he might get a little antsy and we don't want 52:22.000 --> 52:26.140 to stress them out in his house. Other than that I'll let you know what we're 52:26.140 --> 52:31.720 doing when we're in there. Yeah if you guys want to come in on the inside of 52:31.720 --> 52:46.080 this wooden and we can just kind of like sneak around the edge here. And then if 52:46.080 --> 52:50.120 If we want to put one of those wooden things back up, yeah. 52:50.120 --> 52:51.460 What if he touches you? 52:51.460 --> 52:54.000 Ouchie a little bit, maybe. 52:54.000 --> 52:57.800 He moves slow enough that you can usually avoid it. 53:01.560 --> 53:03.800 They've got barbed quills? 53:03.800 --> 53:04.960 Yeah, they do. 53:04.960 --> 53:07.640 Whereas the African porcupine has really long, 53:07.640 --> 53:10.320 those the barred ones, where it's like, 53:10.320 --> 53:12.840 it's like, what is it? 53:12.840 --> 53:14.200 These guys have barbeds. 53:14.200 --> 53:19.000 So if it gets stuck in there, it's kind of like, you know. 53:19.000 --> 53:20.800 And then when you guys come in, if you can just 53:20.800 --> 53:21.600 wash that one. 53:27.720 --> 53:28.220 Heath. 53:36.960 --> 53:37.460 Heath. 53:44.200 --> 53:51.200 Oh, they're so cute. 53:51.200 --> 53:53.200 Good morning Heath. 53:53.200 --> 53:56.200 Here's, say we have snacks. 54:01.200 --> 54:03.200 Heath, let's go. 54:03.200 --> 54:05.200 You want to go down this way? 54:14.200 --> 54:37.200 He's glorious, strats. 54:37.200 --> 54:40.200 Oh yeah, right. 54:40.200 --> 54:49.200 Here he comes. 54:49.200 --> 54:51.680 She's trying to get him up to this platform, guys. 54:51.680 --> 54:55.840 Alright, and as soon as he comes up here, you guys can come on in. 54:55.840 --> 54:59.120 Let's go over here, bud. 54:59.120 --> 55:01.120 Wow, snacks. 55:01.120 --> 55:07.160 So yeah, you can see he's got no problem climbing, even though he's only got three 55:07.160 --> 55:08.160 legs. 55:08.160 --> 55:12.000 And this is the man of the hour. 55:12.000 --> 55:17.400 He is the most adorable, most prickly guy in our care here. 55:17.400 --> 55:21.720 And you're more than welcome to feed him a chunk. 55:21.720 --> 55:25.160 And then whenever he's done, you can just put it right up to his nose. 55:25.160 --> 55:26.160 For you. 55:26.160 --> 55:27.160 Oh, yeah. 55:27.160 --> 55:33.160 They don't have very good eyesight, but they have a really good sense of smell and then 55:33.160 --> 55:36.360 all of these types of fur to kind of help them navigate their environment. 55:36.360 --> 55:39.320 You'll see he's got whiskers, like cat or a dog. 55:39.320 --> 55:41.600 He's got these really long hairs coming off of him. 55:41.600 --> 55:43.020 These are called guard hairs. 55:43.020 --> 55:45.200 These are not the quills. 55:45.200 --> 55:47.400 Those are kind of like an extension of his whiskers. 55:47.400 --> 55:48.520 So when he goes into his hutch, 55:48.520 --> 55:51.480 he can use those to feel around where he is. 55:51.480 --> 55:53.000 Then he has his down fur, 55:53.000 --> 55:56.040 that fuzzy stuff on his face and his paws. 55:56.040 --> 55:59.720 And then the quills are actually a modified type of hair. 55:59.720 --> 56:00.560 So. 56:00.560 --> 56:02.880 I was gonna ask, yeah. 56:02.880 --> 56:03.720 Oh my gosh. 56:03.720 --> 56:04.560 Yes. 56:04.560 --> 56:05.400 Yeah. 56:05.400 --> 56:07.400 Yeah, he'll be okay. 56:08.880 --> 56:14.760 It's a lot more endearing when he makes the chewing noises than like when your friend is doing it at the dinner table. 56:19.480 --> 56:22.040 He's going to town on the sweet potato there. 56:22.040 --> 56:45.560 Yeah, I'll get you spring loaded and when he's done, you can just put it right up to 56:45.560 --> 56:49.000 his nose and he'll very gently take it from you. 56:49.000 --> 57:05.160 yeah this is his favorite I know isn't he adorable yeah he's all good and you 57:05.160 --> 57:08.920 can kind of start to see his quills when he's got his head down here those 57:08.920 --> 57:17.880 little white speckles nice isn't that like the coolest thing you've ever 57:17.880 --> 57:26.680 done. Those quills, kind of like the African porcupines you were talking about, they still 57:26.680 --> 57:31.720 have like the banding colors, they're white at the bottom and then they're black on the tip, 57:31.720 --> 57:36.520 and that's where the microscopic barbs are, and they're actually hollow on the inside 57:37.800 --> 57:43.720 and they're kind of toothpick size, they range in size around his body and he's got an estimated 57:43.720 --> 57:51.320 for 30,000 quills on his body. So everywhere except for his face and his tummy and his paws. 58:01.560 --> 58:06.200 You'll see he's got those nice long nails. Those help him climb. We've actually specially 58:06.200 --> 58:11.720 designed the porcupine habitats with different fencing so that they can climb it. You'll notice 58:11.720 --> 58:16.920 that it's got these cube or squares instead of the chain link and that's so that they can climb 58:16.920 --> 58:23.480 around their habitat because normally they live in trees. So we allow them to climb these guys and 58:23.480 --> 58:28.280 we can see them and monitor them better than if we had big old trees in here. Can I give another 58:28.280 --> 58:34.680 one with uh business heck of them? Or is this an apple? Um I think yeah it's some sort of potato 58:34.680 --> 58:35.680 He's ready for you. 58:35.680 --> 58:36.680 Shots, Mac. 58:40.680 --> 58:41.680 Nice. 58:42.680 --> 58:43.680 That was such a good shot. 58:44.680 --> 58:46.680 He's really good for like a .5 picture. 58:46.680 --> 58:49.680 His snout is incredibly cute. 58:51.680 --> 58:53.680 And if anyone noticed, he has really orange teeth. 58:53.680 --> 58:56.680 That's not because we don't take care of him. 58:56.680 --> 58:58.680 They naturally have orange teeth. 58:58.680 --> 58:59.680 So these guys are rodents. 58:59.680 --> 59:02.680 They're really closely related to beavers. 59:02.680 --> 59:05.620 And a lot of rodents have those orange teeth. 59:05.620 --> 59:10.580 They have different chemicals that have kind of like a protective dental coating, because 59:10.580 --> 59:15.580 when they're chewing on bark and on branches, they want a little bit of extra protection. 59:15.580 --> 59:19.820 If humans were to chew on bark and branches all the time, our teeth might be a little 59:19.820 --> 59:20.820 messed up. 59:20.820 --> 59:21.820 Wow, the close-up. 59:21.820 --> 59:22.820 Yeah, thank you. 59:22.820 --> 59:23.820 Thank you. 59:23.820 --> 59:31.820 I just brought a bunch because it's so fun to feed a porcupine. 59:31.820 --> 59:34.820 I'm ready. He's ready. 59:34.820 --> 59:37.820 Oh no. 59:37.820 --> 59:41.820 That was awesome. 59:41.820 --> 59:44.820 He's a superstar. 59:44.820 --> 59:46.820 He steals the show 59:46.820 --> 59:49.820 and well within his reason. 59:49.820 --> 59:51.820 And what'll go after him in the wild? 59:51.820 --> 59:53.820 It seems like it'd be a terrible time. 59:53.820 --> 59:55.820 Yeah, they actually don't. 59:55.820 --> 59:57.820 A lot of animals can eat porcupines, 59:57.820 --> 59:59.820 but a lot of them won't. 59:59.820 --> 01:00:03.740 because they've got 30,000 quills on their body. 01:00:03.740 --> 01:00:06.540 The best predators or hunters, I should say, 01:00:06.540 --> 01:00:08.820 of porcupines are actually wolverines, 01:00:08.820 --> 01:00:12.580 and sometimes wolves, wolverines can climb trees 01:00:12.580 --> 01:00:15.100 and they can flip the porcupines over. 01:00:15.100 --> 01:00:17.140 And on their tummy, where they're not protected, 01:00:17.140 --> 01:00:18.820 that's where they can get them. 01:00:18.820 --> 01:00:21.860 A lot of other animals, there's actually one bear 01:00:21.860 --> 01:00:23.940 that we're gonna meet later who's in our care, 01:00:23.940 --> 01:00:26.940 who had bitten a porcupine as a baby 01:00:26.940 --> 01:00:28.540 and was covered in porcupine quills. 01:00:28.540 --> 01:00:30.780 and if you're an animal and you don't have thumbs 01:00:30.780 --> 01:00:32.420 to take those pills out, 01:00:32.420 --> 01:00:34.020 there's not really a lot you can do. 01:00:34.020 --> 01:00:37.620 It can be pretty dangerous for them to continue on. 01:00:37.620 --> 01:00:40.300 So a lot of animals choose not to go after porcupines. 01:00:40.300 --> 01:00:43.460 It's a really great way for them to be protected. 01:00:43.460 --> 01:00:44.780 He's so cute. 01:00:44.780 --> 01:00:46.100 How old was she now? 01:00:47.340 --> 01:00:48.860 She is 26. 01:00:48.860 --> 01:00:50.260 Whoa. 01:00:50.260 --> 01:00:52.580 Oh, well, we'll get to see her today, hopefully. 01:00:52.580 --> 01:00:56.500 She will come get, she's a sweetie pie. 01:00:56.500 --> 01:00:59.140 She's tough by the end of the whole time for me. 01:00:59.140 --> 01:01:01.540 Yeah, she, I like to call her Princess Bear. 01:01:01.540 --> 01:01:03.540 She's a really good one. 01:01:03.540 --> 01:01:05.140 Chad, we're going to get a couple more pieces here. 01:01:05.140 --> 01:01:07.140 I'll do ASMR segment. 01:01:26.500 --> 01:01:44.140 I'm going to hand him this last one and while he's eating that we'll make our way out here. 01:01:44.140 --> 01:01:45.140 Thank you so much. 01:01:45.140 --> 01:01:46.140 Of course. 01:01:46.140 --> 01:01:49.220 That's the best part of my job. 01:01:49.220 --> 01:01:50.220 Feeding critters. 01:01:50.220 --> 01:01:51.220 Awesome. 01:01:51.220 --> 01:01:53.220 Awesome. 01:01:57.220 --> 01:02:00.220 Oh my god, it's so cute. 01:02:00.220 --> 01:02:02.220 It's awesome. 01:02:02.220 --> 01:02:28.360 We saw actually chat we've seen one for define on the wild on stream right at the San Antonio 01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:42.040 He's laying down after his snacks, he's going to take a nap. 01:02:42.040 --> 01:02:46.920 He goes from like a perfect round ball to flat pancake. 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:47.920 That's incredible. 01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:48.920 What a legend. 01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:49.920 Wow. 01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:58.920 Wow, that's amazing. 01:02:58.920 --> 01:03:07.920 Of course, we'll go over our little land bridge here. 01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:09.920 Nice. 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:13.920 We live in a temperate rainforest up here and get a lot of rain, 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:18.920 so we get a lot of puddles, so we build some puddle bridges for folks. 01:03:18.920 --> 01:03:25.920 W. Heath, yeah, he's cute, huh, Chats? 01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:30.920 Special guy. 01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:39.080 And we have a very well camouflaged snoozing critter right here, right on top of the rocks. 01:03:39.080 --> 01:03:40.640 This is an Arctic fox. 01:03:40.640 --> 01:03:41.880 Oh my gosh. 01:03:41.880 --> 01:03:44.360 We have two Arctic foxes in our care. 01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:50.840 also a red fox that lives in this habitat with them. Our arctic fox's names are Burt and Ernie. 01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:55.240 This is Burt right in front of us here. And then our red fox, his name is Warren. 01:03:56.120 --> 01:04:01.880 These arctic foxes, they came into our care from another facility. They were transferred into our 01:04:01.880 --> 01:04:06.360 care by the state of Alaska. And Warren, the red fox, he's a really great example 01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:13.320 of animals that were accidentally orphaned by people. So he is from another part of South 01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:20.220 Central Alaska when he was just a little fox kit his mom had stashed him somewhere while she went off to get food or take 01:04:20.220 --> 01:04:24.260 A nap or do whatever she needed to do because she didn't have a babysitter and 01:04:25.180 --> 01:04:32.120 Someone a very well-intentioned person found him thought that he was orphan picked him up and brought him to the state of Alaska 01:04:33.100 --> 01:04:36.360 And likely mom would have come back for him 01:04:36.360 --> 01:04:43.120 But once he was taken out of that natural environment he wasn't able to go back in so he was eligible to remain in human care 01:04:43.320 --> 01:04:49.560 He's about two, maybe three years old now, but yeah, that's a great example of folks 01:04:49.560 --> 01:04:52.200 that are really well-intentioned trying to help animals. 01:04:52.200 --> 01:04:56.660 The best thing you can do if you ever find an orphaned or injured animal is to call whatever 01:04:56.660 --> 01:05:00.360 state you're in, the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Wildlife, and 01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:04.440 they will come out and assess whether or not that animal needs help or is actually 01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:05.680 orphaned. 01:05:05.680 --> 01:05:09.000 But Warren's been able to live a really happy and healthy life with us and have 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:10.960 two really fantastic roommates. 01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:13.040 One of them is Burt right here. 01:05:13.040 --> 01:05:14.440 Arctic foxes are super cool. 01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:15.980 They've got some of the warmest fur 01:05:15.980 --> 01:05:17.580 in the whole animal kingdom. 01:05:17.580 --> 01:05:20.600 They have this brown or gray fur in the summertime. 01:05:20.600 --> 01:05:21.520 And then in the winter, 01:05:21.520 --> 01:05:24.080 when people typically see them or see pictures of them, 01:05:24.080 --> 01:05:26.680 they've got really white fluffy coats. 01:05:26.680 --> 01:05:30.040 And that fur can keep them warm up to, 01:05:30.040 --> 01:05:34.680 you know, negative 40, 50, 60, 70 degrees Fahrenheit. 01:05:34.680 --> 01:05:36.440 They don't usually start to get cold 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:37.640 until that negative 40, 01:05:37.640 --> 01:05:40.320 negative 50 degrees Fahrenheit range. 01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:43.360 So they are really small, but mighty. 01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.040 This is their full grown size. 01:05:45.040 --> 01:05:47.280 I believe they're less than 10 pounds. 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:49.040 Folks often ask us if they're babies, 01:05:49.040 --> 01:05:50.000 but they're just little. 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:54.240 They are really feisty in little packages here. 01:05:55.240 --> 01:05:57.360 We often joke that Bert and Ernie share 01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:58.640 one brain cell between them 01:05:58.640 --> 01:06:00.320 and they can never have it at the same time. 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.840 They often get the zoomies when we all go in there. 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:03.800 Oh, cute. 01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:07.080 And these guys, they are technically omnivores, 01:06:07.080 --> 01:06:09.080 but mostly on the carnivore side. 01:06:09.080 --> 01:06:11.320 So they will eat berries if they have to, 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:13.520 but most of the time they're gonna be eating meat. 01:06:13.520 --> 01:06:15.120 So in the wintertime in the wild, 01:06:15.120 --> 01:06:18.520 they actually go out onto sea ice and ocean. 01:06:18.520 --> 01:06:21.800 They will eat scraps left behind by polar bears 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:23.600 and other animals that live up there. 01:06:23.600 --> 01:06:26.400 And then in the summertime, their favorite food is eggs. 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:29.680 There's a lot of migratory birds that come up to Alaska 01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:31.680 to breed and lay eggs. 01:06:31.680 --> 01:06:33.560 And these guys are egg stealers, 01:06:33.560 --> 01:06:36.040 so they can eat up to a thousand eggs 01:06:36.040 --> 01:06:38.280 in a summer season, stealing them from shorebirds. 01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:42.440 and we try and give them as many eggs as we can in human care. 01:06:42.440 --> 01:06:44.440 That was an egg, but it's wild. 01:06:47.080 --> 01:06:49.520 What's he doing? 01:06:49.520 --> 01:06:50.020 Cool. 01:06:50.020 --> 01:06:54.200 That's some snooze in foxes. 01:06:54.200 --> 01:06:58.480 This is the enclosure where I got the idea for the fox baffling. 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:00.600 Oh, there you go. 01:07:00.600 --> 01:07:02.520 Connor just said this enclosure is where 01:07:02.520 --> 01:07:04.160 he got the idea for the fox baffling. 01:07:04.160 --> 01:07:06.880 So our American Red Fox enclosure at Alves, 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:09.120 because you might notice the fence looks kind of similar 01:07:09.120 --> 01:07:11.480 and that we have this baffling at the top. 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:13.640 We visit a lot of really great facilities 01:07:13.640 --> 01:07:15.440 and bring back a lot of really great information. 01:07:15.440 --> 01:07:16.440 So thank you. 01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:17.640 That's what we do too. 01:07:17.640 --> 01:07:21.400 We learn from other folks that take care of unique 01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:22.400 and large animals. 01:07:27.560 --> 01:07:28.040 All right. 01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:30.040 And we'll scoot over this way. 01:07:30.040 --> 01:07:32.200 We're going to start sizing up again 01:07:32.200 --> 01:07:34.960 and meeting some of our larger animals in our care. 01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:41.200 And depending on where they are, we'll take different routes. 01:07:41.200 --> 01:07:43.480 I'm seeing one loose over there. 01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:47.440 We could have another one up front here. 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:50.920 Let's do a little survey of their habitat here. 01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:52.480 So Chad, I'll just, I'll recap a little bit 01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:55.080 if you're just, if you're just now rolling in. 01:07:55.080 --> 01:07:56.880 We're at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. 01:07:56.880 --> 01:07:58.640 This is the organization that we were fundraising for, 01:07:58.640 --> 01:08:00.400 for those three, four days, 01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:02.740 me and Adopt on our Alaska streams. 01:08:02.740 --> 01:08:10.740 We did a flyover in the helicopters of this facility, so if you guys remember my first 01:08:10.740 --> 01:08:15.980 plus one of the whole trip was when we flew over because this is where Conor and Kayla 01:08:15.980 --> 01:08:16.980 used to be interns. 01:08:16.980 --> 01:08:18.260 It's also where Conor and Kayla met. 01:08:18.260 --> 01:08:23.820 Conor is behind the camera director of operations at LVS, Kayla is our director of animal welfare. 01:08:23.820 --> 01:08:27.620 And we saw all these red buildings like in the green vastness from the helicopter. 01:08:27.620 --> 01:08:30.340 So this is that facility. 01:08:30.340 --> 01:08:35.260 And they do really great conservation work and education work and rehabilitation work where 01:08:35.260 --> 01:08:37.460 with Christina she's giving us a whole tour. 01:08:37.460 --> 01:08:38.960 It's pretty awesome. 01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:42.660 Yeah, very excited to show off the critters in our care. 01:08:42.660 --> 01:08:47.940 They are all the stars of the show and I'm very excited to work with them and get to 01:08:47.940 --> 01:08:55.460 call them my coworkers and my buds. 01:08:55.460 --> 01:08:58.220 All right. 01:08:58.220 --> 01:09:01.660 So we're walking up on our three resident moose here. 01:09:01.660 --> 01:09:04.700 Might have to get a couple different angles 01:09:04.700 --> 01:09:06.140 to see all three of them. 01:09:12.020 --> 01:09:15.100 We can either hang out here or two of our other moose 01:09:15.100 --> 01:09:15.820 are right over there. 01:09:15.820 --> 01:09:17.780 We can walk that way a little bit. 01:09:17.780 --> 01:09:21.620 Yeah, I might get some more space here. 01:09:21.620 --> 01:09:23.540 W. Mies, they said. 01:09:28.220 --> 01:09:30.220 Hi. 01:09:38.220 --> 01:09:47.220 I wasn't, I was going to go back the same day with Gilbert and Adapt, but I ended up staying a couple extra days. 01:09:47.220 --> 01:09:50.220 We have a lot to talk about when I get back. 01:09:51.100 --> 01:09:58.240 But I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to see it. I'm excited to show you guys where your fundraising dollars are going. It's pretty cool. 01:10:00.460 --> 01:10:05.100 Oh, yeah, here we'll get an awesome shot of one of our females in our male moose. 01:10:09.340 --> 01:10:13.980 So for anybody that was here earlier and saw our reindeer up close, 01:10:14.380 --> 01:10:17.460 the moose have also, they also have antlers. 01:10:17.460 --> 01:10:20.900 They have a similar thing going on with the velvet and where they shed their velvet. 01:10:20.900 --> 01:10:24.660 So you'll see Elend. That's our male moose on the left there. 01:10:24.660 --> 01:10:30.020 You'll see he's got antlers and the female on the right, I believe that's Pip. 01:10:30.020 --> 01:10:34.420 She does not grow antlers and his antlers still have the velvet on there. 01:10:34.420 --> 01:10:38.100 It might take him a little bit longer to shed that fur off before 01:10:38.100 --> 01:10:41.060 just the bone of the antler sticking out of his noggin. 01:10:41.060 --> 01:10:44.100 But just like the reindeer and the caribou, he's going to grow a 01:10:44.100 --> 01:10:46.740 brand new set of those antlers every single year. 01:10:46.740 --> 01:10:53.140 it's the fastest growing tissue in his whole body. And we've got three resident moose in total. We 01:10:53.140 --> 01:10:59.940 walked past one of our females over there. Her name is Joe. She's named after Josephine Marsh from 01:10:59.940 --> 01:11:04.900 the book Little Women. And Pip over here is named after Pippi Longstocking, which I think is 01:11:04.900 --> 01:11:11.220 pretty cute. And Elin is the Dutch word for moose, I believe. And so that's where they all 01:11:11.220 --> 01:11:15.780 got their names. Our two female moose, they're the same age. They're both six years old. 01:11:15.780 --> 01:11:20.500 they were both orphaned in the first year of their life. They were just a couple months old. 01:11:22.100 --> 01:11:26.660 Joe, she's from the Anchorage area and Pip I believe is from down on the Kenai Peninsula near 01:11:26.660 --> 01:11:32.340 Seward and so they were actually bottle raised by our staff here and bottle raising is all 01:11:32.340 --> 01:11:37.380 fun and games until you remember that it has to happen around the clock. So we'll have staff 01:11:37.380 --> 01:11:43.940 coming in at midnight at 4 a.m., at 8 a.m. and then every four hours bottle feeding 01:11:43.940 --> 01:11:49.300 those little calves, and that can happen for all species. And they can get a variety of different 01:11:49.300 --> 01:11:55.300 things. A lot of times we'll do goat's milk as a substitute for these guys, which is pretty difficult 01:11:55.300 --> 01:12:01.860 to find up here in Alaska. So oftentimes just fundraisers can help us help babies like these guys. 01:12:02.500 --> 01:12:06.660 And you'll see they've got this nice big pond behind them. Moose love to swim. And they're 01:12:06.660 --> 01:12:10.980 really good swimmers. They're laying down right now, but they've got really long, gangly 01:12:10.980 --> 01:12:15.540 legs that help them swim and they actually eat a lot of like aquatic grasses and 01:12:15.540 --> 01:12:19.300 pelps and things like that they've got a really wide variety in their diet they 01:12:19.300 --> 01:12:23.020 love willow they love alder they love cottonwood pretty much anything that's 01:12:23.020 --> 01:12:37.100 got leaves they're gonna munch on it how many yeah that's so awesome that's a 01:12:37.100 --> 01:12:45.660 question. Full time year round staff, I want to say maybe around anywhere between 35 and 50 at maximum. 