00:00Today we're here at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, and we're going to be meeting our 15-month-old tiger cub named Kinley Rose.
00:13In 2016, she broke her leg, so let's go ahead and take a look and see how she's doing now.
00:23So she broke her leg a little over a year ago, but just take a look at her now. It's as if it never happened.
00:31So when we found out that the cub had an injury, we of course wanted to take her to get the best medical care that she needed.
00:37So when we first found her, the cub wasn't really wanting to put much weight on, and because of our relationship, the keepers with the animals,
00:44we were able to safely remove mom out of the situation, take her off of exhibit, and we ended up taking the cub to a specialist
00:51where they did determine that her femur had been broken.
00:54We actually ended up putting in a metal plate into Kinley Rose's leg, which is still there today, and she does very well with it.
01:02And her leg has healed completely, and that plate does not hinder her at all, and it helps to keep her leg nice and strong.
01:08We even have such a great relationship with her that we're able to do some training, and as you guys have seen, she's able to train just fine.
01:21She can stand up on that leg and bear weight on it, and she can even play and roughhouse with mom.
01:28One of the important things about having those close relationships with our tigers and having them trust us is through our training.
01:35We're going to be asking her for different behaviors to get her to cooperate, present different body parts that help in her medical care,
01:42and then through that, she's actually trusting us, so she develops that bond with us that she trusts what we're asking her to do is going to be beneficial for her as well.
01:51So we can all learn something from Kinley Rose.
01:53She was faced with a challenge.
01:55She learned how to overcome it, and you can too.
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