Скачать или смотреть A New Jersey zoo lets visitors watch veterinarians treat the animals

(17 Nov 2025)
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West Orange, New Jersey - 6 November 2025
1. Vets take Autumn the Turkey Vulture into treatment room
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kailey Anderson, Turtle Back Zoo Veterinarian
“So today we're at the Turtle Back Zoo..and we're here at the veterinary hospital. It is brand new. It is officially titled the Animal Wellness Center and we are in the treatment room, which is on display to our guests and we're going to be doing our turkey vulture named Autumn.”
3. Wide of treatment room and observation deck
4. Kids looking at vet exam
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kailey Anderson, Turtle Back Zoo Veterinarian
“She’s a rescued bird from the wild…she came in with some trauma, she can’t fly.”
6. Vet holding turkey vulture
7. Anesthesia being administered to turkey vulture
8. Eye exam
9. X-Ray
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kailey Anderson, Turtle Back Zoo Veterinarian
“She’s like in her middle years so she was due for her wellness exam today…she will get X-rays…we will take blood…we do routine screening for certain infectious diseases…we are going to microchip her…should anybody ever have questions who she belongs to, we know that she’s ours.”
11. Blood being drawn from foot of turkey vulture
12. Zoom in on vulture being microchipped
13. Microchip detector device
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kailey Anderson, Turtle Back Zoo Veterinarian
“It's not very common to have a window into a treatment room. More zoos are starting to do it as hospitals are being redone because of the value of the education aspect and alerting people to exactly what happens at zoos and the kind of care we can provide.”
15. Pan from observers to inside vet hospital treatment room
16. Child and grandmother
17. Kids in observation area
18. Kids at window
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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Kailey Anderson, Turtle Back Zoo Veterinarian
“I would say that probably the people who stand and watch the longest are kids… there's a lot of little faces pressed to the glass. We have the ability to put it on monitors so that people can see it outside even if we're working on something small.”
20. Vulture exam
21. Kids watching vet procedure.
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Teelyn Cahill, Zoo Visitor
“I am going to be a bone surgeon when I grow up so I am going to watch what they are going to so I can learn what to do.”
23. People in Zoo
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24. SOUNDBITE (English) Kailey Anderson, Turtle Back Zoo Veterinarian
“Actually, when they see me in the park, I get a lot like, oh, I want to be a zoo veterinarian, which is fun because... Prior to sort of having this window experience, people didn't even know that there was such a thing as a zoo vet, that it was even like a career pathway and that we weren't just like dog and cat vets who like work sometimes at the zoo. So it's really fun to be able to like see the kids realize that it's something that exists and it's like a really awesome job.”
25. Various of Prairie Dog
26. Kids playing on giant snake model
27. African Penguin swimming
28. Kids looking at African Penguins
29. Male and female lion
30. Zoo visitors and lion
31. Various of veterinarian with turkey vulture
STORYLINE:
A new observation theater at a zoo in northern New Jersey lets visitors see animals get live medical treatments.

Veterinarians at the Turtle Back Zoo hope the new installation educates people on the care that animals receive at the zoo while inspiring kids to pursue medicine as a profession.












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