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Howie: Are you gonna sit down in it?

What do you think of that?

Jane: Are you ready for a bath?

Good boy.

He says, "I'm ready."

♪ ♪

Hannah: Hey, old man!

I know, what is that?

Yeah. He doesn't come out on the glove very often.

So he may have picked up the fact

That the only time he comes on the glove is the river,

Gets a little excited.

Yeah, you know where we're going.

We are taking advantage of a nice sunny day in sitka,

And we're going to take our two education eagles

Down to the river.

Spirit's ready.

Jennifer: Our goal with every bird that comes to us

Is to release them back into the wild.

But occasionally, we get birds that can't be released,

And sometimes these birds make great educational ambassadors

And help us teach people about how incredibly fascinating

These creatures really are.

Hannah: Oh! He's excited.

He wants to get there. I'm not going fast enough.

There he goes.

While they can't ever live in the wild,

At least we can offer them a chance

To have a little bit of that wild behavior back,

And it's just fun to see them be eagles really.

Jennifer: The best kind of reward for a long week.

Sheila: It's just about your turn, too.

Jennifer: Well, he doesn't hate it.

That's for sure.

Jen: Oh, yay. There goes spirit!

Sheila: Good boy.

Jen: I love watching them take baths.

I never really realized before I started this job

That all birds bathe in the same way.

They dip one wing, dip the other wing.

Hannah: And then they kind of scoop water onto their back

And slap their tail with their wings.

Slap, slap, slap.

Jen: Spank their butts.

It's just, it's fun to watch other birds bathe

After seeing these guys bathe, because it's all the same.

There he goes. That was a good spank.

Hannah: His little move they're doing,

We call the dip and spank.

But the whole point of bringing them down here

Is that they get to choose what they want to do, so.

Are you coming out?

If he only wants a little bath, then he gets to choose that.

Hi, bud. Are you all done?

Jennifer: It's great for both the birds and the staff,

Because we're all clearly enjoying it and getting a laugh

And gaining some perspective in life. (laughs)

♪ ♪

The eagles that still have a shot at being released

Back into the wild reside in our main flight center.

It's 20,000 cubic feet.

It's a massive space where we're able to allow eagles

To build up their flight skills again

And build up their strength

Before they're able to be released.

(chirping)

And as far as we know, and we've looked,

We haven't seen anything like it throughout the united states.

Most eagles spend a few months in here convalescing.

We have one eagle, however, that has spent longer

Than any other eagle in our history,

And his name is friar tuck.

He's very distinct because of the lack of feathers

On top of his head.

Sometimes when the day is wearing me down,

I like to go to the flight center

And just watch the birds,

And I always zero in on friar tuck first.

A gnarly-looking one-eyed eagle.

Dr. Victoria: Friar tuck has been with us since may of 2015.

He had basically been scalped.

The skin was gone.

It was just bone.

We don't know how it happened.

Maybe it was an electrocution.

A giant burn on the top of his head.

He was severely emaciated, starving, barely alive...

...With a very severe eye infection.

And we very seriously considered euthanasia on this bird.

We removed his eye, but he had a lot of healing to do

With this scalp injury.

It took a couple of years for that final stage of healing

To really occur.

Four years, very, very long time.

Now I'm faced with the question

That I'm gonna have to mull over: Do I release him?

Do we keep him in captivity?

This one is pretty borderline.

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Howie: Come on, buddies.

Every spring around awcc, it's baby season.

We have wood bison babies born,

We typically will have reindeer babies and caribou babies born.

I just want to check on the bison group.

We've got one calf on the ground already,

But I'm expecting a couple more.

I just want to see how moms are looking.

You watch him nurse, he's like punching her in that bag.

You know, like, imagine if human babies were like 100 pounds,

Just working on mom while they're trying to nurse, right?

Like, that's what that cow deals with.

And she lets him keep coming back for more.

So if that's not love, I don't know what is.

However, their neighbors, the caribou,

Are a little bit different story.

Moms are definitely not the same caliber.

They're just like, they have a calf,

And, like, "well, I didn't want that, I didn't plan that."

And especially with first-time moms,

You can almost guarantee they're gonna be bad moms.

You can tell right away

If you're gonna have a good mom or a bad mom,

Because a good mom will keep the ravens off their calf.

