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You can do it. Spark.

There he is.

Oh, my goodness.

Good.

Lady gets such a hoot. She doesn't want to miss out on any goodies.

All other goats besides Twilight. Come here.

Wizard. Oz.

Twilight.

Twilight Sparkle is... She is the littlest goat that we have at the

area. She is a handful.

She's got a lot of personality.

Go, Twilight, go.

Go, Twilight, go. Woo -hoo.

Twilight is a go.

Today we're going to take Twilight Sparkle for a walk around the zoo. It's

enrichment for her because she gets exercise. She gets to see new things.

it's interesting for the other animals who pass by because they get to see a

goat walk around.

She's so good. She is. She'll go anywhere.

She will.

Enrichment is something that we do to enhance an animal's environment.

It mixes up their day, makes things more exciting, and it usually elicits a

behavior that they would use in the wild.

Go see Zach, he'll copy.

Is he out? He is.

Zach is probably like, oh, okay, another goat.

She's back.

Do you want to wave?

Cute. She started to get...

A little bit of arthritis, so movement is good for her to help work her through

that. It seems like the more she moves, it seems to get a little bit better. So

we take her on walks to help her with her mobility.

Whoa.

I think he startled the hornbills. She's an African pygmy goat, so she's got

really short little stumpy legs.

Her little booty's so cute. I know.

The giraffe is. Staring at twilight. Yep.

We do this before the park opens just so we don't have crowds gathering around

her because everybody wants to pet her. She's adorable.

The painted dogs are always super excited to see her.

Here they come.

Look, fly.

Those dogs, they have a great sense of smell. Once they got a whiff of her,

all came running up and were very interested in what we brought over.

They look very eager to see you, my dear.

They're licking their chap.

She's pretty fearless. She has an attitude about her. She thinks she'll

anybody's butt that would mess with her.

Luckily, it's breakfast time for our painted dogs.

These are very heavy rabbits.

Some of them are huge.

Can you smell it, Picasso?

Because it's pink.

Today we are setting up enrichment for our painted dogs.

We're going to be making a fake carcass for them.

We're going to be using a cardboard box and stuffing it with bunnies.

We like to mimic whatever they would be consuming out in the wild, so that would

be any sort of large mammal like a zebra or a warthog.

Okay, I really don't want to touch these things.

We have a group of eight African painted dogs. We have Hatari, the father.

He's a very patient single dad.

And we have his seven puppies, three females and four boys.

We can put some of those logs in there. It's going to act as the bone.

In the wild, dogs are going to be tearing carcasses apart.

That's a very natural behavior for them. So we just want to be able to kind of

make the best carcass that we possibly can for the dogs.

Appetizing. So actually how painted dog packs work is the parents will actually

let the babies eat first. So even though they're not babies, they are a few

years old, Hattari will hang out in the back and he's not really going to go for

the food until the puppies have had their fair share.

Beautiful. I love it. I think we're good to go.

Let's do it.

Painted dogs are very different from domestic dogs.

They're very cute on the outside when you're looking at them through the

but they are predators. They have an extremely successful rate when it comes

hunting.

They're definitely not anything I would ever put my hands near.

Oh, someone got something.

Oh, they're spreading them out.

Hattari, go, bud.

Oh, my God, he's so cute, though.

Right now, it looks like Hattari's kind of wandering around. He looks like he

wants to attempt to go for the box, but he's not quite sure.

Have you guys noticed anything with Hattari? His eyes are still a little

I think he still is suffering a little bit from the allergies.

Hattari has been having some difficulties with allergies lately.

His eyes are getting pretty crusty. His muzzle really gets a lot more swollen.

Oh, good job, Hattari. Good boy.

Hurry, eat it.

With Florida's allergy season fast approaching, we're definitely going to

to step in and help Hattari out a little bit.

We're going to be transferring him up to the hospital later this week so the

doctors can take lots of tests and figure out what's going on.

Good boy, Atari.

A successful meal.

He has a dad bod. He for sure has a dad bod.

Hi.

That's a good girl, Amy.

This is Lady.

You need conditioner.

Your hair is crazy.

Lady is one of our half -langer horses that live in the petting zoo.

She is sassy, opinionated, and definitely not ladylike. So it's really

that her name is Lady.

She's my favorite pony.

She's a big sweetheart, but she definitely can push you around as well.

All right, Lady, let's see this mess.

She wants to see what's going on down there.

