All language subtitles for Secrets Of The Zoo Tampa s02e06 Kitty Kitty Fang Fang.eng

(whooping)

DEVON: Morning, siamangs.

(whooping)

JANE: Morning, everybody.

(whooping)

DEVON: Riley is in position
to join in.

(cries)

JANE: I wanna be a siamang!

(whooping, crying)

(laughing)

It's like a full-blownsymphony here with everybody joining
in.

DEVON: It really is.

(whooping)

Symphony of the zoo.

TIFFANY: Hey, buddy.

He's loving that tub.

MOLLY: I know,
that's really cute.

TIFFANY: Pepper and Cypress
are two rescued panther cubs.

They came here to Zoo Tampa
because their mom was suffering

from a neurological disorder
and was unable to care for them.

SUE: He spent, like, at least
20 minutes in there yesterday.

MOLLY: Aww.

DR. CYNTHIA: Pepper and
Cypress, they had a rough start.

They were rescued from thewild when they were two weeks old.

Florida panther kittens
and other big cat species,

the kittens stay with theirmom for a long time,

because they've gotta
learn how to hunt,

they have to be
successful at it.

TIFFANY: Where's your
brother?

Oh, there he is.

DR. CYNTHIA: Speak of the
devil. (Tiffany laughs)

We're the ones teaching them
how life is gonna be.

TIFFANY: Kennel.

(laughs)

DR. CYNTHIA: We've been
working on it every day,

hand-raising them.

That's why they could never
go back into the wild.

TIFFANY: What do you think,

should we interrupt
his play session?

(laughter)

We would love to keep
Pepper and Cypress.

Unfortunately this isn't a habitat

that an adult panther
could live in.

We do have three adultpanthers already here at Zoo Tampa,

so it's best for them to go
to a different facility.

Moll, if you wanna pick themup on the outside,

Sue and I could go in
and then you can join us,

and we'll just kind of
A to B as we go.

MOLLY: Okay, sounds good.
SUE: Cool.

TIFFANY: But before
they take that next step,

it's our responsibility tomake sure they have all the tools

that they need to besuccessful in their new home.

SUE: Today the goal is
to work on name recognition.

This is super important while
they go to their new home,

'cause they're going
to have a lot of space.

So, if the team there
wants to call them over,

they're going to beconditioned for their names

and they'll come over
when called.

MOLLY: Cypress, Pepper!
(whistle tweets)

Good boy. Come here.

TIFFANY: Will we get Pepper
out of the water?

SUE: Yeah.
MOLLY: Pepper!

TIFFANY: We've been able to
watch these panthers grow up.

They had differentpersonalities when they were younger

and we were first starting
to work with them.

MOLLY: Good boy.
You're the best.

TIFFANY: Cypress wasdefinitely more confident than Pepper.

It took him a while
to adjust to new things.

Somewhere along the wayPepper has gained this confidence.

He's the one who will find
all the things in the yard,

where Cypress is the one now

that is a little bit
more laidback.

MOLLY: I don't know if
he's gonna leave the tub.

TIFFANY: Clearly
enjoying himself.

MOLLY: (laughs) Yeah.

Pepper, come.

SUE: Too fun.

TIFFANY: Yeah. (laughs)

SUE: You can step back.

TIFFANY: We want him to enjoy
his time out here,

but when they hear their
name,

they should stop
what they're doing

and actually come
to whoever is calling them.

SUE: Let's try again.

MOLLY: Okay, I can call him
over, see if they'll come over.

Cypress! Pepper! Come.

SUE: Cypress.

MOLLY: Hi. Oh, what a good
boy. (whistle tweets)

Pepper!

SUE: That was good.

MOLLY: Okay.

TIFFANY: It looks like Pepper
is done playing in his pool

and he's focused on us now,
ready to do some training.

I'll go on the far side.

So I'll take Pepper.

SUE: Alright.

MOLLY: You're all wet.

SUE: Cypress! (whistle
tweets) Good boy.

Good boy, let's go.

TIFFANY: Pepper!

(whistle tweets)

SUE: Go up?
(whistle tweets)

Good job, friend.

I love working with
Cypress and Pepper,

I think they're
incredible animals,

incredible ambassadors
for their species.

Look how amazing he is.

MOLLY: (laughs) It's awesome.

SUE: It's really exciting tosee them succeed and see them
grow

and know that we had
a big part of that.

TIFFANY: Kennel.

(whistle tweets)
Good boy.

The Florida panther,
they need a lot of help.

They are very endangered,their numbers continue to decrease.

Out. Kennel.

For Pepper and Cypress it'shuge for them to be able to tell

the story of all thechallenges that adult panthers face.

It's really important for us.

Come!

Pepper and Cypress leave
in just under a week.

Good boy.

They have been able to
follow us around the habitat,

they're able to adapt to new
environments, to new changes,

and that's exactly
what we're looking for.

MOLLY: Are you going
back in the tub?

♪ ♪

KATIE: Hi, bud.

I am feeding the burrfish
some nice squid tentacles.

The burrfish is probably
my favorite to feed,

he is the most adorable,

mainly because
he comes up to the surface

with his cute puppy dog face,

so overwhelmed with joy
that you're about to feed him.

Hey. Goofy.

You gotta let go. So silly.

Lionfish are kind of scary
when you feed them.

They get so excited.

You have to watch out
for their spines

because they are venomous.

Oh, hi.

Hi, baby girl.

I know you're ready.

My boss likes to say that
you can take an aquarist

and put them
anywhere in the zoo,

but you can't take
anybody in the zoo

and put them in aquatics.