Ravens in particular can be nasty to baby animals out here.

A bad mom will just kind of be like,

"oh, you're picking on my calf? Cool."

This year, we have a new mom in the caribou herd.

And we noticed that mom started to get really aggressive

Towards the calf.

Once we saw that, you know,

We have to make a decision for that calf's safety.

Anytime you pull a calf away from mom,

You already cut the chance of survival in half,

Because nothing's better than mom's milk.

It's not ideal, but sometimes you just don't have a choice.

We decided to call this little girl luna.

We haven't had to raise a baby caribou calf before.

This is our first one.

You know, she's grown up a little bit,

But, man, she really hasn't gotten that big.

She still kind of looks like a little bit of a runt.

Kim: Luna is spunky.

She's totes adorbs!

She's so cute.

Brittany: Hi.

She gets really excited.

Kim: So luna is about two and a half to three weeks.

She is now being hand-raised, bottle-fed.

I know.

Good girl!

Brittany: It's still a little bit touch and go with her.

She's not gaining as much weight as quickly as we want her to.

The formula that she gets is goat's milk.

It's obviously not gonna be as great as mom's milk is,

But it's a really good substitute for them.

Kim: That's it. All done.

What are you doing?

Brittany: She just started pooping on her own,

So we're really excited about that.

She was so young when she came in

That we had to stimulate her to actually go to the bathroom.

So, a mom would lick back there.

So we would just take a wet paper towel

And try to just simulate

The same kind of thing a mom would do.

Kim: Come on! Let's go. Come on.

Now we're trying to get her back into her pen.

Come on. Come on.

Brittany: Hey! No, no, no.

Kim: She's not listening too well right now.

Luna.

Lots of new, exciting things going on.

Oh, lu, we'll see you in a 4 o'clock feeding.

Be good.

Howie: Unfortunately for this calf, you know,

Once she comes into our care and we decide we're raising her,

We can't just put her back into the herd

And expect everything to go great.

So we're gonna have to keep her separate for some time

To make sure she gets healthy and gets big.

(phone rings)

Jane: Alaska sealife center stranding hotline.

This is jane. How may I help you?

We got a call about a young seal pup.

Got separated from mom, and at this point,

We just know that this is an animal

That looks like it needs help.

Are you able to give it sub-q?

Could you please give it 200 mils?

Okay, bye.

So, we have a seal coming from the homer area.

They said it's alert, but it looks skinny.

Here we go.

Hanna: Alright. Okay.

Jane: Go team!

Let's go get a seal.

We are the only marine mammal rehabilitation center in alaska,

So our little facility is responsible for a coastline

That's equal to the coastline

Of the whole continental united states.

Hanna: Homer is a couple hours away.

The drive is a risk for a sick animal,

But we are the only place

That will be able to rehabilitate this animal.

So the benefit of him getting here

Outweighs the risk of taking that drive.

Jane: Here we go.

Hi!

We have a tiny little seal, dehydrated.

Because usually their eyes aren't goopy,

They're really wet.

Alright. Want to get him out?

Hi.

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Got a wound on his right flipper that looks rather deep.

Let me look at the face.

So we look for the basics.

Got some teeth coming in.

So probably a week old or so.

Getting an idea of what sex she is.

It looks like we have another girl to add to the group.

Good for you. You bite.

You show everyone you're fierce.

So we'll give her a little hydration under her skin.

And we'll give her some hydration in her belly.

Alright. Let's put her in the kennel and go to seward.

(pup cries)

It's good that she's here

And we have medical staff that can work on her.

You know, she needs to get over the stress

Of being abandoned or separated from mom.

(pup cries)

The next 24 hours are gonna be very critical for this animal.

Jane: We're bringing in a seal pup rescued from homer, alaska.

Colby: Weighing in at 7.35.

(pup cries)

Jane: What we found is that

She's definitely very dehydrated, very skinny.

Alright, her temperature is 100.4.

I think she's maybe around a week old,

But we'll have the veterinarians determine that.

So normally, you want them to have like a wet mask

Around their eyes that shows that they're well hydrated

And producing good tears, but she's all crusty,

So that's a big sign that she's not well hydrated.

Her lungs sound okay.

