Dartmoor Zoo Dartmoor and the Dentist

Busy dentist

It seems Peter has had a busy week. He was at our place today: filed and filled an upper canine on a male Tiger, extracted an overgrown molar from a Bactrian Camel (see photo below, my hand is suprisingly clean after a day toiling in the giraffe house-cum-operating theatre!) and filed down an overgrown molar in our elderly Chapman's Zebra. A 3-day old Tiger cub also died today and was found to have a cleft palate (see photo below which might be of interest to members of this list).

Sam.
 

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