uh my next guest has been with us many times before and it's
always a pleasure and always entertaining as well as educational to have him here
this man is the founder and director of the columbus zoo in columbus ohio
he makes regular appearances on good morning america and he's brought some pretty amazing
animals for us to take a look at ladies and gentlemen please say hello to chris elliott
chris how are you dave good good to see you thank you very much what do you have there well this is
just a little gift from the columbus zoo we sell these in the gift shop but i thought you'd like it
this is a tortoise shell oh that's beautiful why don't you take a look at that right over there
that comes from about uh 50 year old tortoise or something oh that's a little picture in
there got my picture in it i thought you could use it for that is beautiful nuts or dip or
whatever you have chips maybe now this how how did the uh the tortoise die you said he was 50
years old how did the poor thing die die he's not dead we just yanked off his shell the rest
of it's crawling around somewhere well uh now chris they're at the zoo i know you've had some
some really wonderful personal experiences with the animals haven't you well i don't know about
that i'm not a big animal lover to be honest with you have you ever had any really uh any
real dangerous encounters with the wildlife oh hell yes but you gotta hold your ground with
the bastards here let me show you something take a look at this i got something right in
here can you see that oh my gosh look at that how did that happen appendicitis bad business
no no seriously i had a scrape with a mean alligator once i have it down here let me show
it to you no chris that's all right we'll take your word for it that's all right now see yourself
okay now chris as always you brought some interesting animals with you and let's
let's get right into it very unusual where the hell is it it's back here here it is
ah i don't know where exactly to do this let me do it right over hold it right up
there to camera one okay take a look at it right over here camera one yeah right over
here there you go that's a panda panda and it says it's a long-tailed himalayan carnivore and
it resembles closely the american raccoon yeah isn't that something that's a panda
that's great well you want to uh you want to bring it out can we bring out the panda do you
want to bring bring it on out here well dave we don't have any pandas those things cost money
we're going to try to breed our own though we've got a beer and a raccoon and
we're going to uh try to get them together you know what i mean uh i i think that may be
impossible you know because of the chromosomes different chromosomes oh really dr doolittle
uh of course we're gonna get the raccoon drunk oh you're gonna get it right uh so not inhumane
no now chris what else what else do you have for us i've got something very rare
now this is what i wanted to show you take a look at this isn't that something wow
jack can you get him close wow that's uh what is that that's a madagascar jalapeno
a madagascar jalapeno jalapeno jalapeno like the pepper jalapeno like the pepper like the pepper
dr pepper what the hell are you talking about i like i said like the pepper i think tanya
may have gone to your head there no no no no listen do you have you have any other animals
for us yes i have a whole bunch back there i want to bring out something called a schnauzer
and i have it back here chris i think we we've all seen uh schnauzers dogs we've even seen
schnauzers yeah we've seen the schnauzers yeah well we've all seen talk shows too pal
ladies and gentlemen it's always a pleasure for me it's chris elliot chris thank you
let's go i'm sorry this guy just doesn't
appreciate animals let's get the hell out of here come on
okay yes sir we'll be right back with danny sullivan