Oh, yep, it's going up her leg and her thigh.

And it feels really hard.

Just a few weeks ago, we noticed that there was a growth on Lady's mammary

gland. And it was pretty strange. It was almost like golf ball size and shape.

And then just over a couple of days, it started to grow exponentially. And

that's when we started to get really worried.

I'm really concerned about it just because it is getting so big so fast.

It was like lemon size when I first saw it. And now I almost feel like it's

football size.

We just don't know what it is and what is causing it to grow.

The vets have decided that best case scenario is to give her some type of

surgery to remove that mass because if it continues to grow, it could possibly

hinder her in the future.

Well, we can go ahead and get her inside. Dr. Lauren said she wanted to

down to get that blood sample. What do you think? Go see Dr. Lauren. You like

Dr. Lauren. Today I'm going to go check in on Lady. I'm going to get some blood

work on her.

Hi, Ladybug.

Are you going to be a good girl?

Maybe. I'm thinking about it. We ended up consulting with an equine

veterinarian, and we elected to move forward with a bilateral mastectomy.

This pre -surgical blood work is absolutely necessary for prep for the

It's really important that we make sure that she's nice and healthy and that

she's the ideal anesthetic candidate to move forward with this procedure.

What's going on?

Nervous.

She's like, shh, I don't want to.

This lady...

She said, not today, Dr. Lauren, not today.

Lady has a reputation of certainly running the show. She's sassy, she's

and in charge, so she can be a little challenging sometimes for us to get a

blood draw on.

Oh, yeah, that mask feels solid.

Hey, girl.

Is it good enough that you will let Michelle get a blood draw on you? We

need it.

Want to try it? Yeah, let's try it.

Michelle, you want to come up on my side?

Michelle, she's done Lady's blood in the past, so Lady definitely knows when

Michelle's around and something's up that a blood draw might be happening.

Lady, come on, let's get in those ears.

Yeah, she's listening now.

She's giving Michelle a little bit of an attitude, so we're going to have to

continue to work with this and see what we can do. If Lady's just not wanting

it, she can certainly just walk right all over you.

What do you guys think? Want to try one more time? We do need to get this blood.

Yeah. After a certain point, she just keeps getting amped. She's not going to.

You're okay.

So what we're going to do is have Michelle be a decoy on the side, and Dr.

Lauren's going to pull from the left side.

Right here. Right here.

Good job. Good job.

Yes.

Good job, ladybug. You did it, lady.

Good girl. So we tricked you.

You're so brave.

All right. Glad you got it. Yeah. No, that was important for us to get, so

you so much. Yeah, yeah, of course.

I got to palpate that mask.

solid that entire left gland is affected and it's starting to track upward which

is why i think it's really good that we're doing this asap okay it'll be

interesting after the surgery what it comes back as okay thank you thank you

guys thank you good job stinky butt i'm sorry it's so funny like i just let you

do a blood draw and you're playing with things i don't like

Here at Zoo Tampa, we have two Saimeng, a breeding pair, Sensei and Hutan.

Saimengs are a type of gibbon, and they're found in Asia.

They are known for their very loud vocalizations.

They have these unique inflatable throat sacks that can amplify their booming

calls and can be heard up to two miles away.

A couple of times a day, usually, they will do a duet, and it's kind of a

bonding ritual between a pair, and the longer the pair is together, the more

complicated their song becomes, and so it's been interesting to watch these as

they have developed their pair bond.

This morning, I got a call from Jane, and she was very excited to tell me that

we had a chiming baby.

Look at that little cutie pie.

I was so excited, I ran straight to the Simon building.

I wanted to see that baby right away.

Baby's nursing right now. Eyes are bright, wide open.

We suspected she might be pregnant, but we certainly had not verified anything.

She just started to look a little bit chubby. And we came in this morning, and

lo and behold, we have a new Simon.

Everything is looking really great so far.

We are so ecstatic about this new baby, Saime. She's been on birth control, so

sometimes oopsies happen, and this was an oopsie, but I'm really excited to go

look at it this morning.

Is it time? We're ready.

Okay. Ready for the big debut.

Hey, happy parents. How are you doing?

Congratulations.

Oh, hello.

Wow, very alert.

Isn't that the most adorable face you've ever seen?

So with it. Hello.

With primate babies, that initial bonding period with the mother and the

extremely important.

We only intervene if there's an indication to intervene.

