[0:00] I met some ferrets that do a better job
than industrial robots.
[0:04] The road trip took me back
to the East Midlands,
[0:06] to the county of Derbyshire,
[0:07] and I parked up at a small rural farm
[0:09] that’s the home
of the National Ferret School.
[0:12] Which does need some explanation.
[0:18] The first question is:
[0:19] is the National Ferret School
a school about ferrets,
[0:23] or a school for ferrets?
[0:24] Also, what is a ferret?
[0:26] So, this is where we keep our ferrets.
[0:29] This is the traditional way
of keeping ferrets.
[0:31] We believe the Romans carried ferrets
around the world with them
[0:34] because they spread the rabbit,
[0:35] and the only way to get a rabbit,
[0:37] or the best way to get a rabbit
out from underground,
[0:39] is to have something chase it out,
[0:40] ergo the ferret.
[0:42] And so people respected them,
[0:44] and they kept them in large enclosures
known as courts.
[0:48] And that’s exactly what we do now. 
-A ferret court!
[0:50] Correct.
[0:51] So we should see a Pavlovian reflex now... 
-Oh, hello!
[0:53] Because when I come to feed them, I go...
(makes kissing noises)
[0:59] Oh hello!
[1:02] Those are ferrets.
[1:03] And James, who runs the ferret school,
wrote the book on them.
[1:06] Uh, literally, this is his book.
[1:08] And so the school is both for people:
[1:10] to learn ferret handling and care
and rearing,
[1:13] and also to train ferrets.
[1:15] Because it turns out they can be
very useful creatures,
[1:18] and not just for hunting rabbits.
[1:20] So, ferrets are...
[1:22] I’m going to get my terminology
wrong here, mustelids?
[1:25] They are indeed.
[1:26] And ferrets are domesticated
European polecats.
[1:29] Right.
[1:30] So many domesticated ferrets have been
released into the wild over the years...
[1:34] -Oh, that they’ve cross-bred?
 -Correct.
[1:36] -Right.
 -But, either way, they’re the same animal.
[1:39] And the more I see of wild polecats,
[1:42] the more certain I am that these are them.
[1:44] -Did that one just sneeze?
 -Yes.
[1:46] (laughs)
[1:47] My apologies, I was not able
to put a microphone on a sneezing ferret.
[1:51] I don’t know how queasy your viewers are,
but we feed these complete carcasses.
[1:55] Right okay.
[1:56] So at whatever stage in the day,
I can throw one in,
[1:58] and then you’ll see furry locusts descend
on them, and they’ll disappear.
[2:02] And you see,
they’re still coming out of bed, look.
[2:04] Awh.
[2:05] Don’t worry, I’m not going to show
the ferret feeding frenzy.
[2:08] But I did have one concern
before going into the shed,
[2:11] and to explain why
I wasn’t going to be handling the ferrets,
[2:14] I need to make a callback to 1977.
[2:17] Ow. Ow. Ow!
[2:19] I’m sorry. Ow!
[2:21] Richard Whiteley, legendary
Yorkshire news anchor and interviewer,
[2:24] host of game show Countdown
for more than 20 years,
[2:27] joked that when he died,
[2:29] his obituary would read:
[2:30] “Ferret man dies!”
[2:32] The clip of him being bitten by a ferret
on his talk show
[2:35] got played around the world,
[2:36] often with a big audience laugh
added over it.
[2:39] And it seems like a bit of harmless fun,
[2:41] but despite the laughter of the crew,
[2:43] the man’s clearly in a lot of pain.
[2:45] It’s alright, let it go.
Put it on the floor, it won’t hurt you.
[2:49] It is hurting me.
[2:50] It was rushed out.
[2:52] Emergency centre.
[2:53] Complete blood transfusion.
[2:55] Intravenous antibiotics
for about three weeks.
[2:58] But thank God
the ferret made a complete recovery.
[3:01] (laughs)
[3:03] Oh, I fell for that completely!
[3:06] I’m assured that the ferret was fine,
and so was Richard Whiteley,
[3:09] but not wanting to end up
with the same fate,
[3:12] I let James handle the ferrets.
[3:14] In you come.
Come on, in you come, in you come.
[3:16] Oop.
[3:17] Hello.
[3:19] Whoops.
[3:20] -You want to come in? 
-Yep. I don’t want to stand on a ferret.
[3:23] I imagine they’re smart enough
to get out of the way of my feet.