Good job, bud.

TYSON: I wanna watch
the seahorses feed.

KATIE: Okay.

KATIE: We have two species of
seahorses here at Zoo Tampa,

we have the dwarf sea horse
and the lined sea horse.

TYSON: Oh, they're already
going right after it.

KATIE: Yeah.

TYSON: Seahorses are cool.

They don't swim like other
fish,

their skeletal system is even
different from other fish.

These are the lined
seahorses.

These are one of the largestin the Tampa Bay area of
Florida.

KATIE: You ready?
TYSON: Yep.

KATIE: I think they are.

TYSON: Their little snouts
will suck up the food,

and they have to eat
all the time,

they don't have like a true
stomach that digests their food.

They're very unique.

So this is the one
that is gonna get treated.

KATIE: Yeah.

We recently noticed that
one of our female seahorses,

Señorita Maria, has a mass
growing underneath her chin.

I wanted Dr. Lauren
to check it out.

From what we've seen,
it just keeps growing.

We don't want it
to become a situation

that will turn into
something much, much worse.

So, we'll be taking
Señorita Maria up to the clinic,

and Dr. Lauren will beremoving the mass underneath.

Even though she's
a itty-bitty seahorse,

she still means a lot
to our department.

She is a beautiful animal and
we will give her the best care,

no matter what size she is.

CHRIS: Morning.

What's up, buddy?

Morning rounds, we take apeek at all our zoo residents
here,

including our ponies.

We have animals from
all over the world here,

but, you know, we always feel
a special responsibility

to those animals that are
right here in Florida.

I have worked with prettymuch every mammal area

here at the zoo,
I actually started with

the Florida wildlife.

And one of the best parts is
the impact we can make locally.

We really want to highlight

how well we can all
co-exist together.

DAN: Reptiles to reptiles,
Jason.

JASON: Yeah, go ahead.

DAN: Both the snakes
are out of the burrow,

can you grab a couple of
mice?

JASON: Yeah, 10-4,
I'll get 'em thawed

and I'll be there
in a few minutes.

DAN: 10-4,
I'll see you in a minute.

It's breeding season
for our indigo snakes,

so we're gonna put 'em
together.

JASON: We got your mice.

DAN: Go ahead and feed 'em
and then we'll put 'em together.

JASON: The eastern indigosnake is a Florida native.

It's a very large black
snake,

they're the longest
native snake to the US,

they can get over
seven feet long.

So they can be intimidating.

But I think the easternindigo snake is a very cool species.

They're an apex predator,

so they're known for preying
on all sorts of stuff,

including venomous snakes.

There he goes.

They're a great thing to have
in your backyard.

Basically we feed them,
then we breed them,

that kind of encourages
their metabolism to get going

and can encourage
the breeding behavior.

He's gonna go butt first.

DAN: Must taste better
head last.

JASON: Unfortunately, with
habitat loss and poaching

there's been a decrease
in the population.

We are part of
the eastern indigo snakes'

Species Survival Plan,

and we want to make sure
that this snake is around

for future generations to
enjoy.

Part of that is making sure
people are educated

as to how important thissnake is to Florida's ecosystem.

God, he's big enough, he'sjust gonna swallow it sideways.

Alright, his is almost done.

JASMINE: That was fast.
JASON: How's she doing?

JASMINE: She's done.
JASON: Alright.

JASON: The indigos chowed
right down on those mice,

so now it's time
to put 'em together.

Because they are snake-
eaters,

we need to make sure
when we're introducing,

that they don't just decide
it's snack time.

And we wanna make sure
that we don't see aggression

between them, and if we were
to put them together

at the wrong time, we mightonly end up with one snake.

We've just gotta be ready
with the hooks, too,

so if they have an issue
we can separate 'em quickly.

JASMINE: Okay.
Just go ahead and put her in?

DAN: If the male's interested
in the breeding,

he's gonna pursue the femaleand bob his head up and down her,

just rubbing his head
up and down her body.

JASON: He's starting
to follow the movement.

That's good.

DAN: We should know
within the first minutes

of putting these guys
together

whether they're ready
to breed or not.

JASON: We got a little bit
of movement.

He's looking
the wrong way, though.

Our male isn't always
the most outgoing

when it comes to
approaching the ladies.

He does not have much game.
(laughs)

He's, uh, he's gotta
work on that.

DAN: Sometimes
you hit a home run,

sometimes you foul out.

Didn't work today.

JASON: Nope.
DAN: Put him back.

JASON: Alright.

We weren't successful today,

but we definitely
aren't going to give up.

Indigo snake breeding,
you've just gotta keep trying.

Try, try again.

♪ ♪

KATIE: I got the patient.

DR. LAUREN: It's surgery day
for our lined seahorse,

Señorita Maria.

Lined seahorse live
right here in Tampa Bay,

so they're a really coolexample of some of the wildlife

that we have
right here in Florida.

I'm going to remove a mass

that's been growing
underneath her jawline.

KATIE: She didn't wanna
leave.

She, like,
death gripped the rock.

DR. LAUREN: Oh, did she?
(laughs)

KATIE: Yeah.

DR. LAUREN: Seahorses have
a hyoid apparatus

that's really important
to their snicking behavior,

and that's how they snick upor eat up their little prey
items,

and this is exactly
where her mass is.

If we don't intervene
and try to remove the mass,

I think it's just gonna grow
larger and larger,

and this might pose a problem
for her down the road.

We have ze meds,
let's go grab those,

we'll go ahead
and mix up the water.