01:12:45.660 --> 01:12:50.140 And then we have a whole bunch more in the summer. We have seasonal staff that come in for every 01:12:50.140 --> 01:12:54.220 department. And then some of our departments will have interns like internship programs 01:12:54.220 --> 01:13:00.380 that Connor was a part of. And so then we'll bump up with another 20 plus seasonal staff. 01:13:00.940 --> 01:13:01.180 Yeah. 01:13:01.180 --> 01:13:02.020 Yeah. 01:13:03.460 --> 01:13:04.660 So all those interns aren't fit 01:13:04.660 --> 01:13:06.020 in the bunk house anymore, are they? 01:13:06.020 --> 01:13:08.620 Well, actually this year, all of our interns 01:13:08.620 --> 01:13:09.460 were in the bunk house. 01:13:09.460 --> 01:13:12.620 We've now got some additional housing in Girdwood, 01:13:12.620 --> 01:13:14.980 but if you were an intern at AWCC, 01:13:14.980 --> 01:13:16.980 you get to live above the moose habitat 01:13:16.980 --> 01:13:19.920 and the building we lovingly call the bunk house, 01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:22.420 where you get to have some pretty wild roommates. 01:13:22.420 --> 01:13:23.780 The musk ox live on one side 01:13:23.780 --> 01:13:25.420 and the moose live on the other side 01:13:25.420 --> 01:13:26.780 and then all the interns 01:13:26.780 --> 01:13:28.780 have a big old grand time upstairs. 01:13:28.780 --> 01:13:29.620 So. 01:13:29.620 --> 01:13:30.700 It is a lot of fun. 01:13:30.700 --> 01:13:32.900 Yeah, it's a really cool building. 01:13:32.900 --> 01:13:35.420 Plus, you look outside and there's a moose, 01:13:35.420 --> 01:13:36.780 the joke never gets old. 01:13:36.780 --> 01:13:39.260 You can say it every single morning. 01:13:39.260 --> 01:13:42.300 You get some pretty spectacular views of Portage, Alaska. 01:13:42.300 --> 01:13:43.780 So not bad. 01:13:45.420 --> 01:13:46.260 Keep on cruising. 01:13:46.260 --> 01:13:48.860 Our next stop is also one of my favorite stops 01:13:48.860 --> 01:13:50.660 I try and not say it about every critter, 01:13:50.660 --> 01:13:52.660 but the next stop is pretty good. 01:13:52.660 --> 01:13:53.500 Next week. 01:14:00.700 --> 01:14:07.700 WP on today. 01:14:07.700 --> 01:14:16.700 Keep an eye on the line. 01:14:16.700 --> 01:14:17.700 How long have you been here? 01:14:17.700 --> 01:14:19.700 I've been here actually for just under a year. 01:14:19.700 --> 01:14:24.700 I've been in Alaska for several years and originally from the state of Michigan. 01:14:24.700 --> 01:14:25.700 Okay. 01:14:25.700 --> 01:14:31.540 and I moved up to Alaska to be a wild bear guide down in southeast Alaska so folks come 01:14:31.540 --> 01:14:36.660 into Alaska, everyone wants to see a bear. So I would take people out on hikes to go see bears 01:14:37.620 --> 01:14:43.620 and then I found this place and fell in love and now I get to have my dream job which is pretty 01:14:43.620 --> 01:14:52.260 cool to say. That's awesome. How many visitors do they get assuming they're open to the public? 01:14:52.260 --> 01:14:54.260 like that, you know, like annually? 01:14:54.260 --> 01:14:56.940 I can have some like rough numbers. 01:14:56.940 --> 01:14:58.960 I don't know exactly for visitation, 01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:02.900 but on my end, as the education supervisor, 01:15:02.900 --> 01:15:05.180 I know how many people like we're talking to 01:15:05.180 --> 01:15:08.580 and it's in the tens of thousands every single year. 01:15:08.580 --> 01:15:11.100 And we usually track numbers closest, 01:15:11.100 --> 01:15:12.140 like in the summertime. 01:15:12.140 --> 01:15:14.580 So how many people did we actually get to have 01:15:14.580 --> 01:15:16.260 face-to-face conversation with? 01:15:16.260 --> 01:15:18.660 And that's in the tens of thousands of people. 01:15:18.660 --> 01:15:20.620 And I'm sure there's tens of thousands of people more 01:15:20.620 --> 01:15:22.780 that we didn't even get to talk to you, 01:15:22.780 --> 01:15:25.260 but got to come and learn about these animals 01:15:25.260 --> 01:15:28.180 and contribute to their quality of life. 01:15:28.180 --> 01:15:29.020 That's awesome. 01:15:31.260 --> 01:15:33.300 And kids get in here free, right? 01:15:33.300 --> 01:15:36.300 Yeah, kids under the age of three are free. 01:15:36.300 --> 01:15:40.140 There is an Alaska resident discount as well. 01:15:40.140 --> 01:15:42.820 And a lot of our tours and our encounters, 01:15:42.820 --> 01:15:44.180 the admission is included. 01:15:44.180 --> 01:15:47.820 So if you are booking an encounter, 01:15:47.820 --> 01:15:52.620 lecture right in and you can come experience some cool stuff with some critters here. 01:15:52.620 --> 01:15:59.620 Oh this is so cool. This is my in my top five cutest baby animals of all time. 01:15:59.620 --> 01:16:04.340 Definitely we're gonna try and see one later if they make really adorable babies 01:16:04.340 --> 01:16:08.540 and personally I think they make really cute adults but I don't know if 01:16:08.540 --> 01:16:16.580 everyone's on that board with me. These guys are our muskox. 01:16:16.580 --> 01:16:21.980 Muskox are native to Alaska and I usually like to say they kind of look 01:16:21.980 --> 01:16:25.780 like a conglomerate of a bunch of different types of animals kind of like 01:16:25.780 --> 01:16:30.940 a wildebeest situation here but these guys they usually live a little bit 01:16:30.940 --> 01:16:35.300 further north than we are right now and quite a few on the west side of the 01:16:35.300 --> 01:16:40.220 state here and we've got some of our big males right in front of us eating 01:16:40.220 --> 01:16:45.300 some of their morning grain. Those black bulls have their grain in them 01:16:45.300 --> 01:16:50.760 And these guys are really closely related to goats and sheep, so you think big horn 01:16:50.760 --> 01:16:55.080 sheep when you look at their horns, because they use them to headbutt each other and to 01:16:55.080 --> 01:16:58.700 ram each other to prove who's the biggest, baddest musk ox. 01:16:58.700 --> 01:17:01.000 And I've talked a whole bunch about antlers. 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:05.120 These guys have horns, not antlers, so they don't grow them every single year. 01:17:05.120 --> 01:17:07.400 They get one set of them for life. 01:17:07.400 --> 01:17:10.720 And if they break them or if they crack them, it's just kind of tough luck. 01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:13.180 That's how they've got to deal with it. 01:17:13.180 --> 01:17:15.200 You'll see this male right in front of us here. 01:17:15.200 --> 01:17:17.800 This is one of our older males. 01:17:17.800 --> 01:17:22.800 His name is Chugach, and he's only got one horn left. 01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:25.480 So he has been using it a long time 01:17:25.480 --> 01:17:28.280 to headbutt other muskox in this habitat, 01:17:28.280 --> 01:17:29.880 or if you look in their shelter, 01:17:29.880 --> 01:17:32.480 we'll see a couple of plywood patches going on there 01:17:32.480 --> 01:17:34.160 and a couple of holes in the wall. 01:17:34.160 --> 01:17:35.840 Those are also from our muskox, 01:17:35.840 --> 01:17:38.840 getting a little bit of attitude with their shelter there. 01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:41.840 And then- 01:17:41.840 --> 01:17:42.680 What a weird kind of thing. 01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:49.120 They look kind of like a kid trying to draw a cow, but it's like inspired by aliens and they end up with this guy 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:52.640 So cute. Are they ruminants? 01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:56.960 Actually, I'm not sure. The moose are for sure 01:17:59.880 --> 01:18:05.480 And if we walk around on this side, I know we can get a really good shot of this guy that who's got his head down in the bowl 01:18:05.480 --> 01:18:13.480 I guess if they're related to goats probably, huh? 01:18:13.480 --> 01:18:17.040 Their heads are so big. 01:18:17.040 --> 01:18:18.040 I know. 01:18:18.040 --> 01:18:20.040 What is going on with that? 01:18:20.040 --> 01:18:21.800 It's so funny. 01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:25.880 So this is a really good spot to talk about their horns too. 01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:28.080 So this is a female on the left. 01:18:28.080 --> 01:18:29.080 She also has horns. 01:18:29.080 --> 01:18:33.520 You'll see they're a lot smaller than this guy right in front of us. 01:18:33.520 --> 01:18:39.760 The portion of their horns that's on their forehead, we call them the boss, because whoever's 01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:42.320 got the biggest one is the boss. 01:18:42.320 --> 01:18:45.960 It's about four inches thick, their horns, on that portion of their head. 01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:49.080 And underneath there, their skull is another three inches thick. 01:18:49.080 --> 01:18:52.160 So they've got big heads, most of it is skull. 01:18:52.160 --> 01:19:02.000 And that's like a built-in helmet for when they're headbutting each other for dominance. 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:04.080 They've also got really cute ears. 01:19:04.080 --> 01:19:06.000 If you look at the female they've got, 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:07.760 like perfectly triangle ears, 01:19:07.760 --> 01:19:09.840 they're kind of like fuzzy Doritos shape. 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:11.960 It's really adorable. 01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:15.080 I would expect them to airplane more out to the side. 01:19:15.080 --> 01:19:17.040 I wish they did. 01:19:17.040 --> 01:19:18.680 They're really adorable. 01:19:23.280 --> 01:19:25.440 And these guys also have really special fur. 01:19:25.440 --> 01:19:26.760 So obviously in Alaska, 01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:29.120 every animal that lives here has really warm fur. 01:19:29.120 --> 01:19:31.280 These guys kind of give the Arctic foxes 01:19:31.280 --> 01:19:35.620 run for their money. There's a special name for a Mustach's fur. It's called 01:19:35.620 --> 01:19:40.940 Kibbut. And that's an Alaska native word and the English translation a lot of 01:19:40.940 --> 01:19:45.620 folks will say is that it's the warmest wool. And usually we say it's about eight 01:19:45.620 --> 01:19:50.220 times warmer than sheep's wool and it's softer than cashmere. So people will 01:19:50.220 --> 01:19:55.780 make hats and gloves and coats out of Kibbut. It's very expensive but it 01:19:55.780 --> 01:19:58.820 It keeps you warm for a really long time. 01:19:58.820 --> 01:20:01.420 Should note, chat, they're doing the Winnie thing, 01:20:01.420 --> 01:20:03.860 where it looks like they're all in this small holding area, 01:20:03.860 --> 01:20:05.100 but the gate's just open. 01:20:05.100 --> 01:20:08.660 They're just, oh, it's a little foot out, okay. 01:20:08.660 --> 01:20:10.380 Yeah, that guy's scratching. 01:20:10.380 --> 01:20:12.100 No, okay. 01:20:12.100 --> 01:20:15.580 Yeah, they will use whatever they can to scratch on. 01:20:15.580 --> 01:20:17.020 That's hilarious. 01:20:17.020 --> 01:20:19.260 And these guys are like very tough 01:20:19.260 --> 01:20:20.780 and they have really big attitudes 01:20:20.780 --> 01:20:22.580 and they are really, really strong. 01:20:22.580 --> 01:20:26.340 So you notice their enrichment is all like extra tough stuff. 01:20:26.340 --> 01:20:30.500 They've got big tires in here, car wash brushes. 01:20:30.500 --> 01:20:33.100 They're not getting little pinatas like Cobuck. 01:20:33.100 --> 01:20:36.060 They would run right through those. 01:20:36.060 --> 01:20:37.740 Get some booty scratches over there. 01:20:37.740 --> 01:20:39.300 Good shot, good shot. 01:20:39.300 --> 01:20:40.140 All right. 01:20:42.700 --> 01:20:43.540 Catchy. 01:20:45.980 --> 01:20:48.620 This guy's giving us a glam shot over here too. 01:20:50.060 --> 01:20:51.060 So beautiful. 01:20:52.580 --> 01:21:01.380 Oh, we've got another scratching situation going on over there, using the horn to scratch 01:21:01.380 --> 01:21:02.780 the hoof on the fence line. 01:21:02.780 --> 01:21:03.780 Oh, wow. 01:21:03.780 --> 01:21:14.220 I can't tell if he's, I think he's shooting that already, yeah, wow. 01:21:14.220 --> 01:21:15.220 Another crazy itching. 01:21:15.220 --> 01:21:18.060 Oh, we've got an itching right up here, too. 01:21:18.060 --> 01:21:20.660 I guess it's an itchy day for the muskox. 01:21:20.660 --> 01:21:22.660 How funny! 01:21:34.660 --> 01:21:36.660 Is Suni and Nami, Sora? 01:21:43.660 --> 01:21:44.660 Are they eating? 01:21:45.660 --> 01:21:46.660 In this enclosure? 01:21:50.660 --> 01:21:55.860 with the grain bowls it looks like they might have just gotten fed so we'll do it in a circle like this 01:21:55.860 --> 01:22:00.180 so if they all go to a bowl and move on to the next one they can just keep moving in a line 01:22:00.180 --> 01:22:05.220 and nobody gets any attitude about their food but they have this whole yard here but it looks like 01:22:05.220 --> 01:22:11.540 everybody's in the feed pen right now this is so funny in between the toes yeah you've got to 01:22:11.540 --> 01:22:32.100 get those good scratchies. Oh yeah. Yeah. Explain. This is before, this is well before they had 01:22:32.100 --> 01:22:38.180 Dr. Oakley as a veterinarian. So I had a lot of vet tech experience so I would work remotely with 01:22:38.180 --> 01:22:43.180 with the veterinarians to try to stabilize Nami at the time. 01:22:43.940 --> 01:22:47.780 So we did spend a lot of nights with her in the mosquitoes 01:22:47.780 --> 01:22:50.020 and a little hut in the back there. 01:22:50.020 --> 01:22:50.980 And now she's doing great. 01:22:50.980 --> 01:22:53.020 She's still alive, which is freaking awesome. 01:22:53.020 --> 01:22:53.860 It's so cool. 01:22:53.860 --> 01:22:55.460 She's thriving out here. 01:22:55.460 --> 01:22:57.380 Is that, did you work in what town? 01:22:57.380 --> 01:22:58.660 Yeah, which is what you're gonna do. 01:22:58.660 --> 01:22:59.500 Yeah. 01:22:59.500 --> 01:23:11.500 Oh, getting some scratches in between the horns in the noggin there. 01:23:11.500 --> 01:23:12.500 Yeah, I don't know. 01:23:12.500 --> 01:23:15.500 Are you guys familiar with Dr. Oakley? 01:23:15.500 --> 01:23:17.500 You can explain this better than me. 01:23:17.500 --> 01:23:19.500 Dr. Oakley Yukon Vet? 01:23:19.500 --> 01:23:21.500 Yeah, Dr. Michelle Oakley. 01:23:21.500 --> 01:23:23.500 She's our head veterinarian here. 01:23:23.500 --> 01:23:25.500 She's really well known. 01:23:25.500 --> 01:23:28.500 She's the only all species veterinarian up in the Yukon. 01:23:28.500 --> 01:23:33.860 Yukon and throughout a lot of Alaska here and she's really phenomenal. She's kind of like 01:23:34.660 --> 01:23:40.580 the go-to person for all things. Alaska in wildlife and she's got a whole bunch of experience with 01:23:40.580 --> 01:23:47.940 other wildlife species that are not just in Alaska. She had her own show. Dr. Oakley Yukon vet is 01:23:47.940 --> 01:23:53.060 the name of the show. So a lot of folks know her from there and can sometimes get to see her 01:23:53.060 --> 01:23:57.060 doing procedures. We did a 01:23:57.060 --> 01:24:00.060 procedure with one of our musc 01:24:00.060 --> 01:24:03.060 was here so some really, 01:24:03.060 --> 01:24:04.060 really cool guests were really 01:24:04.060 --> 01:24:05.060 excited to see her. So cool. 01:24:05.060 --> 01:24:09.060 Yeah, that's a Nat Geo show 01:24:09.060 --> 01:24:13.060 chat. We can keep on moseying. 01:24:13.060 --> 01:24:15.060 We're going to follow some of 01:24:15.060 --> 01:24:17.060 our muscox over here and soon 01:24:17.060 --> 01:24:19.060 we'll end up at our bears 01:24:19.060 --> 01:24:20.060 amphitheater where all the 01:24:20.060 --> 01:24:32.460 care live. Yeah they make like a really low grunting sound like it's very deep 01:24:32.460 --> 01:24:37.260 it's very intense and the babies sound like goats they sound like tiny baby 01:24:37.260 --> 01:24:42.340 goats so when mom is calling for baby it's like a tiny little day and when mom 01:24:42.340 --> 01:24:48.660 responds it's a really deep it sounds like a truck like a semi truck rumbling 01:24:48.660 --> 01:24:54.180 Yeah, we kind of call them like living fossils or ice age relics because they've 01:24:54.180 --> 01:24:59.780 looked roughly the same way that they look now for an estimated minimum the 01:24:59.780 --> 01:25:04.700 last 10,000 years of Earth's history which other animals they have evolved 01:25:04.700 --> 01:25:08.860 greatly in the last 10,000 years but living in the Arctic that environment 01:25:08.860 --> 01:25:15.120 has not changed very much since the ice age so they haven't had to change 01:25:15.120 --> 01:25:22.040 So they actually kind of are like woolly mammoth ice age critters. Yeah, it's definitely giving ice age 01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:34.400 Yeah, whenever we have muskox babies they can 01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:40.800 Make some like pretty bad sleeping in the bunkhouse at times if they're making their little goat noises 01:25:40.800 --> 01:25:44.720 But there is an endearing side to it too. They're so key kind of forgive them 01:25:45.120 --> 01:25:50.140 I always like to say the babies are shaped like animal crackers like they have no 01:25:50.800 --> 01:25:54.960 Definition from their nose to their butt and they're all one shape and then they have legs 01:25:54.960 --> 01:25:56.960 So they kind of shaped like an animal cracker 01:26:00.320 --> 01:26:07.440 Yeah, they're just very thick critters they maybe do have more definition than we can see they just have such thick fur 01:26:15.120 --> 01:26:31.520 Do you want a radio for bears? Yeah, maybe in like 15 minutes or so. Yeah. We're getting 01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:36.520 our animal care team ready to feed some bears. Sweet. 01:26:36.520 --> 01:26:43.040 You know, he does love it out here. 01:26:43.040 --> 01:26:45.040 They're very lovable. 01:26:45.040 --> 01:26:51.040 The eyes are so tiny. 01:26:51.040 --> 01:26:59.240 Yeah, they've got kind of the eye situation going on where they've got those like sideways 01:26:59.240 --> 01:27:02.240 pupils a little bit. 01:27:02.240 --> 01:27:07.240 Do you know what their life span is in captivity? 01:27:07.240 --> 01:27:09.800 In human care, it can usually be extended. 01:27:09.800 --> 01:27:16.540 It's sometimes hard to come up with an estimate for wildlife's life expectancy in human care. 01:27:16.540 --> 01:27:21.720 These guys in the wild, usually around their mid teens, anywhere from like 10 to 20, is 01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:28.880 pretty average for these guys. 01:27:28.880 --> 01:27:30.880 Half the body is just head. 01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:31.880 Yeah, I know. 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:38.280 They've got really big like shoulder and muscle like things going on on their neck and on their back 01:27:38.280 --> 01:27:42.920 and there's quite a few of Alaskan animals that have like a big, great big hump on their shoulder. 01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:47.000 The wood bison have it, brown bears have it, these guys have it and a lot of times it's because 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:52.440 they use their heads like snow plows and they have big heads to get through the really dense 01:27:52.440 --> 01:27:56.440 environments that we see up here or protect themselves. They've got to have a big head 01:27:56.440 --> 01:28:00.760 for the big horns and headgear that they have so every time the animals have that like 01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:06.440 big hump. It's usually just a giant muscle for a giant head to support whatever they've got going on. 01:28:09.880 --> 01:28:13.480 Chow asked if they smell bad. They don't, I don't really smell anything. It's probably like cows. 01:28:13.480 --> 01:28:19.720 Yeah, they, the name muskox is a big misnomer. They're not oxen. They're not really related to 01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:25.640 cows. Like I said, they're mostly goats and sheep and they don't have musk glands like 01:28:25.640 --> 01:28:33.320 the way some animals do. They don't have a happy female muskox run in there. They don't smell 01:28:33.320 --> 01:28:38.760 any different than like other large animals. Of course they've got a little bit of a aroma to them, 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:46.040 but it's not anything like extra or out of the ordinary. They're so short. I can't get 01:28:46.040 --> 01:28:52.520 on a short there. They're not really good at walking through deep snow. Whoa, whoa, whoa, 01:28:52.520 --> 01:28:55.640 Zooming tiny legs zooming 01:29:11.480 --> 01:29:16.040 Hello, I think they're so cute so much shorter than I expected I haven't seen one in person I would have thought 01:29:17.320 --> 01:29:20.440 Especially after seeing the moose you're like, oh my god, there's a 01:29:22.520 --> 01:29:25.840 about the pack mentality when like a predator comes around? 01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:29.160 Yeah, so these guys, they are her and animals, 01:29:29.160 --> 01:29:30.320 so the more muskox there are, 01:29:30.320 --> 01:29:31.800 usually the happier they are. 01:29:31.800 --> 01:29:33.400 And they're very protective of each other, 01:29:33.400 --> 01:29:35.360 they're very loyal to each other. 01:29:35.360 --> 01:29:38.600 And the way that they protect to themselves is, 01:29:38.600 --> 01:29:41.760 if there's a predator or something that scares them, 01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:44.280 they will put all of the cows or the females 01:29:44.280 --> 01:29:46.920 in the middle, and all the babies in the middle, 01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:49.720 and all of the males will face outwards 01:29:49.720 --> 01:29:53.280 with their big menacing horns facing outward. 01:29:53.280 --> 01:29:55.000 And then whatever predator comes up to them, 01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:56.200 that's pretty intimidating. 01:29:56.200 --> 01:29:58.280 If you're a wolf trying to come up to that, 01:29:58.280 --> 01:30:00.600 they can definitely do some damage. 