African Pride Safaris Journey Guidebook

Beyond elevated environmental temperatures in areas with inadequate ventilation, transport, anesthesia, and annoying situations can precipitate hyperthermia. Capture and restraint are frequent causes of mortality, probably exacerbated by hyperthermia, as is seize myopathy (Batista et al., 2008, Batista et al., 2014, Sutherland-Smith, 2015). Obesity is not uncommon in captive suids.