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Paralyzed panda in good care
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-04-08 09:06
Vets and forestry workers in northwestern Shaanxi Province are working to
save a male giant panda who is suffering from paralysis.
China will implant
high-tech identification tags into all its captive pandas in an effort to
better monitor the population and prevent inbreeding, the Xinhua news
agency says. [Reuters] |
The panda, found by
two forestry workers on patrol at Changqing Nature Reserve last Monday, was sent
on Wednesday to the Xijing Hospital affiliated to the No. 4 Medical University
of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the provincial capital Xi'an, where
leading vets, orthopedists and neurosurgeons had a consultation overnight.
A checkup revealed that the panda suffers from fractures in the thoracic
vertebra and that a cataract has blinded his right eye.
Doctors said the panda probably fell off a cliff during a fight with another
panda about 20 days ago, because its wounds are not new.
Doctors are yet to decide whether they will operate on the panda immediately
because it looks scared and uncooperative.
The panda is between 19 and 21 years old, approximately 42 to 52 years old
for humans, the vets say.
The Changqing Nature Reserve in Yangxian County at the foot of the Qinling
Mountain Range is home to at least 100 wild giant pandas.
Wei Pengli, an official with the reserve, said male pandas often fight over
female pandas during the mating season in spring.
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