(pup moans)

So this is the wound we are concerned about,

Pretty deep slash there.

So there's definitely an infection going on there.

We're gonna start her with some injectable antibiotics,

Which should help.

She has fight in her, but she is weak.

If this was a normal harbor seal,

She would not be sitting here like this.

Colby: Harbor seals are like the puppies of the ocean.

Alright, girl.

But she's just had a long trip here.

These animals are coming in to us,

A lot of them are abandoned by their mothers.

We are here trying to piece them back together.

It's the ones that make it in the end

That make it all worthwhile, for sure.

Jennifer: Look at all the calendars! They're here!

Alright. I'm just gonna borrow this one for a minute, okay?

Alright. Thanks.

Our resident raptor calendar has arrived,

And jen cedarleaf did all the work involved,

So I'm just gonna surprise her.

Look what arrived!

Jen: Oh, cool!

Jennifer: Your calendar!

Jen: I've been waiting for days.

Jennifer: It's beautiful.

Jen: Sweet!

Hannah: Aw, pele.

Jennifer: And that's your onyx.

Jen: Aw.

Hannah: I like that he's for October, that's appropriate.

Jen: I know, I put an owl last year, so I wanted an owl.

Hannah: He looks comfy, you can't see his nostrils.

I like that.

Jennifer: Oh, okay. That's a relaxed...

Hannah: Yeah, yeah. That's a chill owl.

Jennifer: Excellent. Cool.

We get really attached to some of our favorite residents,

And it's fun to be able to feature them

In a calendar like this.

Alright. Cool!

So, yeah, now we can talk business

A little bit, talk shop.

Jen: Okay. We need to figure out our...

Jennifer: Potential candidates for release.

And I see at least four eagles

That are flying really, really well.

Jen: Yeah.

Jennifer: That doesn't necessarily mean they're ready.

Jen: So our candidates I think are sword, pioneer...

Jennifer: Okay.

Jen: Bruiser.

And possibly friar tuck at this point.

Jennifer: Really?! Jen: Yup.

Jennifer: Oh, wow. Jen: His head looks amazing.

Jennifer: That's awesome, 'cause friar tuck's been around

For as long as I've been here.

Jen: We've never really had anyone longer than friar tuck

In rehab.

Kind of a big deal.

We were honestly worried

That he couldn't regulate his temperature,

Because he didn't have those feathers on his head,

But he's lived four winters in main flight,

And he's done absolutely fine, so.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Jen: But I think he's flying great.

I'd rather give him a chance out there.

Jennifer: He does fly really well.

I've always had a soft spot for friar tuck.

And now he's the next eagle we might be able to release?

Just definitely excited!

♪ ♪

Keeper: You got a whole mouthful.

Is it yummy?

I love you, buddy.

Kim: So right now we're going to go in with our reindeer herd.

Brittany: People are always asking, like,

What's the difference between reindeer and caribou?

They are pretty much the same species.

Reindeer are just kind of

Domesticated versions of caribou.

Howie: Caribou is wild in alaska.

They haven't been bred for thousands of years

To be habituated to life with people.

Keeper: Give him a nice snack.

Brittany: With the caribou herd, we're a lot more distant.

They're really not that personable.

Howie: You know, they don't really want to hang out with us.

They don't want to be near us.

They want to be caribou and do their own thing.

Brittany: Our reindeer are just super friendly.

It's a lot more fun to work with them.

Oh, here comes chuckles and neville.

We have three reindeer that come up to us on a regular basis.

One is neville.

Neville has a blue tag in his ear.

Got you, bud.

Then there's springsteen and there's chuckles,

And they're our two more dominant males.

Chuckles is a sweetheart.

Come on.

Good job, bud.

Kim: And here's your banana.

Brittany: He's just got a really large rack

And he doesn't have brakes.

Kim: So he just gets all up in your space,

And then you just have to try not to get hit in the face.

Brittany: He's not spatially aware.

So, like, he just hits it on everything.

(thunk)

Kim: Um, he, and he gets really pushy.

You just kind of stay out of his way.

Brittany: How you feeling today?

Neville, he's a pretty curious reindeer.

Today, I'm trying to train him to walk on a halter

So he can be a part of our education team.

You're okay.

