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The xray of the mum before the caesarian. You can just make out the babies skulls on the xray.

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These photos were taken about 15 minutes after the caesarian. As you can see they don't look impressed with being born and start life with a bit of an attitude!

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Lots of babies. They start to shed their skin shortly after drying out, which is why they look flakey.

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I had to separate each of the little babies so that they each only ate their own egg yolk.

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These little guys mother came in with a crushed head. She had been run over by a car. Unfortunately she wasn't saveable but I was able to open her up and rescue her 17 babies that were nearly ready to be born. While they are a little prem they took to life with vigor. With in minutes of being untimely plucked from their mother they are madly eating their egg yolk.

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Its been some time since I updated the blog. (over a year) Not because we haven't been treating heaps of amazing wildlife - far from it. Just been slack at up dating the blog. I'm just going to add some of the interesting cases from the last year or so. Sorry for the delay.

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This is a juvenile sugar glider who was found on a tree being attacked by birds. She had several small wounds including one to her eye. The wounds and the eye are healing well and she is being cared for by one of our nurses.

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This spotted tree monitor (a small species of goanna) was caught by a cat and has a deep puncture mark on its pelvic area. Cat bites, like most animal bites are very prone to develop serious infection. Often if they survive the physical bite they die later from infection. This little fellas wounds were flushed and cleaned and given antibiotics to give him a much better chance.

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This is a juvenile southern boobook owl that came in with a broken wing. He should still be in the nest at this age.We are not sure what he was doing out or how he came to break his wing. His wing was quite smashed but we have managed to put it back together again. Time will tell if and how well he can fly on it.

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This is a juvenile straw necked Ibis who was hit by a car and broke both her wing and her leg. Both have required orthopaedic surgery to fix. (a metal pin has been inserted into both). She is recovering really well but will have to be in care for at least 12 weeks for the bones to heal before she can be released.

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The Duck/Goose hunting season opened up here a week or so ago. The geese are not stupid and promptly leave the wetlands and rock up in and around town where its safer. For a small number of unfortunate geese this is swapping one danger for another. So we have seen a number of geese with "urban" injuries. (dog attacks, hit by cars, kids etc). This is a photo from one of our staffs backyard fence.

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Its an often repeated message to put baby birds back. All to often with baby birds they are unneccessary rescues. They are either a fledgling learning how to fly or they are a baby bird who has fallen from their nest. Either way their best chance of survival is back with their own real parents. If you find a nestling, look for its nest and try to place it back if possible. If the whole nest has

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RED Ned is a big male red kangeroo who has spent most of his life in Prison. However he has just been let out on parole.Red Ned's mother was killed in a collision with a car over a year ago and he was picked up by a caring truck driver just north of Tennant Creek. He was found standing next to his dead mother. The truck driver drove with him north delivering him to us when he was very little.

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It is pretty standard to have a lot of fires in the top end during the dry season. Usually these are of low intensity and cause little direct impact on wildlife, although flying around any fire are usually numerous birds of preys (mostly kites and crows) snapping up insects or any small animal trying to flee the fire. Black kites have even been observed picking up burning twigs and flying off

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With the start of the dry season in the top end comes fires. There are fires everywhere. While on the whole the fires we have here are much much less severe than the ones they have down south wildlife will still get caught up in them and be injured. This is a little possum joey who lost him mum and burnt his feet trying to escape from the fire. Burns are nasty and can take a while to heal but his

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For those of you in Darwin might be have already heard about this one (it was in the NT news). We had a female green tree frog that got run over with a lawn mower.The Lawn mower took the top layer of skin off and a fair amount of bruising. We anaethetisedher and stitched her up. She has recovered well and now looks greatand is ready for release.Here is some photos of before during and immediately

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With the end of the wet the flood waters are disappearing rapidly. As a result many of the animals that depend on the water end up becoming more vulnerable to dogs cars and other threats. This is a green pygmy goose that was attacked by a dog. He has a large gash on his neck that we have stitched. While they are stressy birds we hope this one will make a full recovery. They tend to do better in

