(9 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
London, January 8 2009
1. Wide shot lion
2. Close up lion
3. Mid shot lion
4. Pan from keep to bearded pigs
5. Close up bearded pigs
6. Various set up David Field, Zoological Director, London Zoo
7. Various meerkats
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Field, Zoological Director, London Zoo:
"We need this head count for a couple of reasons: firstly it's a legal obligation. We have to give this information to our licensing authorities. Secondly, we need to know not just how many animals we've got but who we've got so then we've got this information and we can feed it back to global animal databases called ISIS (International Species Information System) which forms the foundation of our breeding programmes."
9. Wide B.U.G.S. (Biodiversity Underpinning Global Survival) House, London Zoo
10. Close up B.U.G.S sign, London Zoo
12. Various locusts
13. Close up fruit beetle
14. Close up beetle
15. Close up flower beetle
16. Close up tarantula
17. Various eastern white pelicans
18. Various flamingoes
20. Various black footed and rockhopper penguins.
21. Set up shot Mick Tiley, Team Leader of Birds, London Zoo
22: SOUNDBITE (English) Mick Tiley, Team Leader of Birds, London Zoo:
"The reason they are managed species is that in captivity we want to keep the bloodlines as pure as we can to prevent inbreeding so the zoo will regularly swap or move individual animals around to accommodate this."
23. Various Tony Dobbs, Senior Keeper, London Zoo making the head count
24. Close up meerkat
25. Various oriental short clawed otters
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Dobbs, Senior Keeper, London Zoo:
"These animals actually in the wild would come from Indonesia, over in Asia but all of these animals here are captive born. All but one of them was actually born here. The only one not born here is the mother of this group and she was born in another zoo and brought in and has since bred very well as you can see - large family and yeah they're doing really well."
27. Various oriental short clawed otters
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Dobbs, Senior Keeper, London Zoo:
"The threats to otters go across the board. Same for the British species as it is for the foreign ones. It's basically their habitat is being lost as humans encroach onto the water ways; there's a lot of water pollution happening these days. As a result of this, there's a huge push to try and re-introduce otter species back."
29. Pan from zoo to tiger in cage
30. Various tiger
31. Wide London Zoo exterior
LEAD IN
Two lions, fifteen oriental small clawed otters and a pack of bearded pigs..no it's not a list of the animals on Noah's Ark - it's London Zoo's annual stock take.
But the work doesn't just revolve around counting of course.
Conservation and exchange programmes also feature high on the zoo's priority list.
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With more than 650 different species to tally up, including penguins, meerkats and a multitude of insects, zookeepers have quite a task on their hands.
These highly sociable Meerkats are a type of mongoose that live in extensive burrow systems.
One of the group acts as sentry on a high vantage point, while the others forage for food.
Black hair around their eyes enables them to scan the bright sky for predators and a variety of calls warns the group to hide when danger is near.
They are native to Africa, South of the Kalahari Desert, and they live off of small mammals, scorpions, snakes and insects.
London Zoo holds an annual headcount which uncovers invaluable information.
This information provides the basis of the zoo's breeding programme.

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