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Look at that.

Dia, Tophie, come.

Randy, Didi, Dia, come.

Good luck, Ojo.

Here in Zootampa, we have a large group of orangutans that right now consists of

nine individuals.

We have a very successful breeding program.

That's our big male, Goyang, the dad of all of these beautiful little babies.

Are you handsome, Goyang?

Goyang is excellent at representing his gene line.

And he's a great dad, too.

There's our little mama.

The orangutan family tree is really growing. It gets harder every year to

track of who's who.

Hi, Hadiyah. Are you hungry?

Hadiyah is expecting a new baby this year.

Hadiyah's already had one baby, and that's Topi. And Topi will be six years

in February.

Topi, are you ready to be a big sister?

I think she's going to be jealous.

Yeah, I think so, too. Are you excited, Hadiyah?

Excited for more bananas.

Yeah.

She looks like she's going to pop any day now.

An orangutan pregnancy is very similar to a human pregnancy. It lasts about

eight and a half months or so, and so we're nearing the end of the pregnancy

here with Hadiyah.

I think it's going to be within the next two weeks or so we should have a new

baby. Orangutans are critically endangered, and we're all super excited.

can't wait to meet the little boy or little girl.

All right, Hadiyah.

Good girl.

Good morning, Hadiyah.

We've been doing ultrasounds just to make sure that the fetus is growing and

moving and looking really healthy and make sure she's doing well as well.

Thank you.

Hello. How are you doing?

I'm the primary trainer on working with Hadiyah to get her to participate in

ultrasounds. So it's been a really, really rewarding experience. I feel like

have a really good relationship with Hadiyah. Up here.

Good girl.

The first step is to get her just to present her belly.

You ready?

Belly?

Go ahead.

From there, it's just desensitizing her to the feeling of the gel on her belly

and then also us moving the probe around.

Very nice.

We try to make all of these behaviors with the orangutans voluntary. If they

choose to walk away at any point, that's totally up to them.

Good job, best friend.

The number one thing that we are looking for at this stage with how big the baby

is, is looking for the heartbeat. Make sure it looks steady. Make sure it looks

strong. We also look for movement of the baby.

Look at him bouncing around in there.

Whoa.

You've got a good heart rate.

Good idea.

I've got good views of the heart and the chest, but the head is really tilted

down in here. Gotcha. I also look for the position of the baby because we want

to make sure that as we get closer to her giving birth that the baby is in the

right position.

Arms and things are moving, so everything still looks really good.

She says, mmm, dessert.

Yep. She looks so pregnant.

I know.

Today went really well, and it might actually be the last ultrasound that we

with Adia because she's getting closer to her birth window.

Good job.

Oh, banana.

When are you going to have this baby?

I'm crazy.

We love our babies here at Zoo Tampa. We love to celebrate when they're born and

then every year after that on their birthday.

Look at that.

Here's the party.

You guys are just joining us. Our penguins are not out right now. Our

Muffin, is turning one years old today, so we are setting up a surprise birthday

party. Muffin is one of our African penguins that graduated from penguin

a year ago, and we're super excited to be celebrating her first birthday today.

Whoa.

We have a big beach party themed birthday plan for Muffin. We're going to

her sand castles. We're going to blow bubbles.

I hope they find this as fun as we do.

Hey, do you guys have any questions about penguins?

Are they not going to be too hard for you?

Great question. African penguins are actually found on the sandy beaches of

Africa. So they are beach penguins, not snow penguins.

The party starts now.

I love doing a return from the penguins. It's super fun to watch them chase

things, chase different lights, chase the bubbles.

pretty special because she actually wasn't raised by the parents that laid

She was incubated and raised by a different pair.

Rocky and Thumbelina are really fantastic parents.

So we actually gave her egg to them to hatch out and to raise.

These penguins have never been more surprised.

Yeah. They're coming for those bubbles. Yes.

There we go.

Happy birthday, girls.

Yes.

She loves a good snack, especially banana.

Casey!

Are you sleeping?

Hi!

