Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) atau Dokter Hewan

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A veterinarian (American English) or a veterinary surgeon (British English), often shortened to vet, is a doctor who treats non-human animals and a practitioner of veterinary medicine. The word comes from the Latin veterinae meaning "working animals". "Veterinarian" was first used in print by Thomas Browne in 1646. Many careers are open to those with veterinary degrees (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine), D.V.M., VMD ( Veterinaria Medicina Doctoris), MVB (Medicina Veterinaria Baccalaureate), BVS (Bachelor of Veterinary Surgery), BVMS (Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery), BVetMed (Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine) or B.V.Sc. & A. H. (Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry). Those working in clinical settings often practice medicine in a limited field such as "companion animal" or pet medicine, which includes small animals such as dog, cat, and pocket pets, production medicine or livestock medicine. Production medicine includes specialties in dairy cattle, beef cattle, swine, sheep, and poultry, equine medicine (e.g., sport, race track, show, rodeo), laboratory animal medicine, reptile medicine, or ratite medicine. Veterinarians may choose to specialize in medical disciplines such as surgery, dermatology or internal medicine, after post-graduate training and certification.

Some veterinarians pursue post-graduate training and enter research careers and have contributed to advances in many human and veterinary medical fields, including pharmacology and epidemiology. Research veterinarians were the first to isolate oncoviruses, Salmonella species, Brucella species, and various other pathogenic agents. Veterinarians were in the forefront in the effort to suppress malaria and yellow fever in the United States. Veterinarians identified the botulism disease-causing agent, produced an anticoagulant used to treat human heart disease, and developed surgical techniques for humans, such as hip-joint replacement, limb and organ transplants.

Like physicians and animal therapists, veterinarians must make ethical decisions about their patients' care. For example, there is ongoing debate within the profession over the ethics of performing declawing of cats and docking or cropping tails and ears, spaying or neutering dogs, as well as "debarking" dogs, the housing of sows in gestation crates and the housing of egg laying poultry hens in battery cages.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinarian

Amazing Tree : BAOBAB

Baobab adalah nama umum dari sebuah genus (Adansonia) yang terdiri dari delapan spesies pohon asli Madagaskar, Afrika daratan dan Australia. Spesies Afrika daratan juga ada di Madagaskar, tetapi tidak asli negara itu. Nama umum lainnya adalah boab dan boaboa. Spesies ini mencapai tinggi antara 5–25 m. Mereka menyimpan air di dalam batang mereka, dengan kapasitas diatas 120.00 liter untuk bertahan dalam kondisi lingkungan sekitar mereka. (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baobab)

Di benua Afrika dapat ditemukan pohon terbesar di dunia ini. Pohon ini dapat berumur panjang sering disebut Tree of Life karena pohon ini bisa berumur sampai 800 tahun, konon pohon di foto ini sudah berumur 1500 tahun memang masih kalah dengan perkiraan pohon Red Sherman atau General Sherman tree di California yang mencapai 2200 tahun.

Baobab dapat menyimpan 300 liter air sekaligus dalam musim hujan, pohon ini dikeramatkan di daerah asalnya karena mengingatkan penduduk tentang nenek moyangnya.

Pohon ini juga terkenal karena salah satu Formasi Baobab di Madagaskar yang paling terkenal terpublikasi secara massal setelah menjadi kandidat The new 7 Wonder Nature , dimana formasi pohon Baobab menjulang tinggi dengan sangat indahnya.

Baobab (Adansonia) atau pohon roti kera bisa bertambah besar sampai hampir 100 kaki (30 m) tinggi dan 35 kaki (11 m) lebar.
Ciri khas mereka:
Batang bengkak mereka sebenernya tempat penyimpanan air – pohon tanaman baobab bisa menyimpan sampai 31.700 galon (120.000 l)
air untuk bertahan di kondisi kering.

Pohon tanaman baobab asli dari Madagaskar (it’s country’s nasional tree!), Afrika daratan, dan Australia.

Sekelompok yang paling “megah di antara semua” pohon tanaman baobab (Adansonia grandidieri) bisa ditemukan di Jalan Raya Baobab, dekat Morondava, di Madagaskar.

a. Teapot baobab

The baobab trees in Africa juga mengagumkan:

b. Baobab in Tanzania

Banyak kegunaannya juga loh nih pohon, bahkan bisa digunakan menjadi toilet karena banyak mengandung air

d. A toilet built inside a baobab tree in the Kayila Lodge, Zambia

Eh selain itu bahkan bisa dijadikan penjara loh :

e. A “Prison Baob” tree in Western Australia

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