Hi Sisters! James Charles here, and
welcome back to my YouTube channel.
For today's YouTube video we are doing something so much fun that I'm actually really, really pumped for.
Right now, going around there's a huge trend where
people are having their dogs and their cats pick their makeup.
I believe Jkissa was the first one to do this when she had her dog pick her makeup.
I know NikkieTutorials did a video, I know a few people had their cats pick their makeup.
And yes, all these videos are insanely
cute and so much fun to watch.
I really couldn't help but think, "hmm...boring."
Here on the Sister James Charles YouTube channel, we like to take things... just one step further.
You guys, I am literally so excited for
today's video. You guys know I always
like to make things very, very extra on this YouTube channel and
today's video is literally the definition of extra.
We are awake so early right now, it is currently 7:30 in the morning here in California, and for today's video we
partnered with the L.A. Zoo, and I'm gonna
be having some of my favorite zoo animals
pick my makeup. Now, this is gonna be so
much fun. The Zoo's actually gonna be taking
us around today on a private tour
which is so, so exciting, so we'll be able to
give you guys, kind of, the inside scoop,
give you guys lots of information on
all the animals. I have a ton of makeup
here with me today for all the animals
to pick through, and as well, all the
makeup products we're using in today's
video are cruelty-free, of course, in
honor of the zoo, and we have a lot of
animals to meet and say hi to today, so let's get started.
Alright Sisters, I am so excited to get started, and the first step of our routine today, of course, is
going to be our foundation.
Alright Sisters, so the first animal we are here today with are the flamingos and I am so excited because they're all so cute and
tiny and perched on their one leg. So, for
today they're going to be choosing between the Too
Faced Born This Way and the LA Girl
Pro.Matte. I really like both of these
foundations so, gonna be a good choice
regardless. There are some riskier
choices later on in the video, I promise.
Come on, come on!
They all have Harry Potter names, so...
Potter! Hello, I have food!
Okay, kitty girls! What noise do
flamingos like? I have food! Someone come select.
They want to come join the
party. Come on guys, it's fun over here.
Wow... now I see why having your dog or
your cat choose is easier. Come here, come here!
Yes, come here. No! They're a lot lighter
in color than I thought flamingos would be.
I'm gonna be one with the flamingos
so maybe they'll trust me more.
Hello!
Do you trust me now? Come on... oh, yes.
Queen of bribing. Let's go. Come on, guys,
Too Faced or LA Girl? I know this is a
life-changing decision for you.
[screams]
Oh my god!
You have got to be kidding me.
[flamingo impression]
Oh my god, they're so tiny and gray!
Too Faced Born This Way or LA Girl Pro.Matte?
Make a decision.
Hello?
You seem like you're a good candidate to
choose. I feel like this one definitely knows glam.
[squawk!]
Wait, that's a chicken.
Hello!
"This is Dobby."
Dobby the house elf! It's so soft!
Oh my god, they're so tall and skinny!
Like me, the skinniest legends.
Which one do you like better? Let's take a poll. Can you choose? Hello?
Hello!
Which one do you like better?
[flamingo impression]
[another flamingo impression]
Oh, wow! Hello. Thank you!
Can I touch it?
"Yeah!"
Ow!
They all voted for Too Faced Born This Way, so it looks like my holy grail is a winner.
Good taste, thank you.
Alright, so picking this foundation was definitely a little bit of a task. That is for sure!
The flamingos were definitely not
wanting to play. It's okay, it was very
early in the morning. I don't blame them.
I really had to be one with the
flamingo in order to get them to
recognize me, to trust me, to appreciate
me, and to help me actually choose a
foundation. And luckily, Potter the
flamingo was nice enough, in the end, and
he ended up choosing the Too Faced Born
This Way foundation that you guys know
this is my all-time favorite, so Potter
definitely has good taste. And I'm just
gonna go ahead and apply this at his recommendation.
