Two Can Play
Handling sick animals at the Auckland zoo, even with modern equipment, calls for skill and ingenuity from the staff. Most animals take their medicine lying down. They are knocked out by a dart containing tranquilising drugs, fired from a special gun. This method enables most animals to be handled safely—but not the apes.
They have learned to associate the dart with its effects and nowadays an ape which feels the pricking sensation in its thigh will snatch the dart out and hurl it, with uncanny accuracy, back at the zoo staff. With the tables turned and the druggist in danger of being drugged, staff have to produce some nimble footwork to avoid the boomerang darts. —(P.S.S. Auckland.)
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19661121.2.3
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31222, 21 November 1966, Page 1
Word Count
120Two Can Play Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31222, 21 November 1966, Page 1
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.