This poor elephant was found laying in a muddy paddy field who was unable to stand. The elephant was suffering from an speakable pain. The helpful wild life officers found that there’s a very big abscess in his leg.
They quickly entered to the mission. They injected antibiotic in to the abscess with the help of tranquilizer gun. In here what we did was insert antibiotic n to elephant’s body with the help of tranquilizer/darting gun.
The blow pipe of the darting gun is loaded with antibiotic instead of anesthetic drug. The advantage of this method is there’s no life risk to animal as we can do the treatment without sedation. Sometimes it is unable to regain the consciousness after sedation.
Other thing is these animals are living in dense forest and hardly comes out. Therefore whenever they come to an open area we have to follow quick on the spot treatment.
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