So if the baby's holding on, nursing, we're seeing good maternal behavior on

part of mom, everything's going really well, they know what they're doing, and

we don't need to do anything.

She holds her legs up. She, like, doesn't trust that baby's going to hold

Oh, what a good mom.

Well, I don't think that baby could look any better.

Yeah. Good job, Bhutan.

Yeah. Good job, Sensei. Yeah. You did good.

If you're good with it, I think Jane and I are both comfortable. Yeah. That

baby's hanging on, and she does her little extra thing to make sure.

So, yeah, let's do it.

We are going to let Saimeng, mom, dad, and baby out for the first time. They're

doing fantastic, so we think that she's ready to go outside.

Their happy place is up in the trees, even with a brand new baby.

You ready to go?

She's ready.

Sensei, who's on? Outside?

Here we go.

You can do it. It's on.

First, it's the rock.

Hold on.

She's so good.

Good mama.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, boy.

Seeing Hutan take the baby all the way up to the top of their habitat is scary.

All of our hearts were just frozen.

You can't just stay still, huh?

Here we go.

You can do it, Hutan.

We got a surprise at the zoo this morning. We got a baby Simon. It was a

surprise to me. I was not expecting it at all.

Oh, my God.

It's nerve -wracking to me still to watch an animal go straight out with a

-new baby and go straight to the top of their enclosure. I would be a helicopter

mom up there where I would just be like, no, no, you're not doing that.

Primate babies, they've got to be able to hold on right from the get -go

you can imagine in the wild, mom is...

swinging way high up in the Asian forest. So that baby's got to be born

and have that instinct to hold on because they're going to be moving

trees with their mom. But that's what they do.

normal behavior, and the best thing to do is to treat them like their normal

routine, and that's what happens in the wild.

You can't just say so, huh?

She's walking the tightrope. She's moving around the habitat. She is really

to watch because she's doing this very carefully. She's making sure she's

the baby extra support when she's doing this, but she's on her normal routine

doing what she would normally do.

And Sensei's like, I can't be far away from my baby.

Timings are kind of unique among primates where the male is very involved

taking care of babies. They're a monogamous pair, which means that they

bond and stay together for life.

I just love what a good dad Sensei is. How much he already loves that baby. He

wants to see that baby. He wants to get as close as he can. But he's being very

respectful of Hutan, who isn't quite ready for him to be that close.

Who loves that baby more, him or us? I don't know. I don't know either.

Get her to go.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

They grow up so fast.

We have three Binturong. We have Soli, who is our male, Miladi, who is our

female, and then we also have Kartika, who is their little girl.

A Binturong is also known as a bear cat.

They are found in the forests of Asia. They are neither bear nor cat.

They are a species all on their own.

I absolutely love them. I mean, it would be hard not to. They are very curious.

They always keep us on our toes, and they have such different personalities

you never know what you're going to get.

Kartika, she is about four months old now and due for her last set of

She's just been a lot of fun to watch her grow and watch her personality

develop. Gosh, I can't get over how big she's getting. She is getting really

big. Hopefully she'll cooperate.

All right. Nice.

Kartika.

Kartika, come.

It took the animal care team about a month to train Kartika to go into the

little half PVC tube that allows us to give her her vaccine voluntarily.

That's a good girl.

She's very, very calm and is accepting of the vaccination.

You might go for that front leg to start if that's okay.

Yep. She's in a really nice position.

Very good. Ready? Yep.

Done. You're being a very good girl.

Binturong are classified as a vulnerable species.

They're vulnerable to extinction.

So watching Cartica grow and hitting those milestones is really important for

to be able to provide the best care that we possibly can for this species.

Done. You're all done.

Good girl. That was the last of your vaccines.

She was a complete champ. Now she's all done until she's about a year old.

You're such a good lady.

The tube works so great.

She's also very food motivated. She goes bananas for bananas.

We have had the Binturong for about two years. Our goal was to get them here,

get to know them, get them introduced, maybe have a baby, which we succeeded

And now that they are doing really well and they're growing, we want to be able

to give them an area where our guests can see them and enjoy them as much as

do. So we have some really exciting changes coming up for our Binturong

There is planning and renovations to one of the enclosures on the public area.

We're very excited to get them over there.

There's lots of trees for them to climb on.

They're going to have a nice water feature.

And once that's ready, then the whole family group will be moving out for

everybody to be able to see Hartika grow and see her and her mom and dad.

