Clinical and pathological findings in giraffes ( <i>Giraffa camelopardalis</i> ) with arterial thrombotic disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Two adult female giraffes ( Giraffa camelopardalis ) from separate facilities were diagnosed with arterial thrombotic disease. The first giraffe presented with acute severe unilateral hindlimb paralysis. Infrared thermography revealed a marked temperature decrease compared to the contralateral limb starting from the mid‐thigh region, indicative of femoral artery thrombosis or thromboembolism. Despite attempted anticoagulant therapy and supportive care, the giraffe did not survive. The second giraffe showed no antemortem clinical signs of arterial thrombotic disease, but was diagnosed with partially occluding iliac artery thrombosis at the postmortem examination. The aetiology of the thrombi in both cases remains undetermined, although altered arterial haemodynamics due to underlying conditions are the suspected contributors. These cases highlight that arterial thrombotic disease can occur in captive giraffes. Managing this condition presents unique challenges due to the species' anatomical, physiological and behavioural characteristics. Special attention should be given to the aorta and its main embranchments during postmortem examinations, when the cases are subclinical.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".