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  • through the windows.

  • Don't touch the windscreen wipers, please.

  • Hello and welcome to Animal Park.

  • I'm Ben Fogle and I'm Kate Humble in just in case you can't guess we're in Monkey Jungle.

  • Just wondering how much damage these monkeys going to tow this one wears.

  • Leave that windscreen like, Well, we have plenty of animal stories coming up on today's program, including Shandy.

  • The white Tiger needs a major operation.

  • It's touch and go whether she survives, you got your fingers, But you always are Very Jim.

  • I'm at the Giraffe, is having a baby, but the birth is not going well.

  • There were complications.

  • You want two front legs first, but because it was only one leg out, we're worried that her other leg had been called up behind her on Henry.

  • The eighth used to love it.

  • Now I want to play the grandest game of shop hate me in the land.

  • But first we're going up to the Tiger House where there's bean.

  • Some distressing news shandy.

  • The white tiger is ill.

  • A couple of weeks ago, a lump was spotted on her abdomen.

  • It looks like a mammary tumor, and it's growing fast on operation has been scheduled.

  • But while they wait, it's a tense time for the keepers.

  • Shandy is 18 years old.

  • For a tiger that's a ripe old age.

  • She was just too, when she first came here on Keeper Bob Trollop has been looking after her a ll that time.

  • So he knows her pretty well.

  • Welcome to save a Sandy is are mostly always been less intelligent.

  • She seem to you that the one that would chase the parked car I supposed toe chasing a moving car.

  • She's not on Albie.

  • No, Her coloring is a rare genetic mutation.

  • White tigers were once highly prized by the Maharajah's of India, But now there are only about 100 and 50 left in the world.

  • So Shandy is very special on dhe.

  • She took a liking to it.

  • Let's say she was all round it stiff in climbing on it, jumping on it on dhe.

  • I think claim to fame would be the fact that she must be the first white tiger tohave a picture on the front page of the Times which yeah, you read the times very often, but, you know, it was a pleasure to see you on such a well established paper to be an ambassador for tigers and make the the front page of, ah, world famous paper like the Times and you know it's It's great.

  • But now Shanti's life is threatened.

  • The tumor is dangerous enough, but the operation to remove it could be just a cz risky.

  • We'll be back later when surgery begins.

  • Just the proper word for a group of monkeys is a troop, but there's not much discipline or order amongst long lead troop of rhesus macaques.

  • Feeding time has always been a bit of a bun fight.

  • If the food was put down in a pile, the monkeys would squabble, so they used to spread it out all over.

  • But that lead to other problems.

  • Now the keepers have come up with a brand new method, a crafty invention.

  • Still, at the prototype stage, I've come up to Monkey Jungle to help deputy head warden Ian Turner with the monkey feet Morning in.

  • So what's all this about, then?

  • Drain drain by.

  • It's a new device.

  • We've come up with the monkeys.

  • Okay, Why?

  • Why do you have to use one of these?

  • A little because we put the food down in the morning.

  • The Segal's going pencil the food or the buffalo coming, which loitering around us.

  • So how does it work?

  • Then?

  • We got this dry food, which, given the morning, this is a primate.

  • Keep whole maze on the dog biscuits and let you.

  • All we do is Phyllis to book, right monkeys put the round.

  • They can fit in these little holes that their hands can get incoming.

  • Yeah, on the floor.

  • Can't get food on the seagulls.

  • Now, I've seen the monkeys with cars in here.

  • Do they not dismantle it to that?

  • Could not get a big boat.

  • We've got a point would be finished by your home.

  • So the birds were a real passed away?

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, they were probably half of which obviously means we've gotta put twice what threw down his name because taking it on the buffalo.

  • And I suppose you could describe this as being enrichment for the monkeys as well.

  • Because because of this law, that could you pick it up, fill their part now it's gonna take a little bit longer.

  • Has it been working?

  • So what did the monkeys make it when they first supports, literally because of so clever they strike over soon as we drop it off.

  • Now you say they're so clever.

  • I mean, how far away from our schools of mines their brains?

  • That makes it very, very similar.

  • Really?

  • Yeah.

  • One of the things we were worried about was actually money to duel the notes.

  • You can't even it's just getting the holes that were all these made kind of on site here a little.

  • It's just an old piece of drainpipe.

  • Jenna made holes in it.

  • So how often do you actually feed the monkeys?

  • They get this food first in the morning, which we're doing now.

  • Don't get their fruit later on in the afternoon.

  • We gotta do it just a bit.

  • Join us later to see what the monkeys make of their new breakfast.

  • Dispenses Shandy.

  • The white tiger is facing a major operation.

  • She has a mammary tumor that must be cut out, and there's no way to know if it's malignant or benign until after it's bean removed.

  • Right now, Keeper Bob Trollop is most worried about the anesthetic.

  • Last year.

