Private Tour of California's Craziest Backyard Animal Rescue

The World of E-xotic Pets
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I am surrounded by the worst pets you could ever possibly own, and today I'm going to
be showing you why.
I am at Animal Tracks, where every single creature here has been turned over, whether
they're from the music industry, the film industry, or just from private collections.
And today, I'm meeting some of their rescues, learning about their pasts, and experiencing
some never-before-seen enrichment techniques, starting with an animal we've all wanted
at some point, but makes a horrible pet.
Whoa!
They're actually coming.
There's so many colors.
Let's go see them.
Oh, look at you.
You're a big boy.
So, who's this?
So, this is Raider.
Raider was bred to be someone's pet.
He's 70% arctic wolf, 30% German shepherd.
70% wolf?
He's licking my face.
That's kind of scary.
Oh, and he got my hat.
He loves hats.
So, he is a high-content wolf dog.
He is, yeah.
So, that means he's 70% wolf and 30% dog.
And he's out here with a whole pack, right?
Of all different wolf dogs.
So, how did you socialize them?
They all come from different backgrounds, I presume.
How did you get them so that they weren't fighting, they weren't mating too much, all
of these various things?
It was serendipitous.
So, we have a female with a half-tail.
She's going to stay away.
She's my alpha.
This is her daughter.
She was being bred in an apartment in Los Angeles, and her babies were being sold to
people.
Oh, you're joking.
No.
So, they got in trouble.
They wound up in jail.
We'd go and get them.
We'd help the local shelters.
Ray was on a chain in Arkansas.
Somebody bought him as a pet, and he was killing chickens.
Oh, wow.
So, he wound up on a chain.
He was a young man.
And because Mama here was a good mama, she took him in as a pup.
How likely am I to be in trouble right now?
Not at all.
Okay, that's good.
Because I like dogs, and I like puppies, but there might be some leftover breakfast in
my beard.
Well, we work as a family, and like with any family, when your family says, this guy's
okay, the kids go, okay.
Fair enough.
But if you came in here without us, then it would be stranger danger.
I'd be ripped to shreds.
I wouldn't know about ripped to shreds, but definitely scrutinized.
Interesting.
Is it because these guys, as wolf dogs, have that dog in them that we can sit in here,
or is it because wolves are really not as bad as we think they are?
Well, it's interesting you say that.
It comes down to the amygdala in your hippocampus.
They either get the wolf or the dog.
I see.
So, the yellow one that looks like a German Shepherd, he will eat a stranger.
Right now, like he would just go for it.
If we left and you were in here by yourself, he would come for you.
You're kidding.
No.
And he looks so cute.
I kind of want to kiss him on the nose.
And that's why they wind up in shelters.
Now, this guy here, who's our highest content, he got the amygdala of a dog.
And it's really a flip of a coin.
Well, you have not just wolf dogs, but an amazing array of rescued animals here.
Can we go meet a few more?
We sure can.
This tour only gets wilder and weirder from here.
She has testicles.
I'm sorry, what?
She has testicles.
But before I get to witness an animal behavior I've never seen before, Stacy has something special to show me.
Forrest, I have a surprise.
Okay.
Yeah, I just got something really scary from North Africa in the back.
There's an animal in there?
Yeah.
What do you think it is?
From North Africa?
Yeah.
Wait.
Oh, it's a hedgehog.
Oh, my God.
Those are not hedgehogs.
Well, Kevin was found in a trash can.
No way.
Yeah.
Where?
Downtown LA.
Yeah, of course.
So when people don't know what to do with these animals and then nobody will take it, that's where they wind up.
Let me hold him.
I know he's going to spite me.
Yeah, it's okay.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Owie.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to be bleeding.
Oh, look at that.
How cute is that?
Look at that little fuzz ball.
So this is their defense mechanism, right?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
I like how we haven't even addressed the porcupine in the room yet, but we'll get there in a second.
Hedgehogs only became illegal in California, what, 20 years ago, something like that, 10 years ago?
So there was probably a bunch of hedgehogs in California.
Yeah.
