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Feb. 16, 2024 - Rudy Giuliani
01:19:22
America's Mayor Live (E344): Fani Willis & Nathan Wade on Trial
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I can't imagine I have.
And if you're interested, I can't even say if you love animals, if you're interested in life, you're going to want to come here.
And we're going to have them on very, very shortly.
But today I had a personal stake in a number of the things that were going on.
Number one, a fanny, fanny, quite contrary, and I love a boy.
Now, how would you feel If these people get on the witness stand, I'm sorry, they look like liars to me, but even if they're not lying, she's his boss.
She is running the most sensitive case in the United States.
She hires him at a ridiculous amount of money.
I know what you pay to prosecutors.
She's paying about four times what you would normally pay.
I also know something that none of the wise guy lawyers pointed out.
She doubled The fee.
She doubled the fee by having an unnecessary grand jury.
She had a grand jury before the grand jury.
We don't do rehearsals for grand juries.
I mean, grand jury has been around since the Magna Carta.
I don't think there's ever been a rehearsal grand jury.
I've probably done 5,000 grand juries.
What she did was she had a first grand jury, She called all the witnesses of the first grand jury.
You were told when you went, because I went and testified.
They can't indict.
They just make a report.
Now, they were a bunch of.
They were unorthodox.
They were unorthodox.
How about this?
If you go on a grand jury now, I've been in grand juries with a considering cases of some of the worst criminals in the world.
Right?
Mafia, terrorists, Nazis, major Wall Street criminals.
At the end of my grand jury testimony, four different people asked for pictures.
We didn't used to give pictures in the grand jury.
Five autographs, a kiss on the cheek.
And then I was asked to go to Fannie Fannie Quite Contrary's office because she wanted to talk to me.
Well, I thought maybe, I don't know what she wanted.
She wanted to tell me how she always thought I was a great prosecutor.
Only thing she's right about.
And, uh, so my lawyer, Bob Costello, who is a great lawyer, and I don't, you know, he's right about everything else.
He said, Oh, she's not going to indict you.
She likes you.
She admires you.
And that guy waved.
I said, I can feel slime.
I've been dealing with it too long.
I can just feel it.
I can feel slime.
And by the way, the one thing for sure was, he didn't know what he was doing.
This guy hadn't even taken, you know, grand jury litigation for dummies.
This was a terrible thing.
That she's paying him a premium to do this is ridiculous.
She has to have 10 people in her office that could have done this like that.
And by the way, it's not an easy case if it were a real one.
But it's not a real racketeering case.
The whole case is a make-believe case.
And I kept saying to myself, why are we doing this grand jury?
And so did Bob.
Of course, the minute I found out about the money, I got it.
That means she can pay him not 500, but a million.
Do it twice.
Their explanations today were close to idiotic.
He bought the tickets.
And she reimbursed, like, he bought the plane tickets, I'd say for $4,000.
She went into her little cash purse, because she carries around four or five grand with her.
She paid him off in cash.
He was certain of one thing, very little was he certain of.
He was certain of one thing.
He never got paid by check, and he never got paid where there's a receipt.
Now, He had a pretty bad memory.
Why would he be, why would he remember that?
Cause it's easier to remember cause it never happened.
It's easy to remember when it never happened.
You really see, you really see Fannie going into that purse.
Didn't look all that big and reaching in and pulling out a grand, two grand, three grand.
Oh, by the way, they have no, did I have to tell you they have no receipts?
You know, they have no receipts, right?
They have no receipts.
She claims she always kept large amounts of money around the house for some reason.
So now it should be pretty easy for the IRS to take a look at her bank accounts and where that money came from.
Fannie, were you reporting it?
We got some reported cash on your tax returns.
Fannie, you know this is going to blow up on you.
This is like when you lied and you said, You weren't, you didn't have a sexual affair with him before you hired him and your good friend ratted you out, huh?
Yeah.
This is a terrible case and it's terrible because before we even get into, and we won't tonight, but before we get into the depths of all of the legal reasons to throw this case out, it's a case of this magnitude where so much depends on interpretation, Uh, legal judgment of the highest order.
Slime balls like this should not be making the decision.
They're too slimy to be on a case like this.
The court should throw it out.
There was once a case before Justice Jackson and he almost used the words he wanted to.
He found better language for it.
Uh, something like it shocks the conscience.
What he, what he really wanted to say was it smells up the courthouse.
The prosecutor was so unethical, so dishonest.
That's what we got here.
And this is too important a case to have doubts about it.
I mean, God forbid you get in front of a jury that's all Democrats, like a D.C.
jury, where a Republican cannot get a fair trial.
Ask any honest lawyer.
And you know, the moment of truth for a lawyer, you got a client, the client's offered a plea.
The plea is not so nice.
It means you're gonna have to go to jail for a few years.
And the client says, do you please evaluate my chances at trial?
Gotta be the hardest thing for a lawyer to do.
None of us are fortune tellers.
All of us know that trials can turn out wildly different than you think.
We probably can feel more comfortable about some than others.
But if You have a Trump defendant in the District of Columbia, and they ask you, can I get a fair trial?
And it just can't be a jury.
And you don't tell them you're going to get convicted.
You're committing malpractice.
And I guarantee you any honest lawyer will tell you that, even Democrat lawyers.
Isn't that terrible?
In other words, our court in the District of Columbia could be in good old East Germany.
Well, we could have a jury like that here in Atlanta, right?
It is all Democrat.
It's crooked as hell.
Fannie Fannie is a product of it, really.
I mean, what you heard there, nobody in Atlanta is shocked.
They're all, not all, but a good many of them are taking grafts.
So, uh, a president convicted on, on that kind of questionable.
Ooh.
And also just poor little lawyer like me.
I don't wanna die in jail.
And if I die in jail, gee, I'd like to get convicted by somebody.
Well, I'm only kidding around now.
There's not something to kid around about, but I think this case is on the way to where it belongs, the dung heap of history.
I'll tell you the other one where I was a character.
The intelligence community, Fingered 27 Trump people to follow us.
What?
This is new, too.
I knew a while back that they went and did a search warrant on my iCloud account within a few days of my representing President Donald Trump.
That would be way back, believe it or not, in 2018.
And they kept it until 2021.
Every day, looking at everything I did.
And obviously, at the beginning, it wasn't because of me.
It was because I was representing someone.
Do you realize how unconstitutional that is?
Do you realize how illegal that is?
Do you realize how un-American that is?
Do you realize how unfair that is?
Not even to me, but to him, who has a right to counsel.
And what about my other clients?
When they came and raided my law office, they invaded the privacy of a number of other clients.
Gotta tell you, they weren't too happy about it, or with me.
They destroyed my law practice, but they didn't care.
Probably it was the objective.
They got nothing out of it within a year and a half of looking at my business records for 20 years.
They have like real criminals to go after?
They wrote a one or two page letter to the grand jury, didn't even have the courtesy to send it to me saying, we were unable to find any probable cause that Mr. Giuliani committed any crime.
So then how did they have probable cause to search me?
No.
So this is what we're watching playing out.
I can give you my personal part of it, There are people that went through less than me.
People went through a lot worse than me.
Don't feel sorry for me.
Feel sorry for the J6 people.
They have been tortured.