He's about three years old,

And that makes him in his kind of teenage years.

He's getting a little bit more moody sometimes.

But, yeah, he's definitely a teenager,

And he starts to act like one every now and then.

No touching the reindeer, but he is gonna come out.

This is one of his first walks out around a lot of people.

Come on.

So right now, the goal is to get him trained up

For the 4th of July parade in a nearby town.

When he's walking nicely, then that's what I want,

And so that's what I reward.

Good job, bud.

So, like, the gator went by and he didn't freak out,

Which is awesome.

So we're trying to get him used to crowds and vehicles,

So that he is calm and ready to walk, come parade day.

Good job, bud.

And I think he's ready.

Neville, that was rude.

We'll find out.

Howie: In the six weeks since luna's been rejected from mom,

She's gained 20 pounds, so she's growing really well.

We can finally relax a little bit

That I think we've saved her successfully.

Keeper: Hi. Hi, luna.

Howie: She's transitioned onto the formula really well.

Her fecals indicate that she's doing really well.

Kim: So we are going to put up another fence

So that she has a double fencing

That makes the squares smaller for her.

Howie: I'm just kind of dolling up the fence a little bit,

Make sure she can't stick her head through anything,

And that way she also doesn't hurt herself

On any of the wires.

Kim: Hi, luna.

But please don't eat the flowers off my shoes.

Alright. Last zip-tie.

Hi, sweetie.

And we're good.

You get to run around now, luna.

Brittany: So my goal for luna is to hopefully

Make her an education caribou.

I would love to be able to take her on walks

Just like I take our reindeer on walks.

Can I see your legs? Can I see your legs?

Right now, it's super important to get her really used to people

And get her used to us touching her.

Good job.

Because if we want to do anything like hoof trims

Or injections,

Just to be able to get our hands on her in general.

So a lot of tactile with her,

Touching her legs, touching her face,

Because sometimes they have antler issues or eye issues.

Luna?

Howie: We really need to start thinking

Of the what's next for luna.

Brittany: I'll see you tomorrow, okay?

Howie: You know, it's not normal for them

To be by themselves like this.

Brittany: Okay. Bye.

Howie: She needs that reliance and that confidence

That comes when she's with a herd.

So we need to figure that out here pretty quick.

Kara: Hey, you got him!

There's bugs.

How you doing, buddy?

This is already processed fillets

That we get donated from local sitkans.

Here, we'll put it right there for you.

Britainy: Right now, I'm preparing onyx's diet.

Onyx is our resident common raven.

He was actually shot by someone.

The damage to his left wing was so severe that he can't fly.

So he cannot be released back into the wild.

So it's up to us to step in

And provide a really healthy, happy lifestyle.

Sheila: A little bit of junk food

To go with all the healthy stuff.

Britainy: Yeah!

Sheila: Up here in alaska,

Ravens are one of the smartest birds

You're going to encounter.

Ravens can get bored.

So if he gets bored, he might start plucking out his feathers,

Turning his feathers into toys.

So we try and provide him with as many objects as possible

Just to play with.

Fill that up with cheetos.

Britainy: Oh, yeah.

Sheila: Make him work for his food!

Britainy: Yeah!

Sheila: You can also stick one in here.

Britainy: Oh, yeah.

Sheila: Let's put a red one in there.

Britainy: You know, it keeps them amused.

It's kind of one of my favorite parts of the job

Is thinking of new ways to trick him.

Hey, onyx!

He literally gets his food on a silver platter.

Spoiled bird.

He really knows that when I come in here,

That means it's dinnertime and also fun time!

It's not often that you get to play with your dinner,

But if you're onyx, you do.

He actually has a wild mate that will come and visit him,

And he'll actually trade bits of his diet we give him

For wild delights from her.

So now that we've given onyx his meal for the day,

I'm going to give him some space

So he can just continue to have fun and party on in here.

Bye, onyx!

He's really fun to watch.

He's funny.

♪ ♪

Howie: So today, we've got the big parade in girdwood.

It's not a really big parade, girdwood's a pretty small town,

But it's our community and we like to go out and support.

We have the forest fair going on for the 4th of July weekend,

So neville's on parade.

♪ ♪

We've been working really hard with neville.

