UP vets perform extractive tusk surgery on elephant in Poland
| dc.contributor.author | Gower, Primarashni | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mnguni, Hlengiwe | |
| dc.contributor.other | University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-25T12:37:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-25T12:37:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09-04 | |
| dc.description | Originally published as HTML file, converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Version 9.0.0. | en_ZA |
| dc.description | News articles with colour photos about what's happening at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | Two University of Pretoria (UP) veterinarians saved the life of a 5.5-ton elephant at Poznan Zoo in Poland, by performing a surgical extraction of his damaged tusk. Ninio, an African elephant, suffered a severe infection in July after a crack appeared at the bottom of his right tusk. Professor Gerhard Steenkamp, who teaches courses in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery of animals at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science and Professor Adrian Tordiffe – a veterinary wildlife specialist – performed the five-hour surgery on Ninio. Having vast experience in elephant anesthesia and dentistry, Profs Tordiffe and Steenkamp first treated Ninio at Poznan Zoo in 2012 and 2013 when they extracted his left tusk. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | ab2019 | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 3 pages : color photos | en_ZA |
| dc.format.medium | PDF file | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/71456 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2019 Veterinary news | en_ZA |
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| dc.rights | ©2019 University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science. Provided for educational and preservation purposes only. It may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Faculty of Veterinary Science, News media coverage of | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Tusk surgery | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Elephants | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Poznan Zoo | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Ninio (Elephant) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- Press coverage | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Veterinary medicine -- South Africa | en |
| dc.subject.other | Veterinary science activities SDG-15 | en_ZA |
| dc.title | UP vets perform extractive tusk surgery on elephant in Poland | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Text | en_ZA |