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You're amazing.
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Pepper, zucchini, and broccoli.
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I'll make sure you keep growing.
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It's going to be super spoiled.
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Casey!
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Here he comes.
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Casey is our resident sun bear here at
Zoo Tampa.
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They are the smallest of the true bear
family.
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They are found in Southeast Asia.
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He's 19 years old, he's a little over
200 pounds, and he is the cutest thing
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have ever seen.
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We're heading to the front of Casey's
habitat to throw him some enrichment.
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It's nice mixing it up instead of having
it in his yard every day when we shift
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him out.
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We're able to come public side and
totally surprise him.
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Casey came to us about a year ago.
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Oh, Casey, you're adorable.
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Oh, that's good.
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He likes honey water.
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Hey, buddy.
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Casey is very relaxed, very chill
compared to other bears that I've worked
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It's been so much fun learning his
personality. He's so interactive, he's
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curious, and he just loves being around
us. So anytime you get an animal like
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that... that smart, it's a blast.
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Got it?
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Yep.
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Hi, Casey.
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Casey!
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Oh, he saw it. He's taking his time.
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So the first enrichment device we talked
to him is a fire hose cube, and then
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there are smears of peanut butter on it
and pieces of romaine lettuce.
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He's looking like he's really enjoying
his breakfast.
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He's getting a little frothy and he's
making sure he gets every little bit of
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peanut butter.
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Casey's tongue is really long. It's
unique to sun bears so he can stick it
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like a beehive and get all the honey
out.
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That's my favorite part. That's when he
sits and eats like a person.
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Sun bears are known for their kind of a
sunburst in the middle of their chest.
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Each bear's sunburst is a little bit
different so that you can tell them
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Donut time!
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I love the fact that Casey can just
figure anything out.
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He figures out super quickly how to get
any food item out of all the enrichment
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devices we have.
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And there we go.
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And I just pour everything on my stomach
and then eat it.
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He is like the perfect example of work
smarter, not harder.
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Well, I think it's safe to say that he
enjoyed his treats.
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Yeah. Definitely.
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We can go back and start enriching all
the other animals. That was fun.
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Hey, girl!
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What are you doing?
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Hello, sir.
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We have a critical care facility at Zoo
Tampa, and we take in sick, injured, and
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orphaned manatees from around the state
of Florida.
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Manatees are just really cool animals.
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They all have a different personality,
all unique.
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When we're in the water, if we're scuba
diving, we can hear them squeaking and
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talking to each other.
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Good morning!
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I just think they're the greatest face
to look at.
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Here comes Verde.
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He's grown quite a bit.
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We got Verde in about a year ago, and he
actually is from Tampa Bay. He was
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found in Tierra Verde, and that's why we
named him Verde.
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He was found alone in cold water, and he
was a pretty small animal, and at that
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point he really should have been with a
mom, and he wasn't.
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So it was felt that it was best to come
to the critical care center so we could
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rehab him and hopefully make him better.
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And if you want to go ahead and start
raising up the floor.
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Birday is doing really well in rehab.
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He's not fully cleared yet, but we're
hoping that he'll be the next manatee up
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for release back into the wild. He looks
really good.
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Good boy.
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Peduncle is 95.
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95, Peduncle?
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Today we're fitting him with a GPS
tracking belt that consists of a belt, a
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tether, and a tracking beacon.
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This is so we can monitor him and make
sure that he's going where he should go
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once he's back in the wild.
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The belt fits around just below his
peduncle by the base of his tail, and
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made to break away in case he gets into
any trouble.
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But we do need to make sure that we find
the proper fit for him today.
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He's getting his practice belt put on
today so he can get used to it before he
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actually gets his real one put on at the
release site.
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Here, should we go with this one?
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Yep. Okay.
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Go ahead and go down.
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He looks great, and I'm really happy and
proud of where he's come.
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He didn't learn how to migrate to warm
water. So we need to help him out.
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We'll track him with a satellite tag and
see if he leaves the warm water site to
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find food.
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And then ultimately he should come back
to warm water when it gets cold again.
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Our Manatee Critical Care Center is open
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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We've been able to rescue over 500
manatees, with about 60 % returning back
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Florida waters.
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We will continue to rescue as many that
need us and really make a difference so
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that we don't lose them.
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All right. See you later, Verde. Check
in with you.
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Why are you so cold outside?
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I don't blame you guys for being back
there. Hi, Ryan.
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Nyala are an antelope species that is
found in Africa.
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Hi. Can we be nice?
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You still have food in your mouth.
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Here you go.
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A lot of people mistake them for deer.
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We have an adult male with a few
females, and we also have a few babies
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That's a mouthful, sir.
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We'll see which way Otis comes.
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Otis is our younger male that we
currently have. He's just under a year
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Otis is definitely one of my favorite
Nihala that we do have. He's really cute
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and really spunky.
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Look at his little horn. I know, he's
getting so big.
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I can't believe that he's almost a year
old.
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So there's a few different purposes of
their horns.
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The males out in the wild will be able
to fight one another for females, and
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they're also just used to really
establish their dominance.