[3:25] -Nope. 
-Oh, they’re not. Okay.
[3:26] They’ll go under your feet to see what
the underneath of your feet look like.
[3:29] (laughs)
[3:32] Hello.
[3:33] Oh hi!
[3:34] I would think you would pick up the aroma.
[3:36] Yes, a little bit.
[3:38] Okay.
[3:39] But there are 20 ferrets in here. 
-(laughs)
[3:41] There’s going to be a bit of laughter
from me behind the camera,
[3:43] because there were ferrets
trying to climb up my trouser leg.
[3:47] Thankfully, only the outside
of my trouser leg.
[3:49] The specific name for these
is “Mustela putorius furo”.
[3:52] -Uh-huh.
 -“Mustela” is a weasel.
[3:55] Yes.
[3:56] “Putorius” is where we get the word
putrid, very smelly.
[3:59] Oh okay.
[4:00] -And “furo” is a thief. 
-Sorry...
[4:02] So these guys are technically called
“thieving smelly weasels”.
[4:06] Incredible. And that, I presume,
is their bedroom?
[4:10] -That’s the nest box, yes. 
-Right.
[4:12] I’m smiling a lot here, but also,
[4:14] they are trying to climb up my leg.
[4:17] Yes.
[4:18] Well, the thing about ferrets,
and this is what we utilise,
[4:21] is that they are nosy.
[4:23] So when you were doing
the research for this,
[4:25] you were ferreting out the information.
[4:27] Yes, I was!
[4:28] Ferrets always want to know:
what is in there?
[4:30] What is up there, what is through there?
[4:31] What’s around that corner?
[4:33] That’s what they do.
[4:34] So, 20 ferrets, if I had 20 sheep,
it would be a flock,
[4:37] 20 cows, a herd,
[4:38] 20 ferrets, it’s a business. 
-Oh!
[4:40] Because as soon as you put a couple
together, they start ferreting around,
[4:43] doing their business.
[4:44] Right! Oh. Yes, hello.
[4:47] They’ve...they have
discovered the camera.
[4:49] I’m working on the assumption
that these are working animals,
[4:51] and in the same way that a farmer
does not name individual sheep in a flock,
[4:55] you do not name individual ferrets here.
[4:57] No, but what we do do is we implant a chip
under the skin,
[5:01] and we can scan that,
and we keep all the records on a computer.
[5:05] So are you breeding them?
[5:06] They do that on their own.
[5:08] (laughs)
[5:09] We supervise it.
[5:10] Yes.
[5:11] Sorry...
[5:13] someone is very, very interested
in my jeans here.
[5:16] Hello.
[5:18] Yes. Hi.
[5:19] A vet once described ferrets
as “short-legged cats with attitude”.
[5:23] -Yeah. I can believe that.
 -And I think that’s a perfect description.
[5:25] A juvenile ferret,
like all of the ones in that court,
[5:28] is called a kit.
[5:30] The males are hobs,
[5:31] and the females, jills.
[5:32] How to tell those apart...
[5:34] The easiest way to tell
is to look at the size of the head.
[5:37] The jills, the females,
have a nice slender head like this one.
[5:41] But if you look at that guy,
big broad head.
[5:45] -Yep.
 -That’s a hob.
[5:46] And the hobs can be twice the size
of the jills.
[5:49] So at some point,
they’re going to be old enough,
[5:51] and you’ll have to separate them out?
[5:52] Well, these are just this year’s, these
are just about three, four months old.
[5:57] By this time next year,
all the hobs will be living separately,
[6:00] except when they’re doing their duties.
[6:02] Aside from the obvious, though,
[6:04] those ferrets have other duties,
[6:05] one of which is to chase out rabbits
from their warrens
[6:08] by diving down into the rabbit-holes.
[6:10] Rabbits are considered
a major agricultural pest,
[6:13] and unpleasant as it might be,
under English law,
[6:17] almost all landowners are required to kill
any wild rabbits living on their land.
[6:23] In practice, that’s not happening
everywhere, it’s not really enforced,
[6:26] but certainly, farmers would appreciate
not having to put down poison
[6:30] when other options are available.
[6:34] But that’s not the job
we’re talking about here.
[6:36] There are other reasons
to send ferrets ferreting around.
[6:39] And training them
turns out to not be that difficult.
