After Trust volunteers Dan and Aaron arrived on the scene and assessed the situation and decided that we needed a closer examination of this lone Sykes to see whether the injuries were from fighting, and how serious they were.  After blow-darting the monkey twice, Dan and Aaron administered a third injection of anesthetic manually.

Upon returning to The Trust, the injuries clearly seemed to be fight-related as this lone Sykes was naturally trying to fight back to dominance in a local troop.  The decision was taken that we would attempt surgery to repair the topical injuries, give antibiotics sub-cutaneuous liquids and anti-inflammatory drugs and return it to the area which it was captured.

With no veterinarians available on this Saturday, Dan stitched three of the wounds with 18 stitches -- solving problems with the shoulder, resetting the knee and stitching, and also repairing a torso wound and gave dextrose in drip form, injected Colvasone for pain and swelling/inflammation and Betamox antibiotics.  After feeding healthily for a day, local vet Dr. Oscar did more reconstructive surgery to repair five other major wounds including a 6 cm back wound.
 

Second Round of Surgery - Dr. Oscar	Back Wound Repaired	John and Oscar in the Trust Vet Clinic

The Sykes was released on April 07 back to it's home territory and immediately ran into trees by Bakari, Robert, Dan and volunteers Aaron, Amos and Bo, as well as the Tazama! television crew from Nairobi.
 

Bakari and Amos load the Sykes	The Tazama! crew and Sykes reach the site	Aaron releases the Sykes