And those people should really get hit very hard for it.
But I have a feeling it's starting to unravel.
I really, really do.
I think it's unraveling.
I've had that feeling before and it didn't.
So don't count on it.
Before I get to what I want to talk about, the animals, Kansas City shooting, I guess it looks like just a strange fight between out of control kids.
That's what it looks like.
Now, who knows?
They're giving us very little details.
There were, looks like of the three people arrested, there were two shooters and possibly a guy trying to stop it.
Now, again, this is not gospel at all.
This is just what I get from reading and a few little snippets.
So I don't think it's going to turn out to be of national security consequence.
But it is just another example of what we're going through in Biden land.
I mean, this is a much more This is a much more disordered, a much more illegal, a much more dangerous country than it was just four years ago.
If there's anybody here that can answer the question, they were better off, they're better off now than four years ago.
I know any number of hospitals or psychiatrists that can treat them.
Russia has now says it's put up a satellite to put nuclear weapons in space.
Now, these nuclear weapons are intended to take down satellites.
They're not intended to hit us, but to take down our satellites and to dominate and to win the war for domination of space.
Now, it was put out by an extremely responsible congressman, Mike Turner.
I don't think there's a reason like something is going to happen.
They were all very careful to say there's no immediate threat, so don't get all upset.
I think he put it out because, I mean, I'm sure he put it out because the administration is going to do some way of lying about it like they do everything else and trying to make it euphemistic.
Just like, remember when Christopher Wray testified a few weeks ago?
But there are basically national security threats.
They're all over America, like cockroaches in New York.
And like you sit there saying, gee, how did that just happen?
And when he was asked, can you explain to us how it happened?
He did a. This will be his portrait, by the way, in the FBI gallery.
He doesn't know how it happened.
Gee, maybe when Biden opened the border on January 20th, 2021, asked people to surge to the border and to come in, and we're not going to check them anymore, maybe the terrorists thought, wow, that's a pretty good idea.
And this is why we're terrorists.
Because we take advantage of jackasses.
And he's a Democrat, he's a jackass.
And they took advantage of him.
Look, Ray is such a liar.
He's been doing nothing about this for three years.
Now he's coming around telling us we should be worried about it, cover his backside when there's an attack.
He should have done something about it three years ago when this traitor in the White House started letting them in.
How about this one?
How about this one?
This is about, I can't get the exact date of this.
I will try to get it.
It was this year earlier.
Um, I, I think we actually asked more.
I remember way back we asked more, but I think in the Trump administration, we actually asked more questions, but in the Biden administration for the first couple of years, we had a particularly, um, more questions for Chinese coming in illegally.
Well, of course you would.
The Chinese are our enemies.
The Chinese want to take over by 2048.
The Chinese, we already know, have put police in America.
They've had police stations.
They've infiltrated colleges.
We've convicted them.
We had a task force to try to find them and get them out that Biden canceled.
They asked 40 questions of a person coming in illegally seeking asylum.
Do you know a About, I don't know how many months ago.
I'm gonna say six.
We changed it to, guess how many?
Guess how many?
How many questions would you ask a potential spy?
One, two, three, four questions for a potential spy.
And then what do we do to check on the questions?
Well, why should we check?
They are Chinese.
Are you a communist spy?
No.
Do you belong to the Chinese Communist Party?
No.
Will you steal anything?
No.
Will you rape anyone?
No.
Come in.
Come on.
Let's get him a nice... Oh, and by the way, if he goes to New York, he'll get a credit card.
Prepaid so he can get Chinese food if he doesn't like the food at the shelter.
He'll also get health insurance, better than veterans, and he can put his kid in school, up to college, and if he doesn't like his residence, he'll get three or four choices.
So come on, pick the place you want to spy and go locate yourself there.
Biden is going to subsidize you.
Yeah, that's what we're doing.
Putin has made his choice for president.
Putin picks Biden.
Putin says to himself, I gotta be the luckiest murdering evil bum in the world.
Four years of Biden, I got to attack again.
When Bush was around, I attacked Georgia.
When Prince Obama was around, drawing red lines and, you know, doing nothing.
I got to take a big percentage of Ukraine, and he armed the Ukrainians with slingshots, so I was able to solidify it.
And now, with Dodo Brain in the White House, I was able to take the rest of what I wanted in Georgia, and now they've stalled, and since they can't get the money to the front lines because they're all stealing it, I'll keep it.
So, he wants Biden.
Of course he wants Biden.
Not going to get Biden.
And he's not going to attack anymore.
Because if you notice that little scenario I did, there's one time he didn't attack.
You know the one time he didn't attack?
The four years that Trump was in office.
You need any more proof?
No, you don't.
So now we're going to take a short break.
And when we come back, I'm going to be under attack.
I never try to do that.
I'm going to try to do that.
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This is Bernie Giuliani back on America's Mayor Live, and I'm borrowing a technique that I learned watching Rocky Tanaka sitting with dogs.
So I just spilled some water.
So here.
So first he says, you should leave the treat so the dog can get it himself.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Here, here, here.
Oh, oh, now this is how we make friends now.
Okay.
Come, come, come.
You want to eat out of my hand?
You want to eat out of my hand?
All right.
Oh, that's so good.
And one more.
Oh, what about you?
What about you guys?
What do you got here?
Oh, you come in and just take over?
What's his name?
That's Eleanor.
This is Franklin.
Franklin?
Franklin Eleanor was pushing you around.
That's the way it was.
So we're here with our friend Alex Alexandra.
You might remember her from last year.
Say hi, Bean.
Who do we have with you today?
This is Bean.
He is one of the newest additions to our family.
We just rescued him.
And Franklin's stealing the show, eating his grapes on camera.
You good little monkey.
Oh, I think that's Eleanor.
So what, so let's, let's, uh, This is a rescue dog.
This is a rescue, yes.
Oh, what a beautiful rescue.
He is.
He is the cutest little thing ever.
So can you tell what kind of dog he is?
I mean, he looks like it.
Yes.
So we actually, when we brought him to the vet, we actually got him a DNA test, which is a, they just same thing that when people do DNA tests and send them in to find their family members, they do the same thing for dogs.
And he loves belly rubs.
And we just found out that he is a mix of 13 different breeds.
And he's four to six.
He's very healthy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They say, actually, with the amount of breeds that he has, it's a super healthy, genetically wise, it's super healthy for him.
But he is a mix of Chihuahua, Dachshund.
He's got, believe it or not, Golden Retriever in him, we were told.
I can see a little lab.
Yeah, he has, he has, yeah.
A little bit in the face.
Apparently he also has, um, pipple in him, which we were, yeah, pipple.
Yeah, apparently he's got some pipple in him as well.
What is that?
Like the, like, um, they're like the same thing as like a, um, like a, do you know what a Staffordshire Terrier is?
Yeah, sure.
Similar to them as well.
Um, but they are... Oh, what do you think?
Come on!
And he is the most sweetest thing.
He's... How old?
He's only three months old.
Oh, so he is a puppy.
Yeah, he is a puppy.
He's only been with us for about a month.
He's beyond having to take mother's milk now.
Yeah, so he eats solid food.
No, not at this age.
At this age, he's already on a hard food diet.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and he's very food motivated, so that helps.
