![]() He will be accompanied by another veterinarian and a keeper from the Los Angeles Zoo, and will fly with Andalas in the cargo hold of a KLM transport plane. Robin Radcliffe, adjunct assistant professor of wildlife and conservation medicine at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, is coordinating the medical program for the move. A key part of the preparations was the recent vaccination of Andalas against diseases for which he has no immunity. This will be the first time a captive-born Sumatran rhino (one of the rarest rhinos in the world with only about 300 animals remaining in the wild) has ever been moved to its species homeland, in this case Indonesia.Ĭornell veterinarians have been helping manage the health-care challenges of this international animal relocation. The photos below show Andalas following his arrival in Indonesia.īorn in captivity, Andalas, a Sumatran rhinoceros, is so comfortable in his metal crate that his handlers do not plan to tranquilize the rare animal when they truck and fly him from the Los Angeles Zoo to the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia on Feb. By all accounts, Andalas is adapting well to his new home. While his handlers did not expect to tranquilize him on the trip, they did end up sedating him to keep him from rubbing his face against the bars. 18, Andalas arrived safely at his destination, a rhino sanctuary within an Indonesian national park. After leaving the Los Angeles Zoo on Feb.
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