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00:00 If King Galley decides to fight, Cody could get very seriously injured.
00:04 I'm really excited to be here at The Wiles for a very special intervention on a rhinoceros.
00:23 I just want to make sure that everybody knows Dr. Lauder, our dentist in green shirt.
00:28 We're going to do an anesthesia and a dental exam.
00:31 This rhino's birth name is King Galley, but at The Wiles, we gave him a nickname.
00:35 It's Kennedy. I love Kennedy.
00:37 When he first arrived, he was very nervous. He had a lot of aggressive behavior.
00:41 So I spent a lot of time sitting in front of him, and I was feeding him, petting him, getting him used to human contact.
00:47 And now, he's pretty well wrapped in animals.
00:49 Traditionally, we give them all cereals and hay.
00:52 If we give him a cereal, he chokes on it about half the time.
00:56 Obviously, something's wrong with his mouth, and he's not eating anything.
01:00 So, again, this needs to be an asterisk for him to be happy and in good health.
01:03 Oh, hey, sleepy boy.
01:05 You're okay.
01:07 Good boy. Immobilizing an animal this large is not a 100% risk.
01:11 Come on, King Galley, move on.
01:13 Now, bend it.
01:17 Good job.
01:19 Hey, buddy, easy.
01:20 We need to act fast and try to get him in the position we need.
01:24 We're going to slip a rope over his horn to try and guide him in the right position.
01:28 I'm trying to take him that way.
01:30 Just because he's so big, if he goes down or changes his position,
01:34 we're going to have to cancel the procedure and wake him up.
01:38 702 to 705.
01:42 I just pull the rope around me, and I will go in the direction we need him to go.
01:48 He's a big, big one. If he pulls, I'm in big trouble.
01:51 He looks stiff.
01:52 No, he's going to collapse. He's going to go.
01:54 He's going.
01:55 Be careful of the rope. Be careful.
01:57 You're the best.
01:58 You're the best.
01:59 You got it?
02:00 Wow.
02:01 Good job.
02:02 We were able to put Kenny J in the right position.
02:04 He's still breathing.
02:06 We're able to get Dr. Lauder in and do some of the usual procedure.
02:09 Okay, you can go ahead and take him.
02:11 All right, slowly, Jack.
02:13 One of the tools that was used was a little jack.
02:16 It looks like a mini car jack.
02:18 That was used to slide him in his mouth to open up his mouth.
02:22 I got the...
02:23 I'm trying to get the glottis down.
02:25 All right, tube's in position.
02:27 Can someone put the turn signal to see if it's where I am?
02:30 All right, let's try to get the respirator set up.
02:32 All right, take a break. Thank you.
02:35 Sometimes when animals are under anesthesia,
02:37 they'll have a lot of muscle spasms.
02:39 And Kenny J's lip is quivering a little bit right now.
02:41 But it's just something not to the very large extent of a voluntary muscle thing.
02:45 Their mouth is so specialized for breathing
02:48 that it's hard to see what's inside.
02:50 Their head's always pointed down.
02:51 And it's a big tube.
02:53 It's a very long tube, which you can't really see all the way back there.
02:57 We'll pay him back.
02:58 He has very low...
03:00 Have you got some nastiness in there?
03:02 He's just got some surdents.
03:03 Dr. Lauder has found surdents.
03:05 It's a term that we use in horses.
03:07 It's really what it's all about.
03:08 We use it for simulating horses.
03:10 And it means that there are sharp, little incoinced points
03:13 on the edge of their molar teeth.
03:15 We'll take care of that.
03:17 Smooth these points out.
03:18 Other than that, he looks pretty good.
03:19 Oh, it was.
03:20 It's really about the best possible way to do it.
03:23 Always with these surdents on there,
03:25 and grinding on the points,
03:26 it's going to be a lot more comfortable.
03:28 Are you guys good?
03:29 Way better.
03:30 Thank you.
03:33 We're going to go ahead and wake him up with some flumazenil and analtrexone.
03:37 And what did he have?
03:38 Out.
03:41 He heard.
03:42 I told you.
03:44 Kenji is awake now, and it's a relief.
03:47 There you go.
03:48 Good work.
03:50 I'm very happy.
03:51 The operation went well.
03:52 I'm very happy.
03:53 [music playing]
03:57 [music playing]
04:00 (wind blowing)
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