All righty. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you.

She's all done now with her baby vaccine.

You're a big girl.

I love working with apex predators.

They provide such a unique challenge.

These animals are gorgeous. They're smart.

They're so much fun to watch and work with. But you always need to keep in

that apex predators like tigers, bears, wolves, and a dog are extremely

dangerous.

Over the past year or so, Hattari started to develop an allergic reaction

something in the environment.

When you look at him at certain times of the year during certain seasons, he'll

get puffy eyes, he'll kind of get like a puffy snout, and he'll scratch at it.

We have him on allergy medicine right now, but it's not totally taken care of,

so we need to figure out kind of what's going on and what's going to be the best

route for him. They're starting to separate him now. Let me set up up here

that way I'm out of their way.

Right now, we're going to do a full immobilization on Hattari so we can get

everything we need to set him up for success.

Once he's secure, we're going to go in, remove him, and transport him up to the

hospital where we can get his procedure going.

Oh, he's mad.

He says, I'm not dumb. I've done this before.

One of the things that we have to do to safely get hands on African Painted Dogs

is to immobilize them with darning.

You guys are okay.

Sedation is something that we do routinely for us to be able to safely

on our patients, but in doing so, we have to still be mindful of the

risk.

Nice, Lauren.

Right hip.

Got to get sleepy, buddy bear.

Hey, buddy. Good boy.

Right now, I'm just watching his respiratory rate. I just want to make

breathing well. The next step is just making sure that he's sleepy enough for

to be able to go in and get hands -on.

I think we look pretty good. Yeah, I don't see anything.

All right, ready?

Once Hattari is completely sedated, you kind of worry, are they still taking

breaths? Is their heart rate still okay? Is the heart beating?

That's always something you have to consider.

He's pretty sleepy.

Okay, you're good. Let's get the stretcher.

As soon as Hattari is down, the clock starts ticking. And now everybody has to

work together to make sure that this procedure goes off without a hitch.

Can I send Liam Brandy in here with you guys? Yep, absolutely.

I just need someone to hold his head.

Got that in there. I'm giving some oxygen.

AC to all African units. We're headed to the hospital with Hattari.

Do you have a heartbeat?

I can't hear in the car.

Can you breathe?

Hang on. This is the first time I've forgotten the car.

We're on our way up to the hospital.

We just noticed that he's not really taking any breaths on his own, which can

concerning. Hattari's breathing has slowed down substantially, so it's got

act now. This is not going how we had hoped.

Hey, Rob, let's go ahead and stop and intubate him real quick.

Today we're doing a full workup on Hattari. We're hoping to find just some

answers on what is actually causing Hattari's allergies and see if there's

way we can help him.

Hey Rob, let's go ahead and stop and intubate him real quick.

Hattari seems to not be breathing as frequently as he had been. We don't have

time to go to the hospital. We need to stop right now and address the

This isn't the normal setup that I use to intubate animals.

Intubating is where I'm actually going to put a tube into the animal's airway,

and this can help me control his breathing.

There we go.

All right, let's roll. I think we just need to get there.

All right, we're moving.

It makes you stop breathing because you're kind of scared for him. We want

make sure that we're doing everything in our power, that he makes it through

this entire process.

He's already intubated. I just really need to get a good heart rate on him.

Okay. He just wasn't breathing great on the transport.

Oxygen here.

His color is good. His color's much improved.

Atari seems stable. He's got a good heartbeat. His respiration rate is going

well. I feel comfortable moving forward with his exam.

You can see he's really erupted.

Ooh, his heart.

Mm -hmm. It's that.

They can scan when it gets chronic like that. It's called lichenification, like

lichen, and that just means that it's been just very chronic.

It's not often that I'm getting hands on Hattari, so I want to really make the

most of it, and we're going to do as much as we can in a short amount of

These are not bad. I mean, there's some tartar in there, but how old is he now?

Ten. Yeah, that's great. Today we've asked Dr. Nico to join us to assist with

Hattari's procedure.

In his full -time day job, he's a small animal veterinarian.

Nico, if you want to do the punch biopsy, that's one of the things we want

do, Graham. If I see a painted dog, I'm thinking about a regular domestic dog.

And I'm going to treat you very similarly as I would have treated your

But different that this animal, if he wakes up, it's not going to be fun for

or for me or for the staff.

So two samples Laura and I got. I think that should be representative.