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Otis is pretty stinking cute, for sure.
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They're also cute, though.
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A couple weeks ago, we did notice a very
large lump pop up on Otis's side.
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Yeah, I saw him the day before, and he
looked totally normal to me, and then
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of a sudden, overnight, it was there.
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We suspect that the lump is some sort of
abscess, kind of like a large pimple.
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That infection grows, and it kind of
just fills up with pus.
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Hi, Otis.
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How are you feeling?
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Hi, handsome man.
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Dad here has some pretty sharp horns on
him. He could have just kind of come
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down on him wrong and accidentally
nicked him, or he could have caught
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on, like, a branch in the yard.
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We immediately started him on some
antibiotics.
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So we're going to go ahead and give him
his last dose.
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I might be able to get him right here.
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Hi, buddy.
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I know you want this too. I'll give you
some.
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They love banana more than anything in
the whole wide world.
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So we just slipped the pill in a piece
of banana, and he has no idea that he's
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being medicated.
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There you go. You got it.
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Well, at least it doesn't...
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Seem too painful then. I mean, his
behavior is still pretty normal.
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Yeah, he's been licking it a bit, but
that's the only thing that we've seen
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it. I really don't want to see him in
any pain, so hopefully it will kind of
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take care of itself, and if not, we'll
have to intervene.
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Is he cute?
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Yeah. Who likes glass the most?
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You do?
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Oh.
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Hey, I just got a message from Lee, and
we are actually going to be getting a
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manatee in.
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Okay, thank you for the help.
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So we just got a call that we have a new
manatee rescue on the way.
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They said it's at the gate.
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We're ready for them. Send them back.
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It's a boat strike with some pretty
severe wounds, and it sounds like the
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respirations are pretty high.
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Florida to hospital.
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We're getting ready.
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10 -4. See you soon.
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So, unfortunately, almost every manatee
in the wild have been hit by a boat.
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They're local to Florida, and we have a
lot of mortalities due to boat strikes.
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When we do bloods, we'll get glucose
first. Like, we do, like, off the line
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we can get that immediately.
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Right now these wounds are severely deep
as I pull the towel off my stomach
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thing.
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This is bone right there. This is one of
the most severe boat strike cases I've
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ever seen.
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Boat strike manatee is so young, I would
guess that she's probably only a few
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years old.
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These are really nasty.
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These wounds are huge, and they're
incredibly deep.
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A prop on a boat just completely sliced
her through.
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I'm just splashing a little bit of
lidocaine on these lesions.
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Yeah, look at all that necrosis in
there.
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Yeah, I don't think it's fresh at all.
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I can feel bone right there, too, and
bone there.
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I don't see long, I don't feel directly,
but, I mean, we're like one cell layer
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away from it. My expectation is this has
got to be penetrating in the chest.
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We've seen these kinds of cases before,
and the prognosis, unfortunately, is
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pretty grave.
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But we've seen manatees come through
some tremendous diseases and survive.
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They are so tough.
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She's a really young animal and really
didn't deserve this in her life.
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She should be out there swimming.
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I hope we can help her, and we're going
to do everything we can to get there.
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Okay, you can go down a little more.
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We're actually going to stay and do
watches on her throughout the night
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to make sure she stays comfortable.
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I absolutely love caring for manatees
and making them better.
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And it's really challenging and really
hard when you see a case that you're
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like, I don't know if I'm going to be
able to fix this.
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The Africa penguins, we love them here.
They've got a lot of personality.
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They're an endangered species.
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They will come up to us and, you know,
sit by our feet and just kind of hang
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occasionally.
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So it's really fun to work with them.
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Good job.
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Good job, girls.
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Good job.
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Today we're taking our African penguins,
Palmyra and Taziri, out to the African
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section of the zoo for the very first
time.
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All right.
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Good job, girls.
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Good job.
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All right, guys, we're going to Africa.
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This is a great enrichment exercise for
our penguins, and it'll be fun to see
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them explore and see new animals.
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Nice, guys.
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Little sister tuffle.
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They're just super cute.
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The whole zoo is our oyster, if you
will, so we can take them out for any
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adventure we want.
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What will you see today?
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Africa Circle.
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I'm going to see some meerkat friends.
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And go!
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Yay! Whoa, where are you? I'm TT. Come
on, Taziri.
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Good girl. Oh, my goodness.
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Enrichment is really important to give
them opportunities to use their brains a
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little bit more, different activities,
sights and sounds. This is a whole new
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experience for them. Out in the zoo,
exploring with really no barriers.
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What's going on?
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Oh, awesome.
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When we walk animals around the zoo, the
animals in the habitats, they get
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enriched, too. They get to see something
they probably have never seen.
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Two sisters, drone in the zoo.
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Come on, Fred.
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We're going to visit the tortoise.
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What are you doing?
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You guys ready to move on already?
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Yeah, they're so cute. Come on, guys.
This way.
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Homira, it's a ziri.
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Anything new, we tend to keep fairly
short.
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We were super happy with the result, and
I think it was a successful session.