So, I have done some
mass removals on seahorses

in the past.

They're small, little
patients,

but we love all
our animals here,

it doesn't matter if you're
a small, little seahorse

or a big rhino, we're gonna
provide the best care we can.

For today's procedure
I'm gonna anesthetize her.

So we're just kind of
mixing it up.

We're gonna use a medication
in the water

that she's gonna breathe in,

and then she's slowly
going to become sedate.

Right, and inducing.

A big part for me inmonitoring a seahorse anesthesia

is to watch their body
posture, their behavior.

And you can see her fin,
she's not fluttering it as much.

As well as how well
they're breathing,

or what we call gilling.

KATIE: I love her little
spikes.

DR. LAUREN: Hmm,
she's getting sleepy.

Her gilling has slowed down.

Alright, I think I'm about
ready to pull her

and she how she does.

STACEY: Just gonna start
slow. DR. LAUREN: Go ahead.

DR. LAUREN: Thank you.
STACEY: Just on the other side.

DR. LAUREN: There you go.

We'll be delivering
a constant flow of water

through her gill structure.

Just wanna make sure she's
getting enough flow through.

Perfect.

And let's try
to elevate her head

just a little bit this way,
towards you.

STACEY: Towards me?
DR. LAUREN: Yep.

DR. LAUREN: I'm gonna try
to make an incision

and just kind of shell it
out.

This is kind of like
micro-surgery,

it's a really small space,and I'm in a really sensitive
area,

it's very imperative
that I not damage

any of those important bones

that are so important
to the way she eats.

It's really well adhered
under her mandibular area,

so there's not a lot of
tissue.

It does look very vascular,
so I just gotta be careful.

STACEY: It's so tiny.

DR. LAUREN: It's so tiny.

I'm just trying to be very
careful with what I'm cutting,

also, she's a very tiny
animal,

so I don't want her
to bleed too much.

She doesn't have
a lot of reserve.

Still seeing the gilling
okay?

STACEY: Yeah, it's still
slow.

DR. LAUREN: So, come up here
and just push it that way. Yep.

It's very fatty.

This could be
a fatty glandular mass,

I have seen this
in seahorses before.

What this could mean
is it might grow back,

but hopefully I can get itall and cure it for her.

Alright, we got our tumor.

STACEY:
Oh, that debrided off nicely.

DR. LAUREN: Yeah, that was
very satisfying. (laughs)

From what I can see
it's all gone.

Alright, I don't even think
there's anything

that I need to close up.

DAN: Okay.

DR. LAUREN: Let's give her
some antibiotics, pain meds,

and then we'll recover her.

We've gotten through
the surgery part,

there's a lot of stress that
can be involved with that,

but now there's
a whole other area

of just making sure
that she recovers safely.

STACEY: Alright, Señorita.

DR. LAUREN: She's been
under anesthesia,

so now we're gonna put her
into water that's unmedicated

and watch how she recovers.

KATIE: I don't see her
gilling.

DR. LAUREN: I don't either.

That was me.

DAN: What's going on?

DR. LAUREN: I don't,
I'm trying to see her gilling.

KATIE: I haven't seen
anything.

DR. LAUREN: I didn't
see her breathing.

DAN: What's going on?

DR. LAUREN: I don't,
I'm trying to see her gilling.

Today we're working on
the seahorse, Señorita Maria,

we've just removed her mass,

and now she is in
the recovery process,

and I'm starting to see that
she's not breathing very well.

KATIE: I haven't seen
anything.

DR. LAUREN: These kinds
of anesthetic events

can turn very quickly.

I didn't see her breathing.

Can you guys draw up
a little bit, just Dopram,

let's do .01 mills of Dopram.

There is no CPR protocol when
it comes to a crashing seahorse,

so my first step is
to give her a medication

to help initiate her
breathing response again.

♪ ♪

KATIE: Come on.

DR. LAUREN: There's one.

There's one,
did you see that one move?

KATIE: Oh, yeah.

DR. LAUREN: There you go.

KATIE: Oh, yay! Good girl.

Here, you want a plant?
That's what you want?

DR. LAUREN: She's like,
that sucked.

Alright, welcome back.

A little bit of a close call
in that recovery,

it definitely kept us
on our toes.

KATIE: Come on,
hold on to your plant.

Yay!

DR. LAUREN: There you go.

She's wrapping around her
plant, going to her safe space.

I'm really excited that
Señorita Maria did well,

she looks great.

We've got antibiotics on
board,

we gave her a little bit
of pain med.

KATIE: Okay.

DR. LAUREN: You make sure
she's still eating well

and let's just let her
live her time, be happy.

DAN: Thank you.

DR. LAUREN: Thank you, guys.
KATIE: Yeah, thank you.

(whooping)

SUE: I love their little
faces.

COLLIN: We have two siamangs
here at Zoo Tampa.

One is our male, Sensei,
and we have a female, Hutan.

They are just one of
the most fun animals

you will ever encounter here.

SUE: I love watching these
guys.

COLLIN:
They're always having fun.

SUE: How do you tell them
apart?

COLLIN: So, Sensei, he's got
kind of a blockier face,

he's got the broader
shoulders,

and he's the male, so youexpect to see a little bit of that.

And Hutan, her face is
kind of squished together,

she's got the permanent
pouty lip, she's just adorable.

Siamangs are primates
that you'll find

in the tropical forests
of Southeast Asia.

They're actually a lesser
ape, but they're incredibly smart.

Very playful personality, and
they love figuring things out.

