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L.A. Zoo's only hippo euthanized after weeks-long illness
January 20, 2012 | 6:56 pm
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Jabba the L.A. Zoo's hippo had to be euthanized
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The sole hippopotamus at the Los Angeles Zoo was euthanized Friday after being ill with an unknown ailment for a month and not responding to treatment, zoo officials said.
Zookeepers noticed in December that the 28-year-old hippopotamus, Jabba, had a decreased appetite, abnormal bloating and was not responding to medication, zoo spokesman Jason Jacobs told City News Service. The hippo was under close veterinary care, but his condition rapidly worsened in the last few days.
The zoo's staff made the "difficult decision" to euthanize Jabba, according to a statement released by the zoo.
Jabba had been at the zoo since 2009. Before that, he lived at the San Diego Zoo for several years, where he sired several calves.
His body will be taken to the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System at UC Davis for a necropsy.
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Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are finding.
The Sun Herald has learned that 17 young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the shorelines.
The Institute of Marine Mammal Studies performed necropsies, animal autopsies, on two of the babies today.
Moby Solangi, director of the institute, called the high number of deaths an anomaly and told the Sun Herald that it is significant, especially in light of the BP oil spill throughout the spring and summer last year when millions of barrels of crude oil containing toxins and carcinogens spewed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil worked its way into the Mississippi and Chandeleur sounds and other bays and shallow waters where dolphins breed and give birth.
This is the first birthing season for dolphins since the spill.
Dolphins breed in the spring and carry their young for 11 to 12 months, Solangi said.
Typically in January and February, there are one or two babies per month found in Mississippi and Alabama, then the birthing season goes into full swing in March and April.
“For some reason, they’ve started aborting or they were dead before they were born,” Solangi said. “The average is one or two a month. This year we have 17 and February isn’t even over yet.”
Deaths in the adult dolphin population rose in the year of the oil spill from a norm of about 30 to 89, Solangi said.
Solangi is gathering tissue and organs for a thorough forensic study of the infant deaths and is cautious about drawing conclusions until the data is in, probably within a couple of weeks.
“We shouldn’t really jump to any conclusions until we get some results,” Solangi said. “But this is more than just a coincidence.”
The institute told the Sun Herald that it has collected 14 infant dolphins in the last two weeks and three in Mississippi today.
The institute has done a number of the autopsies, but no trend has emerged yet.
“Of the two calves on the table today, one appears to have had trauma,” Solangi said. “It was a very small calf.”
But he said that trauma to the body often occurs after a baby has died because the mother or other dolphins try to get the baby to breathe.
“I don’t believe the calf died because something hit it,” Solangi said.
“Some of the trauma you see in a baby dolphin death is the result of the mother or other animals around it trying to get it back. They don’t realize it’s dead until sometime later,” he said.
Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/02/20/2881134/baby-dolphin-deaths-spike-on-gulf.html#ixzz1EeAK3bMUBaby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi... more
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A man who tried to have his dog's body cremated was arrested Wednesday on an animal cruelty charge. Authorities said he beat the white puppy and choked it to death at his home.
Shane Thompson, 20, who lives west of Boca Raton, took the dead, three-legged dog, named Moonshine, to Cole Animal Clinic in Boca Raton on Oct. 7, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Thompson told the staff that his pet, a wolf-dog mix, had died that morning, possibly from a seizure.
A veterinarian examined the dog and found it had bruised ears and a bloody nose. Moonshine had food stuck in his throat and likely choked to death, the vet said, according to the report.
The same day, a friend of Thompson's called Palm Beach County Animal Care & Control to say he believed Thompson had killed his pet. He said Thompson had called asking for money to pay for the cremation.
"Our investigators spent lots of hours trying to find that dog," animal control Capt. David Walesky said Thursday.
They eventually tracked down the dog at the animal clinic and demanded that the staff release the body. A necropsy concluded that Moonshine, who was less than a year old, had been beaten and then choked to death.
