VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

TIGER, LIONS AND PANTHERS

• In case of immobilized wild felids, jugular vein, femoral vein, meta-tarsal vein etc. may be of useful for the collection of blood samples.
• In case of live animals, following procedures are generally being used in captive wild animal places like zoo, zoological park, zoological garden etc:
• Keep the wild felid in the squeeze cage
• Carefully squeeze the animal without causing suffocation
• However, it needs to be adequately tight in order to avoid the turning-around of the concerned felid in the squeeze cage.
• Now wet the area approximately 5 to 10 cm from the base of the tail.
• Apply a pressure causing tourniquet above to this site at the base of the tail
• Now you can see the enhanced lateral coccygeal vein, in the lateral side of the tail.
• Using the 21 gauze needle attached with a disposable syringe, blood may be withdrawn carefully