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This morning we had two pinky Northern Brown Bandicoots brought in. Their mother was chased by a dog. They were found scattered in some ones backyard. Two were unfortunately already dead but two are now being hand reared. You can see how small and undeveloped bandicoots are initially. A wallaby of this size would have virtually no chance of survival but bandicoots are tough and have a reasonable

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This baby Galah's nest was accidentally destroyed when people cut down the palm trees they were living in. This Galah is the lucky one - its nestmate went through a wood chipper (and was killed) - when they found the body of that one they realised there were babies inside and this one was fortunately saved. This little fella will need to be hand reared for a few months before being able to be

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A couple of days ago we had a very sick possum brought into us. His name is Malcolm and had been hand reared by Nina from Ninas ark. He had been gradually going down hill, been off colour. A blood test showed that he was extremely anaemic. In fact the test showed he needed a blood transfusion immediately or he would die. Now we have never done a blood transfusion on a possum before. We collected

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We've had another sea turtle brought in. She is another floater - a sea turtle who can't dive and bobs along the surface of the ocean. She is still in good condition and is responding very well to treatment, so we are very hopeful for her.

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Most people don't realise that there are native rats and mice. In addition to a lots of small species of small marsupials (like dunnarts & antechinus) we also have a large number of true rats and mice. The best known are the water rat and hopping mice. In darwin we have many different species, but one of the most spectacular is the black footed tree rat. They are quite large - about double the

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After the possum Birth, I thought share this photo of a wallaby teat. Marsupials are different in many ways to other mammals. One way is that in wallabies & kangeroos the joey only drinks from one nipple. When the joey first reaches the pouch it attaches to the teat and cannot be separated from it. As the joey grows so does the teat. As you can see in this photo it becomes quite long by the time

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We all had the most amazing experience yesterday. We got to witness a baby possum being born. While there are possums being born all the time it's a once in a lifetime sort of thing to witness. They are born very embryonic - blind & the size of a jelly bean and crawl from the cloaca (at the bottom left hand corner of the photo) to the pouch (the darker patch near the top right corner). There they

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With the wet season coming to an end we are receiving a large number of injured freshwater turtles. Most of these moved out into temporary swamps during the wet and now they are drying up are getting trapped. When they go looking for more permanent water they often fall foul of dogs or cars. We got to release half a dozen of these yesterday into a permanent paperbark swamp. They were very happy

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Here are three Baby birds that have recently come into the clinic. All are just on fledging and would have been in most cases better off left alone. While they will be cared for a released shortly their best chance is always with their parents. They are a Pheasant coucal, a a white gaped honey eater and a Koel

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We have had another wedgie handed in. this one has a broken wing which we pinned today. He is quite small as far as wedgies go (the males and the tropical ones are smaller) and quite dark (wedgies get darker as they get older). He will go to the prison for care and rehabilitation shortly and from there be released.

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This freshwater crocodile was found in someones driveway. Unfortunately it is missing its entire top jaw. We don't know what removed it, possibly a dog, a car or another croc. While crocs can and do survive with a substantial amount of their jaws missing - this one is missing too much and would not be able to eat so we had to euthanase it to prevent it from starving to death. Unfortunately not

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This little yellow faced turtle was brought to us after a dog chewed on her. She is missing the edges of her shell. they have been chewed off. While this may sound minor it is actually very serious as the shell is bone and a severe life threatening infection is likely.

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This is a juvenile brown bandicoot who was grabbed by a dog. He has a couple of wounds but should heal ok. Bandicoots are one the many species of animals much rarer now that cane toads have moved into the area. He will be released back into the wild in about 2 weeks. He is about half grown so is big enough to survive without his mum now.

