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Vets ready with tranquilizers
In preparation for the Esala Maha Perahera, veterinarians are being trained at the Peradeniya University Veterinary Medicine Faculty, in the use of tranquilizer guns. This is first time that such a training programme had been undertaken, after the first tranquilizer gun was gifted to the university by Dr. Nihal Karunaratne. Dr. Karunaratne received this gun, termed the Cap-chur gun, from its constructor and designer Red Palmer of the United States when the former was in the US at the invitation of Mr. Palmer, who is a multi-millionaire. At that time the Cap-chur gun was the only instrument for tranquilising elephants. Since then newer guns have been manufactured. The Veterinary Medicine Faculty has now purchased an air pressure gun termed MK II which is an addition to the Cap-chur gun, its head Dr.Ashok Dangolle said. He said the gun could fire around 100 tranquilizer darts. He also said the Faculty is now training its personnel so that every veterinarian who passes out would be able to use the gun for tranquilization of elephants. Dr. Dangolle said the Diyawadana Nilame is keenly interested in this training programme and has given all the assistance needed. |
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