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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, that's 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 don't know what they're called. we have a whole panel of judges. did they just ding you? >> they dinged me. they dinged me come on arm. come on arm. this is t...

>> let me think.y i got to get my ape species. it was a baboon. >> tucker: a baboon. wow, that's 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 don't know what they're called. we have a whole panel of judges. did they just ding you? >> they dinged me. they dinged me. come on, arm. come on, arm. this is tough. this is tough. >> tucker...

>> 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 these places. >> yes, but there really is none. the laws protect the public but not the workers, no...

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 the public but not the workers, not the interns, not the volunteers. and that's why we think our st...

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, i'm 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. it's simply not done. it's not allowed and i don't think it should be allowed. >> what is extraordinary is that apparently there ...