01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:03.160 So oftentimes predators are scared away. 01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:06.960 Like a medieval shield formation. 01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:07.800 Yeah. 01:30:07.800 --> 01:30:08.920 Sounds like the club. 01:30:08.920 --> 01:30:11.920 Their protective mechanisms 01:30:11.920 --> 01:30:13.240 or like their protective circle 01:30:13.240 --> 01:30:15.040 is really good for natural predators. 01:30:15.040 --> 01:30:17.320 It unfortunately works very terribly 01:30:17.320 --> 01:30:19.040 against human predators 01:30:19.040 --> 01:30:24.040 when they were at one point hunted to extinction in Alaska 01:30:24.200 --> 01:30:28.080 and they have a really successful conservation reintroduction. 01:30:28.080 --> 01:30:30.760 The state of Alaska brought over a herd from Greenland 01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:34.000 and reintroduced them extremely successfully 01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:36.880 and now they live in pretty healthy numbers out there 01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:39.040 because when they get scared, they don't move 01:30:39.040 --> 01:30:40.680 and they all stand in one spot. 01:30:40.680 --> 01:30:44.640 So as you can imagine, when human predators are involved 01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.920 it makes it very easy to kill a lot of muskats at one time. 01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:49.920 You just say in the club. 01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:51.360 So it sounds like in the club, yeah. 01:30:51.360 --> 01:30:54.880 So you and Muskox's defense formation in the club? 01:30:54.880 --> 01:30:56.400 Yeah, it's a thing that happens there. 01:30:56.400 --> 01:30:59.600 So they surround you and you go in the center? 01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:01.120 Yeah. 01:31:01.120 --> 01:31:03.280 The good news on the outside? 01:31:03.280 --> 01:31:04.280 Yeah. 01:31:04.280 --> 01:31:05.480 Chad, isn't that a normal thing? 01:31:05.480 --> 01:31:06.560 That's kind of a normal thing. 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:08.200 We go out with all our friends. 01:31:08.200 --> 01:31:10.280 Girls dance in the middle, like at the club. 01:31:10.280 --> 01:31:11.160 We got a club club. 01:31:11.160 --> 01:31:13.160 Yeah. 01:31:13.160 --> 01:31:15.280 It was just a passing game that I made it on. 01:31:15.280 --> 01:31:19.000 adapting muskox mentality for more things. 01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:23.600 Were people hunting them for meat and their peltes 01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:24.840 or mostly meat? 01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:29.680 Probably mostly meat, and then also using all parts of them, 01:31:29.680 --> 01:31:32.640 like using their peltes as a secondary thing. 01:31:32.640 --> 01:31:35.120 There's actually a muskox farm in Alaska 01:31:35.120 --> 01:31:40.120 where they can sustainably and happily take the, 01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:43.880 or like brush off the fur from the muskox 01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:44.800 they have in their care. 01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:47.000 So you don't shear them like sheep, 01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:48.200 but you can see as they shed off, 01:31:48.200 --> 01:31:50.480 you can brush it off of them. 01:31:50.480 --> 01:31:52.760 Our musk ox are not at that point 01:31:52.760 --> 01:31:54.080 where we can brush it off of them, 01:31:54.080 --> 01:31:56.080 but we do collect some off of the ground. 01:32:02.520 --> 01:32:04.400 They can provide quite a bit of meat. 01:32:04.400 --> 01:32:08.120 The females can be usually around three to 400 pounds, 01:32:08.120 --> 01:32:12.240 and then those males can be upwards of 600 pounds, 01:32:12.240 --> 01:32:13.080 for sure. 01:32:14.800 --> 01:32:20.800 We're going to see a lot of dead trees, and I forgot all about that, if you tell the chapter about it. 01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:29.800 That's one of my favorite things to talk about. I'm a huge geology nerd, and it's kind of a geologic answer for why we have all these dead trees here. 01:32:29.800 --> 01:32:38.800 It's not because we suck at taking care of trees. They were here way before AWCC was, so they have kind of an interesting story. 01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:48.520 on Good Friday and at 1964, the second largest recorded earthquake was in Portage, Alaska. 01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:54.360 I forget exactly what the magnitude was, but it was a pretty large earthquake and the ground 01:32:54.360 --> 01:32:58.680 shifted in some places several inches and a lot of places several feet. 01:32:58.680 --> 01:33:04.800 The town of Portage was destroyed and this whole area was inundated with seawater and 01:33:04.800 --> 01:33:09.360 that seawater came through and it killed all the trees because it's got salt in it right. 01:33:10.480 --> 01:33:15.200 And it also at the same time preserved them or it kind of like pickled the trees 01:33:15.200 --> 01:33:20.240 and so now it's a ghost forest. So there's ghost forests and other places where there's a lot of 01:33:20.240 --> 01:33:27.520 earthquakes but here we got a whole bunch of dead ghost trees of forest past. I've never heard 01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:33.200 up here. Pickled in that context. Yeah my friend said it to me once and I was like oh my god you're right. 01:33:34.480 --> 01:33:42.480 Huh. Or like salt water. Yeah. Pickled trees. Pickled trees. 01:33:47.200 --> 01:33:48.800 Oh wow. This is me. 01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:57.120 Yeah this is like one of the coolest parts of our property so we're going to go up onto our 01:33:57.120 --> 01:34:03.040 bears boardwalk so you can walk right over top of our bears habitat and on one side we have our 01:34:03.040 --> 01:34:08.640 black bears habitat and on the other side we have our resident brown bear habitat. You also get a 01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:13.680 pretty stellar shot of our muskox and you get pretty nice mountain views on clear days like today. 01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:23.200 All right chat we're on the boardwalk. High spy time we're looking for black bears on the 01:34:23.200 --> 01:34:27.200 On the right side I believe brown bears on the left side. 01:34:27.200 --> 01:34:35.200 Yeah on this side over here we've got our three brown bears and then on this other side we have two more black bears. 01:34:35.200 --> 01:34:37.200 Okay the opposite one. 01:34:37.200 --> 01:34:38.200 Cool. 01:34:38.200 --> 01:34:43.200 And then there's a fence line underneath our feet and then there's kind of a buffer zone. 01:34:43.200 --> 01:34:45.200 So the black bears and the brown bears are not hanging out together. 01:34:45.200 --> 01:34:50.200 In some sanctuaries you might see that they're adaptable and they can do that in human care. 01:34:50.200 --> 01:34:58.360 care. We just don't have it set up like that here at AWCC. Oh my goodness and we've got a black bear 01:34:58.360 --> 01:35:01.160 right over here taking us news. 01:35:01.160 --> 01:35:24.240 She's a happy camper down there, so again my eyes are I can tell you who this is. 01:35:24.240 --> 01:35:27.340 taking a nice deep nap right there. 01:35:27.340 --> 01:35:31.240 I believe that's our female black bear, her name is Uli. 01:35:31.240 --> 01:35:35.400 She was actually orphaned in Juneau, Alaska. 01:35:35.400 --> 01:35:38.080 She had just been found wandering the streets 01:35:38.080 --> 01:35:41.120 without mom when she was really little. 01:35:41.120 --> 01:35:46.920 So that's not a really good time for them to be without mom. 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:51.040 And we, I mean the state of Alaska scooped her up, 01:35:51.040 --> 01:35:52.920 brought her into human care, and she's lived with us 01:35:52.920 --> 01:35:59.920 ever since. She's 24 years old, so she's taking a pretty good map there. 01:36:04.280 --> 01:36:08.960 She does, and all Black Bears are big blueberry fans. They can actually eat so many blueberries 01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:12.920 that the fat in their body turns purple. 01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:13.920 Wow. 01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:14.920 Mm-hmm. 01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:15.920 Gold, that is. 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:20.920 Yeah, she's taking a hard map. 01:36:20.920 --> 01:36:35.080 Yeah, they do so our bears will hibernate. They typically are black bears will sleep 01:36:35.080 --> 01:36:38.600 up in that cave over there. Of course. 01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:44.440 When I was here in 2014, they would work through the night to build this and we saw 01:36:44.440 --> 01:36:48.600 it come together through the bunkhouse doors. They would work day and night just like 01:36:48.600 --> 01:36:58.280 two-man crew with excavators. What Max? Oh no it's fine. And this is just it's 01:36:58.280 --> 01:37:02.520 even more beautiful now that everything is grown in and just latched in it like 01:37:02.520 --> 01:37:07.240 seeing how it came together it's just beautiful. It's it's so well done. 01:37:07.240 --> 01:37:14.200 Anyway Alvea skulls one day. Oh yeah we've got one of our resident brown bears 01:37:14.200 --> 01:37:20.400 right behind us there. And from this distance that looks like one of our females that is 01:37:20.400 --> 01:37:28.280 Patrone or Patty is what we call her. And she's 22 years old. She lives in here with 01:37:28.280 --> 01:37:34.400 her brother who's also 22, they're twins. And then another brown bear who's 26 years 01:37:34.400 --> 01:37:50.400 old oh and I'm seeing another round there in the distance on the other day 01:37:50.400 --> 01:38:00.960 other side so yeah this is like the perfect shot 01:38:04.400 --> 01:38:13.000 And so Patrone and JB is her brother, they, like I said, they're both 22. 01:38:13.000 --> 01:38:15.820 They were orphaned near Willow, Alaska. 01:38:15.820 --> 01:38:21.040 They were found up in a tree in the state of Alaska like everyone else brought them into 01:38:21.040 --> 01:38:22.040 our care. 01:38:22.040 --> 01:38:27.680 They lived with us since they were tiny little cubs. 01:38:27.680 --> 01:38:29.640 And they're coastal brown bears. 01:38:29.640 --> 01:38:35.320 So you'll hear me call all of our brown bears brown bears instead of grizzly bears. 01:38:35.320 --> 01:38:39.440 Grizzly bears and brown bears, they are technically the same thing, but brown bears are grizzly 01:38:39.440 --> 01:38:41.680 bears that live on the coast. 01:38:41.680 --> 01:38:45.080 So they tend to get a lot larger because they eat more fish, they've got more fat and 01:38:45.080 --> 01:38:47.960 protein in their diet, so they get a lot larger. 01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:51.400 So they're the same thing, it just depends where you see them and you might see some 01:38:51.400 --> 01:38:54.600 physiological differences between them. 01:38:54.600 --> 01:38:59.840 So you'll see that the twins are going to be a lot larger than our other bear. 01:38:59.840 --> 01:39:02.400 Her name is Hugo, she's 26. 01:39:02.400 --> 01:39:04.080 She's a true grizzly bear. 01:39:04.080 --> 01:39:06.600 She was found in the interior of Alaska. 01:39:06.600 --> 01:39:17.960 Okay, look, dink-donk, on her dink-donk, she's a hugo. 01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:20.320 I'm keeping my eyes peeled for her. 01:39:20.320 --> 01:39:27.320 Yeah so in total for all of our 01:39:27.320 --> 01:39:29.320 bears we have just a little over 01:39:29.320 --> 01:39:31.320 twenty or twenty one acres for 01:39:31.320 --> 01:39:33.320 our bears the brown bears in 01:39:33.320 --> 01:39:35.320 particular have a little over 01:39:35.320 --> 01:39:37.320 fourteen acres for the three of 01:39:37.320 --> 01:39:39.320 them so if they don't want to be 01:39:39.320 --> 01:39:41.320 around people they certainly don't 01:39:41.320 --> 01:39:42.320 have to and if they don't want to 01:39:42.320 --> 01:39:44.320 be around each other they have 01:39:44.320 --> 01:39:46.320 plenty of places to get away 01:39:46.320 --> 01:39:48.320 from each other. Oh and there's 01:39:48.320 --> 01:39:56.720 King, that's JB, stands for Joe Boxer. That's our male brown bear. Huge. Yeah, he 01:39:56.720 --> 01:40:05.800 sits right around a thousand pounds. He's not missing very many meals, and that's 01:40:05.800 --> 01:40:10.400 our assistant curator, Alex, calling over the bears to get some of their 01:40:10.400 --> 01:40:14.200 morning diet that we can feed them. If you've ever wondered what it's like to 01:40:14.200 --> 01:40:21.200 call a bear. It's kind of like that. 01:40:31.240 --> 01:40:34.760 Yeah, this head is so huge. Oh, this is cool. 01:40:34.760 --> 01:40:37.720 Yeah, this gives you a good size difference of 01:40:37.720 --> 01:40:41.240 the black bears are so much smaller than the brown bears. Connor, 01:40:41.240 --> 01:40:44.600 Look at this size comparison. 01:40:44.600 --> 01:40:46.960 And then, although we don't have any polar bears here. 01:40:46.960 --> 01:40:48.040 Watch for the size comparison. 01:40:48.040 --> 01:40:48.540 Yeah. 01:40:48.540 --> 01:40:50.000 There are some in Alaska. 01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:51.800 Brown bear size comparison. 01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:54.800 Holy moly. 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:55.600 This one? 01:40:55.600 --> 01:40:56.440 It's pretty big. 01:40:56.440 --> 01:40:58.720 What about this one? 01:40:58.720 --> 01:40:59.680 This is a polar bear. 01:40:59.680 --> 01:41:02.880 We're learning bear safety protocol real early. 01:41:02.880 --> 01:41:04.880 Huge. 01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:08.520 You got a minty albacca over there. 01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:09.080 You know what? 01:41:09.080 --> 01:41:13.080 I actually can. I'm really tall. You can't though. 01:41:13.080 --> 01:41:21.080 Okay, um, that's cool. I like that. 01:41:21.080 --> 01:41:27.080 I'm not letting him come for me like that. Okay, don't get it twisted. 01:41:27.080 --> 01:41:31.080 I can see over that. 01:41:39.080 --> 01:41:49.580 I know it holds up really well people often ask us if this hut is where the 01:41:49.580 --> 01:41:53.600 bears hibernate this is not their house it's just in there for them I don't 01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:57.880 actually think any of them could fit through the doorway so it's mostly there 01:41:57.880 --> 01:42:01.800 for them to sniff around and sleep on and I have seen them crawl on top of it 01:42:01.800 --> 01:42:08.280 before so it's just a toy to them at that size all right it will we'll keep 01:42:08.280 --> 01:42:13.280 on Mosey and we're going to go to the super special part of the bears, our sanctuary where we're going to feed the bears. 01:42:17.280 --> 01:42:18.280 What? 01:42:19.280 --> 01:42:21.280 Okay, we're going behind the scenes. 01:42:31.280 --> 01:42:33.280 Oh Evan and Caitlin, thank you for the raid. 01:42:33.280 --> 01:42:35.280 Thank you so much, appreciate that. 01:42:35.280 --> 01:42:41.040 guys were in Alaska at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. This is not my 01:42:41.040 --> 01:42:46.160 child. I did not have a kid. 01:42:46.160 --> 01:42:48.160 Whoa! 01:42:48.160 --> 01:42:50.160 You got my honor card. 01:43:04.160 --> 01:43:06.160 Oh my God, she got hair there dude. 01:43:12.160 --> 01:43:14.160 You ready? 01:43:16.160 --> 01:43:18.160 Oh my gosh! 01:43:26.160 --> 01:43:28.160 Good deal. 01:43:28.160 --> 01:43:31.160 How are you going to do that? You got a baby on your back. 01:43:34.160 --> 01:43:36.160 He's so cute. 01:43:37.160 --> 01:43:39.160 He's so cute. 01:43:39.160 --> 01:43:44.160 Wow, super dad. He's got a baby sleeping on his back. Now he's got a kid on his shoulders. 01:43:46.160 --> 01:43:49.160 He's no joke guys. 01:43:49.160 --> 01:43:51.160 Whoa, bison! 01:43:56.160 --> 01:43:59.160 Maya, he's half your size at like four years old. 01:43:59.160 --> 01:44:00.160 Okay. 01:44:09.160 --> 01:44:10.160 Keep talking, Chad. 01:44:10.160 --> 01:44:12.160 I'm going to get Caleb to put the starling down. 01:44:16.160 --> 01:44:18.160 Are there shifts working out for you guys? 01:44:18.160 --> 01:44:21.760 Yeah, all three of them have been shift trained. 01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:27.160 So there's a building back there where we can shift them 01:44:27.160 --> 01:44:27.800 into there. 01:44:27.800 --> 01:44:29.440 They each have their own spot in there 01:44:29.440 --> 01:44:30.920 where they can get fed. 01:44:30.920 --> 01:44:34.000 They have been trained, and they're comfortable in there. 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:35.160 We can close the door. 01:44:35.160 --> 01:44:37.360 So if we need to clean up anything in their habitat 01:44:37.360 --> 01:44:39.200 or if we just need to do a vet procedure, 01:44:39.200 --> 01:44:41.040 we can just have one of them go in there. 01:44:41.040 --> 01:44:42.960 It really helps us help them. 01:44:46.160 --> 01:44:53.160 All right, I'm gonna ask Alex if she's ready for us over the radio. 01:44:53.160 --> 01:44:57.160 All right, perfect. 01:44:57.160 --> 01:45:00.160 I'm gonna ask Alex about the kiddos. 01:45:00.160 --> 01:45:01.160 Okay. 01:45:01.160 --> 01:45:02.160 Yeah. 01:45:02.160 --> 01:45:05.160 Shut word up. 01:45:05.160 --> 01:45:07.160 Alex, copy Alex. 01:45:07.160 --> 01:45:10.160 We're gonna go behind the scenes to feed some brown bears right now. 01:45:10.160 --> 01:45:15.160 Are we good to come back and also bring kiddos or have kiddos stay out here with someone? 01:45:15.160 --> 01:45:33.160 Well, me and a doctor, we're doing our streets in Alaska, so we're getting to show you guys a little bit of the facility and where our donations are going, and the staff also is aware of that funders that we've been obviously in our super group before at, and they've set up this behind the scenes for us. 01:45:33.160 --> 01:45:35.160 So that's what we're working on right now. 01:45:35.160 --> 01:45:46.200 So this is an off exhibit portion of our habitat but folks can book the bear encounter to come 01:45:46.200 --> 01:45:51.520 and be in this portion so you'll see there's no secondary fence line here. 01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:55.520 And the only rules while we're back here will stay on the gravel, don't step on the grass 01:45:55.520 --> 01:46:00.800 on either side and don't touch any of the fence lines and same with um, Heath will 01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:05.800 just keep calm bodies calm voices 01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:19.800 running around is something that there's really don't like that you guys are more than welcome to take as many pictures as you want while we're back here. We try as best we can to not turn our backs to the bears. Sometimes that can make them feel uncomfortable or agitated and you know this is their house we want to make them as comfortable as possible. 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:23.800 But other than that, it's really, really, really cool. 01:46:28.800 --> 01:46:33.800 And also just with the kiddos, either going to that middle bear or the furthest bear. 01:46:33.800 --> 01:46:37.800 They'll be very used to the little guys. 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:41.800 So here we have Hugo. 01:46:41.800 --> 01:46:46.800 She's a 26-year-old brown bear, a grizzly bear. 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:53.760 She was orphaned north of the Arctic Circle and she's sniffing around. You see she's opening and 01:46:53.760 --> 01:46:58.160 closing her mouth and licking her lips like that. That's her sniffing around. See what's going on. 01:46:59.040 --> 01:47:03.520 She was the bear that I mentioned earlier that was orphaned because she had porcupine quills all 01:47:03.520 --> 01:47:08.320 in her face and in her paws and when they're little or even when they're older there's not 01:47:08.320 --> 01:47:12.160 really much they can do if they get a bunch of porcupine quills stuck in them so mom didn't 01:47:12.160 --> 01:47:16.160 have any choice but to leave her behind and she just happened to be in the right place 01:47:16.160 --> 01:47:20.880 at the right time some snow machineers were up on Hugo mountain where she was 01:47:20.880 --> 01:47:25.200 left and they found her called the state of Alaska they cleaned her up and 01:47:25.200 --> 01:47:29.400 brought her into our care and she's lived here for the last 26 years. She's 01:47:29.400 --> 01:47:34.240 getting a little bit of celery. And Connor what is it about this bear that you 01:47:34.240 --> 01:47:42.600 guys like? She's the sweetest bear I've ever encountered especially as a dumb 01:47:42.600 --> 01:47:48.720 19 year old she was very forgiving and she what she used to orphan or not orphan 01:47:48.720 --> 01:47:55.800 she used to foster cubs as well right? Yeah we she's done a lot in her life with 01:47:55.800 --> 01:48:01.720 us here as far as like training wise and living with other bears she is is 01:48:01.720 --> 01:48:06.120 pretty tolerant. She and she was just always the one that we would spend 01:48:06.120 --> 01:48:09.660 extra time with could JB and Petrona bigger so you know they would get the 01:48:09.660 --> 01:48:14.820 majority of the food. We didn't have this nice setup like you guys do now. So we 01:48:14.820 --> 01:48:19.260 would have to like try to load up a bunch of food for JB and Patrona and then 01:48:19.260 --> 01:48:22.500 take her off to the side and give her special attention so she could eat as 01:48:22.500 --> 01:48:29.180 well. They have a much better system now. Again this is in 2014 so she was just 01:48:29.180 --> 01:48:34.500 she was just the nicest, sweetest one and at the time we like had done like a 01:48:34.500 --> 01:48:37.620 bunch of photo shoots and stuff like that for like Abercrombie and Fitch 01:48:37.620 --> 01:48:42.580 and stuff like that. She was like just the the best one to have around. Yeah it's really weird. 01:48:46.740 --> 01:48:52.980 And we can go meet our big boy over here too. He's the one we saw walking just a little bit ago. 01:48:57.700 --> 01:49:05.940 Oh my gosh this is very huge. Holy cow. This is JB again the short for Joe Boxer. 01:49:05.940 --> 01:49:11.240 him and his sister off to the left here. They're both 22 years old. They're the 01:49:11.240 --> 01:49:15.100 ones that were orphaned near Willow, Alaska, so they are going to be those 01:49:15.100 --> 01:49:20.940 coastal brown bears. And they're getting a pretty wide variety of food today. So 01:49:20.940 --> 01:49:25.140 bears, like I mentioned earlier, they're omnivores. So they eat both plants and 01:49:25.140 --> 01:49:30.260 animals. They get a pretty 50-50 split between the two in their diets here. 01:49:30.260 --> 01:49:34.260 So it looks like he's getting some raw salmon. He's getting some celery and 01:49:34.260 --> 01:49:39.380 some lettuce. It looks like we've got some melon and some berries on deck to be 01:49:39.380 --> 01:49:42.820 thrown into his habitat here. 01:49:44.420 --> 01:49:49.540 How much does he weigh? He weighs just around a thousand pounds. This is the 01:49:49.540 --> 01:49:53.420 time of year where they're the heaviest right before hibernation and so right 01:49:53.420 --> 01:49:57.580 now he's probably somewhere between 900 and a thousand pounds. Wow. Get a really 01:49:57.580 --> 01:50:01.420 get a shot of his back paws there. They're pretty enormous. 