You guys, meeting these flamingos was literally so much fun and such a good first step of this video.
They were all so funny, and every single one of them was named after a Harry Potter character,
and if you know me, I literally grew up being the biggest Harry Potter Stan ever.
I went to all the movies at the midnight premieres, they were like my all-time favorites. So, getting to walk
around with Hermione and Potter and
Weasley just really made my morning. But,
I will say, they were definitely not
giving me the time of day at first.
I really had to work pretty hard to get
them to trust me and to accept me into
their squad of flamingos. But, once they
finally did, they were so much fun
and we were just twerking around with them for a real one.
I was really surprised because all the flamingos were very much like, kind of white.
Really, really light pink, and all the babies
were gray, and I was like, what the heck?
These do not look like flamingos! But,
apparently flamingos actually don't get
their full-on bright pink color until
they're around 3 years of age, and it
actually comes from the food they eat. We
learned that that, like, backwards leg that the
flamingos have isn't actually their knee,
where you'd think it would be.
It's actually their ankle, so their legs are
like... weird.
And I don't know if you guys have ever picked up on this or noticed this, but if you ever look at a video of
me standing, or if you meet me in person,
my legs are always crossed. No matter
what. If I'm standing still, my legs are
100% at, like, a weird "T" angle, and it's
because I have scoliosis and one of my hips is higher than the other one. But, I just
thought it was so funny because I've
been made fun of that my entire life
Flamingos, sisters, I feel you. We can just be weird standing people together.
Alright sisters, so thanks to the flamingos our foundation is all on and ready to go, and
our next step is going to be our concealer.
Oh my god! She's so fluffy!
Okay guys, so this is Olive the porcupine,
and we're gonna be having her choose
between my two concealers today.
Can't pet her, right? Because it will hurt the most.
"That's right. So, she has some really, really long quills. They're all underneath that outside layer of hair."
Whoa!
And then, she can shoot those out, right?
"No, she can't shoot it out, she can't throw it. Something actually has to touch it.
And they're barbed, so when they stick to something, they'll pull away really easy."
Oh!
"Can you wave to everybody? Good girl!"
Oh my god! Olive, say, 'Hi sister!'
Now, how sharp are the actual quills?
"They're very sharp. She sheds them like regular hair,
so it's like the worst house cat in the world,
because when you accidentally sit down on them,
you can actually accidentally quill yourself.
They're barbed, so once they're in, they actually have microscopic barbs, and they'll expand and make it hard for them to come out.
They actually will only move in one
direction, and that's in.
So, they'll actually move all the way through the animal that they quill, so it's a really
bad day for anything that decides to try and eat a porcupine."
Yeah, so definitely not stabbing myself. Nevermind!
She's so cute, though!
Oh my god, suddenly this is a mukbang video. Trisha Paytas is shaking.
Olive is coming for her career. Ended. Over.
I only stan Olive the porcupine.
Wow, this is ASMR, too. Listen to that.
[munch munch munch]
Okay, let's have her pick!
Okay guys, so for concealers today, we have our two different options being the Tarte Shape Tape,
and then also the ColourPop No Filter concealer.
I'm a huge fan of both of these so, regardless of whatever Sister Olive picks, I'll be happy.
But, they will definitely change how the base actually looks on camera so, let's see what Sister Olive is preferring today.
Do you wanna choose right now? Which one do you want? Oh my god!
Looks like Olive picked the ColourPop No Filter concealer. We didn't even have to bribe her with some food.
So, it looks like we're gonna be getting glam using the ColourPop No Filter concealer.
Thanks, Olive!
Alright guys, so Olive the porcupine chose the ColourPop No Filter concealer.
Today I'm gonna be using the shade 'Fair,' number five, just to highlight the inner parts of my face.
And literally, Olive was so nice.
I was a little bit nervous to meet a porcupine, but she was literally so sweet and so fluffy, like she looked so
cute that I wanted to touch her.
