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Bertie Gregory

πŸ‘€ Speaker
790 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

For her whole life.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Well, that's a tough one because, you know, as a wildlife camera person, we are, you know, we can never get involved.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And so, you know, it's important to not to try to, I guess, we're normally told to not get emotionally.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

So what I was going to say if I was allowed to finish was we are normally told to not get emotionally attached but often when you spend all day every day following an individual animal for you know a month or two and you know the stakes because you know it's cubs that it has to feed yeah

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

I feel like often people want to choose the side of the prey because that's the thing being attacked.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And I think that's often because, you know, prey is very cute.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

But my point often is, well, okay, if we're going to play by those rules and based on cuteness, baby predators are usually the cutest animals.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Like a baby mountain lion.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Oh my God, they're so cute.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Yeah.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

So yeah, I don't think that's good logic, but that's sort of a side note there.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

But my point is with Pitaka, her life is incredibly hard, but she is so good at doing that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

She has mastered that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

She's like an Olympic athlete.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

But bring it back to the wolves we talked about.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

If you actually spend time with wolves in the wild, which I've been very lucky enough to have done, you very quickly realize that they are not these sort of mindless man-eating killers.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

They have these amazing social systems.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And they are so stoked to be alive and in a pack.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And they love, oh my God, they love each other so much.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

It is so lovely.