[6:42] What I will do, when we start using them
for rabbiting later in the year,
[6:46] is take an adult out
and put a youngster at its heel,
[6:50] and then it follows through,
and it learns from its elders,
[6:54] in the same way that most animals do.
[6:56] It’s how they train foxhounds.
[6:58] They couple them together. 
-Yeah.
[7:00] So, they literally learn the ropes.
[7:02] But other than that,
the main training is handling them.
[7:07] Because one of the first questions
I get asked when I talk about ferrets
[7:11] is do they bite? 
-Yep.
[7:12] They have teeth. They are capable.
[7:14] -Yep.
 -I have a very strange allergy.
[7:16] And my doctor’s warned me about it.
I’m allergic to pain.
[7:19] -Yes!
 -I’ve found pain hurts me.
[7:20] Yeah, no, same, same, I’ve got that.
[7:22] -So I avoid that. 
-Really?
[7:23] So, we start handling them at four weeks.
[7:25] Their eyes start to open
about four and a half weeks.
[7:27] There is this big pink thing
coming down out of the sky,
[7:30] and they learn quickly
that this is not going to hurt them.
[7:32] Quite the opposite.
[7:33] Then they don’t bite.
[7:34] And then we start doing the Pavlovian bit
[7:38] of conditioning them
that a certain noise means good things.
[7:41] Food. 
-Right.
[7:42] One of those is really trying to get
into your shoe there.
[7:45] Yes, I get through a lot of boots
on this job, yes.
[7:47] They love climbing.
[7:49] And all we try to do in here,
[7:51] this, if you like,
this is their training ground.
[7:53] So, we’ve got pipes,
[7:55] we’ve got branches,
[7:56] we’ve got all this substrate here
that they can dig through,
[8:00] and they just learn
to do all the different things.
[8:03] It keeps them fit and healthy,
[8:05] and no matter how hot or cold it is,
[8:08] somewhere in here
is the right temperature for them.
[8:11] So, in the cold,
they can go into the bed, the nest box.
[8:15] In the winter,
we stuff that full of barley straw.
[8:18] If there’s too much, they drag it out. 
-Yep.
[8:20] If it looks like it’s getting colder,
I will put some more in,
[8:23] and they will take it in.
[8:25] There’s a lot of rattling
coming from inside this pipe just here.
[8:28] And I assume at some point...
[8:30] Careful with the feet...
 -No, he’s going back down.
[8:32] Oh, he’s coming back down, okay.
[8:33] My camera was jumping around there,
[8:35] because the ferret was turning round,
[8:36] back and forth, inside a piece of tubing
that was about the width of the ferret,
[8:41] which seems like it shouldn’t be possible
for a creature with a spine.
[8:44] They have articulated vertebrae,
a bendy backbone.
[8:47] So, we all think that we’re fit
if we can touch our toes.
[8:50] -Yeah.
 -Some people are double-jointed,
[8:52] and they can sit with their chin
on their bottom like that.
[8:55] (laughs)
[8:55] But what none of us can do is put
our left ear on our left ankle like that.
[8:59] Oh!
[8:59] Or our right ear on our right ankle,
like that.
[9:02] And if that was hurting her at all,
she would let me know.
[9:05] That’s a very unbothered ferret there.
[9:06] There you go. And over the years,
I’ve learned tricks myself,
[9:11] but also most of this comes
from Graham, the gamekeeper
[9:13] who taught me a lot.
[9:14] And so he always said, if you pick up
a ferret that’s a bit uptight,
[9:18] maybe it’s just come out of a warren
and it’s had a fight with a rat
[9:22] or something down there,
[9:24] then all you do is hold it like thus,
[9:26] and then swing it
and thread it through your hands like this
[9:31] and you can see just how relaxed it goes,
and if I do that a few times...
[9:35] To be clear, the ferret
is okay with that, right?
[9:37] Well, as you can see, look,
and it just mesmerises them, literally.
[9:41] (laughs)
[9:42] And some will stay like this for five
or ten minutes, some for a few seconds,
[9:46] and if the wind’s blowing,
they come out of it much quicker.
[9:49] But it just works,
[9:50] and I’ve never ever
had any where it doesn’t work.
[9:54] Wow. Yeah,
that’s a slightly sleepy ferret.
[9:56] (laughter)
[9:58] -But now, look, she’s up and off again. 
-Yeah.
[10:01] I don’t know if your microphone’s
picking that up.
[10:03] There’s some noise, certainly.
[10:08] (cheeping)
[10:10] What’s that noise?
