Nilai Hematologi Rusa Sambar (Cervus unicolor ) yang Ditangkarkan

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NILAI HEhpATQWGI

RUSA

SAMBAR (Cewus ruriodur) l,T$WG DITANGURKAN

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HAEMATOLOGICAL VALUES FOR

CAPTIVE

SAMBAR QBER (Ccrvus u M )

G. SEMIADI

P.R

WILSON 2,

P.D.

MUIR 3 and

T.N.

BARRY 4

Nke

Wne young (10-14 months of

age)

housed sambar, wnsisted of's stags

and 4 hi&, were blood sampled in May 1992 (late autumn) and September 1992 {early spring) using physical restraiDt without sedation. In May 1992, four semi-

damtfsicated adult sqmbr stags in hard antler, managed at pasture, were sd&d

using a mixafit of x y 1 h hydrochloride (Rompun, Bayer, NZ) and feotany1 citrate-azaperone (Fen- Ethnor Pty.Ltd. North Ryde, Australia), at a ratio of 3: 1, adnhktered by a tranquillizer dart (Paxanns Ltd, Timaru,

NZ)

and were blood sampled. AU samples were analyzed for standard haematdogid analysis (IWI et al. 1992).

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

RESULTS

Mean haamglobin

(Hb),

packed

d

v o l ~

0

and plasma protein concentrations h unsedated hinds (housed) were slightly

hi*

than

in unsedated stags

o,

but &ere was no apparent d i f h a c e between time of collection (Table 1). Mba~ white Mood cell

(WBC)

cwnts of fiinds and stags were similar and mean raonocyte, e o s ~ l and hmphd counts ware amsistady low.

Data

for other meast~remats were similar for both sexes at both samphg periods.

Table 1. Ekematological values frotn unsedated young housed sambar in

New

ZGahnd (stags n=5; hinds A).

st%g

Hinh

Mean Mean

RBC

(X 1 0 ~ ~ / l ) 9.2 8.5-9.9 9.9 9.8-10

Hb

12.6

PCV

0.4

MCHC

31.7

MCH 13.8

MCV

43

Pla?ma protein 83

WBC ( X 10911) 4.6 ~ ~ t m p t u l (X 109~) 1.5 Neutrophi]. (%) 31.8 LrcsaoCyte(~10~11) 3.0

LyrnQ,- (%J 66

Mowcyte(xl0

A)

0.01

hihemKleyee

(%I

0.25 ~osinaphil (X

lo94

0.08 Eosinophil (%) 1.75 BnsopM (x 109/3) 0.0 1 Basqhit(%) , ' 0.25

The

Hb

and WBC concentrations from sedated adult sambar stags (padddc-mkd) wen: marginally lower than those of housed stags (Table 2).

The

eol9iaopM counts in the baddock-raised deer were five-fold greater than for housed deer.

Hwmbbgical data presented here do not differ greatty &om data of Slee

and

Presidente (1981) from wild shot sambar. It is notable that the Hb cmcentration and associated parmeters of sambar are similar to those

of

rusa ( h d i g e 1992)

aad

4 deer (Wilson and

P d

1986). White

blwd

cell c~urrts of [image:2.474.58.412.200.546.2]

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(Chapman 1977; Slee- and Presidente 1981). The mean eosinophil count in paddock-raid stags was five times that of deer Moors. This may have been due to intiernal parasite burdens, rr?brougb monitoring showed f8ac;rt larval and cgg counts

fUom

caadom

samples ofthe

h i

over a h y e a r period to be consistently

Table 2. Haemdogical values from semidomestid adult -bar stags sedated using a mixture of xylazine-entanyl citrate-

amprone in

New

Zealand (n=4). Mean

Hb

$/dl 12.0 10.3-12.6

P C V M 0.39 033-0.41

MCHC g/d ' 31.1 30.8-3 1.4

WBC

lo9d 3.2 1.2-4.4

NW-

(& lo9h 2.3 0.96-3.52

Neutrophil (%j 70.5 48-80

~ylllphocya 10% 0.65 0.23-1.3 1

L-pl"d

n

o

21.3 11-41

o

~ o a i i b i l l o 9 ~ 0.30 0.12-0.56

7.3 1-14

0.035 0-0.06

Ebsq3hil(%) 1

.o

0-2

Plasma protein gA 85.0 80-88

zero (Semiadi 1993). The red blood cell (RBC) counts,

Hb

and

PCV

were slightly higher. in hinds in this study. A similar difference was observed in chital (CBappk 1989), but in rusa RBC counts wtre higher in stags (Audige 1992). Many of these

apparent differences are probably influenced by a wide range of f b x s which a@&

the

d p d a of blood

4

physiology.

The

sedative drugs used fior netraint of semidomesticated stags may have reduced

Hb

concentration when compared ling by physical rrtstraint alone, as has becn shown in other deer species

& G s

et al. 1992). However, this affect appears to have been minimal when

compared with the

~~

deer. Lh *

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

.

We

&a& Kam

Burke

for her technical skill during blood sampling. A@meadt provid#l financial assistance. G. Semiacli received scbolanehip support

from

the Govlenrment af Indonesia and

from

the New

ZeataM1

Mbistry of Foreign Affkirs and

Trade.

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D.F.

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