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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear more gold one on one point
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists, and listen live on the Free iHeart app On
the cutting room floor today, I.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Saw a story in the Washington Post that I think
is fun. I think it's fun. Oh yes, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's about animals escaping from zoos. And what started this
journey of research that they've done is on June eighth,
ed the zebra was dangled from a helicopter in the
Tennessee Skies, ending eight glorious days of freedom on the run.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, so it got the people at the Washington Post
wondering how many animals actually escape from zoos, and I
found more than ninety different species that have weaseled out
of captivity in the past one hundred and thirty years
or so, including weasels. As I say here, every animal
escape story is about a prisoner breaking out, like shawshank redemption,
(01:18):
like you're rooting for the underdog, said the psychologist Justin
greg So. He theorizes that when a captive animal breaks free,
something shifts in our perception and they become an individual.
Let's work through some of the escapees, shall we sure
what kind of animals escape, They say, all kinds of
animals escape.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, birds would be pretty good, would they that?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, the birds aren't the main escapee, I.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Know if you put them in an avery. But one
time I was at the zoo and I was watching ibers.
It had jumped into an animal enclosure.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Wandered around.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
They had a bit of a peek at the stuff,
and then jumped out and flew off. It was like,
you know, just do you think, well, is it most
monkeys that were in the in the enclosure?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well one of monkeys because they are primates? Are they primates? Yes,
have a sense of their imprisonment or not. Whether these
go this is what it is today and this is
where I eat and I'm safe and I'm comfied.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You do wonder about that. Maybe it's a privilege to
live in a zoo.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're not getting hunted by other predators, regular food, regular
sexual intercourse.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Exactly. I might sign up.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Things to throw your fecal matter at people.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Just come bus go gay how he comes the tourist group, make.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Like Hashmi to something, draw me like one of your
French girls. Well, the primates seem to be the biggest
group of escapes monkeys definitely feelines, and that's disturbing because
they don't have domestic cats in zoos, so they'd be
scary cats I'd imagine.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Were tigers lions, says he.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Bovines are also who has cows in a zoo or
maybe buffalo and things. Birds make up a smaller percentage
than you would imagine, and only three fish have escaped.
But let me talk you through some of the some.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Of the estra that would get very far.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I'll tell you some of the stories. About one
in five escapes from the data at the Washington found
were never recaptured, a few were presumed dead, most of
thought or known still to be thriving out there on
the lands. Live in the life. The animals that get
the furthest The pink flamingo really tell you where they've gone.
(03:26):
They've ended up in all kinds of places. Of one
of the pink flamingos regularly showed up in Texas and
another one made its way to Minnesota. This is from
a zoo in Kansas, so that's a long way. Let's
have a look at some of the other things. Here
(03:46):
my mom in nineteen fifty eight, Cyril, the sea lion
swam over one hundred miles from his Canadian theme park
to Ohio. His name was and Ferb. The tortoise was
gone for two months in Oklahoma last year. He was
finally found about one hundred feet from his home.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, Ferb's got his own home as well.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's got his shell, He's got his shell. He could
bed down for the night.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He goes anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's like a gray haired nomad, so not a very
quick one.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The zebra as we escape, as we said before, has
escaped in Tennessee. Lots of kids have gone crazy about that.
Ken and orangutang apparently repeatedly got out and strolled around
San Diego Zoo in the eighties. Strolled around, strolled around,
stealing people's cigars.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, having a look at it inside the case, you
are willing to be in there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Britain's Brown Bears Mission Lucy escaped their enclosure and went
to the food store and stole a week's worth of honey.
Phil one hundred one thousand pound water buffalo escaped Slaughter
last year and for days showed up on trails and
doorbell cams in Ohio. So got to have an abatar, no,
(05:01):
I think, Oh maybe yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'd rather be you've got reason to break out of
an abatwar?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
What about this one? She she run chimp in the Ukraine,
became an instant star in twenty twenty two thanks to
a video of zoo keepers bringing her back on a bicycle.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
She put a chimp on a bike. And that's just
that's comedy right there, right there.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Didn't you have a pet turtle?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Turtle? Turtle?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What's it instead of tottle on turtise? One lives in
the water.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It doesn't. Yeah, yeah, this was a turtle.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And how did it go?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I forgot what his name? Herb I think his name
was her Herbal.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And how did he disappear?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He just ran away.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Dad drooled a hole in his shell at the edge,
and it was supposedly a little string on it would
keep him near his little water water dish, which was
just an upturned frisbee, so it wasn't a lot of water.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We didn't know much about turtles back.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And then how did he break the string?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It wasn't a strong bit of string because he didn't
use a big drill bit, so it was only a
thin bit of strength.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
A bit of strength in the turtle.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, yeah, and he ran away or he got munch
by a German chap.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But I don't know. I think dad might have been
candy coating the.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Story ship would bart through that shell.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
They can flip them oment month straight into that soft underbelty.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It sounds like you had to go.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You've had turtle soup prendan if you've been eating your
pet again.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Don't do that, especially missus waiting for it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
OK, that's it for today. You back them all for more.
