Luke: I have one spotted hyena,
her name is Lola.
Lola is a very loyal,
loving animal to me.
Anyone else is meat.
Luke: Come here.
Shane: I'm terrified,
of being alone with Lola.
Luke: How many ostrich heads,
can you fit in one bucket?
Oh my finger.
Working with ostriches is interesting
really.
Basically they're dinosaurs
with a grand sized beak.
They've got a lethal weapon which is
their toenail
and they can
dis-embower you with it,
if they're that way inclined.
We've got
Whitey here.
we've got red-neck
we've got Maxwell
They've mostly got names,
and they certainly do have different characters as well.
My name is Luke Cornell,
I own a farm near Capetown,
called Cornell Skop.
I've been a licensed animal trainer for 32 years.
The previous Beast video that we were featured in
Once you give him that big piece of meat
we'll see the killer come out.
We never saw the
albino porcupine.
Luke: Come on.
We didn't see the hyena.
We didn't see the baboons much.
We've done three movies
in the last two years with three baboons.
Won't you come?
Come down,
good.
On your mark.
Get on your mark.
Good boy.
Training baboons is an interesting past time.
It's a little bit better than trying and work with humans
They're very receptive
the thing is
that they can fly off the handle
or loose their temper really quickly.
and they have a transferal thing,
so,
runs from,
you have to be the dominant one,
and
the minute that anything threatens dominance
or you assert your dominance,
they turn on the weakest link next to them
so they're very dangerous
they're very fast, they're agile,
Luke: Good, come here on your back legs, come here.
Uh uh walking.
Up.
At Cornell Skop,
it's my self,
it's Shane
and her husband Erin.
Shane is my assistant animal trainer,
she's been with me for four years.
Luke: Bring it with, come,
good, bring it.
now pick it up,
pick it up,
hey, pick it up.
pick it up and bring it.
Good.
good, bring it.
I have one spotted hyena her name is Lola.
When I first had her,
she...
was immutable to mixing with anybody.
And
for the last three years,
she has
decided
that the only person in the world that she likes
is me.
Who's my pretty girl?
Eh?
It's not really a big enough swimming pool
for you is it?
Oh its a feather,
Let's go, come.
Lola is a very loyal, loving, animal to me.
Anyone else is meat.
If I'm not in the facility,
you can stroke Lola through the fence,
and she will be very sweet and giggly.
The minute I'm in her...
vicinity,
she turns into a
psycho.
She's just trying to get closer to you,
she isn't stupid.
So our intention was to try and introduce
Shane to Lola to enable her
work with her.
They're phenomenal hunters,
they are scavengers indeed
but they're seriously opportunistic hunters.
They can run
20 kilometers an hour for 24 hours a day
chasing a wildebeest migration.
and they pick off
all the weak and tired animals.
Shane: I'm terrified of being alone with Lola.
I mean come on,
she's a apex predator.
Luke: What we did was
we loaded her onto a cage,
to put her in a pick up to take her to a neutral area.
So we took her to a big enclosure with trees and grass.
To see what her immediate physical response would be to,
to Shane in her proximity.
Shane: Hallo Lollie.
Hallo Lollie.
Hi Lollie.
such a sweet girl.
Shane: Hallo Lollie.
Luke: Come here now, Lollie.
Come here.
Shane: I don't think this is going to work.
Shane: You have her?
Luke: Yeah, yeah yeah.
Luke: She was dragging off her feet
and she would pretty much liked to have eaten
anybody else that she could possibly get hold of.
Shane: If I were to go in with Lola,
I'll either end up in hospital,
or be dead.
Luke: It is largely apparent that
any direct physical contact
between Shane and Lola would end in
blood and bone.
And that would be Lola's.
With regards to our experiment with Lola
we certainly covered our best attempt.
But safety always comes first with us.
there was no way that
the interaction between Shane and Lola would be good.
For me to be up-close and personal with my lions is
basically part of our lifestyle,
it's what we do here.
If I wasn't able to
give them the environmental enrichment
and the stimulus that we do give them
I wouldn't see a reason of keeping them in captivity.
When we work with the lions,
there is always crew who
have pepper-spray,
fire extinguishers at hand.
the pitchforks if we're doing [inaudible] sequences.
When we work any of the big lions
the crews is
not in direct contact
we have an ambulance there
because as you know, anything can happen.
what could go wrong is you end up dead.
I think what I love most about my job
is it's not a job it's a lifestyle.
We live kind of in a symbiotic relationship
with the animals here.
The fact that they enjoy doing the work
which in turn can earn us financial income from
from film and fashion
is what makes it tenable.
Good give to me.