He's super smart, so he does a phenomenal job.
Isn't it rare for a dog not to be food motivated?
Um, yeah, it is pretty rare, but I have, I have met, um, actually one of my dogs that I... We do have some new friends coming in, too.
He wants a little water.
He's trying to drink the water.
Who do we have here?
Um, coming into the frame is Franklin.
You can see his really long tail.
Franklin here.
Say hi, buddy.
So this guy, this guy, uh, like taking it out of the air.
He didn't like my giving it to him.
Whoa!
He's making a move.
Oh my goodness.
Oh, do you like the bouncing?
You like the bouncing?
Oh my goodness.
We're knocking over the water.
We got a little towel here.
Time for balance of nature for the animal here.
I don't know if this pill, if these capsule forms are good for them.
I think you would have to break it down.
So the human, the human is taking his pills, balanceofnature.com slash Rudy, 35% off.
Who is this guy here?
That's Franklin.
Franklin, I'm going to try something with you.
We have Franklin and Eleanor, the root spells.
Yes.
Yeah, and with no Tommy this time.
Come here, Bubs.
Come here, Bubs.
Come here.
Where are you?
Oh, get some belly rubs.
Give her a shot.
Want some?
Oh, yeah.
You want to try it?
Is he an Eleanor?
Yes.
Oh, no, no.
What do you think?
Well, we'll see.
You've got some grapes here too?
Yeah, what I'll do with them.
Tell us a little bit, is that Franklin or Eleanor?
This is Eleanor.
She's a spider monkey.
Spider monkey.
Some of the biggest characteristics that people notice most about spider monkeys are going to be their tails.
They have prehensile tails, so they could use them to wrap onto things.
And then also, The fact that instead of having five fingers on their hand, they only have four of them, which is pretty cool.
And then Franklin, he's up here on my shoulder.
They're best friends.
They're more like brother and sister, I consider them to be.
And they get along really, really well.
They play with each other all the time.
They always share each other's food.
It's actually really amazing to see how they get along so well too.
So Rob ate these, you know.
Yeah.
Rob said the fruits really taste good.
So maybe if I put a little of the fruit in here.
Oh yeah.
You want to try some of that?
Take a shot at the fruit.
See what you think.
No.
No.
So here we are.
That's Eleanor.
This is Franklin now.
So Franklin's the one with the white, we both got white pants on.
But Franklin, biggest thing to tell him apart from Eleanor is he's got a lot more white on his face.
You can see Eleanor's a lot darker in her face.
She's gonna go steal the show.
We've got a pen now.
But it's, so his coloration is actually a lot more rare.
Franklin would be considered to be a pie-balled spider monkey because of the coloration that he has.
This is awesome.
I do want to say one thing, which I don't know if any of your viewers watched last time, but last time you were here, Mayor, Franklin was just recovering from being super sick after we rescued him.
I remember that!
And he had never gone to anybody else Except for you.
Really?
And we didn't ask him to go to you, but I don't know if you remember, but he came right to you.
Yeah!
And you were cuddling with him.
Yeah!
And you are legitimately the only person that he's ever gone off one of us and it came to you.
Which I thought was one of the coolest things ever.
Give me a Franklin.
Put me in my Franklin.
How old are Franklin and Eleanor?
They're about 15 months old right now.
Look how cute he is!
Look how cute Franklin is!
Look at this!
What a great figure!
Maybe Franklin would like a little of this.
I think he'd like this.
Low in calories too, Franklin.
You'll stay skinny.
Here you go, Franklin.
What do you think?
No?
No?
No good?
Franklin?
Hey, Franklin!
Monkeys are very smart, remember?
Super smart.
Yeah, they are.
Look, they're grabbing stuff.
Look at this guy.
Go ahead Franklin, go have some fun with your friends there.
So how do these guys spend their day?
Oh, you took it, huh?
So these guys, they spend a lot of time playing.
Playing and eating is a big part of a spider monkey's day.
One of their favorite things to do is that we've got lots of ropes in their enclosure that they love to swing from and they can make anything into a toy.
I think that's my favorite thing about them is everything is fun for them.
And they can entertain themselves all day long, which is the best part about them. Would you like something? Would
you like to say something?
What the heck with that thing there Yeah, yeah
Yeah, they just hang out all day long.
Notice he walked away with one of my pens.
Oh yeah, but they can eat all different types of fruits and vegetables.
They like to eat all different types of seeds and nuts as well.
The seeds and nuts are really good for them, but all different types of fruits and veggies.
If I had to choose a favorite for them, I'd probably say grapes or bananas are their favorite fruit.
And then for vegetables, they really like carrots.
Those are probably one of their tops.
What are you looking for, babe?
What do you got there?
What do you got?
Oh, what do you got?
Yeah.
What do you have?
How do they communicate?
Do they communicate with you?
They do.
The ways that are off and on.
Thank you.
It's so sweet to learn.
Yeah, so they'll make a bunch of different noises.
Yes?
What happened to our doggie?
He's... Will the dog let me hold him?
He may.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you can bring him back over here.
So, let's see.
Okay, so that's Franklin and Eleanor, and now we have these guys.
Bean!
Yeah, after you've been... Spider monkeys.
We've got a band name here.
Spider monkeys.
Good job, buddy.
Let me give you, let me give you a little introduction.
So we have Bean, and we've already talked about Bean.
He's a rescue dog.
He is a rescue.
He's only been with us for about a month now.
And, um, he has been probably the easiest puppy I've ever met.
Great appetite.
Um, he was potty trained the day I met him, which is amazing.
I don't know.
I, I, it's something I've never seen it before where, um, eight weeks old when, when we, when we found him at the shelter.
Isn't that unusual?
Super unusual.
We were shocked when we found out that... So it means he goes out?
Yeah, he'll go outside.
He's a great listener.
We have a lot of other dogs on the farm as well and they have helped a ton getting him Super friendly.
He gets along with all the dogs, which is also really rare for, right at first, all the dogs to really love each other.
And they all love him, which is, it was like he was meant to be here, which is amazing.
You know something?
You're a special dog.
He is very special.
He's very special.
Yeah.
Very special Bean.
Good boy.
Yeah.
He is the best little thing.
Good boy.
Good boy, Bean.
Good boy.
Good boy.
Yeah.
Oh, he's cleaning up after the monkeys.
That's good.
So here at Animal Adventure, talk about what you do with these rescue dogs.
Want a few more treats?
This has become my best friend very, very quickly, so he'll be here forever.
And he's more of my companion than anything, because he helps me so much, so he's the best.
Right, so we're here at Animal Adventure Park and Safari with Sean and his whole family.
Just what a great place.
We've seen Bean, the rescue dog.
We've made a group with Eleanor and... Does Bean bark?
He's a better guard dog than my big dog that I have.
He barks at everything.
How big are you going to be?
It's hard to say because of The fact that we weren't, so typically, yeah, typically you could tell by his paws, but he's, he's pretty small all the way around.
He hasn't gotten much bigger since, um, since I met him.
Um, so I'm assuming he's not going to be huge, especially since the breeds that he's mixed with aren't naturally really big.
So I'd say he probably at the biggest will double in size and that he has a big dog's face.
Yeah, he does.
Yeah.
