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Article: EELS, OTTERS, SHARKS ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR VET.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)(Colorado Critters Page)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- August 7, 1999
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Byline: Rebecca Jones News Staff Writer
The first sign that all was not as it should be in the operating room at Ocean Journey was a quiver that ran through the anesthetized eel on the table.
``Is he coming out of this?'' asked Dr. Terry Campbell, concerned at the prospect that his patient, a 4-foot green moray eel, might wake up prematurely and wreak havoc before it could be returned to its container.
Campbell, an associate professor of zoological medicine service at Colorado State University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital, had seen it happen before. From 1989 to 1995, he was a staff veterinarian at Sea World in Florida, where he oversaw the ...