Obesity and Gastrointestinal Impaction in Giant Burrowing Cockroaches (Macropanesthia rhinoceros): A Potential Effect of the Thrifty Phenotype

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• 作者：Andrew Gordon Hill ; BVSC ; MVSc ; MACVSc ; ^{ahill@cws.org.au" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：anaesthesia ; enema ; giant burrowing cockroach ; impaction ; Macropanesthia rhinoceros ; radiography
• 刊名：Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：25
• 期：1
• 页码：30-33
• 全文大小：685 K

文摘

Two 2 captive giant burrowing cockroaches (Macropanesthia rhinoceros) with unusual conformation developed progressive obesity followed by faecal impaction in the absence of changes in husbandry. Fluid therapy and removal of the faecal impaction under general anaesthesia was successful in the treatment of 1 case. Radiography was a useful diagnostic tool for evaluating M. rhinoceros whereas ultrasonography was unrewarding. The potential for obesity associated with the “thrifty” phenotype in pet cockroaches has implications for the commercial rearing of cockroaches for sale and for veterinarians approaching obesity and its complications in this and similar species.