But, the zoo keeper said, 'Mm, probably shouldn't do that unless you want to get sister stabbed.'
Well, what I didn't realize is that those white spikes were not actually her spikes, they're
part of her fur. And all the spikes are like, inside of the fur, and are like, kind of hidden.
So, she looks soft and fluffy and nice and fine and fresh, but you get too close to her and she sister stabs you,
and then you die. Which is just lovely and fun.
What I did not know, and I actually found so funny, is that apparently porcupines are considered the largest
rodent in North America.
First of all, I thought that was me.
I'm so funny.
I did not know that they were part of the
rodent family... is the fun fact of the day.
Contrary to popular belief, as well, because I asked this question: porcupines
can't shoot their quills, which maybe you know, but I did not. I thought that if a porcupine was like, threatened,
it could 'phew' sister shoot out their quills and like, aim it at their prey, and get 'em good but, that's
definitely not the case at all. It actually has to make physical contact
and then, the quill like, goes in the skin and
then like, opens up so that you can't
really pull it out, and you can only go further in, then it kills them. This is getting dark really fast...
Point-blank being: 'don't get caught by a porcupine' is the moral of the story.
But Olive was really nice and fun and fresh, and now our concealer is done.
So, we have our whole base on, looking so beautiful.
I've actually not used this combination in a very long time, and I am loving how
this is looking so far, so I'm super, super excited. These animals definitely have
really, really great taste.
But, we need to work fast and set this in place so,
let's find a speedy and energetic animal to help us out.
Sisters, so we're currently in the petting zoo, and we have our goat here. Sister Poncho is
gonna help us choose a setting powder today. We're choosing between the RCMA No-Color Powder and the Cover FX powder.
I'm a little bit nervous for this one because this one is not my favorite. I've tried this before, and it gives me
Flashback Mary sometimes. And this powder, I have not tried. I've heard great things but, you never know, so.
I have some carrots to incentivize them and to say a
little 'thank you' for helping us choose today, but let's see what Poncho the goat has decided for us.
I love him! He's gonna come home with me.
He'll be part of the glam squad. Team Sister. Oh my god, you could be our new editor. We are hiring.
Oh! Hello!
Paw?
Hi! Ouch.
Handshake? Oh, you're welcome. Do you like that? Does that feel good?
I love a good sister scratch. Which one do
you want? Carrot?
Oh, he wants both.
Okay, looks like we're gonna be using the Cover FX powder today. Thanks, Poncho!
Alright guys, so Poncho the goat was so excited to help us out today. He was literally so
sweet. Love him the most ever in the entire world. I think I probably need to adopt a pet goat right now.
And he chose the Cover FX powder, and I was gonna use this in the shade 'Light' to set my face in place today.
Honestly, probably my favorite fact of the entire day is that goats can spend up to 14 hours a day...
eating.
Mood. Hello? That is me.
I also thought it was really cool too because the goats were in a, like, petting zoo so a lot of the kids can
actually go in and meet them. They're one of the few animals that you can really interact with at the Zoo.
And, although you can actually go in and pet the goats and feed them, they had, actually, a roped-off area
inside of their pen, that if the goats are
feeling overwhelmed or tired or just
bored, and don't want to talk to people
anymore, they can just go in the ropes.
And then you can't touch them.
I need that. At all times.
Hello?
Also too, one thing that I noticed when I was close-up with Poncho feeding him, is
that goats actually have a rectangular
pupil in their eyeball. And because of
this, they actually have a 330°, like, peripheral vision. Meaning that they can see almost entirely around them
without having to move their heads. Hello, that is the coolest thing ever. Can you imagine how many fun things
we could do if we can see 330° around us? Like, you
could sister spot straight boys from all angles.
You could...
Mm, that's a little matters, honestly.
Or I guess if you're a goat, you can like, spot predators but, then again, spotting straight boys: far more fun.
Alright guys, so our face is all set in
place and locked in and ready to go.