But he's, um, He's going to be, he's going to be the cutest puppy, no matter what.
Gorgeous face.
Yeah.
His little eyebrows are my favorite.
Yeah.
Great.
Great.
Like classical dog face.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And look how, look at those eyes.
So innocent.
Yeah.
I bet you could cause a lot of trouble though.
I bet you can.
Pretty soon, huh?
Pretty soon.
You're going to be causing a lot of trouble.
What's amazing about him is he has gotten along with every animal I've introduced him to.
His favorite animals are probably the kangaroos, especially the baby kangaroos.
We can actually bring one in for everybody to see.
Does he try to go in the pouch?
So he will, yeah, he'll literally try, he puts his whole head in the pouch.
See, puppy.
Yep.
See the puppy?
Yeah.
You want to feed the puppy?
So he will try and go in kangaroo pouches.
He plays with them.
He tries to eat kangaroo food.
Yeah, you love bread.
His tail started wagging.
It's a family affair here.
Yeah.
Want to give him some food?
Hello, hello.
I'm on daddy duty today.
Yeah.
It's nice.
Mr. Bean is nice, huh?
Bean is nice.
What's that?
You want to feed him?
Yeah, come here.
You want to feed him?
Feed him a little snack here.
You got to open your hand, right?
This is wonderful.
Open your hand and say, there you go.
Oh, that's great.
You like that?
You like that?
Want to touch his nose?
Thank you, Bean.
You want to give him something?
Give him a little nose.
Boop.
And can you give Pawpaw a kiss on the cheek?
Oh, Pawpaw.
I love you, Pawpaw.
There you go.
She is in love.
Good job.
Okay, I hear there may be a baby kangaroo coming in, so I'm going to get out of the way.
Nobody wants to see me.
Everyone wants to see the kangaroo, so I'm getting out.
Here comes the kangaroo.
Grace, do you want to stay in here?
I don't know.
What do you think?
Do you want to stay and see the kangaroo?
You like kangaroos, Grace?
Here comes the kangaroo.
Oh wow, this is happening.
Oh, hop on, hop on, hop on.
Oh my goodness.
Look what I have!
I have a kangaroo!
Let's see the kangaroo.
And her name is Kira.
Kira!
Kira.
How are you, Kira?
Kira with a K. Kira!
Kira!
Oh, that's like an Australian name.
Kira!
Aren't you sweet?
Are you a baby, Kira?
That's right.
This is Kira.
Want to say hi to Kira?
Pawpaw has him.
You want to pet Kira?
Here.
One baby to another.
She's a baby!
You like babies, right?
You like baby kangaroos?
What do kangaroos like to do?
They hop, hop, hop.
You see how smart my granddaughter is?
Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop.
See how smart she is?
Hop, hop.
Do you hop, hop, Kira?
Yeah.
How old is Kira?
Kira's about seven months old right now.
So she still gets bottles of milk, but then she also eats kangaroo food and she eats hay as well.
Look at her tail.
Yeah.
That's a big tail, huh?
Yeah.
Grace has fed Kira.
Grace has given Kira bottles before.
A bottle?
Yeah.
You fed Kira?
Wow.
Kira must like you.
Oh yeah, see how she's waving?
She gave me a kiss!
Oh, that's nice.
She's at seven months old?
Seven months old.
And she was such a good girl.
Like a little baby.
Oh, little baby, baby.
Talk about Kira and what What will Kira's journey be here at the Adventure Park?
Yeah, so she, because she's a little bit smaller, she's staying in the house with my family and I at the moment, so we could bottle feed her, make sure she's doing everything she's supposed to do to be a healthy kangaroo.
And then once she gets a little bit bigger, she'll move outside with the rest of our kangaroos that have been born with us or that we've rescued.
And then she'll actually help us teach people about kangaroos and how awesome they are.
Um, and hopefully one day she'll be able to have babies of her own, which will be really cool, too.
Of course.
Of course.
Maybe, maybe we can take her home.
Take her home.
New York City?
A kangaroo in New York City?
I don't know.
Grace?
They allow illegal migrants in New York City, but I didn't know about kangaroos.
Wanna take her home with us?
If you go to New York City, you will get a, uh, debit card.
So you should come up.
Oh yeah, you're a migrant.
New York City, you don't get it in Florida.
You can't claim asylum.
You're getting treated too well.
That's why he's the best mayor in the history of New York City.
Case in point.
We should leave on that, right?
Should we leave on that note?
We'll leave on that note.
Enjoy your hopping around, kangaroo.
All right.
And that's Grace, everybody.
Bye, Grace.
Say bye-bye.
Grace was looking forward to seeing the animals all day.
She told me about the kangaroos and the zebras.
Yeah, she told me about you.
She's falling asleep.
What a sweet little girl you are.
You're a natural with the kangaroos, Mayer.
Yeah, she loves you.
So, and you have a number of kangaroos here.
How did you have... Yeah, they have a lot, a lot of kangaroos.
So, the majority of them are rescues.
If they weren't rescued, they were born here.
These guys will have several babies a year, and they are really good moms.
So, they do a phenomenal job raising their babies.
So, I think over time... They have to protect them from the... Isn't there an issue about protecting them from the males?
So there could potentially become an issue because the male kangaroos, she's falling asleep, because the male kangaroos are so much larger than them.
But in our experience with the alpha males that we have, I have never seen any of our male kangaroos try and hurt any of our babies.
They're very good dads.
Yeah.
But in the wild, it could be a different story.
I can't speak much for the ones there.
How many alphas do you have?
We have two alpha males.
Their names are Bo and Duke.
Right.
I saw the one sparring a little bit.
Yeah, they're big.
It's hard to tell.
Right.
They spar for fun.
They will.
It's part of exercise.
But then I guess if you get serious.
Yeah.
So, and there's a lot of when they're playing and then if it's more serious, you can listen to the noises that they'll make when they are doing it.
Does breeding time make it more serious?
Yeah.
Is there a breeding time?
Is there a certain?
Breeding time for kangaroos is like all year round.
Male and female?
Male and female.
But there's a So usually in like the springtime, the males will start getting very hormonal, and they will actually secrete a red liquid from the pores on their chest, and it's actually to attract the females to them.
Oh, is that when the females get more involved?
Yeah, but even still, all year round, even when that doesn't happen, they'll still mate all year round, but sometimes it's more serious certain times of the year.
If you put them together, do they mate?
Um, it depends, because there's actually been instances where you can have a group of 10 female kangaroos and put a male in there with them, and if they don't like that male, they won't mate with him.
Yeah.
So.
They're pretty particular.
They're pretty, yeah.
So they have to feel protected by their alpha in order to.
Now the two alphas that you have, are they, are there certain ones that, females that prefer one or the other?
Not that I've seen.
The only thing that we put preference in place for is obviously the alphas that are related to any of our females.
We don't keep them together, so there's no inbreeding.
So that could potentially be, yeah.
Even like as humans?
Yeah.
So, but that's the only preference that we have.
We don't let them inbreed.
Just for their own safety, of course.
Who is her daddy and mom?
Yeah, so her mom's name is Kiana and her dad's name is Bo.
Yeah, they're both here.
Now, is she beyond the stage where she's not dependent on mom yet?
