The Wildest Zoo EVER Thru Top Of Mountain In South America - Hiking Thru Amaru Wildlife Park Ecuador
Amaru Wildlife Park
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today's adventure begins on this very
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Rapid River here in quink Ecuador as the
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recording of This TGIF it is Friday
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February 14th
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2025 I am going to an Ecuadorian Zoo
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here in town my uncle and I are going to
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Traverse up the side of a hill well a
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mountain it might be muddy it might be
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slightly treacherous he assures me that
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it will be quite
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an
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adventure welcome everyone out of the
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woo here my quest to possibly find a
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twocan
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continues maybe they'll have one at the
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zoo going to see some animals some South
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American
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animals here in ecor inviting you to
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join me see what happens shall you he we
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grabbed a taxi and it was I don't know
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maybe five or 6 miles from where we were
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to get to the point hit a dirt road and
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then you go about half a mile maybe even
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a mile up the dirt road taxi driver took
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us up this dirt road it's kind of bumpy
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and has different grooves in it from the
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recent rain we made it to the top
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overlooking the vicinity of quink
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Ecuador so the zoo starts way up here
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and then evidently we're going to be
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climbing in even higher elevation quink
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is about a 8,500 or 9,000 FT elevation
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but we're going to be getting up to
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about 12 or 13 by the time we end up
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walking so I decided to go ahead and
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bring my hoodie with me as
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well this is awesome this is going to be
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so
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cool and my uncle even though he's lived
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here for about 3 years has never been to
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this Zoo so he's getting to do something
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he's never done either just him and I
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it's a bus stop
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what is
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this it's a tree full of
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animals there's an an
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eater right
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there o I hope I see a
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twocan maybe I'll see a twocan here
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someone from Florida that's not used to
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this elevation this is going to be an
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experience I've learned by being here
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whenever you walk up an incline at this
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elevation and you feel it when you're
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not used to these
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mountains price of admission
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$9 two tickets plus two waters was $20
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I've always learned with elevation that
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you should stay hydrated I've heard when
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high elevation areas you should always
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stay hydrated no touching no smoking
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photos and video are allowed but no
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flash do not flash it'll startle the
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animals and no calisthenics on any of
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the benches do not try to
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put doing a uh stretching on the fences
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here this a little model here of some of
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the terrain of
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Ecuador this is kind of the walkway they
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have this chicken wire over the top of
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it and then it's not steps it's just
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like a it's like a almost like a wooden
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dock that goes downhill if it didn't
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have the chicken wire on it You'
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probably lose your footing show some of
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the different the many different
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volcanoes that are here in Ecuador
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43
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volcanoes all right I want to time
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exactly how long at my little Mickey
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watch here it's uh let's just call it
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10:15 we're starting off see how long it
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takes us to walk through the
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zoo I have a feeling it's going to be a
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lengthy time frame through here just
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getting going basically through the
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mountainous jungles through elev
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a shwar Hut this is where people would
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have lived yeah with the mud on the side
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there anything
