What drug is used in tranquilizer darts?

Carfentanil, the drug used in elephant tranqilisers, it is ten thousand times stronger than morphine. you die from touching it. Let me really hammer this home, people get very high off very small doses of morphine, carfentanil is ten thousand times stronger. read more

A tranquillizer gun (also spelled tranquilizer gun or tranquilliser gun), capture gun or dart gun, is a non-lethal air gun often used for incapacitating animal targets via drugs usually referred as tranquilizers. read more

From my time at UPenn's large animal hospital, the most commonly used drugs for sedation I saw being used include Ketamine, Xylazine, and Acepromazine. Usually used in some combination with each other or other drugs like Butorphanol, Morphine, Diazepam, Midazolam, Detomidine, Dexmedetomidine. read more