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Jack does crazy things with wild animals

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to help protect and study them really
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crazy and maybe dangerous but Jack is a
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trained expert do not do what Jack does
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seriously approaching and handling wild
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animals can be dangerous really just
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don't do it I'm in Australia trying to
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get close to its most famous animal the
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kangaroo look at this so precious this
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is a little baby Joey agile wallaby
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Australia has lots of hopping animals
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the smaller ones are called Wallabies
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and the big ones are kangaroos but
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generally if you look like this people
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call you a kangaroo they hop around and
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that allows them to escape from
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predators including the dingoes and
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snakes Wallabies are marsupials meaning
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the babies feed and grow in their
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mother's pouch adult Wallabies can swim
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if they need to escape predators and
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they have very strong tails that they
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can use as a third leg for support at
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this age four and a half months usually
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it would be in a pouch of the mother the
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caring of a Gerry this size is 24 hours
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round-the-clock work that would include
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frequent feeding in the pouch of his
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mother he would be getting that over
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time
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but in this case I rescued the little
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guy from the side of a road without the
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protection of his mother's pouch he
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needs immediate care so I'm on my way to
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a kangaroo rescue center called Nina's
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art yeah good morning hi I'm Jack how
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can I help ya yeah I found a little Joey
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on the side of a road little baby oh
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thank you yes a little edge oh so I was
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a bit worried that actually he was a bit
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hotter ste maybe been there the whole
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night does he look okay probably being
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there a while because he's really hungry
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see he's chewing on the pouch and it's
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really really hungry so we'll go over
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and get him warm you got a hospital here
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yeah and it comes in handy I can tell
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you
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I'm gonna take them out of your snake
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bag I'm gonna put in this little blanket
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here this move funny rug I'm gonna wrap
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him up
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I can't generate heat until he gets here
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I pad if you'll just hold him until I
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make some milk for him oh come wait to
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feed him this should be fine
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hey he's trying to drink shall we
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sometimes it takes him three days to
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take the nipple oh there he goes I've
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never fed a baby human but now this is
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my first time feeding a kangaroo here's
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kind of fitting
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thanos it that's great
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did a wonderful thing I feel very
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attached to miss Jerry now we may have
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to call him Jack yeah oh I love it if
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you didn't call him Jack Nina has
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successfully rehabbed countless Jerry's
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over the years and it's amazing that my
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little jury has the chances of survival
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in a year's time my jury are be in the
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same position these juries are every
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year old and ready for release back into
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the wild
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now there's another young jury that is
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ready to take that step first we have to
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catch it around so this is the best way
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of actually handling a kangaroo their
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tails extremely strong their legs would
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break if I was holding their legs so
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that's actually how you catch a kangaroo
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by the tail okay well that's amazing
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feeling just releasing an animal into
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the wild but actually it's been safe
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this is just incredible she didn't know
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rush to leave the safety of Nina's Ark I
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guess I understand that but she'll
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eventually make her way into the bush
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we're gonna be monitoring that kangaroo
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over the next eight days seeing how this
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jury comes back here into the safe haven
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and goes back into the wild these really
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are her first hops of freedom and I
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can't wait for my Joey to end up in the
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same position as her
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look at him there okay I think that's it
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he's just waving goodbye goodbye join me
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again to see more of Australia's most
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incredible animals
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