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Camel dies in Thrissur zoo

Staff Reporter

THRISSUR: A 17-year-old camel in the zoo here died on Tuesday. According to the zoo authorities, the animal had not been keeping well for the last two weeks.

K. Rajankutty of the Veterinary College, Mannuthy, who was treating the camel, said it had lung and stomach ailments. A post-mortem was conducted by a team of veterinarians, led by him.

He said the exact cause of death could be known only after histo-pathological studies of the samples collected from the carcass. The camel was born in the zoo in 1989, in a complicated birth caused by dystochia. Interestingly, the dystochia case was then attended by Dr. Rajankutty. The animal had to endure several hardships in the early days itself, as the mother camel was unwilling to feed it.

"We used to tranquillise the mother and train it to feed the calf,'' recalled Dr. Rajankutty. The mother, bought from a circus troupe, is the only surviving camel in the zoo now.

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