But, you know, you never know how an animal is going to react

To clowns on tricycles and forest fairies.

Brittany: It is neville's first time, and I think he's ready.

We'll find out.

Austin: No way!

Howie: He'll think you're one of him!

Austin: I'm not wearing that.

Howie: You can even bend them and like break one

So it looks like you belong with him.

Austin: Oh, here, wait.

Howie: Expect antlers.

The fire trucks are all lined up.

We bring up the end and we throw candy and everybody loves it.

Brittany: At the very beginning, he was a little antsy.

But then once we got into the groove of things,

He was totally cool,

And we found a nice rhythm of treat, walk, treat, walk.

It's a lot to expect of a teenager

To really keep it together.

But for his first walk, he did really, really well.

Definitely a successful, awesome day.

I'm super proud of him.

Forest fair is done for another year.

God job, bud.

Howie: Neville did such a great job with the parade.

It kind of got us all thinking,

That we have little lonely luna by herself.

She's a herd animal.

She relies on a herd for companionship.

Austin: Get out of there!

Howie: And since he's an ambassador,

And luna's going to be an ambassador someday,

Think it would be great if we could team them up.

We'll kind of make our own internship program,

But reindeer style.

We'll put them together. He'll show her the ropes.

Dr. Kathy: Good job, buddy.

He says, "I'm hungry, I'm cold."

So we're gonna start with this little sand eel.

There you go, buddy. Very good!

Would you like to go get our friend?

Colby: Yeah, absolutely.

Jane: We named our harbor seal rescue ugashik,

Which is a river in the aleutians.

And we call her uggy for short.

Colby: She's looking really good.

Jane: She is gaining weight

And the wound on her flipper has healed.

She's starting to reach her milestones,

Making her a potential release candidate.

But we do have a new concern.

Dr. Kathy: So in our routine blood work that we did

As part of our normal weekly examination,

We noticed that there was an increase

In one of the liver values

That is specific for the waste system of the liver.

Colby: Very alert, aware of her surroundings.

(growl)

She's got good, strong vocals.

Dr. Kathy: Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and dim the lights.

Jane: It's like a mystery.

You know, maybe the animal has a gallbladder stone.

And then the other one, it could be a side effect

Of one of the medications she's been on.

Dr. Kathy: We're gonna check out her abdomen,

Get an ultrasound,

And just get a better feel for what's going on with her.

Hi, little girl.

You're a funny little guy, that's for sure.

(pup groaning)

You are a wiggle worm.

♪ ♪

(groan)

Dr. Kathy: I know. Just relax.

So what I'm not seeing

Is a big, mad gallbladder.

I'm also not seeing like a slam dunk stone.

(pup groans)

I know, my dear.

Okay, so.

Hmm.

Maybe this is a case where

She had a different type of response to the antibiotic.

Alright, my dear, we're just gonna put this

Right over your eyes.

I know.

So my thought is if she's having bilirubin elevation,

That we can potentially use uv rays

And try and drive that down.

Then we can wrap her up and take her for a little walk.

So, how many of us have had a child that's become jaundice,

And they put your kid under a bili lamp?

So we're trying to utilize that same thing,

But our bili lamp is the sun.

So we're actually trying to use our natural rays

In alaskan skies on a beautiful day like this

To try and drive the alternative pathway

So that we're not pushing all of her waste through the liver,

But trying to activate what we can

To be eliminated through the kidneys.

Colby: Hey, she's gonna feel much better now.

Dr. Kathy: I think that should help her out.

♪ ♪

Jennifer: It's release day at the alaska raptor center,

And the community always comes out in force

For these special events.

We take birds that were on death's door

And release them back into the wild.

And now friar tuck is one of them!

He holds the record for the longest rehab bird

That we've had.

From the very beginning, I've been watching him.

Not in a creepy way.

(laughs)

It's been a real pleasure seeing his progression,

Since I started two and a half years ago.

He just got kicked off the best perch, down, down to the ground.

He's looking really dapper in there.

Yeah, we're really gonna miss him,

But we're excited for him to get his shot back in the wild.

A lot of eagles have come and gone.

But, you know, and sometimes I can't tell who's who,

But I can always spot him, he's, he's pretty distinct.

He is flying beautifully, and he's ready.

