Vets working on the animals in AK

[CaryHaven]

I forget what this is called or even if it has a name, but I'm talking about where they examine and treat animals behind the glass and you can watch them. I can't find the email that mentioned the day or two every week they DON'T do this. I think someone said on Wednesday or it might've been Tuesday they don't have this going on. If anyone can remember, it will help me arrange my day is better because my little girls enjoyed this.

 

[Aerinha]

I think you mean Rifiki's Planet Watch. You take a train from somwhere near the safari ride to the education center where you can brush goats and go in a building where they might be working on an animal. When I was there nothing was going on though. Is that what you mean?

 

[CaryHaven]

Yep. I didn't know if that whole area was Rafikis Planet Watch, but yes. They seem to only work on the animals early in the mornings. I think we saw a penguin? being worked on, and I know we saw a duck. I think they were bringing out something else when we were leaving.

 

[WEDWDW]

Wednesday is correct.

 

[CaryHaven]

Thank you!

 

[disnut8]

Yep. I didn't know if that whole area was Rafikis Planet Watch, but yes. They seem to only work on the animals early in the mornings. I think we saw a penguin? being worked on, and I know we saw a duck. I think they were bringing out something else when we were leaving.

The area at the end of the train is called Rafiki's Planet Watch. The building where the vet procedures occur is called Conservation Station. Once you arrive at Animal Kingdom, you can ask at Guest Relations for what is going on that day and when. Things can change on a daily basis depending on what has happened in the park or outside the park and what animals need to be tended to.

And, just as a note, not all the animal worked on by the vets are "Disney" animals in that Disney is in control of them. We watched a turtle getting his shell repaired because he was trying to cross World Drive and got hit by a car and a Cast Member (not the original driver) brought him in. The turtle was not so happy and the Vet said once the shell was repaired and healed, the turtle would be taken care of and then released back on Disney grounds. We were then told that any animal hurt on Disney property is brought there for care.

 

[CaryHaven]

Yea, I remember them talking about that. For some reason I thought that specific vet spot within Conservation Station had a name, but anyway...we're supposed to eat at Boma, but the res is a little later than we like, so we hope we don't miss much that day. We'll go anyway, just to pet the goats though LOL

 

[Retro Magic]

I love it at Planet Watch!
Multiple mornings a couple weeks back I went first thing in the am just to watch the procedures.

 

[Jennasis]

The area at the end of the train is called Rafiki's Planet Watch. The building where the vet procedures occur is called Conservation Station. Once you arrive at Animal Kingdom, you can ask at Guest Relations for what is going on that day and when. Things can change on a daily basis depending on what has happened in the park or outside the park and what animals need to be tended to.

And, just as a note, not all the animal worked on by the vets are "Disney" animals in that Disney is in control of them. We watched a turtle getting his shell repaired because he was trying to cross World Drive and got hit by a car and a Cast Member (not the original driver) brought him in. The turtle was not so happy and the Vet said once the shell was repaired and healed, the turtle would be taken care of and then released back on Disney grounds. We were then told that any animal hurt on Disney property is brought there for care.

True! We saw x-rays of a snake that had swallowed a gold ball on one of the Disney golf courses, thinking it was an egg I suppose, and he had been treated and released.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I love to go out there and watch the vet procedures. Just be aware that the first train to Rafiki's Planet Watch doesn't always go until around 9:30. And the vet procedures generally end by 11:30-12:00. They don't announce in advance what animals are being done that day, but if you ask the CMs at the train station nicely, they'll radio out there to see if they can find out before you make the trip.