Habitat: Distributed throughout India, Ceylon and some parts of Bengal. These birds are generally very sociable. Munias are extremely restless and playful birds, with chirping sound throughout the day.

Length of life in captivity: These birds have lived in the captivity for 3 years. These birds appear to thrive well in captivity.

Housing: Munias are kept in large sized cages. Shell grit provided b the side of the cage. Perches and small pots are provided for the birds to rest.

Food: Mixed grains - 5 gms

Common Illnesses Among Munias

Diarrhea

The bird parried watery motion and on fecal analysis, it was found to contain eggs, capillaria sp. The bird was dewormed. But still diarrhea persists. Then one shot of sulpha drugs stooped the enteritis. Electrolytes mixed with feed/water.

Conjunctivitis

The eyes and the surrounding parts become swollen and discharges noticed from the eyes. The bird was put in a separate cage and the eyes were washed with saline water and eye drops (2 drops) applied over the affected eyes thrice daily for 3 days. Bird was active on 3rd day and took its entire feed.

Heat stress/apoplexy

Sudden death of birds occurred in summer due to heat stress. Hence, gunny bags are tied over the cage and watered in morning and night during summer to reduce heat stress.

Wonders of wildlife is located in Springfield, Missouri. Yeah… You need to allot few days or at least few hours to visit these wonders of wildlife.

There are self guided tours are available to visit these areas. The purpose of these wonders of wildlife is mainly oriented to educate, inform and entertain the values of wildlife to public and all.

Yeah… The facts you understand by visiting these areas re amazing ones. The hunting and fishing galleries attract the visitors to a greater extent. However, an extra ticket has to be obtained to visit these galleries.

If you purchase a combo ticket, it may include the visit to these galleries and children in particular may enjoy these visits.

Outreach programs are there with regard to the wonders of wildlife and you may have both thirty minute program and sixty minute program. In all these, many class room topics are available.

You can select one like claws and paws, discovering nature with Lewis and Clark, nature’s niches, animal’s appetites etc. These topics are of highly educative types for the children and also for the adults.

At area opposite to Bess Pro shops also you can visit these wonders of wildlife. You have more than two hundred and twenty species including beavers, bald eagles, crocodiles etc. You need to spend at least one and half or two hours.

These places near Branson also provide opportunity for seeing the feeding of shark in a close range and also you can have a close encounter of the wild animals.

In fact, you can have a photograph also. But note down the timing and these enjoy holiday during Christmas.

Wonders of wildlife will never be forgotten even if you visit once. Similarly, the rich experience you gain by visit to these places is to be enjoyed by all. Wonders of wildlife have such resources to be seen.

Breeding

Wild dogs have bred nicely in zoos; ( Litter size-10 Nos.) Mating takes place in the open moat itself. The pups were taken care well by the parents (The male was mixed with the group after 90 days of age of pups).

The pups were fed by regurgitated meat of the mother dhole on 30th day. Pups were seen suckling milk from their mother until they were about 41 days old. The mother dhole guarding  the den room until the pups are about 2 months old. While playing with the young ones whenever, they get the smell of the observer they gave alarm call. Male and female become sexually active after 330 days of whelping.

Feed supplements such as Dexorange, Ostocalcium, Vimeral and Polybion were given to the pups and the bitch @ 5ml – 10 ml per animal. ( Mixture of all tonics).

Treatment in Sickness

The wild dog has several times suffered from diarrhoea, dysentry and Hepatic disorders; the former two were probably due to unsuitable diet, and the later to want of exercise. Change of diet and habitation did much good.( Chicken bi-weekly ).

Once mixed vaccination of parvo, canine distemper and Leptospirosis was carried out to the new borne pups. The vaccination practice has been stopped since mortality occurred among the vaccinated pups.

Habitat:- 

It occurs in the Terai regions of the Himalayas, Assam, Cachar, Burma and Siam, extending southwards to the Malayan peninsula, Elephants also found in southern and central India.

Length of life in captivity:-

                        Lasts up to 100 years ( Life span may be extended depending upon the sixth molar strength). No record of length of life in captivity in the Zoo.

 Housing:-

a)      Provide a stable ( Tethering place) for the elephant in a clean and healthy environment with sufficient shade to keep them during rest period.

b)      Each captive elephant must be ensured a minimum floor area as specified below:- 

             Weaned calf ( Ht below 1.5 metre)                  5 m X  2.5 m

            Sub adult elephant ( Ht., 1.50 mt – 2.25m)        7 m X  3.5 m

            Cow elephant with unweaned calf                     9 m X  5 m

            Adult elephant ( Ht., 2.25 m)                            9 m X  5 m

c)      In case of covered sheds, the height of the structure should not be less than 4.80 metres. Corrugated iron sheets or asbestos sheets should not be used for roofing of elephant stables in hot climates.

d)      The stable should be protected against cold and hot winds.

e)      The floor or the stable should not be wet and uneven.

f)        Elephant should not be made to stand on ground saturated with urine and filth. The  floor of the stable must be treated with suitable disinfectant periodically. Proper arrangement of drainage of excess of water and arrangement for removal of excreta, left over feed item and residual water shall be made.

This is my first blog post. Hope you’ll enjoy your visit here. I spent nearly 3 hours to learn about how to install wordpress for my site. (Thanks to my Brother!!!- a software engineer)

And spent nearly 3 minutes to select this WP theme. This theme grabs me like anything. Immediately downloaded and changed the default theme.

You may ask why I am blogging about wild life. I luv these voiceless creatures, their brave and also their flight-fight mechanism. Last but not least I am a WILD LIFE VET.

I have spent days together in the forest to drive the elephant crowd towards their habitat. Captured and released the leopard into the forest. Rescued lot of lions and tigers from the circus to a real rescue and rehabilitation centres.

So I think it is good enough not only sharing my experience but also discussing some of the tranquilizing methods and treatment of wild animals to the rest of the world wild life vets…

Before discussing the treatment and tranquilizaton of wild animals my few posts would be centered towards the wild life animal behaviour and characterisitics.

Once again I would like to thank you for visiting my wild life world blog!!! Happy surfing!!!