It is literally a trillion degrees in Los
Angeles today I am sister sweating
for a real one so, thank god we have a lot
of powder. But, now we need to contour
because we're looking a little bit flat. So let's see how we can really chisel out our face and look nice and sculpted.
Hey girl! We're here with the giraffes.
This is Sister Hasina, and today she's gonna be choosing our bronzer / contour.
So we have the NYX Pro contouring palette and also the Too Faced Chocolate Soleil bronzer.
"Giraffes are one of the species people don't think about as being endangered because we have a lot of pictures
of them, you can kind of imagine that they're really ubiquitous in Africa, but a lot of them...
their populations are shrinking because their habitats are shrinking, so that's why every baby born
at the zoo is a really good... really good news for the species."
Oh my god.
"The way giraffe society kind of works is that the biggest, strongest guy gets a group of ladies to be his."
So, we've got one adult male in here, Philip. And he's got two adult females that are his, uh...
girlfriends, so to speak. One adult female that he's kind of interested in, and then
the remaining two giraffes that are there are his babies, his kids."
Sounds like me, with all the Instagram hot boys that I comment on their photos. Multiple boyfriends.
Okay sister, which one do you want?
Oh. My god. Okay!
Wow, what that tongue do!
So it looks like Hasina chose the NYX Pro contouring palette.
Alright sisters, so after much deliberation and much bribery, Hasina the giraffe finally ended up picking the
NYX Pro contour palette. I'm a huge fan of this product. I also really love the Too Faced bronzer
as well so, either one was definitely gonna be a winner. But, let's go ahead and contour our face.
It was so cool learning about the giraffes today.
They were literally all so beautiful and just so like, majestic which sounds so weird to say, but
I did not know that giraffes are actually on the verge of being endangered. Right now, they're technically
considered "vulnerable," which means that they're one step away from actually being on the endangered list.
It's so incredibly sad because their habitats are being taken away and, I know that there's kind of, like a
common misconception in zoos of like, 'Oh, like these animals should not be kept in zoos like,
just put them back in their habitat.' But, a lot of these animals don't actually have habitats to go back to,
because they're being destroyed and deforested so quickly, and...
it was really, really sad.
It was actually so cool too, because we got to meet the lead giraffe keeper who was at the zoo, and
he had literally just gotten back from a several weeks trip to Africa to be part of a giraffe conservation program.
Also, which I thought was literally the funniest thing ever
a lot of the giraffes in the actual exhibit were little babies.
Which, at first I was so confused by, because they were all equally as tall.
Hello, that's what giraffes are known for. And I asked how old they were because I wanted to know
how quickly they grew. And, apparently
giraffes are literally born out of their
mothers at 6 feet tall already. Hello,
I need all boys to be like that, first of all.
Second of all like, oh my god, that poor, that poor mother!
Alright guys, so I just went ahead and baked my face to really reinforce those highlights.
But, I'm realizing that I was just so excited about talking about the giraffes, because I literally love them so much,
that I actually forgot blush. Let's go ahead and see which animal can help us get a little bit of color back.
Alright guys, so we're here at the ostriches and we're going to ask Sister David
...I love how all the animals have like, fun and fresh names, and then this ostrich is just... David.
I have the Anastasia Beverly Hills blush trio in the shade 'Peachy Love.' You guys know I love a good peach blush.
And then also, the Jouer blush duo in the shades 'Adore.'
So, the left side of the bowl is gonna be Anastasia, and the right side's gonna be Jouer.
Let's see which one they eat from.
Hello.
Oh, they picked the middle. You're kidding me.
Really?
Literally eating right out of the—oh! Right side.
Okay, Jouer it is.
That was a reach.
Oh, she looked at me, too. She knew. She said, 'I'm not helping you, girl. You're welcome for that content.'
She said, 'I do not work for free. Contact my manager beforehand.'
Hollywood. Of course. Wow, ostriches apparently love doing charity work today.
