The patient was lying on the operating table. The IV line, which stumbles from the left leg, at the wound from the quiet darts of the force, which calmed him down.
Yong, the macaque of the pig’s tail, rescued from the harvest coconut of life, was treated at the only Wildlife Hospital in Thailand NGO.
It is one of dozens of animals treated every month at the Wildlife Friends Foundation in Thailand (WFFT).
Patients range from subtle sugar gliders for pets to some of the elephants that have rescued the difficulty, which wander in the WFFT wide device in Phetchaburi, southwest of Bangkok.
A wide variety can be a challenge, said veterinarian Sirorn Tippol.
“If we do not find the right equipment, we need to do what we already have, or modify on the basis of the specifications we need.”
She described that a lined handle on a laryngoscope for cats and dogs so that it could be used for surgery on bears and tigers.
The treatment board provides an average day: to clean the wound on one elephant tail, to evaluate the other possible cataract and to treat the skin of the Malay Sun Lawn.
After the rescue, Yong was quarantine – coconut monkeys often carry tuberculosis or other infectious diseases – and they needed a full health examination.
But first it had to be soothed, with a calm darts, inflated from the white tube to the left.
After a long time, he was submerged and prepared to be taken to the hospital.
The blood was taken, the IV line was taken and then there was an x -ray time to find signs of broken bone or respiratory disease.
The other was a symbolic moment: veterinarians cut metal rings around the monkey’s neck, which once connected it to the chain.
The operative theater was the last stop that the vasectomy allowed Yong to join the mixed monkey squad without the risk of breeding.
-Pomalist hobby-
The light -filled hospital only opened this month, replacing the previous “tiny” clinic, said WFFT founder Edwin Wiek.
“I have always dreamed of having the right medical facility,” he said AFP because nearby tigers, roaring in grassy enclosures.
With more than 900 WFFT care of animals and normal arrival in emergency flow, “we needed a really bigger space, more surgery rooms, a healing room,” he said.
Wieks 2001 Founded WFFT with two macaks and Gibbon. It now includes 120 ha (297 ha) and contains 60 species.
“That hobby got out of hand,” he laughed.
For a long time, he has been in favor of stronger wildlife protection in the country, known as the wildlife shopping center in part due to its location and strong transport connections.
Once, Wiek had a tendency to the Thai government, even in the face of legal action, but has recently become a government advisor.
WFFT is now a multiplier of national parks, wildlife and plant protection (DNP) department.
“In most cases where wildlife is injured and moved from elephants and tigers to macaks, we coordinate with WFFT, which help rehabilitation and medical care,” said Chalerm Poomma, DNP Wild Nature Conservation Director.
In one of the current WFFT campaigns, the focus is on the estimated thousands of monkeys, such as Yong, to choose coconut on plantations in southern Thailand.
“An animal welfare problem is horrible,” said Wiek.
“But another very important thing is that these animals are actually removed from the wild wild illegal. And this certainly has a huge impact on the type of survival of the species.”
WFFT cooperates with authorities, coconut industry and exporters to encourage farmers to stop using monkeys and move to shorter trees that are easier to remove.
You also need to work with a new hospital supply. The mobile x -ray and a specialized blood analysis machine are on the Sirorn Wish List.
And Wiek thinks about his other dream: the forensic laboratory to trace the origins of animals confiscated from the merchants.
“The law is, we lack execution,” he said.
“However, using this tool, we were actually able to do some damage to these illegal wildlife merchants.”
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