  • Could do had to be sedated when her claws became ingrown on the drug almost killed her today in any and always a risky business anyway.

  • But we could do before.

  • They just keep doing that every five seconds.

  • All right, going very well.

  • She's 18 years old.

  • She might be election.

  • We know it was just one of these things.

  • If we have to sedate your after after severe Shanti's operation took place while our film crew was away, but Bob covered it with a small video camera.

  • Veterinary team brought their equipment too long lead to perform.

  • The surgery in the Tiger House with Sandy's first shaved off the size of the tumor, became more obvious.

  • A specialist surgeon, Zoe Needs, was called in with the Safari Park fat Duncan Williams there to assist.

  • So he is a very experienced surgeon.

  • But of course she's more used to working on domestic cats.

  • This would be her first major operation on a tiger.

  • We tend to take similarities between the cats and the tigers in the drugs that reduce for them the doses that they would have on.

  • I would imagine also the behavior of their tumors as well cats with a memory tumor, they're pretty likely to be malignant.

  • So is a fairly good assumption that it was gonna be a malignant tumor as well.

  • When we got out there on the day and she was actually sedated, it turned out to be a bigger longer than we'd expected, really.

  • But it had to come off because it was also rated, and she was bothered by it.

  • If the tumor turns out to be malignant, then it could spread again from any part of it that's not removed.

  • So So he had to be careful.

  • But the longer it took, the longer Shandy had to be kept under anesthetic.

  • But we had a nurse with us that was monitoring the anesthetic very carefully.

  • So she was able to tell us if her heart rate was coming out or if there was a bit more tone in the Jordan.

  • And then there was previously.

  • I think Duncan did have to top her up a couple of times, but I was so busy with the surgery, didn't really notice what was happening with the anesthetic.

  • As the veteran team worked on the minutes ticked by, You never know how the animal was gonna react.

  • So, you know, do we don't eat your fingers course, that thing's gonna feel right.

  • You look on the bright side, I suppose.

  • But you've always bear in mind the worst could happen.

  • Still.

  • All right.

  • Yeah.

  • We'll be back later to see if Shandy pulls through back in Monkey Jungle.

  • I'm helping in Turner.

  • Put out his crafty new food.

  • Dispenses it is a bit of weight from way.

  • Okay, So you're constantly trying to keep on top of things here.

  • When, when you have for the monkeys, just calm down.

  • Just off a plate, Maur.

  • Environment friendly.

  • I mean, almost looks a bit like a drainpipe.

  • And just remind me how many monkeys there are in here.

  • That's probably now we've got just over 77 adults.

  • Yeah, but lots of babies probably over 120 more cheese in here.

  • We'll be keeping liners making show.

  • You can see some little monkeys, just just nationals.

  • We move away.

  • They'll probably come into that pipe when you put the other one further down.

  • Right?

  • You go down that way and the birds definitely can't.

  • Some birds can't get me.

  • No, it isn't that many birds around.

  • Yeah, we've already put the birds off by doing this right, because they realize that not getting any food from the monkeys, but you'll see him, the monkeys already coming over that way we watch.

  • That puts his own decide and you only get so watch out.

  • Because if you got a massive handful, it won't fade out the hole.

  • And there's definitely no way those water buffalo like they're going to get in there.

  • Well, the only thing that water buffalo do they do roll them about, do not the food out.

  • So they've learned that we're not losing all of it, So it's working to that step accent.

  • Well, Ian, thank you very much, letting me help you with that.

  • Let the monkeys enjoy that.

  • We're up at the camel enclosure to help head of Section Tim Yo on keeper Kirsty Phillips.

  • Give the female camels their daily dose of medicine.

  • But before we do that, we have to separate card in the mail from the rest of the camels, and that is easier said than done.

  • Tim and I are up here in our safe bird's eye view.

  • While Kirsty is doing the dangerous job tips, I can't tell which one Carney is.

  • He used to be much smaller than all the others.

  • He is the dark one that's left in the enclosure.

  • Now that's that's right.

  • And he's with a Lima.

  • Yes, When he arrived here, he was much smaller, actually, than a Lima who's two years younger than him.

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, why do you need to segregate them?

  • Khan is becoming a sexually mature.

  • I mean, he's taking a lot of interest in the female's.

  • Andi subsequently, he does not like us going near them right.

  • There is the possibility that he would be aggressive towards a keeper.

  • So it's It's purely a safety measure.

  • Presumably his whole role within the herd has changed since last year.

  • Quite, he came in.

  • He was very much bottom of the packing orders it were.

  • And now he's pushing camels about and he's chasing them.

  • He's doing all the things that a male camel does because has successfully done that.

  • That's brilliant.

  • Well, they're all separated off.

  • I know that Ben now is going to help Kirsty do the feeding and medicine.

  • So we'll stay up here and admire Con on you can go and join Ben.

  • So, Kirsty, how do we do this?

