00:00Welcome to the St. Louis Zoo's Veterinary Hospital.
00:02Today we're here to talk about the pharmacy that actually provides the medications for our zoo's animals.
00:08A pharmacy for animals is actually very similar to a pharmacy for people, or even for children,
00:12in that a lot of the medications are actually the exact same medications that we use for people.
00:17Just like you take vitamins and nutritional supplements to increase your health and stay healthy,
00:23animals get vitamins and nutritional supplements as well.
00:26For example, we might use a vitamin E as a supplement for a lot of our fish eating species.
00:32Some animals may get a calcium supplement or a vitamin D supplement,
00:36and we just include that as part of their diet.
00:39Now let's go see how some of our penguins get their vitamins here at the St. Louis Zoo.
00:59When we prescribe a medication to our animals, we make sure that they take every part of that prescription.
01:04Because if they don't take all the medications, they won't get better.
01:07This is very similar to a prescription given to you, and if you don't take it, you're not going to
01:12get better.
01:12So we make sure that every part of that prescription is something that you take.
01:16Sometimes it's really difficult to tell whether an animal is sick and is going to need a medicine.
01:21Mostly because they can't talk and tell us what they need or how they're feeling.
01:24But they have very good caretakers that know exactly everything about them.
01:29And just knowing that something is a little bit off is usually a sign that there may be something going
01:34on.
01:35Thank you for joining me at the St. Louis Zoo, our veterinary hospital,
01:39and talking about our pharmacy and some of the medications that we use to make our animals better and keep
01:44them healthy.
01:44Thank you for joining us.
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