So, making sure that
they stay mentally stimulated

is really important.

SUE: We have these PVC
feeders.

Collin came to me today with
a really fun enrichment idea,

something that the animals
had to think

to get out their snacks.

COLLIN: I just cut some holes

where it's big enough for
their hands to kind of get in,

but they can't reach
all the way in.

And I think if we just
stuff it full of greens

and put some of their
favorite treats in there.

One of my favorite thingsabout this job is creating
something

for an animal and watching
that animal have fun with it.

We can start just
smearing it on.

SUE: For an animal
like a siamang,

who spends
a lot of time foraging

and swinging in the trees,
looking for food,

we can use this type
of enrichment,

hang it up in their
environment, so they have to swing around,

encourages a little bit
of exercise,

and then get some thinkingabout having to find their food.

COLLIN: I'm shaping it
around the holes,

and then it'll be
ready to be stamped,

and that'll give
the indentations of the log.

SPENCER: We could write
a message in it.

COLLIN: (whispers)
I love you, Sensei.

(laughs)

SUE: Oh, my gosh,

should we carve like
a little heart in there?

Put S + H under the heart.
(laughs)

COLLIN: Equals love!

(laughs)

And just like that, I'm back
in elementary school. (laughs)

SUE: So, we finished
our puzzle feeder,

we're gonna let that cure and
then give it to our siamangs.

♪ ♪

BOY: Why do they swim
and eat lots of lettuce?

JAIME: Why do they swim
and eat lots of lettuce?

Well, here in
our manatee hospital,

in our critical are center,

they don't have
the natural vegetation,

so, we feed them lettuce,
'cause manatees eat a lot of food.

Manatees eat about
10 to 15 percent

of their body weight each
day.

So that's 80 to 120 pounds
of food at least a day.

They would eat all day
if they could.

Alright, manatee class.

WOMAN: Thank you, Miss Jaime.

JAIME: If you have anyquestions later, we'll see you. Bye,
guys.

BOY: We got to touch it.

CHRISTI: Are you ready?

(whistle tweets)

Shake.

(whistle tweets)
Good girl.

SUE: I swear they've gone
from, like, baby panther

to adult panther in like a
week.

TIFFANY: I know.

Pepper and Cypress are now
over six months old.

They're almost 60 pounds
and they're getting big,

they're getting fast.

It was almost like overnight,

where you just, you think
of them as kittens,

and then you look at them
and you're like,

oh, you are an adult panther.

(laughs)

SUE: Hey, Mike, it's Sue,
we're at the kitten habitat,

Cynthia is drawing up
vaccines.

Today we are doingvaccinations for Cypress and Pepper

before they move on
to their new home tomorrow.

Vaccination, or an injection,
requires a lot of trust,

and so this is gonna be atrue testament of our training.

How many do you have?
Do you have one or two?

DR. CYNTHIA: I've got two.
SUE: Okay.

DR. CYNTHIA: One should go
in the right side,

one should go on the left
side.

SUE: Okay.

DR. CYNTHIA:
Our plan for the vaccines

is to try to do it awake

and to try to do it
when they're distracted.

TIFFANY: We go in and do
a training session with kennels.

DR. CYNTHIA: Yep.

TIFFANY: Kennel them,
Sue and I can feed from behind,

and then I think you can
have that door open

and then be able
to do injection.

DR. CYNTHIA: I am not quitesure how they will respond.

They've been very good about
everything I've done with them

up until this point,

but getting poked by a needle
is a little bit different.

TIFFANY: Pepper! Cypress!
SUE: Pepper! Cypress!

(laughs)

Oh, my god, they're amazing.

(laughs)

I love 'em so much.

TIFFANY: Cypress, kennel.

SUE: Good boy, Pepper.
TIFFANY: Good boy.

SUE: Good boy.

DR. CYNTHIA: Okay,
here goes nothing.

SUE: Pepper! Hi, good job.

I'm ready if you are.

DR. CYNTHIA: Hey, cuteness.

How you doing?

TIFFANY: Oh, my gosh.

DR. CYNTHIA: Doesn't care.
TIFFANY: Perfect.

SUE: Oh, you did it already?
TIFFANY: Yeah.

DR. CYNTHIA: Doesn't care.
(laughter)

(growl)

TIFFANY: Cared about
that one a little bit.

SUE: I know, that one
felt funny, huh?

DR. CYNTHIA: We zoo and
wild animal veterinarians

can give injections
really quickly,

because our patients
are not always so excited

and willing to haveinjections given, so I seized my moment.

TIFFANY: One down, one to go.

DR. CYNTHIA: Alright.

SUE: What a good boy.
TIFFANY: Cypress.

DR. CYNTHIA: I'm not here,
go look at her.

SUE: Until after.

TIFFANY:
Cypress, right here. Hi.

DR. CYNTHIA:
Come over here, mister.

Tell me when you're ready.

TIFFANY: Yep, go ahead.

DR. CYNTHIA: Hi, cuteness.

I don't care either.

I don't care about
the slightest...(hiss)

DR. CYNTHIA:
I don't care either.

I don't care about
the slightest...(hiss)

Oh, except for the second
one. I didn't get that one in.

TIFFANY: Okay.

DR. CYNTHIA: I gave Cypress
his first vaccine

and he didn't even respond,

and then I tried to give it
a second time...

(hiss)

...and he actually turnedaround to look at me,

but I knew it was
really important

for him to get his vaccine.

TIFFANY: Go ahead.

DR. CYNTHIA: It's alright,
you're alright.

