Zoo animals affected by hay fever

Humans aren’t the only ones to suffer from hay fever, with animals from the National Zoo also experiencing runny noses and sniffles.

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00:00So pets and zoo animals can also get hay fever just as much as what people can, so it can

00:13present definitely in different ways and it depends what the allergen is, it can be pollens,

00:16it can be dust, it can be all sorts of things that are moving throughout the air.

00:28You may notice around this time of year that he does start to get much itchier eyes and

00:32sometimes because they're so itchy, he'll also end up with a secondary conjunctivitis,

00:35so we do need to treat him with eye drops.

00:37One of the other animals that we've had this year especially, which we actually haven't

00:40seen before, so I do think this year has been worse than others, especially again with the

00:43dry, windy weather, was our squirrel monkeys.

00:45So our squirrel monkey boys, they have been sneezing a lot.

00:49So they aren't normally on any medications, but this year we've had them on grape-flavoured

00:54claritine.