Toy had Cat Road
My Heart podcasts, hear more gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists, and listen live on the Free iHeart app On
the cutting room floor today, I.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Saw a story in the Washington Post that I think
is fun. I think it's fun. Oh yes, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Good.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's about animals escaping from zoos. And what started this
journey of research that they've done is on June eighth,
ed the zebra was dangled from a helicopter in the
Tennessee Skies, ending eight glorious days of freedom on the run.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, so it got the people at the Washington Post
wondering how many animals actually escape from zoos, and I
found more than ninety different species that have weaseled out
of captivity in the past one hundred and thirty years
or so, including weasels. As I say here, every animal
escape story is about a prisoner breaking out, like shawshank redemption,
(01:18):
like you're rooting for the underdog, said the psychologist Justin
greg So. He theorizes that when a captive animal breaks free,
something shifts in our perception and they become an individual.
Let's work through some of the escapees, shall we sure
what kind of animals escape, They say, all kinds of
animals escape.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, birds would be pretty good, would they that?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, the birds aren't the main escapee, I.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Know if you put them in an avery. But one
time I was at the zoo and I was watching ibers.
It had jumped into an animal enclosure.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Wandered around.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
They had a bit of a peek at the stuff,
and then jumped out and flew off. It was like,
you know, just do you think, well, is it most
monkeys that were in the in the enclosure?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Well one of monkeys because they are primates? Are they primates? Yes,
have a sense of their imprisonment or not. Whether these
go this is what it is today and this is
where I eat and I'm safe and I'm comfied.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
You do wonder about that. Maybe it's a privilege to
live in a zoo.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're not getting hunted by other predators, regular food, regular
sexual intercourse.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Exactly. I might sign up.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Things to throw your fecal matter at people.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Just come bus go gay how he comes the tourist group, make.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Like Hashmi to something, draw me like one of your
French girls. Well, the primates seem to be the biggest
group of escapes monkeys definitely feelines, and that's disturbing because
they don't have domestic cats in zoos, so they'd be
scary cats I'd imagine.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Were tigers lions, says he.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Bovines are also who has cows in a zoo or
maybe buffalo and things. Birds make up a smaller percentage
than you would imagine, and only three fish have escaped.
But let me talk you through some of the some.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Of the estra that would get very far.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, I'll tell you some of the stories. About one
in five escapes from the data at the Washington found
were never recaptured, a few were presumed dead, most of
thought or known still to be thriving out there on
the lands. Live in the life. The animals that get
the furthest The pink flamingo really tell you where they've gone.
(03:26):
They've ended up in all kinds of places. Of one
of the pink flamingos regularly showed up in Texas and
another one made its way to Minnesota. This is from
a zoo in Kansas, so that's a long way. Let's
have a look at some of the other things. Here
(03:46):
my mom in nineteen fifty eight, Cyril, the sea lion
swam over one hundred miles from his Canadian theme park
to Ohio. His name was and Ferb. The tortoise was
gone for two months in Oklahoma last year. He was
finally found about one hundred feet from his home.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, Ferb's got his own home as well.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's got his shell, He's got his shell. He could
bed down for the night.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
He goes anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's like a gray haired nomad, so not a very
quick one.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
The zebra as we escape, as we said before, has
escaped in Tennessee. Lots of kids have gone crazy about that.
Ken and orangutang apparently repeatedly got out and strolled around
San Diego Zoo in the eighties. Strolled around, strolled around,
stealing people's cigars.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, having a look at it inside the case, you
are willing to be in there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Britain's Brown Bears Mission Lucy escaped their enclosure and went
to the food store and stole a week's worth of honey.
Phil one hundred one thousand pound water buffalo escaped Slaughter
last year and for days showed up on trails and
doorbell cams in Ohio. So got to have an abatar, no,
(05:01):
I think, Oh maybe yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'd rather be you've got reason to break out of
an abatwar?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
What about this one? She she run chimp in the Ukraine,
became an instant star in twenty twenty two thanks to
a video of zoo keepers bringing her back on a bicycle.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
She put a chimp on a bike. And that's just
that's comedy right there, right there.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Didn't you have a pet turtle?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Turtle? Turtle?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
What's it instead of tottle on turtise? One lives in
the water.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It doesn't. Yeah, yeah, this was a turtle.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
And how did it go?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I forgot what his name? Herb I think his name
was her Herbal.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And how did he disappear?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
He just ran away.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Dad drooled a hole in his shell at the edge,
and it was supposedly a little string on it would
keep him near his little water water dish, which was
just an upturned frisbee, so it wasn't a lot of water.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We didn't know much about turtles back.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And then how did he break the string?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It wasn't a strong bit of string because he didn't
use a big drill bit, so it was only a
thin bit of strength.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
A bit of strength in the turtle.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, yeah, and he ran away or he got munch
by a German chap.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
But I don't know. I think dad might have been
candy coating the.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Story ship would bart through that shell.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
They can flip them oment month straight into that soft underbelty.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It sounds like you had to go.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You've had turtle soup prendan if you've been eating your
pet again.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
You don't do that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Don't do that, especially missus waiting for it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
OK, that's it for today. You back them all for more.
Toy had Cat Road
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