Congress 2021 - Vets4wildlife

FIND A VET

DAY 01 | 11 MARCH

15:45	Registration & Platform open
16:00	Welcome and Speaker Introductions
Anaesthesia
16:10	Mass capture: sable and others	Andre Uys
16:40	The ins and outs of pulse oximetry in wild mammals	Leith Meyer
17:00	The reliability of pulse oximetry, at four different attachment sites, in immobilized white rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum	Thembeka Mtetwa
Laboratories & Testing
17:15	Cytology and serum biochemistry of free-ranging and wounded elephants	Christine Steyrer
Anaesthesia
17:30	Live Discussion	All above
17:45	Tea/Break
18:15	Considerations when transporting an elephant family group by sea	Ulf Tubbesing
Disease General
18:35	Haematologic abnormalities in roan calves (Hippotragus equinus) with experimental pathogenic theileriosis	Sarah Clift
18:50	Live Discussion	All above
19:00	AGM
20:00	Fire side chat in the lounge

DAY 02 | 12 MARCH

15:00	Welcome and Speaker Introductions
Parasites
15:10	Rhino GI parasites normal vs treatment required	Johan Steyl
Laboratories & Testing
15:20	Debate: current challenges with buffalo testing and movement	Jacques O’Dell, Gary Bauer
15:50	Challenges of OBP and security of future vaccine supply	Baptiste Dungu
Diseases General
16:10	As a vet, are you ready to diagnose and prevent further spread of FMD?	Mpho Maja
Laboratories & Testing
16:25	Live Discussion	All above
16:40	Tea/Break
Anaesthesia
17:10	Water based perphenazine	Hendrik Hansen
17:30	Post Release Monitoring of translocated elephants in open systems – A Case Study	Erik Verreynne
17:50	Identifying potential measures of stress during a captive to wild elephant re-integration	Yolanda Pretorius
18:05	Physiological effects of azaperone and midazolam on netgun captured mule deer	Annette Roug
18:20	Live Discussion	All above
18:35	Fireside chat in the lounge

DAY 03 | 13 MARCH

08:50	Welcome and Speaker Introductions
Climate Change / One Health
09:00	Biologging of body temperature as a tool to investigate responses of mammals to climate change	Andrea Fuller
09:15	Limits to avian heat tolerance in a rapidly warming world	Andrew McKechnie
09:30	Pangolins exhibit behavioural and physiological plasticity in response to fluctuations in climate and food availability	Wendy Panaino
9:45	Benefit of grazing African grassland to the human populations, the environment and the climate	Jacques van Rooyen
10:00	Live Discussion	All Above
10:15	Tea Break
Disease General
10:45	Covid in puma (case study) and other animals	Katja Koeppel
11:00	A clinical case of babesia in black rhino – A lockdown story	David Zimmerman
11:15	Lead levels in South Africa’s Gyps vultures: prevalence and sub-lethal impacts	Linda van der Heever
11:30	Summersores and related mortalities in zebra	Angela Bruens
11:45	Live Discussion	All Above
12:00	Lunch
12:45	Rabies in Kudu (and Eland) in Namibia	Ulf Tubbesing
13:05	Rabies in Rhinoceros in Namibia	Ulf Tubbesing
SAVC Matters
13:25	South African Veterinary Council Q&A session	Dr. Alfred Kgasi
Ethics & Welfare
13:40	Decline of the Knysna elephant – an ethical consideration	David Zimmerman
13:55	Animal welfare in the wildlife Industry.	Annelie Cloete
14:10	Live Discussion	All Above
Anaesthesia
14:25	Emergency care for veterinarians working with highly sedative tranquilizing agents	James Morrow
14:40	Tranquilisers	Cobus Raath
14:55	Species based immobilisation: similarities and differences	Hendrik Hansen, Vanessa Faber
15:10	Live Discussion	All Above