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What kind of animal was it? griff jenkins? >> a -- let me think. i got get my ape species, it was a baboon. >> tucker: a baboon. wow, thats specific. i thought you were going to say lemur. was it a baboon? roll the tape. >> there was just one monkey wandering around the airport hole. the risi macock was confined to the area away from passengers. it took dozens of animal workers an hour to capture the elusive guy. >> tucker: this is -- i dont know what theyre called. we have a whole panel of judg...

>> let me think.y i got to get my ape species. it was a baboon. >> tucker: a baboon. wow, thats specific. i thought you were going to say lemur. was it a baboon? t roll the tape. >> there was just one monkey wandering around the airport cargo hold. the rhesus macaque was confined to the area away from passengers. it took dozens of animal workers an hour to capture the elusive guy. >> tucker: this is -- i dont know what theyre called. we have a whole panel of judges. did they just ding you? >> th...

>> what is extraordinary is that apparently there are no federal regulations safeguarding animal workers. they exist just for the public. i was pretty shocked to hear that. i mean, there have been a number -- i think since 1995, we worked out, there have been 22 people killed by captive big cats. more than 248 have been mauled according to big cat rescue, an animal sanctuary in florida. you would have thought there could be by now be some kind of federal regulation relating to people who work at...

Regulations safeguarding animal workers. they exist just for the public. i was pretty shocked to hear that. i mean, there have been a number -- i think since 1995, we worked out, there have been 22 people killed by captive big cats. more than 248 have been mauled according to big cat rescue, an animal sanctuary in florida. you would have thought there could be by now be some kind of federal regulation relating to people who work at these places. >> yes, but there really is none. the laws protect...

Pictures there of jenny with cous cous. he was a 350-pound lion. he was i think nearing five years old. reaching his male sexual maturity. and would therefore be potentially at his most dangerous, im led to believe. is that right? >> well, i think any adult felid is at their most dangerous and our standards at the global animal sanctuaries call for no human contact with these felids unpredicted, period. so no one ever enters a cage knowingly where a felid is loose. its simply not done. its not a...