  • Skip banana Right off banana okay.

  • And then what I want you to do is put a one and 1/2 scoops of the medication in.

  • Okay, Holly, what's this medicine actually for?

  • It's for the arthritis.

  • So we got two camels we gotta give medication to every day on the best way to do it is to hide us.

  • Is this in a in a banana to kick better in the banana tastes?

  • Do we have to hide it?

  • Even one of the camels with Mrs Bruce?

  • She won't even take it from a banana because she could smell the medications better in horrible.

  • Now, I'm intrigued that camel suffer arthritis.

  • Do you think the weather here kind of exacerbates that?

  • It could be something to the Webber.

  • You wouldn't know that there was any medicine in there.

  • Very clever.

  • So who gets the 1st 1 here?

  • Mrs.

  • Bob's on?

  • No.

  • You sure?

  • Big white one in the back.

  • How do I get a camera?

  • I got you six, Andy.

  • And you helped a little bit of its come out a bit.

  • Now I hope you don't.

  • We'll go that well down.

  • I'm surprised the other ones haven't will come flying over From what I know is that they tend to be quite greedy.

  • Yeah, yeah, very anything.

  • Camels.

  • Well, I think that was a very successful mission.

  • Wasn't distance Kirsty.

  • Thank you very much, guys.

  • I hope you feel better over in East Africa.

  • Reserve that giraffes are having a baby boom.

  • Recently, Jolly gave birth to her ninth calf, who's been named ELISA.

  • Mother and daughter are doing well, but three more of the females are also pregnant on the next U is Jemima.

  • She's a nervous character on this will be her first baby.

  • This morning the keeper's arrived in the giraffe free to find your mama in the middle of giving birth to minimize any stress.

  • They asked our film crew to remain outside, but they did take a small camera in to get these shots.

  • Keep her.

  • Ryan hotly kept his posted with progress reports.

  • The birth was not going smoothly.

  • Ideally, you want the giraffe cuff to come out with it two front legs first, but because it was only one leg out, we're worried that possibly her other leg have been caught up behind her, which obviously can lead to sort troubles with mum and stress the baby, too.

  • The first thought was to try to do something to help.

  • But Deputy had Warden in Turner, who's seen dozens of giraffe births, decided to wait.

  • There's always that thing in the back of your mind.

  • Is something not right little toe with dresses.

  • You can't today to pull him out because it's so dangerous to date in the draft that you'll be causing yourself more problems, and you just gotta be patient.

  • But being patients talk always easy when you want to let you just go in, grab it and pull it out and help, whereas you can't always out.

  • It's very, very frustrating.

  • But a little later, the baby's other front leg did come out.

  • The keeper in charge of the giraffes is Andy Hayden.

  • Most of the film we got was right at the end of the Earth.

  • We go in there and check on stages.

  • We're going in check, and I will leave him for half an hour, 20 minutes.

  • Then we're going check again, then you know we have the one leg then, too, And then we went from literally two feet on the tip of the nose to we went back in again and she was right up to the shoulders, cuffs, head and neck and front legs hanging out.

  • And then jah mama, start sleeping around on basically shook the baby out almost, you know.

  • So it was It was very, very quickly.

  • Babies fall to the ground.

  • Seems alarming, but that's how giraffes give birth.

  • Standing up the baby is breathing.

  • But is it healthy when the birth is actually going through your concerns for the mother and not the car?

  • Soon as the car fits the floor, you know, starts actually breathe and then your concerns are for the cuff.

  • And, you know, I mean, at the end of the day, you do have to put mum first because she's valuable animal can breathe again.

  • You was looking for that next step as well you like Once you start to see Feet knows, except for a great but you want the calf out.

  • Well, then, once the cafs out, you want it sat up and what's it?

  • Sat up.

  • You want it stood once it stood.

  • You want a drink in so every steps of relief when it happens.

  • But with this caf, each step was taking a long time and three hours after the birth it had still not had any milk from Jemima.

  • The main fear is that there's something wrong, because if something's not drinking, there could be a problem.

  • It could be something internal reason why it can't drink.

  • Maybe something in a problem with the network won't swallow on religion.

  • Truthful.

  • Once they've been up for two hours, they should go straight there and be looking for a drink, and they're trying all the time to find.

  • But this wasn't trying all that was worried that something was actually wrong that we could actually see inside.

  • If the baby doesn't start feeding soon, its chances of survival a slim we'll be back in the giraffe free later to find out what happens.

  • For over four centuries, Lord Bath's family have bean filling lonely house with all kinds of treasure.

  • There's a fine art, priceless antiques on A LL, the lavish trappings of great wealth.

  • But there are also many intriguing items of historical interest, curious artifacts of a bygone past.

  • I'm in the Great Hall with house dude Ken windows, and we're looking at this absolutely magnificent table, Ken.