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inside uh doesn't look like it just uh
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some overgrowth side of the Hill didn't
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know if they had some
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them know stuff they would live in there
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with no explanation to what this is
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however
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a bunch of logs and sticks and then
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there's like a piece of tarp over
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it they do provide a
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wooden little fence that you can hold on
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to a little walkway for your hand but
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it's uh little shaky oos and
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Doos this shows the correlation of the
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size of what a Grizzly would be and a
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polar would be here it
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there hello parrot very odd looking
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ducks here yeah look at these how you
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doing there's one in the back how you
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doing
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duck another one right
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here like a little piece of glass
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between us and the
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birds and then it's open air on their
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side a little more info about the bears
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in fact this
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shows their footprint there and here are
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some prints that they would leave
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and the habitat that they're normally
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found
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in I see one I see one right
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there hiding behind that
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Branch oh you going to be camera shy huh
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okay this is definitely the I mean I
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haven't been to a gazillion zoos but
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I've been to a lot of different ones and
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this is the first one I've seen that's
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anything like this it's just up in the
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jungles of a mountain
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and there's like a little Cliff there
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probably to keep the bear from climbing
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up to towards us and you got this little
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chain leak fence really all that's
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holding the Bears the animals back from
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us climbing up here but I think he's
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more interested in snacking on that food
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over there pay no attention to the
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tourist spare oh I think there's a deer
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in here there is there's a deer right
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there there's a
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deer he sweetie
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hi
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there you going underneath there going
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through
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there venados Cola Blanca kind of
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curious on the backstory of some of
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these I went to the bise zoo when I was
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in bise in Central America and all the
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animals they had there were being
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rehabilitated because there could not be
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out in the wild because they had issues
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in the wild and they were being taken
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care of but I'm not sure the backstory
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on this particular place
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but if I come across it I'll share
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here's the view and then if you look up
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here there's another animal I think
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we're going to be able to walk up there
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but he's like up there on that ledge
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right there he's got
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horns
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beautiful some bamboo here little
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doorway for
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the keepers to walk through
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how you
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doing good to see you down there you got
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quite the view you have a spectacular
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view of the city look at
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that amazing this is is a little seating
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area we can relax and get a view of
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quink they probably do Bird shows in
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here too
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okay possibly do a show of here some
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sort this would would be amazing if they
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were doing that today look at this
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wow I hear you bird I hear you this is
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quite the amphitheater outdoor
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Amphitheater I'm also regretting ringing
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this it's definitely not as cool up here
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as I was expecting
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all right the workers just alerted us
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there's a puma right up
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here look right there and I also asked
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if they had twocans here and I think
