Shaquille O'Neal's Love for Zoos: A Humorous and Fascinating Look

Shaquille O'Neal, the former NBA superstar, is not just a beloved athlete but also a self-proclaimed zoo aficionado. In a shocking revelation, Shaq claims to have visited every single zoo on earth, leaving fans and zoologists alike in awe. His impressive claim has been corroborated by an executive from the Miami Zoo, who confirmed that Shaq's large size intimidates the gorillas at their primate exhibit. According to the zoo official, the gorillas feel threatened by Shaq's presence, which leads them to become aggressive towards him.

Shaq's alleged love for zoos has sparked amusement and curiosity among his fans, with some even speculating that he might be a closet conservationist. However, there is no concrete evidence to support this claim, and it remains unclear whether Shaq's interest in zoos stems from a genuine passion for wildlife or simply a quirky hobby.

A recent episode of The Big Podcast with Shaq shed more light on his fascination with zoos, where he revealed that he is particularly fond of the animal exhibits. Unfortunately, the podcast did not delve deeper into his conservation efforts or any potential plans to use his fame and fortune to protect endangered species. Nevertheless, it's undeniable that Shaquille O'Neal's enthusiasm for zoos has brought a smile to many faces.

One fascinating anecdote from Shaq's zoo visit is about an incident at the forestry service's bird exhibit in Kentucky. A falconer demonstrated the art of training birds of prey by launching a small falcon, which then flew around the room before suddenly attacking an outfielder during a baseball game. The falconer reportedly handled the situation with ease, remaining calm and composed as the eagle swooped in to attack the unsuspecting player.

In another surprising development, it was reported that Shaq had also visited a zoo in Miami, where he took a photo that has been widely shared online. However, the zookeeper responsible for taking the picture was not amused, revealing that Shaq did not look happy when his image was being captured. The zookeeper's candid response raised questions about whether there were any NFTs involved or if the photo was simply a genuine moment of levity.

Shaq's fondness for zoos is undeniable, and while it may be perceived as unusual or even humorous by some, it is clear that he has a deep appreciation for wildlife. Whether his interest in zoos will translate into meaningful conservation efforts remains to be seen, but one thing is certain – Shaquille O'Neal's love for animals has brought joy and laughter to many people around the world.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody welcome back to level 1 news today's february 18th it's friday so that means we're doing nonsense and robots which uh also probably maybe a little bit of space is there any space articles the first robot's nonsense definitely some space yeah the first robot man everybody is just stealing the the design aren't they they are i mean there's i guess you can't copyright this is a general idea yeah but uh yeah this is a spot robot it's not really a spot robot it's not a great value spot but uh i guess you know what it's a it's a it works so why do something different right now the problem with this robot the thing that's going to be controversial here is his job some people are not going to like it feature article robot dogs take another step towards deployment at the border all right so for those reasons i read it and i was like what's the dog gonna do here just patrol surveillance yes other than surveillance like i imagine they see someone crossing the border illegally and the dog comes up to and you know they just push it over and run away like i'm almost certain that i've seen this in countless dystopian sci-fi's where after the fall of civilization these guys are just running back and forth at arbitrary points in the desert and we'll just you know shoot on site kind of thing we'll be in the after the fall we'll be trying to link up with the mexicans just to you know restore human contact that's the danger and we're trying to get across the dog area these are the low-level monsters in horizon zero dawn that you have to shoot in the starting area yeah so that's uh you know it's terrible but i don't know i suppose they'll summon somebody else to come if they find something i mean if they're patrolling a huge area is that even helpful like i'll be there in 30 minutes robot i don't know it's a great headline though right yeah i mean it looks cool but of course we all want self-driving right everything needs to be self-driving but when it comes to cars yeah just build the future ones to be self-driving because cars we cycle them in and out pretty quickly but some vehicles you want to last a little bit longer than a car and it's much more difficult to get a new one so what do you do darpa flies a blackhawk helicopter without a pilot for 30 minutes sikorsky matrix autonomous flying technology so they will take your existing stuff and they will modify to be autonomous this has been great for rescue operations like it's too risky we can't risk losing a pilot it's like all right just send the helicopter and get the people but then then the equation becomes is this person worth as much as the self-driving helicopter not a lot no and the helicopter comes