The rhino with glue-on shoes : and other surprising true stories of zoo vets and their patients / edited by Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima ; foreword by Jack Hanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spelman, Lucy H.

Mashima, Ted Y.

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoo veterinarians--Anecdotes.

Zoo veterinarians.

Zoo animals--Anecdotes.

Zoo animals.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

xv, 310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 2008.

Contents:

Close connections

Tough guy Hondo (the chimpanzee)

The moray eel and the bartender

Earring Boy (deer fawn)

Kachina's bones (black bear)

Raising Kayavak (beluga whale)

Technology helps

The rhino with glue-on shoes

Pandas in their own land (Yaloda the giant panda)

When whale sharks fly (Norton the whale shark)

Patch (Australian hobby falcon)

Anesthesia for a frog (Frances, he poison dart frog)

Getting physical

The recapture (bison/buffalo)

A camel in the snow

The bikers, the students, and the crocodile

Tracking a snared elephant

Partners in the mist: a close call (Rwanda mountain gorilla)

The Katrina dolphins (Atlantic bottlenose dolphin)

Puzzles and mysteries

The limping Bengal tiger

Sliced bananas in Jell-O (giant Pacific octopus)

On the horn of a dilemma (rhinoceroses)

The bugs have bugs? (beetles)

Death of a lemur: an unsolved mystery

Baker D (a Pacific bottlenose dolphin)

Crossover

Tulip (an orinda goldfish)

Empathy (a red kangaroo)

Polar bears STAT

Water-breathing dragons (a weedy sea dragon)

Amali's example (a Masai giraffe)

Alfredito the hippo.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780385341462

0385341466

OCLC:

178282069