I think we're gonna go with the Jouer blush in 'Adore.'
Alright guys, so David the ostrich is being a little bit sister sassy with us today. He did not want to help us out.
So rude, but finally we ended up going with the Jouer blush in the shades 'Adore.'
I really, really love this blush duo so, I'm gonna go ahead and apply this.
Fun ostrich fact for you, just in case you want to learn a little bit more: ostriches are the fastest animal on earth
that walk on two legs. So fun. We love a speedy sister.
Alright guys, so the next step of our
makeup routine is going to be the brows.
Of course brows require a lot of concentration, a lot of precision, you got to have your brows on fleek.
And what better animal to choose brow products today than chimps?
Chimps are super, super intelligent, so today they're gonna be choosing between the wet n wild brow pencil
and also the Anastasia Beverly Hills one. Let's see which one is gonna snatch my brows today.
Oh! Me!
Oh my god, hello! Can I ask you to choose
between these? Which one?
Can you help me? Oh!
Rude.
Come here, come here, come here!
Oh! Come here!
Oh! Hi!
Oh! Which one?
Oh, definitely likes the wet n wild pencil. Hello!
I'm sure most of you guys already know this, but chimpanzees are actually the closest cousin to humans.
So like, they're technically our sisters.
Kind of. So fun, love that for us.
But literally, just like I talked about beforehand, chimpanzees are already
endangered, which is—once again—so sad.
And they're closely related to us, too.
How are we, humans, ruining that? So sad!
Like literally, this blows my mind. It's like, disgusting.
Alright, my eyebrows are finally kind of done. That literally just took me 30 minutes.
Um, wet n wild, and sister chimpanzees, love you guys the most ever in the entire world, but will never be using this again.
So we are definitely just gonna take the L here. Move on to the next step, which is going to be our eyeshadow.
Alright guys, so we're here with sister Evelyn the gorilla, and we're gonna hopefully have her choose our eyeshadow today.
So we have the Anastasia Soft Glam palette, and also the Jeffree Star Cosmetics Thirsty palette.
Two definitely very, very different color schemes. And let's see what sister Evelyn is feeling today.
Evelyn, do you like the Soft Glam?
'No.' She said no to Soft Glam. She said, 'We want to do color today, ladies.'
Anastasia Soft Glam, sorry girl, out the window. Looks like we're using the Jeffree Star Thirsty palette today.
I'm down for this. Have not gotten to play with this yet.
Sister Evelyn, do you like these colors?
Great.
Alright guys, so Evelyn the gorilla ended up choosing the Jeffree Star Thirsty palette.
I am so excited to play with this one today,
and also, as well, which I thought was so
cute, and I just realized literally now
filming this video, Evelyn was a western lowland gorilla, and she actually had orange and blue on her face.
And look at the palette she picked.
Literally, hello. Orange. Blue.
Queen.
I'm gonna start by grabbing a fluffy crease brush, and dipping into this shade right here.
The name of which I cannot say on-camera, being that this is a family-friendly YouTube channel.
But, it is calling my name and I'm gonna pop this right in the crease just to kind of
start off our eye look today. I honestly
have no idea what I'm doing yet. I'm just
gonna play around, just like the gorillas did...
That was a really bad pun...
And see what I can come up with. This is like, a hybrid between like, an orange and a pink and a peach.
This color is so pretty, I'm obsessed with it, wow.
I'm next gonna grab a little fluffy brush and dip into the shade 'Quench.' It's this bright yellow
shade in the bottom right here, and I'm just gonna lightly go over those edges to make sure they're nice and blended out.
Super, super similarly and obviously, unfortunately, to the giraffes and the chimpanzees, the gorillas are actually
endangered. And, not only are they
endangered, but they're actually what's
called "critically endangered," meaning
that they are literally about to be
extinct. Fortunately though, there are so
many programs and so many people working
tirelessly, and putting in so much effort
to do everything that they possibly can
to keep gorillas alive, and well, and with us here on planet Earth.
