Humans aren’t the only ones to suffer from hay fever, with animals from the National Zoo also experiencing runny noses and sniffles.
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00:00So pets and zoo animals can also get hay fever just as much as what people can, so it can
00:12present definitely in different ways and it depends what the allergen is, it can be pollens,
00:16it can be dust, it can be all sorts of things that are moving throughout the air.
00:28Around this time of year that he does start to get much itchier eyes and sometimes because
00:32they're so itchy he'll also end up with a secondary conjunctivitis, so we do need to
00:36treat him with eye drops. One of the other animals that we've had this year especially,
00:39which we actually haven't seen before, so I do think this year has been worse than others,
00:42especially again with the dry windy weather, with our squirrel monkeys. So our squirrel monkey boys,
00:47they have been sneezing a lot, so they aren't normally on
00:51any medications, but this year we've had them on grape-flavoured clarinetine.