The big cats at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore will be among the first in line.
They’ll saunter over to the edge of their enclosure, likely lured by a piece of ground meat, and present their hip to a waiting zookeeper, who will inject them with a specially made COVID-19 vaccine.
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I didn’t catch what Zoo it was but their Gorilla population got it from one of their keepers who was asymptomatic.
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