[10:11] -That’s the noise that they make. 
-Right.
[10:14] It’s uh yeah...
[10:17] They make that when they’re interested... 
-Yep.
[10:21] ....when they’re unsure,
and when they’re excited.
[10:24] But when they’re excited,
it’s called “dooking”,
[10:27] and they bounce around on all fours
and make this silly noise,
[10:30] and their head goes backwards
and forwards, and their mouth opens,
[10:33] and a lot of people seeing that
think the ferret is about to kill you
[10:36] and rip you to pieces or something. 
-Right.
[10:37] It’s just having a whale of a time.
[10:39] Here you go, climbing. 
-Oh, hello!
[10:41] Oh yeah, happily...
[10:44] ...happily six feet up.
 -So, she’s, yep, no problem whatsoever.
[10:48] Oh, she’s taking the civilised way down.
Normally, they simply let go.
[10:53] Yep.
[10:54] They bounce very well.
[10:56] And at the moment we’ve got this...
[10:58] Oh! And you were right.
[11:00] There goes...thank you. Thank you.
[11:02] I’m just being very careful with my feet.
[11:04] I’m going to go and recover...
[11:06] my camera.
[11:07] The trouble is, there is now a ferret
in the way of my camera.
[11:11] There we go. Woah. Ha!
[11:13] I’m going to just remove myself
from this cloud of ferrets here.
[11:17] -(laughs) 
-That’s the ferrets.
[11:19] The next question is
what can you do with them?
[11:21] What can you do with ferrets,
other than flush out rabbits?
[11:24] Well, one thing about humans is
we often build underground infrastructure,
[11:28] narrow pipes that carry cables or stuff.
[11:30] Which is all well and good
[11:32] until there’s a problem somewhere inside
one of those pipes,
[11:35] and you need to dig all of it up
to find the problem.
[11:38] It’d be really useful if you could locate
where exactly you needed to dig first.
[11:43] Although, while we were going to set
that demonstration up,
[11:46] James told me something
that sent me off on a research tangent,
[11:49] and it’s fascinating,
and I just have to cover this first.
[11:52] If you turn to the Old Testament,
the book of Leviticus,
[11:54] that’s where God lists things
that you can do and you can’t do.
[11:58] And there is a list of animals
that you are not allowed to eat,
[12:01] ferrets are featured on them,
which means they were common.
[12:03] James is right.
[12:04] Ferrets are mentioned
in the King James Bible, Leviticus 11:30,
[12:09] “and the ferret, and the chameleon,
and the lizard, and the snail,
[12:11] “and the mole, those are unclean to you.”
[12:14] But that’s the King James Bible,
[12:16] a staple of the Church of England
and some Protestant denominations.
[12:19] And I’m not a theologian, but,
from what I’ve looked up,
[12:22] “ferret” in there
is almost certainly a mistranslation.
[12:25] The original word is “anaqah”,
[12:27] and modern translators are pretty sure
that that means a type of lizard or gecko,
[12:31] which would have been a really common
creature for that time and place.
[12:34] But that’s not certain,
because the original isn’t in Hebrew,
[12:36] it’s in Biblical Hebrew.
[12:38] And I tried to find an English analogy
for how old that is, but there isn’t one,
[12:41] because even Old English wouldn’t exist
for a thousand years at that point.
[12:46] So, when the King James Bible
was translated
[12:48] in England in the 17th century,
[12:50] those scholars, who were mostly
going off other, earlier translations,
[12:53] and who’d never
probably even heard of a gecko,
[12:56] let alone seen one, they picked “ferret”.
[12:59] Which doesn’t tell us much about
the author’s original intentions,
[13:03] but it does tell us something about
ferrets in the 17th century.
[13:07] It means they were so well known
[13:08] that they were used
as a point of reference
[13:11] in the English version of the Bible.
[13:13] You couldn’t eat them, so the only reason
you would keep them would be for work.
[13:18] And so they hunt with them
exactly as we do.
[13:20] Anyway, James and I....
[13:22] okay, mostly James,
[13:24] but James and I set up a course
for a ferret.
[13:26] Oh, do you want a hand with that?
[13:28] Yes, if you grab that
and just walk slowly.
[13:30] I see it.
[13:31] Problem with this stuff is it’s a pain
in the backside to do anything with.
[13:37] That’s a huge amount of corrugated pipe.
[13:40] -It’s like fighting an octopus. 