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they were alluding to the fact that I
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might see a
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house this bird here possibly a
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condor oh oh hi coming right up to us
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see
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us oh that's cool walking the tight RPP
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walking the tree branch
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there all right going back down lots of
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ups and
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downs muddy stairs slick
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spots all part of the experience so
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evidently some of the the young ones are
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in here and you look in here
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oh it again oh it's a dead spider yeah
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probably H
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bird what you
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doing what you doing
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bird how you doing good to see
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you ooh got some these
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vultures oh I like this little walkway
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through here I walked through like a
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shark
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Corridor at SeaWorld and stuff where you
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have sharks above your head but I've
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never walked through a vulture Corridor
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before
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never never
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vulture watch
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out get through
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here
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one o
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hi you could use a good
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haircut what are you trying to do
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llama I love walking amongst the foliage
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and the sticks and the twigs and the
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branches again really adds
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to really adds to the Ambiance kind of
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see him through the
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branch way up there you're eyeballing me
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aren't you bird staring now you're
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scratching your
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face I won that staring
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contest but that is this bird here that
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was just staring at so didn't really
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show up on camera but that was the look
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that bird was giv me right like that
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he's thinking who are
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you a bob cat get out here look like a
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little cat almost yeah it does
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right how you doing
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cutie how you doing baby
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we up above where the llamas were so a
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couple different ones down
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there oh and this one I was showing a
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minute ago just reached his face up his
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neck up and he's chowing down on those
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leaves getting a little foliage little
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snackage the difference between
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llamas and alpacas right
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there that's a
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llama Or now that's an
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alpaca and that that is a
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fly probably a biting fly not here and
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there's there's one a non-biting fly
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there's a fly right there too just an
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annoying fly just an annoying fly
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speaking of flies this little section
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through here is a Cavalcade of flies are
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we just walk through an onslaught of
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flies they're all just congregating
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right in here I always feel bad for
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vultures and Eels cuz I feel like
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whenever they're shown in movies and
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cartoons they're always evil but I
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wonder if there's any nice vultures
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wonder if there's any kind eels okay I
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was just
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informed Uncle told me
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that the vulture is the national bird
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here they are revered here just like a
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bald eagle in the
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US I did not know
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that did you know that
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goat hey goat hey he Buton hook
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me yeah never heard that Sandler bit
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getting a little food there llama
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you eating you chowing in yeah how's it
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going this is awesome look at you right
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there haming it up for the camera
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chowing down for everyone that's
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watching you you making eye
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contact what's your name
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llama all right you're not an alpaca
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though I know that now I've learned by
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taking road trips across Route 66 up
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into ostrich Farms ostriches are very