01:50:09.260 --> 01:50:09.920 Oh, yeah. 01:50:11.020 --> 01:50:13.420 So coastal brown bears are what we saw in Catmai? 01:50:13.860 --> 01:50:14.580 Exactly. 01:50:15.140 --> 01:50:17.380 This was a little bigger, I think. Yeah. 01:50:17.380 --> 01:50:18.940 Than the ones we saw in Catmai. 01:50:18.940 --> 01:50:23.160 He's a pretty big boy. They the only place they typically get 01:50:23.160 --> 01:50:29.440 Larger than then JB is Kodiak or a lot of folks have heard of like Kodiak brown bears 01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:31.800 Those are the same as these guys 01:50:31.800 --> 01:50:38.220 They just genetically are a little bit larger because they've been isolated on Kodiak Island for right 10s of thousands of years 01:50:38.220 --> 01:50:39.220 Yeah. 01:50:39.220 --> 01:50:40.220 Wow. 01:50:40.220 --> 01:50:41.220 Wow. 01:50:41.220 --> 01:50:42.220 Oh, yeah, sure. 01:50:42.220 --> 01:50:43.220 Like here. 01:50:43.220 --> 01:50:44.220 JB. 01:50:44.220 --> 01:50:45.220 Don't turn my back. 01:50:45.220 --> 01:50:46.220 He went to go get the celery. 01:50:46.220 --> 01:50:51.220 Could have him stand here if he wanted to, so. 01:50:51.220 --> 01:51:06.540 They have a couple different, yeah, they have a couple different training queues. 01:51:06.540 --> 01:51:10.700 training that we're observing right now is their stations. They eat in these spots, they know they 01:51:10.700 --> 01:51:16.060 have to stay in these spots, but they actually have a couple other ones that help us take care of 01:51:16.060 --> 01:51:21.660 them so anytime that we can ask them to move their bodies around or in a way that helps us 01:51:22.300 --> 01:51:26.780 help them without having to go in and sedate them or disrupt their lives, it's a big win for us so 01:51:26.780 --> 01:51:31.260 they can lay down and stand up and open their mouths. So we can do a couple of those and get 01:51:31.260 --> 01:51:34.260 some shots of of JB standing up here. 01:51:34.260 --> 01:51:35.260 Cool. 01:51:35.260 --> 01:51:37.260 JB, up. 01:51:42.260 --> 01:51:43.260 Wow. 01:51:45.260 --> 01:51:47.260 How did you guys capture that? 01:51:47.260 --> 01:51:48.260 How did you do this? 01:51:48.260 --> 01:51:53.260 Yeah, so what happened there is I gave him the verbal and the visual cue. 01:51:53.260 --> 01:51:59.260 He saw my hands go up and I gave him the verbal cue by asking him to do it. 01:51:59.260 --> 01:52:05.940 Then once he did it he completed all the things that I was asking him to do he stood up on those back legs while he was looking at me 01:52:05.940 --> 01:52:09.180 You heard that whistle that is what we call a bridge 01:52:09.260 --> 01:52:15.660 So that's how he knows he's completed everything that I just asked him to do and then he knows if he hears the whistle 01:52:15.660 --> 01:52:20.580 He's completed it. He knows a reward is on the way the reward is food that was thrown afterwards 01:52:20.580 --> 01:52:23.660 So I can do it again with a different behavior too. He knows 01:52:23.660 --> 01:52:25.220 is how to lay down. 01:52:25.220 --> 01:52:27.300 Let me get some good salmon here. 01:52:27.300 --> 01:52:29.740 Sorry if the whistle is loud on the mic there. 01:52:29.740 --> 01:52:31.940 JB, down. 01:52:35.620 --> 01:52:39.540 There we go. 01:52:40.620 --> 01:52:43.140 And like I said, that's like, it looks really cool 01:52:43.140 --> 01:52:45.260 and like is kind of a neat thing to see, 01:52:45.260 --> 01:52:47.340 but also like it really helps us help them. 01:52:47.340 --> 01:52:49.140 So like if we think something's going on 01:52:49.140 --> 01:52:52.140 with like his tummy or maybe he's got a scratch there 01:52:52.140 --> 01:52:55.360 And we're refers to, if he wasn't able to stand up, 01:52:55.360 --> 01:52:58.520 we would have to sedate him in order to see what's going on. 01:52:58.520 --> 01:53:01.600 And like, sedating the animals is a big deal 01:53:01.600 --> 01:53:04.880 and takes a lot of resources and is a lot of stress on them. 01:53:04.880 --> 01:53:08.200 So anytime that we can get away with not doing that, 01:53:08.200 --> 01:53:09.760 if we asked him to stand up and saw, 01:53:09.760 --> 01:53:11.360 oh, it's just a bunch of dirt on him, 01:53:11.360 --> 01:53:13.960 or, hey, this is something a little bit more serious 01:53:13.960 --> 01:53:15.160 that we're gonna have to deal with 01:53:15.160 --> 01:53:18.160 that kind of helps us take care of them in a better way. 01:53:18.160 --> 01:53:25.160 I know buddy, that's some good melon. 01:53:25.160 --> 01:53:34.160 We'll see if he knows that I'm opening his mouth cue as well. 01:53:34.160 --> 01:53:35.160 Let's see what... 01:53:35.160 --> 01:53:41.160 He's not digging his salmon, so I'll reward him with this instead. 01:53:41.160 --> 01:53:43.160 JB, open! 01:53:43.160 --> 01:53:55.480 Let's go over top here. 01:53:55.480 --> 01:53:59.760 Here and we'll grab a glove for you and you can toss a couple pieces to him as well. 01:53:59.760 --> 01:54:00.760 Cool. 01:54:00.760 --> 01:54:01.760 Let me go grab some. 01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:04.960 Yeah, I was going to grab some gloves so that folks can... 01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:05.960 Chad, what do you think? 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:09.520 You got any questions that I can rely? 01:54:09.520 --> 01:54:12.320 Yeah, this is like... 01:54:12.320 --> 01:54:18.240 These are the parts of my day where I'm like, whoa, it's unreal. 01:54:18.240 --> 01:54:20.760 She's in lamb milk replacement, Chuck. 01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:21.760 Here you go. 01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:22.260 Thank you. 01:54:22.260 --> 01:54:23.760 We'll be there for you there. 01:54:31.280 --> 01:54:32.760 Hey, buddy. 01:54:32.760 --> 01:54:33.760 What am I tossing? 01:54:33.760 --> 01:54:34.260 Does it matter? 01:54:34.260 --> 01:54:36.760 Doesn't matter. 01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:38.480 Here we went at apple. 01:54:38.480 --> 01:54:40.800 And if you want to try and go through the fence you can 01:54:40.800 --> 01:54:44.820 over the fence and feel free to do it on the left or right side of him there he's 01:54:44.820 --> 01:54:50.040 okay left or right side of him he'll move to get it especially if it's 01:54:50.040 --> 01:54:56.040 something he wants some fresh Alaskan salmon for the Alaskan bears that's 01:54:56.040 --> 01:55:02.520 nice I don't think he really wants a salmon but there you go there you go 01:55:02.520 --> 01:55:04.520 He hates it. 01:55:04.520 --> 01:55:06.520 Pear. 01:55:08.520 --> 01:55:10.520 Some pear? 01:55:10.520 --> 01:55:11.520 Pear. 01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:19.520 And if anyone is noticing that he's like not wanting to eat his fish or not wanting to eat certain parts of his diet, that's totally normal for bears in human care and wild bears. 01:55:19.520 --> 01:55:30.520 Wild bears that are really good at fishing, they won't eat the whole fish. They'll only eat like the choice parts, which for a bear is like the eyeballs and the brains and the eggs and the fatty parts. 01:55:30.520 --> 01:55:38.360 some melon. And so he knows that if he doesn't eat this food he has only ever 01:55:38.360 --> 01:55:41.940 experienced life where he's always gonna get more food so he's just gonna eat 01:55:41.940 --> 01:55:46.240 exactly what he wants and the choicest parts to him. So he's just doing 01:55:46.240 --> 01:55:50.000 exactly what a wild bear that gets a lot of food would do. You'll see bears in 01:55:50.000 --> 01:55:53.680 the wild waste quote-unquote a lot of food because they'll just eat the 01:55:53.680 --> 01:56:00.680 really choice parts. That's a great, oh that's a grape as well. That's a grape. 01:56:00.680 --> 01:56:06.680 J.B. Yum. Oh, one grape in a mouth. 01:56:16.680 --> 01:56:22.680 I'm gonna toss this lettuce to him. He makes some really good crunching sounds when the lettuce comes out. 01:56:23.680 --> 01:56:29.680 I know, buddy. 01:56:29.680 --> 01:56:38.680 Ooh, we almost didn't make it over the fence with that one. 01:56:38.680 --> 01:56:43.680 Oh, maybe. 01:56:43.680 --> 01:56:48.680 He's got his chicken leg out to the side right now. 01:56:48.680 --> 01:56:50.680 Oh, he loves the oranges. 01:56:50.680 --> 01:56:52.680 Orange, no peel. 01:56:52.680 --> 01:56:54.680 That's nice. 01:56:54.680 --> 01:56:56.680 Oh, sorry. 01:56:56.680 --> 01:56:58.680 He's got it. 01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:00.680 Yeah. 01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:02.680 No. 01:57:02.680 --> 01:57:04.680 Yes. 01:57:04.680 --> 01:57:06.680 No. 01:57:06.680 --> 01:57:08.680 I said it's because I said he loves the oranges. 01:57:08.680 --> 01:57:10.680 He's like, I'm going to show Ron. 01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:12.680 JB. 01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:14.680 What about chicken? 01:57:14.680 --> 01:57:16.680 Like a drumstick? 01:57:16.680 --> 01:57:18.680 Fish? 01:57:22.680 --> 01:57:24.680 Yeah. 01:57:24.680 --> 01:57:26.680 Yeah. 01:57:26.680 --> 01:57:28.680 Oh, yeah. 01:57:35.680 --> 01:57:37.680 Crazy. 01:57:37.680 --> 01:57:40.680 So what are their names? This is Hugo and JB and then... 01:57:40.680 --> 01:57:42.680 That's Patron or Patty. 01:57:42.680 --> 01:57:46.680 Yeah, so these are the two that are twins. 01:57:46.680 --> 01:57:48.680 And then she's a little bit older. 01:57:48.680 --> 01:57:51.680 She often gets mistaken as like, this is like Mom, Dad and Cubby. 01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:58.240 cubby but it's really twins brother and sister and then a little bit older roommate in the same spot as them 01:58:01.760 --> 01:58:05.920 a single strawberry you might go for it he seems to be into the fruit today 01:58:07.360 --> 01:58:16.240 oh whoa stretch sorry oh my gosh that's slow too far down here i'll go again 01:58:16.240 --> 01:58:24.000 Too far? Yeah, that's right. He's really giving you a tough time today. 01:58:26.400 --> 01:58:34.000 Maybe. Oh, what the heck, mister? Oh, maybe I'll lean for it for that. It's also the time of year 01:58:34.000 --> 01:58:40.720 when they start to slow themselves down. So in August, they are really going through a phase 01:58:40.720 --> 01:58:45.440 called hyperphagia, which is a fancy way of saying that like, all they do is eat. All they 01:58:45.440 --> 01:58:50.480 they care about his food. They'll only do things that get them more calories and then they actually 01:58:50.480 --> 01:58:56.640 start to wean themselves out of that before they go into hibernation. Yeah, feel free to throw that 01:58:56.640 --> 01:59:04.240 one over the top there otherwise it'll get stuck. Nice. Oh gosh. Exploded. Oh, he loves the grapes. 01:59:04.240 --> 01:59:14.320 It's a great party. Hand in the grapes. Yeah, they have really gentle mouths when they're 01:59:14.320 --> 01:59:18.640 eating they've got prehensile lips and that's like the same way that they'll eat fish eggs in the 01:59:18.640 --> 01:59:24.160 wild they do like one at a time like mum mum mum mum pick up each individual one and take their 01:59:24.160 --> 01:59:30.320 sweet time. How much yeah how much do they eat like is this a daily of multiple times a day? 01:59:30.320 --> 01:59:36.480 Yeah so right now they're getting fed twice a day um it varies by year I know by the end of the 01:59:36.480 --> 01:59:42.640 year last year JB was getting 15 pounds of food just in the afternoon. Okay I think he didn't 01:59:42.640 --> 01:59:50.080 get quite up to that this year so I think this is probably somewhere between like 8 and 10 pounds 01:59:50.080 --> 01:59:54.800 and then this is just their morning diet here and they'll get another afternoon diet. 01:59:58.160 --> 02:00:03.040 Absolutely I have another glove for you here if you need a larger one let me know 02:00:03.680 --> 02:00:09.600 but we can absolutely switch out and there's some pieces of fish in here feel free to grab 02:00:09.600 --> 02:00:16.880 the apples are a couple of the berries right yeah so for reference yeah he'll 02:00:16.880 --> 02:00:21.880 probably love some of the blackberries too that's like a special treat for them 02:00:21.880 --> 02:00:33.320 yeah go for it oh nice oh yeah see he likes those oh sweet was she happy yeah 02:00:33.320 --> 02:00:42.980 yeah I think they're they're ginormous blackberries yeah wild bears eat a ton 02:00:42.980 --> 02:00:50.460 of berries they can eat upwards of 20,000 calories a day just in berries you 02:00:50.460 --> 02:00:52.460 He got him right on the nose! 02:00:55.460 --> 02:00:58.460 He's got some raspberry on his nose! 02:01:01.460 --> 02:01:03.460 Yeah, he loves the grapes. 02:01:10.460 --> 02:01:13.460 Yeah, absolutely. And feel free to toss it. 02:01:13.460 --> 02:01:14.460 Yeah. 02:01:14.460 --> 02:01:17.460 That's okay. He'll grab it through there. 02:01:20.460 --> 02:01:38.380 For him, he honestly probably doesn't feel it. 02:01:38.380 --> 02:01:50.340 We try and do it on either side of him, but it doesn't really face him. 02:01:50.340 --> 02:01:56.420 see their claws there. They're usually about three to five inches long on brown bears here. 02:01:56.420 --> 02:02:01.460 They've got those like perfect teddy bear shaped ears. They're a little bit smaller than black bear 02:02:01.460 --> 02:02:08.660 ears. And they've got those really wide enormous feet. Like the classic bear paw print is actually 02:02:08.660 --> 02:02:13.380 usually a brown bear print. So Kobuk who we saw all the way back in the beginning. His paws 02:02:13.380 --> 02:02:18.740 are probably not that much bigger than my hands versus JB's paws are probably about the size 02:02:18.740 --> 02:02:24.180 of my head, so for reference they're just a lot larger. 02:02:24.180 --> 02:02:29.380 Like his head is huge. Yeah, he's got a big noggin for sure, and so does his sister Patron. 02:02:29.380 --> 02:02:33.940 She has a very large, this is all coming from my heart, she has a very large forehead. 02:02:33.940 --> 02:02:37.700 That's usually how we can tell her apart from the distance. I took for the forehead. 02:02:37.700 --> 02:02:39.700 I see. 02:02:48.740 --> 02:02:52.740 Wow, Chad you hear that? 02:02:57.740 --> 02:03:00.740 And we can go visit Patron if we want to. 02:03:00.740 --> 02:03:03.740 Cool, yeah. Nice buddy. 02:03:04.740 --> 02:03:07.740 We can trade these here. 02:03:11.740 --> 02:03:14.740 Patrons want to trade these? 02:03:14.740 --> 02:03:16.740 Are you serious? 02:03:16.740 --> 02:03:20.740 Okay, JB has just a little bit more, so he's good. 02:03:20.740 --> 02:03:24.740 That's really cute. 02:03:24.740 --> 02:03:28.740 That's epic. 02:03:28.740 --> 02:03:32.740 Is that cool? 02:03:32.740 --> 02:03:36.740 Yeah, Patrall. That's awesome. 02:03:36.740 --> 02:03:40.740 And once they realize that all of their diet has been fed out, 02:03:40.740 --> 02:03:44.740 they'll probably come back. 02:03:44.740 --> 02:03:49.020 They'll probably come back and eat everything else that they have left behind. 02:03:49.020 --> 02:03:52.460 So they'll eat all their favorites first, leave what they don't want, maybe take a 02:03:52.460 --> 02:03:58.180 lap around their habitat and then come back to their spot and hoover up the rest. 02:03:58.180 --> 02:04:01.180 I want to go home. 02:04:01.180 --> 02:04:03.180 Can you bear with her? 02:04:03.180 --> 02:04:05.180 I want to go home. 02:04:05.180 --> 02:04:06.180 Yep. 02:04:06.180 --> 02:04:07.180 Yep. 02:04:07.180 --> 02:04:08.180 Go home. 02:04:08.180 --> 02:04:09.180 You go a little bit more. 02:04:09.180 --> 02:04:10.180 You go. 02:04:10.180 --> 02:04:11.180 Yep. 02:04:11.180 --> 02:04:12.180 Let's go see if you go. 02:04:12.180 --> 02:04:16.180 Caleb's talking to Tom in his life. 02:04:16.180 --> 02:04:17.180 Mm-hmm. 02:04:17.180 --> 02:04:18.180 Especially him. 02:04:18.180 --> 02:04:22.180 He'll kind of walk off. 02:04:22.180 --> 02:04:23.180 Hi. 02:04:23.180 --> 02:04:24.180 Yeah. 02:04:24.180 --> 02:04:25.180 Yeah. 02:04:25.180 --> 02:04:27.180 She's a little... 02:04:27.180 --> 02:04:32.180 26, huh? 02:04:32.180 --> 02:04:37.180 Hey. 02:04:37.180 --> 02:04:44.180 How do you guys, do they get their kibble in goals? 02:04:44.180 --> 02:04:45.180 Or do you spread it out? 02:04:45.180 --> 02:04:46.180 We'll just spread it out. 02:04:46.180 --> 02:04:47.180 Cool. 02:04:47.180 --> 02:04:50.180 for her because she's slower. 02:04:50.180 --> 02:04:52.180 They try to get it to her kind of one spot, 02:04:52.180 --> 02:04:54.180 so she can do a little bit faster. 02:04:54.180 --> 02:04:56.180 Of course, when they do that, 02:04:56.180 --> 02:04:58.180 she likes to get all of her light first. 02:04:58.180 --> 02:05:00.180 Eventually, they're final. 02:05:05.180 --> 02:05:07.180 Animal Care staff is here. Hi, guys. 02:05:07.180 --> 02:05:09.180 What's up? 02:05:17.180 --> 02:05:34.860 She has like a more dainty personality about her, she's just like a lot more chill than 02:05:34.860 --> 02:05:36.360 those two. 02:05:36.360 --> 02:05:42.240 Yeah, that's a lot of bear over there. 02:05:42.240 --> 02:05:49.140 This is more like the size I feel like the ones we saw were, like they felt, maybe she's 02:05:49.140 --> 02:05:57.420 even smaller, but this is more like what I would expect them to look like close up. 02:05:57.420 --> 02:06:01.940 That bear in the middle was massive. 02:06:01.940 --> 02:06:04.580 Why is her name Hugo, do you know? 02:06:04.580 --> 02:06:11.580 I found near Mount Hugo, he said. 02:06:11.580 --> 02:06:18.580 Port defines the whales in our mouths. 02:06:18.580 --> 02:06:26.580 I'm not sure if it's because they're really close to marine, but she has a forkage and a little bit of a tear. 02:06:26.580 --> 02:06:29.580 She has a lot more lippies too. 02:06:29.580 --> 02:06:31.580 Orange. 02:06:31.580 --> 02:06:38.580 It takes small bites out to investigate all of those. 02:06:38.580 --> 02:06:40.580 Orange, yeah. 02:06:40.580 --> 02:06:43.580 Is that your favorite spot for these cold days? 02:06:43.580 --> 02:06:47.580 The one with the fish that's left here today? 02:06:47.580 --> 02:06:50.580 Where do you guys get your salmon? 02:06:50.580 --> 02:06:51.580 Mostly donations. 02:06:51.580 --> 02:06:52.580 That's awesome. 02:06:52.580 --> 02:06:53.580 Yeah, it's really nice. 02:06:53.580 --> 02:06:56.580 The bait come over and they'll clean up the creatures. 02:06:56.580 --> 02:07:18.020 Um, he said their donations, this is last year's fish, they don't accept donations over two 02:07:18.020 --> 02:07:20.540 years old. 02:07:20.540 --> 02:07:22.540 I think they could hear him, maybe. 02:07:50.540 --> 02:07:52.540 Do you guys do any enrichment for them in here? 02:08:20.540 --> 02:08:23.240 I'm pretty sure, but we're giving them carcass pieces. 02:08:23.240 --> 02:08:24.240 Yeah. 02:08:24.240 --> 02:08:27.140 And they usually will take it wherever they want, 02:08:27.140 --> 02:08:29.640 stash it for later, eat it later, then. 02:08:29.640 --> 02:08:33.840 It's a really high value item for them. 02:08:33.840 --> 02:08:37.140 They give them different pieces of the animal every time. 02:08:37.140 --> 02:08:40.340 Helps them figure out a new way to eat something. 02:08:40.340 --> 02:08:41.340 Cool. 02:08:41.340 --> 02:08:51.340 Small bear. 02:08:51.340 --> 02:08:58.340 Small bear. 02:09:21.340 --> 02:09:26.340 Oh, great. Great party. 02:09:26.340 --> 02:09:29.340 Grapes. 02:09:29.340 --> 02:09:33.340 Yeah, everybody loves grapes. 02:09:37.340 --> 02:09:41.340 What do you think, Chuck? 02:09:51.340 --> 02:10:21.180 It's really impressive how tactile they are with their mouths. 02:10:21.180 --> 02:10:22.020 I know. 02:10:31.080 --> 02:10:31.920 Sick. 02:10:39.520 --> 02:10:43.640 Is she spayed or are they, she is? 02:10:43.640 --> 02:10:46.780 Actually, I'm not sure if the girls are fixed 02:10:46.780 --> 02:10:48.520 or if she's spayed or if no, she's spayed. 02:10:48.520 --> 02:10:49.360 Okay. 02:10:49.360 --> 02:10:51.840 But we don't want any cubs in here. 02:10:51.840 --> 02:10:54.760 Because the carnivores born in Caculea 02:10:54.760 --> 02:10:56.840 can never go back out for a while 02:10:56.840 --> 02:11:00.600 without intensive programs for rewilding, 02:11:00.600 --> 02:11:02.680 which we are not equipped for. 02:11:02.680 --> 02:11:04.840 And then if we were to get another bear, 02:11:04.840 --> 02:11:07.320 we would not space for them if there were cubs out here. 02:11:07.320 --> 02:11:09.480 So we wouldn't want to avoid that situation. 02:11:09.480 --> 02:11:14.240 So that we're not forcing another bear through not 02:11:14.240 --> 02:11:15.400 to have somewhere to live. 02:11:15.400 --> 02:11:39.280 Okay, let's do a kibble drop. 02:11:39.280 --> 02:11:41.200 Try not to use petting bears. 02:11:41.200 --> 02:11:43.400 Nobody's petting or hugging bears. 02:11:43.400 --> 02:11:45.080 People keep saying they want to pet and hug the bears. 02:11:45.080 --> 02:11:49.280 I'm saying you want to pet the bear as a starling gets it. 02:11:49.280 --> 02:11:53.000 Nobody's petting or hugging bears. 02:11:53.000 --> 02:11:55.280 Yum, kibble. 02:11:55.280 --> 02:11:55.960 Now you got it. 02:11:55.960 --> 02:12:19.480 Moose, thank you for the $150 donation. 02:12:19.480 --> 02:12:22.640 Oh, seven, the one piece of lettuce. 02:12:22.640 --> 02:12:44.280 one piece of lettuce. What's the kibble? Is it Missouri bear? Is it bear or is it carnivore? 02:12:44.280 --> 02:12:50.280 It's just a dog, my understanding is that we tried bear kibble, bears were like ew. 02:12:50.280 --> 02:12:52.280 That's so funny. 02:12:52.280 --> 02:12:54.280 No thank you. 02:12:54.280 --> 02:12:56.280 They're so funny. 02:12:56.280 --> 02:12:58.280 Cool. 02:13:01.280 --> 02:13:03.280 Cool. 02:13:03.280 --> 02:13:05.280 Wow. 02:13:14.280 --> 02:13:39.980 Yeah, absolutely, I can bring you a lot of stuff here, but yeah, we're doing the life 02:13:39.980 --> 02:13:41.780 Looks like these are cool. 02:13:41.780 --> 02:13:42.780 Thank you so much. 02:13:42.780 --> 02:13:44.860 Yeah, let me grab these from you. 02:13:44.860 --> 02:13:47.340 Thank you, Alex. 02:13:47.340 --> 02:13:50.780 Patron's just got a little bit of her kibble left. 02:13:50.780 --> 02:13:52.460 Hey. 02:13:52.460 --> 02:13:56.060 And I'll take everyone to the end of the hallway. 02:13:59.420 --> 02:14:01.180 Cool, huh, chat? 02:14:04.460 --> 02:14:08.380 Bear, big bear. 02:14:08.380 --> 02:14:11.860 I'm glad you got to spend some time with Hughie Bear. 02:14:11.860 --> 02:14:13.360 Reconnect with an old pal. 02:14:15.360 --> 02:14:16.360 That's so awesome. 02:14:28.260 --> 02:14:34.140 Everybody's got special animals when you do keeping your animal 02:14:34.140 --> 02:14:34.940 care of sorts. 