|Articles|April 15, 2011

Kansas City Zoo photo gallery: Tour the zoo hospital

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Treatment board

The treatment board is filled with treatment orders on everything from cranes to sea lions to rat snakes. Note on the far end that there is an appreciation statement area for jobs well done.

Filing system

Filing systems for a zoo must be quite a bit different than a traditional veterinary hospital.

Isolation and quarantine

This is the isolation and quarantine hall, where newly arrived zoo residents are monitored for signs of disease for a period of time before being placed in with other animals. Note the disinfecting footbaths at every door and the entrance to the hall. There were also footbaths like this at every entrance to every animal enclosure.

Treatment and surgery

Treatment room in the foreground, surgical suite in the background.

Digital radiography machine

The Kansas City Zoo's digital radiography unit.

Large-animal anesthetic machine

A large animal-anesthetic machine at the Kansas City Zoo.

Blood collection tubes

A plethora of blood collection tubes. No need to search for that gorilla-sized ACD solution tube. Multiple types and sizes of colored-topped tubes leave the team prepared for any number of specimens that need to be collected.

The complete package

Back to the "Day in the life of a zoo veterinarian" home page

Three-part blog about the zoo encounter

Immobilization and exam for Zuri the lion

Video: An ounce of prevention - examining a lion

Photo galleries of Zuri and her caretakers:

> Meet Zuri, a 5-year-old lioness

> Zuri's immobilization

> Procedures performed on Zuri

> The technicians' day

> Dr. Meredith Wainstein's first patient as a resident

A typical day for two zoo veterinarians