Like surgery it is actually an electric eel?

The electric eel in the Zurich Zoo was a magnet for the audience. When the nearly two-Meter-long and 17-pound electric fish came in the vicinity of the current-measuring device in his Aquarium cracked this louder and faster. But now the knife fish is no longer woke up after an ultrasound examination and a Mini-Operation from the anesthesia.

"last week, he died, unfortunately," says the zoo animal doctor Jean-Michel Hatt. The exact cause is as yet unknown. However, in the case of the OP colleagues from the tennis ball-sized Tumor would be removed in the stomach area of a tissue sample, the Tumor was fused with the surrounding tissue, set. Previously, veterinarians were able to save the electric eel several times the life.

But how to operate such a fish, the electric shocks up to 600 volts can produce, to paralyze its prey and kill? "First, it is instilled in a small pool, a anesthetic, until it sleeps," explains Hatt. As a precautionary measure, because the electric shocks can be strong, is the OP-table, extra plastic, and the surgeons wear Wellington boots.

During the intervention, the fish received on the gills every two to five minutes, an injection of oxygen enriched water and a second anesthetic. In order to keep his slimy skin wet, it was sprayed with water. In addition, the mass of the Zooelektriker on the body of the tension, to be sure, that the otherwise powerful electric organ is actually under control.

three years Ago, the electric eel was also an elaborate OP, because he had swallowed a piece of solder wire, which he had presumably during the renovation work at the Aquarium in a temporary pool to somehow devoured. "With a gastroscopy, we were able to localize the foreign body," says Hatt. His colleague got this far then, thanks to their narrow hands, – sent via the esophagus from the stomach.

After that, the electric eel, however, still no signs of improvement, because he suffered through the wire even under a lead poisoning and specific Detox medications had to get. "After treatment he was able to finally catch again, as before, fish and also in the pelvis orientation," explains Hatt more. Because electric Eels are almost blind and took advantage of weak electric shocks to the Navigation.

elephant and bear surgery

The zoo animal doctor and clinic Director at the Vetsuisse faculty of the University of Zurich has experienced a lot of crazy cases. For example, he hammered the elephant Indi a 25 cm large piece of wood from the upper jaw, the clamped transverse teeth between the jaws. Or he's castrated in only a four square meter Box in addition to the enclosure of the wilderness Park Langenberg, a brown bear, while the other 200-kilogram colossus of outside pawed constantly at the metal door. "Both should then be transferred to Italy," says Hatt. A somewhat unpleasant Situation.

caesarean section in the case of iguanas

In the case of female Fiji-iguanas he had to make earlier is often a cesarean section, because these were due to a Vitamin-D-in the absence of a labor weakness. That's why he shoved a tube into the trachea of the anesthetized Lizard, to give you during the OP. Then he took the eggs out of the Oviduct, since you were there and rot otherwise.

Tiger with a toothache

As the Siberian Tiger Elena a Canine tooth broke off, had Had a dentist from Germany, specializing in big cats. First of all, Elena was immobilized using a blow tube by a stun arrow. Then she got a tube in the trachea, to inhale the anesthetic gas. The doctor brought all the surgical Equipment, including the x-ray device.

Sick camel

A good hour, the camel Ulan Ude was at that time in the Zoo operates, because it had a huge testicular tumor. "As big as a loaf of bread," says Jean-Michel Hatt. Prior to the removal of the tumor, the area to be operated testis was shaved, cleaned and disinfected. The SURGERY was to be desolate-consuming because of the vessels through separate blood either, or with a thread tied. The multiple breeding stallion was castrated also.

patched-up tank

The breeding of Galapagos giant tortoises is difficult. The male Jumbo accepted only the female Nigrita, which is now over 80 years old. The two were sexually active, that her tank was eventually frayed. "We need to have a metal plate to attach," says Hatt. After ten years of this position is to grow by itself again. Due to the intensive deck activities were now hatched more than 100 hatchlings. Recently in the past year. Both parents are still in their best age.

snake in CT

In the animal hospital under Jean-Michel Hatt was looking for a couple of years ago, a female Boa constrictor that suffered from pneumonia and was panting. On the examination table, he heard the 1.5-Meter-long Constrictor snake with an ordinary stethoscope, then you came to scanners in the computer. "Because you should not move there, we have to put them in a long, black plastic tube from the animal hospital-workshop," he says. By a rinsing of the lung, he also found out the type of pathogen, so that the Boa could inhale then the right meds in a Box.

bird with wing rail

bearded vulture, eagle, hawk, or parrot wings or legs get for your broken temporarily an exoskeleton. To do this, you drill the nails in the injured bone and fixed to it externally a rod that can be removed later. A method that was originally developed by the French army for people with a broken finger bone.

Limping bird spider

With a magnifying glass Hatt's assistant saw a young bird spider, which moved with only seven legs. The reason is that At the eighth joint of joined liquid, so that the hydraulic pressure pump is prevented in the knee, the stretching of the leg. Was patched the hole of the Redknee bird-spider with superglue, and for the lack of fluid sucked at a high-speed gel. The next Morning, she was healed.

Created: 06.12.2019, 23:10 PM