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dangerous like when you try to feed an
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ostrich they will peck the living you
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know what out of you they will just
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they'll go for the Gusto trying to Peck
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you I don't know if they're the same in
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Ecuador but in the USA ostriches that
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are kept on Route
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66 they will Nestle Down onto your skin
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with their beaks all right again very
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very slick very very you can see little
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shoe prints there people who've like
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slipped down the side I'm really loving
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Vibe of this place I mean look at this
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it doesn't really get much better than
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this look at this oh there's some
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pigs way over
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Texas Little Pigs okay I like this look
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up top here on the roof that's little a
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little bit of
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theming okay A little bit of theming on
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point try to see this
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bear so walking around over there see
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him yeah look at him there look at
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him yes strike a
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pose come on
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V let your body move to the
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music you got oh yeah going back the
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other way I got camera shy all right
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it's fine you didn't like the Madonna
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reference I get it it looks as if we're
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going to walk back through this little
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bamboo entry point here and we're going
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to come over and see the pigs up
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yes oh yeah oh my goodness there's a
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mess load of them look at them just
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having a grand old time in the
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mud happier than a pig in s you know
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what the saying is slap that's the
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that's what I meant they run wild in
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Texas I oh yeah I've heard it's a real
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problem mhm sometimes even in Florida
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when I worked at the feed store people
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would come in and buy the the stuff to
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keep the pigs from rooting up their
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ground what are you talking about I
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remember in the park there and the a
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celebration you were talking about pigs
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in the park back yeah I've never seen
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any well no but they had a sign
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something mention yeah maybe I've seen
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I've seen deer a lot of deer
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mhm I'd like to see one of these cute
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pigs I'm going to take one back on the
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plane with me oh yeah I love that a
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little I to buy it I have to buy it a
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seat though I get no carry on how things
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I don't know how things work
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internationally when you try to take a
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pig and have a pig sitting next to you
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but domestically in the US they frown
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upon you bringing a a pig on on board a
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snit with
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a maybe if I took maybe he washed it off
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not much you say you're your emotional
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support Pig emotional support Pig yeah I
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like that oh we got the solo Pig over
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here this is the this is the bad
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pig you're by
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yourself that would be me if I was a pig
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like put me by myself in my own little
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thing keep me away from
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everyone coming over here see this pig
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identifies with me he knows that me and
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him are hey Kindred Spirits what's going
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on piggy piggy huh what's going on I
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want some food want some food yeah
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what's your story
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pig say my stories I want to get out of
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here yeah this is this should be the one
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I take on the plan there you go this is
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I'm going to ask I'm going to ask up
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front if I could buy this pig this is
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your spirit animal right here
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yep yeah piggy the woo we're going to
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walk through this log
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here going to stroll past piggy the
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woo we're going to walk through this log
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oh this is
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cool I also like the fact that really no
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one is here there's like one other group