-(laughs)
[13:43] That’s a tiny square pipe.
[13:45] They’ll go through that?
 -Oh, yes.
[13:47] Yeah yeah yeah.
[13:48] That’s a recipe for escape that, isn’t it?
I’ve put them in the wrong order there.
[13:52] Don’t worry.
I don’t know how tightly this will fit in.
[13:54] They might just clamber around it.
[13:56] That’s what I was thinking.
[13:58] No, that should work.
[13:59] -That’ll do it?
 -Yep. And then we can do...
[14:02] And then catch them at the other end.
[14:05] Oh, wait, I’m sorry. A ferret...
[14:07] a ferret is in this pipe already.
 -Is it really?
[14:09] Yes. Someone’s just poked
their head out here.
[14:12] (laughter)
[14:16] Hello!
[14:18] What are you doing, girly? Hey?
[14:21] Come on, then.
[14:23] Come on.
[14:24] She’s going to be
slightly concerned now because...
[14:27] Yes, she is. I’ll hold very still.
[14:30] Come on.
[14:31] Come on.
[14:32] Ah, you little devil.
[14:34] Just a bit further.
[14:36] Thank you.
[14:37] And it’s not like you could shake the pipe
to get the ferret out.
[14:40] -No. 
-Because the ferret can climb!
[14:42] Just keep your eye on it in case...
[14:43] In case there’s another one in there!
[14:45] We had a pipe
for the ferret to go through.
[14:47] And that ferret’s first job
would be to see if the pipe is blocked,
[14:50] and if so, where.
[14:51] But if the ferret’s deep underground,
how can you tell where the blockage is?
[14:55] This is the telemetry.
[14:57] -Right.
 -And they wear this.
[15:01] This is shaped so it fits under the chin.
[15:04] And you’re not catching anything,
which is important.
[15:06] This has various controls on,
but basically...
[15:09] (beeping) 
Oh!
[15:12] And you should be able to see
all the lights.
[15:13] It’s called the Ferret Finder!
[15:15] The Ferret Finder version 3, as well.
 -Indeed.
[15:17] And if I move it away...
[15:18] (beeping rises and falls
with distance)
[15:25] Name that tune. 
-That’s delightful.
[15:27] I think that might be
the most surreal thing
[15:29] that’s happened on this road trip so far.
[15:30] No matter how often they have these on,
[15:32] they love to make it
as difficult as possible for me.
[15:34] (laughs)
[15:35] So, we put it round,
and they don’t have a neck.
[15:39] -Oh!
 -And as you put it on, you think,
[15:41] “That’s tight enough.”
[15:42] Immediately, if you let go,
they get out of it.
[15:44] -Right.
 -So you usually put it on to the next one.
[15:46] That looks really tight,
but that’s all fur, isn’t it?
[15:48] -It is indeed. 
-That’s fluff.
[15:50] So, there we go!
So, if I leave this here...
[15:52] Oh, yes, good point.
[15:54] Let me turn that...
[15:56] (beeping lowers)
[15:58] Oh, you’ve got sensitivity calculation
on it, right.
[16:00] There you go. So you should hear it
when it goes past there now.
[16:04] So, we’ve got all the way up there
and back.
[16:08] How fast is a ferret?
[16:10] Turns out very fast,
[16:11] as long as there isn’t a big
camera-holding maroon-and-blue blob
[16:14] that looks like a predator
in their line of sight.
[16:16] You ready?
[16:19] (scurrying)
[16:23] (chuckles)
[16:26] (ferret finder beeps)
[16:28] So, she’s past that.
[16:29] -Oh, that was fast! Hello!
 -She’s continuing.
[16:30] And she’s here, look.
[16:33] This will be interesting
’cos she can see out,
[16:35] and she’s not used to doing this. 
-Mm.
[16:38] Nope, doesn’t like it. Oh!
[16:43] You’re right, she doesn’t like that.
[16:44] The ferret looked at me,
looked at my camera,
[16:47] and then promptly went back to the start,
[16:49] something we only knew
when the ferret finder beeped again.
[16:52] -She’s gone back.
 -She heard it.
[16:56] (chuckles)
[16:57] Decided did not like the clear pipe there,
that’s fair enough.
[17:03] Let’s try her again.
[17:04] I’ll stay behind this time
in case my presence was putting her off.
[17:08] (ferret finder beeps)
[17:10] So fast!
