The team at Edinburgh Zoo have come up with a novel idea for helping one of their adorable animals. Nala the giant anteater was recently diagnosed as having the first reported case of diabetes in the captive species.
And vets are now managing her with a blood glucose monitor usually used on humans, after she appeared on the BBC Scotland series, Inside the Zoo, earlier this year exhibiting the same symptoms as people do before being diagnosed with the condition.
Dr Stephanie Mota, resident veterinary surgeon at RZSS said: “Keepers first discovered something was wrong when Nala was losing weight despite eating the same amount, or sometimes even more, than usual. We carried out a full health check under general anaesthetic, running lots of tests and found that Nala has type 1 diabetes.”