A Malayan sun bear is the smallest species of bear in the world.

We do have one here at the zoo. You want some snack?

I've been with Casey since he came here, which is about two and a half years

ago, and he is such a pleasure to work with.

You ready for a training session?

snacks and see if we can't get a good look at his teeth.

Sounds like a plan.

Casey is getting older. He is 20 years old, which is pretty much at the top end

of their lifespan.

Hello. Mr. Bear.

What are you doing?

Can I give you some snacks?

We're starting to see him slow down, which is what you can expect from a

old bear.

Can I see those teeth?

What about down here?

That's just a lot of tongue.

The biggest thing that we're facing is his teeth are not so great at his old

age. Can I see this one?

Yeah, those top teeth look good. They do.

In case he does know an open mouth behavior, we utilize it regularly to

his teeth as much as we can.

So are you able to get a better look at that canine right now?

There's definitely like a dark spot right in the center of it, and it's

definitely like yellowish, brownish color, so not ideal.

Good boy.

Whenever you look at that lower left canine tooth, you can tell it's been

through some stuff. What we noticed recently was that he was starting to

one side of his mouth and licking more things than chewing them.

Your big tongue's in the way.

Casey has a dentist appointment coming up, and we are hoping to get a really

good look at that tooth.

If he has an infection, it can actually spread to other parts of his body, and

that's dangerous since he's more of a geriatric there.

Are you scared to go to the dentist?

You shouldn't be.

Tomorrow I'm really hoping that there is a definitive answer. And hopefully all

the other teeth look good. Oh my gosh, I can't get over how cute you are. I hope

Casey lives forever. I always tell him as a 20 -year -old bear he doesn't look

day over 10.

I can't imagine the zoo without Casey Bear.

All right, Casey Bear, get ready for tomorrow.

It's going to be an early morning. Yes, it is.

In the Florida area of our zoo, a lot of noise is happening these days.

A lot of construction all over, getting ready to open up our new habitat.

It's very exciting for us.

Our goal with Florida Wilds is we want to be immersive in the best way that we

can.

A lot of people don't know and understand that we have all this amazing

here in the state of Florida, and many animals here are actually in trouble and

in danger.

With our expansion of Florida Wilds, we have a new yard for our three red wolf

brothers. So today, they're going to be moving to their new yard.

Red wolves used to be all along the southern east coast of the United

We used to have them right here in Florida.

Unfortunately, there's a very, very small population that's left in the

and that's in North Carolina, and that's less than 20.

So we really want to continue to contribute to this population and help

this species.

They're a species that not a lot of people know about, but that really,

need our help.

Good morning, wolves.

It's moving day.

Give me time to go to your new habitat.

We have three red wolf siblings.

They're three males, Bewley, Reddington, and Connor.

They were born here at Zoo Tampa about four years ago.

Their sister, Boca, was transferred to North Carolina about two years ago as

part of the Species Survival Program.

We have two kennels set up.

We're hopeful that we can kind of just go in the yard and have them run in, and

hopefully they'll separate.

Our program with the red wolves is to ultimately re -release these animals

into the wild.

These animals are a little bit more standoffish, and that's how we want

want them to stay a little bit wild.

So we have to keep that in mind when we go in to move them.

You guys going in the yard then?

Sure. Okay.

They like to tuck into small places.

So it's worked out really well for us that we're able to set up kennels.

all right. And walk towards them. They want to run away, as they would, because

they are exhibiting that wild behavior.

You guys got to go.

You're all right.

I've got one in a kennel.

Good boy.

Kelly, you can close that gate.

He's in a kennel.

All right, two down, one to go. You're all right, buddy.

All right, I'm coming in. I'm going to close the door behind you.

Good boy, Yuli.

Good boy.

So one by one, they did go into their kennel.

Yuli can stay for now.

Lately, Yuli, we've been seeing signs of kind of irritation in his right eye.

We've seen him kind of rub it constantly, sometimes itch it along the

line. We've also seen that it's starting to swell a little bit.