back and it's got them but they're dangling from the like the safety cord and their head is gone it went down too far this did not account for that and there's a trail of blood as it oh bad news for spacex oh now who do you think pays for this this might be an insurance claim yeah that's a big one the premiums are probably going up that is a big one though i don't know if it would be a successful claim well we'll talk about it in the story but you can you can monitor this type of thing yeah exactly there's a whole space weather website why go through with this launch it makes no sense a geomagnetic storm may have effectively destroyed 40 spacex starling satellites so it didn't destroy them but it was happening such that they had a lot of extra drag and they don't have enough fuel to reach the orbit where they were supposed to go do you think they even know that they're doomed yet some of them have already burned up yeah they're like oh we made it we're spacex satellites where are the other guys where'd everyone go apparently eight or nine of them did make it so there was at least some reason to believe that they could deal with this there's a medium event like it was it's not catastrophic for us here on earth but like it was projected ahead of time they knew it was coming they usually don't worry about drag and space obviously because there's no air but here they actually turn them sideways with the solar panels cutting through the geomagnetic storm because they knew this was going to happen again why not just delay the launch yeah but it didn't work it was worse than expected or well we weren't careful like icarus carrington event 2022 i guess the the rose colored glasses way of looking at that is that we learned an important lesson about spaceflight and elon musk paid for it but the taxpayer is going to pay for this and this is an ambitious little project yeah you think the the web telescope had a lot of moving parts that could go wrong imagine this nasa picks lockheed martin to build rocket to carry mars samples back to earth so this is a 194 million dollar project and that's just really that's like pocket change anymore to these the billionaires that we often report on we're going to go to mars we're going to get some samples and we're going to bring them back to earth nasa's so excited they're like yes finally we get some more space rocks uh-oh oh oh our brows are kind of messed up there fun times space.com it's not having it and uh augmented reality that is the other thing that was supposed to be a big hit you don't really see a whole lot of it seems like everybody's trying to do that keeps botching it but that doesn't stop them from keep continuing to make announcements unfortunately the name associated with this announcement is known more for bad things and do we really want them in charge of security clearview ai is working on augmented reality goggles for air force security and they're keeping the details quiet here's here's the details it uh is a camera with a heads up display and it sees you and it says oh i think that that person is this guy that has 17 outstanding warrants and then your day just gets much worse from there well it's basically the clear view system which has been maligned endlessly for being poor being racist and or just being evil in general horribly racist so then they're gonna pop that in a cloud somewhere put it in your glasses what could go wrong yeah just just what we need somebody that is you know barely competent to work mall security and the thing telling them that uh you know that you're a terrorist i mean they'll just they'll just shoot you wow way to cast shade on the mps for the air force uh and if if elon musk is having a bad week and i'm i'm pretty sure that he is at least he can take some solace in the fact that he didn't have this bad a week his problem was not this much of a problem astral launch of nasa's sponsored cubesat has failed so maybe nasa was right to just keep awarding contracts to spacex so they're not sure exactly what happened they think it was one of the staging systems did not separate correctly and it just tumbled but for sure that cubesat ain't gonna be up there gonna have to make another one of those again i ask who pays for that it died is that on astra nasa's not gonna pay for that right no i hope not our next one we often talk about words that lose their meaning but did you read all of it i think there might be more nuance to this there is a little bit more nuance but i'm imagining someone just taking stuff out of people's chests and it's like the mod team descends with a fury and a quickness also hard to find a real story about i had to go to free malaysia today to get a non-paywall version of this so are you talking about the explosives part of this because i got the feeling that i was just teenagers with cherry bombs well he also had i think he was more subversive than he let on and i think this was just an excuse for that i don't think they care at all about minecraft yeah russian minecraft quote-unquote terrorists gets five years in jail so in minecraft there was a russian what was it a train station or something no it was like a it was like our version of a cia building or something like that ftb yeah in minecraft it exists in minecraft and so they were plotting to destroy that in minecraft using tnt yeah uh a powerful domestic security