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How is it not cute just to watch
penguins waddle around anywhere?
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You guys ready to go home?
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See your other friends? We got to see
Africa!
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I can't wait to go on walks all over the
zoo. I know, right?
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That would be so cool.
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That would be so fun.
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He's been on antibiotics about a week
now, right? Yeah, it doesn't seem to
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resolve it. I mean, when you get a big
abscess like that, you just got a
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It's got to get out of there.
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Oh, gosh.
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Otis is a young male Nihala. He was born
here at the zoo, and we just noticed a
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few days ago that there was this lump
starting to develop on this side of his
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abdomen. We're going to meet with Dr.
Lawrence and kind of get a plan together
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for how we can get this taken care of
for Otis.
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Looks like it's ready to rupture.
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Oh, yeah.
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Looks rock hard.
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Medicine hasn't really done all that
much.
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You know, we all think, I think it's
time to move forward and plant it. I
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it's an abscess, but of course you
really have to get hands on and see what
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is. It can't be comfortable to have a
big abscess like that underneath your
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skin. It gets inflamed, it's probably a
little uncomfortable, maybe a little
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itchy, so we want to give him some
relief.
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That's why we've all been fighting about
who gets to do this.
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We'll let you guys do it.
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For vets, you know, some of us fall in a
camp where we love rupturing abscesses.
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It's super satisfying, and it's
something that I actually really like to
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It's just going to be so fun and so
exciting.
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No, you guys weren't with me on this?
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The whole pimple popping and abscess
popping thing, like, really grosses me
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I know that we're doing it for Otis and
his health.
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I'm just not going to really enjoy the
process.
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What I'm going to need to do is get
access to the area and then lance it and
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then just hopefully disruptors. You
know, that's my expectation going into
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Cool. Well, we'll see you in the
morning.
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Excited.
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Sierra is a silver crested cockatoo that
lives here at the zoo.
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Come on, Sierra.
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Cockatoos have a lot of personality.
They're known to be one of the loudest
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birds, one of the quirkiest birds.
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She was donated to the zoo by U .S. Fish
and Wildlife because she was
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confiscated. Birds can be taken from the
wild and smuggled to other areas to be
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sold in the pet trade, so we believe
that was what they were trying to do
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this group of cockatoos.
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When Sierra came in, she had a broken
lower mandible, so her lower beak had a
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crack in it that doesn't ever connect.
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Good girl.
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She needs her beak trimmed regularly
because if it keeps growing, she isn't
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to eat her food correctly.
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Good girl.
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How we doing?
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Good, how are you?
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Doing good.
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In the past, we used to just manually
restrain her and hold her, and she had
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seizures whenever that happened.
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It's not uncommon for some birds to do
that. They get stressed out, she will go
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into a seizure. So we just try to keep
that stress under control.
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We decided that we would train her to
put her face into a gas mask.
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You want to try then to put that mask on
her and see how she does? Yeah, I want
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to see if she'll just stick her head in.
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And there's a towel over there that once
she feels, you know, slow, we can try
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to do that. It has been a while since
Sierra has done her mask behavior for
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anesthesia. So I'm a little nervous.
We're crossing our fingers, hoping for
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best.
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Hi. What do you think?
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Hi. What do you think?
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You're good.
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Good girl.
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Good job.
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So right now, we are giving her oxygen.
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Through that oxygen, we're pushing the
anesthetic.
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She's taking it amazing.
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Good girl.
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That's a good girl.
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That was super cool.
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Yeah. With Sierra and this training that
she has, and the fact that she will
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accept the mask and breathe something
that doesn't smell good either, it's
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amazing. You can see in here, you know,
where it is, you know, split in half.
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Normally this part will meet this one in
here, and unfortunately she damaged it.
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She has learned to deal really good.
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I mean, she eats well, she does well.
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That's why Sierra needs a big trim on a
regular basis.
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It might bleed a little bit.
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Or not.
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Of course it's better.
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I mean, it's just separated in there.
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That's crazy.
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She looks good otherwise.
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I'm hoping now that she wakes up like
she normally does, no seizures or
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like that, she should wake up okay.
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Sierra surprises me on how well she did.
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That made my day today.
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Like a Muppet. There we go.
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Sierra's moving to our aviary section.
She was moving from a situation where
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was an ambassador animal and would go
out in the public. So now that she's
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gotten older, she's retiring from that.
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Being in the aviary section of the zoo,
Sierra's going to get to live with a lot
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of new bird species and a lot of new
bird friends.
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Really exciting move for her.
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If only we could anesthetize every bird
like that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Awesome.
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Here at the zoo, we have a really big
collection of different animals that are
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native to Florida. A lot of them are
rehab animals, which has been a really
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great opportunity for us to show those
animals off.
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Go get it!
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He's looking.
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Here you go, boo.
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I've worked here for a long time, and
it's really rewarding.
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We're constantly trying to help these
animals who are injured and sick.
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The fact that we can save.
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The majority of them is pretty amazing.
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He, like, hovers perfectly.
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He's amazing.