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A few weeks ago we got a frantic call from a worker in a child care centre who had found "snake" eggs in the childrens sand pit. We carefully removed them (Primarily for the eggs safety - we knew they weren't snake eggs!) and placed them in an incubator. Today all three of them hatched. They are called tata lizards or northern water dragons. Since they are all fine and healthy and don't need

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This little joey is a baby antilopine wallaroo. Her mother was hit by a car and died. She was in her mothers pouch at the time. The driver didn't stop but fortunately some one else did. She would have been a hard breaking site her standing next to her dead mum in the sun. She was quite dehydrated when she came to us and had damage to her hock (ankle) which needed surgery to fix. She is doing well

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Today We performed a caesarian section on a Yellow faced turtle. One of the eggs had ruptured inside her causing a nasty peritonitis. Her only chance is surgery. We removed six remaining eggs, which we have some hope will hatch. We also needed to remove a whole lot of damaged tissue, including her uterus so she will not breed again because it was too badly damaged. In this photo I am intubating

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This Bluey (northern Blue tounge lizard) isn't really wildlife. It was actually pick up by some one who kept it as a pet. Unfortunately they didn't know what they were doing and kept it inside in an old fish tank and fed it mince meat. It seemed to do well for a while but became bendy and stopped moving much. So they surrendered it to us. Unwhittingly they had given it metabolic bone disease.

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This baby Torres Straight pigeon (also called Pied imperial pigeon or Torresian imperial pigeon - or affectionately a "Torri") fell out of its nest after a storm. Unfortunately like most pigeons, torris make pretty frail nests. What we reccomend when this happens is to put him back in the nest if possible or if the nest is destroyed to make a new nest for the parents out of an old ice cream

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This unfortunate blue winged Kookaburra got caught on a barbwired fence. He was soaked in his own blood. While he has lots of feather damage and some blood loss he should be ok and there doesn't seem to be any permanent damage.

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Every so often one of our carers has a wallaby joey that goes blind. They develop cataracts and go blind quite suddenly. We don't fully understand what causes this but there are lots of theories. It in general seems to be those joeys that have had a very traumatic life. (ie the ones that were orphaned very young (pinkies), were injured (broken bones), dehydrated and gotten sick(diarrhoea etc))

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We had another little red flying fox caught up on a barb wire fence handed in over the weekend. This is her in the bag after being rescued but before being anaethetised so we could remove the wire. She looks very worried. However the wire was removed and the damage is repairable so she should be ok to be released in about a week.

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Unfortunately every few days we have a cockatoo handed in who is suffering from Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) - It is caused by a small tough virus called a circovirus. It is uncurable and all affected birds die from it. They die from the imunosupression the virus causes but it also makes them loose feathers and eventually get beak deformities. It is very common and its likely that

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Just a quick note to say Outback wildlife rescue is back on chanel seven. Slightly earlier at 6:30 on sunday nights.

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We also have an injured freshwater crocodile in at the moment. She was hit by a car which broke her lower jaw so badly that it was only hanging on by skin. He is a photo of her before surgery and unfortunately we had to amputate the last 15 cm of her jaw. However it seems crocs are survivors not only has she recovered well from the surgery. (she is very feisty) but there seems to be lots of fat

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Sorry its been so long since we posted. Any one might think we have nothing to write about - far from it. We have been really busy which unfortunately means we are getting lots of sick, injured and orphaned wildlife brought in. Heres is a little orphaned microbat. His mum dropped hm. If you look carefully you can see the bruise on his head where he landed on the ground. He seems a little

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This microbat was found in someones swimming pool. It was cold and wet but when we warmed it up we noticed it had a tear in its wing. We need to release these guys as soon as possible since they stress so much so we stitched the wing up. We should be able to release him in the next couple of days. the sutures are disolving.

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We have a Wedgetailed eagle that has a fractured wing. The Fracture is quite high up in the humerus so we had trouble stabilising it but seems to be healing well. He has a ravenous appetite and is eating well. He will ultimately head to the prison for rehabilitation and subsequent release.

