Volume: 49 Issue: 1
Year: 2018, Page: 22-24,
Received: March 29, 2017 Accepted: June 1, 2017 Published: Jan. 1, 2018
Haematological study was conducted in twenty apparently healthy adult male Sambar Deer maintained at Zoological Gardens, Thiruvananthapuram, which underwent vasectomyundergeneralanaesthesia.Samples were analysed usingan automatic haematology analyser calibratedforcaprine blood. The haemoglobin concentration, volume of packed red cells and total erythrocyte count were 9.6±0.3 g/dL, 29.3±0.7 % and 5.8±0.2×106 / µL respectively. The total leucocyte count was 3.6±0.2×103 /µL and granulocyte, lymphocyte and monocyte counts were 47±1 %, 47±1 % and 6±1 % respectively.
Keywords: Sambar Deer, Rusa unicolor, Haematology, Blood indices.
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