Similar to the giraffe keeper, the gorilla keeper Tania actually travels to Africa all the time
to work actively towards gorilla
conservation in the field. We also found
out, too, on the very, very DL, so I don't
know if I'm supposed to tell you guys
this, but Tania actually personally funds
tracking permits in order to send
Rangers out there to protect the gorillas against poaching.
Which I literally think is so, so, so cool,
so honorable, and I hope I'm allowed to
say that, but I just think that is really,
really dope, and it shows that there are
truly good people out there working
actively to save these animals.
Next I'm gonna grab the shade 'Stroke' in the
upper right hand corner, and use this to
deepen up the crease just a little bit. I'm
gonna grab the shade 'Drizzle' on a
tiny little fluffy brush in the bottom
corner, and use this to deepen up the
crease in the outer "V." I literally have
no idea where this look is going.
Just like none of these animals know where their habitat is going.
That was a good pun. But, a serious pun.
I'm gonna use some excess concealer and cut the crease,
and then right on top of the concealer I'm just gonna grab the shade 'Filthy Rich,' and pack that right on
for a nice little pop.
And then, I'm just going right back in with the original shade, I'm just going to blend out that edge,
just to make sure that there's no harsh lines.
Ohh!
That's pretty! Hello!
Alright guys, and to finish off this eye look today for the lower lash line, this is
gonna be super simple. I'm just going to
add in a bright pop of blue, so I'm gonna
grab the shade 'Submerge,' right down here. This color is so, so, so, so stunning, and I'm
just gonna put this right up against the lower lash line. I think this needs a wing liner so it's like, separated.
That was supposed to be a small wing.
She's big and beefy!
Alright guys, and that is one gorilla-inspired eye look all complete!
I'm gonna go finish the other one off-camera, and I'll be right back to finish off the rest of the look.
Alright sisters, I am back I just did the other eye off-camera, and I popped on
a pair of lashes (cruelty-free and definitely not mink, of course).
I popped on a pair of House of Lashes Iconics. I used to wear these lashes literally all the time, and they are so beautiful and
stunning.
Hello! Let's go ahead and move on to the next step, which is going to be our highlighter.
Alright guys, so the otters are coming to play with us today. I heard that they love sparkly and shiny things
and, um, hello—same.
So, I'm gonna have them choose my highlighter today, and I have the wet n wild highlighter,
and also the brand new KKW Beauty highlighter, so let's see which ones these guys want to choose.
Oh my god, I'm obsessed with otters, they're so cute!
Oh my god!
Oh! My! God!
[screams]
This is the cutest ever!
Hi! Hello, can you help us?
Oooh!
Hello, do you like this one?
Oh, this one really likes Sister Kim!
Alright sisters, so between the two of these, our otter friend definitely chose the KKW Beauty highlighter.
He was following this one all around in the pool. It was so, so, so cute.
I'm literally obsessed with otters, but they
just went down the water side and left us,
(very, very rude) because their keeper is feeding them.
But also...
I don't blame them for leaving us for food. I
would also do the same thing, so.
For our highlighter today, of course, we're gonna be using the brand new KKW Beauty highlighter palette.
I'm gonna dip into these two shades, as chosen by my otter friends.
I was literally convinced that I like, wanted to adopt an otter after meeting them.
They are all so, so, so adorable, and so cute.
But otters, similarly to a lot of the other
animals we're talking about today, are
actually endangered due to habitat
destruction, which is so incredibly sad.
And our tour guide at the zoo was actually telling us how it's a really, really awesome thing at the zoo when they actually get a new litter of otters,
because of the fact that it's like, giving them a home, and it's furthering the population because
there aren't much of them left. And zoos are kind of one of the only places they can actually exist safely.
Alright guys, so now that we are all glowing for the gods, our last step of the day is going to be our lips.