agency and successor of the kgb can you really blame him for that i don't like that they arrested him now they found a bunch of other stuff when they rested him which is not great he had been caught papering buildings with you know like revolutionary stuff they knew him before and i think he made some other kind of threat uh certainly not as cut and dry as a lot of the headlines made it out to be but five years in siberia yeah five years in siberia seems a little harsh for a minecraft thing next year in november if one of you gets caught griefing guantanamo right to guantanamo yeah they were it's like you're designated an enemy combatant for doing this so far i mean you know obviously don't grief but like it's kind of intense isn't it yeah i think i think this is perhaps chill out again just loss of loss of meaning words have lost their meaning oh yeah the word terrorist has absolutely lost all meaning hasn't it it's astonishing how often that is trotted out especially in canada i don't think any of those people in canada are any anything of the sort oh there's definitely terrorists in canada come on let's not be naive the population is only 30 million it would have to be like two in the entire country but they're extreme here's a story where you know i feel like i read the story and i didn't get enough information and this not enough bad things happen to this man yeah like how is this is this a a product of like the great resignation and the the youth just hating everything this is an old man this guy wasn't a youth oh really how was he he was like in his 60s oh my god yeah that makes it even crazier board museum security guard draws eyes on a pricey russian painting is painting worth over a million dollars u.s insured for a million dollars yeah no one's offered to buy it much like an nft it's probably just a scam for money laundering so it's kind of hard to tell the difference his eyes weren't very good well i mean i think they're appropriate for the artwork oh you like the eyes honestly if i was the artist if i had any say i would be like yeah whatever oh i did not expect that to be your take on that i mean obviously you shouldn't have done it but if i was the artist i wouldn't have cared but i would think that you know on your first day of security guard at the art museum lesson one day one do not touch the artworks yeah do you think though i mean i kind of get what chris is saying now i never would have considered that but it's like you know the artwork was so powerful that this guard had an irresistive urge to try i could talk about that at length but like i think the best kind of artist collaborative so i would personally love that but a lot of maybe more traditional artists would probably like don't touch it so you probably like the banana art then where it was just the guy that taped the banana to the wall and then he may have paid somebody to go eat the banana yeah i like that because it makes fun of the whole art community where they put too much value on just like the idea of something like an nft but duchamp did it better that guy was from a third party staffing agency he was not hired directly by the museum that staffing agency is probably just like oh well maybe the museum should start hiring their own security yeah that's right maybe part of the interview should be can you go more than five minutes without being engaged with something well that's the other thing too right like they probably don't want to pay someone health insurance and benefits and stuff like we'll just do a third party agency what's the worst thing that could happen clearly this the other person's job title was chief of security for tim cook but when i looked him up he only came up with his associate so they hired that guy instead all right this dot i n is india right yeah did you understand anything i was hoping i like my eyes glazed over and it's like i don't know i read it engagement challenge i read it twice and i don't know anything about it it's in english and yet it conveyed no facts to me at all no no meaning the morning express reports a question about pokemon in a carabineri what is that word the union intervenes i don't understand this why did we include this just because it blew my mind i when i saw the pokemon headline i was oh that'd be a fun nonsense story right pokemon and i cannot parse it at all no listen to the answers right here's here's the question what is among others a characteristic of pokemon the creatures of the video game of the same name by satoshi tajiri here are your answers engagement challenge try to find the correct answer at home without cheating let them eat pizza let them not die in combat let them walk backwards or let them travel with one-wheeled bicycles this has to be like is this a bot riding maybe did we get botted this might be the equivalent of uh remember number stations like during the war uh there would be radio stations of people just randomly reading numbers maybe this is the equivalent of that or remember the when they were using britney spears instagram oh yeah they're decoding control the botnet maybe that's this weird that's just madness and uh you know it's dark times especially inflation a lot of people trying to get food trying to make sure that there's supply at the grocery store and that's why this kind of theft is just disgusting tens of thousands of bees stolen