One Roan Antelope had to be shipped to a zoo in Great Britain. A danish wild animal transporting company provided the shipping. To get the animal into the transport box, the vet and the keeper considered that they should tranquilize it inside shelter building and then guide it inside the box. The antelope was an adult, about a meter and half at the shoulder and weighted around 200 kilograms. 
The vet used 1ml of Immobilon and darted it with a blowing pipe from a short range. Immobilon contains Etorphine a semi-synthetic opioid and Acepromazine, a phenothiazine. Ethorphine is 3000 times more potent than Morphine and should be used with extreme caution, considering that one drop on the skin can cause death in humans within a few minutes. 
The product should always be accompanied with a human-specific opioid antagonist (naloxone) that should be used in case of accidents.
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Transport of a Roan Antelope; Sugar Glider Eye Infection; Plastron Necrosis of a Turtle
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Acepromazine, alpha 2 agonist, Betnesol-n, Etorphine, Eye Infection, Immobilon, Iodine bath, Meerkat, Mongoose, Morphine, Naloxone, Plastron Necrosis, Revivon, Roan Antelope, Sugar Glider, Turtle, Wildlife Transport, Xylazine on 12/04/2009| Leave a Comment »
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