Get up close and personal with the giraffes at Hunter Valley Wildlife Park

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.