7-24-10
This morning we did our normal rounds around the zoo checking on the animals and saying hello to everyone. We got a call on the radio from Amy saying that the waxy monkey frog didn’t make it through the night, so she brought it to the clinic for a necropsy.
I did a quick rough necropsy and discovered that the frog likely died because of some kind of urinary tract problem because the urinary bladder was filled with a sludge-like material. We put the entire frog into a formalin vial to send it to the lab for a more definitive diagnosis.
After lunch, a couple came to the zoo with a delivery. The zoo got a new female Golden Pheasant today. There is already a male on exhibit, and he is one of the most colorful birds I’ve ever seen!
Dr. Guthrie led the couple behind the scenes to a quarantine pen for the new female. She dewormed the bird and released her to her new enclosure. She seemed indifferent to the whole ordeal and seemed to be doing just fine so we left her to explore her new pen. We took the couple to see the other birds they had given to the zoo in past years, and they seemed pleased to see they were doing well.
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