[17:15] It was, it was me standing there.
[17:19] And then a tiny pipe.
[17:20] That’s a tiny...
[17:22] I’ve got no idea where...
[17:24] Now you’ve got
a bottle of something there.
[17:26] This is salmon oil.
[17:27] This is their treat.
[17:29] They’d trade their granny for this.
[17:31] (makes kissing noises)
[17:36] Hello?
[17:39] (makes kissing noises)
[17:42] Good girl. Come on then.
[17:44] Good girl, what’s this?
[17:46] Awh.
[17:48] Mm-mm-mm.
[17:51] So clicking...
[17:53] Yep.
[17:54] ...that just tells her you’ve done well,
and the reward is the oil.
[17:58] We don’t give them lots of it,
otherwise it tends to not be such a treat.
[18:02] But I think she’s done a really good job
there this morning.
[18:04] -With a completely new layout...
 -Indeed.
[18:07] ...with clear bits in it and some idiot
looming over her with a camera.
[18:11] Yeah, that’s a pretty good job, that is.
[18:12] And she’s never run through
the clear bits before.
[18:14] So, the pipe is not blocked.
[18:16] But there is a second use for ferrets
and industrial pipes.
[18:19] Sure, there are robots you can send in
to do that sort of investigation,
[18:22] you could send a snaking camera down there
or just an automated crawler,
[18:25] but as I’ll show you in a bit,
the ferret’s probably better at the job.
[18:29] And it’s also probably better
at pulling cables.
[18:32] What if you already have
the underground pipe,
[18:35] and you want to put a new piece
of cable through it?
[18:37] -High-vis vest. 
-It’s a ferret harness!
[18:39] It’s a high-vis vest for a ferret!
[18:41] There you go.
[18:43] And again, probably tries to make it
as difficult for me as she can,
[18:46] because that’s what they do.
We fit it on. Oops.
[18:49] You’ve had some experience with that,
haven’t you? That was smooth.
[18:55] Round there, fasten it up
as tightly as we can.
[18:57] And again, you have to remember
[18:59] that these guys can breathe in,
are very supple, and,
[19:03] although you may think
I’m putting that on too tightly,
[19:06] I can guarantee
she’ll get out of it if you don’t.
[19:09] So, she has a line on the end.
[19:10] This is a Heath Robinson device
I’ve knocked up
[19:13] that feeds it out without it tangling.
[19:16] We made the run a bit simpler for this,
[19:17] because the corrugated pipe wasn’t
quite wide enough to fit my camera down.
[19:21] And so the plan is:
the ferret pulls the string,
[19:24] we attach the string to the camera,
[19:26] we send the camera back down for
a ferret’s-eye view for the final shot.
[19:30] Oh, she’s moving!
[19:31] Because that’s how cable-pulling works:
[19:33] the ferret can’t carry a camera,
but it can pull a string.
[19:36] And this is a real thing that happens
to run cables,
[19:39] including, famously, for the TV coverage
of the wedding of Charles and Diana.
[19:43] Hello!
[19:47] Nope.
[19:48] Didn’t like the, uh...
[19:50] I think didn’t like me there.
[19:52] That might have been me.
[19:54] There she goes.
[19:54] Yep. I need to learn
to stay back with this.
[19:56] That string,
[19:57] once it’s through, can be used to pull
a bigger string, and a bigger cable,
[20:01] and so on, and so on, and so on,
[20:02] until the cable you want
is through the pipe.
[20:04] And there she is. Hello!
[20:07] Why not just use a robot?
[20:09] Or a simple machine?
[20:10] Well, granted, my camera on a stick
is not a particularly intelligent device,
[20:14] but if you want a perfect demonstration
of why ferrets are still used for this...
[20:18] let’s just say running the camera through
didn’t exactly go smoothly.
[20:22] So, ferret ran the cable.
[20:25] Cable attached to stick.
[20:28] Stick attached to camera.
[20:30] Ferret’s-eye view whenever you’re ready.
[20:32] Okay.
[20:33] Go!
[20:51] Go on.
[20:54] It was a valiant effort.
[20:56] Hang on.
[20:58] Try that.
[21:01] Turns out there are many things
where four legs
[21:03] might still be the best way to do it.
[21:05] Well, it wasn’t one smooth run,
but it got the job done.
[21:08] Yeah. I’m amazed it did.
[21:09] -Thank you very much, sir.
 -You’re welcome!
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