ENDOCRINOLOGY
Endocrine System in Donkeys:
IT’S JUST DIFFERENT One of the most important things to realize
medicine and the Trueman Endowed Chair of Equine Medicine and Surgery at The Ohio State University, in Columbus. Although they suffer similar endocrine conditions as horses, their metabolism is different and so they re-
when treating donkeys with endocrine disorders is that donkeys are not small horses. “They are not,” insisted Ramiro E. Toribio, DVM, MD, PhD, DACVIM, a professor of equine internal
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