And you can probably rock up to a pet store in Arizona and buy one and drive it here.
Yep.
And nobody's going to check.
The bad part is if you put them on pine shavings, they're susceptible to the mites that live in the pine shavings.
So they bring these singing hedgehogs, and they're actually crying because they're so covered in mites.
Oh, you're kidding.
Oh, that's really sad.
Now, these are African porcupines.
Yes.
Yeah, so they're a little bit larger than their Indian cousins.
They have a hollow quill.
Well, believe it or not, this is the Indian cousin, and this is the African crested here.
Oh, really?
This is an Indian?
Uh-huh.
Oh, they're so similar in size.
But he is bigger.
Yes, he is.
Okay, gotcha.
So tell me.
See, I couldn't even identify that by looking at it.
So tell me about it.
Well, February is the month of love you weary here at Animal Tracks, and this is our love story.
So this young man who looks like he's wearing contacts, he has people eyes,
and he's got this beautiful crest.
Uh-huh.
His parents died and left him alone.
He's a rodent.
He's very intelligent.
Okay.
He went through a Great Depression.
Right.
We started calling around.
This young lady was living all by herself in Texas.
She came out, and it has been a love affair since the day they met.
How do you end up with a porcupine?
So these guys are year-round breeders, and they're collectors.
So people who collect animals or animal shows.
This is a very intelligent animal.
Yes.
They have tool use, and so they're big in the movie industry.
They're big in education.
And so there's lots of people that breed them, and they breed prolifically because they're rodents.
I don't know if you've ever seen a breeding.
It's quite impressive.
I honestly can't even fathom it.
How do they breed?
So the female has to completely lift her tail out of the way,
and he has about a 7- or 8-inch prehensiled penis.
Respect.
Man, imagine if that was your life.
You just had to deal with that coming out your backside all day long.
All right.
Well, they say good day.
So bye, you guys.
All right.
So next up here at Animal Tracks, I've been told that somebody is going to play basketball,
but I haven't been told who.
So Josh is going to bring in somebody.
Here he comes right now with a toad of an armadillo.
Hello, buddy.
Who's this, Josh?
Wow.
This is Frank the Tank.
Frank the Tank.
He's knocking cameras over, and he's going for it.
Is he playing basketball, or is he trying to hump the ball, Josh?
It's a little bit of both.
I think he's trying to protect himself, and then maybe sometimes they're his girlfriend.
So I've never seen an armadillo want to play with a ball pit before.
Does he bite?
Yes, he can absolutely bite.
Even though his teeth are blunt and short, they still are pretty tough.
I'm sure, right?
What's that?
What's this?
Oh, yeah.
Look at you, cheeky boy.
What's that?
So what happens if I put that up there?
Yeah, get it.
All right.
There's some moisture on that ball.
Is that what I think it is?
It very well could be, yes.
Nice.
Now, they have terrible eyesight, right?
Yes.
So he is relying on the movement and the vibration, the way they would dig up bugs and things
in the ground to find the balls and play with them?
Yes, basically.
I mean, he can also smell two feet underground for the grubs and worms and stuff that he's
looking for.
They can smell two feet underground?
No way.
They have special screens in their nose.
It's pretty impressive stuff.
Is that true?
Yeah.
Do you have any mealworms here?
We do.
All right, let's see.
So mealworms are going in the hole right here.
Those super worms, even better.
That's a real reward.
Cover those up.
At first, Frank was too distracted by the little game he's created.
But Josh wasn't lying.
His amazing sense of smell did actually kick in.
Oh, he's totally locked on.
Look at that.
He knows.
Oh, there we go.
He found them.
Look.
There we go.
Well, it did work.
He can smell through the dirt.
You're not making it up.
That's crazy.
Imagine being able to smell through dirt.
All right, buddy.
Well, you get to play the rest of your basketball here.
I'll give you this to go back to fighting and humping and slam dunking, and we're going
to go meet some more animals.
Stacey has the team setting up what they like to call a monkey party, and I've got no idea
what that entails.
So while they're setting up, I get to meet two unbelievably weird, unique animals.
