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- Rhino capture
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After the immobilizing drug starts taking effect, the rhino
needs to be blindfolded. The animal is then partly woken up to walk into the transport crate.
- Giraffe capture
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Giraffe can be captured in canvas bomas with very high walls or
they can be darted. The latter is the more commonly used method. Giraffe
are immobilized, blindfolded, woken up immediately and loaded into a
recovery trailer. Thereafter they are loaded and transported in
modified furniture removal trailers.
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- Darting of other species
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Often animals need to be immobilized individually
for capture or for veterinary reasons such as blood tests or
treatment. Different immobilization drugs are used for different
species. Most of the immobilization drugs can be reversed as soon as
the animals are loaded. Animals can be darted on foot, from a vehicle
or from a helicopter.
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- Mass capture
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- Mass capture of wildlife can be done by using a canvas/sail boma or
a net boma. Smaller species such as springbok, blesbok and black
wildebeest are normally caught in nets while bigger species such as
blue wildebeest, kudu, eland etc. are caught in canvas bomas.
Animals caught in nets are tranquillized immediately by giving the tranquillizer
intravenously. Animals caught in a canvas boma run straight into the
truck and the tranquillizer is administered intramuscularly with a
pole-syringe.
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- Passive Capture
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Hippo are caught by passive capture. The area around their dam
are fenced off with electrical fencing so they can't wander at night
to go feeding. This forces them to eat the Lucerne in the boma. It
might take a while before they enter the boma but as soon as all the
hippo are entering the boma, the trap door can be released to close
them in the boma. They are then immediately loaded as they are very
good climbers! Hippo capture means spending a lot of nights waiting...
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