They were bearing down Tuesday at the Oklahoma City Zoo.
“The team worked very hard to move all 915 pounds of him up here to the hospital, said Tyler Boyd, the Oklahoma City Zoo Curator of Carnivores.
Wiley, an 18-year-old grizzly bear, along with his brother Will, received his once every three-year wellness exam.
“This is a little more in depth than your dog or your cat, however they receive the same excellent medical care from our veterinary staff here, said Boyd.
Wiley and Will were rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after their mother was killed, and brought to the OKC Zoo in 2003.
OKC Zoo partners with alligator snapping turtle head start program to help vulnerable species
The Shawnee News-Star
The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden recently welcomed 11 young alligator snapping turtles to their temporary home in the Zoo’s Underground habitat, located inside the Children’s Zoo.
Hatched at the Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery (TNFH), Tishomingo, Oklahoma, the turtles are a part of their head start program to raise, rear and introduce alligator snapping turtles back into their native habitat.
The Zoo just received the first group of young alligator snapping turtles in partnership with TNFH and will continue to receive additional turtles as they continue to age out of the head start program. The turtles will live at the Zoo’s Underground habitat until they have reached four years of age. At that time, they will be returned to TNFH, and then the turtles will be released into the wild.
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