I don't know what's happening right now.
This is the crab-eating macaque, and you're going to want to be over here for us.
This is another one that-
This is another crab-eating macaque.
So she'll tear your head right open, and she has testicles.
Pseudotesticles.
I'm sorry, what?
Yeah.
She has testicles.
She has a birth canal.
Very progressive of her.
She has pseudogonads.
Okay.
And they think she's an XYY chromosome crab-eating macaque, and what the average person doesn't
know is 70% of wild macaques carry herpes B. Which can be fatal.
Yeah.
So she was brought by a family who had lost a child recently, and they thought a monkey
would be something they could enjoy.
Okay.
And they were trying to dog crate train her at a couple of months old.
Yeah, so that didn't go well.
She was biting and scratching, and so she was given to us.
She'll rip me to shreds, huh?
She will, yeah.
I see her nuts there.
What's that?
What?
I don't even know.
I don't even know how to say that.
I see her nuts.
There's a small population of females in northern Thailand that the females have pseudogonads,
and it makes them sterile, so it doesn't help their species.
Okay.
Oh, look, look, look.
There you go.
Get a look at the-
She goes, don't look at my gonads.
Yeah.
I get it.
I mean-
You got a nice sack, though.
That's weird.
This is all weird.
It's like I'm standing in Aguadulce, California, with a crab-eating macaque that's a female
with nuts.
I mean, it's just like all of that sentence.
Nobody's ever said that sentence before, ever.
And before the monkey party, Stacy introduced me to the cutest pair of rescued ferrets.
So these guys are great.
They're only not allowed in California, D.C., Hawaii, and Manhattan.
Because those are all states they can survive over winter.
And then we have black-footed ferrets in California, which-
And they eat our ground birds.
Oh, yeah.
They can't do a sit-up, but they can hula.
Really good.
I kind of want a ferret.
Can I have one?
Well, they are domesticated, so if you don't live in those four places we talked about,
you can have one.
They live in a tiny house, and this is an animal that should be in a prairie dog town.
Yeah.
So they live a very restricted life.
And they smell bad.
They do.
They don't smell nice.
And they'll hide your keys.
You'll never find your keys again.
They'll hide your keys?
They'll hide your keys.
That's so funny.
Like, you would think that's not a live animal.
Like, this is hilarious.
It's a slinky.
It's a slinky!
It's a slinky dog.
I just want to walk around the rest of the day like this.
I'm just going to be like, hey, here comes my pocket weasel.
Yeah, I feel like it's animal abuse, but he kind of loves it.
He doesn't seem to mind at all.
No.
I don't think I've touched a ferret in, like, ten years.
Because you don't see them because we live in California, and I don't-
Like, they just don't really think about it.
We see them all the time, because people buy them in Vegas.
They've had too much to drink, and then they put them in the shelters, the shelters.
Because you can, like, buy them at, like, Petco in Vegas, huh?
I have ten of them right now.
You have ten ferrets?
Do they all have this disposition?
No.
Some of them, they turn them in when they're sick, and so we help them get over the Rainbow Bridge,
but these two are very healthy.
I mean, this just doesn't get old.
Like, I could do this all day long.
But as much as it pains me to move on, it's time for a monkey party.
All right, so we get a bunch of orphan monkeys that show up from all different walks of life,
and they like pheromones.
So that is the secret to these monkeys.
You'll notice right now they're ignoring us, but they're conducting business.
And when he feels comfortable, they're watching you, smelling you, seeing what you're about, look at him.
So when he looks at you for us, I want you to lip smack.
Like that.
He's ignoring you right now.
So you just said you're a friend.
Okay.
So smiling, bad.
So that's capuchin for a friend.
Getting small, bad.
Yep.
Laughing, bad.
Uh-huh.
And so as humans, everything we do, it's so similar, it's intriguing, it's so different, it's dangerous.
Squirrel monkey just joined us.
So he's showing you his boy parts.
Lucas, our intact male.
So the very first thing they do to a boy monkey, you'll notice these boys are the same size as girls.
That is not correct.
They should be much larger.