from grocery store in central pa headquarters i'll slap an h on that box so we know it's full of hornets yeah i mean i'm pretty sure that all 60 000 bees were in these three containers here i mean it probably doesn't take a whole lot to get 60 000 bees bees but somebody wanted them after reading the story the algorithm decided that i wanted to see other b stories and one of them was uh stingerless bees becoming popular pet in australia how does it defend itself i didn't i didn't i just didn't click on the article do you keep them in your home every every article i read about bees is like oh no they're dying please plant a pollinator garden yeah 45 lost last year i got so much clover in my yard that's great they love clover be positive your neighbor next door who's probably spraying as long as pesticides not so much isn't isn't your neighbor kind of like a crazy lawn guy he just mows oh he doesn't spray that's good i realized when i said be positive most people probably think hepatitis the worst kind to be positive here's a story that uh maybe this is the end like the final stroke that destroys blockchain and nfts right like sometime in the future after they've done this this mouse becomes the downfall of that entire system somehow that we can only hope at least a dao wants to inject bitcoin into mouse dna via genetically modified virus dubbed bitmaps has anything happened in the last couple of years that might give us pause in terms of these kinds of experiments uh genetic manipulation leading to bad things so now i can't think of anything i think of any reason that you might want to avoid something like this some kind of unintended consequence coming from this yet another careful icarus story so yes they're going to put the bitcoin number into the mouse's genome then they're going to turn that mouse into an nft separately and they expect both to increase in value as cryptocurrency increases in value what happens if you lose the mouse what if your cat kills the mouse we have a machine to turn the mouse into an nft it's called the power blend well i they also said that the offspring of the mouse would also have the same sequence but then wouldn't that make them all claims on the same money yeah yeah it's like those old school farms where it's like great great great grandpappy had 500 acres but now all the kids have like a half an acre except it doesn't work like that it's just whoever gets there first yeah that's true but then you have to figure out how to extract the number and they haven't even proven that they could do that somebody should run this on uh on the the dna of life on earth and see if there's any like you know kilroy was here uh in our dna a blockchain we uh decode it and it just says we're sorry for this well we've had a couple of weeks in a row now maybe three where book banning featured heavily we are still banning books and again this is bipartisan well i mean it's partisan it's entirely partisan but both teams are doing it listen so much of our other stuff is messed up that this is a distraction so it's like oh are very real problems let's make some other problems that people will get riled up about and people are riled up furries raise money for libraries after mayor threatens to withhold funds due to lgbtq plus books now a lot of our our uh well-heeled tippers are furries so thank you and a bunch of furries got together to fund buying a lot of books to replace the books that have actually already been removed i mean say what you want about furries but is this a negative thing like that no that's positive this is a this is one in the corner for free there are there are a lot of furries in the uh tech community you know a lot of them are well-heeled paws pod yeah they don't have heels oh well because they're cat people well what a micro aggression you just committed the uh the furries needed a win can we admit that yeah they've had a lot of bad press yeah this is good press for free have they had any good press i think this might be the first positive furry story we've ever seen positive that's why people subscribe now krista i know that you are a huge advocate of milk yeah i love drinking milk drink it almost constantly and i also know that you are uh not someone to shy away from chocolate milk no i don't drink as much as what i did when i was young i would have been upset by this if i was in school when this happened but even you have to admit that is sugar water yeah oh absolutely and it is terrible for us but delicious though do we want the overlords making that decision for us i would argue not students begin protest after chocolate milk has been into school they really they so in our generation they took out like we had fruitopia machines and then we had like coke machines they took out all that and then it was just all you could get was milk or water they pretended there for a while that those fruit drinks were better yeah and soda but they had more sugar in some cases yeah yeah they kept well i think yeah it was the coke machines that went first then the fruitopia has it always been the case that the chocolate milk had crazy amounts of sugar yes oh my god yes yeah i mean it was great delicious but definitely not healthy usually i'm into all things you know super sugar but i never could get into chocolate milk the first time i tried chocolate milk i think i had one that was spoiled