Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy 6th Edition
With expert contributors from around the world sharing their knowledge on 57 new cutting-edge areas of interest, Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine, Volume 6 continues to provide outstanding coverage of today?s most relevant topics. This book is an essential resource in zoo and wild animal medicine, addressing the special challenges posed by individual and herd medical management, newly emerging diseases in diverse wild animal populations, the effect of habitat loss and destruction on wildlife species, and the utilization of zoo animals in the surveillance and detection of potential zoonoses. The user-friendly current therapy approach continues to serve a vital function in the field by fostering a conservation biology ethic, bridging the gap between captive and free-ranging wild animal medicine, from a diverse group of experts.
Autor: Murray Fowler, DVM, DIPL ACZM, ACVIM, ABVT Professor Emeritus, Zoological Medicine School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California,
| Nakladatel | Elsevier Saunders |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781416040477 |
| Vydání | 2007 |
| Vazba | pevná |
| Počet stran |
| Section I: General Topics and Conditions Affecting Multiple Species | 1 |
| 1. West Nile Virus in Birds and Mammals | 1 |
| 2. Current Diagnostic Methods for Tuberculosis in Zoo Animals | 10 |
| 3. Infrared Thermography in Zoo and Wild Animals | 20 |
| 4. Behavioral Clues for Detection of Illness in Wild Animals: Models in Camelids and Elephants | 33 |
| 5. Ionophores: Salinomycin Toxicity in Camelids | 50 |
| 6. Emerging Diseases at the Interface of People, Domestic Animals and Wildlife | 55 |
| 7. Behavioral Training for Medical Procedures | 66 |
| 8. The Balai Directive of the European Union: Difficult Veterinary Legislation | 68 |
| 9. Encephalomyocarditis Virus Infection in Zoo Animals | 75 |
| 10. Avian Influenza | 79 |
| Conservation Medicine | 88 |
| 11. Disease Management in Ex-Situ Invertebrate Conservation Programs | 88 |
| 12. Use of Wildlife Rehabilitation Centers as Monitors of Ecosystem Health | 97 |
| 13. Biopsy Darting | 105 |
| Section II: Poikilotherms | 112 |
| Fish | 112 |
| 14. Selected Fish Diseases in Wild Populations | 112 |
| Amphibians | 126 |
| 16. Veterinary Participation in the Puerto Rican Crested Toad Program | 126 |
| 17. Amphibian Chytridiomycosis | 137 |
| Reptiles | 144 |
| 19. Reptile Protozoa | 144 |
| 20. Fluid Therapy in Reptiles | 160 |
| Section III: Avian Medicine | 166 |
| 21. Salmonellosis in Songbirds (Order Passeriformes) | 166 |
| 22. Veterinary Care of Bustards | 170 |
| 23. Medical Management of Curassows | 186 |
| 24. Monitoring Avian Health in the Galapagos Islands: Current Knowledge | 191 |
| 25. Avian Atherosclerosis | 200 |
| 26. Minerals and Stork Nutritions | 206 |
| 27. The Veterinary Care of Kiwi | 214 |
| Section IV: Mammals | 225 |
| Chiroptera | 225 |
| 28. Paramyxoviruses in Bats | 225 |
| Rodents | 236 |
| 29. Medical Aspects of Red Squirrel Translocation | 236 |
| Primates | 243 |
| 30. Neuroleptics in Great Apes with Specific Reference to the Modification of Aggressive Behavior in a Male Gorilla | 243 |
| 31. Occupational Exposure to Zoonotic Simian Retroviruses: Health and Safety Implications for Persons Working with Nonhuman Primates | 251 |
| Carnivores | 265 |
| 32. Neurological Disorders in Cheetahs and Snowleopards | 265 |
| 33. Imbalanced Diets Compromise Semen Quality in Felids | 272 |
| 34. Baylisascaris Neural Larval Migrans in Zoo Animals | 284 |
| 35. Use of Analgesics in Exotic Felids | 289 |
| 36. Mycobacterial Diseases in Carnivores | 294 |
| Marine mammals | 299 |
| 37. Melioidosis in Marine Mammals | 299 |
| 38. Inflammation in Marine Mammals | 308 |
| 39. Capture and Anesthesia of Otariids in the Wild | 312 |
| 40. Tissue Cyst-Forming Coccidia of Marine Mammals | 319 |
| 41. Algal Bloom Toxicity in Marine Animals | 341 |
| Elephants | 349 |
| 42. Elephant Herpesviruses | 349 |
| 43. Tuberculosis in Elephants | 355 |
| 44. Neonatal Elephant Mortality | 365 |
| 45. Health Care and Management of Working Elephant in Myanmar | 369 |
| Artiodactylids | 375 |
| 46. Camelinds are Not Ruminants | 375 |
| 47. Uroliths and Gastro-Enteroliths in Camelids | 386 |
| 48. Congenital and Hereditary Defects in Camelids | 391 |
| 49. Hypocalcemia, Hypomagnesemia and Rumenitis in Exotic Ruminants | 404 |
| 50. Diseases of Chamois | 408 |
| 51. Gastrointestinal Nematodiasis in Hoofstock | 416 |
| 52. Tuberculosis in Michigan Deer | 423 |
| 53. Chronic Wasting Disease of Cervid Species | 430 |
| 54. Heartwater (Ehrlichia Ruminantium) | 438 |
| 55. The Nutrition of Browsers | 444 |
| 56. Side Effects of Etorphine and Carfentanil in Non-Domestic Hoofstock | 455 |
| 57. Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure in Non-Domestic Felids | 462 |