Hunter Valley Wildlife Park has launched a new giraffe encounter and tour just in time for the school holidays. Video by Chloe Coleman
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00:00 (people chatting)
00:02 - Alrighty, well thank you so much everyone
00:04 for having me for the last half hour.
00:07 So, meerkats have this thing in their system
00:14 where they innately know who is family and who is not.
00:16 So we will not be having any more children,
00:19 we will not be having any more babies.
00:20 So these guys are loving just living out their life.
00:24 I just gave them some fly pupae, tasty snack.
00:27 (birds chirping)
00:30 Three headsile, so in their tail
00:49 it's actually used as another arm.
00:51 So it has full grip and it's able to grab and swing
00:54 and be used just as our hand would.
00:56 But unlike us, they actually don't have an opposable thumb.
01:00 Yeah, so she's showing us her prehensile.
01:04 She also knows when she can hear the jingling keys,
01:07 what that means.
01:08 So Margie is a very playful character.
01:13 You can often see Margie in Phoenix
01:15 with their large balls, kicking it around,
01:17 playing soccer and causing absolute havoc.