Not really, so that's actually why we end up bringing them in the house with us, because what happens is they're in their mom's pouches for anywhere between six to nine months, but once mom tries kicking them out of the pouch, she typically won't let them back in.
So then once we realize that she's kind of hands-off raising the babies, that's when we step in and we like to bring them in the house for about a month or two to make sure that they're doing what they're supposed to do, they're healthy, this way we can have the vet come out and do everything they need to do, and then It also, um, allows us to maintain a really awesome relationship with them so that when they are older, they could trust us and be able to let us handle them.
She obviously is very comfortable.
She's very comfortable.
Yeah.
She loves people.
She's such a sweet kangaroo.
But kangaroos in general, all of our kangaroos love people.
So normally they would stay with mommy.
How, how long?
About six to nine months in the pouch.
But then once they come out of the pouch, they're with their families their whole lives.
He was at, uh, she was in the pouch for nine months.
Every kangaroo is different.
So each kangaroo will figure out the best time for their baby.
So when it was like one of our kangaroos, once her baby hit six months old, she kicks him out of the pouch.
All of them.
Yeah.
She was like, all right, six months old.
Yep.
Where one of our other kangaroos, Keegan, who's actually her grandma.
I met Keegan today.
Yeah.
So Keegan will keep her baby in the pouch for as long as she possibly can.
Like her babies will come out of the pouch, 10 pounds.
Cause she just keeps them in there because she loves them.
Her mom, this is actually, um, her mom's first time having a baby was, was Kira.
So this is her first time.
She actually did a really great job with her.
She kept the pouch really clean.
She was, the baby was super clean when she came out too.
So she did a great job.
And then after how many weeks did she, uh, let her out?
She was, she was about six and a half months old, judging by roughly around, judging by the size she was when she started.
Yeah.
And that's when she came in with us.
And now how old are you?
She's about seven months old now.
You're still a little baby.
Yeah.
And you'll like to be held like a little baby.
Yeah.
She could be held like that all day long.
Oh yeah.
You're so cute.
You're really adorable.
Yeah.
I think we need to hire the mayor as our kangaroo babysitter.
Yeah.
I'd be happy with that.
Look at her.
She can't even stay awake.
What do they say about animals?
They know.
They know.
They can feel your energy.
They can feel everything.
I have to say, even with being the dog that was just on, he does not like being passed off to other people, and the mayor was the first person I've ever been able to pass him off to without him coming right back to me, which is pretty cool.
How much does he sleep?
She'll sleep all day long if I let her, so I actually have to monitor how much she stays in the pouch.
Does she need a certain amount of exercise too for health?
Yeah, so this way she, because when they're out of the pouch, it's really important for them to eat a solid diet.
So we feed them kangaroo food, and then we also feed them hay as well.
So I like to try and give them several hours out of the pouch so that they can start eating that solid food too, because it's really good for their teeth.
You have to work on her.
To make sure she stays active.
Yep.
And then this way, when we let her out of the pouch and she starts eating, it's a really good way for her to stay or learn when she does go back outside.
The ones that are outside, the ones that I store outside, they're very active.
Yeah.
I mean, they're running around all the time.
Super active.
The cool thing about these guys is they're nocturnal, so they'll stay up all night long, and the second they start seeing the sun go down, they'll wake up.
They're immediately up, awake, hopping around.
That's when they do most of their exercises at nighttime.
In the middle of the night.
In the middle of the night, yep.
They're up all night.
All night long.
They sleep during the day.
Yep.
In the morning.
Sun comes up, they're going to sleep.
Yeah, they're party animals.
So why, what do they, What do they do all night?
There's sometimes, we'll come out at like when it gets dark out and we'll check on them and they're all just hopping around.
Some of them are playing, some of them are eating, like they just hang out.
They have like the best time ever.
We have some pictures we can show of them, right?
Yeah, we'll have to upload them.
We'll show them tomorrow night?
For tomorrow, we'll have to do it for tomorrow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow, you have some great video.
Even from last year, we might post some of our old videos.
We do!
Last year, So how many hours a night do they sleep, would you say?
Or day, how many hours a day?
They'll sleep like, they'll sleep 12 to 18 hours a day, yeah.
Oh, wow!
Yeah, as long as it's light outside, they're usually sleeping.
They're not awake, they're totally nocturnal.
They really like to, yeah, or resting.
They like to conserve their energy, because... Today, we were there, they had just gone down, they were waking up, and that's when you start seeing them hop around, because at that time, Sean, how many animals do you, overall, how many animals are in your care?
It's gotta be around a hundred.
That's a lot.
Yeah, it's a lot.
And they're different?
They're all different.
Different species.
And you have different regimens for them, right?
Yes.
Would it be different?
It would be... So, believe it or not, the way we like to treat our animals... Come on, get in there, Sean!
I'll get right in the middle.
Yes, sit down right here.
So so believe it or not, the way I like to treat animals are more like people.
So what we do is no matter what the species is, we want to show them a lot of love, a lot of respect.
And and we give them their space if they need it.
And they're from what I found is all animals are very similar when you treat them this way.
So whether it's a kangaroo, it's a monkey, it's an otter, it's a it's a lemur.
If you show them tons of respect and a lot of love, they return.
So when you say respect, what would that mean to a person?
that has an animal.
How should they show respect?
So one thing I think a lot of people don't realize is a lot of people or human beings want to be the alpha in their relationship with an animal.
And I don't think that's the right way to do it because we don't really know what their culture is.
So what I like to do is I let them tell us what to do.
And if we do something incorrect, we'll allow them to bite us, yell at us,
and tell us, hey, that's not what we enjoy or what we like.
And that's how we learn from it.
So instead of saying no, when an animal yells at you, bites you, or scratches you,
we wanna sit there and take a few seconds to figure out what did we do wrong?
What did we do that made them upset?
Because, you know, these animals have a different mindset than we might have.
Sure, they have a whole culture, a background, genetics.
Yep.
So we don't really get upset when we're bit, yelled at, or scratched.
We just want to figure out what did we do to cause that?
And then once we figure out what we did to disrespect them, even though we didn't think it might have been disrespectful, we'll never do that act again.
Right.
And that is what has been, I think, for us.
The number one thing to build and bond with these animals, because we have some incredible relationships with these guys.
And I think it's because we, instead of telling them to be more like us, we try to be more like them.
So you try to figure out what it is that motivates them and deal with it.
Some may want to be grabbed.
Some may want to come to you when they're ready.
And we have found that's really important that there are certain animals that never want to be grabbed, where if they come to you, you allow them to do it.
And then when they want to leave, instead of restricting them, we allow them to leave whenever they want.
Right.
And they respect that, just like we would.
And then they become closer to you.
Absolutely.
I think that's super, super important when it comes to our animals.
You are an extraordinarily happy puppy, I'll tell you that.
She is.
I mean, actually, from here it looks like a dog puppy, too.
All the time.
Kangaroos look very similar to puppies or dogs.
Yeah, and here, yeah.
Very, very similar.
And believe it or not, the one thing I love about working with kangaroos is they're very misunderstood.
A lot of times when you watch on TV or you watch these shows, you think of them as very aggressive animals.
And I like to call them... The males!
The males are thought of as very... They're thought of, but to be honest with you, they're really not as aggressive as you think.
