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Capchurbarb was used for the first time on captive wild animals 

 this past spring with excellent results. Depending on the dosage, this 

 drag may be used for immobilization, sedation, or for anesthesia by 

 the intramuscular route. The following species were successfully 

 immobilized with this drug: peccary, tahr goat, white fallow deer, 

 Formosan macaque, spotted hyena, and Nubian ibex. Results so far 

 indicate that this drug will have a far greater application than any of 

 the others for inmiobilization. 



During April 1960, Maj. Patrick Bromfield, game control officer of 

 the Bechuanaland Protectorate, spent some time in the National 

 Zoological Park studying the use of the automatic projectile syringe 

 and methods of immobilization, in order to translocate game in the 

 Protectorate. He also conferred with game officials in Maryland, 

 Georgia, Tennessee, and the National Park Service. 



Tuberculosis remains the most important health problem in our 

 hoofed animals. In the recent past, animals that have not reacted 

 to the intradermic tuberculin test were found infected with tubercu- 

 losis at necropsy. This loss of sensitivity to tuberculin is apparently 

 not uncommon in the later stages of the disease. Arrangements were 

 made with the U.S. Department of Agi-iculture to determine the 

 presence of serum antibodies for tuberculosis in suspect animals. 

 Accordingly, two elands and a giraffe, all suspect but not reacting to 

 the intradermic test, were immobilized with succinylcholine and blood 

 samples were obtained for serology. 



A hybrid Philippine and Javan macaque with severe central nervous 

 system symptoms showed, upon pathological examination, to have had 

 cerebral and pulmonary forms of cryptococcosis. Seven other 

 monkeys of various species were sent to the Armed Forces Institute 

 of Pathology since last year, all of which, during life, had shown signs 

 of acute amaurotic epilepsy as described by Langdon and Cadwallader 

 in 1915 and Van Bogaert and Scherer in 1935. Some of these 

 monkeys were sent for euthanasia in the last stages of the disease. 

 Keepers in the monkey house state that this condition has occurred 

 there for years without an apparent change in morbidity or severity. 

 The pathologists' report is not completed at this time, but it is felt 

 tha,t the disease is not contagious, if indeed infectious. 



Dr. F. R. Lucas, Livestock Sanitary Laboratory, Centreville, Md., 

 provided the following laboratory services: bacterial cultures and 

 identification, urinalysis, dark field examinations for Leptospira, and 

 microscopic tissue reports. 



Hearts and large vessels of necropsy specimens not needed by the 

 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology were delivered to Dr. Thomas 

 Peery of the George "Washington University School of Medicine for 

 his study of comparative pathology. 