Because they were castrated?
They were castrated, and he's had his teeth removed from biting a human.
Oh, you bad boy.
They think when you remove their teeth, that will stop biting.
It makes it worse.
Could you imagine if we took your gonads and your teeth?
No, not really.
Would you be happier with life?
No, definitely not.
I'd probably be much more frustrated.
And that's how they are too.
Sure.
There is no benefit for the animal to become a pet in captivity.
Luke Skywalker came from the Playboy Mansion.
Lucky day for Luke Skywalker.
Hugh Hefner is not going to take your gonads or your teeth.
So he is our 100% masculine monkey here at Animal Tracks.
Oh, monkey fight.
What's happening is we have two girls that are fighting over Josh right now.
And the females do cycle, just like humans do.
And they do have fights over boyfriends.
I get it.
He's a very handsome man.
It makes a lot of sense, Josh.
I get it.
And then Hayley here is really interesting.
She came from another place where they had her as a pet.
And she's our lowest ranking monkey.
And Josh became her boyfriend.
And when Josh became her boyfriend, a powerful male, her status skyrocketed.
And so she's now brave enough to fight another monkey because of Josh.
Wow.
Nice, Josh.
Way to really build her up.
And the monkey business gets even weirder.
The dynamic of animals you're about to see is something even I have never witnessed before.
Oh, my goodness.
Look who's coming in here.
Wow.
Boom, boom, the baboon, huh?
Now, I grew up in Zimbabwe.
Yeah, I love that.
And we had baboons and vervet monkeys and things that ran around.
You would never get this close to a baboon.
When I was a kid, I had baboons terrorize me.
I had one chase me around a houseboat once.
That's a story for another time.
But this is unbelievable.
How is Boonie actually so relaxed?
So she was put in a cage.
And she wasn't always treated super great.
And here at Animal Track, she is our earth mother.
And her whole thing is she wants to be maternal.
And so we let her be maternal.
Two capuchins.
How does that go?
She's spayed.
She's never had her own children, which is a big bummer.
Because they all want to have their children.
And she does all the disciplining of monkeys here.
Oh, wow.
Okay, so if she's the mom, though, oh, my goodness.
You still look scary to me, whether you're friendly or not.
She looks scary when she does this.
Ah!
That was cool.
I like that.
Why have all the capuchins now hopped onto everybody's shoulders?
Well, they don't want to be manhandled.
So these are all adult capuchins.
And if they were children, it would be different.
I see.
So the males don't register as masculine because they've been neutered.
So she thinks of them as forever children.
I see.
And when she hugs them and touches them, you would think they were sissies.
What do you mean?
So a male would never let a female put their hands on them.
Like, if she goes next to Luke, she would never touch him.
Yeah.
But she will hug them because they're children.
And they just don't like it.
They're like, I'm an adult man.
Leave me alone.
If you were a monkey, you would beat them up for being a sissy and letting a girl monkey put their hands on.
I see.
So it ruins them mentally, even though she's being very loving.
There's a lot of interesting dynamics going on here that I didn't realize.
So where did she come from?
What's her story?
Movies.
Movies?
Evan Almighty was her first movie.
And her part wound up on the cutting room floor.
She was part of a trio.
And she sat in a cage waiting for another job that never came.
Oh, no.
Look.
She's going to hug her daughter.
And you'll notice she lip smacks.
That's love.
And her daughter's like, could you please not?
Do you just say, I want to buy a baboon, and then buy a baboon, and then just start auditioning
them for parts?
Like, how does this work?
How do you get a baboon in a movie?
So the movie animal companies, I was a movie animal trainer for many, many years.
Oh, OK.
And so for 17 years, I did animals in movies and worked with chimps and orangutans and
baboons and all kinds of animals.
I didn't really love it.
No.
And so this is so much more engaging.
You didn't love it because of the way the animals were treated for the movies?
Well, you're saying, if you want to eat today, you have to do what I say.
Perform, yeah.
And here I say, if you want to eat today, let's sit down at the table together.
I love this dynamic.
If you're at home and you have a dog, you learn to communicate with that dog.