Investigators interviewed Thompson's roommate and friends, who all said they had seen Thompson abusing Moonshine in an attempt to discipline the animal.
At one point, Thompson's roommate told detectives Thompson bit off a piece of the dog's ear.
If convicted, Thompson faces up to five years in prison.
According to the police report, he and his roommate bought the dog in February.
When Thompson's roommate arrived home from work on Oct. 7, Moonshine lay dead on the floor. Thompson said the dog tried to bite him but never explained how he died.
Animal control investigators had been called to the apartment twice since February after getting complaints that the puppy was heard yelping in pain. But the dog was unhurt and didn't seem scared, Walesky said, so they issued Thompson a warning.
"There are a lot of people who are heavy-handed, but that's not a reason to take their dog away," Walesky said. "We can do something if the dog is hurt or terrified of someone."
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/22/1885920/porn-actor-accused-of-killing.html#ixzz12wQfcii9
So the roommate had no idea the dog was being abused? Hm...
Tips if you suspect abuse or neglect in dogs:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Tips-if-you-suspect-abuse-or-neglect-in-dogs
Report animal cruelty:
http://www.sniksnak.com/ac/report.html
http://www.aspca.org/fight-animal-cruelty/report-animal-cruelty.htmlA man who tried to have his dog's body cremated was arrested Wednesday on an... more
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Animal rights advocates protest pregnant cow shooting at state fair
Kris Vera-Phillips Last updated 26 mins ago
SLIDESHOW: Cow shot at the State Fair
RAW VIDEO: Cow running away at State Fair
SACRAMENTO, CA - Animal rights advocates staged a peaceful protest at the Cal Expo fairgrounds Wednesday morning after California State Fair police officers shot and killed a pregnant cow.
Cal Expo officials said the shooting was necessary after the cow ran away from UC Davis veterinarian staff members Tuesday.
"We're all pretty shocked and horrified," said California Senior State Director Jennifer Fearing of the Humane Society of the United States, "that such bad animal management would take place on state property under the guidance of the UC Davis Veterinary School."
The group is also calling for an end to livestock exhibits that feature pregnant animals.
"(The exhibits) really are an anachronism in the realm of a fair that's really focused on deep friend twinkies and slushies," Fearing said.
Meanwhile, the director of the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at UC Davis called for a complete review of animal use and handling procedures for animals at the fair.
"This event yesterday was very much a one-off (i.e one of a kind), very much unanticipated but at the same time, that's what contingency planning is all about," said Dr. David Wilson. "Think of the worst case scenario and develop contingencies."
State Fair management welcomed the call for a review and said they would be closely involved.Animal rights advocates protest pregnant cow shooting at state fair
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This video, including comments by Richard Dawkins, documents a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal other than a human) carried out in a classroom on a giraffe. In this video, we follow the pathway of the recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve, an important nerve that is a branch of the Vagus nerve (tenth cranial nerve). The purpose of doing this exercise is to show that there is no so-called "intelligent designer" because the pathway of this nerve is completely illogical -- unless, of course, you accept that evolution is the reason for this nerve's convoluted pathway through the body.This video, including comments by Richard Dawkins, documents a necropsy (an autopsy on... more
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We heard that a higher than normal amount of dead sea turtles were washing up on Gulf Coast beaches, then nothing. Apparently, the marine biologists performing the necropsies are under contract not to disclose or photograph any of their findings.
Examination of dead sea turtles after BP's Gulf oil spill under gag order
- Watch more Videos at Vodpod.We heard that a higher than normal amount of dead sea turtles were washing up on Gulf... more
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It's one of the best-known scenes in cinema history, when actor Richard Dreyfuss cuts open a great white shark known as Jaws to reveal its catch: a crushed tin can and a licence plate.
This time around Auckland Museum staff are not so sure what they will find when they perform a necropsy on a great white shark that a fisherman found dead in a gill net last week in the Kaipara Harbour.It's one of the best-known scenes in cinema history, when actor Richard Dreyfuss... more
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