Rescue team minutes too late to save traumatised ostrich on Joburg highway: The ostrich that was seen trotting alongside the highway near Diepsloot, Johannesburg on Thursday morning has died.
After we tracked her down our plan was to try keep her away from the freeway so as not to cause a serious accident,” the centre said.
At the time, officials who were tracking the bird were driving on the wrong side of the road, trying to prevent the animal from being struck by vehicles. The centre said it tried to enlist the help of metro officials in closing the road so they could catch the bird but said they were not helped.After around three hours we managed to catch and restrain her, we immediately called our vet Dr Rob Campbell who was on standby to come and sedate her as ostriches suffer notoriously from capture myopathy,” said the rescue centre.
“But while we were on the phone with the vet, she collapsed. We performed CPR on her for 20 minutes but unfortunately we lost her. The stress of being on that highway for six hours and the stress of the rescue was just too much for her,” the centre added.
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