They're just practicing their art and trying to get better at at protecting their, you know, mob.
They practice with their friends.
I mean, I guess with a friendly, uh, like your two guys practice all the time.
Usually it's their family members.
It's their younger sons that they're raising, teaching them how to do better for their families.
Like it's, it's a really incredible concept that they, that they live by.
The way I like to explain it is if you walked into an MMA gym or a boxing gym, and you're an alien from another planet, you'd probably think we're the most aggressive things on this planet.
But most of the people in an MMA gym or a boxing gym are going to finish sparring and then go out for a smoothie or a lunch.
They'll shake hands.
Right, right.
So it's the same thing with male kangaroos.
They want to try to get better at their art.
In case they have to use it.
Particularly the males, it's their role to protect.
Absolutely.
And, and unfortunately for us as a human, if you get in, if you get in the middle of that, it's going to hurt us where it may have not hurt a male kangaroo as much, but I want to practice.
So they, they, they get a bad rap as aggressive animals, the males, but they're really not.
They're super smart.
They're really affectionate animals.
And, uh, they really love practicing as much as they possibly can, because they want to get better and better at wrestling, grappling, and boxing.
And the females, do they wrestle, grapple, and box at all?
Not as much.
The females, their number one priority in life is to raise a family.
And moms raise their child, they do amazing.
And grandmas, when they can't have babies anymore, it's really important to allow.
Really?
Yep, it's really important for the grandmothers to allow some sort of You know, working with their grandchildren.
If not, they can end up getting so depressed and passing away from something.
Do the grandmas interfere?
The grandmas will legitimately... With mama?
No, but they'll help.
They'll room their babies when they come out of the pouch.
You don't get an interfering grandma?
You know what happens with humans?
She thinks she knows it better than mama?
You might, but I think the kangaroo mom understands that grandma knows more.
Awesome!
Oh, so, uh, you know, they're what you're saying is no fighting.
You can't you can't exclude grandma.
Otherwise grandma is going to get very depressed.
No, because it's incredible.
Even in the wild, the females always stay together, which is pretty amazing.
The males will leave that mob and find other mobs to join.
But where all the females will legitimately stay together forever, which is pretty awesome.
And it's all the alpha male in the wild will change.
Yep.
Male can can Uh, breed with a whole group of females and then it could, it can end up leaving.
Or if it has babies, those male babies will leave and find different mobs to go and hang out with.
But a lot of times they'll come back to their old mob where their family is.
And, uh, what, what's impressed me the most about kangaroos more than anything else.
And I've been around a lot of animals.
Uh, this is the only animal on the planet that I have actually seen and witnessed hugging and kissing like human beings.
So.
And my daughter will tell you the same thing.
We've seen them hug each other, like a real hug.
It's the cutest thing in the whole world.
Kiss each other on the lips to greet them, to say, hey, I missed you.
It's been a couple of days or a couple of weeks since I've seen you last.
And what's even more incredible than that is they've done the same thing to me and her.
They have- And you're away and come back.
They will greet us with a big hug and a kiss right on the lips.
And I've been around a lot of primates and a lot of different animals.
I've never seen that happen except for with the kangaroo.
You're exceptional.
You're very exceptional.
They are incredibly exceptional.
Man.
Wow.
Yeah, they're the best.
So when the baby is a male and with all the females, at some point it's going to leave all the females.
Yes, in the wild.
And how about with you?
How long does the male stay in that little group of females?
So what we typically do when we have a new male, we like to neuter them.
This way, they don't feel like there's a fight for, I want to become an owl for one day.
I see.
So to make it easier on our mob of kangaroos, we like to neuter the younger males.
This way, there's no issues.
And can they stay with the females then?
Yeah.
Then there's no issues.
Oh, wow.
That ends the whole thing?
And they act like basically no different than the females?
Correct.
Just a little bit bigger because they will grow bigger than.
And any, any more aggressive?
I mean, any more wanting to fight or?
No.
So it's all the hormones that do it.
Absolutely.
Wow.
Same thing in humans.
So now if you took that male that's been neutered, put them in with the males, what would happen?
Nothing.
We do that now.
We've got.
You wouldn't fight with them?
Nope.
But now if you took a young male, Who wasn't neutered, he would begin to spar with them.
They'd begin to train them right away, right?
They want to train and spar?
Right from the beginning.
They wouldn't attack them.
They would begin to train them.
Yeah.
I mean, our two alpha males, we ended up having to do a slow introduction and allow them to get to know each other.
And they do phenomenal with one another.
And they're both really big alpha males.
They both have had a lot of relationships with our females, and they're best friends.
Like, we find them cuddling and hanging out together.
Would you introduce a third alpha at some point?
It's, you know, anything is possible.
But at this point, I'd rather two, just in case, unless we built a third area.
Because right now we have two areas for kangaroos, so we don't want any more.
If you were going to have more.
But then you'd have to really be careful how you build that relationship with a new alpha.
Yeah, absolutely.
Right.
Now, tell us about one other.
What's the other animal that people are the most interested in when they come here?
I'd say the most, the most interested animal when people come here are the otters.
Otters.
We saw them before.
They are.
They're incredible.
The otters and sloths, I think, probably, I think those are the two main animals that people really come here for.
And then what's really awesome about it is that they didn't realize how much they'd fall in love with the kangaroos, though.
So I was the kangaroos.
I wanted to see the kangaroos.
The kangaroos have been very interesting.
I've been to Australia a fair number of times and Heard the good stuff and the bad stuff about them and always wanted to resolve it.
You know what's weird about them?
I know how good you guys are.
Yeah, they're amazing.
In Australia, they're considered a pest.
Just like here in Florida, they would be considered more like a boar or a pig.
They're considered a pest in Australia.
But here, obviously, we don't have the same issues they have there.
But there are more kangaroos in Australia than human beings, which is unbelievable.
Yeah, four times.
There are four times more kangaroos than people in Australia.
Isn't that crazy?
Nobody actually kills them, right?
Over there, they cull a million of them every year.
Oh, they do?
Yes.
Yep.
A million?
A million a year, at least a million a year to keep the population down as much as they can.
And what's incredible about that is if you were able to spend a couple of minutes with a kangaroo, you would realize how incredible of a heart they have.
We've had people come out here that have lived in Australia their whole lives and meet our kangaroos and tell us they have never realized how incredible kangaroos are until coming here and meeting them.
Now kangaroos, in the defense of some people that live in Australia, they do completely decimate farmlands.
So there are some issues over there.
You've got a problem.
That said, just like here with cattle, these animals are extremely intelligent, they are very social, and they have hearts like you could not imagine.
I couldn't imagine living without spending time with kangaroos, to be honest with you.
It is one of the most incredible feelings in the world being able to spend our lives hanging out with some of these animals because they are so intelligent.
They're the only animal I've ever been around in my entire life that hug and kiss each other.
And us.
And I've been around a lot of animals.
That blows me away.
100%.
Way different.
Do they interreact with other animals?
All of the babies that we have in the house that we're raising right now get along with all of our dogs.
We've had our monkeys in the house.
With baby dogs?
Yeah, I have a big dog.
He's almost 140 pounds and they love him.
He's a very sweet dog.
