Get the latest advances in zoo and wild animal medicine in one invaluable reference! Written by internationally recognized experts, Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine: Current Therapy, Volume 10 provides a practical guide to the latest research and clinical management of captive and free-ranging wild animals. For each animal, coverage includes topics such as biology, anatomy and special physiology, reproduction, restraint and handling, housing requirements, nutrition and feeding, surgery and anesthesia, diagnostics, and treatment protocols. New topics in this edition include holistic treatments, antibiotic resistance in aquariums, non-invasive imaging for amphibians, emerging reptile viruses, and African ground hornbill medicine, in addition to giant anteater medicine, Brucella in marine animals, and rhinoceros birth parameters. With coverage of many subjects where information has not been readily available, Fowler’s is a resource you don’t want to be without.
New to this edition
- NEW! All-new topics and contributors
ensure that this volume addresses the most current issues relating to zoo and wild animals.
- NEW! Content on emerging diseases includes topics such as COVID-19, rabbit hemorrhagic disease, yellow fever in South American primates, monitoring herpesviruses in multiple species, and canine distemper in unusual species.
- NEW! Emphasis on management includes coverage of diversity in zoo and wildlife medicine.
- NEW! Panel of international contributors includes, for the first time, experts from Costa Rica, Estonia, Ethiopia, India, Norway, and Singapore, along with many other countries.
- NEW! Enhanced eBook version is included with each print purchase, providing a fully searchable version of the entire text and access to all of its text, figures, and references.
Key Features
- Fowler's Current Therapy format
ensures that each volume in the series covers all-new topics with timely information on current topics of interest in the field.
- Focused coverage offers just the right amount of depth — often fewer than 10 pages in a chapter — which makes the material easier to access and easier to understand.
- General taxon-based format covers all terrestrial vertebrate taxa plus selected topics on aquatic and invertebrate taxa.
- Updated information from the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) includes records from their growing database for 2.3 million animals (374,000 living) and 23,000 taxa, which can serve as a basis for new research.
- Expert, global contributors include authors from the U.S. and 25 other countries, each representing trends in their part of the world, and each focusing on the latest research and clinical management of captive and free-ranging wild animals.
Author Information
Edited by R. Eric Miller, DVM, DACZM, DECZM (Hon. - ZHM), Director Emeritus, Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute; Nadine Lamberski, DVM, DACZM, DECZM (ZHM), Chief Conservation and Wildlife Health Officer, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and Paul P Calle, VMD, DACZM, DECZM (ZHM), WCS Vice President for Health ProgramsChief VeterinarianDirector, Zoological Health ProgramWildlife Conservation Society
Section 1: Veterinary Professional Activities
1 Leadership in a Time of Crisis
2 Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Zoo and Wildlife Veterinary Medicine
3 Building Partnerships Between Regional Veterinary and Zoo Associations
4 AAZV Wild Animal Health Fund
5 Latin American Zoo Veterinarian Associations
6 Training Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians in Southeast Asia
7 Harnessing Standardized Data and Analytics to Advance Zoological Medicine
Section 2: Conservation
8 Wildlife Regulations that Affect Veterinarians in the United States
9 Management of Diseases in Free-ranging Wildlife Populations
10 Remote Management of Veterinary Field Programs
11 Gorilla Doctors: A One Health/Conservation Medicine Success Story
12 Rabies Control in the Developing World—The Ethiopia Model and How it Affects Wildlife
Section 3: One Health
13 Zoos as One Health Education Centers for Students in the Human Health Professions
14 A One Health Initiative in Borneo Saving Orangutans, Transforming Community Health and Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods
15 Auckland Zoo: Applying One Health in New Zealand
16 Infectious Diseases and Primate Trafficking in Peruvian Wet Markets
17 SARS-CoV-2 and the Trade in Wildlife for Human Consumption
18 SARS-Cov-2 Coronavirus Infection in Wild Animals
19 Antibiotic Resistance in Free-ranging Wildlife
20 Tick and Vector-borne Disease Expansion with Climate Change
21 Impacts from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on Wildlife Health—A One Health Challenge
Section 4: Infectious, Parasitic, and Emerging Diseases