  • It's just the most extraordinary piece of furniture.

  • It certainly is.

  • Yeah, it's Ah, shuffleboard table.

  • They supply the old game of shuffle shall fight me on it, right?

  • 33 feet long.

  • Wow.

  • Originally, the planks were one from one end to the other is just read from running.

  • So there would have been no joins in the places you've been.

  • No joins a tour there are joined on it in a because obviously, over the years it's been repaired.

  • Why was it important not to have any joins?

  • Well, obviously, if you if you hit the coin, yeah.

  • Needed to go as far as possible, which was the object of the game.

  • I was joined.

  • It would've probably all the jump corn or simply stopped it.

  • So have room in the guy.

  • So that would have been one tree top to bottom.

  • That's right.

  • It came from the estate.

  • It was built from the state timber.

  • What?

  • What sort of word is hope would write is built actually in the hole because too long to get through it was going to say, I mean, how earth could you have got it?

  • It was built in here because everybody has to be a permanent fixture now, You were if you stuck with it being there, which is a good thing, in a way, because it means that, you know, it's preserved absolutely on design.

  • Just looking down at the's parts here.

  • I mean, is that because I would have thought looking at it, that it was a banqueting table, that it wasn't a games table?

  • Does this sort of give it away?

  • This is It does.

  • Because, of course, if you sat at it, you couldn't get your knees underneath because of the Royals section.

  • Yeah, thes thes arches are actually in addition.

  • They were put in probably 200 years ago, right stuff, but the legs in the rails themselves are original.

  • Just made amazing piece of craftsmanship as well.

  • Isn't it on these hair, these air that your coins, they're not actual coins that you would have spent their actually made before the for the guy.

  • So there's sort of, like, positively rings.

  • They are silver.

  • Yeah, as you can see, underneath, there actually made aerodynamic so that the actual remote is only the part that touches the table so they could almost skin like a hovercraft, right?

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, have you seen these games at the fair, You can play that offer across the table, but you can see they're they're actually numbered.

  • One has got a different number as well as a different design.

  • So that each player, of course, knew which one did you flick them like?

  • Tiddlywinks folk can show you here.

  • Yeah.

  • You actually placed him on the end of the table here.

  • Yeah, right.

  • And you have hit the corner.

  • Yeah.

  • And that would have obviously projected to calling up the table.

  • I'm afraid it is.

  • It is.

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • Very tempting.

  • Almost it is.

  • But now I'm the object of the game.

  • Was obviously get getting calling as far as it could possibly go, right?

  • Actually falling off the table.

  • I can imagine it being quite addictive.

  • Game.

  • Yeah, that's a lot of money.

  • Lost in one on it.

  • People would bet on it.

  • It would be like like playing poker or something like that.

  • And I do believe that Henry date was into it.

  • Really?

  • Even so, it was It was very much a kind of aristocratic game.

  • Exactly like I think there was a law brought where that she stopped playing off it because a lot of people spent too much fun playing working.

  • I can see why I'm absolutely desperate.

  • You're gonna have to take me out of here before I do.

  • Thank you very, very much indeed.

  • That is fascinating.

  • Well, wow.

  • Back at the Tiger House, it took the veterinary team just 20 minutes to remove the tumor from Sandy's abdomen.

  • It was bigger than expected size of a large grapefruit.

  • The operation was performed by surgeons.

  • There he needs.

  • She knows that Sandy's recovery is going to be difficult and dangerous.

  • There's a pretty major operation when we d'oh those sort of surgeries and a large dog, that sort of thing, we'd be pretty and drains and let be a lot of postoperative care required.

  • But it's not possible with her because she's just can't handle it s So it was really a question of, you know, stitch everything back up and keep your fingers crossed that it was all gonna hear vet Duncan Williams will be overseeing the post op care open.

  • Really well, great surgeon.

  • She whipped it off really quickly.

  • I felt tie off things, sewed it up really quickly as well.

  • So anesthetic time wasn't as long as it could have been.

  • Having can look very bloody look very gory, but ultimately better than expected.

  • A few days after her operation, Shandy is looking brighter post operatively.

  • She's done really, really well because it could have been so many complications.

  • It's a massive wound, you know, on a abdomen actually could have licked that opened it up because they've got such rough tongues.

  • They just rip her stitches out.

  • If they if they let him, she's left it well alone, and it's it's healed up really well.

  • She's looking great, really, considering what we found.

  • She's looking really good.

  • Just, yeah, but Shandy is long term prospects are not so good.

  • Cancer is an insidious disease.

  • The dangerous the minutes, a mammary tumor, Mrs.

  • The thing was going to spread through the body.

  • We think it's already spread up to the live No, that's with sort of dreams but mammary region.

  • Chances are, it'll spread around the body, and we will get sort of further complications as time goes on.

  • It was a big concern with during the operation to see her.

  • No, it's brilliant, you know, we just keep our fingers crossed it.