Good boy.

(growl)
TIFFANY: Hey, Cypress.

DR. CYNTHIA: I know, okay.

TIFFANY: Good boy.

DR. CYNTHIA: If it had been
anybody other than Cypress,

I probably would have said,
"Okay, I'm not doing this."

I took a chance on
our relationship there,

and I think it worked.

TIFFANY: Yeah.
(Dr. Cynthia laughs)

DR. CYNTHIA: I knew we had
this trusting relationship.

He didn't look back
at me aggressively.

TIFFANY: He trusted her
enough to do it.

DR. CYNTHIA: I love you so
much.

Thank you for not
ripping me a new one.

So, I saw a really greatexample of him seeing it was me

and going, "Okay, I'm notgoing to make a big deal about
this."

That was a great moment.

TIFFANY: What good boys,
I'm so impressed with them.

I am so proud of
these two kittens.

Pepper!

They've grown confidence.

Cypress!

They've grown
these personalities,

we've seen them change
along the way.

To say the cats are ready
would be an understatement.

(purr)

DR. CYNTHIA: Thank you for
coming over, Mr. Purry.

Cypress and Pepper are
heading

to White Oak
Conservation Center.

It is an incredible facility

that has over
14,000 acres of land.

They have expertise
with Florida panthers,

and I know they're veryexcited to receive Cypress and
Pepper.

It's gonna be
a great life for them.

TIFFANY: I think
they're officially ready.

SUE: Yeah, they're so ready.

DR. CYNTHIA: Ready in every
way.

TIFFANY: It'll be sad
to say goodbye,

but we know that they're
going to a great place,

and we're gonna cherish thetime that we have with them left.

DR. CYNTHIA: I wish
I could vaccinate

all my patients that way.

TIFFANY: Yeah, right?

MELINDA: How's everyone
doing?

This is Charlotte,

and Charlotte is
a prehensile-tailed porcupine,

also known as
a Brazilian porcupine.

Now, as she walks along,
she's walking along that railing,

you can really see
how sure her feet are.

And, as you can see,
she is quite comfortable here.

SPENCER: I really hope
they lock up today,

especially since neither
Dan nor Jason are here,

so I can take full credit,
right, obviously.

TYSON: Full credit.

SPENCER: They didn't have
anything to do with it.

(laughs)

Today, we're introducing
our indigo snakes, again.

It's been several times
that we've introduced them,

so we're hoping for a lock-up
with these guys.

Here you go, girl.

Hopefully she does okay.

Indigo snake breeding season
is very short,

we only have like a month ortwo of, like, prime breeding
season.

So, this is one of our last
chances until next year.

He's showing interest
already, that's a good sign.

TYSON: He's still watching
her.

SPENCER: I guess that's
right,

you don't wanna just run upto somebody and start something,

you have to have
a dialogue first.

Hopefully it's just him
working up his courage.

He should kick off with,
like, chasing her right off the

but he's been a little bit
shy.

Starting to move.

TYSON: Is she moving away?

SPENCER: No, she's just
checking things out, I think.

In Florida, their numbers
have been declining.

And then there's been areasthey haven't been seen
historically

in the last 60 years.

So, I'm really rooting
for these guys,

we really want him
to be able to breed her

and help out with
this population.

TYSON: I never know what
they're thinking about.

SPENCER: He's definitely
got the interest going down.

It's whether he actually
does something or not.

Time will tell.

We're not really seeing
the chasing that we want.

He's come up to her

and she's kind of blindly,
like, come up to him.

And there's been a little bit
of head bobbing,

a little bit of attention
being paid.

Yeah, this is gonna be a bit.

TYSON: You need a lawn chairout here so you can sit and
watch.

SPENCER: Yeah, yeah, right.

I haven't seen
breeding behaviors

between these guys myself.

TYSON: Little more
comfortable. SPENCER: Little bit.

SPENCER: To have it happen
on a day that I'm here,

I would really love,
these guys are just really cool.

So, we're gonna be here for
a while and hope they lock up.

It will take a little bit,
but it will happen.

♪ ♪

MOLLY: We're fortunate enough
that we are able to rescue

Florida native animals
here at Zoo Tampa.

The manatee program has been
open for almost 25 years,

and we've been able to rescue
over 400 manatees

and return around 230
back to the wild.

I wish it was zero that
we didn't have to rescue,

but unfortunately
that's not the case,

so we're happy to do our
part.

DR. LAUREN: Hello.
JAIME: Hey, morning.

DR. LAUREN:
Hey, how are you guys doing?

JAIME: Good.
We have Sriracha separated.

DR. LAUREN: Okay.

MOLLY: We have 17 manatees
right now,

and they're all at different
stages of their rehab,

so, we have some that
are incredibly critical

and some that are
close to release.

JAIME: Okay, you can come up.

MOLLY: Sriracha has been
with us for about nine months,

he was a little spicy,
so they named him Sriracha.

He has been thriving,
he's eating great.

DR. LAUREN: He's huge!

MOLLY: And today
he's getting an exam

and hopefully the green light
for release.

DR. LAUREN: We're in a bit
of a unique situation with

Originally he came to us,

not because he was injured,
but because his mom was injured.

She still has some injuries
that have not healed over,

and she's not releasable
just yet,

and we had noticed that
there did not seem to be

that maternal bond anymore,
so the decision was made

to actually put him
into a separate system

with other males,
and he's been doing great.

So, we definitely want
to give him his opportunity

back out in the wild.

JAIME: Watch his tail.

DR. LAUREN: He looks great.

