Zoo & wild animal medicine
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Zoo & wild animal medicine
(Current therapy, 3)
Saunders, c1993
[3rd ed]
Available at 11 libraries
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
Note
"Sponsored by Morris Animal Foundation"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A new edition of the standard text and reference relied on by zoo and wildlife veterinarians and vets caring for exotic animals. There is no other single-source reference that provides guidelines for medical care and management of so broad a variety of captive and free-ranging species from rabbits to elephants to marine mammals. This new edition complements, expands upon, and updates coverage in prior editions. Material on free-ranging wild animals has been significantly increased. 100 international authorities have contributed to this edition. The format of the work has been altered to parallel current veterinary therapy texts, facilitating easy accesss to today's best management methods. A section on animal and human welfare addresses topics including - occupational health programs in wildlife facilities, humane care of captive wild animals, and the immobilization and study of free-ranging wildlife. Totally new material appears on game farming and ranching, and care of wild and captive elephants focuses on problems unique to the species. The reproductive problems of camelids receives special attention.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 General topics covering multiple orders and classes: wildlife laws, regulations and policies
- medical input into species survival plans
- dealing with natural disasters in a zoo
- protocols in dealing with escapes
- identification of animals in zoos
- medical considerations of reintroduction
- flexible endoscopy in zoo and wild animal medicine
- allometric scaling and emergency care - the importance of body size
- identification of nutritional problems in captive wild animals
- veterinary contributions to international wildlife management
- tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases in captive wild animals
- encephalomyocarditis in zoo animals
- yersiniosis in nondomestic birds and mammals
- plague and tularemia in rodent populations. Part 2 Animal and humane welfare: occupational health programs in wildlife facilities
- the humane care of captive wild animals
- humane considerations in immobilization and study of free-ranging wildlife. Part 3 Genetics: blood typing in nondomestic animals
- inbreeding and disease in captive wild animals
- methods for assessing reproduction in nondomestic species. Part 4 Game farming and wildlife utilization: game farming with an emphasis on North America
- wildlife management and utilization in East Africa
- game ranching in South Africa
- medical aspects of reindeer farming. Part 5 Amphibians and reptiles: amphibian medicine
- current reptilian anaesthesia
- blood collection techniques in reptiles - laboratory investigations
- viral disease of reptiles.
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