02:14:34.940 --> 02:14:37.740 Connor says that's his in his top five. 02:14:37.740 --> 02:14:45.740 Yeah, you definitely like of course we love all of our animals but each individual animal care person 02:14:45.740 --> 02:14:53.740 has an individual that they get really close to which is just a really special part of the job 02:14:53.740 --> 02:14:55.740 and about being part of that community. 02:15:01.740 --> 02:15:05.740 Are any of the animals at all this in your top five? It's okay if you say no. 02:15:05.740 --> 02:15:09.140 Really? Wow, that's fascinating. 02:15:09.140 --> 02:15:14.160 And it's not, it's not even like a children's picking favorites thing. 02:15:14.160 --> 02:15:17.740 Sometimes you just like connect with certain individuals like people, you know, 02:15:17.740 --> 02:15:20.740 carmen have a special connection. 02:15:20.740 --> 02:15:25.740 We'll have this cave back this way. We'll do a little backtracking. 02:15:29.740 --> 02:15:31.740 Alrighty. 02:15:31.740 --> 02:15:41.980 That's how I feel every single time. 02:15:41.980 --> 02:15:45.480 We don't have any more open programs today, unfortunately. 02:15:45.480 --> 02:15:46.480 Needle. 02:15:46.480 --> 02:15:47.480 No. 02:15:47.480 --> 02:15:49.260 Sydney, that cockatoo. 02:15:49.260 --> 02:15:56.620 We, since we're not running this program anymore, I can't say. 02:15:56.620 --> 02:15:57.620 One more. 02:15:57.620 --> 02:16:06.220 You can go online a little more at the gift store, but today and for the rest of the summer 02:16:06.220 --> 02:16:08.220 we don't have any. 02:16:08.220 --> 02:16:14.180 Probably my first, the first pony I ever rode. 02:16:14.180 --> 02:16:15.180 She's dead now. 02:16:15.180 --> 02:16:16.180 Does that count? 02:16:16.180 --> 02:16:17.180 All right. 02:16:17.180 --> 02:16:22.900 We can do this last little loop here and then we can cruise our way all the way back 02:16:22.900 --> 02:16:23.900 to the start. 02:16:23.900 --> 02:16:24.900 Cool. 02:16:24.900 --> 02:16:25.900 We've just got a couple more animals. 02:16:25.900 --> 02:16:29.600 You can see most of them from right where we are while we were back there 02:16:29.600 --> 02:16:32.780 We were really up close and personal with our elk. Yeah 02:16:33.580 --> 02:16:35.580 Elk are actually not a native 02:16:35.580 --> 02:16:41.040 Species to Alaska they're an introduced species and they only live on like four little islands 02:16:41.540 --> 02:16:43.540 down in southeast Alaska and 02:16:44.580 --> 02:16:45.980 The ones in our care 02:16:45.980 --> 02:16:49.220 They're a genetic mix of Rocky Mountain and Roosevelt Elk 02:16:49.220 --> 02:16:54.940 So they're like a special third species here and that there's a little calf right pretty close 02:16:55.900 --> 02:17:02.180 There's four new elk calves and Papa Pedro is in there with his really big 02:17:02.180 --> 02:17:09.060 beautiful antlers. Holy cow. They're just over like four feet tall. Which you know 02:17:09.060 --> 02:17:14.180 from this distance they already look impressive up close. They're like almost 02:17:14.180 --> 02:17:17.220 as tall as I am. Yeah it's like the two of us are each and 02:17:17.220 --> 02:17:23.060 half. Yeah. So you can imagine when he sheds them it's like the fastest 80 02:17:23.060 --> 02:17:28.100 he's ever lost. That must feel awesome. Yeah he looks really derpy after because 02:17:28.100 --> 02:17:31.640 his neck is all beefed up to hold his antlers and then when they drop him off 02:17:31.640 --> 02:17:36.780 his head his timing his neck is huge. But this is a little calf with like a 02:17:36.780 --> 02:17:45.140 mohawk situation going on here. Oh my gosh it's so cute. I'm fluffy. 02:17:45.140 --> 02:17:53.900 What do they do with the shed antlers, they ask? 02:17:53.900 --> 02:17:55.860 So we do a whole bunch of stuff. 02:17:55.860 --> 02:17:58.060 The really nice, perfect ones. 02:17:58.060 --> 02:18:03.580 We have a fundraiser in the springtime called Paint an Antler, where folks can come and 02:18:03.580 --> 02:18:06.860 paint antlers and buy them and take them home. 02:18:06.860 --> 02:18:10.860 A lot of times the antlers, when they come off like there's broken parts or there's 02:18:10.860 --> 02:18:14.380 actually parts that have like gotten really nasty and gross, so we can't always 02:18:14.380 --> 02:18:19.900 use that for that we use it for enrichment so we could take like an elk antler and spear some 02:18:19.900 --> 02:18:25.740 salmon and grapes and stuff all over it and throw it in there or even like a porcupine loves antlers 02:18:25.740 --> 02:18:30.380 because they chew on them it's a really good way for them to get salt and minerals so we'll put 02:18:30.380 --> 02:18:41.100 it in other animals habitats cool that's a really great renewable resource for us 02:18:41.100 --> 02:18:46.620 and you'll see there's two more elk calves up just to the right of Pedro 02:18:46.620 --> 02:18:51.500 sitting by that one cow elk there. They do a lot of baby sitting behaviors here 02:18:51.500 --> 02:18:54.940 in the elk yard where one mom will watch all of the babies and then the 02:18:54.940 --> 02:18:58.660 rest of the moms can relax and eat and then they'll trade out which mom is 02:18:58.660 --> 02:19:03.140 watching the baby so they do a lot of like community child care in the elk yard 02:19:03.140 --> 02:19:09.100 which I think is super cool. That's nuts. Yeah. So cool. 02:19:09.100 --> 02:19:14.100 I lost my job. 02:19:14.100 --> 02:19:17.100 Baby sitters, what are the antlers made of? 02:19:17.100 --> 02:19:19.740 So antlers are made of bone, mostly. 02:19:19.740 --> 02:19:23.700 There's a little bit of keratin, like what our fingernails are made of, in there, but 02:19:23.700 --> 02:19:27.140 they're mostly bone, and they grow straight out of their skull. 02:19:27.140 --> 02:19:32.220 So when they shed them off, they calcify over, and they just have like two little 02:19:32.220 --> 02:19:37.500 lumps left behind, and then they plunk off their head, but they're literally growing 02:19:37.500 --> 02:19:38.500 new bone. 02:19:38.500 --> 02:19:41.540 So that's why when they grow and they have that fuzzy stuff on it 02:19:41.540 --> 02:19:42.500 It's you know 02:19:42.500 --> 02:19:47.460 They have blood vessels and all of that stuff in there to get nutrients to the whole rest of the antler 02:19:47.540 --> 02:19:53.620 Is there a lot of blood when they shed? Yeah, it can look usually when they shed the velvet. It's kind of bloody and nasty 02:19:54.100 --> 02:19:56.100 and it looks 02:19:56.100 --> 02:20:00.420 Narglier than it is like it usually doesn't really hurt them. It's just uncomfortable and itchy 02:20:00.580 --> 02:20:02.580 Yeah, and then when they shed the antlers off 02:20:03.140 --> 02:20:05.060 It can be clean sometimes 02:20:05.060 --> 02:20:09.620 there's like a little spot that didn't calcify over all the way and there's a little bit of blood 02:20:09.620 --> 02:20:13.780 and again it usually doesn't hurt them it's just like uncomfortable more than anything 02:20:13.780 --> 02:20:22.260 but it can look kind of devastating yeah yeah have you guys seen videos of them shedding antlers 02:20:22.260 --> 02:20:28.900 shot it literally like they'll go like this and just pop off yeah it's so crazy it usually spooks 02:20:28.900 --> 02:20:37.620 them because they're like oh my god what fell off my head. So cool. And these are our caribou here. 02:20:37.620 --> 02:20:41.140 I mentioned we have reindeer and caribou in our caribou. We keep them separately. 02:20:42.260 --> 02:20:47.860 Reindeer and caribou they're the same species but reindeer are the semi domesticated version of 02:20:47.860 --> 02:20:53.220 caribou. So these guys are a little bit leaner, a little bit taller, their antlers are a little 02:20:53.220 --> 02:20:58.260 bit smaller, and this is an all-female herd here and you'll notice that one all the way on 02:20:58.260 --> 02:21:02.900 On the left that's Luna. She doesn't grow antlers. We don't really know why. 02:21:03.540 --> 02:21:09.060 She kind of marches to the beat of her own drum, so she's a special exception to the Everybody Grows Antlers rule. 02:21:09.940 --> 02:21:14.340 But other than that these guys are exactly the same as our reindeer that we saw earlier. 02:21:14.340 --> 02:21:20.180 Cool. Moss, thank you so much. We can go all the way around the loop if we want and see the water. 02:21:20.180 --> 02:21:22.500 It can sometimes get windy over there, so I don't know if... 02:21:22.500 --> 02:21:23.540 Okay. 02:21:23.540 --> 02:21:26.340 But then we'll make our way back around and we'll see our wood bison at the end. 02:21:26.340 --> 02:21:34.460 Yeah, let's go see it. There is a fully articulated beluga whale skeleton in there, so like let's 02:21:34.460 --> 02:21:35.460 go show it off. 02:21:35.460 --> 02:21:36.460 That's so cool. 02:21:36.460 --> 02:21:37.460 We did. 02:21:37.460 --> 02:21:38.460 Really? 02:21:38.460 --> 02:21:45.940 Awesome. We, I think we saw belugas here earlier. We're part of the Alaska Beluga Monitoring 02:21:45.940 --> 02:21:53.620 Program, so that's a volunteer community science-led project through NOAA Fisheries 02:21:53.620 --> 02:22:00.260 and a couple other partners, and there's monitoring sites along the Ternigan arm, which is a body of water up here, 02:22:00.260 --> 02:22:07.300 and then down further on the Kenai Peninsula to monitor for the presence of Cook Inlet beluga whales, 02:22:07.300 --> 02:22:13.940 which are special genetically distinct population of beluga whales that live down here in south central Alaska. 02:22:13.940 --> 02:22:19.460 So we'll have monitoring times around Hytide to go and see if there's whales here. 02:22:19.460 --> 02:22:24.900 cool yeah chat we saw well I saw one Connor saw two as we were driving and it's just like a little 02:22:24.900 --> 02:22:30.660 white hump that comes out of the water but it's still so neat sometimes you can hear them too 02:22:30.660 --> 02:22:35.860 they're called canaries of the sea because they make a whole bunch of different like moves and clicks 02:22:35.860 --> 02:22:44.420 and snorts and stuff it's very cute that's so cool we are hoping to get one or like some sort of 02:22:44.420 --> 02:22:49.620 device that allows us to monitor their vocal sounds because that's one of the 02:22:49.620 --> 02:22:56.900 like most unique things about them and what's so special about them that's 02:22:56.900 --> 02:23:01.140 awesome 02:23:08.500 --> 02:23:11.300 good job 02:23:11.300 --> 02:23:18.060 This is also a really good spot for us to see like glaciers from across our property. 02:23:18.060 --> 02:23:20.380 So there's glaciers in that direction. 02:23:20.380 --> 02:23:22.420 There's a glacier up here on this peak. 02:23:22.420 --> 02:23:24.620 There's a blue glacier over there. 02:23:24.620 --> 02:23:27.060 That's called Explorer Glacier. 02:23:27.060 --> 02:23:31.300 This peak up here is called Flying Cornice, which I think is really fun. 02:23:31.300 --> 02:23:37.020 We've been fundraising throughout this stream and we got to, we're at $46,000 when 02:23:37.020 --> 02:23:40.300 we streamed, when we adapt streamed, and we just hit $50,000. 02:23:40.300 --> 02:23:45.880 Oh my gosh, thank you guys so much for your donation sir at the stream. That's incredible 02:23:45.880 --> 02:23:49.760 We are extremely extremely grateful for it. I mean 02:23:50.280 --> 02:23:55.180 We working here is would be allowed these animals to have a second chance at life 02:23:55.180 --> 02:23:59.380 And we can only do that if we have the resources to be able to give that to them 02:23:59.380 --> 02:24:05.040 So just on the animals behalf in their lives and their quality animal care. Thank you guys 02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:08.140 Thank you so much chat. It's so cool 02:24:08.140 --> 02:24:10.140 So cool. 02:24:10.140 --> 02:24:11.140 So cool. 02:24:11.140 --> 02:24:20.140 We're going to talk about cool conservation stories, the wood bison, yeah, that's coming 02:24:20.140 --> 02:24:21.140 up. 02:24:21.140 --> 02:24:22.700 Yeah, we'll talk about wood bison to get to, guys. 02:24:22.700 --> 02:24:24.540 The wood bison are pretty neat. 02:24:24.540 --> 02:24:27.860 While we're over here, I'll talk about another really cool conservation project that we have 02:24:27.860 --> 02:24:33.980 going on that we're a part of, I should say, so a species that's not directly in 02:24:33.980 --> 02:24:40.100 our care, but we see come up to our property, our Rufus Hummingbirds, and they weigh less 02:24:40.100 --> 02:24:45.580 than a nickel, or the weight of a nickel, and they're a little bit less than four inches 02:24:45.580 --> 02:24:50.500 wide in wingspan, and they make some of the biggest migrations of any animal in the whole 02:24:50.500 --> 02:24:57.200 world for their body size. They fly from northern Mexico up to southern Alaska up here to 02:24:57.200 --> 02:25:04.560 breed and they fly all the way back down and they have had like a 70 to 75 percent decline in their 02:25:04.560 --> 02:25:11.040 population over the last 30 to 50 years. So there's a lot of conservation efforts in order to make 02:25:12.320 --> 02:25:16.000 tuck it in this way. Yeah, there we go. Perfect. Yeah, I know it gets windy over here. 02:25:17.920 --> 02:25:22.720 And so we see them up here. We put hummingbird feeders out really regularly in the summer 02:25:22.720 --> 02:25:29.040 in order to see them on our property. And we have been working with a couple other partners. 02:25:29.840 --> 02:25:36.400 Some bird banders will come out and band birds on our property, which is really, really cool. 02:25:36.400 --> 02:25:42.800 And this year we started to be part of Alaska Humtrak, where the bird banders, the parts of 02:25:43.520 --> 02:25:48.000 their work are still going on. So banders from the banding coalition of the Americas is an 02:25:48.000 --> 02:25:52.040 an organization that will come out and bring scientists that will come and 02:25:52.040 --> 02:25:57.720 ban these birds, but we can also now put trackers on these birds and they're tiny 02:25:57.720 --> 02:26:02.960 tiny telemetry devices that weigh less than a grain of rice. Yeah. And it's 02:26:02.960 --> 02:26:08.080 basically like a backpack for the hummingbird. They can choose to take it 02:26:08.080 --> 02:26:10.960 off where if it's hummingbirds can reach every single point on their body 02:26:10.960 --> 02:26:13.680 with their feet. So if they want to take it off, they can just rip it 02:26:13.680 --> 02:26:18.800 right off. If they don't, we are able to actually watch their flight path and 02:26:18.800 --> 02:26:23.320 learn what are the most critical habitats for them. So where they're nesting, where 02:26:23.320 --> 02:26:27.320 they're stopping on this enormous migration and what's causing this 02:26:27.320 --> 02:26:32.960 really strong population decline. So how do they, how does the battery work on those? 02:26:32.960 --> 02:26:39.080 They're solar powered. What? And the way they ping is off of anything that has 02:26:39.080 --> 02:26:47.960 Bluetooth, so any IoT device on the phone could ping the tracker from a hummingbird that's 02:26:47.960 --> 02:26:53.640 I think within a hundred feet of you and then it sends that data to a base where they can 02:26:53.640 --> 02:26:57.720 see what's going on and it's just really really cool stuff. 02:26:57.720 --> 02:27:11.000 this is the point it is in my opinion the most beautiful spot on our property you 02:27:11.000 --> 02:27:17.640 get pretty epic views in this building right here opened this spring this is 02:27:17.640 --> 02:27:25.480 the Mattson Ocean Education Center and we've got a really cool beluga sculpture 02:27:25.480 --> 02:27:29.720 out here so even though we don't see them that's what they look like. 02:27:29.720 --> 02:27:36.920 Chat baby belugas said are gray, right? 02:27:36.920 --> 02:27:40.600 Yeah so when they're born they're really dark gray and then as they age they 02:27:40.600 --> 02:27:43.560 turn white so it's actually pretty easy to tell 02:27:43.560 --> 02:27:47.080 roughly what age a beluga is based on the color that you see if the lighting 02:27:47.080 --> 02:27:50.120 is right when you see them. 02:27:50.120 --> 02:27:57.120 Yeah, we can go in. 02:27:57.120 --> 02:28:00.120 Alright, Caleb, stay here. 02:28:00.120 --> 02:28:02.120 Yeah, I should be good. 02:28:02.120 --> 02:28:05.120 That's me. 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:07.120 Is that wood? 02:28:07.120 --> 02:28:10.120 Yeah, it's Jordan Anderson is the artist, I believe, 02:28:10.120 --> 02:28:12.120 and it's carved of wood. 02:28:12.120 --> 02:28:15.120 The thing is super neat. 02:28:15.120 --> 02:28:25.400 Yeah, so this is the Matts and Ocean Education Center, we're hoping to like run educational 02:28:25.400 --> 02:28:29.920 programs in this building and have folks come out and learn about beluga whales. 02:28:29.920 --> 02:28:32.200 This skeleton here is real. 02:28:32.200 --> 02:28:38.640 This is a fully articulated hook inlet beluga whale skeleton that was found down near 02:28:38.640 --> 02:28:45.640 the Kenai Peninsula. It's a juvenile adult female that had been stranded and there are 02:28:45.640 --> 02:28:51.200 actually students down on the Kenai Peninsula that put the skeleton all back together and 02:28:51.200 --> 02:28:56.640 cleaned it over a course of a year or two years and built it into this like really gorgeous 02:28:56.640 --> 02:29:01.720 armature for us. And so now she gets to live here and see the water and who will get 02:29:01.720 --> 02:29:04.720 to learn about really cool whales. 02:29:04.720 --> 02:29:10.720 I'm going to show them screen here. 02:29:10.720 --> 02:29:15.720 There was some oil footage. 02:29:15.720 --> 02:29:16.720 That's where we are. 02:29:16.720 --> 02:29:18.720 We're in that building right now. 02:29:18.720 --> 02:29:21.720 That's where we are, but drone footage of it. 02:29:21.720 --> 02:29:23.720 That's kind of crazy. 02:29:30.720 --> 02:29:32.720 Okay. 02:29:32.720 --> 02:29:42.000 Yeah, this is data from NOAA fisheries that shows their population decline. 02:29:42.000 --> 02:29:49.240 So starting pre-1990, there was an estimated roughly 1,300 cooking libeluga whales. 02:29:49.240 --> 02:29:53.800 They never had a terribly large population because cooking was not that big, but they 02:29:53.800 --> 02:29:57.200 are just a genetically distinct population that lives here. 02:29:57.200 --> 02:30:07.120 And you can see a massive decrease in population over the last 30 years or so. 02:30:07.120 --> 02:30:12.000 And there's a pretty wide list of reasons why their population has declined. 02:30:12.000 --> 02:30:15.480 Most of it is loss of habitat and quality of habitat. 02:30:15.480 --> 02:30:20.100 And they're really sensitive to noise, so being a population of belugas that lives 02:30:20.100 --> 02:30:27.360 near people. Being close to Anchorage, Alaska's only really big town kind of 02:30:27.360 --> 02:30:32.000 disrupts their daily life because they use echolocation to find food, to talk 02:30:32.000 --> 02:30:36.360 to each other, to move around in this inlet with all of these tides and 02:30:36.360 --> 02:30:41.760 channels. So they're really voice-sensitive critters. 02:30:44.080 --> 02:30:47.720 All right, back outside. 02:30:50.100 --> 02:31:03.100 It's a nice deck. 02:31:03.100 --> 02:31:05.100 It is a nice deck. 02:31:05.100 --> 02:31:08.100 It's pretty, right? 02:31:08.100 --> 02:31:16.100 Yeah, it's beautiful. 02:31:16.100 --> 02:31:18.100 It's a cinema, okay cinema. 02:31:21.460 --> 02:31:23.460 It's nice out here. 02:31:23.780 --> 02:31:28.420 They can get like super super windy out here. So like this is a light breeze for the point. 02:31:28.420 --> 02:31:29.220 No, it's nice. 02:31:29.220 --> 02:31:31.220 They can get like 100 mile an hour winds out here. 02:31:31.220 --> 02:31:33.700 Everything that goes out here has to be super windproof. 02:31:33.700 --> 02:31:36.260 I heard we've gotten really lucky with the weather. 02:31:36.260 --> 02:31:39.700 Yeah, pretty much any day you see the sun you're a lucky duck. 02:31:39.700 --> 02:31:40.200 Yeah. 02:31:43.540 --> 02:31:45.540 Hi Eddie. 02:31:46.100 --> 02:31:53.100 Hi, how you doing? 02:31:53.100 --> 02:32:07.340 Cool, so when was this built? 02:32:07.340 --> 02:32:13.580 This the project was just completed this spring I believe the opening was like April 02:32:13.580 --> 02:32:15.580 or May in the middle of May or so. 02:32:15.580 --> 02:32:19.260 So brand new took about three years to build. 02:32:19.260 --> 02:32:23.300 Building anything in Alaska is a pretty difficult task. 02:32:23.300 --> 02:32:25.860 And as you can imagine, pretty expensive. 02:32:25.860 --> 02:32:28.500 This is also, we're kind of on a river delta here, 02:32:28.500 --> 02:32:29.740 our property. 02:32:29.740 --> 02:32:31.780 So building something on that particular spot 02:32:31.780 --> 02:32:33.660 is a pretty big feat. 02:32:33.660 --> 02:32:37.180 We were pretty stoked that it could end up, you know, 02:32:37.180 --> 02:32:38.500 looking how we wanted it to. 02:32:38.500 --> 02:32:39.900 Yeah, that's awesome. 02:32:39.900 --> 02:32:41.740 How are you having a good day? 02:32:41.740 --> 02:32:46.940 Yeah, I can imagine there were like many, many, many roadblocks in its conception, 02:32:46.940 --> 02:32:49.740 but the day that it opened was pretty special for us. 02:32:52.220 --> 02:32:55.660 And then the last critter that we're going to pass is our Woodbison. 02:32:55.660 --> 02:33:00.860 Cool! These guys are kind of an exception to a lot of the rules that I've said kind of applied 02:33:00.860 --> 02:33:06.300 to the animals in our care. These are the only animals in our care that might make it back out 02:33:06.300 --> 02:33:11.020 into the wild. So if you're not a Woodbison, this is your permanent home. If you're a Woodbison, 02:33:11.020 --> 02:33:16.700 This could be your permanent home but maybe not. So we're part of the Woodbison reintroduction project 02:33:16.700 --> 02:33:23.820 and Woodbison are native to Alaska. They used to roam in hundreds of thousands of numbers strong 02:33:23.820 --> 02:33:29.660 and they were actually globally declared extinct in 1941. There were no more Woodbison left to 02:33:29.660 --> 02:33:37.420 Alaska. We thought there were no more Woodbison left in the entire world until about 15-ish 02:33:37.420 --> 02:33:42.220 years after they had been declared extinct, someone was flying a bush plane over a really 02:33:42.220 --> 02:33:46.940 remote part of Alberta, Canada. And they looked down and I saw a bunch of brown dots on the ground 02:33:46.940 --> 02:33:51.660 and they were like, what the heck is that? And so they got closer and they were like, holy crap, 02:33:51.660 --> 02:33:57.660 it's wood bison. And somebody found the last wild herd of wood bison. So big day for that guy. 02:33:57.660 --> 02:34:02.940 Yeah. Immediately went to the state and was like, hey, they're not extinct. We were wrong. 02:34:02.940 --> 02:34:08.780 Yeah, and Canada actually started the Woodbison reintroduction project within Canadian borders and 02:34:09.540 --> 02:34:16.120 Alaska very shortly after started the exact same project. So they took that last wild herd into human care 02:34:16.140 --> 02:34:19.280 They live in Elk Island Canada now Canada 02:34:19.640 --> 02:34:22.440 Let Alaska have a couple of those wood bison and 02:34:23.580 --> 02:34:25.060 AWCC in 02:34:25.060 --> 02:34:29.900 2003 I believe was designated. I guess we can hop down here get closer to these guys 02:34:29.900 --> 02:34:35.460 was designated as the caretakers for the herd while they grow, get happy and 02:34:35.460 --> 02:34:39.780 healthy. So we're in charge of making sure that we're making genetically diverse 02:34:39.780 --> 02:34:44.740 bison that are not super accustomed to people so they can eventually make it 02:34:44.740 --> 02:34:50.060 back out into the wild. Yeah, wow, big job. Yeah, it is pretty cool and these 02:34:50.060 --> 02:34:54.900 guys are big animals. The male wood bison are the largest land animal and 02:34:54.900 --> 02:35:01.660 And the entire Western Hemisphere, the bulls get just up over 2,200 pounds. 