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Exotic Vetting: Extraordinary Stories of Treating Amazing Animals

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In Exotic Vetting: Extraordinary Stories of Treating Amazing Animals, Romain Pizzi, a world-renowned wildlife-zoo surgeon, presents, in the narrative mode, with great scientific precision, his day-to-day work as a field veterinarian. Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day’s work for the world’s wildest veterinarian. Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagnosed, operated on, medicated, and then released some of the world’s most endangered wild animals…

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In Exotic Vetting: Extraordinary Stories of Treating Amazing Animals, Romain Pizzi, a world-renowned wildlife-zoo surgeon, presents, in the narrative mode, with great scientific precision, his day-to-day work as a field veterinarian. Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day’s work for the world’s wildest veterinarian. Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagnosed, operated on, medicated, and then released some of the world’s most endangered wild animals. From disease testing Polynesian snails to keyhole surgery in Sumatran orangutans; from endoscopy in sharks to ultrasound on a chimpanzee; sometimes this is high tech work, such as the first robotic surgery in a tiger, or giant panda cloning attempts. Sometimes the situations are more primitive, from anaesthetising a bear with a bicycle pump, old plumbing tubes and a plank, to operating on a vulture using an old metal spoon. Romain Pizzi recalls his many interesting patients, while taking readers on a tour of the challenges of treating the world’s amazing spectrum of wild animal species. 423 p.

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • Romain Pizzi. BVSc, MSc, PhD, Dip.ZooMed, Dip.ECZM, MANZCVS (Surgery), FRES, FRGS, FRSB, FRCVS; Recognised Specialist in Zoo & Wildlife Medicine at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London (UK).
  • Publication date (digital version): 2023-08 – William Collins (imprint of Harper Collins Publishers).

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4 June 2024

Very technical and enjoyable. The author found the time to write this book so that we can get a glimpse into his work. The book does get quite technical in places, but everything is clear and well-explained. The author did a great job explaining the less glamorous parts of his job and opened my eyes to many aspects of environmental conservation that I wasn’t aware of. Highly recommended!

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