Let's get set up for x -ray.

Okay, prepping.

All right, I'm going to step out.

Shooting.

This animal has such an amazing genetics.

They are lean. They are just athletes.

Hattari, he's a good -looking animal. He has a big head, good shoulders, strong

back legs, so he's in top shape. I think we got what we need.

Okay. I'd like to be done now.

So, Nico, we need to get the reversal drug.

Okay. And then I think I'm going to turn him off ice, though, because I just put

on him breathing on his own.

I'm going to give him a breath and then let's disconnect him and put him butt

first into the crate.

This is a really important part of the procedure, just as important as the

induction and the whole workup is a safe recovery.

Get the nose out. That way I've got access to the airway.

All right.

He's got reversals in.

The minute we start to see arousal, pull it. Breathing okay? Mm -hmm. Good. He's

picking up.

We're just watching, watching, waiting for him to make a little subtle

And all of a sudden, he just tried to move his head. Tube comes out, door

down.

Oh, good.

They beat you. That's all right.

Nicely done.

Right now, he's recovered. He's in the crate. We're going to make sure that

stable and then move him back to the habitat and get him back in with the

of the pack.

Are we all secure in here?

Yeah, yeah. We went through and checked all the locks. Thank you.

Oh,

he's mad.

Hattari's back up on his feet. You can kind of hear him working in that crate

and growling a little bit.

It's very intimidating.

Ready? One, two, three.

I'm going to be reviewing x -rays, go look at blood work, and we'll have the

biopsy results in a few weeks. All this is really valuable information for us to

get a sense of Hattari's overall health.

I do feel really bad for him. I want him to feel more comfortable, so we're just

going to keep him on meds for now, and then hopefully see if we have any

for those allergies.

Great job, everybody.

Good boy, Hattari.

Hello.

You're such a good boy.

I love the petting zoo animals just because they all have their own

This is Comet.

He just really enjoys rubbing your face.

They love being with you, which I think is an awesome thing for animals to want.

Oh, he's so excited.

That's a good boy.

So since COVID -19 hit for the past year, the petting zoo has been closed.

So they're not getting all the guest interaction that they used to. We have

make sure that we're giving them all the tactile, all the petting, all the

scratches to get that attention that they crave.

Right, Django?

I do think the goats definitely miss the interaction.

I know there's all these people that you want to love.

They are social animals, so they really do love the attention.

And, of course, I don't mind that at all because that means I get to spend extra

time with my animals.

I am definitely a one woman. I'm outnumbered by goats.

I know I'm this lady, too, but she's in good hands.

Loaded on the trailer with apple slices yesterday.

Ah, apple slices.

Excellent.

The lady's having her surgery today. She's at an equine surgical facility.

She has a mass growing on one of her mammary glands.

So she's basically having a radical mastectomy. Very uncommon in horses for

something like this to happen, which is why she's here to have a board

-certified surgeon do her surgery.

So this is her mammary tissue, and there's just kind of a mass -like

in this region.

About three weeks ago, the U contacted us to let us know that there was some

swelling on Lady's left mammary. In a matter of a couple weeks, it has

about three times its size. It does make me a little bit more concerned that it

might be cancer.

Everyone ready? Yes.

Inducing.

For surgery, we're going to give an injectable anesthesia, which is going to

have her lay down.

Once they're anesthetized, we have a hoist system that will pick them up and

them onto the table.

This is considered very safe. It looks a little bit strange because they're kind

of hanging upside down, but they're very well supported and it's a safe way to

transport them.

I want her butt as close to the back as possible.

Horse surgeries are pretty intense when they're laying on their back like that.

Obviously, their legs are the most dangerous part for them kicking. So

the surgeon right there in between those back legs, the anesthesia person needs

to really be careful that that animal is not going to move a muscle because it's

a big, dangerous animal to have under anesthesia.

All right, are you guys good to buy a cup?

Yes, we are.

Cutting. The mammary gland has very large blood vessels that go to it, so

going to be essential to find those blood vessels and tie them off before

cut them, and then remove the tissue as gently as I can to take it away from her

body. First giant vessel. See that? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, very big.

Go ahead and cut, please.

I can't dissect all the way here, so I'm just trying to find the best path that

I can take.

Today we're going to do a mastectomy on Lady's mammary region. It's a little bit

risky based on the amount of blood vessels that are going to it.

Cut, please.

That'll make you sweat a little bit.

