Best Life: How We Care For Everyone's Favorite Gibbon
Channel: Denver Zoo
Date: 2021-10-14

Did you know that here at Denver Zoo we train our animals to participate in their own medical care? These training sessions not only display the incredibly trusting relationship between our keepers and animals, but also help reduce our animals’ stress and promote their wellbeing. Keepers have to be creative and patient as we train behaviors like asking Vinh the 31-year-old white-cheeked gibbon to present her arm for insulin injections to help manage her diabetes. In the latest Best Life presented by Cigna, Host Carlie McGuire and Keeper Molly Kainuma show you how we get our animals to learn these behaviors and why they’re so critical for their care. #CignaMountainStates