Kevin Milne: Interesting new arrivals at Wellington Zoo

Wellington Zoo has announced their next new arrivals, and they’re not quite what Kevin expected. 

Onyx and Beryl aren’t baby primates or giraffes, but rather two Romney Cross sheep!  

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh, Jeff's got a controversial take, Jack. I agree with
your comments this morning. Rugby golf and I love golf, Tennis, basketball, soccer,
maybe even hockey shouldn't be there. I'd love to see
darts added, I think they are hitting darts, aren't they.
I think they might be hitting. I've got to check
that for you, Jeef. Disagree with you on rugby because
rugby sevens. I think if it was rugby fifteens wouldn't
make sense. And rugby sevens is just such a spectacle

(00:34):
as well. It's the sort of thing that people can
pick up relatively easily if they're not that familiar with
the sport, and you have a real kind of carnival vibe.
Basketball got to keep it, especially because for international basketball,
Olympics are still the biggest thing. Tennis year. Lose it, Soccer, yeah,
lose it, hockey, keep it. That's my dad anyway, Thanks that,
Jef ninety two ninety two. If you want to send
us a message, Kevin Milne is with us this morning.

(00:55):
Kyoda getting a Jack.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I'm from Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, very good. Have you been enjoying the games, Kevin, I've.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Been loving the absolutely loving the game. Yeah, I just
couldn't say that my what's that sport? We go running
out the running out the side walls.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Speed climbing.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, yeah, that's my that's I'm right in for that.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Now, what you want to have is that I like
watching the sport climbing mix, so you have the lead
climbing and the bouldering as well. They're just they're amazing
athletes and and like I was saying before about climbing,
it fits into my primal sport category. So my cave
could a caveman do it? Obviously the caveman wouldn't have
the harness and all of that kind of thing. But
I really like the sports that test kind of basic

(01:39):
human skills. So whether it's you know, whether it's run, jump, swim,
whether it's you know, whether it's throwing something really far,
or whether it's climbing, and I feel like that's.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
The one for you. Yeah, I've got the one for you.
I'd love to see it back at the Olympic Tug
of war.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Why not? Why not see apparently.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
War used to be in the Olympics. Yeah, in the
early days, and I don't understand why it's not there.
It would be a great great.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Spaces are really of the Olympics. I didn't know that,
and I mean, then, yeah, that is that is amazing. Yeah,
I think nineteen twenty four and nineteen twenty There you go. Anyway, Kevin,
you've had a surprise this week. In between all of
the Olympic excitement, your local zoo has surprised you.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah. I was amused surprised by a news release from
Wellington Zoo on Thursday. It read let's all give a
warm welcome to Wellington Zoo's newest arrivals, Onyx and Beryl.
You might think this is the pre angle to the
arrival of a couple of baby Crimates or mother and
daughter Gerards, but no, there are a couple of Romney

(02:49):
Cross sheep the newest editions to the Zoo's Meet the
Locals section. Now my daughter's reaction that Wellington Zoo had
hit rock bottom I thought a little harsh. But if
we're being enticed to visit the zoo to seat some sheep,
it suggests times might be tougher for zoos than we thought.

(03:11):
On the other hand, and looking at it, things a
lot more positively, this may be the start of a
desirable trend. Instead of hauling rare animals out of their
home environments all over the world, zoos become places kids
go to see animals from their own backyard. And I
don't mean dogs, cats and goldfish, but maybe native deer

(03:33):
and goats, tar and shamois or chammy, maybe yellow eyed
penguins keewii and tuatara, and native birds like kira and carcapo,
maybe a royal albatroz. And then of course for the
city kids, you could have farm animals like horned Highland cattle,
big fluffy marinos remember Shrek. Yeah, you know, a Clydesdale

(03:58):
horse or two donkeys, old packers lamas. Then they go
there's the section where you go to see stoats. There
it's itchogs and bosom. I don't know, sure it's not
the exotic image of zoos come by, but maybe the
arrival of Wellington Zoo this week of Rodney Cross sheep,

(04:20):
it's a glimpse into the future of New Zealand zoos.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah yeah, maybe it's odd.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Thing, isn't that they have Romney Cross being announcers. New
arrivals at the zoo.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, yes and no. I mean I agree with you
that compared to a you know, compared to a lion
or a rhinoceros or something, it might not have that
kind of exoticism. But I suppose for a lot of
city kids, getting up close and personal with a sheep
that relatively close to a sheep might be kind of exciting.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And That's what I'm thinking, really it may be.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
And from an animal wealthy perspective too, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, yeah, we're having all these problems with you know,
elephants and all this sort of stuff, getting the mirror
and finding him and then seeing them, and I'm just
wondering whether maybe there's something in it, yeah, where we
turn the zoos into just local animals that, as you say,
city kids never get to see.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, yeah, no, we'll see Kevin. Yeah, yeah, it'll be
interesting to see what people think about that. Thank you
very much, Kevin. Kevin on with us this morning. I've
looked up some of the old, crazy, old Olympic sports
that they used to have, So tug of war was
there for a few years, which is good pistol dueling,
And the thing with your pistol dueling is I mean
this sort of is no second place, is there? No
one's getting the silver medal and the pistol dueling. No.

(05:40):
I think they used non lethal rounds. I hope they
used non lethal rounds. And the nineteen hundred Olympics in
Paris they also did live pigeon shooting, so it was
just whoever could shoot the most most live pigeons. Again,
there's a TV spectacle, if ever there were one.

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