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Pera vets successfully insert contraceptive loop in monkey
View(s):By L.B.Senaratne
An initial programme to control the monkey population was successfully carried out by a team headed by Peradeniya University’s Veternirary Medicine Senior Professor Asok Dangolla.
This initiative hopes to address the challenges faced especially by farmers who complain that monkeys cause severe crop damage.
The team successfully sterilised a one-and-a-half-year-old monkey using a specially designed contraceptive loop inserted through the uterine canal. Earlier the team had tried inserting a contraceptive loop used as a human birth control method but that had not been successful.
The monkey who underwent the trial
Professor Dangolla explained that the process, performed under anesthesia, takes about half an hour. He pointed out that a single female monkey can produce 10 to 15 offspring over its 20-year lifespan, significantly contributing to the population growth.
The team comprised Dr. B.S.G. Gamage, Dr. K.S.R. Katpitiya, Dr. G.B.S. Abeyratne, and wildlife researchers Anil Dikkumbura and R.M. Dhanasekera.
The team behind the trial
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