Hospitals and Emergency Response in Zootopia. (possible spoilers)

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I am asking this for a crossover fic.

In Zootopia, for anyone who has seen or knows about it, how would emergency response and hospital treatment be handled for:

1. Districts that are harder to navigate such as the Rainforest District.

and

2. The treatment, care, and transportation of Mammals that are rather large or small sizes or stranger physiques, ranging from lets say as small as a bat or shrew, up to the size of an Elephant or Rino.
 
For navigation... I expect that hard-to-navigate areas would have emergency response crews belonging to 'nimble' species. For the rainforest, that would probably have monkeys, orangutangs, possibly cats, or other species who are well known for being able to climb and get people from hard to reach places. Might also have bats for airlifting and using their sonar and enhanced hearing to locate patients.

It would probably make sense for each individual district to have it's own emergency response crew and smallish hospital, or at least a crew used to dealing with that area and handling the bumps, bruises, and frostbite that folks can get in that environment. Then there would a larger "Main" hospital in the central district where major surgeries or operations take place.


As for different size patients, the tiny animals district would probably have it's own place to care for patients (or at least the minor injuries) while serious cases go to the Central Hospital where they have a dedicated emergency ward for little folk. They probably have doctors and nurses who are shrews so they can better interact with their patients directly, or have a few larger nurses and people who can supply things like bedding, food, or medicine.

Thanks to the square-cube law, a smaller animal is much more able to handle rapid changes in speed. For example, (I think) squirrels can't really fall fast enough to reach terminal velocity thanks to their bushy tails... you could drop one off the top of a skyscraper and they'd just land on their feet, shake it off, and scamper away like nothing happened. A tiny mouse ambulance could have a little handle on the top where it drives into the reception area of a large-size hospital, a nurse picks it up, carries it though the hallways and up stairs, and then they set it down on a table in the tiny-animals wing where the folks inside can hop out of the back carrying the tiny patient on a stretcher.

On the other hand, tiny folks would be more susceptible to rapid changes in temperature so they'd want to keep the place relatively warm.


As for larger animals, I think an ambulance meant to handle elephants would be much larger and heavily built with perhaps their treatment taking place on the ground floor to avoid having to move them up and down in an elevator. Or they would bring the doctor to them if it's too difficult otherwise.

One other thing: A giraffe brought into a hospital would most likely have it's head and neck firmly secured on the bed or trolley they bring them in on (might even have two gurneys hooked together while the nurses carefully cart them through the halls and move them around corners). If people ask, some nurses might calmly state that a giraffe's neck is very delicate and they have to be careful when moving them around...

The real reason is that giraffes use their heads like flails.



Those little horns on a giraffe's head are used for slamming into the ribcage of another giraffe, smashing bones and pulverizing organs. They accomplish that by whipping their head around and smashing it into people they don't like. You do not want a giraffe to panic and start whipping its head around inside a hospital.
 
Zavvnao said:
Thank you. This is helping a lot.

I know the creators of the Movie say there are not any Primates in Zootopia, but that is besides the point because you said many things I had not personally thought of.
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Nice.

Also, the point of the movie was largely dealing with animal stereotypes (such as those seen in Disney or Warner Bros cartoons). So, if you can think of any animals normally associated with hospitals or animal rescue, you could add them and see what role they might fill.

Such as...

Saint Bernards who are often depicted rescuing people in the snow and carrying barrels of brandy to warm up the victim. That's actually a myth which TvTropes suggests was taken from a painting and later used in cartoons. It was more likely that the rescue dog was sent out to sniff out people lost in the snow while a handler followed them, possibly with a flask of alcohol they could offer the rescue victim. Alchohol apparently has a 'warming effect' the person feels, but it doesn't actually help them and is in fact quite dangerous.

Dalmations and fire fighting.


In fact, there could be alot of dogs (or wolves or canines, if human-domesticated animals don't exist) who worked in rescue operations in historical times in the Zootopia universe. We know predators originally hunted prey species and so they adapted better vision and sense of smell to track their prey... but once that chapter of history stopped and predators and prey worked together, I can imagine quite a few predators took on a more "protective" role with their prey allies.

Like sheep dogs who would watch over flocks of sheep and protect them from wolves or foxes and use their sense of smell to sniff out anyone who got lost. If we assume that modern predators eat things like fish, bugs, cheese, chickens, eggs, or tofu or something to get their protein then it could be that those original guard dogs protected sheep 'farmers' who in turn paid the dogs in food they caught or farmed. Those early dogs found it easier to sit around guarding prey and getting paid in eggs and stuff instead of running around hunting their fellow animals.

Actually, reminds me of the CGP Grey video about animal domestication



Sheep and dogs are both domesticated animals in part due to their family-oriented society. Each wolf pack has an Alpha Male and each flock of sheep has one too. Imagine if those early instances of predator-prey cooperation were the result of a wolf pack and sheep pack meeting eachother, duking it out, and suddenly the wolf pack had a very hard-headed and woolly Alpha Wolf... or the sheep had an unusually carnivorous Head Ram. Or they just recognized they both had nice family setups and "At least they aren't like those shifty foxes, or those flighty deer."

Whatever the case, the first predator-prey alliances were between canines and herd based prey species and it worked surprisingly well. Other species eventually started following suit, mostly with the canines chasing away rival predators and promising to not eat their fellow intelligent animal and over time other prey species and omnivores started joining the Flock.