02:35:01.660 --> 02:35:04.060 The ones we're looking at right now are deceptively small. 02:35:04.060 --> 02:35:10.020 A lot of these guys are the adult females, the cows, and the one, two, and three-year-olds. 02:35:10.020 --> 02:35:12.680 Or some that are just a couple of weeks to a couple of months old. 02:35:12.680 --> 02:35:14.800 So these guys are a little bit on the smaller side. 02:35:14.800 --> 02:35:17.260 The bulls are quite a bit larger. 02:35:17.260 --> 02:35:18.660 Got it. 02:35:18.660 --> 02:35:21.420 Ace is like 900 pounds shot for reference. 02:35:21.420 --> 02:35:28.140 200 pounds is no joke. Have you guys done any releases of introductions yet? 02:35:28.140 --> 02:35:37.020 Yeah, so the project is all managed by the state. The first release was in 2015. 130 individuals 02:35:37.020 --> 02:35:44.300 from AWCC were released into the wild into the Inoko River area. And then the last release 02:35:44.300 --> 02:35:51.500 was just last spring in 2025. Another, I want to say, 17 individuals were taken from our herd. 02:35:51.500 --> 02:35:56.620 They met up with a couple other individuals from another facility that's part of the project, 02:35:56.620 --> 02:36:03.980 and they were released into the lower Tananaw River area. Okay, cool. Wow. Only got babies. 02:36:03.980 --> 02:36:10.140 Yeah, so that bright orange one up there, that is a calf from this year. They're bright orange 02:36:10.140 --> 02:36:16.700 when they're born and then they turn brown and the two right to the left of it are also calves 02:36:16.700 --> 02:36:19.820 from this year that we're just going a little bit earlier so they're already brown. 02:36:23.340 --> 02:36:24.940 Hello, bison. 02:36:29.420 --> 02:36:33.340 So this is a younger one and both the girls and the boys will have these horns 02:36:36.140 --> 02:36:39.660 and we always get the question like what's the difference between a wood bison and a regular 02:36:39.660 --> 02:36:45.420 bison. A regular quote-unquote bison is usually a plains bison. Those are the ones that live like 02:36:45.420 --> 02:36:50.380 in Yellowstone and like down in the rest of the lower 48. And those guys are just a couple hundred 02:36:50.380 --> 02:36:55.740 pounds smaller than the wood bison. And the wood bison, like brown bears and like the muskox have 02:36:55.740 --> 02:37:01.500 a really big hump on their back shoulders and it's just a neck muscle because they use their 02:37:01.500 --> 02:37:06.620 heads like snow plows. Can you tell them the difference between bison and buffalo? 02:37:06.620 --> 02:37:11.660 Yeah, so a lot of it is like a linguistic difference. People will sometimes call these 02:37:11.660 --> 02:37:20.460 guys buffalo. Their scientific Latin name or like common English science name is wood bison. 02:37:21.340 --> 02:37:30.220 But by species, these guys are pretty much the same. When Europeans came over to North America 02:37:30.220 --> 02:37:35.740 and saw these guys, there are no bison over there. There are types of buffalo. 02:37:35.740 --> 02:37:40.140 and they saw these guys and thought this is buffalo so they started calling them that 02:37:40.140 --> 02:37:48.780 but these guys really are the same thing. There are like water buffalo in Africa and other places 02:37:48.780 --> 02:37:55.900 genetically or evolutionarily. These guys are somewhat similar to them but it's really a 02:37:55.900 --> 02:37:58.940 linguistic difference and you'll hear people call them buffalo. 02:37:58.940 --> 02:38:03.940 You talk about why would bison are important to the ecosystem? 02:38:03.940 --> 02:38:06.740 Yeah, so these guys are a keystone species. 02:38:06.740 --> 02:38:11.620 Obviously, anytime that there's an animal this large in the ecosystem, they have a pretty 02:38:11.620 --> 02:38:13.300 big impact. 02:38:13.300 --> 02:38:19.660 These guys, like any other animal, they are food for other animals and for people. 02:38:19.660 --> 02:38:25.380 You can imagine an animal that weighs 2,200 pounds, provides a lot of food to the animals 02:38:25.380 --> 02:38:30.740 that are around it, big predators that are also having a hard time surviving without them. 02:38:30.740 --> 02:38:36.500 A really great example also is really big animals make a lot of poop and their poop helps fertilize 02:38:36.500 --> 02:38:43.460 the grounds that they live on. Grazing from these guys also helps the ecosystem by leveling 02:38:43.460 --> 02:38:49.780 everything. It prevents one type of species of plant from taking over an entire field. 02:38:49.780 --> 02:38:55.780 When they level the field it allows other mostly native plants and wildflowers to regrow 02:38:56.420 --> 02:39:01.540 and kind of levels the playing field for plants. They also do a thing called wallowing. 02:39:01.540 --> 02:39:06.500 So with that big hump on their back they anytime they want to scratch their back or get flies off 02:39:06.500 --> 02:39:10.900 they want to take a little dust bath they'll roll around on the ground and the big hump 02:39:10.900 --> 02:39:16.340 on their back makes a depression in the ground and then that allows water to collect rain 02:39:16.340 --> 02:39:22.340 water, glacial melt, and it brings water into places that might otherwise be pretty depleted of 02:39:22.340 --> 02:39:29.300 water, like lowland and open tundra areas. Wow. Yeah, so they actually will also create water pools 02:39:29.300 --> 02:39:34.660 for other animals, other plants, and they've got just kind of a whole bunch of things that they 02:39:34.660 --> 02:39:36.060 they can be connected to. 02:39:38.380 --> 02:39:39.220 Neat. 02:39:45.540 --> 02:39:47.980 How many other facilities have wood bison? 02:39:47.980 --> 02:39:51.180 As far as I know, there's only one other facility 02:39:51.180 --> 02:39:53.700 that's up in Fairbanks called LARS 02:39:53.700 --> 02:39:56.940 that has wood bison in Alaska. 02:39:56.940 --> 02:39:57.780 But it could be wrong. 02:39:57.780 --> 02:39:59.420 There could be other places that have them. 02:39:59.420 --> 02:40:01.820 But as far as I know, it's just the one other one. 02:40:01.820 --> 02:40:07.460 And is the hump made of fat or muscle or bone, they ask? 02:40:07.460 --> 02:40:08.860 It's a muscle. 02:40:08.860 --> 02:40:12.160 Yeah, so not like a camel hump. 02:40:12.160 --> 02:40:17.180 It's more just like if you only worked out like your neck and shoulder muscles and didn't 02:40:17.180 --> 02:40:21.620 work out anything else, you would be the same shape as them. 02:40:21.620 --> 02:40:22.620 Yeah. 02:40:22.620 --> 02:40:23.620 Crazy. 02:40:23.620 --> 02:40:25.820 Cool. 02:40:25.820 --> 02:40:26.820 So cool. 02:40:26.820 --> 02:40:27.820 This is not a rerun chat. 02:40:27.820 --> 02:40:28.820 We're live. 02:40:28.820 --> 02:40:29.820 We're live. 02:40:29.820 --> 02:40:39.820 the big cracks in the ground 02:40:39.820 --> 02:40:41.820 these are tied guts they're 02:40:41.820 --> 02:40:42.820 naturally occurring since we 02:40:42.820 --> 02:40:44.820 get really high tide fluctuations 02:40:44.820 --> 02:40:46.820 here and so when it's high tide 02:40:46.820 --> 02:40:48.820 it fills with water and it 02:40:48.820 --> 02:40:49.820 actually goes underneath the 02:40:49.820 --> 02:40:51.820 road here and it ends in the 02:40:51.820 --> 02:40:53.820 bears habitat so wild fish will 02:40:53.820 --> 02:40:55.820 swim up there and then our 02:40:55.820 --> 02:40:57.820 bears can go fishing and play 02:40:57.820 --> 02:41:00.900 part in the greater ecosystem, even though they're in human care. 02:41:00.900 --> 02:41:01.900 That's so cool. 02:41:01.900 --> 02:41:03.980 Which I think is like the coolest part of their habitat. 02:41:03.980 --> 02:41:07.860 Yeah, for sure. 02:41:07.860 --> 02:41:09.900 And the wood bison like to play in the tide gut. 02:41:09.900 --> 02:41:12.900 The little babies will run around in there. 02:41:12.900 --> 02:41:19.660 Sick. 02:41:19.660 --> 02:41:25.580 So is it a safe program, technically or now, with the wood bison? 02:41:25.580 --> 02:41:36.300 not okay. Same vibes, same same point. Yeah all of it is run by the Alaska 02:41:36.300 --> 02:41:41.540 Department of Fishing Game. Okay. Wow. They're even the ones like they select 02:41:41.540 --> 02:41:45.180 which individuals in our care go out. They decide like when and where and how 02:41:45.180 --> 02:41:52.580 they get released. Right. They have all those resources. Such a trip. Yeah. You can imagine. 02:41:52.580 --> 02:41:55.580 No, you have to fly them? 02:41:55.580 --> 02:41:58.100 So yes and yes. 02:41:58.100 --> 02:42:02.580 The way that they're transported is there's connexes, like big shipping containers that 02:42:02.580 --> 02:42:04.860 have been specially retrofitted for their needs. 02:42:04.860 --> 02:42:09.340 So they have air conditioning and they have hay troughs and all that good stuff. 02:42:09.340 --> 02:42:12.740 And they're put in there, the cows and the babies go together. 02:42:12.740 --> 02:42:17.380 And then they, when they were brought out to the Onoko River area, they were put 02:42:17.380 --> 02:42:24.220 on a barge and floated like 400 miles out there or the bulls were floated out 02:42:24.220 --> 02:42:27.540 there because they were too heavy to go on the airplane. The cows and the babies 02:42:27.540 --> 02:42:33.740 went in a plane from Anchorage and flown out there. 02:42:34.940 --> 02:42:39.420 Oh the whole herd is over here. They heard one of our vehicles and they were 02:42:39.420 --> 02:42:43.060 like lunchtime? Lunchtime? 02:42:43.060 --> 02:42:50.060 Oh yeah, just got one little patch of orange left. 02:42:50.060 --> 02:42:59.180 Wow, how cute is that chat? 02:42:59.180 --> 02:43:04.180 Getting a little bath and just got the tiny little horns poking out of her head. 02:43:04.180 --> 02:43:08.580 I actually think that little calf is a boy. 02:43:08.580 --> 02:43:10.740 Do you know what their population is at now? 02:43:10.740 --> 02:43:12.020 Like the number? 02:43:12.020 --> 02:43:18.020 I don't. So the state will monitor them. When they first go out, they have these big leather 02:43:18.020 --> 02:43:24.180 tracking collars on them. The bulls usually take those off within a year or so, and they do aerial 02:43:24.180 --> 02:43:30.660 surveys of them. So that first population, they were steady. They had a couple pretty devastating 02:43:30.660 --> 02:43:37.140 winters and had some population decline. I believe they're steady again, or even increasing. 02:43:42.020 --> 02:43:46.020 Yeah, that little calf is trying to nurse. Get some lunch. 02:43:58.020 --> 02:44:00.020 It's an Arctic Winnie. 02:44:00.020 --> 02:44:05.020 Arctic Winnie? Yeah, people are saying Winnie's cousins. They are Winnie vibes. Yeah. 02:44:07.020 --> 02:44:08.020 Little drama. 02:44:08.020 --> 02:44:22.500 Blanket. Amazing. So cool. Elemental, thank you for the 20. Are the ear tags to tell them 02:44:22.500 --> 02:44:28.500 apart? Yeah, so that's how we like double check that we know what each individual in 02:44:28.500 --> 02:44:34.820 our care is getting like medication wise or healthcare wise. It's also how what side 02:44:34.820 --> 02:44:40.980 there on helps us tell from afar if it's a boy or a girl. But yeah, each individual will have a 02:44:40.980 --> 02:44:48.820 different number. So if one of them needs medication, like we know 100% that Bison 331 right here is 02:44:48.820 --> 02:44:54.580 getting exactly what they need if we need them to. They asked, yeah, the sound is them. 02:44:55.380 --> 02:45:00.020 That low grunting, that kind of sounds like APA from Avatar, that is them. 02:45:00.020 --> 02:45:05.020 Do you know what those vocalizations mean or are they just chatting? 02:45:05.020 --> 02:45:11.020 Yeah, they're just chatting. It could be anything. It could be like, I love being a bison. I'm happy that there's grass. 02:45:11.020 --> 02:45:17.020 It could be that one of them wants one of them to move away. It could be one of them wants them to move closer. 02:45:17.020 --> 02:45:23.020 Yeah, they make all sorts of like deep vocal grunts like that, but it could be anything. 02:45:23.020 --> 02:45:27.860 Lazy, thank you. 02:45:27.860 --> 02:45:33.400 We have Marma sets at our facility and their names are Appa and Momo. 02:45:33.400 --> 02:45:34.400 That's adorable. 02:45:34.400 --> 02:45:35.400 That's so cute. 02:45:35.400 --> 02:45:40.220 But they don't sound like that. 02:45:40.220 --> 02:45:45.420 They scream. 02:45:45.420 --> 02:45:47.500 Real and true, they told me that themselves. 02:45:47.500 --> 02:45:51.780 Chad, we're coming up on the end of our tour here at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation 02:45:51.780 --> 02:45:56.820 and I do have any final questions to ask also what did you think? Have you had a 02:45:56.820 --> 02:46:01.860 good time? Are you stoked? There's still more to do. Yeah okay. Yeah we can mosey 02:46:01.860 --> 02:46:06.020 our way back here. There's maybe one or two more animals that we can see on our 02:46:06.020 --> 02:46:13.740 way back. Cool. So we've got the muskox feeding ray. Yeah we're gonna walk kind of 02:46:13.740 --> 02:46:18.820 all the way back to where we started. We're gonna go and see some babies. We're 02:46:18.820 --> 02:46:23.560 going to see baby muskox. We might see a little black bear cub that has recently 02:46:23.560 --> 02:46:29.980 come into our care back there. Make sure we don't get hit by a car on the way over there. 02:46:29.980 --> 02:46:50.780 Yeah, we do. It's like a daily thing that we do. So we partner with Forest Service because 02:46:50.780 --> 02:46:55.980 we're surrounded by Forest Service land and we'll go browsing, which is where we just 02:46:55.980 --> 02:47:01.660 go out with a big old truck and in areas that the Forest Service is already trying to like 02:47:01.660 --> 02:47:07.260 mitigate the plants that live there we will cut branches for all of our animals that eat leaves. 02:47:07.260 --> 02:47:12.300 So our moose will get fresh leaves every day, the reindeer and the caribou, the elk, 02:47:12.300 --> 02:47:18.060 all of those guys will get fresh stuff. Oh this is still the same enclosure? 02:47:18.060 --> 02:47:24.220 Yeah so this is just one of their yards and then that big yard that we walked around to get 02:47:24.220 --> 02:47:26.180 to the Matt's Inelection Education Center, 02:47:26.180 --> 02:47:27.820 that's another bison yard. 02:47:27.820 --> 02:47:30.420 And we rotate them between those two yards 02:47:30.420 --> 02:47:33.020 and then another yard right up front 02:47:33.020 --> 02:47:34.540 so that they can graze. 02:47:37.740 --> 02:47:40.060 Yep, that's where we keep the bowls. 02:47:40.060 --> 02:47:42.340 And then we don't, oh, then we lease it 02:47:42.340 --> 02:47:43.900 from the Forest Service. 02:47:46.940 --> 02:47:50.540 Yeah, you might be able to see it from over here. 02:47:51.780 --> 02:47:53.340 If you get the angle right. 02:47:54.220 --> 02:47:55.780 There's a tough one. 02:47:55.780 --> 02:47:58.260 Yeah, I can't imagine the vegetation 02:47:58.260 --> 02:48:00.780 was probably pretty thick over there. 02:48:00.780 --> 02:48:04.420 Do you rotate that one, claw, or how do you move up? 02:48:04.420 --> 02:48:07.740 So it's a process to move them. 02:48:07.740 --> 02:48:09.740 They have really good herd mentality, 02:48:09.740 --> 02:48:12.660 and we use that to get them to move. 02:48:12.660 --> 02:48:15.900 So they'll be motivated to follow a vehicle, 02:48:15.900 --> 02:48:18.500 so we'll have someone on our four-wheelers 02:48:18.500 --> 02:48:20.700 or on our big defender vehicles, 02:48:20.700 --> 02:48:22.660 will lead them over there. 02:48:22.660 --> 02:48:26.580 And as long as you keep calm body behavior, 02:48:26.580 --> 02:48:29.600 they're all calm, they'll follow you right in there. 02:48:29.600 --> 02:48:31.500 It's something that we do pretty often. 02:48:31.500 --> 02:48:34.380 So we've got the process pretty fine tuned. 02:48:40.860 --> 02:48:42.060 While we're walking back, 02:48:42.060 --> 02:48:43.400 I don't know if any of them are visible. 02:48:43.400 --> 02:48:45.820 These are a set of black tailed deer. 02:48:45.820 --> 02:48:48.180 We currently have three of them in our care. 02:48:49.580 --> 02:48:51.340 And they've never even heard of a black tailed deer. 02:48:51.340 --> 02:48:57.060 Yeah, they're really only live in portions of southeast Alaska, 02:48:57.060 --> 02:49:00.100 so we don't even really see them in the wild up here very much. 02:49:00.100 --> 02:49:00.740 Oh, yeah. 02:49:00.740 --> 02:49:01.340 Oh, cute. 02:49:04.340 --> 02:49:05.820 It's like a white-tailed deer. 02:49:05.820 --> 02:49:08.380 Yeah, they're a little bit smaller than white-tailed deer, 02:49:08.380 --> 02:49:11.060 but other than that, very, very, very similar. 02:49:14.460 --> 02:49:16.060 One of our females. 02:49:16.060 --> 02:49:18.220 Cute. 02:49:18.220 --> 02:49:19.700 She's got an Easter egg. 02:49:19.700 --> 02:49:22.700 Yeah, there's probably some yummy snacks in there. 02:49:22.700 --> 02:49:25.700 We sprayed them with some smelly scents for them to sniff on. 02:49:25.700 --> 02:49:26.700 That's cool. 02:49:37.700 --> 02:49:41.700 Alright, I'll see if they're ready for us to go visit some babies. 02:49:41.700 --> 02:49:44.700 One of three mule deer subspecies. 02:49:44.700 --> 02:49:45.700 Huh. 02:49:45.700 --> 02:49:47.700 The more you know. 02:49:47.700 --> 02:49:58.700 Alex, that deer laid an egg. No, that is enrichment for the deer. They do not lay eggs. Yes. 02:49:58.700 --> 02:50:08.700 Good. We are making our way back to the farmhouse road. Now we are at Muscox if you're ready. 02:50:08.700 --> 02:50:14.700 Copy. Let me see how much longer I have on this. Stand by. 02:50:14.700 --> 02:50:16.700 Happy no worries 02:50:29.820 --> 02:50:33.860 Amazing at Chris will be over to the farmhouse in about five minutes or so 02:50:36.540 --> 02:50:43.740 Thank you, thank you in my top five cutest baby animals but like on earth I have 02:50:44.700 --> 02:50:51.700 Chinchillas? Ooh. Skunks? Yes. Moscox. 02:50:57.700 --> 02:50:59.700 No. 02:50:59.700 --> 02:51:02.700 Chia, I've gone through this before. What else have I said? 02:51:05.700 --> 02:51:07.700 To follow. 02:51:07.700 --> 02:51:09.700 No. No. 02:51:14.700 --> 02:51:21.980 goat. Yeah. Baby goat. That I can believe. If the muskox are in there, the goats got to be in there. 02:51:21.980 --> 02:51:24.380 Yeah. Yeah, like... 02:51:28.540 --> 02:51:36.140 Unfortunately, chat vultures are not in it. I do love them so dearly. Emus could be in it. 02:51:36.140 --> 02:51:41.580 Yeah. Baby emus are so cute. Oh my gosh. But it sounds adorable. 02:51:41.580 --> 02:51:52.420 They're so cute. Yeah, maybe that's my top five. Owls are also not in it, respectively. 02:51:52.420 --> 02:52:01.460 Yeah, baby muskox are ridiculous. Yeah, they very quickly came into my, probably like top three 02:52:01.460 --> 02:52:11.020 favorite baby animals. Yeah. I've never seen a baby marmot. I would like to throw in the ticket 02:52:11.020 --> 02:52:15.700 for a baby porcupine. Oh fair. They're called porcupettes. Yeah. And they're 02:52:15.700 --> 02:52:20.380 like billiard ball size and they're just fluffy and then their eyes and that's it. 02:52:20.380 --> 02:52:27.900 They have nothing else. And they have a really it's it's it's like a 02:52:27.900 --> 02:52:34.860 puggle or something. Yeah, something like that. Something adorable. Oh baby 02:52:34.860 --> 02:52:38.820 of rabbits are also really cute. That's a good one. But they have to get past 02:52:38.820 --> 02:52:44.820 the scary stage. They're pinkies and they're a little they gotta get fur and 02:52:44.820 --> 02:52:49.900 they have to open their eyes but once they get there so cute. We can we can go 02:52:49.900 --> 02:52:54.060 either way if we want to go not in the parking lot or it's quicker to go through 02:52:54.060 --> 02:52:56.380 this way. 02:52:56.380 --> 02:53:05.260 Baby koalas, baby toucan, baby toucans look fake. 02:53:05.260 --> 02:53:06.260 Oh yeah. 02:53:06.260 --> 02:53:11.220 Looks so animatronic and weird. 02:53:11.220 --> 02:53:20.100 Alright, and then we can sneak in front of these cars to make our lives a little easier. 02:53:20.100 --> 02:53:22.420 Shoot baby donkeys. 02:53:22.420 --> 02:53:23.420 Man. 02:53:23.420 --> 02:53:26.700 Man, I can't do this anymore, guys. I don't know. 02:53:37.340 --> 02:53:39.340 So inside is Max leaving us. 02:53:39.340 --> 02:53:43.100 Um, we will be leaving that. I mean, Max lives here, guys. 02:53:43.900 --> 02:53:48.220 We will be leaving Max, which is devastating. 02:53:48.220 --> 02:53:52.540 Alright, we're going to go back over to Cobuck. 02:53:52.540 --> 02:53:57.160 That's where we're going to access Baby City, that's where all the little babies live. 02:53:57.160 --> 02:53:58.660 Shout out we're going to Baby City. 02:53:58.660 --> 02:54:09.060 It's my personal favorite part of working here. 02:54:09.060 --> 02:54:10.060 Bring Max back to Texas. 02:54:10.060 --> 02:54:14.160 Max has a family. 02:54:14.160 --> 02:54:19.200 I want to point out while we're over here as we're passing by, this is our animal infirmary. 02:54:19.920 --> 02:54:24.960 Becky can show you where the new animal clinic is going, but this is our current infirmary. 02:54:26.000 --> 02:54:29.920 It has everything we need to give our animals all the healthcare that they need. There's, 02:54:30.880 --> 02:54:33.760 you know, it doesn't look like the biggest building in the world, but quite a few of 02:54:33.760 --> 02:54:37.760 our animals can fit in there, like our black bears can fit in there. Wow. And behind there 02:54:37.760 --> 02:54:41.840 is our quarantine pen. So if animals need to be separated from the herd or 02:54:41.840 --> 02:54:46.000 when they come in they're always under quarantine for a certain amount of time they live back there 02:54:46.000 --> 02:54:50.560 and also our orphan pen is back there so anytime we get little babies that need some extra attention 02:54:50.560 --> 02:54:57.200 they go behind the infirmary. And so anyone who's a fan of Dr. Oakley has maybe seen this building on 02:54:57.200 --> 02:55:01.680 her shows before. 02:55:01.680 --> 02:55:22.680 Thank you. 02:55:22.680 --> 02:55:25.680 Anonymous, say with a five. 02:55:25.680 --> 02:55:27.680 Thank you! 02:55:34.800 --> 02:55:36.800 We're on our way back, Chris. 02:55:36.800 --> 02:55:38.800 There's a dog eat back here. 02:55:38.800 --> 02:55:40.800 What's the dog's name again? 02:55:40.800 --> 02:55:46.800 Um, trying to see who that is. That's either Riley or Rip back there. 02:55:48.800 --> 02:55:50.800 It's Remy. 02:55:50.800 --> 02:55:52.800 It's Erica, right? 02:55:52.800 --> 02:55:54.800 You guys hear that right there? 02:55:54.800 --> 02:56:00.820 close-up of Cobuck there, who was the first animal we saw. 02:56:09.000 --> 02:56:13.740 Yeah, there's Dearest who we saw sleeping at the beginning. He's like, hey, what are you 02:56:13.740 --> 02:56:23.500 guys doing over there? What's going on? Can I do it? And here's two more of our 02:56:23.500 --> 02:56:28.820 reindeer that I mentioned earlier. This is Neville and Holly are in here. 02:56:28.820 --> 02:56:35.820 There's a river making some cool noises up there. 