Sriracha is still a calf,

he's about less than half the
size as he will be as an adult,

but he's still
a very powerful manatee.

He's growing into
a handsome young man,

and so we're gonna get
all the measurements,

make sure we have
all that data collected,

and that he fits
the criteria for release.

ERINN: Okay, Lauren, we're
ready for you, here in a minute.

DR. LAUREN: Alright.

MOLLY:
He's just that strong, ugh!

ERINN: I lost that flap.

Ooh, there he is.

LISA: Sriracha seems like
a typical healthy male manatee,

he's very strong.

He doesn't necessarily
want to stay still

for all of his weights
and measurements.

Curvilinear is 260.

DR. LAUREN: Woo!

LISA: Curvilinear is 260.

DR. LAUREN: Woo!

JAIME: You alright?

DR. LAUREN: We knew
he was a little spicy,

but Sriracha's definitely
living up to his name.

He just, like,
slid me out of the way.

MOLLY: He's throwing us allover the place with his tail.

He's incredibly strong.

LISA: 138.

MOLLY: The fact
that he's fighting,

that means he's feeling
great.

JAIME: We should have
all his measurements,

you got the blood work
done on him?

DR. LAUREN: Yep, blood's
done.

JAIME: We'll just get
an updated weight.

DR. LAUREN: Okay.

The goal weight
for manatee calves

before they get released out
is about 600 pounds,

and so today hopefully
we'll meet that mark.

LISA: So, he's 680.

DR. LAUREN: Wow. (laughs)

Sriracha has plenty of fat.
(laughs)

He's big.

MOLLY: It's a good day for
him, he has a ton of energy,

and I think he's gonna
put up a fight

trying to get him in the
truck.

But there's no reason
for him to stay any longer,

it's time for him
to go out in the wild.

(whooping)

♪ ♪

KATIE: Hi, lemurs.

Good morning, buds.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

JANE: Hi, how's it going?

COLLIN: Hey, guys.

I was just getting
the puzzle feeders ready.

SUE: I'm so excited.

We finished our puzzle feeder
for our siamangs,

and we're ready to test it
out.

COLLIN: I got some of
their worms and raisins

and all that really
high value stuff.

JANE: You've heard
their happy noises

when they get mealworms,
haven't you?

SUE: Collin, how does it go?

COLLIN: Whemp, whemp,
whemp, whemp.

(laughter)

He does a little shouldershimmy that I can't quite pull off.

SUE: Oh, my gosh, it's so
cute.

I think the siamang
are gonna love it.

They love food,
they love snacks.

Boom.

COLLIN: Beautiful.
SUE: Let's do it.

SUE: But instead of us
just handing it to them,

which we like to do
for training,

they'll have to go find it
on the habitat.

Can I put it here?

JANE: I'm good with that.

Because they can sit up
on top of that end.

SUE: Okay, doing it.

We're excited to see
how they interact,

hopefully it'll create
that foraging behavior

that we're looking for,

and give them something to do
while they're out on habitat.

COLLIN: Beautiful.

JANE: I can open the gate if
you guys want to go outside,

and then I'll just
meet you around.

SUE: Okay, that sounds good.

JANE: You ready, guys?

Alright, here we go.

SUE: Oh.

COLLIN: She found it!

SUE: So cute.

COLLIN: He's like hanging
upside down to get it.

SUE: I know, I wonder
if he figured out

there's like other stuff
in there yet.

Ah, I love it.

JANE: She's definitely
getting some mealworms out.

COLLIN: And she's
taking her time.

SUE: Yeah, look at her.

She's being so, like,
delicate about it.

COLLIN: She likes to pick
a couple things at a time.

Sensei is just trying toshake the whole thing loose

to get everything to fall
out.

SUE: Get the mealworms out!

COLLIN: Oh, he's getting
really frustrated

with that one piece of
browse.

SUE: I, like, really
put it in there.

(Collin laughs)
Oh, he got it, though!

COLLIN: He's just likethrowing the whole thing in a circle.

This is like the perfectamount of frustrated

you want them to be.

SUE: Yeah, he had to work at
it, but he got it.

JANE: Yeah.

COLLIN: And Hutan,
at the rate she's going,

she'll be here till tomorrow.

JANE: She'll be there
till lunch at least.

COLLIN: These puzzle feeders
were a huge success.

They look great,
clearly the siamang

are having a blast with them.

The fact that we were able
to give them something

new and novel, and they've
continued to interact with it

as long as they have
is incredible.

SUE: I kinda wish they didthe sounds and the shimmy,
though.

How do we get that?

COLLIN: Oh, I don't know,

got to give them
a lot more worms, I guess.

♪ ♪

KRISTEN: To the left
of the habitat here,

that is our female okapi,
Betty.

She's showing us a little bit
of that 14-inch-long tongue.

DAN: Reptiles to reptiles,
Princess and Powder.

SPENCER: Go for Powder.

DAN: Hey, the indigos are
out, let's get 'em together

for the last time this
season.

SPENCER: 10-4,
we'll be right there.

JASON: Alright,
conditions are good today.

It's time to put the indigos
together again.

You ready?

DAN: Are you ready?
JASON: Are they ready?

SPENCER: That's the question.

JASON: The last time we put
these indigo snakes together,

we weren't successful.

We got a little bit of
movement.

He's looking
the wrong way, though.

And we weren't successful
the time before that.

SPENCER: He's definitely got
the interest going down.

It's whether he actually
does something or not.

JASON: Or the time before
that.