So, the canines were pretty much the front lines of search and rescue operation, first responders, and guard duty with the prey species starting farms and possibly running hospitals or tending to the wounded the canines rescued. Over time, society advanced so that various other species started joining the first responders ranks (cats for climbing trees, bigger animals to provide muscle, etc) until the time of Zootopia where there is a wide variety of species working in law enforcement, even if they tend to go more for big and strong species over ones like rabbits or foxes.

Soo... yeah. Dalmatians and Saint Bernards seem like the sorts of animals you could see in rescue or firefighting teams along with any other sorts of canines. Although, since everyone's intelligent and they have advanced technology then their particular natural talents wouldn't be quite as necessary as they once were and they could just as easily be on due to the stereotype that "dalmations make great firefighters" as opposed to actual talent by the person in question. Same with St. Bernards... particularly since "Brandy isn't something you should be feeding the rescue victim, Keith. Matter of fact, you shouldn't be carrying it at all."


Amusingly enough, geese make good guard animals. They honk loudly if they spot intruders, they get along with chickens and other birds, and use their wings to viciously beat any intruders they spot. If the intelligent mammals of Zootopia use birds as domesticated animals, then geese would make a very good candidate for the first guard dogs to be used by... guard dogs.
 
Rossum said:
Nice.

Also, the point of the movie was largely dealing with animal stereotypes (such as those seen in Disney or Warner Bros cartoons). So, if you can think of any animals normally associated with hospitals or animal rescue, you could add them and see what role they might fill.

Such as...

Saint Bernards who are often depicted rescuing people in the snow and carrying barrels of brandy to warm up the victim. That's actually a myth which TvTropes suggests was taken from a painting and later used in cartoons. It was more likely that the rescue dog was sent out to sniff out people lost in the snow while a handler followed them, possibly with a flask of alcohol they could offer the rescue victim. Alchohol apparently has a 'warming effect' the person feels, but it doesn't actually help them and is in fact quite dangerous.

Dalmations and fire fighting.


In fact, there could be alot of dogs (or wolves or canines, if human-domesticated animals don't exist) who worked in rescue operations in historical times in the Zootopia universe. We know predators originally hunted prey species and so they adapted better vision and sense of smell to track their prey... but once that chapter of history stopped and predators and prey worked together, I can imagine quite a few predators took on a more "protective" role with their prey allies.

Like sheep dogs who would watch over flocks of sheep and protect them from wolves or foxes and use their sense of smell to sniff out anyone who got lost. If we assume that modern predators eat things like fish, bugs, cheese, chickens, eggs, or tofu or something to get their protein then it could be that those original guard dogs protected sheep 'farmers' who in turn paid the dogs in food they caught or farmed. Those early dogs found it easier to sit around guarding prey and getting paid in eggs and stuff instead of running around hunting their fellow animals.

Actually, reminds me of the CGP Grey video about animal domestication



Sheep and dogs are both domesticated animals in part due to their family-oriented society. Each wolf pack has an Alpha Male and each flock of sheep has one too. Imagine if those early instances of predator-prey cooperation were the result of a wolf pack and sheep pack meeting eachother, duking it out, and suddenly the wolf pack had a very hard-headed and woolly Alpha Wolf... or the sheep had an unusually carnivorous Head Ram. Or they just recognized they both had nice family setups and "At least they aren't like those shifty foxes, or those flighty deer."

Whatever the case, the first predator-prey alliances were between canines and herd based prey species and it worked surprisingly well. Other species eventually started following suit, mostly with the canines chasing away rival predators and promising to not eat their fellow intelligent animal and over time other prey species and omnivores started joining the Flock.

So, the canines were pretty much the front lines of search and rescue operation, first responders, and guard duty with the prey species starting farms and possibly running hospitals or tending to the wounded the canines rescued. Over time, society advanced so that various other species started joining the first responders ranks (cats for climbing trees, bigger animals to provide muscle, etc) until the time of Zootopia where there is a wide variety of species working in law enforcement, even if they tend to go more for big and strong species over ones like rabbits or foxes.

Soo... yeah. Dalmatians and Saint Bernards seem like the sorts of animals you could see in rescue or firefighting teams along with any other sorts of canines. Although, since everyone's intelligent and they have advanced technology then their particular natural talents wouldn't be quite as necessary as they once were and they could just as easily be on due to the stereotype that "dalmations make great firefighters" as opposed to actual talent by the person in question. Same with St. Bernards... particularly since "Brandy isn't something you should be feeding the rescue victim, Keith. Matter of fact, you shouldn't be carrying it at all."


Amusingly enough, geese make good guard animals. They honk loudly if they spot intruders, they get along with chickens and other birds, and use their wings to viciously beat any intruders they spot. If the intelligent mammals of Zootopia use birds as domesticated animals, then geese would make a very good candidate for the first guard dogs to be used by... guard dogs.
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Dogs and stuff are probably for the writer's own discretion I think.
 
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Rossum said:
Saint Bernards who are often depicted rescuing people in the snow and carrying barrels of brandy to warm up the victim. That's actually a myth which TvTropes suggests was taken from a painting and later used in cartoons. It was more likely that the rescue dog was sent out to sniff out people lost in the snow while a handler followed them, possibly with a flask of alcohol they could offer the rescue victim. Alchohol apparently has a 'warming effect' the person feels, but it doesn't actually help them and is in fact quite dangerous.
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I think it was something like a "this person probably won't make it, at least try to keep them comfortable" thing.
Zavvnao said:
1. Districts that are harder to navigate such as the Rainforest District.
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You think that's bad?
*These districts were confirmed in supplementary materials, but were never mentioned or explored in the film.
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P.S. The Nocturnal District is underground.
 
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