02:56:35.820 --> 02:56:44.820 Did you hear that? 02:56:44.820 --> 02:56:46.820 Look at this. 02:56:46.820 --> 02:56:48.820 And here she is. 02:56:48.820 --> 02:56:50.820 Baby muscat. 02:56:50.820 --> 02:56:52.820 Did you hear that? 02:56:52.820 --> 02:56:54.820 Look at this thing. 02:56:54.820 --> 02:56:56.820 And here she is, baby Muscat. 02:56:56.820 --> 02:56:58.820 Look at this little thing. 02:56:58.820 --> 02:57:00.820 Tractor. 02:57:02.820 --> 02:57:04.820 Oh my god. Hello, hello. 02:57:04.820 --> 02:57:06.820 Oh my gosh, just some nice fire wings. 02:57:06.820 --> 02:57:08.820 What the hell? 02:57:10.820 --> 02:57:12.820 That's not real. 02:57:12.820 --> 02:57:14.820 Hang it up. 02:57:14.820 --> 02:57:21.200 Oh, oh, oh, trauma. 02:57:21.200 --> 02:57:23.140 Yeah, if we can. 02:57:27.140 --> 02:57:28.560 Just, what's that? 02:57:33.480 --> 02:57:36.180 All right, so, Chris is gonna, this is Brooks. 02:57:36.180 --> 02:57:37.340 She's baby Muscox. 02:57:37.340 --> 02:57:38.580 Suni is her mom. 02:57:38.580 --> 02:57:43.620 We're gonna do a bottle feeding and then feed her some browse, some fire weed, which 02:57:43.620 --> 02:57:46.700 which is a really pretty Alaskan flower. 02:57:46.700 --> 02:57:48.660 I think Chris is gonna give her her bottle 02:57:48.660 --> 02:57:50.700 all the way over there and then we'll walk in there 02:57:50.700 --> 02:57:53.040 and we'll close the door and then we can have some feeding 02:57:53.040 --> 02:57:54.540 and baby muskards time. 02:57:54.540 --> 02:57:55.380 All right, so. 02:57:55.380 --> 02:57:57.220 Maya, this is the famous Howie. 02:57:57.220 --> 02:57:58.900 Hi, nice to meet you. 02:57:58.900 --> 02:57:59.900 Thanks for having us. 02:57:59.900 --> 02:58:00.940 Yeah, thanks for coming. 02:58:00.940 --> 02:58:02.260 Hi, I'm Maya. 02:58:02.260 --> 02:58:03.100 Hi, brother. 02:58:03.100 --> 02:58:03.940 Nice to meet you. 02:58:03.940 --> 02:58:05.780 Nice to meet you. 02:58:05.780 --> 02:58:06.620 All right. 02:58:06.620 --> 02:58:11.620 Okay, sorry, how is it, how is it, how is it, how is it? 02:58:13.620 --> 02:58:16.620 I was wondering how your team was, but I don't see them. 02:58:18.620 --> 02:58:19.620 Hey, quickie. 02:58:21.620 --> 02:58:24.620 Can you keep your phone? You okay? You always need something in each one. 02:58:26.620 --> 02:58:28.620 Chris, do you want me to bring this bucket in? 02:58:28.620 --> 02:58:29.620 Oh, you just need to find a reason. 02:58:29.620 --> 02:58:30.620 There's something in this bucket. 02:58:30.620 --> 02:58:33.620 This is one of the cutest animals I've ever seen in my life. 02:58:33.620 --> 02:58:34.620 Alright. 02:58:38.620 --> 02:58:39.620 Second. 02:58:39.620 --> 02:58:40.620 Are you ready? 02:58:40.620 --> 02:58:41.620 Second. 02:58:41.620 --> 02:58:42.620 Next evolution, go. 02:58:42.620 --> 02:58:47.620 Alright, you can come on in. 02:58:47.620 --> 02:58:50.620 Thank you. 02:58:50.620 --> 02:58:54.620 There we go. 02:59:04.620 --> 02:59:07.620 Cute and cozy. 02:59:07.620 --> 02:59:10.620 Thank you, Holly. 02:59:10.620 --> 02:59:14.340 Alright, I'll have you guys scoot for her so I'll put this guy back. 02:59:14.340 --> 02:59:18.840 Oh my gosh, here she comes, here she is. 02:59:18.840 --> 02:59:21.840 Hello. Hi Brooks. 02:59:21.840 --> 02:59:24.840 Alright, who's all gonna be feeding her? 02:59:24.840 --> 02:59:27.840 Yeah, I'll be right back. 02:59:27.840 --> 02:59:32.840 Alright, so there's 28 ounces and she will drink this in like two seconds. 02:59:32.840 --> 02:59:33.840 Okay. 02:59:33.840 --> 02:59:34.840 And all that. 02:59:34.840 --> 02:59:37.840 So we have everybody who wants to feed her, you guys can. 02:59:37.840 --> 02:59:38.840 Brooks. 02:59:38.840 --> 02:59:40.840 And she loves scratchies, so. 02:59:40.840 --> 02:59:41.840 Scratchies? 02:59:41.840 --> 02:59:42.840 Yeah. 02:59:42.840 --> 02:59:44.840 It's gonna be as soon as you get the bottle, she's gonna last. 02:59:44.840 --> 02:59:47.840 She's gonna kind of jump like that and all that, so. 02:59:47.840 --> 02:59:48.840 Yeah. 02:59:48.840 --> 02:59:52.840 See, I would wait until she's done with the bottle, because sometimes it takes her a second. 02:59:52.840 --> 02:59:55.840 So like, her brain tells her that she's full. 02:59:55.840 --> 02:59:56.840 Not her, she's full. 02:59:56.840 --> 02:59:57.840 She's a lot taller than her. 02:59:57.840 --> 02:59:58.840 Oh my gosh. 03:00:00.840 --> 03:00:01.840 Yeah. 03:00:01.840 --> 03:00:03.840 She's a good girl. 03:00:03.840 --> 03:00:04.840 Next, she gets the bottle. 03:00:04.840 --> 03:00:06.840 She's locked in to be in the screen. 03:00:06.840 --> 03:00:07.840 Thanks man. 03:00:07.840 --> 03:00:09.840 Yeah. How old is she? 03:00:11.840 --> 03:00:12.840 Yeah. 03:00:18.840 --> 03:00:22.840 Just about almost 100 pounds for the last weight we got was about 39 kilos. 03:00:22.840 --> 03:00:23.840 Yeah. 03:00:23.840 --> 03:00:24.840 So she's easing up there. 03:00:24.840 --> 03:00:25.840 Is it 100 pounds? 03:00:25.840 --> 03:00:26.840 Yeah. 03:00:26.840 --> 03:00:27.840 Oh, she's dense. 03:00:27.840 --> 03:00:28.840 Wow. 03:00:28.840 --> 03:00:30.840 Yeah, she's a short and dense girl. 03:00:30.840 --> 03:00:40.840 Josh you smashed this. I'm sorry everyone that's done this. 03:00:40.840 --> 03:00:47.840 We're gonna feed it to her after she's done with her milk. She's getting air there. 03:00:47.840 --> 03:00:52.840 Okay, we see a lot of it. 03:00:52.840 --> 03:00:56.840 Wow, great job. 03:00:56.840 --> 03:01:01.840 It takes her brain a moment to remember that she can't do it anymore. 03:01:01.840 --> 03:01:03.840 She gets so fishy and all that. 03:01:03.840 --> 03:01:05.840 We can get her some fire weed. 03:01:05.840 --> 03:01:10.840 Yeah, once she remembers that the bottle is empty, she'll calm down. 03:01:10.840 --> 03:01:14.840 So yeah, I don't have anything for you, Brooks. 03:01:14.840 --> 03:01:16.840 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, over here. 03:01:16.840 --> 03:01:18.840 A snack. 03:01:18.840 --> 03:01:19.840 There we go. 03:01:19.840 --> 03:01:21.840 Yep. 03:01:21.840 --> 03:01:24.840 Yeah. 03:01:24.840 --> 03:01:31.840 You come in here. 03:01:31.840 --> 03:01:33.840 Snack. 03:01:33.840 --> 03:01:36.840 Oh, you can do it. 03:01:36.840 --> 03:01:38.840 Oh, yeah. 03:01:46.840 --> 03:01:49.840 She's a good girl. 03:01:49.840 --> 03:01:52.840 Yeah, she's a good girl. 03:01:52.840 --> 03:01:59.440 If the fire we get too late, you need to put them up. 03:01:59.440 --> 03:02:02.640 Yeah, she's like the lawn mower. 03:02:02.640 --> 03:02:04.480 So true, they said. 03:02:04.480 --> 03:02:05.160 So true. 03:02:05.160 --> 03:02:07.440 These are all mows by a lawn mower. 03:02:07.440 --> 03:02:09.440 Ha ha ha ha. 03:02:09.440 --> 03:02:11.440 What about a muskowl? 03:02:11.440 --> 03:02:12.440 He's a muskowl. 03:02:12.440 --> 03:02:14.760 And if you guys want to pet her, you're more than welcome to. 03:02:14.760 --> 03:02:17.840 She's used to the pets, and she's super super soft. 03:02:17.840 --> 03:02:19.840 Eating animals. 03:02:19.840 --> 03:02:20.840 I can't move. 03:02:20.840 --> 03:02:22.000 She's saying, you have leaves. 03:02:22.000 --> 03:02:24.000 you have leaves. 03:02:24.000 --> 03:02:26.000 She's coming back. 03:02:26.000 --> 03:02:28.000 I did this for a while, so it's good. 03:02:28.000 --> 03:02:30.000 Do they like belly rubs? 03:02:30.000 --> 03:02:34.000 She loves being touched all over, and that's one of the things, like the 03:02:34.000 --> 03:02:38.000 training that we're working, where they're just being touched, being what we call 03:02:38.000 --> 03:02:42.000 desensed. So as she gets older, she's used to us touching her, using her 03:02:42.000 --> 03:02:46.000 picking up her hooves, getting those, all those pets and those scratches are 03:02:46.000 --> 03:02:50.000 all kind of really good for her. So that way when we work. And then, so what you guys are 03:02:50.000 --> 03:02:54.000 We call it kiddie. It's one of the softest things on the planet. 03:02:54.000 --> 03:02:57.000 She wants all of my icing. 03:03:03.000 --> 03:03:05.000 I need to hold on really tight. 03:03:13.000 --> 03:03:14.000 Super soft. 03:03:14.000 --> 03:03:15.000 Yeah, super soft. 03:03:15.000 --> 03:03:17.000 Can you tell the story of why she's here? 03:03:17.000 --> 03:03:19.000 And why she's under here? 03:03:19.000 --> 03:03:22.360 Yes, so her mom was in our care. 03:03:23.080 --> 03:03:29.020 It's still in our care. Her mom's name is Suni and she's back here being bottle-fed because 03:03:29.960 --> 03:03:33.800 animals, they don't always have the social understanding of when they have a baby. 03:03:33.800 --> 03:03:36.440 Like I have to feed it. I have to take care of it. 03:03:36.640 --> 03:03:42.280 Sometimes they just don't know how to do that and historically muskox are one of those species that don't 03:03:42.680 --> 03:03:48.720 always know like I have to make sure that this thing gets all the things it needs to grow happy and healthy. 03:03:49.000 --> 03:03:53.880 So, in our decision to bottle feed her, we know exactly what she's getting. 03:03:53.880 --> 03:03:55.680 We know exactly how much food she's getting. 03:03:55.680 --> 03:03:58.840 We can weigh her all the time to make sure she's gaining weight. 03:03:58.840 --> 03:04:02.280 We know exactly that she's getting all the minerals that she needs to grow happy and 03:04:02.280 --> 03:04:06.360 helping kind of set her up to live here for the rest of her life. 03:04:06.360 --> 03:04:08.360 She likes yours. 03:04:08.360 --> 03:04:09.360 Solid poop. 03:04:09.360 --> 03:04:11.360 That's such good looking poop. 03:04:11.360 --> 03:04:12.360 That's so hard. 03:04:12.360 --> 03:04:13.360 She's a phenomenal baby. 03:04:13.360 --> 03:04:14.360 That's hard to do. 03:04:14.360 --> 03:04:15.360 Congratulations. 03:04:15.360 --> 03:04:16.360 Yeah, solid poop. 03:04:16.360 --> 03:04:18.360 It's hard to do. Congratulations. 03:04:18.360 --> 03:04:20.360 You're so cool. 03:04:22.360 --> 03:04:24.360 We have to move over there. 03:04:24.360 --> 03:04:26.360 Yeah. 03:04:26.360 --> 03:04:28.360 So big, Sobby. 03:04:30.360 --> 03:04:32.360 Alright, try giving her a belly wrap. 03:04:34.360 --> 03:04:36.360 There's a squat. 03:04:38.360 --> 03:04:40.360 A squat. 03:04:40.360 --> 03:04:42.360 A squat. 03:04:42.360 --> 03:04:44.360 And she was about 20 pounds 03:04:44.360 --> 03:04:50.360 she was born, so she's almost quintupled in size since then. 03:04:52.360 --> 03:04:57.360 She was, she's doing, we layer every Wednesday and every Saturday, she was getting the Keele again. 03:04:57.360 --> 03:05:00.360 So 2.2 pounds per day. 03:05:00.360 --> 03:05:04.360 She's around the girl, she is really big. 03:05:04.360 --> 03:05:08.360 I couldn't deny the feeder all day. 03:05:08.360 --> 03:05:10.360 Yeah, right? 03:05:10.360 --> 03:05:15.240 So along with the formula we feed her we give her a different brows fireweed willow cottonwood 03:05:15.560 --> 03:05:20.600 We also give her she's also got some grain that will feed her to we do some training with that Cheerios 03:05:20.600 --> 03:05:25.080 She really likes some Cheerios, so we'll use them Cheerios and every now and again differs. Yep, exactly 03:05:28.560 --> 03:05:30.880 We got this whole bundle for her so 03:05:40.360 --> 03:05:43.440 There you go, you got it? 03:05:43.440 --> 03:05:44.440 Almost. 03:05:44.440 --> 03:05:48.440 Here, if you want another one, we've got so many. 03:05:48.440 --> 03:05:51.440 Oh, that's eight, nine. 03:05:51.440 --> 03:05:54.440 Can you count all of those? 03:05:54.440 --> 03:05:59.440 I don't know if I can, there's a lot of here. 03:05:59.440 --> 03:06:03.160 So, chat, we've been fundraising for the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. 03:06:03.160 --> 03:06:06.400 All of my, all of our streams being adapt out here in Alaska. 03:06:06.400 --> 03:06:09.540 You guys are pretty simple, but for $50,000 for a bunch of... 03:06:09.540 --> 03:06:12.240 Can we ask a little bit of the Conservation Center? That's where we are right now. 03:06:12.240 --> 03:06:16.440 And those donations go into helping to things like this. 03:06:16.440 --> 03:06:21.320 This is a baby musk ox that is being bottle fed here. 03:06:21.320 --> 03:06:23.740 Thank you so much for watching NaGio Part 3. 03:06:23.740 --> 03:06:27.200 Thank you so much for allowing us to come out here and do stuff like this. 03:06:27.200 --> 03:06:29.360 This is unbelievable. 03:06:29.360 --> 03:06:30.940 It's so cool. 03:06:30.940 --> 03:06:32.860 And this is where your donations are going. 03:06:32.860 --> 03:06:33.860 Thank you. 03:06:33.860 --> 03:06:36.900 This is the cutest animal I've ever seen. 03:06:36.900 --> 03:06:38.860 I mean, what the heck is that in mind? 03:06:38.860 --> 03:06:39.860 Ha? 03:06:39.860 --> 03:06:40.860 Okay. 03:06:40.860 --> 03:06:41.860 Here. 03:06:41.860 --> 03:06:42.860 Here. 03:06:42.860 --> 03:06:43.860 Here. 03:06:43.860 --> 03:06:44.860 Here. 03:06:44.860 --> 03:06:45.860 Here. 03:06:45.860 --> 03:06:46.860 Huh? 03:06:46.860 --> 03:06:47.860 Okay. 03:06:47.860 --> 03:06:48.860 Here. 03:06:48.860 --> 03:06:49.860 Here. 03:06:49.860 --> 03:06:50.860 Here. 03:06:50.860 --> 03:06:51.860 Here. 03:06:51.860 --> 03:06:52.860 Here. 03:06:52.860 --> 03:06:53.860 Here. 03:06:53.860 --> 03:06:54.860 Here. 03:06:54.860 --> 03:06:55.860 Here. 03:06:55.860 --> 03:06:56.860 Here. 03:06:56.860 --> 03:06:57.860 Here. 03:06:57.860 --> 03:06:58.860 Here. 03:06:58.860 --> 03:06:59.860 Here. 03:06:59.860 --> 03:07:00.860 Here. 03:07:00.860 --> 03:07:01.860 Here. 03:07:01.860 --> 03:07:02.860 Here. 03:07:02.860 --> 03:07:05.860 He's so... He's so big. 03:07:16.860 --> 03:07:17.860 Bleh! 03:07:19.860 --> 03:07:20.860 I like it! 03:07:24.860 --> 03:07:26.860 Yo, my face is nice. 03:07:26.860 --> 03:07:27.860 It's the worst one. 03:07:29.860 --> 03:07:30.860 Oh, yeah. 03:07:30.860 --> 03:07:34.860 I got a fan in the house. 03:07:34.860 --> 03:07:37.860 I like fatherly ice cream. 03:07:37.860 --> 03:07:39.860 Really? 03:07:39.860 --> 03:07:40.860 So good. 03:07:40.860 --> 03:07:41.860 Huh? 03:07:41.860 --> 03:07:43.860 You see, I can turn right around. 03:07:43.860 --> 03:07:44.860 Cool. 03:07:44.860 --> 03:07:45.860 Yeah. 03:07:45.860 --> 03:07:46.860 Yeah. 03:07:46.860 --> 03:07:48.860 Do you need to pull it off? 03:07:48.860 --> 03:07:50.860 Oh yeah. 03:07:50.860 --> 03:07:52.860 Oh yeah. 03:07:52.860 --> 03:07:55.860 Just start with a rectangle and then put. 03:07:55.860 --> 03:07:57.860 Because all you need is just like an extra. 03:07:57.860 --> 03:07:58.860 Take some of that. 03:07:58.860 --> 03:07:59.860 Take some of that. 03:07:59.860 --> 03:08:01.860 Just stand true. 03:08:01.860 --> 03:08:03.860 But that's awesome. 03:08:03.860 --> 03:08:08.860 Yeah, we're like if you're making cookies and you're using the butter, that's kind of like some sugar. 03:08:08.860 --> 03:08:10.860 They're just so short. 03:08:10.860 --> 03:08:12.860 Oh my goodness. 03:08:12.860 --> 03:08:16.860 That's exactly what she sounds like. 03:08:16.860 --> 03:08:18.860 Really? 03:08:18.860 --> 03:08:21.860 Exactly what it sounds like. 03:08:21.860 --> 03:08:23.860 Yeah, yeah. 03:08:23.860 --> 03:08:26.860 Oh wow nice. 03:08:26.860 --> 03:08:28.860 Whoa, whoa. 03:08:28.860 --> 03:08:31.860 Oh my gosh. 03:08:31.860 --> 03:08:34.860 He's never seen one that small. 03:08:34.860 --> 03:08:38.860 That was so cute. 03:08:38.860 --> 03:08:41.860 Yeah. 03:08:41.860 --> 03:08:45.860 He's so funny. 03:08:45.860 --> 03:08:47.860 So good. 03:08:47.860 --> 03:08:49.860 I'll beat him. 03:08:49.860 --> 03:08:52.860 What? 03:08:52.860 --> 03:09:09.740 you want me to see oh she wants to she likes yours it's better than yours it 03:09:09.740 --> 03:09:18.980 looks like it I can't get over their ears I really I the way they're pointy 03:09:18.980 --> 03:09:20.980 and up. 03:09:20.980 --> 03:09:22.980 Wow. 03:09:24.980 --> 03:09:27.980 She needs to stay on fire. 03:09:27.980 --> 03:09:29.980 She loves the fire. 03:09:29.980 --> 03:09:31.980 Don't you just watch the 03:09:31.980 --> 03:09:33.980 people out there get to see? 03:09:36.980 --> 03:09:37.980 She's very gentle. 03:09:37.980 --> 03:09:39.980 She's very slow-killed. 03:09:45.980 --> 03:09:47.980 She's so cute. 03:09:48.980 --> 03:09:54.980 What is that animal? This is a muscox. It's a baby muscox. 03:10:18.980 --> 03:10:20.980 I don't like them. 03:10:20.980 --> 03:10:22.980 Wow. 03:10:22.980 --> 03:10:24.980 Yeah. 03:10:24.980 --> 03:10:26.980 I don't think she does either. 03:10:26.980 --> 03:10:28.980 No, no. 03:10:28.980 --> 03:10:30.980 No fun. 03:10:30.980 --> 03:10:32.980 No fun. 03:10:32.980 --> 03:10:34.980 He wants mine. 03:10:34.980 --> 03:10:36.980 He wants no more than mine. 03:10:36.980 --> 03:10:38.980 He, he, he, he, he. 03:10:38.980 --> 03:10:40.980 What's that? 03:10:40.980 --> 03:10:42.980 I don't know if this is going to be wise. 03:10:42.980 --> 03:10:44.980 I would say it's probably 03:10:44.980 --> 03:10:46.980 somewhere between like 03:10:46.980 --> 03:10:48.980 Well 03:11:16.980 --> 03:11:23.980 And then after we release, you cry some more, like you guys don't give me enough food and 03:11:23.980 --> 03:11:26.980 enough attention. 03:11:26.980 --> 03:11:29.980 Well, she's almost eating all the leaves of that. 03:11:29.980 --> 03:11:30.980 Yeah. 03:11:30.980 --> 03:11:32.980 She's a big eater. 03:11:32.980 --> 03:11:33.980 She's a big eater. 03:11:33.980 --> 03:11:34.980 Yeah. 03:11:34.980 --> 03:11:37.980 I think I should take a look back there. 03:11:37.980 --> 03:11:38.980 What is this cutie? 03:11:38.980 --> 03:11:40.980 This is a baby musk ox. 03:11:40.980 --> 03:11:41.980 Oh dear. 03:11:41.980 --> 03:11:42.980 Cool. 03:11:42.980 --> 03:11:43.980 Hi. 03:11:43.980 --> 03:11:52.980 We can see her through the fence. She's not out of her garden yet, but we can walk on over there, but this might join us. 03:11:52.980 --> 03:11:56.980 You guys can follow, press that way, I'll be watching you to see. 03:11:56.980 --> 03:11:58.980 Cool, sure. 03:12:03.980 --> 03:12:10.980 So Chad, it wasn't part of the plan for me to come out here for this. It was just going to be Connor, but I'm really really glad I got to see it. 03:12:10.980 --> 03:12:12.620 I'm glad that you guys are getting to see this too. 03:12:12.620 --> 03:12:17.380 I think it's a special thing to be able to fundraise 03:12:17.380 --> 03:12:18.980 and then see where it's going, you know? 03:12:18.980 --> 03:12:22.820 And live streaming gives us the ability to do that. 03:12:22.820 --> 03:12:24.140 Who's this? 03:12:24.140 --> 03:12:25.580 This is our newest animal we got. 03:12:25.580 --> 03:12:27.620 She's still in quarantines. 03:12:27.620 --> 03:12:28.900 She's a fondly we got. 03:12:31.940 --> 03:12:33.260 So we have the barriers between us. 03:12:33.260 --> 03:12:34.700 So when we go in for quarantine, 03:12:34.700 --> 03:12:36.860 we have to down up and everything 03:12:36.860 --> 03:12:38.180 just because she came from the wall. 03:12:38.180 --> 03:12:40.380 So we just don't know what she has. 03:12:40.380 --> 03:12:42.140 We just want to make sure she's clean before we've 03:12:42.140 --> 03:12:44.940 reintroduced her to any of our population and all that. 03:12:44.940 --> 03:12:47.620 So we have this, I guess, a double barrier in everything. 03:12:47.620 --> 03:12:49.260 When we go in there, I think down all up 03:12:49.260 --> 03:12:51.660 and it takes me 20 minutes to get ready to go in. 03:12:51.660 --> 03:12:52.460 Right. 03:12:52.460 --> 03:12:55.820 Yeah, so she was found over in Fitzwilliam Sound, I believe. 03:12:55.820 --> 03:12:57.340 Is this a black tailed deer? 03:12:57.340 --> 03:12:59.100 Yes, it's a black tailed. 03:12:59.100 --> 03:13:02.060 So she's a couple months old. 03:13:02.060 --> 03:13:03.340 Cool. 03:13:03.340 --> 03:13:05.180 So she's not on a bottle anymore? 03:13:05.180 --> 03:13:06.300 No, she got her. 03:13:06.300 --> 03:13:07.780 She decided that she didn't want the bottle. 03:13:07.780 --> 03:13:09.660 So instead of bottle feeding her, what we do 03:13:09.660 --> 03:13:14.020 We just take the milk dump it right into a bowl and then she just easy. Yep. That's great news 03:13:14.900 --> 03:13:16.900 Really happy for you guys 03:13:17.060 --> 03:13:22.820 She's kind of got that like Goldilocks zone. So if it's too cold, she won't drink it too warm not enough 03:13:22.820 --> 03:13:25.900 So they get that right temperature and she'll drink all of it every single time 03:13:27.060 --> 03:13:31.380 So yeah, she's kind of cool that she's like our newest one and she's getting used to you know 03:13:31.620 --> 03:13:37.860 Already used to people which will come right up to us and you know, just like lots of love and attention 03:13:39.660 --> 03:13:44.660 Look at this little thing. 03:13:44.660 --> 03:13:49.660 Who's this thing? 03:13:49.660 --> 03:13:57.660 Oh my gosh. 03:13:57.660 --> 03:13:58.660 Hello. 03:13:58.660 --> 03:14:03.660 Do you have a new friend? 03:14:03.660 --> 03:14:06.660 A new dear friend. 03:14:06.660 --> 03:14:08.660 A new dear friend. 03:14:36.660 --> 03:14:38.660 day before they hit their first birthday? 03:14:38.660 --> 03:14:40.660 Yeah. 03:14:40.660 --> 03:14:43.660 How big of a day are you going to do your first real cold talk? 03:14:43.660 --> 03:14:46.660 Yeah, probably around this size, maybe a little bit more. 03:14:46.660 --> 03:14:49.660 You said she's gaining about two pounds a week right now. 03:14:49.660 --> 03:14:50.660 A day. 03:14:50.660 --> 03:14:51.660 A day. 03:14:51.660 --> 03:14:57.660 So maybe by the time it hits October or November, she could... 03:14:57.660 --> 03:14:59.660 She was a day? 03:14:59.660 --> 03:15:01.660 Yeah, she gained, like I said, we weighed her on Wednesday. 03:15:01.660 --> 03:15:03.660 She was 36.3 kilos. 03:15:03.660 --> 03:15:04.660 I weighed her on Saturday. 03:15:04.660 --> 03:15:11.180 So she could be probably close to double the size by the time like winter release sets in 03:15:11.820 --> 03:15:14.500 They're about 20 pounds when they're born and 03:15:15.340 --> 03:15:18.800 She even is she's so much bigger now when she was born 03:15:20.700 --> 03:15:24.700 I have three-day weekends I come back and I can and I just in the three-day week 03:15:24.700 --> 03:15:27.900 It's like yeah, you can tell a huge difference in your size and all that 03:15:27.900 --> 03:15:34.980 Darking says, I'm in love with this baby Muskox and she doesn't get everything she wants 03:15:34.980 --> 03:15:36.980 for the rest of her life, I'll die. 03:15:36.980 --> 03:15:39.980 She gets pretty much everything she wants. 03:15:39.980 --> 03:15:43.980 I fear more than what she wants. 03:15:43.980 --> 03:15:50.980 Oh my goodness, in that form it's just adorable. 03:15:50.980 --> 03:15:55.980 Yummy. Wow. Snack. 03:16:00.980 --> 03:16:04.980 What plant is she eating? This is called fireweed. 03:16:05.980 --> 03:16:09.980 And I guess flowers are edible for people too. It's a thing. 03:16:09.980 --> 03:16:11.980 Find that out later. 03:16:11.980 --> 03:16:15.980 Flowers, the petals are edible. People can make syrup out of them. 03:16:15.980 --> 03:16:17.980 Cool. 03:16:17.980 --> 03:16:24.460 We're actually going to try to make a tea out of it and then so we can so be able to bottle feed her after she's off the bottle 03:16:24.460 --> 03:16:26.960 Yeah, we use it for training enrichment. Oh 03:16:27.580 --> 03:16:32.220 I'm doing a training session. We can have somebody present a bottle. You know, we can be able to pick up her hooves 03:16:32.220 --> 03:16:37.000 Yeah, I did already sweet. So it just gives us more more things to kind of work with these guys 03:16:37.940 --> 03:16:39.940 Your wolf is going 03:16:47.980 --> 03:17:03.460 We'll get a replacement mic jet. 03:17:03.460 --> 03:17:16.900 So cool. 03:17:16.900 --> 03:17:18.900 Moose they said. 03:17:18.900 --> 03:17:20.900 Ginda. 