We're going to utilize this opportunity to have our vet staff check out Yuli

since we don't usually get the chance to see him up close.

So Yuli has a history of pretty severe allergies, but these last couple of

months he's had eye discharge.

Just so everyone else knows, the drugs that we're using are not full

anesthetics. They are sedatives. So if anyone makes a loud noise, it is

for him to wake up. So please be as quiet as possible. No one wants a wolf

jumping up right now.

We're using this opportunity to get hands on him, anesthetize him, and make

so that I can get a closer look at his eye.

I can get his shoulder right here as long as you feel like it's secure.

Okay. For Yuli, because he was already in a crate.

And good job, kiddo.

I was able to give an injection with my hand rather than having to do a dart.

All right.

He just keeps breath holding, and then he starts breathing, so we'll just keep

close eye on it.

The first thing that I'm going to do is just get a closer look at Julie's eye,

making sure that there's nothing stuck in the eye, making sure that there's no

trauma there, anything like that.

I'm going to run a couple of ophthalmologic tests. So these are tests

how well the eye is actually working.

Do you see how inflamed all of this is down here?

The first thing that I'm seeing with Yuli is that his eye is very inflamed.

everything about it is swollen. It's red. It looks very uncomfortable.

The tissue underneath the lower lid has swelled to the point that's causing his

lower lid to curl inward.

He definitely has had, like, chronic irritation. I don't see a foreign body

here. He does have decreased tear production on this side as well. All

Yeah.

He'd look good.

Okay, so let's get butt in first. I've got his head.

I'm going to put him on a series of medication to kind of reduce the

inflammation. Oh, there's your eye.

Beyond the inflammation in the eye, he looks really great, and he is just fine

to move to his new home.

This is your new home.

Welcome.

All right, let's do it. Welcome home, kids.

The anticlimactic open.

Okay, okay.

It's all right.

Right down to the moment.

We have a lot of really fun, interesting things in this new habitat for them.

It's a nice, big, open yard.

All right, Yuli.

This is your new home.

Whoa.

Hang on.

You have new neighbors.

You have skunks, sandhill cranes.

Let's see your brothers.

Where am I?

We are really excited to see them try it out and see what they think.

Well, here is Frank, and Frank is a what?

Armadillo. An armadillo, and more specifically, a nine -banded armadillo.

guys. If you're here for the tortoise encounter, if you want to just follow me

this way.

We have two Galapagos tortoises.

This is Winston and this is Crystal.

You're adorable.

Although Winston and Crystal are both Galapagos tortoises, they are two

different species. So they originated from two different islands.

Crystal is a Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise. She is about 21 years old. So

still fairly young.

Winston, he is our 500 -pound male iguana cove Galapagos tortoise. He is

in his 80s. He's so big. He's so big. He's 500 pounds.

Such a calm gentleman, you know.

And Crystal's very excited to meet you guys.

Crystal is my favorite animal in the world. Doesn't she have a pretty shell?

Sometimes I'll be across the yard working on something, and she will see

beeline straight to me, and she will basically follow me around until I sit

and give her some pets.

Crystal is about to start a really big journey. She's part of our species

survival plan.

Actually, at the end of this week, she will be going to Miami Zoo.

Uh -oh. She's considered genetically valuable.

We have a nice male lined up for her at Miami Zoo, and hopefully they can get a

viable clutch of eggs and continue their species.

It's bittersweet.

I'm going to miss her a lot.

I will say I'm a little bit in denial that she's leaving.

Oh, she's such a good girl.

Here, hold my hat for a second.

Thank you, guys. Take care.

Hi, buddy.

I am the newest vet. I just started about five months ago, and it is

a very busy place.

We have a lot of animals, and we provide top -notch care here.

I've always been very interested in the behavioral side of animal care. Animals

can't tell us how they feel, so we have to find other ways to understand them.

All right, kiddo, what do you think?

I'm just going to grab you, okay?

A really unique opportunity that I had at my first internship in the zoological

field was to go to Indonesian Borneo and work with Bornean orangutans in their

free -ranging habitat.