It feels funny to us to turn one of our animals over to somebody else because

we're so used to taking care of them ourselves.

Everybody at the hospital wishes they were here right now.

Definitely going to be taking some pictures and letting everybody know how

doing. Everybody's behind Lady 100%. So that, I think, was the one that made her

concerned. I set it off quite well.

Okay. Her mammary gland is significantly bigger than what you would expect.

Worst case scenario is cancer.

We'll send the mammary tissue off for them to look at under a microscope, and

they'll kind of tell us what type of tissue it is and what we have going on.

You should start being able to close her now.

They warned us that a lot of times it splits open when they stand up, and I

could see why.

It's a big opening, and we had a hard time keeping it closed, which is why

kind of a long recovery.

I'm sure they will close it the best they possibly can.

If everything can come off, we're done.

Now that she's done, we're going to lay her on a big mat. It supports their

muscles when they're laying as the anesthesia is wearing off.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay.

Good girl.

Okay.

I brought Lady some carrots.

When you visit your friend in the hospital, you bring them some flowers,

when you visit your horse, you bring them carrots, right?

As soon as her doctor says it's okay, she will definitely get to have some

carrots. Hello. Dr. Mark, how did it all go? It went well, yes. I'm happy with

the margins and everything. Good. The tissue around that was kind of inflamed

and irritated, so definitely we need to get that sent off for histopath to see

what we're dealing with. All right. I hope it stays closed when she wakes up.

Yes, I know. There's a lot of tension on that. Yeah, that defect is quite the

thing to close. It is. There she goes. Come on, honey.

Come on, got it.

You can do it. Good girl. There you go. Good girl. There you go. Hello.

Good girl.

The lady is back up on her feet. She's going to have about two weeks where

trying to get the skin to heal, but she'll be able to go back to her normal

relatively quickly.

Good girl, sweetie.

She'll be here for the next several days as she starts healing up, and then she

gets to come back to the zoo.

She's probably thinking, okay, I'm ready to go back now.

Oh, that's so pretty.

Does scratching feel good in the morning?

You can rest on my shoulder, but don't rest on my head.

John, do you have a boy or a girl?

As long as it's healthy, that's all she cares about.

So baby is actually two weeks old today, doing all of the milestones we'd expect

to see so far. We're very pleased with both mom and baby's progress.

Look how cute.

Oh, they're so ready.

Hey, Jane.

Hi, you got some snacks for the signing? Yeah, we brought some greens and

cantaloupe.

Hopefully with these goodies here, we can get her to come over and get a good

look and make sure baby looks good and alert.

Sounds good.

Sensei, come.

Good boy.

Good boy.

Hutan, come.

Good girl.

The baby's definitely got more hair.

I think it's a weight more than it has been.

I feel like it's looking around a lot more, too.

It definitely pays attention to us.

And that's a new development.

I am so ecstatic that there is a Simon baby.

I remember starting on the primate team, and I immediately was like, I need

these two to have a baby because they're perfect. And they stole my heart

instantly. Mom, can you stop moving?

Look at her knees.

It's like a little baby cradle. I love it.

Can you imagine? If my babies had held on to me like that, life would have been

so much easier.

I think everything looks great. Such a cute little family. Yeah, it is.

All right, guys. Enjoy your snack.

We'll see you later.

Love you.

Hugs and kisses.

Little tiny gentlemen.

So proud of you.

Honestly, when I first thought about working with animals, it was just to be

around the animals.

Want this? Yummy papaya?

As I continue on in my career and learn more about every species, it's...

Interesting to think that I play such a big role in the future of animals and

really help people understand that they're not just cute and cuddly, that

also have needs. I couldn't have asked for a better career.

Oh, you're beautiful, huh?

Ready? Ready. We are excited.

Jacob? Hello.

Hi.

Today's the day. Venturons are moving to our Asia department today, and it's

going to be hard to see them go.

They had access to both dens last night, and they decided to all sleep together

in den two.

In true Venturon fashion, they are sleeping in. It's always on their terms.

we can do is ask, and if they decide that they're not ready and they'd like

sleep a little bit longer, we'll have to come back a little later.

Hey, Kelly's in here. Hi, Kelly.

Hey, old man.

Hi. Maybe we can get him first.

I don't even need you guys. I'll do it myself.

Good boy. Oh, close it.

Yeah.