You can say, he's hungry.
He's sad.
He really wants to go outside.
You know, what's wrong with so-and-so today?
But that's a very simple thing that humans have co-evolved with for generations.
This is different.
You're understanding not just primate behavior, but interspecies dynamics where he's a husband
and he's neutered and that's a mutt kombuchan and this is a baboon.
It's absolutely phenomenal.
I don't know if anybody's ever documented this kind of relationship before.
So he's crying because he's insecure.
Go ahead and let him hug her.
Let her hug him.
So he's feeling insecure.
He's like, don't hug me.
Don't hug me.
The people are watching.
And she's like, son, are you okay?
But he's not her son and he's not a baby.
How do you know this?
Because of the way they're acting.
He's acting like a child.
But how do you speak monkey so well?
Maybe I was a monkey.
Maybe.
If I'm not mistaken, you have three acres here, is that right?
I do, yes.
And you're looking at, you told me, because you live here, this is your home, but you're
looking at a 20-acre property.
Yes, because I know I look 19, but I'm actually in my late 50s and I won't always be the director.
And when that happens, I'm going to want to move to a smaller place.
This is a lot to take care of when you're in your 50s and 60s.
And so we want to get a much bigger place in the entity's name that will take care of
these animals well into the future.
And so if you want to see more monkeys getting rescued and everything else that's getting
rescued here, you can support Animal Tracks and help them get this 20-acre property where
they won't be a capacity and they can bring in a lot more animals, right?
Thank you, Forrest.
I bet some of you could have guessed that a baboon would be a terrible pet.
But the next animal I'm about to see is absolutely adorable.
And that's exactly the problem.
Hi.
Hello.
Who's this, Allison?
This is Dobby.
Hi, Dobby.
Are you friendly?
Oh, hi.
Allison, now I have seen dozens and dozens of fennec foxes in captivity.
I've never been able to even hold one like this.
They're always super neurotic when they're kept as pets and you can't cuddle one or hold
one like this.
So what's going on with Dobby?
Why is he so chill?
I spent a lot of time with him right when he first got here.
He was fairly young.
He was, I think, around four or five months old.
He looks pretty geriatric now.
I see a lot of gray hair.
He's actually nine years old.
OK.
Yeah.
He'll be nine in April.
Oh, buddy.
I spent so much time with him that he feels really secure with me.
And as long as I'm in the vicinity, he's OK with other people, too.
But they make awful pets.
They make horrible pets.
This is not common.
I want people at home that are seeing this going, oh my god, it's so adorable.
I love him.
I do, too.
And you do even more.
But this is very, very unusual.
Usually, these guys, well, first of all, they're nocturnal.
They're nocturnal.
So they want to be awake all night.
They need to hunt for food.
So they need to be digging and scratching and burrowing.
Yeah, they're fierce scorpion hunters.
Fierce scorpion hunters.
And usually, they're super neurotic and shy.
And they don't like to be touched or held or even be very near to people.
Seeing Dobby like this little cuddle here and have this unique temperament is a testament to the care of the people at Animal Tracks.
So I'm going to give him back to his mommy now.
Good boy, little man.
I've still got so many cute and weird animals to show you, including one of the most famous animals in all of Hollywood.
But before that, we're starting with two common animals that you could find in your own backyard.
Here at Animal Tracks, it's not just about crazy exotic animals.
In fact, here you have two of North America's most common creatures that both came from unique backgrounds.
Now, the skunk here, his mom was killed by a dog.
And so he was rescued.
But as a native animal, he couldn't go back into the wild.
And he had to be hand-raised, hence how friendly he is.
And this opossum was also injured and then being fed by somebody.
So he became dependent on human care.
So he also had to be brought in and rescued.
And one of my favorite things about our animals that are native here in the U.S. is their defense mechanisms, right?
So this guy has a scary bum, and he'll turn around and spray you if you're a mountain lion or a coyote or anything like that.
And this guy will play dead.
He'll literally roll over and say, don't touch me.
I'm disgusting and rotten and old and dead.