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We live in Florida, and we can help our
species locally who live right in our
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backyard and make a contribution back
every single day of our lives.
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And that's pretty amazing.
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I hope we have lots of lady friends once
he gets released.
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Today we are performing Verde's pre
-release health assessment.
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He came to us a little over a year ago.
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He's got algae all over him, and then we
have some old wounds and some lesions
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on him, so we want to get his skin
cleaned up as much as we can.
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This is a really exciting time. This is
the exam that we perform right before we
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release him out into Florida waters.
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He's a little pudgy here.
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Most manatees are identified by scar
patterns, so we mark out their scars.
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We took some photographs, and we're
going to get some measurements.
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There's a
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really important number that we're
looking for today. We want to see that
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reached 600 pounds, which is the mark
that we get animals to to approve them
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release.
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He was 735 with the stretcher. Now he
weighs 610.
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Over the magic number.
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Bye -bye.
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Time to go home.
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So Verde looks really great. His weight
is exactly where we want it to be. His
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body condition is amazing. So we're
really excited that he gets the
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to go back.
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Any time that we can take in a sick,
injured, or orphaned animal and
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rehabilitate that animal and get them
back out there is just a second chance
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them and really a second chance for the
manatee population overall.
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Verde has been so fun to have here.
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Oh, he was all green when he came in. I
care about all the manatees that come in
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and definitely have really loved the
time I spent with Verde.
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I declare you releasable.
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You're very good, Mother.
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So Verde looks really, really good. He's
ready for release.
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He's done all the right things. He's hit
all of his milestones the last year of
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gaining weight and eating well and
social.
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I'm excited to see what he does. Me too.
It'll be good to get him out of here,
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go home.
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Give more space for all the other
critical ones that need to come through.
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Exactly, yeah.
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Hey, Lisa.
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Hey. How has she been doing since
arrival?
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A little bit better, actually.
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So our blow -strike manatee survived
through the night, and we actually saw
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pretty positive things from her.
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She's surfacing well. Her respirations
have gone way down.
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That's excellent.
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Some small improvements.
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No interest in food yet.
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I am shocked, but also really happy. I'm
really impressed with...
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Her ability to kind of resist her.
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It doesn't look to me like, oh, I'm
crazy painful. It looks like, I don't
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to do this.
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This is really still too early to say
how this is going to go for her, but
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is quite astounding.
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The ones that we spend hours and hours
with and those long nights with, they
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definitely have a special place in our
hearts. They are super challenging,
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but... We just know as a team we're not
going to give up on those animals.
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You know, if they're still pulling
through, we're still pulling through.
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So right now I'm just doing what's
called hydrotherapy. We're just kind of
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flushing all the wounds out.
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So we were thinking about naming her
properly for her propeller wound, and
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from Lee County.
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It's cute.
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It's had a lot of names with Lee in it,
but I don't know if we've ever done
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anything with a propeller.
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Lauren, what do you think of the name?
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I think the team always comes up with
perfect names.
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These are really tough cases, and it's
nice to create some positivity, and I
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think we all need that sometimes.
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Honey is a really amazing natural.
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that actually has antimicrobial
function.
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It's nice and sticky. Hopefully it'll
just kind of coat those wounds and maybe
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get a little more contact time when
she's in the water.
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Wound treatment in aquatic species is
really challenging. The minute we put
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back in the water, this wound is going
to get completely drenched again and the
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sponges and all that stuff get wet. But
honey's nice and sticky, so my hope is
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that it'll hang out just a little bit
longer than some of our other front
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antiseptics.
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probably is still a highly critical
case.
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Always have to realize that there's
still a lot at risk here, but I have
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encouragement. I love that she's
breathing more comfortably. I think it's
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check in the positive box, but we've
still got a long way to go.
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How excited are you, Lauren? I'm so
excited.
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I hope this is a really nice, good
abscess.
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What do you think, is it really liquidy
or do you think it's going to be like...
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I think it's going to be liquidy. Stop
ruining food!
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Today we are going to do a full
procedure with Otis, which is going to
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fully anesthetizing him so we're able to
get a really good look at his abscess.
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We're going to make her watch the puss.
I mean, I don't mind, it's just... I
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don't love it.
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Like, you guys are all like, yeah, I
hope it's disgusting.
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And I'm like, oh, it's going to be
disgusting.
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Otis is still really young. This bump is
growing just as quick as him, so it's
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got to be uncomfortable.
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It's tough to see him like this, so we
want to get this taken care of as
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as possible to give him some relief.
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All right.
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I'll be back.
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With today's approach, we're going to do
a remote delivery of the medication and
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make him nice and sleepy.
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Otis has a beautiful induction. He goes
right to sleep. It goes really, really
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well. And so we're calling in the rest
of the team, and we're going to get
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started. Two and three, up.
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I'm expecting that this is in fact an
abscess, and when we do lance it, it's
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going to erupt like Mount Vesuvius.
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Now it's time to make the cut, and it
explodes.
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Otis is our young male Niala.
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I see that abscess popping out the side,
and we're ready to go.
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Ugh, gross.