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of like a two people that we've seen
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other than the workers so you have no
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problem with experience everything all
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by yourself through here sometimes when
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you go to other touristic places you're
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really kind of trying to find a spot to
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even get a view there's no issues here I
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mean look at this there's no one else
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walking through this very unique log
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walk way this is showing how some are
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rescued and some are not from fires from
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wildfires some will escape and many will
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not and this is what this little section
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over here symbolizes
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Fallen you got a food court up here a
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couple other items for heading back down
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the
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hill here at the food court is a volcano
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couple got a little staircase there
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going up the side of the brush you can
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go up there see the volcano what was it
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volcanoes in Ecuador if I remember the
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the sign on the way in here's a
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something I always love to see different
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distances to
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places I'm obviously not familiar with
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the terrain of ecor so w these places
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I'm not sure of but here are some of the
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kilometers they don't use mileage here
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they use
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kilometers see what they got over at the
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snack bar all right I've been on a
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lollipop kick lately doing it for telly
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salala so I think I'm going to get
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myself hello I'm going to get a lollipop
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thank you just one Uno oh there's a fish
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pond down here look at this oh these are
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really beautiful
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fish wow look at these
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fish they are beautiful look at all the
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different
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colors and then over here is a larger
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one that's just off by his own over in
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his own little
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section I love look at these fish look
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at this beautiful light blue one right
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I'm going to name that light blue one
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right there
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Telly and then this one right here this
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little one syalis all right now we're
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walking through an another swirly bamboo
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area this cool look at
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this the birds are whistling they're
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doing the cat call whistle
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oh look at this look at this archaic
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awesome way to open the door it's like
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something out of Swiss Family
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Robinson look at that the door closes
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and that goes down sure Clos I'm easily
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excited oh I got to close this door yeah
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the bir get out oh wait how's that close
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oh hold on second it's stuck on
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something yeah stuck on
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top I forgot about the
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okay there we go
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interesting we don't have stuff like
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that back in the States you got to see
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your to oh thank
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you thank you so much give me that
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whistle give me some conf little
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confidence making me feel good thank
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you you see the two cans
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this is a really cool little area look
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at this we just walking through with the
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birds I
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know you looking at my
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lollipop hey cuties oh my gosh this is
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so magical look at
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this you are all so
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magical I see I'm like a tractor beam
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I'm being pulled in I'm being pulled
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into to this gentleman over
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here I don't know if his name is Sam
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wasn't the two can was it two can Sam
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two can
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Sam look at this there's a twocan right
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there yes I have been looking for you
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since
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bise yep
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you there you are right there it's
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interesting that there's a twocan Named
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Sam I'm not saying your name is Sam but
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there's also a yosity
