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Visitors to New Jersey Zoo Get to Watch Veterinarians Treat the Animals
Turtle Back Zoo offers public viewing of veterinary exams through glass to educate visitors, with about a dozen U.S. zoos providing similar transparency, experts said.
- On Saturday, Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange opened a new veterinary building with a publicly visible treatment room where about a dozen visitors watched a sulcata tortoise exam.
- Zoo director Jilian Fazio said showing veterinary care educates visitors and creates a new attraction for children, while Dr. Scott Terrell noted Turtle Back Zoo this year joined a dozen U.S. zoos offering public vet care viewing.
- During the half-hour exam, Dr. Kailey Anderson, veterinarian, and Madison Miranda, vet tech, performed measurements, X-rays, a blood draw, microchipping, and an antimicrobial bath on the sulcata tortoise, which resisted and trapped a Doppler wand, making blood collection tricky.
- The veterinary center includes a 200-seat observation deck, and officials say visible care educates visitors, helping the zoo draw nearly 1 million visitors per year.
- As a broader trend, zoos are putting veterinary care on view; the Turtle Back Zoo this year joined perhaps a dozen or fewer of 250 Association of Zoos and Aquariums accredited zoos, following Disney's Animal Kingdom and the Oklahoma City Zoo.
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Omaha World-HeraldVisitors to New Jersey zoo get to watch veterinarians treat the animals
The Turtle Back Zoo this year joined the relatively few U.S. zoos that routinely give the public a view of veterinary care.
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Visitors to a New Jersey zoo get to watch veterinarians treat the animals
The latest attraction at one New Jersey zoo isn't a particular species. It's the opportunity to see veterinarians at work with their wide range of animal patients.
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