So seeing the little ones here playing around, especially together, definitely

reminds me of what we would see at the sanctuary.

I think my favorite part about being a vet is a little bit cliche, but it's

I get to help animals.

Being able to work with a lot of these animals and make sure that not only is

their physical body healthy, but also their mind is healthy and that they are

happy and thriving in their homes.

Oh, what a good boy!

Good job! Oh, nice!

Hi, buddy.

Are you getting rid of a little dirt? Yes.

Today, Casey the sun bear is going to come to the hospital for a dental exam

potentially an extraction.

I increased the amount a little bit so that hopefully he goes down immediately.

But he is a bear, so, you know, just keep that in mind. We might have to give

him a little bit extra.

We're ready for you. Perfect. I will get set.

Hopefully everything goes well. We have everything ready that we need to, so it

should be easy.

Knock on everything will go well.

I love Casey so much. It's a little nerve -wracking whenever we put an

under anesthesia. There's a lot of things that could happen through that

process. So I'm just wishing for the best.

One, two, three.

I'm really nervous going into this procedure just because he is an older

know that this is the best thing for him.

Asia to Animal Duty.

Transporting our sun bear from Asia's surface area to hospital.

Since he's immobilized, it's really important that we move cautiously but

swiftly at the same time.

All right, let's get him over.

That way we are on time with everything and we don't have to administer any more

medications than we have to. All right, can you do lateral?

Kelly, you want to do it?

Let's get some x -rays first and we'll see what it looks like.

Casey is considered a geriatric animal, so he's gotten to the point where his

teeth have kind of worn out, even though he's still kicking.

Yeah, you can see pocketing around the root down here.

I'm concerned right now about an active infection in his bottom left canine.

Yeah, that looks very suspicious.

It seems as though it's most likely isolated to the tooth area, but if we

do something about it now, it can definitely spread.

Okay, I think we're going to have to go for the canine.

Bears have gigantic canines. I'm anticipating this procedure to take a

time.

We're getting there.

We always give the husbandry staff and the caretakers the option to stay

during a lot of these procedures.

Hold his hand.

He's dreamed of this day.

You can definitely see how much Casey is loved by his caretakers. Going to the

dentist with a sun bear is pretty crazy.

Will you confirm that heart rate for me?

I am really obsessed with this bear. He's just so sweet, and he's really

important to us, and we just want the best for him.

40? Okay.

We've been working on this one tooth for about an hour and 10 minutes. Oh, my

God.

to know how big that tooth really is.

So this is the patient's part of extracting a tooth.

It looks like I'm not doing anything, but what you need to do is put just

firm, consistent pressure in almost a torquing motion, and what that does is

stretches the connective tissue that holds the teeth in.

If you try and do this too fast, you're going to either break the tooth, break

the mandible, or break your tool.

She's just incredibly strong working on that, but so delicate enough not to

break his jaw. It's almost an art form.

You don't see this sport in the Olympics.

Come on, tooth.

No.

Finally,

I have the tooth out.

So something got trapped in there. It's been brewing probably for quite a while.

This is definitely the root of our problem.

Just want to make sure that we're not leaving anything behind.

Yikes. Oh, that smells horrible.

Smells like success.

I think it's all gone.

All of the infection is out, so it's a huge relief, and we're going to be able

to close that gum up and get him on his way.

Your mouth is going to taste awful, man.

This was absolutely something that needed to happen for him, and if we had

that untreated, that infection would have spread to his bone and potentially

the rest of his body.

Let's do it.

And we're rolling.

We're going to bring Casey back to his area and get him reversed from the

immobilization. Asia to Animal Duty.

Good.

Transporting Sun Bear from hospital to Asia.

Casey has a lot of recovering to do.

One, two, three.

He's going to have to kind of feel around in his mouth and see that

going to be a little bit different for him. Good job, buddy.

Casey's going to be on oral antibiotics and oral pain medication. He's also

going to be on a pretty soft diet until that gum heals from the incision. And

we're going to just watch him and make sure that everything looks okay.

