ours goes to eleven
Apr. 14th, 2017 01:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The saddest turkey vulture I have ever seen came in to the raptor center last week. They tried twice to do a blood test for lead poisoning, but the machine just said ERROR. So they took another sample and sent it over to CSU. Their machine said, even for a turkey vulture, that is a lethal lead level. For a bald eagle, 0.2 ppm of lead in the blood is toxic, 1 ppm is lethal. Turkey vultures are tougher, but this bird's blood had 11.8 ppm of lead.
For lead poisoning, we do chelation. It takes I think seven weeks. For a level that high, we're definitely going to have to do it more than once. While that's going on, we have to try to keep the bird's organs from shutting down.
As long as the bird keeps telling us I ATEN'T DEAD YET we'll keep working.
For lead poisoning, we do chelation. It takes I think seven weeks. For a level that high, we're definitely going to have to do it more than once. While that's going on, we have to try to keep the bird's organs from shutting down.
As long as the bird keeps telling us I ATEN'T DEAD YET we'll keep working.
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Date: 2017-04-14 07:12 am (UTC)You people are doing good work! ^_^ <3
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Date: 2017-04-14 12:48 pm (UTC)*thinking good thoughts for a large feathered dinosaur descendant*
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Date: 2017-04-14 08:06 pm (UTC)(For reasons unknown to me, I live near a t.v. Vortex. It's common to look out my front door and see 3 to 6 of them cruising overhead in wide ovals.)
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Date: 2017-04-16 05:15 am (UTC)Raptors and hunters both have territories; I think this one's territory must overlap with a hunter who isn't interested in eating his kill.
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Date: 2017-04-14 10:42 pm (UTC)Where on earth would the poor dude/dudette get so much lead, anyway? Maybe eating something that had buckshot in it? :P
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