Immobilization of Lions at Arignar Anna Zoological Park
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Date
2001
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INTAS Polivet
Abstract
Immobilization becomes an embarrassing one for the newly employed veterinarian in forest department esp. in captive wild animal places like zoological park and though it is a fact that any veterinarian is often forced to act on educated guesses on body weight, health status, metabolic rate, age, sex, pregnancy status and biology of species, it is equally true that the mortality rate due to immobilization procedures should be kept to the possible minimum. Interestingly, the technical programme carried out with Asiatic crossbred lions at Arignar Anna Zoological Park are discussed in this paper and this shall be of useful for field veterinarians who encounter show animals and captive animals of zoos.