The zoo has actually been shut till January 31 after 80 staff members checked favorable CHENNAI: A five-year-old lion died at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at Vandalur on Saturday.
While the initial two had actually died of coronavirus last year, zoo authorities declared that Saturday’s fatality of Vishnu, a five-year-old male, resulted from an infection in the food pipeline. The carcass has been sent out to the federal government veterinary college health center in Vepery for postmortem examination. Vets say it might be shock triggered by oesophageal tear and also lung
The zoo has actually been momentarily closed for the public till January 31 after 80 workers consisting of zookeepers checked favorable for Covid-19, an official release from AAZP supervisor V Karunapriya said. Samples have actually been collected from other animals and as well as they will certainly be sent out to the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, for screening, she said.
Throughout the 2nd wave, as lots of as 17 lions fell sick as well as 2 died of the illness.
P Ganesan, a Chennai-based research study veterinarian, said that in between both the waves of Covid-19, a few ostriches passed away at the zoo due to an unknown condition. Rather than pressing the reasons for deaths under the carpeting, the zoo must be more clear in describing what had actually happened to the animals.
“We do not know whether they had actually collected examples from the dead lion as well as sent them for genome sequencing before it dropped ill. Only when they begin sharing such info, we can get to know if the death was due to coronavirus or a pathogenic trouble,” he said.
The state federal government had earlier comprised a state-level job pressure to give support to authorities on avoidance as well as reduction of Covid-19 infection in wild as well as restricted animals in the tiger reserves, national forests and also wildlife sanctuaries as well as reserve forests.
This six-member group headed by state atmosphere secretary Supriya Sahu was given the job of maintaining a close watch on disease surveillance. Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail Looking for Something?