With breeding season
coming to an end

this could be our
last chance for romance.

DAN: One thing, this is thelast breeding of the season,

so it could get a little
rough, so pay attention.

SPENCER: Okay.

DAN: If he bites her,
we'll just pull her right out.

JASON: I'll keep
an eye far side.

SPENCER: Okay.
JASON: Alright.

JASON: We want to make sure
that the indigo snake

is around for a very long
time.

SPENCER: Alright,
I'm gonna put her in.

JASON: If we get this
breeding thing down,

then we can not only helpwith the population here in zoos,

but we can also potentially
breed for reintroduction

here in Florida in the
future.

Alright, he definitely sees
her.

SPENCER: Yep, she sees him.

JASON: He's starting
to flick his tongue,

so he might start
getting interested here.

They can use their tongue
to sense direction,

so he can tell where she is
just by tasting the air.

Which way is she headed?

SPENCER:
She's heading towards you.

DAN: Yeah, she turned
away from him.

SPENCER: He's following her.

DAN: Okay, good.

JASON: We're definitely
starting to see that pursuit

that we're supposed
to be seeing.

DAN: Trying to figure out ifhe wants to eat her or breed
her.

SPENCER: Ah, movement.

DAN: Come on, buddy. Oh!

JASON: Alright,
he definitely sees her.

SPENCER: Yep, she sees him.

JASON: We're hoping to see
some positive breeding behavior

from the male today.

If we don't, then we have
to wait until next year.

SPENCER: Oh, movement.

DAN: Come on, buddy.

JASON: Oh, he's on her.

SPENCER: How cool.
DAN: Awesome.

JASON: Alright, so he'sstarting to rub his head on her a bit.

Now he's trying
to line that body up.

SPENCER: That's exciting.

JASON: Wow, they're like
right here.

SPENCER: That's cool, man.

JASON: So, the female's inand the male is starting to
pursue.

He's rubbing his head on her,
just like he's supposed to,

and he's trying
to line his body up.

He is doing everything
he's supposed to do

to get breeding done.

He's putting on his best
moves.

SPENCER: She looks like
she appreciates it.

JASON: 100% awesome,

they're doing everything
they're supposed to be doing.

SPENCER: Oh, that's so cool.

JASON: Alright,
there goes the tail.

SPENCER: Alright.

DAN: We got a lock.

SPENCER: Alright.

JASON: Once we finally see
that lock, we're all ecstatic.

He will stay in that position
for up to 24 hours,

so that's why we call it
locking up.

Breeding can last for
a very, very long time.

JASON: Sweet!
SPENCER: That's exciting.

JASON: This is almost as
exciting as the Super Bowl.

Well, maybe not. (laughs)

Alright, nice job, guys.

DAN: Those guys, not you
guys.

JASON: Eh.
SPENCER: I hope so.

JASON: We've put a lot oftime and effort into this project.

It only took like
20 intros this year.

We've introduced theseanimals many, many times,

we're sitting out herewatching them sometimes for hours,

to try and do
these introductions.

So, to see it successful
is a great feeling.

SPENCER: You can't rush love,
you know?

♪ ♪

(purring)

CHRISTI: We'll see you
tomorrow.

ASHLEY: Sleep tight.

♪ ♪

(whistle tweets)

DR. CYNTHIA: Good morning.
Hey, boys.

TIFFANY: This morning we are
taking Pepper and Cypress

to their new home.

DR. CYNTHIA:
Okay, so this is it.

TIFFANY: Who's going inkennel for the very last time?

SUE: Oh.

TIFFANY: We just have
to keep remembering

that it's what's best for
them, and then, well, we'll miss

DR. CYNTHIA: Today I'm
excited. TIFFANY: Yeah.

DR. CYNTHIA:
Where they're going and...

TIFFANY: I'm excited to seethem go somewhere brand new,

and see how they react, so.

Pepper and Cypress have been
with us for, at this point,

the majority of their lives.

This is home to them,
this is what they know.

Perfect.

Everything that we've done
over the last few months

has been to help them
transition stress-free.

For them, we want it to be
as normal as possible.

Pepper! Good boy.

SUE: Nice.
TIFFANY: Kennel.

TIFFANY: We want the crating
to be normal,

we want the load up in
the vehicle to be normal,

the difference today will be
it'll be a much longer drive.

Good boy.

DR. CYNTHIA:
They are rock stars.

No problem at all,
they just went right in.

This is the combination
of a lot of training

and a lot of work
with Cypress and Pepper.

TIFFANY: We can set him down
here and we'll go grab Cypress.

DR. CYNTHIA: It's been
an incredible journey

to spend time with them.

SUE: I know, what are you
doing?

I know, hi, lovey.

DR. CYNTHIA: It's really
hard,

we have to do this
a lot in our field,

where we put everything
we have into an animal.

We spend more time
with these animals

than our own family and
friends, and then we have to let them

TIFFANY: I don't think we can
fit anything else. (laughs)

DR. CYNTHIA: That is
really difficult.

You never get used to it,
no matter how often you do it.

TIFFANY: This is it.

DR. CYNTHIA: Here we go.

I'm just trying to stayfocused on how grateful I am

for my time with them.

TIFFANY: No going back.

♪ ♪

JAIME: Is he coming?
MOLLY: Yeah.

MOLLY: Keep pushing,
he's going, just keep going.

DR. LAUREN: Today is a really
huge day for Sriracha.

MOLLY: Jiminys.

DR. LAUREN: He's been with us
for a really long time,

and now he's ready to go
and be released.

Hey, how's he doing?

