Next destination: SOUTHAFRICA!

Estamos abriendo un nuevo convenio entre la universidad de murcia y... el zoo de Johannesburg!

Hi Esther,

Our externship is registered on the American Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians website. The working hours are from 7am to 4/5pm weekdays and 9am – 1pm on weekends. We have in the region of 2650 animals of about 260 species including birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, large and small carnivores, large and small ungulates and a variety of other creatures. We also do outside clinical work for other organizations. We have a few endangered species breeding programs at the zoo including the breeding of wattled cranes, ground hornbills, an amphibian conservation project. The zoo also has a breeding and research reserve/farm about two hours away from the zoo where we breed wattled cranes and large ungulates such as sable antelope and buffalo.

We do routine health exams, preventative medicine, translocations, large amounts of anesthetics, parasitological examinations, post-mortems, surgery, medicine work-up etc. We also use outside specialists for CT scans etc.

You would be involved in all aspects of the above mentioned. As you are a graduated veterinarian you would have more responsibilities than our student externs normally would have. If you registered with the South African Veterinary Council (their registration exams are in September) you would have unsupervised, sole charge of certain cases.

If you need any more information, please feel free to contact me.

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Dear Esther,

I have read through all of it and discussed it with our senior veterinarian. It seems fine and I will fill in all the paper work for you and send it soon. Also if there are any dates you would be interested in could you please let me know so I can check their availability and book them for you.

Kind regards,

Brett

Creo que estoy enamorada.