  • You know, case fit later in the series will be following the state of Sandy's health.

  • And, of course, keeping our fingers crossed, too.

  • Last year, a new attraction was added next to pets Corner built around, walk through, enclosure filled with bats.

  • But there are other animals here, ones that some people find even more creepy.

  • I'm down at Old Joe's mine with keeper Mike Holloman on two of long leads.

  • More notorious residents.

  • Mike, these are two of your wraps.

  • Aren't they lovely?

  • Who do we have here?

  • You've got Maisie very regally, Maisy.

  • And you know you've got there more.

  • There is a wise and I have.

  • So I was never a great fan of wraps that quite a lot sweeter than I thought.

  • They make very, very good pets, To be honest, a bit lively at the moment is about to be fed, right?

  • They want their food.

  • Now we've got these guys out specifically to do a health check quickly.

  • Is that right?

  • That's right.

  • Yeah.

  • How do you give a rat's a health check?

  • What we're looking for will obviously wait.

  • Yeah, this one's a little bit overweight.

  • You also feel for lumps just sort of just feel around, See if there's any any loving this way, please.

  • What?

  • Who was brilliant?

  • Nice, Solid.

  • Okay, so you look at that.

  • Yeah.

  • Not squishy.

  • Bright eyes lively.

  • Very everything.

  • Everything okay?

  • I'm very regally are very wriggling If we can have a quick look at the thief, Okay.

  • Make sure they've teeth so they won't fight fingers.

  • Yeah, Okay, I might be.

  • That one is fine, I think guys everywhere you can see the usually you see the teeth sticking down if they There you go.

  • All right.

  • Come on, girls.

  • Let's pop you back.

  • Okay, Well, while we put these guys back is what's still to come on.

  • Today's program in Monkey Jungle will be picking up some motoring spares left by the little Vandals collecting pieces like this.

  • It's moving day for the chipmunks, so they've got to be caught.

  • But they're slippery customers on how capability brown turned the gardens of long lead into the land of hope and glory.

  • England's contribution to European civilisation is houses like this in their landscapes.

  • This is a cracker.

  • But now we're going back to the giraffe house where Jemima has just had her first baby.

  • The birth was difficult and the cough was weak.

  • After four hours, it had still not taken any milk from Mum.

  • So the keeper in charge and Hayden decided to intervene.

  • The calf was quite weak when it was born, so it wasn't actually getting to suck it.

  • It was up wandering around, but it wasn't actually getting onto the teeth.

  • So we left it for about 34 hours.

  • And then we thought we'd get vetted.

  • We're just cheap.

  • Feed it with Cluster, which is the first milk, which has all the antibodies, is the important one which you feed of a classroom just to give her that boost.

  • She had the whole back straight away, swallowed it nicely, didn't solve cough anything back up.

  • We had a feeling that a CZ the calf was moving around before we tube fed her.

  • That she was that she knew where she had to go.

  • But for whatever reason, at the time, she just wasn't choosing to drink.

  • The milk will keep the car for life through her first night, But that's not going to help if she doesn't start feeding from Mom, Ryan and Andy don't know what they're going to find when the next day dawns.

  • I'ma put Monkey Jungle with Head of section Tim Yo not to look at the monkeys, Tim, but to look at the black bark.

  • Andi, I have to say they are looking in really good, Nick.

  • We never usually get this close to them there.

  • See me?

  • Very relaxed.

  • Quite.

  • Kate.

  • Give it nervous of some of the staff vehicles, right?

  • So this is absolutely wonderful and we can see the little kids.

  • They're with them who's 45 weeks old rail on dhe.

  • We're not actually sure this stage what sex the kid is because this was a first time mother and I didn't want to interfere a tall.

  • So I've left totally alone.

  • When it passes you're in.

  • You can sometimes find out whether it is male or female that way now, presumably looking at this group here in the mail is the black one with the very large, twisted horns, and that's what gives them their name is black but doesn't seem terribly appropriate to the fever off.

  • Exactly.

  • He is the herd mail at the moment of this black comes with sexual maturity, and when the testosterone level is up on active.

  • He gets this lovely black jackets, but that can subside.

  • It can go to a much lighter coat with the appearance of the females.

  • So how quickly might you expect the form the baby to take on either male or female characteristics?

  • Is it is it sort of many years before they reach sexual maturity?

  • It's It's not, really.

  • I mean, a year old male kids would be sexually able to reproduce, right?

  • He can still live within the group.

  • Can he quite happily without it being without him being too threatened by the other male?

  • Well, we do.

  • We do get problems, Unfortunately, with too many males in the group.

  • Sometimes you can get a bit of a split where a male manages to break away.

  • If you say that one will take one group of females and the other will take the other.

  • And it depends a bit on the group buck, as well as to whether he accepts other males in the in the vicinity.

