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Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy,Volume 10

  • Book

  • October 2024
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 5646680
- 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.

Table of Contents

ZAWAM 10 - Potential Topics

Final TOC forthcoming upon hand over; will be whittled down to fit 100 chapters from the 192 that are listed below.

- Leadership

- Update

- Risk-based quarantine

- Training programs in SE Asia

- Transferring veterinary techniques via training in developing countries

- Development of a regional wildlife health surveillance system

- Zoo and wildlife veterinarians as organizational leaders

- Diversity and Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians

- Palm oil and wildlife health

- Alternatives to Annual Preventive Medical Examinations

- Application of pressure-sensitive walkway and gait analysis for lameness detection in zoo animals

- Use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in zoo animal organs

- Use of ZIMS mega data

- ZIMS contributions to physical norms

- Recommendations for reintroductions

- Risk mitigation in reptile reintroducation programs

- Children's Zoo medicine and management

- Monitoring zoonoses

- Research study design

- Statistics for zoo and wildlife veterinarians

- Policy cooperation

- Geriatric Medicine

- Physical therapy for rehabilitating zoo animals

- Use of bio-loggers in wildlife medicine

- Common errors in understanding of tetrapod phylogeny

- End of Life decision processes

- Allometric monitoring of animal stress levels

- Designing an animal welfare questionnaire

- Review of animal welfare guidelines for zoos

- Veterinarians and the AZA Animal Welfare Guidelines

- Selected aspects of the Veterinary perspective on the implementation of zoo animal welfare

- An inexpensive way to monitor zoo animal welfare

- Complementary therapies for zoo medicine

- Approach to Orthopedic Surgery in Zoo Animals

- Approach to Minimal Invasive Surgery in Zoo Animals

- Pharmacokinetics

- Anesthesia monitoring

- Advantages of isofluorane vs. Sevofluorane

- Thiafentanil update

- Newer anesthetic combinations

- Use of local anesthesia in zoo species

- Avian analgesia

- Use of anxiolytics in zoo ruminants

- Anesthesia and hoof care

- Walkway to measure penguin gaits

- Use of radioisotopes to monitor feeding habits

- Effects of MRI on sea turtles and other species

- Use of Australian zoos and rehab centers to monitor for emerging diseases

- Development of a diagnostics lab in a developing country

- Infectious and parasitic diseases / emerging diseases

- CD in unusual species

- Cowpox in new species

- Yersinia in zoos

- Noninvasive monitoring of herpes viruses

- Hookworms and wildlife

- Migratory birds, tick-borne diseases and a changing climate

- Vaccination against TB

- Nipah virus

- Widespread disease in many species

- Integrated parasite management

- Larval drug sensitivity

- Brucella ceti in marine mammals

- Overview of Cl perfringens in zoo animals

- Leprosy as an emerging disease

- African Sine Fever

- Echinococcosis in zoo animals and wildlife

- One Health in the Arctic

- Effects of invasive Burmese pythons on the Everglades virus

- Yellow fever in South American primages

- Climate change in increasing wildlife and zoonotic infections in the Arctic

- Circumpolar Health

- Echinococcosis

- Development of an oral vaccine for white-nose disease in bats

- Semen banking for zoo vets

- Obstetrics & Gynecology in Zoo Mammals

- Assisted reproduction in reptiles

- Challenges in babirusa reproduction

- Pharmacology in invertebrates

- Staghorn coral reproduction

- Aquatic invertebrate medicine

- Antibiotic resistance in aquariums

- Assisted reproduction in endangered fish

- Fish neoplasia

- Fish medicine updates

- Harmful algal blooms

- Cane toad biology and eradication

- Veterinary input into amphibian Conservation programs

- Ultrasound of olmsteads

- Bd in salamanders

- Amphibian nutrition

- Amphibian pathology

- Medical aspects of a yellow-legged frog reintroduction

- Parannizziopsis australiensis in tuataras

- Snake implants techniques and safety

- Sea turtle topic

- Medical issues with Komodo dragons

- The effect of plastics (BPA, etc.) On reptile reproduction

- Effects of plastic contaminants on sea turtles

- New methods of reptile health assessment

- Parasites

- Current topics in reptile virology

- Sea turtle cold stunning

- Sea turtle rehabilitation

- Detection of Intranuclear Coccidiosis in turtles

- Firlavirus in reptiles

- Veterinary management of European pond turtle reintroductions

- Avian influenza

- Hemoparasites in raptors

- Veterinary input into sage grouse reintroductions

- Update on the status of vultures and NSAID regulations

- California condor program

- Pelican health

- Animal welfare and birds

- Bird flu in Asia Boripat

- Current thoughts on epidemiology of avian TB

- Avian analgesia

- Use of IV regional perfusion for treatment of avian foot infections

- Infectious diseases of Antarctic penguins - current and future threats

- Current thoughts on epidemiology of avian mycobacteriosis

- Avian neoplasia

- Philornis downsi and related species in birds

- African ground hornbill medicine

- Echidna nutrition

- Koala mortality

- Update on lumpyjaw in kangaroos

- Pangolin medicine

- Wildlife Reserves

- Pangolin confiscation medicine

- Medicine of giant armadillos

- Bat anesthesia

- Wildlife Trust

- Cardiomyopathy in fruit bats

- Small mammal

- Callitrichid preventive and general medicine

- IV anesthesia in great apes

- Training great apes for cardiac and physical exams

- Evaluation of the cause of death of gorillas in zoos

- Prosimian morbidity and mortality

- Veterinary Management of an orangutan rehabilitation center

- Granby gorilla, spider monkey, Callitrichid HSV1

- Orangutan respiratory disease

- Yellow fever and primates

- Ecology of brucellosis in Arctic carnivores

- Management of Persian leopards

- Treatment of alopecia in Andean bears

- Cheetah liver disease diagnosis and treatment update

- Medicine of fossa (or seasonal dermatopathy in Fossa)

- Instituting a rabies control program in Ethiopia

- Veterinary medicine in the rehab of "dancing" bears in India

- Polar bear SSP Research program

- Black footed ferret program

- Maned wolf

- Arthritis in big cats

- Urine as a monitor of large carnivore health

- Mystic Aquarium Marine

- Dugong medicine

- Large whale euthanasia

- What can be learned from marine mammal strandings?

- Dolphin urolithiasis

- Sea otter

- Dental issues in marine mammals

- Dolphin lungworms

- Brucella in marine mammals

- Giraffe contraception

- Giraffe skin disease

- Pigmy hippo

- Wildlife/livestock interface in Kenya

- Ruminant intensive care

- TB in wild cape buffalo

- Lameness diagnosis in hoofstock

- Takin disease

- Giraffe foot problems

- Game farm management of white rhinoceroses

- Rhinoceros birth parameters

- Browsing rhinoceroses and iron storage disease - an update

- Care for orphaned rhinoceroses

- White rhino diet-induced infertility

- Enteroliths in equids

- Tapir disease update

- Development of an oral speculum for elephants

- EEHV diagnosis update

- Update on EEHV in Asia

- Use of corrective shoes in elephants

- Vital signs and parameters for newborn elephants

- AI in elephants

- Tusk fractures

- Elephant foot health and sand substrate

- Recommendations for elephant herds

- Proteome

- Micribiome

- Metabolomics

- Madagascar

Authors

R. Eric Miller Director Emeritus, Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute. Nadine Lamberski Chief Conservation and Wildlife Health Officer, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Paul P Calle WCS Vice President for Health ProgramsChief VeterinarianDirector, Zoological Health ProgramWildlife Conservation Society.