Beaver Eats Medicine-Filled Peanut Butter Sandwich at Tacoma Zoo

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20 June 2024 at 4:03 pm

A beaver at Washington’s Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium happily munched on a peanut butter sandwich on Wednesday, June 19, unaware that keepers had laced it with medication.

Footage posted by the zoo shows their adult male beaver, Walnut, enthusiastically chomping on the sandwich at their facility.

“Our clever beaver recently had two teeth pulled and needs antibiotics. He’s so smart he can usually pick out the meds from his food, so our keepers had to get creative,” the zoo wrote. Credit: Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium via Storyful

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