  • So waiting to see process, isn't it very much so?

  • Yes, I mean really exciting, and there's such exquisite answered it.

  • Where would you see them in the wild.

  • If you were lucky, it off India would be thes.

  • Animals are sacred in that part of the world.

  • People allow them to feed on their crops.

  • I believe because they are sacred and they will what will leave?

  • Um absolutely exquisite.

  • It's it is great to see them causes you saying they are very shy, presumably because they're preyed on by a lot of things.

  • Yes, I believe they are.

  • And I think they've been hunted as well, which has been a large factor in their demise that here they are very shy years, even if they know that there aren't any predators here too.

  • Get them.

  • They tend to like this top end of the monkey jungle.

  • But if they're disturbed, you know they'll they'll shoot off a great speed.

  • I'm really glad that we're not disturbing them in the moment.

  • Thank you very much.

  • And please keep us posted on how the phone gets home.

  • Although Longley House looks much the same today as it would have done when it was built for over 400 years ago, the surrounding grounds have changed out of all recognition.

  • Keeping it trim nowadays requires the efforts of only 13 gardeners ably supported by a flock of sheep.

  • But one time the gardens were far more elaborate.

  • The earliest record is a painting by Yan Celebrex, which shows how the place looked in 16 75.

  • Archivist Cate Harris thinks there's a lot to be learned from the picture regarding history.

  • Point of view.

  • It's quite interesting because it shows both continuities and discontinuities.

  • She's continuity.

  • And since you've got two fountains out front, just as we have now, you could see that somebody is arriving in a very grand coach on the star for coming out to formally greet and escort them into the house like an animated place.

  • You could see that there are birds drinking at the fountains, and there's a dovecote in the stables.

  • It's obviously a deer park.

  • Over the next 40 years, Gardens grew into a 70 acre former baroque landscape inspired by the gardens at the Palace of Versailles wth e engraving, which shows of you due East gifts, some real sense off the extent of the garden and also its fearsome symmetry.

  • You can see that the way center axis lines up with the center of the house.

  • The cost of constructing the gardens was enormous, But it is said that the whole thing cost about £30,000 which is just short of three million.

  • Nowadays, Thea upkeep was also expensive on required a staff of 60 just to prune and trim on water.

  • And we'd all the plants and hedges.

  • I think it would have been wonderful to see the garden.

  • It's pleated state with all the fountains playing on DL, the sculpture with a lot of really serious sculpture in there by a man called Chevalier Dive in and really Good Fountain's done by a carver from Bath.

  • My Uncle John Harvey.

  • We still got designed for those and they really work.

  • Watch blended.

  • But it wasn't long before those magnificent formal gardens were swept away.

  • By the middle of the 18th century, they'd simply gone out of fashion.

  • The latest thing was the style of landscape put forward by England's most famous garden designer, Lancelot Capability Brown.

  • Long meets estate manager Tim More reckons that his reputation is fully justified.

  • I think Capability Brown was an extraordinary figure.

  • He's doing this all over, not just England theories into Wales.

  • I think it may have even got into Ireland.

  • Horse and cart.

  • He's quite a guy, so he's got.

  • I didn't have the numbers of people working here huge.

  • And there they are while shoveling Earth to create a water feature planting hundreds of trees, remarkable that he belts off to the next cloud.

  • He's gonna chat them up.

  • New medicine or later arrest stays more difficult, and you blame me down.

  • There he is.

  • He's doing park after Park Park.

  • It's amazing.

  • We'll find out later just how capability Brown transformed the grounds of long lead into the landscape we see today.

  • This new baby wasn't suffering from Mum, so she was given substitute milk and left for the night.

  • When the keeper's arrived the next morning, they didn't know what they were going to find.

  • Deputy head warden in Tana came straight up to the giraffe, free the major relief when he came in the morning.

  • The foundry, what you would expect if she's not being drinking is it should be very, very weak.

  • So you call in the morning.

  • You find it laid out flat, obviously cold.

  • When Mom's not being looking after everything to come in the morning and found it sitting up on, then jump up on, then little after a few minutes.

  • Have a drink.

  • That was really, really good.

  • All the keepers are very relieved.

  • I feel very proud of your mind.

  • I feel very proud that we've done with an animal that's really, really freaky kind of animal.

  • I was really nervous and really scared of things that we threw what we've done with her and manipulated the situation.

  • She has no given birth with no stress rear in a CAF with no stress.

  • I feel really pleased at what we have done and what we've put into place.

  • So far, so good that the infant is still not strong.

  • The first few days of life are so dangerous that in the giraffe free, they don't give the carbs names until after they've survived for a whole week.

  • We'll be back later to see if Jamal Mama's Baby gets a name down in Pets Corner.

  • It's a big day for a whole gang of small animals.

  • The chipmunks need to be moved, but to do that first they've got to be caught.

  • I'm down in Pets corner on a very important mission.

