00:00In the trees to the left of me is normally where the Binturong reside and they usually
00:04sit at the top of the tree, especially when the sun's out.
00:08Binturongs have a prehensile tail, it's a big muscle tail and they use that for hanging
00:13on.
00:14Quite often throughout the day you'll see them draping down the trees, holding on to
00:18the branches with the tails and eating the buds, which is what they're designed to do.
00:22So that is kind of what we would describe that would be environmental enrichment.
00:27So that's providing them with an environment that is natural to them, enabling them to
00:32use their natural resource, their bodies, their abilities to kind of function normally.
00:39We also then create some artificial enrichment items for them, which again help strengthen
00:46their natural abilities and gives them a nice little treat.
00:50They're closely related to gennets and civets, they're from the Far East.
00:57Most people may have heard of civet coffee.
00:59It's one of the most expensive coffees on the planet and basically civets eat coffee berries
01:06and then their bodies can't digest the seed.
01:08So that's passed through and that's the coffee bean basically.
01:11So they poo out the coffee bean and apparently this is a delicacy and it's the most expensive
01:18coffee in the world that I'm led to believe.
01:21Binturong are also put through, so these animals are put in cages, force fed coffee berries and
01:27forced to poo out the beans so that those organizations that do that can actually generate huge amounts of income from tourism basically.
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