It won't be the same.

But this is what it's all about.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

The next time I see him he'll be on his way to freedom.

Kc: Good. Target. Good boy.

67.3.

Good boy.

I'm trying to give her half of her feed right now.

Jessica: Sunshine really seemed to do the trick for uggy.

She's doing great.

She's gaining weight, she's eating whole fish!

She's going into the water after them,

And she's eating them all on her own like a big girl.

And then we are getting out of the way

So she is not associating that feeding process with us.

So we're trying to diminish that human-food association.

You are big!

Jane: Since uggy's doing so well,

We're gonna do something special with her today.

We're gonna introduce her to our other harbor seal

From homer, fritz.

Fritz was found alone on a beach.

It looks like he was premature and separated from his mom.

We're gonna put them in the same pool, we call that a party pool.

Normally, seals are rather solitary animals,

But they will come together for hunting and for mating.

And so since we have the opportunity of having two seals

From the same area, we're gonna put them together

And let them have some interactions.

We have uggy in the pool.

Now let's bring in fritz.

Alright, here comes our other guy.

It's gonna be a chance for those two to learn to interact

With other seals as well as to compete.

Jessica: And it looks like fritz got them going,

Got one of the fish.

Jane: Or is that, is that uggy?

Jessica: She's still trying to figure it out.

She sees it on the skimmer.

Oh, no.

Oh, don't let it go!

Jane: She got it.

And she's ready for more.

They're just doing their tug-of-war thing.

Jessica: So it's really cool to see them kind of competing,

Like they're kind of squabbling around now,

Both going after the fish.

Oh. Now he's after it.

Oh.

Yay!

It's definitely a very proud moment

To see that all the good work that we're doing here

So we can help seals and return them back to the wild.

♪ ♪

Jane: There.

He's got a full belly now.

And I think that's it, they're done.

But, yeah, it looks like they're doing good!

Party pool is on!

♪ ♪

(bugling)

Howie: They flirt all the time.

He loves it.

Our little baby girl, luna,

She's doing really good, she's gaining weight.

But she is really lonely.

So it's got us scheming up some ideas,

And we think we've got an idea that will work.

Brittany: Nevy-nevs!

Howie: Don't say that.

Nevy-nevs?

Brittany: Yup.

Hi! What are you doing?

Howie: Look at that chunk. Brittany: I know.

Howie: Since neville is an ambassador,

And luna is going to be,

I think it would be great if we could pair them together.

Brittany: Let's go, bud!

Howie: Neville's a bro.

He's part of our little frat club in the reindeer pen.

And sometimes making new friends can be really weird,

Especially in this, it's kind of an arranged friendship.

So I'm not saying it'll be love at first sight,

But I'm hoping it will at least be friendly at first sight.

Brittany: So we just want to make sure

That there's no negative reactions

From either one of them before we make them roomies.

There's nothing worse than a bad roommate.

Hopefully neville will do all the dishes.

I know. You got to keep coming.

We've already walked neville by several times,

So they're not total strangers.

No. She's right there.

They did some nose boops, nose kisses,

Just kind of checking each other out a little bit.

Hi, luna-luna.

The next step would be actually let neville come into the pen

And get some one-on-one time with her.

Hello.

Howie: So we're just really gonna have to watch

Neville's behavior

And make sure he doesn't get a little crazy town on us

And go after luna for any reason.

Alright, luna, this is your moment,

Don't, like, oversell it.

Today will be the first one where we're in the pen,

We're letting him off the lead so he knows

He kind of has control of whatever he wants to do.

Brittany: I just wanted to make sure he was gonna be nice.

Howie: Luna seems a little shock and awe.

She's looking at us going,

"what did you bring into my pen right now?"

Neville!

I wish he'd, like, relax.

Brittany: Nevy-nevs!

Howie: Nevs, you alright?

I'm not sure he's super stoked about it,

Just by the prancing and running around.

Brittany: Neville is just running around the pen,

Not paying attention to luna at all.

Howie: It's alright, bud. It's okay.

Neville!

Brittany: Running out of breath

Just trying to find where his friends are.

Howie: He's definitely already missing the bros.

Brittany: Yeah.

Howie: Well, I think nevs is thinking that he's been removed

From his bro club and he's been brought into the lady scene.

