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  • (xylophone music)

  • - What we're doing is a complete physical

  • examination on our red panda Phoenix.

  • Phoenix has been with us, I believe for about two years,

  • he was born at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Wiinipeg.

  • We're here at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine

  • to do this examination.

  • Doing a physical exam is part of our

  • preventative maintenance program

  • and it's what we do for many of the animals

  • we have at the zoo.

  • It contributes to the overall knowledge on the

  • physiology of the red panda.

  • As you can see we have a great support team doing it

  • and what it'll do is it'll really give us some base line

  • information on the overall health status of this animal.

  • We'll look at blood, we'll look at urine,

  • be able to check his musculoskeletal system.

  • Use ultrasound to check and see the internal organs

  • are all functioning normal.

  • And, it also gives us that information that we can then

  • share with other facilities.

  • So if in the future he was to develop a kidney problem

  • or a liver issue, we would have that base line information

  • to draw on and further tests would indicate

  • what medical issues we're facing.

  • (whimsical music)

  • Red pandas are the first species that are being managed

  • globally in captivity.

  • We participate in a program here in North America

  • called the Species Survival Plan,

  • every pair of red pandas is evaluated on an annual basis

  • by biologists and animals are then placed together

  • for that years breeding.

  • The concept is to maintain genetic diversity

  • at 97% after 100 years.

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  • It's a little different procedure than your normal pet

  • and you can understand seeing the claws on this animal

  • that if he was awake you wouldn't be able to do

  • the same type of physical examination.

  • We have a number of different vets working

  • doing different things at one time so that we don't

  • keep the animal sedated for too, too long.

  • Anytime you do sedate an animal there's always a danger

  • but by monitoring it as closely as what we are

  • it really reduces down any risk of anything going wrong.

  • They'll monitor the heart rate, they'll also

  • while they have him like this give him all the shots and

  • check for external parasites at the same time, ear mites.

  • Basically what they're doing here is checking all the teeth,

  • they'll make sure that there's no gum disease.

  • - [Vet] He's got a tiny little chip fracture,

  • incisor, right maxillary.

  • No bulb exposure.

  • - [John] Just a little chip on a canine tooth there.

  • (Vet speaking away from camera too low to hear)

  • Getting some blood samples.

  • Normally if you're doing blood tests you shave

  • but because this animal does spend most of it's time

  • outdoors in the winter we don't want to shave it.

  • It would make it susceptible to frost bite after.

  • Getting blood is important, a lot of an animals' health

  • can be monitored through blood and urine.

  • They'll go in for an eye exam.

  • That's a complete eye exam,

  • it checks to see if there's any damage

  • or any issues that's developing,

  • from cataracts to loss of vision.

  • You can see now checking joints

  • and looking for signs of any damage or arthritis.

  • Everything is marked down so at the end of the exercise

  • we'll have a complete understanding of his

  • current physical health.

  • You can see that something like this, because it's

  • not done everyday it's a great teaching opportunity.

  • (guitar music)

  • We're just taking a full body x-ray.

  • It allows us to look at vertebrae, all the joints

  • and some of the internal organs actually show up

  • which is really great.

  • We can check for arthritis, we can check for bone disease

  • and different things.

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  • For the ultrasound it's identical to what

  • would happen to a human.

  • If we were going through a physical exam and they were

  • doing an ultrasound on you, it's the exact same process.

  • This is just to ensure that the internal organs

  • are functioning the way they should,

  • that we don't see any signs of tumors or cysts

  • on any of the organs.

  • After the ultrasound we have a picture of it all

  • so the vets can check it out and also it'll go into

  • his medical records.

  • (whimsical music)

  • What Amy's doing is she's taking paw prints on canvas

  • we'll use them both for educational uses

  • and potentially for some fundraising uses to help

  • pay for some of our education programs.

  • It's a perfect opportunity while the animal's sedated

  • to do something like this and the ultrasound is still

  • going on in the background, so we're not losing time.

  • We're actually doing a number of things at one time.

  • The paint that we're using is a non toxic paint,

  • it's actually made for children to use.

  • Washes off very easily, it's water soluble.

  • We want to set him up so that he will actually

  • do his own painting in the future.

  • It's all based on rewards and using their natural behaviors

  • and setting up canvases for them to walk on.

  • We'll see if we're successful with that.

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鳳凰的獸醫之行 (Phoenix's Vet Visit)

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