London Zoo

Half-assed shit sometimes.

They filmed it at the London Zoo.

This is what David Naughton said about it.

As for running naked around London Zoo, in the scene where I'm in the wolf cage, the only reassurance I had was that the wolves had just been fed.

But the handler still said there were to be no loud noises or fast moves.

Okay, I said hopefully.

So when he got the stuffed bear, he called him Winnie the Pooh.

Winnie the Pooh was the name of the bear, the actual real bear at the London Zoo.

Have you never seen, there's a movie called Finding Christopher Robin about the story of how the stories came to be written.

Such a good movie.

The remaining wild population survives in two pools in the Attua Hills Forest Reserve in Ghana, which is under threat from mining operations.

So last year, 20 adult frogs were taken to London Zoo for an emergency breeding programme.

Now, 15 frogs have hatched.

The hope is that conservationists in Ghana will be able to replicate this success with a view to establishing a sustainable population there.

It's also worth mentioning, though, that they can take a long time to start laying.

So there was one individual actually at the London Zoo that didn't lay her first egg until she was 40 years old.

Oh, wow.

So getting pretty far on then, yeah.

I don't know if this is worth telling Rob on the pod, but I thought it was pretty interesting.

So we went down to London Zoo.

for the day because i was a massive arachnophobe like bad with spiders and i was like well i want to do something about it i don't want to pass it on to the kids like like luke has not asked at all but louis is scared of them because he sees me funny about with them and uh so i went on this thing it's called the friendly spider program So you go and you meet, I don't know, Michaela Strachan equivalent at London Zoo, who gives you a talk about how great spiders are and how they're proper sound and you need them around your house.

And then you meet this proper, eccentric-looking hypnotherapist.

So I had to miss the borough game for this.

I can't believe that blues.

What have you done? But anyway, did this hypnotherapy.

that was nuts absolutely nuts right it felt like five minutes we were down like 20 25 minutes and when i got brought out of it it wasn't like you clap and i start clucking like a chicken or anything like that it was like like paul mckenna but you were kind of conscious but then uh like it was really weird it was like you were like an out-of-body experience brought me out of it and i couldn't stand up and my legs i was all like sore and like really achy and tired anyway then they were like right i'm gonna go and look at some spiders so i went over to this like house at the london zoo it's called like the tiny giants house and they've got this um this walkthrough with these giant orb spiders from thailand or something and i couldn't i knew what was coming at the end of the hypnotherapy and everything and we'd been around the zoo and i just weren't myself anyway walk for it and i was absolutely fine it's mad right and then i had to go and like catch this giant house spider in a cup with a piece of card underneath it and then move it to somewhere else i couldn't have done that before either i was really bad with them and i just did it fine got my little certificate and then uh i had to and then they like gave me this um if you wanted to it's like a bonus you could hold a tarantula There was no fucking way on earth I was going to do that.