Brittany: We're asking him to make friends with her,

But he's like, "I don't even know her."

Just being a little nutty.

She kind of found me where I was

And was just like, "hey, what's going on?"

There's a giant reindeer running through her home.

Howie: Luckily, I know neville's a sucker for alder leaves,

So it's like kryptonite for an angry neville.

He'll calm right down.

He's too bro'd out.

Brittany: Yeah.

Howie: Boy. It's like you could see the click

Where he was like, "where's chuckles?"

Brittany: Yup. Yeah.

Howie: "and why am I not with chuckles?"

Brittany: But he wasn't like, I mean, they're standing here

Together, and he's not doing anything to her, at least.

Howie: Yeah.

Brittany: I think we just got to--nope, just kidding.

Howie: Oh, was that some jealousy?

You be nice.

Brittany: It was a big no-go.

He is 100% a herd animal.

He loves his bro chuckles, and that's where he wants to be.

So we're not looking to stress anyone out,

So we're scratching that plan.

We're just gonna have to come up with something else.

Howie: Apparently, you weren't bro-out enough for him.

It's okay, we still love you.

♪ ♪

Jane: I'm checking in on fritz and uggy,

These are our two seals from homer.

They did have their challenges.

Fritz came to us premature,

So he had health problems with that.

And then uggy, she was dehydrated and emaciated,

And so we had challenges with that, too.

They've met weight.

They've shown they can hunt.

So plan is let's catch these two for their release.

Jessica: Yeah. Jane: Let's go do it!

Jessica: This is the last time I'm doing this to you,

I promise.

I am gonna miss her.

She's definitely the best seal we have, biased opinion.

Oh.

Kc: You love her, don't you?

Jessica: I do. She's my absolute favorite.

But she's going back to her home,

So it's where she needs to be.

Look at those eyes.

The eyes.

Fritz is cute, too, for sure.

So it's really amazing to see fritz

Kind of like this final stage of the process.

He did so well.

Jane: And since these guys are from homer,

We try to release our animals back into the area

Where they came from.

Jessica: Next stop, homer.

Jane: So we are going to load them up in our truck,

And get on the road.

Kc: Aren't they cute?

Ah, so cute!

♪ ♪

Kara: There you go! (laughs)

Jennifer: We've been working up to an eagle release,

Which is happening today.

Friar tuck.

The other eagles, they come and go,

And sometimes I don't know who's who,

But I could always spot friar tuck.

Zack: Gonna get some eagles.

Kara: Get them! Yay! Hannah: Yay, eagles!

Kara: Eagles! Eagles!

♪ ♪

Hannah: Let's do it to it! Kara: Alright, let's go!

Hannah: How about you two go up and...

Jen: Birds that have been here a long time, like friar tuck,

Know that when someone comes in

With leather coats on and the big nets,

That something bad is going to happen.

Kara: This is tuck right here.

Woman: Oh, if you can get him, get him.

Kara: Okay.

Jen: He doesn't really realize that today is a big day for him.

He's going to get to go back out into the wild.

Kara: It's kind of just chaos.

I think, flush them, I think.

Jen: They just figure it's another nasty human

Doing mean things, so. (laughs)

Yeah, he wasn't, he wasn't cooperating.

Kara: He is not wanting to be caught today.

Dr. Victoria: (bleep) are you kidding me?

(bleep) oh, my god.

Kara: We're trying to catch friar tuck in main flight,

So we can release him.

Friar tuck's been here for a long time,

So he's definitely a pro.

He is not wanting to be caught today.

He's evading us like a champion.

Oh, dang it, I thought we had him!

Dr. Victoria: Oh, you're kidding me!

Kara: But he just got away from us.

Come on, friar tuck!

Britainy: Incoming!

Kara: The good thing is, is we definitely know they're ready

When we can't catch them.

♪ ♪

Yup!

Hannah: Excellent! Nice job.

Kara: There's your other foot right there.

This release is definitely be one

The whole team will want to see, for sure.

Friar tuck!

Zack: We finally got him.

Kara: Finally got him.

Sorry, I'm out of breath.

♪ ♪

Howie: Mom, look at my new friend.

Hi, can I help you?