  • I've come to catch up with keeper Val MacGruber on head of section down Beasley.

  • Now, downwind, Earth is vow hiding in here like just way.

  • We're gonna sell tickets.

  • A new exhibit.

  • Know what we're doing is we've had our chipmunks in here over winter, partly because they hibernate in part because we want to do some work on their lovely Avery.

  • Okay, now we've been catching him putting him, but it's been taking us a little while.

  • I'm, um What are these for?

  • You was told on strict orders to bring them, and I promised they're not smelling.

  • Good lesson that I heard about.

  • Your trainers basically are chipmunks.

  • Well, I'll show you later on.

  • We'll go around and focus.

  • Okay?

  • Love stops.

  • Okay.

  • I'll keep these safe in my pockets.

  • So we gotta catch the remaining chipmunks.

  • Yeah, Yeah.

  • Being busy catching, enforces, having a bit of a breathing.

  • Got seven.

  • But you run like Linford Christie.

  • They really do on look without calling the bird seed names they have powerful is that we left us an overnight by the steak.

  • Onda.

  • Look, the truth is we don't all around here.

  • They don't want to be better not to leave my fingers too.

  • Near them gave us about high.

  • Okay, How about Okay, So Val is gonna gonna try catching.

  • Say what?

  • They've bean hibernating in here.

  • Well, yes.

  • Sort off chip and acts.

  • They will go to sleep.

  • They will go to sleep for the winter of the weather.

  • Gets too cold, right?

  • Basically, we wanted to do some work on their Avery.

  • Do with that way.

  • That was very quick.

  • That was what way do we want to put that way?

  • We'll put it in the box.

  • Okay, I'm running.

  • The book's amazing.

  • I suppose you never really know how they're going to react.

  • Do you know?

  • It's I mean, it's It's nice when you think you can play it.

  • Thanks.

  • You can plan to catch the way we thought this would be a quick 10 minute job.

  • Really?

  • We're in a confined spaces.

  • They need heat now when they find out in the Avery.

  • But we had a very cold winter again with, so we didn't really want to go to sleep Help because we want to get back in there every course.

  • But of course, having done the work out there now.

  • Goodbye.

  • You are very quick.

  • Let me get that ready?

  • Tow him in.

  • I could play for the national team there.

  • Look at that.

  • Any good?

  • Brilliant, Thank you guys.

  • Vow.

  • Well, court captured.

  • Right?

  • So where are we taking them now?

  • We're taking a round to the Chipmunk Avery, so it's all done.

  • Join us later to find out what possible use the Chipmunks could have for my old socks.

  • It's hard to believe that the landscape of Longley Park is largely man made.

  • It was designed by Capability Brown.

  • In the middle of the 18th century.

  • He swept aside the old gardens to create what we see now.

  • Tim Moore is the estate manager.

  • Today, 70 acres of formal brought garden running from the house up towards the safari parks is straight in front of it.

  • Where we are now on their very formal, clipped low hedges.

  • Water features fountains.

  • That just goes, you know, no rushing off to English heritage.

  • You're bothering with local authority.

  • It's out.

  • We don't want it.

  • We want Mr Brown.

  • We want a stunning pastoral landscape.

  • I think of the commitment of bravery off the thin of the day who blitz that lot and created something, couldn't see and he had to rely purely on Brown's vision.

  • Brownsfirst contract for work, undertaken in 17 57 still exists in the long lead archives under the care of Kate Harris.

  • So it starts off by saying to alter and take away the terrorists on these Front goes on to talk about taking out sharp turns and servant on Ally's water features and lakes were dug out by hand.

  • An army of workers labored for years with nothing more than shovels and wheelbarrows.

  • It cost a great deal of money.

  • It puts you very close to the events when you see Brown signing his name to his some fee for the particular year he's signing has received in the police work from 17 58 9 signing for £1870.

  • That's £200,000 in today's money.

  • Brown's big idea was to create an idealized vision of the pastoral landscape, a perfect view of a perfect countryside.

  • Central to the concept was the planting of trees, rather a lot of them in the first plant in record, for beginning in October 17 73.

  • We've got, um, comes in the park 300 ash, 38 large 400 Scotch for 3000 bird.

  • She's 1000 beech trees comes as well on Parkhill.

  • They're keeping a running note of what they're achieving annually, and each one concludes with a total.

  • So in the 17 73 4 season, they put in 91,258 trees by 17 84.

  • More than 500 acres of trees have been planted, which would eventually change the Longley landscape forever, though not in Brown's lifetime.

  • You imagine planting this on your trees is all of this size going in or their acorns.

  • You gotta have quite a vision when I'm lucky enough to see it.

  • He never did.

  • I'm just full of admiration for somebody who creates something.

  • Is Magic Acis?

  • And you could say You know what's great about England?

