Auckland Zoo

realistic! How'd you do that? That wasn't me, Ellie! I think it was a real lion! Oh, look around.

I think we're at the Auckland Zoo.

Animal escape! Animal escape! Code 24, animal escape in the Africa exhibit.

Oh no, that zookeeper thinks we're escaped zoo animals.

That speedboat must have scared her off.

Yeah, she's swimming towards that island.

Go to Auckland Zoo.

We found Gin at the beach, but now she's swimming towards an island.

So it was my least favorite task.

I don't think we got banned as a family, but I know we got removed from the zoo, the Auckland Zoo.

When you say as a family, are you the parent? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Sorry.

Apparently silent giraffes.

Look, evidently Jerry knows giraffes better than the Auckland Zoo.

I think this morning's one, oh, last week was a porg, which was not an animal, technically, which threw a lot of people off.

It's from Star Wars.

Here's Ayla again.

We've been able to refine a captive rearing method which means we can collect some of the first clutches that are laid in the season and then take them into Auckland Zoo where they're hand reared for the first couple of weeks and then we take them out to a release pen and they kind of learn to fish and feed and be a tariti from there and then fledge off.

So then the pairs that we took the eggs from, they can relay and then they'll have their own clutch of chicks.

So we've doubled the productivity for those pairs.

A flower has bloomed in the garden of Auckland Zoo.

Only problem is you don't want to get too close because it smells bad.

So naturally, we have sent reporter Kieryn Morris down there to give it a big old sniff.

How bad does it smell?

Good morning.

Yeah, we're at Auckland Zoo, but not to check out the animals.

We're here to look at the cognac flowering plant.

This guy, it's a little stinky, I will admit.

I've done...

I've done workshops for like Auckland council where they had like Auckland zoo and travel Auckland, uh, the Auckland stadiums.

They had all these like Auckland art gallery, all these people who were just making content on their phone.

So even, even Auckland council, all this money they have, they're not hiring videographers to come in.

Yeah.

There's a porcupine at Auckland Zoo.

I take my son there quite often.

We've got a year pass.