03:17:20.900 --> 03:17:22.900 They got four legs. 03:17:22.900 --> 03:17:24.900 Yeah they got four legs they're brown. 03:17:24.900 --> 03:17:26.900 Don't get boss on there. 03:17:26.900 --> 03:17:28.900 When's the boss that brown? 03:17:28.900 --> 03:17:32.900 I think closer to a deer or the only reference I have is 03:17:32.900 --> 03:17:34.900 a maple and she was 03:17:34.900 --> 03:17:36.900 later than normal. 03:17:36.900 --> 03:17:38.900 Gotcha. 03:17:38.900 --> 03:17:40.900 Wow. 03:17:40.900 --> 03:17:42.900 No horns yet. 03:17:42.900 --> 03:17:45.200 Very rectangular legs, snacking. 03:17:47.300 --> 03:17:52.300 All right, child, one last shot with the cutest animal alive. 03:17:53.340 --> 03:17:56.380 This is Brooks, the baby muskox. 03:17:56.380 --> 03:17:58.140 She's a legend. 03:17:58.140 --> 03:18:00.940 Adelaide Wildlife Conservation Center. 03:18:00.940 --> 03:18:02.380 Thank you guys for fundraising. 03:18:02.380 --> 03:18:03.540 Thank you for watching. 03:18:03.540 --> 03:18:04.740 We're not done yet with stream, 03:18:04.740 --> 03:18:07.580 but we're gonna say goodbye to Brooks. 03:18:07.580 --> 03:18:11.140 Goodbye, you're so cute, I love you. 03:18:11.140 --> 03:18:17.140 Oh, yeah, on the Polaroid, another Polaroid shot. 03:18:25.140 --> 03:18:27.140 You want to take a picture? You want to come in? 03:18:27.140 --> 03:18:29.140 Come over here, we'll take a picture. 03:18:30.140 --> 03:18:31.140 Ready? 03:18:31.140 --> 03:18:32.140 Ready? 03:18:32.140 --> 03:18:33.140 Ready? 03:18:33.140 --> 03:18:34.140 Ready? 03:18:34.140 --> 03:18:35.140 Ready? 03:18:35.140 --> 03:18:36.140 Ready? 03:18:36.140 --> 03:18:37.140 Ready? 03:18:37.140 --> 03:18:38.140 Ready? 03:18:38.140 --> 03:18:39.140 Ready? 03:18:39.140 --> 03:18:52.140 Alright. So soft. So cool. Thank you guys. 03:18:52.140 --> 03:18:57.140 Okay. 03:18:57.140 --> 03:19:02.140 Thirst for blood. 03:19:02.140 --> 03:19:08.140 So Conor was saying you guys didn't hear him. Conor has slept in there multiple times. 03:19:08.140 --> 03:19:13.140 I can intern bottle feeding muskox back in like 2014. 03:19:23.140 --> 03:19:29.140 You're good. We uh, Christina's mic is dead. 03:19:29.140 --> 03:19:31.140 I don't know if you have another one or if you just want to... 03:19:31.140 --> 03:19:33.140 I can swap it with his mic. 03:19:33.140 --> 03:19:35.140 Oh, thank you. 03:19:35.140 --> 03:19:37.140 We're running down. 03:19:37.140 --> 03:19:39.140 I don't know. 03:19:39.140 --> 03:19:41.140 Alright. 03:19:41.140 --> 03:19:43.140 Snack is through the fence. 03:19:43.140 --> 03:19:45.140 Cool. 03:19:45.140 --> 03:19:47.140 So cool. 03:19:47.140 --> 03:19:49.140 What an unbelievable animal. 03:19:49.140 --> 03:19:51.140 Yeah, I mean that's like... 03:19:51.140 --> 03:19:53.140 That's one of the cutest animals I've ever seen in my life. 03:19:53.140 --> 03:19:55.140 Yes. 03:19:55.140 --> 03:19:59.880 I for the first time ever got to meet some rhinos this last year like one-on-one 03:19:59.880 --> 03:20:05.840 Yeah, and I actually got to meet a 10-day-old rhino, and I officially have 03:20:05.840 --> 03:20:12.140 decided that must-gox are hairy rhinos. Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. 03:20:18.140 --> 03:20:20.140 Hi buddy! Hello! 03:20:25.140 --> 03:20:27.140 Oh, Rich. 03:20:32.140 --> 03:20:37.140 Um, actually, so, like, above my door, there's that dog in the middle picture. 03:20:37.140 --> 03:20:41.140 That was my husband, Shepard, who actually passed away this winter. 03:20:41.140 --> 03:20:47.140 But she raised all the wolves and helped introduce new wolves to each other, 03:20:47.140 --> 03:20:49.140 and worked out their way. 03:20:49.140 --> 03:20:52.140 Karate's a just giant, ten-haired, stupid dog. 03:20:52.140 --> 03:20:54.140 I don't know if they know what to do. 03:20:56.140 --> 03:21:00.140 But they believe we're the year-round care team who's so high up that I live back here. 03:21:06.140 --> 03:21:07.140 Sorry. 03:21:07.140 --> 03:21:08.140 No. 03:21:08.140 --> 03:21:09.140 I'm sorry you made it. 03:21:09.140 --> 03:21:10.140 Oh, of course. 03:21:10.140 --> 03:21:12.140 Thank you so much for having us. 03:21:12.140 --> 03:21:13.140 The weather's working for you guys. 03:21:13.140 --> 03:21:14.140 Yeah, it's been awesome. 03:21:14.140 --> 03:21:17.140 Oh, we got lucky I heard that the weather was awesome. 03:21:17.140 --> 03:21:18.140 It was. 03:21:18.140 --> 03:21:21.140 Yeah, and we got some cool wildlife spotting. 03:21:21.140 --> 03:21:25.080 and we got a salmon shark, links. 03:21:25.080 --> 03:21:27.780 We saw a juvenile wolf eel out there. 03:21:27.780 --> 03:21:29.060 That sounds freaking awesome. 03:21:29.060 --> 03:21:30.020 So cool. 03:21:31.120 --> 03:21:32.120 What else? 03:21:32.120 --> 03:21:33.980 Birds, herior hawks, foxes. 03:21:33.980 --> 03:21:34.820 Oh nice. 03:21:34.820 --> 03:21:36.620 Yeah, yeah, it was sweet. 03:21:37.620 --> 03:21:39.980 It was a success for children. 03:21:39.980 --> 03:21:40.820 I see. 03:21:40.820 --> 03:21:42.540 He loves people so much. 03:21:42.540 --> 03:21:44.980 And he is obsessed with children in particular. 03:21:44.980 --> 03:21:48.900 He was like, please let me see him. 03:21:48.900 --> 03:21:49.740 I could look at him. 03:21:49.740 --> 03:21:53.340 Would you mind introducing yourself to the, cause the stream is right here, sorry. 03:21:53.340 --> 03:21:54.340 Oh, yeah. 03:21:54.340 --> 03:21:55.340 Oh, no. 03:21:55.340 --> 03:22:02.780 I'm Howie, I'm the currently servicing executive director for the Wildlife Center, but started 03:22:02.780 --> 03:22:10.580 as an intern 16 years ago, worked with Connor there at one point there in those years, and 03:22:10.580 --> 03:22:15.780 somehow, and Kayla, and yeah, there's a whole crew of folks that, Lindsey, everybody 03:22:15.780 --> 03:22:16.980 So you're still all together? 03:22:16.980 --> 03:22:20.060 Yeah, you guys are all still connected on the next sample. 03:22:20.060 --> 03:22:25.060 And since 2000, just before COVID, my husband and I 03:22:25.060 --> 03:22:27.740 were asked to move out here to be the year-round caretaker. 03:22:27.740 --> 03:22:32.780 So that's why he's here, because he's part of my Paw Patrol. 03:22:32.780 --> 03:22:34.420 It goes around with me in the evenings just 03:22:34.420 --> 03:22:35.580 to keep an eye on everything. 03:22:35.580 --> 03:22:36.580 Awesome. 03:22:36.580 --> 03:22:37.080 Yeah. 03:22:37.080 --> 03:22:37.580 Yeah. 03:22:37.580 --> 03:22:39.980 OK, guys, so this is, if you are just now tuning in, 03:22:39.980 --> 03:22:42.100 which I know a lot of you have been here for this whole stream, 03:22:42.100 --> 03:22:44.180 but we are at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. 03:22:44.180 --> 03:22:46.100 and we've been fundraising for them for the past week. 03:22:46.100 --> 03:22:47.860 We are over $50,000. 03:22:47.860 --> 03:22:48.340 Amazing. 03:22:48.340 --> 03:22:49.940 Crazy. 03:22:49.940 --> 03:22:51.660 And it's been cool to tour this facility 03:22:51.660 --> 03:22:53.500 so you guys can see the operations and where 03:22:53.500 --> 03:22:54.460 your donations are going. 03:22:54.460 --> 03:22:56.580 Tons of really cool conservation work, rehabilitation 03:22:56.580 --> 03:22:57.740 work, education work. 03:22:57.740 --> 03:22:59.580 And they're giving us a really special tour today. 03:22:59.580 --> 03:23:00.700 So thank you for having us. 03:23:00.700 --> 03:23:01.420 Thanks for coming. 03:23:01.420 --> 03:23:02.260 Of course. 03:23:02.260 --> 03:23:03.580 Of course. 03:23:03.580 --> 03:23:04.460 It's been great. 03:23:04.460 --> 03:23:06.460 Christina, I've been watching you guys 03:23:06.460 --> 03:23:07.300 as you've been walking around. 03:23:07.300 --> 03:23:08.020 Oh, sweet. 03:23:08.020 --> 03:23:09.500 Your streaming is super great. 03:23:09.500 --> 03:23:10.380 Thank you. 03:23:10.380 --> 03:23:12.820 I need to speak to you guys. 03:23:12.820 --> 03:23:13.980 There's a tiny human. 03:23:13.980 --> 03:23:16.420 This is a very special tour for Riggs. 03:23:16.420 --> 03:23:20.420 In Riggs, she's so in Riggs. 03:23:20.420 --> 03:23:23.420 Just want some food for every new children. 03:23:23.420 --> 03:23:25.420 Children out of here. 03:23:25.420 --> 03:23:26.420 Oh, good. 03:23:26.420 --> 03:23:28.420 We've got one last printer for you guys to meet. 03:23:28.420 --> 03:23:30.420 You guys have to go meet Taz. 03:23:30.420 --> 03:23:32.420 I don't know who Taz is, but I'm down. 03:23:32.420 --> 03:23:34.420 She's the star of the show. 03:23:34.420 --> 03:23:38.420 I've said that for all of them, but she really, for me, is perfect. 03:23:38.420 --> 03:23:40.420 She's the queen. 03:23:40.420 --> 03:23:42.420 Okay. 03:23:42.420 --> 03:23:43.380 All right, have fun. 03:23:43.380 --> 03:23:45.340 Thank you, Zoe. 03:23:45.340 --> 03:23:47.820 Taz is for Taslina. 03:23:47.820 --> 03:23:51.300 She is a black bear cub that came into our care. 03:23:51.300 --> 03:23:53.660 She is from Tachican, Alaska, which 03:23:53.660 --> 03:23:56.380 is the southernmost city in Alaska. 03:23:56.380 --> 03:24:00.460 She was orphaned on the northern end of that island 03:24:00.460 --> 03:24:02.420 in Alaska to perm and fishing game. 03:24:02.420 --> 03:24:04.620 Watched her for a couple of days. 03:24:04.620 --> 03:24:05.940 Mom did not return. 03:24:05.940 --> 03:24:08.340 So she was brought into our care. 03:24:08.340 --> 03:24:12.340 We're going to feed her a little bit of her diet. 03:24:12.340 --> 03:24:18.100 And so she is also just a couple of months old black bears are typically born in January 03:24:18.100 --> 03:24:23.460 and February and March and then they usually come out of the den in June and they're eight 03:24:23.460 --> 03:24:25.020 ounces when they're born. 03:24:25.020 --> 03:24:29.220 So she's put out a lot of weight since she was born. 03:24:29.220 --> 03:24:30.500 So a very interesting way to feed. 03:24:30.500 --> 03:24:31.500 I'm going to hand you this. 03:24:31.500 --> 03:24:33.900 You're just going to take that and choose it because it's so gentle. 03:24:33.900 --> 03:24:34.900 Amazing. 03:24:34.900 --> 03:24:36.780 That's exactly how you feel back there. 03:24:36.780 --> 03:24:42.300 And Chad if you didn't see this is her inside space that she's choosing to sit 03:24:42.300 --> 03:24:48.020 in but she's got a whole outside space as well. Yeah and as she continues to grow 03:24:48.020 --> 03:24:53.940 we'll keep expanding and expanding and expanding that outside space. 03:24:56.860 --> 03:25:03.540 She's so cute are you kidding me? Yeah it's kind of ridiculous. Grape. 03:25:03.540 --> 03:25:05.540 Yay, grape. 03:25:07.540 --> 03:25:10.540 That berry, we give her all the good stuff. 03:25:15.540 --> 03:25:17.540 That looks strawberry for you. 03:25:17.540 --> 03:25:19.540 They're so gentle. 03:25:19.540 --> 03:25:20.540 So gentle, yeah. 03:25:20.540 --> 03:25:21.540 Yeah. 03:25:21.540 --> 03:25:24.540 I've worked around like a lot of large carnivores, big cats and stuff, 03:25:24.540 --> 03:25:28.540 but bears, they're just, I mean, they will literally eat one piece of food at a time. 03:25:28.540 --> 03:25:33.480 You guys met our the big Grizzlies that we have our frumbers and they'll like each piece of kibble 03:25:33.480 --> 03:25:38.880 It's it's great hilarious, but it's also very time-consuming when you try to feed them. Yeah, they're all that 03:25:39.520 --> 03:25:41.520 Blueberry 03:25:46.980 --> 03:25:51.840 I want to swap out with Max here because I think he would die 03:25:55.240 --> 03:25:57.240 Yeah 03:25:58.540 --> 03:26:01.120 Do you want to feed her a couple pieces? 03:26:01.120 --> 03:26:03.040 Yeah, go for it. 03:26:08.040 --> 03:26:10.040 Oh no. 03:26:10.040 --> 03:26:12.040 He's carrying small children. 03:26:16.540 --> 03:26:19.040 Max is carrying small children. 03:26:19.040 --> 03:26:21.040 I'll spare her. 03:26:21.040 --> 03:26:23.040 Oh, good job, Trot. 03:26:23.040 --> 03:26:26.040 Go Blueberry. 03:26:28.540 --> 03:26:33.540 Wow, she's so cute! She's got eyelashes. 03:26:33.540 --> 03:26:35.540 She's a beautiful girl. 03:26:35.540 --> 03:26:37.540 She's a beautiful girl. 03:26:37.540 --> 03:26:39.540 Down here if you guys want to come in. 03:26:39.540 --> 03:26:41.540 You can go. 03:26:41.540 --> 03:26:42.540 You're not going. She's like, 03:26:42.540 --> 03:26:44.540 what do you mean I don't get the rest of my girls? 03:26:44.540 --> 03:26:45.540 I'm not. 03:26:45.540 --> 03:26:47.540 Because this is where I'm going to show everybody 03:26:47.540 --> 03:26:49.540 the favorite thing. Come on. 03:26:49.540 --> 03:26:51.540 I know. 03:26:51.540 --> 03:26:53.540 Can we do work? 03:26:53.540 --> 03:26:55.540 Wow! 03:26:55.540 --> 03:26:57.540 That's what you can do. 03:26:57.540 --> 03:27:00.540 Show you this. You have to stand up. You can see that big belly. 03:27:00.540 --> 03:27:01.540 Wow! 03:27:01.540 --> 03:27:02.540 There's that belly. 03:27:02.540 --> 03:27:03.540 It's so tall there. 03:27:03.540 --> 03:27:04.540 Yep. 03:27:04.540 --> 03:27:07.540 There you can just reach in there. 03:27:07.540 --> 03:27:09.540 Here we go. 03:27:09.540 --> 03:27:10.540 Oh. 03:27:10.540 --> 03:27:13.540 What do you smell? 03:27:13.540 --> 03:27:15.540 They're all tall. 03:27:15.540 --> 03:27:19.540 Hello. 03:27:19.540 --> 03:27:23.540 So her diet is fruits, veggies, kibble. 03:27:23.540 --> 03:27:24.540 Protein, yeah. 03:27:24.540 --> 03:27:25.540 Raw? 03:27:25.540 --> 03:27:30.020 Yeah, about blackberries diets, usually about 80% is based around fruits and vegetables, 03:27:30.020 --> 03:27:35.540 about 20% is based around proteins or meat. 03:27:35.540 --> 03:27:37.060 And even now, it's kind of out in the wild. 03:27:37.060 --> 03:27:42.580 These guys eat a lot of woolly bugs and bark and plant matter, so we kind of mimic the 03:27:42.580 --> 03:27:43.580 same thing. 03:27:43.580 --> 03:27:47.500 Fruits and vegetables, I mean, she'll always work for, or loves eating strawberries 03:27:47.500 --> 03:27:51.580 berries, so we always, this is always the best part for her day. 03:27:51.580 --> 03:27:58.940 And then, are you guys doing any training with her yet? 03:27:58.940 --> 03:28:01.860 Yeah, so we've started doing some just basic behaviors. 03:28:01.860 --> 03:28:04.740 So we can target train her, we have a target pole. 03:28:04.740 --> 03:28:08.100 She had a crate underneath there, but being a bear, she destroys everything. 03:28:08.100 --> 03:28:09.100 Right. 03:28:09.100 --> 03:28:11.460 So she ruined her crate, so we have to get her a new one. 03:28:11.460 --> 03:28:14.340 With a teacher, she can like raise one paw. 03:28:14.340 --> 03:28:17.940 We're working on just stationing, so she's got that little station out there. 03:28:17.940 --> 03:28:19.800 So when we have to go in and feed her, 03:28:19.800 --> 03:28:22.360 she goes to her window leg and she'll stay in there. 03:28:22.360 --> 03:28:24.800 So we're just kind of working basic behaviors right now. 03:28:24.800 --> 03:28:26.120 And then eventually we'll start working 03:28:26.120 --> 03:28:27.560 a little bit more complicated things. 03:28:27.560 --> 03:28:30.640 Like she knows how to go on a scale and weigh herself. 03:28:30.640 --> 03:28:32.240 So anything we can do to involve it, 03:28:32.240 --> 03:28:33.920 just make her health care and make the care of her 03:28:33.920 --> 03:28:35.320 a lot easier and better here. 03:28:36.200 --> 03:28:37.320 So you just see, like I said, 03:28:37.320 --> 03:28:39.640 even if you want to, you can grab like something 03:28:39.640 --> 03:28:42.280 you can have her just hold it above her head again 03:28:42.280 --> 03:28:43.840 and she'll stand up together. 03:28:43.840 --> 03:28:44.880 So just even things like that, 03:28:44.880 --> 03:28:46.640 because we can get a look at her claws, 03:28:46.640 --> 03:28:47.640 She doesn't know how to do belly. 03:28:47.640 --> 03:28:49.640 You just kind of get an overall look. 03:28:49.640 --> 03:28:50.640 Yep. 03:28:50.640 --> 03:28:51.640 Oh, yeah. 03:28:51.640 --> 03:28:55.840 So, yeah, just doing those basic things like that, you know, helps us just get a good overlook 03:28:55.840 --> 03:28:57.880 of her own health care. 03:28:57.880 --> 03:29:00.920 She doesn't realize that she's participating in her own health care. 03:29:00.920 --> 03:29:01.920 She just gets to do those things. 03:29:01.920 --> 03:29:04.760 We think it's really cute, but it gives us a good look at, you know, things that we 03:29:04.760 --> 03:29:06.320 would not have looked at all the time. 03:29:06.320 --> 03:29:07.320 Yeah. 03:29:07.320 --> 03:29:09.760 And then did you say, did you bottle her when she came in? 03:29:09.760 --> 03:29:10.760 Nope. 03:29:10.760 --> 03:29:11.760 No. 03:29:11.760 --> 03:29:12.760 Okay. 03:29:12.760 --> 03:29:13.760 I think we gave her a little bit of formula. 03:29:13.760 --> 03:29:16.360 We mixed it in with her dog kibble. 03:29:16.360 --> 03:29:18.160 But we never did any bottle feeding with her. 03:29:18.160 --> 03:29:20.360 So as soon as we got her, she's always 03:29:20.360 --> 03:29:23.960 kind of on some sort of like a solid food. 03:29:23.960 --> 03:29:24.760 So she's so cute. 03:29:24.760 --> 03:29:27.240 I'm going to explode. 03:29:27.240 --> 03:29:30.600 And then are you guys all protected contact with her? 03:29:30.600 --> 03:29:31.720 We are. 03:29:31.720 --> 03:29:33.560 We're still going in with her. 03:29:33.560 --> 03:29:36.480 Just to be able to serve her clean. 03:29:36.480 --> 03:29:40.160 She still doesn't work in some shift training. 03:29:40.160 --> 03:29:42.040 Her outdoor cage is paired up to one 03:29:42.040 --> 03:29:46.360 of our other- I can eat black bears or working on introductions with them- so 03:29:46.360 --> 03:29:50.080 they get- used to each other the goal is the hope that- bears are solitary 03:29:50.080 --> 03:29:54.560 animals- but the goal be if these two show interest in so that they can- be 03:29:54.560 --> 03:29:58.920 happy together well let him- kind of live in that exact not exhibit together- 03:29:58.920 --> 03:30:01.320 sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't so we're just kind of you know 03:30:01.320 --> 03:30:04.000 we let them decide what they want to do if she doesn't want to go meet 03:30:04.000 --> 03:30:07.160 co-blocking. You know be with him and that's fine. We have other places we 03:30:07.160 --> 03:30:10.560 can always house her. It's crazy she doesn't tear those up or does she. 03:30:10.560 --> 03:30:15.880 She didn't mean you can see that she did rip the head up. She actually did have a giant raccoon that how he bought her 03:30:16.280 --> 03:30:21.960 And she ripped the paw open and started giving the stuffing so she lost the raccoon privileges 03:30:31.800 --> 03:30:33.800 Do you want another? 03:30:35.200 --> 03:30:37.200 Over it 03:30:37.200 --> 03:30:47.200 Making room. Making some room. Yep. 03:30:47.200 --> 03:30:53.200 Blueberry. 03:30:53.200 --> 03:30:57.200 That smells nice. 03:30:57.200 --> 03:31:03.200 How much does she eat in a day, they asked. 03:31:03.200 --> 03:31:12.200 We just upped her diet. She's getting around 2,100 grams, I think, a day. 03:31:12.200 --> 03:31:17.200 So roughly about, we try to aim for about 8 to 10 percent of her body weight. 03:31:17.200 --> 03:31:24.200 So we weigh her every couple weeks and then we adjust her diet to that so we can keep her in a range. 03:31:26.200 --> 03:31:28.200 Yeah, a couple more. 03:31:28.200 --> 03:31:40.200 Chot lost two pieces, Chot blueberry, success. 03:31:40.200 --> 03:31:43.200 Thank you so much. 03:31:43.200 --> 03:31:44.200 You're welcome. 03:31:44.200 --> 03:31:45.200 How cool. 03:31:45.200 --> 03:31:46.200 Mm-hmm. 03:31:46.200 --> 03:31:51.200 I lost my shot. 03:31:51.200 --> 03:31:52.200 Hello. 03:31:52.200 --> 03:31:57.200 Wiccan, I see you again. 03:31:57.200 --> 03:31:59.200 Yeah she just choose to hang out. 03:31:59.200 --> 03:32:00.200 Inside. 03:32:02.200 --> 03:32:03.200 Cool. 03:32:03.200 --> 03:32:04.200 Wow. 03:32:06.200 --> 03:32:08.200 She's so gorgeous. 03:32:08.200 --> 03:32:10.200 She's a really special bear. 03:32:10.200 --> 03:32:12.200 So cool. 03:32:12.200 --> 03:32:13.200 So cool. 03:32:13.200 --> 03:32:15.200 Do bears actually eat honey IRL? 03:32:15.200 --> 03:32:16.200 I think they would. 03:32:16.200 --> 03:32:18.200 Yeah they definitely do. 03:32:18.200 --> 03:32:21.200 We will sometimes use it especially for like enrichment 03:32:21.200 --> 03:32:24.200 or if we're asking them to do something extra special 03:32:24.200 --> 03:32:25.200 we'll give them honey. 03:32:25.200 --> 03:32:30.320 in the wild if they find honey they're gonna go ham yeah gonna eat it really 03:32:30.320 --> 03:32:35.560 just about anything bears are kind of the only animal I'd say that for they just 03:32:35.560 --> 03:32:39.040 about everything yeah I don't I don't think you guys heard but she was making 03:32:39.040 --> 03:32:43.520 some noise when we were in there yeah she was like you love you want to see 03:32:43.520 --> 03:32:52.520 the other baby cool thank you guys so much thank you guys for coming and for 03:32:52.520 --> 03:32:55.880 supporting us. It's like, you know, the least we could do. 03:32:57.160 --> 03:33:02.600 Of course. I'm so glad you guys got to see it. Chat, thank you so much for all of your donations. 03:33:02.600 --> 03:33:07.160 Are we rapping? Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much for all of your donations. Thank you for watching 03:33:07.160 --> 03:33:12.280 all of the Not Geostreams of the Daft. Over $50,000 is unbelievable. I'm so glad you guys got 03:33:12.280 --> 03:33:15.080 to see this facility. I'm so glad I got to see the facility because I wasn't going to be here 03:33:15.080 --> 03:33:19.400 originally either. It was just going to be Connor. So very, very special place. I'm 03:33:19.400 --> 03:33:22.400 I'm stoked to have seen it, and I'm really glad that you guys got to see all of this. 03:33:22.400 --> 03:33:23.960 And we got some really special stuff today. 03:33:23.960 --> 03:33:25.680 So thank you for, thank you for doing that. 03:33:25.680 --> 03:33:26.920 Thank you guys for coming. 03:33:26.920 --> 03:33:31.480 We can't say enough good things about what you guys and your gifts to us. 03:33:31.480 --> 03:33:34.320 So thanks for showing us off and meeting the babies. 03:33:34.320 --> 03:33:36.840 And we appreciate you guys so, so much. 03:33:36.840 --> 03:33:37.960 Of course. 03:33:37.960 --> 03:33:38.480 Sweet. 03:33:38.480 --> 03:33:39.480 All right. 03:33:39.480 --> 03:33:40.480 All right, that's going to be it guys. 03:33:40.480 --> 03:33:44.200 I will see you either tomorrow or Tuesday. 03:33:44.200 --> 03:33:46.160 And we got, we got a recap to do. 03:33:46.160 --> 03:33:47.240 Thank you for watching. 03:33:47.240 --> 03:33:48.080 Conor, anything else? 03:33:49.400 --> 03:33:53.240 Thank you guys so much, stay hard. 03:33:53.240 --> 03:34:00.320 Bye guys, I'll see you in a bit, good bye, good bye, good bye, good bye. 03:34:00.320 --> 03:34:03.000 Also say bye to Max, go check him out, trailbound sketches. 03:34:03.000 --> 03:34:05.000 He's hand-drying the children somewhere. 03:34:05.000 --> 03:34:05.500 Sweet.