  • Well, apart from all the battles and all that sort of thing, what is rarely great in England's contribution to European civilisation is houses like this in their landscapes.

  • This is crap.

  • Both capability.

  • Brown and his patron, the first Marquis of Bath, knew that their great vision would take hundreds of years to be fully realized.

  • The dream they had in mind is the landscape that we enjoy today.

  • But you can't help wonder what capability Brown would make of this.

  • His hand dog, Ornamental Lake, is now home to a couple of African hippos and a breeding colony of Californian sea lions.

  • Last year, a new lakeside beach was built especially for the sea lions.

  • And now I've come down to see what they're making off it.

  • I think the only things that are going to appreciate being on a beach in this weather all the sea lions, But this beach is fantastic.

  • Mark, I haven't seen it before.

  • Yeah, it's not too bad.

  • So turned out better than is what?

  • Really?

  • Well.

  • And they obviously seem to really love it.

  • Yeah, they've been coming up on the front quite a lot.

  • They're not sleeping on here.

  • Yeah, right.

  • We're getting there.

  • So is that the general plan?

  • What?

  • What?

  • What?

  • What are you hoping it?

  • How is this gonna make it different for you or for them?

  • Well, we were hoping that obviously to make this their sort of safe area away from the public where they could give birth, right?

  • Yes, at the moment is trying to keep them away from their sort of old habits and their old places, So having to encourage them here And is that why you now feed them from here?

  • Yeah, we do.

  • Are sort of vitamin fish feed here in the morning, right?

  • Just get them used to coming up.

  • I'm getting a lot better.

  • So thes.

  • So these fish are full of extra vitamins or something?

  • Yes.

  • We give them a supplement.

  • Their diet with vitamin tablets on salt tablets as well.

  • Right?

  • Stop trying something.

  • I'll do those ones if you'd like to do these, OK, Sign.

  • Be a bit more specific.

  • All right.

  • So that each one's getting kind of pacific amounts of of minerals and things.

  • And why is that important?

  • Because, I mean, you know, they live in a huge late, which doesn't Officially, it does.

  • Yes.

  • Supplements.

  • They are a natural salt offer.

  • Animal, right?

  • Obviously living in fresh water.

  • We need to supplement their diet with a horse.

  • Of course.

  • So that's how it works on bond.

  • Obviously they thrive on it.

  • Yeah, they do absolutely fine on it Now.

  • We're coming to the time of year.

  • As you said about giving birth.

  • Have you got any pregnancies this year.

  • I'm fairly confident we have if you look at Lindy here on.

  • So when do you think?

  • Well, that they always give birth at the same time?

  • Every year, right on.

  • You can normally within a day or two get their date spot on.

  • The 1st 1 to be do would normally be Celia, and she's sort of about the 26th of May on.

  • Then they all start calling after that.

  • A couple of weeks on.

  • Hopefully they'll give birth here.

  • Well, there is that the idea?

  • That's the hope.

  • Either here or in the pen next door, I wouldn't mind, but preferably not on the front of the girl house like last year.

  • Which was a bit awkward, to say the least.

  • You have a particularly successful breeding program here, don't you?

  • I mean, I think you've had pups every year that I've seen.

  • Yeah, I think we're only had a couple of brief spells when we didn't have a male right that we didn't breathe for every other year way have on.

  • Do you think the success is a lot to do with with diet and environment from having lots of space to exercise well, and I think it can only help, you know, obviously, you know, apart from the addition of salt in the late, Yeah, everything's probably is near natural as you could get for them on this fish chase around in the lake is a lovely, huge area.

  • Um, there's not really much they're missing.

  • Wait all day with some of that when it's looking looking great.

  • I mean, the biggest trees about being here.

  • I don't think we've ever actually be this'll close to them before.

  • It must be very good for you for being here to keep an eye on health checks and that kind of thing.

  • Yes, it's much better, because obviously before they were just swimming around in the water, you couldn't actually visually see them particularly well.

  • But now they're actually coming up on to the side.

  • You can obviously see them perfectly all over, see if there's any cuts, anything like that bond for me.

  • I mean, it's great to just get a really good look at them because you kind of, as you say, you don't see them usually out.

  • How different are they from seals?

  • Because that's a classic mistake.

  • Everyone makes, isn't it?

  • That they mix up seals and sea lions?

  • Yeah, well, the obvious ones.

  • See, lines have external is right and seals seals have much shorter flippers, and they sort of shuffle along on their belly.

  • Where see lines, consort Pretty much run.

  • They can be incredibly fast.

  • We're here.

  • I'm gonna give you the last bits of fish.

  • Thank you so much.

  • Mark, will you keep us posted with Thank you.

  • Wait.

  • Back in Pet's corner, chipmunks are bound for their summer quarters.

  • So this is where we're going.

  • Is this?

  • Yeah, It's the chipmunk.

  • Avery.

  • We've done some work on it this y

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