kids around for some where you're going
ah what to do what to do what to do I
know Emily my 13 year old loves to go to
the Jacksonville Zoo
so my friends from the zoo dan and Sam
are here to talk about some of the
things that are going on
hey welcome good to have you here by the
way you'll talk about the cockatoos in a
second we just met how do you feel about
me what can't you say I love you oh you
want to come and that's that's usually
the look I get are you doing anyhow so I
lost my train of thought you know
actually it's fun to be out there during
the day but because when it gets so hot
a lot of the animals are in their
habitats but you've got a solution for
that
well now yet the zoo is coming up
tomorrow night and we do a few of these
a year and people get a chance to kind
of have the zoo to themselves we limit
the number of tickets and there'll be
music and food truck and I know you're
gonna be happy about this
there'll also be bars to keep the
animals in no no bars in terms of you
can invite a hydrant you can embody keep
yourself hydrated right now are you are
you gonna do campground critters
tomorrow we'll be there we'll be there
with our owl and improve our cockatoos
too that's very cool also gonna tell you
how you can take a trip to the land down
under with the Jacksonville Zoo and Dan
in just a second talk about some of our
friends here
we're holding Blue Tongue skink s' we'll
talk about them in a second but this guy
he looks menacing he's weak havoc all
over the world yeah she that's a she and
and though those are those are marine
toads or cane toads and if you've been
to Hawaii sometime you'll see them all
out in lawns at night they were
introduced there to help with this false
idea they would control some pests
they're from South America and there it
through that northern part of Australia
right now and they're on the move and
what's what's the problem is they have a
toxin in their skin so animals that eat
them die so that's their defensive
mechanism absolutely so so there's all
kinds of effort to try to control them
but it is it's very difficult because
they breed breed well and and they're
they're expanding their range alright so
let's talk about these cockatoos here
we've got Marcus and Scout they're
native to where to Indonesia and
Australia so scout is our sulphur
crested cockatoo
and Marcos is our Umbrella Cockatoo
what's the difference their manes yes
she's got this yellow crust when it
stands up and then he's got just a white
one she was saying I love you a little
while ago story of my life if you say
things on commander no just whatever she
does some time you say goodbye that's
what she loves me because I'm gonna be
leaving in a second ah the important
thing to remember though is these they
are highly trained animals and that get
attention all the time don't get one if
less you can really keep them for about
40 to 50 years
yeah they live a good long healthy life
and and we've got I'm gonna take this
right up here to the camera why are they
called a Blue Tongue skink because their
tongue is say it blue tell me about
these Blue Tongue skink SAR or you know
there's about half the size of what they
they get you see them in Australia to
see them when I walk my dogs they're
dinosaur and yeah there and they
Australian some of the the largest
skinks of the world and also maybe the
most species so if you come down under
with me in October October 5th through
the 17th or the extension to New Zealand
on the 22nd I'm gonna be escorting a
trip I used to work and live there I was
general curator at the Melbourne Zoo and
I if you said like they do down there
Melbourne yeah it's Melbourne Florida
but down there yeah you got it you have
to learn how to Boston act it's it you
barely have the are in there but I I
still have a lot of friends and contacts
there and we've tweaked this
personalized that we're gonna see
cultural and natural zoo Sydney Opera
House the Harbor branch where you have
friends the I changed the winery that
was on the original itinerary because my
wife and I have a favorite winery
outside of Melbourne and we're going to
be doing all kinds of cool things at the
taronga zoo up at the Daintree
rainforest the Great Barrier Reef if you
wanted to go to Australia and New
Zealand this is the chance to do it go
to the zoos website and find out a lot
information if you need somebody to
carry your bags you know what maybe
instead of my wife maybe you and I go
what do you think road trip might have
something like that and we'll do a movie
and we want information about night at
the zoo or the trip go to go to our
website go to Jacksonville
zoo org but again tomorrow night 6:30 to
10 members it's $7 for adults 5 for
children or 14 for non-members and 12
for children