There we go.

Oh, you have a tongue again.

I'm so excited to see Casey waking up.

She had you on some good stuff.

We're getting you some good pain meds tonight, too.

Yeah, your mouth hurts, huh?

What's going to be your first treat?

A peanut butter banana smoothie?

Randy, come!

Orangutans are fascinating because they're a great ape. They remind us so

of ourselves.

They have this amazing cognitive ability, which allows them to problem

They can make tools. They have a great memory.

She tried to just, like, suck everything up, and she's like, I'll just eat it

all really fast.

Our orangutans have their own individual personalities, so any time that we can

do observational studies, it's really important. It gives us more information,

not only for our troop, but also for orangutans in general.

I'm sure they're going to like it. We're going to hang it up over there where

that green triangle is.

If there are times where they seem more active, maybe that's where we do more

interaction, more enrichment with them. So really identifying what it is that

they do so that we can give them what they need.

Go play in that.

Maybe she's a little more comfortable going in it over the sand pit like we

were. Yeah, maybe.

Honestly,

anytime you're hanging out around the orangutans, it's fun. We have so many

so many different ages.

They're always having a good time, a little bit chaotic at times, but we

couldn't ask for anything better.

What do you think, Till?

As the time's getting closer and closer for Hadiyah's baby to be born, we've

been keeping an extra close eye on her. We have cameras with night vision set up

in the Eregatan night house so that we can do 24 -hour observations on Hadiyah.

You never know what's going to happen, and we want to be prepared.

So, a lot of activity in front of the orangutan habitat today.

A retail employee called during lunch to let us know that a guest

got some footage of one of the monkeys acting weird.

Obviously, orangutans are not monkeys. They're great apes. But immediately, we

thought that that could be Hadiyah because she could give birth any day

We ran over there and saw Hadiyah was about to give birth pretty much any

minute.

Moving. What a good girl!

Maybe she's having a snack.

We were lucky enough that we got there just before she gave birth.

Hadiyah knew exactly what to do. She's a second -time mom. She went right down

to the corner of the habitat, buy some palm fronds. Good girl!

Her mom, Josie, was with Hadiyah.

She seemed to be acting pretty much as a midwife.

Then she gave birth.

Look at her baby.

I'm so proud of her.

We've closed off the area to give her privacy and give her a quiet time to

with the baby.

Aside from her mom, Josie, we have the other orangutans inside for now, and so

we are just going to observe from a distance and keep the area quiet.

She chose to give birth out on habitat, so it makes it a little bit more

challenging for us because we don't have as great of a visual as we would like

to. If she was inside, she'd be a lot closer to us.

The first immediate things that we want to look for are, is the baby breathing?

Is the baby responsive?

Is mom doing what she's supposed to do to stimulate the baby?

It looks like the head's kind of under her arm a little bit right now.

We want to make sure she's strong, make sure she's getting up, make sure that

she is in position for nursing.

Good girl. She's attentive.

We hear the baby. That's a really good sign. That means that baby is breathing

and moving around.

Oh, my God.

Hadiyah looks good.

We're so excited. It's so amazing to sit and watch her with her baby.

It's so cute.

It's one of those things where you watch, you know, as mom goes through the

pregnancy, we're watching ultrasound, and then to see it in front of you, it's

really awesome experience.

That's got to be a girl.

I have seen...

I think six or seven orangutan babies born here at Zoo Tampa, and it's super

exciting every time.

Oh, it has a cute face.

Just relax, Hadiyah.

Tophie, come!

So Josie has decided to go inside, and we have given Tophie, who is Hadiyah's

daughter, access out to the habitat.

She's like, what the heck's happening?

Tophie is Hadiyah's five -year -old daughter. She is a little smarty pants.

Soapy comes out. She's really confident. She's kind of strutting across the

habitat. And then she hears the baby cry and she freezes.

What was that, Tobe? She stays pretty still for about a minute, trying to

out what's going on with that new baby.