So to start off this morning, we're going to move Sully first, get him over

the habitat, and then we're going to have to come back, and we will try to

create Kartika and Miladi at the same time.

We got Sully.

Sully, you have no idea what's about to happen.

But it's going to be good. It's going to be amazing.

It's a good thing.

Primates to Animal Duty.

Right. We are transporting Venterong from Pottis Building to Asia.

Take my copy.

Enjoy the view.

Take in all the sight.

Today is finally moving day. The Venturons are going to move from the

where they've been behind the scenes to their new habitat in the Asia area.

Our plan is to bring Sully over first and open his kennel right inside the

habitat.

It just, like, hit me.

The smell, yeah.

Oh, no, just that he's moving. Oh, I was going to say, there's also the

binturong smell. Oh, yeah, the popcorn?

Yeah. The binturong smell like buttered popcorn, so it's always fun to work

around them, unless you're really hungry and it really makes you want some

popcorn. We're getting ready to get Sully out for the first time, and I can

already tell that Sully arrived because I can smell him all the way from out

front. It smells like you're walking to a movie theater.

What's up? Hi.

Ready to move in your new residence? Yeah.

We could put a popcorn stand right here.

All right. Are we good?

You're good.

Moment of truth.

The best part is he has no idea what's about to happen. No, he doesn't.

Okay, opening up.

What do you think, Sully?

Welcome home.

We were a little bit worried that Sully would be intimidated when we let him

out, that he would hurry into the corner.

Here he comes.

Oh, look at him.

But he started scent marking everything.

So they're super scent motivated, and that is their main source of

communication. I'm so proud of him. He's doing really well.

He's going to have a busy day of scent marking everything.

Oh, that's awesome. He's so cute.

Where do you think he's going to go first?

The best chilling spot is above the waterfall.

I have been waiting for this moment for a long time, for them to come to Asia.

When I was on primate, they were one of my favorite animals to work with with

just how unique they are. It was almost like goosebumps where I was like, holy

cow, we finally got to this day. We're home.

What do you think, Sully?

He looks so good.

This is where Venturong needs to be.

Look at him in this hammock.

Does he really sleep in the hammock? Yeah, he sleeps in it. He likes

in bed, so we'll feed him in the hammock.

Everything about Binturongs is new to me, so this is going to be a great

experience for me to learn what really makes them tick, when they're motivated,

when they're not motivated, what they really like to eat, their personalities.

Everyone in the team is so excited to learn a whole new species.

He looks fantastic.

I know.

Fitting right in. I think these guys are going to be great out here. The guests

are going to love it.

You're not usually shy. I know. You like all the attention.

Hatari! Hi, buddy.

Ew, dude.

Recently, we did work up on Hatari just to do an overall health assessment, but

also to try to figure out what is going on with his allergies entering the

springtime season.

Hey, Sydney.

Hi. Good morning. I just wanted to check in on Hattari. We've been on the

antibiotics and just wanted to see if the antibiotics were helping at all.

It's tough. It's tough, yeah? Yeah, he's very puffy, really, really itching with

his front paws. Okay, okay.

Hi, sweet boy. Come here. You're okay, buddy.

Recently we did a biopsy and we got a little sample of his skin to submit to

lab. It showed a lot of chronic inflammation and the findings were very

consistent with environmental allergies.

It seems that his left eye is starting to get worse.

Yeah, he definitely is.

He might need to bump up his epical. Yeah.

We've tried to taper back his medication to a lowest effective dose, but every

single time he erupts with more lesions. So given the information that we have

with the biopsy, with the blood work, we can safely continue him on this

medication, but at a higher dose.

All right, I think I'll get that started. We'll continue the antibiotics.

still think that's important.

Thank you, Lauren. Yeah, thank you.

I really do think we're doing everything we can to make sure that Hattari, as he

gets into his golden years, has a really comfortable life.

All right. We'll be back with more later.

Good boy.

Today I'm going to head over to Pony Barn and recheck Lady, or Halflinger

It's been a while since she's had her surgery, and I'm just going to see how

she's healing up. Hello.

Hi. How's Lady?

She's fantastic.

Awesome. The team has been super diligent in doing her aftercare, done

hydrotherapy, wound care, walking her.

All of this was to help her heal.

So we got some of the biopsy results for the left gland. I'm still waiting for

everything on the right, but... I'm definitely hoping that this is not life

-threatening. I've been with Lady for at least five years now, so she means a

lot to me. So I'm hoping for some good news.