MOLLY: He's like
kind of on his side.

DR. LAUREN: Okay.

MOLLY: Release day is
one of my favorite days.

We'll crate him out and get
him

in a truck and get him home.

But moving a 600-pound animal
through the air

definitely comes
with some risks.

MOLLY: Can you see him?
NATALIE: Yes.

MOLLY: He's good? Okay.

Jiminy Crickets! Okay.

JAIME: Pull down, pull down.

MOLLY: We have Sriracha
in the stretcher,

and he's moving around a ton.

His head's here now,
just so you know.

We can't do any training
with the manatees

to get them to a point
where they're comfortable

going into a stretcher, andit can be kind of scary for
them.

ERINN: Hang on, Jaime!

MOLLY: He's actually
to the point

where he's coming out
of the stretcher.

He may come out, Jaime.

MOLLY: Jiminy Crickets!

We have Sriracha
in the stretcher,

and they panic a little bit
when they get in there.

They don't know what's going
on.

He may come out, Jaime.

JAIME: Let's get the foam
ready.

MOLLY: Our biggest thing
is keeping him safe,

so, that's where our training
comes in handy,

where we have to know
how to handle them

and to move safely and
make sure no one gets hurt.

JAIME: Good job, you guys.

MOLLY: We're gonna get him
re-situated,

so that way we can
get him into the truck.

DR. LAUREN: I think
he'll settle down.

I am thrilled that Srirachais gonna go back out into the
wild.

JAIME: Alright, let's go.

DR. LAUREN:
The release site today

is an absolutely gorgeous
part of Florida.

MOLLY: One, two, three.

DR. LAUREN: It's nice and
warm

and there's a lot of food
available,

so we're really excited
to have this location

to put Sriracha back out in.

This is awesome.

♪ ♪

MOLLY: Sriracha is gonna be
released at Three Sisters Spring

in Crystal River, Florida.

It's a good day,
it's an exciting day,

he finally gets to go
back where he belongs,

which is what we always
look forward to.

This is a really great spot
for manatees,

there's really great seagrasses there for them to eat,

and I can see a manatee
going by right now.

It's really challenging
to get released.

Now they have to go
live on their own,

find things on their own.

JAIME: One, two, three.

MOLLY: But they do learn
from one another,

and we've been doing this
for a long time,

and we know it's successful.

DR. LAUREN: He seems
to have settled nicely.

We see so many animals thatcome into our critical care
center,

and, you know, every animal
becomes special,

and as the team works with
them,

you know, we get to know them
a little bit more.

But we always know that
the mission at the end

is to get them back out.

So it's definitely
a special moment.

MOLLY: There we go.

So, right now, he is getting
his satellite belt and tracker

put onto him.

It's safe and painless
for him to wear,

and he'll be tracked forabout a year before it's removed.

We always say,
best-case scenario

we don't ever hear
from that manatee again,

that means they're
doing really well.

Sriracha's at the age where
he should be away from his mom,

but he's really young, still,

so, we wanna make sure that
if he gets into any trouble,

we're there to help him out.

ROBERT: Alright, tail end,
hold the stretcher.

KIM: Alright, ready?

ROBERT: Nose end, tuck and
roll. One, two, three.

JAIME: Oh!

(laughter)

MOLLY: There's the spicy.

Yay, Sriracha!
(clapping)

DR. LAUREN: You know,
it's really nice

that at the end of the dayyou get to see a bunch of people

show up, and they cancelebrate that success with us.

All good?

MOLLY: We're good.

DR. LAUREN:
People really genuinely care.

And I think that speaks
a lot to, you know,

our general humanity still,
a lot of people really care.

♪ ♪

When I do my rounds in the
zoo,

I go through
the aquatics tunnel,

and I often check in
on how Señorita Maria is doing,

and she looks fantastic.

She's a little rock star.

She's eating great,
but the mass has not grown back.

So far it looks like
we've solved the problem

for Señorita Maria.

I am ecstatic with
how she has been doing.

♪ ♪

TIFFANY: Today we're excited.

Pepper and Cypress
get to see their new home.

DR. CYNTHIA: Alright,
can't wait to spot them.

TIFFANY: There they are.
DR. CYNTHIA: Wow.

DR. CYNTHIA: Hello.

TIFFANY: Oh, they're so
pretty.

DR. CYNTHIA: Yeah,
they look gorgeous.

Look at those feet.

So big.

We couldn't ask for
a better spot for 'em.

TIFFANY: So much room.

Seeing Pepper and Cypress
at White Oak,

and seeing all the room
that they have to run,

chase each other,

to climb different trees,
different grasses.

SUE: Oh, climbing the trees.

TIFFANY: It's great that
they have so much space

that they would normally
encounter as a Florida panther.

SUE: Aww.

TIFFANY: Aw, they still
love their ball.

MOLLY: We left
some toys for them,

we left them
a cute little blue ball

that they really
enjoyed playing with,

and seeing them play withthat is really fun,

it shows that they're
still kittens at heart.

TIFFANY: They're stalking
each other, pouncing,

so it's great to see.

(laughter)

TIFFANY: Jump on his head.

This is something that wewill always cherish and remember.

DR. CYNTHIA: Look at that,

like, you would just think
that was a wild cat.

TIFFANY: Mm-hmm.

I'm proud of these cats
for everything that they do

for the Florida panthers.

It's so important that
their story is heard,

it's important for us
at Zoo Tampa,

it's important for me as
an individual living in Florida,

and I hope that
we can all do our part

to really help the species.

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