Exotic Animal Medicine
By Sarah Carey
Panthers, tigers and bears might not visit UF’s Small Animal Hospital every day, but treating individuals along with other potentially harmful species by physicians using the hospital’s zoological medicine services are routine – and progressively unusual among veterinary schools.
“We are among the couple of veterinary schools that continuously see these species, ” stated Dr. Ramiro Isaza, an connect professor of zoological medicine within the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of small animal clinical sciences.
Although the majority of the creatures seen by UF’s zoological medicine service are foreign animals – wild birds, reptiles, small animals for example hamsters or ferrets, seafood, amphibians, as well as some inverterbrates – the service has the ability to see almost any kind of species considered non-domestic.
A great number of creatures treated through the service are hurt wildlife, spanning such diverse species as alligators, gopher tortoises, song wild birds, raptors, otters, black bears and Florida panthers.
“We literally see from rodents to tigers, ” stated Dr. Darryl Heard, an connect professor of zoological medicine and repair chief. Heard carried out two residencies in anesthesia and zoological medicine at UF just before accepting a college position in 1994.
“There aren't any classes of creatures that we'll avoid seeing, ” added Isaza, who also carried out his residency for the reason that discipline at UF.
“By and enormous, we're attentive to the variety of demands, ” Isaza stated.
The College of Florida has among the earliest zoological medicine programs located inside a veterinary academic health center within the U . s . States. Its background and the variety of species it sees place it aside from a number of other academic programs.
The initial Florida panther to appear at UF was named “Big Guy.” Hit with a vehicle on Alligator Alley, he was moved to and treated with the zoological medicine service in 1988. He made it and it was come to Whitened Oak Conservation Center in Yulee, where he resided out his existence.
Dr. Elliott Jacobson, now a professor emeritus in the college, was UF’s first zoological medicine resident and began this program in 1979.
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