So we got some of the biopsy results for the left gland. I'm still waiting for

everything on the right.

But the good news is it didn't come back as cancer. It came back as severe

inflammation. The exact cause was not determined, but could certainly be

hormonally induced.

And even though it wasn't cancer, that would have still been pretty dangerous

it continued to grow. But I think this is what's going to be best for her in

long run.

I was hoping to check her incision site and see what it looks like today.

We can definitely try.

When was the last time you've seen it?

Since last week.

Like, only like this big. Golf ball size.

Oh, it's tiny.

Tiny, tiny.

This looks fantastic.

It's nice and pink. It looks super healthy. It's healing up really nicely.

don't see any evidence of an infection.

So this is absolutely what we want.

Is that her?

Yeah. Just get in your butt.

This lady looks amazing.

She's acting and behaving normally. That surgical site is closing faster than we

expected, so we're really, really excited about that news.

Does Dr. Lauren want to feed her real quick? I would love to feed her.

She's probably mad at me.

Say, she is the best vet ever.

I feel like right now we're bonding a little bit. I think she's maybe giving

some forgiveness.

She says that's a step in the right direction. Good girl.

All right, lady, let's go for a walk.

Walking, lady, is just really important for her health. This is very much like

physical therapy. Getting her that exercise is very important, and it's a

process. Today she's walking incredibly well considering how recent her surgery

was, so we're really excited to see that.

You would never know that she even had surgery.

She's walking great, going further distances.

Good job.

She has so much energy.

She's going to do this all day.

We are seeing no signs of pain at all. There's no stiffness. There's no

of any side, any leg. There's no weird gait going on. She is perfectly perfect.

She did really well. You did so good. I am so happy that you're doing well.

Love you.

Love you.

I think he might have the cutest face out of all of them.

Asia to primates. Go ahead for primates.

I thought you guys would like to know that all the benturong are out on

Oh, yay, good news. We'll come over and check it out.

10 -4, we'll meet you out here.

It's been a few weeks since we've moved our benturong family to this big,

beautiful habitat here in Asia Gardens.

We have been anxiously waiting for all three of those Venturons, especially

Malati, to come out and join the rest of the world on the outside.

And today was that day. Malati decided to come out with Kartika and Sully.

Anything you stand up like that, Colin.

You know, we got them out. They won't go inside.

Hi, Kartika. Are you coming to say hi?

She just looks so grown up now.

We got to wait on her 21 pounds. That's insane.

Just a little bit less than Sully.

She's like showing off for everybody. I love it. We're all really happy that

they have this really nice habitat just for them, and we can finally show

everyone who comes to Zoo Tampa just how amazing these guys are.

Look at her go. Now what are you going to do?

Kartika is showing off her parkour skills.

She's climbed a tree. She's climbing upside down.

She's having the time of her life, I think.

Melody's awake now.

Mimosha's moved all day.

That's it.

Where's Sully? He's sleeping on the ground.

Oh, yeah. Aw.

Yeah, I think Kartika ran by and woke him up.

It's exactly what we hoped for when we wanted to move them over here, that

they're exploring.

Kurtika's running and jumping all over the place, so I think they look

fantastic. I do miss having them over in Prime Mates, but it's everything we

hoped for. You guys can come by whenever you want.

Help us get them inside.

Yeah, that would be a huge help.

Finter on Twitter.

Aw.

Aw.

Good job.

Hi, Kazuki.

Now that Kazuki finally has a name, it's even more special to come in and

interact because now it's an individual and has its own personality.

If we can just figure out if it's a boy or a girl now. I'm pretty sure it's a

boy. I'm pretty sure I saw some dangling parts yesterday.

The next step is it's time getting to know the name Kazuki because what we'll

work on next is her presenting Kazuki to us so that we can examine different

parts of the body.

Where are you going, Yutan?

I'm ready to go outside.

Tell the world your baby's name.

Go sing it out loud.

So we are again going to let the Saimengs out on habitat and welcome

and announce to everybody that we finally have a name for our adorable

Saimeng baby.

It's a big responsibility coming up with a name. It is.

They're a cute little family. They are. Now with Kazuki, it's just complete.

It is. The last few months getting to know Kazuki has been one of the

of my career.

A really cool adventure seeing how Sensei and Hutan have a part in his

Have a good day, Kazuki.

Bye, guys. We love you. Sing it out loud so everyone can hear.