Why This One Specific Supplement Is Very Important For This Amazing Spider Monkey

Wild Times at the San Diego Zoo

Ebony has been a resident of Utah's Hogle Zoo for 35 years.

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00:00Música

00:30So how long have you been here at Hogle Zoo?

00:31I have been here at Hogle Zoo for about eight years.

00:34Wow, and how long have you been working with Ebony?

00:35I've been working for Ebony nearly that entire time.

00:38I've been her primary keeper for about the last five years.

00:41Excellent, well let's go meet her.

00:44Hello Ebony.

00:46That is her greeting.

00:47She's just telling us hello.

00:49And she's going to come down and say hi to us.

00:51Hi city girl.

00:53What a good girl.

00:54So Ebony has been here at the zoo for about 35 years.

00:58And we aren't exactly sure how old she is because she came in already as an adult.

01:02But she is at least 35 years.

01:04And so she's gotten the routine of living here at the zoo down pretty well.

01:08She knows that the keepers are the ones with the treats.

01:10Right.

01:10And so as you can see she's hoping for more treats.

01:12So Ebony, as you can see with her coat she has some bare spots.

01:16The skin looks pretty dry in those areas.

01:19And just like you and I, especially here in Utah in a desert climate, we'll get dry skin.

01:23I know I have to put a whole lot more lotion on, especially in the winter.

01:26And the same thing with Ebony.

01:27She gets dry skin.

01:28She has seasonal allergies.

01:30So what are we going to do today with Ebony?

01:31So today we're going to give her one of her medicines that she's getting.

01:34So Ebony every day gets a fish oil capsule to help with her coat.

01:38Fish oil is a supplement that a lot of people will take for themselves.

01:41I was going to say it looks like something you get from the store.

01:43Yeah, exactly.

01:43Yeah.

01:44And she is a great medicine taker.

01:46So we're going to see if she'll come down back again.

01:49Good girl.

01:51So she's going to chew her capsule.

01:53Look at that.

01:54No big deal.

01:55Yep.

01:55What a good girl.

01:57And then we do follow it up with a treat because everybody else that gets medicine gets a special

02:01treat for it.

02:02And then we're also going to do some topical treatment with her today.

02:05And she'll just stick her arm out.

02:07Arm or tail.

02:09Good girl.

02:10And then we can just rub it all over.

02:12Good job, Ebony.

02:14Yeah, I think a lot of people don't know a lot of times when animals do have allergies,

02:17the treatment is very similar to what people get, right?

02:19It is, especially with the primates.

02:21Their bodies are so similar to ours and the way their bodies process medications is so

02:27similar that a lot of times we'll even use human medications in order to combat those

02:31allergies.

02:32Good girl.

02:33Well, thank you so much, Lindsey.

02:35You are welcome.

02:35And Ebony, too, for letting us learn a little bit about how you treat an animal with maybe

02:39some skin conditions and allergies and learning more about Ebony.

02:42Ebony saying goodbye.

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