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Magpie goosethe magpie goose is well in it's self but there is some concern about his leg. He is currently undergoing consideration as to how well he would survive back in the wild if he only had one leg. flight birds of some types can often cope with only one leg. x rays tomorrow will determine the full damage and determine the next step.thank you to the kind people who dropped him off.Baby

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Today we had a small carpet python that had been caught up in wire. Presumably she was after the birds on the other side. Fortunately while the wire was very tight it was simply a matter of snipping it off so that we could free her. She was uninjured so has now been released a long way from the birds.

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Emma the sea turtleThis weekend saw the release of Emma the flatback sea turtle, i can't believe the difference between her arrival and her departure. when she first came in she was swollen and pink, her flesh stuck out from around her shell, now she is swimming of the coast somewhere happily back in her home environment.Emma was released at Dundee Beach by the people who found her, Paul Arnold

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We have also had a Pelican brought into us. It is another teenager who has not managed the transition from being cared for by his parents to looking after himself well. He is very thin and emaciated but otherwise is very healthy. We took xrays to check for fishing hooks etc that are another common cause of thin pelicans but none are visible. So he will simply require feeding up so that he can

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We have had another sea turtle brought into us. He was a "floater". He has pneumonia and as a result was unable to submerge himself. The pneumonia caused him to loose a lot of weight - he is emaciated & exhausted. As a result of him being unable to submerge he was hit by a boat which has fractured his shell. So there is lots of repairing required. We need to fix the fractures in his shell, treat

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This Kookaburra came in today with a fracture in its distal humerus. It was most likely caused by being hit by a car. It is in good condition and amuses everyone with its distinctive call. Surgery to pin the wing will take place tomorrow.

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The pinning went well. We got good stability in the little Falcons fracture and she recovered uneventfully. She will stay in hospital for a few days and then go to the Prison for her rehabilitation & recovery.Just on closing we received a Rainbow Bee eater. He has been attacked by a cat. Bite wounds are always serious and require prompt treatment with anitbiotics. Bee eaters tend to be fragile

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We also had a Little Falcon brought in today. He was found by the side of the road so was probably hit by a car He has a wing fracture that will require surgery. (pinning). Which I am just about to start. Will Keep you posted.

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Today we got an adult slatey grey that got caught up in bird netting. He was really tangled and the netting was starting to cut into him. Slatey greys are not venomous but are very jumpy bitey snakes so releasing him from the netting was a task. We cut away the netting and treated his fortunately minor wounds and he has now been released.

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There has been quite a number of Little Red flying foxes caught on barb wire fences in the last week. We have been rescuing at least 2 a day everyday! Barbwire is very bad for flying foxes because they are big and use their eyesite to navigate they often get caught up on it. The wounds they get (mouth wings etc) trying to get off are heartwrenching. They are such lovely creatures and certainly

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We had a juvenile Tern ( a type of sea bird) come into care today. He seems to be very thin and exhausted. He is a teenager who doesn't seem to have been able to find his way in the world yet. We will feed him up so that he puts on some weight and release him again to give him a second chance.

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This little nankeen kestrel was hunting for insects over a dry season fire when got hit by a passing car. This broke its wing. It then landed in the fire and singed it's feathers and burnt its eyes. Fortunately the people in the car rescued it and brought it to us. We have pinned its wing and are treating its burns. The burns to its eyes are very painful but should heal ok.

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Emma the flat back sea turtle is our patient of the moment. She came in a few days ago after being rescued by a fishing charter off Dundee beach. Emma has pnuemonia so has difficulty diving. She bobs along on the top of the water like a cork. This is exhausting for the turtle and if left untreated they eventually die from dehydration and exposure. She was particularly sick when she arrived,

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Hello and Welcome to the Ark Animal Hospital Blog.We are intending on sharing about some of our more interesting wildlife patients and their care.Hope you enjoy itStephen

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