00:01We're not really sure of the specifics on his injury but at some point he was
00:06injured and became blind and he ended up in a giant otter rehabilitation center
00:11in a place called Kirinambu which is in Guyana. He received excellent care but
00:16because he was blind he wasn't able to be released back into the wild. He ended
00:19up here at Jacksonville Zoo so he would have a safe environment to live in and
00:24hopefully eventually have pups of his own. The female that we have in her name
00:33is Token Hontens and we're going to call her T for short. We did what we call a
00:38physical introduction and put them together. We watched them really
00:41carefully and they did great and have been together ever since.
00:46When they came over to their new exhibit which is a larger area with a lot of
00:50different complexities and the exhibit T the female helped him learn his new
00:57environment so he kind of kind of glued himself to her basically and went
01:01everywhere she went so he was able to navigate kind of safely by staying close
01:07to her. She also gave him the confidence to feel like he could go out there and
01:12kind of explore a little bit. At the very beginning you know he did bump into
01:15something so he had little scrapes on his face and it was a little challenge at the
01:19beginning so you know anything new you always have to learn and kind of get
01:23through that initial period but with her help he was able to safely navigate
01:28around and so now he does great and he knows his environment really well.
01:34It's good to ask for help. It's good to have a friend. T was a good friend to Buddy
01:39and helped him and guided him through his difficult times so having a friend to
01:43help you get through things is great and just knowing that you know after all the
01:47hard struggle and getting through the things that are really challenging and
01:51they're hard on a day to day basis that you know it's going to get better at the
01:54end and you're going to be okay at the end.
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