So cool that you can have two very similar-sized animals that thrive in this part of the world through very different ways of surviving.
And what's crazy to think is that both of these guys have wild origins.
This isn't after generational time of turning them into pets.
They're literally lovely animals that deserve to be here just as much as anything else.
You know, it's not just the guys from across the planet.
It's the guys from our backyard that need help.
And oftentimes, more than often, they can't go back into the wild for various reasons.
So they find a forever home here at Animal Tracks.
Both of these animals rely on two very different defense strategies.
But the next animal I'm about to meet is on a different level.
They're armored, tank-like creatures with a highly developed defense mechanism.
OK, so Vietnamese for scorpion.
For some reason, spiders scare people, but people don't seem to mind scorpions as much.
Well, they're just land crabs, really.
You know, that's really all they are.
And they even taste like crab.
I hate to admit it, but I've eaten them a bunch.
I've never eaten one.
I've been stung by one, but I have never eaten one.
No, they literally taste like a crawdad.
We ate them in Vietnam when we were camping.
But you get them at the reptile shows and things.
You get them at pet stores.
They're, what, $40 or something like that?
Mm-hmm.
But of all the exotic animals, this one's a pretty easy one to keep, right?
So how do you guys end up with them?
People go off to college.
Ah, and just say, my kid had a scorpion in his bedroom,
and I have turned that into my rec room, and I don't want it anymore.
We've had this one for seven years.
Oh, really?
Mm-hmm.
That's really cool.
Well, what I love is this guy raves.
What do you mean?
Well, he was at Coachella.
The scorpion?
Yeah.
This individual scorpion was at Coachella?
Not for the music.
When you bring a big group of people, it creates food, and that brings cockroaches.
And that brings a scorpion.
And so the music is just, you know, a nice thing to have.
Okay.
But literally, these guys are there to help us.
And yet we squish, we poison.
We've lost 75% of the world's insects.
Yeah.
So we want you to get diatomaceous earth or cinnamon or baking soda.
Sure.
Put it on the outside of your house, and then give this guy something to eat.
Absolutely.
And he'll be less scary.
People don't know any of that stuff.
Yeah, totally.
And to tell them they don't have to poison sometimes blows people's mind.
Absolutely.
That's the best message to have here, which is that these animals are not something to fear.
And before I meet one of Hollywood's most famous now-rescued animals,
Stacey is taking me to meet a couple extremely unconventional pets
that now live out their lives post-rescue at Animal Tracks.
Now we are going in with a bunch of red kangaroos.
I thought they were grays, but they're not.
You can see that from the facial markings.
No, buddy.
Come on.
Now, these are red kangaroos.
Yeah.
Right?
And I'm seeing that because of the facial markings.
It's kind of hard to tell from gray kangaroos, but it's all about that facial marking.
The last time I was this close to a kangaroo, it was a gray kangaroo.
And it nearly knocked me out.
Had to be an intact male.
It was, yep.
So this is my not intact male.
And that's why he's such a nice guy.
And he's a sweetie, right?
Yeah, sweet as can be.
We won't say anybody's names, but is this the guy who belonged to a celebrity?
Yes.
It is, okay.
Not been throwing anybody under the bus here, but this guy right here belonged to a celebrity
who probably should have known better, all things considered,
because they got this animal without a permit and then got caught with that animal
and ended up here at your facility, right?
Yeah, but lots of people who think they're good with animals think,
well, if I could do a dog, I'm great with dogs.
I could do a kangaroo.
I could do a monkey.
Sure.
And so they could if they went and got the right education.
Right.
But if you do it incorrectly, everybody's held accountable.
And you have to spend the time with those animals.
That's the other thing.
You have to actually spend time and get exposure.
Just because I like kangaroos, which I do.
I'd love to have a kangaroo that was like this, but I haven't spent time with kangaroos.
I wouldn't know how to make a kangaroo happy like this.
Not to mention, they're very sensitive animals.
They get that lumpy jaw syndrome from being fed pellets.
Even worse is capture myopathy.
Which is like a hip dysplasia, right?