He is a very good boy, but they love him.
And then they're around our monkeys, but the monkeys don't really pay much mind.
But if they're around them at a young age and they can realize that that animal is not going to cause harm to them, they can live with anything.
They're very, very docile animals.
And they're the sweetest things on this planet.
But unfortunately, there's a lot of them.
And unfortunately, in dog food, you would find kangaroo in dog food.
So dogs are a predator.
And their natural predator in Australia would be the dingo, which is another type of dog.
So would dogs attack them here?
They could be threatened by dogs, for sure.
By wild dogs?
Now, our dogs have been raised around these guys, so it's a little bit different.
But regularly, dogs could be a threat to a pet.
Would it be a domesticated dog or a wild dog?
Both.
So a domesticated dog might not know the difference?
Correct.
Do they eat?
They could.
Go after it for food?
They could.
There's been instances in Australia where domesticated dogs have gotten into some serious problems with wild kangaroos.
Kangaroos can be bigger than a kangaroo.
Sure.
Yep.
They put them in headlocks.
Well, there's a viral video online of a kangaroo, and I don't know if, Ted, maybe you could throw this in later on or at another time, but there was a viral video in Australia of a kangaroo getting a dog in a headlock.
And a human being coming over to get his dog away from the kangaroo.
So, uh, and yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's a very viral video.
It's hundreds of millions of views, if not billions.
Yeah.
But, um, but yeah, it just shows the fact that in Australia, dingoes, which, you know, they eat kangaroos.
Dingo is the wild dog.
Wild dog in Australia.
Now what's incredible in a kangaroo is they're so smart.
They figured out that they can stand way taller on their tail.
So to defend themselves from a dingo, they'll actually jump in the water.
So the dingo has to swim, has no feet on the ground, but the kangaroo will have its tail on the ground and can defend itself way better by grabbing a dingo and putting it in a headlock.
So what's very misunderstood is everyone thinks of kangaroos as boxers.
They're grapplers.
They're incredible grapplers where they can get you in choke holds.
Yeah, humans and animals.
So they're multifaceted.
Yes, they are.
They are like wrestlers and boxers.
Like, if Dana White can grab a kangaroo and put them... Occasionally you'll see the videos of a human boxing with a kangaroo.
Right, but I think of them more as grapplers.
They're great chokeholds.
They get in a lot of headlock moves.
They're very good grapplers.
That's why whenever we watch males sparring with each other, it's a lot of grapple moves and a lot of headlocks, which is really cool.
And then once they headlock you, then they'll use their feet to punch.
And we think of punching with our hands, but when a kangaroo punches, it's going to be with their feet.
It's not going to be as much with their hands because their hands, they want to hold you still for a little bit.
And then they're going to use their tail to plant on the ground and they'll use their feet.
Now, the most incredible part of how a kangaroo uses their feet is they don't really do this, like everyone thinks.
They're going to do this.
Right when they come to impact, right beforehand, they put their feet down, and this one toe right here, this one nail, is going to then, it'll open up their sternum.
This one nail, come to New York, is going to then, it'll open up their sternum.
Yeah.
You put you on a subway, do some patrolling.
Yeah, these guys would probably do a better job.
Yeah, come on. Take care of those crazy Biden illegal migrants.
Do you put night vision cameras out there and have a look at what they're doing throughout the night?
We have night vision scopes that we use to make sure that we protect all our animals in the animal farm.
But yeah, it's very active.
Right now it's their daytime.
They're the only people who are active.
Absolutely.
No, huh?
It's for the dog.
Yeah, the dog is looking, actually.
Yeah, he'll take it.
Wow, an hour really flew by.
All right.
Well, I hope you all enjoyed it tonight.
A little time off from all the rigors of the world, which are unfortunately... Well, we'll get back to that tomorrow.
But aren't these animals wonderful?
And the more you can know about them, Yeah, this is for the dog.
Okay, you know, he knows.
I mean, she knows.
She knows.
Aren't they wonderful?
I'm telling you, if you get a chance, if you get a chance, you got to come.
AnimalEdVenture.com.
Just get on there.
You'll get all the information about when you can reserve.
And they also, I guess, through that can get a lot of the videos, right?
Check out their social media.
Their videos are fabulous.
Some of their videos are really fabulous.
What's your handle?
So Instagram, TikTok, and is at Animal Adventures.
Facebook is at Animal Adventure Park, I believe.
There we go.
Sean, there's a guy.
So you started this, what, 14, 15 years ago?
We started this about Gosh, it's about 11-12 years ago now.
We started it very small at Bednar's Farm Fresh Market, which is in Boynton Beach, and we're very thankful that the Bednar family allowed us to come out there, which has been pretty awesome, and we've grown Unbelievable amounts through social media, which has been amazing.
You sort of grew up with social media.
Yeah, absolutely.
Without social media, we wouldn't be doing as well as we have been doing now.
And believe it or not, Because we're here in Florida, COVID actually helped us out a little bit because we were able to do things here in South Florida that we wouldn't be able to do.
We took a really, really negative situation and turned it into a positive one.
Thank God.
No, but there were a couple of animals that could get COVID, so we were working with FWC.
Otters, believe it or not, were the most susceptible to COVID.
Otters, ferrets, and animals like that.
So we had to be very careful with them at the time.
Wow, that's interesting.
I never even thought of that.
Animals during COVID.
Yeah, so a lot of fur farms, I guess, that would be using ferrets and minks had serious issues with COVID.
Yeah, because not only did you have to worry about giving an animal COVID, but you can also get it from an animal.
And in this family of animals, we were told to be very careful.
You have so many of them.
Yeah.
So we took a lot of We made our measures very secure when it was handling them through COVID, but thankfully, everything worked out, knock on wood.
And, you know, we couldn't do what we do today without our incredible animals, which are just awesome.
For the people listening, before we go, they want to come and visit, maybe give them a quick rundown on what they can expect.
Sure.
Sure.
So we have a couple of locations.
We have two locations in Boynton Beach, Florida.
One of is our animal park.
It's located at Benner's Farm.
And then you could come out here to our private property.
It's reservation only and it's $25 per person.
It includes a sloth encounter and a kangaroo encounter.
You legitimately go inside our kangaroo area.
We get to meet all of our kangaroos, pet them, learn about them, and take some pictures with them.
You also get to pet our sloth, learn lots about him, and then meet all the rest of our animals.
We've got camels, zebras, foxes, capybaras, sheep, goats, donkeys, cows, camels, pretty much everything you could expect.
Yeah.
We saw a camel, a big camel.
Full-grown camels.
We have five of them on property.
We got horses, too.
Yeah, we got horses, too.
There's so much here, I would recommend it to anyone, right Mayor?
Yeah, yeah!
And the otters, don't you have a little special program with the otters?
Yep, so we do a behind-the-scenes tour where you can play with otters, you can swim with otters, we do some incredible otter stuff that not many people in the entire world have been able to do.
Yeah, unbelievable.
They are one of the most incredible animals on the planet.
They're very, very fine.
Of course, very industrious.
I think they're well known for it.
Now, the sloths are the ones that surprise me.
Because when you think of a sloth, you just think of a lazy... Right.
Right?
Well, tell me...
For many people, this is the most exciting thing in their life to come and see a sloth.
