Introducing a Chimp Named Mike Who Is Nothing Short of Amazing

Wild Times at the San Diego Zoo

Hear the story of this chimp whose journey to the Little Rock Zoo resulted in a trip to the Arkansas Children's Hospital.

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00:00Hey guys, I'm Lauren. Did you know that just like you and me, animals need to visit the doctor too?

00:07And sometimes, on special occasions, they'll even visit human doctors.

00:11I'm here at the Little Rock Zoo in Arkansas, and we're going to meet a young chimpanzee named Mikey.

00:16He's got a great story to tell. Let's go check it out.

00:19Hey Dr. Sarah, thanks so much for meeting with us today. Thanks for coming to the Little Rock Zoo, Lauren.

00:45Can you tell me a little bit more about Mikey's story here?

00:47Absolutely. Mike came to us in 2008. He was privately owned from an owner up in the northeast coast of the United States.

00:55So Mike came to us to join our chimp colony, and all of a sudden, he's in Arkansas,

01:00and he's exposed to all of these new allergies that he had never been exposed to before.

01:05I know what that's like.

01:06Yeah, so you know, your sinuses get all congested, and you've got tearing, and some nose running.

01:11Well, he had those same signs, but all of a sudden, he would start holding his hand over his eye,

01:17almost like as if he had a headache, and he would wrinkle his nose like there was an itch or something going on.

01:24And then all of a sudden, we saw this little pink thing coming out of his nose, and we said,

01:29What is that?

01:30Yeah, what?

01:30And so he would let us touch and feel, and it didn't seem to hurt, and it never bled or anything, but it was just there.

01:37And so finally, we said, Okay, it's time for us to go in and investigate.

01:41So tell me a little bit more about what you found when you went in to investigate.

01:45When we went back in January, we found that there was this pretty much golf ball-sized polyp

01:50extending from the back of his mouth all the way to the front and coming out of his nose.

01:55So we made this plan with Arkansas Children's Hospital.

01:57They said, We've seen this before in children.

01:59We can help you.

02:01And they came in in May, and we removed the polyp.

02:04We used a little drill to do it, and as soon as Mike woke up, we noticed that he was doing better.

02:09He was breathing better.

02:10He had more energy.

02:11He got in there and was able to remove the entire polyp, and it went very fast, and he did very well,

02:17and the recovery went fine.

02:18I think he's back to playing and doing what chimpanzees do.

02:22So after everything he's been through, how is Mikey doing now?

02:25Mike is doing fantastic.

02:27He has more energy.

02:28He's able to breathe normally so he can run around the yard and chase the other chimps

02:33and play with them and interact.

02:35He's not holding his head anymore, and he doesn't have this big pink thing hanging out of his nose.

02:40What an amazing story.

02:41It really is, and we just want to thank the Arkansas Children's Hospital

02:45and the Keeper staff here at the Little Rock Zoo for coming together and really helping Mike out.

02:51And now everybody can see Mikey here at the Little Rock Zoo.

02:54Exactly.

02:55Now thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us.

02:57Thanks for coming here and visiting us.

03:03We'll see you next time.

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