this is something we love this is almost an endangered species this is our
this is a pelican and i had
i had some fish i want you to feed the pelican of fish i'm sure that they'll have my fish out
here i don't have any fish either right if somebody could get my fish out here well now
where where would it be jack i don't uh the fish the fish somebody else this is bumbly the pelican
thank you very much thank you i was supposed to bring it out and i forgot it if you can
i don't think you can see this at home uh look here this is a pelican they're in the southern
part of the united states and look at his pouch he can hold up to 20 fish in this thing at one
time you can see that home or not wow all kinds of fish all kinds of fish see go ahead you can
just throw how old is that bird by the way this bird's about four years old how old do
they get to be oh they could be anywhere from 20 years old they're all they were on a date
they get to be 20 years old yeah all right and by the way during breeding season
when they get ready to breed in the spring their knot falls off here and then
that's why some people might not recognize him but when he starts to breathe this will fall
off yeah all right and i just tossed dropped in his sack okay how do i get a receipt no
there's nothing here oh boy are these foul oh gosh those are awful there there there
you see i see how big he can make it yeah there we go did he swallow it yet let me see
there he goes he's fine you want to do one yeah let's try one more
uh let me get him here does this bird uh oh he's all right is he all right does he take the
captivity in a zoo all right oh yeah because they fly columbus news 175 acres and we breed a lot of
endangered species there like a lot of zoos do and he has a whole zoo to roam around yeah there we go
he didn't like that you like that fish all right let's try one more one one more will you stop
it with he just kind of hard to hold what kind of fish are these little smelts we feed almost
150 smelts a day to our pelicans now this this wouldn't be a keeper wouldn't it a fish this big
there you go bumbly demetrious bumbly that's what we call it you know i
don't think it's the fish this one's i think this bird stinks something awful
do you is it is it the birds it smells that way
these feathers no that's all right i want to bring it out
i want to show you something i don't think there's
there's two of them he hasn't eaten oh there's three of me today well what's the matter is he
all right yeah he's alright he just he's just a little nervous they can bring my head i want
i want to show you something that's never been out here before now why has he got his head down like
that he just he's just here take this here look at this i don't think david anything you want here
take the take the fish if you will okay you want it can you take that that's really good out here
later you won't feel something look at this this is a pygmy hippopotamus and i don't think you
can see that at home but this is this is called spinner you want lord can you put him up here
see how does he weigh there he weighs about 80 pounds he weighs a lot more what
he looks like yeah come here spinner this is this is not a there we go there we go
this is spinner and by the way these are all endangered species if this is this
is not a baby hippopotamus this is a specific no it's a baby pygmy hippo a baby pygmy right
he'll if you if you notice he's got look at the hip hippos feet it's like a duck's
foot see the webs that's why they swim through through the water so fast
watch him open his mouth and tickle his chin almost spinner why is he covered with uh with
the saliva or whatever that is this let me this is interesting if you can watch this oh look at
that mouth look at this see how you can make it's like getting landline yeah and that's when they're
that's something oh here come here i'm sorry spinner
but this is one of my favorite animals of zeus when you're rubbing what comes up there what is
that see it's like a lantern like a grease and that keeps the hippo from having dry skin and
then also they eat it at the night time they come out and eat in the daytime they don't come out of
the water so this is you take them to a car wash you can save that money on the hot wax you don't
just keep that wax now how big will this animal get to be if he has a baby
spinner will grow to be about i'm sorry
he'll get to be how big about five or six hundred pounds and spinner's parents are at the zoo and
big hippos there too and and what what where do we find these uh as what is their native land these
things these are these are from central africa and unlike the nile hippo the pygmy hippos a
lot more aggressive than a big nile hippo which weighs about four thousand pounds this animal is
more aggressive yeah you pick me hippo right and he spends how much of his day in the water did
you know i'd say about i'd say at least 16 hours a day spins in the water yeah and what kind of stuff
would he eat he comes out at night needs grass and vegetation oh no kidding he's not a meat-eater
oh no no no no but they're they aren't aggressive animal uh in the wild are they dangerous to man if
they come across if you separate them from water or try and separate you know the animal from the
baby then you've got a problem yeah and we call him spinner because his ears spit see it see
spin him that's why i call him spinner well i'm gonna smell like a dog uh you know that's that's
the the the one of the strange excuse me that's one of the strangest looking animals i've ever
seen he really is he's neat okay we'll uh we'll do a commercial and you got some more animals oh yeah
we'll we'll be right back with jack hannaford okay jack is it trouble uh traveling with these
animals this kind of year this time of year the weather well it can be a lot of these animals
were flown in tonight by airplane and stuff it's a lot of trouble it really is and what about when
you have them at the zoo do they all go inside this time of year we put them all inside we have
over six thousand with the columbus zoo and they all have to to be inside what do you got here
crawling all over here these are some roaches i brought with me i always like to bring them
on the on the airplane there's a madagascar cockroaches here but you know what i don't
whoa oh my gosh now that one's under the thing yeah i'll get them they're all right this is
madagascar cockroach but i want to show you my tame crow i don't know if you can i want to show
you this crow will fly it should come right back to me come on are these the tame crow is this
something yeah you know where this one came from this one came from the indianapolis zoo
from the indiana now he's up there uh is he coming back is he actually trained to do
this okay here we go how do we get back henry henry henry henry he's got somebody's wallet
henry hey i don't know maybe it's too many people uh-huh maybe the trip upset him so whoever finds
him keeps him is that the deal jack yeah darn it i've worked i worked with him at the hotel
there's a lot more people out here than there is the crow won't hurt you just put
him on your head there he likes his land on your head i don't understand
well you know there was a guy who came in with a crow on his head will he you're not gonna worry
about it no i'm not gonna worry about it i'll tell you what the columbus new what we brought
you today for valentine's day is arnold and he's in our children's zoo arnold come here
have you uh have you trained arnold to do anything i haven't i haven't worked with him long enough
but uh he's friendly he's obviously what looking for truffles there i guess
arnold come here come here and eat the cockroach come here honey come on
boy i thought the bird smelled bad hi arnold how are you now how old will will a pig get if
he's not being used for pork products oh gosh i bet a pig would live 20 years you know pig's
they're very intelligence animals sure and where is the pig he's right here he's right here he's
all right okay this is this is look at this little thing i don't think many people ever seen one this
is a european hedgehog isn't that interesting whoops what kind of animal is that it looks like
it's a european hedgehog is it a marsupial well not a marsupial no felix prickly uh things here
and these quills when they're little can grow up to like an inch every 15 hours that's how once
they're first born is this is this like a uh what do you call it a porcupine it's something
like that well not really it's it's like a only reason i brought him is you know speaking of hogs
arnold's eating a banana eating a banana yeah but the hedgehog curls up like this for its protection
you can see how you can't touch anything yeah but this is a european hedgehog not like a
a groundhog that we have in our country and these grow to be what uh six seven hundred pounds oh no
this is this this is a full grown hedgehog here uh jack this is uh an amazing assortment of stuff
now uh please to try and get your bird back here uh i gotta go again you got a cockroach and a pig
i'll get them all jack congratulations on all the good work you're doing at
the zoo and thank you very much for being here sweetie uh we'll be right back with rick's hall
you