Absolutely.
So people come out here from all over the world to visit our sloths because what you had said is right.
Most people think of sloths as super lazy and slow, but what most people don't realize is there's multiple species of sloth.
There are two-toed sloths and there are three-toed sloths.
So the slowest species on the planet for mammals is a three-toed sloth.
Those guys you'll find in Costa Rica.
Do they literally have three toes?
They have three toes and three fingers.
Now, the sloths that we have here are a little bit different.
They're two-toed sloths, even though they have three toes, but they have two fingers.
I see.
Those sloths are a little bit different than you would see on the news, or you'd see on Nat Geo, or you'd even see in some of these cartoon movies like Zootopia.
These two-toed sloths are a lot more, they're a lot faster.
They're a lot, they're way more different than a three-toed sloth.
Energetic?
More energetic?
Way more energetic.
I mean, they move quick.
Are the other sloths really lazy like that?
Yeah, so three-toed sloths move like this.
And they just spend their whole life like that?
Whole life like that.
Two-toed sloths pretend to be like that, but they can move fast.
I mean, it's incredible.
So they'll move fast if they have to?
They move fast if they have to.
And what do they eat?
They eat most of the time in the wild, they eat leaves.
And then they also lick their fur, which would have lots of different insects, bugs, and algae growing on their fur.
Now the sloths that we have here, what makes it so rare is that our two-toed sloths, there's only a few places in the United States of America that have sloths that actually enjoy human interaction.
We never, ever, ever would have an animal that doesn't want to interact with an animal.
Right.
A human do that.
But our sloths, legitimately, when we walk in, they want to be around people.
So that's the only reason we allow people to interact.
You only found that out here because they had the chance to do it because they don't usually get the chance.
They don't usually get the chance to do it and they normally don't want to.
But we have had, we have two sloths here that legitimately like people more than sloths.
And if you go into the wild, sloths are solitary animals.
They would rather be on their own.
They only mate, their mating season is about three days a year.
So when they do mate, it's only for a couple of days.
And then they go off on it.
And then they're done, you know?
And what's sad about sloths is, you know, what's incredible about their mating season is a female will scream so loud in the wild.
And that gets the attention of all the males, right?
And we know sloths are pretty slow if it's a three-toed sloth.
So, you know, they'll hear that scream.
They could be walking from a mile away by the time they get to that branch where they find that female.
It's over.
She's done.
Somebody else found her.
Someone else found her first.
And then, so that's a real dangerous for a sloth to be moving on the ground, right?
You're talking about, you're living in an area where there's a lot of predators.
So if the sloth actually makes it, gets up the tree, they could actually be yelled at by the female.
Like, hey, I'm done.
Like, I don't want to be around you no more.
I already got right.
Go away.
Right.
What was the other one?
got to like, okay, I got to go find another tree. It's, it's, it's one of the craziest things ever. What about tree? No,
they they are very, you know, think about it.
So they eat leaves, right?
So if they have too many sloths in one tree, those leaves will be decimated in a very short period of time.
So they could share a tree, but then they're going to have to go find more food, which becomes more dangerous because then you're going to have to worry about like ocelots and jaguars that can run up a tree and grab a sloth.
And then even crazier, imagine having to worry about what's coming from the ground up Now you've got to worry about what's coming from the sky, which is like a harpy eagle with an eight-foot wingspan this big, which will swoop down and grab a sloth right off a tree.
So it's one of the most dangerous lives you can possibly have.
No, and they're not fast.
In a way, their slowness is a protection.
Absolutely, because they can blend in and stay still.
It's easier to find something moving.
Yep, absolutely.
He's right.
So even if you're a bird and you're looking, you might not see them.
They're all blended.
They're all blended.
They never move.
Because the sloth is going to sit like this.
They're going to grow algae and moss all over their bodies and blend in.
It just looks like a part of the tree.
But when the poor guy is moving to get sick, he's moving to get a little sick.
That's when he's screwed.
That's the most dangerous time of their life.
That and going to the bathroom.
Because the sloth only goes to the bathroom once every seven to eight days.
And when they go to the bathroom, Crazy.
They have to come down to the bottom of a tree.
So they have to actually climb down a bottom of a tree to go to the bathroom.
Because they, no, I think we can actually get a sloth.
Um, hold on one second.
Well, well, let me just tell the story real quick.
This is incredible.
So, so remember I told you a sloth has algae and moss growing all over it, right?
And there's lots of bugs and insects.
So the reason why a sloth comes down to the bottom of a tree is when they go to the bathroom,
they're going to poop right on the floor. And when they poop, those bugs and insects
that are living on the sloth's fur, those bugs and insects actually hop off of them
and then they lay eggs in sloth poop. So it's really, really important. So the sloths actually
sit- So they get rid of all their itchy bugs and-
Occur a few minutes, but then what- The bugs and insects that were living on the sloth
lay the eggs in the poop.
Now, the sloth will then send a signal to these bugs and insects that they're done pooping.
And they want them to catch a ride back up the tree.
And the reason why they want them to is because not only do they eat leaves, but they'll lick the algae and moss off them.
And the way to get that extra protein and nutrients is by licking and eating some of those insects that are living on their hair, which is pretty incredible, right?
So that, to me, it's like an ecosystem within one animal.
Right.
So they invite the bugs to come with them so they can eat them later.
Yep.
It's incredible.
The bugs want to go too, right?
Because they want to go back up to the top of the tree.
The good thing about bugs is they're stupid and don't realize they're going to get eaten.
They have no idea.
And it's incredible.
So the way the... It's been going on for 10,000 years, but they haven't figured it out yet.
And the way the sloth gets the bugs off them to let them know it's going to the bathroom is they shake their butt around while they're pooping.
And that's the signal to the bugs to jump off.
And then when they're done shaking their butt, the bugs look up and they're like, OK, they're ready to go back up.
And they'll hop back onto the fur and catch a ride up to the tree.
Now the two-toed sloths, how do they operate any differently?
It's not all is very similar.
The only, the big difference is down the tree.
Now the big difference is a three toed sloth are great swimmers.
Believe it that or so, but great swimmers, but fast in the water.
I see.
Now two toed sloths are not good swimmers at all, even though they're faster on land.
Like I've raced the sloth on land, like on the ground.
It's pretty incredible.
Shawnee, can you see if Al can grab, um, Slophia?
Do we have time for Slofea?
We do, if we can get it now, right?
Yeah.
Can you see if we can get Slofea for two seconds?
We'll see if that... Yeah, but I think Slofea would be awesome on here.
It would be nice to share.
Right.
That would be fabulous.
Shall we sign off and then do that special?
Yeah.
Yeah, let's do that.
All right.
So we'll tell everyone good night and we'll have this on a special and we'll let you know about it.
And hasn't it been fabulous?
Hasn't, Sean?
But I mean, this whole family is dedicated to this.
I'll tell you what, I think you are fabulous.
And what you've done for our country and the state of New York has been incredible.
And we fully support you one million percent.
And we couldn't thank you enough for what you do for all of us.
I can't thank you enough.
And once again, remember, tomorrow, tomorrow's Friday, right?
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So we got plenty of time to talk about other things.
But I thought tonight was fascinating.
You let me know.
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