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Yeah, yeah, yeah! Mhm, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm. Welcome to the private world of John Aspen. Off he lives on an 18th century estate known as Howl. It's surrounding himself with hundreds of rare and endangered animals. Using the fortune he made as a gambler,

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this millionaire casino owner has turned two of his private estates into zoos here. Both he and some 600 animals seek refuge from the human world. But what's even more extraordinary than the rare animals here at Howell? It's is John's relationship with them, especially the guerrillas. Yeah,

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mhm. When we go in there saw me some of my keepers, we become for that our with their honorary guerrillas behave like gorillas. We think like gorillas. We feel like gorillas. I think John has always been fascinated with the great apes, and his colony of lowland

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gorillas has grown to be one of the largest in the world. The success he's had in housing and breeding gorillas has made him famous in the science community, although he considers himself nothing more than a zookeeper. But you can quickly see there's more here than a

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keeper and his animals. This is friendship at £470. June is the largest gorilla in the United Kingdom and maybe all of Europe. With the strength of 12 men, he could easily kill John. Yet they play with each other like schoolboys. John has so much faith in

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his apes that he once entrusted one of his female gorillas with his own infant son. People are often shocked when they read about you, and they know that your feelings for the animals are on par with your feelings for humans. Well, yes, absolutely so. In fact,

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if there is a secret on how to get on with an animal a big, powerful animal like a tiger or bull elephant or bull rhino, if you like black Reiner or anything like that or a gorilla is to treat them as a one would treat once.

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Close friends. Yes, Mhm. Thank you, Thank you. This unusual trust John has extends to all the great mammals in the park. Visitors will often find him playing with elephants, rhinos and even the tigers. And it's a very good lesson to keep powerful animals and have relationship

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with them, because if ever you like it to fall into that trap of uh, special arrogance, arrogance of species. You never like it to fall into it. If you have constant contact with great tigers, £500 in a way to kill you in half a second. It's

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wonderful the way it blows away. All those man made ideas of the supremacy and superiority of man over the animals. Don't believe in that. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. As friendly as these animals seem, they are anything but trained. Three keepers have been killed at Howell. It's two

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of them. Brian Stocks and Bob Wilson were killed within one month of each other by the same Tigris who jumped a 17 ft fence to attack them. John finally had to shoot her. You have said that one day you believe you'll be killed by one of

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your animals. The danger of me being killed by an animal is nothing. Not some sudden, um, ferocity on the part of some animal animosity or aggression. It's more through me if I live long enough going in with them when I'm too old and weak to hold

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my own in any sense at all, that would be the dangerous. John hopes to someday return the animals to their natural homes instead of taking them out. But until he sees more of an effort by us to save endangered animals, there will always be a home

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for them. Here at Howell, it's my vision is clouded one and I really almost hate to look into the future because what I see there, I know it would be important to me, which would be a world without many of these things. And I really don't

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want to live in a world without the rhinoceros and the elephant and the gula. I'll slip quietly away into the night way. Yeah, I have.