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The pus is so satisfying to see just
ooze out. It's so gross. Everyone's
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disgusted. I'm in heaven. Oh, my gosh.
Oh, God.
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Y 'all, it smells horrible.
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That's such a good one. Ew, that's
chunky.
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Really just started shooting out like
crazy. Really disgusting.
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It had a very pungent smell to it.
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Oh, that's nasty.
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I'm so sorry, Otis.
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Hey, good breath though, right?
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Yeah. Okay.
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I think we can say with pretty, you
know, high confidence, this is an ab.
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One. So much better to not have that in
there.
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Nice level of relief.
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I think this is trauma induced, you
know, whether he got a little splinter
472
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:57,820
just kind of festered and became
infected, or if when he was maybe
473
00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:01,340
with Orion or adult males, he just kind
of gave him a little horn.
474
00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:04,280
So I'm hoping that this will fix his
problem today.
475
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,700
It's really important that I completely
flush and lavage out this abscess.
476
00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:10,560
We'll clean him up a little bit here.
477
00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:16,220
I'm going to keep a couple of areas open
and actually aim our openings so there
478
00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:17,220
can be active drainage.
479
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,760
It's going to be really important that
we leave it open, and over time with
480
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,040
antibiotics and active drainage, it
should heal up.
481
00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:26,680
There you go, Brandi. That's good.
You're good.
482
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,600
Poor guy.
483
00:29:29,540 --> 00:29:33,040
Those infections can get really swollen.
They can get uncomfortable and painful,
484
00:29:33,260 --> 00:29:35,540
and so this is going to be a huge relief
for him.
485
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:39,920
We'll keep an eye on him, make sure that
this doesn't come back.
486
00:29:40,540 --> 00:29:41,760
Did it meet your expectations?
487
00:29:42,140 --> 00:29:43,140
Yes. Good.
488
00:29:44,020 --> 00:29:45,020
Very satisfying.
489
00:29:46,380 --> 00:29:47,440
Did it meet yours?
490
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,720
Yes.
491
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:55,760
Come on, poinsettia.
492
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,700
See, now they're kind of coming for it
to eat.
493
00:30:08,889 --> 00:30:10,230
Molly, are you guys going to let her
out?
494
00:30:10,550 --> 00:30:13,030
Yeah, we can. We can go down and then
see.
495
00:30:13,870 --> 00:30:17,110
Properly has been with us for a couple
of weeks now in our critical care
496
00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:19,730
hospital, and she's had her good days
and her bad days.
497
00:30:20,250 --> 00:30:22,430
I think she's eaten a little bit.
498
00:30:22,630 --> 00:30:23,630
Not crazy.
499
00:30:24,250 --> 00:30:25,250
She's a tough lady.
500
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,720
The boat shark wounds were really
severe, but they're actually starting to
501
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,520
One thing that we are starting to see as
time has gone on is that she's actually
502
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,860
starting to lift or lean down a little
bit on her left side. Is she pushing off
503
00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:38,860
with her back paddle?
504
00:30:38,940 --> 00:30:41,540
I don't know if she's pushing off, but
she's resting it on the floor.
505
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,800
She's breathing.
506
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,620
Now she did just have to push off the
floor to get to the surface there.
507
00:30:48,540 --> 00:30:52,520
The thing that comes to my mind
immediately is that she has a collapsed
508
00:30:52,780 --> 00:30:54,800
Is there fluid that's starting to pool
up in her chest?
509
00:30:55,940 --> 00:30:59,980
We are going to take the next steps in
obtaining a CT scan for Prop Lee.
510
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,740
And this is going to require that we
transport her off -site to an outside
511
00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:11,380
facility that does CT scans routinely on
humans.
512
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,579
On the left.
513
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:13,580
Sure.
514
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,520
concerned about probably at this point
we really just want to make sure she's
515
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,980
comfortable but we also want to make
sure that she's going to survive
516
00:31:29,980 --> 00:31:34,040
have that strong survivorship drive i
mean they're wildlife i'm always so
517
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,960
impressed with what wildlife can
overcome so the team's definitely
518
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:38,960
properly
519
00:31:44,940 --> 00:31:49,140
local hospital that's actually just for
people and it's not for animals so it's
520
00:31:49,140 --> 00:31:52,320
really great that they've accommodated
us to help our manatee out.
521
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,880
Okay ready one two three.
522
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,160
One two three.
523
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:09,060
A CT scan is a really powerful imaging
modality that gives you way more
524
00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:12,540
information than a plain x -ray or an
ultrasound will give you. I think we're
525
00:32:12,540 --> 00:32:13,540
ready.
526
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:18,460
It's just a big machine, and it's room
all by itself, and it's got a big hole
527
00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:21,400
a big donut that you can scan the animal
through.
528
00:32:21,780 --> 00:32:25,220
We'll be able to look at her, in a
sense, three -dimensionally. We can
529
00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:29,120
out the bones, we can look for
fractures, and really see the extent of
530
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,180
trauma that she's dealing with.
