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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Interesting.

Did you take these pictures, or could you mention their source? I want to make sure the author(s) get credit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Got no serious answer, so here are some results based on reverse image search:

  1. Rhinoceros. Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. Possible source: Black Rhinoceros Undergoes Portable CT Scan At Brookfield Zoo

  2. Bear. Credit: Kimberly Fornek / Pioneer Press. Possible source: Brookfield Zoo CT scan

  3. Humsters. Credit: unknown.

  4. Alligator. Credit: UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Possible source: Massive sick alligator given CT scan at University of Florida

Feel free to add more in your replies if you have time to search.

Dear, @[email protected] please credit the authors and/or sources of the picture you're posting. Those most likely aren't public domain, meaning credit is required (and possibly more). Also citing the source provide interesting background on the pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to intubate those animals.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Actually most of them (according to a friend who works for a large animal hospital and has some human EMS background) are intubated far easier than humans - and they place a "hand safer" device (if you're old enough to remember the "plastic screw device"-I don't actually remember the actual name- used to open a seizure patients jaw that were once used, they are similar).

Back in my training day we used cats to practice neonatal intubation.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Why couldn't that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here's the context.

CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it's just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

Good phones 🙄

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

There's definitely two kinds

  • Ima napping
  • You think this is funny? This cell won't hold me forever. And once I'm free, you will all regret it
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a feeling, most of those are MRT and not CT

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

This made me smile! I love it 😀

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Love how the bird is still smiling

Thanks so much for sharing!

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