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Title: Removal of a prolapsed eyeball in a wild black rhinoceros
Author(s): Prole, J.H.B.
Year published: 1965
Journal: Veterinary Record
Volume: 77 (6)
Pages: 156-157, figs. 1-3
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Distribution - Records
Black Rhino
Gertie's eye operation. This is the story of what I believe is the first major operation to be performed on a wild animal in the bush. The patient was Gertie, the world-famous female black rhinoceros of the world record horn, known for her mild disposition to thousands of visitors to Amboseli N...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Translocation - Immobilization
Black Rhino
Kenya - Diceros bicornis. The immobilising drug used was 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl) piperidine HCl. This was prepared by first dissolving 1.0 g. of the drug in 4 c.c. sterile water. 1.5 c.c. of the solution was then put into each of two 5 c.c. syringes and 1,500 I.U. hyaluronidase in 1 c.c. water wa...
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Diseases
Black Rhino
Prolapsed eye in Kenya - Diceros bicornis. The subject was a female black rhinoceros approximately 30 years old living in the Masai Amboseli Game Reserve near the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya. A report was received that she had injured an eye. Preliminary Examination Distant examinat...
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Location:
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
Translocation - Immobilization
Black Rhino
Eye operation in Amboseli, Kenya - Diceros bicornis. The anaesthetic to be used was Parke Davis' Sernyl injected intramuscularly into the buttock by means of a dart fired from a crossbow, a method long practised by Nick Carter; an American invention with East African modifications. Carter has f...
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