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Sam I wonder if they ever did a any kind
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of animation of yuse and Toucan Sam the
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Sams scratching yourself tan at the
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onlookers that walk through here and
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probably gets really annoyed that anyone
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would call him Sam so oh show it off the
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Muddy oh my goodness look at this yeah
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this looks like that sloth the pigs are
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walking around in all right we're going
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to we're going to become pigs right now
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Jungle the nether region the nether
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region the
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raccoons sticking his tongue out a
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raccoon all right not a raccoon similar
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to a raccoon a mapacha mapache
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family definitely seeing a lot of
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different animals I've never seen
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before oh hello
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aache don't call you a
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raccoon it's kind of like rocket from
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Guardians I am not a
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raccoon that was a bad my hands don't
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scan crocodile right there right there
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see them yeah just chilling out so you
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know how you tell the difference in a
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crocodile and an alligator it's the nose
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it's a snout Florida's got a lot of
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gators not a lot of crocodiles I've been
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to Australia to see the crocod or the
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Alligators or the crocodiles the big
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ones yeah big Che noses they're uh
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they'll chase you man oh yeah they're
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fast too and I'm mess with crocodiles I
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don't mess with gators either one right
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there oh he's waving at
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you he was waving at you and waving at
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me too he's waving at both of us w w hey
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baby okay cool all the way over here in
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that's right cool that's
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right you're heading towards the water
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you to show us all show us show us your
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stuff huh
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what you doing buddy oh look at you you
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are not camera
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shy you you probably want to like rip my
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face off probably the reality of it but
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maybe you're nice maybe you want to give
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me a little kiss I'm not going to find
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be that's woud then you went on look at
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this spider web and its natural
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habitat there's a spider right there
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here you hear every little Nuance of all
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animals and the creakiness of the
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doors I love
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it oh it's humid in here woo it's hot in
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you wow yeah it's like a greenhouse it's
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like a greenhouse uh
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environment them down
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there one of them with their mouth open
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right there the other one over there
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with his mouth closed
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Snappers Jewel of the Nile quot oh
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actually no rancing the stone rancing
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the stone
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quote they get the quotes from both of
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those classes
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Snappers hey Ira hey Ira the kids here
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with the
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broad wait a second oh
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oh hi there
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there there's a couple of them there's
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another tcan right here amongst the
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crocodiles and
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alligators another one up there sloth oh
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a
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sloth oh you're
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beautiful you're
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beautiful two weeks four weeks
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yeah where's the sloth oh right there
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yeah look at the
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sloth is that his face yeah that is his
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chilling hey
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sloth hi
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there where are you at
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snakes where are you at
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snakes oh right there right there right
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there's a right there's a guy
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look at it right
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there another one right
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here it's a
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boa and stay there
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again they don't want you using any
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flash
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photography because you'll startle the