For this, we are heading into the one exhibit that I really didn't want to attempt today! And that is the LAIR,
with all of the reptiles and amphibians. If you guys know me, you would know that I have a major fear of...
snakes (ooh) and a lot of other reptiles, so hopefully the choosing process will be okay.
I know we'll be safe, but I'm just a little bit concerned. And hopefully, one of them will be able to choose our
lippity-doo-dah. So, we have our Morphe lipsticks
(use code "James" for 10% off),
and then also a Kylie liquid lipstick. Both really great options to finish off this look.
Hello!
Come here!
Which one do you like? Ooh!
Does he like the Morphe liquid lipsticks?
He definitely likes the Morphe lipsticks! Oh, good taste!
Oh my god, so the butaan definitely just chose the Morphe lipsticks. I'm really excited, because
these just came out. The formula is literally the best in the entire world. Good taste, sister. Love you the most.
Thanks to our sister butaan friend, he ended up picking the Morphe brand new lipsticks.
Of course, use code "James" for 10% off.
I'm gonna mix together the shades 'Caught' and 'Flirt.'
Super fun fact about the butaan, now that my lips are done and I'm gonna set my face in place.
Since we've been talking so negatively about extinction and endangerment this entire video,
it was thought that the butaan was actually extinct! Until, in the 1980s when they actually discovered the species
living again and alive.
Hello! We love a safe sister!
Literally me, coming back from all my scandals.
Alright sisters! And I think my makeup look fully chosen by different zoo animals is now complete!
And oh my god, I literally love how this look turned out today. Like, hello. I feel so beautiful.
All these animals had absolutely amazing taste, and today was genuinely so much fun.
I want to say a major, major thank you to the L.A. Zoo for working with me on this video today.
I know that zoos sometimes can have a negative connotation with them, and have had a little bit of a
controversial past. And, not even gonna lie, going into this video today I was a little bit nervous and skeptical.
But everything that I saw, and everybody that I met, and everything that I learned today taught me the exact opposite.
Every single person we met from the Zoo, right from our tour guide Katherine (who is literally the sweetest
in the entire world), to all the different zoo keepers, you could tell were so passionate and so knowledgeable
about their jobs. Every single question that we asked, they had a million different answers for, and were really
just so excited to tell us everything about each animal. It was so blatantly obvious to us how much each
different zoo keeper actually took care of their animals, and was so passionate about their jobs.
Some of them literally even making their own personally-funded treks to the animals' natural habitat to work on
preservation and to learn more. I know
there's a common misconception about
zoos and the mistreatment of animals. And
listen guys, I was very skeptical when I
went into this, as well. And it was
actually really cool because I did get
to actually ask Katherine, our tour guide,
about this, and she even admitted that
this definitely was a huge issue in the
past. But a lot of zoos now are working
actively on preservation and conservation
to fix the reputation that was given to
them so many years ago. I know it's very
easy to see an exotic animal in an
enclosure and think, 'Oh my god, this
animal needs to be released back into
the wild, it doesn't belong here. But in
reality, a lot of the animals that we got
to meet, and interact with, and learn
about today were critically endangered.
Meaning that they don't really have
habitats to actually go back to. Zoos are
kind of one of the only places left
where they can actually exist safely as
a species, and at least humans will get
to learn about them, and appreciate them,
and do anything we possibly can to keep
them here for as long as possible.
I want to say a major, major thank you to the L.A. Zoo for working with me on this video today.
This video was not sponsored at all, but they really went above and beyond to help us out today
and make sure that we got an amazing video with a bunch of amazing animals.
The L.A. Zoo actually won an international award last year for conservation, which literally is just so cool
and truly shows how much work and love they put into their jobs every single day.
So, I encourage you guys to do research, visit, learn more, and see what you can do actively to help,
because I know I'm going to.
I had such an amazing day today, and I genuinely cannot wait to go back and learn so much more.
And I want to see what I can do to help, and I advise you guys to all do the same.
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