531
00:32:32,260 --> 00:32:35,940
I'm hoping that the images are clear
enough that we can know what's going on
532
00:32:35,940 --> 00:32:36,940
internally.
533
00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:41,720
I have a lot of faith that this is going
to give us answers today.
534
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,360
We're starting to get images for
properly.
535
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,380
You start seeing the gashes coming in.
Yeah.
536
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,040
Wow. Already I'm starting to see things
that I was really concerned about going
537
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,040
into this.
538
00:33:11,060 --> 00:33:14,860
That looks really concerning. The way
that lung looks to me is just not
539
00:33:15,180 --> 00:33:17,720
I'm not even seeing any lung on this
side at all.
540
00:33:18,190 --> 00:33:21,910
So one lung is completely collapsed. You
can barely even see any lung tissue. I
541
00:33:21,910 --> 00:33:25,610
suspect it's along the wall of her body,
so that's completely obliterated. One
542
00:33:25,610 --> 00:33:29,290
of her vertebrae fractured off and was
connecting into what we call the spinal
543
00:33:29,290 --> 00:33:33,290
canal. So we absolutely expect that
she's dealing with a nasty infection in
544
00:33:33,290 --> 00:33:34,229
spinal cord.
545
00:33:34,230 --> 00:33:37,130
I like to see that big gash here and the
fractures there.
546
00:33:37,670 --> 00:33:39,790
Unfortunately, this is exactly what I
feared.
547
00:33:40,890 --> 00:33:42,490
This is going to be beyond repair.
548
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,960
We make the tough decision to move
forward with humane euthanasia.
549
00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:58,760
I think it's the fairest, most kindest
thing that we could offer for a
550
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:00,940
We don't want her to suffer anymore.
551
00:34:07,380 --> 00:34:10,020
She's squeaking. I heard that little
squeak.
552
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,139
This is the really, really hard part of
rehab.
553
00:34:15,940 --> 00:34:18,159
It's so tough.
554
00:34:19,279 --> 00:34:20,279
Properly is a heartbreaker.
555
00:34:20,460 --> 00:34:26,560
I'm really sad about it and trying to
hold it together because the team looks
556
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,159
us for that leadership. But sometimes
you just lose it because it shows how
557
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:36,179
we care and how much we love them. We
fall in love with every Manatee we have.
558
00:34:36,460 --> 00:34:37,460
It sucks.
559
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:38,520
Yeah.
560
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,360
You know, we just have to slow down
where Manatees live so that they have an
561
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,380
opportunity to swim away.
562
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,520
She's less than two years old, and she
had her whole life ahead of her, and
563
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,420
unfortunately, it was cut short by a
boat.
564
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,400
She hasn't taken a breath in a little
bit.
565
00:35:05,260 --> 00:35:11,280
Thanks for trying.
566
00:35:12,129 --> 00:35:15,510
I was up all night last night just
thinking about her and didn't want her
567
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:17,410
suffer, and I wanted to make sure we
helped her.
568
00:35:18,190 --> 00:35:22,030
And I would do that again tomorrow, and
I would do it again the day after. I
569
00:35:22,030 --> 00:35:23,970
really just want what's best for these
animals.
570
00:35:25,310 --> 00:35:27,450
It's hard work, but it's worth every
second of it.
571
00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:43,890
Hi, buddy.
572
00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:45,710
Have a good day, okay?
573
00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:47,410
Stay warm.
574
00:35:57,190 --> 00:35:58,190
You want to go outside?
575
00:35:59,030 --> 00:36:02,330
I'm going to hand you off to the aviary
team. Your beak looks so good.
576
00:36:03,350 --> 00:36:04,430
You ready?
577
00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:06,610
Oh, what a good girl.
578
00:36:08,050 --> 00:36:09,050
Hello.
579
00:36:10,030 --> 00:36:13,550
Today I'm dropping off Sierra, our
sulfur -crested cockatoo, with Dani from
580
00:36:13,550 --> 00:36:14,388
aviary team.
581
00:36:14,390 --> 00:36:18,690
She just had a beak trim up at the vet
hospital, and she is ready to go and
582
00:36:18,690 --> 00:36:19,690
into her new habitat.
583
00:36:20,510 --> 00:36:21,510
There you go.
584
00:36:21,550 --> 00:36:22,550
You can always visit her.
585
00:36:23,110 --> 00:36:26,230
She's going to be going from being an
ambassador, where she lives behind
586
00:36:26,230 --> 00:36:30,530
and comes out with us for guest
engagement opportunities, to being out
587
00:36:30,530 --> 00:36:34,390
side full -time, where guests are going
to be able to see her beautiful self all
588
00:36:34,390 --> 00:36:35,410
the time whenever they want to.
589
00:36:36,230 --> 00:36:37,230
Lots of personality.
590
00:36:37,590 --> 00:36:38,990
Yeah. You want something?
591
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:40,560
I have this.
592
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:43,860
Sierra, do you want to come play with
me?
593
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,100
No. No. Okay.
