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Learning the tips on zoo-keeping
A BATCH of 12 students of Mathura Veterinary College (MVC) arrived at the Kanpur Zoological Garden (Zoo) here on Friday for seven-day internship programme. All these students are in the final year of veterinary course at the MVC.
A BATCH of 12 students of Mathura Veterinary College (MVC) arrived at the Kanpur Zoological Garden (Zoo) here on Friday for seven-day internship programme. All these students are in the final year of veterinary course at the MVC.
According to Zoo director Hemant Kumar, the students would be given training in zoo keeping and animal health maintaining. On the first day at the zoo, the medical students were taken around the zoo and told about the behaviour and habits of each animal by the zoo veterinary Dr UC Srivastava.
Dr Srivastava showed them a deer that had suffered multiple leg fracture recently and had to undergo surgery. The students were explained in detail about the operation conducted upon the deer.
They were also shown the leopard which was undergoing “treatment for behaviour change” in one of the enclosures at the Zoo hospital . The leopard was caught from a forest and was very wild. They were explained how the wild leopard was be made to change its behaviour in the past one month.
Kumar said the students would be given training in vaccinating the animals at the Lucknow zoo and training for feeding the animals at the Central Dairy Farm in Aligarh.
