How does a tortoise take its medicine?

2,934 views · Published 6 October 2015 · 0:35 · Indexed 30 September 2026

Channel: WoodlandParkZoo · 2015 · Pets & Animals

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A spoonful of sugar was Mary Poppins’ trick, but it’s a plateful of bananas that makes the medicine go down for our Asian brown tortoise. 
The tortoise gobbled up its parasite treatment as part of Woodland Park Zoo's preventative health care program for its 1,000+ animals.

Full story at http://blog.zoo.org/2015/10/how-do-you-get-tortoise-to-take-its.html

Produced by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren with additional footage by Alyssa Borek.

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