594
00:36:47,780 --> 00:36:50,580
She's moving with one of her best
buddies, Sophie, and other silver
595
00:36:50,580 --> 00:36:53,540
cockatoo. Oh, they're definitely
spoiled, and you know that.
596
00:36:54,180 --> 00:36:55,180
Yeah, and I'll visit.
597
00:36:55,780 --> 00:36:56,780
I'll come say hi.
598
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,400
I'm very sad to see our cockatoos go.
599
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:04,220
They are some of my first birds that I
ever trained, so I have a really special
600
00:37:04,220 --> 00:37:05,420
relationship with them.
601
00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:08,280
I'm also excited for them to get this
big space.
602
00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:11,550
and be able to be viewed by our guests
at all times.
603
00:37:12,350 --> 00:37:14,370
Bye, Miss Sierra. I'm going to miss you.
604
00:37:22,170 --> 00:37:23,990
Whoa, look at him go.
605
00:37:24,810 --> 00:37:26,770
She is having a blast.
606
00:37:30,180 --> 00:37:34,240
We have Verde in the pool. We can see
how he is in the stretcher if we want to
607
00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:37,660
be able to set him down. But if he's a
little funky, we could always go right
608
00:37:37,660 --> 00:37:40,340
into the truck. I feel like we should
just maybe try to go all the way to the
609
00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:42,220
truck. Okay. Unless he is funky.
610
00:37:42,620 --> 00:37:43,499
All right.
611
00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:44,319
Let's do it.
612
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:45,319
Let's do it.
613
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,920
Today's a great day because it's the
release day for Verde.
614
00:37:49,260 --> 00:37:50,260
Start him back further.
615
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:52,080
I'm at the line here.
616
00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:00,460
One of those proud moments and exactly
one of the many reasons that I am
617
00:38:00,460 --> 00:38:01,620
involved in manatee rehab.
618
00:38:05,180 --> 00:38:09,200
Losing properly was one of the most
challenging cases I've ever dealt with.
619
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,560
Just watching how hard she fought and
then we couldn't save her, that was
620
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:17,300
tough. But it is really nice to release
a manatee just a few days later and
621
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:18,620
knowing that we've done some good.
622
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,760
Put a little pressure onto the...
623
00:38:23,750 --> 00:38:25,790
All right. One, two, three.
624
00:38:26,590 --> 00:38:30,730
Bertie was rescued as an orphan animal.
He didn't have a family. He didn't have
625
00:38:30,730 --> 00:38:32,730
a mom or anyone with him at the time of
rescue.
626
00:38:33,950 --> 00:38:36,810
He should be successful if he follows
other manatees around.
627
00:38:37,130 --> 00:38:41,190
So we will also be releasing another
manatee back to the wild named Retail.
628
00:38:44,830 --> 00:38:48,170
They've been together pretty much all of
their rehab life at the zoo.
629
00:38:48,530 --> 00:38:51,530
Since they know each other and have been
social, that should help them when they
630
00:38:51,530 --> 00:38:52,189
get out.
631
00:38:52,190 --> 00:38:53,190
Bye, Retail.
632
00:38:53,530 --> 00:38:54,530
Hi, Rudy!
633
00:38:55,350 --> 00:38:56,870
Hope to never see you again.
634
00:39:01,650 --> 00:39:02,650
Hello!
635
00:39:06,130 --> 00:39:07,790
Alright, cutie patooties.
636
00:39:08,170 --> 00:39:09,410
Time to go home.
637
00:39:18,650 --> 00:39:19,650
Hi, guys!
638
00:39:19,990 --> 00:39:20,990
Good morning!
639
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:22,660
You know, they know what's coming.
640
00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:24,780
Yeah, they know it's breakfast time.
641
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,220
Awesome. So just coming in here to check
in on Otis.
642
00:39:29,620 --> 00:39:30,680
How has he been doing?
643
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,220
He's been doing really great. His fur is
starting to grow back, and we haven't
644
00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:37,760
seen any signs of an abscess reforming.
That's great news. Hi, buddy.
645
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,200
Hi, buddy. Are you ready for your
breakfast?
646
00:39:41,780 --> 00:39:43,660
Oh, my goodness, your cute little face.
647
00:39:45,030 --> 00:39:50,010
Otis's wound site is healed up. You can
see where we clipped the area, but I
648
00:39:50,010 --> 00:39:53,650
don't even see any evidence of swelling
or that there was any evidence that
649
00:39:53,650 --> 00:39:54,810
there was an abscess there before.
650
00:39:55,150 --> 00:39:56,270
He looks great.
651
00:39:57,670 --> 00:40:00,770
These guys, when they're so young, they
look very much like mom. And then as
652
00:40:00,770 --> 00:40:05,730
they grow older, they change their coat
completely into this beautiful dark
653
00:40:05,730 --> 00:40:07,110
color like Orion here.
654
00:40:08,910 --> 00:40:10,390
His horns are coming in.
655
00:40:10,750 --> 00:40:13,150
And his dark face.
656
00:40:13,370 --> 00:40:14,370
Look at his nose.
657
00:40:14,670 --> 00:40:15,790
He's going to start changing colors.
