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Taking care of the animals at Busch Gardens

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    Anna Kooiman reports from Tampa, Florida

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Animals and now Busch Gardens Tampa offering an even better way for animal lovers to get in on kids.

-- we find our own and a Clinton who joins us live good morning.

Good morning team reps in and -- and -- good morning everybody hopes this -- in an animal care center here.

It Busch Gardens Tampa it looks something like it's out of a Martha Stewart catalog or Williams-Sonoma catalog all the -- here used restaurant quality produce to feed their 121000 animals.

They also take care things like check ups and routine exams and also surgery athletes let's take it -- the place.

We have over half a million pounds of -- a year ago three.

For 121000 -- for 121000 animals we go through three million mill works for an insect divorce we go through 240 tons of hay.

And from elephants to -- is.

The -- like this southern ground warned bill there's a nutritionist on staff coming up with specific diet.

So what -- you feeding and meet.

So we're neurotic parent process for doing all this for a possible we T -- This is Brcko and Australian -- -- that's his favorite he'll sit there and we all the individual kernels.

He's just in the -- or gotten crazy I think.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- This is the treatment -- -- deception and this is a review by the majority of our procedures.

The -- at Busch Gardens operate on everything from -- to frogs.

Some of his blood.

Work is being density can tell what ailment an animal may be -- let.

Exactly a lot of our patients as wildlife.

Are very good at hiding signs of disease if you think about it.

Been on the wild if -- shows signs that -- sick or injured a predator might take -- they're gonna get it exactly then try to finish off.

Injured and wild animals are also brought it like this seabirds -- -- fish hooks yet don't just tell you may lose -- we unfortunately see this fairly commonly.

In this Powell hit by a car sustained a pretty badly broken -- but that we were able to surgically put it together today.

We're back here in the treatment center this is actually where they do all of their Cyril surgeries it's.

Very massive an expansive and very interactive as well back to -- tear it apart.

Can watch through the glass here.

And they'll -- question and answer sessions with of that even while they're doing their procedures and he got to stay tuned to fox -- because coming up in our 8 o'clock hour there's going to be a one.

-- -- here.

It's going to be knocked out thankfully and that is going to be having a routine -- so we're excited about that were hoping that it doesn't wake up.

And Brian Gretchen and Steve were told that if it does wake up this is the room that we run incident.

Don't take -- We confess it's nice that they take such good care of -- -- the critters tonight.

All right it's -- -- Petronas.

Thanks a lot -- a good job.

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