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🗓️ 27 April 2020
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0:00.0 | New York City, America's highest number of coronavirus cases had one high profile patient that |
0:06.0 | caused a media sensation. Nadia, a tiger who resides at the Bronx Zoo, was the first known case of |
0:13.0 | human to animal coronavirus transmission. The New York City Health Department's investigating, |
0:19.1 | but they think that a zookeeper infected her. The good news is that Nadia, the tiger's doing better, |
0:24.8 | she's expected to make a full recovery, which is a good thing. Many zoos want to make a full |
0:31.2 | recovery too because the shutdowns causing problems. California's Oakland Zoo is having a hard time |
0:36.8 | scraping together money to keep the animals fed. Other zoos are in the same predicament because |
0:43.1 | they all rely on visitor fees and donations for their food budgets. But that's not the only problem. |
0:49.6 | According to the Los Angeles Times, the animals are unhappy because of the shutdown. It turns out |
0:56.7 | that except for the bald eagles, the zoo animals are bored. Zookeepers say that most of the animals |
1:02.8 | seem to miss the people who come to stare at them. Zookeepers say contact with human being |
1:08.5 | stimulates the animals. They just look at it food. What are we talking about here? So I guess |
1:14.0 | that humans are not the evil oppressors. They pour captive animals after all. We make their lives |
1:19.6 | meaningful and interesting because they think they can eat us. The animal writes whacos. |
1:25.6 | Not going to like this one bit if they figure it out. |
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