in the desert, they get their fluid from the food they re eating. dana: even at the columbus zoo do they not drink? no, at the columbus zoo we are giving them some water. dana: do you mean this is the first time they ve ever been tv? this particular cat are the whole species? it not on national geographic ? maybe on national geographic when they ve shown them out in northern africa in the deserts. this is a cable news exclusive right now. absolutely, it s never been done. you have so much natural tv in your blood. i m glad he still has a hand. i think he s beautiful. can you do your cap voice for the audience? dana has a dog voice and i think we just found her cap voice. i wanted to know you guys acquired these two? from other sand cats.
[laughter] will be due as we work with different zoos, breeding program, when they get older they will be paired up with other sand cats. are they endangered? these are not, but when we talk about all the different animals we have at the columbus zoo, 11,000 animals, 800 different species, a lot of them are highly endangered and that s how we work together. say good-bye in the take gmac cap voice, please? good-bye. in big cities come people who have to deal with rodents in the alley, they are getting feral cats. would you want to do that with one of these? no. no. you definitely don t want to be the best place for a sand cat is at the zoo are out in the wild, you don t want to try to have one for yourself. not a patch but to go after
slinging feces all day. dana: i would want to be a draft to experience what it s like to be that tall. jesse: what was your favorite animal in the columbus zoo? the kangaroo. i will be a kangaroo. you can jump, allegedly, the footage of a full bus. i could jump right out of the zoo and escape. emily: i would want to be the thing that didn t know it was i in the zoo, which would be something in the aquarium. jesse: the dumbest animal. emily: a fish in the aquarium, they would know they are in captivity. juan: that s kind of sad. emily: that s how i feel. an octopus. an octopus because the monterey bay aquarium because their life spans are longer in captivity. jesse greg: they can escap! juan: they are really smar
all right, that s right. animals are great like you ve never seen before. while you stuff your face is, we are going to amuse you with some of the coolest creatures ever created. president and ceo of the columbus zoo, the zoo has a ceo. i wonder what those office meetings are like. tom, this is not a normal cat. this is a sand catch, never been on tv ever. never species like this ever, the only true cat found in the desert. found in northern africa all the way to the middle east and even into asia. a beautiful animal that has adapted to that hot weather. when it s really hot there going to burrow, they re going to find a way to get a little cool but what a beautiful animal. greg: it s amazing how that years change the look, it s such a cooler looking cat.
work. they are not endangered? they are definitely not endangered, years and years ago they were actually domesticated. do you remember that saying three dog night? that s where it comes from. the locals when it was really cold would sleep with their canines, there dingoes and if they needed three it was a really cold night. they have populations in tasmania. now that we are on that topic since i brought it up, our tasmanian devil s real? they are definitely real. i thought that was just a cartoon. they don t spin around and they are not with bugs bunny. they do spin around and create that whirling dervish? they do not. we have them at the columbus zoo. you can see them. we ve got our next animal coming up here. cd. such a denta dental animal.