22 Update on Avian Influenza Virus
23 Update on Viruses in Bats
24 Canine Distemper in Noncarnivore Species
25 Rabbit Hemorrhagic Viral Disease and its Effects on Wildlife
26 Yellow Fever in South American Primates
27 Noninvasive Monitoring of Herpes Viruses
28 Ecosystem and Multiple Species Effects of Tuberculosis in Kruger National Park
29 Overview of Clostridium perfringens in Zoo Animals
30 Prevention of Baylisascariasis in Zoo Animals
Section 5: Zoo Health Management
31 Children’s Zoo Medicine and Management
32 The Zoo Veterinarian’s Role in Striving for Sustainable Populations
33 Exhibit Biodiversity and Animal Health
34 Air Quality and Zoo Health Management
35 Industry Snapshot: Seafood Sustainability in Animal Diets
36 Browse Selection and Management
Section 6: Animal Welfare
37 Zoo Animal Welfare in the 21st Century—Contemporary Thinking, Assessment, and Best Practice
38 Veterinarians and the Association ofZoos and Aquariums Animal Welfare Guidelines
39 Concepts of Animal Welfare in Natural Habitats and in Zoos: Meaning and Anxiety
40 Allostatic Load as a Measure of Animal Stress and Health Risk
41 Stereotypic Behaviors in Managed Care
42 Welfare in Aquatic Invertebrates
43 Animal Welfare and Birds
Section 7: Diagnostics and Therapeutics
44 Selection of a Portable Computed Tomography Unit
45 Urine as a Monitor of Large Carnivore Health
46 Footcare for Zoo Ungulates (Zoo Hoofstock Trim Program)
47 Physical Therapy in Zoological Species
48 Integrative Medicine in Zoological Species
49 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Zoo and Wildlife Across Taxa
50 Blood Transfusions in Zoological Medicine
Section 8: Anesthesia
51 Anesthesia Monitoring—Understanding Supply and Demand
52 Newer Anesthetic Combinations Including Local Anesthesia
53 The Selection of Anesthetic Combinations
54 Capture Mortality and Impacts
Section 9: Invertebrates
55 Coral Diseases
56 Honey Bees
57 Partula Snail Medicine
Section 10: Aquatics
58 Fish Medicine Updates
59 Antibiotic Resistance in Public Aquariums
60 Harmful Algal Blooms
Section 11: Amphibians
61 Update on Amphibian Chytrid Fungus
62 Medical Aspects of Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Reintroduction
63 Noninvasive Imaging Techniques in Amphibian Medicine—Access
Section 12: Reptiles
64 Snake Implants Techniques and Safety
65 Emerging Infectious Diseases of Reptiles
66 New Methods of Reptile Health Assessment
67 Veterinary Management of European Pond Turtle Reintroductions
Section 13: Avian
68 Causes of Death in Toucans
69 Pelican Health
70 Ground-hornbill Medicine
71 Tropical Avian Diseases
72 Avian Hatching Assistance
73 Egg Necropsies
74 Electrocution of Raptors
75 Update on the Status of Vultures and Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drug Regulations
76 Twenty Years of West Nile Virus in North America
77 Infectious Diseases of Antarctic Penguins—Current and Future Threats
78 Philornis downsi and Related Species in Birds
79 Medical Aspects of Translocation of Pink Pigeons to Mauritius
Section 14: Marine Mammals
80 Dugong Medicine
81 Oral Health in Marine Mammals
82 Dolphin Nephrolithiasis
83 Marine Brucellosis
84 What can be Learned from Marine Mammal Strandings?
85 Large Whale Euthanasia and Necropsy
Section 15: Ungulates
86 Free-Ranging Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) Health: Immobilization, Sample Collection, and Disease Survey
87 Prion Disease in Cervid Species
88 Parturition in Rhinoceros
89 White Rhino Diet-Induced Infertility
90 Browsing Rhinoceros and Iron Storage Disease—An Update
Section 16: Elephants
91 Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus Update
92 Use of Corrective Shoes in Elephants
93 Uroliths in Elephants
94 Artificial Insemination in Elephants
95 Vital Signs and Parameters in Newborn Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Section 17: Primates
96 Intravenous Anesthesia in Great Apes
97 Voluntary Medical Procedures in Great Apes
98 Chimpanzee Mortality Review: 25 Years
99 Orangutan Respiratory Disease Syndrome
Section 18: Small Mammals
100 Echidna Nutrition
101 Macropod Progressive Periodontal Disease (Lumpy Jaw)
102 Medicine/Triage of Pangolin Confiscations
103 Medicine of Giant Armadillos (Priodontes maximus)
104 Veterinary Management of European Hedgehogs
Section 19: Carnivores
105 Veterinary Medicine in the Rehab of “Dancing Bears in India
106 Morbidity and Mortality of Asiatic Black Bears (Ursus thibetanus) Associated with Bile Farming
107 Using In Situ/Ex Situ Research Collaborations to Support Polar Bear Conservation
108 Semen Banking of Wild Felids for Zoo Vets
109 Advantages and Challenges of Carcass Feeding Strategies of Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in Human Care
110 Cheetah Liver Disease: A Diagnosis and Treatment Update
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