And so we were doing, we actually meant to immobilize her. I, I gave her enough drug that most maleo copies would’ve been asleep, but she was just standing and droopy, but she wasn’t moving. So we thought, no, give that a try. And I went in, I don’t, I don’t recall this, but I actually went into the stall and had one of our vet techs come in with me and I was swabbing an ear, and of course the ear was on the opposite side. So, and then fast forward to, I was standing, leaning against the back wall of this stall about 10, 15 feet away, and aware that if I stood up and stepped away from the wall, I was gonna fall on my face because I was really woozy and felt the back of my head. And there was a lump about half the size of a tennis ball on the back of my head. And the thing is, with, with large animals, with anything, you know, that can exert a lot of physical force as opposed to a bite, you, you want to be either up close hanging onto the animal or far enough away that they can’t get to you. You don’t wanna be in that sweet spot where they can get up a good head of steam and clock you.