Sophie's going to be probably a little jealous because up until today, she's

always shared Hadiyah's nest at night. And so I think tonight will be the first

night she has to make her own nest and sleep by herself. So she's going to have

a little adjusting to do.

What are you doing, Hadiyah?

Don't be nesting out here, Hadiyah.

Hopefully, Hadiyah makes the decision to come inside.

But she's kind of blowing us off right now, which is totally to be expected.

Right now is a really, really important milestone where she's holding the baby

and she's bonding with that newborn.

Good job, Hadiyah.

So we're kind of just watching her, and we're taking cues from her.

He is excited.

Reddington, Connor, and Yuli have been adjusting incredibly well to their new

habitat, better than I even thought, especially with some of the noise with

construction happening.

They're really back to kind of their old selves, how they were in the other

habitat.

I received our two medications for Yuli from our vet staff, so we're going to

get these started today.

It seems to be allergy -related for Yuli's eye.

We're going to go ahead and just stick with some kind of antihistamines for him

and a little bit of a steroid just to start.

I'm going to hide the pills inside his food. I'm going to start with making a

meatball. Meat is something that he's used to. He takes it all the time, so

hoping to disguise it.

I think I got what I need.

Hey, Uli.

Since he looks like he's ready, I'm going to put his meds in his meatball.

He's a red wolf. He should be a little bit more shy like his cohabs, but it

definitely works a little bit in our favor because we need to get him meds.

There's one meatball with meds.

Good job.

Second meatball.

Looks like he could really care less that there was anything in there. So if

that trend continues, I think we're going to get him the medication that he

needs to really help his eye. There you go.

It's nice. This habitat allows them a lot of cover.

They don't have to be up front if they don't want to, if any noises are scaring

them. They also have their den box in the middle of the habitat, so that

provides a place for them to kind of get away. But they've done extremely well.

All right.

I'll see you later for more meatballs and more meds.

Oh, there he goes. Look at that. So cute.

You want to go inside,

Hadiyah? Hadiyah doesn't seem to be the least bit inclined to move inside.

Hadiyah, where are you going?

I'm planning a perfect spot.

The bad thing about Hidia being outside is that tonight it's supposed to get

pretty chilly for here in Florida.

These orangutans are from the rainforest where it's hot and steamy.

It's going to be 54 below it says.

We're trying to encourage Hidia to come inside.

We're offering her some of her favorite snacks.

And giving her some verbal cues like, hey, you want to come in? You want a

peanut?

Hi, pretty.

We usually try to have them in a nice warm den so that we have a very nice,

controlled and safe situation. And if we need to intervene, we can.

But the biggest challenge here is if something goes wrong, we may have a

bit of a difficult time to get to her.

So we're going to give her some bedding.

That way she's able to be nice and comfortable with her kid.

Ready?

One, two.

I'm going to pick out some nice soft blankets for her that she can stay nice

cozy in.

As far as to get dark, it's going to get cooler. And right now, Hadiyah seems

like she's going to camp out outside for a while. If she decides to go inside,

that's fine. But if not, we're going to just give her lots of bedding and make

sure she's nice and comfortable out here. That's a nice big fleece blanket.

should probably be good.

Our guys really, really love blankets and things to cover up with when it

I'd say anything below 60.

Hadiyah, do you want a blanket?

Yeah.

There we go.

And she's out. It would be easier if she was in the night house, but this is

where it happened, and so we're going to make the best of it, and Hadiyah seems

comfortable, so that's the most important thing.

We're expecting her to do a couple of checks throughout the night. In the

morning, get a good up -close look at this baby.

Well, I think she's tucked in for the night. Good

morning,

everybody.

We were able to set up some cameras and do some remote observations.

And when it started to get pretty chilly, Hadiyah wrapped up in her

Made the trek across the habitat and moved inside.

She and baby had a nice warm night in the night house.

Good morning, Hadiyah.

Hi, Grandma Josie.

Hadiyah, come here. Let's see that baby, Mama.

Oh, my goodness.

Good girl.

I was really relieved when she did come inside.

