Depending on the area in which they function, animal control officers can be called upon to interact with wildlife on a regular basis. In suburban, rural and semi-rural regions where various where the habitats of humans and wildlife species overlap, …

Research, zoo applications, conservation and management programs can require the capture and manipulation of antelope. The development of non- and minimally invasive procedures over the years have allowed researchers, veterinarians and management per …

Antelope are a diverse collection of ruminants of the families Antilocapridae and Bovidae. The bongo is a large forest-living antelope that lives in the lowland forests of Zaire and West Africa to southern Sudan. There are also small populations in t …

Wildlife managers, researchers and veterinarians in zoo settings sometimes need to immobilize antelope to mark them for identification, to provide veterinary treatment or to relocate them from dangerous or overpopulated locations. While the term “imm …

The chemical immobilization of antelope is often necessary for a variety of reasons, including physiological study, research, and for the purposes of wildlife management. However, immobilizing drugs can adversely affect the cardiovascular and respira …

Capture and/or chemical immobilization events carry inherent risks to wildlife regardless of size or species, but these risks are often more pronounced when dealing with larger species such as antelope and other hoofstock in the field. During capture …

Apart from traps, capture with nets and the mass-capture of herds of animals, chemical immobilization has become the chief method of capture for large wildlife species for the purposes of translocation, diagnostic testing or medical treatment. In zoo …

The chemical immobilization of antelope can require extended periods of immobility in the captured animal, particularly as regards antelope species in North America and other areas of the Northern Hemisphere. While hypothermia is an inherent risk to …

Antelope are very widespread animals, comprising around 90 of the approximately 140 known species of the Bovidaefamily (which includes sheep, goats, and domesticated cattle). Antelope belong to the order Artiodactyla, the most distinctive feature of …