The lion beeps tonight?
An Apple Watch a day keeps the vet away? Wildlife veterinarians redefined “cat scan” after incredibly taking a lion’s pulse using the gadget, as detailed in a video blowing up on Instagram.
“It’s a real ‘technology meets conservation’ story,” Dr. Chloe Buiting — who goes by the handle @jungle_doctor on the platform — described within the caption to the clip. She incessantly shares snapshots of her game-changing conservation work on the ‘Gram.
In certainly one of her recent clips, the animal doctor shared a video of a sedated lion having its heart rate monitored via an Apple Watch — a trick she said she learned from colleague and fellow conservation vet Dr. Fabiola Quesada.
In it, Simba might be seen splayed out on the table snoring with the device around its tongue because it measures the critter’s RPM — like something out of “Inspector Gadget” meets “Dr. Doolittle.”
“I don’t know what’s more impressive… the snore, or the invention that the @apple Watch can measure a lion’s heart rate when you strap it to the tongue (even whether it is certainly one of the less conventional “off-label” uses for the device),” explained Buiting. “This finding is especially handy because certainly one of the most important challenges of working with animals in the sector is the monitoring of anesthesia without most of the regular bells and whistles you’d have in a hospital setting.”
The vet added that the feat was particularly impressive given that almost all heart monitors are designed for smaller animals and never the King Of The Jungle.
The animal whisperer claimed that she even employed this heart-monitoring hack with elephants by taping the Apple Watch to their ears.
“I really like the strides technology is making in conservation,” added Buiting, who surmised that measuring Mufasa’s metronome “may not have been Apple’s plan for the device.”
Social media users were each impressed and amused by the Apple Watch’s interspecies application.
“I saw this too that is awesome haha thanks for sharing,” exclaimed one fan, while one other wrote, “That’s genius!”
“Just waiting for the reminder to make a dentist appointment to pop up,” joked a 3rd. “But seriously…..necessity is actually the mother of invention.”
This isn’t the primary time someone has demonstrated the Swiss Army-esque versatility of the Apple Watch.
In April, a Recent York claimed that his wrist device saved his life by dialing 911 following a horrific bike accident that left him looking like a “monster.”
