Pakistan's Only Asian Elephant Examined Ahead Of Planned Move To Cambodia

 Pakistan's Only Asian Elephant Examined Ahead Of Planned Move To Cambodia 

ISLAMABAD, ISLAMABAD CAPITAL TERRITORY, PAKISTANSEPTEMBER 4, 2020SOURCE: AFPTV 

1. Extraordinary wide shot elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (L) and Four Paws veterinarian Amir Khalil (R) looking at Kaavan 2. Mid shot elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (L) and Four Paws veterinarian Amir Khalil (R) dealing with Kaavan's ear during assessment 3. Low edge shot elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (R) and Four Paws veterinarian Amir Khalil (L) utilizing rope to gauge Kaavan 4. Close-up elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research utilizing rope to quantify Kaavan 5. Close-up Four Paws veterinarian Amir Khalil (L) holding Kaavan's tusk and tapping his head 

6. Short clip 1 - Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (male, English, 18 sec): "What I can say from the principal evaluation today, he is large. He has, he needs to get foot care. He has congested nails, he has some malformated nails, he has split nails, truly profound break into the nails, which could prompt a serious disease. Also, that would be particularly in elephant bulls which are very weighty, in case you're confronting extreme foot issues, that could be a catastrophe." 

7. Cutaway: Extreme wide shot elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (L) and Four Paws veterinarian Amir Khalil (R) meausring Kaavan 8. Cutaway: Extreme wide shot elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research meausring Kaavan's front right foot distance across with rope 

9. Short clip 2 - Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (male, English, 23 sec): "He's not languishing. I surmise he's exhausted. He's exhausted, as should be obvious he has serious stereotypic conduct. This is expected to on the off chance that you do this stereotypic conduct, your body is creating endorphins and endorphins fulfill you, sort of glad. So he needs, emphatically he needs physical and mental difficulties." 

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10. Cutaway: Extreme wide shot Kaavan during assessment 

11. Cutaway: Extreme wide shot elephant master Frank Goeritz, head veterinarian at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research viewing Kaavan 12. Cutaway: Extreme wide shot Kaavan 

13. Following shot Kaavan strolling in the wake of being dashed 

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leadPakistan's just Asian elephant arranged for new home By Thomas WATKINS 

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Consideration - ADDS video tag, quote from legal advisor, subtleties on bears, wolves/Islamabad, Sept 4, 2020 (AFP) - A group of global vets utilizing sedative darts, flatbreads and the alleviating verses of Frank Sinatra directed a clinical assessment Friday on Pakistan's just Asian elephant, in front of his arranged move to Cambodia.The predicament of Kaavan, an overweight, 35-year-old bull elephant has drawn worldwide judgment and featured the woeful province of Islamabad's zoo, where conditions are so awful an appointed authority in May requested all the creatures to be moved.Following the decision, Austria-based creature government assistance and salvage bunch Four Paws International were enrolled to help move Kaavan - whose case was supported by the vocalist and extremist Cher.A transport container must be assembled and the elephant acclimated to it before being traveled to a 25,000-section of land Cambodian untamed life asylum in an "enormous" stream - most likely a monster Antonov A 225 airdrop load plane.But first, specialists must know how Kaavan has fared since the last assessment in 2016, so on Friday they quieted him to get up close.Armed with a tub loaded up with bananas and flatbreads, Four Paws veterinarian Amir Khalil persuaded the elephant into an exhausted out solid washing lake while head vet Frank Goeritz utilized a sedative gun to discharge three huge darts into the animal.Unaccustomed to close human contact, the elephant grew somewhat unsettled, provoking Khalil to sing Sinatra's exemplary song "My Way", which seemed to quiet the pachyderm as he bit on chapatis.Once the sedatives kicked in, Khalil and Goeritz estimated Kaavan's robust edge and bigness, took blood tests and embedded a microchip in his left shoulder."He is in acceptable general condition... Yet, he is absolutely hefty, he gauges an excessive amount of and his feet are horrible," said Goeritz, highlighting the elephant's broken and deformed toenails that will require clinical attention.With little enactment to defend creature government assistance, zoos across Pakistan are famous for their poor conditions.In 2018, 30 creatures passed on inside months of another zoo opening in the northwestern city of Peshawar, including three snow panther fledglings. 

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Goeritz said Kaavan has been eating as much as 200 kilograms of sugar stick every day and denied of scholarly upgrades, bringing about "stereotypic" conduct where he swooshes his head and trunk from side to side for quite a long time on end."He is exhausted. He needs unquestionably physical and mental difficulties," said Goeritz, who has gone through thirty years working with hostage elephants around the world.Outrage over Kaavan, talented by Sri Lanka in 1985, went worldwide a couple of years prior after California vet Samar Khan saw him affixed in his fenced in area during a visit to Islamabad.She propelled an online appeal that in the end grabbed the eye of American pop symbol Cher.Kaavan's mate Saheli, who showed up likewise from Sri Lanka in 1990, passed on of gangrene in 2012. It is trusted Kavaan may in the end have the option to re-accomplice once he is moved to Cambodia.Tireless endeavors by a group of nearby creature advocates brought about May's court administering, under which Kaavan should be moved inside 30 days, however the cutoff time has been extended.Lawyer Owais Awan, who documented a year ago's court request, said the elephant has seemed more joyful as vets and volunteers worked with him this week. "It was a significant second today since it was the first run through in Kaavan's life there was a nitty gritty clinical appraisal," Awan told AFP. "I feel upbeat yet miserable. Nobody considered doing an itemized evaluation on him earlier."Only a couple of creatures stay at the zoo and endeavors by nearby specialists - a large number of whom have never been given creature care preparing - to move some of them have been disastrous.Two lions and an ostrich kicked the bucket during or not long after they were migrated. Animal specialists attempted to alarm one lion out of its pen by setting heaps of feed on fire.The zoo's wolves and bears had been scheduled for migration to a save in neighboring Punjab region on Tuesday, however nearby authorities revoked the greeting at the last minute.The bears are presently bound for an untamed life asylum in Jordan, while a home has not yet been found for the wolves, a Four Paws representative said