I was able to get a real close -up look for her and the baby and able to see

that they were both doing really well.

She looks really good this morning.

Baby looks really bright -eyed. She sure does.

Hi. on my skin?

Look at you, looking right at me.

This new little girl is beautiful, of course.

She looks very bright -eyed to just be a few hours old. Still clinging really

tightly, definitely nursing today, and Hadiyah looks good. We're really happy

with everything we're seeing so far.

What do you think, Toby?

She's like, I don't know.

I'm taking up my mom's space.

Are you a big sister?

Well, I'm really... I'm really pleased with the way mom and baby look this

morning. Everybody looks great. That's a beautiful baby, Hadiyah.

You did a great job.

Thanks for hanging out.

Good job, Hadiyah.

Oh, my gosh. Look at how big that is.

That's the biggest tortoise I've ever seen.

Crystal is leaving today, and we really want to give her the royal treatment to

send her off, so we have some high -value items for her.

She loves apples.

And we won't tell Winston, but I'll go ahead, and we're going to cheat a

There we go.

There you go.

The emotions are starting to flood knowing that she's leaving soon, and

are kind of my last interactions with her.

And there it goes.

It's going to be rough not having her here, having her part of my routine.

A happy tortoise is one with apple all over their mouth.

Hey, Ms. Jasmine, how you doing?

Good, how are you doing?

Doing good.

Awesome.

So before Crystal leaves, Dr. Nico's going to check to see if she still has

microchip. So has Crystal finally found a boyfriend?

She did at Miami Zoo.

Well, that's good.

That's what we want, but sad to see her going.

These are really cool animals.

The goal will be to preserve the species.

So I think she's going to be fine, and hopefully one day we might be able to

some babies out of her.

You know, before she goes to the zoo, I would like to go around her and see if I

can pick something.

Of course.

Searching, searching, searching.

The microchip is a way for us to truly identify this animal with not just the

name, but with the blood work, with the locality and all that.

There we go.

You got it? Yeah. Awesome.

0073394F. Yeah, that's her.

So you are who you are.

We're sending out the right tortoise. Yeah, we're sending the right tortoise.

Thank you, Dr. Nico.

Keep me posted. Let me know how she makes it, you know, down there, all

Will do. You got it. Awesome.

All right.

I love you so much.

You're going to do fantastic.

And everyone is going to love you just as much as I do.

As sad as it is that Crystal is leaving us, it's for the best. And I know she's

going to do great over there.

And this gives me an excuse to go to Miami and go visit you. So at least

not too far away from each other.

It's extremely important to keep Galapagos tortoises' population numbers

because they are dwindling in the wild.

So Crystal going to the zoo and hopefully eventually getting a clutch of

that's a huge win for Galapagos tortoises, especially Santa Cruz

tortoises. So I'm super proud of her.

Bye, Miss Crystal.

Good catch, good catch, good catch.

How's Casey doing?

He's doing really well. He's off of all of his medications besides his little

joint supplements.

Casey has recovered really well from his dental surgery. He's pretty much 100%.

The only modification we had to do in his lifestyle is to soften his food a

little bit.

Well, I haven't seen him in a little bit, so I'm excited to see how he does.

too.

So even though we have to soften his food, it can still be a lot of fun. So

we're hoping to set up a soft food scavenger hunt on Habitat.

I am spreading some peanut butter for him to just work out on the PT poles,

his tongue workout in.

These are some bear biscuits. We obviously soaked them in some water so

really super mushy right now. That way he doesn't really have to chew on them

and it's a lot easier for him to eat.

It is soft food only now for Casey until he is nice and healed. We're hoping

that he just climbs all over the place, gets really excited about his food, and

just interacts with all of it and eats it all up.

Oh, my goodness. Are you excited?

How are you feeling?

You look great.

All right, Mr. Bear, we have a fun little treasure hunt outside for you.

your favorite snacks.

Let's do it.

It's always fun to see him run out of the night house because he knows that

something fun is outside.

Oh, my goodness.

One for peanut butter.

