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

BLOOD COLLECTION

• First they need to be restrained well and it needs experienced animal keepers in a zoological set up. More care is to be taken before the sampling technique in case of crocodiles. This will surely help to avoid the casualties associated with the sampling technique in case of crocodiles.
• Toe-nail clipping may be done to obtain minimum amount of blood or to obtain the blood smears from the oozing blood sample. However, for getting of large volume of blood sample, one has to go for other techniques associating the supra-occipital site or cardiac site, in these species.