658
00:40:16,710 --> 00:40:20,190
At this point, I'm calling this
completely healed up. I'm closing his
659
00:40:20,730 --> 00:40:24,530
I look forward to seeing Otis grow up
into a beautiful male Nyala.
660
00:40:25,150 --> 00:40:26,150
They're a beautiful animal.
661
00:40:26,770 --> 00:40:28,070
I love these kinds of cases.
662
00:40:28,350 --> 00:40:32,770
They're ones that we can come in, you
know, make an impact, make the animal
663
00:40:32,770 --> 00:40:34,150
better. These are the best kind.
664
00:40:34,410 --> 00:40:35,850
And abscesses are just really fun.
665
00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:44,760
Look at his face.
666
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:45,980
I know.
667
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,200
So cute.
668
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:58,360
Action.
669
00:41:03,549 --> 00:41:07,210
There's definitely a lot of activity
going on. I see a lot of, like, the
670
00:41:07,210 --> 00:41:08,550
and the fish are moving around.
671
00:41:09,290 --> 00:41:13,530
So today we're going to be releasing
Verde out into the power plant, and
672
00:41:13,530 --> 00:41:17,410
be sending out retail alongside of him.
The power plant is local here in Tampa,
673
00:41:17,530 --> 00:41:21,510
and it provides a lot of warm water that
manatees can come to in the wintertime.
674
00:41:21,650 --> 00:41:24,910
And generally when it's nice and cold
out, there are hundreds of manatees that
675
00:41:24,910 --> 00:41:25,910
use this power plant.
676
00:41:27,550 --> 00:41:28,630
Here, do you want to take my spot?
677
00:41:30,990 --> 00:41:34,240
He's going out with... A couple of
friends, which is great news, that
678
00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:38,480
he'll be able to hang out with them and
acclimate pretty easily and then should
679
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,020
leave while it's still warm out and find
some food.
680
00:41:41,420 --> 00:41:44,800
And then we are going to have some more
cold days ahead, so we're hoping he'll
681
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,340
migrate back to the power plant on those
colder nights.
682
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,160
They're working on fitting him with a
belt and a tag. The tag will allow
683
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,120
biologists to monitor his progress and
be able to make sure that he's doing
684
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,120
everything he should.
685
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,100
The GPS tracker will only stay on him
maybe about a year or less.
686
00:42:01,630 --> 00:42:05,770
If he does well and finds food and he
finds warm water pretty quickly over the
687
00:42:05,770 --> 00:42:08,030
next few months, he actually may
graduate even sooner.
688
00:42:08,950 --> 00:42:11,790
Yes, we confirmed it on tag and seven.
689
00:42:12,210 --> 00:42:16,650
If he is successful, is eating, and his
belly is big, and he doesn't look poor,
690
00:42:16,830 --> 00:42:19,950
then he'll get to graduate and be a wild
man and see for the rest of his life.
691
00:42:20,530 --> 00:42:21,530
Nice. You ready?
692
00:42:21,750 --> 00:42:22,810
You ready? Here you go.
693
00:42:23,470 --> 00:42:27,370
Okay, so Danielle, just so you know,
when you're in the front, we've just got
694
00:42:27,370 --> 00:42:28,790
keep walking in, so we're going to
get...
695
00:42:52,870 --> 00:42:56,230
bittersweet watching them swim away.
Usually what I do is I picture when they
696
00:42:56,230 --> 00:42:58,490
came in and that helps me remember
everything they've been through and
697
00:42:58,490 --> 00:43:02,150
everything that we put into them and the
fact that he looks so good today shows
698
00:43:02,150 --> 00:43:04,070
how much hard work can pay off.
699
00:43:04,770 --> 00:43:05,770
Somebody's way over there.
700
00:43:09,350 --> 00:43:11,250
And next up we're going to be releasing
retail.
701
00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:30,620
Being in the rehabilitation field, you
do see a lot of injured animals that
702
00:43:30,620 --> 00:43:34,220
don't ever make it past just being
injured. They end up passing away at our
703
00:43:34,220 --> 00:43:38,700
facility. And we're going to keep
fighting, doing whatever we can for all
704
00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:40,440
manatees that come into our critical
care center.
705
00:43:40,740 --> 00:43:41,940
Oh yeah, they're together.
706
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,000
Tags and movements.
707
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:46,500
Make good choices.
708
00:43:49,260 --> 00:43:52,480
Release day is always amazing for all of
us. We work really hard.
709
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,680
basically every day of our lives, and to
see an animal turn around and get
710
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:58,459
released back.
711
00:43:58,460 --> 00:44:01,820
It really never gets old. I've released
a lot of manatees since I worked at the
712
00:44:01,820 --> 00:44:03,640
zoo, and it's always special.
713
00:44:04,460 --> 00:44:08,560
Especially in Bernadette's case, I know
that he came in pretty sick, so I'm
714
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,520
really proud that he gets to go back out
today.
715
00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:13,440
Good luck, Bernadette. Bye. Bye,
Bernadette.
716
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:14,760
Do good.
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