The Patient Elephant: More Exotic Cases from the World's Top Wildlife Vet

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Robson, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography - 194 pages
In The Patient Elephant Taylor tells the extraordinary, hilarious, heart warming and tragic tales that have cropped up during his 'beastly' life. He tells of the connection between rare seals and Colonel Gadaffi's missiles, of criminals hiding drugs in cat litter, of root treatments on elephants with toothache, of dolphins with dyspepsia and much, much more.

About the author (1993)

David Conrad Taylor was born in 1934 in Rochdale, England. He is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and a consultant to zoos throughout the world. He writes about what he knows; his titles include Zoo Vet, Is There a Doctor in the Zoo?, and Next Panda Please. Taylor has been married twice and has two children.

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