Food is the way to his heart. On his tippy toes.

Casey is pretty pumped right now. He is getting on his tippy toes trying to get

every morsel, so it's really good to see him that active.

He's off to a great start.

Casey's appetite is back. He is eating, and he's interested in whatever we have,

which is really promising to see, and we're really excited to have Casey back.

Oh, my gosh. He's so cute. He is literally the cutest.

All right. Bye, Casey Bear.

We'll see you later.

Ready? Yeah.

I mean, I don't want to leave.

Construction's coming along nicely. It is. We're in final phase. It's moving

along.

Today is three weeks for Yuli on medication.

We've gotten a couple of picture updates, and he's looking really good.

I'm going to go ahead and look at him with some binoculars and make sure that

looks okay.

He's like a brand -new wolf. I know.

I have not seen, like, any reaction to lighting or, like, bright sunlight.

Okay, great. Just kept it open.

Yeah. So it seems like this is probably just secondary to his seasonal

allergies, and it just got a little bit out of control.

We were able to put him on a series of medications to reduce the inflammation

and calm his immune system down a little bit. He had an amazing response to it.

I think at this point we can try to start decreasing one of those

That's great. Good. Good job. Yay!

Good job, Yuli.

Yeah. Oh, my God, what a cutie. All right. Thanks, Jamie. Thanks, Dr.

Hey, Yuli.

You look good, bud.

I'm really happy.

Their move went well. His eye is looking better. I think it'll be a really nice

treat for when our whole boardwalk is open and for visitors to learn a lot

all Florida native species and especially to learn about the critically

endangered red wool.

Hey.

As you can see, he's doing really good. He looks so cute in there. Well,

we have some news. I don't know if you have heard or not.

Yuli, your sister, little Boca.

She had pups?

Hopefully soon, but she was actually really... Isn't that awesome?

I got a little goosey. Look at her little floppy ears still.

We just found out that Boca, the female red wolf pup from our litter years ago,

was released into the wild in North Carolina.

It's kind of hard to believe actually that like one of our goals was to

make like a legitimate contribution to the wild population.

Our team couldn't be more ecstatic. This just goes to show that we are

successfully contributing to this population.

I'm happy that we were able to move them over here. It gives us more space for

another breeding pair, for potential future pups that continue to contribute

that population.

They're an amazing animal. Look at that cuteness.

That's ridiculous.

Good morning.

Good girls.

Look at those legs.

Oh, my gosh.

Where's Hadiyah at?

On the very soupy top, as usual.

Of course. The whole family except for Gojo's up there.

And Hadiyah and Baby.

So a few weeks ago, Hadiyah had her little baby girl on Habitat.

And Hadiyah and Baby have been doing so well together.

Look at that hair.

It's starting to get a little mohawk.

Hadiyah has just been such a great mom this time around. And just a few weeks

old, baby's very alert and definitely watching the other kids when they're

playing close by. So everything's going great.

Hey, Sam. Good morning. How's it going? Good. How are you?

Good, good. It's great seeing the baby out. Yeah. I wanted to get with Jane and

see how things were going. It is definitely one of the animals that...

Every time I'm walking through the park, I make sure I always peek in because

they're always doing something that will captivate you for five minutes.

Toby's been checking her out. They're getting along well so far.

Toby's being a very respectful big sister. She's definitely interested in

baby. And Hadiyah has let her touch and smell the baby a few times. But she's

giving Hadiyah her space and not being obnoxious about touching the baby.

And this baby has three generations of a family there. So if mom's not paying

attention to Grandma Josie, he's always right there. That's awesome, isn't it?

Yep. Zoo Tampa may have one of the best orang groups in the country. I may be a

little biased, but, you know, we have 10 animals. We have great age dynamics.

Everybody gets along really well together.

And so to see, you know, brothers and sisters of different ages playing with

each other, it's great to see.

To be able to see the baby really does make the day.

And then you see them grow up to be knuckleheads.

No,

they look great.

Like, what is that? The ring fans will be your ring fans.

Yes, they will.