Bears, baboons, tigers are getting COVID vaccines at zoos across the U.S.

Kern the brown bear got his COVID-19 vaccine on July 21. Then he ate whipped cream straight from the can. Along with their vaccines, the tigers got their favorite meat—beef tenderloin—on shish kebab skewers, and a spritz of goat milk in their mouths. The siamangs—big black-furred gibbons—each got a large marshmallow. The baboons: gummy fruit snacks and a (peeled) hard-boiled egg. At the Oakland Zo

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don’t recommend vaccinating pets, due to their relatively mild clinical signs and the lack of evidence that pets can transmit the virus to humans.