Table 1.
Ball python baseline ethogram.
Table 2.
Time course of anesthesia stages after administration of three different drug regimens in ball pythons.
Fig 1.
Evaluation of the depth of anesthesia in ball pythons following injection of midazolam or a fixed combination of tiletamine+zolazepam.
Each snake was graphed chronologically through the stages of anesthesia experienced by the animal after intramuscular injection of midazolam (2 mg/kg), tiletamine+zolazepam (2 mg/kg), or tiletamine+zolazepam (3 mg/kg). Time spent in each anesthetic stage is displayed by colored bars. The duration of anesthesia of snake H01 following administration of 3 mg/kg of tiletamine+zolazepam is denoted by an interrupted X axis. Snake H01 did not return to normal behavior until 1,440 min post-injection.
Table 3.
Impact of midazolam or tiletamine+zolazepam on mean heart and respiratory rates in ball pythons.