POISONS AND THE PACHYDERM Responding to Poisoning in Asian elephants: A field guide With a variety of synthetic poisons, pesticides and herbal toxins available, elephants have been at the receiving end in the last few years. Veterinarians, para-vet, wildlife managers and conservationists across India are facing situations where they need to react rapidly to cases of elephant poisoning. This reference volume, which lists out every known poison affecting Asian elephants, its symptoms, effects and antidotes, will thus prove handy to all those dealing with poisoned elephants, primarily to save them, and if not, to at least know, what killed them. View Report (3.09 MB)
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