So when they get fearful, they can die of a stroke or a heart attack immediately,
or it can have slower effects where it degrades the heart and thigh muscles.
And you don't even know it's happening until the animal goes down.
And then it's too late.
And that is iconic in prey species, right?
They panic so much that it affects their physiology.
Yeah, stress is bad for all of us.
The worst part is when somebody gets an animal like this,
it makes other people think it's a good idea.
And that's the worst.
You get a monkey, and for three years, it's a baby,
and it wants to be bottle-fed and loved by everyone.
And then it has its third birthday, and it mauls somebody.
By then, 150 people have gotten monkeys.
Well, you've told everybody what a great pet it is, and you should get your own monkey.
So that's really what we're fighting.
And if you thought a kangaroo was a bad pet, just wait until you see a mara.
Oh, hi, you guys. I love maras.
Oh, yeah, they're amazing.
They're so cool. They're like rabbit deer.
They don't make any sense.
Literally, I started with them when I came over here,
and they stole my heart and did not give back.
Now, a lot of the maras, well, to be honest, I've only ever seen two people.
I've only ever interacted with two other maras before, but they're pretty flighty.
These guys are really friendly.
They are. They're prey animals, so that's why they flight.
And they can actually run up to 30 miles an hour if need be.
That's fast.
But I worked with these guys for literally seven years to socialize them.
And so I became their little mama.
So that's why you see they're so up in your face.
But they're very chilled.
I mean, the maras, like, we went in with some maras at the Assiniboine Zoo,
and they wouldn't get anywhere near us.
They come and eat, but, like, very tentatively.
Like, this guy's literally, like, climbing up on me.
So they're in the family of the guinea pig, also the family of the capybara.
So the fourth largest rodent in the world.
They are rodent.
They're the fourth largest?
Largest of the four.
First one, capybara.
Second one, now is a beaver.
Oh, beaver.
The third one you met today, porcupines.
African porcupine.
And these guys are the fourth ones.
So because they're in the family of the guinea pig,
if you ever had a guinea pig as a pet,
you know the guinea pigs do not produce their own vitamin C.
So these guys need supplements.
And like the bunny, too, people don't realize that 80% of their diet is hay.
So these guys also need to eat hay,
and they need to eat their pellets that is laced up with vitamin C.
Otherwise, they become vitamin C deficient,
and that can be detrimental to their lives.
And before I leave, Stacy has one last animal to show me
that's extremely special to her and the entire Animal Tracks team.
All right, who's this?
I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite old ladies in the whole wide world.
This is Tarumaptera.
Tarumaptera. Oh, she seems old.
She was the monkey from Pirates of the Caribbean.
She was in The Black Pearl and Babe.
Oh, no way.
Wait, she's the monkey that tells Babe where to go?
She's got Johnny Depp on speed dial.
Oh, that's funny.
So, yes, she's now 32, and she's fighting lymphoma.
Oh, shame.
So what's being done to ease her sort of end-of-life care if she's got lymphoma?
We have great vets, and the very first thing we're doing is a CBD oil
that an apothecary is making for us, and it's just for her.
And then we also use something called Larch Tree, L-A-R-C-H, tree extract.
You're good, you're good.
So she's playing with you, so you just want to not react or play back.
You just want to kind of hang out.
Oh, okay.
You're being tested.
I really don't know much about lynching.
Your medal's being tested.
Oh, did I win or lose?
You would.
Oh, I think I lost.
Of course, you won.
Lynched.
What do you think about that?
She's a lady.
She's just trying to—
Trying to rev me up a little bit?
Mm-hmm.
Well, Tara is beautiful, and what you guys do here is so important,
taking in these animals from musicians, rappers, pet traders,
whatever it happens to be, and giving them a life that otherwise they could never have.
Probably most of these animals wouldn't even still be alive if it wasn't for you guys.
So thank you to you.
Thank you to Animal Tracks.
Go and support them.
They're going to get a 20-acre facility, hopefully,
so they can take in so many more animals.
Like, comment, subscribe, all that good stuff.
See you on the next video.
And he's going to find the Megalodon.
That'd be cool.
