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330 lb. lion, Ramses has Arnold Chiari Malformation, too.(Lion undergoes rare brain surgery at UT | wbir.com) - I have Chiari and also LOVE lions. Me and this guy should be best friends
ramsey the lion has chiari decompression surgery at ut med -- from WBIR
330 lb. lion, Ramses has Arnold Chiari Malformation, too!!!

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LIMA, Peru (AP) — King was unable to chew normally because most of his teeth had been pulled by the circus owners. Simba's front claws had been removed and his fangs broken.

The lions were among 21 rescued from Peruvian circuses in 2014 by members of Los Angeles-based Animal Defenders International. Activists say the lions were kept in appalling conditions.



"In the circuses they often break their teeth and remove their claws," said Eva Chomba, a Peruvian veterinarian with Animal Defenders. "It's a painful process in which they do not use anesthesia and those doing it are not veterinarians."
On Friday, a team of veterinarians sedated King and Simba to perform dental surgery on the big cats, which weigh more than 160 kilograms (352 pounds) and are 17 and 7 years old, respectively.
U.S. veterinarian Peter Emily, founder of the Peter Emily International Veterinary Dental Foundation, said a previous oral surgery on King had created a small hole between his mouth and nose that had become badly infected.
The veterinarians determined King requires more surgeries and the lion will be taken to an animal sanctuary in Denver, Colorado, in the coming months, Peruvian veterinarian Jorge Hun said.
On Saturday, the veterinarians will look at the teeth of 26 monkeys also rescued from circuses.
Peru banned the use of wild animals in circuses in 2011, but implementation of the law has been slow."
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Associated Press writers Mauricio Munoz and Martin Mejia contributed to this report.

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Veterinarians Perform Tooth Extraction on 408-Pound Lion
The 13-year-old lion was suffering from a dental infection and two cracked teeth.
By Cari Jorgensen
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Published: 2016.02.25 11:15 AM

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Mandela the lion’s trip to the dentist.
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During a veterinary exam at Perth Zoo in Australia, 13-year-old Mandela, a 408-pound lion, was found to have a dental infection and a couple of cracked teeth, UPI reports. Veterinary specialists were called in for the extraction.
Simone Vitali BSc, BVMS, PhD, MACVS (Zoo Animal Medicine) and Senior Veterinarian at Perth Zoo told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “Often predators in captivity give you very little in the way of clinical signs, so we didn't even know that Mandela had a dental infection until we anaesthetized him and had a look. It's quite amazing the sort of things they will tolerate. A tooth infection for us would lay us out for days but with them they just keep trucking on. So it's important for us as custodians to do what we can to make them comfortable, even if they're not giving us an indication that they're not comfortable.”
Mandela remained sedated for two hours while the extraction was performed. “They're big teeth and they take a lot of work to get out so for today we've just removed the one that was infected,” Dr. Vitali told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Tiny the Lion
His name may be Tiny but he weighs in at around 200kg and is king of the jungle.
But Tiny the African lion was at the mercy of modern medicine after getting a lion-sized hairball stuck in his stomach.
Tiny, who lives with his two brothers at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Smarden, had been taken seriously ill and was vomiting frequently when vets decided he needed surgery. He had to be anaesthetised using a dart and blowpipe by John Kenward, senior vet at Pets Ltd veterinary surgery in Bearsted Road, Weavering, Maidstone, to be brought in.
The surgical team, lead by surgeon Mark Fosbery and head nurse Rita Johnson, spent several hours operating to remove the large doughy mass of horse hair in his stomach.
A three foot-long length of inflamed gut also had to be removed before Tiny was given five litres of fluid and stretchered back to his enclosure.
For the next few days, he was given medication daily, which was administered by being squirted into his mouth through the bars of his den when he opened his massive jaws to roar.
Maralyn Hawkins, from the surgery, said: “It was a life threatening situation for Tiny but fortunately he came through it well.”
She added that the number of staff watching the procedure had to be restricted because there was so much interest. “It isn’t every day you get an opportunity to see a wild animal up close.”
The vets at Weavering has a large animal unit. It also operated on a tiger last year.
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