Hey Rachael!
Hi baby.
All right we're gonna swing around this way.
Hi baby!
Hi baby. Hi!
So this is Buck. He's a mini horse as you can see.
He's pretty tidy right?
I have a friend Jamie,
she raises miniature horses, they're beautiful.
They're beautiful.
So beautiful, so cute.
You're so beautiful.
You're so beautiful. You're drooling on me.
You're drooling on me.
So he's only gonna get to be,
this is Buck like I said,
he's only gonna get to be maybe three and a half feet tall.
That's as big as they get.
That's okay, I'm short too.
And, you know, horses of course are a domesticated animal.
We have been relying on horses for you know, riding
and farming, you know, for centuries.
And some people use them
as therapy animals too, don't they?
Exactly, that's what I was just gonna say.
These guys can live to be about thirty years old,
much longer than a dog, right?
Much longer, yeah, and big horses can live to be fifty.
Exactly, yeah. And so, you know, if you're gonna
train an animal to be a therapy animal for someone for life,
you know, the longer they live, the better.
And so horses are very intelligent.
Let me see if I can scoot him around a little bit
so everyone's not seeing his butt.
(audience laughs)
Your butts adorable.
I'm gonna cross over here too.
You want a snack?
Horses are very intelligent.
They can be trained to be excellent therapy animals,
companion animals, they can be as smart
as a dog in some cases.
But yeah, we have bred horses to be huge,
you know, giant Clydesdales, all the way
down to these little mini guys.
They're so cute.
Yeah, but of course, you know
people like to get these guys as pets.
If you're gonna do that, you just have to make sure
You got room.
You have room, exactly.
You don't wanna have this guy obviously
in you know, an apartment.
In an apartment (laughs).
Like with any animal, any pet that you get,
you wanna make sure that you have the appropriate set up.
You gotta shake it out. You gotta shake it.
To keep him happy and healthy.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Is that enough?
Is that enough? You have pretty eyelashes.
He sure does, doesn't he?
Yes he does.
All right why don't we bring out our next animal,
cause we got a couple other really cute ones to get to here.
Come on buddy.
Hey, this next one is the one
we're supposed to be quiet for, right?
Yeah a little bit quiet,
cause this is actually a wild animal.
Okay.
So, this is my friend Jamie here.
Hi Jamie.
She has a baby muntjac deer.
So, see how tiny it is.
Did you ever know that a deer could be this small?
No, I did not.
Yeah. So we tend to think of
white-tailed deer or moose or elk that we have
I'm from upstate New York.
We have tons of deer in my backyard.
Right.
And so this is a species of deer that lives in India
and across to southern Asia.
What are these little things,
sockets by it's eye?
So they have a musk gland.
And it's something that they use as a form of communication.
They'll rub that.
(Rachael laughs)
So cute right?
So, she'll get a little bit bigger,
but they only get to be, maybe about two feet tall
and only about twenty five to maybe
fifty pounds at full growth.
So precious.
Now, if she were a boy,
you can gently reach out and see if she'll sniff you there.
How old is she?
She is just a few months old, yeah.
She's a baby. Is her mom close?
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Oh okay, okay.
Jamie is her surrogate mom here,
which is why Jamie's holding her
because I'm a big scary person, but,
but at any rate these guys, like most deers,
the males will grow antlers,
but they also will grow big canine fangs.
Shut up!
So this is another thing
that most people have no idea about.
There are deer in the world that have big fangs.
They have big fangs? And a little dude?
Yes, and they use them to eat other animals.
Most deer are herbivores I thought.
Exactly, yeah. And they are.
They do eat a lot of plant material.
But they supplement that in the jungles where they live.
(deer whines)
Apparently, they have a keto diet.
Yes. They eat a little bit of protein on the side,
and with the males.
Oh, look at your tongue!
Did you see the little tongue?
They'll actually use those fangs
in order to catch some prey.
Oh hunny.
Yeah we're good. Okay. We're gonna send her back.
She's upset.
She doesn't like crowds.
The next animal is another domesticated animal.
And if you're comfortable, I'll let you hold her.
Aw, hi baby.
Come on in, come on in.
This is the happiest animal segment.
I prepared the audience for mayhem.
Aw, it's a baby.
Do you wanna hold?
Sure.
All right, so this is a mini goat.
Hi baby. Hello.
You just wanna support it,
support her back side here.
I have some crackers, do you have some cheese?
There we go.
(Rachael laughs)
So, just like the horse, this is a domesticated goat.
Goats are even older in terms of domestication
than horses are.
One of the first animals that people,
human beings actually domesticated,
descended from a wild Asian goat up in the mountains.
And goats also make incredible companion animals too.
You know, they give us goat milk,
and they give us goat cheese, and that's delicious.
But, you know, these guys are becoming kind of popular.
Goat yoga baby, it's where it's at.
This is the kind of goat,
that they use in goat yoga.
That they use for goat yoga.
Because they don't get too much bigger than this.
Again, maybe about two feet tall.
(audience cheering)