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animals wow there's a lot of freaking
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snakes in
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oh right down there that's a big
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one oh
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man saw a snake that size in the
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wild I would
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definitely be losing my
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mind I got to say this zoo is very
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expansive they have a lot of
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animals this place is like no joke you
30:32
could be here for a long time just goes
30:35
on and on and
30:55
Viper vipers snipers conmen Indian agans
30:55
Mexican Bandits MERS bug gers
30:58
Bushwhackers hor
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thieves how often do you go through a
31:17
zoo with a series of pulleys to open the
31:20
doors the creaky Ambiance hundreds of
31:25
snakes and a piece of heavy machine oh
31:28
and a monkey going over the top of the
31:31
piece of heavy
31:33
machinery this is something you don't
31:35
see at your average tourist attraction
31:37
there are monkeys climbing up and
31:41
down the sides and across the rooftops
31:45
are we supposed to walk that
31:53
way monkeys are going above did we
31:53
already go in here no we haven't been in
31:55
here no
32:03
oh my gosh it's
32:03
terrifying into the
32:23
darkness it's a turtle snapping turtle
32:23
right down
32:25
here this is the turtle enclosure
32:33
this place just goes on and on and
32:33
on it's a pretty good size tortoise
32:36
tortoise or turtle shell I know
32:38
sometimes when they're like bigger than
32:40
a normal Turtle they call them
32:42
tortoises what do they call Tuda Tortuga
32:45
like some tree frog be a section for
32:47
tree frogs Centro the conservation D
32:53
amphibius my apologies for not being
32:55
able to pronounce or annunciate a lot of
32:58
these words
33:09
but it's also probably going to be a
33:09
long video but I want to show the
33:11
Ambiance and noises and organic Vibes of
33:14
this
33:27
place you want now now that I'm not over
33:27
there we we're going to them the monkey
33:29
we're going to get over to I just asked
33:31
a young lady about that she said there a
33:32
little further down look there's one
33:33
right there there's one right there and
33:36
the this little tunnel of fun been doing
33:39
a lot of stuff here in Ecuador and
33:40
everything all the mission is usually
33:42
three four5 at most this was
33:44
$9 which is really nothing in comparison
33:47
to an attraction in the US you know if
33:49
you go to place like this in the US
33:51
probably like 30
33:52
bucks I thought for $9 for here it's
33:55
pricey but you can spend hours in this
33:58
place we've been here a while here's
33:59
some of the some of the monkeys that are
34:02
going to be through here oh right there
34:03
right there how you
34:06
doing oh he's cover up he's look look at
34:10
you look like look at that man that's so
34:14
cool just is that an apple it looks like
34:16
it yeah yeah she got those
34:18
teeth you are not shy at all see a
34:22
shadow one of your friends coming in hot
34:25
look at you
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right
34:30
there wow look at
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that that's amazing no no no fear at
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all wow that's so
34:39
cool not dead yet I'll come back you are
34:43
not
34:45
shy man that's awesome just chowing down
34:48
on an Apple monkey you happy you happy
34:50
eating an apple y maybe it's an or I
34:54
can't tell if it's an apple or an orange
34:58
the other one showed up
35:00
now you going to get you a mango or an
35:02
apple or
35:03
something looking around for That Sweet
35:06
Juicy Fruit not the gum I know not the
35:09
gum I'm talking about actual real real
35:11
fruit real fruit a move you it's got a
35:14
taste that goes right I'm making a lot
35:16
of Pop Culture references
35:18
today look at this they're they know
35:21
we're here
35:22
now look up here there he is oh yeah hey
35:25
baby man this is the coolest freaking
35:28
thing oh
35:29
yeah climb up there at oh my goodness
35:33
what are you
35:34
doing what are you doing Monkey High
35:38
he's
35:40
dancing look at this I'm pulling on this
35:42
I'm in heaven right now watching this
35:44
this is
35:45
amazing oh my gosh this is the coolest
35:48
freaking
35:54
thing I'm literally in South America
35:54
watching monkeys having a good time
36:02
this it's a tunnel of recyclable
36:05
material and I would guess they create
36:08
this just to draw attention to littering
36:11
to have people put their stuff in the
36:13
trash can because right here yeah so
36:17
don't throw items like that in the sea I
36:20
got to walk through this bad boy it's
36:22
almost like the rainbow tunnel at Epcot
36:24
except it's made out of plastic bottles
36:26
I just hit my hat on top of the roof
36:27
plastic
36:28
bottle oh my gosh I'm too tall for
36:36
this oh yeah this is all showing
36:36
littering drawing attention to not
36:45
littering what was
36:45
that
36:55
squishiness definitely one of the most
36:55
unique and interesting and awesome zoos
36:58
I've ever been to and I've been to a
37:19
muddy also one thing I like about this
37:19
place it's not a maze it's like a labate
37:21
so there's really no wrong way to go as
37:24
long as you continue going straight you
37:25
will not get lost so some places you got
37:28
to like go to one spot take a left take
37:30
a right go back this you just continue
37:33
following the path like a labyrinth the
37:34
terrain is very Rocky though very muddy
37:37
and the elevation is no joke you're not
37:41
used to it definitely get winded a lot
37:43
quicker here in this 12,000 foot
37:47
elevation give or take here's the
37:49
footprints of the little different
37:50
monkeys
38:00
they even have a mirror there you can
38:00
put your
38:00
own humano homo
38:03
sapian oh
38:05
hi what you
38:07
doing this has to be the family of the
38:10
an an
38:18
eater chowing down on some
38:18
mud or something that's inside the mug
38:21
or
38:23
mud I also like how the animals come out
38:26
right up to when you go to
38:28
a lot of more touristy places the states
38:30
there so many people the animals usually
38:32
ignore
38:33
everyone here they're so
38:36
friendly I want to say
38:44
hello scratching his
38:46
heiney got his Hy up against the tree
38:49
there scratching the heiney oh coming up
38:51
coming up
38:53
monkey coming up the side of the little
38:56
Hill here this monkey yeah
38:59
hello coming up to say hi Monkey yep
39:03
come on up come on up oh you're the one
39:05
that was scratching your little
39:12
behind get the get that scratch on there
39:12
we go look at
39:14
that what is happening right now this is
39:16
reality oh there's another one right
39:17
above
39:24
me oh look at this little
39:24
tunnels Tunnels for the monkeys that is
39:26
amazing
39:31
there's a mess load of
39:31
them well there's three of them but I
39:33
could classify that as a mess load oh
39:36
there's another look at that look over
39:37
there there's one climbing the tree way
39:38
up there look at that he's dangling from
39:41
the tree they're showing
39:45
off might not might be hard to see it on
39:47
camera he's right there in the middle of
39:48
the screen and then there's this guy not
39:50
dangling from the tree you just wants to
39:51
take the the
39:58
tunnels unbelievably
39:58
awesome this might be the longest video
40:01
ever ocelotes is that what these are
40:03
called ocelotes I think that's it's like
