Blood Values of Two American Carnivores

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In the course of an investigation of the blood coagulation mechanism of a series of mammals, a male raccoon (Procyon lotor) and a female bear (Euarctos americanus) were presented to the author. The raccoon was captured twenty-four hours before studies were made, near Littlestown, Pennsylvania. The bear, a yearling weighing 21 kg., was captured approximately a week before the studies were made, in the Adirondack region of New York. Twenty-four mis. of blood were taken from the femoral vein of the bear under sodium pentobarbital anesthesia. The raccoon was exsanguinated by intracardiac puncture, after anesthetization with sodium pentobarbital.

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