Incidences of animal injury are still low thanks to the availability of food and water in the protected areas following the above normal rains late last year and early part of 2007. Just like in January, we had two cases reported to the unit this month. The first was a male cheetah with bite/fight wounds at the hindquarters at Aruba probably from another male cheetah. It was reported to us on the 6th by tour drivers/guides who saw it limping and with blood stained hindquarters. We could not tell what the problem was from a distance until we immobillised it.
The Mobile Veterinary Unit operated by The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust working with The Kenyan Wildlife Service and funded by Vier Pfoten