oh and i never connected that that one that was your your flavor profile that was filed away the problem with the chocolate milk is it was harder to tell if it was spoiled because it smelled like chocolate well i didn't like it at all but i really like milk have you ever gone back yeah i just don't have the taste for it that's not a bad thing right but i mean the first time i tried it it was just like what if you've just uncovered an amazing new business that we can start where people hire us to selectively poison their children with bad foods yeah are you sure you want a candy bar yeah you know we make like the most delicious pizza that you've ever had and then we just rub raw pork all over that's kind of a thing that they do with like or you do with small children when uh they see you eating something and you're like oh i'm eating a vegetable you wouldn't like it or it's spicy you wouldn't like it but you're actually eating like a chocolate bar the doctor that genetically modified those babies in china got three years but maybe we can get him after he gets out to genetically modify the babies to not like those foods oh yeah that's what we need a generation of people who can't feel any joy running the country aren't we kind of already there well here's a quick follow-up we reported that in china the movie fight club had the ending changed a bit i guess they thought that no one would notice but everyone noticed the original fight club ending has been restored in china after censorship backlash and a rare censorship reversal chinese streamer 10 cent video has undone this maligned cuts to the conclusion of david fincher's 1999 cult of classic pretty sure that that's only if you're streaming from outside china and if you do watch the real ending you probably go on a list just to be sure your social credit score might suffer a bit i don't i missed this one oh yeah i had this late last night this was a bizarre one and uh you know this is one of those situations like we talked about last week with the mystery canada brain disease where it's just like it's been going on for a while and no one can offer any no there's no extra i couldn't find a lot of articles about this and no one has an answer for what it is and it's like how can we not figure this out how is there not a team working on this yeah no explanation for quote-unquote mystery liquid falling from sky over neighborhood this is in i think utah vegas vegas so yeah it's just a particular neighborhood just getting this weird liquid and they had some interviews with people who lived in the area and they're like i can't go out enjoy my yard or like have a barbecue cause i'm constantly worried about stuff falling on me or on my food and they say they're washing their cars like every other day which is good thing to do in the desert i wonder if it has anything to do with area 51. i also had that thought i was like there's probably some military bases around there but yeah no details let's go down that rabbit hole what at area 51 would create a black oily discharge that is aerosol are they cloud seeding but they're put they're doing it wrong somehow i'm not thinking aliens i'm thinking more like tuskegee airmen experiments oh so these people we're going to figure out what's wrong yeah okay there was a a similar story i think from the 1800s here in kentucky where like meat fell from the sky and they never could figure out exactly what caused that either wendell there was a there was a story i hope that you're not suggesting that america the pinnacle of civilization would resort to unwanted medical experimentation on its people wouldn't be the first time what's this what was the excuse for the meat oh wow i never heard it there was a there was a miner that had a whole bunch of leftover dynamite did you just throw in like a field of pigs or something and the there were his neighbors a herd of cows were constantly doing something that he didn't like so he lured them all into like this low spot and blew them up it covered a huge area though yeah wow that's uh i can understand being mad about the cows but wow that's i mean really taking it out on them right yeah it's like well there's nothing there's a couple horror stories like that about eastern kentucky there's a place along the shelton trace when you hike called dog slaughter falls don't ask why it's called dog slaughter falls it's not a good story could it be that dogs were slaughtered there maybe just a few well our next story i gotta say shocked me not because of the contents of the story but because i thought it was gonna go the completely opposite direction it did not i wasn't ready for this at all uh cnn world reports the job protests spread in india as girls refused to be told what not to wear that's right it's like hey if we want to wear this we want to we're going to wear this wouldn't this be a religious freedom thing too like if you want to wear it it almost yeah and it almost sounded like uh you know it's like we we get heckled if we don't wear it and this way we can just you know be left alone and it's like no no it's the other way around so india is majority hindi oh right all right and these girls are muslim yeah so the university is very much hindi and they look down on this as like you know oh face covering that's archaic and wrong so when these girls go to school they get jeered at for wearing these