Exotic vetting : what treating wild animals teaches you about their lives
Pizzi, R. (Romain), 1974-2022
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Place reservation for Exotic vetting : what treating wild animals teaches you about their livesAnaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's wildest veterinarian. Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagnosed, operated on, medicated, and then released some of the world's most endangered wild animals. From disease testing Polynesian snails to keyhole surgery in Sumatran orangutans; from endoscopy in sharks to ultrasound on a chimpanzee. Sometimes this is high tech work, such as the first robotic surgery in a tiger, or giant panda cloning attempts. Sometimes the situations are more primitive, from anaesthetising a bear with a bicycle pump, old plumbing tubes and a plank, to operating on a vulture using an old metal spoon.
Main title:
Exotic vetting : what treating wild animals teaches you about their lives / Romain Pizzi BVSc, MSc, PhD, DZooMed, DipECZM, MANZCVS(Surg), FRES, FRGS, FRSB, FRCVS.
Author:
Pizzi, R. (Romain), 1974-, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2022.
Collation:
viii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780008356743 (hbk)
Dewey class:
636.089092
Language:
English
BRN:
3074628
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