Dr Jonathon Howard - Small Animal, Bird and Exotics Veterinarian

20/02/2025

Bit of a teaser for my upcoming talk on sea snake rehabilitation at The Yaboumba World Congress on Wildlife.

The need for companionship isn’t limited to just humans. Even the most unusual of wildlife patients need friends.

“This photo always makes me smile. Dr Howard and myself discovered that sick and injured Yellow Bellied Sea Snakes heal faster and recover when they co habit together. They adore companionship, followed each other, lay together and swam in sync together.

Before discovering this, many showed signs of a depressed state with head hanging, slow movement and a reluctance to eat. But when together they thrived ❤️

I loved watching them when they transitioned to the large pre release tanks and they would glide side by side together, and playfully weave under and around bubbles and currents before resting on a dock and laying next to each other, sometimes putting their heads together or entwining their tails.

So beautiful to watch!”

Thank you for sharing such a lovely story and for all you do for wildlife, Nic Martini from the New South Wales Wildlife Council
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09/05/2024

Today is the inaugural International Chameleon Day!
There are 228 species of chameleon! This guy is the Jackson’s chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii xantholophus) found on at the foothills of Mt Kenya.
Chameleons are a very cool unique group of lizards! 😎

your colors

02/02/2024

Excited to be speaking at this years International Conference on Avian, Herpetological, Exotic Mammal, Zoo and Wildlife Medicine Veterinary Conference!
I’ll be speaking on blood vitamin D levels and basking UV Index requirements in bearded dragons based off our field research 😎

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10/01/2024

The young red eyed tree frog (Ranoidea chloris) with a red eye🐸👁
Probably my smallest patient ever weighing in at less than 1 gram!
This little guy had a corneal ulcer and hyphema (blood in the front chamber of the eye).
We treated with eye ointment (he was the size of the ointment tube lid! You can see a dab of ointment on his ulcer in the last pic 😁) and some antibiotics injections (yes we had to dilute the antibiotics down to give home the correct dose 😅)
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