40:05
a version of a leper or leopard not a
40:08
leopard a leopard there another one
40:11
right over
40:22
there oh
40:22
yeah there he is right up there very
40:25
fast very fast fast will also say how
40:29
this I was saying this is you start at
40:31
Point a you go you end at the very point
40:34
B and you just what
40:43
is so look problem with that if you've
40:43
come here is once you're in it you have
40:46
to be in it to win it you can't get a
40:48
third of the way through and then cut
40:50
down a different Pathway to
40:52
leave it it all is one way a very
40:55
lengthy up the mountain down the
40:59
mountain one way so once you start
41:02
you're kind of in
41:04
it but you can't get lost not it w get
41:07
lost in
41:20
here up shrunken head shrunken head
41:20
there's a shrunken head
41:39
path you can definitely twist an ankle
41:39
pretty
41:45
easily oh there's still going to be some
41:45
African lions and jaguars a headstone
41:49
Andor cross right
41:56
here carvings in that rock formation you
41:56
see them
41:59
yeah way up there yes there he is right
42:04
up there resting on that Branch
42:06
there hi take it a na it's like opened
42:10
his eyes and was looking right at
42:19
me nice little spot for a
42:19
nap there's another animal I've never
42:21
seen before actually a couple of them up
42:23
top but then there's one right here kind
42:26
of rooting around in the
42:27
dirt right
42:30
there okay we're getting some
42:32
tortoises oh yeah
42:35
hi hey
42:50
sweetie how are you you eating a little
42:50
foliage there now I have seen tortoises
42:53
like this before Gator Land I fed them
42:55
lettuce uhuh
43:12
amazing all right I'll leave you be
43:12
we're going to go back inside another
43:13
little
43:14
door see you buddy
43:32
now it's interesting that these are
43:32
inside this greenhouse which is way
43:35
warmer and way more humid evidently
43:37
these tortoises or Tortugas need a
43:41
environment to survive a warmer
43:45
climate than the one we just spoke to
43:47
outside
43:50
listen it's a freaking tiger
44:17
lion okay those are lions right
44:17
there I can hear
44:35
wow they see us down
44:35
here going to
44:50
Roar there's definitely another one over
44:50
there roaring
44:52
growling on the other side of that
44:55
fence be a amazing if they walk down
44:58
here it looks like the exit is straight
45:25
uphill this is unbelievable look at this
45:25
they're right here
46:01
then you got another one down
46:01
there staring right at
46:19
jungle this is one of the coolest things
46:19
ever just up here on the top of the hill
46:21
top of a mountain standing a few feet
46:24
from a lion right there just right there
46:27
just chilling right there in the shade I
46:29
don't blame
46:30
him just chilling right there in the
46:32
shade
46:33
huh
46:35
yep that's that's exactly where I'd be I
46:37
don't want to be in the sun either get
46:40
that shade on it's King of the
46:43
Hill King of the mountain you're way up
46:48
lion all right
46:50
lion take care
47:07
oh
47:07
yeah the
47:17
guys you're not roaming this where the
47:17
Buffalo don't roam they Buffalo just
47:19
sitting this is one of the same trees
47:21
that have at Animal Kingdom when you're
47:22
doing the
47:23
Safari this is an artistic rendering
47:27
and you got a
47:28
little there a food stand up here that's
47:31
not open okay this is not a food stand
47:32
it is another exhibit that you have to
47:35
go
47:52
through oh yeah another bird enclosure
47:52
this place is never ending
48:07
I came back over here cuz they were
48:07
making quite a bit of Racket when I was
48:09
over there looking at the
48:10
parakeet lot of
48:13
noises I thought maybe I come back over
48:15
here and see what they were yelling
48:17
about but now they're laying back down
48:20
again
48:31
on the way out the exit go back down the
48:31
mountain they have the Rhinos here and
48:35
just giving awareness to how poachers
48:38
and becoming
48:49
extinct oh ducks and Goose
48:49
geese oh a bunch of them down there I
48:54
know yeah I've had a run in with the
48:56
Goose before didn't end well for me so
48:59
I'm glad keeping my distance here this
49:02
right here is a protective wooden fence
49:04
that will stop you
49:05
from nipping at my ankles probably not
49:09
probably won't stop anything yeah nice
49:10
view up here from this little
49:13
Viewpoint got the chicken wire just in
49:16
case any chickens wanted to try to get
49:18
to us up here we would be shielded by
49:21
this chicken wire looking out on the
49:23
little actually I think this is supposed
49:25
to keep the Ducks and the geese out
49:26
that's what it
49:27
is and then if you look
49:30
out there
49:32
is quink
49:53
here some little chickens little
49:53
peacocks here if you go to Hollywood
49:56
Forever some they have tons of these
49:58
there that roam the
50:05
cemetery go over by C be de Mill's final
50:05
resting place and there might be a might
50:07
be one of these birds there to say hello
50:10
ready for its
50:11
closeup ready for its closeup Mr Dill I
50:13
am just throwing all kind of Pop Culture
50:15
references into today little bit of
50:16
everything here I got to say this place
50:18
is pretty dang
50:20
awesome I am impressed with how
50:22
expansive it
50:23
was it's next level took a long time to
50:26
walk through all this we were walking at
50:28
a pretty good
50:47
in we're still not out of here yet no
50:47
telling what else is going to be
50:48
bestowed upon our eyes
51:08
oh wow slow down gravity's catching up
51:08
and making me run down the side of this
51:20
thing oh we're back to where that one
51:20
place who were going the wrong way
51:22
was back to the Overlook we're almost
51:25
there get out of here is a project of
51:29
its own I mean this is just straight
51:31
down the
51:33
mountain going the right direction
51:35
anyway
52:19
steep I'm not an expert on hiking or
52:19
giving statistics on whether is a
52:21
difficult hike or an easy hike or a
52:23
simple hike or a mild hike or an extreme
52:26
hike but this is
52:28
not a mellow or mild hike experience I'd
52:32
put this not extreme but not an easy
52:36
hike we walked a lot did a lot of steps
52:39
a lot of elevation a lot of up and
52:41
downs more of a hike than it was a zoo
52:44
experience to be honest but the zoo part
52:47
was amazing just incredible how many
52:51
animals were in there I didn't see a
52:54
bath
52:55
though could have been in
52:58
there saw some
53:05
snakes saw some
53:05
crocodiles did not see a hammerhead
53:07
shark I don't think there's any sharks
53:09
here if you're ever in Ecuador winka and
53:12
you want to see a zoo and you are not
53:15
ready to hike extreme mountain hike I
53:21
would say this is probably not the place
53:22
for you but pretty awesome we looked out
53:25
there was a taxi that just dropped
53:26
people off and we're able to grab the
53:27
taxi without walking down the other side
53:29
the rest of the mountain this worked out
53:30
so dang good it's a couple minutes after
53:33
well it's uh let's say it's 112 let's
53:35
call it 115 3 hours it took us to walk
53:38
through there at a pretty quick walking
53:41
pace 3 hours all right made it back over
53:44
to the
53:45
neighborhood there was I guess a
53:47
landslide on one of the main roads took
53:50
about a half hour 45 minutes half hour
53:53
to 45 minutes just to go a couple miles
53:55
because a couple of the main roads are
53:57
closed down but made it back
54:02
over going to call it a day that was a
54:05
really awesome
54:10
experience never really been to a zoo
54:10
like that
54:12
before GL I checked it out saw some
54:14
animals I hadn't
54:19
seen that's going to do it for today
54:21
thanks for watching see you the next
54:23
video the
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Vlog is over