It's cold, do you know how the animals at Shanghai Zoo are maintained?
The Municipal Bureau of Greening and Appearance said that in addition to the careful care of the animals themselves, shovelers and veterinarians have also made great efforts to keep their fur healthy. "Seasonal maintenance", "multi-dimensional maintenance", "appearance maintenance", "precision maintenance" and "routine maintenance" are all indispensable.
Animals at shanghai zoo
"Natural fleece" and "rustic cotton jacket"
But it has long been "distributed in place" and "properly dressed"!
An oily "leather jacket", handsome ~
But to "maintain" this bright and beautiful outfit,
Kung Fu is indispensable!
Deep cleansing
Whole body "mutual care"
"Seasonal maintenance"
After autumn and winter, some animals will have skin itching, the main reason for this symptom is that after the weather turns cold, the amount of sebum secretion of animal skin is reduced, resulting in dry skin, and at this time, excessive scratching may cause dermatitis.
At the same time, the autumn and winter weather is dry and cold, but also some metabolic skin diseases are high incidence of time, under the stimulation of some hormones, animal body regulation disorders, there may also be increased dander, scratching excessive situation.
These require the shoveler to strengthen the inspection, careful observation, on the basis of understanding the normal behavior habits of animals in order to timely find abnormalities and symptomatic treatment.
Scratch cute, but can not be greedy oh ~
"Multi-dimensional maintenance"
Although the zoo tries to increase the variety of food and change feed varieties as much as possible, the food source of captive wild animals is still relatively single, and it is easy to lack some trace minerals and vitamins, especially the lack of trace elements zinc and cobalt will lead to animal hair removal. These skin problems associated with trace element nutrition can be solved by adding multi-dimensional element tablets.
The veterinarian will recalculate the dosage of each individual animal according to the species, body size, weight, age and recent physical condition of different animals, according to the active ingredients of various multi-dimensional element tablets, and the shoveler will follow the doctor's instructions and feed scientifically.
"Exterior Maintenance"
Exopararastic skin diseases are also one of the skin problems that may occur in animals, caused by parasites such as fleas, scabies mites, demodex mites, ear mites, lice, ticks and so on. This dermatological disease has a long course and may have symptoms such as itching, hair loss, thickening of the skin, erythema, small crusts and scales, and require intramuscular injection of antiparasitic drugs and medicated baths.
Therefore, immunoprophylaxis is the best way to prevent ectoparasitic dermatosis, where veterinarians deworm the animals in vitro and rotate different medications on a regular basis.
"Precise maintenance"
Bacterial skin diseases, mainly bacterial infections, may be caused by wound infections such as fights, bites, and ruptures.
Fungal dermatosis, caused by fungal infections of the skin, skin fungi that survive for a long time in nature, after infection through the skin, hair and claw nails of animals.
The treatment of these two types of skin diseases needs to be based on knowing the pathogen and its physicochemical properties, and the identification of bacteria is the beginning of all work, that is, the so-called "targeted". The veterinary laboratory of Shanghai Zoo undertakes the identification of common bacteria, isolates and identifies through samples, and after determining the strains, veterinarians can carry out targeted medication and prevention of diseased animals or bacteria-carrying environments.
Isolation and identification of strains
"Routine Maintenance"
Of course, the most routine but also the most important thing is the daily rearing management of captive wildlife.
An adequate and balanced diet is the basis for a healthy coat on animals, and in the dry autumn and winter seasons, the shoveler will increase the supply of high-energy, high-protein food according to the needs of the animals. In addition to carnivores will increase the amount of meat fed, other animals will also increase the ratio of plant proteins such as soybean meal in their feed.
Scientifically matched nutritional nest head
In addition, clean, warm and dry, sunny, and a suitable living environment for shelter are also crucial for the health of animals.
Basking in the sun, "taking care of fleece"
Source: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Greening and Appearance
Source: Published in Shanghai