Working towards making sedation safer for rhino
Johannesburg - “This is an important goal, especially as rhino populations, unfortunately, continue to decrease,” he said.
Meyer, the director of the Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies, at the University of Pretoria , and an associate professor in veterinary pharmacology, led award-winning research, together with SANParks and Wits University, into the role of certain immobilising drugs. Their research found that the effects of butorphanol, an opioid, on immobilised rhinos “may be a game changer” in preventing the loss of the endangered animals, after they survive poaching attacks and other anti-poachng measures, such as dehorning and collaring.
For their work, the researchers received the 2018 Elsevier Prize, for the best article published in the journal “Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia”.
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