Posted on June 23, 2022
The long-crested eagle (L. occipitalis), an African bird of prey naturally occurs in moist woodland and forest edges, particularly if that habitat is near grassland, marshland, a river or a stream. It is sometimes also found in drier woodland, mixed farmland, on grazing land or on the edges of...
Posted on June 14, 2022
When Hera, a 20-month-old crossbreed Labrador/pitbull visited the sterilisation clinic at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science, the vets there discovered a heart murmur that led to heart surgery that likely saved her life.
Posted on June 07, 2022
Since the 1990s the Onderstepoort Animal Blood Bank (OABB) has been the saving grace of many dogs, cats, and even prized stud sheep, horses and cattle in need of life-saving blood transfusions.
Posted on May 23, 2022
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has awarded Dr Gideon Brückner, an alumnus of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science, the OIE Gold Medal for 2020.
Posted on May 20, 2022
Three UP Faculty of Veterinary Science alumni recently reunited in the US to relieve a six-ton elephant of “toothache” by performing a specialised tusk extraction.
Posted on May 05, 2022
UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science has conferred degrees in veterinary nursing (BVetNurs) on the country’s first-ever cohort of graduates.
Posted on May 04, 2022
Professor Johan Schoeman leads the Pathobiology Research Theme in the faculty and is the former Head of the Department of Companion Animal Clinical Studies.
Posted on May 03, 2022
UP has awarded Emeritus Professor Jacobus Andries Wynand (Koos) Coetzer with an honorary doctorate for his contributions to the field of infectious and parasitic diseases of livestock and wildlife.
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