things okay they're fighting for their right to hide themselves which is interesting i also don't like to be perceived so fair maybe you should get a job kristen unfortunately i think that would make me more perceived and i got you know what i am never disappointed week after week we always get a black hole story well i mean we're you're probably looking for them right but no this one's a tiny baby one too i'm not looking i'm not especially i'm not typing black hole anywhere when i look at all the various uh new sites new sites and stuff inevitably there is one and it's always great because it always plays into your particular fear that it's going to spiral into earth and kill us because this one guess where it is oh no astronomers find first ever rogue black hole adrift in the milky way adrift krista it could be very close to us you know because the milky way is very small as we all know it's only seven times the mass of our sun that is tiny that is super tiny stealth stealth black stealth mission it could you know it's super tiny it could could just float right through destroying everything in its path oops there goes jupiter and you know what no one will be checking the space weather site they'll never know it's coming when it's a slow weather week i'll check the space weather site elon musk will launch another batch of starlinks and be like well where did those go and then you know life ends on earth and this god i love this story this is so funny and it's not fake because he said it himself turns out shaquille o'neal is a huge zoo aficionado he claims and why would we doubt him he's very rich he could easily make this a reality claims he's been to every zoo on earth wow and also claims that inevitably in every single zoo that has a primate exhibit this has happened the the insider.com says shaquille o'neal says gorillas freak out when he comes near and a zoo miami executive confirms that they are intimidated by his large size he went on to say yeah they often want to fight or they get aggressive interesting freak out the guy from the zoo he believed it had to do with because of shaquille o'neal's size the gorillas feel like he might be there to take their women and they feel like they have to react to that you know they got to stand up for themselves look how happy i love this photo of him yeah he looks so happy he's like just the typical he's even got the bucket hat the typical tourist yeah he apparently is just in love with zoos one of his favorites that's a wholesome activity is it though what going to look at animals yeah but they're is he is he he should be into conservation too right that would be a good use of his fame and money i don't know or maybe he's not but if he just really likes zeus and that's the only way he likes animals well chrissy he revealed this on his podcast so the big podcast with shaq so you could probably check that out oh to find out this is the zookeeper the celebrity zookeeper who revealed and confirmed that owl doesn't look happy that his picture is being taken this better not be an nft we have a surprising number of falconers around here oh yeah i did i went to a thing where they had uh someone from the forestry service do like a whole bird exhibit and like the guy stood at the front and then he had the falcon fly back and forth across the room to him which was really cool while he was talking about birds of prey in kentucky i'm pretty sure that bird that was in here that i tweeted oh that little tiny yeah it was a tiny falcon there was a recently uh apparently at some baseball games they bring out a bald eagle you know like go america and the guy do you still call it a falconer when it's an eagle the guy you know he launched it and so it was trained i guess to circle around a couple times and then instead of coming back to that guy's arm it just went and like attacked one of the outfielders and i got to say that guy i don't remember his name or what team he was on he handled it like a stone cold killer like he didn't react at all can you imagine how you would react if a bald eagle was coming out i'd be a lot of flailing yeah he didn't like react he just kept his back to it and landed on his shoulder a little bit he didn't even turn around and look at it maybe they all got a it's like a memo it's like there's a small chance here dude how many memos do i have to write you that turns off fear of a bald eagle coming at you that's a reaction that's like a natural reaction aren't bald eagles chat's going to correct me i'm sure but like aren't bald eagles kind of like the wimpiest eagle i don't know there was quite a bit of debate about making them national birds i've definitely seen videos on on youtube of an eagle messing up they nest around here which is kind of interesting not ness yeah but aren't there's much smaller eagles i would think size would have something to do with that couldn't be the worst of course if that if the eagle wanted to mess up that the baseball player it would have just ripped off his shoulder yeah yeah no the eagle wasn't trying to attack him i think it was just confused i was just really impressed by this man's poise i couldn't have done that that we could all be so brave in the face of an eagle that's interesting i'm getting so many tanks yeah same my phone is just vibrating i've like stuffed it under my leg so you can't hear it but bye bye you\n"