♪ ♪

Brittany: We tried to bring neville back to live with luna.

It was a big no-go.

Neville got really stressed out to not be with the herd,

Which is totally normal for a herd animal.

But we do want luna to be able to be with other animals.

She has already been rejected from her own herd,

From the caribou.

So we're gonna try to bring luna to neville.

Hopefully the reindeer will be a little more accepting.

Howie: Hi, I'm luna!

Brittany: I think she'll enjoy having some reindeer friends.

Howie: I'm hopeful.

Brittany: Definitely a chance that they might not accept her.

Who knows what they'll do when she's a new person in the group.

I'm a little nervous.

Howie: You want to go with them?

Here comes neville!

Fatty pants mcgee.

Okay, we'll take the halter off.

Oh, god, neville. Oh.

♪ ♪

What do you think, luna-lun?

Brittany: And so far everything seems to be going well.

They aren't like being her best friend or anything.

Howie: Now you're a reindeer!

Brittany: But they're not bothered by her presence there

At all, which is awesome to see.

I think neville will be more tolerant of luna,

Just because he's got his herd bros,

And he's gonna be happy there,

So he's not as, like, weirded out by her presence.

I know it's super beneficial for her to be with the herd.

I think she's always gonna be a little bit of the odd one out,

Kind of like the little, odd little duck

Over here by herself.

Hopefully she still comes to me when we go in there,

To be my best friend still.

Jessica: Both these guys stranded in the homer area,

So we wanted to return them

Kind of close to where we had found them.

And so here we are at bishop beach

To release two of our seals!

Kc: Fritz and uggy met their milestones,

So they should be very successful seals.

Jane: And would you mind climbing in there

And getting my boots, please?

We have a lot of people here today, which is awesome

To have the community come out to celebrate the seals.

Homer is really proud of their animals, just as seward is.

Kc: They're ready to go back out to the ocean,

Find some fish, have a snack.

Jane: And yeah, I think just go into that mudflat

And then they can go, shwoo, head on out.

Man: Oh, you can go back a bit.

Jessica: Oh, man, it's such a proud moment

To think that whenever they were first brought in

In just such a poor condition,

Didn't know if they were gonna make it,

And then to see them now to this point, all fit and ready to go.

They're gonna do great.

Kc: This is fritz and this is uggy.

Jessica: Ugg, you're doing great, little girl.

Jane: We can bring it closer to like two inches.

Okay, ready?

One, two, three,

Go for it!

♪ ♪

Jessica: Uggy, much to my surprise, she went straight on.

As soon as we opened that door, there was no stopping her.

Jane: Go uggy!

Okay, fritz!

He's gonna, he'll figure it out.

Jessica: Oh, my gosh. Jane: There he goes.

Jane: The male, he hung out in the kennel a little bit longer.

He was a little unsure of the situation.

♪ ♪

Being a rehabber, this is what it's all about,

Is to be able to take a sick, stranded animal,

Get him healthy again and release him back into the wild.

It's really satisfying.

Jessica: So it was just kind of neat

To see their little heads pop up.

Like you can still see them right now

And they're still trying to figure out

Where they're going, what they're doing.

It's a whole big world for them now.

♪ ♪

Kara: Hi, buddy.

Jennifer: We always look forward to release days,

But today is extra special

Because we're going to be releasing friar tuck.

After four years, he finally gets to go free.

We're very, very excited to send friar tuck home

To his rightful place.

And we wish him all the success in the world

With lots of eaglets, and hopefully he nests nearby.

He'll always be distinct.

He never quite grew all the feathers back,

So we'll all be on the lookout for him.

All: One, two, three!

Jennifer: Ooh!

We were a little nervous when he bounced off the platform

And landed on the ground and was just kind of looking around.

Jen: I was a little worried that he wasn't gonna take off.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Jennifer: Thankfully, after he checked everybody out,

He launched up.

Jen: And then when he took off, he just kept flying.

Jennifer: He's doing a victory lap, guys!

He's got so much space to soar.

♪ ♪

Jen: Oh! Look at him go!

Woman: He's like, "wait, those are the food ladies."

Jen: He just keeps going around!

Jennifer: It was like a special way of saying goodbye to us.

One lap for every year he was here.

It just won't be the same without friar tuck.

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